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BBC News", "President Joe Biden inauguration speech: 'Democracy has prevailed' - BBC News", "Dartford mother-of-three died after liposuction in Turkey - BBC News", "Biden inauguration in pictures - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: 'Patience and perspective' needed in Wales - BBC News", "Racism in ballet: Black dancer's 'humiliation' at racist comments - BBC News", "Lockdown children forget how to use knife and fork - BBC News", "Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine 'mixing' article - BBC News", "Edinburgh's giant pandas may 'return to China' over Covid losses - BBC News", "Families rescued in Peak District after getting trapped in snow - BBC News", "Covid: Liverpool's leaders call for new national lockdown - BBC News", "Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrives at hospitals - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Scottish cabinet to consider further measures - BBC News", "Cold snap creates 'pop-up' ice hockey rink - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Schools' phased return defended by first minister - BBC News", "Covid: Sweden official defends Christmas trip to Canary Islands - BBC News", "Irish Eurovision singer and Bagatelle frontman Liam Reilly dies - BBC News", "Zoe Davison: Racing trainer dies on same day two of her horses win at Plumpton - BBC Sport", "West Brom 0-4 Arsenal: Arsenal see off Baggies in ruthless display - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: New strain of virus 'accelerating' spread - BBC News", "Coronavirus: India approves vaccines from Bharat Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Five teenagers arrested after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "EuroMillions: Jackpot of more than £39m won by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Covid: Not much room for lockdown changes, Wales' first minister warns - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Twelve fined for playing dominoes in Tier 4 breach - BBC News", "Boris Johnson says indyref vote should be once-in-generation - BBC News", "Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78 - 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BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson warns of tougher measures amid Covid surge - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "Covid: Snowdonia National Park wardens 'getting abuse' during lockdown - BBC News", "Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: James Maddison and Harvey Barnes send Foxes second - BBC Sport", "Covid: Nurseries 'teetering on the edge' during pandemic - BBC News", "Archie Lyndhurst: CBBC star died in his sleep, says mother - BBC News", "SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' engine test ends early - BBC News", "Covid-19: Protect us from unlawful killing charges - medics - BBC News", "Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man said he had travelled 100 miles 'for a McDonald's' - BBC News", "RAF veteran receives Covid jab at Salisbury Cathedral - BBC News", "Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd: Alisson saves thwart leaders at Anfield - BBC Sport", "Chris Cramer: Tributes paid after former BBC and CNN journalist dies aged 73 - 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BBC News", "Sri Lanka v England: Tourists wobble chasing 74 after Jack Leach takes 5-122 - BBC Sport", "Universal Credit: Benefit increase only 'temporary', says Raab - BBC News", "G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer - BBC News", "Statues to get protection from 'baying mobs' - BBC News", "Home Office 'working to restore' lost police records - BBC News", "Eurostar: Government urged to 'safeguard' rail firm's future - BBC News", "Covid-19: Running a roadside van when a pandemic cuts traffic - BBC News", "Coronavirus: William and Kate hear from emergency workers - BBC News", "Covid: People broke lockdown rules in 200-mile drive to see friends - BBC News", "Covid-19: More mass jab centres, airport support and a virtual library - BBC News", "Covid-19: England delivering 140 jabs a minute, says NHS chief executive - BBC News", "Mount Semeru: Erupting volcano spews ash above Indonesia's Java island - BBC News", "Universal credit: MPs urge PM to keep £20 benefit 'lifeline' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Further 1,295 deaths recorded in the UK - BBC News", "Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia dies with Covid aged 70 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Bedworth Pokemon player fined for lockdown breach - BBC News", "Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Freeman targets 400,000 vaccinations every week - BBC News", "Lockdown Christmas hits: Lidl pink prosecco and takeaways - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "'Discriminatory' mental health system overhauled - BBC News", "Fresh calls for NI mother and baby homes inquiry - BBC News", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update - BBC News", "Covid: Police cancel fine for couple visiting care home - BBC News", "Human remains found in search for missing cyclist Tony Parsons - BBC News", "Johnson: 24-7 Covid-vaccine hubs as soon as supply allows - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: The six new lockdown rules - BBC News", "Coronavirus: British tourist blamed for Lauberhorn ski race cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Covid-19: We can make this the peak by following rules, says Hancock - BBC News", "Morrisons to be first UK supermarket to pay minimum £10 an hour - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: How do the rules compare to last year? - BBC News", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill rescue deal to save 2,000 jobs - BBC News", "Furlough fraud: I'm still registered as furloughed for a job I quit' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Stricter rules within days - BBC News", "China: Senior Conservatives call for reset of UK policy - BBC News", "Media billionaire David Barclay dies, aged 86 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Lockdown lifting 'unlikely' as deaths pass 5,000 - BBC News", "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech - BBC News", "PMQs: Some food parcels are an 'insult to families' - PM - BBC News", "Earl of Strathmore admits sex attack at Glamis Castle home - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 100,000 vaccine doses administered in NI - BBC News", "Customs staff: Vaccinate us to keep trade flowing - BBC News", "Four arrested over 'public nuisance' at Redditch and Birmingham hospitals - BBC News", "Covid: Birmingham hospitals move 200 doctors to intensive care duties - BBC News", "Plastic bag charge to double to 10p from April in Scotland - BBC News", "Naomi Campbell's Kenya tourism role causes row - BBC News", "Heavy snow causes widespread disruption in Scotland - BBC News", "Covid-19: New test rule for England arrivals pushed back to Monday - BBC News", "David Attenborough to front government-funded 5G AR app - BBC News", "GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading - BBC News", "Covid-19: Lockdown measures 'starting to show signs of some effect' - PM - BBC News", "Covid-19: Alabama crowds ignore coronavirus to celebrate championship - BBC News", "Covid-19: New treatment, NHS staff struggles and free meals row - BBC News", "Trump impeachment process: Who are the key players? - BBC News", "Gurlitt's last Nazi-looted work returned to owners - BBC News", "Cramlington woman celebrates 100th birthday with covid jab - BBC News", "People's sonic boom surprise caught on camera - BBC News", "Libby Squire murder trial: Pawel Relowicz 'prowled streets for victim' - BBC News", "Battery lodged in baby's throat for four months - BBC News", "As it happened: Record number of daily deaths reported in UK - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Pfizer v Oxford AstraZeneca v Moderna - BBC News", "Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Fulham: Ivan Cavaleiro earns a point for Premier League strugglers - BBC Sport", "Call for better coronavirus masks for all medical staff - BBC News", "Covid: Play your part in fight against virus, says Patel - BBC News", "YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel - BBC News", "Covid: UK reports record 1,564 daily deaths - BBC News", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan: Hundreds march over arrested man's death - BBC News", "Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot - BBC News", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ban shoppers without face masks - BBC News", "Trump impeached for second time - BBC News", "YFN Lucci: US rapper wanted in Atlanta for suspected murder - BBC News", "Covid: Many NHS staff 'traumatised' by first wave of virus, study shows - BBC News", "Duchess of York: From Budgie the Helicopter to Mills & Boon - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Who broke into the building? - BBC News", "Britain's Got Talent: Filming postponed due to coronavirus concerns - BBC News", "Boris Johnson condemns 'disgraceful scenes' in US - BBC News", "National Express to suspend all services - BBC News", "Fears schools will be overwhelmed by laptopless pupils - BBC News", "Trump allowed back onto Twitter - BBC News", "Trump auction for Arctic oil rights sees little interest - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Three teenagers charged with murder after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Biden says BLM protest would have been treated 'very differently' - BBC News", "Essex lorry deaths: Dad learned of son's fate on social media - BBC News", "As it happened: PM sets out Covid vaccine rollout plan - BBC News", "Teachers' grades to replace A-levels and GCSEs in England - BBC News", "Adrian Chiles confirmed in Emma Barnett 5 Live slot - BBC News", "Covid: Seven mass vaccination hubs announced for England - BBC News", "Capitol riots: World media see Trump ignite an 'insurrection' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor: Two Louisville officers fired over roles in shooting - BBC News", "Stella Tennant: Family confirms model's death was suicide - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Well over half' of care home residents vaccinated - BBC News", "Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered - BBC News", "Capitol riot: What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy? - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Belfast Trust cancels urgent cancer surgeries - BBC News", "Capitol riots: How a Trump rally turned deadly - BBC News", "Capitol riots: A visual guide to the storming of Congress - BBC News", "Muted response as Clap for Heroes returns - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Five startling images from the siege - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Moment protesters storm US legislature - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump for sparking events - BBC News", "Ryanair scraps most UK and Irish lockdown flights - BBC News", "Covid: UK travel curbs to keep out South Africa variant - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Pro-Trump protesters storm the US legislature - in pictures - BBC News", "'Mr Christmas' lights switched off for last time in Croxley Green - BBC News", "Inside one GP surgery's Covid vaccine roll-out - BBC News", "Covid-19: Baby's mother issues mottled skin warning - BBC News", "Trump’s Twitter downfall - BBC News", "ICU hospital staff: 'Scared, sad, petrified, worried' - BBC News", "Elon Musk becomes world's richest person as wealth tops $185bn - BBC News", "Capitol siege: Trump's words 'directly led' to violence, Patel says - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Murder-accused teenagers appear in court - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "McDonald's pauses walk-in takeaways in lockdown - BBC News", "US Capitol riots: World leaders react to 'horrifying' scenes in Washington - BBC News", "'Show us it's safe' to be open, say nursery staff - BBC News", "Alex Rodda murder: Matthew Mason guilty of killing schoolboy - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson makes daily jab pledge as Army helps rollout - BBC News", "Organ donor mum wishes she could help her children in need of kidneys - BBC News", "Meat factories warn Covid absences could hit supplies - BBC News", "Covid tests for Channel hauliers to continue 'until further notice' - BBC News", "Aston Villa plan to play youngsters against Liverpool in FA Cup after Covid outbreak - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Vaccine rollout widens as hospital pressure rises - BBC News", "Sainsbury's Christmas sales rise despite smaller turkeys - BBC News", "Analysis: Can lockdown stop the new coronavirus variant? - BBC News", "Covid: China places 11m under lockdown after outbreak in northern city - BBC News", "The Wanted's Tom Parker says brain tumour has 'shrunk significantly' - BBC News", "Lockdown: 'I've borrowed £4m just to remain closed' - BBC News", "Capitol siege: An eyewitness account from inside the House chamber - BBC News", "Asos frontrunner to buy Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge brands - BBC News", "Boohoo 'set to buy Debenhams brand and website' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Top adviser warns France at 'emergency' virus moment - BBC News", "Covid-19: Essex student helps 600 refugees out of 'period poverty' - BBC News", "Covid: Israel vaccinates 16 to 18-year-olds ahead of exams - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Care home worker thought cancer misdiagnosis was a 'cruel joke' - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims could be out of homes for days - BBC News", "SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched - BBC News", "England in Sri Lanka: Tourists complete six-wicket win and take series 2-0 - BBC Sport", "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Pressure on NHS front line 'relentless' - Hancock - BBC News", "Covid: Teachers 'not at higher risk' of death than average - BBC News", "Fraud epidemic 'is now national security threat' - BBC News", "Snow: Severe weather warnings in place across UK - BBC News", "Covid-19: MPs call for school reopening plan, and will France have a third lockdown? - BBC News", "Putin condemns Navalny protests as Western concern grows - BBC News", "Covid: 'Not a moment to ease measures,' says Matt Hancock - BBC News", "Robert Rowland: Former Brexit MEP dies in Bahamas diving accident - BBC News", "Pandemic prompts Super Bowl ad rethink in US - BBC News", "Covid: Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' - BBC News", "South Africa coronavirus variant: 77 cases found in UK - BBC News", "US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts' - BBC News", "Barclaycard customers face higher minimum payments - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? - BBC News", "'Droves' of Pampas grass pickers at South Shields beach - BBC News", "Covid-19: Mansfield newlyweds, 90 and 86, in vaccination plea - BBC News", "'Knackered and confused.' That's just the parents - BBC News", "Covid: Call for long-term plan to help 'burnt-out' nurses - BBC News", "Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger - BBC News", "Dylan Freeman: Mother admits killing disabled son - BBC News", "'Running Man' robber jailed after nearly 13 years on the run - BBC News", "Travellers: Shocking lack of pitches for families, charity warns - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims face 'months' before returning home - BBC News", "Jenners: Building's owner says store 'will remain' despite Frasers move - BBC News", "PTSD: Eyes can reveal previous trauma, study reveals - BBC News", "Covid: 'More deadly' UK variant claim played down by scientists - BBC News", "Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants - BBC News", "Channel 4 Deepfake Queen complaints dropped by Ofcom - BBC News", "Debenhams shops to close permanently after Boohoo deal - BBC News", "Covid: Dutch curfew riots rage for third night - BBC News", "Gordon Brown: Trust has broken down in way UK is run - BBC News", "Q&A: Cwm Taf maternity problems - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Over-70 vaccine letters start but blue envelope delay - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Failings 'affected two-thirds of women' - BBC News", "Mastercard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU - BBC News", "Frank Lampard: Chelsea sack manager with Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive - BBC News", "Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary - BBC News", "Covid: Hays Travel to close 89 shops as lockdown delays 'bounce back' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer self-isolates for third time - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Ways to 'accelerate' vaccine plans being examined - BBC News", "Welsh Valentine's Day: 'Why we mark St Dwynwen's Day' - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Mothers ignored and made to feel worthless - BBC News", "Keon Lincoln: Mother 'heard gunshots' that killed teen - BBC News", "Covid-19: Police investigate potential breaches at republican funeral - BBC News", "Skewen flooding: Villagers warned not to return to homes - BBC News", "Kickstart: Most job roles for youths not yet filled - BBC News", "Covid: Volunteers in Maesteg clear snow for vulnerable to get vaccine - BBC News", "Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool: Bruno Fernandes settles FA Cup thriller - BBC Sport", "Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern' - BBC News", "Couple killed in Cameron House Hotel fire named - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Police support Crown probe into care home deaths - BBC News", "Covid: Sir Billy Connolly receives his first vaccine jab - BBC News", "Covid: Fire Brigades Union safety demands 'unworkable', says report - BBC News", "Shipping crisis: I'm being quoted £10,000 for a £1,600 container' - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Majority of discretionary self-isolation support applications rejected, Labour say - BBC News", "Festival season 'still possible' despite Glastonbury cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'New variant may be associated with higher mortality' - PM - BBC News", "Inquiry uses legal powers to seek Salmond evidence - BBC News", "Bus driver jailed after passenger's death in Swansea crash - BBC News", "Covid: James Bond film No Time To Die delayed for third time - BBC News", "Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives - BBC News", "Birmingham mosque becomes UK's first to offer Covid vaccine - BBC News", "Hotel quarantine for UK arrivals to be discussed - BBC News", "St Agnes Cold War bunker for sale - BBC News", "Covid: Side-by-side in a London mosque - funerals and a food bank - BBC News", "Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? 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east London.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "Driving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" next week, the Met Office warns.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect the area, close to Niger's border with Mali.", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Manchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breaches Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.", "Mexican-American Ryan Garcia gets up from the canvas to stop Britain's Luke Campbell with a body shot in Dallas, Texas.", "About 30,000 birds are to be culled at the farm near Clough in north Antrim.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describes her as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wishes her well.", "Boris Johnson says regional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The decision to keep car parks open is under \"constant review\", says one national park.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Calls are made for \"front-line\" nursery staff to be supported with funding and vaccines.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "He told police he drove to Devizes for a McDonald's even though the town does not have a branch.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Mother Sara Powell-Davies welcomes its return, but nurseries say they fear for the future.", "Women are sent sexually explicit messages and requests for \"worn\" garments.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Fighting erupted after a man was stabbed in a row between two men from different ethnic groups.", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "The government is aiming to provide grants by April to mitigate the impact of Covid travel rules.", "Patient numbers have risen by 15,000 since Christmas, but infections are stabilising, says Sir Simon Stevens.", "Pupils in England can read works by popular authors online while schools stay closed in lockdown.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later.", "England need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic final session in Galle.", "A decision on whether to extend £20 Universal Credit rise is unlikely before March's Budget, minister says.", "The leaders of the US, France, Germany and other leading economies will meet in Cornwall in June.", "The government is planning new laws to stop England's monuments being removed \"on a whim\" by protesters.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "With traffic down and more people working from home, what is the future for these lay-by businesses?", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday.", "But Sir Simon Stevens says the health service has never been in a more precarious situation.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia tested positive for the virus shortly after Christmas but the cause of his death is not clear.", "The man told police he had travelled 14 miles from his home to search for the fictional characters.", "Hashem Abedi and Ahmed Hassan are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh in May.", "Scotland's health secretary says 400,000 jabs could be administered every week by the end of February.", "Lidl, Just Eat and Asos say demand for fizz, takeaways and clothes all rose during December.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Black people are more than four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act in England.", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and NHS Wales chief executive.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Tony Parsons from Tillicoultry vanished more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.", "The prime minister wants round-the-clock vaccination but adds supply is currently the limiting factor.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The health secretary urges people to follow rules, saying \"individual decisions\" make a difference.", "Rival supermarkets defend their pay, with Asda saying looking at hourly rates does not tell the whole story.", "Some restrictions have been tightened amid concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Amid reports of mass furlough fraud the BBC hears from one worker who quit work but still gets furlough pay.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says because of the \"precarious\" situation in relation to the pandemic more restrictions will be brought in.", "A report from a group of Tory MPs adds to internal pressure on the government to harden its stance.", "Together with his twin brother, Sir David built a business empire spanning hotels, retail and newspapers.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The company denies selling technology that can identify the ethnic group and plans to reword the patent.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Boris Johnson over the provision of \"disgraceful\" food parcels.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Latest results show Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine is less effective in Brazil than previously suggested.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "One operator told the BBC his staff were working up to 16 hours a day to help traders.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "The increase is to further discourage shoppers from buying single-use plastic bags.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Sir David will showcase an augmented reality app as part of a drive to prove the uses of 5G.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".", "But Boris Johnson does not rule out tougher restrictions in England, saying they are kept under review.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "These are the lawmakers with a big influence on the impeachment process against the former president.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Pawel Relowicz committed \"sexually motivated\" burglaries before Libby Squire's death, jurors hear.", "Doctors believed 11-month-old Sofia-Grace Hill was rejecting food because she had tonsillitis.", "It comes as Boris Johnson is quizzed by MPs on the government's coronavirus response.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Parents of disabled children are calling for teachers in special schools to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "The Google-owned service said the president had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "The Democrats say they sheltered in a safe room alongside others who refused to wear masks.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Police in Atlanta want to question YFN Lucci, 29, over a fatal shooting in the city last month.", "More than 700 intensive care staff at nine hospitals were asked about their experiences for a study.", "Her novel Heart for a Compass is a fictional historical saga inspired by her great-great-aunt.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "Production was to begin later this month but filming and transmission will now be later than hoped.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "Allowing pupils without laptops into schools could limit the impact of the closures, say head.", "The president will be banned \"permanently\" if he breaks the platform's rules again.", "An Alaska state agency emerged as the main bidder at the sale, which was opposed by environmentalists.", "Two boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, are charged with murder after the death of Olly Stephens, 13.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex.", "Boris Johnson has \"no doubt\" there is enough supply to vaccinate the first four priority groups by 15 February.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The broadcaster will be a part-time replacement for the new Woman's Hour host.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Events in Washington spark dismay and criticism of America's politics and leader.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "More than 113,000 Scots have now been given their first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "The president is accused of inciting a riot with his divisive rhetoric - he's unlikely to stay silent.", "Health officials say it was the only option due to the demand for beds as a result of Covid-19.", "A ceremony meant to showcase a peaceful power transfer turns into a dark day. Here are the key moments.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "News photographers captured extraordinary scenes as Trump supporters stormed the building.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The airline warns few, if any, flights will operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "Dave Edwards lit up his home for 42 years but died before the recent festive season.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "George is recovering after spending three nights in hospital with coronavirus.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "On Wednesday the UK recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths and hospitals are struggling to cope.", "The Tesla and SpaceX owner replaces Jeff Bezos as the richest man on the planet.", "The home secretary says the US president fuelled the violence, as the PM condemns the \"disgraceful scenes\".", "Two boys and a girl are accused of murdering 13-year-old Olly Stephens in Reading.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Matthew Mason beat 15-year-old Alex Rodda to death to stop their sexual relationship being revealed.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Sarah Bingham's son and daughter have the same rare illness and she is a donor match for both.", "Industry body calls for the early vaccination of workers to keep supply chains running smoothly.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "Aston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool.", "GPs in England receive doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn of \"stretched\" wards.", "Families had smaller gatherings, but sales still rose 9.3% in the Christmas trading period, it says.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Residents of Shijiazhuang are banned from leaving and will be tested en masse after an outbreak there.", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "The new lockdown has pushed pubs and restaurants into yet more debt, some of which may never be repaid.", "Jamie Stiehm was in the House of Representatives press gallery when protesters smashed at the door.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "The head of France's scientific council suggests a third lockdown is needed amid spread of variants.", "Ella Lambert says the period pain she experiences inspired her to help others.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "Janice Johnston had 18 months of needless chemotherapy, causing her numerous physical problems.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "England complete a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.", "A former Boeing manager says more investigations are needed on the plane, grounded after two crashes.", "Nearly 38,000 people are in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, the health secretary says.", "The highest-risk job roles were in restaurants, care work and manufacturing.", "From credit card fraud to benefit fraud, the problem costs the UK up to £190bn a year, a report says.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The crackdown on Alexei Navalny and his supporters fuels calls in the EU for tougher sanctions.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "The changes affecting some customers take effect as finances are squeezed by Covid and Christmas.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after having to twice postpone their wedding.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "A Royal College of Nursing survey found almost 80% were more stressed because of the Covid pandemic.", "As temperatures continue to remain high, parts of Australia are facing their worst fire risk in a year.", "Three psychiatric reports found Olga Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness.", "Ambrose O'Neill disappeared after the first day of his trial in 2008.", "Only 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any available spaces, research from a charity suggests.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "The building's owner vows it will continue as a department store despite the departure of current tenant, the House of Fraser.", "The eyes of people with PTSD behave differently when they see exciting images, researchers say.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Laboratory tests suggest antibodies can recognise and fight the UK and South Africa variants.", "The media regulator decided not to pursue complaints about decency over the channel's satire.", "Online retailer Boohoo will buy the brand for £55m, but not its shops, putting 12,000 jobs at risk.", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The UK's nations and regions are being treated as if they were \"invisible\", the former PM warns.", "What is behind the review of specialist care for mothers and babies in the south Wales valleys?", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "A new report focuses on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.", "The move sparks concerns that customers could see prices rise if merchants pass on the higher cost.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, announces he is receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says he will be working from home until next Monday.", "A pilot programme for 24/7 vaccinations is among options being considered by the Scottish government.", "Why one family finds St Dwynwen's Day - the Welsh patron saint of lovers - more relevant to their heritage.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford earlier visited the site of the flooding which led to 80 people being evacuated.", "About 118,000 placements for young people are yet to be filled due to coronavirus lockdowns.", "Community spirit praised as helpers clear 7cm of snow so vulnerable patients could get Covid jab.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders call for rapid testing and priority access to vaccines.", "The two men were guests at Cameron House Hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond when the blaze broke out.", "The force said its role is designed to inform prosecutors and does not indicate a crime has taken place.", "The 78-year-old Scottish comedian received his first dose of the vaccine near his home in Florida.", "A report criticises the union after it told its members not to volunteer due to safety concerns.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "The majority of applications for the discretionary part of the test and trace grant are unsuccessful.", "Despite Glastonbury's cancellation, smaller festivals could still go ahead, experts say.", "Boris Johnson says it's more important than ever to be vigilant in following rules and staying home.", "The probe into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond wants to see messages between SNP and government officials.", "Eric Vice, 64, was driving to Swansea University when he hit a bridge.", "The premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final 007 outing, is pushed back again due to Covid.", "Doctors say people should buy a pulse oximeter to monitor their oxygen levels at home.", "The imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, hopes the centre will dispel false information about the vaccination.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "A bunker built during the Cold War is being auctioned with a guide price of £25,000.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "UK retailers may abandon goods EU customers want to return because it is cheaper than bringing them home.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "Health Minister Robin Swann warns restrictions are likely to continue after latest extension.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.", "The TV presenter says Mr Trump went on with the conversation, believing it to be Morgan.", "A 14-year-old boy is suspected of murder over \"inconceivable violence\" before Keon Lincoln's death.", "The Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs was recently rated \"weak\" by the care inspectorate for its Covid response.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "A national charity renews its plea for donations to help museums hit by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Paula Badosa reveals she has the virus and apologises for making complaints about quarantine rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "A £500 payment is already available for those on low incomes who cannot work from home, No 10 says.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "A teachers' union says a review delivers a \"scathing\" verdict on how exams were handled in 2020.", "Fines of £800 will be handed to anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people from next week.", "Thousands of files hacked from Scotland's environment watchdog appear on the \"dark web\" after it rejected a ransom demand.", "Boris Johnson says England's measures will be reviewed once the priority groups have had the vaccine.", "Paddy McElhone, 24, was shot in the back by a soldier near his home outside Pomeroy in August 1974.", "Investigators have been targeting offenders who operate online since the first coronavirus lockdown.", "CCTV footage has been released showing fire breaking out in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "Two people died in the blaze at the Cameron House hotel in West Dunbartonshire three years ago.", "A consortium including the fashion chain will no longer bid to buy Topshop and Topman out of administration.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "Clothing was the hardest-hit sector last year, seeing a 25% drop in sales overall.", "Liverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League comes to an end as Ashley Barnes fires home a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.", "The Japanese car maker has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Parts of Skewen remain underwater with people unable to return to their flooded homes.", "Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after failing to find a \"workable quarantine\" solution following his positive test for coronavirus.", "Simon Midgley's mother says she still does not have answers about how her son died in the fire at Cameron House.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "The minority \"blatantly flouting\" restrictions will face enforcement action, a senior officer says.", "The couple paid themselves the sum despite heavy losses at Mrs Beckham's fashion brand.", "Muller Milk & Ingredients in Somerset confirms 47 dairy workers have tested positive for Covid-19.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Many of those who took part in the Capitol riot are believed to have subscribed to extremist views.", "The curbs may even continue until Easter in an attempt to drive down Covid-19 case numbers.", "Stars of the Essex-based reality show pay tribute to a \"true gentleman\" and \"one of the good guys\".", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest hears.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "Investigations are ongoing into what caused the road surface to give way, United Utilities say.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Under house arrest in Canada on bank fraud charges, Ms Meng has reportedly received death threats.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "The S21 Ultra's support for an S Pen will fuel speculation that the Note range's days are numbered.", "But the expert says the new Covid variant means any relaxation of rules will be a \"gradual process\".", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "One in three trusts in England was running above safe levels of bed occupancy by the end of 2020.", "Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Some urgent procedures including cancer surgery are postponed in one health board area due to Covid.", "Six chemists have been chosen initially, with 200 more offering vaccinations in the next fortnight.", "Hundreds of students say it is not right they will have to wait months for rebates during Covid-19.", "Some housed in the military camp say the conditions are so bad it causes them psychological trauma.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "Armie Hammer dismisses supposedly leaked messages and says he can now not be apart from his children.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Jack Dorsey acknowledges that banning the president undermines the ideals of an open internet.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "Arrivals from most of South America - and from Portugal - will be stopped from Friday.", "Dozens cancel Covid jabs and poor road conditions have a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances.", "Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a \"no-brainer\" that workers should get immunised.", "Scientists are racing to find out more about variants of the coronavirus that are spreading fast.", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer is explaining what went wrong with the launch.", "Samantha Hicks attributed her baby's kicking to sickness having been in hospital with Covid-19.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK.", "Services in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, the Rail Delivery Group says.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "A Scottish shellfish firm owner says he is on the brink of bankruptcy as EU customers desert his business.", "The 19-year-old mounted pavements and jumped red lights through London and three counties.", "Nintendo's first theme park, modelled on levels of its Mario games, was due to open on 4 February.", "More than 45% of this priority group has now been vaccinated, compared with about 30% in London.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "New Brexit trade rules mean Britain's biggest supermarket faces problems importing some fruit, meat and ready meals.", "James Howells threw away a hard drive containing bitcoin - now worth £210m - by mistake in 2013.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "It tops up doses already promised as officials worry that Africa is at the back of the vaccine queue.", "England's cancer, critical care, A&E and routine treatments all hit as hospitals accommodate virus patients.", "Boris Johnson pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024, but a watchdog says plans need reviewing post-Covid.", "The government defends its plan to switch to a grant scheme to feed children at half term.", "Our voter panel is divided over the charge of incitement with Trump supporters warning it will deepen divisions.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ministers could bring in possible measures after a new Covid variant was found in South America.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus have landed in the city of Wuhan.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "The home secretary says her focus is on enforcement but doesn't rule out tougher restrictions next week.", "Dom Bess takes 5-30 as a dreadful Sri Lanka batting display leaves England in control after day one of the first Test at Galle.", "A blind social media star could wait years for a new guide dog due to delays linked to the pandemic.", "The government wants bosses to do more to help victims as reports of domestic abuse soar in lockdown.", "Andy Murray is still hopeful of playing in the Australian Open despite not travelling to Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher and partner Roy Horn were an institution in Las Vegas and beyond.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The retailer insists it has no plans to move online, despite warning shop closures could cost it £1bn.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "The woman, who was Tasered by officers, is taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.", "Sarah Link lived in a caravan on her own drive so she could carry on working and protect her mother.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "Officers \"will not hesitate\" to take action against those breaking the rules, home secretary says.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says social media giants are \"taking editorial decisions\".", "The Labour leader urges ministers to give councils more money instead to protect family budgets.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "Eleanor Wadsworth flew hundreds of aircraft, including Spitfires and Hurricanes, to the front line in WW2.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "But for now, people must stay at home during lockdown and alleviate 'serious' pressure on the NHS.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Electricity is gradually being restored after a huge outage triggered by a power station fault.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Scott McTominay celebrates captaining Manchester United for the first time with an early winner to see off Watford in the FA Cup third round.", "A 107-year-old woman from County Meath is attempting to attend a virtual Mass in every county.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "If Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday, the entire network will go offline.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "Almost 50,000 people in Wales have been given a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The Labour leader rejects a second independence referendum but calls for other changes to devolution.", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "Boris Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to outline further steps as virus cases rise.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "The British coin collection will also mark the 75th anniversary of the death of novelist HG Wells.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "An NHS chief executive says it 'beggars belief' people took pictures of empty corridors.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The PM says the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions\" by the end of March.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Dan Eliasson, head of the civil contingencies agency, flew to the Canary Islands to see his daughter.", "Tributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The group of more than 200 engineers say Google must live up to its 'Don't be evil' pledge.", "Nóra Quoirin's family say they are disappointed at the ruling and still think she was abducted.", "Boris Johnson warns of \"tough\" weeks ahead, as coronavirus infection rates continue to surge.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "The border crossings between the UK and the European Union face their first day of significant traffic under new rules.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The Labour leader calls for an immediate lockdown in England to get the virus \"back under control\".", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "Lockdown losses mean renewing the 10-year contract to lease Yang Guang and Tian Tian may be unaffordable.", "Police help dozens of motorists who became stranded after heavy snow fell in the Peak District.", "Parliament will be recalled for Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\" as case numbers rise by 2,464.", "Schools in Wales given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", despite concerns by unions.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Her Majesty said the now 75-year-old show had \"played a significant part in the evolving of women\".", "Schools will close for most pupils from Tuesday as people are told to stay at home in new lockdown.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "The government said suspected jihadists ambushed the two villages near Niger's border with Mali.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The Championship club said \"several first-team staff and players\" had tested positive.", "England all-rounder Moeen Ali tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at Hambantota airport in Sri Lanka.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "The bid approach is the latest attempt by a casino operator to tap into the online gambling boom.", "The locally-produced Covaxin jab was approved on Sunday before completion of third stage trials.", "Supermarkets say card payment problems that led to long queues are resolved, but cause still unknown", "Total deaths involving Covid pass 6,000, including 467 in the week ending 15 January.", "A Cardiff head teacher says keeping schools closed affects disadvantaged pupils most severely.", "The money comes from the liquidation of a firm co-founded by the disgraced film producer.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey says she is \"pinching herself\" over her win.", "Another 7,700 registered with coronavirus on the death certificate brings the total to nearly 104,000.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The UK is the second market - after the US - to get Facebook's latest news feature.", "The NHS says any invitation which asks for vaccine payment or bank account details is a scam.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Scientists propose 10 golden rules for restoring forests to maximise benefits for the planet.", "Parents reveal the perils of juggling teaching with work and family life.", "The new measures are likely to apply to British residents arriving in England from high-risk countries.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility for everything that the government has done\".", "Major incidents were declared in north and south Wales as Storm Christoph causes flooding.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Ex-cabinet minister wants \"Britain's favourite animal\" to get same protections as bats and badgers.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Several pupils at the school admitted visiting other households, breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "Lawyers for SMG deny claims it was penny-pinching before the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "Crew are asking to be designated 'key workers' so they can go home without risking public health.", "Campaigners claim changes to the way decisions were made led to a \"shocking\" fall in cases going to court.", "Comedians Meera Syal, Romesh Ranganathan and Adil Ray make a video urging people to get the vaccine.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "The Belfast grammar school says it will use \"other academic criteria\" in the absence of transfer tests.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "It comes as the foreign secretary says the UK will return to spending 0.7% of GDP on aid \"as soon as possible\",", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "The BBC brought a judicial review over reporting restrictions in a now abandoned legal case against Scotland's child abuse inquiry.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Part of the grade II-listed bridge over the River Clwyd was swept away during Storm Christoph.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The company acknowledges its \"Birdwatch\" idea could be \"messy\", but says it is worth trying.", "Parents and teachers are frustrated and worried about the impact of school closures on children.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "A plan to put the anti-slavery activist on the banknote was delayed under ex-President Donald Trump.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "The Stormont-commissioned research examined institutions run by churches and other religious groups.", "English-speaking parents whose children go to Welsh-language schools say they struggle to help them.", "Three nights of rioting will not halt night curfews aimed at stopping coronavirus, say Dutch ministers.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "The Welsh Government misses its target of giving 70% of over-80s the vaccine by last weekend.", "Leaders in the House have brought their article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate.", "The border closure is likely to remain even with widespread vaccinations, a top official says.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "The Welsh Ambulance Service boss warns that difficult weeks lie ahead in Covid-19 fight.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Passengers must also quarantine for up to 10 days following the closure of all UK travel corridors.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "At the age of 14, he sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian teenager to murder police officers.", "The owner of a toy retailer says high transport costs may mean larger toys become more expensive.", "Jonny Bairstow and Dan Lawrence help England seal victory over Sri Lanka on the final morning of the first Test in Galle.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "A group of pensioners seek compensation for what they say was the excessive pricing of landlines.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Nóra Quoirin's parents do not accept the findings of an inquest into her death in Malaysia.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Jonathan Brooks is charged with the attempted murder of Graeme Perks, who was attacked in his home.", "Police have described the killers of 15-year-old Keelan Wilson as a \"pack of animals\".", "Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid death toll but has seen delay and discord over vaccines.", "A red deer had to be put down after being savaged by a red setter in London's Richmond Park.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "Phil Neville leaves his role as manager of England's women and takes over at Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.", "Students call for more support as they continue their studies through another lockdown.", "The Jewish employee had warned co-workers about the danger of Nazis during the Capitol Riots.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "Small armed groups gathered in several US cities but most state capitols were quiet amid high security.", "Annual growth of 2.3% puts China on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Someone is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, the health secretary says.", "The Perth-born actor was best known for screen roles including \"Chancer\" in City Lights and \"Pete Galloway\" in River City.", "Students at Aberystwyth are told not to return unless \"absolutely necessary\".", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "A shortage of computer chips is leading to car factories shutting down for days at a time.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are very few spare beds for the most seriously ill patients in parts of the country, the NHS says.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Democrats plan to start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Monday, for inciting the invasion of the US Capitol, sources say.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "While GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled, IGCSEs, often used in independent schools, will continue.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "The man charged the 92-year-old £160 and came back a week later asking for a further £100.", "Seventeen million doses have been ordered by the UK and are expected to arrive in spring.", "Sweet Melody becomes the band's fifth number one, and their first since Jesy Nelson left.", "But some performances may be pre-recorded if artists can't travel to Rotterdam.", "The deaths of a further 93 people have been recorded - with the number of patients in hospital at record levels.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Secret recordings revealed \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Students say they will refuse to pay for accommodation they cannot use during lockdown.", "It is the third vaccine to be approved for UK use, after the Pfizer and Oxford jabs.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "We asked people around the US how they responded to the chaotic scenes from the US Capitol.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "Shark attacks are rare in the country and it is thought to be the first such death since 2013.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "The lender says it expects \"downward pressure on house prices\" in 2021 following annual rise of 6% last year.", "Business Secretary Alok Sharma becomes full-time president of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow.", "Data leaked to BBC News shows a rise in the number of hours before patients are offloaded.", "Marks & Spencer's clothes sales overall fall nearly a quarter, but pyjamas are back in fashion.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The men were detained when special forces stormed the Nave Andromeda off the Isle of Wight.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "Top Democrats call for the president to be removed as he commits to an \"orderly\" transition of power.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "It comes as all of Wales has snow and ice warnings for the next few days.", "The Korean car company originally said it was in talks with the tech titan before backtracking.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 January.", "Satellite data shows that 2020 and 2016 are essentially tied as the hottest years since records began.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms an extended closure of schools.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "A series of streamed music events, shows and releases will mark five years since the singer's death.", "With attendance as high as 50% in some areas, heads call for pupil limits in England's lockdown schools.", "Ramsey was loved by fans for her role as Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy film series.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "The first cyclone of Australia’s season has been downgraded but continues to cause danger.", "Reversing earlier assurances, officials say tracing data can be used for criminal investigations.", "Boris Johnson tells a briefing that nearly a quarter of people over 80 have received a Covid-19 jab.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Enrique Tarrio was detained as he entered the city ahead of a pro-Trump protest this week.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "Sea Shepherd says the collision happened after it came under attack in the Gulf of California.", "Business groups welcomed the new help as a good start but said more aid and a clear plan would be needed.", "Boris Johnson made the decision on restrictions \"in the face of new information\", the chancellor says.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The children's commissioner for England and Labour's leader call on firms to help low-income families.", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "A growing divide over education, jobs, and ethnicity threaten the fabric of society, says Nobel laureate's study.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?", "Virgin Holidays joins Tui and Thomas Cook in cancelling holidays after latest coronavirus restrictions.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "The cancellations, although rare, reflect the pressure some hospitals are under from Covid.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Demand surges as shoppers rush to secure online delivery slots following news of another lockdown.", "In the tightening of restrictions across the UK there is much that's an echo of March - but a lot that's different too.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks Celtic have questions to answer on the grounds for their winter trip to Dubai and says the club's social distancing \"should be looked into\".", "The stationery chain which has 127 stores and around 1,500 employees says shop closures hit it hard.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "Former Buckingham Palace caterer Adamo Canto attempted to sell some items on eBay, a court hears.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "A hearing will decide whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The famous building on London's Oxford Street has been put on the market by administrators.", "Strict new Covid-19 restrictions come into force in Scotland, prohibiting people from leaving their homes.", "A fresh move to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence is under way.", "The personal trainer says he wants to \"give children structure\" during lockdown.", "Regulators say the plane is safe to resume service after two fatal crashes led to its grounding.", "Insurers reject claims that by covering ransomware bills they are funding organised crime.", "But loss of taste and smell may be less likely to affect those with the new strain, a study suggests.", "Travellers share their experiences of isolating in hotels, as the UK announces a similar scheme.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is \"not ecstatic\" about reports the PM will visit Scotland on Thursday.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "Philippa Day was found collapsed beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home assessment.", "The 83-year-old Hollywood royalty is also known as an active climate change campaigner.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Karen Hobbs' sister says she is in shock, and urges people to follow lockdown rules.", "Boris Johnson says most people in Scotland are focused on defeating Covid rather than another referendum.", "Images of Jonathan Mok's swollen eye were posted on Facebook and shared thousands of times.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The financial regulator will consult \"shortly\" on a rise from the current limit of £45.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a banned driver in a stolen car drive into a police officer on his motorbike.", "The PM sets the date he hopes England's lockdown will begin to ease, but warns of a \"perilous situation\".", "Boris Johnson also says he shares the \"frustration\" of parents who want to get children back to school.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "Families loaded up on the latest technology and sales increased in China.", "The maps depict the famous sea battle in which the English fleet was victorious in 1588.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "The Army sends a bomb disposal unit to a site where the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is produced.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "The Oscar-nominated actor and his choreographer wife describe as \"difficult\" their decision to split.", "It is the first time the world-famous event will take place in the autumn.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "A \"legacy of poor decisions\" in 2020 and before the pandemic led to 100,000 deaths, scientists say.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "Bailiffs move in to remove people who dug a 100ft tunnel to block the high-speed rail line.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is concerned the UK's travel restrictions will not go far enough.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "Leon Briggs was \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers, a jury hears.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "Nurse Eva Gicain says when she held Elleana for the first time she \"didn't want to let go\".", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Has the PM effectively admitted we're heading for a full year of limits on our lives?", "Lockdown led to a surge in reports of fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms, regulator says.", "Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for more than three years.", "Labour calls for key workers to be added to the first phase of the vaccination programme.", "Residents hit upon the idea after the annual street parade was cancelled because of the pandemic.", "Boris Johnson faced questions from MPs why the UK's coronavirus death toll is the highest in Europe.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "The social media platform removed posts after wrongly identifying the place name as offensive.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Details from a briefing by the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser for health.", "David Solomon is being punished for the bank's involvement in the fraudulent Malaysian investment fund.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, suffered multiple fractures after coming off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai.", "The “phased” lifting of restrictions will depend on data on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations.", "The government faces legal action over its decision to allow the use of a pesticide that harms bees.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba is undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer, the Championship club has announced", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to bolster security in Washington DC.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "Unison chooses Christina McAnea to replace Dave Prentis, who has been in the job for 20 years.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "James Brokenshire will take leave from his Home Office job during further surgery for lung cancer.", "Medical director warns Wrexham Maelor is under huge pressure as numbers of seriously ill patients rise.", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "The new Welsh Government vaccine plan says all eligible adults will be offered a jab by the autumn.", "M&S is buying the brand out of administration, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.", "University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "A document advises doctors that the minimum level of oxygen required in the blood is being reduced.", "Scotland's first minister says she has doubts about whether Celtic's trip to Dubai was \"really essential\".", "\"Numbers are increasing not decreasing\" - inside an emergency body storage facility in Surrey.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "A number of Scottish schools, pupils and parents report Microsoft Teams running slowly or not at all.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Luke Evans portrays the policeman who brought John Cooper to justice for two double murders.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Manchester United will host Premier League champions Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "A study finds that the financial burden on poorer families has increased during the pandemic.", "The much-loved TV series is back with a new name but only three of the original four leads will star.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "An industry group wants more state help for people like Jon Wilding, whose business is hit by the pandemic.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "Nicola Sturgeon acknowledges technical problems on the first day the vast majority of pupils in Scotland begin the new term at home.", "About 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the beginning of next month, the health secretary says.", "He wants businesses to do more to protect the planet as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.", "It comes after a Celtic player tested positive less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip there.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Celtic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.", "Details and reaction to Health Minister Vaughan Gething's vaccination rollout plan.", "Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says too many abusers' sentences are not tough enough.", "Lisa Montgomery's lawyers argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy, but her victim's community said otherwise.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "The content will not count in a mobile data allowance to help keep costs of online learning down.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The health secretary says UK vaccine rollout is on track but urges everyone to play their part by following Covid rules.", "The warning from England's chief medical officer comes as seven mass vaccination centres open.", "Joe Biden's presidential Twitter account launches with no followers transferred from President Trump.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January.", "In one health board, 30% of four and five-year-olds are overweight or obese.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Even experienced exporters are struggling with the system, says the British Meat Processor Association.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford promises more protection to shop workers.", "It comes after reports that protections including the 48-hour work week could be dropped.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "He helped kick-start punk and new wave, and was an influence on the Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses.", "Move follows concern over a new Covid variant which an expert says has already been found in the UK.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.", "Craig Ross was quoted as saying food bank users were \"far from starving\" and more at risk of diabetes.", "The Home Office says it is working to \"assess the impact\" of the issue, which has been resolved.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "Scientists warn UK deaths will continue to rise as the global death toll passes two million.", "Coronavirus restrictions in England affected services, with pubs and hairdressers badly hit.", "Antonio says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour when he was sectioned.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "The NHS fears some communities are being targeted with misinformation, a leading doctor says.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "A variant that is thought to be more infectious has not been found in the UK, scientist says.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Pharmacist Llyr Hughes said 50 patients would be given the Covid vaccine at his pharmacy on Friday.", "The R number in the UK is officially estimated at 1.2-1.3 as a further 1,280 deaths are reported.", "Hospitals with large critical care capacity are taking patients from other areas to ease pressures.", "The Saved by the Bell actor became ill last week and was taken to hospital.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "The earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, injuring hundreds and destroying a hospital.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "Wayne Rooney is named as Derby County's new manager, with the ex-England captain also announcing his retirement from playing.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The government says the funding will connect \"left-behind\" communities.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning.", "It is claimed they were seen drinking on Welsh Parliament premises when a ban on its sale in pubs was in force.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "It brings the total number of deaths to 97,329.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "Police uncover a string of late-night \"incredibly selfish\" parties in Kensington and Chelsea.", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Photographs of National Guard members sheltering underground spark anger among lawmakers.", "Some elderly people have been told to travel miles to get the jab or face having to wait to get it.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Presented as a safe pair of hands, he struggled to make himself heard during tumultuous times.", "Some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children, the Ministry of Justice says.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "As the UK rejects £500 Covid pay outs, how are others countries getting people to stick to the rules?", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Injections are to be delivered at Black Country Living Museum where the series has in part been filmed.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Anybody struggling to get to an appointment will be able to rearrange, a health board says.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "In the city where the virus first emerged there is now an insistence that it came from elsewhere.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "Delaying second Pfizer doses to give more people their first is \"difficult to justify\", says BMA.", "Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "An intensive care doctor says medics are seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people dying.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "And another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on Wednesday's figure.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "As the UK prepares to sever EU ties, Stanley Johnson says he has always regarded himself as French.", "Campaigners say cutting of the 5% VAT rate on tampons and sanitary towels ends a 'sexist' tax.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "The British dance band make some of their biggest hits available for the first time.", "The new year celebrations featured a tribute to the NHS and a message from David Attenborough.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Joe Anderson says Labour should pick another candidate while he seeks to clear his name.", "Former Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty dies at the age of 92 following a long illness.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "The designer of the scene says it is not the first time it has been targeted.", "Several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle despite warnings to stay away.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "Staff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", NHS Providers warn.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Primary schools in only 10 of London's boroughs are due to reopen next week.", "One of hip-hop's most influential MCs, masked rapper MF Doom died in October, his family confirm.", "It comes as most people heeded warnings to stay home - but police issued fines to those who didn't.", "With a Brexit deal done, we look at the challenges to come at British borders.", "The UK’s new single market is not as big as the country, it now needs to encompass the whole world.", "Some lorries heading for Ireland have already been turned away from Welsh ports over wrong paperwork.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething urges \"patience\" as the vaccine programme steps up in Wales.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "The finance minister had visited the Caribbean while his province is under strict Covid lockdown.", "The UK will now leave a 12-week gap between both parts of the Covid vaccination, rather than 21 days.", "The trade border means most commercial goods entering NI from GB now require a customs declaration.", "Boris Johnson celebrates the \"freedom in our hands\" as the long Brexit process comes to a conclusion.", "Firework displays and some religious rituals go ahead, although Covid mutes celebrations.", "The station will reflect on the world's longest-running serial drama across its output on Friday.", "The deal - yet to become a treaty - enables Spanish workers to continue entering Gibraltar freely.", "Omar Elabdellaoui, who plays for Turkish club Galatasaray, suffers burns and is taken to hospital.", "A new campaign is launched to urge people not to become complacent about the Covid restrictions.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "Kim Jong-un calls the US his \"biggest enemy\" and says plans for a nuclear submarine are nearly complete.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "A self-employed father-of-three calls on UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its Covid support.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Advertising campaign warning people not to get complacent comes as 1,325 deaths are recorded in the UK.", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "The gym owners were given a £1,000 fine after three people were found inside on Friday.", "The friends said they were relieved people would not have to fear being fined for taking a walk.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "West Ham manager David Moyes says footballers must not be \"picked on\" for breaching coronavirus guidelines.", "Councillor Kevin Hughes missed his mother's funeral after testing positive for coronavirus.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Apple will also remove the social network from its App Store if it does not change its policies.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "Thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic, figures show.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Eva Williams was unable to travel to the United States for treatment due to coronavirus.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "The new more infectious variant requires tougher measures to control the spread of Covid, say scientists.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Tory rebels hope to get another chance to outlaw trade deals with countries involved in mass killings.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "US tariffs on Scotch whisky and cashmere remain in place as UK fails to reach deal with Washington.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "People accused of crimes in England and Wales - and alleged victims - wait years for a resolution.", "One person is killed and at least 10 are injured after vehicles collide on the Tohoku Expressway.", "Top medical adviser suggests schools in England may reopen region by region after lockdown.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Out of 23,000 professors in UK universities only 155 are black, official figures reveal.", "Court cases face serious delays in the UK and lawyers say more investment in technology would help.", "The government is being scrutinised over trade deals with countries with poor human rights records.", "People who say Boris Johnson does not want Joe Biden as president are \"mistaken\", says Lord Sedwill.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Matt Hancock says he will stay at home and urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The UK's push to secure a deal over fossil fuels is being undercut by a decision to allow a new coal mine, MPs warn.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "The unnamed man lived in Verbier, where the incident happened, police said.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Many parents struggle to meet their children's needs during the pandemic, say researchers.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "Paul Reid was the first person to reach Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, after the bomb was detonated.", "Nicola Sturgeon says although there is \"cautious grounds for optimism\" on case numbers, the strictest rules will remain in place.", "Live updates from Trump's last hours in office before Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Wednesday.", "The artwork has been returned to an Italian museum - whose staff were unaware it was missing.", "A survey by consumer group Which? raises concerns over coronavirus leading to more cashless stores.", "Creator of the BBC crime drama says he \"always wanted to end Peaky with a movie\".", "University of Edinburgh scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by MND.", "Tory MPs want Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries deemed responsible for genocide.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The BBC speaks to Nirmal Purja, from the team of the first climbers to reach the K2 summit in winter.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "Are court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? Helen Grady investigates.", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "India pull off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988 and take one of the all-time great series.", "The first minister says her statement to MSPs will concern the duration of Scotland's restrictions.", "Some 10% of the UK population is showing signs of recent infection, a doubling since October, says ONS.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "A further 1,610 people die with Covid in the UK as Scotland extends its lockdown to mid-February.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "Staff say there was a Covid outbreak after the \"party\" in a shut patisserie at Marylebone station.", "Hackers are selling Depop app account details on the dark web for as little as 77p each online.", "The bank has named the branches that will close between April and September, but aims to avoid redundancies.", "Large parts of northern and central England are expected to face sustained heavy rain from Tuesday.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "One hospital boss said a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worse before they get better.", "He wrote 30 novels about relationships and adventures involving young African American characters.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "He will lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.", "New 2020 car registrations sink to a 30-year low and see biggest one-year drop since the Second World War", "The bakery chain says it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "All eyes are on the Senate runoff in Georgia, a key race that could help define Biden's presidency.", "Latest figures show more than 90,000 people in Scotland had received a first vaccination by late December.", "But there are fears bottlenecks in the system may hamper how fast NHS can deliver vaccines.", "The 19-year-old suffered life-changing injuries during the \"vicious\" assault in north London.", "Founder Annemarie Plas says the initiative will return on Thursday under the new name of Clap for Heroes.", "The US star says she had \"no idea\" what questions were included in a game bearing her image.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The hip-hop star and producer says he is \"doing great\" and \"getting excellent care\".", "A hearing is deciding whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "The government closed schools to help reduce the virus spread but says nurseries should stay open.", "Investment company Hipgnosis buys a half share of 1,180 songs by the Canadian folk rocker.", "The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.", "Cases have fallen below England's but the new variant is spreading fast, the health minister says.", "As Trump supporters entered the US Capitol building, politicians halted debate inside.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The investigators were turned back, with Beijing saying \"there might be some misunderstanding\".", "President Trump and others have made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in two Senate election run-offs.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "One scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "Gordon Ramsay remembers late chef Albert Roux as \"the man who installed gastronomy in Britain\".", "The streaming giant is criticised for \"unfortunate\" timing during the new lockdowns.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and the head of NHS Wales.", "Stores seek to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy in new lockdown.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "A top Chinese scientist addresses claims the coronavirus leaked from her lab in the city of Wuhan.", "The overnight temperature plunged below -12C in the north west Highlands.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "The Trump administration pushes ahead with first oil lease sales in an Arctic wildlife refuge.", "A driver, who caused a Fife crash that led to his passenger losing her baby, admits causing death by dangerous driving.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Judge rules he has an incentive to abscond if allowed to leave jail before major appeal hearing.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Head teachers warn replacement grades for GCSEs and A-levels must not repeat last year's \"disaster\".", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "Poet Helen Mort is calling for a change in the law after images of her were edited with porn.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "The government says it is considering the move to prevent the virus spreading \"across the UK border\".", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "The House of Commons approves the government's decision to impose tough restrictions across the country.", "FTSE 100 chiefs will by Wednesday have earned more this year than the average worker's annual wage.", "The BMA in Scotland says it is concerned about the potential impact of delaying the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.", "There will be a \"gradual unwrapping\" of England's lockdown, Boris Johnson tells MPs ahead of a vote later.", "Police say organisers padlocked the door from the inside to stop officers getting in.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "The first minister denies claims she knew about harassment allegations earlier than she told parliament.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "It's been 10 years since New Zealand's Pike River mine disaster, and families of victims still feel raw.", "Philip Gannaway served in Wales in World War One and his grave lies thousands of miles from home.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Despite the furlough scheme, employers decided to cut a record number of jobs during 2020.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Firms say they have been advised by officials to set up EU hubs, but the government says it is not policy.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "The claim comes after a coroner ruled two deaths on the M1 motorway were avoidable.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.", "Ministers are urged to intervene amid rising Covid infection numbers at the Swansea office.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Some of those leading the nation's vaccination effort have told of their experiences.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "A Sunday Times poll shows 51% of people in favour of holding a border poll in NI within five years.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "He replaces Paul Davies who quit after drinking alcohol with other politicians in the Senedd.", "Conor McGregor is left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier wins their rematch at UFC 257 by technical knockout.", "The UK health secretary also says the UK has identified 77 cases of the Covid South Africa variant.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Tens of thousands braved a police crackdown to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Some guests were found hiding in cupboards when police raided student flats in Birmingham.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "England's deputy chief medical officer urges those who have had the jab to stick to lockdown rules.", "TV footage from China shows the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "The extraordinary life of an American who invited hundreds of thousands to his Paris home for dinner.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "The Countryfile star will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme.", "A 20-year-old man who spent a week in intensive care says many young people are in denial about Covid.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the \"horrifying\" death toll underlines the need to follow restrictions.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Customers will only be able to collect from Waitrose stores following a \"change in tone\" from the government.", "The father of a Reading terror attack victim asks why the killer was not considered a danger.", "Deliveries may be delayed in 28 areas due to \"resourcing issues\", the postal group says.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Anna Wintour hit back at claims that the informal picture downplayed Ms Harris's achievements.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Officials say 170 individuals involved in deadly Capitol riots have been identified, and many more will be.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The celebrated 94-year-old broadcaster is the latest celebrity to have a first dose of the vaccine.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A supermarket worker says door staff are facing abuse when they challenge those not wearing masks.", "The facility at the ExCeL Centre also has the capital's first mass vaccination centre on site.", "Overall, patients are now more likely to survive, but death rates are high in intensive care.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "A slump in demand for fashion and homeware during lockdown left many retailers struggling.", "Last year saw 697,000 deaths registered in the UK - 14% above what would be expected.", "Eugene Goodman was hailed for luring a mob away from the Senate - now new heroics have emerged.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "People are still holding house parties, raves and gambling gatherings, the UK's most senior police officer says.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "The increasing number of staff off work could prevent the NHS Louisa Jordan opening to Covid patients.", "The Northern Lights were visible overnight from Shetland, Moray and the Highlands.", "The manager of a care home says they were promised the jab on New Year's Eve - but none have arrived.", "Downing Street defends the PM, while the Met Police chief says he did not act \"against the law\".", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "There has been speculation over moves to make lockdown stricter, as infection rates remain high.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "Cwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest number of weekly deaths and the highest number since April.", "More than a third of people using screens more in lockdown reported eyesight changes, a study suggests.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick turns down Donald Trump's offer, citing the Capitol riots.", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "Donald Trump made the decision days before Joe Biden, who wants friendlier US-Cuban ties, takes office.", "The laptops and tablets will be delivered to schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Ministers are reluctant to make the rules even tougher at the moment - but would never rule it out.", "A Typhoon aircraft \"safely escorts\" a civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport, an RAF spokesman says.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.", "The number of incidents reported to the child safeguarding panel in England rose by a quarter.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "Sea port managers fear the shift may be part of a long-term trend to ship from the Irish Republic.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Heavy rain is causing flooding and travel disruption, with a warning for ice also forecast.", "Douglas Jones had been enjoying his dream job before the pandemic forced him to return home to southern Scotland.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Joanna Lumley speak out about employees allegedly owed a total of £200,000.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "The UK prime minister wants girls' education in developing countries to be a key international focus.", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but cleaners and porters have been worse hit.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "People in parts of eastern England woke to a thick covering of snow on Saturday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Holiday firms are expecting a \"bumper year\" once lockdown restrictions are lifted.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday.", "The latest UK government data also shows a further 1,295 deaths with 28 days of a positive test.", "Lahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrates England as a spirited Sri Lanka rally on the third day of the first Test in Galle.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "Centrist Armin Laschet is now in a good position to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor.", "Health officials warn the highly contagious UK Covid variant could become the dominant strain in the US by March.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "A Belfast mother says there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted in Malaysia.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "At least three people have died in a suspected gas blast that destroyed four floors of a building.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "Some 1,820 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours - surpassing yesterday's previous high.", "The package will also see police target dealers and health services help people with addictions.", "Congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and US.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Boris Johnson faced questions on the UK's border policy, and the deletion of police records.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "There has been a fourfold increase in mortgage products for those offering a 10% deposit.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "Doris Hobday's family say they are \"totally heartbroken\" to lose her in this way.", "The big social networks are clamping down on threats of violence amid a tense wait for results.", "Some of the UK's biggest music stars sign an open letter demanding action over post-Brexit touring.", "The President-elect has a laundry list of priorities for his first 100 days in the White House.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Taking down pictures and clearing out desks is part of a huge operation readying for a new president.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "Holidaymakers in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the travel firm says.", "Boris Johnson calls it an \"outrageous\" error which officers are working \"round the clock\" to rectify.", "The new president is sworn into office by Chief Justice John G Roberts.", "The 22-year-old from LA is the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration.", "Kamala Harris makes history as she is sworn in as US vice-president.", "Delays to smear tests in lockdown prompt cervical cancer charities to call for home-testing kits.", "It comes as industry workers warn their livelihoods are at risk due to Brexit border problems.", "Nine Met Police officers who broke lockdown rules have been asked to \"reflect on their choices\".", "Paul Pogba scores a superb winner as Manchester United reclaim top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge'. Read the 46th president's address in full.", "Online audiences for singalongs in the Llangollen church have \"exploded\", Father Lee Taylor says.", "Out-of-date tax systems mean people are falling through the cracks for help, MPs say.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The ex-government adviser said the Tories would be seen as the \"nasty party\" by ending the top-up.", "They are all laughing at the camera, but what are the stories of the women next to Kamala Harris?", "More than 2,000 properties in Manchester are affected as police warn some occupants will have Covid.", "Services and waiting times must improve at the NHS's child gender-identity service, inspectors say.", "A further 1,820 people die in the UK within 28 days of a positive test - another all-time high.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "The role of a president's inaugural cabinet goes beyond just policy - let's take a closer look.", "The body of Joy Morgan was found two months after a man was convicted of her murder.", "From \"the best talent in politics\" to \"Sloppy Steve\" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. And boy, did he.", "The health minister asks the Ministry of Defence to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals.", "A National Audit Office report calls on the corporation to produce \"a long-term financial plan\".", "The last four years have been a whirlwind - we asked the experts to break down Trump's key moments.", "More work is needed to understand its benefits in schools in England given the new variant, health officials say.", "The BBC's James Cook returns to Monklands Hospital eight months on to find the staff struggling against the odds.", "President Biden inked 15 executive orders, moving to rejoin the Paris climate accord.", "His most famous Discworld novels were written in the house in Somerset, the estate agent says.", "Police say the van \"careered\" off the road and the man was rescued from the overturned vehicle.", "President Biden has said that democracy and 'freedom' are at stake in the upcoming 2024 election.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter to her father.", "Members of our voter panel all wish Joe Biden well, but they're divided over his chances of success.", "As Donald Trump prepares to leave office, here are some of the key moments of his presidency.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden makes his inaugural address as the 46th president of the United States.", "Parts of England prepare for widespread floods as Boris Johnson announces emergency Cobra meeting.", "Images from Joe Biden's swearing-in and first day as the 46th US President.", "The cupped clap of a butterfly's wings may be the key to their flying abilities and their survival.", "Relegation-threatened Fulham lose some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but show battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.", "The medical journal's editor says UK guidelines don't recommend giving different coronavirus jabs.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is named Paris St-Germain boss following Thomas Tuchel's sacking.", "People driving to visit beauty spots in Wales are breaking Covid rules, a Snowdonia park warden says.", "The first doses of the latest coronavirus vaccination to be approved are due to be given on Monday.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Arsenal continue their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "New detectorist Owen Thomas says \"the link with a life that's gone\" appeals to him.", "Just one ticket matched all seven numbers in the New Year's Day draw.", "A court has ruled that Lisa Montgomery can be executed on 12 January, despite appeals from lawyers.", "A last-ditch attempt to overturn the result is overturned, days before the White House changes hands.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "The New Year's Eve event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, was shut down on Saturday.", "Volunteers at All Saints Church in East Horndon have praised those who donated £8,700 for repairs.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Amanda Quinn, diagnosed with rapid early onset dementia, says lockdown has been a \"scary\" time.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.", "The frontman, who found success with songs such as Summer in Dublin, \"passed away suddenly\" aged 65.", "The cryptocurrency's gain so far this year was almost $5,000 - after the value surged 300% in 2020.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect 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Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "The EU has maintained its diplomatic mission in the UK after Brexit\n\nA diplomatic row has broken out between the UK and EU over the status of the bloc's ambassador in London.\n\nThe UK is refusing to give Joao Vale de Almeida the full diplomatic status that is granted to other ambassadors.\n\nThe Foreign Office is insisting he and his officials should not have the privileges and immunities afforded to diplomats under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt is understood not to want to set a precedent by treating an international body in the same way as a nation state.\n\nAs it stands, the ambassador would not have the chance to present his credentials to the Queen like other diplomatic heads of mission.\n\nThe British decision is in marked contrast to 142 other countries around the world where the EU has delegations and where its ambassadors are all granted the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has written to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, to express his \"serious concerns\".\n\nThe issue is expected to be discussed by EU foreign ministers next Monday when they meet for the first time since the post-Brexit transition period ended on 31 December.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office wants to treat the EU delegation only as representatives of an international organisation.\n\nThis means EU diplomats would not have the full protection of the Vienna Convention, giving them immunity from detention, criminal jurisdiction and taxation.\n\nThe rights given to staff of international organisations are more ad hoc and less fixed.\n\nThe EU argues it is not a typical international organisation because it has its own currency, judicial system and the power to make law.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab last November, seen by the BBC, Mr Borrell says: \"Your service have sent us a draft proposal for an establishment agreement about which we have serious concerns.\n\nAmbassadors of nation states have certain privileges - including being able to present their credentials to the Queen\n\n\"The arrangements offered do not reflect the specific character of the EU, nor do they respond to the future relationship between the EU and the UK as an important third country.\n\n\"It would not grant the customary privileges and immunities for the delegation and its staff. The proposals do not constitute a reasonable basis for reaching an agreement.\"\n\nEU officials privately accuse the Foreign Office of hypocrisy because when the EU's foreign service - known as the External Action Service - was set up in 2010 as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK signed up to proposals that EU diplomats be granted the \"privileges and immunities equivalent to those referred to in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961\".\n\nOne EU source said: \"It seems petty. This is not about privileges, it's about principle. What does it say about the UK, about how much the British signature is worth?\"\n\nSome in the EU also fear hostile states might copy the UK and downgrade the protections granted to EU diplomats in their own countries. This could open them up to being harassed and make them easier for them to be expelled.\n\nA European Commission spokesman said: \"The UK, as a signatory to the Lisbon Treaty, is well aware of the EU's status in external relations, and was cognisant and supportive of this status while it was a member of the EU.\n\n\"The EU has 143 delegations, equivalent to diplomatic missions, around the world. Without exception, all host states have accepted to grant these delegations and their staff a status equivalent to that of diplomatic missions of states under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and the UK is well aware of this fact.\"\n\nHe added: \"Nothing has changed since the UK's exit from the European Union to justify any change in stance on the UK's part.\n\n\"The EU's status in external relations and its subsequent diplomatic status is amply recognised by countries and international organisations around the world, and we expect the United Kingdom to treat the EU Delegation accordingly and without delay.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Engagement continues with the EU on the long-term arrangements for the EU delegation to the UK. While discussions are still ongoing, it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the detail of an eventual agreement.\"", "\"You need to take care of each other,\" President Macron told students in Paris\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has promised all university students two meals a day for one euro (88p; $1.21) to help them cope during lockdown.\n\n\"We must be able to provide better support,\" he said at a meeting with students in Paris on Thursday.\n\nIt follows protests in which students called for more help to tackle loneliness and financial problems.\n\nFrance is currently under a 18:00-06:00 curfew, and coronavirus cases have risen steadily in recent weeks.\n\nMr Macron, who addressed students at Paris-Saclay university, also said the government would provide subsidies to pay for counselling and other mental health services.\n\nThe subsidies would take the form of a voucher which students can redeem if they feel the need to talk to a mental health professional, the president said.\n\nHe added that the discounted meals would be available from university canteens and other nearby outlets that are providing takeaways.\n\n\"We remain in a period of uncertainty,\" Mr Macron said. \"We will have a second semester that will have the virus and a lot of constraints.\"\n\n\"You need to take care of each other,\" he added.\n\nThe president spoke a day after students took to the streets to demand more attention from the government. They sought to raise awareness of the rising mental health problems many say they are suffering as a result of the pandemic.\n\nA combination of isolation, inactivity and concerns about the job market has left many students close to breakdown, according to university psychologists.\n\nRyan Kennedy says the French government is failing to take student issues seriously\n\n\"I've lived alone in a studio apartment since September - it's the first time I've ever lived alone,\" Ryan Kennedy, a 19-year-old law student in Montpellier, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"Not a day goes by without a friend calling me because they're struggling with their mental health.\"\n\nHeïdi Soupault, a political science student from Strasbourg, sent a letter to Mr Macron last week. \"I no longer have dreams,\" she said. \"If we have no hope or prospects for the future at 19, what do we have left?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our mental health goes downhill in situations like this.\"\n\nMany of the protesting students are calling for a return to face-to-face teaching. Some first-year students will be able to return to the classroom from 25 January.\n\nBut, on Thursday, Mr Macron said all students should be allowed on campus once a week providing certain measures are in place.\n\n\"Given what your generation has already gone through, we cannot but take into account your right to some on-site presence, to exchange with your teachers, and to meet with other students,\" he said.\n\nFrance has had a curfew in place since December, but this was tightened on 16 January to the current hours of 18:00-06:00.\n\nBars, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and ski resorts remain shut. Schools, however, are open with extra testing in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Food supply problems into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are \"clearly a Brexit issue\", Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the shortages were \"part of the reality\" of the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"Let's not pretend Brexit doesn't force that kind of change,\" he said, speaking on ITV's Peston programme\n\nOn Tuesday, the NI secretary said images of empty supermarket shelves had \"nothing to do with the protocol\".\n\nRather, Brandon Lewis argued the disruption caused by coronavirus before Christmas was responsible for the shortages of some food products.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol between the UK and the EU requires health certifications on animal-based food products entering NI from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney said it meant \"very real change\" for some businesses, as there now had to be a \"certain number of checks\" on goods from Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said that some companies were not ready for this.\n\nMr Coveney said the Republic of Ireland would work with the UK and EU to \"make sure\" supermarket shelves were not empty in the future.\n\nHe said the Brexit divorce deal agreed with the EU by then-prime minister Theresa May would have caused less separation from Northern Ireland from the UK.\n\nAsked about Mr Coveney's comments, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the disruption had been \"down to both\" Covid and Brexit - but defended the situation.\n\nSpeaking on the Peston programme she said \"there was always going to be a period of adjustment for businesses\" and \"we are now seeing a more rapid flow of goods into Northern Ireland those supermarket shelves are being stocked\".\n\nMs Truss said the government would continue to support businesses, and that \"predictions of Armageddon haven't happened\".", "The education secretary has said he would \"certainly hope\" schools in England could reopen before Easter.\n\nGavin Williamson said he was \"not able to exactly say\" when pupils would go back but schools would be given two weeks' notice before reopening.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools remain closed, apart from to vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister wanted schools to open as quickly as possible but would follow the evidence.\n\n\"If we can open them up before Easter then we obviously will do but that is determined by the latest scientific evidence and data,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe Downing Street spokesman was also less specific about the promise of two weeks' notice, saying: \"We want to give schools as much notice as possible.\"\n\nSchools have been closed to most pupils so far this term, with primary schools closing after one day back, in response to rising Covid levels.\n\nPupils have been told they will be learning at home until at least half-term in mid-February.\n\nBut Mr Williamson was pressed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he could guarantee that schools would reopen at all this term, before the Easter holidays.\n\n\"I want to see them, as soon as the scientific and health advice is there, open at the earliest possible stage - and I certainly hope that would be certainly before Easter,\" said the education secretary, who's responsible for schools in England.\n\nHe said schools and parents would have \"absolutely proper notice\" of when children were going to return, which he said would be a \"clear two weeks\" for teachers and families to get ready.\n\nA lesson from the first lockdown was that it's much harder to reopen schools than to close them.\n\nParents and teachers have to be persuaded again it's safe to go back, families need advance notice to plan their work and childcare, schools need to organise their staffing.\n\nAnd there are other parents who will be pushing for schools to go back as soon as possible, in addition to the vulnerable and key workers' children already attending.\n\nFor Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, already under pressure, it means a high-stakes balancing act - and it clearly remains uncertain whether this will happen for all schools before the Easter holidays.\n\nWhat seems likely, from Mr Williamson and England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries, is that this could be a patchwork return beginning after half-term, rather than a single starting date, depending on local levels of the virus.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union, the National Education Union, said schools and parents needed certainty and not a \"stop-start approach\".\n\nLast week Mr Williamson indicated to the Commons education committee that schools in some parts of the country might stay closed at the end of the lockdown, with a return to the \"contingency\" arrangements, under which schools in areas of high infection would be shut.\n\nOn Tuesday, England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries also said schools might reopen region by region in a phased return after half-term.\n\nLabour has accused the education secretary of causing \"chaos and confusion\" and called on him to resign.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said providing two weeks' advance notice of opening was \"good news coming from an education secretary who normally gives them about 24 hours' notice\".\n\nSir Keir said the government needed to \"give children the ability to learn at home now\" and \"get on with the blindingly obvious\" task of getting testing in place in schools.\n\nAsked about his own future, Mr Williamson said: \"Our focus is making sure that we get the very best of remote education out to all children across the country, making sure that we return schools at the earliest possible moment.\"\n\nIn terms of his own achievements, the education secretary said: \"I'll let other people do the grading.\"\n\nSchools have also been closed by other governments in the UK. In Scotland and Northern Ireland they will remain closed until at least the middle of February, while in Wales the next review of restrictions will be on 29 January.\n\nThe government has also paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges, with health officials saying the new variant meant the risk of missing infections had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Gavin Williamson: \"You would struggle... to find many people who would give him more than an F.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson emphasised that mass testing in schools would continue, clarifying that it was the daily tests for those who had been in contact with a positive case which had been stopped.\n\nThe education secretary was also challenged on the fairness of setting tests as part of the replacement for cancelled GCSEs and A-levels, considering pupils will have missed different amounts of time in school.\n\nMr Williamson said the tests were only \"one element\" for deciding replacement results, which would be based on teachers' grades.\n\n\"That's why we're asking teachers to make a judgement in the round. We're asking teachers to look at the work they've been doing over the whole period of time they've been studying the course,\" he said.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "US President Joe Biden is now speaking from the White House about how his administration will tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe says he has been meeting with his Covid response team, and it will “take months” to turn around the situation in the country.\n\nToday he is going to unveil a “national strategy” on Covid-19, he says, which is “comprehensive” and is based on “science and not politics”.\n\nThe plan, which consists of 198 pages, will start with an “aggressive, safe and effective” vaccination campaign.\n\nBut it will take months to protect everyone, he says, so in the meantime, \"mask up\", he tells the American people.\n\nWearing a mask, he says, is \"a patriotic act\".\n\nTo follow our coverage of his first day, head here.", "The emergency department at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is the biggest and busiest in Scotland.\n\nAmbulances keep arriving, bringing more patients. In a curtained cubicle, one man is explaining to the doctor that he's been in pain for days, but he put off coming in \"because of everything that's going on\".\n\nDr Alan Whitelaw, who runs the department, says that while there might be fewer patients coming through his door, there are no longer any \"easy wins\".\n\n\"Those that are coming are the sick people,\" he says. \"We are undoubtedly seeing the effects of people not seeking healthcare for six to 10 months.\n\n\"We are seeing disease that we wouldn't always see and we are seeing it further down the road.\n\n\"We are making more diagnoses that potentially would be made in primary care or outpatient clinics. On top of that we've got lots of Covid patients coming through the door.\n\n\"So it is those two things together that currently put the NHS under that significant pressure.\"\n\nAll over Scotland, hospitals are under severe pressure, with some treating significantly more coronavirus patients than they did during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nPublic visitors are not allowed at the QEUH, but BBC Scotland was given special permission to film to highlight the impact of Covid and the importance of following lockdown rules.\n\nOn the day of the BBC's visit, there are 244 Covid patients. Critical care is running at capacity, and across the whole hospital it's a constant challenge to find space for new patients.\n\nDr Whitelaw says the level of unpredictability is extreme. His team has run out of spare beds.\n\n\"We are ten months into strange and difficult times. It's winter, no-one's had a holiday, no-one's had much downtime.\n\n\"Hospitals are fuller in winter, beds are tighter and patients are sick\".\n\nUpstairs, one ward that previously treated patients with infectious diseases like flu or norovirus, is now a Covid ward. All 28 beds are full.\n\nSome patients here are recently diagnosed, others are coming to the end of their isolation, while some have been stepped down from critical care, but need rehabilitation.\n\nSenior charge nurse Karen Paton says it feels like patients are now sicker for longer.\n\n\"We've had this going on for more or less a year now and staff are beginning to feel the emotional distress of it,\" she says.\n\n\"Having to deal with patients succumbing to coronavirus, and just having the emotions of all the patients not being able to have contact from their families.\n\n\"I think it's beginning to take its toll on everybody.\"\n\nCovid patient Gerry Gilroy says QEUH staff have been \"superb\"\n\nIn one room on the ward is Gerry Gilroy, who tested positive for Covid in late December. By 8 January, the day of his 66th birthday, he could barely get out of bed and couldn't eat.\n\n\"It just hit me and I knew there was something not right,\" he says.\n\n\"I know how serious it is. I never thought it would hit me. It's been a bit of an experience but thankfully I'm on the mend.\n\n\"The staff here are superb. When I get out of here, if I can do something for the NHS I'm going to. Doctors, cleaners, nurses, all top drawer.\"\n\nThe impact of Covid is being felt across the hospital. The acute receiving area used to be the first stop for people who needed urgent surgery.\n\nNow it's where medics like Dr Colin Perry assess Covid patients sent in by their GP or NHS 24. It's another area that's full.\n\n\"In the first wave our ICU was busy and it remains very busy, but during that period we had free beds,\" says Dr Perry.\n\n\"This time we have much more pressure on the downstream ward areas, so it is harder to manage the wider needs of the hospital and make room for patients to move through the system.\n\n\"The numbers are far higher than they were a year ago.\"\n\nRepurposing so many wards to treat coronavirus patients has meant some routine work had to be postponed, but staff are working to prioritise all different kinds of treatment.\n\nHelen Dorrance is a senior surgeon who specialises in bowel cancer at the QEUH. On the day the BBC visits she is operating on patients from another hospital to help relieve pressures there.\n\nDemand for critical care makes it difficult to operate some services, but cancer treatment is still running.\n\n\"We work together as a team across the region to make sure people who are the highest priority get dealt with,\" she says. \"But everyone gets their fair share and access to the care they need.\n\n\"It's not a choice, we do have to provide the best care we can for Covid patients and my critical care colleagues are stepping up to the mark.\n\n\"But the rest of us are making sure the rest of the service runs the way it should, so if you have your heart attack or stroke the right people are there to give you the best care.\"\n\nComing to hospital for any reason during the pandemic is a different experience, and services are stretched.\n\nBut the emergency department's Dr Whitelaw adds that no matter what happens, they will cope.\n\n\"We don't come to work to worry or be fearful, we come to work to do our best and to help,\" he says.\n\n\"I think there's an uncertainty about what the next two to three weeks look like.\n\n\"It might be very, very challenging but I have absolute faith that the staff here will continue to do everything that is required.\n\n\"I think the public should be reassured that no matter what is thrown at us we will definitely get through it.\"", "A council worker in Didsbury, Manchester, checks a bridge for damage, after heavy rainfall. On Thursday morning, there were more than 200 flood warnings in place across the country", "There is still no long-term decision on whether to cut fees as a review recommended\n\nUniversity tuition fees in England will be frozen at a maximum of £9,250 for the next academic year.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said a longer-term decision on cuts to fees would be delayed until the next Comprehensive Spending Review.\n\nBut education sector groups said the government \"is wasting an opportunity\" to help university students.\n\nMinisters also set out plans to improve post-16 vocational education including student loans for adult learners.\n\nThe DfE also launched a consultation on changing the timetable for applying to university - to a so-called \"post-qualification admissions\" system.\n\nThis would mean admissions being based on the grades achieve by students, rather than not relying on predictions.\n\nThe government outlined its plans for higher education reforms for over-18s in response to a landmark review, commissioned by the government from finance expert Philip Augar. Its recommendations were published in May 2019.\n\nPlanned reforms include making £2.5bn available for technical qualifications for adult learners through the National Skills Fund, a lifelong student loan entitlement for up to four years of higher education and the prioritising of funding for STEM subjects.\n\nBut the Augar review's recommendations to reduce tuition fees to £7,500, alongside implementing reforms to minimum entry standards and foundation years at universities, were not addressed in this latest response.\n\nThe DfE said given the pandemic \"now is not the right time to conclude the review in full\".\n\nAny further reforms are expected to be announced at the next Spending Review.\n\nMr Augar also suggested the return of maintenance grants for poorer university students as part of his review, but there was not mention of this in the interim response.\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: \"Sadly this interim response confirms that there will not be a radical change to the current system.\n\nThe Augar review recommended tuition fees should be cut to £7,500 and maintenance grants reintroduced\n\n\"The Westminster government is wasting an opportunity to make a real difference for students and institutions.\"\n\nProf Julia Buckingham, president of Universities UK , welcomed the prospect of lifelong loans, saying \"it is encouraging to see government's commitment to making lifelong learning opportunities more accessible to all\".\n\nHowever, Prof Buckingham said \"government should provide maintenance grants for those who need them the most, including those considering studying shorter courses on a modular basis\".\n\nAs part of its Skills for Jobs White Paper, published alongside higher education reforms, the DfE said it wanted to \"put an end to the illusion that a degree is the only route to success and a good job and that further and technical education is the second-class option\".\n\nA white paper is a policy document produced by the government to set out their proposals for future legislation.\n\nIn December, the government announced that tens of thousands of adults without an A-level or equivalent would be able to benefit from nearly 400 fully-funded courses from April.\n\nIt was the first major development in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee (LSG) scheme, which was launched in September.\n\nThe government wants to boost the status of vocational education\n\nMr Johnson said it would mean \"everyone will be given the chance to get the skills they need, right from the very start of their career\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"These reforms are at the heart of our plans to build back better, ensuring all technical education and training is based on what employers want and need, whilst providing individuals with the training they need to get a well-paid and secure job.\"\n\nBritish Chamber of Commerce director general Adam Marshall welcomed the plans to put the skills needs of businesses at the heart of further education.\n\n\"As local business leaders look to rebuild their firms and communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is essential to ensure that the right skills and training provision is in place to support growth,\" he added.\n\nBut organisations representing school and college leaders are also sceptical that there is enough funding for the further education sector to deliver on the proposals.\n\nIn November, an the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said FE colleges and sixth forms faced significant financial uncertainty.\n\nChief executive of the Association of Colleges David Hughes said: \"Colleges have been calling for this, after years of being overlooked and underutilised, but government has to not only recognise the vital college role, it also needs to increase funding.\"", "Video caption: David Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.\n\nDavid Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully.\n\nThe planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill for millions of pounds.\n\nThe action, part of a planned anti-Uber campaign by black-cab drivers this year, claims it didn't follow private hire rules between 2012 and 2018.\n\nUber said it \"operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded\".\n\nThe group action, which will be launched by law firm Mishcon de Reya, will allege that for six years Uber operated unlawfully in London.\n\nTaxi rules in London mean that people have to contact a centralised office for minicabs, whereas they can hail a black cab on the street.\n\nThe lawsuit will claim that between 2012 and 2018, Uber let people hail its drivers directly, contravening those rules.\n\nLitigation specialist RGL Management, which is also working with the cabbies to bring the case, said more than 4,000 had signed up so far.\n\nThere are about 5,200 further registrations being processed, with hundreds of enquiries per day, it said. The firm is funding a marketing campaign, and is looking to sign up as many as 30,000 eligible drivers.\n\nA full-time driver over those six years could claim about £25,000 in lost earnings, it added. The group action is aiming to bring a case to the High Court no later than the first quarter of 2022.\n\nThis is not the first time that London's black cabs have done battle with Uber, but today's announcement shows neither side have conceded defeat.\n\nThe proposed claim itself is huge - loss of earnings for up to 30,000 drivers for nearly 6 years - and comes at a time when London black cabs and private hire vehicle drivers are struggling for work after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nUber might now have its licence back, but the black cabs aren't willing to give them an easy ride.\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Uber operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded.\n\n\"We are proud to serve this great global city and the 45,000 drivers in London who rely on the app for earnings opportunities, and are committed to helping people move safely.\"\n\nUber has had a torrid history in the UK capital including previous lawsuits.\n\nIn February 2019 cab drivers lost a legal challenge which argued that Uber's London operating licence was granted by a biased judge.\n\nUber then went on to lose its licence to operate in London in November 2019 after safety concerns.\n\nBut in September last year it was spared a London ban after a judge upheld an appeal against Transport for London's decision over safety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A9 south of Inverness was among the worst affected routes\n\nHeavy snowfall during Storm Christoph has caused travel disruption in parts of Scotland.\n\nVehicles were stuck on the A9 south of Inverness and many roads in the Borders were affected by snow.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing was closed for a time earlier due to the risk of falling ice before later reopening.\n\nAn amber alert for south-east Scotland was lifted at 08:00 but yellow alerts are in place in other parts of the country until Friday.\n\nTraffic was queued on the A9 after lorries and cars became stuck in snow between Tomatin and Carrbridge.\n\nTractors were used to tow lorries on to cleared stretches of the road.\n\nHeavy snow has also closed the main route to Applecross at the Bealach na Ba.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing has been reopened after being closed earlier due to the risk of falling ice\n\nThe A939 Cock Bridge to Tomintoul road in Moray was closed after Police Scotland shut the snowgates due to the wintry conditions.\n\nSnow had also affected traffic on parts of the M8.\n\nOn the Highlands' Far North Line, a landslip between Fearn and Tain stations has affected services.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said a section of the railway was open with a 5mph speed restriction in place.\n\nChris Tracey, Bear Scotland's south east unit bridges manager, said the Queensferry Crossing was temporarily closed for the safety of bridge users.\n\nHe said: \"We had already mobilised additional ice patrols in response to the weather forecast and the bridge was closed at 04:00 when staff observed ice falling from the structure.\"\n\nThe bridge was reopened after the risk had passed.\n\nEdinburgh is one of the areas where heavy snow has fallen\n\nPolice Scotland has urged people to avoid travelling in the affected areas.\n\nChief Superintendent Louise Blakelock said: \"Government restrictions on only travelling if your journey is essential remain in place and with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If you deem your journey is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nAvalanche debris on Turnhouse in the Pentland Hills photographed from Penicuik\n\nPeople heading for the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, have been urged to be aware of potential avalanche risk after avalanche debris was spotted on Turnhouse Hill.\n\nTweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team said the \"full depth\" avalanche had enough snow to knock a person off their feet, or even bury them.\n\nTeam leader Dave Wright said avalanches in the Pentland Hills were unusual and walkers, skiers and snowboarders might not appreciate the potential risk.\n\nHe said there had been heavy snowfalls in the hills this week and the avalanche occurred at some point on Thursday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the potential avalanche hazard in all six mountain areas covered by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service - Glen Coe, Lochaber, Creag Meagaidh, Torridon and Northern and Southern Cairgorms - has been classed as \"considerable\".\n\nThe amber weather warning for snow covered a slice of Scotland from south of Edinburgh to close to the Scotland-England border and was valid until Thursday morning.\n\nHowever, further alerts remain in place.\n\nA Bear NW Trunk Roads' tractor clears snow ahead of a lorry on the A9 at the Slochd\n\nIn north-east Scotland and Orkney, a yellow warning for heavy rain and potential flooding is in place until 04:00 on Friday.\n\nYellow warnings for snow and ice are also in place in parts of northern and western Scotland until 12:00 on Friday.\n\nTransport Scotland said it was \"closely monitoring\" the road network and a multi-agency response team would be operational during the weather warnings.\n\nA snow-covered car in Carlops, in the Scottish Borders\n\nDrivers woke up to snow-covered cars in Haddington, East Lothian\n• None In pictures: Scotland in the snow", "Last March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with Northern Ireland's past\n\nThousands of relatives of Troubles victims have signed an open letter calling for the British and Irish governments to fully investigate decades of violence.\n\nIt calls for the long-delayed set up of an independent team of detectives to pursue new prosecutions and other measures to recover information.\n\nThese are measures included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.\n\nThe letter is addressed to Taoiseach Micheál Martin and UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nIt asks for their assurances that their \"human rights as victims will no longer be disregarded or denied\".\n\n\"The peace process has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability,\" they said.\n\nThe letter, signed by 3,500 relatives, is being published in the Irish News, Andersonstown News, and US publication the Irish Echo.\n\nThe letter is being printed in several newspapers\n\nMore than 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of Northern Ireland's Troubles and thousands more injured.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to \"intensify\" engagement with victims' groups in addressing the legacy of the past.\n\nThe Stormont House proposals included a new independent investigation unit to re-examine all unsolved killings and a separate truth recovery mechanism to enable families to gain answers in cases where prosecutions are unlikely.\n\nLast March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with the past, which radically departed from what had been proposed in the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nHe proposed that after a paper review exercise, most unsolved cases would be closed and a new law would be enacted to prevent the investigations from being reopened.\n\nMark Thompson, chief executive of Belfast-based lobby group Relatives for Justice, said about half of those who signed the open letter are 35 years and under.\n\nHe said the letter \"represents the current and future generations\" and that it \"underlines the ongoing trauma and intergenerational impact that the killing of a relative has also had on surviving families\".", "Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe news was announced on Thursday on the Worthy Farm event's Twitter page.\n\n\"With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place,\" said festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis.\n\n\"And that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Michael & Emily.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes in the same week that the future of UK music was up for debate at a DCMS inquiry into streaming, and in Parliament regarding post-Brexit music touring visas.\n\nThe full statement on the festival website read: \"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the Festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nIt confirmed that as with last year, anyone with a ticket will now be offered the opportunity to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume. It had been due to take place in June 2021.\n\n\"We are very appreciative of the faith and trust placed in us by those of you with deposits, and we are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden shared his \"disappointment\" at the lack of a Glastonbury 2021, on Twitter.\n\n\"This regrettable but understandable decision is recognition that public health comes first\" he posted, \"and that right now, getting 200k fans together in just a few months looks very difficult to make safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to help the arts on recovery, including looking at problems around getting insurance. I'm Glastonbury will be back bigger and better next year.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said news of this year's cancellation was \"devastating\".\n\nSir Paul McCartney headlined Glastonbury in 2004, and was supposed to do so again in 2020\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for ministers to act to protect our world-renowned festivals like this one with a government-backed insurance scheme. Our plea fell on deaf ears and now the chickens have come home to roost,\" he said.\n\n\"The jewel in the crown will be absent but surely the government cannot ignore the message any longer - it must act now to save this vibrant and vital festivals sector.\"\n\nOn 5 January the government responded to a report by UK Music called Let the Music Play: Save Our Summer 2021, which outlined a range of measures that could help the industry get back up and running.\n\nThe government said: \"We know these are challenging times for the live events sector and are working flat out to support it.\n\n\"Our £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund has already seen more than £1bn offered to arts, heritage and performance organisations to support them through the impact of the pandemic, protecting tens of thousands of creative jobs across the UK, including festivals such as Deer Shed Festival, End of the Road and Nozstock.\"\n\nLast year's 50th anniversary Glastonbury was meant to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, but it was cancelled during the initial national lockdown in March 2020.\n\nMichael and Emily Eavis previously said that Glastonbury \"lost millions\" after cancelling in 2020\n\nLast month, organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC she hoped this year's festival could go ahead, despite the \"huge uncertainty\" surrounding live music in the pandemic.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can on our end to plan and prepare,\" she told the BBC, \"but I think we're still quite a long way from being able to say we're confident 2021 will go ahead.\"\n\nEavis said Glastonbury lost \"millions\" in 2020. Her father, Michael, has previously warned the festival \"would seriously go bankrupt\" if they had to cancel again next year.\n\nBut that scenario is unlikely \"as long as we can make a firm call either way in advance\", Eavis clarified to the BBC.\n\nNo line-up details had been confirmed for 2021. But just before Christmas, Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC the event was not in his calendar, as it would be a \"superspreader\".\n\nAt the start of January, MPs were told that some of the UK's biggest music festivals could be called off by the end of this month.\n\nThe festival normally welcomes 200,000 people to Pilton in Somerset every year\n\nEvents are \"rapidly approaching the determination point\", after which they'll have to pull the plug, said the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nOrganisers will be in \"absolutely dire straits\" financially if the season is cancelled, added Anna Wade, of Winchester's Boomtown Fair.\n\nThey were speaking to MPs examining the plight of music festivals in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Scientists tracking the spread of coronavirus in England say infection levels in the community may have risen at the start of the latest lockdown.\n\nInfections in 6-15 January were up by 50% on early December, with one in 63 people infected, Imperial College London's initial findings suggest.\n\nSwab tests from 143,000 people indicate 1.58% had the virus during in early January - up from 0.91% in December.\n\nMinisters say the report does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown.\n\nThe latest round of results from Imperial College's React-1 infection survey - one of the country's largest studies into Covid-19 infections - are interim with the full set of results to be published in a week's time.\n\nBut Imperial College London's Prof Paul Elliott warned if the high prevalence continues \"more lives will be lost\".\n\nThe report also says there are \"worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections\" and Prof Elliott said the third lockdown - introduced on 6 January - was not having the same impact as the first, in April.\n\nLondon had the highest level in the January period - 2.8%, up from 1.21% in early December.\n\nProf Elliott old BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current R rate - which represents how many people an infected person will pass the virus on to - was \"around 1\".\n\n\"We're seeing this levelling off, it's not going up, but we're not seeing the decline that we really need to see given the pressure on the NHS from the current very high levels of the virus in the population,\" he said.\n\n\"To prevent our already stretched health system from becoming overwhelmed, infections must be brought down,\" Prof Elliot added.\n\nBefore the Covid rules were tightened, the restrictions faced by people in England varied depending on where they lived.\n\nThe researchers say the government's latest daily case figures, which show a slowdown, may reflect a drop in cases just after Christmas, which is only now being registered.\n\nAnd they suggest infection levels may have gone up in early January as a result of people's activity increasing after the Christmas holiday period.\n\nThey admit there is some uncertainty in their data amid a \"fast-changing situation\" but say it is more up to date than the daily government figures because it does not rely on those being tested developing symptoms and then waiting to have their infections confirmed by a laboratory.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nThe findings of the study are seemingly at odds with recent figures from NHS Test and Trace, which has been reporting recent decreases in daily infections and has prompted some experts to suggest that we might be beginning our journey out of the woods.\n\nThe researchers behind the study say the test and trace figures may be reflecting an initial drop in infections just after Christmas, which is only now being registered on the official figures.\n\nThe study's more up to date findings indicate that infection levels did not continue to fall in the first two weeks of January and may even have gone up. So why has this happened?\n\nData on people's movements has shown that there's been increased activity which the scientists involved say has kept transmission of the virus at a high level. The Department of Health says that the study does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown in England.\n\nBut if this trend continues, say the scientists, the numbers admitted to hospital with severe Covid illness, will not fall in the short term, as some had hoped.\n\nThis is one set of figures over a short number of days so there might be a more optimistic picture when the study reports its full set of results in a week's time. But there is no getting away from the fact that ministers will be disappointed not to have seen a fall at this stage.\n\nUnless things change, even tougher measures will have to be considered.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there will be \"tough weeks to come\" but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring as the vaccine programme accelerates.\n\nIt comes as another 60 NHS Covid-19 vaccination centres in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury, will welcome their first patients later.\n\nMinisters have sought to reassure people in the top four priority groups for the Covid vaccination that they will get their jab by the government's mid-February target, following complaints from some GPs about unpredictable supplies.\n\nSome 4.6m people in the UK have now received the first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nFacebook mobility data, which tracks people's movements, suggested a fall in activity at the end of December but a rise at the start of the new year.\n\nAnd Prof Elliott said everyone should \"reduce their mobility as much as we can\".\n\nA new, more transmissible variant and the fact larger households and deprived communities were more likely to be affected, may also be factors.\n\nThe Imperial survey is one source of data used to estimate the UK's reproduction (R) number, along with other surveys, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for example, and figures on confirmed cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the React findings showed \"we must not let down our guard over the weeks to come\".\n\n\"It is absolutely paramount that everyone plays their part to bring down infections,\" he said.\n\n\"This means staying at home and only going out where absolutely necessary, reducing contact with others and maintaining social distancing.\"", "Police checkpoints have seen officers questioning people about whether their travel is essential\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December, in a bid to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions had been eased in the run-up to Christmas, which led to a sharp spike in cases in January, causing severe pressure on the health service.\n\nMedically-trained military personnel will be deployed to help, but a union has questioned the move and said NI should have entered a stricter lockdown sooner.\n\nWith Stormont ministers extending the current lockdown, could other measures could be on the table?\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that NI is already in tight lockdown restrictions and has been for almost a month.\n\nBut the current measures are now set to remain in place until at least 5 March.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said health officials had not requested any other measures be toughened up at this time, given the duration and extent of the current rules.\n\nThe initial lockdown began last March, with non-essential retail not permitted to open again until 12 June.\n\nBy law people are required to stay at home during the lockdown unless they have a reasonable excuse, such as going out for exercise, medical or food needs.\n\nPeople are also required to wear face masks in shops and on public transport, with only a limited number of exemptions.\n\nThose who breach the rules can face fines, with businesses that break the law also able to be fined if they do not follow the rules.\n\nHowever, DUP minister Edwin Poots has expressed concern that not enough has been done by the PSNI to enforce the laws.\n\nIt is a difficult balance for the executive to strike.\n\nThey previously announced that \"Covid marshals\" would be deployed in the retail sector to ensure social distancing in queues and adherence to the rules.\n\nMinisters want to ensure as many people as possible follow the restrictions voluntarily while ensuring the PSNI has enough powers to manage the situation.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has not ruled out revisiting whether the level of fines people can face should be increased, and said he would raise the matter with his executive colleagues.\n\nThe 2020 lockdown saw many businesses right across Northern Ireland forced to close, with retail and hospitality among them.\n\nThere was confusion over whether construction and manufacturing should stop, with the executive later clarifying that essential work on building sites could continue.\n\nIn the latest lockdown, the sector has been permitted to remain fully open.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all non-essential construction has been ordered to stop during a fresh lockdown there.\n\nLike in the previous lockdown, people have again been told to work from home unless they cannot.\n\nBut it is worth pointing out many companies have had time to prepare since last March, making their workplaces Covid-secure to allow more staff to attend in person.\n\nThe executive has a defined list of essential businesses here.\n\nFace coverings in shops are mandatory in Northern Ireland's shops\n\nThere has also been confusion about what elements of the retail sector can operate.\n\nAll but essential retail shops were told to close on 26 December, and click-and-collect is only allowed for those essential retailers.\n\nBut concerns were later raised that some larger chains were \"gaming\" the regulations by selling non-essential items, with smaller independent shops who had to close arguing they were being treated unfairly.\n\nThe executive met with retailers last week to discuss this, but it seems unlikely it will act to define essential items in regulations.\n\nA similar situation in Wales last year led to criticism after supermarkets were told by law not to sell certain items.\n\nThe majority of pupils are in an extended period of remote learning until after half-term in February, but some children of key workers and vulnerable children are still permitted to attend the classroom.\n\nLast week it emerged that at least eight times as many pupils in Northern Ireland attended schools in the first week of term in 2021 compared to the first lockdown in 2020.\n\nThough part of this is due to special schools remaining open for all pupils, unlike in March to June last year.\n\nThe executive could potentially revisit the list of services it defines as meeting the \"key worker\" definition for childcare, if it wanted to reduce this further.\n\nIt is also possible schools could remain closed to most pupils for a longer period, in line with extending the lockdown to 5 March.\n\nThe executive says workers, builders, tradespeople and other professionals can continue to go into people's houses to carry out work such as repairs, installations and deliveries.\n\nBut it does not define further what this type of work should include.\n\nIt is possible ministers could tighten the circumstances in which work can be carried out in someone's home, but the guidance already specifies a limited number of exemptions for allowing others inside your home during the lockdown.\n\nHouse moves are also allowed under the regulations, although they were paused in the first lockdown.\n\nMusic lessons and private tutoring are permitted in someone's home, with mitigations.\n\nDuring the first week of lockdown from 26 December, people were told not to leave their homes between 20:00 and 06:00 every day - effectively amounting to a curfew.\n\nMinisters could decide to impose the measure again, if they felt that was necessary - but initially it was imposed to stop house parties over New Year's Eve.\n\nAll but essential travel is not permitted outside of Northern Ireland, and anyone entering Northern Ireland must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival or face a fine.\n\nHowever, there is no formal travel ban on passengers from Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland entering Northern Ireland.\n\nThe executive had voted by a majority before Christmas not to impose such a ban, despite calls from Sinn Féin for it to happen.\n\nOther parties argued that the public health advice did not propose a ban in law, and that travel from the Republic of Ireland to NI should be restricted as well due to its rise in cases.\n\nThe current guidance states that anyone coming into NI from within the Common Travel Area who is staying for more than 24 hours should self-isolate for 10 days, but there are exemptions for those who \"cross the border\" regularly for work or other essential reasons.\n\nThe executive also does not have a formal limit in law for travelling to exercise, unlike in the Republic of Ireland where it is 5km (3 miles).\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said there is an \"advisory limit\" of 10 miles for exercise in Northern Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "\"I had no idea at all I was going to be charged any more for deliveries after Brexit. The extra costs were definitely a bit of a shock.\"\n\nEllie Huddleston, a 26-year-old Londoner, thought she would treat herself to some new work clothes in the January sales.\n\nHaving spotted a bargain, she placed an order for a coat and a number of blouses from two of her favourite clothes brands based in Europe.\n\nBut both deliveries were delayed, held up in customs checks for at least a week, she says.\n\nShe was surprised when she then received a text from courier company DPD, containing a link asking her to pay £58 in customs duties, VAT and additional charges for her £180 order.\n\nOn top of that, the UPS courier for the second parcel showed up at her door several days later, asking for an extra payment of £82 for her £200 coat.\n\nThese charges, imposed by new government rules, have to be collected by the courier firms on the authorities' behalf.\n\n\"I didn't even know when the parcels would be coming - so I sent both back without paying the extra fees and won't be ordering anything from Europe again any time soon,\" Ellie says.\n\nWhen the UK was part of the European Union's customs union, goods could move freely between the country and other member states without import taxes being charged.\n\nBut Ellie was one of the shoppers caught unaware of the fact that those rules have changed since the UK's official exit.\n\nEU retailers sending packages to the UK now need to fill out customs declaration forms. Shoppers may also have to pay customs or VAT charges, depending on the value of the product and where it came from.\n\nHowever, customs charges are the responsibility of the customer, not the retailer, who often has no idea of how much the eventual extra cost might be.\n\nThey cannot be paid in advance and are levied only when the item reaches the UK.\n\nAnother unhappy customer, Graeme from Manchester, paid £300 to buy two pairs of suede winter boots from a German firm online.\n\n\"You couldn't get them anywhere in the UK, so I had no choice but to order them from Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe next thing he knew, courier UPS had sent him a text message saying he had to pay £147 extra before the boots could be delivered. He paid up, but is still waiting for the goods to arrive.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible to find out what the charges would be beforehand,\" he says, \"so I had to take a shot in the dark.\n\n\"I didn't imagine that it would be half as much again.\"\n\nCourier companies are adding charges to some deliveries from the EU\n\nUnder the new rules, anyone in the UK receiving a gift from the EU worth more than £39 may now face a bill for import VAT - with many items charged at 20%.\n\nFor goods costing more than £135, customs duties may also apply, which can range from 0% to 25% of the product you're buying if they have not been paid by the sender already.\n\nThe extra charges are usually collected by the courier on behalf of the government, with customers asked to pay before they can pick up their package.\n\nSome specialist European retailers, such as bicycle part firm Dutch Bike Bits and Belgium-based Beer On Web, recently said that they would stop all deliveries to the UK because of the VAT changes, which came into force on 1 January.\n\nSome firms have started charging additional \"handling fees\" to shoppers to cover costs associated with extra customs checks and paperwork that must be filled out.\n\nRoyal Mail, for example, is charging an £8 fee it says \"reflects the cost of clearing items through customs and presenting them to Border Force\".\n\nMeanwhile, delivery firm DHL says it is charging UK customers 2.5% of the amount paid to clear customs, with a minimum charge of £11.\n\nMail and freight company TNT is also adding £4.31 on all shipments from the UK to the EU and vice versa. It has said this reflects the increased investment it has had to make in adjusting its systems to cope with Brexit.\n\nA spokeswoman for Logistics UK told the BBC that the handling fees were \"a commercial decision by individual businesses\".\n\nBut Michelle Dale, senior manager at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said that new charges could present a major problem for firms in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think what we'll find is that a lot of trade with the EU from a business-to-customer perspective will come to a stop until some of these rules are eased,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The new VAT model ensures goods from EU and non-EU countries are treated in the same way and that UK businesses are not disadvantaged by competition from VAT-free imports.\n\n\"The new system also addresses the problem of overseas sellers failing to pay the right amount of VAT when they sell goods in the UK. We anticipate this will bring in £300m in tax every year, to fund essential UK public services.\"\n\nThere is speculation the rules may change, but until they do, Ellie says she won't be buying from European firms.\n\n\"With all that uncertainty around things and whether or not these charges might change, I'd rather just avoid the hassle,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Nearly nine million people had to borrow more money last year because of the impact of coronavirus, government figures show.\n\nSince June last year, the proportion of workers borrowing £1,000 or more had increased from 35% to 45%, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSelf-employed people were more likely than employees to borrow money.\n\nThere was also a large increase in the proportion of disabled people borrowing similar sums, the ONS added.\n\nThis was adding to a \"widening financial gap\" between households.\n\nOverall, young people and low earners have been worst hit by the pandemic, according to the ONS survey.\n\nThose aged under 30 and those with household incomes of less than £10,000 were about 35% and 60% respectively more likely to be furloughed than the population as a whole.\n\nMeanwhile, higher-paid workers were more likely to be on full pay if they were unable to work.\n\nThere has been much focus on a glut of savings ready to be unleashed into the economy when pandemic restrictions are lifted.\n\nThis ONS report shines a light on the reality of this for many ordinary Britons, having to borrow more, amid a hit to incomes during the recession.\n\nDisproportionately this has hit the low paid and the young, and this would have been far worse without the government's support package.\n\nMore homeowners and the over-30s by December expected to be able to save for the year ahead. Fewer renters and under 30s expected to be able to save.\n\nThough the analysis does not include the latest national lockdown, the economic impact of schools closure is also clear.\n\nEmployed parents were twice as likely to experience income loss, though that gap closed when schools reopened. The fear is that this trend will have returned over the past month.\n\nGueorguie Vassilev from the ONS said: \"Many people took a financial hit in the first months of the pandemic, either being furloughed or working fewer hours.\n\n\"What we are seeing now, though, is a widening financial gap between households, where some people are relying on savings or borrowing to make ends meet. Those hardest hit are people on low pay, young people and parents of dependent children.\"\n\nParents living with children were almost twice as likely to report a reduction in income as the rest of the population, the ONS added.\n\nThis gap gradually narrowed throughout the year as schools reopened. Parents were less likely to have a reduced income during the November lockdown than in the first lockdown, as schools stayed open.\n\nHave you needed to borrow a substantial amount of money because of the impact of the pandemic? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Biden invited Taiwan's envoy to his inauguration - what does it mean?\n\nBiden’s inauguration was marked by many historic “firsts”, and one of them could be a sign of potential future clashes between Beijing and Washington. Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan’s top envoy to the US, was formally invited to the inauguration - the first time this has happened in more than four decades. A video shared on her social media shows her standing in front of the US Capitol ahead of the inauguration ceremony. “Democracy is our common language and freedom is our common objective,” Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US said. China views the self-ruled island as part of its territory that it will eventually retake, by force if necessary. And the status of Taiwan has long been a thorny issue in US-China relations, as the US is by far Taiwan’s most important friend. Hsiao’s presence at the inauguration signals the US may continue to demonstrate strong support for Taiwan, despite the fact that many Taiwanese people are concerned that Biden will take a less confrontational stance towards Beijing compared with Trump. By contrast, it’s unclear whether China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, attended Biden’s inauguration. Earlier today, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Cui had been invited, but did not confirm whether he was present in the ceremony. Hua reiterated China’s position of opposing official interactions between Taiwan and the US. It’s a long-running unspoken rule that Beijing and Taipei’s top diplomats in Washington do not attend the same event, because sharing a stage could be seen as Beijing acknowledging Taiwan as an independent sovereign country.", "Education Minister Peter Weir says that from an educational point of view, he wants \"to keep the extent to which they [children] are out of school to a minimum\".\n\nBut Mr Weir said that decisions about schools during the Covid-19 pandemic must \"be weighed up against the wider public health advice\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Evening Extra programme after it was announced that current restrictions will be extended, Mr Weir said that \"nobody wants to see restrictions last longer than they have to\".\n\nHe said the decision to extend lockdown was taken \"very reluctantly but there is a broad consensus in the executive that these are necessary measures that have to be taken to ensure we remain on top of the virus\".\n\nMr Weir added that schools have operated on a slightly different timetable to the rest of the restrictions, and that next week's discussions will consider keeping them closed until 5 March, in line with decisions taken by ministers today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While some young people have found it hard at times, others have learnt new skills\n\nYoung people have been asked to share their experiences of how they have coped during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland said her national survey was important because sometimes views of younger people can be \"surprising\".\n\nShe said the information provided would also help inform the Welsh Government ahead of some tough decisions it will need to make in the future.\n\nA similar survey was carried out in the first lockdown last year.\n\nA recent Prince's Trust Youth Index survey asked young people across the UK about their thoughts and feelings towards the pandemic.\n\nMore than 2,000 responded including 200 from Wales.\n\nIt found 63% of 16 to 25-year-olds said the pandemic had left them \"always\" or \"often\" feeling anxious - 64% said they were feeling like they were \"missing out on being young\".\n\nBBC Wales spoke to a number of children and young people about their thoughts on a variety of issues including home schooling, loneliness and finding out what they are doing to stay positive.\n\nAngel, 16, from Cardiff, is studying for her GCSEs.\n\n\"I've just been confused a lot of the time. All the information out there and it's really hard to process and get to a point where you're in a mindset where you know what's happening.\n\n\"There's such a high level of uncertainty you're constantly worried or actually doubting what's going to happen next.\n\n\"When you have goals for the future it's something to help you get through this but when you're in the circumstances we're in now, it's really hard to find the motivation and a purpose for what you're doing now.\"\n\nTo try and stay positive Angel has been trying to get out for walks during her school breaks or watch Netflix.\n\nShe said she has also tried to learn some sign-language during lockdown and attempted yoga.\n\nEmrys and Clara have been learning home skills\n\nEmrys, 11, from Bridgend, said he misses not having the structure of a school day and seeing his friends.\n\nHe added: \"I'm a social person. I have friends, I chat with them, I play with them, and it's hard not being with my friends but I mean the family will have to do.\"\n\nHe and his six-year-old sister, Clara, have enjoyed going for walks with their parents and have been learning some new skills including washing dishes, cooking dinner and baking cakes.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-year-old Sophie has found it difficult to not get bored during long periods of time in the house.\n\n\"I'd say I cope OK with it at some points, but then not okay with it at other points,\" she added.\n\nSophie said it can be hard sometimes to find things to do\n\nAlicia is studying for her A-levels and has friends who have dropped out of their studies this year because of the stress and anxiety caused by the uncertainty about exams and their futures.\n\nThe 17-year-old also said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being able to see many of her close friends for almost a year.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are, it's less of a luxury now, I need to be able to go out to see them and to work.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Sarah, 16, from Swansea enjoyed going to her local youth club and took part in a local drama group but it how now moved online, giving a different experience.\n\n\"It's quite sad because I used to enjoy being able to do those things whenever it was on, but I think I'm getting used to do everything online,\" she said.\n\nAs a person who does not cope very well with not knowing what will happen next, the pandemic has caused anxiety at times for Sarah.\n\n\"I am finding it quite scary but hopefully things will change and I'll be able to go back soon,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if you're really struggling with something, talking really helps so it would be nice to see people in person.\"\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland conducted a survey of pupils in Wales during the first lockdown\n\nChildren's helpline MEIC Cymru said it had seen a 10% increase in the number of calls from young people, parents, and carers during the pandemic compared with previous years.\n\nStephanie Hoffman, Head of Social Action at Promo Cymru, the charity which runs the helpline, said: \"We're seeing what I'd say are many more substantive contacts, so a lot more contact dealing with really serious issues to do with social well-being, mental health and relationships, as opposed to what we might have seen more of in the past.\n\n\"Now we're dealing with situations which can be quite complicated.\"\n\nOf the survey, Ms Holland said: \"We've heard a lot from adults showing concern for children at the moment, such as parents, carers and professionals working with children about the potential impact of the lockdown on children.\n\n\"Those voices are important to hear, but it's also important we hear directly from children and young people because sometimes they can be surprising.\"\n\nWe know that Covid-19 vaccinations have been on people's minds in Wales - with many wanting to know when they or their loved-ones will receive theirs.\n\nIf you have a question about this issue, a story you'd like to share or a query about anything else related to coronavirus, you can sent it to us using the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sheila Evans was among those to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nBy the end of Tuesday 4.61 million people had received their initial jab, up from 2.64 million the week before.\n\nBut Boris Johnson warned there were \"unquestionably going to be a tough few weeks\" while the vaccine was rolled out and urged people to observe lockdown.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to flood-hit Didsbury in Manchester, the prime minister said it was still \"too early\" to say when some lockdown restrictions could be lifted in England.\n\nHe said figures from an Imperial College London survey showed the new variant of the virus to be \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nThe study suggests there was a rise in infections in the community at the start of the latest lockdown in England.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres have opened in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.\n\nTwo million jabs a week are needed for the government to achieve its target of offering a vaccine to all over 70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nGiving a statement in the Commons, Health Secretary Mr Hancock said the country had an \"immense infrastructure in place that, day by day, is protecting the vulnerable and giving hope to us all\".\n\nDescribing this as a \"huge feat\", he said the government was making \"good progress\" towards its target.\n\nAsked about difficulties in getting vaccines to rural areas and whether the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could be prioritised for these as it is easier to store, Mr Hancock said the challenge was that supply was \"lumpy\", with manufacturers working \"as fast as possible\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said new variants of the virus showed vaccination needed to go \"further and faster\".\n\nHe asked if there was a contingency plan in place in case vaccines needed to be redesigned to contain mutations.\n\nMr Hancock said the early indications were that the new variant was dealt with by the vaccine \"just as much as the old variant\".\n\nHe also said 63% of residents in elderly care homes had now received a vaccine.\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is now chairman of the Common's Health Select Committee, asked about establishing \"quarantine hotels\" to combat new strains, as well as whether there should be further restrictions on household mixing outside bubbles and mandating FFP2 masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nMr Hancock said the clinical advice was that the current guidelines on personal protective equipment (PPE) were \"right and appropriate\" and said \"very significant measures\" had been brought in for international travel.\n\nIn Northern Ireland more than 160,000 people have received a first vaccine dose, while in Wales, where more than 175,000 people have received a jab, people waiting for theirs have been urged to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted her country's vaccine programme was not lagging behind, during First Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nIn England the rollout of the vaccine started with people aged 80 and over. In some regions where the majority of these have been vaccinated, the programmes are now moving on to the over 70s.\n\nHome Secretary Priri Patel, who will lead a Downing Street press conference later, said ministers were working to ensure police and other front-line workers are moved up the priority list, while Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast he hoped teachers and support staff could be moved up the list.\n\nMeanwhile, pumps and sandbags were brought in to protect supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the risk of flood water at a warehouse in Wrexham, north-east Wales.\n\nYoung people in Wales have been asked to share their experiences of the pandemic in a survey by the nation's Children's Commissioner.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Politicians in pearls, the colour purple and warm woollen mittens - these are just a few of Washington's favourite things from the 2021 Inauguration.\n\nWith America's leaders in the spotlight on the inauguration - and world - stage, sometimes what they wear can say more than their speeches.\n\nDC-based fashion consultant Lauren Rothman says Americans have always taken an interest in what political leaders don for inaugural celebrations. And in 2021, with an ongoing pandemic and economic crisis as well as the swearing-in of the first female vice-president, things feel \"even more loaded\".\n\nIt's all about optics for the politically fashion-minded, says Ms Rothman, who helps style politicians for events including inaugurations past.\n\nSo let's see how outspoken this year's inauguration crowd really was, from the Bidens to Bernie Sanders - with a little help from some real fashion experts.\n\nVice-President Kamala Harris' purple ensemble has already made an impact.\n\n\"Symbolically, it's a bipartisan colour because it marries [Republican] red and [Democratic] blue,\" says Ms Rothman, noting a number of elected officials or spouses had opted for purple today.\n\nBut that's not the only reason purple has a special place for US women in politics. The suffragettes often wore the colour in the 1900s while campaigning for women's right to vote.\n\nProfessor Elka Stevens, coordinator of the fashion design programme at Howard University, also notes it's a colour of significance in the black community - one tied to the Christian experience as well. Ms Harris' pearl necklace also made reference to a tradition in her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest all-black sorority in the US.\n\nAdd it all up and Ms Harris' choice of pearls and a purple sharp-cut Christopher John Rogers coat was \"an excellent first building block on what the legacy is of how to look like a woman in power\", Ms Rothman says.\n\nBoth Mrs Biden and Ms Harris also took care to choose emerging US brands for their inaugural looks. Ms Harris' outfit, from head-to-toe, showed off African-American designers.\n\nAnd we can't forget Doug Emhoff either, America's \"first second gentleman\".\n\n\"He chose to do everything that he should, which is to not distract and perfectly fit in,\" says Rothman.\n\nWe can't discuss political fashion without bringing up Michelle Obama.\n\nHer purple Sergio Hudson sweater and palazzo pants plus coat look, along with perfectly curled hair, did not disappoint fans of the former first lady.\n\n\"It's a different dress code and different expectation for women who are first ladies versus people who aren't, like women who are elected,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nFrom baring her arms to wearing both high-end and High Street fashion, Mrs Obama was \"legacy-making\" in a way that hearkened back to Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, Ms Rothman says.\n\nShe also put many \"independent and ethnic American designers\" on the map during her eight years in the White House.\n\nNewly former First Lady Melania Trump, too, had a clear style, often spotted in sleek looks from well-known brands (think Chanel, Hermès).\n\nOne of her favourite designers was French-American Hervé Pierre, but Prof Stevens also notes she faced a challenge dressing all-American as many US labels said they would not dress her.\n\nFor her final look of the day, Melania swapped out the all-black suit she left the White House in for a Gucci dress with a bold orange print.\n\n\"The curtain is down and she's onto the next phase of her life,\" says Ms Rothman of the sharp contrast. \"I think that's what she's using her clothing to signal: that DC is over.\n\nHe may not win the best-dressed award any time soon, but veteran Senator Bernie Sanders certainly won Twitter with his extra large mittens.\n\nMr Sanders' pair of eye-catching woolly mittens were given to him two years ago by a Vermont schoolteacher who made them from repurposed sweaters and recycled plastic bottles. Those, coupled with a snap of him alone in a crossed-arm pose, made for prime meme fodder.\n\n\"What we love about it is that it's so authentically Bernie,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nWhen asked for his thoughts on all the stir his inauguration look caused, Mr Sanders simply said: \"In Vermont we dress warm...and we're not so concerned about good fashion. We want to keep warm. And that's what I did today.\"\n\nInauguration 2021 featured performances from Jennifer Lopez (in a crisp white ensemble) and Lady Gaga.\n\nBut it was Gaga's custom black-and-red Schiaparelli gown that stole the show or, more specifically, the large golden dove-shaped brooch she wore atop it.\n\nAside from the Hunger Games comparisons, the almost operatic outfit served another fun purpose in Ms Rothman's eyes.\n\n\"She brought the inaugural ball to the stage in a year where you're not going to get all of the dress up, the ball gowns that we have come to look at and adore and criticise.\"\n\nYouth poet laureate Amanda Gorman was another star on today's stage.\n\nThe self-described \"skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother\", touched on many heavy themes in her verses, but her outfit was a breath of fresh air.\n\nYellow is a colour of hope, energy, light. And her bright red Prada headband was a bold complement. To Prof Stevens, it was almost crown-like.\n\n\"It also honed attention on her hair, because no one else had that particular hairstyle. And we know that hair can be political as well.\"\n\nOur last noteworthy youthful garb of the day was Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter to the vice-president.\n\nHer dainty white collar atop a bejewelled plaid Miu Miu coat was particularly striking - or in the words of Teen Vogue, \"just *chef's kiss*\" - and to Prof Stevens, reminiscent of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\n\n\"I really thought about our democracy, justice, the collars [Ginsburg] wore and the messages she would send. I think this was [also] an ode to femininity.\"\n\nAnd as for her brother Cole's look? Prof Stevens' takeaway was: \"You need some gloves, young man.\"\n\nAnd last but not least, let's consider the new president and first lady.\n\nProf Stevens says the political dress mirrored a desire to project comfort and to reassure the nation that US democracy is safe and its way of life is \"going back to something familiar\" despite Covid-19.\n\nThere may not have been anything ground-breaking in Mr Biden's Ralph Lauren suit; perhaps the more interesting aspect is the way he wore it.\n\n\"As a Washington insider he's been wearing suits for decades,\" says Ms Rothman. \"He showed that he knows what works.\"\n\nAlso notable with both Biden's ensembles today: the colour blue. Prof Stevens notes that blue is recognised as a colour of trustworthiness; of stability; of confidence, especially for men.\n\nAs for Jill Biden's custom-made, Swarovski-crystal-accented aquamarine coat from the up-and-coming New York Makarian label?\n\nBoth Prof Stevens and Ms Rothman say it signalled responsibility and modesty.\n\n\"We already know [the Bidens] are very united, but it signalled that they're here and ready to do the work,\" Ms Rothman says.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of some older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nA housebound 84-year-old woman said she was told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she could not get to her GP surgery.\n\nStuart Wilson said his mother Julia was immobile and she required two people with a hoist to get her up.\n\nHe said her surgery in Sketty, Swansea, called on Tuesday offering a jab but they were told it would take time to arrange a house visit.\n\nWelsh Government said a mobile service could take a jab to the housebound.\n\nDr Chris Johns, from Sketty Medical Centre, said: \"I can give assurances that no housebound patient is being asked to wait this long for their vaccination.\n\n\"This is a massive undertaking by GPs and we would ask older patients, if they are mobile, to attend one of our vaccination clinics instead.\"\n\nHe said teams have already made close to 200 house calls to vaccinate those unable to come to the surgery and over the next few weeks GPs would continue to go to patients' homes \"where necessary\".\n\nMore than 175,000 vaccines have been administered across Wales so far.\n\nUnder Welsh Government plans, the goal is for everyone over the age of 70 to be offered a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nMr Wilson said the call left his mother \"concerned and distressed\" so with her permission he spoke to the GP surgery himself.\n\nShe has been with the surgery, which is the Sketty branch of Sketty and Killay Surgeries, for about five years, and they are familiar with her condition as she receives home visits for flu jabs.\n\n\"What I can't understand is how they can invite somebody for a vaccination and then turn around and say because you're housebound, they can't give it yet,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not asking for preferential treatment; we're not asking to be bumped up the list. I was disgusted by the total lack of information.\"\n\nMr Wilson said he knew of three other cases where patients have been given the same information.\n\nHe said disabled people should receive equal treatment. He has also taken the issue up with the disability rights association, Disability Wales, who have been asked to comment.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Those who cannot attend their appointment or cannot travel to the vaccination venue can let your health board know through the NHS booking system. They will then be offered another appointment on another day or at a more convenient location.\n\n\"There are also plans in place for people who are housebound and for care homes, which will mean the vaccine can be safely taken to them using a mobile service if they are unable to attend a GP surgery or mass vaccination centre.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh Government has been criticised over the speed of rolling out vaccines to the over 80s age group.\n\nSteve Hockridge's 92-year-old mother Sheila suffers from Alzheimer's disease and lives alone in Cardiff.\n\nHe contacted her surgery but was told they had \"no information\" about when she would receive a vaccine.\n\n\"My confidence in the Welsh Government has been knocked,\" he said.\n\n\"After all the clarity during this pandemic, with this area they seem to be very, very secretive, giving different messages [which are] quite often conflicting.\"\n\nIn Wrexham, Helen Field said her mother, Eileen, 94, was also still waiting to hear about her vaccine.\n\n\"Our relations over the border in the Wirral area who are in a similar age group of over 80s and 90s have all received their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"The difference is quite alarming and I just want to know what's going on in Wales and why they are so slow in putting the vaccines out?\n\n\"Nobody can seem to give us any information and it seems to be so poorly organised.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Every day in Wales we are speeding up the vaccination programme.\n\n\"Thousands more people are receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine and more clinics are opening with 45 vaccination centres operating or due to be operating shortly, and more than 250 GP surgeries being involved by the end of this month. As of 20 January, more than 175,816 people in Wales have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nNI's largest healthcare union has said it has not objected to military personnel being brought in to help medical staff deal with Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Unison said it had questions over the move and there had \"disappointingly\" been no consultation.\n\nAn initial statement from the union on the subject was criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described it as \"appallingly inappropriate\".\n\nA new statement issued on social media, from the union's regional secretary Patricia McKeown, said the first statement had been \"misunderstood\".\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, she acknowledged the initial statement had caused \"stress and hurt\" to Unison members and apologised for that.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nIn the union's initial statement, issued on Wednesday, it said it would ask Mr Swann for \"detailed reasons\" for the move.\n\nIt said this would include \"seeking information as to what other avenues of support have been sought, such as securing additional staffing from private sector healthcare providers\".\n\nHowever, following criticism, Ms McKeown said in a new statement on Thursday morning that the union was \"happy to clarify\" its position.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, Unison has not objected to assistance from military personnel.\"\n\nShe added: \"In our experience the deployment of military personnel into public services is a decision taken as a last resort.\n\n\"We were immediately concerned that a request for aid of this nature indicates a crisis that is moving out of control.\n\n\"This is why it is important that we know in advance what options are being explored.\"\n\nThe union said it was important to get detailed information on how, when and where external personnel would be deployed and what the management and accountability structures will be in place for them.\n\nSteve Aiken described the first Unison statement as appallingly inappropriate\n\nSpeaking on Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, Ms McKeown said: \"We put a statement out last night, it said what we were going to do, but it didn't say why we were going to do it.\n\n\"That caused stress and hurt to our members and I am very, very sorry for that. That's why we corrected it.\"\n\nShe added that if military personnel were being brought in \"it means that all options have been exhausted, there's a big decision facing us now and that decision is a stronger lockdown\".\n\nThe earlier statement from the union, issued on Wednesday night, had been criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said: \"Judging by the number of healthcare workers who have contacted me tonight they are absolutely incredulous at the Unison statement this evening.\n\n\"Getting help is what is needed - time for Unison to withdraw its appallingly inappropriate remarks.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley said: \"This statement from Unison is extremely disappointing and is out of step with both Unison's own members and the wider public.\n\n\"I have already been contacted by health service staff making clear that this does not represent their views.\"\n\nHis party colleague Paul Frew tweeted: \"Utterly appalling. A lot of anger tonight for a union that is supposed to support its membership.\"\n\nSpeaking on Good Morning Ulster, West Belfast People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said: \"We all recognise that we're in a really desperate situation, a really difficult situation.\n\n\"But people want to see the health service expanded permanently and not just a short-term fix which people have questioned on a number of grounds.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist Doug Beattie said nurses and doctors were exhausted.\n\n\"What we're really talking about here is a surge of some personnel in order to support out frontline nurses who are dead on their feet,\" he said.\n\n\"The here and now is about saving lives.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Sinn Féin responded to Mr Swann's decision by saying it would not \"rule out\" any measures that help save lives and that \"any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into an orange and green issue is divisive and a distraction\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Belfast Health Trust, Dr Cathy Jack, told Stormont's health committee that the move would ensure staff can continue to deliver care to as many patients as possible.\n\nShe said the military personnel are \"band 4 medically-trained technicians\" who will \"be working under normal management structures\".\n\n\"This is another group of highly-trained individuals that will support staff and I welcome this.\"\n\nDr Jack said discussions were \"ongoing\" about how private health care providers could help in this phase of the pandemic.\n\nShe said a small number of private lists were being used for surgeries with low-risk cancers and more would be freed up in March \"to allow us to try and catch up on the backlog\".\n\nThe Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request means armed forces staff will assist nurses and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said the Army has previously carried out pandemic roles in Northern Ireland with \"aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning\".\n\nThe health minister added it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.", "An algorithm is trained to pick out an elephant against a complex backdrop such as a forest\n\nAt first, the satellite images appear to be of grey blobs in a forest of green splotches - but, on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering through the trees.\n\nAnd scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space.\n\nThe pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 600km (372 miles) above the planet's surface.\n\nThe breakthrough could allow up to 5,000 sq km of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day.\n\nAnd all the laborious elephant counting is done via machine learning - a computer algorithm trained to identify elephants in a variety of backdrops.\n\n\"We just present examples to the algorithm and tell it, 'This is an elephant, this is not an elephant,'\"Dr Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath, said.\n\n\"By doing this, we can train the machine to recognise small details that we wouldn't be able to pick up with the naked eye.\"\n\nAfrican elephants are listed as vulnerable to extinction\n\nThe scientists looked first at South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park.\n\n\"It has a high density of elephants,\" University of Oxford conservation scientist Dr Isla Duporge said.\n\n\"And it has areas of thickets and of open savannah.\n\n\"So it's a great place to test our approach.\n\n\"While this is a proof of concept, it's ready to go.\n\n\"And conservation organisations are already interested in using this to replace surveys using aircraft.\"\n\nConservationists will have to pay for access to commercial satellites and the images they capture.\n\nBut this approach could vastly improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations in habitats that span international borders, where it can be difficult to obtain permission for aircraft surveys.\n\nThe scientists say it could also be used in anti-poaching work.\n\n\"And of course, [because you can capture these images from space,] you don't need anyone on the ground, which is particularly helpful during these times of coronavirus,\" Dr Duporge said.\n\n\"In zoology, technology can move quite slowly.\n\n\"So being able to use the cutting-edge techniques for animal conservation is just really nice.\"", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic, figures show.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nMany of these involved police officers being \"coughed and spat on\" by suspected rule-breakers, the CPS said.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nAssaults on emergency workers, which were the most common prosecution, were \"particularly appalling\" and incidents were still taking place, said director of public prosecutions Max Hill.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to do everything in my power to protect those who so selflessly keep us safe during this crisis.\"\n\nAccording to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions - there were 1,137 charges brought for breaking coronavirus laws.\n\nThese included a man who claimed 15 people having a party at his house in Manchester were part of his support bubble and another man in Wales caught travelling between counties to solicit the services of a sex worker.\n\nOverall, 2,106 defendants were prosecuted for 6,469 coronavirus-related offences, with a conviction rate of 90%, according to the CPS.\n\nOther crimes flagged as being coronavirus-related by the CPS, included 480 charges for public order offences, 466 for criminal damage and 464 for common assault.\n\nThese included offences such as coughing and spitting while threatening to infect another person with the virus, thefts of essential items and fraudsters taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nMr Hill added: \"The CPS has had to adapt to a raft of new laws and regulations intended to keep the public safe during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our guiding principle throughout has always been to support the police in ensuring the right person in charged with the right offence.\"", "Marmite is one of Unilever's many brands\n\nUnilever has said that by 2030 it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its staff.\n\nThe consumer goods giant defined a living wage as one that covered a family's basic needs \"and helped them break the cycle of poverty\".\n\nIt said it wanted to raise wages for people outside its own workforce in order to promote economic inclusion.\n\nUnilever is one of the first big companies to make such a commitment.\n\nOxfam called the move a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nUnilever, whose products include Marmite, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soap, said it was committed to helping to build \"a more equitable and inclusive society\".\n\n\"Our ambition is to improve living standards for low-paid workers worldwide,\" it said.\n\n\"We will therefore ensure that everyone who directly provides goods and services to Unilever earns at least a living wage or income, by 2030.\"\n\nThe wage should be enough to cover food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport and clothing, and also include a provision for unexpected events, Unilever said.\n\nThe firm said it was working with partners to establish exact rates of pay in the 190 countries where it operates.\n\nHowever, Unilever's chief human resources officer Leena Nair said it would pay twice as much as the minimum wage in some countries.\n\nUnilever said it already paid its own employees at least a living wage, but it wanted to secure the same for more people beyond its workforce, specifically focusing on the most vulnerable workers in manufacturing and agriculture.\n\nWhile there is no doubting Unilever's desire to improve the lot of those who make its products, there is also a commercial reason for its living wage initiative.\n\nIt wants all of its suppliers to pay their staff a decent wage by 2030, a plan that has the potential, given Unilever's enormous size and global reach, to change the lives of millions of people.\n\nBut the company also believes the move will give it an advantage in the fierce battle to attract buyers.\n\nAlan Jope, Unilever's Scottish-born chief executive, says customers want to buy products with good credentials, and that this desire has only increased during the pandemic.\n\nMr Jope's comments suggest that the next consumer battlegrounds might not be price, convenience or range of product, but environmental and social considerations.\n\nUnilever wants to get ahead of that trend, and plans to do well by doing good.\n\n\"We will work with our suppliers, other businesses, governments and NGOs - through purchasing practices, collaboration and advocacy - to create systemic change and global adoption of living wage practices,\" it added.\n\nIt has more than 60,000 direct suppliers worldwide, from smallholder farmers to major companies.\n\nAll of them will be covered by its commitment, it said, with millions of people set to benefit.\n\nUnilever already audits its suppliers over climate change commitments, and will use these existing arrangements to make sure workers are being paid a living wage.\n\nSuppliers not willing to sign up may lose their contracts with the firm, Ms Nair said.\n\nAlso by 2030, Unilever said, it would equip 10 million young people with essential job skills.\n\nAdditionally, it committed to spending €2bn (£1.8bn) with suppliers owned and managed by people from under-represented groups by 2025 in an effort to improve diversity.\n\n\"The two biggest threats that the world currently faces are climate change and social inequality,\" said Unilever chief executive Alan Jope.\n\n\"The past year has undoubtedly widened the social divide, and decisive and collective action is needed to build a society that helps to improve livelihoods, embraces diversity, nurtures talent, and offers opportunities for everyone.\"\n\nUnilever chief executive Alan Jope says the firm wants to be a \"positive force in the world\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that Unilever wanted to be a \"positive force in the world in tackling this persistent and worsening issue of social inequality.\"\n\n\"Without healthy societies, we don't have a healthy business,\" he said.\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of ethical initiatives by Unilever, including promoting vegan food products and experimenting with a four-day working week.\n\nGabriela Bucher, executive director at Oxfam International, welcomed Unilever's announcement, calling it \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nShe said: \"Unilever's plan shows the kind of responsible action needed from the private sector that can have a great impact on tackling inequality and help to build a world in which everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive.\"\n\nLaura Gardiner, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said commitments such as Unilever's show how some employers \"are leading the way in spreading the living wage through both their business networks, and across their global operations\".\n\nFood services giants Sodexo and Compass Group, which are on the Living Wage Foundation's list of recognised service providers, have made similar supply chain commitments in the UK.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "Wales' former Chief Medical Officer Dame Deirdre Hine thinks the vaccine targets are achievable\n\nPeople waiting for the Covid vaccine need to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\", Wales' former chief medical officer has said.\n\nDame Deirdre Hine said Wales had made a \"very good start\" on delivering jabs.\n\nAged 83, she needs the vaccine herself and accepted there was \"understandable anxiety\" for those still waiting, but said: \"I think we should all quieten down and wait.\"\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nStuart Wilson said he was \"appalled\" his 84-year-old housebound mother had been told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she cannot get to her GP surgery.\n\nDame Deirdre is regarded as one of Wales' leading medical experts, having not only held the chief medical officer post, but being the woman who established the Welsh breast cancer screening programme.\n\nA past president of the British Medical Association and Royal Society of Medicine, she also oversaw the official inquiry into the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the UK.\n\nIt's not surprising that people are worried and concerned... but I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective\n\nShe told BBC Wales the response from governments had moved forward since then.\n\n\"I can detect some lessons that have been learned from the previous pandemic, the one I reported on. Because, although we had a vaccine then, the arrangements for delivering it were very much less clear and much more protracted than it has been this time.\n\n\"The arrangements for the GPs to deliver, and now pharmacists to deliver, all of that is a tremendous improvement on what I saw at the last pandemic.\"\n\nIn September, Dame Deirdre accused successive governments across the UK of taking \"their eye off the ball\" and failing to prepare for a global pandemic.\n\nShe also correctly warned of the \"real danger\" of a damaging second wave of Covid and has remained critical of failures to get adequate testing and tracing capability up and running in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"I would say the testing and tracing is another matter, and I think there has been justifiable criticism of that.\"\n\nDame Deirdre, who lives in Cardiff, said she was still \"waiting impatiently\" for her vaccine appointment, but called on people to see the bigger picture.\n\n\"Let's get it in perspective. This is a massive logistical exercise, together with a narrow pipeline of supply of the vaccine, and so I'm not a bit surprised that it's taking as long as it is to get round to everybody. But I have every confidence that they will.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, along with other UK nations, has committed to vaccinating all four of the highest priority groups by the middle of February, including the over-80s.\n\nLatest figures on vaccination in Wales show that, as of 20 January, there had been 175,816 people to get a first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThis accounts for 5.6% of the population in Wales, while 7.1% have received a vaccination in England, 7.3% in Northern Ireland, and 5.7% in Scotland.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has denied Covid-19 vaccines were being held back, following comments from First Minister Mark Drakeford that the supply had to last until February to prevent \"vaccinators standing around with nothing to do\".\n\nMr Drakeford later said on social media that \"nobody is holding back vaccines\" and Mr Gething added: \"We're rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDame Deirdre said she believed the targets were achievable, but people's anxieties were \"understandable\".\n\nShe added: \"Some recent research by Imperial College shows that people in my age group, people over 70, are the people most worried about this pandemic and about their own safety.\n\n\"So it's not surprising that people are worried and concerned, dismayed, when they don't get the letter and then that turns to anger. But I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective.\n\n\"If you'd asked me last May and June whether we would even have a vaccine, I would have been highly sceptical.\n\n\"Then once you've got the vaccine, there is the whole logistical exercise of the publicity, letting people know what's likely to happen, getting the personnel assembled to do that, getting the premises.\n\n\"And it's not easy, it's not easy to do all that very, very quickly.\"", "Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced racial harassment while being a ballet dancer.\n\nThe French performer is the first black female dancer at Berlin's principal ballet company Staatsballett.\n\nMs Gomes claims she was told she did not fit in because of her skin colour, and was asked to wear white make up so she would 'blend in' with the other dancers.\n\nThe company has responded by saying her allegation \"deeply moves us\" and an internal investigation is underway into racism and discrimination at Staatsballett.", "The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted.\n\nA report from the education watchdog warns some young children have forgotten how to use a knife and fork or have regressed back to nappies.\n\nOlder children have lost their \"stamina\" for reading, say inspectors.\n\nThe Department for Education says it shows the need to keep schools open.\n\nOfsted has examined the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children, based on visits to 900 schools and early years providers this autumn - and found that it has been a very divided experience.\n\nThe chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there are three \"broad groups\" to describe what has happened:\n\nBut Ms Spielman says this did not divide along the lines of advantage and deprivation, but instead factors such as whether parents were able to spend time with children and families having what she described as \"good support structures\".\n\nAmong older children, Ofsted warns of a loss of concentration among those returning to school and that \"online squabbles\" that started on social media during the lockdown are now \"being played out in the classroom\".\n\nThere are also reports of a loss of physical fitness, while other pupils are showing \"signs of mental distress\", with concerns over eating disorders and self-harm.\n\nThere are concerns about pupils who have so far not returned to school - and in a third of schools there has been an \"increase in children being removed from school to be educated at home\".\n\nBut inspectors say schools are still \"firefighting\" practical problems about keeping going during the pandemic, with the challenge of operating bubbles and responding to Covid outbreaks.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the report \"starkly shows the educational and emotional impact of school closures, and why we need to do everything possible to keep schools open\".\n\nBut he warned that it was becoming financially unsustainable to keep schools running, with the cost of safety measures and the need to pay for supply staff when teachers had to self-isolate.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The government has been clear that getting all pupils and students back into full-time education is a national priority.\"\n\nShe said the £1bn catch-up fund, including support for tutoring, would help to make up for lost learning.", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool City Council issued their call after local cases nearly trebled in the past fortnight\n\nLiverpool's leaders have called on the government to impose a new nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nActing mayor Wendy Simon and the city council's cabinet said urgent action is needed because the rise in coronavirus cases had reached \"alarming levels\".\n\nThey said it was \"self-evident\" the tier system has not curbed the variant.\n\nIt had been concentrated in London and south-east England but is believed to be spreading north.\n\nCases in Liverpool have almost trebled in the past two weeks to 350 per 100,000.\n\nThis is despite the city successfully leading the national pilot for community testing, which resulted in it becoming the first city to be taken out of tier 3 and moved into tier 2.\n\nHowever, the recent rise in cases meant Liverpool returned to tier three on Thursday.\n\nWendy Simon is the acting mayor for Liverpool\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News Channel, Ms Simon said: \"I think the difficulty with this new strain of the virus is the speed at which it is infecting.\n\n\"What we have seen in these last weeks is that the tier system hasn't worked with this particular strain of the virus.\n\n\"The way the numbers are going, we're likely to go into tier four very, very quickly.\"\n\nMs Simon said officials wanted to \"pre-empt that catastrophe\" and \"recover the economy quicker\", adding: \"We feel these three things - the mass vaccination, the mass testing and certainly a lockdown for a period - is what we need to get the city up and running again.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on us all to act promptly and bring it under control as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ms Simon joined officials at the Labour-run city council to urge the government to \"listen to those at the frontline, both in our hospitals and frontline services\".\n\n\"We as a nation can cope with a lockdown,\" the statement said. \"We have before and we can again.\"\n\nThe city's leaders also called for \"an additional package of welfare and economic support\" to address the \"pain for our retail and hospitality sectors\".\n\nA further 57,725 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Saturday.\n\nThe sharp rise in numbers is partly down to a lag in reporting over the holiday period but, according to Public Health England, is \"largely a reflection of a real increase\".\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nLiverpool launched the national pilot for community testing in November\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister said regional restrictions in England were \"probably about to get tougher\".\n\nHe said possible changes included keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"entirely reconciled to doing what it takes to get the virus down,\" and warned of a \"tough period ahead\".\n\nHe said increasing vaccination would provide a way out of restrictions and that he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "A farmer's field in Scotland has been transformed into a \"pop-up\" ice hockey rink.\n\nLocals in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, have been taking advantage of the clear skies and icy conditions.\n\nOne said the frozen rink had been playing host to skaters and hockey players of all ages and abilities, from six to 60.", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines as it prepares for one of the world's biggest inoculation drives.\n\nThe drugs regulatory authority gave the green light to the jabs developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University and by local firm Bharat Biotech.\n\nIndia plans to inoculate some 300 million people on a priority list this year.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nOn Saturday India held nationwide drills to prepare more than 90,000 health care workers to administer vaccines across the country, which has a population of 1.3 billion people.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General of India said both manufacturers had submitted data showing their vaccines were safe to use.\n\nHowever, opposition politicians and some doctors have criticised a lack of transparency in the approval process.\n\nDr Swapneil Parikh, an infectious diseases researcher based in Mumbai, told the BBC doctors were in a difficult position.\n\n\"I understand there is a need to go through the process quickly, remove regulatory hurdles,\" he said. \"However... [governments and regulators] have a duty to be transparent about the data they have reviewed and the process involved in making the decision to authorise a vaccine, because if they don't do this, it can affect the public's faith in the process.\"\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. It says it is producing more than 50 million doses a month.\n\nAdar Poonawalla, the company's CEO, told the BBC in November that he aimed to ramp up production to 100 million doses a month after receiving regulatory approval.\n\nThe jab, which is known as Covishield in India, is administered in two doses given between four and 12 weeks apart. It can be safely stored at temperatures of 2C to 8C, about the same as a domestic fridge, and can be delivered in existing health care settings such as doctors' surgeries.\n\nThis makes it easier to distribute than some of the other vaccines. The jab developed by Pfizer/BioNTech - which is currently being administered in several countries - must be stored at -70C and can only be moved a limited number of times - a particular challenge in India, where summer temperatures can reach 50C.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adar Poonawalla This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe local vaccine, however, was approved despite the absence of data on how efficient it can be. It has yet to go through large-scale trials.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General, V.G. Somani, said Bharat Biotech's Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nMr Somani said it had been approved \"in public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\nIndia, which makes about 60% of vaccines globally, plans to immunise about 300 million people by July 2021. It will prioritise health care workers, the emergency services, and those who are clinically vulnerable because of age or pre-existing conditions.\n\nIndia's existing vaccination programme already reaches about 55 million people a year, administering 390 million free jabs against a dozen diseases. It stocks and tracks the vaccines through a well-oiled electronic system.\n\nIndia immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world\n\nPfizer, whose vaccine has already been approved for use in jurisdictions including the UK, the US and the EU, is also seeking emergency authorisation in India.\n\nIn all, some 30 vaccine candidates are being developed in India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Wales went into a new lockdown on 20 December\n\nWales is likely to remain in lockdown for the rest of January as the first minister said he does not \"see much headroom for change\".\n\nMinisters are to review restrictions ahead of an announcement on Friday.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said it was \"very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment\" with the NHS \"under huge pressure\".\n\nWithout further changes, restrictions could be kept until the next three-week review at the end of January.\n\nMr Drakeford also said the Welsh Government was unlikely to tighten restrictions despite the emergence of a new more contagious variant of the virus.\n\nHe said there could be some tweaks \"at the margins\" but no wholesale changes because \"it's difficult to see what more could be done\".\n\nThe government introduced a new four-level system of Covid-19 restrictions on 20 December with people told to stay home and avoid all but essential travel.\n\nA study has found the new variant of Covid-19 to be \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford does not believe the Welsh Government needs to change the system of restrictions it introduced before details of the new variant emerged.\n\n\"We'll keep our plans under review but level four restrictions in Wales are very strict indeed and it's difficult to see what more could be done to them,\" he said.\n\n\"If they need to be tweaked at the margins to take account of the new variation that's what the cabinet here will consider.\"\n\nHe has dismissed calls by teaching unions to suspend the phased return of face-to-face teaching.\n\nThe government's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to review the current restrictions ahead of an announcement by the first minister on Friday.\n\nBut when asked whether he expected any changes, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment.\n\n\"Our health service remains under huge pressure and the coming weeks will be very difficult indeed with winter pressures on the one hand and growing numbers of people suffering with coronavirus in our hospitals on the other.\n\n\"We'll review it, as we said we would, but when I look at the figures I don't see much headroom for change.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have not criticised the decision to remain in lockdown, but have called for greater scrutiny.\n\nSuzy Davies, Member of the Senedd for South Wales West, said questions would remain \"about how legitimate the decisions of the Welsh Government are\" until MSs had the opportunity to question them in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the announcement was unsurprising given the pressures on the NHS, but called on the Welsh Government to ensure a \"rapid rollout\" of the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Price also called for financial support for people forced to self-isolate and businesses \"during the hardest winter of our time\".\n\nAfter Friday's decision, the next three-week review announcement is not expected until 29 January.\n\nA further 56 people have died after contracting coronavirus in Wales, along with 4,011 new cases, according to data published by Public Health Wales on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A dozen people were fined in London for playing dominoes\n\nTwelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.\n\nPolice officers found the group hiding in a dark room when they entered the building in Whitechapel on Tuesday.\n\nThe owner initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has been asked to consider issuing a fine to the owner of the restaurant for breaching tier four Covid-19 restrictions, the Met said.\n\nA video released by the Met shows the restaurant owner saying: \"They're playing dominoes.\"\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"The rules under tier four are in place to keep all of us safe, and they do not exempt people from gathering to play games together in basements.\n\n\"The fact that these people hid from officers clearly shows they knew they were breaching the rules and have now been fined for their actions.\"\n• None Met breaks up more than 50 New Year's Eve parties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "A woman takes her dog for an early walk in Allendale in Northumberland\n\nMany parts of England have seen snow flurries accompany the arrival of New Year.\n\nAreas which welcomed in 2021 with several centimetres of snow included Northumberland, parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.\n\nThe Met Office has warned worse is to come with more wintry showers forecast.\n\nDriving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" as the cold weather continues next week, it said.\n\nSeveral football matches were cancelled this weekend due to frozen pitches.\n\nGround staff at West Bromwich Albion were faced with heavy snowfall prior to their Premier League match with Arsenal at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening.\n\nGround staff clear snow from the pitch prior to the Premier League match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich on Saturday\n\nFurther snow is predicted mainly inland and particularly over higher ground where above 200-300m a further few centimetres of snow is possible.\n\nThe chill in the air is due to high pressure to the north of the UK, which is dragging air from the east \"which at this time of year is cold\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe cold easterly winds are set to develop next week, bringing wintry showers - particularly around eastern parts - while hazardous freezing fog, frost and ice risks will all continue, forecasters said.\n\nSledging in the snow around Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nTwo women looking out over the snow covered Huntcliff sea cliffs in Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast\n\nMeteorologist Alex Burkill said: \"Obviously it's very cold and it's going to stay cold through this week.\n\n\"Whilst there will be some wintry hazards around, it's not really until the end of the week until we see any significant snow.\"\n\nColston Bassett in Nottinghamshire got a light dusting of snow on Saturday\n\nA buried garden Buddha after heavy overnight snow in Buxton in Derbyshire\n\nRAC Breakdown spokesman Simon Williams said: \"The message for those who have to drive is to adjust their speed according to the conditions and leave extra stopping distance so 2021 doesn't begin with an unwelcome bump and an insurance claim.\n\n\"Snow and ice are by far the toughest driving conditions, so if they can be avoided that's probably the best policy.\"\n\nA plough clears snow from the roads in Allendale, Northumberland\n\nA man takes his dogs for an early morning walk through the snow in Allenheads, Northumberland\n\nWaterfowl were still active at a snowy Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.\n\nGuardiola, 49, has previously talked of limiting his time in football to pursue other interests.\n\n\"Before, I thought I was going to retire soon. Now I'm thinking I'm going to retire older. So, I don't know,\" Guardiola said.\n\nThe Spaniard signed a new two-year deal at City in November and has won six major trophies at the club.\n\nPrior to his arrival in Manchester, Guardiola, who turns 50 this month, spent four years as manager of Barcelona and three in charge of Bayern Munich.\n\n\"Experience helps you, especially the way I live my profession,\" he added.\n\nGuardiola's five-year stay at City represents the longest commitment he has made to a club in his management career.\n\nHe has won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and three League Cups since joining them in 2016.\n\nDespite going into Sunday's match at Chelsea on the back of a six-game unbeaten run and with two games in hand on most clubs around them in the table, he is cautious about talk of winning a third league title.\n\n\"If you think about what [can] happen in January, February - the two games [in hand], we can lose these two games and anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"So, in the Premier League, every game is so tough and it is better to be calm. The real Premier League, the people I spoke to before I landed here, said everyone can lose to everyone. I didn't see this until now.\n\n\"Now is the first time when I see in the Premier League, one team is able to lose or win seven, and after draw, and after lose. The results are unpredictable.\"\n\nAmong the challengers this season are arch rivals Manchester United, who City face in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have been rejuvenated in recent weeks, shrugging off the disappointment of a Champions League exit with some excellent domestic form.\n\n\"Ole is happier than me,\" said Guardiola, whose preparations have been affected by five players testing positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"But I am not much concerned about United. I am so busy with what we have to do and what we can do with the players.\n\n\"They are there because they deserve it. Since I arrived I expected them to be there all the time. Sometimes in the last seasons it has not been possible, especially in the Premier League.\"\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police Events This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breached Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.\n\nA spokesperson for the France international said the 26-year-old held a dinner party with guests from outside his household.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\nCity said they would conduct an internal investigation.\n\nMendy was named on the bench for City's Premier League game away to Chelsea on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\n\"While it is understood that elements of this incident have been misinterpreted in the reports [carried by newspapers earlier], and that the player has publicly apologised for his error, the club is disappointed to learn of the transgression and will be conducting an internal investigation,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Mendy said: \"Benjamin and his partner allowed a chef and two friends of his partner to attend his property for a dinner party on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Ben accepts that this is a breach of Covid-19 protocols and is sorry for his actions in this matter. Ben has had a Covid test and is liaising with Manchester City about this.\"\n\nExplaining why Mendy was in his matchday squad on Sunday, manager Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports: \"First of all the club made a statement; second Benjamin already had Covid in the past - he's been tested every day like all of us and he's negative. He knows what he has done and he will learn in the future.\"\n\nMeanwhile, goalkeeper Ederson, forward Ferran Torres, and midfielder Tommy Doyle are among six City players out of the Chelsea game because of coronavirus.\n\nThe trio have tested positive for the virus, adding to the cases of Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus and Eric Garcia.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, defender Garcia became the sixth City player to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nGarcia, along with a member of staff who also returned a positive test, will now self-isolate.\n\nCity previously postponed their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.\n\nThere have been a number of apparent coronavirus breaches by players at Premier League clubs in recent days.\n\nTottenham criticised three of their players after they attended a party over Christmas, while Fulham are looking into reports that striker Aleksandar Mitrovic allegedly broke coronavirus rules.\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson also apologised after midfielder Luka Milivojevic was pictured with Mitrovic at a gathering in London.\n\nFulham's match against Burnley on Sunday was postponed after an increase in positive cases at the club.\n\nCity also had to cancel their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nLuke Campbell's hopes of another world title shot suffered a severe blow as Ryan Garcia rose from the canvas to land a superb stoppage in Dallas.\n\nIn a gripping lightweight fight, Briton Campbell landed a left hook in round two to floor Mexican-American Garcia.\n\nSome asked how the much-hyped Garcia might respond to adversity and while he fought on emotion, he found answers.\n\nCampbell survived a tough attack in the fifth, but a well-placed body shot ended the contest two rounds later.\n\n\"You taught me a lot,\" Garcia, 22, told 33-year-old Campbell as the opponents embraced in the beaten man's corner at the American Airlines Center.\n\nThe jubilant reaction from Garcia's team - including gym-mate Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - hinted at relief, but unquestionably emphasised the statement they knew their man had made.\n\nIn beating a fighter of Campbell's pedigree - and by rising from the canvas to do so - this win served up plenty of answers about Garcia, whose social media following led him to be identified as the world's 12th most marketable athlete in October.\n\n\"I think I showed a lot of people who I really am. I showed today I am special,\" he told DAZN.\n\n\"They wanted to show me as a social media fighter. Anybody who puts you down, remember you're not who people tell you who you are - you are who you choose to be. I chose to be a champion tonight.\n\n\"He caught me, I was like, 'I got dropped, this is crazy'. I've never been dropped in my life. I had to adjust. I knew I could beat him, I just had to get back up.\"\n\nGarcia is the first man to beat Campbell by stoppage. Shortly after the fight Campbell told Garcia in his dressing room that he punched harder than anyone he had ever faced. The London 2012 Olympic gold medallist then told his Twitter followers that Garcia has a \"massive future ahead\".\n\nThis stoppage win will add to the kind of hype that has led some American broadcasters to suggest Garcia's star status could bring new fans to the sport in the years to come.\n\nThe 1-3 bookmakers' favourite was carried to the ring on a throne while Campbell waited in the ring in Texas.\n\nBut within two rounds a heavy left hook put Garcia on his back and it is to his credit he got up, took the fight to his rival and won rounds in the aftermath.\n\nGarcia had only twice gone past round four, and his last two bouts had lasted less than 180 seconds in total. He carried a fizz in his punches throughout and a left hook-right hand combination in the fifth rocked Campbell and sent him into the ropes as the bell sounded.\n\nIn a contest that ebbed and flowed, Campbell found some poise after a relentless attack from Garcia when the action resumed at the start of the sixth.\n\nBut a round later, Campbell braced for an attack to his head only for Garcia to beautifully drive a left hand to the body that left him on all fours.\n\nGarcia's team raced into the ring, lifted their man and placed a crown on his head.\n\nHis 21st win in as many fights could earn him a world title shot next, or his preferred bout with American Gervonta Davis.\n\nFor now, it has justified the hype and underlined his threat. After the fourth loss of his career, Campbell will need to regroup if he is to attempt to win a world title for the third time.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "A large poultry flock is to be culled in County Antrim, after an outbreak of bird flu.\n\nThirty thousand birds are to be destroyed as a precautionary measure at the farm near Clough.\n\nIt is the first time the disease has been detected in a commercial flock in Northern Ireland since 1998\n\nThe outbreak affected a business rearing young hens for egg production and it is understood there are other poultry farms in the area.\n\nIt will mean certain movement restrictions in 3km and 10km protection zones around the affected farm, with potential trade implications for other poultry businesses there.\n\nBird flu is a notifiable disease carried by migratory wild birds. It can spread quickly and rapidly causes death in affected flocks.\n\nRestrictions were put in place earlier in the winter in an attempt to prevent transmission to commercial flocks which make up a key part of Northern Ireland's important agri-food industry.\n\nSince 23 December there has been a requirement for all poultry flocks, no matter how small, to be housed.\n\nPublic health advice is that bird flu- or avian influenza - poses a low risk to human health and the Food Standards Agency advises that it does not present a food risk.\n\nPoultry is a £750m a year industry in Northern Ireland which employs 5,000 people. There are around 24 million birds on 650 farms, most of them in counties Tyrone and Antrim.\n\nThe disease has been detected in a number of wild birds in Northern Ireland this winter and in commercial flocks in both Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn the short term it will mean no movements on or off poultry farms in the area, with a licensing system being introduced in the coming days.\n\nPoultry products from outside the restricted zone can continue to be traded with EU member states and products from within the zones can be sold on home markets.\n\nOther countries will apply their own rules depending on their assessment of the situation.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey repeated his message for poultry owners to apply rigorous biosecurity measures.\n\n\"Given the level of suspicion and the density of the poultry population around the holding, it is vital that as a matter of precaution, we act now and act fast,\" he said.\n\n\"I have therefore taken the decision to cull the birds as well as introduce temporary control zones around the holding in an effort to protect our poultry industry and stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"An epidemiological investigation is under way to determine the likely source of infection and determine the risk of disease spread.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? Have you recently been treated in a hospital, or due to be treated? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Jo Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nA statement was released on her Twitter account on Saturday night in which her team thanked people for their good wishes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Ms Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wished her well.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, her Twitter account said she had been \"laid low with Covid for a while\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Stevens, who is Labour's shadow culture secretary, was elected as an MP in May 2015.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted: \"All of our thoughts and best wishes are with Jo for a speedy recovery.\n\n\"Thank you to Jo's constituency team for continuing to support Cardiff Central constituents at this difficult time.\"", "The rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December – and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East. But that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all, most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut many public health experts are warning more needs to be done.That’s why we have seen so much debate about schools in recent days.There is a determination to get primary school children back – they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school-age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nIt looks like there is going to be a very difficult trade-off that needs to be made between the damage to education and wellbeing of children and the risk of further spread of the virus.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Police said a car which had been parked on a bend in the road in Snowdonia was an \"accident waiting to happen\"\n\nStaff looking after a car park in a Welsh national park have been \"getting abuse\" as crowds continue to gather at popular beauty spots.\n\nA spokeswoman for Snowdonia National Park said the decision to keep car parks open was under \"constant review\".\n\nShe explained closing them could lead to unauthorised parking and would exclude locals with mobility issues.\n\nWales is at alert level four, meaning non-essential travel is banned and exercise must start and finish at home.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nA red Honda was towed away at Pen y Pass, near Llanberis, after police said it had been parked unsafely on a bend, in snowy conditions.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown in March, campsites, caravan parks and tourist hotspots were closed by the Welsh Government after \"unprecedented\" crowds gathered at beauty spots.\n\nThe Welsh Government decided to close beauty spots during the first lockdown after scenes like this at Pen y Gwryd in Snowdonia\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it had chosen not to close its car parks again because the areas remained open to people living nearby.\n\n\"Closing car parks can lead to unauthorised parking on roads, so we are keeping them open at the moment,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The mountains are open for people to be able to exercise from their front doors. Keeping car parks open allows people with mobility issues to exercise as well.\n\n\"We are working closely with police and Gwynedd council and we are reviewing it constantly.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police say beauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy\" since Christmas\n\nShe said its busiest car park, at Pen y Pass near Snowdon, had been overseen by wardens over the Christmas and New Year period, but in a more educational role than in previous years.\n\n\"Places like Pen y Pass are usually manned anyway but their role has changed slightly. They are getting some abuse, which is a shame,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are adopting a similar approach to police: engaging with people, asking what their plans are then educating them.\n\n\"The majority of the time people are going 'I misunderstood that', or people are saying 'I'm doing what I want anyway'.\"\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nWales is in an alert level four lockdown\n\nPenny Brockman, of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, called on people to help protect themselves and others, including rescue volunteers, by following government guidelines.\n\n\"It is important for people's well-being to walk, but there are probably lots of wonderful places in their own local areas,\" she added.\n\nSouth Wales Police tweeted a picture of Hamilton the police horse \"staying at home\" in his stable, urging people to be \"more like him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "Nurseries have stayed open during the latest lockdown, unlike schools\n\nNurseries are \"teetering on the edge\" and will \"find it hard to survive with next-to-no funding\" as children are kept home in lockdown, an owner said.\n\nLittle Stars near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by 35% - and Emma Matthews says nurseries are \"running on empty\".\n\nUnlike schools, they have remained open and an industry association wants support so they are around to \"provide places for children in the future\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said funding was available through councils.\n\nDescribing childcare workers as \"front-line\", the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru also called for anxious staff to be made a priority for the Covid vaccine as they work with little protective equipment.\n\n\"We feel we have poured our heart into serving families and want acknowledgement for the early years and the vital part we play in the community,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nLittle Stars furloughed some staff during the lockdown last March, with nurseries open for children of keyworkers only.\n\nLittle Stars nursery near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by more than a third\n\nThey reopened fully last summer and this has remained under Welsh Government guidance.\n\nHowever, many parents have decided not to send children - some because they are adhering to stay-at-home rules, are self-isolating, have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay bills, or are on furlough.\n\n\"The reasons are varied and valid why parents decide to pull children out,\" Ms Matthews added.\n\n\"The situation isn't great and some say 'we will wait and see next week'. It's very difficult to formulate a plan then or to furlough. We are teetering on the edge.\"\n\nLittle Stars is down the road from the new Grange hospital that opened in Cwmbran last November\n\nBefore coronavirus, the nursery looked after 65 children each day - but last week, 47 attended, made up of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.\n\nThere were also 11 babies due to start in January - but only one is attending because of reasons such as new mothers extending their maternity leave.\n\nMs Matthews believes facilities should be open for children of keyworkers only - allowing nurseries to access support for those not attending.\n\nA baby, a toddler and a staff member from Little Stars had coronavirus - and employees are worried for themselves and their families.\n\nIn Wales eligible children can access 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nThey are unable to wear personal protective equipment because of their close contact with children, and describing workers as \"front-line\" who \"keep the economy going\", Ms Matthews said they should be in the priority group for the vaccine and weekly testing.\n\n\"Social distancing is the challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"Face, space and hands... we can only do hands. The others are impossible.\"\n\nThe facility received a grant of £10,000 at the start of the pandemic and a rate relief grant of £1,000, but Ms Matthews wants more support.\n\n\"It's about valuing the service,\" she said. \"It wasn't a very stable industry pre-Covid. But it's made it very fragile now.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been urged to give more help, allowing nurseries to survive and \"provide places for children in the future\" by NDNA Cymru.\n\nIt also said early years staff \"must be a priority for the vaccine to enable them to continue providing support for our youngest children and their families\".\n\nWhile nurseries were closed to all but keyworkers initially, they have been open since summer 2020\n\n\"We all know it's impossible to social distance from toddlers and babies who need close care from nappy changing to the contact and affection that supports their development and learning,\" added chief executive Purnima Tanuku.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said while the rates of coronavirus in Wales remain high, cases in children under five continue to be relatively low.\n\n\"Childcare providers have worked very hard to ensure settings are safe, with low numbers of children on site,\" she added.\n\nThe spokeswoman said funding is provided to councils, enabling them to help childcare settings experiencing financial difficulties and the Childcare Offer for Wales continues to be in place for all eligible children.\n\n\"We are following the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation about the people who should be vaccinated first - all those in the priority groups will be immunised as safely and as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nMost school children in Wales will learn from home until at least February half-term, unless there is a big drop in Covid cases\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland said she\"empathises with the concerns of staff\" and thanked them for their work \"during an extremely difficult period\".\n\n\"Nurseries play a really important part in young children's wellbeing and development,\" she said.\n\n\"Any services that can remain open for children is to be welcomed due to the importance for their health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "The man from Luton was fined £200 for travelling to Devizes and also had his car seized for having no insurance\n\nA man told police he had driven from Luton to Devizes to visit a McDonald's, even though the town does not have a branch of the burger chain.\n\nWiltshire Police called his actions a \"flagrant breach\" of lockdown regulations and fined the man £200.\n\nThe 34-year-old was stopped on Estcourt Street in Devizes, a distance of more than 100 miles (160km) from Luton.\n\nHis car was also seized for having no insurance, police added.\n\n\"The distance travelled across numerous counties to Devizes, which doesn't have a McDonald's restaurant, is a flagrant breach of the regulations currently in place.\n\n\"The majority of people across Wiltshire continue to act responsibly and we thank you for that, however, it is important to protect the NHS that we all stick to the rules,\" said police.\n\nThe man was stopped on Thursday evening.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Sara Powell-Davies said she was lucky her nursery was able to open following lockdown\n\nA mother with two young children has said it was \"incredibly stressful\" trying to manage without free childcare during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government's scheme was suspended in April, with funds redirected to pay for childcare for key workers' children.\n\nNow the offer, available to working parents of three and four-year-olds, has been reinstated.\n\nBut there are concerns many nurseries have been operating at a loss.\n\nWorking parents of three and four-year-old children are able to claim up 30 hours of early-years education and childcare a week for 48 weeks a year under the Childcare Offer for Wales.\n\nThose whose children become eligible in the autumn term, can apply from September.\n\nSara Powell-Davies, from Caerphilly, said it had been really hard to manage without the help during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe mother to three-year-old Tirion and one-year-old Cadel said the free childcare saved the family about £200 a month.\n\n\"It does make a massive difference to our finances every month,\" she said.\n\nMrs Powell-Davies said, while she was lucky Cadel's nursery was open, after-school clubs would not run in September due to the coronavirus pandemic, which would make juggling childcare around work a challenge.\n\n\"It's incredibly stressful trying to manage this anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"We do rely on support like private nursery provision, after-school care [and] wraparound because we don't have any family that is able to support us.\n\n\"So, this is our lifeline.\"\n\nChildcare Offer for Wales gives those eligible 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nChildcare providers are paid £4.50 per hour for every child who takes up a place through the childcare offer.\n\nBut the National Day Nurseries Association said many of its members were operating at a loss as fewer children had been attending and costs had gone up to comply with Covid-19 safety regulations.\n\nIts chief executive Purnima Tanuku called on the Welsh Government to set up a \"transformation fund to be able to support the sector until occupancy levels pick up and to really review the hourly rate to reflect the additional cost they've had to incur\".\n\nLyn Bourne, of Britannia Day Nursery, said nurseries were a \"forgotten industry\"\n\nBefore the coronavirus pandemic, around 70 children attended Britannia Day Nursery in Caerphilly - now there are about 40.\n\nOwner Lyn Bourne said the nursery was losing money every week, but was determined to keep going.\"It is hard financially and emotionally, but we decided we wanted to keep going so we've just done our best to do that,\" she said.Ms Bourne said she hoped the childcare offer would help some parents to bring children back, but said nurseries needed extra financial help from the government too.\"Nurseries are closing every week,\" she said.\"We seem to be a forgotten industry, but we're so important.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed that coronavirus guidance restricting children to groups of eight in childcare would be lifted.\n\nDeputy Minister for Social Care Julie Morgan said: \"Bringing the offer back will not only help parents, but it is crucial for providers too in supporting their businesses to recover after what has been a period of great uncertainty and anxiety for many.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the hourly rate was under review and it was considering extending the offer to parents in education or training or \"on the cusp\" of returning to work.\n\nHe added: \"The childcare offer being restarted funded childcare for an average of 13,000 children per month before the pandemic, a significant investment in the Welsh childcare sector.\n\n\"We have also relaxed some of the regulatory requirements on childcare settings in the national minimum standards to make it easier for them to operate under the current restrictions.\"", "Women selling clothes online are being sent explicit messages, with requests for sex and \"worn\" garments.\n\nBoth businesses and private individuals have experienced the problem when advertising on mainstream platforms.\n\nWomen have been sent '\"creepy\" messages on Facebook, Instagram, eBay, and Depop, the BBC has learned.\n\nSome were asked for additional items including worn tights, explicit photos and used underwear.\n\nWhen inappropriate profiles were blocked or reported, some would reappear with a different account, sources told the BBC.\n\n\"During lockdown, the messages have gotten really creepy,\" said Sara Faye, who has sold her clothes on Depop for years.\n\n\"They always want to know how many times it has been worn and if it is dirty.\"\n\nMs Faye used to post images of herself in the clothes on the platforms but has now stopped because of the messages.\n\nWomen often model the clothing they're selling in the photos\n\n\"Don't message me on an innocent second-hand website, just because you can see a hot girl in the photos,\" she added. \"It feels like a violation, you should be able to sell your clothes online without getting harassed.\"\n\nSellers were sometimes offered additional money for used clothing or explicit images.\n\nJennifer Savin - a Cosmopolitan features writer, who recently investigated the topic - was offered ��5 for more than 50 intimate images after posting items on eBay.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of users out there, just trying their luck,\" she told the BBC. \"Who knows if they'd even pay up if they were to be sent the explicit content in the first place?\"\n\nOne online seller, who relies on the profits made on these platforms for a living, said \"it was a balance between feeling safe and needing the money.\"\n\nEstablished clothing brands have also reported receiving inappropriate messages and requests on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium sells vintage clothes and receives many such comments every week.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium says it receives many inappropriate messages every week\n\n\"I get a lot of messages about the model, especially if there are shirts with close-up images,\" said owner Lynnette Peck.\n\n\"I had a fetishist asking what [shoes] smelt like, who wore them and if I could take a photo of myself wearing them.\"\n\nShe has now stopped selling certain items on the website, after receiving explicit photographs through Facebook Messenger.\n\nNaomi Edmondson, who runs lingerie brand Edge o'Beyond, said the business was \"constantly bombarded with creepy comments from men\", often asking for sex.\n\n\"We get so many creepy messages and comments it's too time-consuming to report them all,\" she said. \"A few times I have felt concerned for safety.\n\n\"We create lingerie to empower women, we do not welcome the minority of men who think it's acceptable to send explicit pictures.\"\n\nSome of the women the BBC spoke to said they hadn't reported the messages because they were \"embarrassed\", \"ashamed\" or \"didn't want to risk losing their accounts\".\n\nFacebook, Instagram, Depop and eBay all said they take these kinds of messages seriously and would take action against those who violated policy.\n\nThey all urged users to report and block any accounts which break the rules.\n\nFacebook - which also owns Instagram - said it has built a \"global safety and security team as well as powerful technology\" to remove accounts as quickly as possible.\n\nDepop said it aims to respond to 95% reports of inappropriate behaviour within three hours, during business hours.\n\n\"The issue of women receiving creepy messages when selling clothes online is not a new phenomenon,\" said Jo O'Reilly, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\n\"This is particularly concerning because to sell on most popular online selling platforms, including eBay and Depop, it is mandatory for users to provide a postal address - likely to be their home address.\"\n\nBut that is technically against the terms and conditions of most selling platforms.\n\n\"The very nature of selling second-hand clothes means that sellers will often post photos of themselves wearing the items,\" she says.\n\n\"That can, unfortunately, attract unwanted attention from buyers who might wish to buy worn clothes rather than just second-hand items.\"\n\nAlthough sites restrict the selling of certain used items, such as underwear, private messaging provides a \"loophole\", she added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "UN peacekeepers ended their mission in Darfur last month\n\nThe number of people killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Sudan's West Darfur state has risen to 83, a medical body has said.\n\nThe fighting in the state capital, El Geneina, began on Saturday after a row in which a man was stabbed to death.\n\nA state-wide curfew has been imposed and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sent a delegation to investigate.\n\nA conflict in Darfur that began in 2003 forced millions to flee and, despite a peace process, tensions remain.\n\nSaturday's violence comes less than three weeks after peacekeepers from the United Nations and African Union handed over security to the Khartoum authorities after 13 years there, reports the BBC's Youssef Taha.\n\nSimilar clashes in El Geneina last year, which saw Arab pastoralists fight with non-Arab groups, caused hundreds of casualties.\n\nThe most recent fighting was centred around a camp for people who had been displaced by the Darfur conflict. A deadly row between two men escalated into a fight involving armed militias, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said the death toll had risen from 48 to 83, and the number of wounded from around 100 to 160.\n\nMembers of the armed forces were among the victims, it said.\n\nCasualties were likely to rise further as fighting was continuing, the medical body added.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that troop reinforcements would be sent to the area\n\nThe announcement was made after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met top security officials to discuss the violence.\n\nA peace deal involving most, but not all, groups in Darfur was signed last year.\n\nThe Darfur conflict began under the presidency of Omar al-Bashir, who was overthrown in 2019 and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the region.\n\nJustice for the people of Darfur was a key rallying cry for civilian groups who backed the ouster of the president after nearly three decades in power.\n\nThe Sudanese Professionals' Association, which was at the forefront of the anti-Bashir movement, called for the current transitional government to deal with the \"unruly armed groups which have been freely moving and terrorising civilians since the collapse of the former regime\", Sudan's news agency reports.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nLast year Mohanad Hashim visited Kalma camp where some of the millions of people who fled flighting ended up:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ongoing struggle for peace in Darfur", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "A financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday.\n\nThe aim was to provide grants by the end of this financial year, he said.\n\nIndustry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nUnder the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nAll arrivals to the UK after that time will need to isolate for up to 10 days, although the quarantine period can be cut short with a negative test after five days.\n\nPeople will also have to show proof of a negative test taken in the previous 72 hours before travelling.\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show that Public Health England would also be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate, while enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\".\n\nHe added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Courts said the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme \"will help airports reduce\" additional costs faced due to the pandemic and that further details would follow soon.\n\nThe scheme had first been announced in November, but without a set start date. It will involve grants of up to £8m per applicant, to be used to cover fixed costs, such as business rates.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the Airport Operators Association said the scheme would be a relief. However, it said support equivalent to business rates would only go so far and with the pandemic crisis deepening, a broader package of support was needed for all four nations, to see the sector through the next few months.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said the measures would \"provide much-needed support to many embattled airports, helping them through the challenging months ahead\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes to the UK's travel rules at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nThe new rules will be in place until at least 15 February, he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing on Friday that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nThe travel industry said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTravel operators had already been forced to cancel holidays before the latest restrictions were announced.\n\nEarlier this week, Jet2 suspended all flights and holidays until 25 March over \"ongoing uncertainty\" and budget travel provider EasyJet on Thursday began cancelling holidays up to and including 24 March.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Saturday, another 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pilot Douglas Jones, 27, was enjoying his dream job, working for Aegean Airlines and living in Greece, when the pandemic began last spring - and borders began to close.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks learned his job was gone.\n\nBack home, in the small Scottish town of Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, he found himself “desperate to do something”.\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he says.\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nIt certainly marked a change of pace – the nine-to-five office-based routine was difficult to adjust to for someone accustomed to navigating the skies of Europe – but Douglas says he was \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he says.\n\nWhile looking forward to returning to the skies one day, he adds: “I have learned a huge amount here.\n\n“There are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Children in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.\n\nInternet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term.\n\nFormed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week.\n\nThe aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged.\n\nOak National Academy is funded by the Department for Education and has provided more than 28 million lessons since the start of the school term on 4 January.\n\nIn the last two weeks, 4.1 million pupils accessed its resources.\n\nThe latest lockdown has seen schools in England close except for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nMatt Hood, principal of Oak National Academy, said: \"It's incredible to be able to add to our offer something vital for children's literacy and their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nJonathan Douglas, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust, said it was \"essential\" to enable as many children as possible to \"access a world of great literature\".\n\nHe added: \"Many children's literacy skills were profoundly affected by the first lockdown and school closures.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to support children, families and teachers during this new lockdown period.\"\n\nDescribing the virtual library as a \"fantastic resource\", Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said learning and children's development must continue while schools remain closed.\n\nHe said: \"Reading is hugely beneficial not only for children's literacy skills, but also their mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe first book to feature will be Dame Jacqueline Wilson's The Story Of Tracy Beaker, and will be available to access free for a week from 17 January.\n\nDame Jacqueline said with schools closed, the free online library is needed more than ever, adding: \"I think it's vitally important that every child should have an opportunity to access books.\"", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19.\n\nMany of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers.\n\nMost mosques in London did not open for Friday prayers.\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says parishes that are able to follow guidelines will still open.\n\nDespite coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely.\n\nPlaces of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February.\n\nThe Church of England has told the BBC more than half of its parishes - including some cathedrals - will not open for communal prayer on Sunday. Many have moved their worship online.\n\nThe Church said some of its clergy were shielding, and all parishes were making their own decision.\n\nLincoln Cathedral took the decision to suspend in-person worship and move services online earlier in the week.\n\nRev Canon Nick Brown, Precentor of Lincoln, said the decision was taken \"with a very heavy heart\" but explained: \"To bring people together in worship is at the very heart of our purpose, but having considered expert advice we believe that the best way to help limit the spread of Covid-19 is to suspend public services for the time being.\"\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says it will keep its churches under review to make sure \"the highest standards of safety are maintained\". It is also organising online masses in many parishes.\n\nBritain's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had criticised previous orders for churches to close.\n\nWith more than half of the Church of England's parishes closed for communal worship, thousands of Christians are being deprived of spiritual sustenance, at a time when many feel sorely in need of it.\n\nOther religions are also grappling with the issue and have worked hard to make their places of worship Covid-compliant by, for example, introducing strict booking and ticketing systems.\n\nMany church parishes have adapted by moving services online, a trend mirrored in some Jewish and Muslim denominations. These have been largely successful, and in some cases attracted new audiences from thousands of miles away. However, it's difficult to replicate the sense of community when people can physically and regularly meet up.\n\nOne Rabbi I spoke to last summer admitted he was worried some of his synagogue regulars, kept away by Covid-19, might never return.\n\nThere's also a financial aspect. Places of worship rely heavily on the generosity of believers. Weekly donations have been hit by church closures, and many revenue-generating schemes, such as hiring out church halls, have been cancelled. Many of the country's ancient cathedrals make much of their income from tourist admission fees.\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken different approaches, with all places of worship currently closed in Scotland, for example. Some Christian leaders, largely accepting of initial closures during the first lockdown, have gradually spoken out in favour of being able to make the decision themselves.\n\nBut with most shops and sporting facilities closed in England, some campaigners, such as the National Secular Society, have railed against what they say is \"a worrying deference to religious entitlement\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board has told the BBC although most mosques in England and Wales did open for Friday prayers, the majority in London did not - and it says it has asked its members in areas where the infection rate is rising to work closely with Public Health England and local authorities.\n\nUnder the latest lockdowns in the UK, there are changes to usual practices for worshippers of all religions.\n\nIn the areas of the UK where communal worship is allowed, a number of measures are in place, such as carrying out services in the shortest possible time, and ensuring worshippers do not mingle with anyone not in their own household or support bubble.\n\nFaith leaders have accepted the need for restrictions.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain urges \"strong caution for mosques wishing to continue remaining open to the public for worship... and for tremendous care to be exercised\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, who has been in charge of the Church of England's plans for resuming services, has said \"some may feel that it is currently better not to attend in person... Clergy who have concerns, and others who are shielding, should take particular care and stay at home\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What are the rules for places of worship?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need further 36 runs to win\n\nEngland need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic end to the fourth day in Galle.\n\nChasing only 74, the tourists slipped to 14-3 as Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya before captain Joe Root was run out after a mix-up with Jonny Bairstow.\n\nBairstow, who survived a run-out chance of his own, and debutant Dan Lawrence saw England to 38 without further loss before bad light ended play early.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence will resume on 11 and seven respectively at 04:15 GMT on Monday.\n\nEarlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 359, with Lahiru Thirimanne scoring 111 - his first century for almost eight years - and Angelo Matthews 73.\n\nJack Leach, playing his first Test since 2019, took 5-122 and Dom Bess 3-100 to finish with match figures of 8-130 and set up what should still be a comfortable England victory despite a wearing pitch.\n\nEngland won their most recent series in Sri Lanka 3-0, but their record in Asia - and playing spin - is poor and it reared its head again in a remarkable start to their fourth-innings chase.\n\nSibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, was bowled for two not offering a shot, while Crawley, who was dropped on one, added only eight before a drive was superbly caught at gully by Kusal Mendis.\n\nEngland contributed to their own problems as captain Root, who scored a magnificent 228 in the first innings, was run out by a direct hit by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella, colliding with bowler Dilruwan Perera after Bairstow called for a risky single.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence restored calm in a 24-run stand to steer England to stumps, and they remain firm favourites to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka had run Bairstow out just after Root it would have been very interesting,\" former England captain Michael Vaughan said on BBC Test Match Special.\n\nSri Lanka, whose first-innings effort of 135 in just 46.1 overs was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", showed significantly more character and application in the second.\n\nOpener Thirimanne, 76 not out as the hosts resumed on 156-2, moved to his second Test century - 54 innings after his first, the third longest gap in Test history - with a cut for four off Bess.\n\nThe left-hander averaged 22 in 36 Tests before this match and his place was in serious doubt, only for captain Dimuth Karunaratne to be ruled out before the game with a thumb injury.\n\nAfter Thirimanne got a faint inside edge to the excellent Jos Buttler off Sam Curran, former captain Mathews played a dogged 219-ball innings containing only two fours to ensure Sri Lanka at least wiped out a 286-run first-innings deficit.\n\nWhen he edged Leach to Root at slip to be last man out, Sri Lanka were left wondering what might have been had they shown the same discipline first time round.\n\nBess, who took 5-30 in the first innings despite struggling with his length, improved throughout the second innings and took a wicket in the first over of his three spells on Sunday.\n\nHe had nightwatchman Embuldeniya caught by Sibley at short cover off the 12th ball of the day, before returning to have stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal held at slip by Root, and Dickwella caught behind as he attempted to guide the ball to third man.\n\nLeach, who has missed England's past 11 Tests - in part due to illness - yorked Dasun Shanaka and had the dangerous Wanindu Hasaranga superbly taken by Root at slip, before Perera became Buttler's first stumping in Test cricket.\n\nThe wicket of Mathews rounded off Leach's five-wicket haul, the first time two England spinners had achieved the feat in the same match since Derek Underwood and John Emburey in Sri Lanka in 1982.\n\n'It will only mean something if we win' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Jack Leach on BBC Test Match Special: \"I wouldn't say I bowled well. It has been hard graft out there and I have certainly found I am probably a little rusty.\n\n\"At times I felt I could have done a better job, but the pleasing thing is I felt I bowled better as the game went on.\n\n\"We will come back tomorrow, knock these off and then I can be happy about my five wickets. It will only mean something if we win.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It has been an exciting day's play. Sri Lanka hung in there.\n\n\"Credit to Sri Lanka - we pelted them but on days three and four have shown they are a team that can compete in home conditions.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russel Arnold: \"The start of England's innings was hectic. We saw panic from England, but Bairstow and Lawrence now look like they have it under control.\"\n• None Find all the resources you need to help with education at home\n• None The hilarious hit history podcast is back for a new series", "There are warnings more children could be plunged into poverty\n\nA decision on whether the £20 weekly rise in Universal Credit will be kept in place is unlikely before March's Budget, a top minister has indicated.\n\nCampaigners say the uplift, worth more than £1,000 a year, has been a lifeline for the vulnerable during the pandemic.\n\nLabour will use a Commons debate on Monday to add pressure on ministers to agree now to extend it beyond 31 March.\n\nBut Dominic Raab told the BBC it was a \"temporary measure\" and the Budget would spell out support \"in the round\".\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Marr, the foreign secretary confirmed that Conservative MPs would be told to abstain in Monday's debate, meaning Labour's \"opposition day\" motion will be approved.\n\nWhile the motion will not be binding on ministers and won't change policy, the BBC's Ben Wright said not opposing it represented an attempt by the government to \"neutralise\" the issue for the time being.\n\nIt showed, he added, how concerned ministers were about the prospect of a rebellion by Tory MPs - many of whom want an end to the uncertainty over the issue - if they had been asked to vote against it.\n\nThe standard Universal Credit allowance, which is claimed by more than 5.5 million households, was increased by £20 a week in April 2020 as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's early Covid economic response.\n\nWhile it was designed as a temporary response to help those unable to work or struggling due to the lockdown, opposition parties and charities say failing to extend will cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected, with millions of households facing an income loss equivalent to £1,040 a year.\n\nThe organisation has warned 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nIts director Helen Barnard said a decision could not be delayed any longer.\n\n\"The chancellor has said the economy is going to get worse before it gets better and our evidence shows it is those with the least who are often suffering the most,\" she said.\n\n\"No one can seriously argue that cutting support for those on the lowest incomes in April will do anything other than weaken our already fragile economy.\"\n\nAsked whether the government should act now, Mr Raab said Monday's debate was a \"political\" move by the opposition and not about the government's overall financial support during the pandemic.\n\nHe promised to \"look at everything in the round\" to make sure support for the most vulnerable was available.\n\n\"Obviously in March there will be a Budget where again that holistic approach can be taken by the chancellor, but we've put that support in place to make sure that the most vulnerable communities can be protected at this very difficult time,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nThe government says it has injected an extra £7bn into the welfare system during the pandemic, including boosting Working Tax Credits by more than £1,000 a year for a 12-month period.\n\nLabour has urged the government to \"see sense\" on Universal Credit, saying that it would be both morally and economically wrong to \"take £1,000 a year from Britain's families\" at the peak of the unemployment crisis.", "The leaders of most of the world's biggest economies will get a brief taste of the English seaside this June as they gather for the G7 summit.\n\nCornwall's Carbis Bay, known for its sandy beach and clear waters, will be the venue for discussions on debt, climate change and post-Covid recovery.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it the \"perfect location for such a crucial summit\".\n\nThe UK, US, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan make up the G7.\n\nLeaders from Australia, India, South Korea and the EU will also attend the event, from 11 to 13 June, as guests.\n\nVisit Cornwall estimates the county will make £50m, with the summit providing a boost to tourism and the area's international profile.\n\nBut the likes of US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are unlikely to enjoy an ice cream and a barefoot stroll through Carbis Bay's surf.\n\nG7 summits require security cordons, with anti-globalisation protests having affected several previous get-togethers.\n\nMeasures in place for the meeting in Biarritz, France, in 2019, saw the seaside resort likened to a temporary \"fortress\".\n\nThe Cornish meeting will be the first face-to-face G7 since the pandemic started. Last year's event - scheduled to take place at Camp David, Maryland - took place online instead.\n\nThe previous two UK-hosted meetings were at Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh, in 2013, and Gleneagles, Perth and Kinross, in 2005.\n\nBoris Johnson invoked the leading role of Cornwall's mining communities in the industrial revolution\n\nThis year, delegates will be put up - with Covid restrictions in place - at the Tregenna Castle Resort, overlooking nearby St Ives, and other locations.\n\nThe National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth will host international media.\n\nThe UK is hosting the summit as president of the G7 for the year.\n\n\"As the most prominent grouping of democratic countries, the G7 has long been the catalyst for decisive international action to tackle the greatest challenges we face,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that leaders should approach the economic challenges of Covid \"by uniting with a spirit of openness to create a better future\".\n\n\"Two-hundred years ago Cornwall's tin and copper mines were at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution and this summer Cornwall will again be the nucleus of great global change and advancement,\" the prime minister said.\n\nVisit Cornwall chief executive Malcolm Bell said the summit would \"not only showcase the beauty of Cornwall but give us the opportunity to communicate our heritage, culture and the connections\".\n\nLocal leaders said it would provide a \"fantastic opportunity\" to showcase the county on the world stage.\n\nThe government said it would announce more of its plans \"in due course\".\n\nThe G7 meeting comes five months ahead of UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November.", "A statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol Harbour last June, after being pulled down and rolled through the streets\n\nThe government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed \"on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said generations-old monuments should be \"considered thoughtfully\".\n\nThe legislation would require planning permission for any changes and a minister would be given the final veto.\n\nIt will be revealed in Parliament on Monday.\n\nThe plans follow the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston last year and a wider discussion on the removal of controversial monuments.\n\nFour people were later charged with criminal damage over the removal of the Colston statue, and six people accepted conditional cautions over their involvement.\n\nIn the paper, the communities secretary said Britain should not try to edit or censor its past.\n\nMr Jenrick said any decision to remove heritage assets in England would require planning permission and a consultation with local communities, adding that he wanted to see a \"considered approach\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Our view will be set out in law, that such monuments are almost always best explained and contextualised, not taken and hidden away.\"\n\nMr Jenrick added that he had noticed an attempt to set a narrative which seeks to erase part of the nation's history, saying this was \"at the hand of the flash mob, or by the decree of a 'cultural committee' of town hall militants and woke worthies\".\n\nHe said: \"We live in a country that believes in the rule of law, but when it comes to protecting our heritage, due process has been overridden. That can't be right.\n\n\"Local people should have the chance to be consulted whether a monument should stand or not.\n\n\"What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Metropolitan Police say they are seeking to identify those responsible for the damage\n\nThe death of George Floyd while in the custody of police in Minneapolis sparked anti-racism protests across the world.\n\nDuring largely peaceful demonstrations in the UK, the controversial Colston statue was dumped into Bristol Harbour and a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill was vandalised with the words \"was a racist\".\n\nSpeaking in June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country - and the whole of Europe - from a fascist and racist tyranny.\n\n\"It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should ... be at risk of attack by violent protesters.\n\n\"Yes, he sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial.\"\n\nColston made his fortune in the slave trade and bequeathed his money to charities in Bristol, which led to many venues, streets and landmarks bearing his name.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers, the Bristol charity which runs institutions named after Edward Colston, said it was right that the statue was removed, along with other memorials to \"a man who benefited from trading in human lives\".\n\nThey said it was part of acknowledging Bristol's \"dark past\" and building \"a city where racism and inequality no longer exist\".\n\nFollowing the toppling of the statue, Colston's Girls School changed its name to Montpelier High School and the city's Colston Hall music venue is now known as the Bristol Beacon.\n\nA statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was placed on the empty plinth without permission in July and was removed shortly afterwards.", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Few people get as unique a take on the movement, mood and feelings of the public than the business owners that sit in its lay-bys.\n\nSince the start of lockdown they have juggled highs and lows.\n\nFrom supporting lorry drivers unable to stop at closed service stations to seeing their customers told to stay at home - and in turn not spend money with them.\n\nSome are now questioning their future and role in a workforce predicted to change its patterns and work from home more in the future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"Travelling nearly 300 miles for a piece of cosmetic plastic for your car is not essential at this time,\" said North Wales Police's Intercept team.\n\n\"The regulations have been broadcast far and wide. Please be mindful you will be reported if your journey is not essential.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nTen new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February. Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the seven hubs already in use. NHS England said the new centres would offer \"thousands\" of jabs a week. It comes as another 324,233 vaccine doses have been administered across the UK, taking the total above 3.5 million. Check when you will be eligible for a jab.\n\nA financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs. Aviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday. The aim is to provide grants before the end of this financial year, he said. Industry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules. Under the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nMore than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services today, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19. Many of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers. It has also been revealed that most mosques in London remained closed on Friday, meaning Muslims had to make alternative arrangements for Friday prayers. Despite current coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely. Places of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February. Remind yourself of the rules where you live for places of worship.\n\nChildren in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library. Internet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term. Formed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week. The aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged. The latest lockdown has seen schools in England close to all but children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has expressed his pride at the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh for stepping up and having their Covid-19 vaccinations. In a video call with frontline workers, Prince William spoke about his grandparents after being told medics have witnessed \"vaccine hesitancy\" among some communities during the jab rollout. He praised NHS staff behind the rollout of the vaccine, and described the programme as \"tremendous\", saying it didn't \"just happen\". Staff joked they had been \"thinking and dreaming\" of vaccines all day and night with some describing working seven-day weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video call, the Duke of Cambridge said the vaccination programme was \"tremendous\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd it's been almost a month since people in some parts of the UK were allowed to meet in Christmas \"bubbles\", so what impact did this have?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of NHS England reveals Covid-19 jabs are being done much faster than people are newly catching the virus\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated four times faster than new cases of the virus are being detected, NHS England's chief executive has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC that 140 people a minute were now being given the jab, usually the first dose of two.\n\nBut he said the NHS had never been in a more precarious position, with 75% more Covid patients than at the April peak.\n\nIt comes as a further 298,087 people received their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday.\n\nThere were also 671 more deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and another 38,598 positive tests.\n\nSir Simon told the Andrew Marr Show some hospitals would open for vaccinations 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a trial basis in the next 10 days.\n\nHe said England was on course to deliver 1.5 million doses this week. Scotland has delivered a total of more than 224,000 first doses, Wales has given over 126,000 and Northern Ireland nearly 118,000 - although Scotland and Wales do not report figures at the weekend.\n\nHalf of all over-80s have now been vaccinated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. \"Each jab brings us one step closer to normal,\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC that the UK was making \"good progress\" in ensuring every adult was offered a vaccine by September and \"if it can be done more swiftly, that's a bonus\".\n\nMore people have now been vaccinated than have had positive tests since the pandemic began, with 10 more mass vaccination sites due to open in England on Monday.\n\nSir Simon said hospitals and staff were under \"extreme pressure\", however. Asked if the NHS has ever been in a more precarious situation, he said \"no\", adding that the pandemic was a \"unique event\" in its 72-year history.\n\nSomeone was being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, Sir Simon said, and since Christmas patient numbers had risen by 15,000 - the equivalent of 30 full hospitals.\n\nIt means there are 75% more Covid-19 patients in hospital than there were in the April peak, the NHS chief executive said.\n\nAlthough there were promising signs infection rates were falling, he said they were still too high and rising in some areas and age groups, including the over-60s.\n\nHe said the number of critical care beds had been increased by 50% since the first wave of the pandemic but a \"very small number\" of patients were still having to be transferred between regions when hospitals were full.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary said there would be increased UK border checks next week\n\nAsked about the ratio of nurses to patients in London intensive care units, Sir Simon said there were sometimes three patients for every nurse rather than the one-to-one ratio normally expected. But patients were receiving the \"highest quality care possible\".\n\nAbout 53,000 NHS staff are currently off work due to the virus, he added.\n\nSir Simon said the health service would only be able to maintain the vaccination rate and \"hold the line if people continue to do the right thing and prevent the transmission of coronavirus\".\n\nVaccinating priority groups by the spring would not mean that \"with one bound we are free\" of coronavirus restrictions, he said. But he added: \"I don't think we will have to wait until the autumn.\"\n\nHe said he suspected that there would be enough supply of the vaccine - \"the crucial thing\" - to begin lifting restrictions before then.\n\nSir Simon also warned that although starting with the most vulnerable groups reduced the risk of deaths, a quarter of hospital patients with the virus were currently under 55 - and therefore not a priority unless they have a medical condition that puts them at additional risk.\n\nAsked about suggestions that some vaccination centres were having to throw away leftover doses, he said: \"The guidance from the chief medical officer is crystal clear: every last drop of vaccine should be used.\"\n\nMany centres were finding they were able to get six doses out of a five-dose vial, and Sir Simon said they should keep a reserve list of staff and high-risk patients who could be contacted to receive a vaccination at short notice.\n\nDr Rosie Shire from the Doctors' Association UK told the BBC that as well as sometimes getting six doses out of the five-dose Pfizer vials, they had also got 11 or 12 doses out of 10-dose AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut she said the uncertain dose count made it harder to know how many last-minute appointments to book in order to use up the supply.\n\nMr Raab said that he was not aware of any delays to supplies from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca and said he was \"confident we have the flexibility\" to deliver enough doses.\n\n\"It is an enormous challenge. We are meeting it,\" he said. \"But we take nothing for granted.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the risk that new variants could prove resistant to vaccines or more deadly meant the UK had to take the \"precautionary approach\" of requiring all travellers to quarantine on arrival from Monday, closing the travel corridors which previously been exempt.\n\n\"We don't want to find in two or three weeks time that our vaccine roll out is imperilled because we haven't taken the precautionary measures on travel corridors,\" he said.\n\nChecks by Border Force on the passenger locator forms filled out on arrival would be increased, Mr Raab said, as would the follow-up calls by Public Health England intended to ensure people were isolating for up to 10 days.\n\nAsked whether the UK would introduce quarantine hotels to ensure people maintained their isolation, he said all potential measures were under review but there was a challenge in the \"workability\" of the proposal.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in the city.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating.\n\nThe Catholic Church said the cause of his death was not yet clear.\n\nHe was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nA statement from the Archdiocese of Glasgow said: \"It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our Archbishop.\n\n\"The Pope's Ambassador to Great Britain, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, has been informed.\n\n\"It will be for Pope Francis to appoint a new Archbishop to succeed Archbishop Tartaglia, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.\"\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"His loss to his family, his clergy and the people of the Archdiocese of Glasgow will be immeasurable but for the entire Church in Scotland this is a day of immense loss and sadness.\n\n\"He was a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect.\n\n\"His contribution to the work of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland over the past 16 years was significant and we will miss his wisdom, wit and robust Catholic spirit very much.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had been self-isolating at home after contracting coronavirus\n\nThe statement concluded: \"On behalf of the Bishops of Scotland, we commend his soul into the hands of God and pray that he may enjoy eternal rest.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was a lifelong Celtic fan and the club tweeted their tribute to him: \"We are saddened to hear of the death of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who was a huge supporter of the club and regularly attended matches at Celtic Park.\n\n\"Everyone at Celtic offers their sincere condolences to Philip's family and Scotland's Catholic community at this sad time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the archbishop was \"a fine man who was much loved within the Catholic community and beyond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"I always valued my interactions with him and he will be greatly missed. My thoughts are with his loved ones and wider community. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Tragic news about the sudden passing of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia. My condolences to his friends and family.\n\n\"His death will be keenly felt within the Catholic Church and across the wider community.\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\" who \"knew its people and the challenges faced by ordinary citizens, regardless of their faith or beliefs\".\n\nCouncillor Susan Aitken added: \"He was also unafraid to use his position to challenge deprivation, austerity and the ill-effects of welfare reform when he believed it was his duty to call them out.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was born in Glasgow on 11 January 1951 - the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia.\n\nAfter attending St Thomas' Primary in Riddrie, he began his secondary education at St Mungo's Academy before moving to the national junior seminary at St Vincent's College, Langbank.\n\nHe later attended St Mary's College, at Blairs, Aberdeen, before completing his ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical Scots College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.\n\nOn returning to Scotland, he was an assistant and then parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald, St Patrick's, Dumbarton, and St Mary's, Duntocher.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was ordained by then Archbishop Thomas Winning in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun, on 30 June 1975.\n\nHe was a leading opponent of proposals to legalise same-sex marriage in Scotland and also criticised ministers over anti-bigotry legislation.\n\nThe Archdiocese of Glasgow is the largest of Scotland's eight dioceses with an estimated Catholic population of about 200,000. It comprises 95 parishes and is served by about 200 priests.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was the eighth person to hold the office since the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Scotland in 1878.\n\nHe followed Archbishop Mario Conti and Archbishop Thomas Winning, who later became Cardinal Winning.", "The player told police he had travelled from his home in Bedworth to hunt the characters\n\nA man has been fined for breaking lockdown rules after travelling 14 miles to play Pokemon Go.\n\nHe admitted to Warwickshire Police he had driven from his home in Bedworth to look for the characters in Kenilworth.\n\nHe was fined £200 for \"contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse\".\n\n\"Everyone has a part to play in ensuring they slow the spread of the virus,\" a police spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We would like to remind people they must not leave or be outside their home unless they have a reasonable excuse.\"\n\nPokemon Go is a Japanese augmented reality game for smartphones. First launched in 2016, it allows players to hunt for characters that \"appear\" in real-life places.\n\nIt has been downloaded around the world more than one billion times.", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court\n\nThe Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together, the BBC has learned.\n\nHashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh, south London, in May last year.\n\nAnother man who is awaiting sentencing for terror offences is also charged with assaulting the same person.\n\nThe three men are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 7 April.\n\nAbedi, who was jailed in August for murdering the 22 victims of the May 2017 Manchester Arena attack, is also charged with assaulting a second prison officer during the same incident on 11 May.\n\nHassan, from London, whose Parsons Green tube bomb injured 51 people in September 2017, was jailed for attempted murder the following year.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 22, from Manchester, is the third person charged. Last year, he admitted possessing terrorist documents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 400,000 people could be given the Covid-19 vaccine every week by the end of February, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has told MSPs.\n\nHealth teams are ramping up the rollout of jabs, with 1,100 vaccination centres now open and using two vaccines.\n\nMinisters aim to vaccinate care home residents, NHS staff and over-80s by the first week of February.\n\nThey then hope to have completed the over-70 group by mid-February and over-65 and vulnerable groups by March.\n\nThis would see 1.4m people given the jab, and Ms Freeman said the government's \"priority is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible\".\n\nHowever, the BMA Scottish GP Committee has warned the vaccine supply is \"stuttering\" and blamed \"bureaucratic hold-ups\" for delaying distribution.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, the health secretary said Scotland faces \"a more perilous situation than at any point in this pandemic\", with the new variant of coronavirus \"increasing in its dominance\" of infections north of the border.\n\nHowever Ms Freeman said there was hope in the form of the vaccination programme, which she said was \"scaling up rapidly\".\n\nA first dose of vaccine has now been given to just over 80% of care home residents and 55% of staff, along with 52% of frontline NHS staff.\n\nAnd in the eight days since 4 January, just over 2% of those aged 80 or over in the community have been given a first dose.\n\nMs Freeman said that age was \"the greatest risk factor for serious illness and death from Covid, and represents well over 90% of preventable mortality\".\n\nThe government is prioritising giving a first dose to as many people as possible, which Ms Freeman said provides \"very high protection\", with a second dose of the same vaccine then administered within 12 weeks.\n\nMs Freeman said that by the end of February, an average of 400,000 people should be getting a jab per week.\n\nJeane Freeman said the vaccine programme was \"scaling up rapidly\"\n\nThe government is also working to set up large vaccination centres in the community, which could handle up to 20,000 vaccinations a week in a single location.\n\nSites include the Event Complex conference centre in Aberdeen, Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, and Ms Freeman said work was ongoing to secure more centres in the Glasgow area in particular.\n\nA total of 4.5m adults in Scotland are in line to be vaccinated.\n\nMs Freeman said she was aware that people would \"want to know when it will be their turn\", saying a national advertising campaign would be established to \"inform the public\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron said it was \"clear not enough people are being vaccinated each day and timetables are slipping\".\n\nHe also asked Ms Freeman whether there were delays to the creation of a national booking system, after speculation that it could hold up the start of mass vaccinations.\n\nThe health secretary said she did not believe it was the case that timetables were slipping, and said there were no delays to the national booking system - adding that it would be \"ready from the beginning of February to do its job\".\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Labour's Monica Lennon asked how quickly the country could move to a 24 hours a day rollout of vaccines.\n\nMs Freeman said this was \"entirely possible\" once the mass vaccination centres are open, saying she \"would anticipate that would be by the end of February or early March\".\n\nShe said: \"The will is there to do that, if that is what it takes, because the objective is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.\"\n\nThe BMA Scottish GP Committee has said practices \"don't know when their next supply is coming in\".\n\nIts chairman, Dr Andrew Buist, told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme the Scottish government \"must do everything possible to ensure vaccine supply is as good as it can be\".\n\nHe said: \"I've spoken with the chief medical officer about this and emphasised we should remove any bureaucratic hold-up to the distribution of this vaccine.\n\n\"People are obviously very anxious to get it as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know what the priority groups are, we have the practices ready and running to give it to their patients. We just need to get the vaccine to them.\"\n• None All over-80s to be vaccinated by February", "More than six million glasses of pink prosecco were enjoyed by Lidl customers over the festive period as strict Covid rules prompted people to indulge.\n\nThe discount supermarket reported record total sales for the four weeks to 27 December with revenue up 18%.\n\nTakeaway firm Just Eat and online fashion retailer Asos have also reported stellar sales for the period.\n\nAll three benefited as restaurants and non-essential shops faced strict curbs or were forced to close.\n\nDemand was so strong, Lidl said it had shifted 7,000 glasses of mulled wine and almost 17,000 deluxe mince pies every hour in the run up to Christmas.\n\nIt also sold more than 2.7 million servings of panettone, the festive Italian cake.\n\nLidl continued to press ahead with its store expansion programme in the period, opening four new stores in December at a time when many businesses are closing down.\n\nBoss Christian Härtnagel said: \"Despite this Christmas being a difficult time for many across the country, we are pleased to have been able to help our customers enjoy themselves.\n\n\"As we look ahead to this year, we remain committed to our expansion and investment plans,\" he added.\n\nJust Eat said delivery orders in the UK surged 58% in the last three months of 2020 compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe takeaway firm, which operates around the world, said this had been its third consecutive quarter of growth, reflecting the huge demand for takeaway food as restaurants have faced curbs and closures.\n\nBoss Jitse Groen said the firm's progress in the UK was \"particularly exciting\" with demand up nearly five-fold in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nIts UK sales force has also doubled compared with last year.\n\nIt was a similar story for Asos, whose sales for the four months to 31 December rose 36% to £554.1m, something it credited in part to restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nThe fashion retailer, which also operates across Europe and the US, said its active customer base was now 24.5 million, up 1.1 million on the same period last year.\n\nRichard Lim, head of analysts Retail Economics, said: \"Lockdowns, fewer opportunities to mix socially and cancelled Christmas parties have decimated the demand for new outfits this year.\n\n\"But what consumers did spend was focused towards casual-wear and channelled online where the retailer was well position to leverage this opportunity.\"", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Plans have been announced to overhaul the mental health system - with the aim of making it less discriminatory towards black people.\n\nMinisters say changes to how people are sectioned in England and Wales will see them treated \"as individuals, with rights, preferences, and expertise\".\n\nBlack people are over four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act, relative to population.\n\nThe mental health charity Mind said the changes \"cannot come soon enough.\"\n\nPeople are detained under the mental health act - or sectioned - for their own safety, or the safety of others.\n\nHow long they are detained for varies - but once detained, they are immediately considered to be \"sectioned\".\n\nUse of the Mental Health Act has increased markedly - from 2005/6 to 2015/16, the number of people detained in hospital increased by 40%.\n\nNHS data for England shows there were at least 50,893 new detentions under the Mental Health Act in 2019/20 - but the overall total will be higher as not all providers submitted data.\n\nOf those detentions, 5,336 people were black or black British.\n\nThe data also shows that in 2019/20 there were 321 detentions per 100,000 population for people who were black or black British - while there were 73 detentions per 100,000 for white people.\n\nWith the act disproportionately used against black people, the reforms will see a Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework introduced across all NHS mental health trusts - which the government describes as a practical tool to improve the outcome for BAME communities.\n\nWhat ministers call \"culturally appropriate advocates\" will also be developed, so patients from all ethnic backgrounds can be supported.\n\n\"We need to bring mental health laws into the 21st Century,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"I want to ensure our health service works for all, yet the Mental Health Act is now 40 years old.\n\n\"This is a significant moment in how we support those with serious mental health issues, which will give people more autonomy over their care and will tackle disparities for all who access services - in particular for people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\"\n\nThe reforms will also ensure that autism or a learning disability cannot be a reason for detaining someone under the act.\n\nIn future, a clinician will have to identify another psychiatric condition to order their detention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like to be sectioned?\n\nThe current Mental Health Act dates from 1983 and the aim of these reforms, which are widely supported, is to give people greater say over their care and to rebalance the system between the state and the individual.\n\nAmong the recommendations are plans to introduce statutory advance choice documents which will allow people to express their preferred treatment before they reach a crisis and need hospitalisation.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of what is now a long overdue process,\" said Sophie Corlett, director of external relations at the mental health charity Mind.\n\n\"At the moment, thousands of people are still subjected to poor, sometimes appalling, treatment, and many will live with the consequences far into the future.\n\n\"Our understanding of mental health has moved on significantly in recent decades but our laws are rooted in the 19th Century.\"\n\nThe recommendations, set out in a government White Paper, build on the proposals from an independent review of the act, which was ordered by then prime minister Theresa May in October 2017 and which published its conclusions in December 2018.\n\nMinisters intend to publish a Mental Health Bill in 2022, following a consultation on their plans.", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "The numbers of care home residents and staff testing positive for Covid-19 have hit their highest levels.\n\nThere were 1,507 positive tests in care homes in Wales in the most recent week, a 78% rise on the week before.\n\nAcross Wales, 37,026 residents and staff were tested by either the NHS or the Lighthouse laboratories the week beginning 4 January, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nBroken down, 6,466 care home residents were tested in the most recent week and 582 (9%) were positive in results from NHS laboratories.\n\nAlso, 248 care home workers tested positive, with about 96% of tests negative.\n\nBut there were another 677 positive test results from Lighthouse labs, which do not distinguish between residents and care home staff.\n\nAll of these categories saw the highest numbers yet recorded.\n\nResidents and staff are supposed to be tested weekly at care homes in Wales.\n\nCare Home Inspectorate Wales also now publish separate figures around testing , which showed 137 care homes in Wales (13%) had notified one or more positive cases in staff or residents in the most recent week available and 31.8% within the last month.\n\nSwansea had 17 care homes which had notified at least one case in the week ending 1 January; Cardiff had 15 homes with at least one case and Bridgend was next with 13 care homes.", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "Tony Parsons was last seen on 29 September 2017\n\nPolice have discovered human remains during a search for a man who went missing more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.\n\nTony Parsons, from Tillicoultry, was last seen on 29 September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nDetectives said the discovery was made during a detailed search of a remote site close to a farm near the A82 at Bridge of Orchy.\n\nPolice said that Mr Parsons' family have been made aware of the discovery.\n\nEfforts to recover the remains will continue over the coming days before a post mortem is held to establish their identity.\n\nTwo men, both aged 29, were arrested and then released pending further inquiries in December in connection with the disappearance of Mr Parsons.\n\nPolice have been carrying out searches in the area in recent days\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Somerville said: \"This is clearly a significant development and extensive work is ongoing to recover the remains and confirm their identity.\n\n\"We have informed Mr Parsons' family, who are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in the investigation are with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr Parsons cycled through Glencoe village and was last seen at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel\n\nThe former navy officer, who was 63 when he went missing, was last seen outside the hotel at about 23:30. He then continued south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum but there were no more sightings of him after that.\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nMr Parsons had caught the train to Fort William on the day he was last seen with the intention of cycling the 104-mile (167km) journey home to Tillicoultry.", "Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows, Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe prime minister said the plan was to extend opening hours of vaccination centres - at the moment, most sites run from 08:00 to 22:00.\n\nThe 24-7 service will be piloted in a small number of places first - with NHS staff likely to be offered the option of overnight vaccinations first.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said supply was the limiting factor at the moment.\n\nThe NHS had just over a million doses available last week and used up most of them.\n\nThis week, there are thought to be more but not yet enough to vaccinate two million people - the weekly target the government is aiming to reach in the coming weeks.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said there would be 24-7 vaccination \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK has access to two vaccines at the moment - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and another produced in partnership by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine made by the US company Moderna has been approved but is not yet available to the UK.\n\nMr Johnson praised the work of the more than 200 hospitals and 1,000 GP-led NHS vaccination sites running at the moment.\n\n\"They are going exceptionally fast,\" he added.\n\nBy the end of Monday, 2.4 million people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nThere is actually enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all the highest at-risk groups.\n\nThe problem is that not all of it has been packaged into vials or passed through the final safety checks.\n\nThere should soon be two million doses available each week for the NHS to use.\n\nBut the key question once that is achieved is how quickly and by how much supply can increase from there.\n\nTo make full use of the network of vaccination centres - the ambition is to have 2,700 up and running - many millions of doses will be needed each week.\n\nThere is huge global demand for these vaccines.\n\nAnd while the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is made in the UK, the Pfizer-BioNTech one is made abroad as is the Moderna vaccine.\n\nSupplies of the latter are not expected until the spring.\n\nThis is an issue the government is likely to be grappling with for some time.\n\nBut despite the concerns, it should also be recognised the UK has been quick out of the blocks.\n\nOnly two countries have vaccinated a larger proportion of the population than the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was vital the government moved quickly.\n\nSpeaking about the planned 24-7 vaccination, he said: \"I obviously welcome that and urge the prime minister and the government to get on with this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi, the minister in charge of the vaccination programme, was also asked about supply, at an appearance before the Science and Technology Committee.\n\nHe said he had a \"clear line of sight\" for the expected numbers that would be available to the NHS for the next few months but refused to give any more detail.\n\n\"The more we show off about how many vaccine batches we're receiving, the more difficult life becomes for the manufacturers,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca vice president Sir Mene Pangalos said one of the issues the firm was facing was that infections among staff had begun to hinder production.\n\n\"I feel that it is critical that those who are working on vaccines are immunised because if you have an outbreak at one of the centres, which we've had actually or in one of the groups in Oxford that's working on new variants, or those working on the regulatory files everything stops.\"", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'Together we can make this the peak'\n\n\"We can make this the peak\" of the coronavirus pandemic \"if enough people follow the rules\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was \"those individual decisions\" that determine the virus's spread and it \"comes down to the behaviour of everyone\".\n\nPeople \"shouldn't take the mickey out of the rules,\" he said.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLatest figures show there are now more than 35,000 people in hospital with Covid - an increase on the spring peak.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to be questioned by MPs on the vaccine rollout later.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also due to announce whether there will be any changes to lockdown restrictions later. Ministers have been discussing the possibility of tightening the current restrictions.\n\nWhen asked on BBC Breakfast if this was the peak of this wave of the pandemic, Mr Hancock replied: \"I want it to be, but that comes down to the behaviour of everyone.\n\n\"Together we can make this the peak if enough people follow the rules which are incredibly clear.\"\n\nMr Hancock said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.\n\nOn the news that patients at a hospital in London are to be discharged early and sent to a hotel to help free up beds for critically ill coronavirus patients, Mr Hancock said moving patients to hotels \"isn't something we are actively putting in place\".\n\nKing's College Hospital said it would help to create space for the \"high numbers\" of new admissions and would \"temporarily accommodate mainly homeless patients who are ready to safely leave hospital and will benefit from further support from community partners\".\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nAsked about images of elite footballers celebrating goals with hugs, Mr Hancock said: \"I think elite sport is important because these are tough times, and being able to watch the football on the telly is really important because there's loads of things that you can't do.\"\n\nHe said the Premier League has \"special arrangements to ensure that players are safe\" as well as a testing regime.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will accelerate over the coming weeks, saying they were \"on track\" to deliver it to 14 million people by mid-February.\n\nVaccines deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi later told the Commons' science and technology committee that he was \"confident\" of achieving this target.\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have now had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose. Mr Hancock said 40% of the 3.4m people over 80 in England had been vaccinated so far.\n\n\"We have the capacity to get that vaccine out. The challenge is that we need to get the vaccine in,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"What I know is that the supply will increase over the next few weeks and that means the very rapid rate that we are going at at the moment will continue to accelerate over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said it was \"pretty clear\" that because of the new strain the Covid-19 infection rate was not going to go down as quickly as it did during the first wave.\n\n\"It now looks like the peak for NHS demand may actually be in February,\" he said.", "Morrisons will become the first UK supermarket to pay at least £10 an hour from April.\n\nIt will increase its minimum pay for up to 96,000 workers from £9.20.\n\nRetail trade union Usdaw negotiated the £10 per hour basic rate which is 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate.\n\nHowever, other big supermarkets appear unlikely to follow any time soon, with Asda saying that just looking at hourly rates does not tell the full story.\n\nMorrisons said for the majority of its workers the pay increase will be approximately 9%.\n\nPart of the increase will result from changing the company's annual bonus scheme from a discretionary yearly payment into a guaranteed amount in workers' hourly rates.\n\nIt will boost the weekly pay of someone working 36.75 hours a week from £330.10 to £367.50.\n\nUnion members still need to approve the deal. The result will be announced on 12 February and, if accepted, the new rates will be paid from 5 April 2021.\n\n\"The new consolidated hourly rate is now the leading rate of the major supermarkets,\" said Joanne McGuinness, Usdaw national officer after the Morrisons announcement.\n\n\"It's been a tough time for food retail staff who have worked throughout the pandemic in difficult circumstances,\" said Ms McGuinness.\n\n\"They provide the essential service of keeping the nation fed and deserve our support, respect and appreciation. Most of all they deserve decent pay and this offer is a welcome boost.\"\n\nIn addition to the hourly pay increase, Morrisons will pay a higher London weighting.\n\nRates for inner London will be 85p and for outer London 60p per hour, up from 75p in inner London and 50p in outer London.\n\nDavid Potts, Morrisons chief executive said: \"It's a symbolic and important milestone that represents another step in rewarding the incredibly important work that our colleagues do up and down the country.\"\n\nMorrisons' move propels it to the top of the supermarket pay league, leapfrogging Aldi and Lidl. Will other big rivals follow suit?\n\nSupermarket staff have become frontline heroes in this pandemic and there's a new-found respect for the vital work they do in keeping us fed day-in day-out.\n\nMany consumers may welcome the idea of higher rewards for those staff.\n\nBut supermarkets have already taken on a lot of extra costs in ramping up their operations as well as recruiting thousands of extra staff.\n\nAnd there are no shortage of workers looking for jobs right now, which could keep a lid on pay.\n\nLidl has already announced plans to increase its hourly wage for staff from March, increasing the rate for 20,000 workers from £9.30 to £9.50.\n\nWithin London's M25 motorway boundary the rate has increased from £10.75 to £10.85 an hour.\n\n\"It is only right that we increase the income for our colleagues who are the backbone of our business.,\" said chief executive Christian Härtnagel.\n\n\"This is about recognising their hard work and dedication in keeping the nation fed during a year like no other.\n\nAsda, which pays £9.18 outside London and either £9.76 or £10.31 inside the capital, pointed out that it pays above National Living Wage rules and never employs on 'zero hours' contracts.\n\nAn Asda statement said: \"On top of a competitive wage structure, Asda colleagues also receive a host of benefits which contribute to their yearly earnings, these including colleague discount in our stores and online, special discounts for shops and a yearly performance-based bonus.\n\n\"So simply looking at the hourly rate doesn't tell the full story.\"\n\nSainsbury's basic hourly pay is £9.30, and a statement to the BBC made no mention of any immediate intention to raise the rate.\n\nA spokesperson said, \"Our colleagues do a brilliant job and we are so proud of how they continue to go above and beyond for our customers.\n\n\"We have made two thank you payments to frontline workers in recognition of this in the last year and regularly review colleague pay to make sure we offer leading rates.\"\n\nA Waitrose spokesperson said: \"Our hourly minimum starting pay across the UK for non-management Partners in Waitrose is currently £9.10 following a short induction period, with scope for higher pay according to performance.\n\n\"We review Partner pay annually each April and will do so again this year.\"\n\nM&S said their minimum pay for workers is £9.00 an hour, but pointed out that those that worked during the pandemic last April and May were handed a 15% pay reward on top of the rate.\n\nLatest available data suggests Aldi currently pays £9.40 an hour, Tesco £9.30 and Co-op £9.", "As Scotland's hospitals fill with Covid patients and the daily-registered death toll passes 5,000, there are concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact it did during last year's lockdown.\n\nSome of the restrictions announced by Nicola Sturgeon in early January have now been tightened even further.\n\nHow do Scotland's current lockdown rules compare to those imposed last March?\n\nLast March outdoor exercise was allowed only if people were alone or with someone from the same household. It was initially limited to once a day, before this restriction was eased in May 2020.\n\nAll exercise had to be done close to home. No mixing with other households or other any outdoor relaxation was allowed.\n\nNow up to two people from separate households can meet for outdoor sport or exercise. Children under 12 years old do not count towards this number.\n\nThere is no limit on how many times you can go out to exercise each day, but you should still stay close to home and avoid crowded areas.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's clinical director, says police enforcement is used as \"last resort\" against people who break the rules.\n\nThese rules are not expected to change in Scotland. However, the UK government has warned that exercise restrictions may be tightened after \"large groups\" have flouted their own two-person rule.\n\nLast March non-essential shops were ordered to shut along with cafes, bars, restaurants and cinemas. Supermarkets and pharmacies were among premises which could stay open.\n\nIn July a new law made it compulsory to wear a face covering in shops across Scotland.\n\nAll pubs, restaurants and cafes must remain closed in Scotland's level four areas - although they can still serve takeaway food. The definition of \"essential retail\" has also been narrowed, forcing homeware shops and garden centres to close once again.\n\nRules on click and collect will be tightened from 16 January. The service will be limited to retailers selling essential items and access inside premises for collection will not be allowed.\n\nTakeaway customers will also no longer be allowed inside premises for pick-up from 16 January. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nSchools and nurseries were closed last March, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying there were too many absent staff to continue.\n\nMany teachers prepared homeworking packs and some online learning. Parents and pupils had to get used to home schooling.\n\nChildren of essential workers and vulnerable pupils were looked after by staff in childcare hubs.\n\nSchools began the January 2021 term largely via online and remote learning.\n\nAs before, only children of key workers and vulnerable children are allowed in classrooms - but this time there is more focus on learning than simply child care.\n\nThe number of pupils attending school is much higher than last year.\n\nProf Leitch suggests this may be because Scotland has \"too much open\" in the rest of society with working adults in greater need of childcare. He said a \"sweet spot\" needs to be found to keep children and adults safe.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes pupils can return to the classroom in February, but this plan is to be kept under review.\n\nSee where coronavirus case rates have been rising in Scotland with this interactive map.\n\nPeople were told to stay at home except for essential shopping for food or medicine, going out for their daily exercise, or to care for the vulnerable.\n\nEmployers were asked to make provisions for staff to work from home. Wearing of face coverings on public transport was not initially required, but became mandatory in Scotland in June.\n\nIt is a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes. A \"reasonable excuse\" can include essential shopping, exercise or caring responsibilities.\n\nPeople should only go out to work if it absolutely cannot be done from home. It is illegal to travel between Scotland and other parts of the UK unless the journey is essential.\n\nThere are no expectations of enhanced travel restrictions, as the rules are already \"pretty tight\" says Prof Leitch.\n\n\"We have a stay at home law, it is illegal to fly overseas, it is illegal to travel, it is illegal to leave your home without a reason to do so,\" he added.\n\nThe latest contact tracing figures from Public Health Scotland show that since November, shops have accounted for 19% of the places visited by people the week before their positive test.\n\nWhile these figures don't tell us whether people contracted the virus in a specific location, they do suggest the most likely sources.\n\nThe number of cases traced to shopping-related locations increased by 83% between 27 December and 3 January.\n\nOther large increases were seen when:\n\nIn March \"essential\" was the key word for all employers. Businesses were told they could only stay open if what they do was \"essential\" to the effort of tackling Covid or the wellbeing of society.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said building sites should close unless they involved work on an \"essential building\" such as a hospital. Visits from tradespeople were allowed only for \"essential repairs\".\n\nOutdoor workplaces, construction, manufacturing, veterinary services and film and TV production can remain open. Employers have been told to plan for the minimum number of people needed on site to operate safely and effectively.\n\nHome visits by tradespeople are still allowed for essential maintenance. This guidance is being put into law from 16 January.\n\nProf Leitch says the Scottish government continues to examine rules around what constitutes essential and non-essential construction.", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "Sally told the BBC she is still waiting for her P45 despite handing in her notice in November\n\nHairdresser Sally had a surprise when she looked at her tax record with HM Revenue and Customs: \"It said I'd still been getting furlough pay from a job I left in November.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money: \"That was a revelation - none of it had landed in my bank account.\"\n\nHers is among more than 21,000 reports of suspected furlough fraud currently being handled by HMRC.\n\nThe money is either due to fraudulent claims, or is being paid out in error.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, commonly called the furlough scheme was launched in March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus crisis, to minimise unemployment. Under the scheme, the government pays 80% of employees' wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe number of tip offs to the taxman has spiralled since last April, from 3,000 to 21,378 reports of suspect payments by early January.\n\nSally's former employer told the BBC she did not know Sally had resigned\n\nAt the peak of its use in early May, the scheme was supporting 8.9 million jobs.\n\nIt was extended in January until the end of April 2021 and now also applies to those who are unable to work due to caring responsibilities, or because they are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe scheme has been widely supported for its role in supporting employers and jobs during the pandemic, but it has been found to be open to abuse.\n\nTax lawyer Anita Clifford said at the 'extreme end' of furlough fraud were 'dormant companies being resurrected' and 'fake employees'\n\nSally believes her former employer broke the rules after she resigned from the salon last year.\n\nShe told the BBC she sent her resignation letter and returned her uniform to her employer in the post in November, but \"heard nothing back\". A client later contacted her asking if she was OK, as they had heard she was off work, \"sick\".\n\nSally started to get her paperwork together to register as self-employed but when she opened her online HMRC account, she noticed she was registered as receiving payments equivalent to those she was getting while on furlough - although the money was not reaching her account.\n\nShe left it a couple of weeks in case her resignation was taking a few weeks to be processed.\n\nTo date, Sally has still has not received a P45, and says she is still registered as being paid through the furlough scheme.\n\nHMRC has called on anyone concerned about suspected abuse of the team to get in touch with the department\n\n\"In the middle of the pandemic, where people are losing homes because they can't get any help, I think it's quite sickening,\" she said.\n\n\"It's wrong, and it makes a mockery of all those people who are suffering.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Sally's former employer, who has denied the claims, saying she did not know that Sally had resigned, and had struggled to get in touch with her.\n\nTax barrister, Anita Clifford, from the firm Bright Line Law, said Sally's experience was \"a classic example\".\n\n\"Whether it's a mistake, or whether some actors are doing it deliberately, continuing furlough payments for former employees is a classic way of defrauding the system.\"\n\nHMRC has previously stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud.\n\nMs Clifford told the BBC that she was seeing businesses coming forward, \"worried about the mistakes that they've made\".\n\nBut she added examples of furlough fraud could be more extreme, where some businesses \"are seeking to claim money for completely fake employees\".\n\n\"In time to come, we'll certainly see enforcement activity, and people very worried about being on the receiving end of a criminal prosecution for some of these things.\n\n\"Certainly where you have dormant companies being resurrected, in order to claim money from the furlough scheme, you have fake employees... businesses being quite unscrupulous, you're not using the funds to pay salaries, I think those are the businesses you'll eventually see being looked at very seriously for criminal prosecution,\" she said.\n\nHMRC told the BBC: \"The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is part of the collective national effort to protect jobs. This is taxpayers' money and fraudulent claims limit our ability to support people and deprive public services of essential funding.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities\n• None What happens when furlough ends?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in Glasgow.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said that Archbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating at home.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet clear.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia, who was 70, was ordained a priest in 1975 and served as Archbishop of Glasgow since 2012.\n\nThe spokeswoman said it would be for Pope Francis to appoint a new archbishop, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.", "Senior Conservatives have called for a \"reset\" in UK policy towards China, including sanctions against officials responsible for human rights abuses.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission demanded a rethink in relations after hearing evidence of abuses from torture to slavery.\n\nIt urged the UK to work with allies to respond to China's behaviour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the UK plays a \"leading role\" in highlighting abuses.\n\nThe Commission made the recommendations in a new report endorsed by two former Conservative foreign secretaries, Lord Hague and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.\n\nIt adds to growing internal pressure on the government from Conservative circles to harden its line on China.\n\nThe Commission says it has heard first-hand evidence of human rights violations in China from dissidents, lawyers, and human rights campaigners.\n\nThis included violations of media freedom, clampdowns on Uighur Muslims, modern day slavery, and the establishment of an \"Orwellian surveillance state,\" it added.\n\nThe group said this showed the need for a \"comprehensive review\" of China policy across UK government departments.\n\nIt also called for the UK to diversify its supply chains to reduce \"strategic dependency\" on China and further efforts to highlight rights issues at the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab announced fines on Tuesday for UK firms doing business in China if they cannot show that their products aren't linked to forced labour in the country's Xinjiang region.\n\nIn December, the BBC revealed new evidence that China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the cotton fields of Xinjiang.\n\nMPs and peers are separately pushing for new laws to block trade deals with countries found guilty of genocide, something which for now the government is resisting.\n\nMr Raab told MPs the idea was \"well-meaning\" but it would be wrong to \"sub-contract\" the issue of when to break off trade talks to the courts.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission, established in 2005, aims to highlight human rights concerns and keep the issue high on the party's agenda.", "David (right) and Frederick Barclay receiving their knighthoods in 2000\n\nSir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died at the age of 86.\n\nSir David, together with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail and media.\n\nHis death was announced in the Telegraph, which reported that he died on Sunday after a short illness.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, a former columnist for the paper, paid tribute to Sir David.\n\n\"Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe Barclay brothers, who had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List, were known for being media shy and rarely gave interviews.\n\nBorn in Hammersmith, west London, in 1934, Sir David was profoundly shaped by his childhood memories of war, and the death of his father when he was 12.\n\nHe and his twin Frederick - who was 10 minutes younger - started out as painters and decorators, before moving into property and eventually hotels.\n\nTheir success in property and hotels helped them take over Ellerman Lines, a shipping business with interests in brewing, in 1983.\n\nThis provided a launch pad from which they would become billionaires.\n\nAt various times, their hotel portfolio has included a number of trophy assets, including the Ritz Hotel in London, which they sold in March last year.\n\nIn 2012, the BBC’s Panorama reported that the Ritz had not paid any corporation tax since it had been taken over by the Barclays in 1995.\n\nAt the time, Sir David said they had “acted in a responsible way with regard to taxation and have never been involved in any tax avoidance scheme.”\n\nIn 2015, the twins sold off the hospitality group Maybourne, which included luxury hotels like Claridges.\n\nThe brothers first ventured into media ownership with their 1992 purchase of The European, a pan-European newspaper that shut down in 1998.\n\nThey also bought The Scotsman in 1995 and Sunday Business in 1997.\n\n“After these ventures in the publishing arena, the brothers had nurtured since the 1980s an ambition to own the Telegraph group,” The Telegraph said.\n\nThey acquired the Telegraph Group in 2004 for £665m from Canadian media magnate Conrad Black's Hollinger group.\n\nThe brothers also had a number of forays into retail, including Shop Direct, fashion retailer Very and delivery firm Yodel.\n\nThe pair were knighted in 2000 for services to charity. By this point their foundation was thought to have donated about £40m to charity and medical research.\n\nThe notoriously private twins' relationship was the subject of an extraordinary legal case last year, in which Sir David's three sons were accused by his brother of bugging conversations at the Ritz Hotel, which they previously owned.\n\nIn its obituary the Telegraph said Sir David had been a voracious reader, obsessed with newspapers, business, economics and politics, and had always said he had been educated at the \"university of life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "A Huawei patent has been brought to light for a system that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nThe filing is one of several of its kind involving leading Chinese technology companies, discovered by a US research company and shared with BBC News.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technologies was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nIt now plans to alter the patent.\n\nThe company indicated this would involve asking the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) - the country's patent authority - for permission to delete the reference to Uighurs in the Chinese-language document.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUighur people belong to a mostly Muslim ethnic group that lives mainly in Xinjiang province, in north-western China.\n\nGovernment authorities are accused of using high-tech surveillance against them and detaining many in forced-labour camps, where children are sometimes separated from their parents.\n\nBeijing says the camps offer voluntary education and training.\n\nChina's technology companies deny selling software that can be used to pick out Uighur people from the rest of the population by their appearance\n\n\"One technical requirement of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's video-surveillance networks is the detection of ethnicity - particularly of Uighurs,\" said Maya Wang, from Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"While in the rest of the world, such targeting and persecution of a people on the basis of their ethnicity would be completely unacceptable, the persecution and severe discrimination of Uighurs in many aspects of life in China remain unchallenged because Uighurs have no power in China.\"\n\nHuawei's patent was originally filed in July 2018, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences .\n\nIt describes ways to use deep-learning artificial-intelligence techniques to identify various features of pedestrians photographed or filmed in the street.\n\nIt focuses on addressing the fact different body postures - for example whether someone is sitting or standing - can affect accuracy.\n\nBut the document also lists attributes by which a person might be targeted, which it says can include \"race (Han [China's biggest ethnic group], Uighur)\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News visited the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\", in 2019\n\nA spokesman said this reference should not have been included.\n\n\"Huawei opposes discrimination of all types, including the use of technology to carry out ethnic discrimination,\" he said.\n\n\"Identifying individuals' race was never part of the research-and-development project.\n\n\"It should never have become part of the application.\n\n\"And we are taking proactive steps to amend it.\n\n\"We are continuously working to ensure new and evolving technology is developed and applied with the utmost care and integrity.\"\n\nThe patent was brought to light by the video-surveillance research group IPVM.\n\nIt had previously flagged a separate \"confidential\" document on Huawei's website, referencing work on a \"Uighur alert\" system.\n\nIn that case, Huawei said the page referenced a test rather than a real-world application and denied selling systems that identified people by their ethnicity.\n\nOn Wednesday, Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee and leads the Conservative Party's China Research Group, told BBC News: \"Chinese tech giants supporting the brutal assault on the Uighur population show us why we as consumers and as a society must be careful with who we buy our products from or award business to.\n\n\"Developing ethnic-labelling technology for use by a repressive regime is clearly not behaviour that lives up to our standards.\"\n\nIPVM also discovered references to Uighur people in patents filed by the Chinese artificial-intelligence company Sensetime and image-recognition specialist Megvii.\n\nSensetime's filing, from July 2019, discusses ways facial-recognition software could be used for more efficient \"security protection\", such as searching for \"a middle-aged Uighur with sunglasses and a beard\" or a Uighur person wearing a mask.\n\nA Sensetime spokeswoman said the references were \"regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand the importance of our responsibilities, which is why we began to develop our AI Code of Ethics in mid-2019,\" she said, adding the patent had predated this code.\n\nMegvii's June 2019 patent, meanwhile, described a way of relabelling pictures of faces tagged incorrectly in a database.\n\nLike Huawei, Megvii now plans to withdraw the original version of its patent\n\nIt said the classifications could be based on ethnicity, for example, including \"Han, Uighur, non-Han, non-Uighur and unknown\".\n\nThe company told BBC News it would now withdraw the patent application.\n\n\"Megvii recognises that the language used in our 2019 patent application is open to misunderstanding,\" it said.\n\n\"Megvii has not developed and will not develop or sell racial- or ethnic-labelling solutions.\n\n\"Megvii acknowledges that, in the past, we have focused on our commercial development and lacked appropriate control of our marketing, sales, and operations materials.\n\n\"We are undertaking measures to correct the situation.\"\n\nIPVM also flagged image-recognition patents filed by two of China's biggest technology conglomerates, Alibaba and Baidu, that referenced classifying people by ethnicity but did not specifically mention the Uighur people by name.\n\nAlibaba responded: \"Racial or ethnic discrimination or profiling in any form violates our policies and values.\n\n\"We never intended our technology to be used for and will not permit it to be used for targeting specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nProtests have been held across the world to highlight China's treatment of Uighur people\n\nAnd Baidu said: \"When filing for a patent, the document notes are meant as an example of a technical explanation, in this case describing what the attribute-recognition model is rather than representing the expected implementation of the invention.\n\n\"We do not and will not permit our technology to be used to identify or target specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nBut Human Rights Watch said it still had concerns.\n\n\"Any company that sells video-surveillance software and systems to the Chinese police would have to ensure that they meet the police's requirements, which includes the capacity for ethnicity detection,\" Ms Wang said.\n\n\"The right thing for these companies to do is to immediately cease their sale and maintenance of surveillance equipment, software and systems, to the Chinese police.\"", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said that “the lockdown measures we had in place, combined with tier four measures, are starting to show some signs of effect.”\n\nLooking at cases of Covid-19 in England, the average for the week ending 1 January was almost 55,000 cases.\n\nThese people will have been infected before England’s lockdown came in on January 6, although much of the country was under very strict measures before then.\n\nSo, using publicly available data, it might be too early to make this assessment.\n\nAnd in the past month, we’ve seen that a couple of days of decline can quickly be followed by a sustained increase in cases.\n\nBut what is clear is that hospital admissions from coronavirus appear to be increasing (they usually peak up to a couple of weeks after high numbers of cases).\n\nThe latest seven day average (ending on January 7) saw 3,705 people admitted to hospital daily in England – that’s the highest throughout the entire pandemic.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up\n\nA coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers.\n\nIt shows the vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nThe Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up.\n\nBrazil has been one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nSinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.\n\nSeveral countries, including Indonesia, Turkey and Singapore, have placed orders for the vaccine.\n\nLast week researchers at the Butantan Institute, which has been conducting the trials in Brazil, announced that the vaccine had a 78% efficacy against \"mild-to-severe\" Covid-19 cases.\n\nBut on Tuesday they revealed that calculations for this figure did not include data from a group of \"very mild infections\" among those who received the vaccine that did not require clinical assistance.\n\nWith the inclusion of this data, the efficacy rate is now 50.4%, said researchers.\n\nBut Butantan stressed that the vaccine is 78% effective in preventing mild cases that needed treatment and 100% effective in staving off moderate to serious cases.\n\nThe Sinovac trials have yielded different results across different countries.\n\nLast month Turkish researchers said the Sinovac vaccine was 91.25% effective, while Indonesia, which rolled out its mass vaccination programme on Wednesday, said it was 65.3% effective. Both were interim results from late-stage trials.\n\nThe latest figures for China's coronavirus vaccine show just how difficult it is to compare vaccines.\n\nOn the face of it, the 50% effectiveness figure isn't as good as Oxford's 70% or Pfizer and Moderna's 95%. But trials are run very differently in different countries - the numbers of volunteers enrolled varies wildly, as do the criteria used to test how much protection the vaccines offer.\n\nA figure for efficacy is reached by looking at how many people developed Covid after being given the vaccine, compared with how many were affected when given a dummy injection. Normally, that is based on people developing obvious symptoms but in this Brazilian trial, people with no symptoms also appear to have been included.\n\nSo it's only when the full data from all trials of this vaccine are published that scientists can analyse its real efficacy, and compare like with like. Only limited data for this Sinovac vaccine is currently available - and experts say that is confusing the picture.\n\nIn the long term, many vaccines against Covid are needed to vaccinate the world and, inevitably, some will perform better than others - but giving as many people as possible some protection is the priority.\n\nThere has been concern and criticism that Chinese vaccine trials are not subject to the same scrutiny and levels of transparency as its Western counterparts.\n\nBoth the Sinovac vaccine and the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have requests for emergency use authorisation pending with regulators in Brazil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe latest news comes as Brazil is dealing with a major spike in cases. The country currently has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world at over 8.1 million, just behind the US and India.\n\nThe BBC World Service's Americas editor Candace Piette says the country is suffering one of the world's deadliest outbreaks but as yet, has not announced when its vaccination programme will begin.\n\nThe delay has been caused in large part by the government's haphazard and divided approach to vaccination, says our correspondent.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "Customs operators have pleaded with the government to prioritise vaccinations for staff they insist are key front-line workers in the effort to keep vital supplies flowing into the UK.\n\nOne operator told the BBC his staff were working flat out - often up to 16 hours a day - to help traders comply with the new post-Brexit customs requirements.\n\n\"A Covid outbreak would be disastrous. Customs clearance staff should be identified as key workers and fast-tracked for vaccination.\"\n\nAnother said he had written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and his local MP for Ashford, Damian Green saying any coronavirus-related staff shortages could force them to close.\n\n\"We have 14 staff. Two have already had to self-isolate, if we lose any more we would have to consider closing\".\n\nRod McKenzie of the Road Haulage Association supports the argument to accelerate vaccinations of port and customs staff.\n\n\"Customs agents are absolutely swamped, they are understaffed by tens of thousands and although volumes have been light thanks to pre-Christmas and pre-Brexit stockpiling, we are approaching a critical point:\"\n\nSteve Cock of logistics firm KGH said that volume would begin to build this week and described Friday as \"a moment of truth\" as volumes would be close to normal, imposing the first serious test of the system's capacity.\n\nThe government told the BBC that vaccination priorities were based on clinical vulnerability determined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAlthough the government said it would be looking at key workers beyond the current priorities - like teachers - that would not come till after phase 1 of the current programme ends. That is not expected till late March at the earliest.\n\nAlthough the ports themselves have been running reasonably smoothly, that is because many traders aren't getting as far as the ports as their documentation is not complete.\n\nThe Dover-Calais crossing last week saw only 40% of its usual traffic for this time of year. Many foreign hauliers have been avoiding the UK for fear of getting stuck on the wrong side of the channel or raising their prices by as much as six times to compensate for the additional risks of congestion.\n\nCracks in the system have already started to show with large European delivery firm DPD cancelling road deliveries from the UK to the EU while Ocado, M&S, and Fortnum and Mason have cited problems delivering to customers in the EU and Northern Ireland.\n\nFish and seafood exports have been particularly hard hit.\n\nMany small traders who usually club together to share the cost of space on large lorries headed to their primary markets in the EU have hit serious roadblocks.\n\nProducts of animal origin now need Export Health Certificates signed off by veterinary professionals.\n\nThe burden of getting multiple certificates for single lorries has brought exports to the EU to a virtual standstill for some traders.\n\nThe focus in the UK is understandably primarily on food supplies into the UK and although there are some limited shortages being reported in fruit and vegetable supplies, shelves in the UK are showing very few gaps.\n\nThe problems are more acute in Northern Ireland, which for the purposes of trade is still part of the EU customs area. For that reason, what is happening to food exports from GB to Northern Ireland is perhaps a useful proxy for what is happening to UK food exports to the EU.\n\nThe last thing the UK-EU trade machinery can afford right now is for critical staff - caught in the crossfire of pandemic and Brexit - to be laid low.", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The minimum cost of carrier bags in Scotland is set to double to 10p from 1 April.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is important to increase the charge periodically to encourage the use of reusable options instead.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the move was to deter the use of single-use plastic bags.\n\nThe 5p charge was introduced in 2014, with plastic bag usage dropping by 80% by the following year.\n\nMs Cunningham said: \"Thanks to the people of Scotland, the introduction of the charge has been successful in reducing the amount of single-use carrier bags in circulation.\n\n\"While the 5p bag charge was suitable when it was first introduced, it is important that pricing is updated to ensure that the charge continues to be a factor in making people think twice about using a single-use carrier bag.\"\n\nSome retailers have pledged to donate their carrier bag charges to good causes, with £2.5m raised in 2019.\n\nPrior to the charge being introduced in 2014, 800 million single use carrier bags were issued annually in Scotland.\n\nBy 2015 this fell by 80% with the Marine Conservation Society noting in 2016 that the number of plastic carrier bags being found on Scotland's beaches dropped by 40% two years in a row with a further drop of 42% recorded between 2018 and 2019.\n\nKeep Scotland Beautiful chief executive Barry Fisher said: \"Since 2014 the single use carrier bag charge has significantly helped reduce the number of bags being given out by retailers - saving thousands of tonnes of single use plastic realising a significant net carbon saving and reducing the chances of these items becoming littered.\n\n\"However, there is still an opportunity to challenge individual behaviours and improve consumer awareness which the doubling of the charge will help do.\n\nDue to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish government is looking into creating an exemption on the bag charge for certain deliveries and collections, as was the case last year at the onset of the pubic health crisis.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. 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This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir David will appear in \"very high-resolution holographic video\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to front an augmented reality app letting users see exotic plants and animals in their own surroundings, as part of a government drive to prove the uses of 5G.\n\nThe Green Planet AR app has been given £2.3m government funding as one of nine 5G test projects given a total of £28m.\n\nIt will be released alongside The Green Planet, Sir David's forthcoming BBC series that will show plants in detail.\n\nThe five-part documentary series is expected to be broadcast in 2022.\n\nAugmented reality superimposes virtual objects on to the world around us, meaning the app's users will be able to use their smartphones to see Sir David and \"meticulously detailed graphics of exotic plants and animals\" as if they were in front of them.\n\nThe app will help prove \"how new technology can reconnect us with the natural world whilst demonstrating the power of 5G to a huge new audience\", according to Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman.\n\nThe app will be available in \"set locations\" around the UK. Developer Factory 42 said it does not yet know how many locations, but they could include parks, visitor attractions like Kew Gardens and urban settings. Users will need a 5G-enabled device.\n\nThe other projects sharing the £28m funding include one to provide live, multi-angle HD video streams and replays on phones at sporting events; one to allow people to experience exhibits at The Eden Project in Cornwall from their own homes; and one to control the 113 cranes at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.\n\nThey follow nine other 5G trial projects that were awarded a total of £35m in February 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nA-level, AS and GCSE students in England could be asked to sit mini external exams to help teachers with their assessments after formal exams were cancelled last week.\n\nIn a letter to the exams regulator, Ofqual, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".\n\nHe promised not to use an algorithm which led to controversy last summer.\n\nHead teachers said the \"devil was in the detail\" for these plans.\n\nThe letter was published on Wednesday morning, as Mr Williamson appeared before the education select committee to answer questions on the impact of Covid-19 on education.\n\nIn the letter to Ofqual he said: \"A breadth of evidence should inform teachers' judgments, and the provision of training and guidance will support teachers to reach their assessment of a student's deserved grade.\n\n\"In addition, I would like to explore the possibility of providing externally set tasks or papers, in order that teachers can draw on this resource to support their assessments of students.\"\n\nMr Williamson's pledge not to use an algorithm to determine grades comes after thousands of A-level students had their results downgraded from school estimates last summer - before Ofqual announced a U-turn allowing them to use teachers' predictions.\n\n\"We have agreed that we will not use an algorithm to set or automatically standardise anyone's grade,\" the letter says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"The top priority is for all those that work in schools\"\n\n\"Schools and colleges should undertake quality assurance of their teachers' assessments and provide reassurance to the exam boards. We should provide training and guidance to support that, and there should also be external checks in place to support fairness and consistency between different institutions and to avoid schools and colleges proposing anomalous grades.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Changes should only be made if those grades cannot be justified, rather than as a result of marginal differences of opinion.\n\n\"Any changes should be based on human decisions, not by an automatic process or algorithm.\"\n\nA consultation on plans for this year is being launched later this week.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the letter set out \"broad and sensible parameters\" for assessing GCSEs and A-levels after exams were cancelled.\n\n\"But, as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this is turned into reality,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nHe welcomed confirmation that no algorithm would be applied this year \"following last summer's grading debacle.\"\n\nBut he questioned how any system of externally set assessment would work and how it could ensures fairness for students whose education had been heavily disrupted.\n\n\"It is vital that the final plans not only provide fairness and consistency but that they are also workable for schools, colleges and teaching staff who will have to put them into practice,\" he added.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: \"Had the government listened to the NEU and put in place a contingency plan sooner we would be in a better position now to make sure grades could be awarded reliably and without creating severe workload issues for education staff and students.\n\nShe said the union would continue to work with the Dfe and Ofqual, but they needed to see the full details of the plans as soon as possible to ensure grades are fair and the process is manageable for staff.\n\nTaking questions from MPs on the education select committee, Mr Williamson said he wanted to see schools re-opening at the earliest opportunity and that he would \"never apologise for being the biggest champion for keeping schools open\".\n\nHe said attendance rates of vulnerable and key worker pupils in schools since the start of term were higher than in the first lockdown.", "The prime minister has said lockdown measures are \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but he has refused to rule out extra restrictions in England.\n\nAt PMQs, Boris Johnson said measures were kept under \"constant review\" after Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said it was obvious more restrictions were needed.\n\nMr Johnson added that vaccine centres would move to 24-7 \"as soon as we can\".\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity in hospitals being \"overtopped\", and appealed to people to follow lockdown rules.\n\nHe said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced new restrictions in Scotland from Saturday, including limiting click and collect services to essential items only and restricting takeaways.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said stronger restrictions were needed in England and accused Mr Johnson of being \"slow to act\".\n\nHe asked the prime minister why restrictions were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the government acted \"within 24 hours\" of advice on the new Covid-19 variant\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\n\n\"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect and we must take account of that too.\"\n\nHe added it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nQuestioned by the liaison committee on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was \"far, far too early\" to say there could be any relaxation of the lockdown in the middle of February, and \"we've got to work very hard to achieve that\".\n\nHe acknowledged that it was a \"tragedy\" that so many children were missing face-to-face teaching at school and said reopening schools was \"the priority\".\n\nTier four - the highest level in England's tier system which bans households mixing indoors - was introduced on 21 December in parts of south-east England, including London.\n\nIt was then widened to include more of southern England on Boxing Day. England has been in a national lockdown since 5 January.\n\nMr Johnson also said the vaccination programme was going \"exceptionally fast\" but \"at the moment the limit is on supply\" of the vaccine.\n\n\"We will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can,\" he told MPs, saying Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details \"in due course\".\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said it was \"entirely possible\" to offer round-the-clock vaccinations in Scotland once mass sites were up and running by late February or early March.\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible, it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock questioned whether there would be demand for a round-the-clock vaccination operation, saying: \"Most people want to get vaccinated in the daytime, and also most people who are doing the vaccinations want to give them in the daytime, but there may be circumstances in which that would help.\"\n\nHe said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first Covid patients have begun receiving a new treatment it's hoped will prevent sufferers becoming seriously ill. The patients are part of a large-scale trial testing the effect of inhaling a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection. Developed at Southampton University Hospital and produced by biotech company, Synairgen, early findings suggest the treatment cuts the odds of severe illness by almost 80%. Find out more here.\n\nKaye Flitney is one of those enrolled on the clinical trial\n\nMany hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic have been left struggling to cope, a new study suggests. Researchers at King's College London questioned 709 workers at nine units in England and nearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking. Lead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said it should be a \"wake-up call\" for managers about the need to provide more mental health support. Some staff are they're also facing abuse online and at protests from Covid sceptics and anti-lockdown activists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford says caterers must urgently improve the quality of food parcels being provided for low-income families. Catering company Chartwells has apologised after photographs of some parcels were shared online and heavily criticised. The packages - more on them here - are being sent to children who would normally receive free school meals in England. The row could well come up when Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces MPs' questioning later. Our education correspondent looks closely at Mr Williamson - a man whose political obituary has been written so many times he must sometimes feel like the walking dead.\n\nTwitter user Roadside Mum complained about the parcel she received\n\nNurse Kate Fraser said administering the vaccination to Ms Curry had been \"emotional\"\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Britain's top police officer, Dame Cressida Dick, says it's \"preposterous\" to suggest some people are not aware of what the lockdown laws now tell them to do. So how much do you know? Try our quiz.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Democrats, including Jamie Raskin (centre), voted to impeach President Donald Trump, as did 10 Republicans\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time over his alleged role in the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHis impeachment for \"incitement to insurrection\" was approved by 232 representatives including 10 Republicans.\n\nDemocrats led the effort to charge Mr Trump with encouraging the riots.\n\nBut some Republicans had backed calls for impeachment.\n\nSo, who are these key players, and what do we know about them?\n\nWhen the impeachment charges go to the Senate for trial, the case for the prosecution will be made by a team of lawmakers, led by Mr Raskin, a Democratic representative from Maryland since 2017 and a former professor of constitutional law.\n\nThe impeachment of Mr Trump represents the continuation of an extremely challenging start to 2021 for Mr Raskin, 58.\n\nJamie Raskin (left) helped to draft the article of impeachment against President Trump\n\nThe congressman's 25-year-old son, Tommy Bloom Raskin, took his own life on New Year's Eve and was laid to rest in early January.\n\nA day after the funeral, Mr Raskin found himself hunkering down with colleagues, shielding from a violent mob that rampaged through the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify November's presidential election result.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the day of the assault, Mr Raskin helped to draw up an article of impeachment against President Trump.\n\nSpeaking to the Washington Post, Mr Raskin said his son, who was studying law at Harvard University, would have considered last week's violence \"the absolute worst form of crime against democracy\".\n\n\"It really is Tommy Raskin, and his love and his values and his passion, that have kept me going,\" Mr Raskin said.\n\nIn total, nine Democrats, including Mr Raskin, have been named as impeachment managers. One is Representative Madeleine Dean, from Pennsylvania, who is one of three women on the team.\n\nMs Dean started her career in law, opening her own three-woman practice in Pennsylvania before teaching English at a university.\n\nHaving been active in state politics for decades, she was elected to the House in 2018, using her seat to champion women's reproductive rights, gun law reform, and healthcare for all, among other issues.\n\nMadeleine Dean has called for a quick trial of President Trump in the Senate\n\nIn an interview with MSNBC, Ms Dean, 68, said she favoured a \"speedy trial\" in the Senate if Mr Trump was impeached.\n\n\"This isn't about a party. This isn't about politics. This is about protection of our constitution, of our rule of law,\" Ms Dean said.\n\nAs the Speaker of the House, Ms Pelosi has been in the spotlight since the riots in the Capitol.\n\nMs Pelosi leads the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, so the 80-year-old had a huge influence over the decision to introduce an article of impeachment against Mr Trump.\n\nMs Pelosi had the House proceed with impeachment after former Vice-President Mike Pence did not invoked constitutional powers to force out Mr Trump, who was then president.\n\nMr Pence said at the time he believed such a move was against the country's interests.\n\n\"This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that,\" Ms Pelosi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The storming of the US Capitol\n\nMr McConnell, a 78-year-old Republican senator for Kentucky, is one to watch in the Senate.\n\nThe upper chamber's former majority leader remains the man at the helm of the upper chamber's Republican caucus.\n\nDubbed the \"Grim Reaper\" by Democrats, Mr McConnell was a thorn in the side of former President Barack Obama, often manoeuvring to frustrate his legislative agenda and judicial appointments.\n\nHe was also the driving force behind Mr Trump's acquittal in his first impeachment trial in 2019.\n\nIn his last few weeks as Senate leader, Mr McConnell also delayed Mr Trump's trial until after the former president left office, saying there was no time for a \"fair or serious trial\" ahead of Mr Biden's inauguration.\n\nMr McConnell has not publicly commented on whether he supports convicting or acquitting Mr Trump, but he has sent some mixed messages.\n\nMitch McConnell had been loyal to President Trump until the Capitol riots\n\nThough he spent the last four years in the president's corner, the minority leader said the rioters were \"provoked by\" Mr Trump and that he plans to hear out both sides in the trial.\n\nBut later on in January, he also joined the majority of Republican senators to vote for a motion to toss out the impeachment case as unconstitutional now that Mr Trump is no longer in the White House.\n\nMr McConnell may no longer have the final say on all things impeachment, but as Democrats need Republican support to convict Mr Trump with the required two-thirds majority, he still has a key role to play in the upcoming proceedings.\n\nWith just over a week to go before the trial, Mr Trump parted ways with his legal team, including attorneys Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier.\n\nThey were quickly replaced by David Schoen, a trial lawyer, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney, who will lead the defence efforts for the former president.\n\nIn a statement, both attorneys said they didn't believe the push to impeach Mr Trump is constitutional.\n\nDavid Schoen, left, and Bruce Castor will lead the defence efforts for the former president\n\nMr Castor added: \"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history.\n\n\"It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always.\"\n\nMr Schoen has previously represented Roger Stone, former adviser to Mr Trump. Stone received a presidential pardon in December.\n\nThe lawyer also made headlines in the past for meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in his final days to discuss possible representation, and for later saying he did not believe the death of the US financier and sex offender was suicide.\n\nMr Castor, a former Pennsylvania district attorney, is known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby for sexual assault in 2005. The comedian was eventually convicted on three counts of sexual assault in a 2018 retrial of his case.\n\nMs Cheney, 54, is third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House. As the daughter of former Republican Vice-President Dick Cheney, she has a high profile in the party.\n\nSo, her support for impeachment is particularly significant.\n\nLiz Cheney has accused President Trump of inciting the attack on Congress\n\nMr Trump had \"summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack\", Ms Cheney said of the Capitol riots.\n\n\"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,\" the Wyoming representative said.\n\nHowever, in a recent test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Mr Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted last week to consider stopping the trial before it even starts.\n\nMs Cheney survived a House Republican vote - 145-61 - to oust her from her leadership position after breaking ranks with other GOP lawmakers last month to impeach the former president.\n\nShe is also now facing a primary challenger for her Wyoming congressional seat after voting to impeach Mr Trump.\n\nBlocking Mr Trump from ever running for office again is one rationale that may motivate some Republicans to impeach the president.\n\nThat reasoning could be attractive to Republican senators like Mr Sasse, who is seen as a possible contender for the presidency in 2024.\n\nElected to the Senate in 2014, the 48-year-old has been an ardent critic of Mr Trump.\n\nBen Sasse refused to overturn the results of November's presidential election in Congress\n\nMr Sasse was firmly opposed to a Republican effort - cheered on by Mr Trump - to overturn the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in Congress.\n\nOn the question of impeachment, Mr Sasse said he would \"definitely consider whatever articles they might move\" in the House.\n\nA two-thirds majority would be needed to convict Mr Trump in the Senate, meaning at least 17 Republicans - including Mr Sasse - would have to vote for it.\n\nIn Mr Trump's first impeachment trial in 2020, it was Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who presided over the proceedings.\n\nThis time, he declined to participate, handing the job over to the 80-year-old Vermont Democrat, who will take the gavel in this second impeachment trial.\n\nMr Leahy was first elected to the Senate in 1974, and is the longest serving lawmaker in the upper chamber.\n\nHe will be presiding in his role as the Senate's president pro tempore - a constitutional officer, responsible for presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice-president.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws\" when presiding over an impeachment trial.\n\n\"It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "Libby Squire was not seen alive after travelling to Oak Road playing fields with Pawel Relowicz, a court heard\n\nA man accused of raping and murdering a student committed a string of \"sexually motivated\" burglaries in the months before her death, a court has heard.\n\nJurors heard \"trophies\" - underwear and sex toys - stolen from other women were found after his arrest.\n\nProsecutors claim he was \"prowling the streets\" of Hull's student area in search of a victim when he intercepted the \"extremely vulnerable\" Ms Squire.\n\nSheffield Crown Court previously heard the defendant drove Ms Squire - who had earlier been refused entry to a nightclub - to the Oak Road playing fields.\n\nOnce there, jurors were told, he subjected her to an \"act of sexual violence\" before he disposed of her body in the River Hull.\n\nHer remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost seven weeks later.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright QC said Mr Relowicz would claim Ms Squire had \"instigated consensual sexual intercourse\", and he had left her \"safe and well\" on the fields.\n\nRichard Wright QC continued to outline the case against Pawel Relowicz on Wednesday\n\nHowever, Sam Alford, who lives nearby, reported hearing a woman's \"desperate screams\" coming from the direction of the river, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors allege the screams were Ms Squire's and a man seen \"emerging from the darkness\" and fleeing the area was the defendant.\n\n\"Libby was never seen again\", Mr Wright told jurors.\n\nThe screams, and scratches to the defendant's face were evidence Ms Squire had \"fought him off\", the court heard.\n\nMr Wright said the evidence established \"that she was raped by a man whose entire motivation for coming into contact with her that night was to take her away from safety to a remote area well known to him and there to subject her to his uncontrollable sexual urges\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a pathologist concluded he could not establish how Ms Squire died despite \"an obvious bruise\" to the inside of her right thigh.\n\nMr Wright told jurors a CCTV recording made after the last sighting of Ms Squire showed Mr Relowicz performing a sex act in the middle of a street.\n\nA condom found at the scene days later yielded a DNA profile matching the defendant, the court heard.\n\nIn the year leading up to Ms Squire's disappearance, Mr Relowicz exposed himself to women in public and watched them through windows as they changed or had sex, the court heard.\n\nHe also \"burgled their homes with the purpose of stealing their underwear and sexual toys or other objects,\" Mr Wright said.\n\nUniversity of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nFollowing his arrest on 6 February, Mr Wright said, police recovered the pink holdall \"full of sex toys... and some photographs of young women and several pairs of women's knickers and thongs\".\n\nA statement made by Ms Squire's mother, Lisa Squire, was read out in court describing her daughter having battled mental health issues including an eating disorder, self-harming - cutting the top of her arms, legs and chest - and depression.\n\nShe said her eldest child had been afraid of water since she was young, to the point she would not go near a swimming pool when on holiday. She was also scared of the dark, jurors were told.\n\nStatements by Ms Squire's boyfriend Connor James-Pye were also read out, in which he described Libby as being \"a happy drunk\" and that she \"didn't understand moderation\".\n\nHowever, on the night she disappeared, the court heard Ms Squire \"didn't want to go out because she had a lecture the next morning, but she didn't want to let the girls down\".\n\nMr James-Pye last heard from his girlfriend at about 22:30 on 31 January, jurors heard.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The button battery was stuck in Sofia-Grace's throat for four months\n\nAn 11-month-old girl who was rejecting solid food had a button battery lodged in her throat for four months.\n\nDoctors thought Sofia-Grace Hill had tonsillitis or a viral infection until an X-ray revealed the battery the size of a 10p in her oesophagus.\n\nShe underwent a two-hour operation to remove it and is now on a liquid only diet.\n\nA surgeon said her survival may be due to the battery being old and without charge.\n\nDad Calham, from Swindon, first noticed something was wrong in January 2020 and had countless paramedic call-outs and visits to the GP and local hospital.\n\nShe had a two-hour operation to remove the battery\n\nHe was convinced there was something else going on as Sofia-Grace would only eat pureed food.\n\nAfter another hospital trip in May, she was given an X-ray which showed the battery lodged in her oesophagus was causing serious damage as it had corroded.\n\nMr Hill said: \"I was gutted when I saw it and angry at myself. I blamed myself, but now I realise there was nothing we could have done to know.\"\n\nThe button battery is the size of a 10p\n\nSofia-Grace had a feeding tube fitted to help her with food and to stop her throat from closing.\n\nEvery two weeks she has a general anaesthetic to stretch her oesophagus but faces the prospect of further surgery.\n\nMr Hill said: \"The damage has left a pocket in her oesophagus which needs to close but Sofia is improving week by week with regular dilations which is improving her oesophagus.\n\n\"But I know the chance of survival in the first weeks after this happens is very low so we are moving in the right direction.\"\n\nSofia-Grace is improving week by week, her dad said\n\nMr Hill is unsure how Sofia-Grace, now almost two-years-old, got hold of the button battery and warned parents about the dangers.\n\nHe said: \"Just get rid of them or lock them away and don't give your child car keys to play with. Always trust your instincts as a parent.\"\n\nJanet McNally, consultant paediatric surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who is treating Sofia-Grace, said her survival may be because the battery was old and had lost its charge.\n\nShe said that without someone seeing a child swallow a battery or obvious symptoms it was not unusual for it to be missed.\n\n\"Clinicians and the government have been warning of the dangers of button batteries for a long time. But not all parents are aware of how dangerous they can be.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's variant: Two 'spike' changes flagged up\n\nAs MPs have been mentioning today - a coronavirus variant has been found circulating in the Amazonas state of Brazil, and was picked up in Japan in travellers from the region. It’s different from the UK and South African variants, but it contains common mutations - two changes to the virus’ \"spike\" in particular which have been flagged as potentially making the virus more infectious. This is not going to be the last mutation we hear about. At the moment changes are mainly being picked up in areas that do lots of genetic tracking of the virus - it’s almost certain there are other mutations already circulating unseen in other parts of the world. And the virus will continue to mutate - it’s just a question of how, how much and how fast. For now there’s no evidence the virus is becoming more dangerous - but if more people catch it then, left unchecked, more will potentially become ill or die. But the vaccines, which target several different areas of the virus’ spike, should still work - though that’s something that scientists the world over will be monitoring very closely.", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Parents say teachers at special schools often provide medical care and should be treated like other front-line workers\n\nParents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are calling for teachers in special schools to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nMany parents have been told their children cannot attend school because of safety concerns about the virus.\n\nNow they want staff in special schools to be prioritised for the vaccine and considered front-line workers.\n\nThe government said special schools should encourage pupils to attend.\n\nLaura cares for son Oscar alone and says their respite support collapsed during the pandemic\n\nStaff in special schools are often required to provide personal and medical care for pupils, such as clearing tracheotomies, on top of regular teaching responsibilities.\n\nThe schools also offer precious respite to many families of disabled children who require a lot of additional care.\n\nLaura Godfrey, 33, from Norwich, is mum to nine-year-old Oscar, who usually attends a school for children with complex needs. His return was delayed at the start of term, despite government advice for these schools to remain open.\n\n\"His school provision is essential to us as a family. Oscar's mental health suffered a lot in the first lockdown, as did mine. It was a very dark time.\"\n\nHe is currently attending school, but Laura worries it could be forced to close in the event of an outbreak.\n\nShe is calling for staff at special schools to be given PPE and access to the vaccine, to keep schools open and protect vulnerable pupils.\n\n\"They should be recognised and treated as front-line staff and afforded the same protections.\"\n\nLaura's calls have been echoed by Mark Powell, CEO of the Dorset-based Diverse Abilities charity which runs a special school in Poole.\n\nStaff at Langside School in Poole were provided with PPE at the start of the pandemic\n\nThe school bought its own PPE in order to remain open during the pandemic but said it was \"very difficult and extremely costly\".\n\nMr Powell described PPE as a \"wonderful barrier to prevent the spread of the virus\" but said it had also been \"a devastating barrier to the development and well-being of our pupils\".\n\n\"The fact we have nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists on site to form part of our children's school provision means that our school can be classified as a health setting, which are at the top of the list for priority vaccinations.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said the impact of being out of education \"can be greatest on vulnerable children and those with education, health and care plans\".\n\nIt said special schools should \"continue to welcome and encourage pupils to go into school full-time\" where possible and \"ensure pupils with Send can successfully access remote education\" if they are unable to attend.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend President Trump.\n\nThe Google-owned service has prevented his account from uploading new videos or live-streaming material for a minimum of seven days, and has said it may extend the period.\n\nThe firm said the channel had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.\n\nThe president had posted several videos on Tuesday night, some of which remain online.\n\nGoogle has not provided details of what Mr Trump said in the video it banned, however the BBC has discovered it was a clip from a press conference he had given on Tuesday.\n\nThe move came hours after civil rights groups had threatened to organise an ads boycott against YouTube.\n\nPresident Trump's YouTube channel remains live but he cannot post new videos\n\nJim Steyer - who previously helped coordinate similar action against Facebook last year - had called on Google to go further and take the president's channel offline.\n\n\"We hope they will make it permanent. It is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack to get here, but appears that the major platforms are finally beginning to step up,\" he tweeted after the suspension.YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel\n\nGoogle said that Mr Trump could still face his page being closed if he falls foul of its three-strikes policy.\n\n\"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump's channel for violating our policies,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It now has its first strike and is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of seven days.\n\n\"Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Apple chief Tim Cook told CBS News that those involved with the riots on the US Capitol last week should be held accountable.\n\n\"Everyone that had a part in it needs to be held accountable. I think no one is above the law. We're a rule of law country.\"\n\nHe did not mention President Trump by name, but added: \"I don't think we should let it go. This is something we've got to be serious about.\"\n\nMr Trump had already been suspended by Facebook and Instagram following last week's rioting on Capitol Hill, until at least the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nTwitter has gone further by imposing a permanent ban.\n\nAmazon's Twitch has also disabled his account on its platform. And Snapchat has locked his account.\n\nShopify, Pinterest, TikTok and Reddit have also taken steps to restrict content associated with the president and his calls for the results of the US election to be challenged.\n\nYouTube has often been behind its social media rivals when it comes to moderating user-posted content.\n\nOver the years it has come under fire from campaign groups and big advertisers for not acting swiftly.\n\nNow it has followed Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat in restricting Donald Trump's access to its platform.\n\nAnd as so often, there's a lack of transparency about exactly what prompted the President's suspension.\n\nIt's only saying that a video violated its policies on incitement to violence, but is indicating that the issue was the President's remarks to reporters on Tuesday where he refused to take responsibility for the attack on Congress.\n\nOf course, those comments were broadcast on TV channels, including the BBC, and are still widely available.\n\nIt's not long ago that the social media landscape was being described as the Wild West when it came to moderating content - now the platforms suddenly seem eager to appear more cautious than the mainstream media.\n\nIt's amazing what the threat of regulation can do.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bonnie Watson Coleman is one of three Democratic lawmakers to have tested positive since the invasion of the US Capitol\n\nThree US lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after sheltering for hours with colleagues during last week's deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHouse Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pramila Jayapal and Brad Schneider have announced their diagnoses.\n\nLast Wednesday they hunkered down in secure rooms, seeking refuge from an invasion of Congress in which five people died.\n\nSome Republicans were not wearing masks during the ordeal, footage suggests.\n\nVideo shared by Punchbowl News shows several lawmakers apparently refusing facemasks offered to them.\n\nHowever, CBS pictures from inside the chamber show Ms Jayapal was herself not wearing a mask at one point.\n\nMedical experts fear more lawmakers may have contracted the disease, potentially amounting to a super-spreader event at a time when coronavirus infections and deaths continue to rise in the US.\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections (22.6 million) and deaths (367,000) in the world, with no sign of the epidemic abating, despite the limited roll-out of vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nOver the weekend, top congressional doctor Brian Monahan told lawmakers and congressional staff who sheltered together from the riots to get tested.\n\n\"The time in this room was several hours for some and briefer for others,\" Mr Monahan said. \"During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.\"\n\nMr Monahan did not say how many lawmakers were in the room, but called on them to observe social-distancing measures and wear masks.\n\nNew Jersey Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was the first lawmaker to confirm she had tested positive on Monday. In a tweet, the 75-year-old cancer survivor said she was resting at home with \"mild, cold-like symptoms\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, and Illinois congressman Mr Schneider revealed they had tested positive on Tuesday.\n\nAll three Democrats accused Republican lawmakers of refusing to wear masks as they huddled together for safety last Wednesday.\n\n\"Any member who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives,\" Ms Jayapal wrote, calling for mask transgressors to be fined.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe wearing of masks has been an explosive political issue throughout the pandemic in the US, with some lawmakers openly refusing to don a face covering.\n\nA Republican congressman, Jake LaTurner of Kansas, tested positive for Covid-19 after participating in a House vote to reject Arizona's presidential election results on Wednesday.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr LaTurner's spokesperson told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper that he was not in the secure area of the Capitol building where multiple members have since tested positive.\n\nOn Friday Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), had warned that Wednesday's rioting would probably have significant health consequences.\n\n\"You have to anticipate that this is another surge event,\" he told the McClatchy news agency. \"You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol.\"\n\nCoronavirus has swept through the heart of the American political establishment during the pandemic. One notable outbreak happened in September last year, when an event was held at the White House to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice.\n\nSoon after, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus, along with numerous other senior government officials.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "US rapper YFN Lucci is wanted by police in Atlanta, Georgia, for his alleged involvement in the murder of a local man last month.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested over the killing of the 28-year-old victim.\n\nAuthorities have appealed for help in locating YFN Lucci, 29 - whose birth name is Rayshawn Bennett.\n\nHe is wanted on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault and participation in criminal street gang activity, police told US media.\n\nThey say another man was wounded in the incident.\n\nLast month YFN Lucci released new material under the title Wish Me Well 3.\n\nIn 2018 rapper Cardi B was forced to defend her then-fiancé Offset against allegations of homophobia after he used a lyric by YFN Lucci that included the word \"queer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers at King's College London asked 709 workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased.\n\nNearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking.\n\nOne in seven had thoughts of self-harming or being \"better off dead\".\n\nNursing staff were more likely to report feelings of distress than doctors or other clinical staff in the anonymous web-based survey, which was carried out in June and July last year.\n\nVictoria Sullivan, an intensive care nurse at Queen's Hospital in Romford, said she often can't sleep because she's thinking about what is happening at the hospital.\n\nHer worst moment was breaking the news of a death on the phone, she said, adding that the screams from the patient's relatives \"will honestly stay with me forever\".\n\n\"Telling someone over the phone and all you can say is 'I'm really sorry', whilst they're crying their heart out, is quite traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"Although you're saying how sorry you are, in the back of your mind, you're also thinking: 'I've got three other patients I've got to go and see, the infusions need drawing up, and meds need to be given and a nurse needs support'.\n\n\"The guilt is just too much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the study, which has been published online but has not yet been peer-reviewed:\n\nThe researchers say the findings are, in some ways, not surprising given the pressures ICU staff have faced.\n\nTheir workload has been relentless, caring for more patients than is ideal and under extremely challenging circumstances.\n\nLead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said the findings should be a \"wake-up call\" for NHS managers.\n\nHe said: \"The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staff's ability to provide high-quality care as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life.\"\n\nProf Greenberg said it was important to have \"occupationally focused\" mental health care to try to keep staff fighting fit or, where this was not possible, to ensure they got help to access the right sort of care.\n\nAnd he said that, while their work suggested things may have improved over the summer, there were signs the numbers experiencing mental health problems would rise in November and December.\n\nProf Partha Kar, diabetes consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, said it was \"really, really difficult seeing people battling through all sorts of odds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got sickness rates high all around us and colleagues from all specialities, where they're not accustomed to seeing such ill patients, coming out and trying to help.\n\n\"Understandably the impact of that on everybody's mental health is not insignificant either... it's such a tough place to be in.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"This is an incredibly tough time for NHS staff working on the front line which is why we have invested £15m in support, including 38 local mental health and well-being hubs and a service for staff with complex mental health needs, such as trauma and addiction.\n\n\"The public can also help to support doctors and nurses by following the 'hands, space, face' guidance to reduce pressure on hospitals and save lives.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by mental health issues, the organisations listed at this link might be able to help", "Sarah Ferguson has a long-held interest in history, especially that of the royals and the aristocracy\n\nSarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has written her first novel for adults, to be released by the leading romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon.\n\nHer Heart for a Compass is based on the life of the duchess's great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.\n\nShe has previously written children's books, non-fiction about Queen Victoria, and her own memoirs.\n\nShe said: \"I am proud to bring my personal brand of historical fiction to the publishing world.\"\n\n\"It all started with researching my ancestry. Digging into the history of the Montagu-Douglas Scotts, I first came across Lady Margaret, who intrigued me because she shared one of my given names,\" she added.\n\n\"But although her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, were close friends with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, I was unable to discover much about my namesake's early life, and so was born the idea which became Her Heart for a Compass.\"\n\nThe story will include some real people and events and also draw on the duchess's own experiences but she said \"my imagination took over\".\n\n\"I have long held a passion for historical research and telling the stories of strong women in history through film and television,\" she added.\n\nFor the big screen, she conceived the idea for the 2009 movie Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and written by Julian Fellowes.\n\nShe was a producer on the film and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, had a minor part. The duchess also worked on a documentary about Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Prince Albert's mother.\n\nShe recently revived her children's book series, Budgie the Helicopter.\n\nHeart for a Compass was written with the collaboration of established Mills & Boon novelist Marguerite Kaye, who has created more than 50 novels for the imprint, set in a variety of eras.\n\nThe duchess's novel is a saga that takes in events at Queen Victoria's court and the grand country houses of Scotland and Ireland, and crosses into the slums of London and on to the bustle of 1870s New York.\n\nMills & Boon described the story as a \"fascinating journey of a woman, born into the higher echelons of society, who desires to break the mould, follow her internal compass (her heart) and discover her raison d'être - and falling in love along the way\".\n\nMills & Boon is the UK's top publisher of romantic fiction and says it sells one of its novels every 10 seconds.\n\nThe stories are \"written by women, for women, it has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time\", it adds.\n\nOther well-known names to venture into the Mills & Boon world include Made in Chelsea and I'm A Celebrity star Georgia Toffolo, whose debut romance novel, Meet Me in London, came out last year.\n\nBest-selling authors have also created stories for Mills & Boon under a pseudonym, including Destiny writer Sally Beauman (Vanessa James) and The Shell Seekers author Rosamunde Pilcher (Jane Fraser). PG Wodehouse also contributed a story in 1912.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "The Christmas Day special saw Ashley Banjo (r) sit in for Simon Cowell\n\nThe filming of the next series of ITV show Britain's Got Talent has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.\n\nProduction on the show was due to begin later this month but will now start at a later date yet to be confirmed.\n\nITV said it had decided to move \"the record and broadcast\" of the show's 15th series\" to safeguard \"the well-being of everyone involved\".\n\nThe filming of the programme's audition shows typically involves hundreds of people congregating en masse.\n\nIt is understood this has been considered to be unviable due to lockdown restrictions currently in place.\n\nWriting on Twitter, ITV thanked viewers for their \"continued love and support\" for the long-running programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BGT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe filming of last year's Christmas special was also postponed after at least three crew members tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Christmas Day programme saw former contestants return to perform again alongside the show's panel of celebrity judges.\n\nThe show saw Ashley Banjo sit in for Simon Cowell, who spent much of last year recovering from an electric bicycle accident.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to get pupils connected in Wolverhampton is well under way\n\nThere are concerns some schools in lockdown could be inundated with pupils without laptops after a change to the vulnerable pupil list.\n\nPupils are learning remotely in England after schools were closed on Tuesday to all but children of key workers and those deemed vulnerable.\n\nBut those without laptops or space to study are now eligible to attend school, under government guidance.\n\nHeads' union, NAHT, said the move could reduce the effect of the shutdown.\n\nSchools were ordered to close to most pupils as a way of limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said demand for key worker and vulnerable places in schools had risen substantially since the last school shutdown.\n\nNearly a third of the 2,000 head teachers who joined an online union meeting on Wednesday afternoon reported having between 20 and 30% of pupils in school, the NAHT said.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"It is critical that key worker child school places are only used when absolutely necessary to truly reduce numbers and spread of the virus.\n\n\"We have concern that the government has not supplied enough laptops for all the children without them and so has made lack of internet access a vulnerable criteria - only adding to numbers still in school.\n\n\"It is important that all vulnerable pupils have access to a school place, but the government must provide laptops and internet access for every pupil that needs one, so that they can access home learning to take some of the strain off the demand for school places.\n\n\"Nearly half of head teachers who we polled during a webcast on Wednesday evening said that had received fewer than 10% of the laptops they'd requested.\n\n\"It is essential that this is rectified immediately, so that we can keep school attendance figures at a level which will have the desired impact on getting transmission rates under control.\"\n\nJane Girt, head teacher of Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, said the rule change could leave her having to accommodate an extra 200 pupils on top of those already on the key worker and vulnerable children list.\n\nShe told BBC News that having so many pupils in school would \"defeat the object\" of closing amid the England-wide lockdown.\n\nMrs Girt said her secondary, which has more than 1,500 students, had received 261 laptops from the government since March but about 50% of pupils were sharing a device with another family member.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs on Wednesday that 560,000 devices had been given out to schools in 2020 and a further 50,000 so far this week.\n\nAnd Gavin Williamson reiterated that those without access to remote learning via digital devices could attend school.\n\nHe said: \"Schools are much better prepared to deliver online learning, with the delivery of hundreds of thousands of devices at breakneck speed, data support and high quality video lessons.\"\n\nBut Ofcom estimates there are up to 1.5m pupils without digital devices in their homes, on which they can learn.\n\nAmanda Bailey, director of the child poverty commission in north-east England, said pupils without internet access tended to be concentrated in disadvantaged areas and this meant some schools would be \"largely fully open\", she said.\n\n\"And we know that the most deprived communities are the ones most vulnerable to the health impact of the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"Our main concerns are that we're now nine months into this situation and we're still talking about families not having sufficient access to digital devices or data or the internet.\"\n\nLabour Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, Wolverhampton's champion for digital innovation, said the guidance massively expands the number of children who are entitled to go into school.\n\nShe said although plans to support those needing access while self-isolating in her city are at an advanced stage, with rental schemes being accessed and donations sought, the new lockdown changes the game completely.\n\nShe called for a national plan for the transition to remote learning.\n\nCouncillor Momenabadi said: \"Even after Gavin Williamson's statement in the Commons, children across the country are still waiting for that national plan.\n\n\"And even on the devices they've said will arrive; how will these be distributed, when will they arrive, will they arrive in time to ensure that no child misses out on their education?\"\n\nWill you have to send your child back to school because you are unable to supervise home learning? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been allowed to Tweet again, after being locked out of his account for 12 hours.\n\nPosting a more conciliatory message, he refrained from reiterating false claims of voter fraud.\n\nTwitter said that it would ban Mr Trump \"permanently\" if he breached the platform's rules again.\n\nThe move from Twitter puts clear water between it and Facebook, which suspended him \"indefinitely\" on Thursday.\n\nTwitter has instead given the outgoing president a final warning.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on Mr Trump's channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts.\n\nMr Trump tweeted several message on Wednesday, calling the people who stormed Capitol Hill \"patriots\". He also said \"We love you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter said: \"After the Tweets were removed and the subsequent 12-hour period expired, access to @realDonaldTrump was restored.\n\n\"Any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the president was suspended from Facebook and Instagram. That suspension will be reviewed after the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nThe social network had originally imposed a 24-hour ban after the US Capitol attack.\n\nFacebook's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that the risks of allowing Mr Trump to post \"are simply too great\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Facebook had removed the president's posts \"because we judged that their effect - and likely their intent - would be to provoke further violence\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Mark This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said it was clear Mr Trump intended to undermine the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.\n\n\"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump's favoured platform, Twitter, suspended the president for 12 hours on Wednesday.\n\nThe company said it required the removal of three tweets for \"severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy\".\n\nIt said the president's account would remain locked for good if the tweets were not removed.\n\nTwitter has now confirmed the offending tweets have been removed, and he is free to tweet again.\n\nSnapchat also stopped Mr Trump from creating new posts, but did not say if or when it would end the ban. YouTube also removed Wednesday's video.\n\nThe president's supporters stormed the seat of US government and clashed with police, leading to the death of one woman.\n\nThe violence brought to a halt congressional debate over Democrat Joe Biden's election win.\n\nIn the House and Senate chambers, Republicans were challenging the certification of November's election results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nBefore the violence, President Trump had told supporters on the National Mall in Washington that the election had been stolen.\n\nHours later, as the violence mounted inside and outside the US Capitol, he appeared on video and repeated the false claim.", "The controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been ongoing since 1977\n\nThe Trump administration has held the first sale for rights to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - but it drew no interest from major companies.\n\nAn Alaskan state agency emerged as the primary bidder at the auction, which has been heavily criticised by environmental groups.\n\nThe sale raised less than $15m (£11m) - far less than the government had hoped.\n\nThe tepid interest comes amid big changes in the energy industry.\n\nMajor companies, including oil giant Exxon, Shell and BP, have said they are focusing their spending on renewable energy, amid a huge slump in oil prices, in part triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAdam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the sale was an \"epic failure\" for the Trump administration and the Alaska Republicans, who had backed the move as a way to create jobs and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.\n\n\"After years of promising a revenue and jobs bonanza they ended up throwing a party for themselves, with the state being one of the only bidders,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"We have long known that the American people don't want drilling in the Arctic Refuge, the [Alaska native] Gwich'in people don't want it, and now we know the oil industry doesn't want it either.\"\n\nThe refuge is home to more than 200 species of bird including the Northern shrike\n\nMr Kolton said his organisation would continue to fight in court to reverse the sale of the land, which is home to caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds.\n\nThe wildlife refuge is estimated to hold some 11 billion barrels of oil.\n\nOpening the wilderness for drilling and development has been a long-term priority for Alaska Republicans, but development was expected to be costly since the area has minimal roads and infrastructure.\n\nAfter decades of controversy, the sale was finally authorised by the US Congress in 2017 as part of a major package of tax cuts. The auction comes just weeks before Donald Trump is due to leave office on 20 January.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden had vowed to protect the refuge and environmental groups have also challenged the sale, which they say threatens land that provides a vital home to wildlife.\n\nA federal court rejected arguments by environmental groups seeking to block the auction on Tuesday.\n\nPolar bears are particularly at risk of dying in oil spills\n\nAt Wednesday's auction, the Bureau of Land Management said it had received bids for 12 of the 22 tracts of land offered, covering more than 600,000 acres.\n\nThe Alaska Industrial Development and Industrial Authority, a state agency, was the sole bidder on at least eight of the 12 tracts.\n\nSome bids submitted were \"incomplete\", the bureau said.\n\nThe state agency has said it plans to work with private companies on development of the refuge, which encompasses more than 19,000 million acres overall.\n\nOn social media platform Twitter, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy called the sale \"historic for Alaska and tremendous for America\".\n\n\"Opening [Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] for responsible resource development could put more oil in our pipeline, put Alaskans to work, bring billions of dollars of investment to our state, support American energy independence, and provide critical revenues to our state and local communities,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Alaskans have waited two generations for this moment; I stand with them in support of this day.\"", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a boy, 13, was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a girl, aged 13, will appear in Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nTwo other boys, also aged 13, have been released on bail, with strict conditions, until 1 February.\n\nThe girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nIn a statement, Oliver's family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe family described the ordeal as \"every parents' worst nightmare\".\n\nThey also sought to highlight those who helped at the scene, including \"a Good Samaritan that tried valiantly to save Oliver\", an off-duty doctor who offered help, and the emergency services.\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nParents laying flowers at nearby Highdown School called the killing \"utterly senseless\" and said their children who attended school with Olly were \"devastated\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown urged anyone with information to contact police and not to share any images or footage on social media.\n\n\"This continues to be a very difficult time for the family of Olly. Our thoughts remain with them,\" he said.\n\n\"The Stephens family appreciate all of the kindness shown to them but they have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex\n\nThe father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son's death through social media.\n\nNguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.\n\nHis father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until \"we saw his body by our own eyes\" at the hospital.\n\nEight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nThe 39 Vietnamese migrants, aged 15 to 44, were sealed inside the container for at least 12 hours.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard how it became a \"tomb\" as temperatures reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C (101F).\n\nThe people trapped inside had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof, but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nAt a sentencing hearing set to last three days in front of Mr Justice Sweeney, some of their final desperate phone messages were played in court.\n\nIn one message, a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nIn the background, a voice could be heard pleading: \"Come on everyone. Open up, open up.\"\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay read out statements from the victims' families, and the mother of another 15-year-old who died, Dinh Dinh Binh, said her family had \"not been able to get back to our normal life yet\".\n\n\"Our economic conditions and work are negatively affected,\" she said. \"We have had to sell some properties of the family to afford our life.\"\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nTran Hai Loc and his wife Nguyen Thi Van, both 35, were found huddled together in the trailer, and left behind two children, aged six and four.\n\nThe children's grandfather, Tran Dinh Thanh, said: \"At the moment their children are very small - this incident will affect their future.\n\n\"Every day, when they come home from school they always look at the photos of their parents on the altar. The decease of both parents is a big loss to them.\"\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nPhan Thi Thanh, 41, had sold the family home and left her son with his godmother before setting off on the journey.\n\nHer son, who is now being looked after by his father in the UK, said he felt \"very heartbroken with mum not around\".\n\nHaulier boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, was described as a ringleader of the operation. He closed his eyes as the phone messages were played to the court. Other defendants hung their heads.\n\nBoth Maurice Robinson (l) and Ronan Hughes (r) admitted 39 counts of manslaughter in connection with the case\n\nHughes had previously admitted manslaughter, as had 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson, from County Armagh, who discovered the bodies in the trailer.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, of Newry, County Down, who dropped off the trailer at Zeebrugge port, and people-smuggler Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of the same charge by a jury.\n\nThey will be sentenced alongside Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, Valentin Calota, 38, from Birmingham, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, who were convicted for their role in the smuggling.\n\nGheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison were both found guilty of manslaughter\n\nMr Polnay said: \"These defendants were party to a sophisticated, long-running and profitable conspiracy to smuggle [mainly] Vietnamese migrants to the UK, in the back of lorries, in a deliberate and intentional breach of border control.\"\n\nThe fee was between £10,000 and £13,000 for each migrant, for the \"VIP route\", the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay said seven smuggling trips were identified between May 2018 and 23 October 2019, but there was \"an irresistible inference that there were more events than those that were fortuitously detected\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "It is inevitable that part of the politics of a pandemic is the perceived relative performance of different countries.\n\nYou can pick your metric to make your comparison, and plenty have.\n\nThe death toll in the UK, and the economic slump, have come in for particular criticism.\n\nBut the government has, for some time, sought to emphasise how the UK is ahead of the game on vaccinations.\n\nThe UK was considerably quicker than the EU, for instance, in licencing the first vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nAt today's news conference, the Prime Minister has pointed out that the UK has already given more people a first jab for Covid than all the other countries in Europe put together.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England, added that the UK has jabbed four times as many people as Germany and 300 times more than France.\n\nBut he acknowledged the scale of the ongoing challenge - trying to vaccinate as many people in the next five weeks as normally happens in five months with the flu jab.\n\nOne final thought: ministers tend to suggest international comparisons are pointless or premature when the comparisons are less than flattering.\n\nThey're rather keener on them when the numbers look better.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Adrian Chiles first joined 5 Live for its launch in 1994\n\nAdrian Chiles has been confirmed as the broadcaster who will replace Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday mornings.\n\nNaga Munchetty now presents the same show from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nChiles has previously presented the same time slot on Fridays, along with the BBC's The One Show and Match of the Day 2, as well as ITV's Daybreak show.\n\n\"Adrian is a wonderful broadcaster who our audience trust and respect,\" said 5 Live controller Heidi Dawson.\n\n\"He has that unique ability to put listeners at ease and make them smile, whilst remaining relentless in his questioning of those in positions of power.\"\n\nChiles, who will present the show on Thursdays and Fridays, joined the station at its launch in 1994 and has featured regularly on shows like Wake Up To Money, and 5 Live Drive.\n\nFollowing his move to mid-morning, Chiles' Question Time Extra Time show will be replaced by a new programme, hosted by Colin Murray.\n\nBarnett, who has moved to BBC Radio 4 to host Woman's Hour, defended herself this week after a guest who was booked to appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme dropped out due to remarks the presenter made about her off-air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Capitol riots: How the world's media reacted\n\nShock and contempt for the violent storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters is evident in many reports and commentary on the event from around the world.\n\nFrom Germany's Die Welt daily describing \"disturbing, sad, terrifying scenes\", to the Nigerian Tribune saying \"Trump supporters defile US democracy\", many criticise the outgoing president for what what they see as his role in degrading America's institutions and democracy.\n\nOne commentator in Argentina's leading daily Clarin called it \"the 'scorched earth' legacy of Donald Trump\".\n\n\"Narcissism prevailing over all dignity, he harasses institutions, tramples on democracy, divides his own camp,\" says an editorial in France's Le Figaro.\n\n\"In refusing to quit, Donald Trump exposes the fragility of the American system in a final destructive offensive,\" a columnist says in France's Le Monde. Another headline in the paper calls him \"the insurrectional president\".\n\nIn Turkey, the pro-government Turkiye paper notes: \"Trump's stubbornness stirred the US\".\n\n\"I expect Trump to be tried after this turmoil,\" said one pundit on Egypt's MBC Misr TV, adding that \"the US is no longer a superpower in the full sense of the word\".\n\nSeveral of America's adversaries seized the opportunity to portray the incident as an example of the country's structural weaknesses and what they see as its hypocrisy.\n\n\"@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as 'a beautiful sight to behold' — it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill,\" tweeted China's daily Global Times.\n\n\"Capital vandals show fragility of US democracy,\" claimed a headline in the paper.\n\nIn Iran, state TV and radio inaccurately reported that the mayor of Washington DC had imposed \"martial law\", instead of the 12-hour curfew on the capital, which is what actually happened.\n\nAnd in Russia, where the first day of the Orthodox Christmas is currently being celebrated, footage of Trump's supporters ransacking the Capitol dominates state TV.\n\nMorning bulletins have focused on the events in America\n\nRolling news channel Rossiya 24 has played scenes of the violence at length, with no comment other than the caption \"Attack on the Capitol\".\n\nSome channels have also shown sympathy for the pro-Trump supporters, suggesting that they had cause to feel \"cheated\" over November's presidential election, and talked up claims that the event represents a crisis for US and even Western democracy.\n\nRossiya 24 said they were \"dissatisfied with the most scandalous election in US history\", while Rossiya 1 said it was the US system of democracy that was \"to a large degree the cause of today's events\".\n\nEven for those not necessarily unfriendly to America, the incident shows serious rifts in society that Trump's departure won't address.\n\nIt is \"a spectacular demonstration of frustration that has been building in the USA for decades,\" says one commentator in Poland's conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.\n\n\"Behind the façade of plastered smiles… and phrases about 'the best country in the world' lies the drama of a gigantic income gap, society in which more and more people struggle to make ends meet, while the few do not even know how many billions they own.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Medical staff are \"well over half way through\" vaccinating Scotland's care home residents with their first dose against Covid-19.\n\nThe first minister said this was \"extremely important\", as care homes accounted for more than a third of Covid-related deaths in the past week.\n\nBy Sunday more than 113,000 people in Scotland had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nSome 1,100 vaccination centres are set to be operational within a week.\n\nThe government has set a target of giving a first dose to everyone over the age of 80 in Scotland within the next four weeks.\n\nScotland has about 30,000 residents living in care homes for older people.\n\nA further 78 deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 were announced on Thursday, the highest daily number during the second wave of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Records of Scotland said the virus had been mentioned on 183 death certificates in the week to Sunday - with 63 of these deaths occurring in care homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this underlined the importance of rolling out the vaccine in care homes, saying it would hopefully start to significantly reduce the risk of residents dying due to coronavirus.\n\nAnd she said the government would start issuing a daily update on how many people had been given the jab from next week.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Vaccination ultimately is what will provide us with the route out of this pandemic, so we are absolutely determined to make sure as many people as possible are vaccinated just as quickly as it is possible to do so.\"\n\nAs of Sunday, a total of 113,459 people had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Scotland.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine began to be rolled out on Monday, and will be reflected in statistics from next week.\n\nA total of 36 people have had a second dose of the vaccine, with efforts now focused on giving a first jab to as many people as possible\n\nThis means that people will now not receive their second dose for up to 12 weeks rather than within 21 days - a move that has been criticised by some medics.\n\nBut Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said the first dose gave \"substantial\" protection against the virus.\n\nThe vaccine is being rolled out to health and social care workers in the first instance, then care home residents and other over-80s.\n\nEventually everyone in Scotland over the age of 18 - a total of 4.4m people - will be given a jab, although the government has refused to set targets beyond the initial phase due to uncertainty over supplies.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is in a race between the vaccine and the virus\n\nThe UK government had already committed to publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, and the Scottish Conservatives had been pushing for the Scottish government to follow suit.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said that \"publishing these numbers will increase transparency and give the public confidence that progress is being made in our fight against Covid-19\".\n\nThe MP told BBC Scotland that he had been getting inquiries from constituents about when they could expect to get a jab, saying people \"need to know roughly where they are on that list and when they can expect to receive that vaccine\".\n\nScottish Labour called on the government to backdate the statistics and to publish \"a detailed breakdown of how many people in each priority group has been vaccinated\".\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, said: \"Quicker progress must be made on securing vaccinations sites and vaccinators, including the contribution that community pharmacy teams can make.\"\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said over-80s should not worry if they had not yet been contacted about a vaccine appointment.\n\nShe said these were being \"aligned with availability of supply\" in different local areas.\n\nThe first minister said there was \"no need to phone your GP\", and that people would be \"contacted with an appointment as soon as possible\".\n\nShe also said the government was considering \"as a matter of ongoing review\" whether tighter restrictions may still be needed.\n\nScotland has been in a new lockdown since Tuesday, and Ms Sturgeon said it was \"probably too early\" for this to be reflected in the number of new infections.\n\nHowever she warned that the number of interactions people are having needed to be \"radically\" cut in order to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nShe said shutting down construction, manufacturing and click-and-collect businesses was \"the kind of thing we need to look at if we have a concern that we are not sufficiently reducing the number of people who are out and about and interacting\".", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nThis is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.\n\nFor weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November's election and keep the presidency in his hands.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through \"trial by combat\".\n\nDonald Trump Jr, the president's oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not \"fight\" for their president.\n\n\"This isn't their Republican Party anymore,\" he said. \"This is Donald Trump's Republican Party.\"\n\nThen the president himself encouraged the growing crowd, which had chanted \"stop the steal\" and \"bullshit\" at the president's prompting, to march the two miles from the White House to the Capitol.\n\n\"We will never give up. We will never concede,\" the president said. \"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.\"\n\nAs the president was concluding his remarks, a different kind of drama was playing out within the Capitol itself, as a joint session of Congress prepared to tabulate the state-by-state results of the election.\n\nFirst, Pence - disregarding the president's urging to throw out the results from contested states - released a statement that he did not have such powers and his role was \"largely ceremonial\".\n\nThen Republicans issued their first challenge, to Arizona votes, and the House and Senate began their separate deliberations on whether to accept Joe Biden's victory there.\n\nThe House proceedings were raucous, with both sides cheering as their speakers made their remarks.\n\n\"The oath that I took this past Sunday to defend and support the Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty,\" said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who had recently made headlines for insisting that she would carry a handgun with her in Congress. \"I will not allow the people to be ignored.\"\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Capitol as the joint session started\n\nIn the Senate, the debate was taking on a different tone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, dressed in the kind of dark suit and tie that befits a funeral, was coming to bury Donald Trump, not praise him.\n\n\"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral,\" McConnell said. \"We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost.\"\n\nThe Kentucky senator, who will become the Senate minority leader as a result of his party's two recent defeats in Georgia, said that the chamber was designed to \"stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic\".\n\nHis words were practically still hanging in the air when the passions outside the Capitol boiled over, and the Trump supporters, perhaps inspired by the earlier speeches, stormed the building. They swamped the insufficient security in place and brought the proceedings to a grinding halt, as lawmakers, staff and media rushed to find shelter from the rioters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a Trump rally near the White House turned deadly at the Capitol\n\nThe drama unfolded in fits and starts. Television cameras broadcast images of protesters dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and snippets popped up on social media of rioters inside the building, attempting to break into the legislative chambers and posing in the offices of elected legislators; of security officers, guns drawn in the House of Representatives, behind barricaded doors.\n\nIn Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden scrapped a planned speech on the economy and condemned what he called an \"insurrection\" in Washington.\n\n\"At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we've seen in modern times,\" he said. \"An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.\"\n\nHe concluded his short remarks with a challenge to Trump: to go on national television to condemn the violence and \"demand an end to this siege\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are\n\nMinutes later, Trump would offer his message to the nation - but it was not the one Biden suggested.\n\nInstead, sandwiched between his now familiar complaints about the election being \"stolen\", he told his supporters \"to go home, we love you, you're very special\".\n\nIt was the kind of kid gloves way the president has routinely responded to transgressions from his supporters - whether it was their violent treatment of protesters at his rallies, the \"very fine people on both sides\" statement after the clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville or his \"stand back and stand by\" message to the far-right Proud Boys group during the first debate with Biden.\n\nTrump's tweet, and two subsequent ones which also praised his supporters, were flagged and then removed by Twitter, which took the unprecedented step of locking the president's account for 12 hours. Facebook followed suit, banning Trump for a full day.\n\nFor the first time in his presidency, for the first time in his long, intimate relationship with social media, Donald Trump had been silenced.\n\nIf this is the \"at long last, have you left no sense of decency\" moment for Donald Trump, it arrives as they're cleaning up blood and broken glass in the US Capitol.\n\nAs the afternoon stretched into the evening, and police finally secured the US Capitol, a growing chorus of voices - from the left and right - condemned the violence. It was not surprising that Democrats, like soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, laid the riots at the feet of the president.\n\n\"January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in American history,\" he said. \"A final warning to our nation of the consequences of the demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrot his lies and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.\"\n\nMore noteworthy, however, were the Republicans who followed suit.\n\n\"We just had a violent mob assault the Capitol in an attempt to prevent those from carrying out our Constitutional duty,\" tweeted Congresswoman Lynne Cheney, a frequent Republican critic of the president's. \"There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob.\"\n\nThe condemnations were not limited to Trump's reliable intraparty critics, however. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who frequently sides with the president, also spoke out.\n\n\"It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews both resigned in protest, and there are reports that more administration officials will head for the exits in the next 24 hours.\n\nCBS has reported that Trump administration Cabinet officials are discussing the 25th amendment to the US constitution, which outlines how the vice-president and a majority of the Cabinet can temporarily remove a president from office.\n\nWhether Pence and the Cabinet act or not, Trump's presidency will be over in just two weeks. At that point, Republican Party leaders will have to grapple with a future where it has lost control of the Congress and the White House and has a former president whose reputation is badly tarnished but who still has strong sway over a sizeable segment of the party's base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney warns fellow Republicans not to be complicit in attack on democracy\n\nWednesday's events could presage a pitched battle for the direction of the party, as conservatives within the party attempt to wrest control away from Trump and his loyalists. McConnell, given his remarks earlier in the day, appears willing to chart such a course. Others, like Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, may also take a leading role.\n\nThey will be challenged by others within the party who may be more interested in laying claim to Trump's populist mantle. It was notable that Josh Hawley of Missouri, the first senator to announce he would object the results of the election in the Senate, did not step away from his challenge even after the Senate reconvened following the violence in the Capitol.\n\nCrisis can bring political opportunity, and there are many politicians who will not hesitate to use it to gain advantage.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump - for now - is still in power. And while he may be chastened, he may be sitting in the White House residence watching television temporarily without his social media outlet, he will not be silent for long.\n\nAnd once he decamps for his new Florida home, he could begin making plans to settle scores and, perhaps, someday return to power and rebuild a legacy that, for the moment, lies in tatters.", "The Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel urgent cancer surgery.\n\nThese are known as red flag cancer cases where an operation is expected to impact on a person's recovery and even surviving the disease.\n\nThe Department of Health has confirmed to the BBC that it's estimated that one in 60 people in NI have Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood the trust expects \"many 100s\" of new Covid patients in the next three weeks.\n\nThe demand for bed space is described as \"highly significant\", while a source added that all is being done to \"find beds and staff\".\n\nThey continued: \"People in here are moving heaven and earth to find beds in anticipation of what is coming and that's why some cancer patients even those who have been told their case is urgent are having their surgery cancelled.\"\n\nEffectively the move means that choices are already being made within the health service about who should receive critical treatment.\n\nThe daughter of a 66-year-old woman who was told her surgery has been cancelled has described the move as \"deeply worrying\".\n\n\"Mummy was diagnosed with cancer of the lining of the bladder in November, it's since spread to the muscle wall of her bladder. She was told in December her surgery was urgent - but now it's been cancelled.\n\n\"She is so frightened, it is just horrendous and I'm sure mum is not alone.\"\n\nWhile a cancer patient might have been told their case is critical and that treatment is necessary within weeks, some Covid patients are also being told that in order to survive they require treatment immediately.\n\nWith the number of cases soaring this is worse than the first lockdown and according to health professionals there is worse to come.\n\nThe BBC understands that the health minister is expected to respond to the problem in the coming days.\n\nIt is hoped that he will announce a regional approach to tackling cancelled surgeries among the various health trusts.\n\nNorthern Ireland's other health trusts have also begun to cancel operations due to pressures created by coronavirus.\n\nThe Northern, Western, Southern and South-Eastern trusts have said they will be cancelling planned surgeries.\n\nHospitals have said they were facing a surge in coronavirus cases following Christmas.\n\nOn Thursday, 599 people were in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe Belfast Trust apologised for the \"distress\" caused by the cancellations.\n\n\"Belfast Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel all planned inpatient surgery this week due to rising numbers of Covid cases,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe trust said it was contacting those affected and \"will rearrange this surgery as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to ensure continuity of care throughout this challenging time\".\n\nThe Northern Trust said it had \"regrettably\" cancelled the majority of its planned or elective surgeries to \"both free up staff to support the significant COVID-19 surge experience in the Trust and to reduce the clinical risk to patients who are or may be exposed to the virus\".\n\nIt apologised and said it would contacting people.\n\nThe Western Trust said it is \"facing unprecedented pressures due to the escalating rate\" of Covid infections.\n\nDirector of Acute Hospitals, Geraldine McKay, said routine elective inpatient, outpatient and day case surgeries have now been postponed until further notice.\n\nShe said the decision was \"very regrettable, but necessary\".\n\n\"Red flag and some time critical procedures and clinics will continue, but will be reviewed daily,\" she said.\n\nShould the number of Covid patients further increase, she added, the trust will \"have no option but to move to perform emergency and trauma surgery only\".\n\nA spokesperson for the South Eastern Trust said it was still carrying out some planned surgery, but the majority would be cancelled by next week.\n\nThe Southern Trust said it had taken its decision in response to the \"very significant recent increase\" in the number of Covid-19 cases.\n\nIt said this had been compounded by an increase in trauma workload and recent icy weather.\n\nThe trust said it would continue to provide day surgery and endoscopy across its hospital sites.\n\nOf the 3,359 planned procedures scheduled across NI between 29 December 2020 and 4 January, 3,267 went ahead as planned, according to the Health and Social Care website.\n\nThere were 92 cancellations which amounted to about 3% of all surgeries.", "During a speech earlier in the day, President Trump had asked his supporters to march towards the Capitol in protest. They breached the building while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's win.\n\nProtesters made it all the way to the Senate floor and the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nHere are the key moments in a dark day for US democracy.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "As violent Trump supporters surged past barricades and into the US Capitol, news agency photographers - who were there to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's election win - captured extraordinary scenes.\n\nThe last time government buildings were breached in Washington was in 1814 and the invaders were British soldiers.\n\nBut in 2021 a Trump supporter, carrying the Confederate flag, is walking freely through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nThe Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the American Civil War. In this image, the oil paintings of political figures in the background emphasise this imagery of the past.\n\nThere have been renewed calls for the Confederate flag to be banned across the US following the anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a black man.\n\nHowever Mr Trump has defended use of the flag, calling it a matter of free speech.\n\nOne man in a Trump beanie here walks between the red guide ropes, as many visitors might do on a guided-tour to view the Crypt, the Statuary Hall and the Rotunda.\n\nBut this man is carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House, as he poses in front of a painting depicting the surrender of Gen Burgoyne in the war of independence.\n\nAnother man, identified as Jake Angeli, an ardent Trump supporter who has attended a number of the president's rallies, shouts as he makes his way to the Senate Chamber.\n\nHis incongruous garments set him apart from other protesters wearing black hoodies. These Trump activists stand by taking selfies, but he has clearly come here to be photographed by others.\n\nThe apparent lack of a security presence is in sharp contrast to other Washington protests where there is a highly visible presence of heavily armed security forces protecting US institutions.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, identified as Richard Barnett, sits with one boot disrespectfully on a desk that is at the very centre of power in Congress. It is in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nIn the scene, unimaginable days earlier, Barnett in his baseball cap and checked shirt resembles a raconteur regaling friends with tales of his exploits.\n\nThe image went viral as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Ms Pelosi's desk.\n\nThis dramatic image shows how the formal proceedings came to a violent halt as Capitol police officers drew their guns on doors being attacked by protesters intent on entering the House Chamber.\n\nMany commentators asked if they were watching a coup unfold as doors were barricaded and firearms brandished.\n\nThe composition is reminiscent of a scene in a Hollywood Western, the lawmen bracing for the doors to be breached.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden made an impassioned TV address describing the scenes as \"an assault on democracy\" - this chilling picture encapsulates what he meant.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "Ryanair is making big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January in response to the latest Covid lockdowns.\n\nIt warned that few, if any, flights would operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January until \"draconian\" restrictions were removed.\n\nCustomers hit by the cancellations will be advised by email of entitlements to free moves or refunds, it said.\n\nRyanair also cut its full year traffic forecast from currently \"below 35 million\" to 26-30 million passengers.\n\nThe airline said that new Covid restrictions could reduce traffic in February and March to as little as 500,000 passengers each month. It expects January traffic to fall below 1.25 million.\n\nIt said it did not expect these latest flight cuts and further traffic reductions to materially affect its net loss for the year to 31 March 2021, since many of the flights would have been loss-making.\n\nRyanair hit out at Irish and UK governments for the latest lockdowns.\n\n\"The WHO have previously confirmed that governments should do everything possible to avoid brutal lockdowns, because lockdowns 'do not get rid of the virus',\" Ryanair said in a statement.\n\n\"Ireland's Covid-19 travel restrictions are already the most stringent in Europe, and so these new flight restrictions are inexplicable and ineffective when Ireland continues to operate an open border between the Republic and the North of Ireland.\"\n\nIt called on the Irish Government to accelerate the rollout of vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that the Danish Government, with a similar five million population, has already vaccinated 10 times more citizens than Ireland shows that emergency action is needed to speed Covid vaccinations in Ireland.\"\n\nRival low-cost carrier Norwegian said its traffic figures had been hit heavily by the pandemic, with customer numbers down 94% compared to the same period the previous year.\n\nIn December, 129,664 customers flew with Norwegian, with the capacity and total passenger traffic both down by 98%.\n\n\"2020 has been a very challenging year and we now find ourselves fighting for survival,\" said Jacob Schram, chief executive of Norwegian.\n\n\"The vaccination is now being rolled out across the world and is good news for both the aviation industry and those who want to travel.\"", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "Mr Christmas' light displays attracted thousands of visitors over the years\n\nThe family of a man known affectionately as Mr Christmas has turned off his festive lights for the last time.\n\nDave Edwards, 86, lit up his home in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, with extravagant light displays for 42 years to raise money for charity.\n\nHe died from cancer on the eve of his annual switch-on in November.\n\nHis daughter Sharon Markham called on local residents to \"continue to light up Croxley every year\".\n\nMr Edwards started putting up the light display with his wife - who died three years ago - as a competition with a house across the street, and continued to build on the set over the years.\n\nDave Edwards was dubbed Mr Christmas due to the illuminations at his home in Croxley Green\n\nPeople would travel miles to see the festive lights\n\nMrs Markham said each year they raised about £5,000 for charity, but this year a \"record amount\" of more than £10,000 had been donated.\n\nWhen his family said the 2020 display would be the last due to Mr Edwards's failing health, people across the village rallied together by installing their own displays in his honour.\n\nSharon Markham said her parents were \"such amazing people but their light will always be shining\"\n\nResidents of Croxley Green placed a banner opposite Mr Christmas' home to thank him for his displays and fundraising\n\nTurning off the lights at 21:23 GMT on Wednesday, in an event filmed for the Mr Christmas Facebook page, Mrs Markham thanked the community for its support over the years.\n\n\"Without you we could not have achieved the things we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought turning the lights on was hard enough but switching them off - this moment has been worrying me for months and now it's finally here.\n\n\"For now, though, we say goodbye and we thank Mr and Mrs Christmas for all the joy they have brought us all.\n\n\"We ask you all to continue to light up Croxley every year.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "George had mottled skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down\n\nThe mother of a baby who was treated in hospital for Covid-19 has urged parents to be alert to symptoms such as mottled skin and sickness.\n\nMyer Rudelhoff's four-month-old son George spent three nights in Basildon hospital, in Essex.\n\nHe had patchy skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down.\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was a sickness bug. I had no idea it was caused by coronavirus.\"\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children can be a sign of coronavirus according to some researchers, but the officially recognised symptoms are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nMrs Rudlehoff, who lives in Basildon, noticed her son had a temperature on New Year's Eve but put it down to teething.\n\nGeorge began vomiting the following evening and on 2 January she called NHS 111, who told her to take him to hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I really did not want to go. I was so scared about him getting the virus there, I had no idea he had it.\n\n\"He got so poorly so quickly when we arrived and was really lethargic. They took a swab and, when they said he was positive, I burst into tears. It was such a shock.\"\n\nMyer Rudelhoff was scared to take her son to hospital but realised he was too poorly and needed treatment\n\nThe mother-of-two said she presumed it was not Covid-19 because he did not have a cough, though he did develop a mild one a few days later while in hospital.\n\nShe said the staff were \"amazing\" and she wanted to reassure parents \"not to be afraid to go to hospital\" if their children were ill.\n\nNurses told her they had treated several other children with the same mottled skin and sickness and asked her to share her story to raise awareness of these symptoms.\n\nMrs Rudelhoff's post on Facebook was shared nearly 7,000 times within three days.\n\nIn the post, she said she felt \"upset, angry and frustrated\" because she had taken the illness very seriously but George had still managed to catch it. He was the only member of the family who tested positive.\n\nGeorge was discharged from hospital and was making a good recovery at home, she said.\n\nGeorge is now making a good recovery at home and is being looked after by his big brother Stanley\n\nDr Kilali Ominu-Evbota, paediatric consultant at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"It's great to hear that George is now back home and on the road to recovery.\n\n\"George's family did the right thing and we encourage parents to seek medical advice with their GP or via the NHS 111 service in order to get the correct treatment for their child.\"\n\nBasildon has an infection rate of 1,265 cases per 100,000 people - compared to the average England rate of 606.9.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Upset stomach' in children may be coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "For the first since April the UK has recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid-related deaths – one of the highest figures of the pandemic.\n\nRight now, London is at the epicentre of this crisis. Hospitals now have more Covid patients being admitted every day than they did at the peak in April. Many doctors and nurses say they're reaching breaking point.\n\nThe BBC's medical editor Fergus Walsh has been allowed to film inside the intensive care unit at London's University College Hospital, which is one of the busiest in the capital.\n\nRead more: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week'", "Elon Musk has become the world's richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (£136bn).\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla's share price increased on Thursday.\n\nHe takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017.\n\nMr Musk's electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (£516bn) for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThat makes the car company worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM and Ford combined.\n\nMr Musk reacted to the news in signature style, replying to a Twitter user sharing the news with the remark \"how strange\".\n\nAn older tweet pinned to the top of his feed offered further insight into his thoughts on personal wealth.\n\n\"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth, and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves,\" it reads.\n\nThe tycoon's fortunes have been buoyed by politics in the US, where the Democrats will have control of the US Senate in the forthcoming session.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities wrote: \"A Blue Senate is very bullish and a potential 'game changer' for Tesla and the overall electric vehicle sector, with a more green-driven agenda now certainly in the cards for the next few years.\"\n\nExpected electric vehicle tax credits would benefit Tesla, \"which continues to have an iron grip on the market today\", he added.\n\nMr Bezos is also using his personal wealth to fund space exploration\n\nMr Bezos has also seen his fortunes rise over the past year. The coronavirus pandemic has meant Amazon benefited from stronger demand for both its online store and cloud computing services.\n\nHowever, he gave a 4% stake in the business to his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott after they split, which helped Mr Musk overtake him.\n\nIn addition, the threat of regulation has meant Amazon's stock has not risen as high as it might otherwise have done.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nThe owner of a business which has only just made its first annual profit and is still a minnow compared to the likes of Toyota - or Amazon - is now the world's richest person.\n\nIt is the fact that Tesla's share price has increased more than seven-fold in the past year that has sent Elon Musk's fortune rocketing past that of Jeff Bezos.\n\nTo believe the electric car-maker's worth could rise so rapidly in just 12 months is the ultimate example of irrational exuberance.\n\nIt means that Musk will have to show within the next five years that Tesla can make more profits than just about the whole of the rest of the motor industry combined to justify the valuation.\n\nMind you, his many fans will point out that the somewhat eccentric tycoon has constantly confounded the sceptics who bet that he would go bust.\n\nAnd of course 20 years ago another tech visionary was staring disaster in the face when the dot com bubble burst and big profits seemed a distant dream - but Jeff Bezos went on to make those who bet on Amazon very rich indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nDonald Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nFour people have died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nPresident Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nMs Patel said the president's words had fuelled the violence and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, President Trump later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHe has been suspended from his Facebook and Instagram accounts for at least two weeks, and possibly indefinitely. Twitter has also frozen his account.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to Democrat Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the scenes were \"awful beyond words\".\n\nThe home secretary said: \"His comments directly led to the violence, and so far he has failed to condemn that violence and that is completely wrong.\"\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nPoliticians across the UK's political parties lined up to condemn the scenes in Washington.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\nIt is a truism of British diplomacy that every occupant of 10 Downing Street has to get on with every occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, regardless of their politics or character.\n\nPersonal consideration is pushed aside. What matters is the national interest and staying close to one of Britain's closest allies.\n\nThus even now, even after Donald Trump's incitement of the Capitol mob, even though there are less than two weeks until the inauguration, even as close Republican allies jump ship, Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were reluctant to criticise the president by name in their initial response overnight.\n\nYes, they condemned the violence. But of Mr Trump, not a word. This caution was matched by the Prime Ministers of fellow so-called Five Eyes intelligence allies, Australia and New Zealand, both of whom also both failed to mention Mr Trump in their condemnatory tweets.\n\nIn contrast, European leaders were quick to blame the president personally.\n\nIt was only this morning that a British minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel, felt able to follow suit in strong terms.\n\nSo was this natural and sensible diplomatic caution in the midst of a febrile crisis?\n\nOr was this, as some Labour figures are already claiming, a function of the closeness between the current UK government and the Trump administration?\n\nIt was only a few weeks ago that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sun that he would miss Donald Trump because he was a good friend to Britain.\n\nWhatever one's views, it is certainly the case that the British government is seen on the international stage by some has having ideological proximity to Mr Trump.\n\nChanging that reputation is seen by many diplomats as a priority in the months ahead, a task made more urgent by events overnight.", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have appeared in Crown Court.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green in Reading, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a 13-year-old girl have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey have all been remanded in youth detention custody and a provisional trial date has been set for 21 June.\n\nThe three teenagers, who cannot be identified because of their ages, had appeared at Reading Youth Court earlier on Thursday before the Crown Court hearing.\n\nThe defendants only spoke at the youth court to confirm their names, ages and addresses.\n\nThe court heard the girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe Crown Court hearing was told a potential trial was estimated to last five or six weeks.\n\nPolice were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nOlly was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, his family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "Matthew Mason will be sentenced later this month\n\nA man who killed a schoolboy after paying him to stop their sexual relationship being revealed has been found guilty of murder.\n\nMatthew Mason admitted bludgeoning 15-year-old Alex Rodda with a wrench in Ashley, Cheshire, in 2019.\n\nThe 19-year-old paid Alex more than £2,000 after he contacted his then girlfriend about \"flirty\" messages, Chester Crown Court heard.\n\nMason, of Ash Lane in Ollerton, will be sentenced on 25 January.\n\nLawyers acting for Mason, who denied murder, had claimed the killing was the result of self-defence or a loss of control.\n\nBut the jury rejected this and found him guilty of murdering Alex by a majority of 10 to two.\n\nAs the verdict was returned, Mason appeared to be crying in the dock.\n\nMembers of Alex's family were also in tears. In a statement, they said they had \"never come across a more selfish, cold and calculating person\" as Mason.\n\n\"Mason has attempted to blame Alex and discredit his name throughout this trial and thankfully the jury were able to see through his web of deceit,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Alex's father Adam Rodda said the trial had been \"very difficult\" for the family and they were relieved Mason had been found guilty of murder.\n\n\"We wouldn't have accepted anything else, we would have been distraught if any other verdict had been given. We prayed and we are obviously delighted that justice has been done,\" he said.\n\nAlex Rodda was killed in woodland in Cheshire\n\nOn the evening of 12 December, Mason said he had picked Alex up from his home and drove him to a remote area of woodland where he told him he could not afford to give him any more money.\n\nThe agricultural engineering student, who was the son of a farmer, told the court he had taken the wrench with him to \"scare him\".\n\nHe claimed that, once in the woods, Alex had threatened to ruin his life \"financially or socially\" and pushed him to the floor, grabbing the wrench and hitting Mason with it.\n\nMason said he managed to get the wrench from Alex and recalled hitting him with it twice, although the court heard evidence of further blows.\n\nAlex, a pupil at Holmes Chapel High School, was struck at least 15 times to the head and his body was found by refuse collectors the next morning.\n\nEvidence showed Alex had been struck at least 15 times with the wrench\n\nThe jury heard Mason had paid Alex more than £2,000 to stop him reporting their \"intimate sexual relationship\".\n\nIn the month before the murder, Alex contacted Mason's girlfriend to tell her that her boyfriend had been messaging him \"in a flirty way\" and had sent an explicit photo and video.\n\nMason denied the claim but began making payments to the 15-year-old's bank account.\n\nBy the time of Alex's death, Mason had transferred more than £2,200 and was asking friends and family to borrow money, the court was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Mason, who lived with his family on a farm near Knutsford, admitted having sex with Alex but said he thought it was \"wrong\".\n\nHe told the court he did not believe his friends would accept him if he was gay or bisexual.\n\nIn the week before Alex's death, Mason made internet searches for phrases including \"what would happen if you kicked someone down the stairs\", \"everyday poison\" and \"the mysteries of Cheshire unsolved deaths of missing people\".\n\nBut he told the court he had been searching the terms because he was suicidal.\n\nAlex's body was found in woodland by refuse collectors\n\nAfter killing Alex, Mason had a drink with friends in the Red Lion pub in Pickmere and The Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley, Cheshire Police said.\n\nHe later returned to the woods and the prosecution believe he dragged Alex's body to the side of the road and attempted to put him inside his car.\n\nAfter failing to do this, he drove away. But a witness had taken a photo of his Renault Clio car parked on the track and reported this to police.\n\nMason was identified as the owner and arrested the next day.\n\nPolice said Mason had dried blood on his hands and there was a bin bag in his boot with a blood-stained fleece, the wrench and Alex's jacket in it.\n\nDet Insp Nigel Reid said: \"Mason had murder on his mind as he drove Alex to his death under the pretence of sexual activity.\n\n\"He chose a secluded place to kill him in cold blood, a place he believed he would go unseen and his crime undetected.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Sarah Bingham said she is a match donor for her daughter Ariel and eldest son Noah (far right)\n\nA mother with two children who need kidney transplants said she wishes she could help both of them, but can only donate one organ.\n\nSarah Bingham's son Noah, 20, and daughter Ariel, 16, have the same rare genetic condition.\n\nMrs Bingham, 48, is a donor match for her children and said her maternal instinct is to donate to both of them.\n\nBut her organ was always due to go to her daughter and two family friends are matches for her son.\n\nHer husband Darryl, 49, is not a match, so cannot be a donor for their children.\n\nBoth Noah and Ariel have nephronophthisis, which causes inflammation and scarring to the kidneys.\n\nMrs Bingham, of Hexham, Northumberland, said although her son is \"very poorly\", he undergoes regular dialysis and is in a stable condition.\n\nHer daughter's kidney function \"has been deteriorating more in the last year\" and she will probably need a transplant first.\n\nMrs Bingham said: \"I was all set to give a kidney to my daughter and then my son went into renal failure and he also needs a kidney. Obviously, I've only got one that I can donate.\n\n\"The renal teams don't push you [to make a decision], because you're putting yourself on the line to donate a kidney.\n\n\"You have to make that call yourself, but obviously as a mum when you've got two children who both need kidney transplants and you've expected to give your kidney to one, and suddenly the other one needs one as well, you feel this dilemma.\"\n\nNoah Bingham is in a stable condition thanks to regular kidney dialysis\n\nProblems began in 2016 when Ariel started to feel constantly tired.\n\nHer fatigue was initially put down to exam stress, but tests at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary found she had the kidney condition.\n\nMrs Bingham was told she would be a suitable donor for Ariel when the time came.\n\nThen, in 2019, Noah became ill and was diagnosed with the same condition.\n\nHe is stable, but would need to put on weight to undergo a transplant.\n\nThe couple have another son Casper, 12, who is being tested to see if he also has the condition.\n\nDarryl Bingham is not a suitable match for his two eldest children\n\nProf John Sayer, a kidney specialist at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital who is treating Noah, said nephronophthisis affects about one in 100,000 people.\n\n\"There's clearly a dilemma because there's a shortage of donors for patients needing kidney transplants.\n\n\"But kidney failure itself is not rare. There are 4,500 people across the country waiting for a transplant.\"\n\nHe added patients often face a \"gruelling and terrifying\" wait of about three years for a donor organ.\n\nIn December, Mr Bingham completed the challenge of walking 12,000 steps every day for 12 days to raise money for Kidney Research UK, which has supported the family.\n\nMrs Bingham said that if Ariel's condition was to deteriorate first she would get her kidney\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some supermarkets faced issues over the festive period due to ports disruption\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".\n\nIt argued frontline workers in meat factories should get early vaccinations due to the risk of a rapid spread of the new strains of the virus among key workers.\n\nThe government has set out who will get vaccinated first, which starts with care home residents and the oldest and most vulnerable people.\n\nBut Nick Allen, chief executive of the BMPA, said it would be logical to also prioritise key workers in the food industry.\n\n\"As the new coronavirus variant takes hold across the whole of the UK, we are hearing widespread reports of rapidly rising absences in the food supply chain,\" he said.\n\nSome firms supplying supermarkets \"are seeing a tripling of staff having to take time off work through illness or enforced self-isolation\", he added.\n\nPressures on staff during the lockdown include illness, having to self-isolate, and childcare while some schools are closed under England's lockdown.\n\nDue to the specialised nature of meat production, if even a few key factory personnel such as the foreman or managers are absent, production can stop, Mr Allen said.\n\nEarly vaccinations should not be restricted to the meat industry, according to Mr Allen. All key workers in the food industry should get early vaccinations, he said.\n\nEven supermarkets themselves are having problems with absences, he suggested.\n\n\"The key food supply chains ought to be prioritised,\" he said. \"All food industry key workers should be prioritised [for vaccination]\".\n\nThe government is advised on vaccinations by a group of experts called the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 Chair for the JCVI, said the committee's advice on vaccine prioritisation \"was developed with the aim of preventing as many deaths as possible.\"\n\n\"As the single greatest risk of death from Covid-19 is older age, prioritisation is primarily based on age,\" he said.\n\n\"It is estimated that vaccinating everyone in the priority groups would prevent 99% of deaths, including those associated with occupational exposure to infection,\" the professor added.\n\nSainsbury's boss Simon Roberts also called for early vaccinations for key workers on Thursday.\n\n\"My view is that priority has to be given to those that need it first,\" he said. \"Those on the frontline should be part of that as and when capacity becomes available.\"\n\nAbsence rates for Sainsbury's staff are lower than at the peak of the crisis, but are rising, and have stepped up in the last few days, he said.\n\nThe Sainsbury's absence rate is currently 8%. The business has 172,000 employees.\n\nAsda said that it had seen an increase in employees self-isolating and shielding in line with the rising UK infection rate.\n\nHowever, it said that absence rates were still lower than at the peak of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are taking proactive steps to manage colleague absences by retaining temporary colleagues hired over the Christmas period and are bringing in additional temporary colleagues in those stores that need them the most,\" and Asda spokesman said.\n\nTesco has asked clinically vulnerable staff to stay at home.\n\nMorrisons, meanwhile, is also seeing more absences, but the rate is still more than half that of the peak of the pandemic. It is also a bigger business having taken on 26,000 extra staff during the crisis.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium said: \"While absence rates are currently rising, retailers are closely monitoring the situation in stores and distribution centres and supply chains continue to run smoothly.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs said: \"As we have seen in recent months, the UK has a large, diverse and highly resilient food supply chain.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation and are working closely with the food industry on the workforce and absence related challenges presented by the pandemic.\"\n\nThey added that the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people across the country have the food they need.\n\nUK ports have seen disruption due to the effects of coronavirus on trade and new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Roberts of Sainsbury's said that, so far, the flow of goods from Europe is in decent shape, but there had been some problems in sending food to Northern Ireland.There is still some backlog in general merchandising, he added.\n\nHowever, Scottish seafood exporters warned on Thursday that they had been hit by the \"perfect storm of Brexit disruption\".\n\n\"Weakened by Covid-19, and the closure of the French border before Christmas, the end of the Brexit transition period has unleashed layer upon layer of administrative problems, resulting in queues, border refusals and utter confusion,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\nShe said IT problems in France meant consignments were diverted from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dunkirk, \"which was unprepared as it wasn't supposed to be at the export frontline.\"\n\nThere have also been IT issues on the UK side with HMRC, she added.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets,\" she said. \"They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition. If the window closes these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nThe National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations also warned of delays to fish exports due to \"a brick wall of bureaucracy\".", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nAston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool after a \"significant\" Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nA final decision on whether the game will take place at all will be made on Friday.\n\nVilla manager Dean Smith, his coaching staff and the rest of the club's first-team squad will not be involved after the outbreak forced the closure of the club's Bodymoor Heath training headquarters on Thursday.\n\nThe club is in discussions with the Football Association and want to fulfil the fixture (kick-off 19:45 GMT) but final confirmation on whether the tie is played is still on hold pending the results of further testing on the young players who are now being considered for selection.\n\nMark Delaney, Villa's under-23 coach, is scheduled to take charge in the absence of Smith and his backroom staff. He will be accompanied by a doctor, physiotherapist and kit staff.\n\nThe game was thrown into doubt when Villa confirmed the shutdown of the training ground after \"a large number of first-team players and staff\" returned positive Covid-19 results after being tested on Monday.\n\nThose affected went into isolation and a second round of tests was carried out immediately, which produced more positive results on Thursday.\n\nVilla are keen to play the game against Jurgen Klopp's Premier League champions, who they thrashed 7-2 earlier this season. Manager Smith had planned to rest several stars for the game but the Covid-19 outbreak has thrown the club's plans into chaos.\n\nThey will now be hoping the additional Covid-19 testing returns a clean bill of health with Villa liaising closely with the FA in the hope of getting the game played on Friday night.\n\nThe meeting between in-form Villa and Liverpool is one of the most attractive ties of the third round, even if both managers were set to field unfamiliar line-ups.\n\nIt also remains to be seen whether Villa's scheduled Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Wednesday goes ahead.\n• None What sport has been hit by Covid-19 this weekend?\n\nElswhere, Southampton's FA Cup third-round game against Shrewsbury on Sunday was called off on Thursday after a significant number of Shrews players and staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nWayne Rooney and Derby's first-team squad will miss their FA Cup tie at Chorley on Saturday following a Covid-19 outbreak which closed their training ground on Monday.\n\nThe Rams' team for the game at Victory Park will be made up of under-23 and under-18 players.\n\nVilla will be doing all they can to ensure Friday's tie goes ahead but the Covid-19 outbreak could also have Premier League ramifications.\n\nVilla are scheduled to face fourth-placed Spurs at Villa Park on Wednesday and they currently stand only three points behind Jose Mourinho's team.\n\nThere must now be question marks over whether that game will take place.\n\nIf the game is off it will only add to the fixture congestion both clubs are likely to face in an already crowded calendar this season.\n\nVilla, even though they planned to leave out several established first-team players against Liverpool, still had high FA Cup ambitions and would have wanted to maintain the momentum that has given them such an impressive start to the season after only surviving in the top flight on the final day of last season.\n\nThey will hope the latest testing brings no further complications in the FA Cup context - then attention will turn to what has the potential to be a hugely significant game on Wednesday.\n• Stream eight live FA Cup third-round games this weekend on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app. Find out more here.", "GPs in England are receiving doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn about overstretched hospitals.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine is part of the NHS's biggest-ever effort and aims to offer jabs to 13 million by mid-February - including all over-80s.\n\nBirmingham's NHS said there are enough supplies with more to come as politicians warned doses may run out.\n\nSome hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nAnd hospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine to GPs will help increase vaccinations among the top four priority groups who are first in line to receive doses.\n\nThe Department of Health said 1.3 million people in the UK, including almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England, have received at least one dose so far.\n\nWriting to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Birmingham political leaders criticised communication around the vaccination programme in the city.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the vaccination rollout is in its early days, but we have also learned today that Birmingham has not yet been supplied with any AstraZeneca stock, while current Pfizer stocks are scheduled to run out on Friday this week with currently no clarity on when further supplies will arrive.\"\n\nThey added \"it remains unclear who is responsible for overseeing the vaccination programme in Birmingham, and whom we should hold accountable for progress and delivery\".\n\nThe letter is signed by Labour leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward; Liam Byrne MP, Labour's candidate for the West Midlands mayor, and by Conservative MP and ex-minister Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut NHS Birmingham and Solihull told the BBC: \"Thousands of people in Birmingham and Solihull have already been vaccinated and this continues at pace.\n\n\"We have sufficient supplies and more will be coming.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said he has been assured supplies of the Oxford vaccine will be delivered to Birmingham on Friday.\n\nElsewhere, Gillian McLauchlan, deputy director of public health at Salford Council, described \"teething\" issues with the vaccine rollout there.\n\nShe told councillors at a local scrutiny committee: \"We have no control over vaccine supplies. We are told literally two days in advance 'your next lot of vaccines are coming'.\"\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history, with an aim to offer jabs to most care home residents by the end of January and the most vulnerable by mid-February.\n\nOfficials leading the vaccination programme are adamant rollout is going to plan - and are cautioning against judging performance too early.\n\nOf course, there will be teething problems, but the fact remains the UK has vaccinated more per head of population than any other country apart from Israel and Bahrain.\n\nWhile rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine started on Monday, it was actually only being used at the hospital hubs up to Thursday.\n\nDeliveries are now being made to hundreds of local vaccination centres. There are 17 in the Birmingham region so they should start to receive doses imminently.\n\nThat should mean there is a vaccine available if they do run out of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nAlthough disruption to the rollout of the programme in the city may still happen as local centres are warning they cannot book patients in until they know they have stock available.\n\nBut the fact the city's leaders felt compelled to write to the health secretary to warn about this is an illustration of the pressure in the system at the moment.\n\nGiven the high level of infections and current lockdown, there is a desperation in all quarters to get the most at-risk vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd until the nation sees that translate into significant numbers of people getting vaccinated - 2 million a week is the goal - people will remain on edge.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use on 2 December but requires specialist storage unsuitable for most GP practices, with doses largely delivered in hospitals.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca jab was approved on 30 December and does not require specialist storage. It was first rolled out on Monday to hospitals and to GPs in England from Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One medical centre in London is now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nMr Hancock visited a GP surgery in London to promote the roll out earlier - but staff there said delivery of the Oxford vaccine had been delayed.\n\nThe health secretary said he was \"delighted\" care home residents would begin receiving their first Oxford jabs from GPs this week.\n\n\"This will ensure the most vulnerable are protected and will save tens of thousands of lives,\" he said.\n\nGP Ammara Hughes, a partner at Bloomsbury Surgery, told broadcasters its first delivery of the Oxford jab had been pushed back 24 hours to Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"It's just more frustrating than a concern because we've got the capacity to vaccinate. And if we had a regular supply - we do have the capacity to vaccinate three to four thousand patients a week.\"\n\nMr Hancock described supply of vaccine as a \"rate-limiting\" step.\n\nHe said: \"For the first three days with the Oxford vaccine we did it in hospitals to check that it was working well and it's working well so now we can make sure that it gets to all those GP surgeries that like this one can do all the vaccinations that are needed.\n\n\"The rate-limiting step is the supply of vaccine. We're working with the companies - both Pfizer and AstraZeneca - to increase the supply.\"\n\nMore than 700 local vaccination sites will administer jabs, with the government announcing a further seven mass vaccination sites across England.\n\nAnother 180 GP-led sites, 100 new hospital sites and a pilot scheme involving local pharmacies will open this week.\n\nMeanwhile, nearly 19,981 second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab - which was the first to be approved for emergency use in the UK last month - were administered between 29 December and 3 January, NHS England said.\n\nIt came as Rupert Pearse, professor of intensive care medicine and a consultant at the Royal London, said his own intensive care staff are having to care for far more sick patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there would usually be a ratio of one fully-trained intensive care nurse for each patient in a unit but staff are becoming increasingly stretched.\n\n\"Right now we are diluting down to one [intensive care] nurse to three [patients] and filling those gaps with untrained staff and in some instances doctors helping nurses deliver their care... and we're even facing diluting that further to one in four,\" he said.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown, and vaccinations are progressing across the devolved nations.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has reported a bumper Christmas, with sales up 9.3% for the festive trading period.\n\nMore customers bought their food online than ever before, it said.\n\nIn the 10 days leading up to Christmas, it delivered 1.1 million online orders, twice last year's number.\n\n\"Many customers had to change their Christmas plans at the last minute and we sold smaller turkeys and more lamb and beef than normal,\" said chief executive Simon Roberts.\n\nSainsbury's Christmas trading period covered the nine weeks from 1 November 2020 to 2 January 2021.\n\nFor the 15 weeks to 2 January, like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new store openings, were up 8.6%.\n\n\"We now expect, after forgoing business rates relief of £410m, to report underlying profit before tax of at least £330m in the financial year to March 2021,\" the supermarket said.\n\nThat is down from the previous year's figure of £586m.\n\nSainsbury's has delivered bumper festive sales. It's invested heavily in boosting online capacity to keep up with the soaring demand.\n\nSupermarkets have struggled to make money from doing online deliveries, but Sainsbury's says its operation has become more efficient and profitability has improved. As volumes have increased, there are more orders in every van delivering to a smaller radius of customers.\n\nClick-and-collect is a lot cheaper to do than home deliveries. And this accounted for about a quarter of online sales in the final week.\n\nArgos generated more than half its sales from online well before the pandemic. More than 300 Argos counters are now inside Sainsbury's supermarkets, making it easy for people to pick up goods and gifts. Its fast-track delivery service can deliver to customers' homes and collection points within hours and this has seen growth of 62%.\n\nThis is a business that's been well placed to benefit from the huge shift to digital this Christmas.\n\nChristmas and New Year celebrations were constrained by coronavirus restrictions, which limited the number of people and households allowed to meet up.\n\nSainsbury's said that while people had smaller gatherings, they still treated themselves, with sales of the supermarket's premium Taste the Difference range up 11%.\n\nPremium champagne sales were up 52%, it added, echoing similar findings by rival Morrisons.\n\n\"People did more home baking than usual, with mincemeat sales up 24%. Customers still wanted New Year's Eve at home to feel special and we sold a record number of steaks,\" Sainsbury's said.\n\nSales of groceries, general merchandise and clothing were stronger than expected throughout the quarter, particularly since the start of England's second national lockdown, it added.\n\nClothing benefited from better-than-anticipated full-price sales, driven by customers shopping earlier for Christmas and changes to the supermarket's Black Friday trading strategy.\n\nSeparate figures issued by discount retailer B&M indicated that it too had a good Christmas, with like-for-like revenues at its UK stores up 21.1% year-on-year in the 13 weeks to 26 December.\n\n\"With our combination of exceptional value and convenient out-of-town locations, we are confident that our business model will prove highly relevant to the needs of customers in 2021,\" said chief executive Simon Arora.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Shijiazhuang authorities have started mass-testing residents following an outbreak in the city\n\nChina has placed 11 million people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang under lockdown after more than 100 new Covid cases were confirmed there.\n\nResidents are banned from leaving the city and schools have also been closed.\n\nMore than 5,000 testing sites have been set up so every resident can be tested.\n\nThe new figures are the highest China has seen in more than five months. The country has been able to contain such outbreaks by immediately taking tough action.\n\nThis has involved consistently using mass testing when new clusters of cases appear, even if they seem relatively small.\n\nHebei province, where Shijiazhuang is located, reported 120 new cases on Thursday and all but one of those infections was in the city. Elsewhere in the country, 22 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 before spiralling into a global pandemic.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year, a time when people in China travel en masse to spend the holiday with their families.\n\nBut residents in the Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, considered to be the epicentre of the outbreak, are now not allowed to leave their local area. Other residents are banned from leaving the city.\n\nIn terms of transport, bus travel has been halted and many flights have been cancelled.\n\nResidents have been banned from leaving the city\n\nIn a sign of just how seriously the authorities see the situation, even the postal service in and out of Shijiazhuang has been suspended for three days. And the restrictions are being tightly enforced - police were photographed in protective hazmat suits guarding the entrance to an expressway.\n\nThree officials in Shijiazhuang's Gaocheng district have been punished for \"negligence\", according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.\n\n\"Villages should identify, report, isolate and treat cases as early as possible, so as to cut off the transmission,\" Wu Hao, a national health official, was quoted as saying.\n\nFive hospitals in Shijiazhuang have been cleared for Covid-19 patients, with three others standing by, the city's Vice-Mayor Meng Xianghong said.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year - a time when families gather\n\nIt is not the first time China has locked down a city in response to a cluster of cases since the outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nIn October, all nine million residents of the Chinese city of Qingdao were tested in five days after a dozen cases were confirmed. The cases were linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad.\n\nThe same month, authorities in Kashgar, in Xinjiang, tested around 4.7m people after an outbreak there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many businesses in Beijing say that customers are still staying away", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Just when the hospitality sector thought things couldn't get any worse, it has been hit by another lockdown.\n\nLast year's rolling closures forced Martin Wolstencroft to borrow £4m just to ensure the survival of Arc Inspirations, a bar chain with 17 venues across the north of England that he has spent the last two decades building into a successful business.\n\nAnd the latest lockdown has forced Mr Wolstencroft to ask his bank to lend him another £1m.\n\nHe is far from alone. UK Hospitality says the closure of pubs, restaurants and hotels is costing business owners such as Mr Wolstencroft a total of £500m a month, even allowing for any government support. And that has led to a huge rise in debt.\n\n\"The money that we are borrowing is really just to stand still,\" Mr Wolstencroft said.\n\n\"We'll be coming out of this in a far worse position with far greater debt and it totally reduces our ability to grow our business for the future.\n\n\"And all of this has been brought about through no fault of our own.\"\n\nHe reckons the debt he has taken on so far will take the business six years to pay back, which leaves him facing some difficult decisions.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a package of grants worth up to £3,000 a month per property to keep retail, hospitality and leisure businesses afloat until the spring.\n\nBut Mr Wolstencroft, who pays rents of more than £16,000 a month on some of his bars, described the grants as a \"mere drop in the ocean\".\n\nThe effect of taking on huge debts with no prospect of reopening soon is a major threat to millions working in the hospitality sector.\n\nMore than 1,600 restaurants closed last year, costing 30,000 jobs, says property adviser Altus.\n\nWhen bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses are included, almost 300,000 jobs were lost last year as a result of the pandemic, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAnd that figure is expected to more than double in the first three months of this year alone.\n\nKate Nicholls, the boss of UK Hospitality, predicts the total will hit 660,000 by the end of March.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls is calling for further support for the industry\n\n\"The longer that these restrictions are in place, the more rapidly businesses will simply run out of cash and be unable to to remain open,\" she said.\n\nA survey of the trade body's members revealed that 80% of businesses did not have enough cash to make it through to April. \"It's going to be unbelievably brutal in the first quarter,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe latest lockdown follows a bruising Christmas period for the hospitality sector, which typically depends on a busy December to tide it over during January, traditionally a quiet month for pubs and restaurants.\n\n\"It's obviously very worrying for our industry,\" says Tim Hughes, who runs the Plough pub at Sleapshyde in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"They have banned takeaway sales of alcohol from pubs, but off-licences and supermarkets can carry on selling it,\" he said.\n\nBetween them, Mr Hughes, his brother and his father run three pubs in the St Albans area. They have already borrowed £350,000 and Mr Hughes says the latest lockdown will force them to take on even more debt just to survive.\n\nMonthly fixed costs at each of the pubs run to £9,500 and only one of their venues qualifies for the full £3,000 grant, so Mr Hughes says the Treasury's support \"doesn't touch the sides\".\n\nIt's the fourth time Mr Hughes has been forced to close the doors to the Plough - and each time it has cost him about £5,000.\n\nThis time, he also had to give away £4,000 worth of jumbo pork, vegetarian and vegan Bavarian bratwursts, bought to give 2,000 customers a substantial meal in the pub's \"winter garden\" during the festive period.\n\nThat was before an unexpected decision to put St Albans into tier three forced him to close the pub. He cancelled those bookings and refunded customers their £16,000.\n\nThe Plough's \"winter garden\", which was booked up for the Christmas period, stands empty\n\nRalph Findlay, the boss of Marston's, which has 1,700 pubs across the country and employs 14,000 people, said some pubs that had been forced to close their doors because of the lockdown would never reopen.\n\nHalf of Marston's employees are under 25, he said. \"I really worry about the impact of this on their employment prospects in places where it's very difficult to find employment.\"\n\nHe has called for pubs to be given more time before they are required to pay business rates again, which will leave pubs facing an £800m bill as soon as the current rates holiday expires in March, according to the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nThat would force landlords, including Mr Hughes, to foot a bill that works out at £25,000 a pub.\n\n\"We are kidding ourselves if we think that more debt upon more debt is going to be sustainable,\" said Stephen Welton, executive chairman of the Business Growth Fund.\n\n\"Past recessions have shown very clearly that it's coming out of a recession - when companies are short of working capital - that they fall over.\"\n\nFor Mr Hughes at the Plough, he is looking for all the support he can get to avoid being put into a \"bigger black hole\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"\"We've taken swift action throughout the pandemic to protect lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nHe said the grant scheme would continue to support businesses and jobs through to the spring.", "Jamie Stiehm is a US political columnist who was in the Capitol building in Washington DC when it was stormed by pro-Trump rioters. Here's what she saw from the press gallery in the House of Representatives.\n\nI had told my sister earlier: \"Something bad is going to happen today. I don't know what, but something bad will happen.\"\n\nOutside the Capitol, I encountered a group of very boisterous supporters of President Donald Trump, all waving flags and pledging their allegiance to him. There was a sense that trouble was brewing.\n\nI went inside to the House of Representatives and up into the press gallery, where we were assigned seats, looking down at the rather sombre gathering. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding the gavel, and keeping people to their five-minute statements.\n\nAs we went into the second hour, all of a sudden we heard breaking glass. The air began getting fogged. An announcement from the Capitol Police said, \"An individual has breached the building\". So everyone looked around and then it was business as usual. But after that, the announcements kept coming. And they were getting more and more urgent.\n\nThey announced that the intruders had breached the rotunda, which is under the famed marble dome. The sacred house of democracy was under fire.\n\nMany of us are hardened journalists - I've seen my share of violence covering homicides in Baltimore - but this was very unpredictable. The police didn't seem to know what was happening. They weren't coordinated. They locked the chamber doors but at the same time, they told us we would have to evacuate. So there was a sense of panic.\n\nI was afraid. I'll tell you that. And I've spoken to other journalists who said they were a little ashamed of themselves for feeling afraid.\n\nThere was a sense of \"nobody's in charge here, the Capitol Police have lost control of the building, anything can happen\".\n\nIf you think back to the September 11 attacks in 2001, there was one plane that went down and didn't hit its target. That target was the Capitol. There were echoes of that. I made a call to my family, just to let them know that I was here and it was a dangerous situation.\n\nThere was a shot. We could see there was a standoff in our chamber. Five men were holding guns at the door. It was a frightening sight. Men were looking through a broken glass window and looked like they could shoot at any second.\n\nThankfully there was no gunfire inside the chamber. But for a while there, it felt like it would be a real possibility. Because things were going downhill very fast.\n\nWe had to crawl under railings to get out of the way. I was not dressed to do that. A lot of women were dressed up, wearing heels, because they had come for a formal ritual.\n\nI sheltered in the House cafeteria alongside others. I'm still shaking now.\n\nI have seen a lot as a journalist, but this was something more. This was the collective public sphere being undermined, assaulted, degraded. And I think this was why the Speaker wanted to return and hold the gavel again and go on.\n\nAfterwards I had to decide whether I was going to go back to the chamber too. I decided l probably would, because the message that is sending is: \"You can incite a mob, but we're going to go on\". I think that is a very important political message.", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "More than 26,000 are now in hospital with the virus, according to government data\n\nFrance's top medical adviser said on Sunday that a third national lockdown would probably soon be needed to combat coronavirus in the country.\n\nA strict curfew was implemented last weekend, but cases continue to climb.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the scientific council that advises leaders on Covid-19, said \"there is an emergency\" and this week was critical.\n\nHe called for swift government action, amid rising concerns about the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.\n\nProf Delfraissy said data showed a new more transmissible variant first detected in the UK now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions and will be hard to stop.\n\nHe said the country was in a better situation than others in Europe, but described the new variants as the \"equivalent of a second pandemic\".\n\n\"If we do not tighten regulations, we will find ourselves in an extremely difficult situation from mid-March,\" the advisor warned during an interview with BFM television.\n\nThe French government is expected to meet on Wednesday to decide if further measures are needed.\n\nOfficials have so far resisted implementing a third national lockdown, preferring an overnight curfew system which allows schools to stay open.\n\nBut daily infection numbers are rising - with the seven-day moving average now above 20,000 despite the 18:00 curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex previously said restrictions could be imposed \"without delay\" if the situation deteriorated further.\n\nThe country's virus death toll topped 73,000 on Sunday, as the country tightened restrictions on arrivals into the country.\n\nUnder new rules anyone entering from inside the EU by air or ferry must now present a negative Covid-19 test result within 72 hours of travel. Those entering France from the EU by road, including cross-border workers, will not be required to take a test.\n\nPresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that all non-essential travel \"must be strongly advised against\" but EU nations have so far agreed to keep borders open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19", "Ella Lambert had never sewn before but borrowed a friend's machine to learn how to make sanitary pads made from cloth\n\nA student whose \"terrible period pains\" inspired her to start a reusable sanitary pad project has helped 600 refugees get out of \"period poverty\".\n\nElla Lambert, 20, from Chelmsford, Essex, started The Pachamama Project during the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said she wanted to help women who were unable to buy period products.\n\nNearly 2,500 pads sewn by 150 volunteers have been sent to camps in Greece and Lebanon.\n\nWomen are given four pads each, which are washable and can be reused for about five years, she said.\n\nThe pads are distributed to women in refugee camps\n\nMs Lambert said: \"In March I had terrible period pain, I was being sick, it was awful, and it made me think, I know I'm not the only person going through this.\n\n\"The people I want to help, in these camps, they're experiencing period pain and having to use random tissue paper, cardboard, socks, scraps of material and even leaves - whatever they can get hold of.\"\n\nThe University of Bristol languages student set up her not-for-profit group in March and launched her sanitary product - Pacha Pads - in August, with the help of charities and groups in the two countries to distribute them.\n\nThousands of pads have been made by hundreds of volunteers since August\n\nIt started when she put appeals for material on community groups, she said.\n\nVolunteers from all over the UK came forward to make the products after she developed a pattern, created a guide and explained how to source material for free.\n\nThe products are then sent back to her to be posted abroad, after quality checks.\n\nSome of the sewers came from groups formed to make scrubs for NHS workers during the first lockdown, and who still wanted to be useful, she said.\n\nAlice Corrigan, from The Free Shop of Lebanon, said the project helped with the \"fight against period poverty in Lebanon\"\n\nAlice Corrigan, founder of The Free Shop Lebanon, which hands out the products for free in its shop, said: \"Sustainable menstrual products are very new to many Lebanese and in particular Syrian women.\"\n\nShe added it is not common for them to talk about menstrual activity, so it was important they could be helped to understand its importance and accept it as part of their routine.\n\nKaty Chadwick, technical adviser at the charity ActionAid UK, said: \"For too many women and girls and people who menstruate a lack of access to products impacts on their ability to move freely and to access education and other opportunities.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see new initiatives to support the most marginalised women and girls access sustainable products.\"\n\nAll the sanitary pads are washable so they can be reused for up to about five years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Janice Johnston says doctors who misdiagnosed her \"took so much away from me\"\n\nA care home worker who was wrongly diagnosed with cancer said she thought it was a \"cruel joke\" when she was told doctors had made a mistake and she did not have cancer at all.\n\nMum-of-four Janice Johnston said her \"world crumbled\" when she learned she had a rare form of blood cancer at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 2017.\n\nShe had 18 months of oral chemotherapy treatment, during which she experienced weight loss, nausea and bone pain, and had to give up her job as an auxiliary nurse.\n\nWhen the treatment did not appear to be working, she says, medics upped the dosage.\n\nIn 2018, she sought alternative treatment at Guy's Hospital in London. It was there a specialist told her she did not have cancer at all but a different condition.\n\nMrs Johnston was awarded £75,950 in damages after East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust admitted liability. Staff at the hospital had failed to do the necessary ultrasound scan and bone marrow biopsy before diagnosing her.\n\nMrs Johnston, 53, said: \"The cancer diagnosis was an absolute shock. They said my life span would be shortened.\n\n\"I was at high risk of a fatal stroke or heart attack and I could drop down at any minute. It was heartbreaking and devastating.\n\n\"It didn't sink in until I saw the haematologist. I was in a room with people having serious chemotherapy who looked incredibly ill. I thought: 'I'm like them'.\"\n\nMrs Johnston says doctors told her she would need chemotherapy for life.\n\nThe side-effects led to her feeling \"wiped out\", her hair thinning, her teeth becoming loose and her gums receding.\n\nShe says occupational health told her that her immune system was jeopardised and she could pick up infections easily. That meant she was forced to resign from her job.\n\n\"Giving up work was horrible,\" Mrs Johnston says.\n\nShe was also worried she would not get to see some of her daughters get married or her grandchildren grow up.\n\nThe trust admitted failing to carry out vital tests before diagnosing Mrs Johnston\n\nAfter searching on the internet to find out more about the blood cancer she was told she had - Polycythaemia vera (PV) - she learned that Guy's Hospital offered a different type of chemotherapy and asked her consultant for an appointment there.\n\nMrs Johnston recalls: \"The specialist at Guy's looked over my blood counts and said: 'I don't think you have blood cancer'.\"\n\nThe doctor told Mrs Johnston she had a different condition called secondary PV which is not cancer.\n\n\"She asked if I'd had a bone marrow test and scan of the spleen to confirm the diagnosis - I hadn't had either. My husband thought it was fantastic but I was angry.\n\n\"I thought it was a cruel joke on me. It didn't sink in. My husband couldn't understand why I wasn't jumping for joy - but it had taken my life.\"\n\nOne of the hardest things to cope with for Mrs Johnston was thinking she had been a \"fraud\".\n\n\"I'd been doing some fundraising to try and have something positive to focus on. Cancer Research UK asked if I'd be guest of honour at a charity run in Margate. I stood on stage in front of 3,000 women saying I had cancer.\n\n\"I'm mortified that people will think I made it up. It has made me feel awful and like I have lied to everyone,\" she said.\n\nMrs Johnston now has severe anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\n\"I still get flashbacks to it,\" she says. \"It was two years of my life. They took so much away from me.\"\n\nShe says she wants to \"raise awareness\" about her experience, and for \"anyone that does get diagnosed with it, to ask questions and learn as much as they can about it and if they feel any doubt, to get a second opinion\".\n\nA spokesperson for East Kent Hospitals said: \"A misdiagnosis of this kind is exceptionally rare and we wholeheartedly apologise to Ms Johnston.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Galle (day four of five)\n\nEngland completed a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.\n\nChasing a tricky 164, England were 89-4 on a turning pitch but opener Dom Sibley hit 56 not out to lead them to a six-wicket win.\n\nSibley, who had not reached double figures in the series, put on 75 with Jos Buttler, who made 46 not out.\n\nEarlier, England capitalised on reckless batting to dismiss Sri Lanka for 126 in their second innings.\n\nDom Bess and Jack Leach took four wickets each and the hosts would have been dismissed even more cheaply but for 40 from number 10 Lasith Embuldeniya, who finished with match figures of 10-210.\n\nResuming on 339-9 in their first innings, England conceded a first-innings deficit of 37 when Jack Leach was dismissed with only five runs added.\n\nSri Lanka were favourites at that point but England completed a turnaround on a dramatic day when 15 wickets fell.\n\nThe series win is England's fourth in a row and they are also unbeaten in 10 successive Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, going into a difficult series in India which starts on 5 February.\n\nEngland are fourth in the World Test Championship table, 0.5% behind third-placed Australia.\n• None Root urges England not to 'stand still'\n• None TMS podcast: What does England's series win mean for India tour?\n\nThis was also England's fifth consecutive away Test win, the first time they have achieved that feat since World War One. They are developing an impressive winning habit.\n\nSri Lanka's batting, perhaps spooked by the turning pitch, was inept and their effort in the field lacklustre, but England were clinical.\n\nBess and Leach bowled well - far better than their wicketless showing in the first innings - while James Anderson took a brilliant high catch and Zak Crawley two excellent grabs at short leg.\n\nSri Lanka were leading only by 115 when their eighth wicket fell, before Embuldeniya, who had a remarkable game in defeat, dragged them to a score.\n\nThe target looked competitive - the hosts were possibly even favourites - but the manner England in which overhauled it was mightily impressive.\n\nThere was a wobble when Jonny Bairstow was trapped lbw for a useful 28-ball 29, Root - the dominant player in the series - was bowled for 11 and Dan Lawrence edged behind with a further 85 needed.\n\nHowever, Sibley played the anchor role while Buttler provided impetus in his typically attacking style.\n\nSibley, so at sea in his previous three innings, calmly nudged singles into the leg side. Buttler played thumped drives to the extra-cover boundary, smacked a reverse sweep through point and launched a slog sweep through mid-wicket.\n\nIn the end, England won with ease, Sibley sealing a fine win by tapping for one.\n\nSri Lanka threatened better in this match, having been convincingly beaten by seven wickets in the first.\n\nThey batted well in the first innings and in Embuldeniya they have a fine spinner, playing only his ninth Test.\n\nBut their fourth-day performance was abysmal. Their batting was akin to their performance on day one of the series when they were bowled out for 135.\n\nThe dismissals of captain Dinesh Chandimal - skying a slog sweep to Anderson at mid-on having hit a four a ball earlier - and Niroshan Dickwella, who drove Bess to extra cover two minutes before lunch, were the worst of a series of needlessly aggressive shots.\n\nSri Lanka also disappointed in the field. They were a little unfortunate that Sibley survived three tight lbw reviews, all of which were umpire's call, but their tactics were baffling.\n\nChandimal set the field back and allowed an accumulator in Sibley to tick along as he wished.\n\nThis tour, while important for points in the World Test Championship, always felt like the warm-up act in a huge year for England's Test team.\n\nNext they face a far bigger challenge in India before a summer against New Zealand, top of the Test rankings, India again, and an Ashes series in Australia the winter.\n\nThe biggest plus of this series has been the emphatic run-scoring of Root. He did not score a century in 2019 but made 228 and 186, albeit against a poor Sri Lanka. The skipper amassed 426 runs at an average of 106.50 in the series.\n\nBess and Leach were by no means perfect - they bowl too many bad balls - but finished the series with 12 and 10 wickets respectively.\n\nThe match-winning fifty for Sibley is also a significant boost going into the four Tests in India. Having been dismissed by Embuldeniya in every innings on tour previously, he showed he can grind out a score.\n\nEngland's veteran bowlers, Anderson and Stuart Broad, proved once again they can perform in unhelpful conditions.\n\nThere are question marks, however, about opener Crawley, whose top score in four innings was 13.\n\nThe issues at the top of the order are complicated by the fact Bairstow, who has done well at number three, has been rested for the first two Tests in India.\n\nEngland opener Dom Sibley on Test Match Special: \"I didn't think I'd left any stone unturned with regards playing spin, but then you go back to your room in the evening and think 'maybe I'm not up to this' and have those doubts.\n\n\"It is about accepting those and just believing. It just feels like pure relief at the moment.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed today. We have done all the hard work in the last three days but as a batting unit we made the same mistakes of the first Test. There are no excuses for the batsmen and we've got to learn how to bat like Joe Root.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"A really, really strong performance from England. If you look down from one to 11, most people have contributed.\n\n\"They will have to bowl better in India. But the confidence that this will do for the team, and for Joe Root at the start of a huge year, is huge.\"", "A former senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle has raised new concerns over the safety of the company's 737 Max.\n\nThe aircraft, which was grounded after two accidents in which 346 people died, has already been cleared to resume flights in North America and Brazil, and is expected to gain approval in Europe this week.\n\nBut in a new report, Ed Pierson claims that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory is badly needed.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pierson claims that regulators and investigators have largely ignored factors, which he believes, may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nHe explicitly links them to conditions at the company's factory in Renton, near Seattle at the time. Boeing says this is unfounded.\n\nInvestigators believe both accidents were triggered by the failure of a single sensor. It sent inaccurate data to a piece of flight control software, called MCAS.\n\nThis automated system then repeatedly forced the nose of the aircraft downwards, when the pilots were trying to gain height. Ultimately each aircraft was pushed into an unrecoverable dive.\n\nEfforts to make the 737 Max safe have focused on redesigning the MCAS software, and ensuring it can no longer be triggered by a single sensor failure.\n\nFor Ed Pierson, this does not go nearly far enough. A US Navy veteran, who had a senior role on the 737 production line from 2015-2018, he was a star witness during congressional hearings into the disasters involving the Max.\n\nHe told lawmakers he had become so concerned about conditions at the factory, he had told his bosses that he was hesitant about taking his own family on a Boeing plane.\n\nEd Pierson (centre), seated next to his attorney Eric Havian (right), at a House Transportation Committee hearing on oversight of the Boeing 737 Max certification, on 11 December 2019\n\nHe testified that during 2018, the factory was in a \"chaotic\" and \"dysfunctional\" state as, he claimed, staff there struggled under pressure from managers to build new planes as quickly as possible.\n\nNow, he is worried that these issues have been overlooked in the rush to get the 737 Max back in the air.\n\nHis report draws on material from the official investigations. It claims that both of the crashed aircraft suffered from - what he believes were - production defects, almost from the moment they entered service.\n\nThese included intermittent flight control system problems and electrical anomalies that occurred in the days and weeks before the accidents.\n\nHe claims these may have been symptoms of flaws in the aircrafts' highly complex wiring systems, which could have contributed to the erroneous deployment of MCAS.\n\nHe also points out that sensor failures contributed to both accidents and asks why such failures were happening on brand new machines.\n\nIn the case of the Lion Air plane, a faulty sensor was replaced with another part that was not properly calibrated.\n\nAll signs, Mr Pierson says, \"point back to where these airplanes were produced, the 737 factory\".\n\nHowever, he insists that the possibility of production defects playing a role in the accidents has not been addressed by regulators.\n\nHe claims this could lead to further tragedies, involving the Max or even a previous version of the 737.\n\nMr Pierson's concerns are supported by the celebrated aviation safety campaigner Captain Chesley Sullenberger.\n\nBest known as \"Sully\", one of the pilots who safely ditched a crippled and engineless Airbus plane in the Hudson river off Manhattan in 2009, he too believes that modifications to the Max do not go far enough.\n\nHe believes changes are needed to warning systems aboard the plane, which were carried over from a previous version of the 737 and are \"not up to modern standards\".\n\nCaptain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger (centre) testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the status of the grounded Boeing 737 Max in June 2019\n\n\"Ed Pierson's report is very disturbing, about manufacturing issues in the Boeing factories that go well beyond just the Max, and also affect… the previous version of the 737,\" says Capt Sullenberger.\n\n\"There are many critically important unanswered questions that must be answered.\n\n\"Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must finally become more transparent, and begin to provide information and data, so that independent experts can determine the worthiness of the work that's been done.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to a former senior inspector with the UK's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB), who now works as a safety specialist. He warns that Mr Pierson's findings should be viewed in a wider context.\n\nThe report, he says, does make some \"valid observations\" about the pressures on Boeing's production line and quality control, and concerns about specific components.\n\nHowever, he adds that \"taking the limited information in any accident report… and making fresh interpretations of it, is not the same as conducting a new investigation\".\n\nThe issues highlighted, he adds, \"may have been investigated and dismissed already, for good reason\".\n\nThe FAA, meanwhile, insists it only approved the return to service of the Max, following a \"comprehensive and methodical safety review process\".\n\nA worker stands by a Boeing 737 Max plane on the tarmac at the Boeing Renton factory in Washington\n\nIt adds: \"None of the many investigations of the two accidents produced evidence that a production flaw played a role\", and emphasises that \"every aircraft leaving the factory is inspected by a team of FAA inspectors before it is cleared for delivery\".\n\nBoeing itself will not comment on whether the electrical and flight control problems highlighted by Mr Pierson may have played a factor in the two accidents, on the grounds that this is a matter for the investigating authorities.\n\nIt has, however, described suggestions of any link between conditions at Renton and the two accidents as \"completely unfounded\", emphasising that none of the authorities investigating the crashes has found any such link.\n\nPatrick Ky, the head of Europe's aviation safety agency, EASA, has previously told the BBC he is \"certain\" the plane is safe to fly.\n\nBut relatives of those who died aboard ET302 are continuing to urge the agency not to allow the 737 Max to operate in Europe, \"until continuing concerns about the aircraft's safety have been fully and openly addressed\".", "People in Lebanon are living under one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Under the round-the-clock curfew, citizens who are not \"essential workers\" have been barred from leaving their homes since 14 January.\n\nLaila, 12, is in Beirut trying to study while her family works from home.\n\n\"We all have our own work to do and when we have meetings we hear each other. It can be a real distraction and stop you from finishing your work on time,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes I can't study well because I get stressed with all the work they're giving us. It is definitely not the same studying online as it is in the physical world.\"\n\nFor hairdresser Walid Kanaan this year has been \"extremely difficult psychologically and economically\".\n\n\"I own my shop but still I cannot afford it. I pay the workers' salary so I am really broke,\" says the 45-year-old.\n\n\"It is hitting hard. You can't go out at all or do anything. My wife works in a bank and she is also collapsing. She doesn't know if she will still have her job or not.\n\n\"We don't trust the government that if they bring a vaccine it will be safe to take it. We can only pray for God to protect us.\"\n\nRead more stories from people in lockdown in Lebanon here.", "Teachers were not at significantly higher risk of death from Covid-19 than the general population, Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nRestaurant staff, people working in factories and care workers had among the highest death rates, followed by taxi drivers and security guards.\n\nNurses were more than twice as likely as their peers to die of coronavirus.\n\nSecondary school teachers may have been at slightly, but not measurably, higher risk than the average.\n\nThe ONS looked at death rates from coronavirus in England and Wales between 9 March and 28 December 2020.\n\nIt found 31 in every 100,000 working-age men and 17 in every 100,000 working-age women had died of Covid-19.\n\nThis equated to just under 8,000 deaths among 20-64-year-olds.\n\nBut care workers, security guards and people working in certain manufacturing roles died at more than three times the rate of their peers.\n\nTwo-thirds of deaths were among men.\n\nAs well as being more likely to be male, working-age people who died of Covid last year had other things in common: they were much more likely to work in jobs where they were either regularly exposed to known Covid cases or working in close proximity with other people more generally.\n\nMany of the highest-risk jobs were also relatively low paid and may be more likely to be casual or insecure, without sick pay, including hospitality, care work and taxi driving.\n\nAmong teachers, there were 18 deaths per 100,000 among men and 10 per 100,000 among women.\n\nBreaking that down by role, secondary school teachers appear to have a very slightly elevated risk at 39 deaths per 100,000 people in men and 21 per 100,000 in women.\n\nPer 100,000 men aged 20-64, 31 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nPer 100,000 women aged 20-64, 17 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nThese are illustrative examples, not an exhaustive league table.\n\nThe ONS calculated the rate by dividing the number of deaths by the number of workers in each job role.\n\nBecause the numbers for secondary teachers were comparatively small - 52 deaths in total - it's difficult to be certain about their exact risk, but any increase there might be compared with the general population was not considered statistically significant.\n\nHowever, while teachers were not at higher risk than the average, they did appear to be at higher risk than some other professional job roles, which have seen very few or no deaths.\n\nThe ONS excluded from its analysis any occupation that had seen fewer than 10 deaths, and the average death rate for the whole population masks this variation.\n\nThe study also covers periods where there were limited numbers of children attending school.\n\nBut the figures do tell us teachers didn't have an elevated risk of the magnitude faced by health and care staff and by lower-paid manual and service workers.\n\nOther groups of staff studied with higher death rates, including hospitality and some factory and construction workers, also had their usual work paused for similar chunks of that period.\n\nWhile these figures tell us the death rates in each occupation group, they do not tell us the jobs are themselves causing more infections.\n\nThe ONS looked at age and sex but did not adjust for ethnicity, health or socioeconomic status which might influence an individual's risk.\n\nONS analyst Ben Humberstone said: \"As the pandemic has progressed, we have learnt more about the disease and the communities it impacts most. There are a complex combination of factors that influence the risk of death; from your age and your ethnicity, where you live and who you live with, to pre-existing health conditions.\n\n\"Our findings do not prove that the rates of death involving COVID-19 are caused by differences in occupational exposure,\" he added.\n\nThis also just refers to deaths, not infections which may result in serious illness.\n\nSome earlier ONS data suggested certain types of teacher may have an increased risk of catching coronavirus, although again the body did not consider this to be statistically significant.\n\nDirector of policy for the Association of School and College Leaders teachers' union, Julie McCulloch, said: \"When trying to understand rates of coronavirus-related deaths, there are likely to be many complex factors and we need to be careful not to jump to conclusions about the relative risks of different workplaces.\n\n\"What we do know is that, when schools are fully open, education staff are asked to work in environments that are inherently busy and crowded. In order to give them reassurance, and to minimise the disruption to education, it is vital that they are prioritised for vaccination as soon as possible.\"\n\nWhether teachers should be prioritised for vaccines has been a matter of debate.\n\nAt the moment the programme is being rolled out based on what will save the most lives and prevent the most severe illness.\n\nAfter the oldest age groups, people with health conditions and frontline staff who are regularly exposed to the virus, the government will have to publish a new raft of priorities.\n\nVaccines minister Nadim Zahawi has indicated more people could be prioritised on the basis of their job role, including teachers, shop workers and police officers.", "Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\nThe scale of credit card, identity and cyber-fraud makes it the most prevalent crime, costing up to £190bn a year.\n\nUK intelligence agencies should play a greater role in responding, the RUSI argues in a report.\n\nPolicing should be better resourced, working more closely with the private sector, it adds.\n\nThe report argues that the scale of fraud against the private sector has an impact on the reputation of the UK as a place to do business.\n\nMeanwhile, the amount lost by the government in fraudulent claims represents a \"heist\" on the public purse, undermining faith and trust, it says.\n\nIt is the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to, but the failures in responding risk undermining public confidence in the rule of law.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales found 3.7 million reported incidents in 2019-20 of members of the public being targeted by credit card, identity and cyber-fraud.\n\nThe private sector takes the biggest financial losses. One estimate from 2017 put the cost of fraud to businesses at £140bn.\n\nFraud against the public sector, including benefit, tax credit and student loan fraud, is estimated to cost £31-48bn a year, the upper figure larger than the UK's annual defence budget.\n\nThe losses go beyond the financial, the authors say.\n\n\"Fraud has the potential to disrupt society in multiple ways, by psychologically impacting individuals, undermining the viability of businesses, putting pressure on public services, fuelling organised crime and funding terrorism,\" they add.\n\nThe report cites evidence that terrorist groups and lone actors turn to fraud in order to finance their activities.\n\nIn one case, eight supporters of the Islamic State group were convicted of defrauding UK pensioners out of more than £1m, which was alleged to be used in part to fund travel from the UK to Syria.\n\nThe men carried out a type of courier fraud in which they pretended to be police officers, telling victims that their bank accounts had been compromised and needed to be transferred.\n\nBut despite the growing scale of the problem, there is no national strategy for tackling the issue, while the police response is underfunded and lacking focus.\n\nThis makes fraud \"everyone's problem but no-one's priority\", according to the report, written by RUSI experts Helena Wood, Tom Keatinge, Keith Ditcham and Ardi Janjev.\n\nThe digitisation of everyday life - accelerated by Covid - has only increased the risks, with organised crime groups showing increased sophistication in their tactics.\n\n\"The UK has become a target destination for global fraudsters,\" the RUSI argues.\n\nBut the extent to which international criminals focus on the UK is hard to gauge, because intelligence agencies have not traditionally focused on the issue.\n\nOne senior fraud professional interviewed by the researchers said that despite 30 years of investigating fraud, they still had no idea what proportion of the threat emanated from overseas.\n\nClassifying fraud as a national security issue would help ensure the right level of resourcing and prioritisation, the authors argue.\n\nThey also recommend more focused intelligence direction from the National Security Council, including greater tasking for GCHQ as well as the National Crime Agency to understand the issue.\n\nThey call for better information-sharing and use of data analytics, as well as more money and attention from police forces to address what they call a \"responsibility vacuum\".", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. Devon County Council urged people to avoid travel unless it was absolutely essential and not to travel to find snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Devon County Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMost pupils across the UK have not been in school since before the Christmas holidays - and now Tory MPs are calling for a \"route map\" for the reopening of schools in England. Pupils have been told they will be learning from home until at least the February half-term holidays. And Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says schools will be given at least two weeks' notice to reopen - which he \"hopes\" will happen before Easter. So, with no firm timetable, the chairman of the education select committee, Robert Halfon, has called for a plan to be laid out to MPs. He has asked for an urgent question in the Commons - if granted, Mr Williamson must respond. No part of the UK has yet announced a firm date for schools' reopening - you can read about the different nations' plans here.\n\nThe UK must reform how it is governed or risk becoming a \"failed state\", former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he says Covid has exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions. Recent polls have suggested rising support for Scottish independence - and a potential border vote in Northern Ireland. \"The complaint is that Whitehall does not fully understand the country it is supposed to govern,\" says Mr Brown.\n\nFrance's top medical adviser says a third national lockdown will probably soon be needed to combat Covid-19. Prof Jean-Francois Delfraissy says \"there is an emergency\", adding that the \"UK variant\" now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions. A strict curfew was implemented last weekend but cases continue to climb. You can see police enforcing the 6pm shutdown below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have clashed with protesters who are angry at new coronavirus restrictions. Officers used water cannon and tear gas to clear demonstrators in Eindhoven. They had gathered in defiance of a new 9pm curfew. Some protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows. There were smaller demonstrations in the capital, Amsterdam.\n\nAustralia has suspended a travel bubble with New Zealand - after NZ's first Covid case in months was confirmed to be the South African variant. The infected patient had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice before developing symptoms later. Travellers coming from New Zealand to Australia in the next 72 hours will now have to go through hotel quarantine. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the suspension was done out of an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This explainer looks at various questions - including whether the vaccine stops you spreading the disease.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has condemned as \"illegal and dangerous\" the mass rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nTens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies across Russia on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say.\n\nEU foreign ministers discussed the protests on Monday, but did not agree on further sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn Moscow riot police were seen beating and dragging away demonstrators.\n\nThe foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding \"restrictive measures against Russian officials responsible for arrests\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also urged the EU to step up sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Mr Navalny. A week ago he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating parole conditions - a case he condemns as fabricated.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after he was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on arrival from Berlin on 17 January.\n\nDemonstrations were held on Saturday in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the arrests as a \"slide towards authoritarianism\" and called for further sanctions against Russia.\n\n\"Change is in the air in Russia,\" declared Lithuania's new Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, as he arrived for his first meeting with EU counterparts.\n\nBut he soon discovered that change is not always in the air in Brussels.\n\nA couple of years ago, one seasoned Spanish politician lamented the meetings of the 27 EU foreign ministers as being \"more a valley of tears\" than a place for decision-making: \"We express our condolence and concern… but no capacity for action comes out of it.\"\n\nUnfortunately for that same politician - Josep Borrell - he's now the man who chairs these gatherings.\n\nThe EU has already imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials - including the head of the FSB security service - over the nerve agent attack on Mr Navalny last August.\n\nBut MEPs are urging the EU to go further and hit Mr Putin's administration \"where it really hurts - the money\".\n\nIn December, the EU unveiled a tougher sanctions regime, including asset freezes and travel bans for foreign individuals accused of human rights violations. It puts the bloc alongside the US and UK, which adopted so-called Magnitsky Acts.\n\nThey take the name of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after reporting massive fraud by Russian tax officials. The EU version does not bear his name, to avoid alienating Russia-leaning member states.\n\nAgreeing on EU sanctions is always tough, as it requires all 27 countries to agree and we're told no concrete proposal was discussed by foreign ministers today.\n\nObservers say the scale of the Russia-wide demonstrations was unprecedented for recent years, and the Moscow protest was the capital's largest in almost a decade.\n\nThey appeared to enjoy widespread passive support, with trolley bus passengers waving to the crowds and large numbers of car drivers beeping their horns.\n\nProtesters, like these in St Petersburg, braved freezing cold to rally for Mr Navalny\n\nThe protests were also notable for the high proportion of young Russians who turned out. Opposition rallies have attracted more young people since Mr Navalny began releasing online investigations into alleged government corruption.\n\nMany protesters said they were angered by the findings of that report, and chants of \"Putin is a thief!\" were heard during Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nSocial media also played a key role in driving young people - many of whom have only ever known a Putin-led Russia - to take to the streets. Posts promoting the demonstrations were viewed hundreds of millions of times on TikTok.\n\nThe flood of videos prompted Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to demand the app take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\".\n\nMr Putin has said no underage children should take part in the protests: \"One must under no circumstances push forward underage people. After all, it is terrorists who act like that, when they drive in front of them women and children. The emphasis is slightly different, but essentially, this is the same thing.\"\n\nPolice should also act within the law, he said.\n\nNo-one should seek to advance \"their ambitious objectives and goals, particularly in politics\" through protests, he added, in an apparent reference to Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Navalny's video report into this Black Sea resort has been viewed 85 million times\n\nOn Sunday Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticised a message from the US embassy in Moscow warning people to avoid the demonstrations, branding the warning an \"interference in our domestic affairs\".\n\nThe embassy said such warnings were a \"common and routine practice\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK also accused Western nations of using their embassies to encourage the protests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russian Embassy, UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "Some Barclaycard customers will see their minimum repayments rise from Tuesday, at a time when finances are already stretched owing to Covid and Christmas.\n\nThe new requirements are tailored to each customer, although some may see a significant rise in demands.\n\nBut the changes will also see charges for exceeding a credit limit scrapped.\n\nJanuary is a pinch point for many in debt and borrowers are being urged to seek help if they are in trouble.\n\nBarclaycard signalled the changes to their pricing structures in November, although some borrowers may have missed the notice, which was titled \"changes to your terms and conditions\".\n\nThe new repayment rates will affect those with Platinum, Initial, Freedom, Forward, Cashback, Littlewoods, Rewards and Hilton Honors cards, but not Premier or Woolwich cards.\n\nFor cardholders who started using their cards in the last decade, the minimum repayment each month has been calculated as the highest of 2.25% of the full balance, 1% of the balance plus interest, or £5. This differed slightly for longer-standing customers.\n\nThe new charges mean minimum repayments will be the highest of between 2% and 5% of the full balance, between 1% and 3% of the balance plus interest, or £5.\n\nThis means some people could see the minimum repayment rise, although some other charges - such as the late payment fee - will be limited.\n\nThe exact percentage depends on the customer and would have been outlined in the November message.\n\nA Barclaycard spokesman said: \"We are increasing minimum payments for some customers to help them pay off debt quicker and reduce the overall interest they pay.\n\n\"This is part of our ambition to ensure that no Barclaycard customer gets into persistent debt - where they pay more in interest and charges than reducing their debt and take a long time to pay this debt off - and is being put in place to support our customers.\"\n\nSara Williams, who writes the Debt Camel blog, said that the higher minimum payment may well come as a \"nasty shock\".\n\n\"January is always the tightest month for money for most people. December pay is often early, so the money has to stretch further, and if you put any Christmas presents or expenses on your Barclaycard, this month's bill will be high anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"For people who were hardly managing before, the increase to the minimum payments may tip the bill over into being unaffordable.\"\n\nDebt charities had already warned that the coronavirus pandemic meant the UK was \"sleepwalking into a debt crisis\".\n\nThe government-backed Money and Pensions Service - which offers free guidance - said it was expecting a call about debt at least every four minutes throughout January.\n\nBarclaycard said the timing of the changes - which coincide with lockdown and many people on a reduced furlough income - was unintentional and had been signalled some time ago.\n\nAny borrowers who feel the new repayment levels are unaffordable are being asked to contact the company.\n\nMore broadly, anyone struggling to make debt repayments of any kind is being urged to face their difficulties and seek help.\n\n\"Financial worries negatively affect our 'cognition', which are the thinking processes that support and maintain our mental health. When in a poor state, financial worries cause stress and our cognition fails,\" said Keiron Sparrowhawk, a cognition expert from the Being Well Group, which runs the MyCognition app.\n\nThis could lead to depression and hasty, ill-thought-out decisions, he said.\n\n\"Together, depression and anxiety are distressing and disabling, causing us to spiral out of control and enter a pit of hell,\" he said.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after two previous attempts to wed were delayed by the pandemic\n\nTwo newlywed pensioners are urging everyone to get vaccinated as they were among the first to receive a dose at a new centre.\n\nGeoff Holland, 90, and 86-year-old wife Jenny married in August after meeting at Town View independent living centre in Mansfield.\n\nThe pair tied the knot after being forced to postpone their nuptials twice due to the pandemic.\n\nThey both received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe couple made their vaccination plea as a centre at an old DIY store on Chesterfield Road South, in Mansfield, opened on Monday.\n\nIt has joined 31 other new sites opening across England this week, with anyone aged 75 and over who lives within a 45-minute drive encouraged to book their injections.\n\nMrs Holland praised staff at the vaccination site for the care she and her new husband received.\n\n\"We've been well looked after while we've been here,\" she said.\n\n\"People have worked long and hard to get this vaccine so I think people ought to have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time-lapse footage shows how a DIY store was transformed into a vaccine centre in three weeks\n\nMr and Mrs Holland said they both tested positive for coronavirus a couple of months ago after Mr Holland reported feeling unwell.\n\nBoth managed to recover without developing major symptoms.\n\nDespite the delay to their wedding and the ongoing after-effects of the pandemic, Mrs Holland said married life was turning out to be \"brilliant\".\n\n\"Hopefully, one day soon, we'll be able to have a get together and celebrate with our family and friends who couldn't be there on the day,\" she said.\n\nKathryn Turner, Mr Holland's daughter, said the family was thrilled the pair received their jabs.\n\n\"It's fantastic that they are getting the vaccine so their love story can continue,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will help us all get back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe Hollands met in the summer of 2019 and were engaged the following New Year's Eve\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None COVID-19 Vaccination in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "Of 2,000 Welsh members of the Royal College of Nursing who took part in a survey, 75.9% reported increased stress over the past year\n\nA long-term plan is needed to help nurses cope with post-traumatic stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, union officials have said.\n\nLast year the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ran a survey looking at its impact on front-line staff and how it had changed nurses' lives.\n\nOf 2,000 Welsh members who took part, 75.9% reported increased stress and 52% were worried about their mental health.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it recognised the pressures on NHS workers.\n\nCarol Doggett, senior matron at Swansea's Morriston Hospital, said nurses were often becoming patients' \"next of kin\" during the pandemic, due to the \"absence of family, particularly at end of life\".\n\n\"Which we would do anyway, naturally, but in the absence of family it's far more profound than supporting them in a holistic way if they were present with us,\" she said.\n\nSenior matron Carol Doggett says the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital\n\nMs Doggett said the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital.\n\n\"Patients are coming in through [the emergency department]. They are sicker. The number of sicker patients has definitely increased,\" she said.\n\n\"That results in them having an extended period in hospital. They can stay beyond Covid. They continue to suffer with those conditions that present themselves as a result of Covid.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Doggett's colleague, Morriston intensive care consultant John Gorst, said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nNicky Hughes, associate director of nursing at RCN Wales, said: \"The Welsh Government needs to set a long-term plan in place to deal with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues amongst nurses as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Nurses are exhausted, stressed and nearing burnout. Every day they tell us that they feel that they have nothing left to give and feel devalued.\"\n\nAlmost a year on from the start of the pandemic nurses have had to find \"ever more physical and emotional strength\" to cope with Covid-19, said Ms Hughes.\n\nMental health charity Mind Cymru agreed with the RCN that a \"coherent long-term strategy\" was needed to help front-line workers deal with the pandemic's effect on their mental health.\n\n\"We urge Welsh Government to factor this in to their plans and take the necessary steps to give people the support they need,\" said Simon Jones, Mind Cymru's head of policy.\n\n\"Nursing staff and other healthcare professionals have played, and continue to play, a vital role in combatting the pandemic, often putting their own health and wellbeing at risk.\n\n\"Even before the outbreak, we heard from many healthcare professionals struggling with the mental health impact of things like long working hours without breaks, unsociable shift patterns, and dealing with traumatic events.\"\n\nA mental health support hotline for front-line NHS staff in Wales - Health for Health Professionals (HHP) Wales - has been set up by Cardiff University and has received Welsh Government funding.\n\nThe hotline's director Prof Jonathan Bisson said he was \"encouraged\" by the Welsh Government's investment in HHP Wales along with Traumatic Stress Wales, which helps people who have experienced traumatic events.\n\n\"These two initiatives are taking a long term strategic approach to support health workers exposed to traumatic events,\" Prof Bisson said.\n\n\"HHP Wales offers access to mental health support for any member of NHS staff in Wales and has linked with Traumatic Stress Wales to provide evidence-based treatment to health workers who are experiencing post traumatic stress disorder as a result of traumatic experiences related to the pandemic and other causes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health and care workers \"mustn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must demonstrate that they're taking this seriously with a robust workforce strategy that takes into account the mental health needs of workers, including sufficient down time after the pandemic, and addresses the need to retain and recruit more staff,\" said Plaid's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe Welsh Government called the \"commitment and tireless hard work\" of nurses across Wales \"truly remarkable\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS workforce is experiencing and have worked closely with NHS employers and trade unions to create a comprehensive wellbeing package to help support them, which includes a dedicated and confidential Samaritans listening support helpline.\n\n\"We have also expanded our Health for Health Professionals Wales service which offers psychological and mental health support, as well as a number of free-to-access health and wellbeing support apps.\"\n\nRCN Wales said it was glad the Welsh Government was backing projects supporting health workers.\n\nIt said it encouraged the continued development of a \"long-term strategy to deal with the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our nursing workforce.\"", "A heatwave sweeping south-east Australia has sent temperatures soaring in the nation's biggest cities and escalated the threat of bushfires.\n\nA large blaze has been contained in Adelaide, South Australia after it burned through 2,500 hectares.\n\nNeighbouring Victoria state is facing its worst fire risk in a year.\n\nTemperatures in those states have started to cool but New South Wales and Queensland will see their heatwave continue into Tuesday.\n\nSydney recorded temperatures of above 40C by Monday afternoon.\n\nHealth officials have urged people to stay inside and to avoid physical activity, and for those near bushfires to avoid inhaling smoke.\n\nThe blaze in the Adelaide Hills has been contained but is expected to continue to burn for the next few days, local media reports.\n\nIt is believed to have destroyed several houses but has not caused injuries.\n\nThe blaze has burned through more than 2,500 hectares\n\nPeople in the area have been warned to take care.\n\n\"Smoke will reduce visibility on the roads and there is a risk of trees and branches falling,\" a statement from SA police said.\n\nImages taken on Monday show smoke over Adelaide obscuring parts of the city skyline and prompting some residents to wear face masks.\n\nAdelaide was blanketed by smoke on Monday\n\nAfter the hot spell began on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) issued heatwave warnings for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland.\n\nOn Monday, Victoria's state capital Melbourne recorded temperatures of 41.5C at 12.40pm (01.40 GMT).\n\nPeople in Victoria have been urged to be careful when in water after the state recorded seven drownings over the past 10 days, ABC News reports.\n\nPeople in Sydney flocked to beaches at the weekend seeking relief from the heat\n\nThe heat is expected to linger until mid-week as the hot air mass tracks east across the country.\n\nAfter extreme bushfires and heatwaves a year ago, Australia's summer this year has so far been cooler and wetter. Meteorologists say the conditions are influenced by a La Nina phenomenon.\n\nAustralia has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies.\n\nThat's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes in 2019-20\n\n\"In summer we now see a greater frequency of very hot days compared to earlier decades,\" said BoM and the national science agency, CSIRO, in their 2020 State of the Climate report.\n\nThe same report noted that 2019 - Australia's hottest year on record - had 33 days where the national maximum temperature exceeded 39C. That surpassed the total number of days over 39C in the previous six decades.\n\nHeatwaves are Australia's deadliest natural disaster and have killed thousands more people than bushfires or floods.", "Police found Dylan Freeman in his mother's bed surrounded by toys\n\nA woman has admitted suffocating her severely disabled son after suffering a breakdown.\n\nDylan Freeman's body was found in Acton, west London, on 16 August with a sponge in his mouth.\n\nHis mother Olga Freeman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nThree psychiatric reports said Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness with psychotic symptoms at the time of the killing.\n\nFreeman attended Acton Police Station to report herself following the killing.\n\nOfficers later found Dylan in his mother's bed surrounded by toys.\n\nDylan had autism, Cohen syndrome - which is linked to abnormalities in many parts of the body - and significant difficulties with language and communication.\n\nIn the week leading up to the killing, Freeman had spoken about saving the world and being a Messiah, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOlga Freeman had booked flights abroad the night before Dylan's body was found\n\nFreeman appeared by video-link to enter her plea and will be sentenced on 11 February.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the CPS's Kristen Katsouris described the death as \"tragic\".\n\nShe added: \"Olga Freeman had loved and cared for Dylan for many years, but the strain and pressures of her son's severe and complex special needs had built up and that, combined with her impaired mental health, led to heart-breaking consequences.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination at Great Ormond Street Hospital recorded Dylan's cause of death as upper airway obstruction.\n\nThe Met Police said Freeman had spoken to friends about struggling with the responsibility of caring for Dylan.\n\nOn the night before his body was found, Freeman booked two seats on a flight to Tel Aviv and told her friend not to go into Dylan's room.\n\nThe body of Dylan was found at a house in Cumberland Park, Acton\n\nAt the time of his death, his father, celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, was in Spain.\n\nHe described his son as \"a beautiful, bright, inquisitive and artistic child who loved to travel, visit art galleries and swim\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambrose O'Neill was sentenced in his absence in 2008\n\nA violent robber who went on the run for nearly 13 years has finally been caught and jailed.\n\nAmbrose O'Neill - dubbed \"The Running Man\" due to his ability to evade capture - skipped his 2008 trial over an attack on an antiques dealer.\n\nHe was sentenced to eight years in prison in his absence but spent years at large, until police got a tip-off he was in hiding in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old was arrested on Friday and is now beginning his sentence.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said in 2007, O'Neill, of Ludgate Close in Arnold, knocked on his victim's front door in Seagrave, Leicestershire, posing as a pizza delivery man.\n\nWhen his victim opened the door, O'Neill pushed him over, punched him in the face and demanded he open a safe, threatening to kill him.\n\nBut he ultimately left empty-handed and was later arrested.\n\nO'Neill attended the first day of his trial at Leicester Crown Court but then went on the run.\n\nPolice said they launched Operation Gladiolus in December 2020 in a bid to track him down.\n\nPC James Gill, from Nottinghamshire Police's \"wanted squad\", said: \"We knew he had changed his appearance and lived in an area where people do not know him and he had an assumed identity,\" he said.\n\n\"He was laughing at the police, so we were determined to do everything to find him.\"\n\nA major breakthrough came from an anonymous tip-off suggesting O'Neill may be living with a woman in the Wyberton area, in Lincolnshire.\n\nPolice narrowed it down to a house in Causeway and arrested the \"surprised\" O'Neill in the early hours of Friday.\n\nPC James Gill worked in his free time to bring O'Neill to justice, Nottinghamshire Police said\n\nOfficers also arrested a 41-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. She remains in custody.\n\nO'Neill is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 29 January, where his sentence could be extended, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethany and her two children have been on a waiting list for more than a year\n\nThere is a \"shocking\" lack of places for traveller families to live in England, according to a charity.\n\nOnly 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any spaces available, research from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) suggests.\n\nIt says the government must \"do more\" to identify land for the community to live on.\n\nThe government says councils are \"best placed\" to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites.\n\nIn October, FFT wrote to all local authorities and private registered site providers in England to ask how many pitches they had available.\n\nIt received responses relating to 251 out of 266 traveller sites - which represented 3,482 permanent pitches and 304 transit pitches.\n\nA transit pitch is a short-term place where people can stay for a set period of usually up to three months.\n\nBethany says she's near the bottom of the waiting list for a pitch in her local area\n\nBethany Rose, 26, and her two children have been on a waiting list for a pitch in West Sussex for more than a year.\n\nShe is currently staying with her parents in their caravan on a registered traveller site. But this is against the rules of their tenancy contract and she will have to move out once the coronavirus pandemic is over.\n\nBethany has a health condition which means she can often be paralysed from the waist down and she needs to be close to her mum who is her carer.\n\n\"It's frustrating, annoying, aggravating, I feel let down,\" she says. \"I'm disabled. I'm homeless and I have two kids.\n\n\"For anyone normally it would just be like, 'Boof, there you go, there's a property, go and live there'. But I can't do that. I can't even get a house, I can't buy a plot of land, I can't do anything.\"\n\nBethany and her children are currently living with her parents on a traveller site in West Sussex\n\nIt's estimated about 1.1 million households are on local authority housing waiting lists, but Bethany believes it would be easier for her to get a home if she wasn't a traveller.\n\nShe says being a traveller is a huge part of her identity and she wants to live on a site so she can continue to be connected to her heritage.\n\n\"A whole community is there if you need something or something happens,\" she said. \"If you fall or you go to hospital, you can guarantee your neighbour will watch the kids until you come back. If you need a cup of sugar, you can just go round.\"\n\nThe research from FFT comes as MPs were due to debate a petition on Monday against government proposals to criminalise trespassing. However, this has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new measures could see travellers facing a fine or prison if they set up unauthorised encampments - currently it's a civil offence.\n\nIn a consultation paper published in 2019, the Home Office said there had been \"long-standing concerns\" about the distress they caused to local communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Tanner posted a video saying she was \"disgusted\" by mess left by travellers in Dorset\n\nIn June 2020, residents in Dorset complained about mess left by travellers on a local park - which included a car being abandoned in the middle of a cricket pitch, rubbish dumped in green spaces and human waste deposited in the pond and lake.\n\nFFT says councils are failing to provide enough sites for travellers to live on.\n\nIn January 2019, plans to spend £5m on new traveller pitches in Milton Keynes were put on hold after a \"heated\" meeting with local residents.\n\nBethany believes councils are not doing more to provide extra sites because of discrimination towards travellers.\n\n\"They're building 50,000 new houses in West Sussex, not one of those places is having a site,\" she said. \"So you've got the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) culture attached to that.\n\n\"For every 50 houses, they could put a site of five which is a whole little community that they can get used to and go, 'Yeah, OK, they're not as bad as people say.'\n\n\"That also means we're not pulling up the side of the roads. We're not being moved off. We're just trying to live like everyone else.\"\n\nMilton Keynes Council changed its plan to build a new traveller site after listening to residents\n\nWest Sussex County Council says when a vacancy comes up on a permanent site all those who have expressed an interest in that location are considered for the pitch.\n\nThe FFT wants the government to reintroduce pitch targets and a statutory duty on local authorities to meet the assessed need for Gypsy and traveller sites.\n\nIt also calls on the government to abandon its proposal to criminalise trespassing.\n\nSarah Sweeney, policy and communications manager at FFT, said: \"It is deeply unfair that while the government is dramatically failing to identify enough land for Gypsy and traveller families to live on, the home secretary is working to create laws to imprison, fine and remove the homes of families living on roadside camps for the 'crime' of having nowhere else to go.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association says it wants the government to publish \"better data\" on the scale of unauthorised encampments and the availability of authorised sites to help councils in England meet their planning obligations.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"Unauthorised encampments cause distress and disruption for many people across the country so it's right we are giving the police the powers they need to address this issue.\n\n\"Councils are best placed to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites and decide where they should be, and can apply for funding through our Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme to help build them.\"", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "Jenners department store in Edinburgh has been at the site since 1838\n\nThe owner of the Jenners building in Edinburgh has promised that it will remain a department store - despite the departure of its current tenant, the House of Fraser.\n\nFrasers Group said it would cease trading at the site on 3 May, with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen.\n\nA company spokesman said it would continue as a store and that \"advanced\" talks were taking place with operators.\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nA Frasers spokesman claimed that the landlord had not been able to \"work mutually on a fair agreement\".\n\nHe said this had led to \"the loss of 200 jobs and a vacant site for the foreseeable future, with no immediate plans.\n\n\"Our commitment to our Frasers strategy remains but landlords and retailers need to work together in a fair manner, especially when all stores are closed.\"\n\nAnders Holch Povlsen is one of Scotland's biggest landowners\n\nHowever, Anders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, which owns the Jenners building - said it had given Frasers a substantial rent reduction and rent-free periods to cover the lockdowns.\n\n\"Frasers has made the decision that it does not wish to continue in occupation,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see the end of the 16-year association between House of Fraser and this building, but not of the 180 years of Jenners department store.\"\n\nMr Vogdrup told BBC Scotland that it had bought the Jenners building \"out of passion for its architecture and history\".\n\n\"We have been sad to read on social media that we are to close the department store, as that is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"We fought to keep the current tenant and we are now in advanced talks with other partners.\"\n\nHe said their \"first priority\" was to keep it as a department store, while there were also plans to turn some unused parts of the building into a hotel.\n\n\"The Jenners department store and building is the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh,\" he added.\n\n\"We are not turning it into a hotel. It will remain a department store.\"\n\nHe also expects the Jenners name will remain on the side of the building.\n\nMr Povlsen, whose parents set up Scandinavian fashion company Bestseller, is believed to be worth £4.5bn. As well as owning Bestseller he is a major shareholder in online retailer Asos.\n\nHe has previously revealed plans to use parts of the Princes Street building for a hotel, with the rest reserved for retail.\n\nThe plans included the restoration of the building's Victorian facade and central atrium, which is a three-storey, top-lit grand saloon. A rooftop restaurant and bar would overlook nearby St Andrew Square.\n\nMr Vogdrup said the plans to refurbish the store were now on hold due to the current economic climate.\n\nJenners has dominated Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare since the mid-19th Century.\n\nIt was opened in 1838 by local drapers Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington, who found themselves out of work after being sacked for taking a day off to go to the races in Musselburgh.\n\nInitially called Kennington & Jenner, the boutique store proved popular for keeping the people of Edinburgh in fine silks and linen, which could normally only be found in London.\n\nBy 1890 the shop had changed name to Charles Jenner & Co and had expanded to adjoining buildings, making it one of the biggest stores in Scotland.\n\nBut just two years later fire destroyed the shop and ambitious plans - backed by the local council - were launched for a new look Jenners.\n\nCelebrated architect William Hamilton Beattie, who also designed the Balmoral and Carlton Hotel, was brought in for the redesign.\n\nCharles Jenner died in 1893 before the work was completed in 1895.\n\nIn 1911 the popular store was given a Royal Warrant.\n\nAfter struggling in the the 21st Century, the Jenners brand was sold to rivals House of Fraser for £46m in 2005.\n\nIn 2018, House of Fraser was bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct group.", "The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found\n\nA person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.\n\nThe joint Swansea and Cardiff universities study found the eyes of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) behave differently.\n\nIt found their pupils have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images.\n\nThose behind the study said it could be useful in diagnosis, treatment and in bench-marking progress.\n\nNormally pupil size fluctuates with changing light levels, but it can also alter when a person is scared, excited, or even concentrating hard.\n\nShocking or surprising images can cause pupils to enlarge, however the researchers discovered this reaction was highly exaggerated in people who have experienced a traumatic event.\n\nThree groups of people were tested - some with diagnosed PTSD, others who had experienced a traumatic event but had no PTSD, and a control group of people with no previous issues.\n\nProf Nicola Gray, of Swansea University, co-authored the study with Prof Robert Snowden of Cardiff University.\n\nShe said: \"The pupil normally shows a fast constriction when the person sees a new image, but then the pupil gets bigger - especially if the picture is arousing, such as a scary image of, for example, fierce animals or weapons.\n\n\"However, the patients with PTSD behaved differently in both phases. First, their pupil did not constrict much when shown a new picture, and then it expanded more to the scary images than for people without PTSD.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans?\n\nOne man with PTSD who wished to remain anonymous described how, after his time in the Army, he was left unable to drive at night because his pupils could not contract sufficiently in response to street lights and on-coming headlights, leaving him dazzled and unable to see properly.\n\nThe research found the PTSD group showed enlarged pupils to images which were positive and exciting.\n\n\"When we displayed exciting scenes, such as a sporting triumph or an image of a person sky-diving, these images elicited the same enhanced pupil response in the PTSD group as the frightening pictures,\" Prof Snowden said.\n\n\"The subjects weren't frightened by these images, but the images were arousing. Once again, the people with PTSD showed a far greater response, indicating that they were even more aroused by these images than the other participants\".\n\nAccording to Prof Gray this finding could help to develop new therapies for PTSD.\n\n\"If exciting, but non-threatening, images elicit the same response, then it may be possible in the future to use them to gradually reduce the arousal levels of people experiencing PTSD.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nThe pupil is the opening in the middle of the iris\n\nProf Gray said the research may also be useful from a diagnostic perspective.\n\n\"PTSD comes in many forms, from people who have experienced a one-off sudden event like a car crash, to those who have gone through many traumatic events over a period of months or years via abuse.\n\n\"Sometimes people struggle to express these thoughts, or might even play them down in order to please the therapist.\n\n\"Having a more objective method to look for these signs of hypervigilance and hyperarousal may be useful in order to obtain a more accurate benchmark of how the person is progressing.\"", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "Moderna's Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company.\n\nEarly laboratory tests suggest antibodies triggered by the vaccine can recognise and fight the new variants.\n\nMore studies are needed to confirm this is true for people who have been vaccinated.\n\nThe new variants have been spreading fast in a number of nations.\n\nThey have undergone changes or mutations that mean they can infect human cells more easily than the original version of coronavirus that started the pandemic.\n\nExperts think the UK strain, which emerged in September, may be up to 70% more transmissible.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier variants, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well. There are already some early results that suggest the Pfizer vaccine protects against the new UK variant.\n\nFor the Moderna study, researchers looked at blood samples taken from eight people who had received the recommended two doses of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe findings are yet to be peer reviewed, but suggest immunity from the vaccine recognises the new variants.\n\nNeutralising antibodies, made by the body's immune system, stop the virus from entering cells.\n\nBlood samples exposed to the new variants appeared to have sufficient antibodies to achieve this neutralising effect, although it was not as strong for the South Africa variant as for the UK one.\n\nModerna says this could mean that protection against the South Africa variant might disappear more quickly.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virus expert at Warwick Medical School in the UK, said this would be concerning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health and science journalist Laura Foster compares the three different Covid-19 vaccines\n\nModerna is currently testing whether giving a third booster shot might be beneficial.\n\nLike other scientists, the company is also investigating whether redesigning the booster to be a better match for the new variants will be beneficial.\n\nStephane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, said the company believed it was \"imperative to be proactive as the virus evolves\".\n\nUK regulators have already approved Moderna's vaccine for rollout on the NHS, but the 17m pre-ordered doses are not expected to arrive until Spring.\n\nThe vaccine works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being used in the UK.\n\nMore than 6.3 million people in the UK have already received a first dose of either the Pfizer or the AstraZeneca vaccine.", "Media regulator Ofcom has decided not to take any action over Channel 4's use of a \"deepfaked\" video of the Queen.\n\nThe \"alternative Christmas message\" attracted 354 complaints about decency after it aired on Christmas Day.\n\nIt showed an AI-generated version of the Queen, who made jokes about the Royal Family and the prime minister, and danced on top of a table.\n\nBut after assessing things, Ofcom decided not to pursue the complaints about disrespecting the monarch.\n\n\"In our view, Channel 4 made clear that the images were deliberately manipulated as a device to question societal trust in what we see online,\" a spokeswoman for the regulator said.\n\n\"We also consider that the satirical tone of the film was in keeping with audience expectations of this broadcaster,\" it added.\n\nThat decision is similar to Channel 4's own defence of the satire, in which it argued that the parody left viewers \"in no doubt that it was not real\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Channel 4 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt also argued the message of the video as a whole was a warning about the importance of trust, and how easily convincing fake images and video can be created - even uploading a behind-the-scenes video about its creation.\n\nAfter airing on national television in the UK, the video has spread widely online, racking up nearly two million views on YouTube alone.\n\nIt has not, however, been universally popular - on top of the formal complaints to Ofcom, it has a poor ratio of likes-to-dislikes on YouTube - with more than 19,000 likes, but nearly 5,000 dislikes.\n\nDeepfakes work by training a computer to draw a person's face by showing it thousands of photographs of that person, ideally from many different angles and in different lighting conditions.\n\nThe computer can then draw that person's face on top of another actor's performance.\n\nThe more varied and numerous the images used in training the model, the better the result - which is why it is almost universally used to fake the appearance of celebrities, who already have hours of available film or television footage available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut there are other limitations on the technology, too.\n\nThe similarity in facial structure, size, and appearance of the actor whose face is being replaced affects the realism of the finished deepfake. It is also far easier to produce a convincing result if the person remains still, as movement can often reveal the artificial nature of the animation.\n\nThe voice must also be replaced by an impersonator and the entire process is incredibly demanding, even for high-end computers, often taking many days of computation.\n\nHowever, the technique is advancing rapidly, and the results are becoming more convincing with each passing year, with major film firms such as Disney actively exploring the technique and developing their own variants.", "Fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m.\n\nHowever, it will not take on any of the firm's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nBoohoo said it was a \"transformational deal\" and a \"huge step\". But the deal means that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go.\n\nThe 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business.\n\nIn a separate development, Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nA closing-down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as the administrators continued to seek offers for all or parts of the business.\n\nThe company announced recently that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nThe administrators of Debenhams UK, FRP Advisory, said they had undertaken a \"thorough and robust process\" to achieve \"the best outcome for Debenhams' stakeholders\".\n\n\"This transaction will allow a new Debenhams-branded business to emerge under strong new ownership, including an online operation and the opportunity to secure an international franchise network that will operate under licence using the Debenhams name,\" they added.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nIts executive chairman, Mahmud Kamani, said: \"This is a transformational deal for the group, which allows us to capture the fantastic opportunity as ecommerce continues to grow. Our ambition is to create the UK's largest marketplace.\n\n\"Our acquisition of the Debenhams brand is strategically significant as it represents a huge step which accelerates our ambition to be a leader, not just in fashion ecommerce, but in new categories including beauty, sport and homeware.\"\n\nBoohoo said Debenhams was expected to relaunch on Boohoo's web platform later this year.\n\nIn the meantime, Debenhams will continue to operate its website for an agreed period.\n\nBoohoo's fast-fashion model has come under scrutiny\n\nBoohoo has recently come under fire over workers' pay and conditions and its ultra-low pricing.\n\nAs well as facing questions about the environmental impact of its fast-fashion business model, there have been accusations of widespread abuse of employment law at some of Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nInvestigations last year suggested workers were being paid below the minimum wage.\n\nAfter an independent review of the claims found a series of failings, Mr Kamani said last month that the firm was working to fix the problems, adding: \"We will make a better Boohoo.\"\n\nWhile online retailers have been whittling away at their High Street rivals for years, few could have predicted how quickly bricks-and-mortar stalwarts have collapsed. The pandemic has fatally undermined their already parlous finances. Businesses that appeared to have a chance of survival just a year ago have been wiped out and their brands bought by online players.\n\nThe scale of the change is profound: when Debenhams listed on the stock exchange in 2011, investors valued it at £1.6bn. Boohoo, which was founded only in 2006, already has a stock market value of £4.4bn. Asos, a bit player two decades ago when Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group was riding high and toying with a bid for Marks & Spencer, is now valued by the stock market at £5bn.\n\nNeither Boohoo or Asos see any value in the Debenhams or Topshop High Street estates. Instead, they will concentrate on development of the brands and the associated customer data. This is bad news for the 19,000-odd people who work in the branches of Debenhams and Topshop, and will leave councils around the country wondering how they will fill town centres that were based on retail.\n\nBut just as canny entrepreneurs and private equity companies are gearing up to buy struggling pub chains, in the hope of a recovery once lockdown restrictions are eased, so will some investors be wondering what next for the High Street. The British love affair with shopping will not end overnight and a well-placed punt now could have big rewards.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever, the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low.\n\nMeanwhile, one of House of Fraser's flagship outlets, the Jenners department store in Edinburgh, is to leave its Princes Street home after 183 years. It will close on 3 May with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building's owner, Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, announced in November 2019 that he intended to convert the site, replacing Jenners with a hotel, cafes, a rooftop restaurant and luxury shops.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Frasers Group said it had been \"unable to reach an agreement\" with Mr Povlsen and that the closure of Jenners would leave \"a vacant site for the foreseeable future with no immediate plans\".\n\nDo you work for Debenhams? Has your job been affected? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The public's trust in the way the UK is run is breaking down, former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.\n\nHe said Covid-19 had exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions, who were often treated by the centre as if they were \"invisible\".\n\nMr Brown is urging Boris Johnson to set up a commission to review how the country is governed and powers shared.\n\nBut the PM said his focus was on the pandemic, stressing the benefits of the union could be \"seen everywhere\".\n\nMr Brown's intervention comes amid a looming clash between Mr Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has demanded the UK agree to another Scottish independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority in May's Holyrood elections.\n\nThe Court of Session is hearing arguments about whether Holyrood can legislate to hold one even if the UK government continues to object.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Brown - who advocates a federal system with more power for nations and regions - says the pandemic has \"brought to the surface tensions and grievances that have been simmering for years\" between Downing Street and the various parts of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives election win was not 'a signal that the country is at ease' warns Brown\n\nHe points to \"bitter disputes\" over issues such as lockdown restrictions and furlough and said unless underlying tensions were resolved, the UK risked becoming a \"failed state\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today, he said at a time \"when all should be pulling together and intensifying co-operation across the UK\" there was division and claims by the leaders of Scotland and Wales and the English regions that they were not being properly consulted.\n\nLast year there were rows between the government and local authorities over coronavirus tiers, with the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, objecting to plans to put the region into the strictest level of restrictions.\n\nMr Brown told Today that while he was \"confident\" that Scotland would still be part of the UK in ten years time, the way the UK was governed had to change.\n\n\"I think the public are fed up. I think in many ways, they feel they are being treated as second class citizens, particularly in the outlying areas, that they are invisible and forgotten.\"\n\n\"Something has broken down in trust and has to be repaired.\"\n\nMr Brown is advising the Labour Party on its devolution strategy - but has also held talks with government ministers including Michael Gove in recent weeks.\n\nGovernment sources say they are focused on taking tangible steps to demonstrate the value of the UK.\n\nThe idea of a fundamental review of the UK's power structures has been suggested as one possible way to counter support for Scottish independence ahead of May's Holyrood election.\n\nBut a series of polls now suggest support for independence is higher than support for the union - and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will demand another referendum if, as seems likely, her party - the SNP - wins in May.\n\nHe is calling on Boris Johnson to immediately set up a commission on democracy to review how the UK is governed, something the Conservatives promised in their manifesto before the last general election.\n\nIn his Telegraph article, he suggests it would find that the UK needs a Forum of the Nations and Regions, citizens' assemblies, and a greater focus on the benefits of cooperation in areas such as the NHS and the armed forces.\n\nThe current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer also supports devolving more powers from Westminster but opposes another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe SNP said last week that there would be a \"legal referendum\" after the pandemic if May's Holyrood election returned a pro-independence majority.\n\nAsked if he would stand in the way of this, Mr Johnson said what the British public wanted was for its political leaders to focus on beating coronavirus, adding that the advantages of the UK's four nations working together \"spoke for themselves\".\n\n\"I think people can see everywhere in the UK the visible benefits of our wonderful union,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine programme that is being rolled out by a National Health Service, a vaccine that was developed in labs in Oxford and is being administered by the British Army.\"\n\nBut the SNP said the Scottish people, not Westminster-based politicians, should decide the country's future.\n\n\"No amount of constitutional tinkering from Labour would protect Scotland from Brexit or the Tory power grab - only independence can do that,\" said Kirsten Oswald, the party's deputy Westminster leader.\n\n\"The Scottish people will see right through this attempt to deny their democratic right.\"\n\nA poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in Northern Ireland found 51% of people wanted a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nDUP leader and Northern Irish First Minister Arlene Foster said such a vote would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nNumbers supporting Wales breaking away from the UK also appear to be rising. The pro-independence campaign group Yes Cymru has said membership swelled from 2,000 at the start of 2020 to more than 17,000.\n\nPlaid Cymru has also promised to hold an independence referendum if it wins the next Senedd election.\n\nResponding to Mr Brown's intervention, the party's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"It's been clear for many years that the UK doesn't work for Wales - I'm glad that the Labour Party are starting to see that.\"", "Prince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nIt followed concerns that emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThe review by experts from two royal colleges was in addition to the health board's own investigation. Maternity services in Cwm Taf are now in special measures and an independent panel was set up to drive improvements.\n\nHow many incidents are we talking about?\n• None 150cases from 2016-2018 reviewed so lessons can be learnt\n\nThe health board's own investigation looked at 43 cases, including 25 serious incidents. Of these initial cases, 20 were at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and 23 at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil. The serious incidents include eight stillbirths and five deaths shortly after birth, all between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThey came to light after concerns were raised that staff had not been reporting serious incidents.\n\nThe health board said it faced \"extreme\" staff shortages and was urgently trying to make improvements.\n\nBut the review team cast doubt on the ability of the health board to make changes, without more support. It said it was \"dismayed\" that an internal report, written by a consultant midwife, highlighting many safety concerns last September was not acted upon, \"thereby continuing to expose women to unacceptable risks\".\n\nA consultant midwife also identified 67 stillbirths, going back to 2010, which had not been reported by the health board.\n\nThe independent panel decided to widen its scope to look at 350 cases of women who were transferred out of the health board area.\n\nIn October 2019, the panel said it was looking at a total of 150 cases between 2016 and 2018 - including the 43 cases initially investigated. There is still scope to look back at further years.\n\nWho has been investigating?\n\nThe health minister Vaughan Gething ordered an \"independent external review\" by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and the Royal College of Midwives last October.\n\nIts findings, published in April 2019, were damning and found services \"under extreme pressure\" and \"dysfunctional\", while mothers had distressing experiences in how they were treated.\n\nCwm Taf's maternity services were placed in special measures and the independent panel overseeing changes has indicated as well as looking back in detail at past cases it wanted to ensure improvements were robust and to look at lessons that could be learned across Wales.\n\nHave any changes been made?\n\nThe royal colleges review team ordered urgent action after visiting hospitals in January 2019 - finding \"a number of immediate quality and safety concerns\".\n\nMeasures included more cover by doctors, strengthened processes for flagging up problems and more support for junior doctors. Cwm Taf now says these have all been completed.\n\nThe latest progress report from the independent panel in January 2020 found the most urgent improvements had been made.\n\nStaffing levels and training had improved, there was a better system for flagging up complaints and surveys found \"high levels of satisfaction\" from women using Prince Charles Hospital.\n\nThe panel was \"cautiously optimistic\" that long term improvements would be made.\n\nChioma Udeogu, who has moved back home to Nigeria\n\nThe review's parallel report on how families were dealt with was perhaps the most powerful testimony on the problems at Cwm Taf.\n\nMothers were said to have been ignored or made to feel worthless.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised.\n\nOne mother said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nThere was the case of Sarah Handy, who was sent home from hospital in pain with laxatives, before giving birth prematurely at home. Her daughter died.\n\nChioma Udeogu's daughter was delivered stillborn after failings in her care at the Royal Glamorgan hospital in January 2017. An internal investigation has already found midwives failed for 12 hours to carry out antenatal checks on Mrs Udeogu, an engineering student at the University of South Wales at the time.\n\n\"I believe that if I was properly monitored in the hospital I wouldn't have lost her,\" she said.\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nJessica Western says she was not listened to at different points before and after the birth of her baby\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born.\n\n\"I'm only young and I do want to have more kids eventually, but I'm not prepared to put myself through a pregnancy if this could happen again,\" she said.\n\nAnother, Monique Aziz, from Coedely, Rhondda Cynon Taff, whose baby son died days after leaving hospital, said: \"I just want to know if he would have still been here if things had been done differently.\"\n\nWhat else has been happening?\n\nIn the background, there have been long planned changes in how maternity services are organised.\n\nFrom March 2019, doctor-led care for mothers in labour or for babies needing specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a 24-hour midwife unit for less complicated births and will continue to provide all antenatal services, clinic appointments, scans and tests during pregnancy.\n\nThe changes follow long-standing concerns that specialist maternity staff had been spread too thinly. The health board says those changes will help address challenges, including over staffing.\n\nAfter the critical report, the health board's chief executive went on sickness leave and then resigned in August 2019.\n\nStress and sickness absence was reported to be an issue among midwives, in the aftermath of the review.\n\nHow far back to those concerns go?\n\nThe fragility of maternity services in the area can be traced back for at least a decade. In a review in 2011 the Wales Audit Office raised concerns about staffing, skill mix and absences and the health board's ability to deliver maternity services on two sites.\n\nConcerns about the quality of maternity care were also at the heart of a controversial plan in 2014 to centralise some specialist services in fewer hospitals along the M4 corridor. It recommended moving doctor-led care for mothers and children (along with A&E) from the Royal Glamorgan hospital.\n\nCwm Taf health board initially rejected the plan and several months of wrangling followed.\n\nFour years later, the proposals on maternity services are only now being finally implemented.\n\nWhat is the independent panel doing?\n\nThe chairman Mick Giannasi - who has a track record going into troubled organisations, like Anglesey Council and the Welsh Ambulance Service - brings clinical expertise. He is also setting up a system so families can be involved and kept fully informed.\n\nIn the first progress report in October 2019, the panel said there had been progress - around a third of the action points in the improvement plan had been delivered - but a \"significant amount of work\" still needed to be done.\n\nThere had been \"significant\" progress by January 2020 although with more than two thirds of recommendations it was still \"work in progress\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Concerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents\n\nTwo-thirds of women at the heart of a review into maternity services at a Welsh health board could have had very different outcomes if they had received better care, a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (Imsop) focused on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nIts maternity services have been in special measures since \"serious failings\" were found two years ago.\n\nConcerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThis sparked a major independent review, which gave a damning verdict on maternity services in the health board area that covers about 450,000 people living in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nPublished on Monday, the Imsop report focuses on the care of 27 women, most of whom were admitted to an intensive care unit during 28 \"episodes of care\" between January 2016 and September 2018.\n\nIt found that 19 reviews of maternal care (68%) revealed at least one factor where \"different management would reasonably have been expected to alter the outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kayden was born with severe brain damage following mistakes in his mother's maternity care\n\nThe panel's chairman, Mick Giannasi, said: \"These findings will be concerning and potentially distressing for the women and families involved, and it will be difficult for staff.\n\n\"Of the 28 episodes of care, we concluded that in 27 of them, our independent teams who reviewed the care would have done something differently. Put simply, what went wrong, might not have gone wrong if things had been done differently.\"\n\nTwo further reviews of stillbirths and neonatal mortality and morbidity will follow later this year. In total, all three independent reviews will looks at 160 cases.\n\nImsop's findings reinforce those of the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nThe royal colleges' 2019 investigation found mothers faced \"distressing experiences and poor care\" at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, with maternity services deemed \"dysfunctional\".\n\nFour key areas have been identified by Imsop as factors which contributed to poor care. These are:\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the latest report recognises things are moving in the right direction for the health board, but more needs to be done.\n\n\"The report highlights that women weren't always at the centre of their care and that women weren't always listened to, and that led to harm that could have been avoided,\" Mr Gething told reporters at the latest Welsh Government press briefing.\n\n\"Nothing will be able to change what these women and their families experienced at these two hospitals or the outcome for those families whose babies died or came to harm.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for everything that happened.\"\n\nVaughan Gething says he is \"deeply sorry\" women and their families were not listened to\n\nHe said he hoped \"families can take some comfort\" from the reviews that have provided answers to questions they were asking.\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone affected by this report today and those who are still awaiting the outcome of their reviews,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it has been \"working with the panel and families\" to put in place a \"comprehensive maternity and neonatal improvement programme\".\n\n\"It has been a period of reflection during which we have examined the regrettable failings in maternity services of the former Cwm Taf University Health Board and we acknowledge the fact that we still have some way to go,\" said Greg Dix, the health board's executive director of nursing and midwifery.\n\n\"We will never forget the tragedies suffered by women, their families and our staff, and the learning from these cases is a key corner stone on which we are building our improvement plans.\"", "Credit card giant Mastercard is to raise the fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online by fivefold.\n\nIt has sparked fears that consumer prices could rise if merchants choose to pass on those costs, especially on items not available from UK retailers.\n\nTransactions with airlines, hotels, car rentals and holiday firms based in the EU could all be affected.\n\nMastercard attributed the move to the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nIt said that only online sales would be affected and that \"in practice\" UK consumers would not notice the change.\n\nThe change affects the \"interchange\" fees Mastercard sets on behalf of big banks, so that its customers can use their payment networks.\n\nFrom October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%.\n\nThe EU introduced a cap on such fees in 2015 after concerns they pushed prices up for consumers and unfairly burdened companies.\n\nBritish customers makes tens of billions of pounds of purchases every year from European merchants on credit cards alone - and the hike in fees from Mastercard will affect the majority of those.\n\nThe increase may be relatively small but it's significant, coming at a time when retailers may face extra paperwork and checks - higher costs - for goods coming into the UK.\n\nWith Covid restrictions bringing their own challenges, businesses, especially smaller ones, may be compelled to pass on the costs to consumers.\n\nAnd it's not just items crossing borders. The payments for most items bought on Amazon in the UK are processed via its Luxembourg headquarters.\n\nWith the increase not coming in for several months, international companies may look at ways to reclassify UK sales, to avoid the charges.\n\nMastercard is implementing the rises simply as it's no longer bound by the restrictions imposed by the UK being in the EU. The banks which receive the fees have said in the past that they are invested in areas such as card security and innovation. This time, however, the trade body which represents them has declined to comment on the rises.\n\nBut Mastercard said that since the end of the Brexit transition period, the cap no longer applied to many payments between the UK and European Economic Area (which also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).\n\n\"As a result of the UK leaving the EEA, Mastercard will adapt interchange rates on UK cards to the commitments it gave the European Commission in 2019 for non-EEA card transactions,\" the company said.\n\n\"In practice, only EEA merchants making e-commerce sales to UK cardholders will see a change.\"\n\nKevin Hollinrake, chair of the parliamentary group on Fair Business Banking, told the Financial Times, which first reported the story, that the move \"smacks of opportunism\".\n\nAnd Callum Godwin, chief economist at CMSPI, the global payments consultancy, said airlines, hotels, car rentals and travel groups would be hit.\n\n\"[This will happen] anywhere the consumer is in the UK and the merchant is in the EU,\" he said.\n\nHe added that many firms in these industries were already struggling due to the pandemic.\n\nVisa, Mastercard's larger rival, has not announced plans to change its fees but told the FT it was keeping the issue under review.\n\nCompanies in the UK and EU are already facing added costs and delays due to post-Brexit trade rules brought in on 1 January.\n\nSome EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nMeanwhile, UK consumers who have bought goods from firms based in the bloc have found themselves facing hefty charges to cover customs duties, taxes and administration.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The leader says he is \"optimistic\" and is recieving medical treatment\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe 67-year-old said on Twitter that his symptoms were mild and that he was \"optimistic\" following the diagnosis.\n\nThe development comes as Mexico grapples with an upsurge in infections, with deaths nearing 150,000.\n\nMr López Obrador says he will continue working from home, including speaking to President Vladimir Putin about acquiring a Russian-made vaccine.\n\nIt was announced earlier on Sunday that a call between the two leaders will take place on Monday to discuss their bilateral relationship and the possible supply of Sputnik V jabs.\n\nThe Mexican president said last year he would try and acquire 12 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine if it proved effective.\n\nMexico has not yet approved the jab for use, but officials want to expand the country's vaccination program for the population of 128 million people amid delivery delays from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nSputnik V has already received authorisation in a number of other countries, including Brazil and Argentina. Hungary became the first in the EU to give it the green light this week.\n\nJosé Luis Alomia Zegarra, a senior health official, described Mr López Obrador's condition as stable and told a news briefing that \"a team of medical specialists\" were attending to the president.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 1.75m virus cases since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University tracking.\n\nThe nation's confirmed death toll of 149,614 is one of the highest in the world - behind only the US, Brazil and India.", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is isolating after a contact tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating for the third time, after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said he would be working from home until next Monday after being notified of the contact earlier.\n\nSir Keir confirmed on Twitter that he had no symptoms.\n\nThe Labour leader last self-isolated in December after a member of his staff tested positive for Covid-19, but he never showed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nHe also self-isolated in September after a member of his family showed symptoms - but they later tested negative, allowing Sir Keir to get back to Westminster.\n\nIf you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, you have a legal obligation to self-isolate.\n\nYou then have to stay at home, not going out for any reason, for 10 days from the time you last saw the contact.\n\nIf you don't stick to the rules, the police can issue you with a fine, starting at £1,000.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor Sir Keir, he needs to stay indoors until next Monday and cancel all his upcoming plans for the week.\n\nHe will still be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday via video link.\n\nThe current list of MPs set to question Boris Johnson, shows that only one will now physically be in the Commons with the PM.\n\nA number of politicians have had to self-isolate during the pandemic, including the prime minister.\n\nThe latest was Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who got a notification from the NHS app to stay at home.\n\nHe had the virus last March, but said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nMr Hancock's isolation period was due to end on Sunday, so he is expected back in Whitehall this week.", "Health and social care staff have been vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow\n\nThe Scottish government is \"looking at all sorts of ways\" to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccine programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe government is considering a pilot of 24/7 vaccine arrangements, chiefly aimed at younger age groups.\n\nA total of 46% of over-80s in Scotland have now had a first dose, along with 95% of older care home residents.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the programme was \"picking up pace\" and \"on track\" to reach all over-70s by mid-February.\n\nShe said the government was \"looking at all options\" to get the vaccine out to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government aims to have the top priority groups - including care home residents and staff, frontline health workers and all those aged over 80 - given a first dose by the end of the first week in February.\n\nFrom Monday, letters are being sent out to people aged 70 to 79 inviting them to receive their first doses. Ms Sturgeon says the programme is \"on track\" to having this group complete by the middle of February.\n\nThere has been some criticism of the speed of the rollout in Scotland, with a greater proportion of over-80s having already received a jab in England.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the programme was \"making good progress\" and said any differences with the rest of the UK were because of an early focus on vaccinating older care home residents - 95% of whom have now had their first dose.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely confident\" that the government would hit its targets.\n\nAnd the first minister said consideration was being given to how to speed up the programme further, saying her government is \"looking at all sorts of ways to accelerate things\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at piloting 24/7 arrangements so that when we get into wider groups of the population, people will have choices about the time they turn up for vaccines.\n\n\"There's been debate about whether people will want to turn up in the middle of the night to get vaccinated - some will and some won't. If that sort of thing is going to add to what we are able to do, it is likely to have the greatest impact when you get down into the relatively younger age groups.\n\n\"If we think it is appropriate there may be some things we try just to see if they would work, and if they don't we won't continue with them.\n\n\"We are looking at all of these options to make sure that as the supply increases, we can get it to people as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"some early evidence\" that lockdown was reducing the number of new Covid-19 cases, although she said the government would take a \"cautious\" approach to restrictions - which are currently due to run into mid-February at the earliest.\n\nShe also voiced some \"cautious grounds for optimism\" that admissions to hospital are starting to \"tail off slightly\", although she warned that pressure on the NHS would remain \"acute\" for some time.\n\nOpposition leaders called for the vaccine programme to be accelerated and for support to be targeted at key workers.\n\nA mass vaccination centre is being set up at the P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"People are talking about a 24/7 approach here in Scotland - I think based on the figures so far we need to focus just on a seven day approach, because we are not vaccinating people quickly enough.\n\n\"We are not making the progress we need to, to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack said the vaccine programme \"needs to be accelerated as fast as possible\"\n\nShe said: \"We are all behind this vaccine being rolled out - but it has to be as soon as possible, because people are getting nervous.\n\n\"Whether it's police staff, construction staff, care staff who have been worried for weeks - the vaccine has got to be the top priority, along with the test and trace so we can monitor the impact on the ground and get targeted support to people.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Scotland was \"slipping further and further behind England\" and added: \"The first minister's excuses on the rollout of the vaccine are wearing very thin.\"", "The Francis family said they would be exchanging cards and having a special meal for their lockdown St Dwynwen's Day\n\nIt may not be as well-known as Valentine's Day but St Dwynwen's Day is a special time for some in Wales.\n\nSian and Trystan Francis from Rhiwbina in Cardiff do not celebrate Valentine's Day but on Monday will exchange St Dwynwen cards and have a special meal.\n\nMr Francis, 40, said: \"It's just a part of my culture - I didn't know about Valentine's Day until about Year 6.\n\n\"My parents didn't celebrate Valentine's Day at all but they did send cards on Santes Dwynwen.\"\n\nSian and Trystan Francis perform as Do Re Mi Canu\n\nThe Welsh patron saint of lovers St Dwynwen - or Santes Dwynwen in Welsh - was a 4th Century princess who lived in what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nThe story goes she was unlucky in love, became a nun and went on to pray for true lovers to have better luck than she did.\n\nMrs Francis, who grew up in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said her family did not speak Welsh but she went to a Welsh medium school and her mother learnt the language as an adult.\n\nMrs Francis, 38, said: \"I think if you're going to celebrate anything that says that you love your partner, then this one is loads more relevant to us because it's part of our heritage and our culture - Valentine's Day is not really that much to do with us.\"\n\nThe family have been busy organising cards and treats for their children, Jac, two, and Mimi, seven.\n\n\"I bought a card for Mimi from a mystery person and that's being delivered tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nShe added Covid had meant the celebration was a bit more low-key this year.\n\n\"I bought some cupcakes but we would normally go out for food and stuff,\" she said.\n\nMenna Llinos and her family celebrated with heart-shaped pizza in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThere was a time when they also marked Valentine's Day before they had a change of heart, she said.\n\n\"Over time we just went, 'actually, it's a bit irrelevant to us',\" she said.\n\n\"And you can never get a restaurant [on Valentine's Day],\" Mr Francis added.\n\nCarys Ingram from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, has been making heart-shaped cookies with her children\n\nMr Francis, who grew up speaking Welsh at home, said their choice was not unusual among their friends.\n\n\"My friends, people within the Welsh-speaking community definitely, celebrate Santes Dwynwen,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a subculture within Wales that does exist within Welsh-speaking communities so I would say Santes Dwynwen is part of that.\"\n\nMrs Francis said it meant they were able to avoid the commercialisation of the better-known celebration.\n\n\"Santes Dwynwen isn't particularly commercialised because it is so niche,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "The first minister visited the site of the flooding, where 80 villagers were evacuated from their homes\n\nResidents have been urged to stay away from homes flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft following reports some had returned against advice.\n\nEighty people had to be evacuated from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday and the Coal Authority is investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nOn Sunday First Minister Mark Drakeford visited the village.\n\nSpecialists said mine shafts in the area were stable, but villagers were told it was not safe to return home.\n\nNeath Port Talbot Council tweeted on Sunday afternoon that some evacuated residents had ignored the warnings.\n\nIt said: \"We are getting reports that some residents who have been evacuated are returning to their homes.\n\n\"Investigations are ongoing at the site, including safety checks by utility companies. They have asked us to reiterate the request for residents to stay away and that it is not safe to return today or tomorrow.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known how many residents were thought to have returned to their flooded homes or how long they were there for.\n\nBigger equipment is being brought in to \"understand in detail what has caused the blow out\", according to Coal Authority chief executive Lisa Pinney.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past mining on communities, said it believed the \"blow out\" was likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which caused water to back up before breaking out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones warned residents it was unlikely that they could return home by Monday.\n\nMs Pinney said a hand-drilling crew \"determined the precise location and extension of the collapsed mine shaft\" on Saturday.\n\nThe village was flooded after a mine shaft \"blow out\"\n\n\"This now allows us to bring in larger equipment to investigate the wider mine workings and drainage channels in the area around it, so we can understand in detail what has caused the blow out,\" she said.\n\n\"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and found them all to be safe.\n\n\"We will be checking over a wider area in the days ahead.\"\n\nDuring his visit to the village Mr Drakeford was shown the sinkhole which had opened up on Thursday, leading to the flooding.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government confirmed financial support would be made available to people affected by the floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Sunday: \"Particularly for families who have no insurance, this is a devastating event.\n\n\"They will know that the Welsh Government is there to help and we will do that through the local authority which has been here very visibly, helping people in the last couple of days.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: 'We’re throwing absolutely everything at it'\n\nFewer than 2,000 young people have so far started new roles under the government's £2bn Kickstart jobs scheme, data shows.\n\nThe programme, which launched in September, has created 120,000 temporary jobs to date.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC coronavirus restrictions were making it harder for more young people to get started.\n\nHowever, he expected the number to rise once restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"Obviously because of the lockdowns and restrictions, that hampers businesses' ability to bring people into work,\" said Mr Sunak,\n\n\"What we can look forward to, as the restrictions ease, is more of these young people starting those placements.\n\n\"But taking a step back, we announced this scheme first week of July, it went live the first week of September and here we are, just a few months later, with 120,000 jobs having being vetted, funded and created.\"\n\nThe Chancellor insisted that the government had moved at an \"enormous pace\" to set up the programme, which targets youths at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\n\"I've always said my priority through this crisis is to protect, support and create as many jobs as possible, and young people in particular have been at the forefront of my mind,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"We know that they're most likely to work in affected sectors, they're twice as likely to be furloughed, and the ones leaving college are entering a really difficult labour market.\"\n\nYouth unemployment rose to 14.5% between August to October 2020, with 597,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed, up from 11% in the same period in 2019.\n\nLatest data from the Department of Work Pensions shows that as of 15 January, 1,868 young people had begun their placements.\n\nHayden Finlayson, recipient of a Kickstart work placement with Whistl in Bedford\n\nHayden Finlayson, 24, is one of them. He was made redundant from a retail job last summer.\n\nLooking for work during the pandemic proved difficult: \"You start thinking about things - whether you're going to find work again.\"\n\nHe has secured a Kickstart placement at a Whistl distribution centre in Bedford, an opportunity for which he is grateful.\n\n\"I gave it a go. It's a new experience and I want to do new things,\" he said. \"[I'm learning] different skills every day, things I've never done before.\"\n\nBusinesses apply to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to create Kickstart places, which are then vetted for suitability.\n\nYoung people aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit are matched to roles by their job centre work coaches.\n\nThey are then interviewed by the prospective employer, which decides whether to take them on.\n\nFor each successful placement, the government covers the National Minimum Wage for a six-month period, at 25 hours per week.\n\nA further £1,500 grant is available per placement to help cover setup costs and assist in the development of employability skills. The current £2bn budget allows for around 250,000 roles.\n\nFSB's Craig Beaumont says the decision to allow small firms offer placements through a faster, more direct process is four months late\n\nFollowing criticism from small businesses, firms who wish to create just a handful of roles will have the option of applying direct to the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nPreviously, small firms who wanted to create fewer than 30 Kickstart jobs had to group together, or use a \"gateway\" provider as an intermediary.\n\nMore than 600 gateways have now been approved, but small businesses complained that they found the process slow and difficult.\n\n\"The decision should have been made in September,\" said Craig Beaumont, chief of external affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\n\"There is now a backlog of cases of people who've been appointed through intermediaries, who've not been able to access that work yet. So we need a real focus from the government to clear that.\"\n\nAsked if the scheme would need extending because continuing restrictions could prevent its aims being achieved this year, Mr Sunak left the possibility open.\n\nAnna Szymanowska runs Fighter Shots, which makes ginger-based remedy drinks. She is keen to create three digital marketing Kickstart roles as soon as possible.\n\nHowever, she says her application - which was done in a pool with other businesses - took a long time.\n\nSmall business owner Anna Szymanowska would like to hire three young people for digital marketing roles\n\n\"It was a little bit lengthy, because the first time I heard of the scheme was July or August,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We applied within a month [of hearing about it], and just yesterday we received a contract to sign. So it was lengthy but otherwise well managed.\"\n\nThe Chancellor told the BBC that the changes hadn't been made earlier because Kickstart had been set up \"at speed\". He pointed out other interventions aimed at supporting young people's jobs, including investment in employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships.\n\nTracy Fishwick is the managing director of Transform Lives Company, a social enterprise which helps people into work.\n\nShe believes that the young people chosen to have Kickstart placements will be very important.\n\n\"The young people who really probably would already get a job with a little bit of help - we don't want all the Kickstart jobs going to those young people,\" said Ms Fishwick, who previously worked with the Future Jobs Fund - a scheme for young people created by Labour in 2009.\n\n\"We need to be able to put things in place to support those young people who were already unemployed before Covid.\"", "Volunteers responded to an appeal on social media on Saturday night\n\nVolunteers helped to clear up to 7cm of snow at a community hospital so Covid-19 vaccines could be given to about 300 vulnerable patients.\n\nMore than a dozen people cleared the car park at Maesteg community hospital in Bridgend county on Sunday where the Pfizer-BioNtech jab is being given.\n\nPeople with brushes and shovels came to the rescue after a Facebook appeal and Bridgend council provided a plough.\n\nOne local councillor said their community spirit \"knows no bounds\".\n\nThe Maesteg area had been at or near the top of Wales' Covid case rate chart for a few weeks before Christmas - with an infection rate of more than 1300 cases per 100,000 at its height.\n\nVaccinations were delayed for about an hour on Sunday and Maesteg West councillor Ross Thomas, who helped organise the clear-up, said it would have been a \"disaster\" to have cancelled the appointments.\n\nCovid jabs at four other locations in south Wales had to be cancelled after snow cause widespread disruption across the UK.\n\nAnd Mr Thomas praised the local community for preventing their centre from also falling victim to the weather.\n\n\"With a few Facebook call-outs we had a dozen or so volunteers within the hour together with surgery staff, a number of the GPs,\" Mr Thomas told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCouncillor Ross Thomas said there would be some aching backs on Monday morning\n\n\"The grounds of the hospital are not small by any stretch of the imagination. It was a valiant effort over two-and-a-half hours to ensure we could allow access to Maesteg community hospital.\n\n\"It's thanks to them that 300 more people in the 80 and over priority group in the Llynfi valley received their jab yesterday.\"\n\nAnother 40 vulnerable patients will receive their Covid jabs on Monday.\n\nMr Thomas said the spirit in his community \"knows no bounds\" and added: \"People rally round, it's a sense of belonging, its genuinely instilled in our DNA in Maesteg and it was on show.\n\n\"Not only did people want to help, I think it's clear there's anxiety in the community about the virus.\n\n\"Ahead of Christmas some local wards here in the Llynfi valley had the highest case rates in Europe.\n\n\"There was the realisation yesterday that it wasn't just shovelling snow out of the way, it was about getting on top of this virus and ensuring the most vulnerable people in this community have a fighting chance moving forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Early years educational providers in England have been told to remain open\n\nMany staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't feel safe at work\", says the Early Years Alliance.\n\nThe group, representing early years providers, wants staff in this sector to be a higher priority for Covid testing and vaccinations.\n\nNurseries and settings for young children in England have been told to remain open during lockdown.\n\nThe government said the under-fives were \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nThe Early Years Alliance received more than 3,500 responses in a survey of staff in nurseries or childcare settings and said these suggested widespread concerns - with half of those who replied saying they did not feel safe at work.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the group, said the safety worries were \"a cause for serious concern\".\n\nHe called on the government to implement rapid coronavirus testing among early years staff \"as a matter of urgency\", adding they should be \"given priority access to vaccinations in phase two of the rollout\".\n\nThere are currently no confirmed plans for lateral-flow testing in nurseries and pre-schools.\n\nBut the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is looking at whether some high-risk professions should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nAnd Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the BBC's Breakfast programme he would \"very much like to see it\" once the most vulnerable groups had received their jabs.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: \"Keeping nurseries and childminders open will support parents and deliver the crucial care and education for our youngest children.\n\n\"Current evidence suggests that pre-school children are less susceptible to infection and are unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission.\"\n\nThe Early Years Alliance survey also found concerns that staff shortages would make it difficult for some nurseries and pre-school settings to stay open.\n\nDr Amelia Massoura, who runs Stepping Stone pre-school, in Sittingbourne, Kent, said: \"Out of six members of staff, four have contracted Covid-19.\n\n\"Fortunately, all have recovered well.\"\n\nVanessa Linehan, manager of Sandbrook Community Playgroup in Hackney in London, said: \"We are happy to stay open to support our families.\n\n\"But we want our staff to have testing and vaccinations as a priority.\n\n\"We encourage local authorities to prioritise appropriate testing for early-years staff through their community testing programmes,\" said the Department for Education spokesman.\n\nThe Department for Education says the under-fives are \"unlikely\" to drive up coronavirus transmission\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq accused the government of \"incompetence and neglect\", saying early-years staff \"deserve... proper access to testing\".\n\nShe questioned why \"the government has refused to publish the scientific basis for keeping early-years settings open in lockdown\" and called on it to \"urgently pull back from the brink of funding changes that could lead to viable early-years providers going bust\".\n\nThe government changed the funding formula for the early years sector in December, basing it on current attendance rather than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAccording to the DfE, early years attendance is at 54% of the usual daily level, as of 14 January, leading to a shortfall in revenues.\n\nIn primary and secondary schools, which are open to vulnerable children and children of key workers only, average attendance levels have fallen to just 14%.\n\nRoughly half of nurseries and pre-schools and a third of childminders expect to be operating at a loss by the end of the spring term, based on current levels of government support, according to the survey.\n\n\"Early years providers are the only part of the education sector that the government has asked to remain open to all families,\" said Mr Leitch\n\n\"It is surely not too much to ask for the protection - both practical and financial - needed to ensure that we can continue to do so.\"", "Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nTwo men who died when a fire tore through a luxury five-star hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond have been named.\n\nSimon Midgley and Richard Dyson, believed to be from London, were staying at Cameron House Hotel when the blaze broke out on Monday morning.\n\nPolice have not confirmed the identity of those who died, but relatives have paid tribute on social media.\n\nThe hotel's director has praised the actions of the emergency services in preventing further tragedy.\n\nFirefighters who brought a couple and their baby to safety from an upper floor have been hailed as \"heroes\".\n\nA baby was rescued by firefighters from an upper floor of the hotel\n\nAndrew and Louise Logan, and their son Jimmy, from Worcestershire, were taken to hospital after being brought to safety, but were later discharged.\n\nMore than 200 guests were evacuated from the building when the blaze broke out. A joint investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.\n\nSocial media posts suggested that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson were on a winter break in Scotland.\n\nA post on Mr Midgley's Instagram account on Saturday showed pictures of Cameron House Hotel and said: \"Home for the weekend.\"\n\nRelatives have been expressing their shock at news of the couple's deaths.\n\nMr Midgley's sister posted a picture of her brother and his partner on Facebook, while another relative wrote: \"I'm beyond heartbroken.\"\n\nKate Baxter wrote on Twitter: \"Such unbearably sad news.. RIP @SimonMidgleyPR, a shining star in our wonderfully close-knit industry.\"\n\nAccording to his Facebook page, Mr Midgley was a freelance journalist at the London Evening Standard and ran his own PR company, while Mr Dyson is believed to be a TV producer.\n\nPolice and firefighters remained at the scene on Tuesday morning, with the scale of the damage becoming more apparent.\n\nBBC Scotland's Andrew Black was allowed on site and said: \"The damage to the building is pretty extensive, especially the upper floors. There's a smell of burning wood and we could hear a fire alarm from part of the building still going off.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that a wedding due to take place at Cameron House hotel this weekend has been moved to another luxury hotel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage from above Loch Lomond shows the extent of the damage at Cameron House\n\nIn a new statement, Cameron House's director, Andy Roger, praised the \"very swift actions of the emergency services\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone associated with Cameron House Hotel is still coming to terms with the events of yesterday and we are all hugely conscious that two people tragically lost their lives in the fire.\n\n\"Their families and friends are foremost in our thoughts as we co-operate fully with the investigation teams to try to establish the circumstances surrounding this terrible incident.\n\n\"The emergency services were on the scene long into the night and I cannot praise their efforts highly enough. They are true heroes. The firemen bringing out a couple and their young child by ladder from a second-floor room was a heart-stopping moment for all those who witnessed it.\n\n\"We're also enormously grateful for the many, many offers of practical support and good wishes from the UK hospitality industry and also from the local community, which has rallied around to help. It's been a humbling experience, but we are a small, tight-knit community on Loch Lomond and a response like that is typical of our many friends and neighbours.\"\n\nMr Roger said the hotel had made arrangements for the vast majority of the guests to travel home or continue with their breaks and he thanked them for their patience and \"good spirits\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to the staff at Cameron House who he said had shown \"an enormous degree of care and teamwork throughout the last two days\".\n\nLocal people have been speaking of their shock and sadness at what happened at the hotel.\n\nOne woman told BBC Scotland: \"We are just very sad for all the families involved and so sorry for the people who work there.\"\n\nAnother added: \"It's absolutely horrific. I think the local community really feels it.\"\n\nReverend Ian Miller, a retired minister who lives locally and was called in to offer guests support in the aftermath of the fire, said those affected \"fell into two groups\".\n\n\"There were those in the side bedrooms which weren't really touched and they just realised they had escaped something terrible,\" he said.\n\n\"But for those in the main building then there were degrees of trauma. Some had escaped with virtually nothing.\n\n\"One man came out in his underwear. Another woman told me she just grabbed her baby, change bag and moved out.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue service remained at the scene on Tuesday morning\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, John Gow, from forensic investigations firm IFIC, said: \"There will be a number of strands to this investigation, running in tandem.\n\n\"Obviously, sadly, there is the death investigation due to the fatalities that occurred.\n\n\"There is the origin and cause investigation which is establishing how the fire started and spread throughout the property.\n\n\"It is also likely there will be an investigation to establish if the fire precaution measures were adequate and operated as they should.\"\n\nCameron House, an 18th Century mansion, was converted into a luxury hotel and resort in 1986.\n\nIt is a popular wedding venue and houses the Michelin-starred Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond restaurant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid-19 has been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes\n\nPolice Scotland has confirmed it will support the dedicated Crown Office unit which has been set up to investigate Covid-19 deaths in care homes.\n\nThe force said its involvement does not indicate that crimes have been committed but is designed simply to inform prosecutors.\n\nCases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.\n\nThe first minister described the impact on the sector as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nEarlier this month Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC announced the new unit and said it would help determine if Fatal Accident Inquiries were to be held into the deaths.\n\nThe outbreaks across Scotland include one on Skye which is under police investigation.\n\nOfficers are looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three women - aged 84, 86 and 88 - at Home Farm in Portree.\n\nOn Friday police outlined the support officers will provide to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) review.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Duncan Sloan said: \"We understand the significant public anxiety caused by reports of deaths among those being cared for and staff in the health and care sectors as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is a matter of great concern for us all.\"\n\nMr Sloan said COPFS is working with a number of agencies and asked the force to gather \"additional information\".\n\nHe added: \"Our involvement does not necessarily indicate that crimes are being investigated and the information we gather on behalf of COPFS will help inform its decision on whether further action is required.\n\n\"These are challenging times for everyone but Police Scotland will continue to work with COPFS and other partner agencies to maximise public safety, to support and protect the vulnerable in our communities and to support the work of colleagues in the health and care professions.\"", "The comedian's wife shared a picture online of the 78-year-old after he received the vaccination\n\nSir Billy Connolly has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe comedian's wife Pamela Stephenson shared an image on social media of the 78-year-old wearing a mask with a plaster on his left arm.\n\nAlongside the picture, Ms Stephenson wrote: \"Thank God... Billy had his first Covid vaccine today!\"\n\nSir Billy, who lives in Florida, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013 and announced he was \"finished with stand-up\" last year.\n\nHe said at the time: \"The Parkinson's has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy.\"\n\nSir Billy now lives in Florida with his wife Pamela Stephenson\n\nSir Billy joins famous faces including actress Dame Judi Dench, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and actor Sir Ian McKellen in receiving the vaccine.\n\nHollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also shared a video of him receiving the jab earlier this week.", "The Fire Brigades Union has held back firefighters from efforts to tackle the pandemic in England with \"unreasonable\" safety demands, a report claims.\n\nIn it, the fire service watchdog says the union has insisted on \"unworkable\" rules for testing and self-isolation.\n\nThousands of firefighters assisted health and emergency services last year but in December, as vaccinations began, the FBU asked members not to volunteer.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they do.\n\nThat is because councils and fire chiefs have pulled out of an agreement on health protection measures, it added.\n\nFor most of last year the agreement allowed firefighters to perform a range of additional duties, including delivering meals, driving ambulances and transporting bodies.\n\nFirefighters returning from roles in potential contact with Covid victims would spend several days self-isolating and being tested to show they were not infected.\n\nBy December, when there was the prospect of firefighters helping with vaccinations, a row over the deal resulted in the union giving new advice to members\n\nThe FBU said in message on 9 December: \"At this time, members are asked not to volunteer and to suspend any expression of interest that they have registered until such time as satisfactory arrangements can be secured that allow a national agreement to be reached.\"\n\nOn 13 January, local councils, which employ firefighters, decided the agreement with the union \"was no longer sustainable or appropriate\", partly because of the requirements for staff to have tests and self-isolate.\n\nThey said these made it impossible to run the fire service flexibly. Fire chiefs argued that police officers and paramedics did not have to isolate and await test results.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they volunteer\n\nThe FBU general secretary, Matt Wrack, told the BBC he still was not able to advise firefighters about additional Covid-related duties because the union did not know what the safety risks would be locally.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to ask people to volunteer if there aren't safety measures in place,\" he said. \"I don't want to see a deadly virus brought into workplaces when we have measures in place which have avoided it in the past several months.\"\n\nThe fire minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, said: \"Brave firefighters have been prevented from stepping up to support the pandemic response because of the actions of the Fire Brigades Union.\"\n\nZoe Billingham, an inspector at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Fire and Rescue Services, said many firefighters had contributed to the effort during the Covid crisis, but much more could have been done.\n\nShe described the union's position as \"deeply regrettable\" and \"not what the public would expect of a fire service\".\n\nThe inspectorate has released several reports calling for the modernisation of fire service working practices and criticising the FBU.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week\n\nAccording to this one, the dispute between firefighters and their employers has held up vital work to protect lives.\n\nIn Greater Manchester requests to the fire service to help with NHS Track and Trace were delayed by 12 weeks.\n\nIn Cleveland, the fire and rescue service had to use non-operational support staff, rather than firefighters, to carry out temperature testing for the local authority.\n\nIn Suffolk and South Yorkshire, there were delays to plans for firefighters to help get into properties where residents were suffering from Covid.\n\nThe FBU says it was not given an opportunity to respond to these claims before the report was published. Mr Wrack dismissed it as poorly-sourced and politically-motivated.\n\nSome fire services have reached agreements with local branches of the union instead so that they can volunteer for the vaccination effort.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week and those giving vaccinations had also received them first.", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Three quarters of applications for a £500 discretionary grant, which aims to help those on low incomes self-isolate, have been rejected, figures suggest.\n\nEmployed or self-employed people in England who do not qualify for the Test and Trace Support Payment because they do not receive benefits can apply.\n\nData obtained by Labour and shared with BBC Newsnight suggests just 12,069 of 49,877 applications were successful.\n\nThe government said it was assessing how the scheme is supporting people.\n\nThe cumulative figures obtained by Labour suggest that between October and December last year, 35,252 applications to local authorities in England for the discretionary part of the test and trace support payment scheme were rejected, while 12,069 were granted.\n\nThe government introduced the Test and Trace Support payment in late September as a way of topping up any benefits or Statutory Sick Pay a person receives.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is a targeted scheme designed to help people on low incomes.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating, can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nLocal authorities in England oversee the entire support scheme, with the qualifying criteria set by the government. They blame overly strict criteria and inadequate government guidance for people being rejected who feel they should qualify for a grant.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England as well as the London boroughs, said some councils were having to turn down applications for the discretionary support because \"people are ineligible or have failed to provide the evidence needed\".\n\nLast month, the self-isolation period for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus was shortened from 14 to 10 days after the time of exposure.\n\nPeople who are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate, face fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to comply. Those who don't self-isolate risk spreading the virus to others.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, a GP trainee working at a practice in Luton, says he meets, on a daily basis, people who are faced with what he calls a \"Sophie's choice\".\n\nHe says: \"People come to me with essentially a Sophie's choice situation - I know I have to isolate but also I don't have enough money to put food on my table.\n\n\"If I say to somebody who comes to me with a health problem, you need to take a couple of weeks off work, I've had patients who have come to me and they're in tears.\"\n\nRachel, a shop worker from East London with a disabled son, tested positive in early January and was left in a desperate situation after having to self-isolate.\n\nShe says: \"I didn't have a hot meal for 10 days. I had two bowls of cornflakes and a hot dog. I was hungry. I was petrified\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's been probably the worst two weeks of my life. On a personal level I knew I had no choice but to isolate to keep my son safe.\n\n\"Had I not been in that position I can't guarantee that I would have done the whole self isolation thing because you get desperate.\"\n\nHer local councillor eventually dropped off a hot meal. Rachel was fortunate and received a £500 grant at the end of her isolation.\n\nJosie Tothill said missing two weeks of work \"could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not\"\n\nJosie Tothill from Manchester didn't qualify for the scheme, even though her job, as a personal assistant to a woman who needs mental health support, means she is on a low income.\n\nShe had to self-isolate in October after her sister tested positive. But she did not receive a call from Test and Trace despite being a contact. Only people with a Test and Trace number are eligible.\n\nJosie says: \"It was difficult, but I got by. But for a lot of people, especially if you work in care, you are already on poverty wages, so to miss two weeks of work - that could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not.\n\n\"So you can see, for some people, it's impossible to do that isolation, so it's much harder to control the virus.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, which obtained the figures from local authorities under the Freedom of Information Act, says the government must make sure everyone can afford to self isolate.\n\nShadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it was vital that people who self-isolated were not \"punished for doing the right thing\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The problem is the government established a fixed pot of money and, in some cases, councils have eked it out so much that many people applying for the funding haven't received it.\n\n\"In other cases councils have used up all the money because they have more people applying than were expected.\n\n\"So, we end up with a postcode lottery, if you live in one area you might get the funding, if you live in another area you might not.\"\n\nAnalysis of the figures by the BBC shows that of the applications to the discretionary scheme:\n\nWhile most of councils that responded rejected the majority of applications to the discretionary scheme, a smaller number bucked the trend.\n\nLambeth granted 77% of applications, Haringey and Wakefield 75%, and Solihull 64%.\n\nWhile it's impossible to rule out that applications may be coming from people who are taking a chance, it's also clear that some councils are apparently more flexible about the criteria used on the discretionary scheme.\n\nThe government is putting £70 million into funding the scheme. It said: \"Local authorities are responsible for decisions when it comes to making additional discretionary payments to people who fall outside the scope of the main scheme and are facing financial hardship as a result of having to self-isolate.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the 314 local authorities in England to assess how the scheme is supporting people experiencing financial difficulties.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association said the government \"needs to ensure its £500 self-isolation payment support scheme is available to those in need of financial support\".\n\nIt says it is \"good\" that councils will receive extra government funding \"to support people on low incomes who do not meet the strict criteria for this main scheme, but who may face financial hardship because of the requirement to self-isolate\".", "Because of its scale, work on Glastonbury's site must begin earlier than most festivals\n\nMusic festivals are \"still possible\" this summer, despite the cancellation of Glastonbury, says the head of the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nPaul Reed said Glastonbury \"is a different beast to most festivals and most likely ran out of time due to the size and complexity of the event\".\n\nSmaller events could still happen if the government ensures organisers can access cancellation insurance, he said.\n\n\"For most festivals, the cut-off point is more likely the end of March.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis called off their festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen,\" they said in a joint statement. \"We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nTickets for the festival, which normally attracts 200,000 people and was due to take place in June, will roll over to 2022.\n\nGlastonbury is the UK's biggest music festival, but it was not the only event to cancel its plans on Thursday. The Country To Country festival, which was due to take place in March, also said its 2021 edition would not happen.\n\nThe three-day event, which attracts some of country music's biggest names to indoor venues in London, Dublin and Glasgow, said it had pulled the plug due to the \"current restrictions on mass gatherings and international travel\".\n\nThe announcements came as coronavirus deaths soared in England, with more than 8,500 deaths recorded in the past week. On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions would be lifted by the spring.\n\nStormzy has already been announced as a headliner for August's Reading and Leeds festivals\n\nGlastonbury's cancellation has raised fears for other music festivals this summer. However, the organisers of Glasgow's TRNSMT said there was \"reason to be optimistic\" that it could go ahead in July, with headliners Lewis Capaldi, Liam Gallagher and the Courteeners.\n\n\"Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the world and it's sad to see that, due to its enormous scale and taking several months to get the city-sized festival site ready, it's unable to go ahead this year,\" boss Geoff Ellis told Scotland's Daily Record.\n\n\"By comparison, TRNSMT is a much smaller city centre event with no camping. As such it takes us days rather than months to build TRNSMT. Therefore, we will continue to listen to and follow the advice from the government and remain positive about events later in the summer.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Bestival co-founder Rob Da Bank, who tweeted that \"festival season will happen in the UK this summer\", adding: \"Sadly Glasto is such a mammoth beast to plan it ran outta time.\"\n\nSacha Lord, co-founder of Manchester's Parklife festival, added that Glastonbury's cancellation was \"yet another blow\" to freelancers who work in the live music sector.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, Mr Reed said the UK was at a \"serious point in the pandemic and festivals only want to return when it is safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that festivals were currently struggling to get insurance for coronavirus-related cancellations. Last week, MPs from the House of Commons culture select committee wrote to the chancellor, urging him to launch a Covid-19 insurance scheme to protect live music.\n\nThe appeal was backed by more than 100 industry figures, including organisers of the TRNSMT and Parklife festivals. \"We do need government to intervene in this issue,\" said Mr Reed.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden expressed his regret at Glastonbury's cancellation and said the government was \"looking at problems around getting insurance\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said on Friday they are in \"regular dialogue\" with public health experts to \"agree a realistic return date for festivals and other large events\". They added they were still helping festivals with the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, \"with many already receiving this support\".\n\nLatitude Festival has been held at Henham Park, near Southwold, since 2006\n\nOther European countries, including Austria and Germany, have launched schemes to cover events that cannot be rescheduled, including music festivals. At present, England has a scheme protecting film and TV shoots, but not music.\n\nHowever, some festivals have been given support by the government's £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, including Womad, End of the Road and Nozstock.\n\nMelvin Benn, whose company Festival Republic organises the Latitude, Download and the Reading & Leeds festivals, said that without an insurance scheme, other events would be left \"staring into the same barrel that Glastonbury stared into\".\n\n\"People can't afford to take that financial risk,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government is holding \"early stage talks\" with insurers, confirmed Tim Thornhill of Tyser's Insurance, which counts Glastonbury amongst its clients.\n\n\"We have helped to put in place the film and TV restart scheme, which the chancellor explained saved 14,000 jobs,\" he said. \"So if we can do something for events, that would be welcome across the industry\".\n\nWhile there is \"no guarantee\" that insurance could be provided, he said there was \"significant urgency\" to finding a solution \"within the next few months\".\n\n\"It's really important that the government supports the industry,\" added Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. \"And they need to start thinking about that now, and not when we reach that point - say in October this year - when there are enough people vaccinated for [live music] to become safe.\n\n\"Nobody wants to go to anything, or take part in anything, that's going to turn into a super-spreader event,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously there has to be a way out of this, through vaccination. And I think we need to make sure that systems are in place so we can get back into doing what we love.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the culture select committee, said the government was working on insurance plans, because of the importance of festivals to British culture and the economy.\n\n\"I've been in to see the chancellor,\" he told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. \"Finally I think there is some movement. I understand that they are dropping some of the objections that they may have had, and that we may end up with an insurance scheme.\n\n\"However, there's a danger that it's too little too late.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PM: We are enforcing lockdown with increasing toughness\n\nSky News's Sam Coates asks whether, if the new variant is more dangerous, it is right that more people are \"out and about\" during the current lockdown than the first one last year. The PM says that \"we are enforcing the law very strictly with increasing toughness\", meaning increased fines to dissuade risky behaviour. \"It depends on everybody doing the right thing and avoiding transmission,\" he says, adding that is what will be more effective than police action. On why the new variant may be transmitting more readily, Sir Patrick Vallance says it is not believed the new variant has a higher viral load, meaning people \"shed more virus\". He suggests it may be other factors that make it more transmissible. On the current infection rate, Chris Whitty says that while infections are slowly going down \"it is at a very, very high level\". He says that among some age groups - including those 20 to 30 - infections may still be increasing. And on hospitalisations, he says that they are \"broadly flat\" for the UK as a whole, but there are variations between regions. \"That peak is not yet definitely going down yet,\" he says. Deaths will be delayed further with the peak expected in the future, he adds. Video caption: Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty", "The Holyrood inquiry into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond is using legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThe documents include messages between SNP officials, civil servants and advisers relating to Mr Salmond's legal challenge to the complaints process.\n\nIt is the first time MSPs have issued such a formal request in the history of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nConvener Linda Fabiani said the action was necessary to continue its work.\n\nThe committee was established in the wake of a judicial review court case where the Scottish government admitted its internal investigation of two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nThe government had to pay out more than £500,000 in legal expenses to the former first minister, who was later acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate criminal trial.\n\nThe notice, formally issued by Holyrood chief executive David McGill, states that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) \"may hold documents relevant and necessary for the committee to fulfil its remit\".\n\nThe committee is seeking the release of documents detailing text or WhatsApp communications between SNP chief operating officer Susan Ruddick and Scottish government ministers, civil servants or special advisers between August 2018 and January 2019, that may be relevant to the inquiry.\n\nIt also wants to see any documents linked to the leaking of complaints to the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nMs Fabiani said: \"Throughout this inquiry, the committee has been determined to get as much information as possible to inform its task.\n\n\"This is a step that hasn't been taken lightly, and is a first for this Parliament, but which the committee felt was needed as it continues its vital work.\"\n\nThe Crown Office has been given until 17:00 on 29 January to respond to the notice.\n\nNever before in Holyrood's history has it attempted to use this legal power of compulsion.\n\nSection 23 of the Scotland Act makes it possible to force a witness to give evidence in person or - as in this case - to hand over documents.\n\nIt sounds straightforward but lots of legal terms and conditions apply.\n\nThat's especially true in this case where MSPs are trying to compel the Crown Office - in charge of prosecutions and headed up by the Lord Advocate.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has potential get-outs if he considers releasing documents would \"prejudice criminal proceedings\" or otherwise be \"contrary to the public interest\".\n\nThat public interest test could be key.\n\nClearly, MSPs think social media messages and other material held by the Crown Office could be relevant to their inquiry and should be released.\n\nThe Crown Office has argued that disclosing evidence gathered in a criminal case for other purposes risks undermining confidence in the police and prosecutors.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has a big call to make - has the prosecution service (which he runs) or the parliament (to which he is answerable as a minister) got the better sense of where - on balance - the public interest lies?\n\nIn other developments, Mr Salmond has been given a deadline by which to appear before the committee.\n\nThe former SNP leader has been given the option of giving evidence to the committee either in person in the Parliament or by appearing remotely on a number of dates in the first week of February.\n\nMs Fabiani said if this was not possible then the \"committee regrets that it will not be able to take oral evidence from you\" although he would be free to submit further written evidence.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had said he was only available in the second week of February.\n\nIn a letter to the committee, the former first minister said this was because he had still to complete two further submissions but the process had been \"hampered\" by the Scottish government's \"failure\" to release its legal advice and the ongoing bid to recover documents from the Crown Office.\n\nMr Salmond's appearance is much anticipated following his written submission earlier this month in which he alleged that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who \"entirely rejects\" his claims, is expected to give evidence in the coming weeks and has said she is looking forward to putting her side across.\n\nMeanwhile, the committee has once again written to the Scottish government urging it to waive legal privilege and release the advice it received from lawyers regarding the case.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"COPFS has received the correspondence from the committee and will respond in early course.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We will consider the committee's letter - but the Scottish government has already taken unprecedented steps to provide the committee with access to relevant information to allow it to fulfil its remit.\n\n\"The government has, exceptionally, provided the committee with access to a summary of the legal advice on the judicial review on a confidential basis.\"", "Eric Vice, 64, was on his way to Swansea University when he crashed into a bridge\n\nA bus driver who crashed his double-decker bus into a bridge, killing a passenger, has been jailed.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus, which was going to Swansea University, hit a bridge on Neath Road on 12 December 2019.\n\nEric Vice, 64, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to two years and six months.\n\nMs Ren had been on the front row of the upper deck of the bus and was on her phone at the time of the crash, the court heard.\n\nShe was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China, where she had a five-year-old son with her husband, who is also a lecturer.\n\nProsecutor Carina Hughes said the crash left trapped passengers covered in debris and forced to crouch down in the flattened upper deck while they waited to be rescued.\n\nOlympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who was studying at the university, saw Ms Ren hit the front windscreen.\n\nEric Vice is \"consumed with guilt\" his defence barrister said\n\n\"Mr Young says that she was slowly trying to mouth some words to him, but it was inaudible.\n\n\"He described that he held her hand to try and comfort her until the police and paramedics arrived.\"\n\nMs Hughes said Ms Ren had been unconscious when cut out of the bus by firefighters 90 minutes later and was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, with spine injuries, leg fractures, lacerations and a severe brain injury.\n\nAerospace engineering student Richard Thompson, 20, was seriously injured in the crash and required facial reconstruction. Mr Young suffered a head wound and two broken ribs.\n\nThe court heard passenger statements saying the bus appeared to be running late and the driver had been waving passengers on to the bus without scanning their tickets.\n\nMs Hughes said when Vice encountered traffic between Swansea University's Singleton campus and its Swansea Bay campus, he decided to take a different route, one he had taken several times before when driving a single-decker bus.\n\nShe said 21 passengers has been on board, 13 of whom were on the top deck.\n\nMs Hughes said Vice had driven past two height restriction warnings on the route.\n\nThe bus went under the stone arch of the railway bridge, but hit the lower steel bridge.\n\nIan Ibrahim, defending, said it had been \"without doubt a catastrophic error of judgement.\"\n\nHe added: \"He is consumed with guilt - he's been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.\"\n\nJessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nJudge Geraint Williams said: \"That fatal error of yours resulted in the death of a promising young academic.\n\n\"Following the crash you stayed at the scene where you witnessed first-hand the carnage you had created.\n\n\"I can't think of a word short of carnage to describe the scene on the upstairs of that bus - but it could have been many, many times worse.\n\n\"The stark reality in this case is that your impatience that day robbed you of the care which ordinarily you applied to your professional driving.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nAt the time of her death, Ms Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Ms Ren died, Swansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"", "Daniel Craig with director Cary Joji Fukunaga on the No Time To Die set in 2019\n\nThe release of the next James Bond film has been delayed for a third time because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNo Time To Die had already been pushed back twice, and will now debut globally on 8 October, an announcement on the film's website said.\n\nIt had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.\n\nThe film is the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, and marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent 007.\n\nIt also features Lea Seydoux and Rami Malek.\n\nThe delay will come as a further blow to cinemas that have been forced to shut for months at a time because of lockdowns.\n\nEarlier this week, leading film-makers including Danny Boyle and Sir Steve McQueen wrote to the UK Government, calling for financial support for cinema chains because \"UK cinema stands on the edge of an abyss\".\n\nCineworld said in October, when No Time To Die was pushed back for the second time, that delays to big budget releases meant the industry was \"unviable\".\n\nBond's latest move sparked a flurry of other delays to major releases. Sony has pushed back Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Peter Rabbit 2, Jared Leto's Morbius, Tom Holland's Uncharted and Cinderella, which will star singer Camila Cabello; while Universal has moved Tom Hanks' Bios from April to November.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association said the decision to postpone No Time To Die again, \"while clearly disappointing, is at the same time not surprising given the current situation around Covid-19 in the UK as well as the US and other major film territories\".\n\nThe postponement of Daniel Craig's swansong and other films \"underlines the need for ongoing support for the UK cinema sector\", the trade body's chief executive Phil Clapp said.\n\nThe association is calling on the government to provide \"direct funding\" to chains, which represent 80% of ticket sales.\n\nOne of the major chains, Vue, said the delay was \"understandable\", and that the continuing attempts to release the film in cinemas \"is further testament to our shared belief in a bright future for the big screen\".\n\nHowever, the latest postponement could stoke speculation that the film may ultimately skip cinemas and be released on a streaming platform.\n\nMajor Disney titles like Pixar's Soul and its live-action remake of Mulan bypassed cinemas, premiering instead on the Disney+ streaming service.\n\nWonder Woman 1984, meanwhile, was made available in the US on the HBO Max streaming service on the same day it received a limited cinema release.\n\nLast year, Warner Bros announced its 2021 titles - including sci-fi epic Dune and The Matrix 4 - would all adopt a similar dual release pattern, escalating tensions between Hollywood and US movie theatres.\n\nRami Malek plays the villainous Safin in the thrice-delayed film\n\nThe Dig, a new historical drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, was due to be released in selected UK cinemas this month. Now, the film will only be available on Netflix from 29 January.\n\nAsked whether No Time To Die might go down the same route, Fiennes - who will reprise his role as M in the film - recently told BBC News: \"That's a good question and I'm not really in a position to answer it.\n\n\"I would love the idea that people could go to the cinema and have the full effect of the big-screen energy behind the Bond, but I'm sure it's something the people who make these executive decisions are probably considering.\n\n\"I really hope we come through this so people can go to the cinema. Maybe they just have to hold their nerve. But of course we don't know, and there may be financial reasons or imperatives that [mean] they have to put it on a streaming system.\"\n\nIf No Time To Die is indeed released in cinemas in October, it will arrive a full six years on from the release of its 2015 predecessor Spectre.\n\nThat won't be far behind the six years and four months that separated the release of Licence to Kill in summer 1989 and GoldenEye in late 1995 - the biggest gap between two Bond films.\n\nThe last Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices.\n\nOther blockbusters to have been delayed by the pandemic include action sequel Top Gun: Maverick and Marvel's Black Widow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "The bunker is in a rural location near St Agnes, Cornwall\n\nAn \"eerie\" underground bunker built during the Cold War has been put up for sale with a guide price of £25,000.\n\nThe former monitoring post near St Agnes, Cornwall was built in 1961 and is accessed down a 14ft (4.2m) ladder.\n\nSellers have suggested \"a variety of uses\" for the \"out of the ordinary\" property, subject to planning permission from Cornwall Council.\n\nIt was used in the Cold War to monitor aircraft and any potential nuclear threats, said auctioneer Adam Cook.\n\nThe auction will be held online in February\n\nThe bunker was manned by volunteers and consists of an access shaft, a toilet and a monitoring room.\n\nIt is being auctioned online as part of a triangular piece of land on 18 February.\n\nThe site was first opened in 1961 and closed in 1991 and is accessed down a \"rustic vehicular track\", according to the online advert.\n\nMr Cook said it is a former Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post \"but people love calling it a nuclear bunker\".\n\nHe said the bunker would have been one of around 1,500 monitoring posts built in coastal regions in the UK between the 1960s and 1990s.\n\nOld bunk beds remain in the bunker\n\nAccessed by a hatch, Mr Cook described the reinforced concrete bunker as \"a little bit eerie when you're there on your own\".\n\n\"I'm glad I've been down there...[to have] half a chance of explaining it to customers.\"\n\nHe said there was still a sense of what it used to be with an \"old bunk bed\" and a toilet \"which I don't think you'd fancy using but it certainly gives you the atmosphere\".\n\nMr Cook explained it is \"difficult to pigeon hole it onto any one kind of purchaser\" and said the buyer could be anyone from a history enthusiast to a landowner.\n\n\"All kinds could be interested and we're already getting lots of calls about it.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your comments and story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cold War bunker up for sale for £25,000", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "UK retailers could abandon goods EU customers want to return, with some even thinking of burning them because it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nThey say the new EU trade deal has put costly duties on returns at a time when firms are already struggling.\n\nThe BBC has been told UK High Street and luxury brands have a mounting volume of goods stuck with courier services on the continent.\n\nNone of the retailers would comment on the problem.\n\nAdam Mansell, boss of the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), said it's \"cheaper for retailers to write off the cost of the goods than dealing with it all, either abandoning or potentially burning them.\"\n\nSince 1 January, lots of European customers have been presented with an unexpected customs invoice when signing for goods they've ordered from the UK. These new customs charges are a result of the new EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"It's part of the ongoing small print of the deal,\" said Mr Mansell. \"If you're in Germany and buying goods from the UK, you as the German customer are the importer bringing goods into the EU.\n\n\"You then have a courier company knocking on the door giving you a customs clearance invoice that you need to pay to receive your goods.\"\n\nMany customers automatically reject the goods, refusing to pay the additional surcharges, leaving couriers to take them away.\n\nAbout 30% of items bought online are returned, according to figures from Statista. That has meant large volumes of goods are heading back to the UK.\n\nWhen goods arrive back at depots on the Continent, there is new customs paperwork to complete. \"Export clearance charge, import charge arrival, import VAT charge and depending on the goods a rules of origin document as well,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\n\"Lots of large businesses don't have a handle on it, never mind smaller ones.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen a document that states four major UK High Street fashion retailers are stockpiling returns in Belgium, Ireland and Germany. One brand will incur charges of almost £20,000 to get the returns back.\n\nCouriers and freight businesses that ship from the UK to Europe are also experiencing delays getting goods to the Continent because of the new customs clearances.\n\n\"It's a bigger change than we thought possible,\" explained Shona Brown from Speedy Freight, a courier service. \"Before, we'd get the order to Germany and off the driver would go.\n\n\"Now we've got to do export entry detailing where was it made, the driver needs to go to the customs office at Dover, then customs in Germany on arrival and then sort out the VAT. There are so many hoops to jump through, it's so laborious.\"\n\n\"You've got to have manpower to figure out what to do. And with people working from home it's difficult. For small businesses, it is a huge thing for people to do,\" she added.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards runs her sustainable fashion brand VILDNIS from the UK. She has stopped exporting to her fastest growing market, the EU, because of the new customs processes.\n\n\"I've been involved in logistics before. I expected it to be bad and I am used to shipping to the USA which is difficult. But this is just mind-blowing,\" she said.\n\n\"Every day there is another layer. In the first two weeks we couldn't get answers. For two years we were told to get ready for Brexit. But for these we couldn't prepare.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think we can increase prices but we might just have to say that we can't make the business with the EU work. It is a real shame. There is a huge interest in sustainable fashion in Europe and we might have to walk away from it.\"\n\nUlla did speak with the Department for International Trade for help and advice. She was told that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub in Europe might be a good idea: \"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it.\"\n\nRetailers in the UK and Europe that trade across the new customs border are all still adapting to the rules. Hauliers and customs agents are facing a steep learning curve too.\n\nThe government said: \"Now the UK has left the EU customs union and Single Market, there are new rules and processes businesses will need to follow.\n\n\"We have encouraged companies new to dealing with customs declarations to appoint a specialist to deal with import and export declarations on their behalf - and we made more than £80m available to expand the capacity of the customs agents market.\"\n\nIt added: \"Most businesses use a specialist such as a customs broker, freight forwarder or fast parcel operator to deal with this.\n\n\"The government will continue to work closely with businesses to ensure they are able to trade effectively under the new rules.\"", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "It would be unrealistic to expect all lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland to be lifted on 5 March, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced that the current restrictions, which have been in place since 26 December, would be extended to 5 March.\n\nBut ministers were also told restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMr Swann said the decision to extend restrictions had not been easy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, he said: \"Can I say that'll we'll have to extend them at that point [5 March]? At this time, no I can't.\n\n\"But it would, I think, be unrealistic to think that we'd be able to lift every restriction come that date because we do see where this virus is going, the trajectory it's taking, the large number of positive cases that we are managing but also the large number of hospital admissions that we currently have.\n\nRobin Swann says the decision to extend the restrictions had not been easy\n\n\"There has to be a consideration and planning put into place - we know Covid's going to be with us for a very long time, we also know it will take time for our vaccination process to kick in and have that major effect.\"\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term break but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church have all confirmed that in-person worship will continue to be suspended until 5 March in accordance with the executive's decision on the restrictions.\n\nThe churches say there are exceptions for weddings and funerals and private prayer.\n\nTwelve more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland on Friday, taking the overall death toll recorded by the Department of Health to 1,704.\n\nIt is a story that changes not only by the day but by the hour and is dictated by numbers.\n\nNever before have we scrutinised hospital figures so closely, especially this week.\n\nAnd the numbers are important as we know how many intensive care unit (ICU) beds are available across Northern Ireland and potentially how many will be required in the next 24 hours.\n\nOn Wednesday, 33 ICU beds were available - on Friday that dropped to 18.\n\nBut as we enter a difficult 72 hours, there is a feeling that the health system will cope.\n\nA regional approach to the crisis means no hospital is left to shoulder responsibility on its own.\n\nEvery afternoon a call is made about whether an additional \"pod\" - a bay of beds - is required to be opened at the Nightingale facility at Belfast City Hospital.\n\nIf not, it is felt that hospitals can hold their own for another 24 hours.\n\nCoping is good but comes at a terrible cost - keeping a lid on Covid-19 is only possible because so much else within hospitals has been cancelled.\n\nA heavy price has been paid and will continue to be paid for months, possibly years to come.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more than 100 medically-trained military personnel would be deployed in Northern Ireland to help hospital staff deal with Covid-19 pressures after a request by Mr Swann.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's Health Committee on Thursday, Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said: \"My only concern is that they [military personnel] don't get in the way of the real professionals who are doing the work to save lives.\n\n\"This is slamming the dead cat down on the table to deflect attention away from the inadequacies in the health department at the minute.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann responded by saying he was \"disappointed and disgusted\" by Mr Sheehan's comments.\n\nHe added: \"The majority of our health service workers are actually welcoming them because this is a tough period of time that we are entering into in the health service.\n\n\"To hear some of the comments where he's actually, I think, criticising the level of delivery that our health service has given over these past 10-12 months, I think is disappointing.\"\n\n\"It wouldn't be the language that would be reflective of his party leadership in regards to the assistance that we're receiving from the Army.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, had previously said her party's priority had \"always been to save lives\" and she would \"never rule out anything that actually supports the health service\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, said on critics of the move to deploy military medics were putting \"political intolerance before patients\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann also said the executive would \"not be found wanting\" in enforcing Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIt came after a district judge said on Wednesday that \"the powers-that-be made a significant error\" in making breaches of some rules punishable only with fines.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Ranaghan told Dungannon Magistrates' Court he would have remanded two defendants from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in custody if he had \"the power to do so\".\n\nShania Devenney, 21, of Kilmacormick Drive, and Nathan Maguire, 20, of Carnmore Lodge, were charged with contravening the regulations when arrested by police who were alerted to anti-social behaviour.\n\nA police officer told the court there had been repeated parties at Ms Devenney's address this month.\n\nThe judge, granting bail, said: \"I cannot consider remanding in custody as these matters are fine-only.\n\n\"The powers-that-be made a significant error when drafting legislation in making these fine-only offences.\n\n\"Had I the power to do so I would definitely be remanding these two in custody.\"\n\nThe PSNI has issued more than 2,000 Covid-19 fines during the pandemic\n\nThe health minister said the executive had asked people \"to work with us\" and had increased the level of fines.\n\nAsked about the judge's comments about enforcement, Mr Swann said he was \"content enough to raise it with executive colleagues and ask the justice minister to have a look at that\".\n\nMr Swann added that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland were abiding by the regulations as it is the \"right thing to do\".\n\nOn Tuesday, police revealed that 2,159 penalty notices had been issued during the pandemic, with fines starting at £200.\n\nThere have been 55 failure-to-isolate fines, which incur a £1,000 fine.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.\n\nNathan said the singalong craze for his The Wellerman rendition exploded in just a matter of weeks.\n\nAnd Friday sees an official release of the shanty, after he was picked up by Polydor records.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Airdrie said it goes to show that if you keep going anything can happen.", "Mr Trump was duped by the prankster, Morgan said\n\nDonald Trump was called on Air Force One last year by a prankster posing as Piers Morgan, the TV presenter says.\n\nThe president, as he was at the time, only realised he had been tricked when he phoned the real Morgan while on his way to vote in Florida last year.\n\nThe alleged security breach is said to have happened in October, but only emerged in an interview Morgan gave to the BBC's Americast podcast.\n\nThe two recently had a falling out over Mr Trump's handling of the pandemic.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Jon Sopel why Mr Trump had called Morgan out of the blue this past October, the presenter described \"an absolutely hilarious story, where somebody had called [Trump] pretending to be me the day before and got through to him on Air Force One\".\n\nThe 45th US president didn't realise he had been duped, Morgan said. \"They had a conversation with Trump thinking he was talking to me.\"\n\nIt is not clear who the alleged hoaxers were, but if the story is true President Trump would not be the first political leader to have been pranked.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was foreign secretary, have both been tricked on the phone in recent years.\n\nBut it would revive long-running questions about the security of President Trump's phone conversations.\n\nMorgan became increasingly critical of Mr Trump in the final months of his presidency\n\nThe BBC has asked the Secret Service for comment.\n\nMorgan was a high-profile tabloid editor in the UK who took over from Larry King with a primetime CNN chat show in 2011. He now presents a breakfast show in the UK.\n\nHe was initially supportive of President Trump after his surprise election win but became increasingly critical in the last 12 months.\n\n\"We had a very nice conversation... I always got on well with Trump,\" Morgan said of their October call, but added that Mr Trump's \"character flaws - the chronic narcissism, the desire to make everything about himself\" made him a \"useless leader\".\n\nOn their friendship, Morgan described Mr Trump's behaviour since the November presidential election as \"egregious\" and \"so obviously on a pathway\" to the Capitol Hill riots on 6 January.\n\n\"I just felt - no, I'm done with you now,\" Morgan said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recording of the conversation between Elton John and the man he believed was Vladimir Putin", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked in a residential street by a group of youths \"armed with knives\".\n\nPolice said Keon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road, in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away, added police, who said they had since seized the vehicle.\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nThe investigation is progressing \"at pace\", according to the West Midlands force, which detained the suspect on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nWitnesses who reported the carrying of knives to officers also said shots were heard.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nThe motive remained unknown said police, who urged those who could identify the attackers to contact the force.\n\n\"We are not sure of all the details at the moment, but we do know that Keon was set upon by this group and suffered a series of serious injuries,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, adding that five or six youths were believed to have been involved.\n\nPolice have not disclosed the nature of Keon's injuries. They say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nOfficers are searching Linwood Road after the attack on Thursday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Orencas said: \"The death of Keon has shocked the whole community.\n\n\"This level of violence in broad daylight on a residential street is inconceivable, let alone the fact the target was a 15-year-old boy.\"\n\nHe said the family, who were being supported by specialist officers, \"had the worst shock imaginable\".\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the family said they were \"devastated\" by their loss, and remembered Keon as \"fun-loving\" and \"full of life and love\".\n\nThe tribute added: \"He had an infectious laugh that lit up the room whenever he was in it.\"\n\nPolice have seized a crashed car they believe to be a getaway vehicle\n\nDetectives are examining a white car they believe to be the getaway vehicle which crashed into a house on Wheeler Street.\n\nCCTV footage has been seized and the area is cordoned off while investigations continue.\n\nA resident of Linwood Road, who did not wish to be named, said she was shocked to hear someone had been killed.\n\nShe said: \"We've lived here 45 years and I've never heard of anything like this.\n\n\"It's just shocking and really, really sad.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for dash cam and CCTV footage as they piece together the events of Thursday afternoon\n\nLocal Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, described the death as \"extremely tragic\" and \"a needless thing to have happened\".\n\nHe said: \"We must work with police as much as we can to stop this happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coronavirus outbreak at Mavisbank care home has led to the deaths of 13 residents\n\nA total of 13 residents at an East Dunbartonshire care home have died in a Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe owners of Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs confirmed the deaths and said that a further seven residents had also tested positive for the virus.\n\nAnother 11 staff members were self-isolating following positive tests.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate rated the home in Lennox Crescent as \"weak\" in its Covid-19 response in an inspection last month.\n\nAt the unannounced check on 26 October, inspectors found the cleanliness of the home a \"significant concern\".\n\nIt went on to describe the cleanliness of the environment and the overall fabric of the building as \"poor\".\n\nInspectors said in their report that they were \"very concerned about the potential risk of infection for residents\".\n\nSenior managers responded immediately and maintenance staff were deployed to clean the home.\n\nHowever, the operators were ordered to carry out a deep clean of the facility by 11 November.\n\nMavisbank owners HC-One said they were monitoring the situation closely.\n\nMavisbank was given a rating of \"weak\" in October\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families who have lost a loved one from coronavirus.\n\n\"As we navigate this outbreak, we continue to work closely with all the relevant authorities to contain the virus and safeguard our residents.\n\n\"We are pleased that a number of residents have now recovered, and we continue to closely monitor the health and wellbeing of all those affected.\n\n\"This includes following all government guidance in relation to infection prevention and control.\"\n\nResponding to the Care Inspectorate report, the company said the health, safety and wellbeing of its residents and staff was a priority.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"We were disappointed that inspectors found some elements of our robust infection control plan were not being fully implemented and we acted urgently to respond to this feedback. These issues were immediately rectified so that when inspectors returned, they were able to see and approve of the work that had been completed.\n\n\"Senior staff are also supporting the home and our learning and development team are ensuring that all colleagues complete refresher training which includes our specific coronavirus training modules on the virus, enhanced infection control procedures, and the correct use of PPE.\n\n\"These training modules have been regularly updated to reflect all changes in the guidance over recent months.\"\n\nCaroline Sinclair, of East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said, \"We are aware of this very sad situation and have been working with Mavisbank care home to provide a high level of clinical support to residents at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the families of those who have passed and others affected by their loss.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMinisters wrestling with how to ensure people with coronavirus obey laws to self-isolate are to consider paying £500 to anyone who tests positive. It's among options drawn up for England by the Department of Health to encourage people to stay at home, amid fears the current support leaves some unable to afford the time away from work. However, Treasury sources say funding a universal payment to the tune of £453m a week is unlikely.\n\nBritish retail sales saw their largest annual fall in history last year as the impact of coronavirus took its toll. Sales fell by 1.9% in 2020, when compared with 2019, official figures show. Clothes shops were hit hard, with a record annual fall of more than 25%. Meanwhile, UK government borrowing hit £34.1bn last month, the highest December figure on record, as the cost of pandemic support weighed on the economy, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nA Crown Office unit set up to probe Covid-related deaths is investigating cases at 474 care homes in Scotland, ahead of prosecutors' decisions on whether they should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution. Care homes say the investigation is \"disproportionate\". But Linda Duncan, whose 91-year-old mother Anne died last April, argues: \"A lot of the focus has been on the government response but we need this investigation to look at the private operators.\"\n\nHalf of all staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't... feel safe at work\", with about one in every 10 having tested positive since 1 December, according to an Early Years Alliance survey of more than 3,000 staff. Providers in England have been told to remain open to all children during lockdown and the government says under-fives are \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nAs lockdown has forced families apart, grandparents have had to find new ways of keeping in touch with their grandchildren. Annette Landy tells us how reading over video calls to Alicia, eight, and Sadie, two, has made things a little easier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Potter and The Secret Garden have proven to be favourites\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIf you're struggling to understand why vaccinating the most vulnerable won't immediately end lockdown, health correspondent Nick Triggle explains the reasoning.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Florence Nightingale Museum announced it would close for the foreseeable future\n\nMuseums and galleries are \"fighting for survival\" amid the current lockdown, a national charity has warned.\n\nThe Art Fund has predicted that small institutions are likely to suffer most and said more help is needed.\n\nSo far, the charity has only been able to help 15% of applicants to its emergency response fund.\n\nEarlier this month, it was announced London's Florence Nightingale Museum is to close for the foreseeable future due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure, according to the Art Fund.\n\nThe charity's director Jenny Waldman said: \"The latest lockdown is a body blow and is leaving our museums and galleries fighting for survival.\n\n\"Smaller museums in particular, which are so vital to their communities, simply do not have the reserves to see them through this winter.\n\nResearch previously conducted by the charity found six in 10 museums, galleries and historic houses were worried about their own survival.\n\n\"Tragically, we are now seeing well-known and much-loved museums facing mothballing or permanent closure,\" Waldman said.\n\nIn November, the charity offered limited edition artworks to members of the public who donated to help coronavirus-hit museums.\n\nSir Anish, Lubaina Himid, David Shrigley and Michael Landy were among the artists who provided their works to the appeal.\n\nArt Fund has renewed its appeal for people to donate to the crowdfunding campaign, which is called Together For Museums.\n\nNew works of art from Howard Hodgkin, Jeremy Deller and Cornelia Parker have been added to the items on offer.\n\nJeremy Deller worked on the 2016 Somme commemoration project featuring 'Ghost Tommies' appearing across UK locations\n\nSir Anish said: \"Museums are where we go to engage with art, witness our psychic history and understand ourselves. Today they face great difficulty.\n\n\"The Art Fund campaign gives us an opportunity to help museums to continue to provide access to all in spite of the difficulties of this time.\"\n\nArt Fund has also announced £750,000 of new grants to help 23 museums respond to the pandemic - taking its total spend so far to £2.25 million.\n\nBut that is only a small proportion of the applications the charity has received, which total over £16 million.\n\nRecipients include the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, for a health and wellbeing project, and Portland Museum, Dorset, for a plan to recreate Rufus Castle digitally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spanish player Paula Badosa has revealed that she has the virus\n\nA Spanish tennis player who was among many Australian Open competitors to complain about quarantine rules has revealed she has coronavirus.\n\nPaula Badosa said she had felt unwell with symptoms before testing positive for the virus in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nBadosa is believed to be the fourth competitor to test positive in hotel quarantine, but is the first to identify herself publicly.\n\nOn Friday, she said \"sorry guys\", adding quarantine rules were \"pivotal\".\n\n\"Please, don't get me wrong. Health will always comes first & I feel grateful for being in Australia,\" tweeted Badosa, who is ranked 67th globally in singles.\n\nThe 23-year-old said she had been taken to a separate hotel in Melbourne to \"self-isolate and be monitored\".\n\n\"I'll try to recover as soon as possible listening to the doctors,\" she said.\n\nVictoria state health authorities said on Wednesday a total of 10 infections had been linked to the event, but a few were \"viral shedding\" cases where the person was not infectious.\n\nMelbourne endured one of the world's longest lockdowns last year and many locals have concerns about the potential Covid risk posed by the tournament.\n\nTennis Australia chartered 15 flights to bring players and their entourages into the country, but three flights had passengers who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBadosa is one of 72 players who have been confined full-time to their hotel rooms for 14 days - under a state health order - after the infections were discovered. She has already spent seven days in isolation.\n\nPlayers who arrived on flights with no infections are also in quarantine but are allowed five hours of court practice a day.\n\nSeveral players have complained about the impacts to their tennis preparation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Confined players have been training in their hotel rooms\n\nEarlier this week, in a tweet reported by Australian media that has since been deleted, Badosa wrote: \"At the beginning the rule was the positive section of the plane who was with that person had to quarantine. Not the whole plane.\n\n\"Not fair to change the rules at the last moment. And to have to stay in a room with no windows and no air.\"\n\nBut Tennis Australia and state officials have rejected assertions that any rules were changed or not clear ahead of time.\n\n\"We're thinking of you Paula, and hoping you feel better soon,\" the Australian Open's Twitter account replied in a message to Badosa on Friday.\n\nOrganisers have said that despite the infections, the Grand Slam will go ahead on 8 February.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nHot dog: Ann Baldwin thinks it looks warm enough for a swim in this shot looking towards Inchcolm Island and Arthur’s Seat from the sailing club in Dalgety Bay, Fife, 10 minutes before sunrise.\n\nLittle sucker: Tessa McAndrew helped this beautiful octopus back into the water after finding him clinging to driftwood on the beach at Lower Largo.\n\nWindswept: Bad hair day for these trees in the Pentland Hills Regional Park in Edinburgh. Claire Dunbar took this picture during one of the many recent snow dumps in the area.\n\nIntricate web: The sun was making an attempt to defrost this frozen spider web in Colin Sergeant's back garden in Motherwell.\n\nHindsight: David Fox thinks this roe deer fawn that he captured on his camera at Strathbraan in Perthshire will be \"a future Monarch of the Glen\".\n\nTrue snowman: Only Gordon Brandie knows what this Highland fling snowman is wearing under his kilt and peg sporran in Faskally, Perthshire.\n\nStill life: Artistic beauty found when looking through a drainage hole in the Arbroath sea wall.\n\nBlurred lines: Sunrise on top of Falkland Hill in the early hours of the morning, taken by Jordan Moreham.\n\nStick together: Judith McIntyre spotted these wooden friends huddling to keep warm this winter in Kingston, Moray.\n\nHowling wind: Three-year-old Poppy enjoying a very windy afternoon walk on Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh with her mum, Sophia Lyons.\n\nCollectivism vs Individualism: Victor Tregubov took this shot of birds in countryside near Glasgow.\n\nStrike a pose: Colin Little on the bank of the River Lossie in Elgin, said: \"This otter posed for a couple of shots before diving under again.\"\n\nBlack and white: Derek Brown took this snowy scene in Stow just outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.\n\nEbb and flow: Michelle Moggach said it was \"Baltic but beautiful\" at Aberdeen Beach while she gazed at the sea.\n\nAlan Kemp said about 100 fieldfares descended on his pink berry Rowan trees in Murthly, Perthshire and devoured the lot in one sitting.\n\nMindfulness: Shirley Faichney captured a zen moment during a recent sunrise at West Wemyss beach in Fife.\n\nBridge to nowhere: Rachel Abbie was left puzzled as to where her walk was leading at Belhaven Beach in Dunbar.\n\nWinter wonderland: The path for Ross McKellar looks bright in High Blantyre in Glasgow.\n\nAutumn meets winter: Agnes Neal observed a sole woman walking through this peaceful scene in Queen's Park in Glasgow.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: David Doogan loves it when this bushy-tailed friend joins him for a picnic in his garden in Glencoe, Argyll.\n\nTop of the world: ...well it was for Katie Gillingham and her friends on Goatfell on the Isle of Arran this week.\n\nEthereal moonlight: Arletta Babicz thought there was a \"magical vibe\" when he took this shot of the most photographed tree in Scotland at Loch Lomond.\n\nFollow the herd: Christopher Barrow thought it was funny when this flock of sheep kept following him while he was out skiing in Almondbank, Perthshire.\n\nPillars of the community: Poll nan Crann pier, known locally as Stinky Bay due to the large amount of seaweed blown onto the beach by storms which then rots in the sun. Seonaidh MacInnes took this picture at night on the Isle of Benbecula.\n\nRising above the herd: Jim Clark thought this beast could have been thinking outside the box when he captured this shot at Glanderston Dam, Barrhead.\n\nVirgin powder: Dan Price-Davies enjoyed Alpine conditions at Clashindarroch Forest while Nordic skiing with his son, Lestin, this week.\n\nCloud inversion: Steve Mitchell took in this stunning view overlooking a snowy drystone dyke at the top of the Cairn o' Mount (B974) road between Banchory and Fettercairn.\n\nWinter Washingland: Louise Harper took this picture of colourful plastic pegs with no job to do during heavy snow in Motherwell.\n\nThe Night Walker: Tamar Lewis thought there was an eerie glow in the sky as she took an evening stroll through Pollok Country Park.\n\nStripped bare: This dead-looking tree brings life to Dave Cullen's picture of the Cramond landscape in Edinburgh.\n\nDuck down: All but one mallard enjoying the food thrown to them at St Fillans in the snow, taken by Kenn Begley.\n\nWinter coat: Glen Tanar cleansed in white, near the summit of Baudy Meg in Aberdeenshire, taken by Neil Marchant.\n\nFyrish sunrise: It's as if Sir Hector Munro ordered his monument to be put in the best light possible for Laura Steel who took this picture in Evanton near Alness.\n\nSun and shadows: Michal Markowski took this eye-catching picture in West Linton using a drone.\n\nHair ice: Jane Tweedie noticed this rare phenomenon while out walking at Craigellachie, Moray. It is also known as ice wool or frost beard and is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair.\n\nUdderly mootiful: Izabela Bodzioch took this picture of cows admiring the view of Ben Cruachan covered in snow.\n\nIce bath: Jan Overmeer said he changed his mind about going for a swim in Loch Carron when he was greeted by this frozen scene.\n\nJack Frost: Graeme Mackay was mesmerised by the patterns Mother Nature had made on the sunroof of his car in Aberdeen.\n\nSwan Lake: Bob Smart captured the sheer power and might of this magnificent bird at Townhill Loch in Fife.\n\nFine sunset: James MacArthur captured the fresh breath of brightness burning the last corner of Loch Fyne as the sun dropped below the skyline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are no plans to pay everyone in England who tests positive for Covid £500 to self-isolate, No 10 has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said there was already a £500 payment available for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate.\n\nA universal £500 payment was among suggestions in a leaked Department of Health document.\n\nThere are fears the current financial support is not working because low paid workers cannot afford to self-isolate.\n\nBut a senior government source said the idea of extending the £500 payments to everyone who tests positive had been drawn up by officials and had not been considered by the prime minister.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Katie Razzall said ministers were aware self-isolation was crucial for stopping the spread of coronavirus and the \"options paper\" had been drawn up by civil servants at the Department of Health.\n\nShe said it would be discussed soon by the Covid operations committee chaired by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, adding the move suggested there was an admission in government that too many people were not staying at home and a decision needed to be made quickly.\n\nThe story was first reported by the Guardian which said the options paper suggested the proposal could cost up to £453m per week - 12 times the cost of the current payouts.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC he had not seen the leaked document but said the issue of financial support for people self-isolating was \"always kept under review\".\n\n\"We've got to consider all sorts of policies in order to make sure that people abide by the rules, are able to abide by the rules and we get the infection rate down,\" he said.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman denied the government was planning to introduce the new payment, telling reporters: \"We've given local authorities £70m for the scheme and they are able to provide extra payments on top of those £500 if they think it necessary.\n\n\"That £500 is on top of any other benefits and statutory sick pay that people are eligible for.\"\n\nAsked about document, the spokesman said he would not comment on a leaked paper.\n\nIt's impossible to say exactly what proportion of people stay at home for the full 10 days after being in contact with someone who has tested positive, however some evidence suggests the minority of people do.\n\nA government-backed study from September 2020 suggests that just 10.9% of people remained indoors for the full time.\n\nLabour has often cited this report when arguing that people cannot afford to miss work, but a closer look at it suggests that, of those who break the rules, just 8.9% do \"to go to work\".\n\nMost people reported going out for things like shopping or exercise, but also because they didn't think they needed to quarantine as they didn't develop symptoms.\n\nThis research is quite old (done before self-isolation grants came in) and has a relatively small sample size of just 400 people.\n\nHowever, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has also highlighted research that shows that most people don't completely follow the rules.\n\nThis research also suggests that those on lower incomes felt they were three times less able to self-isolate than those better off.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there was concern in government about the huge cost of the proposal for the Treasury.\n\nHowever, he said the issue of financial incentives and trying to get people to self-isolate was clearly a live discussion within government.\n\nIt became a legal requirement last September for anyone in England testing positive for coronavirus to self-isolate.\n\nThe £500 grant already available in England is funded by the government but administered by local authorities.\n\nThe same level of payment is available in Scotland and Wales with similar conditions attached. Northern Ireland offers a discretionary self-isolation grant that covers expenses, such as the cost of groceries.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nHowever, there have been high rejection rates for this discretionary grant in England, figures obtained by Labour and reported by the BBC this week suggest.\n\nBetween October and December last year, three-quarters of the 49,877 applications were rejected, the data showed.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish government would welcome the introduction of a £500 payment, as the additional funds it would generate for Scotland could allow for a similar scheme to be set up.\n\nSpeaking at her regular coronavirus briefing, she said: \"We will see whether that transpires or not, but any extra resources for self-isolation we would use to support self-isolation.\"\n\nProf Susan Michie, an adviser on the government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nShe said financial support currently offered to people having to self-isolate was a \"key weakness\" of the government's pandemic strategy.\n\nSharon, a cleaner from Kent, told the BBC if no money were to come in for two weeks she would not be able to afford to self-isolate.\n\n\"I have a mortgage to pay,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't even afford to heat my property at the moment because my wages were cut and that £500 payment would make all the difference. I would be able to self-isolate.\n\n\"It wouldn't be enough money, but it would help.\"\n\nThe DoH said it would not comment on a leaked paper but stressed it was incumbent on everyone to help protect the NHS by staying at home and following the rules at \"one of the toughest moments of this pandemic\".\n\nA spokesman said £50m was invested at the time the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme launched and it was providing a further £20m to help support people on low incomes who need to self-isolate.\n\nPeople who have tested positive for coronavirus and those considered at risk of having been exposed to it must self-isolate.\n\nOther legal obligations to self-isolate in the UK include:\n\nWould £500 be enough to help you to self-isolate? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last summer's A level results prompted an outcry from students - leading to an independent review\n\nThere was a \"significant failure\" in the way exam bodies in Wales handled awarding student grades in 2020, a report says.\n\nThe independent review found there was \"too much confidence\" in statistical models, and the appeals process in place was inadequate.\n\nQualifications Wales (QW) said it had learnt many lessons and WJEC exam board will look \"in detail\" at the findings.\n\nTeaching union UCAC described the report's findings as \"scathing\".\n\nIts release comes after it was announced this week that teachers will make 2021 grade assessments\n\nThe review was ordered by the Welsh Government following the outcry over initial examination results awarded in August for A-level students.\n\nThe assessment approach resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust, says the review\n\nIn the weeks after the coronavirus pandemic took hold, formal external exams in Wales were scrapped, with schools asked to provide grade assessments for sixth-form and GCSE pupils.\n\nHowever, it later emerged 42% of the A-level grades were lower than those submitted by teachers.\n\nIn her foreword the report panel's chairwoman Louise Casella, said substantial numbers of young people across Wales \"were left feeling bewildered and distressed as they received A level results that bore no relation to their expectation and their abilities\".\n\nThe result decision was reversed, and school's predicted grades reinstated, but not before \"some learners lost their university place and some were not able to progress as planned in 2020\", noted Ms Casella, who is also director of The Open University in Wales.\n\nThe review found that QW and the WJEC board would have known the \"scale of the outliers\" and had \"an insight\" into the likely number of appeals.\n\nBut the bodies failed to fully test \"alternative routes or approaches\" to the statistical models they used to standardise results.\n\nThe review added it was \"surprising\" QW did not explore additional safeguards, after having being previously warned about, and acknowledging that there were potential problems with the statistical process.\n\nThe report said it could not find evidence either WJEC or QW \"acknowledged, accepted or anticipated the scale of the issues\" nor the risk of unfairness to learners, and that it considered this a \"significant failure\".\n\nThe approach last summer had resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust between the teaching profession and the regulator and examining body, added the report authors.\n\nIt said fairness must now be central to planning for 2021, avoiding automated algorithms to predict individual grades, and developing an appeals process.\n\nDelivering the report, the review panel chair added: \"There is now a real opportunity for the education sector of Wales to come together to develop and deliver a qualifications system that puts learners at its heart, not only for the cohort facing qualifications in 2021, but for the longer term.\"\n\nQW said the review had \"some useful findings and recommendations that we are already addressing\".\n\nChair David Jones and Chief Executive Philip Baker said: \"We would have welcomed greater engagement with the review panel so there was full consideration of all the issues.\"\n\nChief Executive of WJEC Ian Morgan, said he was \"disappointed with some aspects of the report\" but the exam board would \"look in detail at the findings to identify areas where we need to take action to continuously improve as an organisation.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has already said teachers will assess grades in 2021\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has welcomed the report and how it would help drive how students are graded by teachers and schools this summer.\n\n\"It is my sincere hope and expectation that our education system can continue to work together to support the progression of our learners in exam years, both through the delivery of these assessment arrangements and through a wider package of support,\" she said.\n\nUCAC Deputy General Secretary Rebecca Williams, said the report supported its call for external moderation of grades, to improve fairness to students.\n\n\"There are longer-term recommendations, including the need to be more ambitious in terms of reform of qualifications and assessment in relation to the new curriculum, and we look forward to discussing these over the coming months,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "Cyber criminals who stole thousands of digital files belonging to environmental regulator Sepa have published them on the internet.\n\nThe public body had about 1.2GB of data stolen from its digital systems on Christmas Eve.\n\nSepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which has been claimed by the international Conti ransomware group.\n\nContracts, strategy documents and databases are among the 4,000 files released.\n\nThe data has been put on the dark web - a part of the internet associated with criminality and only accessible through specialised software.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said: \"We've been clear that we won't use public finance to pay serious and organised criminals intent on disrupting public services and extorting public funds.\n\n\"We have made our legal obligations and duty of care on the sensitive handling of data a high priority and, following Police Scotland advice, are confirming that data stolen has been illegally published online.\n\n\"We're working quickly with multi-agency partners to recover and analyse data then, as identifications are confirmed, contact and support affected organisations and individuals.\"\n\nThe attack locked Sepa's emails and contacts centre but Sepa said \"priority regulatory, monitoring, flood forecasting and warning services were continuing to adapt and operate\".\n\nSepa said the theft was the equivalent to a fraction of the contents of an average laptop hard drive.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said the organisation had faced a \"significant and sophisticated cyber-attack\"\n\nSome of the information stolen was already publicly available but other files included data about staff and suppliers was not.\n\nWhere information has been identified to date, staff have been contacted and are being supported.\n\nBrett Callow, of cyber security company Emsisoft, has been tracking the Sepa ransomware attack.\n\nHe said: \"Conti may well be the work of the same people behind another type of ransomware called Ryuk.\n\n\"There are similarities in the code, ransom note and attack mechanisms.\n\n\"When the complete haul of data is posted like this, it usually means the group has given up hope of being able to extract payment from the victim of monetise the data in other ways.\n\n\"It's a loss for them. At this point, they've lost all leverage and the action is intended to serve as a warning to future victims.\"\n\nDet Insp Michael McCullagh, of Police Scotland's cybercrime investigations unit, said: \"This remains an ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Inquiries remain at an early stage and continue to progress including deployment of specialist cybercrime resources to support this response.\"\n\nThe authorities will be pleased.\n\nIt looks like Sepa decided not to play ball with the cyber criminals.\n\nRansomware is a scourge that is costing organisations billions of pounds and every time a victim pays, it fuels further attacks.\n\nSadly for Sepa this is far from over.\n\nBy the looks of the stash of files that the hackers stole and encrypted, Sepa will have months of work ahead to try to recover important documents and spreadsheets from backups and rebuild their records.\n\nIt's also telling that, according to the hackers website, almost 1,000 people have so far looked at the documents.\n\nWho knows what other criminals or hackers are poring over the files right now.\n\nMaking the documents open to all means that information can be extracted to potentially be used against Sepa in further attacks or extortion attempts.\n\nIt will be months, perhaps even years until the organisation can say it is safe once more and can put this cyber attack behind it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Some 320 of the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders have been arrested since the first coronavirus lockdown, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nInvestigators have been focusing on tracking down offenders who operate online.\n\nThe operation led to a total of 4,760 arrests and 6,500 children safeguarded between April and September last year.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has launched a strategy to collect detailed data about child grooming gangs.\n\nThe Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy aims to identify and convict offenders who operate in groups by gathering more information about their characteristics, including ethnicity.\n\nIt also involves investing in the national child abuse image database to identify offenders more quickly, protecting police from frequently being exposed to indecent images, and enabling parents to ask officers if someone with access to their child is known to them for cases of abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said some who had suffered child sexual abuse had told her they felt \"let down by the state\", and insisted she was \"determined to put this right\".\n\nRob Jones, an NCA director, welcomed the initiative \"at a time when the threat to children is more severe than it has ever been\", highlighting that last year there were at least 300,000 people posing a sexual threat to children in the UK.\n\nHe said the NCA was focusing on the most dangerous offenders \"as part of the whole system approach\".\n\n\"Many feel they can operate with impunity online - using anonymisation techniques, secure accounts and the dark web - but as we have shown with this operation they are wrong and we have the capabilities to track them down,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones added: \"These are not just images or videos being viewed online.\n\n\"What we are uncovering here is evidence of the horrific, real-world sexual abuse of children.\"\n\nOut of the 320 arrested as part of the NCA's operation targeting the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders, 122 were targeted by NCA officers.\n\nSeventeen were in positions of trust, including a volunteer with the Scouts, church youth group leaders, a social worker, primary school and college teachers, a hospital care assistant, a police officer, and a civil servant.\n\nIn the year ending March 2020 the NCA and UK policing made 7,212 arrests and safeguarded and protected 8,329 children. This was a 50% increase in arrests and a 10% increase in safeguards compared with the year ending March 2019.\n\nMs Patel said that the national strategy would tackle and respond to \"all forms of child sexual abuse, relentlessly going after abusers, whilst better protecting victims and survivors\".\n\nShe added: \"Crucially, it contains a commitment to collect higher quality data on the characteristics of offenders, so that the government can build a fuller picture of perpetrators, and tackle the abuse that has blighted many towns and cities across our country.\"\n\nThe government has pledged to support local authorities' responses to exploitation through funding for The Children's Society's Prevention Programme initiative, which has so far trained 13,363 professionals to spot signs of child abuse.\n\nThrough the Online Safety Bill, the Home Office has also said it will ensure technology companies are held to account for harmful content on their sites.\n\nThe Children's Society's chief executive, Mark Russell, has described the strategy as a \"golden opportunity to improve support for child victims of horrific crimes and send a clear signal that child sexual abuse and exploitation are crimes that will not be tolerated\".\n\nThe scheme was also welcomed by GCHQ and charity NSPCC, which said it has received more than 40 calls a day about child sexual abuse since the pandemic began.\n\nGCHQ's director of serious and organised crime said: \"Our work to tackle systemic internet problems, the insight we provide into offender behaviour and our efforts alongside law enforcement to identify and pursue the worst offenders will help to ensure there is no safe space online for these people to operate.\"\n\nNSPCC chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said it \"rightly puts the emphasis on early intervention and action across government but added it \"must be backed up with serious investment in support for victims\" - and that children were still being exposed to abuse from teachers and social workers.\n\nSir Peter said: \"It's crucial that no young person is left unprotected which is why it's disappointing the government has not committed to closing the legal loophole that enables some adults to abuse their position of power to have sexual contact with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care.\"", "CCTV footage has been released of the moment a fire took hold in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House admitted charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA hotel fire which claimed the lives of two men started after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House pled guilty to charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nO'Malley's lawyer said the night porter - from Renton in West Dunbartonshire - deeply regretted his actions, and did not deliberately start the fire.\n\nDumbarton Sheriff Court also heard that Cameron House did not have proper procedures in place for the disposal of ash, or for training staff.\n\nThe owners also failed to keep cupboards that contained potential ignition sources free of combustibles.\n\nAt about 04:00 on 18 December 2017, O'Malley, 35, cleared ash and embers from a fireplace in the Cameron House reception into a metal bucket.\n\nHe then emptied the contents of the bucket into a plastic bag, which he put into the concierge cupboard.\n\nThe cupboard also contained flammable materials including kindling, newspapers and cardboard.\n\nRichard Dyson, left, and Simon Midgley, right, who both died, had been on a winter break in Scotland\n\nAt about 06:40 an initial fire alarm sounded and staff noticed smoke coming from the concierge cupboard.\n\nO'Malley opened the door and flames took hold, spreading to the hall.\n\nHe and two others tried to fight the blaze with fire extinguishers, but were overcome by the flames.\n\nAdvocate depute Michael Meehan QC told the court the cupboard was well alight and the \"blaze immediately took hold and spread from there\".\n\nHe added: \"As a result of [Cameron House's] failure to keep the cupboard free of combustibles, ash and embers ignited and fire spread in the main building.\"\n\nThe night manager sounded the alarm and called 999. Firefighters arrived within 10 minutes to find a \"well developed\" fire in the mansion, which is near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMore than 200 guests were staying in the hotel.\n\nThe court heard one family-of-three on the second floor had to be rescued by firefighters while a couple on the first floor had to crawl to safety because corridors and fire escape pathways were filling with smoke and gases.\n\nIt was after 08:00 when it was discovered that Mr Dyson, 38, and Mr Midgley, 32, were missing.\n\nFirefighters wearing breathing apparatus found Mr Dyson on a landing at the top of a staircase.\n\nMr Midgley was lying in a fire escape passageway. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.\n\nMr Dyson was taken to hospital, where he was also pronounced dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations said the men's causes of death had been inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nThe couple had travelled from London, and were staying at the five-star resort as the final stop on their winter break to Scotland.\n\nSheriff William Gallacher also heard of an incident three nights before the fatal fire, where O'Malley and another night porter were told not to put ash into plastic bags because it was a fire hazard.\n\nCameron House QC Peter Gray said it was therefore \"extremely difficult to understand\" why O'Malley did not follow this guidance on the night of the fire.\n\nThe court also heard that Cameron House staff were not properly trained in the safe disposal of ash and that no written procedures were in place.\n\nThere was also no procedure in place for emptying the metal ash bins outside the hotel on a regular basis.\n\nThat was contrary to recommendations made in two fire risk assessments carried out by an independent company in 2016 and 2017.\n\nAfter the first report was received by Cameron House management in January 2016, the resort manager agreed there was a lack of a formal procedure for disposing of ash and delegated the responsibility for this to his deputy.\n\nMr Meehan said this report \"should have been a game-changer\" for Cameron House.\n\nWhen the issue was raised again in a follow-up report a year later, managers believed it had already been dealt with.\n\nMr Gray said: \"The resort manager understood incorrectly that all the actions had been completed, including in relation to the written procedure for disposing of ash from open fires.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had also warned Cameron House managers about the risks of storing combustibles in the concierge cupboard in August 2017.\n\nThe audit highlighted the potential danger of fire spreading rapidly through the building because of its age and voids.\n\nA follow-up letter was sent to management in November 2017 - one month before the fire - but combustibles continued to be stored in the cupboard.\n\nCameron House's lawyer added that the failings were not deliberate breaches but occurred \"as a result of genuine errors\".\n\nHe also told the court the fire had gone undetected for a long period before being discovered, and that the hotel had a \"suite of measures in place\" to deal with fire safety.\n\nAn absence of formal procedures for dealing with ashes and embers gave staff the opportunity to improvise, he added.\n\nMr Gray continued: \"I am instructed to extend my deepest sympathies from the accused to the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe said the hotel takes its duties to ensure the safety of its guests extremely seriously.\n\nDetails of what happened at Cameron House were first revealed in court on 14 December last year, but reporting restrictions meant they could not be published until now.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 29 January.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "Shoppers bought far fewer clothes last year as lockdowns meant people had less opportunity to socialise and go out.\n\nClothes sales slumped 25%, the biggest drop in 23 years when records began, official figures suggest.\n\nWhile shops have reported demand for certain clothing such as pyjamas and loungewear has risen, demand for going-out items has fallen sharply.\n\nAnd despite a pick-up in December, clothing sales remain lower than before the pandemic struck.\n\n\"With few opportunities to socialise during lockdown and many people working from home, the clothing sector has been one of the \"worst-affected by restrictions\", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nEarlier this month, Marks & Spencer said sales of sleepwear had soared\n\nGrowing numbers of High Street shops have faced financial difficulties due to the temporary store closures imposed during lockdowns.\n\nTopshop-owner Arcadia and competitors Debenhams, Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, Oasis and Warehouse have all slid into insolvency since lockdown measures were first imposed last March.\n\nThe inability to try clothes on in bricks-and-mortar shops, as well as restrictions on eating out meaning consumers are going out less, have all affected sales, the ONS suggested.\n\nAnd the slump in demand for fashion meant that British retail sales saw their largest annual fall on record in 2020.\n\nSales fell by 1.9% last year, when compared with 2019, the largest year-on-year fall since records began in 1997.\n\nRetail sales, including fuel, did see a small increase last month, growing by 0.3% when compared with November.\n\nIt came following the end of England's national lockdown on 2 December. Sales had slumped by 4.1% in November during a month-long shutdown.\n\nBut \"this was very clearly not a Merry Christmas for most of the High Street\", said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"For most retailers it's the most crucial month of the year to get profit back on track but the large upswing in sales after the pain of the November lockdowns didn't materialise,\" she said.\n\nONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow said that some sectors, however, had been \"able to buck the trend\" last year.\n\n\"The increased popularity of click-and-collect and people buying more items from home led to a strong year for overall internet sales, with record highs for food and household goods sales online.\"\n\nIn a sign of the way the pandemic has changed shopping habits, the value of online retail sales jumped by 46.1% in 2020 when compared with 2019 - the highest annual growth reported since 2008.\n\nOnline trade now accounts for more than one-third of all retail sales.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, explained that the rise of online had \"polarised industry performance\".\n\n\"The gap widened between those retailers with the most sophisticated online propositions from those with legacy store-dependent business models,\" he said.\n\nOnline-only retailers such as Boohoo and Asos, for example, have reported strong sales figures in 2020.\n\nSupermarkets in particular have embraced the shift to digital, with online food store sales up 79.3% last year.\n\nThere was also better news from the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, on Friday. It said that it would return a £300m emergency coronavirus loan to the government as trading went \"better than anticipated\" over Christmas.\n\nToday's figures show just how badly the clothing sector has been affected these last 12 months.\n\nFashion is the big retail loser from this pandemic. Who needs to splash out on the latest trends when we're working from home and not going out? And even when clothing shops are open, chances are you can't try things on.\n\nWith all of the Covid-19 measures in place, the fun has been sucked out of shopping. We haven't stopped spending, but most of it is going online. Boohoo and Asos have seen very strong sales growth, for instance.\n\nThe going's far harder for retailers with large numbers of physical stores. The pressures have already taken their toll on the likes of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group and Debenhams.\n\nAnd things may well get worse on the high street before they better. Many retailers are worried about the end of the business rates holiday and of the temporary ban on eviction for non payment of rent in April. These will result in a big increase in costs when sales have yet to fully recover.\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, called for more help for non-essential shops and High Street retailers who continue to be affected by lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"With no end in sight for retailers closed in lockdown, many will struggle to survive under a mounting rent burden, and a return to full business rates in April,\" she said.\n\nShe called on government to offer \"targeted\" business rates relief to businesses worst-affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"Decisive action is needed to save jobs, shops and local communities, with town and city centres looking to be particularly hard hit unless the government acts now.\"\n\nEarlier in January, a report from the Centre for Retail Research said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, because of the acceleration towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is the UK's biggest and employs 6,000 people directly\n\nJapanese car maker Nissan has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term as a result of the trade deal reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt said it will move additional battery production close to the plant where it has 6,000 direct employees and supports nearly 70,000 jobs in the supply chain.\n\nCurrently, the batteries in its Leaf electric cars are imported from Japan.\n\nNissan would not confirm if this would mean additional jobs at Sunderland, which is the UK's largest car plant.\n\nManufacturing the more powerful batteries in the UK will ensure its cars comply with trade rules agreed with the EU requiring at least 55% of the car's value to be derived from either the UK or the EU to qualify for zero tariffs when exported to the EU.\n\nSome 70% of the cars made in Sunderland are exported and the vast majority of them are sold in the EU.\n\nNissan had issued stark warnings last year that if the UK left the EU without a trade deal, the resulting tariffs on cars and components would make the Sunderland plant \"unsustainable\".\n\nNissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta told the BBC: \"The Brexit deal is positive for Nissan. Being the largest automaker in the UK we are taking this opportunity to redefine auto-making in the UK.\n\nNissan's Ashwani Gupta said the Brexit deal had created a 'competitive environment'\n\n\"It has created a competitive environment for Sunderland, not just inside the UK but outside as well.\n\n\"We've decided to localise the manufacture of the 62kWh battery in Sunderland so that all our products qualify [for tariff-free export to the EU]. We are committed to Sunderland for the long term under the business conditions that have been agreed.\"\n\nIt came as Nissan paused one of its two production lines in Sunderland on Friday as disruption at ports caused by the pandemic affected its supply chain.\n\nThe company said the move would affect the line which produces the Qashqai and Leaf, but work would resume next week.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the firm's endorsement of Sunderland as a manufacturing base.\n\n\"Nissan's decision represents a genuine belief in Britain and a huge vote of confidence in our economy thanks to the certainty our trade deal with the EU delivers,\" he said.\n\n\"For the dedicated and highly-skilled workforce in Sunderland, it means the city will be home to Nissan's latest models for years to come and positions the company to capitalise on the wealth of benefits that will flow from electric vehicle production.\"\n\nIt's particularly welcome after the more guarded comments from the boss of Vauxhall's parent company last week.\n\nSpeaking as the tie-up between Fiat Chrsyler and Peugeot Citroen was christened with new umbrella name Stellantis, boss Carlos Tavares said that the future of its Ellesmere Port plant depended on the support the UK government was prepared to offer after its decision to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030.\n\n\"If you change, brutally, the rules and if you restrict the rules for business then there is at one point in time a problem,\" he said.\n\nLooking forward, he said it would make more sense to locate an electric vehicle factory closer to the larger EU market.\n\nIndustry voices welcomed the news from Nissan but reinforced the message from Vauxhall's owners that the government needs to do more to secure the future of the car industry as it electrifies.\n\n\"This is obviously good news and will help the Nissan Leaf avoid any future tariffs, but we are going to need to see a lot more investment in battery production in the UK if we are to preserve the UK as a car manufacturer and exporter,\" said Professor David Bailey of Warwick University.\n\nThe head of trade body the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders agreed.\n\n\"The battery plant in Sunderland may be enough for Nissan's near-term plans to build tens of thousands of electric cars but the UK made 1.5 million cars last year and all will be partly electric by 2030,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former boss of Aston Martin and current chairman of electric bus maker Switch Mobility, has gone further. He says that 800,000 jobs are at risk if the UK government doesn't act now to foster battery investment.\n\n\"Without electric vehicle batteries made in the UK, the country's auto industry risks becoming an antiquated relic and overtaken by China, Japan, America and Europe.\"\n\nHe urged the UK government to use every lever at its disposal to make the UK attractive.\n\nUK car investment has fallen sharply since the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nIn the five years to 2016 it averaged £3.5bn per year. In the four years since it has averaged around £1bn - a fall of 71% at a time when the technology and map of car production are going through their biggest revolution since the car was invented.\n\nThe Nissan decision is therefore a very welcome boost to the UK which is in an international scramble for the investment of the future which is happening right now.", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nSerious flooding which forced villagers from their homes was potentially caused by a mine shaft \"blow out\" during Storm Christoph, authorities have said.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday.\n\nResidents have been told they will not be able to return home this weekend or \"possibly longer\".\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water had built up in the shaft and flooded the village.\n\nCarl Banton, from the Coal Authority, said there had been a \"tremendous amount\" of rain recently and potentially a blockage in the drainage system could have caused the mine shaft to \"blow out\".\n\nMr Banton reassured people that officers had visually checked other mine shafts in the area and were \"not concerned\" any would collapse.\n\n\"The mine shaft in question is the one that was on actually on the water level, it has found its point of weakness,\" he said.\n\nCarl Banton said that while investigations were ongoing heavy rain may have overwhelmed the mine shaft\n\nA major incident was declared as water rushed into the village on Thursday, leaving eight streets underwater as Storm Christoph caused widespread flooding across Wales.\n\nOn Friday, as firefighters continued to pump water out of the village, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) confirmed the Tennant Canal had been polluted \"from mine water\".\n\nLate on Friday evening, Neath Port Talbot council said, for safety reasons, people forced to leave their homes would \"not be able to return home this weekend, and the wait could possibly longer\".\n\nA support centre will open at Abbey Primary School from Saturday, with council officers on site to help people access emergency support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of historical coal mining, are investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nMr Banton said initial findings showed there may have been a build-up of water on the hillside which had \"found its way out\" through the mine shaft, flooding the village.\n\n\"The flow appears to be subsiding... but what we are unsure of is if there is a feed of additional water into the mine workings, from the extensive mine workings on the hillside,\" he added.\n\nAt least 80 people have had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nMr Banton said officers would drill down into the shaft and investigate on Saturday, in the hope that people could soon be allowed back into their homes.\n\n\"A lot of the mining in this area is very old... some of it dates back to the early 1800s... we have no details of how the shaft in question here was originally filled or capped,\" he said.\n\n\"We will ensure the mine shaft is properly capped and sorted out.\"\n\nMartyn Evans, of NRW, said officers were looking at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\n\"We have also carried out tests on other watercourses in the vicinity of the incident. Results indicate there has been no significant impact on those at present,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday night a further 20 homes were evacuated by emergency services as the water continued to rush through the village.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed on Friday financial support would be made available to people affected by the recent floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\n\"This is the same level of support available a year ago when storms Ciara and Dennis hit Wales, just before the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas said he returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\"\n\nMr Thomas said that with water up to his waist, he was unable to get in to rescue possessions.\n\nHe added: \"We're in a bit of a dip on the road, so you could see it gradually coming up, they were worried it might have been a sinkhole because of the coal mines.\n\n\"It's definitely mine workings, just by looking at the colour of the water, it's an orange colour.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nThe couple are now staying with their daughter, with everyone else who was evacuated from their homes finding accommodation and told to avoid the area.\n\nMore than 30 residents of Cwrt-Clwydi-Gwyn care home were among those moved as a precaution.\n\nIt was a sleepless night for Skewen resident Teresa Dalling\n\nTeresa Dalling, who lives in Dynevor Road, said she had spent the night fearing for her safety.\n\n\"I haven't slept. I was up the back door every two hours checking the water level,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know we lived near old mines and if there's been a collapse, my fear is more could follow and that's terrifying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Kinnock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nUp to 45 firefighters were involved at the scene at the height of the flooding.\n\nIn a joint statement, the police, fire service and Neath Port Talbot Council urged people not to return to their homes until it was safe.\n\nCh Supt Trudi Meyrick said: \"We appreciate people are eager to get back to their homes and we are working with partners to allow this to happen as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\n\"In the meantime we ask people to please be patient as their safety is our top priority.\"\n\nIn one home, floodwater can be seen filling the living room\n\nFirefighters are continuing to pump water out of the village where people were forced to leave their homes\n\nDeputy Chief Fire Officer Roger Thomas, of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters remained in the village, pumping out water.\n\nHe said: \"We will continue to monitor the situation and support our partner agencies and those affected over the next few days.\"\n\nHomes were evacuated at Goshen Park, in Skewen\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said a local rest centre was available, and measures had been put in place to protect against Covid-19.\n\nChief executive Karen Jones said they would continue to support residents who had to leave their homes and they would ensure others had a safe place to go if further evacuations were necessary.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers had checked for any potential damage to the railway line, but had found no \"cause for concern\".\n\nThe water has rushed through the streets of the town\n\nA severe flood warning remains in force for the Lower Dee Valley, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nThree flood warnings are in place for the River Wye at Monmouth, River Ritec at Tenby, and Bangor-on-Dee, where people were forced to leave their homes on Thursday as flooding saw a major incident declared. Eleven flood alerts are also in place.\n\nSnow and ice could also exacerbate issues for emergency services and those forced to leave their homes, with temperatures forecast to plummet in coming days.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFive-time finalist Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after a solution to find a \"workable quarantine\" following his positive test for coronavirus could not be found.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton was set to fly out to Melbourne last week, but was not allowed to travel on a charter flight after being found to have Covid-19.\n\nThe former world number one had hoped to travel safely and compete as planned on the back of a negative test.\n\nMurray said he was \"gutted\" not to go.\n\nHe was asymptomatic and is now out of self-isolation, but finding a way for him to travel to Australia and then going into quarantine before the tournament starts on 8 February proved too difficult.\n\n\"We've been in constant dialogue with Tennis Australia to try and find a solution which would allow some form of workable quarantine, but we couldn't make it work,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone there for their efforts. I'm devastated not to be playing out in Australia. It's a country and tournament that I love.\"\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, he was ranked too low to gain direct entry into Australian Open so the three-time Grand Slam champion was given a wildcard.\n\nThe Australian Open at Melbourne Park is starting three weeks later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers had to test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which were put on last week by tournament organisers and operated at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOn arrival, the players and their support staff went straight into a 14-day quarantine under the conditions imposed by the Australian government.\n\nThat agreement allowed them out of their rooms for up to five hours a day for food and practice.\n\nHowever, 72 players have been confined to their rooms in a tougher quarantine - which led to some complaints and creative ways of staying fit - after they travelled on three flights where positive cases were found on arrival.\n\nHaving missed his flight to Melbourne, and therefore last weekend's window for the players to begin 14 days of quarantine, Murray was always up against it.\n\nThere are no health issues, and no injury concerns, and Murray had been hoping he could make it to Australia to complete quarantine in time to play a first-round match on either 8 or 9 February.\n\nBut the only \"workable quarantine\" would have included five hours out of his room every day. This was no longer available, and no player - irrespective of age or injury history - would want to play a Grand Slam first-round match just hours after two weeks in a hotel room.\n\nMurray is understandably devastated: he knows that at 33, and with two hip operations behind him, he cannot guarantee there will be another opportunity.\n\nBut it would have been a long way to travel potentially to lose in the first round, and receiving a special exemption may not have sat well with Murray over time.\n\nInstead, he will work with his team on his next move. Montpellier and Rotterdam are the next two ATP tournaments in Europe, although nothing is easy with Covid travel restrictions.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Jane Midgley says she needs answers about the death of her son, Simon\n\nThe mother of a man killed in a fire at a hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond more than two years ago has said it is \"torture\" not knowing why he died.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, died in the fire which fire broke out at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.\n\nJane Midgley said she needs answers about what led to Simon's death.\n\nThe Crown Office said it was committed to ensuring the circumstances around the deaths were aired in an \"appropriate legal forum\".\n\nMs Midgley said every day without answers was like the day she found out about his death.\n\n\"I just live it every single day and I can't cope with it much longer,\" she said. \"I need to know why they are not here and it's so difficult.\n\n\"I need answers. Why are these boys not here anymore? Why did this happen? Nearly three years on, no one is telling me.\"\n\nRichard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she wakes up during the night thinking about her son, asking herself \"has this really happened?\".\n\n\"Nearly three years on, should I still be feeling this hurt and pain?\"\n\nAfter the fire, the emergency services conducted investigations.\n\nWhile this can be a lengthy process, reports from the fire service and the police were passed to the Crown months ago.\n\nMs Midgley criticised prosecutors for not providing her with more information. She added she thinks they should be in contact with her more regularly than every four weeks.\n\nShe said: \"When the Crown say that they regularly update the family and are in regular contact that is always to say... 'it's still ongoing', 'we'll update you with anything significant', 'it's complicated'.\"\n\nShe added that there were many questions she still wanted answers to.\n\n\"The most important thing is finding out why Simon couldn't get out of that hotel that night - what went wrong. I have no idea, I've got to understand, I just need the answers.\n\n\"I need to know how it happened. I need to know why the boys didn't get out of that hotel when it was on fire, how it started, where it started, why they could not get out, could it have been prevented... it is pure torture.\"\n\nFire broke out at the Cameron House hotel in 2017\n\nMr Midgley was a freelance writer with the Evening Standard. Following his death the newspaper's editor, George Osbourne, paid tribute to Mr Midgley's \"adventurous spirit\".\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"Our staff have been in regular contact with the nearest relatives and provided them with information at every stage.\n\n\"The information that can be shared while a case is being investigated is limited so as not to prejudice any potential proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown‎ is committed to ensuring that the facts and circumstances surrounding the deaths of Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson are thoroughly investigated by the relevant agencies, fully considered by COPFS and, in due course, aired in an appropriate legal forum.\n\n\"The nearest relatives will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a police officer broke up a house party on Saturday\n\nA minority still breaking Covid lockdown rules could make the pandemic \"stretch longer\" in Wales, a senior police officer has warned.\n\nThe \"gold commander\" for policing lockdown across the Gwent force area said he wanted to thank the vast majority for sticking to the law.\n\nBut Chief Superintendent Mark Hobrough said those \"blatantly flouting\" rules would face enforcement action.\n\nNearly 3,800 fines have been issued in Wales for Covid rule breaches.\n\nThe latest figures released by UK police forces revealed nearly three-quarters of those fines went to men, and the largest group falling foul of Covid rules were aged between 18 and 24.\n\nCh Supt Hobrough, who oversees Gwent Police's response to Covid-19, said he and his officers had seen a change in the way the public responded to the restrictions since the first lockdown was announced in March 2020.\n\n\"When it first started there was certainly a lack of understanding among the public,\" he said.\n\n\"We were called for advice and questions on what was allowed or not allowed, which we've certainly seen diminish.\"\n\nHe said initially his force was dealing with breaches of regulations by pubs and bars, or people holding house parties.\n\n\"That has changed over time. We still have experiences of house parties and people congregating in houses, which just isn't allowed obviously.\n\n\"But I think we are also seeing breaches in relation to people congregating in beauty spots and maybe not exercising in line with the requirements.\"\n\nAccording to the National Police Chiefs' Council, there were 3,770 fixed penalty notices issues by the four Welsh forces between the last Friday in March and 20 December last year.\n\nOf those fines, 2,188 were for breaching rules on movement restrictions, while 823 faced penalties for gathering in private properties outside their own households.\n\nA further 113 notices were issued to individuals for staying in Wales when it was not their main residence, and 89 were hit with fines for entering or leaving local health protection areas, when many counties in Wales had separate travel restrictions in place in the autumn.\n\nThe figures also reveal that just two fines were issued in the period for failing to wear a face covering in designated indoor areas.\n\nSgt Dan Wise says enforcement is sometimes the only option for his team\n\nOut on the streets of Newport, and around the rest of the Gwent force area, the officers on the ground said they wanted to educate the public whenever rules changed, but they will enforce clear breaches.\n\n\"Some of the things people have been stopped for are travelling into Wales to look at the snow,\" said Sgt Dan Wise, as he carried out checks on motorists in Newport.\n\n\"Others are travelling to local beauty spots to exercise. Obviously, these are things that are not acceptable.\"\n\nHe said as the pandemic continues, with high numbers of cases and given how easily the virus can spread, \"we will look to enforce where people are blatantly flouting the rules\".\n\nAt the Gwent Police headquarters, Ch Supt Hobrough said he had this message for the minority of \"those people who aren't abiding\" by the rules: \"It would very much be within everybody's interest for them to reflect on the way they are conducting themselves.\n\n\"Because that minority of people who aren't abiding are possibly making this pandemic stretch longer.\"\n• None Coronavirus legislation and guidance on the law - GOV.WALES The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David and Victoria Beckham have paid themselves £21m from their sports and media business since 2019, according to the their latest accounts.\n\nThis is despite continued heavy losses at Ms Beckham's fashion business, where trade has worsened during the pandemic.\n\nProfit at David Beckham Ventures Limited (DBVL), the brand management firm owned by the former footballer and his wife, fell £3.5m to £11.3m in 2019.\n\nThis was in part due to money spent on expansion and charitable donations.\n\nHowever, the celebrity couple still paid themselves a £14.5m dividend at the end of 2019, accounts show, and took a further £7.1m in 2020.\n\nA spokesman attributed the payments to \"profitable performance\" at DBVL, which among other things manages Mr Beckham's strategic partnerships with Adidas and Haig Club whisky.\n\nHe also noted that the company's revenue climbed by £600,000 in 2019 to £16.2m.\n\nHowever, Victoria Beckham Holdings (VBHL), which manages the former Spice Girl's fashion label, fared much worse during that time.\n\nLosses at the business - which is also backed by the Beckhams' former business partner Simon Fuller and private equity firm NEO investment Partners - widened to £16.6m during the year, following a loss of £12.5m in 2018.\n\nIt marked the seventh year the brand has been in the red since it was founded in 2008.\n\nVBHL blamed costs associated with the launch of the Victoria Beckham Beauty business, a new cosmetics range in which the group has an 85% shareholding.\n\nIt also noted that total sales across the whole business were up by 7% in 2019.\n\nNevertheless, auditors BDO, who signed off on the accounts, warned that the business was now reliant on shareholder support to keep going which could \"cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nAs the pandemic hammered the business last April, VBHL had to borrow £9.2m from its shareholders to repay an outstanding bank loan to HSBC after breaking its debt covenants.\n\nVBHL said it was doing all it could to \"navigate\" the coronavirus crisis, including taking \"all actions possible to conserve cash\".\n\n\"All non-essential expenditure is being deferred and hiring freezes have been implemented for open positions.to enable the company to navigate through this pandemic,\" it said.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The White House has just put out a statement marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that essentially legalised the right to abortion.\n\n\"In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack,\" the statement from Biden and Harris begins .\n\nThey go on to say they are committed to \"codifying\" the judgement, which means pass legislation through Congress that enshrines abortion access into law.\n\nThey will also appoint judges who will support abortion access, they say. Trump, during his time in office, was able to give the Supreme Court a conservative majority, making anti-abortion activists hopeful that Roe v Wade could eventually be overturned.\n\nBiden was the only candidate during the primary to say he endorsed the so-called Hyde Amendment, which says that no federal funds can go towards abortions. After nearly all 22 other candidates came out against the Hyde Amendment, he reversed his stance.\n\nAlthough abortion is technically legal across the US, multiple states have instituted laws that make it nearly impossible in practice. Abortion activists hope that a law would make it more difficult for local governments to restrict access.", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Mick Norcross, 57, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday\n\nFormer The Only Way Is Essex star Mick Norcross has died at the age of 57.\n\nThe businessman and father of Kirk Norcross, who also appeared in the ITV show, was found dead at his home in Bulphan at 15:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn tributes on social media, fellow Towie stars past and present, including Gemma Collins and James \"Arg\" Argent, called him \"one of the good guys\" and a \"true gentleman\".\n\nNorcross first appeared in the reality show in 2011 in his position as owner of Sugar Hut, a Brentwood nightclub which was often attended by the cast.\n\nHe left the show two years later, stating that the venue's prominent place in Towie had damaged its brand.\n\nThe star posted a tweet to his 505,000 followers on Thursday morning saying: \"At the end remind yourself that you did the best you could. And that's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sugar Hut This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe club tweeted that \"Mr Sugarhut\" had been a \"very talented, friendly and fun guy\" and a \"true Essex legend, who will be sorely missed\".\n\nCollins, who briefly dated Norcross during their time on the show, shared a photo of them together on Instagram and said he had been \"one of the good guys\", while Argent tweeted that he had been \"a true gentleman and a very kind man\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gemmacollins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTributes were also shared by Towie stars Lauren Goodger and Mario Falcone, with the latter tweeting that he was \"thankful I got the privilege of having you in my life\".\n\nIn another tweet, Mark Wright, the Towie star turned TV presenter and professional footballer, said he was \"a great man, an inspiration to many, always so polite and welcoming\".\n\nPresenter Denise Van Outen tweeted that he was \"such a lovely man\" while TV chef James Martin, posted that he was \"a true gentleman, who I had the pleasure to meet and spend evenings with over the years\".\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex posted a tribute on Instagram, saying the team behind the show were \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThey said: \"He was hugely popular with cast, crew and the audience alike. Charming, generous and host to many of Essex's most glamorous events, Mick will be missed by us all.\"\n\nAn Essex Police spokesman said officers \"were called to an address in Brentwood Road, Bulphan shortly before 15:15 on Thursday\" and \"sadly, a man inside was pronounced dead\".\n\nThe police spokesman said the death was \"not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. The EU has ordered 600 million doses from Pfizer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ursula von der Leyen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "Top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been sent bullets in the mail while under house arrest in Vancouver, according to court testimony.\n\nIt was one of several alleged death threats revealed on Wednesday by the company providing her security.\n\nMs Meng was detained in 2018 on charges relating to allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's dealings in Iran.\n\nHer case has created a rift between China and Canada, with Beijing repeatedly calling for her release.\n\nThe chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the US, where she is facing charges of bank fraud and potentially causing HSBC to break US sanctions.\n\nDays after she was released on bail, she was placed under house arrest in Vancouver. She has been fighting against her extradition to the US, which wants her to stand trial.\n\nThe threats were revealed at the British Columbia Supreme Court by Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of security firm Lions Gate Risk Management.\n\nHe said Ms Meng received \"five or six\" threatening letters at her residence in June and July 2020 and that the letters were \"easily identifiable by markings on the outside\". He added that \"sometimes there were bullets inside the envelopes\".\n\nThe role of the Vancouver police and any investigations is unclear.\n\nMs Meng has been in court pushing for conditions of her bail to be loosened, including dropping the daytime security detail that constantly follows her.\n\nShe is permitted to leave home between 6am and 11pm and pays for a round-the-clock security detail. She also wears a GPS tracking anklet as stipulated by her bail conditions.\n\nThe government has also granted family members of Ms Meng permission to travel to Canada, sparking controversy.\n\nConservative MP Raquel Dancho said the exception was an \"insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit loved ones\" over the holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Raquel Dancho This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe called the move disappointing, noting that Beijing detained two Canadians soon after Ms Meng's arrest in December 2018 and has held them in prison ever since, subjecting them to interrogations.\n\nMs Meng's defence lawyer has argued that Canada is effectively being asked \"to enforce US sanctions\".\n\nHuawei has been one of the main targets of the Trump administration's attack on Chinese companies that it deems are security threats and pass data to the government.\n\nThe US has placed harsh restrictions on Huawei and has banned its 5G equipment from its networks. It also added 38 names linked to Huawei to a trade blacklist.\n\nThis week Huawei came under fire for technology that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technology was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Galaxy S21 Ultra has hardware built into it to make use of the firm's S Pen stylus\n\nSamsung's new flagship Galaxy S smartphone works with its stylus for the first time.\n\nThe S Pen is an optional add-on for the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But the move will fuel speculation the firm will phase out its separate Note handset range.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it had yet to make a decision about this.\n\nThe company's handset sales have declined more quickly than the wider market. One expert said a streamlined line-up might help address this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\n\"There's increasing logic for Samsung to converge the Galaxy S and Note platforms, because there's so little differentiation between the two kinds of devices now,\" said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"That would align them with Apple, which also has one big phone launch event a year.\n\n\"My concern is that every time Samsung has announced its Note products in the past, it has planted a seed in consumers' minds that the Galaxy S products have become kind of the old ones.\"\n\nThe benefit of having a stylus is that it is easier to write, draw or annotate notes than using a finger. But to work it requires special hardware under the glass of the phone's display to pass power to the stylus and to track its tip.\n\nThe Android-based Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8in (17.3cm) display, which is only slightly smaller than the top-end 6.9in Note.\n\nIn years past, the Note phones were known as \"phablets\", and their size was the other key distinguishing factor with the S range.\n\nUnlike the Note series, the S21 Ultra requires a special case to stow away the pen\n\nProduct manager Mark Notton said \"we haven't decided\", when asked whether Samsung planned to continue the Note family.\n\n\"It does not mean that Samsung is not committed to the Note category, but is expanding the Note experience across device categories,\" the firm said in a follow-up statement.\n\n\"We will actively listen to consumers' feedback and reflect it in our continued product innovation.\"\n\nThe S21 Ultra will start at £1,149 when it goes on sale on 29 January. The S Pen costs an extra £35 on its own, or £85 when bundled with a case that stores it.\n\nThat puts it in the ballpark of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's £1,179 starting price, which comes with a stylus that slots into its body.\n\nThere are also two other lower-cost models in the new range, neither of which works with the S-Pen stylus: the 6.2in S21 and 6.7in S21+.\n\nAll three models feature a redesigned camera module on their back.\n\nAll the Galaxy S21 phones feature a redesigned camera module on their back\n\nBut while the two lower-end models have three lenses - ultra-wide, wide and 3x-zoom telephoto - the S21 Ultra adds a further 10x-zoom telephoto lens, letting owners shoot action from even further away.\n\nThe handsets also benefit from a new Director's View facility. It lets users film video while getting thumbnail previews superimposed on-screen of what it would look like if they switched to another lens.\n\nAll three phones can film in 8K - double the maximum resolution of the competing iPhone 12 range's native video app.\n\nThe Director's View mode lets users preview how the recorded shot will change in a video if they switch to a different lens while filming\n\nHowever, the handsets may be more notable for following Apple in two regards.\n\nThey have abandoned a slot for a microSD memory card.\n\nAnd they will be sold without either a charger - a decision over which Samsung had mocked its rival. - or earphones.\n\nSamsung posted this ad in October on social media before deleting it\n\n\"We discovered that more and more Galaxy users are reusing accessories they already have,\" the firm said.\n\nSamsung typically unveils its Galaxy range in late February, but has brought forward this year's launch to coincide with the CES tech show.\n\n\"Samsung needs S21 to be a success given that S20 was launched in the middle of Covid first wave in Europe and didn't gain many fans,\" commented Marta Pinto, from research firm IDC.\n\nShe added the earlier launch date could help it compete in the \"premium market\" with Apple, whose iPhones were released later than normal last year.\n\nThe South Korean firm should also benefit from collapsing sales of Huawei's devices in the West, caused by US sanctions that prevent them offering the Google Play store and some of the search giant's other services.\n\nSamsung dedicated a segment of its Unpacked launch presentation to its partnership with Google\n\nBut Mr Wood said Samsung was facing growing competition from other Chinese brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo.\n\n\"Samsung's differentiator is going to be its ability to market its strong brand, and the fact it has a very wide product portfolio,\" he commented.\n\nSamsung also aims to widen its appeal with two further accessories.\n\nIt has a new pair of £219 wireless earbuds that monitor what the user is doing.\n\nSamsung's earbuds should automatically adapt their audio output according to what the user is doing\n\nIf they detect the wearer is talking, they automatically turn down the volume of music and amplify the sounds of the nearby environment picked up by their microphones, allowing the owner to have a brief conversation without needing to take them out or manually adjust their settings.\n\nSamsung also is launching the £30 Galaxy SmartTag - a Bluetooth-enabled tracker that can be attached to belongings or pets.\n\nIt will allow an app to show their location, so long as the tag is in range of the owner or anyone else's compatible Samsung device.\n\nThe tracker will compete with similar products from the current market leader Tile.\n\nThe SmartTag will challenge Tile, which already sells a range of Bluetooth trackers\n\nApple is widely rumoured to be working on similar devices of its own.", "The coronavirus growth rate is slowing in the UK and the number of infections is starting to level off in some areas, a top scientist has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nBut he warned the overall death toll would exceed 100,000.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nIt has taken the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767. There were also 47,525 new cases.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the national lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nPeople in England are required to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"much too early\" to say when the number of cases would come down.\n\nBut he said: \"It looks like in London in particular and a couple of other regions in the South East and East of England, hospital admissions may even have plateaued.\n\n\"It has to be said this is not seen everywhere - both case numbers and hospital admissions are going up in many other areas, but overall at a national level we are seeing the rate of growth slow.\"\n\nProf Ferguson added: \"I would hope the hospital admissions might plateau… sometime in the next week, but hospital bed occupancy may continue to rise slowly for up to two weeks.\"\n\nHe warned the overall death toll would be \"well over 100,000\", adding \"there's nothing we can do about that now\".\n\nProf Ferguson added Covid restrictions could be in place for many months to come, adding the new variant's increased transmissibility would mean relaxation of the rules will be a \"gradual process to the autumn\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday that the government will not be introducing tougher social distancing rules \"today or tomorrow\" and insisted that ministers are focusing on increasing enforcement of the current restrictions.\n\nAsked about speculation further measures could include a three-metre social distancing rule or a requirement to wear masks outside, she told ITV's This Morning: \"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a major study led by Public Health England has shown most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months.\n\nPast infection was linked to an 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the finding \"doesn't eliminate\" the risk of people catching Covid-19 again, and infecting others.\n\nShe said: \"We found people with very high amounts of virus in their nose and throat swabs, that would easily be in the range which would cause levels of transmission to other individuals.\"\n\nProf Hopkins said she hoped that after Easter, \"we will start to see reduced infection rates, as we did at that time last year\" and the number of people who have been vaccinated at a \"very high level\".\n\nThe UK is continuing efforts to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, with the prime minister saying that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted on Thursday to say that \"three million vaccines have now been administered\" in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, NHS England published a breakdown of vaccinations by age and region for the first time.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday that he was \"concerned\" about a new Covid variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil and said that the UK was taking steps to ensure it is not brought into the UK.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers met this morning to discuss \"urgent measures to reduce the potential spread to the UK of the Brazilian variant\".\n\nThey could include a ban on flights from Brazil. Arrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Deputy Scottish First Minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast \"the virus is not accelerating as fast as it was\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said \"there are some early signs of optimism\" but emphasised people should follow all guidance as the \"virus is still at a very strong level\".", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nTravel from South America and Portugal to the UK is being banned, other than for British or Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights. The new ruling is being brought in because of concerns about the new Brazilian coronavirus variant and comes into force from 04:00 GMT on Friday. The ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, these countries in the 10 days before their departure for the UK: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Find out more about the new variants here.\n\nDoctors have warned that the recent surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis. Accident and Emergency departments are facing rising delays in admitting extremely sick patients on to wards, NHS data shows. The total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic - and cancer specialists are warning of a \"terrifying\" disruption to their services that would cost lives.\n\nThe government has told schools not to provide free meals to eligible pupils' families over half term, with food to be provided by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme instead. The Department for Education said vulnerable families would continue to receive meals outside of term time through the welfare support they have made available. But councils say the government should be responsible for providing food vouchers during the February half-term, like it did over summer.\n\nA top scientist has said the coronavirus growth rate in the UK is slowing, with the number of infections starting to level off in some areas. Prof Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions. But he warned the overall death toll - currently standing at over 80,000 - would exceed 100,000. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the national lockdown measures in place across the UK are \"starting to show signs of some effect\" but warned that it was still early days.\n\nMany people feel they've put on weight during the pandemic, due to staying indoors more and turning to comfort food. Samantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, thought she was one of them - but what she believed was a few extra pounds of weight was actually a baby. She gave birth to her daughter Julia just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was even missed when she was taken to hospital in November with Covid-19. She said: \"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nThe UK travel rules have been updated again. Find out all the details you need here.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "Covid-19 patients in England's busiest intensive care units in 2020 were 20% more likely to die, University College London research has found.\n\nThe increased risk was equivalent to gaining a decade in age.\n\nBy the end of 2020, one in three hospital trusts in England was running at higher than 85% capacity.\n\nEleven trusts were completely full on 30 December, and the total number of people in intensive care with Covid has continued to rise since then.\n\nThe link between full ICUs and higher death rates was already known, but this study is the first to measure its effect during the pandemic.\n\nTighter lockdown restrictions are needed to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, says study author Dr Bilal Mateen.\n\nResearchers looked at more than 4,000 patients who were admitted to intensive care units in 114 hospital trusts in England between April and June last year.\n\nThey found the risk of dying was almost a fifth higher in ICUs where more than 85% of beds were occupied, than in those running at between 45% and 85% capacity.\n\nThat meant a 60-year-old being treated in one of these units had the same risk of dying as a 70-year-old on a quieter ward.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine sets 85% as the maximum safe level of bed occupancy.\n\nHowever, the team found there was no tipping point after which deaths rose - instead, survival rates fell consistently as bed-occupancy increased.\n\nThis suggests \"a lot of harm is occurring before you get to 85%\".\n\nPatients admitted to ICUs that were less than 45% full were 25% less likely to die than average.\n\nUsually if a very sick patient's heart stops, everyone on the ward will rush to help them, Dr Mateen explained.\n\nBut when there are too many patients, staff's time is inevitably split, so \"it makes sense that the quality of patient care would be sacrificed\", he said.\n\nWhile extra beds and equipment can, and have, been provided through the Nightingale hospitals and the private sector, finding enough qualified staff has been an issue.\n\n\"You can't just create an ICU nurse who knows how to operate a mechanical ventilator overnight,\" Dr Mateen told the BBC.\n\nThese are highly-skilled roles that take years of training and sometimes decades of experience, he added.\n\nInstead, a \"robust vaccination programme\" and tighter lockdown restrictions are needed to bring down cases and hospitalisations, he believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nCo-author Prof Christina Pagel at UCL added: \"This paper highlights for the first time that putting such strain on ICUs during pandemic peaks does, sadly, mean that that chances of someone dying in intensive care are higher.\n\n\"Our work underlines the urgency of both vaccinating vulnerable groups as soon as possible and reducing Covid transmission in the community to relieve pressure on intensive care.\"\n\nIt's difficult to say for sure that fuller ICUs are actually causing more deaths - it's possible that as they get fuller, only the sickest patients are admitted.\n\nBut Dr Mateen says there was no evidence of rationing - of sick patients being turned away.\n\nEven pre-Covid, data suggests larger ICUs had lower death rates - with a 25% increase in bed numbers linked to a corresponding 25% fall in mortality.\n\nAnd the findings are supported by a wealth of evidence from before the pandemic and from around the world.", "Coach and tour operators have seen an unexpected growth in bookings in the last fortnight.\n\nWhilst there is no doubt that the pandemic continues to put huge pressure on lives and the NHS, this is a small amount of sunshine for the travel industry, which has had a tough year.\n\nTUI, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.\n\nThis was previously a smaller market for them.\n\nNational Express's coach holiday businesses say bookings made by those 65 and over have increased by 185% in the last fortnight compared to last year.\n\n\"Since the announcement of the vaccine, it's given our customer base, predominantly those over 65, increased confidence to book and have that summer getaway in 2021\" says Jit Desai, head of holidays and travel at National Express.\n\n\"We launched the brochure for spring-summer 2021 just this weekend gone, and on Monday we took a week's worth of bookings in a day and that's continued so far,\" says Mr Desai. \"What the vaccine does is give certainty and confidence.\n\n\"That then allows the customer and ourselves the ability to plan ahead\".\n\nThe pandemic has been devastating for the travel sector. Tens of thousands of jobs have gone in the UK. Millions of Britons cancelled breaks because the health situation was in flux across the world.\n\nBut National Express now points to returning confidence to travel.\n\n\"Many we've spoken to have had the first jab. They know in 12 weeks they'll get a second jab. It gives them certainty that they can enjoy and look forward to their 2021 holiday. It is something to look forward to, to being with people, with friends, like minded and from the same generation.\"\n\nDawn and Ray - 75 and 78 years old - are from Hampshire and are due to have their first jab soon. They have just booked five UK holidays.\n\n\"We are raring to go once we've got that vaccine, we are really looking forward to it - both of us. We are going to Wales, Leicestershire, to York where there is a mystery tour - and to the Cotswolds'\", Dawn said.\n\nFor Dawn and Ray, it's the ease of coach travel that's appealing, as well as the safety. She adds \"they've looked after us so well in the past, the coaches are clean, we'll all wear masks, we all look after each other.\"\n\nAt the moment, 90% of the bookings with National Expresses coach businesses are UK based, so it looks like another good year for the staycation.\n\n\"European bookings are lower because of the uncertainty on the continent,\" says Mr Desai.\n\n\"The UK wins because of the lack of need to quarantine. And uncertainty about the moves other governments might make whilst away also creates fear.\"\n\nIt's not just UK breaks that are selling. The UK's largest tour operator TUI, famous for its sun-drenched European beach holidays, says there has also been a change in the last fortnight.\n\n\"We're seeing a customer base or age group that wasn't booking before, that is starting to book,\" says Andrew Flintham the MD of TUI UK. \"The over 50s, we assume, is on the back to the vaccine news.\"\n\nWhilst TUI UK boss acknowledges that \"the market is still depressed and it's not where we want it - we are seeing glimmers of hope.\"\n\nTrips to towns in England are among those being booked\n\nThere are also interesting changes emerging in the types of breaks holidaymakers plan to take and the months they're planning to travel.\n\n\"People are booking later into the summer, hedging their bets\" said Mr Flintham. \"More July and August and a lot of demand for September and October.\n\n\"People are booking longer holidays, we're seeing more people booking ten or eleven or 14 nights rather than seven. People are maybe catching up on what they've missed.\"\n\nAs TUI analysed its recent booking data, one trend they spotted is the emergence of large, multigenerational group bookings.\n\n\"It is family time we've all missed. We can't get away from our own families, but our broader families we can't see, and that's feeding into our choices\" Mr Flintham explains.\n\nAfter such a bad 10 months, and TUI cancelling all holidays until the middle of February at the earliest because of the new lockdown, how does the rest of the summer look?\n\n\"I think the summer holiday is on\" says Mr Flintham, \"I think we just need time for people to get that confidence, but yes, we think there will be a good summer this summer\".\n\nFor those who've watched the paralysis brought upon the travel industry since last winter, a morsel of good news about customers booking again is being celebrated.\n\n\"This is fantastic news and to be hugely welcomed by an industry that has been utterly devastated by the pandemic\", says Sophie Griffiths, editor of Travel Trade Gazette.\n\n\"Ten months into this crisis and the industry has still received zero dedicated support from the government despite being unique as a sector in terms of giving out thousands in refunds while getting next to nothing back in for 2020.\"", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "Some 13 ambulances queued outside the Royal Glamorgan Hospital hospital's A&E department on Saturday\n\nHospitals in the area with Wales and England's worst Covid death rates are only coping by postponing urgent surgery such as cancer operations.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg had already suspended some non-emergency services but the boss of the health board said they have now paused some urgent procedures.\n\nCwm Taf covers Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, which have the highest and second highest Covid death rates.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he \"would not be surprised\" if other health boards were forced to do the same soon, if case rates did not come down.\n\n\"There is real harm being done... because of the level of hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"Our critical care units are at 150% of their capacity and that has very real consequences.\n\n\"It reinforces why all of us need to do the right thing in reducing our contacts with other people and follow the rules, otherwise greater harm will be caused.\"\n\nThe news comes as NHS bosses said the number of Covid patients in Welsh hospitals is double April's peak.\n\nOn Thursday, Public Health Wales (PHW) said a further 54 people had died with coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 4,117.\n\nMr Lyons said on Wednesday night their field hospital Ysbyty Seren in Bridgend had 74 patients, people they \"wouldn't have been able to accommodate within our usual hospitals\".\n\n\"We are coping, but that's coping because we've been cancelling urgent surgery.\n\n\"We even had to cancel some cancer surgery over the last few weeks,\" Mr Lyons told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"My heart goes out to families and to patients with all the stress and the worry that gives.\n\n\"It's tough times and we're all in it together, and we do see that optimism, that glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but it's hard.\"\n\nNearly half of hospital beds in the health board - which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf- are taken up with Covid-19 patients, including 31 in critical care or on ventilation.\n\nThey outnumber those in critical care with other conditions by three to one.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 2,806 hospital patients in Wales with Covid-19 - 35% of all patients. This is twice the proportion in May.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf, the Covid death rate is 283.9 per 100,000 population - followed by Merthyr Tydfil where the death rate is 253.6.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy for the families and the loved ones and very sobering,\" said Mr Lyons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how case rates have changed in each part of Wales\n\n\"We're coping but only because of the dedication of our staff, and it's immensely humbling to see people giving up their spare time coming in doing extra shifts, but the toll on them is immense.\n\n\"In practice our hospitals are full and although we are coping that we're only coping because we've cancelled all but the most urgent surgery.\n\n\"We've redeployed staff who've been incredibly flexible from places they normally work such as outpatients.\"\n\nThe health board oversees three hospitals - Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and the Royal Glamorgan in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nA nurse at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, near Llantrisant, said earlier this week how she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued outside her hospital's A&E department.", "Six pharmacies will be vaccinating people invited by letter to make an appointment online\n\nSome High Street pharmacies in England will start vaccinating people from priority groups on Thursday, with 200 providing jabs in the next two weeks.\n\nSix chemists in Halifax, Macclesfield, Widnes, Guildford, Edgware and Telford are the first to offer appointments to those invited by letter.\n\nBut pharmacists say many more sites should be allowed to give the jab, not just the largest ones.\n\nMore than 2.6 million people in the UK have now received their first dose.\n\nAcross the UK, the target is to vaccinate 15 million people in the top four priority groups - care home residents and workers, NHS frontline staff, the over-70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nThe vaccines - made by either Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech - are being administered at hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries and vaccination centres.\n\nIt comes as the UK saw its highest number of daily reported coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, with the government announcing a further 1,564 deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the Scottish government published its detailed 16-page plan for rolling out the vaccine, including details of how many vaccines it expects to receive every week until the end of May.\n\nThe first pharmacy sites in England to deliver a vaccine have been chosen because they are capable of delivering large numbers of vaccines quickly while allowing space for social distancing.\n\nPeople will be invited by letter to make an appointment at one of the pharmacies, or a vaccination centre, through the NHS Covid-19 vaccination booking service.\n\nAnyone who doesn't want to travel to these sites can still be vaccinated by their local GP or hospital service, but they may have to wait longer.\n\nUp to 70 more pharmacies will be taking bookings for appointments for next week, with 200 in total offering slots over the next fortnight, according to NHS England.\n\nVaccines are currently being offered at more than 1,000 sites, including :\n\nAn Asda supermarket in Birmingham will also host a vaccination centre, with pharmacy staff giving jabs in the store's former clothing section from 25 January.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the rules on which pharmacies qualify to deliver Covid vaccines should be relaxed to allow more to take part.\n\nHow people awaiting vaccines will queue and socially distance in the Halifax store of Boots\n\nAt present, pharmacies have to be able to deliver 1,000 vaccines a week, have enough fridge space to store all the doses, and be able to open seven days a week.\n\nAndrew Lane, of the National Pharmacy Association, said now that the Oxford vaccine had been approved, community pharmacies could store and administer it in the same way as they deliver the flu jab.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine only needs to be stored at fridge temperature, as opposed to the freezer temperatures of -70C required by Pfizer.\n\n\"We're here, we're trained, we will deliver,\" said Mr Lane, who represents Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Northamptonshire.\n\nNHS England has said that as more supplies of vaccine become available, more community pharmacists will be able to play a role in the programme.\n\nThe government's vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said staff across the NHS had \"pulled out all the stops to help ramp up vaccinations\" and were working day and night to keep people safe.\n\nProf Claire Anderson, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board, said pharmacy teams in hospital, primary care and the community were \"working flat out to support the nation's health\".\n\nShe said she looked forward to the vaccination programme being expanded through pharmacies to benefit patients.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Wednesday that vaccinations would also start being offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week \"as soon as possible\" - but supply of doses was currently the limiting factor.\n\nIt comes as hospitals struggle to cope with the rising numbers of patients being admitted with Covid.\n\nA study published today has shown the impact of packed intensive care units on death rates, finding that patients in England's busiest ICUs in 2020 were 20% more likely to die.\n\nMeanwhile, a government committee is meeting later to discuss whether to stop flights from Brazil coming to the UK because of concern about a new variant of the virus believed to have emerged there.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe strain is one of a small number of new variants which have been spreading, including ones first spotted in the UK and South Africa.\n\nScientists are racing to understand what it means for the vaccines - but most experts think vaccines will still be effective.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bangor student Michelle Francis said students had hardly used rooms and had not been able to use facilities on campus\n\nHundreds of students are preparing to take part in rent strikes after paying for \"hardly used\" rooms during the pandemic.\n\nSome Welsh universities have already offered refunds to students who have been living away due to Covid-19.\n\nBut students in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor claim they are being treated unfairly and are threatening to withhold rent.\n\nUniversities said they were trying to work out the implications of Covid-19.\n\nAnd a solicitor warned students they could face legal action for not paying rent, with long-term implications possible if they lose.\n\nFace-to-face teaching was suspended and many students moved back home before Christmas as coronavirus cases continued to rise.\n\nStaggered returns are being introduced in order to \"help stop the spread of the virus in student accommodation\", according to the Welsh Government.\n\nThey said they had not been living in the rooms or using facilities, despite paying for them, because they were abiding by Welsh Government guidelines.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University, Aberystwyth University, Swansea University, Bangor University and Cardiff University have now offered eligible students rebates or discounts for time not spent living on campus.\n\nUniversity of South Wales said it will be offering a \"rent holiday\" on university-owned accommodation in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for the period 4 January to 12 February.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) said on Thursday it is now offering refunds to students who have not returned to university-owned accommodation while teaching is solely online.\n\nBut students say the offers are inadequate for students already paying £9,000-a-year tuition fees at a time when most of the teaching was online, and they had been unable to use facilities in halls.\n\nWhile the students cannot hold their protests in person due to coronavirus laws, hundreds are now planning to cancel their direct debits, withholding thousands of pounds of rent from universities.\n\nMichelle Francis, who formed the Bangor Rent Strike campaign, said the university's offer of a 10% discount to eligible students living in university-owned accommodation did not go far enough.\n\nShe said students who had chosen to go home for Christmas were not eligible, despite being unable to use facilities paid for during the first term.\n\n\"[We were] advised to have left university from the beginning of December and to come back at 8 February,\" she said.\n\n\"That's 25% of our halls that we've been paying and we're not there... we should be allowed to have that back.\"\n\nSo far over 300 students have joined the campaign to cancel their direct debits paid to Welsh universities and campaigners said the numbers were growing daily.\n\nOn Wednesday, Cardiff University joined other Welsh universities in offering a rent rebate to students living in university-owned accommodation during the pandemic.\n\nBut the full rebate, for the time students are unable to return to live in their accommodation, will not be applied until April.\n\nSwansea University has also confirmed a rent reduction to students in university halls who have been asked to remain at home.\n\nOisin Mulholland of Swansea Rent Strike said the group wanted the university to commit to fairly \"assessing the situation\", including for the coming term, and students who had already moved in should be given rebates as well.\n\n\"There was a window in January, where the Welsh Government said return, but the English government said don't return, and the university said nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"Many students came back and are now trapped in Swansea and can't go back because of lockdown\"\n\nIbrahim Khan said students were struggling and needed the rebate immediately\n\nIbrahim Khan, of the Cardiff Rent Strike campaign, said the rebate was \"too late\" for students struggling financially now.\n\n\"The university should be giving us the rebate this January as opposed to the third instalment in April,\" he said.\n\nLawyers have warned that students would in breach of contract if they cancel the direct debit for their rent.\n\nSiôn Fôn, a solicitor at Darwin Gray, encouraged students to discuss the issue with their families and student unions before taking action.\n\n\"I think a case could be brought forward pretty easily against somebody not paying rent,\" he said.\n\nBut he said students may have a case against the university due to not being able to access advertised facilities, but if the university took legal action it could have long-term consequences for individuals.\n\n\"If the students lose, and even after losing don't pay the rent, that would come up on credit scores, or with the bank, if they're trying to get a mortgage or a credit card it would come up on their record,\" he warned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How am I going to afford to do my food shop... if I can't go to work?\"\n\nA spokesperson for Cardiff University said technical reasons meant they had to wait until the April instalment of accommodation fees to provide the rebate.\n\nSwansea University said some students had already returned when the stay at home guidance was issued, and it was working through the \"implications of this\".\n\n\"To help with this the university will not generate invoices for any students with university accommodation until May when we have been able to look at these cases,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBangor University said it did not wish to add anything further following its rebate announcement.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had provided an extra £40m to help universities, including £10m for towards student hardship and support.\n\n\"It would seem fair that students should be eligible for a rebate for the period when a course is online only and we welcome moves by universities to address this,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are actively considering how we can support our students and universities even further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents of an asylum seeker camp in Pembrokeshire says life is 'very bad'\n\nAsylum seekers housed in a military training camp have claimed the \"very bad\" conditions are making them feel increasingly desperate.\n\nThe Home Office decided to house up to 250 asylum seekers at the site in Penally, Pembrokeshire, from September.\n\nBut some housed at the camp claim the conditions are unsafe and putting them at risk of coronavirus.\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for an urgent inspection, but the Home Office said it was safe and \"Covid-compliant\".\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration David Bolt said he hoped an inspection can begin \"within a few weeks\" and was awaiting further details he requested from the Home Office.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have taken place at the camp, with concerns conditions breach human rights.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the facility was \"unsuitable\" for vulnerable people who have \"fled terror and suffering\".\n\nNow, asylum seekers have spoken to the BBC about their experiences of living in the camp during the pandemic, with some claiming the site does not abide by Covid-19 rules.\n\nPhotos taken inside the camp show the living conditions in one of the rooms\n\nOne man, who wishes to remain anonymous, arrived at the camp on 1 October.\n\nHe said he had pain from \"old injuries\" obtained in Syria, but had to wait \"four days\" to see a doctor. He also has concerns about hygiene facilities at the camp.\n\n\"There is no observance of the Covid safety laws,\" he said, claiming \"six men\" share a small bedroom, dozens eat in the same room, and some staff preparing food do not wear face masks.\n\nVideo footage and photographs of the camp, seen by BBC Wales, show bathroom floors covered with water, every toilet in one bathroom blocked, beds in communal rooms less than 2m (6ft) apart and a bathroom where all the soap dispensers are empty.\n\nThe Home Office said medical need determined GP appointments, social distancing was required, and soap was replenished at the site.\n\nThe man said the camp's conditions had left him in a \"bad psychological state\" and others had attempted self-harm: \"Should I try to hurt myself to get out of here?\"\n\nHe said he and other residents were able to leave the camp as long as they are back by 22:00 GMT, but said he was reluctant to go out due to the \"humiliation, abuse and racism\" he has experienced.\n\nThe site has attracted protests in recent months\n\nWhile some have welcomed the refugees, posting welcome notes outside the gates, the camp has been described as a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nThe Home Office said that, where someone claims their mental health is suffering, it would consider if their needs can be met at the site.\n\nAnother resident, from Eritrea, north-east Africa, said life in the camp was stressful, and people were being \"treated like prisoners\".\n\n\"For the Eritrean community in this camp, the most difficult thing is we escaped from our country from indefinite military service and illegal imprisonment,\" he said.\n\n\"So we feel like we are imprisoned in a military camp. It is all coming back to us.\"\n\nOne resident said it was impossible to maintain social distancing in a room with six people\n\nThe man said he had been told to be careful and to abide to Covid rules, but there was \"no protection\" as he was sleeping in a room with five others.\n\n\"Most of the bathrooms - they are broken,\" he said.\n\n\"They are filled with tissues, masks, everything you can find, they are blocked, they don't work.\"\n\nHe said he had not been offered a coronavirus test since arriving about three months ago.\n\nThe Home Office said residents had often entered the UK some time ago, and had been mainly placed in the camp after being in the south-east of England and around London.\n\nIt added that coronavirus tests were only necessary in line with Welsh Government guidance.\n\nIt added that Clearsprings Ready Homes, which manage the camp, took immediate steps to repair damage.\n\nSome have welcomed the asylum seekers in the community\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, has called for an \"urgent\" and \"transparent\" inspection of the site.\n\nIn a letter to the UK's Independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Bolt, the MP said: \"We are now not only in the middle of winter, but cases of Covid-19 in Wales are rising at an alarming rate.\n\n\"I am extremely worried that the conditions at the old military barracks are wholly unsuitable to deal with the cold weather and to facilitate effective social distancing.\n\n\"This shows a clear disregard for the health and wellbeing of those being kept in the camp.\"\n\nAbout 40 men took part in the protest outside the camp in November over claims their human rights were being breached\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales: \"If we aspire to be a nation of sanctuary, surely we should be looking at how people, while they are with us, are integrated into our communities and given all the services that they need, rather than putting them in a convenient enclosed space in a tiny community which is ill equipped itself to deal with this... Let alone far right protests outside and all the pressure that's put on the local population.\n\n\"We need to make sure that this doesn't set a precedent into the future.\"\n\nMr Bolt told Ms Saville Roberts he had \"received assurances\" from the Home Office that the Penally camp had an independent Covid-19 audit on 4 November.\n\nIn a letter, he said he hoped an inspection could be held \"within a few weeks\".\n\nHe said he was keen to understand how the Home Office \"was assuring itself\" individuals who were particularly vulnerable, including torture victims, potential victims of modern slavery, and those with complex health and other needs, were being identified and action taken to safeguard them.\n\nHe said: \"While on site I would expect the only restrictions to be those relating to Covid-19 and that inspectors would be free to examine the premises and facilities, observe daily life and interview staff and service users, and I would look to the Home Office to ensure that whoever is responsible for managing the site understands that they must cooperate with the inspection team.\"\n\nIn December, the Welsh Labour Government deputy minister Jane Hutt called on the Home Secretary Priti Patel to close the camp, describing the conditions as \"unsafe\" and \"inhumane\".\n\nTom Nunn, a solicitor representing some of the residents at camp, said the Home Office had said the camp should only be used as short-term accommodation for single, asylum-seeking males with no known vulnerabilities.\n\nBut he said 20 clients had been transferred away from the camp due to being vulnerable, and feared a serious incident would happen if things did not change.\n\n\"The majority of them have been detained and/or tortured in their country of origin, many have been exploited on their journey to the UK and a large number have fairly severe mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It should not be the case that the only effective way of being transferred out is through making submissions through lawyers, and we are concerned about a large number of individuals who for a myriad of reasons may be unable to obtain this representation.\"\n\nThe UK's Minister for Immigration Compliance, Chris Philp, said: \"We provide asylum seekers in Penally with safe, Covid-compliant and weather-proof accommodation along with free, nutritious meals, all paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"We take the welfare of those in our care extremely seriously and asylum seekers can contact the 24/7 helpline run by Migrant Help if they have any issues.\n\n\"We are fixing our asylum system to make it firm and fair. We will be bringing forward legislation which will stop abuse of the system while ensuring it is compassionate towards those who need our help, welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armie Hammer has starred in The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name\n\nUS actor Armie Hammer has pulled out of a new film with Jennifer Lopez after what he described as \"vicious and spurious online attacks against me\".\n\nHammer had been set to appear in the action comedy Shotgun Wedding.\n\nHowever, the star's role will now be re-cast after private messages he supposedly sent were circulated online.\n\nIn a statement, Hammer dismissed the messages and said the subsequent abuse meant he could no longer spend months away from his children while filming.\n\n\"I'm not responding to these [false] claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,\" the 34-year-old said, according to Deadline and Variety.\n\nThe Social Network and Call Me By Your Name actor added that film studio Lionsgate \"is supporting me in this and I'm grateful to them for that\".\n\nHammer has two children aged six and three with TV host Elizabeth Chambers. The couple announced their divorce last summer.\n\nHis name began trending over the weekend after explicit messages detailing disturbing sexual fantasies, which were purportedly sent by him, appeared online.\n\nA spokesman for Shotgun Wedding told the PA news agency that the film's producers accepted his decision.\n\n\"Given the imminent start date of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision,\" they said.\n\nHammer played the Winklevoss twins in 2010's The Social Network and starred opposite Timothée Chalamet in 2017's acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name. He also appeared alongside Lily James in the Netflix adaptation of Rebecca, which came out last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said banning US President Donald Trump was the right thing to do.\n\nHowever, he expressed sadness at what he described as the \"extraordinary and untenable circumstances\" surrounding Mr Trump's permanent suspension.\n\nHe also said the ban was in part a failure of Twitter's, which hadn't done enough to foster \"healthy conversation\" across its platforms.\n\nTwitter has been praised and criticised for freezing Mr Trump's account.\n\nGerman leader Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador - neither an ally of the outgoing US president - spoke out against the tech titan's move.\n\nIn a long Twitter thread, Twitter's chief said he did not celebrate or feel pride in the ban - which came after the Capitol riot last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe reiterated that removing the president from Twitter was made after \"a clear warning\" to Mr Trump.\n\n\"We made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,\" Mr Dorsey said.\n\nHe also accepted that the move would have consequences for an open and free internet.\n\n\"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us….And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nHe also addressed criticism that just a handful of tech bosses can make decisions on who does and doesn't have a voice on the internet - and on accusations of censorship.\n\n\"A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same,\" said Mr Dorsey.\n\nThe decision to remove users, posts and tweets has been criticised by some for violating First Amendment - free speech - rights.\n\nHowever, big tech firms generally argue that as they are private companies, and not state actors, this law does not apply when they moderate their platforms.\n\nFacebook and YouTube have taken steps to silence the president, while Amazon shut down Parler, an app widely used by his supporters.\n\nNow Snapchat has also announced that Mr Trump will be permanently banned from its platform too.\n\nIt had already announced an indefinite suspension, but has now decided that \"in the interest of public safety and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence\" to permanently terminate his account.\n\nOn Monday, the German chancellor's spokesperson said she found the social media ban \"problematic\". And the Mexican president said: \"I don't like anybody being censored.\"\n\nIncoming US President-elect Joe Biden has said he wants companies like Facebook and Twitter to do more to take down hate speech and fake news.\n\nHe has previously said he wants to repeal Section 230, a law protecting social media companies from being sued for the things people post.\n\nIt's not clear how Mr Biden intends to regulate Big Tech, though it's likely to be a legislative focus of his.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "A ban on travellers to the UK from South America has left one family fearing it could leave them stranded abroad for months.\n\nThe restriction comes into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday amid fears of a new Covid variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nHowever many flights have now been cancelled.\n\nJon Den travelled to Brazil with his wife Carla, 32, in October so that her family - who live in Goiania - could meet their one-year-old daughter Luiza for the first time.\n\nThe couple, who live in Wolverhampton, are due to fly back to the UK on 6 February but Jon now fears they may be stuck out there for months due to the travel ban.\n\n\"We had planned to visit in February 2020 but we had to postpone because of the lockdown and that was rough on my wife, she suffered a lot,\" the 31-year-old says.\n\n\"Now I think my mum is suffering as she's expecting Luiza to be back, but who knows now?\n\n\"My initial reaction was worry because it's so unknown. The thought of not being able to return home and being stranded is not a nice feeling.\n\n\"I'm hoping British residents will be able to get home but I don't know if the government will organise flights. I think it's a long shot. I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months.\n\n\"We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several Leeds bus drivers were faced with challenging conditions in the snow.\n\nHigh demand and heavy snow have had a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances, with bad weather also affecting coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nThe county ambulance trust declared a major incident, urging calls only in a \"serious or life-threatening emergency\" due to poor road conditions.\n\nA vaccination centre in Barnsley was closed, with patients told to await new appointments.\n\nCovid testing centres in Kirklees and Bradford also suspended operations.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for snow and ice is in force until 21:00 GMT.\n\nMark Millins, strategic commander at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, said \"very snowy conditions across West, South and North Yorkshire\" had caused gridlock and made driving difficult.\n\nStaff were \"working extremely hard to reach patients\", he said, but \"hazardous driving conditions and blocked roads mean that it is taking us longer than normal in the worst-hit areas.\"\n\nVaccinations taking at the Priory Campus in Lundwood, Barnsley, were suspended from 15:00 GMT\n\nIn Barnsley, the town's Clinical Commissioning Group issued a tweet advising that it had postponed all Covid vaccinations at one centre from 15:00 on Thursday.\n\nIt asked those due to receive jabs at the Priory Campus in Lundwood after this time not to travel, and said patients would be contacted with a rescheduled appointment.\n\nThe group said its two remaining centres at Goldthorpe and Apollo Court, in Dodworth, remained open, but those unable to attend would also get a new time and date.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had also seen a surge in calls and urged people not to call 101 for \"non-urgent matters\".\n\nSupt Chris Bowen said the force had received 300 calls to the 999 and 101 numbers in the space of an hour on Thursday morning.\n\nA large snowball fight on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds was criticised for an apparent lack of social distancing after footage was posted on social media.\n\nLiam Ford, who recorded the video, said he saw the \"awful scenes\" after he \"heard the commotion while on a walk round the block\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people have been filmed in a snowball fight in Leeds\n\nPolice urged drivers to stay at home until the roads cleared\n\nMotorists reported hazardous driving conditions on many routes and police warned people to stay at home or allow extra time for essential journeys.\n\nPhil Airey said his usual 30-minute commute from Boston Spa to Harrogate took 90 minutes due to the poor conditions.\n\n\"The gritters have been doing their job but any sort of hill then it's not very good and if you go off onto the little roads well they are not good at all,\" he said.\n\nWest Yorkshire's road policing unit said it was dealing with a number of crashes while the North Yorkshire force said the A59 was blocked near Skipton due to a number of vehicles getting stuck in the snow.\n\nThe Met Office has not issued a weather notice for Friday, but a yellow warning for snow and ice on Saturday is in place across most of northern England and Scotland.\n\nPolice say they have dealt with a number of collisions and accidents\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Charlie Mullins said workers getting vaccinated is \"a no-brainer\".\n\nA large London plumbing firm plans to rewrite all of its workers' contracts to require them to be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\nPimlico Plumbers chairman Charlie Mullins said it was \"a no-brainer\" that workers should get the jab.\n\nIf they do not want to comply with the policy, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis whether they are kept on, he said.\n\nEmployment lawyers said the plan carried risks for the business.\n\nThe NHS is seeking to vaccinate 15 million people from priority groups by mid-February as part of efforts to try to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut Mr Mullins said he was prepared to pay for private immunisations for people at the firm, should they become available, which would be done on the company's time.\n\nDoctors have warned that key hospital services in England are in crisis, with reports of hospitals cancelling urgent operations after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nPimlico Plumbers plans to change its contracts for new joiners to require immunisation. It will rewrite its contracts with existing workers and employees as soon as is practical, depending on vaccine availability.\n\nThe firm has about 350 plumbers working as contractors and about 120 employees.\n\nMr Mullins said the firm was \"not putting anyone under any pressure\" to have the jab.\n\nHowever, new starters who were not immunised would not be taken on, he said.\n\nMr Mullins said employees approved of the policy.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer,\" he said. \"I've talked to people who have said: 'I will queue up all night to get the vaccine.'\n\n\"I think it will be the norm in five or six months. To go into a bar or cinema, or go on a plane, you have to have a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMr Mullins said he had set aside £800,000 to pay for private vaccinations, but estimated costs more in the region of £100,000.\n\n\"Whatever it costs, I will pay,\" he said. \"I would pay £1m tomorrow to safeguard our staff.\n\n\"If people don't want the vaccine, let them sit at home and not have a normal life,\" he added.\n\nHowever, employment lawyers said this vaccination policy could be risky.\n\nLegally, companies cannot force employees to take a vaccine, said Thrive Law managing director Jodie Hill.\n\n\"They can't jab a vaccine in your arm,\" she said.\n\nPeople who refuse vaccination and are dismissed may have grounds to make a legal claim, she said.\n\n\"Even if they put that [requirement] in a new contract, I don't think they'd get away with it,\" she said.\n\nEmployees with more than two years' service could claim unfair dismissal. But this option is not open to workers and self-employed contractors.\n\nBroadly, people can refuse a vaccination for legitimate reasons such as being pregnant or breastfeeding, for religious reasons, because of disability or allergy, or for ethical vegan reasons if the jab contains animal products.\n\nThe two vaccines approved for use in the UK, from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech, do not contain any components of animal origin, a Department for Health and Social Care spokesman confirmed.\n\nDismissal for employees with one or more of these protected characteristics could give rise to a discrimination claim.\n\nPeople who are hesitant about taking the vaccine for personal reasons would not be able to claim discrimination, but could potentially claim unfair dismissal if they have been with the firm for two years or more.\n\nPeople with strong anti-vaccination beliefs may be protected under equality law, Ms Hill added.\n\nThe company and Mr Mullins have previously faced a lengthy legal battle with one of its former contractors, Gary Smith.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Smith won a Supreme Court ruling over holiday and sick pay. However, an employment tribunal later ruled that he was not entitled to make a claim for the back pay, as he had not completed the necessary paperwork.\n\nMr Mullins insisted that the vaccination change to contracts \"will be done legally\", but said that he was willing to take this matter to the Supreme Court as well, if necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rapid spread of coronavirus variants has put the world on alert and triggered a new lockdown in the UK. What are these variants and why are they causing concern?\n\nAll viruses naturally mutate over time, and Sars-CoV-2 is no exception.\n\nSince the virus was first identified a year ago, thousands of mutations have arisen.\n\nThe vast majority of mutations are \"passengers\" and will have little impact, says Dr Lucy van Dorp, an expert in the evolution of pathogens at University College London.\n\n\"They don't change the behaviour of the virus, they are just carried along.\"\n\nBut every once in a while, a virus strikes lucky by mutating in a way that helps it survive and reproduce.\n\n\"Viruses carrying these mutations can then increase in frequency due to natural selection, given the right epidemiological settings,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nThis is what seems to be happening with the variant that has spread across the UK, known as 202012/01, and a similar, but different variant, recently identified in South Africa (501.V2).\n\nHundreds of thousands of viral genomes have been analysed across the world\n\nThere is no evidence so far that either causes more severe disease, but the worry is that health systems will be overwhelmed by a rapid rise in cases.\n\nIn a rapid risk assessment of these \"variants of concern\", the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they place increased pressure on health systems.\n\n\"Although there is no information that infections with these strains are more severe, due to increased transmissibility, the impact of Covid-19 disease in terms of hospitalisations and deaths is assessed as high, particularly for those in older age groups or with co-morbidities,\" the EU agency said.\n\nThe variants have different origins but share a mutation in a gene that encodes the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch on to and enter human cells.\n\nScientists think this could be why they appear more infectious.\n\n\"The UK and South African virus variants have changes in the spike gene consistent with the possibility that they are more infectious,\" says Prof Lawrence Young at the University of Warwick.\n\nBut as Dr Jeff Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, points out, it's the combination of what the virus is doing and what we're doing that determines how fast it spreads.\n\n\"With the new variant, the situation changes more quickly as restrictions are relaxed and tightened, and there is less room for error in controlling the spread,\" he says.\n\n\"We don't have any evidence, however, that the new variant can fundamentally evade masks, social distancing, or the other interventions - we just need to apply them more strictly.\"\n\nThe spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells\n\nWith vaccine roll-out underway, scientists are racing to understand the repercussions for vaccines, which are based on the spike protein sequence.\n\nThere is particular concern about the South Africa variant, which has several changes in the spike (S) protein.\n\nMost experts think vaccines will still be effective, at least in the short term.\n\nDr Julian W Tang, a virologist at the University of Leicester, says vaccines can be modified to be \"more close-fitting and effective against this variant in a few months\".\n\n\"Meanwhile, most of us believe that the existing vaccines are likely to work to some extent to reduce infection/ transmission rates and severe disease against both the UK and South African variants - as the various mutations have not altered the S protein shape that the current vaccine-induced antibodies will not bind at all.\"\n\nMink outbreaks are a \"spillover\" from the human pandemic\n\nScientists are carrying out laboratory studies to find out more about the variants. And they are tracking every move of the virus as it hopscotches around the world.\n\nBy taking a swab from an infected patient, the genetic code of the virus can be extracted and amplified before being \"read\" using a sequencer.\n\nThe string of letters, or nucleotides, allows genomes and mutations to be compared.\n\n\"It is thanks to these efforts, and UK testing laboratories, that the UK variant has been flagged so quickly as a potential cause of concern,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nProf Julian Hiscox, chair in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, says that, through the efforts of scientists to sequence the virus, \"we've got a really good handle on variants that emerge\".\n\nIn the short-term, only the harshest of lockdowns will reduce case numbers, he says.\n\n\"What lockdown does is reduce the number of people with the virus and reduce the amount of virus out there and that's a good thing.\"\n\nBut in the long term, Prof Hiscox suspects, we may face a scenario like flu, where new vaccines are developed and administered every year.\n\n\"The problem is, the more variants we get, the greater the chance the virus will be able to escape part of the vaccine - and this may reduce [its] efficacy,\" he says.\n• None New coronavirus variant: What do we know?", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer has released a new video explaining what went wrong with the game.\n\nCD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński admitted they \"underestimated the task\" of adapting the game for consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.\n\nMarcin says he's \"deeply sorry for this and this video is me publicly owning up\".\n\nThe game was arguably the most anticipated release of 2020 but the launch just before Christmas was a disaster.\n\nThe problems led to Sony and Microsoft removing the game from online stores and gamers were offered refunds.\n\nCyberpunk 2077 is a set in the fictional Night City - a dystopian future where pollution and crime are rampant and social inequality is the norm.\n\nIn the video, Marcin explains issues originated from Cyperpunk's \"huge\" scope, particularly the high number \"of custom objects, interacting systems, and mechanics\", making it a complex game.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Cyberpunk 2077 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs this was \"condensed in one big city\" rather than spread over a bigger space - it needed greater hardware capability.\n\nSo despite working well for high-end PCs, it couldn't be adjusted to older generation consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One, making in-game streaming difficult.\n\n\"We hit the ground running on PC. While not perfect, it's a version of Cyberpunk we're very proud of.\"\n\nMarcin adds that testing did not \"show a big part of the issues\" that gamers experienced.\n\n\"As we got closer to the final release, we saw significant improvements each and every day.\"\n\nHe also blames the coronavirus pandemic for creating issues for CD Projekt as they tried to improve performance after launch.\n\n\"A lot of the dynamics we normally take for granted got lost over video calls or email. And we took that hit too.\"\n\nLooks good right? But this wasn't what the game looked like for a lot of console gamers\n\nMarcin added the \"incredibly hard working and talented\" development team should not be blamed for problems, saying the final decision came down to him and the board.\n\n\"Believe me, we never ever intended for anything like this to happen. I assure you that we will do our best to regain your trust\".\n\nAs part of that, he says they intend to fix the problems and improve the game across platforms.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is to fix the bugs and crashes,\" he says, with updates to the game expected to arrive in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"We treat this entire situation very seriously and are working hard to make it right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Julia is doing well after her surprise arrival into the world\n\nA mother who gave birth just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant thought she had put on weight in lockdown.\n\nSamantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, attributed her baby Julia's kicking to sickness having been ill.\n\nHer pregnancy was missed even when she was in Southmead Hospital in Bristol with Covid-19 in November .\n\n\"It never occurred to me I was pregnant as I had taken two previous tests which both came back negative,\" she said.\n\nWhen Mrs Hicks was taken to the Covid ward in hospital, doctors asked if she was pregnant and she said no.\n\nShe said she had noticed a small amount of weight gain but put it down to lockdown and that she thought she might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) as it runs in the family.\n\nMrs Hicks said: \"I felt a bit of movement but I thought it was because I had not been well.\n\n\"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nHer husband Joe said: \"On Christmas Day, I asked her if she was sure she wasn't pregnant, but she said no and she knows her own body.\n\n\"Then on January 1, I had my hands on Sammy and we felt a baby kick.\n\n\"We took another pregnancy test which came back positive.\"\n\nAt that stage, Mrs Hicks thought she was only five or six months into her term and returned to her job in a care home, walking 40 minutes to get there.\n\nTen days later, her contractions began and Mr Hicks rushed her to hospital\n\n\"It was unreal, the doctors only realised Julia was full term when she was born,\" he said.\n\nThe couple, who have two sons aged three and eight, said they had not planned on having more children.\n\nThey have since been \"inundated\" with gifts from friends, family and strangers in Portishead, who have offered blankets and essentials to help out.\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone really,\" Mr Hicks said.\n\nHelen Blanchard, Director of Nursing and Quality at North Bristol NHS Trust said: \"We would like to pass our congratulations to Mrs Hicks and her family on their new arrival.\n\n\"As Mrs Hicks experienced when she was cared for at Southmead, it is routine practice to ask people if they are, or could be, pregnant upon admission.\n\n\"However, we would ask a patient to do a pregnancy test if they were undergoing specific operations or procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK - but a final decision has not been taken.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked by Labour MP Yvette Cooper why checks on people arriving from Brazil have not been strengthened, given that a new variant of coronavirus has been identified there.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant from Brazil.\"\n\nThe UK government’s 'Covid-O' committee is expected to discuss the new Brazil variant of coronavirus at a meeting on Thursday.", "People needing to travel by rail during lockdown are being urged to double-check train times, as services are being reduced.\n\nServices in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, industry body the Rail Delivery Group said.\n\nIt said the number of trains would reflect the drop in passengers, and provide better value for money for taxpayers who are subsidising services.\n\nPeak services will be prioritised to help key workers, it added.\n\nWhile some timetables have already changed, others will be altered in the next few weeks.\n\nSince the early days of the pandemic, the government has spent billions of pounds covering the fall in ticket revenues for rail companies, owing to low passenger numbers.\n\nCutting some services will save public money, the government said.\n\nRail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: \"It is critical that our railways continue to deliver reliable services for key workers and people who cannot reasonably work from home, and that they respond quickly to changes in demand.\"\n\nRail usage has slumped, with passenger journeys falling more than 90% to 35 million journeys for the three-month period to June, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nThe figures recovered a little to 134 million for the three months to September - the latest published.\n\nWith fewer passengers, the government argues, it makes sense to run fewer services.\n\nNot least because right now, the government are footing much of the bill; since the start of the pandemic, the government has spent more than £4bn covering the fall in ticket revenues because of low passenger numbers.\n\nThe cuts aren't as deep as they were in March - then services were running around 55% of pre-pandemic levels - which is partly because the train companies want to make sure it doesn't take as long getting the services back up again when they are needed.\n\nLonger term, rail companies are nervous about how quickly passengers, particularly commuters, will return, but for now the message is still firmly \"stay at home\".\n\n\"Train timetables must still meet the needs of those who have to travel, said Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.\n\n\"Many key workers rely on the first and last services of the day so it's important that these are maintained. Providing enough capacity for those who are travelling to properly social distance remains vital.\"\n\nAlthough timetables were restored when restrictions were eased over the summer, rail franchising has since been scrapped and replaced with a model which means the taxpayer is currently liable for the losses on the railways.\n\nIn September, the bill had run to more than £3.5bn - and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support is still needed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Jamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead\n\nA Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.\n\nLochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.\n\nHe also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.\n\nMr McMillan described it as a \"very, very serious situation\".\n\nHis comments came after transport company DFDS announced a further delay in exports of group consignments of seafood to the EU.\n\nIt halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.\n\nDFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.\n\nMr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.\n\n\"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.\n\n\"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival.\"\n\nTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday\n\nHe added: \"Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.\n\n\"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.\n\n\"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.\n\n\"If we go another week without that, we are finished.\"\n\nMr McMillan said there were \"sticking points\" in both the UK and France, with transportation hubs in Scotland struggling with increased paperwork and checks by vets.\n\n\"There are sticking points down in France as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There are delays at the borders in France for up to 30 hours, I'm hearing, to clear customs by the time they do all their checks.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scotland Office minister David Duguid said he did not underestimate the struggles the industry was facing with paperwork, IT and ports.\n\nHe said the UK and Scottish governments, fish exporters and the EU needed to come together to work through the issues, which he estimated would last \"weeks\" and not months.\n\nHe told Good Morning Scotland: \"What I can commit to is that the UK government, whether that's through Defra or the Scotland Office, we are working day and night in resolving the issues that we know about and that we can fix directly.\n\n\"The other issues that are maybe the responsibility of the Scottish government, or indeed the EU on the other side of the channel, Defra are engaging heavily with those parties as well.\"\n\nHowever, when asked directly on the programme how long the problems would last, Mr Duguid responded: \"How long is a piece of string?\"\n\nFish ate up a lot of the time in negotiating the deal for departing the European customs union and single market.\n\nNow grown to become a much bigger political predator, it has started the post-Brexit era by threatening to devour UK ministers with the task of making the deal work.\n\nThe fisheries minister admitted she was preparing for Christmas rather than seeing how the deal had turned out on 24 December. Asked how long it will take to sort out delays, a Scotland Office minister asked: \"How long's a piece of string?\"\n\nThe prime minister says there will be compensation, but it seems that is due to come from the fund intended to expand the fishing fleet.\n\nAnd Michael Gove, who appears to have more of a grasp of the detail, was in the Commons on Wednesday, acknowledging there's a vast amount for the government yet to sort out - and that was only for Northern Ireland.\n\nAt least the province got a grace period before consignments of food require the paperwork now needed to send fish to France. That was sought by fish and meat exporters.\n\nIt's not clear if the request was made of EU negotiators, but it hasn't materialised. Yet coming the other way, the UK has given a six-month preparation period for EU exporters to Britain.\n\nBecause seafood is freshly delivered, it is the product that hit the obstacles first. Meat and dairy are sure to follow.\n\nBeef exporters to Europe are beginning to face delays, while Brexit chickens are coming home to roast.", "A teenage motorcyclist who led police on a 30-minute pursuit at speeds of up to 180mph (290km/h) through London and three counties has been sentenced.\n\nOfficers in Haringey, London, spotted a speeding rider at about 21:20 BST on 20 May and were joined by a police helicopter as they followed it along the M1, through Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe biker mounted pavements, drove through multiple red lights and the wrong way down the motorway hard shoulder before he was arrested at a service station.\n\nMarian Vasilica Dragoi, 19, of Teynton Terrace, Haringey, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving without a licence and being uninsured and was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to 46 weeks' detention.", "The opening of Nintendo's first theme park has been delayed because of rising coronavirus cases in Japan.\n\nSuper Nintendo World, modelled on levels of the company's Mario games, had been due to open on 4 February.\n\nBut Japan has expanded its state of emergency, due to last until at least 7 February, beyond Tokyo to include Osaka prefecture, where the park is located.\n\nThe opening, at Universal Studios Japan, had already been postponed from mid-2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nBut in December, Nintendo posted a video tour of the park in December, starring Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, among others.\n\nIt is not the first theme park to suffer problems during the pandemic - the shuttered Disneyland theme park in California is set to become a large-scale vaccination centre.\n\nThe state of emergency in Japan, which has so far avoided the types of lockdowns seen in the UK and other European nations, prohibits non-essential trips outside the home.\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's total number of cases reached 300,000, with more than 4,000 deaths.\n\nAnd many of those have been in the past three months.\n\nThe rising number of cases has also led to some doubts over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for this summer, having already been postponed last year.\n\nOrganisers, however, insist the Games will go ahead.", "Nearly 46% of over-80s in England's North East and Yorkshire region have been given their first dose of a Covid vaccine - more than any other area, official figures show.\n\nThis compares with about 30% of over-80s in both London and the East of England who have received a first jab.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan claims the capital is not getting its fair share of vaccine doses.\n\nIn total, more than 2.2 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.\n\nAbout 400,000 second doses have also been administered, despite guidance from the UK's chief medical officers and vaccine advisers, the JCVI, that giving a first dose to as many people as possible was a public health priority.\n\nThe NHS England figures cover Covid-19 vaccinations given to people at hospital hubs and GP practices between 8 December 2020 and 10 January 2021.\n\nAmong the over-80s alone, most first doses - 204,140 - were administered in north-east England and Yorkshire, while the lowest number (92,398) were given to this age group in London.\n\nOverall, more than one-third of people aged 80 and over in England have received at least one dose.\n\nThe figures show that in the Midlands more vaccine doses had been administered to all people in the top priority groups - 387,647 - than in any other area of England. In London, a total of 199,986 first doses were given and in the East the figure was 186,291.\n\nThese include care home residents, frontline heath and care staff, the over-80s and people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from the Covid-19.\n\nThe percentage of the whole population to have received a first dose so far ranged from 4.3% in the north-east and Yorkshire to 2.2% in London.\n\nMr Khan said he was \"hugely concerned\" that Londoners had received only one-tenth of the vaccines that had been given across the country.\n\n\"The situation in London is critical with rates of the virus extremely high, which is why it's so important that vulnerable Londoners are given access to the vaccine as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would hold talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi to ensure more vaccines were delivered to reflect the level of need in the city.\n\nLondon has a younger average population than other parts of England and the smallest number of people aged over 80 compared with other regions.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said vaccinating over a third of all over-80s was \"a great achievement\".\n\nBut she said people must continue to follow the guidance that is in place to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"These data will help us to evaluate the protection from the vaccine and to effectively target the roll-out of the programme to help control the virus and save lives,\" she added.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Tesco says it has seen some disruption to food supplies in Northern Ireland since trading arrangements with the EU changed on 1 January.\n\n\"We see this as a challenge at the moment, but not a crisis,\" boss Ken Murphy said.\n\nBut he said the retailer was working closely with government on both sides of the Irish Sea to \"smooth the flow\".\n\nSince 31 December, Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has stayed in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nMr Murphy said certain foodstuffs had faced supply chain disruption going into both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Ready meals have been the most affected as they have an eight-day shelf life so any wait is more likely to have an impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Some processed meat and some citrus fruit has also been impacted, but it is important to stress that our availability in the Republic and Northern Ireland is strong and is very strong in the mainland UK.\n\nLast week, all the major grocers wrote to Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove asking him to take urgent action.\n\nBut Tesco said its \"comprehensive preparations and... strong relationships with suppliers\" had allowed it to maintain strong levels of availability during the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Murphy said he was confident Tesco would have the right measures in place to supply Northern Ireland after end of a three month grace period on certain rules and regulations with the EU on 31 March.\n\nHe also said there had also been \"teething problems\" with supply flows from continental Europe to Great Britain.\n\n\"Inevitably there are bedding-in issues, teething issues, that you would expect with any new process that's been set up at relatively short notice,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working our way through those and we would hope over the coming weeks and months that we will end up with a much smoother flow of product.\"\n\nUnder new trading arrangements, food products entering Northern Ireland from Britain need to be professionally certified and are subject to new checks and controls at ports.\n\nMarks & Spencer has temporarily reduced its range of food products in Northern Ireland\n\nA three month \"grace period\" means that supermarkets currently don't need to comply with all the EU's usual certification requirements until 1 April - but there has still been disruption.\n\nM&S has temporarily reduced its range of food products and Sainsbury's has been sourcing Spar-branded products from an NI wholesaler.\n\nThis week the bosses of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Iceland, Co-Op and Marks & Spencer warned that trade into Northern Ireland would become \"unworkable\" if further new certification requirements were introduced in April .\n\nThe government said a new dedicated team has already been set up and will be working with supermarkets, the food industry and the Northern Ireland Executive to develop ways to streamline the movement of goods.\n\nTesco's comments came as the supermarket giant reported record sales for the Christmas period after customers looked to \"treat themselves\" amid tough Covid restrictions across most of the UK.\n\nUK like-for-like sales were up 8.1% in the six weeks to 9 January, as the supermarket saw a surge in demand for goods in its Tesco Finest range.\n\nBig grocers have benefited at a time when most non-essential shops and restaurants are closed, prompting consumers to spend more on their weekly shop. But they have faced criticism too.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would repay £585m of business rates relief after it was criticised for paying dividends to shareholders during the crisis. Most big grocers followed suit.\n\nTesco was later criticised for keeping its shops open on Boxing Day despite union calls to give staff the day off.\n\nIn its results the grocer said it had given all frontline staff a 10% bonus over Christmas. It also said it had shielded vulnerable staff and taken on nearly 35,000 additional temporary staff for the season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells says he wishes he had never thrown away the hard drive\n\nA man who threw away a laptop hard drive containing bitcoin he believes is now worth about £210m wants his council to let him search for it in landfill.\n\nJames Howells had 7,500 bitcoins, a virtual currency, on the hard drive, which he mistakenly threw away in 2013.\n\nHe said he was willing to donate 25% of the value of the bitcoins to his home city of Newport in south Wales - about £52.5m - if he found the hard drive.\n\nNewport council said excavation was not possible under its licensing permit.\n\nMr Howells said if he was to recover the hard drive, he would want the money to be put into a \"Covid relief fund\" for people in Newport to use \"no questions asked\".\n\n\"Imagine how great it would be to say 'I've given everyone in the city a few hundred pounds',\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Howells bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009, but the hard drive ended up in a drawer after he spilled a drink on his laptop.\n\nHe kept the hard drive in his office drawer and \"totally forgot about bitcoin all together\" - so when he had a clear out, he believed everything had been taken off it.\n\nWhen he threw the hard drive away in 2013, the value of the bitcoins was about $7.5m (£4.6m).\n\nBut now they are worth almost 50 times more, with the cost of a single bitcoin currently just over £28,000 after a surge in value.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells: \"When I went up to the landfill site yesterday my first thought was 'I've got not chance'\"\n\nHe said he has asked Newport council if he could search the landfill several times, but had not been granted permission.\n\n\"I offered the local authority 10% of the recovered funds in order to give me permission to search on their property and unfortunately they said no at the time,\" Mr Howells told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What actually happened after that was the value of bitcoin skyrocketed even further. In 2017 the value of my hard drive was approximately £125m, at which point I made them another offer of 10% and unfortunately that offer was refused as well.\n\nJames Howells said he wants to donate a quarter of the money to the people of Newport\n\n\"I haven't actually made an offer to them today, but I'm willing to increase my offer to them to 25%. On today's valuation that would be £52.5m and I'd like to put that into a Covid relief fund for the citizens of Newport.\"\n\nMr Howells said searching for the discarded hard drive would \"not be as hard as you might think\" as he would employ a professional team - and knows when he threw it away so could use that to find a grid reference of where the hard drive is buried.\n\nHe added investors had offered to cover the cost of excavating the landfill, in exchange for a large proportion of the recovered bitcoin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Howells said he wants to meet with the council to discuss what he said would be a \"win-win-win\" situation for him, the council and the city.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the council said: \"Newport City Council has been contacted a number of times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to contain bitcoins.\n\n\"The first time was several months after Mr Howells first realised the hardware was missing.\n\n\"The council has told Mr Howells on a number of occasions that excavation is not possible under our licencing permit and excavation itself would have a huge environmental impact on the surrounding area.\n\n\"The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds - without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "A provisional 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured by the African Union (AU) for distribution across the continent.\n\nAll of the doses will be used this year, promises current AU head South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThis is on top of 600 million doses already promised but is still not enough to vaccinate the whole region.\n\nThere are fears that poorer countries globally will wait far longer than richer nations to be inoculated.\n\nAlthough infection numbers and death rates are comparatively lower across most of Africa, cases are spiking again in some areas.\n\nA new variant of Covid-19 in South Africa is causing particular alarm and makes up most of the new cases.\n\n\"As a result of our own efforts we have so far secured a commitment of a provisional amount of 270 million vaccines from three major suppliers: Pfizer, AstraZeneca (through Serum Institute of India) and Johnson & Johnson,\" President Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.\n\nAt least 50 million of the doses will be available \"for the crucial period of April to June 2021,\" he said.\n\nIn addition, the region is expecting around 600 million doses from the global Covax effort which aims to provide vaccines to lower-income countries.\n\nBut officials are still waiting for details and are now \"happy we have alternative solutions,\" Nicaise Ndembi, senior science adviser for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccines in Africa: What you need to know\n\nMr Ramaphosa said officials are worried that the doses from the Covax effort released in the first half of 2021 will only be enough to inoculate health care workers. With a population of 1.3 billion people and each person requiring two vaccine jabs, Africa would need around 2.6 billion doses to eventually vaccinate everyone.\n\n\"These endeavours aim to supplement the Covax efforts, and to ensure that as many dosages of vaccine as possible become available throughout Africa as soon as possible,\" he explained.\n\nAfrica has recorded more than three million cases of Covid-19 and nearly 75,000 deaths. By contrast, the US has reported close to 23 million infections and more than 383,000 fatalities.\n\nThere has been a global rush to buy vaccines, with richer countries accused of buying up most of the supply.\n\nAs many had feared, Africa appears to be at the back of the queue to get Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nThe announcement of 270 million doses by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa - who is also the current chair of the African Union - is good news. This is in addition to those secured by the Covax facility, which is led by the World Health Organisation and the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi. The facility has secured 600 million doses - enough to vaccinate only a fifth of the continent.\n\nBut it may be a while before any of them get to the continent. The announcements are agreements to supply vaccines. There is still the actual procurement process that needs to happen. Negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWealthier nations had a head start. They already acquired the bulk of the early doses being produced through advance purchase deals with manufacturers. The race is on to meet that demand.\n\nAfrica, on the other hand, still faces funding deficits. There are questions also about the continent's readiness to receive the vaccines. Ultra-cold refrigeration is needed for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Countries are working on building their cold chains. But even this is marred by a shortage of funds.\n\nSo, the continent can only wait.", "The surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis, doctors are warning.\n\nNHS data showed A&Es were facing rising delays admitting extremely sick patients on to wards.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is now more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nCancer experts are also warning the disruption to their services was \"terrifying\" and would cost lives.\n\nReports have emerged of hospitals cancelling urgent operations - London's King's College Hospital has stopped priority two treatments, which are those that need to be done within 28 days.\n\nAnd Birmingham's major hospital trust has temporarily suspended most liver transplants.\n\nIt comes after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nOne in three patients in hospital have the virus - and at some sites it is more than half.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the NHS was facing an \"exceptionally tough challenge\", adding services would continue to be under pressure until the virus was under control.\n\nBut he stressed non-Covid treatment was still happening - with three times as many diagnostic tests and twice as many operations being carried out than in the spring when the pandemic first hit.\n\nThe data published by NHS England showed the scale of the impact from dealing with Covid on key hospital services.\n\nThe figures for cancer date back to November, before the surge in cases.\n\nAt that point, the number of urgent cancer check-ups and treatments being started was at normal levels.\n\nBut since then, concerns have been raised that services have been reduced.\n\nProf Pat Price, of the Catch Up With Cancer campaign, said services were facing the \"biggest crisis\" of her 30-year career.\n\n\"This is a truly terrifying scenario,\" she added.\n\nAnd the Royal College of Surgeons warned the pandemic was having a \"calamitous impact\" on waiting times for planned surgery.\n\nSarah Scobie, from the Nuffield Trust think tank, said services were under \"intolerable strain\", adding \"the worst is yet to come\".\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, agreed: \"The next few weeks are no doubt going to be the most testing in NHS history.\"", "The government must review its strategy to end rough sleeping in England by 2024 after coronavirus showed it to be \"out of step\", a watchdog warned.\n\nA National Audit Office report praised the 'Everyone In' scheme, which housed about 33,000 people in the crisis.\n\nBut the plan highlighted issues with the current strategy - with thousands more needing help than expected.\n\nThe government said it was \"regularly taking into account the lessons learned\" from the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson made the pledge to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament shortly before he won the general election in 2019.\n\nAt the time, a snapshot figure taken by the government one evening showed 4,266 people were sleeping on the streets in England.\n\nBut it did not include people in night shelters or assessment centres, and could have missed people sleeping hidden from view.\n\nResearch by the BBC carried out in February 2020 showed more than 28,000 people across the UK had been recorded as sleeping rough in the previous 12 months - and in England, councils were seeing figures five times higher than the snapshot.\n\nThe 'Everyone In' scheme, launched in March 2020, aimed to provide emergency shelter for all rough sleepers during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nFunding was ended two months later to the anger of many charities, but the government said it had made a number of more targeted funding pledges to tackle the issue since.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) carried out an investigation into the housing of rough sleepers in the pandemic and praised the \"considerable achievement\" of 'Everyone In'.\n\nThe head of the watchdog, Gareth Davies, said the government \"acted swiftly to house rough sleepers and keep transmission rates low during the first wave\".\n\nBut the NAO investigation found between the end of March and November 2020, 33,139 people were given accommodation through the scheme - a number almost eight times greater than the annual snapshot of rough sleepers.\n\nExamples included Bristol City Council which reported it accommodated 400 people in March, despite its most recent snapshot count being 98 rough sleepers.\n\nAnd the London Borough of Southwark had 25 known rough sleepers in March 2020, but within hours of 'Everyone In' launching, it had taken 200 people into hotels, with nearly 1,000 accommodated by November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe government pledged to carry out a review of its strategy to end rough sleeping early in 2020, but the plans took a back seat as the crisis unfolded.\n\nThe NAO said there was \"an ongoing need for a review of the strategy as it is out of step with the government's target\", adding there were now \"important lessons from Everyone In to consider\".\n\nMr Davies said the scale of the rough sleeping population in England has now been made clear, and it \"far exceeds\" previous government estimates.\n\n\"Understanding the size of this population, and who needs specialist support, is essential to achieve its ambition to end rough sleeping\", he added.\n\nThe report also highlighted the large number of people remaining in emergency accommodation unable to move on as they have no recourse to public funds - a condition put into the residence permit of some immigrants meaning they cannot access benefits.\n\nThe NAO also called on the government to \"keep under close review\" its more targeted response to the current coronavirus resurgence, whether it will \"protect vulnerable individuals as decisively\" as 'Everyone in'.\n\nA spokesman from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said they were pleased the NAO recognised its achievements with 'Everyone In'.\n\nHe added: \"By November, we had supported around 33,000 people, with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and more than 23,000 in longer-term accommodation.\n\n\"We recently announced an additional £10m to help accommodate rough sleepers and ensure they are registered with a GP to receive the vaccine, and we will invest £750m next year as part of our commitment to end rough sleeping.\"\n\nAsked whether the review into the ending rough sleeping strategy would take place, the spokesman said: \"Our ambition to end rough sleeping within this parliament still stands, and we are regularly taking into account the lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic response, including 'Everyone In'.\"", "The government has defended its scheme to offer free food to struggling families in England over half term - after criticism from teachers' unions and council leaders.\n\nFood will be provided for children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, rather than through schools.\n\nBut councils say the government should provide food vouchers over half term.\n\n\"Vulnerable families will continue to receive meals,\" said a Department for Education (DFE) spokeswoman.\n\n\"Our guidance is clear: schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time.\n\n\"Beyond that, there is wider government support in place to support families and children via the billions of pounds in welfare support we've made available,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA), representing councils, said \"the government should provide food vouchers to eligible families during February half-term as it did last summer\" - and that the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme should be used for other support.\n\n\"During the last full national lockdown, government recognised the significant extra pressures on low income families and extended free school meal provision into the school holidays,\" said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board.\n\n\"Government was explicit that the Covid Winter Grant Scheme was not intended to replicate or replace free school meals, but was to enable councils to support low income households, particularly those at risk of food poverty as we moved towards economic recovery.\"\n\nThe row follows the DFE's publication of guidelines on free meals, after an outcry over pictures of food packages to replace free school meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister and other ministers criticised the quality of what was being sent out by some school food firms.\n\nMarcus Rashford has spear-headed a campaign for holiday food\n\nThe DfE guidance says: \"Schools do not need to provide lunch parcels or vouchers during the February half term.\n\n\"There is wider government support in place to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\"\n\nThe DFE insists that even though schools will not provide food parcels or vouchers during half term, children will still be supplied with food through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nThis aims to support those most in need with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials.\n\nCouncils are required to work out their own local approach to eligibility, using benefits data and their local knowledge to decide how to support vulnerable families.\n\nMoving to this scheme for a replacement for school meals during half term, with the added pressure of a lockdown, has drawn criticism from head teachers and teachers.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, warned that switching schemes meant \"yet more disruption to free schools meals could lie ahead in half term\".\n\nHe said using this scheme could cause an \"unnecessary logistical nightmare\", suggesting continuing with providing meals through schools would be more simple.\n\nMr Courtney said: \"This week, Matt Hancock, Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson made public statements about how appalled they were by the quality of food parcels shared on Twitter,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut he said ministers should now \"hang their heads in shame\" for threatening more \"chaos and confusion\" over providing food.\n\n\"These are battles which should not have to be repeatedly fought,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman accused the the government of \"badly thought out and last-minute schemes to help with holiday hunger\" which he said were \"leaving families and children anxious\".\n\n\"The government must urgently clarify for families how they will be helped during the upcoming half term holiday so they can be assured that they will not go hungry,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children and early years, said: \"Time and time again this government has had to be shamed into providing food for hungry children over school holidays.\"\n\nFood charities and anti-poverty campaigners, including footballer Marcus Rashford, have repeatedly clashed with the government over the issue of food for poor pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly over school holidays.\n\nThe footballer forced the government to back down in the summer over its plans not to offer free meals in the holidays to poor pupils, whose families were likely to be suffering with reduced incomes.\n\nBut over the October half-term when the provision was withdrawn many local authorities continued to offer them from their own budgets.", "President Donald Trump has just become the only US president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. He was impeached on Wednesday for \"incitement of insurrection\" following last week's riot at the US Capitol. However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of Republicans still support President Trump and don't hold him responsible for the violence.\n\nWe've been hearing from lawmakers - but what do Americans think? We asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in.\n\nBelinda is an attorney and devoted Trump supporter of Native American and African American ancestry. She says this second impeachment vote is wrong and misconstrues the facts of what happened last week in favour of political expediency.\n\nThis is unprecedented. There is no justification, no legal or constitutional basis for this impeachment. He did not even receive due process. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. I hope the American people will stand up against this outrage. It's indicative of what would happen in a communist country where we have no free speech rights.\n\nThose who broke in should be charged appropriately for whatever laws they violated. But why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? His rallies have always been peaceful and most of the people on Wednesday were middle-aged and elderly, with children and grandchildren.\n\nIndividuals who violated the law should definitely be prosecuted but I don't see how you can blame someone for a speech and someone else's criminal activity. It can't be selective enforcement of the law.\n\nMelissa is a Filipino American small business owner with two children who had told us the country could not afford four more years of Donald Trump. She says the behaviour he displayed last Wednesday was undoubtedly an impeachable offense.\n\nEverything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution.\n\n[Republican Congresswoman] Liz Cheney said that, if not for the president, last week would not have happened and she's right. If not for him continually fighting the election results, if not for him repeatedly sending the false message the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about an 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened.\n\nEven three months ago, before all the lawsuits and everything else he was saying, I was not shocked by his behaviour. It's all completely predictable because it's just within his character. So the argument by politicians that impeachment could divide us more, I don't see that as the goal of impeachment.\n\nIt can't help but I don't think it will have any impact on deterring violence. There needs to be some kind of statement that the president is not allowed to attack another branch of government. It's a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself of Trump's stranglehold on them.\n\nGabriel is a regional coordinator for the New York Young Republicans and is an outspoken 'Latino for Trump'. He condemns the violence of last Wednesday but says the reaction has been unfair and worries about where the party will go from here.\n\nI do not think that Donald Trump should be impeached. I was in DC at the rally on 6 January - I did not go near the Capitol and went back to my hotel room - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm.\n\nThis is just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. I fear that people will become reactionary and elected officials will use impeachment in the future not as a last resort to uphold our republic but as a tool to remove whoever they don't agree with.\n\nAll violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history and it was not a coup. It's important to dictate that violence is not the answer. The day was supposed to be different. January 6 did something to the Republican Party. The actions of the few will discourage many of the new voters that Trump brought in and made his base.\n\nWilliams is a first-generation Mexican American college student in Atlanta who has been extremely concerned about what he has seen in his country over the past four years. He says the events of the past week justify today's vote in the House.\n\nI believe he should have been impeached. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condemn white supremacy and other threats. That affects us internally within the United States as well as abroad.\n\nIt's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Impeachment failed once, but now he has set the precedent that a president can be impeached more than once.\n\nIn processing the past week, all I could do at first was to ignore it and joke about the situation. It's deeply saddening to me.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Travel from Brazil to the UK could be banned in response to the discovery of a new coronavirus variant.\n\nMinisters have met to discuss possible measures and a block on flights could also be extended to other South American countries in a bid to stop its spread.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"concerned\" about the new variant and \"extra measures\" were being taken.\n\nArrivals from Brazil are currently required to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove chaired a meeting earlier to discuss whether measures should be put in place.\n\nNew variants of Covid-19 have also been identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nDuring a two-hour appearance in front of the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday Mr Johnson stopped short of promising a ban on travel from Brazil.\n\n\"We already have tough measures ... to protect this country from new infections coming in from abroad,\" he said.\n\n\"We are taking steps to do that in respect of the Brazilian variant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who is Strategic Response Director for Covid-19 with Public Health England, told BBC Breakfast experts were looking at the Brazilian variant and needed to grow the virus in the UK in order to perform laboratory experiments.\n\n\"So we need to understand the biology of these [new strains], as well as understanding mutations,\" she said.\n\n\"We will be watching them all to make sure that they can't escape your immune response, which is the key thing that we're looking at the moment.\"\n\nA travel ban was put in place on arrivals from South Africa on 24 December, which was later extended to several other nearby countries, following the discovery of a new variant.\n\nLuiz Amorim, a graphic designer in London, said he had travelled to Brazil to spend Christmas with his family and was now worried he may not be able to get home.\n\n\"My wife was also supposed to come but didn't in the end,\" he said. \"Now I am worried I won't be able to get back to her in London.\"\n\nMr Amorim said his workplace had been supportive but he may have to take leave if he was unable to return, with his original flight back having been cancelled.\n\nHe has now booked another flight on 27 January and is \"watching the news closely to see what will happen\".\n\nThe discussion comes after it was announced a requirement for arrivals into England to test negative for coronavirus 72 hours before their journey will now come into force at 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the new rules had been delayed from Friday \"to give international arrivals time to prepare\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, described the delay in introducing the new rules as \"truly shocking\".\n\nScotland is taking the same approach to international travellers but will implement the policy on Friday, while Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for delaying pre-departure testing for arrivals to England, describing the situation as a \"complete mess\".\n\n\"Priti Patel has talked tough about the borders but other countries have been doing testing for months and months,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said people were \"really worried\" about strains in other parts of the world, including Brazil, and people would be \"bewildered and they will feel that we're exposed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe long-awaited probe comes after months of negotiations between the WHO and Beijing.\n\nA group of 10 scientists is set to interview people from research institutes, hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019.\n\nThe team's arrival on Thursday morning coincides with a resurgence of new coronavirus cases in the north of the country, while life in Wuhan is relatively back to normal.\n\nThey will undergo two weeks of quarantine before beginning their research, which will rely upon samples and evidence provided by Chinese officials.\n\nTeam leader Peter Ben Embarek told AFP news agency just before the trip that it \"could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened\".\n\n\"I don't think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way,\" he said.\n\nThe probe, which aims to investigate the animal origin of the pandemic, looks set to begin after some initial hiccups.\n\nChina resisted this investigation because it doesn't want to look back. It sees the potential for more blame, from a group of foreigners. It has its official version of what happened already.\n\nThe government paper published months ago declared \"victory\" in the war against the virus. But it didn't have a verdict - not one it made public anyway - on where the new coronavirus came from nor how it passed to humans. There's been global pressure to answer that, to prevent repeat pandemics.\n\nThe WHO team will be heavily reliant on their Chinese hosts for access: to key places in Wuhan and beyond, and crucially to research material, human and animal samples and data gathered by China's authorities over the past year. The man leading the WHO team said he is open minded. No theories - and there is a range of theories - are off the table. All sides have talked about the importance of the science. But the investigators arrived here as a propaganda effort, lead by China's state media, is in full swing, to question whether the pandemic originated here in the first place.\n\nDespite a lack of any credible evidence it's reported for months now that it was in Spain, Italy or maybe the US before it was seen in China. A campaign intended to undermine the very reason the WHO is, finally, here in Wuhan.\n\nEarlier this month the WHO said its investigators were denied entry into China after one member of the team was turned back and another got stuck in transit. But Beijing said it was a misunderstanding and that arrangements for the investigation were still in discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nChina has been saying for months that the although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.\n\nProfessor Dale Fisher, chair of the global outbreak and response unit at the WHO, told the BBC that he hoped the world would consider this a scientific visit. \"It's not about politics or blame but getting to the bottom of a scientific question,\" he said.\n\nProf Fisher added that most scientists believed that the virus was a \"natural event\".\n\nThe visit comes as China reports its first fatality from Covid-19 in eight months.\n\nNews of the woman's death in northern Hebei province prompted anxious chatter online and the hashtag \"new virus death in Hebei\" trended briefly on social media platform Weibo.\n\nThe country has largely brought the virus under control through quick mass testing, stringent lockdowns and tight travel restrictions.\n\nBut new cases have been resurfacing in recent weeks, mainly in Hebei province surrounding Beijing and Heilongjiang province in the northeast.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "The home secretary has said the government will not announce new Covid restrictions on Thursday or Friday, but did not rule out further measures being announced next week.\n\nPriti Patel told ITV her focus was on enforcing the current lockdown rules.\n\nIt is thought ministers are considering measures like requiring masks outside or allowing people to exercise only with people from the same household.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK recorded 1,564 new deaths, the highest daily total so far.\n\nMrs Patel emphasised the current stay-at-home rules, under which people are only allowed to go out for a limited number of reasons, including work, essential shopping and providing care to a vulnerable person.\n\nAsked whether further restrictions could include a three-metre social distancing rule, or the requirement to wear masks outside, the home secretary told ITV's This Morning: \"The plans are very much to enforce the rules.\n\n\"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel did not rule out new measures being announced next week, saying: \"We are not thinking about bringing in new measures today or tomorrow.\"\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, she said police would move more quickly to fine people who break the rules.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, more than 30,000 such fines have been issued.\n\nA senior backbench Conservative MP has written to his colleagues to criticise the government's approach to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nSteve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, which is sceptical of lockdown measures, said that if the government did not change its strategy, \"inevitably the prime minister's leadership will be on the table: we strongly do not want that after all we have been through as a country\".\n\nHe asked his colleagues to impress upon the party's chief whip the need for \"a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why the current lockdown restrictions are \"weaker\" than those imposed in March last year, when deaths and hospitalisations were lower than they are now.\n\nHe questioned why nurseries were open when primary schools were closed, and whether estate agents should be allowed to continue with house viewings.\n\nRules have been further tightened in Scotland this week, with new restrictions on click and collect and takeaway services.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSpinner Dom Bess took 5-30 as a woeful Sri Lanka batting display left England in control after the opening day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nThe hosts were bowled out for 135 in only 46.1 overs despite winning the toss on a pitch that offered only a little spin.\n\nEngland closed on 127-2, with Joe Root unbeaten on 66, Jonny Bairstow 47 not out and their third-wicket stand worth 110.\n\nDom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya for four and nine respectively.\n\nSri Lanka's total was the lowest in a first innings in a Galle Test, and was a pitiful exhibition of indiscipline and poor strokes which demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of how to build a Test innings.\n\nEngland, who made five changes from their previous Test in August, were disciplined with the ball and tidy in the field, aside from a drop from debutant Dan Lawrence, with Stuart Broad superb in taking 3-20.\n\nTheir reward was a strong position on their first day of overseas Test cricket since the coronavirus pandemic took hold, and their opening action of a year that includes home and away series against India, a likely two-Test series against world number one side New Zealand and a bid to regain the Ashes in Australia.\n\nThe second day starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday.\n• None 'Right up there with the worst we've seen' - Sri Lanka collapse shocks pundits\n\nWith England's most recent Test being played five months ago, and Sri Lanka playing in South Africa over Christmas and the new year, there was concern that the tourists would not be as prepared as the hosts.\n\nBroad, who had Lahiru Thirimanne caught at leg slip and Kusal Mendis, who has now made a duck in four successive Test innings, caught behind in the seventh over, showcased his experience and guile by turning to off-cutters almost immediately.\n\nBess, playing his 11th Test, may have taken his second five-wicket haul in Tests but struggled to find a consistent line and length.\n\nKusal Perera reverse swept Bess' second ball to Root at slip, while Niroshan Dickwella slapped a long hop to Sibley at point to fall for 12.\n\nAfter getting Dasun Shanaka in fortunate circumstances as a sweep rebounded off Bairstow at short leg into wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's hands, Bess produced a beautifully flighted delivery to bowl Dilruwan Perera between bat and pad for a duck.\n\nHe rounded off the innings by bowling the reverse-sweeping Wanindu Hasaranga for 19 as the hosts lost their last five wickets for 30 runs.\n\nStand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews offered some fight with a stand of 56 for the fourth wicket, the former becoming the 12th Sri Lankan to reach 4,000 Tests runs and Mathews the fifth to 6,000.\n\nHowever, both fell tamely in the space of three balls as Broad - who had taken three wickets in 80 overs in Sri Lanka before this match - had Mathews slashing to slip, before Chandimal looped a simple catch to Sam Curran at cover to give Jack Leach his first Test wicket since November 2019.\n• None Why the Sri Lanka tour matters for the Ashes\n\nFor England this two-Test tour, which was cut short in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is a build-up to the four-Test series in India that follows.\n\nTo stand any chance of beating Virat Kohli's side England must play spin well, and they will be concerned by the early inroads that Sri Lanka made.\n\nOpener Sibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, edged to slip via his back pad as he attempted to work Embuldeniya to leg.\n\nCrawley, promoted to open given Rory Burns' absence to be at the birth of his first child, looked to take Embuldeniya over the top - a shot he played superbly last summer - but mistimed it to mid-off.\n\nHowever, Root, whose fifty was his 50th in Test cricket, will be buoyed by the way he and the recalled Bairstow nullified the spin threat as they shared England's highest partnership in Galle.\n\nIt was a chanceless stand, although Root overturned an lbw decision on 20 with replays showing the ball would have gone over the stumps.\n\nBoth he and Bairstow scored around the wicket, with Root playing the sweep to good effect, and Bairstow cutting and flicking through mid-wicket well.\n\nThey will hope to build a substantial first-innings lead and turn the match into a three-innings game.\n\n'England didn't have to work hard at all' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Dom Bess on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have put ourselves in a really good position. Rooty and Jonny batted really well because the wicket started to spin.\n\n\"I felt I was quite nervous. I hadn't bowled in a game since the Test matches last summer.\n\n\"I didn't feel I bowled as well as I know I can. That's cricket, isn't it? There might be days bowl exceptionally well and go 1-100.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It was a fantastic day for England.\n\n\"The partnership with Root and Bairstow was exactly what was required by Sri Lanka.\n\n\"Mathews and Chandimal are experienced pros. They were playing nicely and then played two rash shots. It was so poor from Sri Lanka.\"\n\nSri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower: \"I'm at a loss for words, I've never seen us bat that badly. They know these conditions well and it should have been a big advantage.\n\n\"England's batsmen showed us there's nothing wrong with the pitch. We batted terribly.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russell Arnold: \"It is not a minefield. It was very poor from Sri Lanka. England didn't have to work hard at all.\n\n\"It is very, very disappointing. It surprised me and I expected a lot more.\"\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Lucy Edwards, pictured with dog Olga, became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter when she guested in 2019\n\nA blind social media star said she could be waiting for years for a new guide dog because of delays connected with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLucy Edwards creates videos on living with sight loss, which have been watched millions of times.\n\nThe 25-year-old has used a guide dog since she was 17 and said she had lost her independence since her latest dog was retired four months ago.\n\nShe said it was like losing her \"eyesight all over again\".\n\n\"It has really knocked my confidence that in a pandemic I don't have my dog any more,\" Ms Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands, said.\n\n\"I don't feel comfortable going outside on my own.\"\n\nLucy Edwards says she struggles to socially distance using her cane alone, as she does not know where people are around her\n\nShe now relies on her cane and her sighted partner, but added she found it difficult to socially distance with just a cane and felt \"scared\" without the support of her dog Olga.\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said the pandemic meant it had been forced to stop dog training for five months last year.\n\nIt said 52 dogs had been trained and become qualified in the Midlands in 2020, compared with 125 in 2019, and added the monthly figures showed a big impact in April.\n\nWhile general dog training is continuing during the third England lockdown, with social distancing measures in place, some orientation and other work has stopped, along with puppy training classes.\n\nWest Bromwich marathon runner Dave Heeley, who was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours, has been waiting for a dog for more than two years.\n\n\"The dog is your best friend, your dog is your mobility and I don't feel that from a stick,\" he said.\n\nDave Heeley has been waiting two years for a dog\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said over the past two years it had matched 80% of people with a guide dog within 16 months.\n\nThe charity currently has about 5,000 guide dogs working in the UK and within the next few years said it was targeting 1,000 new guide dog partnerships a year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Employers \"have a duty\" to support staff who suffer domestic abuse but few have adequate policies in place, the government says.\n\nIt said bosses were in a unique position to help but a \"lack of awareness and stigma\" held them back.\n\nCalls to domestic abuse services have surged in the pandemic as couples spend more time at home.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said employers could be a \"bridge between a worker and the support they need\".\n\n\"It was once taboo to talk about mental health, but now most workplaces have well-established policies in place. We want to see the same happen for domestic abuse, but more quickly and more effectively,\" he said in an open letter to employers.\n\nManagers and colleagues are often the only other people outside the home that victims talk to each day and so \"uniquely placed\" to spot signs of abuse, he said.\n\nThese include becoming more withdrawn than usual, sudden drops in performance, mentions of controlling or coercive behaviour in partners, or physical signs such as bruising.\n\nEmployers did not have to become \"specialists\" in handling domestic abuse, Mr Scully said, but could do more to help, including:\n\nFirms already taking action include Vodafone, which offers specialist training to HR and line managers and support for victims including counselling and additional paid leave.\n\nIn August, law firm Linklaters strengthened its policies and now offers people who need to flee their home but can't stay with others three nights' accommodation in a hotel.\n\nIt also offers the option of paid leave, plus one-off payments of £5,000 to help victims trying to become financially independent.\n\nDomestic violence charity Refuge said it saw an 80% increase in calls to its helpline during the first national lockdown, a trend the government believes has continued.\n\nAnd in November, 43% of respondents to a survey by charity Surviving Economic Abuse showed an abuser had interfered with someone's ability to work or study from home during the crisis.\n\nExamples included hiding phones or computers, removing wi-fi connections, and phoning an employer claiming a breach of lockdown rules, in an apparent effort to get them sacked.\n\nDomestic abuse isn't a new problem, nor does today's call to businesses apply only during a pandemic.\n\nBut coronavirus has highlighted new and existing risks.\n\nFor many victims and survivors, work is a place of respite.\n\nBeing based at home, or on furlough, can reduce communication with team members, and prevent face-to-face chats with colleagues.\n\nI've heard of employers finding simple yet effective ways of supporting staff during the pandemic.\n\nFor example, finding a plausible reason for an employee whose remote communications were being overlooked, to go into the office as a one-off, so they could talk freely and hand over an ID document for safe keeping.\n\nOf course, not every business can afford to offer emergency accommodation or financial support to those in urgent need. But the focus of today's letter is on awareness, using free support and removing stigma.\n\nThe charity Surviving Economic Abuse wants the government to go further, and put paid leave for domestic abuse victims into law.\n\nElizabeth Filkin, who chairs the Employer's Initiative on Domestic Abuse, argues there are real benefits in supporting staff - including around productivity, loyalty and reputation.\n\nEmployment lawyer Sarah Chilton, a partner at CM Murray, told the BBC that all employers have a duty to protect their staff's health and safety while working from home. That includes if they are being subjected to domestic abuse.\n\n\"Where an employee is required to work at home during, for example, the pandemic, the employer should take account of any risk to that person's physical and mental health and safety in the environment in which they work.\"\n\nAngela Ogilvie, global director of HR at Linklaters, said training was vital to spot signs of abuse, especially now.\n\n\"Victims may avoid calls or videos for example. They may become quiet, anxious or tearful, secretive about their home life.\n\n\"And it's being conscious of how you start those conversations because they may be overheard, so you may have to switch your conversation to email or text.\"\n\nMr Scully said the government would consult on ways to help domestic abuse victims at work, for instance by making it easier to request flexible working.\n\nThe government's Domestic Abuse Bill also continues to make its way through parliament.\n\nIt will bring into law a statutory definition of domestic abuse that includes coercive or controlling behaviour as well as emotional and economic abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray's participation at the Australian Open is in doubt after the Briton tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was set to fly out to Melbourne on a chartered flight arriving there over the next 36 hours.\n\nInstead he remains in quarantine and isolating at home in London.\n\nMurray, who is said to be in good health, remains hopeful he will be allowed to travel safely at a later date and compete as planned.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open runner-up pulled out of last week's ATP event in Delray Beach as he wanted to \"minimise the risks\" of catching a transatlantic flight to Florida.\n\n'He will be refused'\n\nThe Australian Open will start on 8 February at Melbourne Park, three weeks later than usual, because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers must test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which have been put on by tournament organisers and will operate at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOnce they have arrived, they will have to pass a series of Covid tests during a 14-day quarantine in Melbourne before the Grand Slam.\n\n\"Mr Murray, and the other 1,240 people as part of the program, need to demonstrate that if they're coming to Melbourne they have returned a negative test,\" said Victorian state health minister Martin Foley.\n\n\"So should Mr Murray arrive, and I have no indication that he will, he will be subject to those same rigorous arrangements as everyone else. Should he test positive prior to his attempts to come to Australia, he will be refused.\"\n\nMurray's planned appearance at Melbourne Park would come two years after he played there in what he feared would be his final match as a professional.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, Murray is ranked too low to gain direct entry into the tournament so the three-time Grand Slam champion has been given a wildcard.\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Scot is among a number of players to have their plans disrupted.\n\nAmerican Madison Keys, who reached the Australian Open women's singles semi-finals in 2015, said she would not be playing in Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nWorld number two Rafael Nadal is travelling to Melbourne in search of a record 21st Grand Slam men's singles title without coach Carlos Moya, who has decided to stay at home in Spain with his family because of the health situation.\n\nWorld number three Dominic Thiem's coach Nicolas Massu has also not travelled after a positive Covid test, Thiem's father Wolfgang told Austrian newspaper Kurier.\n\n'Change of year, but not a change of luck' - analysis\n\nA change of year does not appear to have brought about a change of luck for Andy Murray.\n\nHe is now hoping he will be given permission to arrive in Melbourne late - and outside the window Tennis Australia painstakingly negotiated with the Victorian state government.\n\nIf he does get the green light to travel, having completed self-isolation in the UK and returned a negative test, he will still have to spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival.\n\nThat means he won't be able to play in the warm-up events the week before the Australian Open.\n\nBut it would keep alive his hopes of playing in the first Grand Slam of the year, as players will be allowed out of their rooms to practise for five hours a day during quarantine.\n\nAmerican player Tennys Sandgren, meanwhile, boarded a charter plane to Melbourne despite testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe world number 50, a two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist, tweeted that after testing positive in November he had returned another positive on Monday and might not be able to fly on Wednesday.\n\nBut Australian Open organisers said his medical file had been reviewed by Victoria state authorities and he had then been cleared to fly.\n\nThey explained that players are only allowed to enter Australia with proof of a negative test done just before departure or \"with approval to travel as a recovered case at the complete discretion of an Australian government authority\".\n\nSandgren posted on social media that he had been ill in November but was \"totally healthy now\".\n\n\"My two tests were less than eight weeks apart,\" he wrote. \"There's not a single documented case where I would be contagious at this point.\"\n\nLisa Neville, minister for police and emergency services, tweeted: \"Tennys Sandgren's positive result was reviewed by health experts and determined to be viral shedding from a previous infection, so was given the all clear to fly.\n\n\"No-one who is Covid positive for the first time - or could still be infectious - will be allowed in for the Aus Open.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "Siegfried and Roy were one of the hottest tickets in Las Vegas\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher, one half of celebrated magic double act Siegfried and Roy, has died from pancreatic cancer in Las Vegas at the age of 81.\n\nThe pair were among the biggest names in the world of magic and were known for working with lions and tigers.\n\nPaying tribute, David Copperfield called him a \"legend in magic\", and Penn Jillette said Siegfried and Roy were \"pure showbiz and pure class\".\n\nRoy Horn died from Covid-19 complications last May.\n\nThe pair \"invented the full length magic show headlining Vegas\", according to Jillette, who is known as part of the duo Penn and Teller.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSiegfried and Roy teamed up in their native Germany in the 1950s, and the highlight of their extravagant shows was their performances with white lions and white tigers.\n\nHorn was attacked by a 400lb white Bengal tiger named Montecore during a performance in Las Vegas in 2003, leaving him partially paralysed and using a wheelchair.\n\nHe underwent lengthy rehabilitation and was later able to walk again, but the attack ended the duo's long-running Las Vegas residency.\n\nRoy Horn (left) had to use a wheelchair after the tiger attack\n\nFischbacher and Horn, whose real name was Uwe Ludwig Horn, had met on a cruise ship and were later signed up by a liner company.\n\nAfter being spotted and signed to perform at a nightclub in Bremen, they went on to tour Europe and brought tigers into their act.\n\nBut they shot to worldwide fame after launching their Las Vegas shows in the 1960s.\n\nTheir unique brand of magic and artistry consistently attracted sell-out crowds. They performed an estimated 5,000 shows for 10 million fans in the city after 1990, when they began performing at the Mirage hotel-casino.\n\nThey were also estimated to have grossed more than $1bn by 2001, which included their thousands of shows at other venues in earlier years.\n\nIn 2004, their act became the basis for the animated comedy Father of the Pride, about the mischievous adventures of a family of white lions who perform with Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas.\n\nHorn's condition improved and by 2006 he was able to talk and walk with assistance from Fischbacher.\n\nIn 2009, the duo staged a final appearance with a tiger (said to be Montecore, but this was disputed by some) at a benefit for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas.\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher was devoted to his partner Roy\n\nThey retired from showbusiness in 2010. After Horn's death last year, Fischbacher said: \"Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend.\n\n\"From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.\"\n\nFischbacher recently had a 12-hour operation to remove a malignant tumour. He had been receiving care at home from two hospice workers in recent days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "Primark stores have been hit hard by lockdown\n\nPrimark says it has no plans to sell its clothes online despite warning that lockdown store closures could cost it more than £1bn in lost sales.\n\nSome 305 of Primark's 389 global stores are shut - including all 190 UK outlets - but unlike rivals it has no online arm to fall back on.\n\nCustomers have said they would welcome the retailer setting up an online shop.\n\nBut Primark, which saw a 30% sales fall to £2bn in the 16 weeks to 2 January, says the cost would mean price rises.\n\nIt contrasts with online only fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo, whose sales rose by around 40% in the last four months of 2020.\n\nOn Thursday, consumers called on Primark to embrace e-commerce with one tweeting: \"Online sales are thru the roof during the pandemic. You're missing out on a LOT of money.\"\n\nBut the retailer tweeted back: \"We prefer to sell our products in our physical stores but thanks for the suggestion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Primark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince March last year, non-essential shops in the UK and overseas have faced strict curbs and prolonged closures and all are currently shut in England.\n\nIn a statement, Primark said that if all of its stores stayed closed until 27 February 2021, it expected to miss out on £1.05bn of sales - up from a previous estimate of £650m.\n\nThe retailer said it would partially mitigate this by cutting its costs, but did not say if that would mean job losses. It added that it only expected to break even in the first half of the financial year, after seeing healthy operating profits of £441m last time around.\n\nIn the past Primark has said it won't sell online because the cost of manning the operation and processing high volumes of returns would mean it could no longer offer low prices.\n\n\"As a fast fashion retailer they are on a low margins anyway - they have to be very competitive on price,\" Patrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData told the BBC.\n\nHe said pure online players like Asos and Boohoo could make it work because they were \"geared up for it in terms of logistics\".\n\nPrimark shops saw strong sales when they reopened after the first lockdown\n\n\"But Primark would be starting from scratch, and would have to integrate any new online operation with its existing store structure which would be costly.\"\n\nDespite this Mr O'Brien said the retailer was still likely succeed, pointing to the surge in sales it saw when its shops reopened after the first lockdown.\n\nBut Retail Economics' Richard Lim said Primark was at risk of \"potentially alienating its customers\" who increasingly expect to be able to shop online.\n\n\"They have very loyal customers who love the brand, but they are crying out to be able to access it online.\n\n\"The longer they are not online, the more disruptive it is. The more their customers are discovering new brands and ways to shop.\"\n\nAssociated British Foods also owns food and agriculture businesses. Sales across the group were down 13% in the 16 weeks to 2 January at £4.8bn.\n\nThere are always winners and losers in retail but this Christmas the picture is more polarised than ever thanks to the effects of the pandemic. Just contrast the fortunes of Primark, which doesn't sell online, with Boohoo and Asos which have both reported soaring growth in sales.\n\nAll our big supermarkets have now reported bumper Christmas trading, too, which is no real surprise given we can't go out to eat and so many of us are working from home. This growth has also been driven by an extraordinary rise in internet orders.\n\nWhile Primark is bracing itself to lose £1bn in business as a result of store closures, Tesco says it added £1bn of extra sales online this festive quarter. It's been very tough for many traditional non-food retailers, big and small, who've been unable to make up for all the lost sales from their High Street shops. Looking ahead, the big question is where the online dial will settle when our lives eventually return to normal.", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men died at a property in east London.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, at 04:24 GMT to reports of a disturbance.\n\nTwo men were found seriously injured inside the property and both died at the scene.\n\nThe woman, who was Tasered during the arrest, also suffered non life-threatening injuries. She has been taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA man who lives a short way down the street said he was awoken by the sounds of a woman screaming.\n\nKuddus Miah, 44, said: \"She was screaming 'help, help, call the police'.\n\n\"The police and ambulances were there very quick.\"\n\nThe men who were found seriously injured on Sunday morning died at the scene\n\n\"I got changed out my PJs and went outside and asked one of the neighbours opposite what happened.\n\n\"She said a woman was coming in and out of the house crying out for help.\n\n\"Apparently they were new tenants. We've lived here around 15 years and it's a very quiet neighbourhood, it's shocking.\"\n\nSeveral forensics officers were seen outside the house and a large police cordon has been put in place.\n\nForensic officers have been seen working in the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah and her husband Gary lived in the caravan on the drive for nine months\n\nA nurse who lived in a caravan for nine months to protect her mother from coronavirus says moving back into her house was like \"winning the lottery\".\n\nSarah Link and her husband Gary, who usually share a home with her mother, bought the caravan in March to allow them to isolate.\n\n\"I have cried a river in the caravan, if it wasn't for Gary, I wouldn't have got through it,\" Mrs Link said.\n\nThey moved back home for Christmas after her mother received the vaccine.\n\nThe caravan, bought for £600 and parked on their own drive in Cradley, in the Black Country, allowed Mrs Link to continue working at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and her husband at his fishmonger's business.\n\n\"I'd do it again tomorrow. I would do it every time, I would have done anything to protect mum,\" she said.\n\n\"We were thinking it would be four weeks, 12 weeks max, then the summer came and went and nine months later we were still there. It was incredible, I just can't believe we did it,\" Mrs Link, who has been a nurse for 17 years, said.\n\nThe couple both contracted coronavirus in December, but carried on living in the caravan so they could self-isolate and continue to protect Mrs Link's 84-year-old mother.\n\nMrs Link said her Christmas this year was \"magical\" after moving out of the caravan\n\n\"I went back to work properly last week. I still get tired easily and suffer with fatigue, but I'm OK,\" Mrs Link said.\n\n\"It's getting ridiculous the cases... some people still walk around and don't believe it's real. If people came on my ward and see what I've seen.\"\n\nMrs Link said she had not hugged her mother since before March as they were still taking precautions to keep her safe.\n\nShe said Christmas and new year had been \"magical\" adding it was the \"best\" she had ever experienced after being able to move back home.\n\n\"We all cried when it turned midnight, that year we'd all had.\n\n\"It was like winning the lottery, waking up in a proper bed.\n\n\"We're in the warm... I wouldn't be happier if I'd won a million pounds.\"\n\nThe couple decorated the caravan throughout the year\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said officers \"will not hesitate\" to enforce lockdown rules as she defended the way police have handled breaches.\n\nShe said rising numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths illustrated the need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nIt comes after the National Police Chiefs' Council published guidance saying officers should issue fines more quickly when rules are broken.\n\nMore than 30,000 fines have been handed out by forces in England and Wales.\n\nNPCC figures show 32,329 fixed penalty notices were issued between 27 March and 21 December last year.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test surpassed 80,000 on Saturday, and a further 59,937 people tested positive.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus and scientists have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter.\n\n\"The vast majority of the public have supported this huge national effort and followed the rules,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"But the tragic number of new cases and deaths this week shows there is still a need for strong enforcement where people are clearly breaking these rules to ensure we safeguard our country's recovery from this deadly virus.\n\n\"Enforcing these rules saves lives. It is as simple as that. Officers will continue to engage with the public across the country and will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the public to follow the lockdown restrictions, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that \"every time you try to flex the rules, that could be fatal\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for not providing \"absolute clarity of messaging\", telling the BBC's Andrew Marr that there had been \"mixed messaging over the last nine months\".\n\nNPCC guidance, published on 6 January, says officers should still offer people \"encouragement\" to comply with the regulations and explain any changes.\n\n\"However, if the individual or group does not respond appropriately, then enforcement can follow without repeated attempts to encourage people to comply with the law,\" the NPCC said.\n\nOn Saturday 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nElsewhere, North Wales Police turned away more than 100 cars at Moel Famau in Flintshire by Saturday lunchtime, and Norfolk Police fined one couple who had travelled about 130 miles (209km) to see a seal colony.\n\nHowever, Derbyshire Police has launched an urgent review into how fines were issued after two women were charged £200 each.\n\nThe pair were stopped by officers for walking five miles from their home with hot drinks, which they were told were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nJohn Apter, chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers were under \"immense pressure to do the right thing\" and said with \"such a changing landscape politically and legally\" there were going to be things which did not go right.\n\nHe said the police had to balance the relationship with the public.\n\n\"It's not easy because all we are trying to do in policing is keep as many people safe as possible,\" he said.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "Bans imposed by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on Donald Trump's accounts raise a \"very big question\" about how social media is regulated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe companies acted after supporters of the US president stormed Washington DC's Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nMr Hancock said the bans showed they were now \"taking editorial decisions\".\n\nCampaigners want social media to be treated as \"publishers\", rather than \"platforms\", meaning more regulation.\n\nBut opponents of the idea argue that it could allow governments to limit debate.\n\nMr Trump faces an impeachment charge, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of encouraging the Washington riots, in which five people died.\n\nTwitter permanently suspended his @realDonaldTrump account on Saturday, citing the \"risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nBut Mr Trump called this an attack on free speech and suggested he would look at \"building out our own platform in the future\".\n\nThere has been a long-running debate over whether social media companies should be treated in law as \"publishers\", with greater responsibility for dealing with libellous, discriminatory, misleading or incendiary content posted by users.\n\nMr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The scenes, clearly encouraged by President Trump - the scenes at the Capitol - were terrible - and I was very sad to see that because American democracy is such a proud thing.\n\n\"But there's something else that has changed, which is that social media platforms are making editorial decisions now. That's clear because they're choosing who should and shouldn't have a voice on their platform.\"\n\nMr Hancock said that development was likely to have \"consequences\".\n\nAsked earlier about Twitter's decision to ban Mr Trump's account, he told Sky News: \"I think it raises a very important question, which is it means that the social media platforms are taking editorial decisions.\n\n\"And that is a very big question because then it raises questions about their editorial judgements and the way that they're regulated.\"\n\nTwitter's ban on Mr Trump's account followed the increasing use of warning labels on his posts referring to the coronavirus pandemic and the result of the US presidential election.\n\nIn a blog on Friday, the company said its public interest framework existed \"to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly\".\n\nIt added: \"However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.\"\n\nFacebook and Instagram banned Mr Trump \"indefinitely\" on Thursday, with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg saying this sanction would not be lifted until at least 20 January, when Joe Biden is sworn in as the new US president.", "\"Absurd\" council tax rises should be scrapped to ease the pressure on family budgets, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nLocal authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by 5% from April, with 3% used to top up adult social care budgets.\n\nSir Keir said this meant those living in a band D property could see bills rise by an average of £90.\n\nHe added that the prime minister should provide extra funding to councils.\n\nBut the government says the rise in council tax bills, plus extra money from central government, will ensure a real-terms increase in support for local services.\n\nSir Keir wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"It is absurd that during the deepest recession in 300 years, at the very time millions are worried about the future of their jobs and how they will make ends meet, Boris Johnson and [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak are forcing local government to hike up council tax.\n\n\"The prime minister said he would do 'whatever is necessary' to support local authorities in providing vital services - he needs to make good on that promise.\"\n\nSir Keir urged Mr Johnson to \"give families the security they need\" by dropping the tax increase.\n\nHe said families had been treated as an \"afterthought\" by the government during the pandemic, adding that Labour would become the \"party of the family\" under his leadership.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"Council tax plays an important role in helping fund the frontline services needed to respond to the pandemic.\n\n\"Our approach strikes a balance between allowing local authorities to address service pressures and ensuring local residents have the final say on excessive increases.\"\n\nA £500m fund to support people struggling with finances meant councils could \"cut bills further for some of the most vulnerable households\", they added, while a £7.2bn support package would help meet \"the major Covid-19 service pressures in their local area\".\n\nThe chancellor's Spending Review in November set out the cost to the UK economy so far of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Sunak warned the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun, with lasting damage to growth and jobs.\n\nInterviewed on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said there was no scope for a \"major renegotiation\" of the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but added that there were \"bits already that need to be improved on\".\n\nAnd, asked about the possibility of another Scottish referendum on independence from the UK, he said that a \"further, divisive\" vote was not \"the way forward\".\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working\", Sir Keir added. \"I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\"\n\nThe prime minister has said such a vote - last held in 2014 - should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" event.\n\nBut Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a referendum should take place.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary\n\nOne of the last surviving \"Spitfire Women\", who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.\n\nEleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.\n\nThe ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions.\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness.\n\nDuring the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.\n\nMrs Wadsworth said the \"thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive\" to join the ATA\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who was born in Nottingham, joined the ATA in 1943 after seeing an advertisement for female pilots and was one of the first six successful candidates to be accepted with no or little previous flying experience, historian Sally McGlone said.\n\nIn 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine that she had been \"looking for a new challenge\" when she joined the service.\n\n\"The thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive [so] I put my name down and didn't think much about it,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she had enjoyed flying Spitfires the most, which she did 132 times.\n\n\"It was a beautiful aircraft, great to handle,\" she said.\n\nTributes have been paid to her bravery on social including one from former RAF Tornado navigator and Gulf prisoner of war John Nichol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs McGlone said Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow ATA pilots \"will remain an inspiration to women worldwide\", while fellow historian Howard Cook said she and her fellow \"Spitfire Women\" had been \"incredibly brave\".\n\nAuthor Karen Borden, who interviewed Mrs Wadsworth for an upcoming book, added that \"like many of the women pilots, she was incredibly humble about her contribution to the war effort\".\n\n\"She joked about how flying 'straight and level' was her mark... and how marvellous it was to take to the air on her own.\"\n\nEleanor Wadsworth (bottom row, far left) joined the ATA in 1943\n\nHer son Robert said she had been \"a wonderful mother, an adoring grandmother and great-grandmother\", who had been \"matter of fact\" about her wartime service.\n\nHe said she would say that \"we had a job to do [and] we just got on and did it\".\n\nHer funeral will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Wadsworth had been one of three surviving female ATA pilots, alongside American Nancy Stratford and Briton Jaye Edwards, who lives in Canada.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" in Scotland, says the deputy first minister as he refused to rule out tougher restrictions.\n\nScotland is facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus, according to John Swinney, whose comments come as the country records its highest death toll so far in the pandemic in the last two days, where 93 Scots died from the virus.\n\nSwinney tells Politics Scotland: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet [on Monday] was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nMr Swinney says Scotland recorded around 130 cases per 100,000 people on Boxing Day, but the figure shot up to 300 just 10 days later.\n\nDespite the new measures put in place, Mr Swinney said: \"It doesn't show much sign of abating to any extent.\n\n\"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary.\"", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Electricity is gradually being restored in Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, which led to every city reporting outages.\n\nHomes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight.\n\nPower is now back in most cities but officials warn that it could still be a few hours before electricity is fully restored.\n\nThe outage is believed to have been caused by a fault at a power plant in the south of the country.\n\nPower cuts are not uncommon in Pakistan. Essential facilities such as hospitals often use diesel-fuelled generators as a back-up power supply.\n\n\"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,\" Pakistan's power minister, Omar Ayub Khan, wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHomes across the country were plunged into darkness at about midnight\n\nMr Khan later said that power had been restored in most major cities but that it would take a few more hours for the grid to go completely back to normal.\n\nHe added that the outage occurred after a fault developed at the Guddu power plant in Sindh province shortly before midnight on Saturday (19:00 GMT).\n\nInvestigators were at the site to ascertain the cause of the fault, Mr Khan said.\n\nBlackouts sometimes occur in Pakistan because of chronic power shortages, with many areas having no electricity for several hours a day. The issue has previously led to street protests.\n\nIn 2013, Pakistan's electricity network broke down completely after a power plant in south-western Balochistan province developed a technical fault.\n\nPakistanis seem to have largely taken this power cut in their stride. Outages lasting a number of hours are not uncommon, though they are rarely on this scale, and normally occur during the hotter summer months. The last time there was a near national blackout like this was in 2015.\n\nSo far, there have been no reports of problems at hospitals, which have their own back-up supplies. A senior member of staff at a major hospital in the city of Karachi told me they could maintain services for 48-72 hours without mainline power.\n\nMany businesses and richer families invariably own diesel or petrol fuelled generators too, allowing them to continue using electricity whenever power cuts occur. There were reports of queues at some petrol stations earlier in the day as people tried to keep refilling their generators.\n\nOthers will have been without internet and phone access, or hot water, but - already used to periods without electricity - appear to have accepted the outage with an air of resignation.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nScott McTominay's fourth-minute header was enough to give Manchester United an unconvincing victory in their FA Cup third-round tie against Watford on Saturday.\n\nWearing the captain's armband for the first time in a much-changed side from Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester City, McTominay found the net after rising to meet Alex Telles' corner.\n\nThe hosts did have chances to increase their lead, but Juan Mata failed to find a finish to an excellent three-man move just before half-time, then Daniel James and substitute Marcus Rashford had shots saved after the break.\n\nBut none of those opportunities were better than that for Hornets defender Adam Masina, who saw his effort blocked by United keeper Dean Henderson not long after McTominay had struck.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How all of Saturday's FA Cup action unfolded\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nNow under their fifth manager in two years, Xisco Munoz, Watford had other chances too - Joao Pedro's header went straight to Henderson and Ken Sema was off target with his.\n\nMason Greenwood and Donny van de Beek did little to press their claims for a regular starting slot in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, while Jesse Lingard - making only his third appearance of the season and the subject of interest from a number of clubs in the January transfer window - showed glimpses of form but eventually faded.\n\nUnited will go into the hat for Monday's fourth and fifth-round draws, while Watford are left to focus on winning promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt.\n\nGiven the increasing awareness of the effects of concussion, the decision of United's medical staff to take no risks with defender Eric Bailly when he was caught in the head by Henderson's knee as the keeper punched clear was a welcome one.\n\nThe Football Association had hoped to introduce concussion substitutes by now but it has not yet been able to as detailed protocols are yet to be received from Ifab, the world game's rulemakers.\n\nAs Bailly was guided towards the tunnel in the last minute of the first half, Harry Maguire replaced him and helped United keep the clean sheet which ensured they reached the fourth round for the 34th time in their past 36 attempts.\n\nAfterwards, United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I think it was his neck. I don't think it was concussion so that is a positive. But we have got to do scans.\"\n\n'I wanted to test McTominay and he delivered' - post-match quotes\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"Scott has got everything a leader has to have. I wanted to test him by making him captain and see how he would react.\n\n\"He delivered and he always does. He was brilliant today.\n\n\"We have always trusted our young men coming through and Scott is one who we believe has the Manchester United DNA in him and knows what it is to be a Manchester United player.\"\n\nMcTominay on captaining the side: \"When the manager told me it was a surreal moment. I've been here since I had just turned five, so that's 18 or 19 years associated with the club and it is a huge honour.\n\n\"I love this club and it has been my whole life.\"\n\nUnited turn their attentions to a big week in the Premier League. Solskjaer's side travel to Burnley on Tuesday (20:15 GMT) knowing victory will send them top of the table above Liverpool - who they then play at Anfield on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\nWatford's miserable run at Old Trafford continues - stats of the day\n• None The last time Manchester United failed to progress in the FA Cup third round was January 2014, when they lost 2-1 to Swansea.\n• None Watford have lost on 10 consecutive visits to Old Trafford, scoring just three goals.\n• None United have progressed from each of their past 17 FA Cup matches against opposition from a lower division, since a 1-0 home defeat by League One side Leeds United in January 2010.\n• None McTominay has scored four goals in 22 matches this season, one short of his best tally in a campaign (five goals in 37 appearances in 2019-20). Three of those goals have been scored in the first five minutes of games.\n• None Watford attempted 18 shots in the match - only in their 2-0 loss at Huddersfield (21) have they had more shots on the road this season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marc Navarro (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Hungbo (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Calculate the impact and how to change it\n• None Sir David Attenborough shows us the forces of nature that support the Earth", "A 107-year-old woman from Clonard, County Meath is attempting a virtual Mass tour across Ireland while in lockdown.\n\nNancy Stewart and granddaughter, Louise Coghlan, have been shielding together since March last year, and have set themselves the spiritual challenge.\n\nThey are attending Mass services across the 32 counties on the island from the comfort of their own kitchen.\n\nLouise said that because they have been shielding for so long together, she is constantly trying to find \"different ways of keeping granny entertained\".\n\nShe said that when she asks Nancy if she wants to watch Mass her \"eyes light up like I'd just given her a million euros\".\n\nNancy, whose favourite saint is St Anthony, said she can hardly believe she is able to watch Mass on a computer or a phone from her comfy armchair.\n\n\"I feel so happy and so refreshed sitting happily in my own kitchen, in my armchair looking at Mass,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I'm trying to believe it's true.\"", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "Amazon is removing \"free speech\" social network Parler from its web hosting service for violating rules.\n\nIf Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday evening, the entire network will go offline.\n\nParler styles itself as an \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nAmazon told Parler it had found 98 posts on the site that encouraged violence. Apple and Google have removed the app from their stores.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nThe move comes after Apple suspended Parler from its app store. The suspension will remain in place for as long as the network continued to spread posts that incite violence, it said.\n\nGoogle removed the app from its store on Friday.\n\nResponding to Google's move earlier, Parler's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nHe also warned that Parler could be offline for up to a week while \"we rebuild from scratch\".\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nIn a letter obtained by CNN, Amazon's AWS Trust and Safety team told Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff that the social network \"does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service\".\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site\", the letter said.\n\n\"However we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others.\".\n\nParler will be removed from Amazon's web hosting service shortly before midnight on Sunday Pacific Standard Time (07:59 GMT on Monday).\n\nOn Saturday, Apple removed Parler from its app store after warning the network to remove content that violated its rules or face a ban.\n\n\"Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety\", it said in a statement announcing the app's suspension on Saturday evening.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "The Oxford vaccine rollout started in Wales earlier this week - those figures are not yet included\n\nMore than 14,000 people had their first dose of the Covid-19 jab in Wales in the past week, the latest figures show.\n\nIt takes the numbers on the priority list to have got the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to 49,403 since the rollout started on 8 December.\n\nBut Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK so far, with a lower proportion of people getting a first dose.\n\nThe Welsh Government said that by next week, 60 GP practices and 20 centres would be vaccinating.\n\nHealth officials said the new Oxford vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nThe numbers do not include the first people to receive the new vaccine, which began to be given this week.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the real numbers were likely to be higher, with the figures a snapshot based on those vaccines recorded electronically so far.\n\nThey give a breakdown by health board and also show how many people have been given their first dose.\n\nThe figures also include people, such as NHS staff, who work in Wales but live over the border, but do not yet give details of people in different priority categories.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, said: \"We need real transparency on progress of the vaccination process.\n\n\"This must include clear targets and data on how many vaccines come to Wales, and how many are distributed and given out by each health board to each priority group - both the first and second doses - so we can measure this against the targets. This is how confidence can be built that Wales is on track.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"These are early days in our mass vaccination programme. Momentum will continue to build and the speed of our vaccination programme will increase each week.\n\n\"From Monday, the number of people vaccinated will be published daily and we will publish our vaccination rollout plan early next week.\"\n\nThe figure in Wales means approximately 1.6% of people have been vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than other UK nations - and the gap appears to be growing compared to last week.\n\nIn England, nearly 1.1 million people were given the first dose by 3 January. This is about 1.9% of the population. NHS England said 60% of doses have gone to people aged over 80.\n\nIf vaccinations were being given at the same rate in Wales as in England, a further 13,000 people would have been given a dose.\n\nIn both Scotland and Northern Ireland, 2.1% of people have been given a first dose.\n\nHow many people have had a Covid-19 vaccine? Residents in Wales vaccinated by health board, to 3 January Source: Public Health Wales, 7 January. Excludes 224 unknown and 1,024 doses for priority groups living in England\n\nSamantha is keen to have the vaccine as soon as possible and return to work\n\nDental nurse Samantha Davies, 47, who has shielded since March, was overjoyed at the prospect of having the coronavirus vaccine and returning to work.\n\nBut she is now in limbo after confusion over whether she could have the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab because of her ongoing treatment for Crohn's Disease.\n\nAfter filling out a questionnaire sent by PHW, a consultant recommended she should have the Pfizer-BioNTech jab instead.\n\nThis is because of the inflectra infusion treatment she receives every eight weeks to treat her Crohn's Disease - a type of inflammatory bowel condition.\n\nHowever, the Pfizer vaccine is in shorter supply than the Oxford vaccine and the Swansea practice where Samantha works was only offered 10 vaccinations.\n\nAs Samantha, from Foelgastell, Carmarthenshire, is shielding and not in work, she was not considered a priority for one of these.\n\nSwansea Bay health board has since said the advice about vaccines was given in error and pledged to arrange an appointment for her as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's just being home all the time. Some people I know had it two or three weeks ago. The government put me shielding since March on sick pay and I just want to return to work,\" she said.\n\nWhile she was furloughed from April to August, Samantha has been on statutory sick pay since.\n\nDr Gillian Richardson, the senior officer responsible for the Covid-19 vaccine programme in Wales, said the efforts from NHS Wales and PHW had been \"exceptional\".\n\n\"The number of doses unable to be used have been incredibly low - around 1% - and significantly below anticipated levels, thanks to the robust appointment planning and reserve lists,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS is providing vaccines as quickly and as safely as possible to people in the priority groups.\"\n\nDerek Hinchliffe, 80, says he is \"frustrated\" at not knowing when he will get his first dose of vaccine\n\nHowever, 80-year-old Derek Hinchliffe, who is eligible for a first dose of a Covid vaccine during this period of the rollout, said he was \"frustrated\" because he has had no information about getting the first dose.\n\nMr Hinchliffe, who lives with his wife in Penpedairheol in Caerphilly county, said: \"We've had nothing - no communication.\n\n\"We've got friends the same as us who live in England who have had their first dose, and some of them are having their second vaccination.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies renewed his call for a vaccinations minister to be appointed to take control.\n\n\"Of course we welcome the increase in the number of vaccinations, but the rough calculation is that one in 65 people in Wales has had their jab compared to one in 50 in England,\" he said,\n\n\"Factor in the postcode lottery emerging in Wales, and the picture's not looking great.\n\n\"You're twice as likely in south Wales to have had the vaccination and three times more likely to have had it in mid Wales than in north Wales.\"\n\nDr Richardson called the second Covid vaccine - Oxford-AstraZeneca - which began its roll-out on Monday a \"real game-changer\".\n\nShe said it would help speed up vaccinations considerably.\n\nThere are challenges with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because it has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, while the Oxford vaccine can be be kept in a fridge.\n\nBoth vaccines will be available in Wales and the Welsh Government said 40,000 doses of the Oxford jab would be available within the first two weeks - with 22,000 jabs this week.\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said the \"status quo isn't working\" for Scotland but has again rejected calls for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader, who backs devolving more powers from Westminster, claimed another vote would be \"divisive\".\n\nHowever, he said he did not agree with Boris Johnson's assessment that there should not be another referendum for at least 40 years.\n\nThe SNP said a vote would allow Scots to choose how to rebuild after Covid.\n\nLast year Sir Keir said he would set up a constitutional commission to offer a \"positive alternative to the Scottish people\".\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I don't think there should be another referendum, I don't think a further divisive referendum is the way forward.\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working. I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\n\n\"I think there are other things you can do, other arguments that can be made in support of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nAsked about Boris Johnson's 40-year position, Sir Keir replied: \"I heard the prime minister say that and I don't agree with him on that.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Scotland, Deputy First minister John Swinney rejected suggestions that the recovery from the Covid crisis should be a greater priority than another independence vote.\n\nHe said: \"An independence referendum is an essential priority of the people of Scotland because it gives us the opportunity to choose how we rebuild as a country from Covid.\n\n\"It would give us the opportunity to decide on our constitutional future and to determine the nature of our economy and how we deal with and support our citizens.\"\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC he thought the 41-year interval between the UK's referendums on joining the EU and leaving it was a \"good sort of gap\".\n\nMr Johnson said in his experience, such votes \"don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once in a generation\".", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce a set of new national restrictions for England, similar to the March lockdown, in a televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe PM is likely to urge the public to follow the new rules from midnight.\n\nIt is expected people will be told to work from home if possible and schools will close for most pupils.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the measures will be reviewed, but MPs are likely to be given a vote to approve them retrospectively on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's chief medical officers warned of a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" in several areas over the next 21 days.\n\nScotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight, with schools to be closed.\n\nMr Johnson will set out plans for England as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.\n\nBoth Wales and Northern Ireland are already under national restrictions.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell people to work from home unless they are a key worker, or it is not possible for them to do so, for example if they work on a construction site, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt is also understood that England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has told the prime minister the new variant of coronavirus is now spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe new variant - first identified in Kent and since seen across the UK and other parts of the world - has been found to spread much more easily than earlier variants.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the spread of the new variant had led to \"rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\".\n\n\"The prime minister is clear that further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise and to protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who called for a national lockdown in England within 24 hours on Sunday - said: \"I hope the prime minister has been listening to the clear calls for tough national restrictions.\"\n\nHospitals have said they are under \"extreme pressure\" and one of Britain's most senior doctors warned on the weekend that trusts across the UK should prepare themselves for a surge in cases.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals is currently above the level seen in spring 2020.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported on Monday, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nWhat worked before may not work again - even a repeat of the March lockdown may not be enough to contain the new variant.\n\nConsider the R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus onto on average.\n\nThe March lockdown brought R down to 0.6 and led to a sharp decline in cases.\n\nEvery 100 infected people passed the virus onto 60 others, who passed it onto 36, then 21, then 12 and so on.\n\nBut the new variant is thought to be around 50% more transmissible so its R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be around 0.9.\n\nThen 100 infected people would pass the virus onto 90 others, then 81, then 73, then 66 and so on.\n\nThis is a far slower decline.\n\nHowever, uncertainty around the new variant means there are scenarios where its levels plateau rather than fall during lockdown conditions.\n\nIt is going to be a tough start to the year. Even with immediate and tough restrictions there are a projected 20,000 additional deaths in the first months of 2021.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson's address comes as UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nIt means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" is needed.\n\nPreviously, the government described level five as requiring stricter social distancing measures. The first lockdown, which began in March 2020, was when the UK was under level four.\n\nThese Covid threat levels are separate to the regional tier system of restrictions in England.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nThe new restrictions in Scotland mean it will be a legal requirement to stay at home except for certain essential purposes, similar to the first lockdown last March. Schools will be closed to pupils until February.\n\nIn Wales, all schools and colleges will move to online learning until at least 18 January.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Stormont Executive are also meeting to discuss possible new measures in light of Mr Johnson's televised address - which will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer from 19:35 GMT.\n\nThe prime minister will speak amid continued uncertainty over whether schools will remain open to all pupils in England, after several councils requested classrooms stay shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nEarlier on Monday, an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nBrian Pinker said he was \"really proud\" to receive a jab developed in the UK, which will form a large part of the country's mass vaccination plan.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" Mr Pinker said.", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "The Queen's 95th birthday will be commemorated on one of five new coins released this year, the Royal Mint has announced.\n\nThe 2021 British coin collection will also mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott, and the 75th anniversary of the death of author HG Wells.\n\nThe release of a £5 coin is typically reserved for significant royal events.\n\nIn April the Queen will become the first UK monarch to reach 95.\n\nThe new £5 coin depicts the royal cypher \"EIIR\", above the words \"my heart and my devotion\", a nod to part of her 1957 Christmas broadcast, which was the first to be televised.\n\nDuring that speech, the Queen told the nation: \"In the old days the monarch led his soldiers on the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal.\n\n\"Today things are very different. I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nThe anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novels Waverley, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe and is considered one of Scotland's most famous figures, will be celebrated with a £2 coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of science fiction author HG Wells, who penned works such as The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds, will also be marked on a £2 coin, with a depiction of images from his novels.\n\nThe 50th anniversary of decimalisation, when Britain's modern coins came into force, will be featured on a 50p coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird, famous for his early prototypes of the television, will be commemorated on another new 50p coin.\n\nAs the Queen's head already appears on one side of all coins in circulation, these five coins will each offer a different depiction from the various stages of her reign.\n\nClare Maclennan, of the consumer division at the Royal Mint, said this year's commemorative coins marked \"some of the biggest anniversaries in 2021\", with each coin \"a miniature work of art\" designed as \"a treasured keepsake or gift\".\n\nThe commemorative set will be available to purchase from the Royal Mint website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Hulme said intensive care units at Colchester and Ipswich hospitals were \"at capacity\"\n\nSecurity officers removed Covid-19 \"deniers\" who were taking pictures of empty corridors at a NHS hospital where the intensive care unit is at maximum capacity, its chief executive said.\n\nThe incident took place at Colchester Hospital at the weekend.\n\nChief executive Nick Hulme said it \"beggars belief\" some people were calling the pandemic a hoax.\n\nHe said it was \"the right thing to do\" to keep corridors in outpatients units as empty as possible.\n\nMr Hulme said hospital security had to \"remove people who were taking photographs of empty corridors and then posting them on social media, saying the hospital is not in crisis\".\n\n\"When you've got that sort of social media pressure and those people denying the reality of Covid it really concerns us. Words fail me,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would people do that when we all know somebody who has died from Covid?\n\n\"Of course there are empty corridors at the weekend in outpatients, because that's the right thing to do.\n\n\"We are facing the biggest health challenge we've ever seen and we are still seeing people flouting the [social distancing] rules.\"\n\nPeople had to be removed from Colchester Hospital's outpatients ward for taking pictures of empty corridors and claiming Covid-19 was a hoax\n\nUnder coronavirus pandemic restrictions on social distancing, many outpatient consultations had been moved online or were taking place over the telephone, he added.\n\nPhysical appointments, tests and procedures had been organised differently to avoid crowded waiting areas.\n\nMr Hulme is chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which also runs Ipswich Hospital and he said there were currently 320 patients being treated for Covid-19 across both sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nDialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe retired maintenance manager got the jab at 7:30 GMT from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.\n\nMore than half a million doses of the vaccine are ready for use on Monday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was a \"pivotal moment\" in the UK's fight against the virus, as vaccines will help curb infections and then allow restrictions to be lifted.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday there was \"no question we will have to take tougher measures\", which will be announced in \"due course\", as the UK struggles to control a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus.\n\nOn Sunday more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases were recorded in the UK for the sixth day running, prompting Labour to call for a third national lockdown in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland and Wales currently have their own lockdowns in place and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a fresh lockdown will begin in Scotland from 00:01 on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout comes as rows continue over whether pupils should return to school with the current high levels of Covid infections.\n\nSix hospital trusts - in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Warwickshire - have begun administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses ready for use.\n\nMost other available doses will be sent to hundreds of GP-led services and care homes across the UK later in the week, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nMr Pinker, who has been having dialysis for kidney disease at the Churchill Hospital for a number of years, said he was \"really proud\" the vaccine was developed in Oxford.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" he said.\n\nMusic teacher and father-of-three Trevor Cowlett, 88, and Prof Andrew Pollard, a paediatrician working at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and lead investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, were also among the first to be vaccinated.\n\nChief nurse Ms Foster, who administered the first dose, told the BBC it was a \"huge privilege\", saying: \"Every single patient that we have vaccinated over the last couple of weeks have got their own personal stories to the difference it's going to make, so it is no different this morning.\"\n\nSpeaking during a visit to London's Chase Farm Hospital, to meet some of the first people to receive the Oxford vaccine, the prime minister said there were \"tough, tough\" weeks to come.\n\nThere will now be a \"massive ramp-up\" in vaccination numbers \"in the weeks ahead\", Mr Johnson said, and the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions by the end of March\".\n\nAsked when the government will be able to vaccinate two million people a week, Mr Johnson said the government will give more details \"in the next few days... as soon as we have better numbers to give\".\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Breakfast the Oxford vaccine rollout was a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against coronavirus, saying: \"It's going to be a tough few weeks ahead, but this is the way out.\"\n\nAsked about reports potential volunteers were being deterred by the additional training and forms, Mr Hancock said they were going to \"reduce the amount of bureaucracy\".\n\n\"For instance there's one of the training programmes about how to tackle terrorism, I don't think that's necessary, we're going to stop that,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said this was not delaying the delivery of the vaccine, adding that the next delivery of the vaccine will be \"early this week\" to be \"deployed next week\".\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the vaccines \"give us a route out in the medium term\" but warned the NHS was \"under considerable and rising pressure in the short term\".\n\nFormer health secretary and Conservative chairman of the Commons' health committee Jeremy Hunt tweeted that it was \"time to act\" and the government needed to close schools and borders, ban all household mixing and impose a 12-week national lockdown in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth agreed that a national lockdown was needed, as well as \"rapidly scaled-up vaccine distribution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'This way can save more lives'\n\nAs the recent rise in Covid cases puts increased pressure on the NHS, the UK has accelerated its vaccination rollout by planning to give both doses of the vaccine 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between jabs.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended the delay to second doses, saying getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nMake no mistake, the UK is in a race against time.\n\nThat much is clear from the decision to delay the second dose of the vaccine to focus on giving as many people as possible their first doses.\n\nSo how fast can the NHS go? Ultimately it wants to get to two million doses a week.\n\nThat will not be achieved this week.\n\nBut Monday marks the start of the NHS putting the accelerator to the floor.\n\nA rapid increase in the vaccination rate should follow.\n\nBut how quickly the UK can go is dependent on several complex processes.\n\nFirst, the vaccine has to be manufactured, then it has to be put into vials and packaged up (known as fill and finish). After that each batch has to be checked and certified before being sent to NHS vaccination sites where there needs to be enough vaccinators and support staff to ensure those doses are given as quickly as possible.\n\nProblems at any one stage can disrupt how quickly the vaccination programme can be rolled out.\n\nWhile there are millions of doses of each vaccine in the country and a total of 140 million of both vaccines pre-ordered, there are currently just over one million - around 500,000 of each - ready to be given this week.\n\nNHS medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: \"The NHS' biggest vaccination programme in history is off to a strong start, thanks to the tremendous efforts of NHS staff who have already delivered more than one million jabs.\"\n\nHe said the Oxford vaccine rollout was \"chalking up another world first that will protect thousands more over the coming weeks\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and more than a million people have had their first one.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second dose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England's medical director for primary care, says it's crucial to get more patients the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine\n\nThe Oxford jab - which was approved for use in late December - can be stored at normal fridge temperatures, making it easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer jab. It is also cheaper per dose.\n\nThe UK has secured 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, enough for most of the population.\n\nCare home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and frontline NHS staff will be first to receive it.\n\nGPs and local vaccination services have been asked to ensure every care home resident in their local area is vaccinated by the end of January, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nSome 730 vaccination sites have already been established across the UK, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week, the department added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first patients have been given the Oxford vaccine - five days after it was approved for use in the UK. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, aged 82, was the first to receive it. It's a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against the virus, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock. More than 500,000 doses are ready to go, with care home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and NHS workers at the front of the queue. Some 730 vaccination sites have already been established, we're told, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week. The Oxford jab is easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer version, which was the first to be approved. It's also cheaper per dose. Find out more about how it was developed, and when you might receive one.\n\nThe vaccine news may be positive, but few deny the coronavirus situation in the UK right now is bleak. On Sunday, more than 50,000 new cases were recorded for the sixth day running and Labour is calling for a third national lockdown in England. Boris Johnson has admitted tougher restrictions are likely. Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce new restrictions for Scotland later, while Northern Ireland and Wales already have their own lockdowns in place. The obvious next step for England would probably be to move more areas into tier four - a reminder of what that means - but our science editor David Shukman says there are other steps under discussion too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJanuary is normally a boom time for gyms, but coronavirus restrictions mean many are closed and others can't offer any group classes. At the same time, there's been an explosion in fitness tech, allowing more of us than ever to work out at home. So what does this mean for the future of the gym sector? Our reporter Eleanor Lawrie looks closely. Meanwhile, wherever you are in the UK, see 21 simple ways to get fitter in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports expert Ruth Lowry says exercising outdoors could help us cope with Covid this winter\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many of us to change direction, career-wise, whether out of choice or necessity. Our CEO Secrets series has been documenting some of those forging a new path here in the UK, but the same trends are going on elsewhere too. In India, Shalini Sharma and Mrinali Hariyal have gone from stay-at-home mums cooking for their families to chefs providing meals for paying customers. They're plugging the gap left by restaurant closures and finding new identities for themselves. Watch their stories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, are pandemics the new normal?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than 200 workers at Google-parent Alphabet have taken steps to form a labour union in a rare development for an American tech giant.\n\nThey said the organisation will give staff greater power to voice concerns about discriminatory work practices at the firm and how it handles issues like online hate speech.\n\nThe move follows walkouts and other actions by staff in recent years.\n\nGoogle said it would \"continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\n\"We've always worked hard to create a supportive and rewarding workplace for our workforce,\" Kara Silverstein, director of people operations, said in a statement.\n\n\"Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support. But as we've always done, we'll continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\nThe announcement of the Alphabet Workers Union comes weeks after Google's firing of a high-profile black artificial intelligence and ethics researcher generated uproar.\n\nThe US National Labor Relations Board also recently ruled the firm had unlawfully fired employees for attempting to organise a union.\n\nGoogle staff stage a walkout in 2018 over the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations\n\nStaff have also mobilised against the firm's \"Project Maven\" work with the Department of Defense and the company's handling of sexual harassment complaints.\n\n\"This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,\" Nicki Anselmo, program manager, said in the announcement.\n\n\"From fighting the 'real names' policy, to opposing Project Maven, to protesting the egregious, multi-million dollar payouts that have been given to executives who've committed sexual harassment, we've seen first-hand that Alphabet responds when we act collectively.\n\n\"Our new union provides a sustainable structure to ensure that our shared values as Alphabet employees are respected even after the headlines fade.\"\n\nThe group was organised by software engineers but is open to all ranks at the company's US and Canadian workforce, including temporary workers and contractors.\n\nIt is affiliated with the larger labour group, Communication Workers of America, but is not seeking formal recognition from the federal government, limiting its bargaining power.\n\nIt represents a small fraction of Alphabet's workforce, which includes more than 130,000 people as of September and roughly as many contractors, vendors and temporary staff.\n\nMembers who join will contribute about 1% of their compensation to the effort.\n\n\"We want Alphabet to be a company where workers have a meaningful say in decisions that affect us and the societies we live in,\" organisers wrote on Twitter.", "Nóra Quoirin was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development\n\nA girl whose body was found in a jungle during a holiday in Malaysia died by misadventure, a coroner has recorded.\n\nNóra Quoirin, 15, from Balham, south-west London, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from an eco-resort in August 2019.\n\nThe family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict, which ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThey believe \"layers of evidence\" that were heard at the inquest point towards Nora having been abducted.\n\nThe family were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur, when they reported Nóra missing, the day after they had arrived.\n\nNóra, who was born with holoprosencephaly - a disorder which affects brain development - was eventually found by a group of civilian volunteers in a palm-oil plantation less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nThe Quoirins, whose lawyers had asked the coroner to record an open verdict, said in a statement after the ruling that they have a number of reasons for the abduction theory. These include:\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nora\n\nIn the statement, issued through the Lucie Blackman Trust, the family said they witnessed 80 slides presented in court as the verdict was given, adding that none of them \"engaged with who Nóra really was - neither her personality nor her intellectual abilities\".\n\nThey said: \"The coroner made mention several times of her inability to rule on certain points due to not knowing Nóra enough.\n\n\"It is indeed our view that to know Nóra would be to know that she was simply incapable of hiding in undergrowth, climbing out a window and making her way out of a fenced resort in the darkness unclothed.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We believe we have fought not just for Nóra but in honour of all the special needs children in this world who deserve our most committed support and the most careful application of justice.\n\n\"This is Nóra's unique legacy and we will never let it go.\"\n\nFom the outset Meabh Quoirin believed her daughter had been abducted but Malaysian police insisted Nóra's disappearance had always been a missing persons case and ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThe authorities closed the case in January 2020, and Nóra's parents pushed for the inquest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nóra's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nDuring the inquest, a British pathologist who carried out a second post-mortem examination said Nóra's body had no injuries to suggest she was attacked or restrained.\n\nOn the final day of evidence, an investigating officer who was on duty the morning Nóra was reported missing said he was confident there were no criminal elements involved in her disappearance.\n\nFollowing the coroner's verdict, the Quoirins' legal team have discussed the family's rights moving forward, which include the possibility of applying for a revision of the misadventure verdict at the High Court of Seremban.\n\nLouise Azmi, one lawyer for the family, said they had pressed for an open verdict to reflect the lack of positive evidence in the case regarding what happened to Nora.\n\nAn open verdict would leave open the possibility that a criminal element was involved in Nora's death, Mrs Azmi said.\n\nShe told the BBC based on everything the family know of Nora, \"they continue to believe it is impossible she would have willingly walked away into the jungle\".\n\nThe family's legal team say parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin are \"disappointed\" with today's verdict.\n\nBut, Coroner Maimoonah Aid said her verdict was made not on \"theories\" and \"speculation\" surrounding the case, but on the balance of probabilities of the evidence presented before her.\n\nWith no evidence to the contrary she ruled out foul play.\n\nMoving forward, the Quoirin family now have the possibility to apply for a revision of the verdict with the High Court of Seremban.\n\nThere is precedent of a verdict being overturned in Malaysia before.\n\nIn 2019, following an appeal, a Malaysian coroner's verdict of misadventure concerning the death of 18-year-old model Ivana Smit was overturned in Kuala Lumpur and reopened as a murder investigation.\n\nAccording to Quoirin family lawyer Sakthy Vell, the family say they now need time to consider their next course of action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'No question we're going to have to take tougher measures'\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"no question\" the government will announce stricter measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus \"in due course\".\n\nHe predicted \"tough, tough\" weeks to come, with more than three-quarters of England's population already under the highest - tier four - restrictions.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row.\n\nLabour is calling for new England-wide restrictions to come in immediately.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"inevitable\" more schools would have to close to lessen the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, further new restrictions are to come into force at midnight, including a \"legal requirement\" for people to stay at home. except for essential purposes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland was effectively returning to conditions similar to Spring's nation-wide lockdown, with the curbs in place until at least the end of January.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported across the UK on Sunday, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"old tier system\" in England was \"no longer strong enough\" to contain increasing infections.\n\nHospitals are coming under increasing pressure, as cases mount up.\n\nThe old tier system is no longer enough…the figures are only heading in one direction.\n\nThese are the words of the health secretary and a health minister.\n\nBoris Johnson says stricter measures are coming, which immediately sparks the questions \"when?,\" and \"what are you waiting for?\"\n\nDowning Street wants to push a tougher message on adherence to the current rules in England while it assesses the latest Christmas data, but is coming under growing pressure to act sooner.\n\nWith Nicola Sturgeon about to go further in Scotland and the Labour leader calling for an immediate national lockdown, it's difficult to see how the prime minister can wait much longer.\n\nAsked what further restrictions would be put in place, Mr Johnson said: \"What we have been waiting for is to see the impact of the tier four measures on the virus and it is a bit unclear, still, at the moment.\n\n\"But if you look at the numbers, there is no question that we are going to have to take tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course.\"\n\nHe said the faster-spreading coronavirus variant that has developed in south-eastern England required \"extra-special vigilance\".\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said new measures could include limits on outdoor exercise and a return to the two-metre (rather than one-metre-plus) social distancing rule, as applied during the first lockdown last year.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Chase Farm Hospital in north London, the prime minister argued that closing primary schools must remain a \"last resort\", adding that the \"risk to kids\" was \"very, very small\".\n\nSecondary schools in England are currently closed until 18 January, except for pupils in their final GCSE and A-level years, who are due to return on 11 January.\n\nAsked whether they could remain closed, Mr Johnson said: \"We are keeping things under review.\"\n\nBut former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged the government to close all schools and UK borders \"right away\", while banning \"all household mixing\".\n\nThe Conservative MP, who now chairs the Commons Health Committee, said these restrictions should be \"time-limited\" to \"12 weeks or so\", after which the roll-out of vaccines would provide \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nMore than 500,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are now available for use, with the Pfizer BioNTech jab having been issued since early last month.\n\nThe virus is winning at the moment, despite science fighting back with a vaccine. New daily cases of Covid have been rising to record levels, which means hospital numbers and deaths will increase too.\n\nMinisters say more measures are coming, but it is not clear yet what that will mean in practice.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are already in lockdown, and most of England is under tier four rules.\n\nIn recent days the focus has shifted to schools and whether they can be kept open without making the epidemic worse.\n\nExperts agree that the risk the virus poses to children is still low, but they can spread the disease.\n\nWith a new, more transmissible variant of Covid circulating, the government may have to enact this unpalatable \"last resort\" of closing classrooms.\n\nSome 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government meets later to consider \"further action\", with all of mainland Scotland currently under its own level four restrictions - only some islands are under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, while Northern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely\", and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around four to six weeks.\n\nBut Matt Hancock told Today he was \"incredibly worried\" about the South African variant, saying: \"This is a very, very significant problem.\"\n\n\"We have shown that we are prepared to move incredibly quickly, within 24 hours if we think that is necessary, and we keep these things under review all the time,\" added the health secretary.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has said there \"is a gateway of opportunity\" for the UK and Northern Ireland after Brexit.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the trade deal also tackled \"some of the great difficulties that there are with the (Northern Ireland) Protocol\".\n\nThe purpose of the Protocol is to prevent a hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It does that by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nAs a result, an 'Irish Sea border' now exists, with most commercial goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain requiring a customs declaration.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which Mrs Foster leads, opposed the protocol and had criticised the establishment of such a border. She told The Andrew Marr show that her party \"didn't want the protocol but it is here\".\n\n\"I have to mitigate against that and my job from now on is to mitigate against those excesses and to hold the government to account,\" Mrs Foster added.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson must bring back \"the spirit of March\" to get control of coronavirus in England, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said the virus was \"out of control\" and a second \"national lockdown\" - including the closure of all schools - was needed.\n\nThe PM had to give a firm \"stay at home message\", Sir Keir told the BBC.\n\nMr Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to set out further restrictions amid surging cases.\n\nIt comes as Scotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support any move towards tighter restrictions in England, but urged the prime minister to \"stop dithering\" and take action.\n\nThe Labour leader said it was \"inevitable\" that schools would need to close.\n\n\"There is complete chaos, with parents not knowing what is going on. We need to create space for the vaccine now, to be rolled out safely.\n\n\"The virus is out of control. We have got to get it back under control. The more we delay, the worse it will be. The more we delay, the longer schools will be closed.\"\n\nIn March last year, Boris Johnson told people in England they could only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nCurrently, shops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together are prohibited in tier four areas.\n\nSir Keir said the government's message needed to be firmer and backed by law, if necessary, to encourage people to comply.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young, he urged the country to get back to \"the spirit of March, where there was a very strong stay at home message\".\n\n\"You only need to go out on the streets now and you see lots of people out and about, you see trains that are half full,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"We need to go back to where we were in March with very very strong messaging about staying at home.\n\n\"And I'm afraid that the closure of schools is now inevitable, and therefore that needs to be part of that plan, as part of the national plan for further restriction.\n\n\"And that means that we need to have measures in place to protect working parents, most in place to enable children to learn at home, and a plan to get schools safely reopened again and that goes back to vaccination. It must be mission critical now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "The Queen said she wished Woman's Hour \"continued success\" in the programme's \"important work\"\n\nThe Queen has sent her \"best wishes\" to Woman's Hour to mark the BBC Radio 4 show's 75th year.\n\nThe 94-year-old noted that the show had \"played a significant part in the evolving role of women\".\n\n\"As you celebrate your 75th year, it is with great pleasure that I send my best wishes to the listeners and all those associated with Woman's Hour,\" she said in a letter sent to the programme.\n\nEmma Barnett read out the message on her first day as the show's presenter.\n\n\"During this time, you have witnessed and played a significant part in the evolving role of women across society, both here and around the world,\" the Queen added in her message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Presenter Emma Barnett reads a message from Her Majesty to Woman's Hour listeners.\n\n\"In this notable anniversary year, I wish you continued success in your important work as a friend, guide and advocate to women everywhere.\"\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C also performed a rendition of The Beatles track Here Comes the Sun, after presenter Barnett had declared that 2021 \"has to be better\" than the previous year.\n\nLater, guest Imelda Staunton, who will play Her Majesty in the upcoming series five of Netflix's royal drama, The Crown, described her as being like \"the original Spice Girl\".\n\n\"The Queen, you think, might be an original Spice Girl because girl power is what she is,\" said the actress, who is due to take over the role from Olivia Colman. \"She became the head of state and all that sort of thing.\n\n\"It's the continuity of The Queen that has been so important... Whether you're a royalist or not, this person has got up and gone to work every day for 60 years, and I sort of admire that.\"\n\nLast month, the Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe message helped to mark a memorable opening day in the hot seat for Barnett, which also saw her discuss Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian under house arrest in Tehran, with her husband Richard and the MP and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nBarnett - known for hosting Newsnight and shows on 5 Live - has replaced Jane Garvey, who presented her final edition of Woman's Hour after 13 years last week, saying the programme \"needs to move on, and now it can\".\n\nGarvey's exit came three months after her co-host Dame Jenni Murray also left the long-running show after 33 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Barnett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarnett's 5 Live show has been taken over by BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who also broadcast her first show on Monday.\n\nMunchetty told listeners she was \"absolutely delighted to be here with you on the first Monday of 2021\".\n\n\"I am so excited to be on board with you on this, the morning show we are making together,\" she added. \"We are going to get to know each other, I promise. There is so much to talk about.\"\n\nEmma Barnett interviewed former prime minister Theresa May on her 5 Live show\n\nWoman's Hour is a topical, conversation-led programme; Barnett has a strong news pedigree. Her previous 5 Live show involved thorough interrogation of politicians, and she has made no secret of her love of politics, not least in her outings on Newsnight.\n\nIt doesn't get any bigger than the Queen, obviously. Interestingly, the other big 'get' for her first show is Sonia Khan, former special adviser to the Chancellor.\n\nSo Barnett's first show indicates very clearly that she will make Woman's Hour newsier and more political.\n\nIt's also a safe bet that short, visual clips of the kind that allowed Barnett's 5 Live show to dramatically increase its impact will also be a big feature of her time in the job.\n\nOne early challenge: getting an even bigger name for next Monday. Any thoughts?\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The lockdown announcement contained the clearest indication yet of how quickly the government hopes to vaccinate the at risk groups.\n\nA target of mid February for vaccinating all the over 70s and those deemed extremely clinically vulnerable and frontline health and care staff opens up a pathway to a significant easing of restrictions by the start of March.\n\nBut it will require a rapid acceleration in vaccination rates.\n\nSo far nearly one million people have been vaccinated.\n\nBy the end of the week that number is expected to double.\n\nThe hope is that later in January two million doses a week will be given.\n\nThat will be the minimum needed – there are around 12 million in those priority groups.\n\nBy vaccinating them, there is the potential to prevent close to nine in 10 deaths.\n\nBut achieving that requires a lot to go right.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate that many people, but not all of it has been through the final “fill and finish” process which involves packaging it in glass vials (and there is a shortage of those) and then the batches have to be checked and signed off by the regulator – a process that is taking weeks at the moment.\n\nAnd all of that is before it is sent out to the NHS vaccination centres to inject it into people’s arms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Security has been stepped up in Niger's Tillabéri region, where the two villages are situated\n\nNiger's prime minister says 100 people are now known to have been killed in Saturday's attacks by suspected jihadists on two villages.\n\nBrigi Rafini said 70 people were killed in the village of Tchombangou and 30 others in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's border with Mali.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest days in living memory, as Niger grapples with ethnic violence and Islamist militancy.\n\nNo group has said it carried out the attacks.\n\nAccording to local mayor Almou Hassane, those responsible travelled on \"about 100 motorcycles,\" AFP news agency reports.\n\nThey split into two groups and carried out the attacks simultaneously.\n\nFormer minister Issoufou Issaka told AFP that jihadists launched the assaults after villagers killed two of their group members, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.\n\nMayor Hassane said 75 other villagers were left wounded in the aftermath, and some have been evacuated for treatment in Ouallam and the capital, Niamey.\n\nPrime Minister Rafini visited both of the villages on Sunday.\n\n\"This situation is simply horrible... but investigations will be conducted so that this crime does not go unpunished,\" he told reporters.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadist attacks for many years.\n\nNiger's Prime Minister Brigi Rafini visited the two villages on Sunday\n\nLast month, seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush in the region.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nAs part of efforts to quell the violence, France has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nCoalition forces have become targets, and last week five French soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Mali.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri also come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Derby County said several staff members and first-team players tested positive for the virus\n\nChampionship side Derby County has said \"several first-team staff and players\" have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it had closed its Moor Farm training ground and was speaking to the EFL and the Football Association about forthcoming fixtures.\n\nThe club said it would not reveal the names of those who had tested positive, due to medical confidentiality.\n\nIt added they would be isolating in line with government guidelines.\n\nThe outbreak at Derby comes after Sheffield Wednesday closed their Middlewood Road training ground following a Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nThe Rams were beaten 1-0 by Wednesday in their most recent match on New Year's Day at Hillsborough.\n\nDerby, who are third from bottom in the Championship, are due to travel to Chorley on Saturday for a third round FA Cup tie.\n\nFormer England striker Wayne Rooney took over as interim manager at Derby after the club sacked former head coach Phillip Cocu in November\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 upon the squad's arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who tested negative before departure, will now isolate for 10 days in accordance with the Sri Lanka government's quarantine protocol.\n\nFellow all-rounder Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact, and will observe a period of self-isolation and further testing.\n\nEngland's two-Test tour of Sri Lanka starts in Galle on 14 January.\n\nEngland had lateral flow tests and a PCR test at Hambantota airport upon arrival, with Moeen's PCR test returning the positive.\n\nThe rest of the touring parting will be retested on Tuesday morning, before being allowed to train for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nMoeen is the first England player to test positive for the virus, with a full summer of games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland being completed without any cases.\n\nEngland's last overseas tour, in South Africa, was cut short in December after positive cases in the Cape Town hotel where England were staying. England returned two positive tests - that were later verified as false positives.\n\nLast week England captain Joe Root said he did not expect the tour to be postponed if there were one or two isolated cases of the virus.\n\nSince England's tour of South Africa was called off, Pakistan's tour of New Zealand and Sri Lanka's of South Africa have both continued despite positive cases.\n\nEngland flew on a chartered flight from London to Hambantota on Saturday evening.\n\nAll of the players, and touring party, tested negative before their departure and were sprayed with disinfectant upon their arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe series was scheduled to take place last year but England flew home after the tour was called off on 13 March as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic took hold.\n\nSri Lanka has seen 44,774 coronavirus infections and 213 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nGiven the circumstances of their abandoned trip to South Africa, this is clearly alarming for England, however it's important to make the distinction between the two tours. In South Africa, they felt their bubble was breached, whereas this is an issue internal to the tourists.\n\nMoeen will be moved to Galle, the location of the two Tests, for his period of isolation, but given that is not due to end until the day before the first match, he must be considered a huge doubt.\n\nEngland have planned for this sort of issue, travelling with seven reserves in addition to the squad of 16. Three of those reserves - Mason Crane, Amar Virdi and Matt Parkinson - are spinners, but have only Crane's one Test cap between them.\n\nAt the moment, England have not discussed promoting a player to the main squad but should they feel the need to supplement frontline spinners Dom Bess and Jack Leach in their Test XI, then an inexperienced name is set for a big opportunity.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "US casino giant MGM Resorts has made an $11bn (£8.1bn) offer for British gaming company Entain, which owns Ladbrokes.\n\nThe move is the latest attempt by a casino operator to move into the online gambling business.\n\nIn addition to its chain of High Street betting shops, UK-based Entain also owns a number of online sports betting and gambling sites.\n\nEntain confirmed the offer, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, but said the price was too low.\n\nIt had recently rebuffed an earlier $10bn (£7.3bn) all-cash approach from MGM, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a statement, Entain said the latest bid approach \"significantly undervalues the company and its prospects\".\n\nMGM Resorts, which runs the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, now has until the beginning of next month to decide whether to make a formal bid or to walk away.\n\nFTSE 100-listed Entain. which renamed itself from GVC Holdings last month, describes itself as \"one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail sector\".\n\nAlong with Ladbrokes, it also owns brands such as Bwin, Partypoker, Coral, Eurobet, Gala and Foxy Bingo.\n\nAfter news of the latest offer for the firm, investors started betting on Entain, pushing its share price up by more than 25% to £14.30 a share - above MGM's offer of roughly £13.83 a share - a sign that market watchers are expecting a higher bid.\n\nIf the two firms do reach an agreement, it would follow another deal in September when MGM rival Caesars Entertainment agreed to buy UK-based William Hill for $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\n\"Following Caesar's offer for William Hill last year, a bid by MGM for Ladbroke's owner Entain isn't exactly a surprise,\" said Nicholas Hyett an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The two are working together to take advantage of the recent legalisation of sports betting in the US, a market worth many billions of dollars a year.\"\n\nPredictions about the stockmarket have a habit of making the person trying to guess the future look foolish. No such problem for Laura Foll, a fund manager at the investment firm Janus Henderson. On the Today programme on Monday, she forecast more takeover offers for household names in Britain, noting that the UK markets remained unloved by investors and so - perhaps - undervalued.\n\nAn hour after the prediction a big offer duly landed, with Entain, the London-listed company that owns Ladbrokes and other gambling brands, saying it had received a takeover proposal from MGM Resorts, an American rival.\n\nThe US company is offering to pay shareholders in Entain not in cash, but in new MGM shares - an obvious move given the sky-high rating of US shares compared to those listed in London.\n\nIt looks a carbon copy of last year's deal where Caesars, best known for its Las Vegas properties, bought another venerable name in British bookmaking, William Hill. Get ready for more acquisitive foreign companies looking for deals in bargain basement London.\n\nThe new bid for Entain comes with financial backing from MGM's largest shareholder, InterActiveCorp (IAC), which took a 12% stake in MGM Resorts last August.\n\nAt the time, IAC's chief executive Barry Diller said it planned to work with MGM to expand its online gambling portfolio.\n\nThe attempted acquisition comes as the casino industry faces headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe economy of Asian casino hub Macau shrank 49% in the first quarter of this year, while unemployment in Las Vegas reached 30% earlier in the year and remains well above the US average.\n\nMGM Resorts, which is the operator of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, laid off 18,000 furloughed employees in the US in August.\n\nMany online gambling companies, by contrast, saw a boost during Covid-19 restrictions, prompting many casino owners to pivot their businesses towards online.", "Experts have raised concerns over India's emergency approval of a locally-produced coronavirus vaccine before the completion of trials.\n\nOn Sunday, Delhi approved the vaccine - known as Covaxin - as well as the global AstraZeneca Oxford jab, which is also being manufactured in India.\n\nThe head of Bharat Biotech, which makes Covaxin, defended the approval process, but health experts warn it was rushed.\n\nHealth watchdog All India Drug Action Network said it was \"shocked\".\n\nIt said that there were \"intense concerns arising from the absence of the efficacy data\" as well a lack of transparency that would \"raise more questions than answers and likely will not reinforce faith in our scientific decision making bodies\".\n\nThe statement came after India's Drugs Controller General, VG Somani, insisted Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nHe added the vaccines had been approved for restricted use in \"public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\n\"The vaccines are 100% safe,\" he said, adding that side effects such as \"mild fever, pain and allergy are common for every vaccine\".\n\nThe All India Drug Action Network, however, said it was \"baffled to understand the scientific logic\" to approve \"an incompletely studied vaccine\".\n\nOne of India's most eminent medical experts, Dr Gagandeep Kang, told the Times of India newspaper that she had \"not seen anything like this before\". She added that \"there is absolutely no efficacy data that has been presented or published\".\n\nEven social media users were quick to point out that approving the vaccine before trials were complete was a matter of concern irrespective of how safe or effective the vaccine eventually turned out to be.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Krishna Ella, chairman of Bharat Biotech, met reporters on Monday and said the approval of Covaxin had not been rushed. He cited previous examples where emergency authorisation approvals had been given based only on immunogenicity data.\n\n\"Under Indian laws we can get emergency approval for the vaccine based on fulfilling five parameters after Phase 2 trails. That is what has happened with our vaccine. So it is not a premature approval,\" he said.\n\n\"We will complete the Phase 3 trials soon and provide the efficacy data for the vaccine by February.\"\n\nThe company currently has 20 million doses available and plans to produce about 700 million doses this year, Dr Ella said.\n\n\"We have four facilities coming up and we are planning [to make] around 200 million doses in Hyderabad, 500 million doses in other cities.\"\n\nMany scientists and opposition politicians have raised questions over what they say is the hasty authorisation of Covaxin.\n\nBharat Biotech has developed the vaccine with the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research - and the effort has been touted as an example of India's might in vaccine development and production.\n\nRegulators say the vaccine is safe and effective. The firm says phase 1 and phase 2 trials have shown good results.\n\nBut scientists say that the government's decision not to release data on the vaccine's efficacy for peer review has raised concerns.\n\nMr Modi has welcomed the approval, saying Covaxin is a shining example of his ambitious Atmnirbhar (self-reliance) India campaign.\n\nBut experts worry that questions over the approval process don't bode well for the campaign. And there could be deeper issues. Many believe that the government needs to be more transparent about the authorisation process because the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme depends on public trust.\n\nThe emergency authorisation also sparked a fierce debate on Indian Twitter on Sunday night between ministers and opposition leaders.\n\nIndia's health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan called out opposition leaders for failing to \"applaud\" the country's \"prowess\" in locally producing a vaccine. India makes about 60% of vaccines globally.\n\nMembers of the main opposition Congress party, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, Akhilesh Yadav, were among those who raised concerns about the manner in which Covaxin was approved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shashi Tharoor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Dr Harsh Vardhan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe approval comes as India gears up to vaccinate its population of more than 1.3 billon people. Amid fears that richer countries are buying up much of the vaccine supply, India too appears to be stockpiling vaccines.\n\nIn an interview with the Associated Press, Adar Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute of India (SII) is manufacturing the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, said the jab was given emergency authorisation on the condition that it would not be exported outside India.\n\nMr Poonawalla said his company, the world's largest vaccine maker, was also not allowed to sell the shot in the private market.\n\nThis has raised concerns in India's neighbouring countries, including Nepal and Bangladesh, which were primarily depending on the SII to start vaccinating their populations.\n\nBangladesh had already ordered 30 million doses of the vaccine in the first phase, Reuters reported, but now the fate of the order is unclear. The country's health secretary told local media in December that it expected the first batch of the jab by February.\n\nIndia plans to vaccinate some 300 million people on a priority list by August.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nBoth vaccines approved on Sunday can be transported and stored at normal refrigeration temperatures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Co-op, Morrisons and their payments processing provider ACI say they are investigating an IT glitch that created problems for card payments in stores.\n\nLong queues were seen outside some of the Co-op's convenience stores from Sunday amid the snow, with some shoppers asked to use cash.\n\nCo-op and Morrisons said customers were no longer experiencing problems but they, and ACI, were studying the cause.\n\nOne MP said the problem exposed the risks of letting cash use \"wither\".\n\nACI, which provides real-time payments processing for the retailers, said: \"We are working closely with the IT teams at our partners to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We apologise to shoppers for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe issue comes as contactless payments have taken off in the UK during the pandemic, with fewer consumers using cash to pay for groceries.\n\nCustomers complained about the issue on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jen Bartram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Co-op spokesman told the BBC: \"All card transactions are being processed as usual and our payment process partner is investigating after we experienced an intermittent issue.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused during that time.\"\n\nThe BBC witnessed the card processing issue affecting some of The Co-op's stores meant that self-service checkouts had to be closed, requiring customers to queue to be served at tills manned by staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham\n\nAt some stores, customers queuing outside were warned on Monday evening that transactions had to be \"cash-only\" due to the ongoing issue.\n\nSome customers said they had to use the convenience store's cash machine to withdraw money to pay for purchases.\n\nHowever in other stores, the problem was intermittent, impacting some payment card brands, but not others.\n\nShadow economic secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden said: \"This shows the dangers of letting the cash network just wither away as use declines.\n\n\"The government promised legislation to secure nationwide access to cash a year ago. It hasn't been brought forward.\"", "The case rate in Bridgend peaked just before Christmas, but now we are seeing deaths in hospitals\n\nThe total number of deaths involving Covid-19 in Wales has reached its highest weekly total of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 467 deaths in the week ending 15 January, which is 13 more than the week before.\n\nThis was nearly 40% of all registered deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBoth Betsi Cadwaladr and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards saw their highest weekly numbers, more than experienced during the first wave.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr had 74 deaths while Cwm Taf Morgannwg had 116.\n\nUnlike during the peak in the first wave in 2020, Wales is also now seeing higher numbers of deaths in north Wales and west Wales.\n\nIn north-east Wales, where there have been the highest case rates of Covid-19 in recent weeks, there were 30 deaths of Flintshire residents, including 25 in hospital. In Wrexham, there were 27 deaths - with 21 in hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board saw 49 hospital deaths in Bridgend - the highest weekly number in Wales. There were also 33 patients who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and six in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nAll counties recorded at least three deaths involving Covid-19 and the total number of deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 15 January, was 5,884.\n\nWhen deaths registered over the following few days are counted, there is now a total of 6,074.\n\nRCT, with 752 deaths, has the largest number in Wales, followed by Cardiff with 637, up to the latest week.\n\nWhen looking at crude mortality rates, the highest number of deaths - when taking into account the size of populations in England and Wales - are Welsh areas: RCT, followed by Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths from all causes fell from 1,198 in the previous week - the highest recorded during the pandemic - to 1,170. But this was still 314 (36.7%) higher than the five-year average for that week.\n\nThis means deaths have been more than the peak in the first wave of the pandemic - 1,169 deaths in the week ending 17 April 2020 - for two weeks in a row.\n\nThe highest proportion of excess deaths was 84.1% in London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools and colleges in Wales moved to online learning before Christmas\n\nKeeping schools shut during the Covid pandemic is \"almost like systematic neglect\" to disadvantaged pupils, a head teacher has said.\n\nCardiff head Armando Di-Finizio said there was a \"fair degree of trauma\" among pupils because of the lockdowns.\n\nOne expert said children from disadvantaged backgrounds were falling furthest behind academically.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it ensured vulnerable children could continue to attend school.\n\nBefore the pandemic the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals who achieved five or more GCSEs was 32% lower than the figure for other pupils in Wales.\n\nAt Eastern High School, where 47% of children receive free school meals, Mr Di-Finizio said the challenges of lockdown were greater for pupils who may not have support or structure at home for learning.\n\nArmando Di-Finizio, head teacher of Eastern High School, says the the attainment gap among pupils is \"widening\"\n\nMr Di-Finizio told Wales Live he did not think the balance was right \"between those who are genuinely vulnerable\" with the virus and young people who are vulnerable in terms of their welfare and wellbeing and their academic progress.\n\n\"I think there would have been other ways to handle this because we are seeing students struggling because of it and the attainment gap is widening for this generation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like systematic neglect of young people that is going on day after day, week after week, month after month.\n\n\"We have to somehow pull this back because I do wonder one day, how the children will look back and judge us in terms of our responses.\"\n\nAnother concern since the pandemic began, he said, was the fact the number of child protection cases at his school has doubled.\n\n\"I don't want to sound alarmist, but I do believe it will take a number of years for us to unpick the traumas that young people go through because we don't know yet just what this lasting impact will be,\" he added.\n\nProfessor Chris Taylor says home learning reduces the ability to provide a \"level playing field\" for education\n\nWelsh Chief Inspector of Schools Meilyr Rowlands, has previously said there was evidence of widening inequality in performance as a result of the pandemic.\n\nSocial Sciences Prof Chris Taylor, from Cardiff University, said this gap was continuing to widen.\n\n\"Closing schools exposes and accentuates the deep disadvantage that many families have across Wales in the different circumstances that they're in,\" Prof Taylor said.\n\nHome learning reduces the ability of schools \"to provide that level playing field\" for educational opportunities.\n\n\"Instead, we're relying on what families and households can produce and provide to support that learning,\" he said.\n\nProf Taylor added some children would \"feel like they've left school at the age of 14 or 15, instead of 18\" in terms of their learning, and the focus for them should be preparing for the next step in their education rather than exams that are not going to happen this summer.\n\nHe said some pupils who may have been planning to leave school at 16 should remain in education until they are 18 to \"remedy some of the missed opportunities\", and that summer school and activities should be put on to help address isolation.\n\nAlmost half of all pupils receive free school meals at Eastern High School in Cardiff\n\nSiân Gwenllian MS, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, has called on the Welsh Government to publish a plan on how pupils will be helped to catch up with \"lost education\".\n\n\"Those children in more deprived areas have been doubly disadvantaged - coronavirus has been more prevalent in these areas, meaning they will have lost more school prior to the lockdown, and these children are less likely to have the means to access online learning,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had provided \"more than 130,000 [electronic] devices\" since the start of the pandemic for pupils' home learning.\n\n\"We've also recruited more than 1,000 teaching and support staff to provide additional support for learners who may have missed out on teaching time due to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe government has ensured vulnerable children, as well as children of critical workers, could continue to attend school throughout the pandemic, he added.", "A US bankruptcy judge has agreed a $17m (£12.4m) payout to women who accused disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.\n\nWeinstein, 68, was convicted last year and jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe payout for his victims will come from the liquidation of the Weinstein Co, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018.\n\nThe judge overruled an objection from some accusers looking to pursue appeals outside of bankruptcy court.\n\nJudge Mary Walrath said without the settlement, the plaintiffs would get \"minimal, if any, recovery.\"\n\nThe Weinstein Co was set up as an independent film studio with the disgraced Hollywood mogul one of its co-founders.\n\nThe company collapsed in late 2017, following widespread claims of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actress.\n\nThe US judge said that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy \"have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense... although it's clear that money will never give them that\".\n\nThe $17m fund will be divided among more than 50 claimants, with the most serious allegations resulting in payouts of $500,000 or more.\n\nThe settlement was put to a vote of Weinstein's accusers, with 39 voting in favour and eight opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey will have the option to forgo most of their payout under the plan if they want to continue pursuing their claims.\n\nInsurers contributed $35m under the liquidation plan, which also provides $9.7m to the former officers and directors of the Weinstein Co, allowing them to pay a portion of their legal bills over the last several years.\n\nThe directors and officers, who include Weinstein's brother, Bob, also received releases that absolve them of any potential liability for enabling Weinstein's conduct.\n\nThe Weinstein Co sold its assets to Lantern Entertainment, which later became Spyglass Media Group, for $289m.", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award.\n\nTrinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four other contenders with her sixth novel to scoop the £30,000 prize.\n\nJudges said the book was \"utterly original... and feels like a classic in the making\".\n\nA \"delighted\" Roffey said her win was a vote for Caribbean literature.\n\n\"A huge thank you to the judges for exposing my book to a wide readership. I'll be pinching myself for weeks to come,\" she added.\n\nBased on a Taino legend of a beautiful woman transformed into a mermaid, the story is set in the Caribbean village of St Constance.\n\nDavid, a fisherman, unexpectedly attracts the attention of Aycayia, a mermaid who is drawn to his singing. When she is captured from the sea during an annual fishing competition, he does all he can to save her, with dramatic consequences.\n\nProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges, said: \"The Mermaid of Black Conch is an extraordinary, beautifully written, captivating, visceral book - full of mythic energy and unforgettable characters, including some tremendously transgressive women.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards have a reputation for picking popular reads: books you would recommend to a friend. And I would definitely recommend The Mermaid of Black Conch.\n\nAt first, the novel might sound a bit odd. Set on a Caribbean island in the 1970s, it is a bittersweet love story between a beautiful young woman cursed to live as a mermaid and a fisherman.\n\nBased on a legend passed down by the indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino, there are touches of magic and snippets of poetry. The book was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel.\n\nBut while it is unusual it is also a joy to read, brimming with memorable characters and vivid descriptions.\n\nWe see the mermaid's \"hair flying like a nest of cables\" while we are told \"sea moss trailed from her shoulders like slithers of beard\" and \"barnacles speckled the swell of her hips.\"\n\nFor me, this was a hugely entertaining and thought-provoking novel and a worthy winner.\n\nRoffey, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, secured her publishing deal through Peepal Tree Press, an independent publisher supporting Caribbean writers.\n\nShe then crowd-funded her publicity campaign with the support of fellow authors.\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is set in the Caribbean\n\nRoffey's entry was also named Costa's Novel of the Year earlier this month, alongside winners from four other categories:\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is the thirteenth novel to take the overall prize. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was the last novel to be named Costa Book of the Year in 2016.\n\nTuesday's virtual ceremony also saw London-based writer Tessa Sheridan receive the 2020 Costa Short Story Award.\n\nSheridan won the public vote and £3,500 for her story, The Person Who Serves, Serves Again.\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.\n\nIt is open to UK and Irish authors.\n\nSeamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sebastian Barry are among the authors to have won the book of the year award more than once.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people to have died with coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 100,000.\n\nThere have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began, data from the UK's national statisticians shows.\n\nThe figures, which go up to 15 January, are based on death certificates. The government's daily figures, which rely on positive tests, are slightly lower.\n\nIt follows a surge of cases last month, leaving the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland registered 7,776 deaths with coronavirus on the death certificate in the most recent week.\n\nThat total is the third highest of the epidemic.\n\nLast April, there were two weeks with more than 9,000 coronavirus deaths registered across the UK - but there have been no other weeks with more than 7,000 deaths registered.\n\nAbout nine in 10 death certificates citing coronavirus registered Covid as the cause of death.\n\nMost of the deaths have been in older age groups - nearly three-quarters of those who have died with the virus were over 75. One in three deaths were care home residents.\n\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents health service managers, described the milestone as a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"Behind each death will be a story of sorrow and grief,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay tribute, once again, to NHS and care staff who have done everything they can throughout the long months of this pandemic to avoid each one of these deaths and reduce patient harm.\n\n\"We won't know the true impact of Covid-19 for a long time to come because of its long-term effects.\n\n\"But, as well as the high death rate, it's particularly concerning that this virus has widened health inequalities and affected black, Asian and minority-ethnic communities disproportionately.\"\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said it was a \"harrowing figure\".\n\nShe added: \"While the vaccine rollout for the most vulnerable is continuing at impressive speed, it will be a while until the benefits feed through to the figures.\"\n\nWe were one of the worst hit countries, if not the worst, in the spring - certainly in Europe and the G7.\n\nTwo big drivers of that were the timing of the first lockdown and the terrible numbers of deaths in care homes.\n\nAs a result, the UK could always rank among the hardest hit nations overall.\n\nBut comparing experiences in second waves is harder.\n\nSome countries have very clearly done better than the UK.\n\nAustralia, for example, has seen very few coronavirus deaths overall, and deaths quite close to usual levels throughout 2020.\n\nBut the US, which had a milder first wave than the UK, has seen steady numbers of coronavirus deaths throughout summer and autumn.\n\nIts death toll has been catching up with that of the UK in the most recent data, covering up until Christmas.\n\nAnd some countries that missed the first wave entirely - such as Poland (shown above) or Germany - have seen significant spikes in deaths in recent months.\n\nWith deaths rising since then in many countries and vaccination programmes only getting up and running, there is still a long way to go before we will know who has had the toughest second wave.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook News, the social network's dedicated section for news content, is launching in the UK.\n\nThe UK is the second market to get Facebook News, which launched in the United States last year.\n\nSeveral major news publishers, including Channel 4, Sky News, and The Guardian have signed deals with Facebook to provide content.\n\nIt comes as the tech industry's relationship with the media comes under increased scrutiny.\n\nAnd French publishers recently agreed a deal with Google on how a new EU copyright law about news excerpts should be applied.\n\nFacebook News is the social network's own attempt to address the long-running friction between it and news publishers, as advertising spend has increasingly moved to the large tech firms instead of individual news outlets.\n\nThe new feature is set to go live on Tuesday afternoon, Facebook said.\n\nThe new feature is a dedicated tab within the Facebook mobile app, accessible by tapping the three-line icon for more options.\n\nThe tab features a mix of major daily news stories and \"personalised\" news selected for each reader based on their interests, as decided by Facebook's algorithm.\n\nFacebook says it pays publishers \"for content that is not already on the platform\", and says the feature will also provide publishers with new advertising and subscription \"opportunities\".\n\nThe dedicated news feed will have personalisation controls, Facebook says\n\nThat may be partly based on data from the United States, which Facebook says shows more than 95% of traffic on Facebook News is from people who have not read those publications before.\n\nThe social network says the new product is a \"a multi-year investment that puts original journalism in front of new audiences\".\n\nAnd news organisations, for which new readers are often in short supply, are signing up.\n\nIn November, when it first announced the product was heading to the UK, major names such as The Economist, The Independent, and Cosmopolitan were already on board.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's launch, The Daily Mail, Financial Times and Telegraph were also announced, among others.\n\nBBC News has not signed a commercial deal with Facebook News, but may still appear on the tab through public posts it makes on the Facebook platform.\n\nFacebook also says that this new product is a direct result of discussions with the news industry, with which it has often been at loggerheads.\n\nThe tech giant is responsible for driving a lot of traffic around the internet, and a story which performs well on Facebook will often attract more readers than one which does not.\n\nBut Facebook has also repeatedly made changes to its algorithms over the years which have affected news organisations, sometimes with little notice. It has also encouraged organisations to use its features such as instant articles, or to make video content for Facebook.\n\nHowever, it envisions Facebook News as a better solution than earlier attempts, and one it plans to roll out to other countries - including France and Germany - in the near future.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to work out the best ways we can support the industry in building sustainable business models,\" Facebook said in its blog post about the UK launch.\n\n\"As we invest more in news, and pay publishers for more content in more countries, we will work with them to support the long-term viability of newsrooms.\"", "The fake email looks like it has come from NHS Test and Trace\n\nThe NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.\n\nThe scam email includes a link to \"register\" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required.\n\nThe fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment.\n\nThe NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free.\n\nCyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe urged people to remain vigilant: \"These things spring up, we take them down and then they spring up again.\"\n\nBoth the National Cyber Security Centre and Action Fraud have asked anyone who receives a scam email or text to report it.\n\n\"Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic,\" said health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"It is vital that we do not let a small number of unscrupulous fraudsters undermine the huge team effort under way across the country to protect millions of people from this terrible disease.\"\n\nAt the start of January, Derbyshire police issued a warning about a text message scam which offered Covid vaccinations.\n\n\"If you receive a text or email that asks you to click on a link or for you to provide information, such as your name, credit card or bank details, it's a scam,\" the force said.\n\nLast year, tech firms warned that coronavirus was a popular hook for scammers. In April 2020 Google said it was blocking 18 million scam emails a day on the subject.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "Trees must be able to cope with projected climate change\n\nScientists have proposed 10 golden rules for tree-planting, which they say must be a top priority for all nations this decade.\n\nTree planting is a brilliant solution to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity, but the wrong tree in the wrong place can do more harm than good, say experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\nThe rules include protecting existing forests first and involving locals.\n\nForests are essential to life on Earth.\n\nThey provide a home to three-quarters of the world's plants and animals, soak up carbon dioxide, and provide food, fuels and medicines.\n\nBut they're fast disappearing; an area about the size of Denmark of pristine tropical forest is lost every year.\n\n\"Planting the right trees in the right place must be a top priority for all nations as we face a crucial decade for ensuring the future of our planet,\" said Dr Paul Smith, a researcher on the study and secretary general of conservation charity, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, in Kew.\n\nIt takes at least a century to restore damaged forests\n\nA raft of ambitious tree-planting projects are underway around the world to replace the forests being lost.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is aiming to plant 30,000 hectares (300 sq km) of new forest a year across the UK by the end of this parliament.\n\nAn African-led movement to plant a 5,000-mile (8,048km) forest wall to fight the climate crisis is set to become the largest living structure on Earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A solution that's slowing desertification on the front lines of climate change\n\nHowever, planting trees is highly complex, with no universal easy solution.\n\n\"If you plant the wrong trees in the wrong place you could be doing more harm than good,\" said lead researcher Dr Kate Hardwick of RBG Kew.\n\nAll too often natural forests teeming with plants, animals and fungi are replaced by commercial plantations with row upon row of timber trees, which will be harvested after a few decades, she told BBC News.\n\n\"What we're trying to do is to encourage people, wherever possible, to try and recreate forests which are similar to the natural forests and which provide multiple benefits to people, the environment and to nature as well as capturing carbon.\"\n\nThe review of research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, found that in some cases, planned tree planting does not increase carbon capture and can have negative effects.\n\nKeeping forests in their original state is always preferable; undamaged old forests soak up carbon better and are more resilient to fire, storm and droughts. \"Whenever there's a choice, we stress that halting deforestation and protecting remaining forests must be a priority,\" said Prof Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at RGB Kew.\n\nPut local people at the heart of tree-planting projects\n\nStudies show that getting local communities on board is key to the success of tree-planting projects. It is often local people who have most to gain from looking after the forest in the future.\n\nReforestation should be about several goals, including guarding against climate change, improving conservation and providing economic and cultural benefits.\n\nSelect the right area for reforestation\n\nPlant trees in areas that were historically forested but have become degraded, rather than using other natural habitats such as grasslands or wetlands.\n\nUse natural forest regrowth wherever possible\n\nLetting trees grow back naturally can be cheaper and more efficient than planting trees.\n\nSelect the right tree species that can maximise biodiversity\n\nWhere tree planting is needed, picking the right trees is crucial. Scientists advise a mixture of tree species naturally found in the local area, including some rare species and trees of economic importance, but avoiding trees that might become invasive.\n\nMake sure the trees are resilient to adapt to a changing climate\n\nUse tree seeds that are suitable for the local climate and how that might change in the future.\n\nPlan how to source seeds or trees, working with local people.\n\nCombine scientific knowledge with local knowledge. Ideally, small-scale trials should take place before planting large numbers of trees.\n\nThe sustainability of tree re-planting rests on a source of income for all stakeholders, including the poorest.\n• None Will millions more trees really stop climate change?", "Clare Ferguson-Walker says she has struggled with home-schooling her two children\n\nAs kitchen tables are turned back into classrooms across Wales, parents admit they are struggling with the return to home-schooling.\n\nFor Clare Ferguson-Walker from Tavernspite, Pembrokeshire, the experience has been a \"nightmare\".\n\nShe said trying to educate her two children alongside work has resulted in her relying on universal credit.\n\nGetting to grips with home-schooling in the first lockdown was \"a shock to the system\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to teachers, I can't imagine what it was like for them putting together all these packages,\" she said.\n\n\"My son is 12 and loves gaming so he's quite tech-savvy. When I have managed to pin him down he's been 'go away, dinosaur mother, I know how to do it!'\n\n\"I'm not au fait with these subjects I haven't done for years. It's different to how I learned at school.\"\n\nAs a single parent, Clare said she had found it difficult to juggle home-schooling with her work.\n\n\"At first, in the summer, we were doing Joe Wicks exercises every day then some work. Then it fell into chaos. I tried really hard at the beginning to be organised.\n\n\"I'm an artist and sculptor - that work ended and my income has dried up so I'm on universal credit.\n\n\"It's incredibly tough financially. Life has revolved around looking after the kids,\" she said.\n\nBy the end of the year, she said the pressure had all become too much.\n\n\"The thought of going through that again in the winter months - without sunny days in the garden - the stress really got to me.\n\n\"I was finding myself going repeatedly from the kettle to the fridge and back again in this weird loop, thinking what do I do now?\n\n\"It was like being a caged animal, like one of those bears that starts to pace in a cage. The kids had gone feral by then.\n\n\"I think it's been horrendous for young people and families - we can't even rely on grandparents. Mental health struggles are at an all-time high,\" she said.\n\n\"The one positive is I've got to know my kids a hell of a lot more and there have been times that have been lovely.\n\n\"I think they've learned more sat around the kitchen table when we've been talking about what's going on, they've learned about rational thinking, the importance of science and not jumping to conclusions.\n\nJayne Palmer advises not sitting down at a desk\n\nJayne Palmer from Cardiff, who home-educated both her sons, said there was too much pressure on parents to replicate traditional classroom learning.\n\n\"This is not an ideal circumstance for home-education families either because they are not used to being locked indoors.\n\n\"I think there's far too much emphasis in continuing the set curriculum. Right now it's a complete waste of time. There's pressure to compete in a system parents weren't even involved in.\n\nIt is far more important to \"create and interest in learning,\" she said.\n\n\"There's been a tendency of families to rush to buy desks and chairs and pens. What we find is the best way forward is not to sit down and teach your children - watch documentaries with them, play online games with historical content, practise reading to them, do some cooking, Lego or gardening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome travellers coming to England will have to quarantine in hotels amid concerns about new Covid variants, the government is expected to announce.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss proposals with ministers later, but a decision may not be announced until Wednesday.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries are already denied UK entry, so the new rules will mainly affect returning UK citizens and residents.\n\nQuarantine rules are set by each of the UK nations but tend to be similar.\n\nThe requirement to isolate in a hotel for 10 days will apply to arrivals from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal, because many flights from Brazil come via Lisbon, according to BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt.\n\nHe said there had been \"no definitive decision yet\" on arrivals from other parts of the world and this was \"still a live issue\".\n\nWhitehall sources said those quarantining in hotels would have to pay for the costs of their own accommodation.\n\nThe prime minister will later chair a meeting of the Covid operations committee, attended by senior ministers, to discuss the options.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAt the moment, almost all arrivals to the UK need to have tested negative for Covid-19 within the 72 hours before they set off to be allowed entry. Then they still have to quarantine for up to 10 days, although this can be done at home.\n\nIn England, this self-isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days.\n\nQuarantine rules are set separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but have only tended to differ slightly, and there has been a \"four nations\" approach to discussions around hotel quarantine, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut deputy first minister John Swinney said his government would \"go at least as far\" as any Westminster policy, adding: \"If these UK restrictions are at a minimal level, we will look at other controls we can announce - including additional supervised quarantine measures - that can further protect us from importation of the virus.\"\n\nHotel quarantine is already in use in countries including New Zealand and Australia.\n\nJessica Gold (centre), her son William Copsey (left), and her mother, Rossana Gold, are trying to get home to the UK from South Africa\n\nJessica Gold, from London, has been trying to get home from South Africa with her mother, 77, and son, 13, since 1 January - but their flights have been cancelled three times.\n\nShe says the idea of having to quarantine in a hotel when she eventually manages to get home is \"absolutely absurd\".\n\n\"Now we are booked to return on 16 Feb, and there is no way we can or will stay in a hotel to quarantine when I have my own place and we can quarantine there, as we have done in the past,\" says Jessica, who flew out to her safari lodge in Greater Kruger National Park, on business, at the end of November.\n\nJessica, 42, wants the government to get tougher on enforcing travellers' home quarantines, rather than bringing in the hotel rule which she says is \"ridiculous and an extra unnecessary expense during these very tough times\".\n\nJessica adds that she's looking into other ways of getting home earlier, before any potential new rules kick in.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs on Tuesday that bringing in hotel quarantine plans for arrivals from a small number of countries would leave \"gaping holes\" in the UK's defences against any new, unknown variants of coronavirus coming from across the globe.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said all current travel measures were being kept under review and the government \"will not hesitate to take further action\" to combat variants, especially as they could effect the efficacy of Covid vaccines.\n\nTravel writer Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast it was \"going to be tricky\" to identify people arriving from the high-risk countries, as travellers could go to a third country before coming to the UK.\n\nHe said British citizens in Portugal, for example, could travel to Madrid in order to fly back to the UK.\n\nPassengers in Australian quarantine hotels have all meals delivered to their room\n\nIn Australia, travellers are allocated a hotel room on arrival and taken there by bus. Often, entire flights are accommodated in the same hotel.\n\nThe New South Wales government promises to make \"every attempt\" to find suitable accommodation for travellers and families. But availability of rooms means there are severe limits on the number of people who can arrive in the country on any given day.\n\nThe hotel quarantine lasts a minimum of 14 days up to 24 days, providing a person tests negative twice.\n\nThe passenger must cover the cost of quarantine - at about £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children.\n\nFees are waived for those who can prove they are unable to pay, and there are certain exemptions.\n\nBut not following the rules is a criminal offence, and in New South Wales carries fines of around £6,000 for individuals, six months in prison, or both - with an extra fine for each day the offence continues.\n\nHotel quarantine is among the measures credited with limiting cases of coronavirus in Australia - which has a population of around 25 million - to just 28,777 positive cases during the entire pandemic, a smaller number of cases than is currently being recorded in the UK every day.\n\nBut international arrivals to Australia have fallen dramatically since its hotel quarantine policy was introduced in March 2020.\n\nBetween July and October 2020, just 72,111 people arrived in Australia to live, work or visit - compared with 7.5 million people in the same period in 2019, according to Australian government figures.\n\nRob Paterson, chief executive of Best Western Hotels, said his hotels would be well-prepared for the expected new policy.\n\nSome already have Covid infection controls in place, he said, as they have been used to host \"step-down\" patients who complete their recovery in hotels to free up hospital beds.\n\nMr Paterson told BBC Breakfast quarantining customers would like to see reduced prices, a contact arrival process, CCTV and security to stop people leaving and meals delivered three times a day outside the door - along with clean linen and towels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “That idea of looking at hotels is certainly one thing we are actively now working on.”\n\nJoss Croft, chief executive of UKinbound, which represents the tourism sector, said he hoped hotel quarantine rules would cover as few countries as possible and told the BBC's Newsnight the industry had been \"decimated\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the Airport Operators Association and Airlines UK said the country already had \"some of the highest levels of restrictions in the world\" and tougher rules would be \"catastrophic\".", "President Joe Biden has said that the US might be able to boost its daily vaccination roll-out targets after criticising the Trump administration’s record.\n\nBiden, who has described the previous vaccine programme as a \"dismal failure\", has committed to getting 100 million vaccine doses done in his first 100 days and has since said: \"I think we may be able to get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than one million a day.\"\n\nIs he right about the vaccine roll-out under the Trump administration?\n\nAs of 20 January, when Biden became US president, about 16.5 million vaccines had been administered.\n\nThat is some way off the Trump administration's target of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. In fact, fewer than three million people had received a jab by 31 December.\n\nVaccinations have sped up since the start of the year.\n\nThe daily average for the week before Trump left office was less than 900,000, according to Our World in Data .\n\nThat figure has since risen above one million doses a day, and Biden has come under some scrutiny for not setting a more ambitious target.\n\nWhen you look at the countries doing the most vaccinations by population, the US is fourth after Israel, the UAE and the UK in terms of doses per 100 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "A group of MPs is calling for hedgehog nesting sites to get the same protections as those for bats and badgers, in an effort to boost numbers.\n\nFormer Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill, which he said would help \"Britain's favourite animal\".\n\nThe spiky mammals should be on developers' \"radar\" when they are planning a project, he added.\n\nA report in 2018 suggested UK hedgehog numbers had halved since 2000.\n\nRough estimates put the population at one million, compared with 30 million during the 1950s.\n\nMr Grayling's amendment would add hedgehogs the list of protected animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis would place a legal obligation on developers to search for the animals and take action to reduce the risk to them from building.\n\nChris Grayling said hedgehogs should feature on property developers' surveys\n\nIt is illegal to kill or capture hedgehogs using certain methods but Mr Grayling said: \"It seems wrong to me, for example, that whenever a developer has to carry out a wildlife survey before starting work on a project that the hedgehog is not on anyone's radar.\n\n\"It is Britain's favourite animal, its numbers are declining and it should be as well protected as any other popular but threatened British animal.\"\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Liam Fox, Andrew Mitchell and Dame Cheryl Gillan are among 13 fellow Conservative MPs supporting Mr Grayling's amendment.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn and Debbie Abrahams have also signed it.\n\nThe Environment Bill - which seeks to write environmental principles into UK law for the first time - will be debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nIt includes setting legally binding targets to improve air quality, water, biodiversity and waste reduction by 2037.\n\nBut some Conservative backbenchers say this is much too slow. They want the targets brought forward to 2030 at the latest.\n\nAn amendment from the Conservative MP, Chris Loder, calls for unmissable targets to reduce plastics waste.\n\nIt comes as a report from Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency claims that the UK's 10 largest supermarket chains put plastic equivalent to the weight of 90 Eiffel Towers on to the market in 2019.\n\nThe study found that while the number of single-use carrier bags fell by more than a third, more than one and a half billion plastic \"bags for life\" were issued by the top brands, and that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the bill would help \"improve the environment for future generations\".\n\nIt added that ministers were \"ambitious\" to \"drive a world-leading programme of environmental reform\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said the bill should be prioritised to complete its passage in this session of Parliament.\n\nHe added that the UK needed legislation that \"recognises the urgency of the crisis and doesn't go backwards\".", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nRules for people entering the UK could get tighter later - with the government expected to enforce hotel quarantine in England for some arrivals. Currently, people arriving in the UK must test negative before setting off, and then self-isolate for 10 days on arrival. This can be reduced to five days in England after a second negative test. But it's feared that not everyone follows the rules - so people could now be told to stay in hotels, where the isolation will be enforced. It's thought the rules will definitely apply to UK citizens and residents arriving from southern African, South America, and Portugal (foreign nationals are already banned from arriving from those \"high risk\" areas). The rules could also apply to other countries. And it's expected that people will have to pay their own way. Although each part of the UK sets its own travel rules, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a \"four nations\" approach is being discussed. Here's a glimpse from last year of hotel quarantine in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November, up from 4.9%, as the pandemic continued to hit the jobs market. In November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said unemployment could peak at 2.6 million by the middle of this year - that's 7.5% of the working population.\n\nThe EU has been criticised for a slow vaccine rollout - which is partly down to delays from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca (although the latter's jab hasn't actually been approved in the EU yet). Now the EU says vaccine makers must provide \"early notification\" when they want to export vaccines outside the bloc. This could mean more doses stay inside the EU. The UK minister responsible for vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said he is confident Pfizer - which manufactures its vaccine in Belgium - will deliver for both the UK and the EU. This tweet is from the EU's health commissioner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stella Kyriakides This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have again clashed with people defying a curfew, following a weekend of unrest. More than 150 were arrested. In Rotterdam, police fired warning shots and tear gas, after an emergency order failed to move demonstrators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police described the rioting as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nDespite Covid and the strains on the system, there is still kindness - and new life - in NHS hospitals. The BBC's Hugh Pym went to Kings Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, to meet the patients and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: ‘Among all the doom and gloom there’s positives’\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This page analyses UK data - including the recent fall in daily cases.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The school's head teacher said it was unacceptable staff were being put at risk\n\nA school has threatened to withdraw places for pupils who have told teachers they are visiting people outside their households.\n\nYew Tree Community School in Oldham said several children had admitted visiting friends, neighbours and family contrary to Covid-19 lockdown rules.\n\nHead teacher Martine Buckley said she would take the action when \"parents were putting staff in danger\".\n\nThe Department for Education said \"all vulnerable\" pupils should go to school.\n\nDuring the current lockdown schools are open only to pupils listed as vulnerable and the children of key workers.\n\nFamilies can form \"childcare bubbles\" with one other household, and children who live with two parents who live separately can move between households - but any further mixing is forbidden.\n\nIn a letter posted on the Chadderton school's Facebook page, Mrs Buckley said she was \"upset\" to be writing it \"but I feel I must\".\n\n\"Our lovely children are open and honest and they tell us about their lives and activities,\" she said.\n\n\"A number of them are telling us that they are visiting friends, neighbours and family which is against the law.\n\n\"Our teachers and support staff are putting their own safety at risk to look after your children and they should be confident you are doing your bit to follow the lockdown rules.\n\n\"I am afraid I will have to withdraw the offer of a place in school to children whose parents are putting us in danger.\"\n\nWhile a number of parents applauded the message, others have been angered.\n\nOne man told the BBC his two grandchildren were at the school and children as young as four have been asked about their activities at home, which was \"out of order\".\n\n\"My granddaughters are pretty intimidated by the tone,\" he said.\n\n\"Asking them questions like that and then the answers off the back of that. They come to a decision of whether they are going to displace them or not.\"\n\nThe school has about 660 pupils aged between four and 11.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said during the current lockdown, schools were \"open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers\".\n\n\"We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required,\" she added.\n\n\"We encourage all vulnerable children to attend.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 2017 bombing\n\nThe operator of the Manchester Arena has denied it \"deliberately sacrificed safety\" in the aftermath of the 2017 bombing.\n\nAn inquiry has heard how security failures contributed to the arena being unsafe on the night of the attack.\n\nVenue operator SMG has disputed claims it \"was akin to the worst kind of Dickensian factory owner, deliberately and cynically sacrificing safety\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device as fans left the arena following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nAndrew O'Connor QC, representing SMG, told the inquiry the firm had always accepted responsibility for security in the City Room, where the bomb exploded.\n\nBut he denied the firm had sought to \"blame others,\" adding it had \"simply sought to explain how SMG discharged its responsibilities\".\n\n\"It is for that purpose and not for prevarication, finger-pointing or buck passing that we have sought to explain to you SMG's relationship with all the other organisations involved,\" he added.\n\nMr O'Connor said the company accepted there were \"shortcomings\" with its written risk assessments but maintained it \"did have a system for assessing terrorism-related risk\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing will look at whether the attack could have been prevented\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, representing BTP, told the inquiry the force made five key mistakes on the night of the bombing.\n\nThis included having no officers on patrol at Victoria station when Abedi made his final journey to the arena and not having an officer in the City Room at the end of the concert.\n\nOther mistakes included failing to complete a written risk-assessment for the concert, officers not following instructions from their duty sergeant and that PC Stephen Corke, the most experienced officer on duty, was not at the arena complex for the end of the event.\n\nBTP has since made significant changes to its procedures since the attack, the inquiry was told.\n\nThese include monthly meetings with the arena operators to discuss events.\n\nThe inquiry, which began in September, continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "The fate of more than 200,000 seafarers who play a crucial role in keeping global trade flowing is being labelled a \"humanitarian crisis at sea\".\n\nMore than 300 firms and organisations are urging for them to be treated as \"key workers\", so they can return home without risking public health.\n\nMore than 90% of global trade - from household goods to medical supplies - is moved by sea.\n\nBut governments have banned crew from coming ashore amid Covid-19 fears.\n\nLarge firms including shipping titan AP Moller-Maersk, oil firms BP and Shell, consumer giant Unilever and mining groups Rio Tinto and Vale, as well as maritime transporters, unions, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other supply chain partners have signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change.\n\nThey are calling for all countries to designate seafarers as key workers and implement crew change protocols.\n\nThe signees of the Neptune Declaration are warning global leaders that ignoring the risk to crews' mental and physical wellbeing threatens global supply chains, which are crucial to vaccinating the world from coronavirus.\n\nThe firms and organisations hope that world leaders, gathering at this year's virtual Davos Forum, will heed their call.\n\n\"Unified, prompt action from governments and other key stakeholders is needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of the 1.6 million seafaring men and women who serve us all across the seas, and who continue to face extreme risk to their safety and earnings,\" said WEF's head of supply chain and transport Margi Van Gogh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: The stranded sailor yet to meet his daughter\n\n\"By granting stranded seafarers key worker status, and by prioritising vaccine allocation for transport crew, we can prevent a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.\"\n\nAccording to latest data from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and international ship owners body Bimco, there are 1.6 million seafarers serving on internationally trading merchant ships worldwide.\n\nTypically, ICS estimates around 100,000 seafarers are rotated every month, with 50,000 staff disembarking and 50,000 crew embarking ships to comply with international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare.\n\nSeafarers usually work 10-12 hours shifts, seven days a week to man ships, on four or six-month-long contracts, followed by a period of leave.\n\nBut due to the coronavirus crisis and travel bans brought in by many governments to combat new variants of Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of crew are spending extended periods at sea, far beyond the expiry of their contracts.\n\nFor those who have been at sea for months longer than their contract stipulates, there is a growing risk to their mental and physical wellbeing.\n\n\"Seafarers are the unacceptable collateral damage on the war on Covid-19 and this must stop,\" said ICS secretary general Guy Platten.\n\n\"If we want to maintain global trade seafarers must not be put to the back of the vaccine queue. You can't inject a global population without the shipping industry and most importantly our seafarers. We are calling on the supply chain to take action to support seafarers now.\"", "Changes were made to rape prosecution policy that led to a \"shocking\" fall in offences before courts in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has heard.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition is challenging what it said was an \"unlawful\" move by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2016-18.\n\nThe CPS said there was no \"substantial change\" in how cases were treated.\n\nAnd it denied the coalition's claim it had been taking on only \"strong cases\" to keep conviction rates up.\n\nAccording to the EVAW, the CPS adopted what is known as the \"bookmaker's approach\" to cases, which saw prosecutors considering what may happen based on past experience of similar cases, rather than its earlier \"merits-based approach\" based on objective assessment of the evidence.\n\nIn documents before the court, Phillippa Kaufmann QC said that from September 2016 prosecutors were \"trained away\" from the former CPS policy, including through a series of roadshows.\n\nIn 2017 legally binding guidance on the old approach was removed, and the CPS introduced a 60% conviction rate target in relation to rape cases.\n\nMs Kauffmann said both the volume of cases and the charging rate fell.\n\nShe cited figures showing an average of 3,446 rape cases were charged per year between 2009 and 2016, compared with 2,822 in 2017, a fall of 23%.\n\nAt the same time the charging rate \"declined precipitously\" from 56% in 2016, to 47% in 2017 and 34% in 2018.\n\nThe court documents note the conviction target was removed at some point between 2017 and 2019, and guidance relating to the \"merits-based approach\" to prosecutions was reintroduced.\n\nThe campaigners are aiming to show there was a policy change and the way the CPS went about it was unlawful.\n\nIf a ruling goes in its favour, the EVAW hopes some cases could be looked at again by the CPS.\n\nLawyers for the CPS argue the case was not suitable for a legal challenge.\n\nIn written submissions, Tom Little QC, says the move away from a \"merits-based approach\" was out of a concern that \"some people were being prosecuted when the case ought not to have been charged\".\n\nHe added the decision to initiate the roadshows and remove the guidance \"did not result in any substantial change in the application of the evidential test in the code for Crown prosecutors\".\n\nIn a statement, the CPS said: \"Independent inspectors have found no evidence of a risk-averse approach and have reported a clear improvement in the quality of our legal decision-making in rape cases.\"\n\nThe judges are expected to give their ruling in the case at a later date.", "Celebrities including comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali have made a video urging people to get the Covid vaccine.\n\nThe video was co-ordinated by Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray, who said he wanted to dispel vaccination myths for those from ethnic minority communities.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and former Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi are among the others taking part.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adil Ray OBE 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We all just feel we needed to do something,\" Ray told the BBC.\n\nFake news about the vaccine, particularly in the South Asian community, has led to concerns about uptake.\n\nRay appears in the five-minute video alongside stars like former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, who tells viewers: \"We will find our way through this. And we will be united once again with our friends and our families. All we have to do is take the vaccination.\"\n\nSomali-born British journalist Rageh Omaar and his ITV colleague Ranvir Singh join comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry and Ranganathan to debunk common vaccine misinformation and misconceptions.\n\nRanganathan says: \"There's no chip or tracker in the vaccine to keep watching where you go. Your mobile phone actually does a much better job of that.\"\n\nAfter posting the video, Ray told BBC Radio Leicester: \"For the British Asian and black communities, at the very beginning of the pandemic we were told they were perhaps the most vulnerable, that there was a disproportionate number of cases and even deaths.\n\n\"Even now there are a disproportionate number of deaths. But nothing was really done about it and that was really quite confusing for a lot of the community. So we felt that we've got to try and take the lead a little bit here and dispel some of these myths.\"\n\nHe added: \"This was recorded entirely independently from the government - the only thing we did do was we went to the NHS website for the correct medical guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith the UK aiming to offer Covid vaccinations to every adult by autumn, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high in the UK, with 85% saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said that those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe UK is recording the ethnicity and occupations of people who receive the vaccine and figures would be published soon, Mr Zahawi added.\n\nLast month, a poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health suggested 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine, compared with 79% of white people.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, recently said fake news was likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the vaccine.\n\nSuch warnings have led the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board to urge places of worship and community hubs to be used as vaccination centres in an attempt to inspire confidence.\n\nThe board's chairman, Imam Qari Asim, said: \"As an imam, my message is simple - do not trust 'fake news', verify before you amplify.\"\n\nThe Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham is being used as a Covid vaccination centre\n\nMany mosques are using their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab, while some imams are sharing photos of themselves getting the jab on social media.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced £23m funding for a network of \"community champions\" to spread accurate information and provide support for people in at-risk groups including older people, disabled people and ethnic minorities.\n\nOn Monday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick visited the UK's first vaccination centre to be opened in a mosque, at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham.\n\n\"It is absolutely brilliant to see faith communities like this stepping up and playing their part in the vaccine programme,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"We have to build trust, ensure that we counter misinformation and ensure that everyone, regardless of their faith, regardless of what community they're from, gets access to the programme.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "Transfer tests normally used by grammar schools have been cancelled this year\n\nOne of NI's most prominent grammar schools has said it will use primary school test scores to decide which pupils to admit in 2021.\n\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution said it would \"adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school\".\n\nThat is despite the vast majority of grammar schools not planning to use academic criteria this year.\n\nThe tests run by the AQE and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) were cancelled in early 2021.\n\nAs a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are drawing up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021.\n\nBanbridge Academy, Bangor Grammar, Belfast Royal Academy and Regent House are among those to have published their admissions criteria for 2021.\n\nNone of those schools are using academic criteria, but pupils applying will have to have entered the AQE transfer test.\n\nSome other grammars like Thornhill College and St Columb's College in Londonderry, which decided in 2020 not to use the PPTC transfer test in 2021, have also published admissions criteria.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) said it was \"committed to the principle that a child should be placed in a school which offers a curriculum best suited to the aptitudes of that child\".\n\n\"For this reason RBAI believes that the use of academic criteria for admission to grammar schools is the outworking of that principle,\" the school said.\n\n\"Accordingly, in the absence of AQE and PPTC tests for admissions, RBAI will adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school.\"\n\nRBAI said scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests will be taken into account\n\nThe school is planning to use standardised scores in the Progress Test in English (PTE) and Progress Test in Maths (PTM) which pupils sat in Primary Five to decide which pupils to admit.\n\nRBAI said that school year was \"the most recent one which has not been interrupted\".\n\nPupils scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests taken under supervision by a teacher will also be taken into account.\n\n\"RBAI is satisfied that this is a reasonable and robust way of selecting pupils based on academic aptitude in the absence of a bespoke test,\" the school said.\n\nRBAI normally admits 150 pupils each year, but received 227 applications for places in 2020.\n\nThe admissions criteria for all post-primary schools will be published on the Education Authority (EA) website on 2 February.\n\nThe UUP assembly member Robbie Butler had proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nBut Education Minister Peter Weir had said there would be \"major problems\" with that approach.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "The UK government should cancel the debt owed by developing countries struggling with the impact of Covid-19, MPs have said.\n\nThe International Development Committee warned that the pandemic was fuelling extreme poverty and food insecurity.\n\nIt was also disrupting routine healthcare, such as tuberculosis immunisations, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was spending £1.3bn to protect livelihoods, improve health systems and distribute vaccines.\n\nMore than two million people around the world have died after contracting coronavirus, with almost 100 million cases reported.\n\nAppearing before the Commons International Development Committee, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he wanted the UK to be a \"force for good in the world\" as it fought the pandemic.\n\nHe defended the government's decision to cut overseas aid spending next year, saying there were \"no easy choices\" given the hit to the public finances from the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts mean the UK will fail to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid in 2021-2, a target that was enshrined into UK law in 2015.\n\nMr Raab said he hoped the UK would be able to reach 0.7% again as \"soon as possible\" but this would only happen once the long-term damage to the UK's balance sheet had been \"corrected\".\n\nLabour said the government was \"betraying the world's poorest.\"\n\nShadow international development secretary Preet Kaur Gill said: \"This move signals a retreat from the world stage, damages the UK's reputation and will only show our allies and detractors that Britain under Boris Johnson is no longer interested in fulfilling our moral or legal responsibilities.\n\n\"Labour are committed to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on aid to tackle global poverty and injustice and will oppose any attempt from this government to damage this country's reputation.\"\n\nMr Raab said he took seriously warnings from Conservative MPs and ex-ministers that to press ahead with the cuts without passing new legislation would be unlawful.\n\nFormer Solicitor General Lord Garnier said earlier on Tuesday that Mr Raab's \"reputation\" and the government's domestic and international standing would be damaged if it was seen to \"flout a clear legal obligation\".\n\nIn tough financial times, Mr Raab said the UK needed to \"make the most\" of its £10bn spending, avoiding \"salami-slicing\" budgets and focusing on a handful of priorities such as climate, biodiversity, conflict prevention and helping the \"bottom billions\" out of extreme poverty.\n\n\"I think we should unabashedly be proud and confident about the moral responsibility we have to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, I see a range of grittier strategic interests in dealing with climate change and humanitarian suffering and indeed trade.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office took over responsibility for overseas aid in September after absorbing the Department for International Development.\n\nOn debt cancellation, the committee said that, due to disruption caused by the pandemic, millions of people in developing countries were more at risk from diseases such as tuberculosis because of missed immunisations.\n\nMillions were more likely to lose their livelihoods because of the global recession and millions of women were more exposed to sexual violence.\n\nThe MPs want the government to provide more aid to address the problems and cancel long-term national debt that was diverting cash away from those in need.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"We'll only be safe from coronavirus when we're all safe - which is why the UK is leading global efforts to fight this pandemic, committing up to £1.3bn of new UK aid to find and equitably distribute a vaccine, strengthen health systems, protect livelihoods and support the global economy.\"\n\nThey added that the UK would use its 2021 presidency of the G7 group of leading economies \"to help the world build back stronger and fairer after the pandemic\".\n\nThis would include \"promoting open societies, championing gender equality and girls' education, and setting out new international approaches to global health security and climate action\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe UK has announced it will step up its efforts to help other countries, including some of the poorest in the world, to find new variants of Covid-19.\n\nIn a speech in London, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK would share its world-leading genomics expertise worldwide to help countries identify new mutations of the virus and protect global health security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "A senior judge prevented the BBC from properly reporting a £2.6m legal claim against Scotland's child abuse inquiry, a court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard how Lady Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), faced an employment tribunal claim in 2019.\n\nLady Smith passed orders which stopped detail of the action being reported.\n\nThe top judge denied any wrongdoing in regard to the claim that was later abandoned.\n\nThe employment tribunal case alleging discrimination, harassment and victimisation was from a former senior member of the inquiry legal team.\n\nBBC Scotland has raised a judicial review of the SCAI restriction orders, arguing they were beyond the powers of Lady Smith and her involvement in the case meant any restriction decision should have been made by the employment tribunal.\n\nBut Roddy Dunlop QC, advocate for the SCAI, told the Court of Session the corporation's case was academic as the original restriction order had been overtaken by another order.\n\nMr Dunlop also argued the BBC had not spelled out to the SCAI what detail it wanted to publish in relation to the tribunal.\n\nKenneth McBrearty QC, acting for the broadcaster, told the court the purpose of the original restriction order was, \"not merely to prohibit disclosure or publication of the documents. It was to prohibit disclosure or publication of the very existence of the proceedings\".\n\nHe said: \"It is in effect what is equivalent to what in England has been described as a super injunction. That is what in effect it amounts to because it prohibits even the disclosure of the proceedings.\n\n\"The importance of this case lies with the way the Restriction Order impinged on the open justice principle. If there was a need for an order restricting the disclosure of any material, that is an order to be sought from the employment judge.\"\n\nThe case before Lord Boyd is being heard at the Court of Session\n\nThe Court of Session heard the employment tribunal claim for £2.6m damages was brought in July, 2019, by the inquiry's former lead junior counsel, John Halley.\n\nA news release, issued by SCAI in October 2019, confirmed existence of the claim and a denial that Lady Smith had discriminated against Mr Halley. An initial hearing took place that month and Mr Halley abandoned the tribunal two months later.\n\nBut Mr McBrearty QC said the SCAI press release did not include the full outline of the claim\n\nHe said: \"All that the media was to be entitled to publish was that which the respondent had considered able to include in a press release in circumstances to which the respondent was herself party in the proceedings.\"\n\nThe BBC is seeking declarators from the Court of Session stating that Lady Smith's restriction orders were unlawful.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC said the BBC had the option to present to Lady Smith what it wanted to report on in the case, as per the detail of the media restriction order, and then get her permission to publish but failed to do so.\n\nHe said: \"That simple request is all that needed to be done and it wasn't resorted to. That's why the alternative remedy aspect of this is a problem to the BBC.\n\n\"There needs to be a practical effect, the entitlement to publish could have been obtained at any point by asking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop pointed out that the original restriction orders objected to by the BBC have now been replaced by a new order issued in March last year.\n\nHe said: \"What is the point of challenging orders which cease to have any potency.\n\n\"Why is it we continue to expend grey matter, and more importantly public funds on both sides, in fighting on something which is in any view within the terms of the reference [of the SCAI inquiry] and within article ten [of Human Rights legislation].\"\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Dunlop will continue his submissions before Lord Boyd.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFunding agency Sport England - which has already invested £220m since the start of the crisis - announced the additional money as part of a new 10-year strategy.\n\nThousands of clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms have been forced to shut in recent months.\n\nWith many children having done no sport outside of PE lessons since the start of November, and schools now shut across the county, emphasis will be placed on supporting young people to get active.\n\nEarlier this month, figures showed the majority of young people failed to meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily exercise in the last academic year. Almost a third of children were classed as 'inactive' as a result of the first lockdown, not even doing 30 minutes.\n\nAnother focus in the new 'Uniting the Movement' strategy will be tackling the long-standing inequalities that have existed within the sport sector and reinforced by the recent disruption.\n\nNew data shows the pandemic has disproportionately affected people from lower socio-economic groups and BAME backgrounds, for whom there was already a clear pattern of low activity.\n\n\"This strategy comes at a critical time\" said Tim Hollingsworth, the chief executive of Sport England.\n\n\"We have made significant funding available, but many organisations are struggling, and activity levels have taken a significant hit.\n\n\"At the heart of all this is a ruthless focus on providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind.\"\n\nAndy Reed, Chair of the Sport for Development Coalition, said: \"The impact of the pandemic, growing social challenges and subsequent widening inequalities mean we urgently need a new social contract with sport and physical activity, focused on the wider social outcomes that sport can deliver.\"\n\n\"We must expand understanding, recognition and investment in the contribution that sport can make beyond health and wellbeing, to addressing loneliness and social isolation, improving educational attainment and employability, to community cohesion, and reducing anti-social behaviour and entry into the justice system.\"\n\nA group of more than 50 sports bodies have called for a new government action plan and emergency funding to help them survive the pandemic. The Save Our Sports campaign has warned that the activity sector - which employs nearly 600,000 people in the UK and contributes £16bn to the economy each year - faces an unprecedented crisis.\n\nHuw Edwards, the chief executive of Ukactive, which represents the physical activity industry, said: \"Crucially, before the sector begins its recovery from the impact of Covid-19, it must first survive it.\n\n\"The publication of this strategy needs to be accompanied by a new level of urgency and commitment from the government that it will not leave parts of this sector behind, and provide the necessary financial and regulatory support so desperately needed.\"\n\nBut Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said it was \"placing sport and physical activity at the heart of its coronavirus recovery plan, and Sport England's new strategy provides a strong base to invest in sports organisations, facilities and people\".\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nIt could take 18 months to draw up plans to rebuild a bridge which was swept away during last week's Storm Christoph, a council has warned.\n\nLlanerch bridge, between Trefnant and Tremeirchion in Denbighshire, is a backroad link to the A55.\n\nThe grade II-listed bridge crosses the River Clwyd and villagers now face a seven-mile detour.\n\nMeanwhile, some people in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, can return home later after flooding caused by the storm.\n\nDenbighshire council said diversions would go through St Asaph while Llanerch bridge was repaired.\n\n\"It means it takes much longer now to go from Tremeirchion to Trefnant or St Asaph,\" he said.\n\n\"I know of one couple that have a horse in stables on the other side of the river - so it's a seven-mile journey each way, twice a day, for them now.\n\n\"It's quite a challenge and we're starting to think about how long we'll need to live with it. Are we talking a year, two, three, or maybe much longer than that?\"\n\nVale of Clwyd Conservative MP James Davies said the bridge should be rebuilt: \"There are many who would wish to see the bridge replaced like-for-like, although I appreciate that the new structure will need to take into account the challenges posed by modern-day and projected river flows.\"\n\nDenbighshire council's Meirick Lloyd Davies suggested the structure could be widened, similar to the one in Llangollen.\n\nBut the Trefnant ward councillor added: \"We will need money from the Welsh Government and I hope the UK government are also ready to throw something into the bucket because it is very expensive.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We will seek to resolve this as soon as we are able.\n\n\"Final plans for the bridge will involve a number of third parties and it could take up to 18 months or more to resolve.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the condition of the structure was the responsibility of the owner, with local authorities having powers to ensure listed structures were preserved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nSouth Wales was also hit by Storm Christoph on Thursday and in Skewen about 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft, causing a \"blow out\" which flooded properties.\n\nThose living in Jubilee Crescent and Dunevor Road have been told they can return home, but others will have to wait until the Coal Authority has made further investigations.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones told Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"We haven't got the exact figures of the number of people who will be able to return home today, there's going to be further assessments this morning.\n\n\"As early as we can, we will release the names of the streets of those people who will be able to go back, but it will be conditional. They need to go back in a controlled manner. We've still got Covid around.\"\n\nHe added houses would need to have their electrics checked and information would be provided on how to do this.\n\nOther people have been warned it could take months before they can go home.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.\n\nIt has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading.\n\nThe initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be \"resistant to manipulation attempts\".\n\nCompanies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms.\n\nTwitter said on Monday: \"We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying.\"\n\nTwitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform.\n\nThe pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be \"misleading or false\", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site.\n\nAdditional notes and flags would then be placed on to content.\n\nTwitter says this new approach could help it respond more quickly when misleading information spreads.\n\n\"Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors,\" Twitter said.\n\nTwitter already adds labels to some misleading news. For example, many of Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud were labelled by the company.\n\nTwitter also reserves the right to remove tweets - and in extreme circumstances ban users - which it did with the US president after the riots in Washington earlier this month.\n\nTwitter, though, wants to go further: \"We don't want to limit efforts to circumstances where something breaks our rules or receives widespread public attention,\" said Twitter's Vice-President Keith Coleman.\n\nParticipants will have to provide a verified phone number and email to take part, in a bid to keep bots and bad actors away, as well as having no recent rule violations against their Twitter account.\n\nPresident Biden said in his inauguration speech that: \"We must reject a culture where facts are manipulated, or even manufactured.\"\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Parents and teachers say they are \"frustrated\" schools will be shut until the February half term and fear the impact it will have on children.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Wales' phone-in, one caller said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".\n\nSo how have parents, pupils and professionals reacted to the announcement that schools may not reopen until 22 February?\n\nDr Dai Samuel welcomed the news as a consultant treating Covid patients - but as a dad he feels some \"trepidation\"\n\nDr Dai Samuel, a consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is also a father and lives in one of the worst-hit areas in Wales.\n\nHe said he had mixed feelings about the decision as he had \"two hats on\" - one as an NHS doctor treating Covid patients and the other as a dad.\n\n\"The hospitals are full and the ITU units only have beds now because they've expanded that capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very precarious position and I just hope that this measure now for the next three to six weeks will hopefully allow us to get through this winter, allow the vaccines to take effect and get us out of this mess come the spring and summer.\n\n\"I'm a doctor so, from a medical point of view, yes [the decision is] a massive sigh of relief, but as a father and someone who lives in Merthyr - a town that's been hit already significantly by the virus and the economical impacts of that - I've got some sort of trepidation because I fear that those businesses now that still remain closed will suffer and will go under.\n\n\"What will happen to that generation of children now who might not get the education they deserve and would have had otherwise… who won't achieve what they could have?\"\n\nTrying to home-school four young children and work is a \"challenge\", said Kaarina Rutta Reuter from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind, 'I should also be working and doing other things',\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen. It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment. I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nThe pressures of juggling home-schooling with her career mean she is working at night when the children have gone to bed.\n\n\"I don't even try to work during the day with the children around because I've just realised it's just not possible.\n\n\"My husband is working full-time but I'm only working part-time, I'm teaching at university so I still have quite flexible hours - apart from obviously teaching hours - it just means that I have to work in the evening or over the weekend, just organise yourself differently.\"\n\nShe said it was \"best not to have too high expectations\" when it came to guessing when lockdown would end and schools would reopen.\n\n\"Like we saw in the first lockdown in spring, in the end it was quite a bit longer than we had all thought,\" she said.\n\n\"I would hope they could go back in March, that's my hope for now but I think we'll just have to wait and see what will happen with the numbers over the next few weeks, months and just take it from there really.\"\n\nA father called Ron, from Bridgend, told the phone-in with Dot Davies he was predominantly worried about the effects on children, particularly in the south Wales valleys.\n\n\"I just see children deteriorating on a regular basis. I can only speak about my own - I have a teenage daughter and her mental health, her lack of access to her school, her teachers, to her peers, will cause more harm than the virus will cause children.\n\n\"It feels like we are asking our children to donate their kidneys to the vulnerable. We are throwing them under the bus as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nAnna, 16, who is studying for her GCSEs at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, Swansea, said the decision to keep schools and colleges closed was \"a big disappointment\".\n\n\"The idea of staying in the house until February fills me with dread because we've been in the house for months,\" she told Newyddion.\n\nAfter a case of Covid-19 in her school, she said she had to self-isolate, adding: \"It's been an age since I last saw my friends, went to school, and really learned.\n\n\"It's really hard. We've been back in school since Wednesday and doing everything online but it's nigh-on impossible. It's not the same.\n\n\"It's really hard to learn. There's this feeling of 'why am I even bothering?' - I really want to go back but I appreciate that might not be possible because people are dying. It's not an easy situation.\"\n\nHer mock assessments before her final assessments - which were brought in to replace exams - have been cancelled until the return to school, which she said has taken away some of the pressure.\n\n\"Without practising, there's a lot of uncertainty. What's going to be in the assessment? So, it is nice to hear they've cancelled them. It's a difficult situation so cancelling them takes a bit of the pressure off children and young people my age.\"\n\nMother-of-three Amanda Williams from Bridgend told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she was glad schools would remain closed and hoped it would minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"I don't believe schools are safe to open at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Until they can classify exactly what the main symptoms are in children I think it's a risk to send children back to school and it's a risk with these new variants.\"\n\nMrs Williams lives in Bridgend county borough, where infection rates are the highest among all Welsh local authority areas. One of her relatives is currently on a ventilator at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital with Covid-19.\n\n\"In the last week I've heard of a lot of people passing away such as friends of friends. It's starting to get closer to home.\"\n\nSarah Curley, a maths teacher and mother of twins, also from Bridgend, said she would \"rather be in school\" but agreed schools remaining shut was the \"safest option\".\n\nShe said: \"In school each day I come into contact with 100-odd pupils and we don't wear PPE.\"\n\nMs Curley said she was glad her school, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen in Bridgend, would not be welcoming students back on Monday, as originally planned, because of the area's high infection rates.\n\n\"My anxiety was through the roof around Christmas. I could see the numbers going up and I was thinking, 'I've got to go back into school next week'.\"", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War\n\nThe Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the face of a new $20 bill.\n\nA note featuring Ms Tubman, who was born a slave in about 1822, was originally due to be unveiled in 2020.\n\nThe US Treasury said she would replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner.\n\nBut the effort was delayed under former President Donald Trump, who branded it \"pure political correctness\".\n\nNow President Joe Biden has revived the project, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters the Treasury was \"exploring ways to speed up\" the process.\n\nThe move would make Ms Tubman the first African American to appear on a US banknote, and the first woman for more than 100 years.\n\n\"It's important that our notes, our money - if people don't know what a note is - reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman's image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,\" Ms Psaki said on Monday.\n\nA mock-up of the new $20 note\n\nThe women last depicted on US notes were former First Lady Martha Washington, on the $1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896, and Native American Pocahontas, in a group image on the $20 bill from 1865 to 1869.\n\nHowever, given the complexities of redesigning and producing US banknotes, the bill is not expected to be released any time soon.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the redesign would be delayed until at least 2026. At the time, he said he was focused on redesigning bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making changes to their imagery.\n\nMr Trump, an admirer of his populist predecessor Andrew Jackson - whose portrait hung in his office - expressed opposition to the redesign.\n\nWhile campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump suggested that Ms Tubman be put on the $2 bill instead.\n\nBorn into slavery in about 1822, Ms Tubman grew up working in the cotton fields in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was the fourth of nine children born to two enslaved parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Rit.\n\nAs a teenager, she was hit in the head by an iron weight thrown by an overseer, leaving her severely injured.\n\nShe escaped from a slave plantation in 1849, fleeing north to the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.\n\nIn the years that followed, Ms Tubman returned multiple times to Maryland to rescue others, conducting them along the so-called \"underground railroad\", a network of safe houses used to spirit slaves from the south to the free states in the north.\n\nShe is estimated to have made some 13 missions to rescue more than 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network.\n\nLater, she became a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a prominent supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and a famous veteran of the struggle for the abolition of slavery.\n\nAfter the war, Ms Tubman toured eastern cities giving speeches in support of women's suffrage, drawing on her experiences in the fight against slavery.\n\nShe died in 1913, aged 91, surrounded by her family.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a recent investigation into mother-and-baby homes in the Republic of Ireland\n\nA report into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland is expected to be published later.\n\nThe Stormont-commissioned research was carried out by Queen's University and Ulster University.\n\nIt examined whether a public inquiry should be held into the homes.\n\nAmnesty has estimated about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the institutions operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and other religious organisations.\n\nSome survivors, both unmarried pregnant mothers who were brought to the facilities and children who were later adopted, have long called for a public inquiry.\n\nThe NI Executive is currently meeting to discuss the report and its recommendations.\n\nFirst Minster Arlene Foster tweeted to say she had spoken to survivors of the homes about the report and the next steps.\n\nShe described it as \"a shameful chapter\", adding: \"Now the silence is broken and their stories have rightfully begun to be told\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arlene Foster #WeWillMeetAgain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said earlier that Tuesday's research \"breaks the silence\" around what happened.\n\nShe added that \"what happened was so, so wrong\", and that her thoughts were with the survivors \"who deserve answers to their many questions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe report was commissioned by the Department of Health in 2018 and assessed the period from 1922 to 1999.\n\nIt was completed in February 2020 but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, representing the group Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice NI, said many women were branded as \"fallen\" after becoming pregnant outside marriage and were forced to carry out unpaid labour.\n\nThis \"abuse\", she said, happened on both sides of the Irish border.\n\n\"The state in Northern Ireland not only permitted what happened, but also policed it,\" she added.\n\nAmnesty said there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby home and Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in NI, with the last one closing its doors as recently as 1990.\n\nPatrick Corrigan, NI programme director of Amnesty International, said the report would \"shed new light on the appalling extent and vast scale of the suffering experienced by generations of women and girls in these institutions\".\n\nThe human rights organisation has written to the first and deputy first ministers urging them to meet survivors of mother-and-baby homes.\n\n\"It's time for ministers to listen to the survivors - both the women and girls forced into the homes and the children born there,\" said Mr Corrigan.\n\nThe publication of the report in Northern Ireland comes after a similar investigation into mother-and-baby homes and laundries in the Republic of Ireland, which prompted an apology from Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Mícheál Martin.\n\nThis report found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\".\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions which were investigated.\n\nMr Martin said there had been \"profound and generational wrong\", adding it was a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, NI's first and deputy first ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill met the Irish Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman.\n\nBoth Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill said there was a need for the executive and the Irish government to work together in sharing information and to support survivors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time out of school has affected some children who have not established their language skills\n\nParents in English-speaking homes whose children go to Welsh-language schools need more support during lockdown, the Welsh language commissioner has said.\n\nSome parents said time away from face-to-face schooling was affecting younger children who have not fully established their language skills.\n\nOne mother said \"not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had given guidance to Welsh-medium schools.\n\nThere are 65,000 children in Welsh-medium or bilingual primary schools across Wales.\n\nCardiff council estimated more than 70% of children in Welsh-medium education in the city did not speak Welsh at home.\n\nWelsh language commissioner Aled Roberts said any parents concerned about remote learning in should let the school and teachers know in the first instance.\n\nHowever, he said it should be ensured there were \"as many resources as possible to support them\" at a national level and these policies should \"recognise the huge investment that these people are making [into] Welsh-medium education\".\n\nAngela Crabtree said her nine-year-old daughter Ffion had to help her younger sisters\n\nAngela Crabtree, from Caerphilly, said her daughters were partly reliant on her eldest child Ffion to translate Welsh schoolwork.\n\nMs Crabtree, who is on furlough, said keeping up Welsh-language skills had been a challenge for her three daughters, Ffion, Natalie and Chloe, who go to Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili.\n\n\"It's hard if they ask you a question, not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with,\" she said.\n\nNatalie and Chloe are partly reliant on their older sister Ffion to translate Welsh work during lockdown\n\n\"The school has been really good in sending things back bilingually, but I've still got the challenge of trying to make sure that the girls look at the Welsh first.\n\n\"Off the back of the first lockdown I think what suffered most was their Welsh language, especially the middle child, going from the infants to the juniors - her Welsh comprehension fell behind a bit.\"\n\nLisa Jane Thomas, from Cardiff, said she was concerned her youngest child, who attends a Welsh-medium school, was going to be disadvantaged.\n\n\"These are really critical stages and to have so much timeout, it does worry me that may be putting her back [and] is going to make it more difficult for her longer term,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas said she felt there \"ought to be more recognition\" and more could be offered to help parents and children.\n\nYsgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili headteacher Lynn Griffiths said parents make a \"conscious decision\" to send children to Welsh-medium schools\n\nHead teacher of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili, Lynn Griffiths, said of almost 440 pupils at the school, three families spoke to him about issues with Welsh-language learning.\n\nMr Griffiths said it was \"a rarity\" after one family that chose not to send their child back to the school this year, while the two other \"listened to what support we can provide them to enable them to do the best for their children\".\n\n\"But also let's not forget our parents have made a conscious decision to send their children to a Welsh medium school because they want their children to be fully bilingual and the advantages that will give them,\" he said.\n\nCampaign group Parents for Welsh medium education said it was launching new website end of this month to help parents by collating Welsh language resources in one place, due to the extra pressure of lockdown home-schooling.\n\nElin Maher, who is a part of the group, said: \"Obviously, we do acknowledge that acquiring language is done best in the classroom, with the teacher at the front and to be surrounded by the language - we want to reassure parents that the language will be there.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, which has a target of one million people speaking Welsh by 2050, said it appreciated the challenges all parents faced with learning at home.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have provided guidance to schools to help them during the pandemic, which includes dedicated support for Welsh-medium learners whose families don't speak Welsh.\n\n\"This includes advice for parents and carers on how they can support their children to use the Welsh language while at home.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maaike Neuféglise said she found blood on the floor of her shop alongside upturned stands and damaged equipment\n\nThe Dutch government says it will not lift a curfew, after a third night of violent protests against increased Covid curbs across the Netherlands.\n\nShops in Rotterdam and other cities were looted and Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: \"It's scum doing this\". More than 180 arrests have been made.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe criminal violence had to stop, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\nShop-owners in Rotterdam, Den Bosch and other cities spent Tuesday morning cleaning up the debris from Monday night's violence.\n\nRotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb sent a passionate message to \"shameless thieves\" who had caused the damage: \"Does it make you feel good that you've helped ruin your city? To wake up with a bag full of stolen stuff beside you?\"\n\nA night-time curfew from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 was imposed last Saturday to halt the spread of the virus. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine. Mr Hoekstra said they would not \"capitulate to a few idiots\" and anyone who caused damage should be tracked down and be made to pay for it.\n\nSome of the worst damage was caused in the southern city of Den Bosch\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly a million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nRiot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Most of the rioters were youths or young men, and Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks.\n\nIn Den Bosch in the south, rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars. A local woman told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" she said.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nRoads into Den Bosch were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe region's chief prosecutor, Heleen Rutgers, urged parents to ensure teenagers stayed at home. \"Start talking about how to respond to calls on social media to go and turn up somewhere,\" she told public broadcaster NOS.\n\nIn some southern cities, such as Maastricht and Breda, football fans marched through the centres promising to protect them from rioters. Ex-football international Robin van Persie appealed to people in Rotterdam to keep \"our beautiful city\" intact.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon against the rioters, the mayor signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest.\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. The justice minister said he challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nIn Den Bosch, Maaike Neuféglise said the damage to her shop was heartbreaking and ran into thousands of euros. \"Everything's ruined. I saw the videos, it was a complete invasion. There must have been 40 people in our store,\" she told broadcaster Omroep Brabant.\n\nThe city's mayor said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People were vaccinated at Cwmbran Stadium on Tuesday\n\nA pledge that 70% of the over-80s would get the Covid-19 vaccine by last weekend was missed, the Welsh Government has admitted.\n\nWeather has been blamed for the problem with figures showing 96,830, or 52.8%, had their first dose.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said many over-80s felt unsafe attending appointments amid the snow and ice.\n\nThe pledge had been made by Health Minister Vaughan Gething in the Senedd, last week.\n\nBut earlier, Mr Gething said that as well as missed appointments, five mass vaccination centres were affected by the conditions and \"a range of additional GP clinics didn't go ahead\".\n\nLatest data shows almost 97,000 of the most vulnerable have had a dose - but there is a lag and it can take up to five days for doses injected to be included in the figures. At least 289,566 people have had a first dose - 9.2% of the population.\n\nThat compares to 10.6% in England, 8.6% in Northern Ireland and 8% in Scotland.\n\nMr Drakeford told First Minister's Questions earlier: \"We will not reach the 70% for over-80s because of the interruption to the programme of vaccination that happened on Sunday and on Monday morning.\n\nA pledge 70% of over-80s would be inoculated by last weekend was missed\n\n\"I won't have people over-80 feeling pressurised to come out to be vaccinated when they themselves decide that it is not safe for them to do so.\"\n\nHe said all of those people would have been offered a further opportunity to be vaccinated by the end of Wednesday.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford said Wales was on track to meet plans to offer everybody in the top four priority groups (those aged 70 or over) a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nAround 23,700 first doses a day would need to be given for the first four priority groups to be have a vaccine offered by 14 February.\n\nOn the latest seven day rolling average, it would take 25 days.\n\nBut Mr Davies said: \"Welsh Conservatives would have been the first to congratulate the Welsh Government and its health minister had the target been reached on Friday, but that target has been missed.\n\n\"It's the same old Labour story of taking credit when things go well but look to blame anyone and everything else when it goes wrong.\"\n\nIn the Senedd, he accused the government of running a \"postcode lottery\" for vaccinations, which Mr Drakeford denied.\n\nThe first minister said figures had gone from 162,000 people being vaccinated last week to 230,000 this Tuesday.\n\nHe said that was \"the fastest rate of increase in any part of the United Kingdom\", and accused Mr Davies of wanting to \"run it down\".\n\n\"He leads a Conservative party in Wales, which has reverted to its 19th Century type - for Wales, see England.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he did not think \"blaming snow over the weekend holds water\".\n\n\"Snow did cause problems in certain areas but the problem was that you were still on 24% of over-80s in the middle of last week. There was too high a mountain to climb,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the weather was an \"obvious factor\" on both Sunday and Monday.\n\nIn a statement, he said more than 11,000 care home residents - 67% of the priority group - had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nOver 65% of Welsh Ambulance Service staff had also taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"We have seen a significant escalation in the pace of vaccine deployment here in Wales over the last couple of weeks,\" he told Members of the Senedd (MSs).", "Leaders in the US House of Representatives have officially delivered their article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate, the first step in beginning his trial.\n\nRead more: Trump impeachment trial delayed until next month", "Anyone entering Australia has to undergo a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine\n\nAustralia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.\n\nThe comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.\n\nDepartment of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus' escalation in other nations.\n\nDr Murphy spearheaded Australia's early action to close its borders last March.\n\n\"I think that we'll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.\n\n\"Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don't know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,\" he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue \"for some time\".\n\nCitizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.\n\nDr Brendan Murphy (left) was Australia's chief medical officer and now leads the Department of Health\n\nQantas - Australia's national carrier - reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to \"begin to restart from July 2021.\"\n\nHowever, it added this depended on the Australian government's deciding to reopen borders.\n\nThe country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.\n\nAustralia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.\n\nA passenger from New Zealand arriving at Sydney Airport last October\n\nA vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.\n\nAustralia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.\n\nExperts have attributed much of Australia's success to its swift border lockdown - which affected travellers from China as early as February - and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.\n\nLocal outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city's residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.\n\nOther outbreaks - including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people - prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.\n\nThe state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated \"hotspots\", following a decline in cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel abroad UK: How to fly during a global pandemic\n\nWhile the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.\n\nDr Murphy said overall Australia's virus response had been \"pretty good\" but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.\n\nIn recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent - which has recorded at least nine infections - is under quarantine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was spat at working as an ambulance paramedic'\n\nAfter experiencing its most difficult period of the entire Covid-19 pandemic in December, the boss of Welsh Ambulance Service said it was still under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nAt one stage, 400 staff - 12% of all workers - were sick or self-isolating.\n\nJason Killens said this was exacerbated by high call numbers and \"significant delays\" handing patients to hospitals.\n\nOne paramedic described questioning whether he was in the right job after being spat at during the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive said it meant \"patients with less serious conditions waited much longer than we would like\".\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter was assaulted by someone who spat at him\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter, describing the pressure he and colleagues were under, said at one point an incident caused him to question whether he wanted to continue working.\n\n\"During the peak of the pandemic last year, I was assaulted by a member of the public where I was spat at in the face,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's really the only time that I've stopped and gone: 'Is this for me?'\"\n\nHowever the \"vast majority of the public\" had been \"absolutely fantastic\", he stressed, adding: \"We've had people waving at us, buying us coffee.\"\n\nLuke Robinson and Stan Baxter must wear more protective equipment when they help patients\n\nFor his work partner, Luke Robinson, their job made it clear how coronavirus had made a resurgence across the country.\n\n\"I worked New Year's Eve and I responded to a number of incidents which involved just regular health complaints,\" he said.\n\n\"But next door or in the adjacent building there's people having parties and you can tell that there's large gatherings going on. And it's really frustrating because it really hammers home that some people aren't listening to the rules.\n\n\"And it's not surprising that we're seeing a second wave now.\"\n\nMr Killens said the pressure was now \"palpably less\" compared to last month, but admitted difficult weeks lie ahead.\n\n\"December was probably the most pressurised period during the whole pandemic for a number of reasons,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff that were symptomatic or isolating, that's been at its peak in December.\n\n\"We've seen more work both in the 111 and 999 service, that is patients contacting us with Covid-related symptoms, and of course because of the pressure on the rest of the NHS, we've seen extended handover at some of our emergency departments and what that's meant regrettably is some less serious patients have waited a lot longer in the community than I would have expected.\"\n\nSoldiers have been helping to relieve pressure on ambulance staff\n\nThe ambulance service has been at its highest level of alert - described as \"extreme pressure\" - since early December.\n\nIt was so bad at the beginning of the month, the service had to declare a \"critical incident\", because of severe problems in south east Wales in particular - and one man had to wait 19 hours in an ambulance outside a hospital.\n\nThis strain has been partly blamed for deteriorating ambulance response times, with the situation exacerbated by the fact hospitals are struggling.\n\nAmbulances spent more than 11,661 hours outside emergency departments waiting to transfer patients in December - an equivalent to a total of more than 485 days. The average delay was one hour and eight minutes.\n\nThe Ambulance Service has been hit by high numbers of staff sick or self-isolating\n\n\"We would usually see handover delays through winter - but what's unique this time is the overlay of the pandemic,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"There has to be additional distancing, this means less capacity in emergency departments.\n\n\"Testing also needs to be done before patients are admitted - the additional complexities mean the process is slower and there's less space for patients to go into.\"\n\nHe said the impact of implementing Covid precautions is also affecting how quickly crews can respond.\n\n\"As a result of the virus, we're having to clean vehicles and equipment more frequently and thoroughly than before,\" Mr Killens said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Also there are levels for personal protective equipment that staff have to wear to protect themselves and others. Level three - the highest in some cases.\n\n\"And it takes a number of minutes for crews to put that on before staff treat the patients.\"\n\nTo bolster staffing levels and speed up response times, about 80 soldiers are assisting the Welsh Ambulance Service for the second time since the start of the pandemic - along with smaller number of staff from other services like the fire service.\n\n\"They are driving emergency ambulances for us... which means an emergency ambulance clinician can look after the patient,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"They'll drive the ambulance from the scene to hospital... it enables us to put more ambulances on the streets to respond to patients more quickly given the levels of absence that we've seen.\"\n\nParamedics now have to carry out a more rigorous and time-consuming cleaning regime\n\nAfter facing relentless pressure for close to a year, Mr Killens is worried about the impact on mental health and well-being of ambulance and control centre staff.\n\nThe service is focused on \"what we can do to keep them fit and well\", he said.\n\nBut he praised staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" - and insists some of the lessons learnt during the last year will benefit the service during the longer term.\n\n\"I've been in the ambulance sector for 25 years and this is like dealing with a very long incident,\" said Mr Killens.\n\n\"So, a major incident an emergency service routinely responds to generally will be over in a couple of hours. But the level of pressure has been sustained now for 12 months.\n\n\"All of our people have stepped up and done what was necessary and got on with providing the best care in really difficult circumstances.... we will come through it and at the end of the pandemic and will be a stronger organisation for it.\"\n\nHe believes the service is now \"on the home straight\" in dealing with the pandemic.\n\n\"We've had two waves of this virus and learnt much along the way, and with a vaccine rollout we have a real opportunity now to see an end to the disruption, the personal impact and the level of death and harm,\" Mr Killens said.\n\n\"By the time we get to the other side of the spring, probably we will be able to return to some kind of normality whatever that will be 18 months into a pandemic.\n\n\"There's a couple of difficult weeks to come, but if we can emerge through February and March, provided we all stick to the rules, because it's easy for the virus to grab hold again if we get complacent .... we'll be in a far better position as we come to the spring.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "All travellers arriving in the UK will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test\n\nAll UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days.\n\nThe isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days in England, but it does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said the travel corridor closure will be in force until at least 15 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nUnder the new rules, travellers arriving from the Falklands, St Helena and Ascension Islands are exempt.\n\nThose arriving from some Caribbean islands are exempt until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 21 January.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that Public Health England would be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate.\n\nHe said enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\" and added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nPassengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport on Monday said they had been met with \"substantial\" queues at passport control and one couple complained they had \"felt unsafe\" due to what they described as poor social distancing.\n\nPassengers speak to staff at the entrance to the Covid-19 Testing Centre at Heathrow\n\nAndy Hart, from London, who had arrived into the UK from Nairobi, said: \"We felt that even though everyone was masked they were far too close together.\n\n\"It took an hour and 10 minutes. I've been flying 30 times a year for 20 years. I mean, once or twice have I ever seen it [airport queues] like this. How can this happen during Covid times?\"\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, the government announced that a financial support scheme for airports in England would open this month in response to the new travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the aim was to provide grants of up to £8m per applicant by the end of this financial year. The scheme was first announced in November but without a start date.\n\nIndustry groups have warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the closure of the travel corridors will not have a \"significant impact\" on his airline in the short term as flight numbers were already limited due to the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the minimum number of days arrivals must wait to take a negative test releasing them from quarantine could be reduced from five days to three days.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of trade body the Airport Operators Association, said she supported the decision to close the travel corridors but stressed the need for \"a clear pathway out\".\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe travel industry has said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Sunday, another 671 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 38,598 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "Now 20, he was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court after admitting inciting terrorism overseas\n\nThe youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from Blackburn, who can only be identified as RXG, sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian to launch attacks in 2015.\n\nHe was jailed for life that year after admitting inciting terrorism overseas.\n\nBut the Parole Board now says it is \"satisfied\" he is suitable for release.\n\n\"After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in detention, and the evidence presented at the hearings, the panel was satisfied that RXG was suitable for release,\" the board said in a document detailing the decision.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how at the age of 14, the boy adopted an older persona in messages to alleged Australian jihadist Sevdet Besim, 18, instructing him to kill police officers at the remembrance parade.\n\nHe sent thousands of messages suggesting Mr Besim get his \"first taste of beheading\" by attacking \"a proper lonely person\".\n\nAustralian police were alerted to the plot after British officers discovered material on the teenager's phone.\n\nA written summary of the Parole Board decision reveals that two hearings took place to consider the decision - hearings that included evidence from RXG himself.\n\nThe summary records that \"no-one at the hearing considered there to be a need for further time\" in custody and that \"all necessary work had been completed\".\n\nRXG, who became eligible for parole in October, is said to have \"undertaken extensive specialist work in detention to address his offending behaviour, his understanding of Islam and to develop his level of maturity\".\n\nThe Parole Board panel noted that \"considerable progress that had been made\", the summary records.\n\nLicense conditions for the 20-year-old a requirement to live at designated address, wearing an electronic tag, and limits on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nAnzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand\n\nA ban on identifying RXG, made when he was sentenced, would normally have expired on his 18th birthday, but a number of media organisations made representations to the High Court, arguing that he should be named.\n\nBut in 2019, the court ruled identifying him was likely to cause him \"serious harm\", and so granted him lifelong anonymity.\n\nThe decision taken by the judge, Dame Victoria Sharp, has only been made in a small number of cases.\n\nIn 2016, two brothers who had tortured other children in South Yorkshire were granted lifelong anonymity.\n\nLifelong anonymity under new identities was also been granted after release to Mary Bell, the Newcastle child killer; Maxine Carr, who obstructed police investigating the 2002 Soham murders by her partner Ian Huntley; and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger.", "Soaring shipping costs are likely to cause a bounce in the cost of trampolines in the UK this summer, according to one games retailer.\n\nJames Owen, owner of Outdoor Toys, says high transport costs and port congestion may mean larger toys such as swings, trampolines and climbing frames will be more expensive.\n\nTrampoline prices could soar by 40-50%, he told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money.\n\n\"The port congestion just keeps snowballing,\" he said.\n\n\"More and more issues keep arising,\" Mr Owen added. \"We can't get space out of China, there's a container shortage.\n\n\"Hauliers are really stretched, rates keep climbing.\"\n\nHis firm makes some products in the UK already and rising shipping costs will mean it will become economical to make more.\n\n\"For the first time ever, the ocean freight outweighs the cost of the item,\" in some cases, he said.\n\nDemand for Chinese goods has soared around the world in recent months, placing a strain on existing shipping capacity.\n\nThe price of shipping a 40-foot container on major world trade routes has almost tripled since a year ago, according to research firm Drewry.\n\nHauliers in the UK are also charging more. It used to cost about £650 to haul a container from the port of Felixstowe to the company's site in mid-Wales, Mr Owen says.\n\nThe cost is now up to £1,800 per container \"if you can get the haulier to take it,\" he says.\n\nWhether people will pay the premium for a new outdoor toy is \"a good question,\" he said.\n\nIt emerged over the weekend that Irish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland won by seven wickets; take 1-0 series lead\n\nEngland wrapped up a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test of a two-match series in Galle.\n\nResuming on 38-3, needing another 36 for victory, Jonny Bairstow and debutant Dan Lawrence carried England to their target inside 35 minutes on the final morning of an enthralling encounter.\n\nBairstow ended unbeaten on 35 and Lawrence 21, although the latter survived an lbw review against Dilruwan Perera and Sri Lanka did not refer another shout that replays suggested would have been overturned.\n\nAfter England slipped to 14-3 during a frantic end to day four, Bairstow and Lawrence's unbroken 62-run stand guided them to an ultimately comfortable win.\n\nThe second Test starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'It wasn't perfect but England's win ticked a lot of boxes'\n• None 'We are on an upward curve' - Root savours fourth straight away win\n\nEngland are now unbeaten in nine Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, they have won four consecutive overseas Tests for the first time since 1957, and boast five successive wins in Sri Lanka.\n\nVictory improved England's chances of reaching the inaugural World Test Championship final at Lord's in June. They remain fourth in the standings, with the two top sides playing in the final.\n\nEngland out of the blocks quickly\n\nRoot's side have been slow starters in series in recent years - they lost the opening Test against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 2019, and against West Indies last summer.\n\nHowever, Sunday's top-order wobble aside, they were rarely troubled in the first of six successive Tests on the subcontinent - an achievement made all the more impressive given they had one day of match practice before this game.\n\nRoot scored a magnificent 226 in the first innings, and off-spinner Dom Bess and slow left-armer Jack Leach, who returned match figures of 8-130 and 6-177 respectively, found more rhythm as the game progressed, which bodes well for the sterner four-Test series in India that follows this tour.\n\nLawrence can take considerable credit for his first-innings 73 and the manner in which he helped negate England's second-innings nerves alongside the efficient Bairstow, while wicketkeeper Jos Buttler was tidy behind the stumps throughout on a dry, turning pitch.\n\nSri Lanka, meanwhile, were left wondering what if. Their collapse to 135 all out on the first day was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", and even an extra 50 runs could have changed the course of this game.\n\n'Very impressive' - what they said\n\nEngland captain and player of the match Joe Root: \"To come here with the little preparation we have had and play in the manner we have is very impressive.\n\n\"We worked extremely hard and for the spinners to come out of the game with two five-fors is a great effort. Without the preparation, it is testament to their characters.\n\n\"It is a good start to the tour. We know we have to keep getting better but I am really pleased with the start we have had.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad on BBC Test Match Special: \"It looked like we could lose a wicket every ball last night. We were pretty happy when play finished last night.\n\n\"It felt calm here this morning. We had a job to do and felt we had enough in tank to chase 30-odd. To do it without losing a wicket is awesome.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"When I think about the preparation England have had, in Loughborough in a tent, one day in the middle in Sri Lanka and then rain, to put in this kind of performance is a great effort.\n\n\"I can't think Sri Lanka will gift England two poor days in the next Test - that match will be really tough.\n\n\"I am happy England have played in difficult conditions and won the game.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed in first innings with bat and ball. As a batting unit, especially playing at home, you have to get a big total in the first innings. It cost us the game.\n\n\"Everyone did their bit in the second innings. We played outstanding knocks in the second innings. We have to take the positives out of this.\"\n\nSri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur: \"The first innings was very poor - it was an unacceptable batting performance.\n\n\"Even if we get 220 in the first innings we keep ourselves massively in the game, so that's where it was lost. We did put it right in the second innings. But it was too late.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches including Manchester United's visit to Anfield: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "BT is facing a class action lawsuit over claims it failed to compensate elderly customers who were overcharged for landlines for years.\n\nIn 2017, Ofcom said people who only had a landline telephone were \"getting poor value for money in a market that is not serving them well enough\".\n\nAs a result, BT reduced the price of its landlines by £7 a month.\n\nBut campaigners are unhappy that \"loyal customers\" have still not been compensated for previous overcharging.\n\n\"Ofcom made it very clear that BT had spent years overcharging landline customers, but did not order it to repay the money it made from this,\" said Justin Le Patourel, founder of consumer group Collective Action on Landlines (CALL) and a telecoms consultant who worked for Ofcom for 13 years.\n\n\"We think millions of BT's most loyal landline customers could be entitled to compensation of up to £500 each, and the filing of this claim starts that process.\"\n\nBT said it \"strongly disagrees\" with the claim that it had engaged in anti-competitive behaviour and intends to defend itself \"vigorously\" in court.\n\nA spokesman for BT said: \"We take our responsibilities to older and more vulnerable customers very seriously and will defend ourselves against any claim that suggests otherwise.\n\n\"For many years we've offered discounted landline and broadband packages in what is a competitive market with competing options available, and we take pride in our work with elderly and vulnerable groups, as well as our work on the Customer Fairness agenda.\"\n\nLaw firm Mishcon de Reya has filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) worth £600m. The claim could result in payments of up to £500 each for 2.3 million BT customers, should it be successful.\n\nThe case represents customers who purchased a BT landline contract, but did not also take BT broadband or pay TV packages.\n\nSince 2009, the wholesale costs of providing landlines to consumers have been falling by at least 25%.\n\nBut in October 2017, Ofcom found that all major landline providers in the UK had increased the line rental charges by 28-41%.\n\nOfcom strongly criticised market leader BT for raising prices, saying that customers were being given \"poor value\" for money.\n\nIt added that many of the affected customers had \"been with BT for decades\" and were more likely to be old, on low incomes and vulnerable.\n\nBT announced that it would slash its landline prices by £84 a year.\n\nBT's argument is that Ofcom's final statement did not explicitly accuse it of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.\n\nBut independent telecoms analyst Ian Grant says that the telecoms giant \"has a history of abusing its position\".\n\n\"Earlier in 2017, Ofcom fined BT £42m because it was late providing high-speed Ethernet lines, and forced BT to make good the losses of firms like Vodafone and TalkTalk,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Ofcom, which has a statutory duty to stop consumer abuses, could have done the same for these customers. Instead, it allowed BT to get away with a 37% price cut, at a time when the difference between its costs and what it charged customers had risen between 50-74%.\"\n\nMr Grant added: \"It is especially poor that BT was overcharging customers who were mostly over 65, more than three-quarters of whom had never used a different provider, and for whom the telephone was their only communications link.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nóra Quoirin's parents: \"The inquest is a battle we must continue in Nóra's name\"\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old girl found dead in a Malaysian jungle says she believes her daughter's body was placed by somebody in the spot she was found.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from Balham in south London, vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019.\n\nHer body was found near the resort nine days after she went missing. A coroner recorded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMeabh Quoirin, who thinks Nora was abducted, said the family would \"never give up their fight for justice\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development, and her parents have always believed that wandering off from the resort - which is about 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur - was not something their daughter would have done.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Nóra had died three days before her body was found, due to gastrointestinal bleeding from hunger and stress endured over a prolonged period.\n\nBut Mrs Quoirin points out that the jungle had been searched on four occasions in the seven days leading up to her death, with police suggesting the teenager been \"alive and moving\" during the first stages of the search.\n\n\"The fact that search teams were there, along with many hundreds of volunteers in that particular area so close to her death, makes us feel that she was placed there at a later point,\" Mrs Quoirin told the BBC.\n\nNóra's parents Maebh and Sebastien Quoirin want there to be a revision of the inquest verdict\n\nThe teenager's mother pointed out that the inquest had not explained how her daughter ended up in the jungle, where her unclothed body was eventually found by a group of volunteers.\n\n\"I suppose the easiest one to dwell on was the fact there was an open window [in the family's chalet],\" said Mrs Quoirin, who is originally from Belfast.\n\n\"Someone opened that window, it wasn't any of us. That is totally unexplained.\"\n\nMalaysian police have always treated Nóra's disappearance as a missing person case. They maintain there was no suggestion of abduction, kidnap or foul play.\n\nDuring the search for her daughter, Mrs Quoirin told emergency services that their work meant \"the world to us\"\n\n\"Nóra always looked to someone else for reassurance on what she should do next so the idea that she would have climbed out a window - even found a window or seen a window in the pitch black - is in our view crazy,\" Mrs Quorin said.\n\n\"If she had somehow mistaken which door was for the bathroom and had gone out the front door for instance... she was barefoot, she would have instantly felt pain and she would have been absolutely petrified.\"\n\nNóra's parents have asked for a revision of the inquest verdict as \"so many questions have been left unanswered\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development\n\n\"I think it will be impossible to ever have all the answers to questions that inevitably we will agonise over for the rest of our lives,\" Mrs Quoirin said.\n\n\"We can do more justice by at least recognising who this child was and that she wouldn't have - couldn't have - done the things that have been ruled through this verdict of misadventure.\n\n\"It's our duty to Nora to stand up for that, to really recognise who she was and stand up in the name of all children with special needs, to recognise who these children are, what they represent in our society.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "A doctor has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a \"highly-respected\" fellow plastic surgeon who was stabbed in his own home.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest in Halam, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday.\n\nJonathan Peter Brooks, also charged with three counts of attempted arson with intent to endanger life, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Perks is currently in a serious but stable condition, police said.\n\nMr Brooks, 56, of Landseer Road, Southwell, has also been charged with possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 15 February.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nThe two men were colleagues at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust said: \"This incident has affected many of our staff who worked closely with, and are friends with Graeme.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Graeme and his family at this time.\"\n\nMr Perks had served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), which described him as \"one of the most highly-regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nPolice previously said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT on Thursday, after an intruder was believed to have smashed their way into the house.\n\nPolice said Mr Perks was stabbed at his home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, while his family were upstairs\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia, but returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham.\n\nHe and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors, and were featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keelan Wilson was 15 when he was stabbed more than 40 times\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40 times in a \"well-planned execution\".\n\nKeelan Wilson, 15, was fatally injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018.\n\nThe four murderers acted \"like a pack of animals\" amid rising gang violence in the city, police said.\n\nKeelan's mother Kelly Ellitts said the convictions meant justice for her son, but added \"nothing would bring Keelan back\".\n\nIt emerged a few days after the murder that when an ambulance was called for the wounded boy, his final words included \"tell my mum I love her\".\n\nThe trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how the night time attack - carried out by Brian Sasa and Nehemie Tampwo, each aged 20, along with Tyrique King and Zenay Pennant-Phillips, both 19 - was \"not in any way spontaneous\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Barnes from the West Midlands force said Keelan had the \"single worst set of injuries\" he had seen on a victim in more than six years investigating homicide.\n\nThere had been increasing acts of violence between opposing gangs leading up to the murder, including disorder earlier that day, police said.\n\nThat included weapons being brandished in Wolverhampton city centre, and in another incident, Keelan and two others being shot at by a group of youngsters on bikes. No one was hurt.\n\nBut later on, the court heard, the group of four killers ran towards Keelan as he sat in a taxi close to his home, then pulled open the rear door and \"set about him with weapons\", inflicting more than 40 knife wounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keelan Wilson's mother Kelly Ellitts 'hit the floor' when she saw he had been stabbed\n\nMichael Duck QC, prosecuting, said the killing \"was not in any way a spontaneous act of violence\".\n\nHe said: \"This was a well-planned, targeted group attack by a number of youths armed with knives, and that was with the plan to execute another young man.\"\n\nDuring the 13-week trial, jurors heard there was evidence to suggest the victim had \"become embroiled in gang culture\", with his killers believing he had switched factions.\n\nDet Sgt Barnes said it was \"difficult\" to pinpoint a motive \"because Keelan wasn't on the police radar particularly for any such activity\".\n\nKeelan was wounded just metres from his home, receiving 43 stab wounds in total, according to police.\n\nHe had been driving with a friend - with whom he met up after the shooting incident - when their car broke down, which led to a taxi being called.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said while Keelan was attacked on boarding the vehicle, his friend was \"left unscathed\" and fled, making it \"evident\" to authorities that \"Keelan was the only target\".\n\nMs Ellitts said she lived with the shock of her son's death daily.\n\n\"This isn't something that you think of every now and again, this is a daily thing that you have to live with.\n\n\"It's terrible my daughters won't know who he is.\"\n\nOn the day of Keelan's death, CCTV captured a scene from the Wolverhampton city centre disorder that police said was linked to gang activity\n\nSasa, of Long Ley, Heath Town, Wolverhampton; King, of Chelwood Gardens, Wolverhampton; Tampwo of Fern Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes; and Pennant-Phillips, whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, had all denied murder.\n\n\"Keelan was a child who had his whole life ahead of him,\" Det Sgt Barnes said.\n\nThe convictions, he added, came after a \"very difficult and long investigation,\" with more than 2,000 lines of inquiry having to be examined.\n\nSome lines of investigation had been met with a \"wall of silence,\" he said.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers said: \"It is an utter tragedy that a 15-year-old child lost his life at the hands of others who are barely older than he.\"\n\nSentencing is set to take place at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 March.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Tell mum I love her' said stabbed boy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, was given a Chinese-developed vaccine\n\nA nurse has received Brazil's first Covid-19 vaccine dose after regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.\n\nRegulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, doses of which will be distributed among all 27 states.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest death toll from Covid-19 and cases are rising again across the country.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe president, who caught Covid-19 last year and recovered, has said he will not take a vaccine.\n\nAuthorities reported 551 new fatalities on Sunday, the first time in six days that it had fallen short of 1,000 although this could reflect a delay in the reporting of numbers over the weekend.\n\nIn all, more than 209,000 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in Brazil, a raw total figure only exceeded by the US.\n\nOver 8.4 million infections have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic - the third-highest tally in the world.\n\nHealth Minister Eduardo Pazuello told reporters that the national vaccination programme in the country of 211 million people would begin in earnest in the coming days. Two Brazilian biomedical centres which have been given approval to produce the jabs will be heavily involved.\n\nAbout six million doses of the Sinovac-developed CoronaVac have already been produced in Brazil, while the government is waiting for shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine from a laboratory in India.\n\nShortly after Anvisa's board gave emergency approval, Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, became the first person to be inoculated with CoronaVac.\n\nHer vaccination was organised by the São Paulo state government, which is led by Mr Bolsonaro's main political rival, João Doria.\n\nThis has been a rare piece of good news today for Brazilians who are grappling with a devastating second wave.\n\nFrom where I am, the city of Manaus, the vaccine does not feel real. People here are trying to recover a collapsed health system and doing what they can to keep their sick relatives alive.\n\nThe pandemic has become deeply political in Brazil. President Bolsonaro continues to present himself as a vaccine sceptic and he was notably absent as the vaccines were approved. Instead, Monday's newspapers will no doubt have São Paulo Governor Doria slapped on their front pages.\n\nHe is expected to run in next year's presidential elections and has backed the Sinovac vaccine from the very start. He was once a Bolsonaro ally and is now his nemesis - but there is no doubt who is leading the way in trying to get the population vaccinated.\n\nEarlier this week researchers said the Chinese vaccine had been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials. This, results showed, was significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nCoronaVac is also being used in China, Indonesia and Turkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news comes after revelations that a new coronavirus variant has emerged in Brazil. Several cases were traced back to the Amazonas state, where a state of emergency is in place.\n\nManaus, the state capital, has been hit especially hard, with beds and life-saving oxygen running low. Refrigerated containers have also been brought to hospitals to help store bodies.\n\nNeighbouring Venezuela said it had sent a convoy of trucks with oxygen supplies to help Amazonas.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has faced mounting criticism for his handling of Brazil's outbreak, and several anti-government protests were held last week.\n\nAn opponent of lockdowns, he has previously blamed state governors and mayors for the Covid crisis, saying the federal government has provided all the resources needed to tackle the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack\n\nA warning has been issued by royal parks police after a dog carried out a \"relentless\" attack on a deer that had to be put down.\n\nFootage shows the dog savaging the red deer in London's Richmond Park.\n\nCases of pets worrying deer in London's eight royal parks have shot up during lockdown, police say. They are urging owners to keep dogs on leads.\n\nSeparately, on Sunday, a 10-year-old child was injured by a herd of deer being chased by a dog in Bushy Park.\n\nPolice said the incident in the park in Richmond-upon-Thames, which left the child needing hospital treatment, underlined the need for people to keep their dogs on a lead if they are unsure how they will react to deer.\n\nOn Friday, Franck Hiribarne, 44, from Kingston in south-west London, admitted causing or permitting an animal he was in charge of to injure another animal, in relation to the Richmond Park attack.\n\nWimbledon magistrates heard the doe suffered deep wounds, then received a broken leg when it was hit by a car as it tried to flee from the dog. Witnesses described the attack as \"relentless\".\n\nThe deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack in October.\n\nMr Hiribarne, who reported the matter himself to the Royal Parks Office, said he usually walked his red setter Alfie on a lead until he was well away from any grazing deer, and that the dog had been responding well to \"off-lead\" commands.\n\nThe dog owner, who was fined £600, said in a statement: \"I was genuinely shocked and sorry for what had happened and since then I have refrained completely from letting Alfie off the leash in any park.\n\n\"I have also taken a special dog trainer specialised in gundogs to control more accurately any of his hunting instincts. He has made great progress.\"\n\nFour deer have died from dog attacks in the royal parks since March 2020, while there have been 58 incidents of dogs chasing the herds - a big increase on previous years - according to the manager of Richmond Park.\n\nPart of the increase is thought to be down to new dog owners who are unfamiliar with the best conduct around wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville has left his role as manager of England's women and been appointed in charge of David Beckham's Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.\n\nThe 43-year-old was appointed as England boss in January 2018 and his contract was set to end in July.\n\nThe Football Association says it will \"shortly confirm\" an interim head coach until Sarina Wiegman's arrival.\n\nNetherlands manager Wiegman will take on the role after the delayed Tokyo Olympics in August.\n\nFormer Manchester United and Everton defender Neville was the leading contender to manage Great Britain at the Games, but his move to the United States has left the FA needing another option.\n\n\"This is a very young club with a lot of promise and upside, and I am committed to challenging myself, my players and everyone around me to grow and build a competitive soccer culture we can all be proud of,\" Neville said of his American move.\n\nBeckham said of his former Manchester United team-mate: \"I have known Phil since we were both teenagers at the academy.\n\n\"We share a footballing DNA having been trained by some of the best leaders in the game, and it's those values that I have always wanted running through our club.\"\n\nThe MLS side had been managed by former Uruguay striker Diego Alonso before the 45-year-old left by mutual consent earlier this month.\n\nBeckham added: \"Anyone who has played or worked with Phil knows he is a natural leader, and I believe now is the right time for him to join.\"\n\nNeville led the Lionesses to their first SheBelieves Cup title in 2019 and fourth place at the Women's World Cup later the same year, but results since that tournament have been poor.\n\nEngland's struggles under Neville continued at the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, where a late defeat by Spain in the final match was their seventh loss in 11 games.\n\nThe Lionesses have not played since that game last March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It has been an honour to manage England and I have enjoyed three of the best years of my career,\" said Neville, who won 19 of his 35 games in charge.\n\n\"The players who wear the England shirt are some of the most talented and dedicated athletes I have ever had the privilege to work with.\n\n\"They have challenged me and improved me as a coach, and I am very grateful to them for the fantastic memories we have shared.\"\n\nNeville, who had no previous experience in the women's game before taking over, has made a \"significant contribution\" during his three-year spell, said Baroness Campbell, the FA's director of women's football.\n\n\"The commitment, dedication and respect he has shown the position has been clear to see,\" she added.\n\n\"I will personally miss our many conversations about ways we can improve and progress.\"\n\nEngland are ranked sixth in the world, having been third when Neville succeeded Mark Sampson.\n\nNeville's record against the best sides came under particular scrutiny, with England winning one of their nine games against teams ranked in the top five in the world during his reign.\n\nNeville's record against teams ranked in the world's top five\n\n\"After steadying the ship at a challenging period, he helped us to win the SheBelieves Cup for the first time, reach the World Cup semi-finals and qualify for the Olympics,\" added Campbell.\n\n\"Given his status as a former Manchester United and England player, he did much to raise the profile of our team.\n\n\"He has used his platform to champion the women's game, worked tirelessly to support our effort to promote more female coaches and used his expertise to develop many of our younger players.\"\n\nWhat happens next with England?\n\nThe FA is expected to name England's interim head coach in the next few days.\n\nAmong the favourites is former Norway midfielder Hege Riise, one of the greatest players of her generation - a European Championship winner in 1993, a World Cup winner in 1995 and an Olympic gold medallist in 2000.\n\nAfter retiring as a player, Riise moved into club management in Norway and also coached the country's Under-23 side before spending three years as assistant to then-USA head coach Pia Sundhage from 2009.\n\nShe then joined the set-up at Norwegian club LSK Kvinner in 2012 - becoming head coach in 2017 - as they won six successive titles between 2014 and 2019, while also reaching the 2018-19 Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRiise was one of seven nominees for the Fifa best women's coach award in 2020, won by Wiegman in December.\n\nThe new interim manager has no England fixtures booked in the diary, though there has reportedly been discussions over a mini-tournament during the next international window in February.\n\nEngland will not be taking part in the SheBelieves Cup but could host a tournament which would see three other nations take part in a round-robin event.\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches, including Manchester United's visit to Liverpool: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Morgan Le-Riche and other students have questioned if they should be paying full tuition fees\n\n\"I am paying £9,000 for a university degree that is causing me nothing but anxiety and stress.\"\n\nFor Morgan Le-Riche, the university experience since the coronavirus pandemic hit has not been worth the fee.\n\nSome students are calling for reduced tuition fees and more support.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it provided the most generous student support package in the UK and has appointed a dedicated minister for mental health.\n\nIn announcing a lockdown earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said students in England would not return to the classroom until mid February, with calls for clarity over what will happen in Wales.\n\nMorgan, who is studying criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Wales, said \"something needs to be done to help us students\".\n\nHer Facebook post calling for more help was shared 3,000 times in three days - something that surprised her but also highlighted the depth of feeling.\n\nStudents face an uncertain time with with restrictions currently in place\n\nThe second year student said: \"I don't think the government is understanding students, instead they are only recognising primary and secondary schools - there's no recognition for university students.\"\n\nMorgan was given assignments to complete over Christmas, but said her lecturers had turned off their emails so she could not seek guidance when she was finding work difficult.\n\n\"I feel like the amount of stress I've had has meant I'm not doing a high enough standard of work, that I would normally do, due to the lack of assistance,\" she said.\n\nShe said more time with tutors and spaces for students to come together to discuss mental health would be beneficial.\n\nThe University of South Wales said their course teams are committed to providing \"comprehensive support\" and are \"readily available to offer help and guidance for students\".\n\nStudents in England have been told to work online and remain where they are\n\nA petition calling for the UK government to reduce university student tuition fees from £9,250 to £3,000 has gained more than 400,000 signatures online.\n\nMorgan thinks she has been \"massively let down\" and there needs to be a \"heavy reduction\" on the amount students are paying for their courses.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are the only country in the whole of Europe that provides equivalent up front living costs grants and loans for full and part-time undergraduates, and for post-graduates.\n\n\"This already covers campus-based and distance learners and will continue throughout the academic year.\"\n\nDanielle Herbert believes university students need more focus from government\n\nJournalism student Danielle Herbert, who also studies at the University of South Wales, said online learning has helped her mental health because otherwise a lot of her face-to-face interactions would be limited.\n\nDespite \"lecturers trying their best\", students' experiences since March last year have not been \"adequate for a £9,000 fee\".\n\nThe third-year student from Swindon said the prime minister's announcement of an England-wide lockdown was stressful \"because there was no mention of universities\".\n\nShe said: \"I was left very unclear and confused as to where I stood on travelling back to Wales. As someone who suffers from anxiety, I rely on concrete facts and that wasn't provided. We have been ignored by the prime minister.\n\n\"I had just paid my rent for this term - which was £2,300 - and I looked at my mum and dad and said: 'Am I even going to be able to go back to my student flat'?\"\n\nDanielle has called for more help for students in dealing with mental health issues during the pandemic\n\nShe does not believe students have had the same level of support as secondary school pupils, adding: \"We're still expected to produce the same standard of work without protection whilst there's a pandemic going on - it's really unrealistic.\"\n\nDanielle said having a \"no detriment\" policy in place would help to relieve students' stress.\n\n\"I think there's a real issue amongst students and students' mental health and it's only grown because of coronavirus. I think we will see the consequences of that if nothing is done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"To support mental health services, we have made an additional £9.9m available, as part of efforts to ensure people can access the right support when they need it.\n\n\"In October we announced an additional £10m to support mental health services for higher education students in Wales to increase capacity in students' unions and universities to provide support services.\n\n\"This is in addition to the £27m Higher Education Investment and Recovery Fund announced in the summer.\"\n\nThe University of South Wales said the safety and wellbeing of students is its priority and students have access to a \"wide range of comprehensive support for their health, mental health and wellbeing\".\n\n\"Recognising that a number of staff would be on leave over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the course team let students know they were available for help and support right up until the end of term and students were encouraged to ask for support if they needed it,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are providing a full and interactive blended learning offer this term, in line with Welsh Government guidance, so that students can receive good experiences and a high-quality education, enabling them to progress and complete their studies on time.\"", "Software giant Github has apologised for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers to be careful about Nazis.\n\nThe employee was fired two days after using the word to describe participants in the US Capitol riots.\n\nBut Github now says that decision was a mistake, and its head of HR has resigned over the scandal.\n\nThe company says it has offered the fired employee his job back, and clarified that \"employees are free to express concerns about Nazis\".\n\nMicrosoft-owned Github is one of the most popular software development tools in the world, with more than 50 million users. News of the internal row was first reported by Business Insider.\n\nPeople associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories stormed Congress.\n\nAs it happened, the Jewish employee posted to an internal Github Slack channel: \"Stay safe homies, Nazis are about.\"\n\nBut the comment sparked criticism from a co-worker about the use of the word \"Nazi\" to describe the rioters, calling it \"untasteful conduct\" for the workplace.\n\nThe Jewish employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Techcrunch he had been \"genuinely concerned about his co-workers in the area, in addition to his Jewish family members\".\n\nTwo days later, he was fired for his \"patterns of behaviour\".\n\nBut the firing led to an outcry from many more co-workers, with hundreds signing an internal letter calling on Github to explain the decision - and to publicly denounce Nazis.\n\nAmid the outcry, the company opened an investigation with an external investigator.\n\n\"The investigation revealed significant errors of judgment and procedure,\" chief executive Erica Brescia wrote in a blogpost. \"Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: \"Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.\"\n\nShe said the firm had \"reversed the decision to separate with the employee\", and had contacted him - but it is not clear if the employee wishes to return after the treatment he received.\n\nThe company has also issued statements condemning white supremacists, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and those who took part in the Capitol riots.", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "A small group of armed protesters held a rally in front of the capitol building in Texas\n\nSmall groups of protesters - some of them armed - gathered on Sunday at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington.\n\nProtests were held outside capitol buildings in Texas, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere.\n\nBut many other statehouses were quiet, amid a ramping up of security across US legislatures. No clashes were reported.\n\nThe FBI has warned of armed protests ahead of Wednesday's inauguration.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden will take office two weeks after pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January, leaving five dead, including a police officer.\n\nMore than 25,000 National Guard troops are being deployed to secure Washington. In a sign of just how worried officials are about potential unrest, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press on Sunday that all Guard members were being vetted because of fears of an insider threat.\n\nAlso on Sunday, a county official from New Mexico was arrested in Washington in connection with the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nCouy Griffin, the founder of a group called Cowboys for Trump, had vowed to return on inauguration day with firearms to \"embrace my Second Amendment\".\n\nMany cities had prepared for potentially violent protests over the weekend, erecting barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard troops.\n\nPosts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks had called for armed demonstrations on Sunday in particular, but some militias told their followers not to attend, citing heavy security or claiming the planned events were police traps.\n\nSmall crowds of protesters numbering in the dozens gathered in only some cities, leaving the streets surrounding many statehouses largely empty.\n\nMembers of the the Boogaloo Bois were seen outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing\n\nThe New York Times reported about 25 members of the Boogaloo Bois movement were among heavily-armed protesters who gathered at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. But the men - who are part of a loosely organised extremist group that wants to overthrow the US government - said they were there for a long-planned gun rights rally.\n\nMeanwhile in Michigan, about two dozen people - some carrying rifles - protested outside the statehouse in Lansing, as police watched on.\n\n\"I am not here to be violent and I hope no one shows up to be violent,\" one protester told Reuters news agency.\n\nA similarly small group of about a dozen protesters, a few armed with rifles, stood outside the Texas Capitol in Austin.\n\nOutside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg, one Trump supporter noted the poor turn-out, telling Reuters: \"There's nothing going on.\"\n\nMore protests are expected on Wednesday, when Mr Biden will officially be sworn into office, replacing Mr Trump as president.\n\nMr Biden will issue executive orders to reverse President Trump's travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House.\n\nThe president-elect is also expected to focus on reuniting families separated at the US-Mexico border, and to issue mandates on Covid-19 and mask-wearing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Capitol is on high alert ahead of Biden's inauguration\n\nMuch of Washington DC has been locked down ahead of the inauguration. The National Mall, which is usually thronged with thousands of people for inaugurations, has been shut at the request of the Secret Service.\n\nThe Biden team had already asked Americans to avoid travelling to the nation's capital for the inauguration because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Local officials said people should watch the event remotely.", "China's economy grew at the slowest pace in more than four decades last year, official figures show, but remains on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.\n\nThe economy grew 2.3% last year, despite Covid-19 shutdowns causing output to slump in early 2020.\n\nStrict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses helped the economy recover.\n\nGrowth in the final three months of the year picked up to 6.5%.\n\n\"The GDP data shows the economy has almost normalised. This momentum will continue, although the current Covid-19 outbreak in a couple of provinces in northern China might temporarily cause fluctuation,\" said Yue Su, principal economist for the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\nChina's mainland share markets as well as Hong Kong's Hang Seng posted modest gains on the latest figures, which exceeded economists' expectations, according to a Reuters poll.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 was still a major drain on growth in 2020, with nationwide shutdowns of factories and manufacturing plants forcing economic growth down to its slowest rate for four decades.\n\nChina's manufacturing sector appears to have recovered, with Monday's data showing a 7.3% increase in industrial output.\n\nExports have also led the way. Data last week showed Chinese exports grew by more than expected in December, as coronavirus disruptions around the world fuelled demand for Chinese goods.\n\nThat is despite a stronger yuan, which makes Chinese exports more expensive for overseas buyers.\n\nChina's economy has seen a strong rebound, while the rest of the world struggles with anaemic demand, millions of job losses, and businesses shutting down.\n\nChina's economic engine roared back to life after a brutal lockdown that saw the Chinese economy contract by a historic 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nWe should always be circumspect about Chinese data - with the usual caveat that the trajectory of the data rather than the figures themselves are a useful guide to how China's economy is growing.\n\nWhat these numbers show is that China's strategy of locking down cities hard and quickly has worked.\n\nA combination of government-led investment and global demand for Chinese goods also helped to power a rapid recovery, and boost exports.\n\nStill - this is the lowest rate of annual growth in more than 40 years for the economic giant. Worries over a resurgence of the virus are also clouding China's growth outlook, with consumer demand still weak.\n\nAnd Beijing is trying to navigate a prickly trade relationship with the US, with the incoming administration unlikely to be softer on China than President Donald Trump.\n\nAll of these challenges will no doubt weigh on Chinese growth in 2021 - but they seem to be in a better place than the rest of the world's major economies.\n\nIt was not all good news from the latest figures.\n\nLi Wei, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said pandemic-related exports and credit-fuelled car and housing sales accounted for much of the growth, while domestic demand lagged behind.\n\n\"Domestic household consumption of food, clothing, furniture and utilities remains below pre-pandemic levels, while the hospitality and transportation sectors continue to face capacity and travel restrictions,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nAlthough retail sales grew by 4.6% in the fourth quarter of 2020, they fell by 3.9% for the year.\n\nMany analysts are tipping growth to accelerate in 2021, but the China Bureau of Statistics has warned of a \"grave and complex environment both at home and abroad\", with the pandemic having a \"huge impact\".\n\nChina still faces many challenges, including continuing trade tensions with the US and how they might play out under the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office later this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Although it has been common to hear and see the impact on care homes internationally throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, one country where such insight has been rare is China.\n\nPrivate care homes have been growing in popularity in China in recent years, but there are some stigmas associated with the industry.\n\nIn China, many view nursing homes as going against the cultural concept of “filial piety”. This is the belief that the young should respect for and care for their elders, and so many believe the elderly should live with their children, and not live in care homes.\n\nHowever, as cases of the virus grow in the northeast of the country, the official broadcaster CCTV has offered viewers a rare insight into how China’s elderly in these facilities are being protected.\n\nA journalist today has visited the Shijiazhuang Nursing Home. Shijiazhuang is the Chinese city that has been hardest hit by the virus in recent weeks.\n\nIn a 30-minute livestream in which he is clad in hazmat suit and visor, journalist Gu Junling introduces viewers to how the facilities are kept safe, and shows viewers inside the care home’s stockrooms, packed with ample provisions for its residents.\n\nMany of the residents seem happy to speak to the journalist and talk about how they are healthy, and happy. Masks are mandatory for both residents and staff, even in the areas outside on-site. However, far from being kept under house arrest, residents are shown to have sufficient space to go outside, use computers and games rooms.", "Tributes have been paid to the actor Andy Gray who has died at the age of 61.\n\nThe Perth-born star was a well known face on TV and the stage for more than 40 years.\n\nAmong his best known on-screen roles were \"Chancer\" in the 1980s comedy City Lights and more recently \"Pete Galloway\" in BBC soap River City.\n\nHis River City co-star Gayle Telfer Stevens said Gray was a \"national treasure\".\n\nShe added: \"Not only was he an exceptional actor and entertainer who brought so much joy to so many people, he was an extraordinary man.\n\n\"When you were in his presence you could feel it was of greatness. The most kind, clever, funny beyond measure, beautiful man.\"\n\nAndy Gray, second from the left in the back row, starred as \"Chancer\" in the hit 1980s comedy show \"City Lights\"\n\nAndy Gray performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013\n\nSteve Carson, director of BBC Scotland, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the news that one of Scotland's much loved comedy actors and close friend to many at BBC Scotland, Andy Gray has passed away.\n\n\"On screen and in person he could always make you laugh and was one of the kindest people to have around on any production. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nAndy Gray, pictured with Grant Stott, had been one of the stars at Edinburgh's King's Theatre pantomime for years\n\nMartin McCardie, executive producer at BBC Scotland Studios, added: \"When Andy joined River City in 2016 he had an extremely successful stage, TV and film career behind him, but the character of Pete Galloway turned out to be one of the most popular ever to pass through Shieldinch.\n\n\"Andy took ill in 2018 and he had to leave the show and he had a difficult time. His ongoing recovery was borne with humour and gratitude for what he had. He had unfinished business on River City and we were looking forward to welcoming him back to film with us before the end of the current series.\"\n\nAndy Gray was genuinely one of the nicest people in the world of showbusiness.\n\nWhether you were an actor, or a journalist, or just someone who'd seen him in panto, he was always ready to have a chat.\n\nWhen he dropped out of his Fringe show in 2018, after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, he was inundated with good wishes, but said he wanted privacy to deal with his illness.\n\nHe retreated to his home in Perthshire and took the time to recover.\n\nWhen he returned to the stage of the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh for their 2019 panto, it was an emotional milestone.\n\nWrapped in his Batman dressing gown backstage (he was a huge fan with a shed full of film paraphernalia) he admitted it could be overwhelming. Sometimes the whoops and cheers of the audience at his arrival in the midst of a glitzy song and dance routine would go on for several minutes.\n\nHis co-stars Grant Stott and Allan Stewart watched from the wings and said it had restored the balance of their long established trio. The Kings is one of the only theatres to have a tradition of a pantette - where the cast sit in the auditorium and watch the front of house staff performing the show. Andy wasn't spared the merciless send up, nor would he have wanted to.\n\nDaughter Claire was also in the show - as one of the three bears - and her baby daughter was in Andy's arms for the curtain call. But whether his actual family, or his panto family, or the generations of people who've seen him onstage or screen, it was a moment of hope, as well as joy, that someone who'd brought so much laughter and entertainment to Scotland was back.\n\nThat's why his sudden death at 61 is such a cruel blow.\n\nHe had been campaigning to keep the Kings afloat, and was involved in online performances. He and Allan Stewart had hoped to appear in one of the few surviving pantomimes in Milton Keynes but that too was cancelled.\n\nFriends and colleagues knew he'd been admitted to hospital in the last few days, and feared the worst. Those who simply knew him as someone who made them laugh, on stage or screen, are no less bereft.\n\nTonight the world of Scottish entertainment is in mourning for a gifted comic actor, writer and genuinely nice man.", "Aberystwyth University's vice chancellor told students not to attend lectures unless \"absolutely necessary\"\n\nAberystwyth University has told its students not to return to campus following new advice from the Welsh Government.\n\nA phased return had been planned from 11 January, but this has now been postponed.\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Elizabeth Treasure said students should not attend the university, in Ceredigion, unless \"absolutely necessary.\"\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government told learners \"study from home if you can\".\n\nMs Treasure said: \"We are reviewing our plans for in-person teaching and will inform you as soon as we can. Whilst we are reviewing those plans, we don't want students travelling to the university unnecessarily.\"\n\nShe said there were certain exceptions, including students without internet access and those for whom laboratory access was essential.\n\nWales' Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, said universities were reviewing their plans based on their individual circumstances.\n\n\"On return, students are also expected to take two asymptomatic tests and comply with rules as they re-join their term time household,\" she said.\n\nDespite the announcement, Bangor University said on Facebook on Friday that it \"falls under the rules of the Welsh Government which allow for a staggered return to blended learning\".\n\nCardiff University said earlier this week that most students would not return to face-to-face teaching until 22 February.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our message to students, staff and universities in general is the same as the rest of the population: Stay home, work or study from home if you can.\n\n\"Only attend your place of work or study if you can't work from home.\"\n\nThe new announcement came after calls for clarity were made because of differences with the rules in England.\n\nAt that point, the Welsh Government and Universities Wales said the plans agreed before Christmas would remain in place.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term unless there is a \"significant\" fall in Covid cases.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "Audi factories, like others, will make thousands fewer cars at the start of this year\n\nAudi is having to slow production because of a computer-chip shortage it is calling a \"crisis upon a crisis\".\n\nBoss Markus Duesmann said it was now aiming to make 10,000 fewer cars in the first quarter of the year and putting more than 10,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIts parent company, Volkswagen, announced its own go-slow due to a lack of chips last week, alongside rivals such as Honda.\n\nMr Duesmann told the Financial Times carmakers had been caught by surprise.\n\nAfter a poor start to 2020 for new car sales, manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nBut then, at the end of the year, \"everybody was quite surprised by the strength of the market\", Mr Duesmann said.\n\nHowever, ordering new chips is not simple.\n\nCCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber said: \"Semiconductors have a broad range of applications but a very limited pool of companies capable of manufacturing the silicon.\n\n\"Demand is high, and supply is tight\" and any sudden needs \"can prove very difficult to accommodate\".\n\n\"Modern cars are becoming computers on wheels, with an abundance of silicon required to control everything from the infotainment system to camera, radar and lidar,\" he said.\n\nThe demand from carmakers \"competes for manufacturing capacity with smartphones, servers and a host of other segments\".\n\nAnd a boom in the market for devices such as PCs and new game consoles was making it doubly difficult to book manufacturing time.\n\nThe shortages have seen Mercedes-maker Daimler, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota all reportedly suspend production for days or weeks at a time.\n\nAnd German car-parts company Continental described \"largescale supply shortages\", with lead times of six to nine months, adding bottlenecks were expected to continue \"well into 2021, causing major disruptions\".", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Staff are in \"the eye of the storm\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS says\n\nTen hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds in the most recent figures.\n\nIt comes as hospital waiting times, coronavirus admissions and patients requiring intensive care are rising.\n\nEngland's 140 acute trusts had 5,503 adult critical care beds on 10 January, with 4,632 in use.\n\nNHS bosses have warned hospitals could \"hit the limit\" of their capacity this week.\n\n\"I think, this next week, we will be at the limit of what we probably have the physical space and the people to safely do,\" Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said.\n\n\"And, of course, this is the week when we expect also the highest rate of admissions, the highest demand for the care that we're providing.\"\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England show the number of trusts that were, on average, at full capacity in adult critical care across an entire week rose from four to 10 in the week to 10 January.\n\nThis was the highest number in the last 10 weeks for which data was available.\n\nThe increase comes despite trusts adding an additional 50% \"surge\" capacity across the summer and autumn to cope with winter pressures, according to NHS England.\n\nOverall, 30 acute hospital trusts in England had no spare adult critical care beds on 10 January alone. But daily admissions figures can vary from day-to-day as patients move in and out of intensive care.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said nine critical care patients had recently been transferred to other parts of the country because of no beds being available in their local area.\n\nSpeaking about all admissions, Sir Simon said hospitals in England had seen an increase of 15,000 inpatients since Christmas Day.\n\n\"That's the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients and staggeringly every 30 seconds across England another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nHelen Buckingham, from Health think-tank The Nuffield Trust, said the NHS was facing a winter \"like no other\" and, on top of rising coronavirus hospital admissions, critical care beds were also required for non-Covid patients.\n\n\"The NHS has pulled out all the stops to create more beds this year, and hospitals are working together so that patients who need critical care can be moved to other hospitals as necessary - but without more fully trained critical care staff there isn't much further the service can go,\" she said.\n\nThe figures only tell part of the story. The creation of extra beds to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients has come at a price.\n\nCritical care beds have been set up in overspill areas including departments usually reserved for operations. What is more, there is no extra staff to look after these extra patients - so specialist intensive care nurses have been stretched across more patients than normal. Instead of providing one-to-one care for the most sick, some areas are seeing nurses looking after three or four patients.\n\nStaff from other areas have had to be redeployed into critical care departments too.\n\nThat of course comes at a cost to non-Covid services and is part of the reason we have seen planned surgery and even cancer care being cut back on.\n\nA leaked email recently revealed about 200 doctors would be redeployed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham amid fears its intensive care unit could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust said it had \"significantly\" more patients in hospital with Covid-19 than in April last year.\n\nThe trust had 147 critical care beds available across its hospitals as of 10 January, all of which were full as of the latest figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nA spokesman said the trust would continue to extend its intensive care teams \"so they are able to treat the rising number of Covid-19 patients and those who require time-critical surgery, including cancer operations\".\n\nAiredale NHS Foundation Trust, despite having nine critical care beds overall, said it did not normally experience full occupancy at this time in the year and the ward had both Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\n\"We are experiencing normal winter pressures across the trust, combined with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients, particularly over the last week,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Every bed in ICU that is occupied by a Covid-19 patient is one less available for people who need that level of care for other reasons.\"\n\nSir Simon said the current number of patients in critical care was a \"clear indication of the huge pressure on the NHS\", including ambulance and mental health services as well as hospitals.\n\n\"The likelihood is, even with a stabilising of infections in some parts of the country, we're still seeing increases in infections among the over-60s in many parts of the country,\" he added.\n\n\"The forecasts are the pressure on hospitals will only get more intense over the next several weeks.\"\n\nNHS England said critical care services were under \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nA spokeswoman added that hospitals had \"tried and tested plans in place\" to manage pressure from increased Covid-19 and non-Covid patients, including mutual aid practices where hospitals work together to manage admissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "A Republican lawmaker who had been in office for less than a week when she invoked German dictator Adolf Hitler in a Washington speech has apologised for saying that she agreed with the mass murderer.\n\nIllinois Congresswoman Mary Miller had said in a speech on Tuesday outside the Capitol, one day before her fellow Trump supporters ransacked the building, that Hitler had been \"right\".\n\nMiller told the crowd: \"You know, if we win a few elections we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts of our children.\n\n\"It’s the battle. Hitler was right on one thing - that whoever has the youth has the future.\"\n\nHitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933 Image caption: Hitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933\n\nThe comments drew large-scale condemnation, with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum saying in a statement that it \"unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was ‘right.’\"\n\nUnder Hitler, millions of Jews and other minority groups were murdered across Europe by Germany and its allies during World War Two.\n\nOn Friday, Miller insisted that she is not anti-semitic and accused other of \"trying to intentionally twist my words\".\n\n\"I sincerely apologise for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth,\" she said.\n\nCorrection 23rd June 2022: This post originally described Mary Miller as having praised Hitler and has been amended to make clear that she invoked Hitler in her speech.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "While GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled, the IGCSE exams will go ahead this summer\n\nThe IGCSE exams, usually only taken in private schools, are still going ahead this summer - even though GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled.\n\nExam boards that run IGCSEs plan to offer them, while many other exams have been stopped by the pandemic.\n\nIGCSE qualifications, alternative exams to GCSEs, are not usually available in state schools.\n\nPupils in England whose A-levels and GCSEs are cancelled will depend on replacement grades from teachers.\n\nBut Education Secretary Gavin Williamson's scrapping of exams this summer does not apply to students taking IGCSEs.\n\nA Department for Education report in 2019 found 94% of IGCSEs were taken in private schools, accounting for 164,000 exam entries.\n\nThe decision not to cancel them was welcomed by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), representing some of the most prestigious independent schools.\n\nThe HMC's general secretary, Simon Hyde, said their schools \"would be the first to cheer if pupils educated by the state had the same opportunity\".\n\n\"The decision to cancel GCSEs was premature. Exams are the fairest way of assessing what learners know and understand and we would like to see as many pupils as possible take a form of exam in the summer,\" said Dr Hyde.\n\nIndependent schools often offer a mix of IGCSEs and GCSEs for different subjects, although IGCSEs do not count towards school league tables.\n\nThe qualifications - International GCSEs - are offered by Cambridge Assessment and Pearson and are taken in other countries as well as the UK. Both boards say they are planning to go ahead with exam papers for UK schools this summer.\n\nIGCSEs were not included in the cancellation of exams announced by England's Department for Education and it will be up to individual schools to decide whether to continue with them.\n\nJulie McCullloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said: \"It creates another inconsistency, but none of this is easy.\"\n\nShe said it created an \"odd situation\" when GCSEs were cancelled but IGCSEs were going ahead, but she recognised that an international qualification could need a common approach across different countries.\n\nWith the latest lockdown and most pupils studying at home, GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, the exams watchdog Ofqual will launch a consultation next week on a replacement way of deciding grades - but Ofqual does not regulate IGCSEs and they will not be part of the watchdog's proposals.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have issued CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident\n\nA fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the man who charged the victim in Surbiton, south-west London, £160.\n\nPolice said it was \"crucial\" he was caught as soon as possible as he \"may endanger people's lives\".\n\nDet Insp Kevin Ives described it as a \"disgusting and totally unacceptable assault\".\n\nIt comes after the NHS warned people that no-one should be turning up at doorsteps offering a vaccine for payment, following a spate of fake text messages.\n\nUnder the current coronavirus vaccine rollout plans, people will be invited to receive the vaccine by their GP or healthcare provider.\n\nPolice said the victim allowed the man into her home on the afternoon of 30 December after he said he was from the NHS and there to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nShe said she was jabbed in the arm with a \"dart-like implement\" before being charged £160, which the man said would be refunded by the NHS.\n\nPolice said it was not known what substance, if any, was administered, but the woman had been checked at her local hospital and showed no ill effects.\n\nDet Insp Ives appealed for information to help identify the suspect.\n\nHe added: \"It is crucial we catch him as soon as possible as not only is he defrauding individuals of money, he may endanger people's lives.\"\n\nThe man made a second visit to the woman's home on 4 January, when he asked for another £100, police said.\n\nThe man was spotted in the Tolworth area of Kingston-upon-Thames on 4 January\n\nOfficers released CCTV footage on Friday of a man dressed in a navy blue tracksuit with white stripes down the side, who they want to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nHe is described as a white man in his early 30s, who is about 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall, of medium build, with light brown hair that is combed back. He speaks with a London accent.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said: \"NHS England will never ask for bank details, Pin numbers or passwords, when contacting you about a vaccination.\n\n\"Any communication which claims to be from the NHS but asks for payment, or bank details, is fraudulent and can be ignored. It can be reported to police via Action Fraud.\n\n\"You will never be charged for the vaccine.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it is \"excellent news\" that a third coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK.\n\nIt is made by US company Moderna and works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being offered on the NHS.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine - 10 million more than planned - but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nIt is the last Covid vaccine with final trial data published.\n\nThere are hundreds still in development, with some expected to report findings in the near future.\n\nAround 1.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far, with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nThat figure includes almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England - people at highest risk of severe illness or death from the virus.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first, as set out in a list of nine high-priority groups, covering around 30 million people in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi welcomed the approval of the Moderna jab\n\nThe prime minister has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care homes residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"This is further great news and another weapon in our arsenal to tame this awful disease.\"\n\nThe UK had originally ordered 7 million doses of the Moderna jab, but has increased this to get even more people immunised as quickly as possible.\n\nIn total, the UK has now ordered 367 million doses of vaccines to protect against Covid-19.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, vaccine deployment minister, said: \"The NHS is pulling out all the stops to vaccinate those most at risk as quickly as possible, with over 1,000 vaccination sites live across the UK by the end of the week to provide easy access to everyone, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"The Moderna vaccine will be a vital boost to these efforts and will help us return to normal faster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe Moderna vaccine, an RNA vaccine like Pfizer's, injects part of the virus's genetic code in order to provoke an immune response.\n\nIt requires temperatures of around -20C for shipping - similar to a normal freezer.\n\nIn comparison, the Pfizer/BioNTech one requires temperatures closer to -75C, making transport logistics much more difficult.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab is easier to store and distribute, as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature.\n\nAll of these vaccines require a second booster shot, but a first dose is likely to be given to as many people as possible.\n\nIn trials with more than 30,000, the Moderna vaccine offered nearly 95% protection from severe Covid.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and it takes time for protection to build. For all of the Covid vaccines, we still do not know how long immunity will last.\n\nPeople who have received a coronavirus vaccine should continue to follow social distancing rules to protect themselves and others.\n\nEU and US regulators have already approved the Moderna vaccine.", "The band recently became a trio (left-right): Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards\n\nLittle Mix have risen to top the top of UK singles chart after Christmas songs released their grip on the top 40.\n\nSweet Melody has become the band's fifth number one, three months after it was released - and will be their last with Jesy Nelson, who quit last year.\n\nThe 29-year-old said in December that nine years in the girl group had taken \"a toll on her mental health\".\n\nLittle Mix's victory is part of a huge chart upheaval, after 56 Christmas songs dropped out of the top 100.\n\nAmong them was last week's number one, Wham's Last Christmas, which set a new record for the biggest-ever fall from the top. The festive ballad has now left the chart altogether.\n\nThe previous record-holder - Three Lions, by The Lightning Seeds with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel - fell from number one to 96 after England crashed out of the World Cup in 2018.\n\nSweet Melody has risen from number nine to number one this week, giving Little Mix their first chart-topper since Shout Out To My Ex in 2016.\n\nJade Thirlwall told BBC Radio 1 the milestone was particularly important because it was \"the last single we did as a four with Jesy\".\n\n\"And it's even more special that now, going into 2021 as a three, we've got the first number one,\" she added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Official Charts This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nAcknowledging a fan campaign to boost the song's chart position, bandmate Perrie Edwards said: \"I just want to squish every single fan who managed to get it to number one.\n\n\"The power they have, I'm sorry. The song's been out for months!\"\n\nWith fans abandoning their festive playlists, the stage was also set for singles that had previously been forced out of the top 40 to stage a dramatic return.\n\nDua Lipa's Levitating jumped 63 places to number five, reclaiming a position it last held on 3 December; and Tate McRae's You Broke Me First rocketed from number 74 to nine. In total, there were 39 new entries or re-entries in the top 75.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's Evermore returned to number one, four weeks after its surprise pre-Christmas release, while companion album Folklore climbed to number 12.\n\nMeanwhile, Harry Styles' Fine Line reached a new chart peak at number two following the release of a video for his latest single Treat People With Kindness, which sees him dance with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge.\n\nLewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - the UK's biggest-selling album of both 2019 and 2020 - also climbed to number six, notching up its 86th week in the top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Graham Norton has been the BBC's Mr Eurovision since 2009\n\nGraham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC Eurovision coverage, has said the song contest will go ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"There's definitely going to be a Eurovision... The competition element is going to happen,\" he said.\n\nContest organisers told the BBC: \"We can confirm the Eurovision Song Contest will definitely take place this year.\"\n\nBut pre-recorded performances may be used if acts cannot travel to Rotterdam or have to isolate when they get there.\n\nLast year's contest was cancelled due to the pandemic. It was replaced in the UK with a programme looking back at the event's history, including a vote to find the greatest Eurovision song of all time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorton told US radio station Sirius XM that if some artists are unable to travel to the Netherlands in 2021, \"they can Zoom in a performance\". He added: \"I doubt we'll be in a stadium full of 20,000 people.\"\n\nOrganisers stressed that while \"the general gist of Graham's comments is correct\", pre-recorded performances will be used if an act can't travel, rather than asking them to perform live from their home country.\n\nThe filmed routines will be shown \"if a participant cannot travel to Rotterdam due to the current pandemic, or in the unfortunate instance of an artist having to quarantine on site\", a spokesman said.\n\nBroadcasters will have to follow a \"strict set of guidelines\" to help them record their \"live on tape\" performances \"to keep the competition fair should it not go ahead in the traditional way\", he added.\n\nThe new rules state: \"The recording will take place in real time (as it would be at the contest) without making any edits to the vocals or any part of the performance itself after the recording.\"\n\nThis year's contest will take place on 22 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872\n\nScotland's hospitals have more Covid patients than ever before - with the number of deaths also \"distressingly high\", the first minister has said.\n\nThe latest figures showed that the deaths of 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nBut the figure includes some people who died over Christmas and New Year.\n\nThere were also 1,530 people in hospital with the virus, higher than the peak of 1,520 last April.\n\nOf these, 102 patients were in intensive care - with Ms Sturgeon saying the statistics showed the \"severity of the pressure\" that hospitals are facing.\n\nThe 93 deaths recorded on Friday is the highest daily figure since the outbreak began - with the previous high being 84 on 15 April.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said the figure will \"undoubtedly include some people who died over the Christmas and New Year period and the delay in registration because of the bank holidays means that their deaths are only being reported today.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be clear, that is not more than 90 people who died yesterday. It will be people who have died over a period of time.\n\n\"That does not change the fact they are all individuals who have died and have died of Covid.\"\n\nA further 2,309 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which was 8.1% of the tests carried out on Thursday and takes the total number of cases in Scotland to 146,024.\n\nThe figures mean that the total number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nIt believes that more people are using the country's road and public transport networks than during the lockdown last spring.\n\nAnd it has warned that tougher restrictions could be needed to increase compliance with the travel restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the areas being looked at included non-essential click and collect shopping, further restrictions on takeaway food, non-essential construction and whether more people should be working from home.\n\nThe first minister also confirmed that universities and colleges will not resume in-person teaching until at least the end of February.\n\nThis means that students should stay at home rather than travelling back to their campus or accommodation.\n\nThere will be exceptions for cases where remote study is not possible - for example for a student nurse or a doctor on a practical placement.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said any students who have remained on campus will be \"fully supported\" by their institution.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland was placed into level four restrictions from 26 December before additional measures, including closing schools to most pupils until at least the end of the month, was introduced on Tuesday.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Dr Dave Caesar, insisted on Friday morning that coronavirus case numbers in January \"could have been worse\".\n\nHe said the restrictions that were introduced on Boxing Day had helped to \"blunt the spike\" but warned that the country was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDr Caesar told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our case numbers are high, but they're not as high as they could have been if we hadn't taken the measures that we undertook from Boxing Day.\n\n\"Our health system is under serious pressure but is coping.\n\n\"I hate to say it, but it could have been worse by this time in January. We're not out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination, but I suppose we're holding our own in very significantly challenging circumstances.\"\n\nNew Covid testing measures for international travellers are to be introduced\n\nNew plans to make international passengers test negative for Covid-19 before travelling to Scotland and England have also been unveiled, with Ms Sturgeon saying she hoped the scheme could start by the end of next week.\n\nIt will mean people arriving by plane, train or boat - including UK nationals - will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are travelling from.\n\nProf Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said the move was long overdue as the UK had \"really struggled from the beginning\" with limiting the impact of international travel on the pandemic.\n\nBut she said the country should also consider introducing supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside. The BBC looked through hours of phone footage to paint a picture of what happened.", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "Former Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving\n\nThree members of a \"toxic\" police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their \"offensive\" conversations were secretly bugged.\n\nThe devices picked up \"homophobic, racist and sexist\" conversations in the offices of Hampshire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nA number of force staff referred to it as a \"lads' pad\".\n\nTwo other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.\n\nThe misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".\n\nDet Sgt Oliver Lage, Det Sgt Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been dismissed while retired Det Insp Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman were the two who had previously left the force.\n\nTrainee Det Con Andrew Ferguson, who sent colleagues a fake pornographic image of members of the royal family, has been given a final written warning.\n\nThe six men were based at the Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke\n\nImposing the sanctions, panel chairman John Bassett said the conduct had been \"shameful\".\n\nHe said police officers could not \"pick and choose the standards they will abide by\" in order to create more \"cohesive\" teams.\n\nMr Bassett said PC Ferguson was \"essentially a good officer\" who joined the team three months before the recordings, by which time the \"culture was well-established\".\n\nHe said the officer was \"conflicted by what he witnessed\" and \"felt unable to raise the matter with a supervisor\".\n\nChief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the force's internal investigation had revealed a \"catalogue of sexist, racist, homophobic and ableist language and commentary that has rightly shocked us all\".\n\nShe added: \"These officers have failed to deliver on the promise they made to uphold fundamental human rights and accord equal respect to all people.\n\n\"[They] have undermined the trust and confidence of our communities and damaged the reputations of their colleagues.\"\n\nThe six officers have apologised but some told the disciplinary panel swearing was in the \"fabric\" of the police force.\n\nOne also said they felt they were being \"made an example of\" by the force which should have learned from other previous incidents.\n\nIn all, 20 police officers and staff from the unit have faced some sort of disciplinary action.\n\nDuring the misconduct hearing at Hampshire Constabulary's headquarters in Eastleigh, it was heard a \"toxic, abhorrent culture\" developed with officers using offensive terms for women, black people, immigrants, disabled, gay and transgender people and foreign nationals.\n\nJason Beer QC, prosecuting, said the only black member of the team was referred to using racist tropes and references to slavery.\n\nWomen were described using derogatory terms and stared at in the canteen, he added.\n\nThe men admitted some of the charges of breaching standards of professional behaviour against them but claimed it only amounted to misconduct not gross misconduct.\n\nZoe Wakefield, chair of Hampshire Police Federation, said: \"The outdated and offensive views we heard during the hearing have no place in society and they certainly have no place in policing.\n\n\"We should not let the awful language and terminology used by a very small number of police officers tarnish the hard work and dedication of thousands of police officers and staff in Hampshire...\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Growing numbers of students in England have pledged to withhold rent on university accommodation they cannot use during the Covid lockdown.\n\nOrganisers say this is building up to be a major protest, estimating that about 15,000 students at dozens of universities have signed up so far.\n\nThey want a rebate on rent when many students are being kept off campus at the start of term.\n\nBut universities say they only provide 20% of student accommodation.\n\nUniversities UK says this means \"many decisions on refunds will be made by private landlords and other providers\".\n\nIn November, University of Manchester offered a 30% rent rebate for the first half of the academic year, worth about £1,000 to each student in halls.\n\nThe move followed protests over lack of support during the coronavirus pandemic which saw students tear down temporary fencing in one demonstration.\n\nUniversity of Manchester students have been calling for a rent strike\n\nThe reduction will be applied to direct debit payments this month, with students who have already paid for the whole year getting a refund.\n\nBut organiser of the Rent Strike Now campaign, Ben McGowan, said the new lockdown means students are still paying for halls they are unable to return to which has prompted a wave of student anger.\n\nOn Twitter, campaigners listed more than 40 universities where they said students were pledging to withhold rent.\n\nThe campaign group Rent Strike Now tweeted a list of universities where there are campaigns\n\n\"Most of us are being told not to go back so we're paying for accommodation we can't use and there's been no extra support from universities and government,\" added Saranya Thambiranjah, a first year at Bristol University who also helps run the campaign.\n\n\"Rent striking is a great way to make our voices heard and get universities to listen our concerns.\"\n\nStudents at universities not yet part of this campaign have said they will organise similar challenges on their own campuses, including Coventry and Keele.\n\nRebecca Hyde is having to do her journalism course in her bedroom\n\nAt Nottingham Trent University, student campaigner Rebecca Hyde, who is doing a masters in broadcast journalism, said 244 students had so far pledged to withhold rent on university halls since their campaign was launched a few days ago.\n\nShe believes universities should do more to help students who are having to pay for rooms they are unable to use through no fault of their own.\n\nShe says her course leaders have been brilliant but missing out on using studios and running \"news days\" with her fellow students \"is just so disappointing\".\n\nNottingham Trent University says it understands student concerns over rents and urged the government \"to show leadership to find a solution that is fair to all students\".\n\n\"At NTU, only a minority of our students are in accommodation operated by or on behalf of the university.\n\n\"We do not want a repeat of the situation in the summer term of 2020 where most of our students were reliant on the goodwill of private accommodation providers who did not always do the right thing,\" said the university in a statement.\n\nAt King's College London, campaign secretary \"Juno\" likewise reported hundreds of new pledges to withhold rent in the past few days, saying students felt they had been \"lured\" into their accommodation at the start of the academic year.\n\nA King's spokesperson promised that students would not be charged for accommodation they are unable to use during lockdown.\n\nAbout a quarter of students are in privately-run purpose built accommodation, and one of the biggest of these providers, Unite Students, is also facing demands.\n\nLiverpool John Moores student Suhail Accad, in Unite accommodation, says his rent strike post on Instagram has gained 3,000 followers and has had 8,000 shares in just a few days.\n\n\"It's expensive to stay here,\" says Suhail.\n\nUnite was unable to comment directly on the threat of rent strikes but maintains that it is doing all it can to help keep students and staff safe \"during this challenging period\".\n\nUniversities UK said universities were looking at the issue \"actively\" and considering what support they can offer students.\n\n\"Universities recognise the financial pressures the pandemic has placed on students and are providing increased financial and other support as a result.\n\n\"With government restrictions reducing the numbers of students returning in person to universities, now is the time for the government to seriously consider the financial implications for students and institutions and what support they will provide.\"", "Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts Image caption: Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts\n\nThe government is urging people in England to stay at home and \"act like you've got it\" as part of a new advertising campaign.\n\nThe \"stay at home, save lives\" campaign will run across TV, radio, out-of-home advertising and social media.\n\nThe campaign will include a new advert fronted by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, which will air for the first time on ITV at 19:15 GMT tonight.\n\nThe UK reported a record number of deaths and cases today, as hospitals come under growing pressure, with some in the South East at extreme capacity.\n\nAround one in three people with Covid-19 don’t have any symptoms and can pass it on without realising, the government said, \"which is why it’s essential everyone stays at home and remembers Hands, Face, Space\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\n\n“The vaccine has given us renewed hope in our fight against the virus but we must not be complacent.\n\n\"The NHS is under severe strain and we must take action to protect it, both so our doctors and nurses can continue to save lives and so they can vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as we can.\n\n“I know the last year has taken its toll – but your compliance is now more vital than ever. So once again, I must urge everyone to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google's plan to replace web browser cookies with a system that shares less data with advertisers is being investigated in the UK.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Google's plan could have a \"significant impact\" on news websites and the digital advertising market.\n\nIt had already raised concerns that publishers' profits could sink if they were unable to run personalised ads.\n\nBut Google said digital advertising practices had to \"evolve\".\n\nCookies are small files a web browser stores on a user's device when they visit a webpage.\n\nThey can be used to remember what items a person has added to their online basket and deliver personalised content.\n\nThey can also be used to track somebody's activity online and deliver targeted advertising.\n\nSome cookies known as cross-site or third-party cookies can let publishers track a person's web activity as they move from one website to another.\n\nBy default, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox browsers already block cross-site cookies.\n\nBut Google intends to go further by ending support for all cookies except first-party ones - those used by sites to track activity within their own pages.\n\nIt wants to replace them with new tools that give advertisers more limited, anonymised information such as how many users visited a promoted product's page after seeing a relevant ad - but not tie this information to individual users.\n\nAccording to one industry group opposing the move, Google's Chrome browser is installed on more than 70% of computers in the UK.\n\nSo even if other web browsers do not adopt the same approach the move would still be significant.\n\n\"Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market. But there are also privacy concerns to consider,\" said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA.\n\nA coalition of about a dozen small tech companies and publishers - Marketers for an Open Web (Mow) - claims some of its members' revenues could drop by as much as two-thirds.\n\nMoreover, it suggests the move would put too much power into Google's hands.\n\n\"Google will effectively control how websites can monetise and operate their business,\" it warned last month.\n\n\"This means that any business that buys or sells advertising will be reliant on Google for a part of the process, whether they like it or not.\n\n\"This will reduce the ability of independent players to compete with Google, strengthening its monopoly control of online commerce.\"\n\nThe group has also raised concerns about other related matters, including the tech firm's plan to end support for user-agent strings.\n\nThese are bits of text that browsers send to websites at the start of a user's visit to reveal details about the device and browser being used.\n\nPublishers use this information to optimise the way their sites appear.\n\nBut Google is phasing out support on the grounds that they are also used as an alternative to cookies to track users, and sometimes cause compatibility issues.\n\nThe CMA previously issued a report into the matter in July.\n\nAt that point it acknowledged that while there were benefits to consumers from the kinds of privacy measures Google was proposing, they might be outweighed by other concerns.\n\nIt added that \"many news publishers\" had expressed concern that their news sites would become \"unsustainable\".\n\nUntil recently, the European Commission was responsible for most large and complex competition cases involving the UK.\n\nOn 1 January, the CMA took over these responsibilities on a local level due to Brexit.\n\nLast November, the government announced it would create a new Digital Markets Unit within the CMA.\n\nThe organisation subsequently detailed how it would to govern the behaviour of Google, Facebook and other tech platforms \"that currently dominate\" online markets, and give consumers \"more control over how their data is used\".\n\nThe new unit becomes operational in April, but is dependent on legislation going through Parliament before it gets new powers, and that may not happen until 2022.\n\nSince that would be too late to block Google's Privacy Sandbox plans, the probe is being carried out under the existing regime.\n\nEven so, all those involved will be watching closely for signs of how willing the authority is to confront the US's largest tech companies.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The storming of the US Capitol building in Washington DC stunned viewers around the world.\n\nBut how did Americans feel seeing the seat of their government being ransacked?\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel for their views.\n\nSimon grew up in Uganda during its civil war and became a US citizen last year. A master's student and stay-at-home father, he warns that, while things may settle down, \"democracy is not guaranteed\".\n\nI'm disgusted but not surprised. I anticipated this would happen and it was a matter of when, not if.\n\nI didn't anticipate that it would happen in the capital. This is the president whose people - since the racial justice movement in the summer - said they were for \"law and order\". So the \"law and order\" people broke into the Capitol and changed the American flag with the Trump flag. History shows that has not happened in over 200 years, so it tells you how dangerous this man is.\n\nIn Uganda, in November, when the opposition was arrested, people took to the streets and got shot. Here, in the summer, the Capitol building was protected and they were breaking up peaceful protests.\n\nIt's clear that [Trump supporters] have been organising, we've seen this was going to happen, yet we subconsciously did not think that white people are a threat. That is the construct of this country and how law enforcement viewed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nTaylor is a staunch Trump supporter and recently travelled to Washington DC for a post-election pro-Trump rally. A photographer by trade, she was upset by the rioting but believes unsubstantiated claims that left-wing radicals were behind the violence.\n\nIt was just heart-breaking to watch what was going on and the behaviour of protesters is just not like the Trump people I've been around. If it did come from any conservatives, then I condemn it. There's no excuse for violence.\n\nIt doesn't change my support for Trump. The people that love Trump, that's not going to change no matter if he gets a second term or not. It just means we're going to hold out for 2024 and hope either he runs again or his kids do.\n\nOur country is going to go downhill over the next four years if Biden does take office. I'm actually moving today out of the city into the suburbs of a Republican county because I am afraid of how Democratic counties will end up under a Biden presidency.\n\nWe're going to catapult towards socialism and communism. I'm worried for the country's future, but regardless of who takes office, we have a lot of healing to do. I hope we can all find our common humanity and embrace each other when this is all over, which is hopefully soon.\n\nJames is a lifelong Republican who worked on Capitol Hill for the party for nearly two decades, but cast his first ever vote for a Democrat in the 2020 election. He was stunned by 6 January's events and expects it to become a bad footnote in the country's history.\n\nI find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this.\n\nI had actually thought about going down to the protests with a sign that said \"Republicans Against Trump\". My brother said, if I had done that, there would have been five deaths, not four, and he may have been right. I'm astounded by the stupidity of these people who show up without masks and who are being filmed. Quite a few of them are going to prison. It's a serious situation when you break past a police barricade and go into a building that's supposed to be secure.\n\nI have a lot of friends who say things couldn't get worse, but I have to remind them, as a student of history, that it has been worse. The Civil War was much worse. There was a lot of violence in the South during the Reconstruction period. This is something the country will get over. I was heartened by President-elect Biden's speech yesterday. Finally we've got someone who's sounding presidential. We haven't had it for the last four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA'Kayla is a college student who supports the Black Lives Matter movement. She says law enforcement \"coddled\" the rioters at the Capitol and thus made an argument for police reform because they were far more aggressive at protests she attended.\n\nIt's so irritating I can't put into words how frustrating it is. They stormed the Capitol and the police were gentle and lackadaisical with them. I expected the police to use force, but they were so kind and gentle. During the summer, when the Black Lives Matter protests were going on, so many people were injured, locked up and lost their lives.\n\nFrom my own experience, marching peacefully on the front lines in Charleston, we had tear gas thrown at us and had to pour milk in our eyes. It was excruciating. And for what? We're marching for a cause, because we had the murder of somebody by the police. What are they upset about? They're upset because we are living in a democracy and they didn't get their way.\n\nDuring one of the debates, when Trump said \"stand back and stand by\", is this what he was talking about? This is the calm before the storm. I think it's going to get way more ugly, but Kamala [Harris] and Joe [Biden] are a symbol of change and hope.\n\nWhether [Trump supporters] like it or not, America is moving towards a more progressive country and there's going to be a lot of changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A young woman has died after a rare suspected shark attack in New Zealand.\n\nPolice named the victim as 19-year-old Kaelah Marlow, from Hamilton.\n\nMarlow was taken out of the water still alive but died at the scene despite efforts to save her life. Police said it appeared she had been injured by a shark.\n\nThe attack happened at Waihi Beach on North Island not far from the country's biggest city Auckland.\n\n\"Police extend our deepest sympathies to Kaelah's family and loved ones at this very difficult time,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"We appreciate her death was extremely traumatic for those who were at Waihi Beach yesterday and we are offering victim support services to anyone who requires it,\" the statement said.\n\nShark attacks are unusual in the country and this is thought to be the first fatality since 2013. Local media cited witnesses as saying the woman had been swimming right in front of the lifeguard flags on Thursday.\n\nWhen they heard screams, lifeguards went out by boat immediately and pulled her to shore.\n\nIt is not clear what kind of shark attacked Kaelah Marlow, but an eyewitness reportedly claimed it was a great white, a species which is protected in the waters around New Zealand.\n\n\"Sharks are reasonably common near all northern beaches of New Zealand, most are harmless and even species considered dangerous very rarely interact with swimmers,\" shark researcher Kina Scollay told the BBC.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with the victim's family and we need to remember that this is a real tragedy to real people. I worry that this gets lost sight of in the media scramble after such events.\"\n\nOne witness quoted by local media said he believed a great white shark attacked the woman\n\nMr Scolley said that while attacks were rare, there were ways to be careful about interactions that could go wrong. Among the risk factors are, for instance, fish feeding events or dead animals in the water.\n\n\"If a large shark approaches or is seen nearby people should stay calm, warn those nearby and calmly exit the water,\" he said.\n\nA seven-day rahui, a traditional Maori prohibition restricting access to an area, has been placed on the beach.\n\nThe last recorded shark attack was in 2018 when a man was injured - but survived - at Baylys Beach. Over the past 170 years, there have only been 13 fatal shark attacks documented in New Zealand, according to the country's department of conservation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "UK house prices rose by 6% last year, according to the Halifax, but the lender is predicting \"downward pressure\" on values in 2021.\n\nThe mortgage lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that prices \"soared\" in the second half of 2020.\n\nPent-up demand, a clamour for more space, and stamp duty holidays led to higher prices.\n\nBut the Halifax said the economic realities of 2021 meant activity would slow as the year progressed.\n\n\"With the pace of the UK's economic recovery expected to be constrained by the renewed national lockdown, and unemployment widely predicted to rise in the coming months, downward pressure on house prices remains likely as we move through 2021,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at the Halifax.\n\nHe said that last year was a market of two halves - starting with slow growth, and stalling when the market was closed during the first national lockdown, but then booming when it reopened.\n\nThis meant that overall, demand and price growth were relatively high.\n\nThe conclusion mirrors the findings of rival lender, the Nationwide, which said that UK house prices climbed 7.5% in 2020, the highest growth rate for six years.\n\nBoth mortgage lenders base their findings on their customer data.\n\nLucy Pendleton, from estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"The simple truth is that extra space has become non-negotiable for legions of homeowners with families, and the usual winter slowdown has met the immovable force that is hundreds of thousands of people all trying to jump to larger properties at the same time.\"\n\nThe Halifax said there were already signs of the market slowing, with prices rising by 0.2% in December compared with the previous month.\n\nThat was the slowest monthly rise of the last six months.\n\nThe lender said the average home was valued at £253,374.\n• None Where can I afford to live?", "The switch has been welcomed by climate campaigners\n\nAlok Sharma is to leave his position as business secretary to focus full-time on his role as president of the UN COP26 climate conference in November.\n\nThe Glasgow event is expected to be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted.\n\nMr Sharma, who will remain in the cabinet, said he was \"delighted to have been asked by the PM to dedicate all my energies\" to the position.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng replaces him as business secretary while Anne-Marie Trevelyan becomes the new energy minister.\n\nThe government says a successful summit will be critical if the UK wants to meet the objectives set out by the Paris Agreement and reduce global emissions.\n\nThe event had originally been scheduled for November 2020 but was delayed by a year due to Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jessica Parker said the decision to move Alok Sharma wasn't a surprise and would be seen as a recognition of the need to free him up to do more of the crucial diplomatic leg-work required.\n\nSome MPs had previously warned that Mr Sharma lacked the \"bandwidth\" to head the conference alongside his cabinet job, especially given the strains on business due to the pandemic.\n\nIn his new role, which is based in the Cabinet Office, Mr Sharma's will remain a member of Boris Johnson's top team but be focused solely on coordinating global action to tackle climate change\n\nBoris Johnson chose Mr Sharma to head the event after ex-minister Claire O'Neill was ousted from the position in the summer of 2019.\n\nShe later condemned what she called broken promises and backsliding on climate commitments.\n\nFormer Conservative PM David Cameron turned down the chance to head the conference and ex-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague was also involved in discussions.\n\nMr Sharma's move will be welcomed by climate campaigners, who worried he was over-stretched running a frantically busy department while also orchestrating the most important climate meeting on Earth.\n\nMany of these summits - known as COPs - yielded little because the leadership was poor.\n\nThe French produced a triumphant agreement in the 2015 Paris COP after mustering the mighty force of French diplomacy.\n\nMr Sharma is reported to accept that he now needs to concentrate full time on the challenge.\n\nHe will need subtle diplomatic skills, a mastery of detail and the stamina of an ox as he attempts to corral world leaders into agreement on curbing emissions faster. He'll also need 100% support from the PM.\n\nThe greatest obstacle to action - Donald Trump - will soon disappear from the scene, and with China making bold promises, the COP has potential.\n\nBut politicians have been so slow to act that some key tipping points in the climate might already have been breached.\n\nReflecting on his new role, Mr Sharma said: \"The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations.\n\n\"Through the UK's Presidency of COP26 we have a unique opportunity, working with friends and partners around the world, to deliver on this goal.\"\n\nRichard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: \"Allowing Alok Sharma to focus full-time on his COP26 role is a sensible decision, not least as it signals the government's commitment to ensuring that the summit is a success.\n\n\"With the election of Joe Biden as the next US President and China's recent carbon neutrality pledge, the diplomatic opportunities have opened up for more ambitious action on climate change. Mr Sharma's job will be to seize them.\"\n\nAnd ex-cabinet minister Amber Rudd, who led the UK delegation at the Paris climate change conference, said the move showed the government \"recognises the importance and opportunity for a global agreement this year\".\n\nResponding to his new appointment, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"thrilled\" and pledged to help businesses through this period of \"extremely challenging circumstances\".\n\nThe Spelthorne MP, who entered Parliament in 2010, has been energy minister since July 2019.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Mr Kwarteng had \"a massive task\" in providing business with \"a plan to help them through this year, not the inadequate sticking plaster measures we have seen\".\n\nHe welcomed the decision to make Mr Sharma's COP role full time.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial that the full political, diplomatic and strategic resources of government are now directed to the most ambitious outcome at Glasgow, which is a 1.5 degree deal.\"", "The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is \"off the scale\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.\n\nData leaked to BBC News shows ambulance waiting times at hospitals in the South East rose by 36% in December compared to the same month in 2019.\n\nPeople are also having to wait longer for ambulances to arrive when called.\n\nAmbulance services say it is taking longer to hand over patients but they are doing all they can to meet demand.\n\nIt comes as the NHS faces unprecedented pressure because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nA paramedic working in London told BBC News he had encountered patients left waiting up to 12 hours for an ambulance in the last week.\n\nOne patient in London with a broken leg had to wait outside at night for six hours before an ambulance arrived to collect him, he said.\n\nOn another occasion, paramedics were called to attend to a young man with Covid-19 whose oxygen levels were \"so low\". He was given oxygen when they arrived - but that was eight hours after the ambulance was called.\n\nIncidents such as these are \"dangerous\" and the service is \"on its knees\", the paramedic added.\n\nThe figures also show that at one point on Monday this week more than 700 patients were left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in London when none was available.\n\nDifferent statistics obtained by BBC News highlight the number of hours spent waiting to offload patients at hospitals half an hour after ambulances arrived at hospitals in the South East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance service lost 7,803 hours queuing outside hospitals, an increase on 5,732 hours in 2019.\n\nKent saw the greatest rise in this period. One of its hospitals, Medway Maritime Hospital, saw a doubling in ambulance waiting times.\n\nThese figures are \"off the scale\", according to Royal College of Emergency Medicine Vice President Adrian Boyle.\n\n\"It is not because more ambulances are being called, it's because the amount of time they're spending outside a hospital has increased,\" he said.\n\nDr Boyle says ambulances left queuing outside hospitals meant crews were not available to respond to other emergencies.\n\nHe says services are facing a \"crisis\" unlike any other he has seen.\n\n\"People may feel they have a winter crisis every year but this is a different order of magnitude\", he added.\n\n\"This is the worst winter crisis I've been through in my 25 years of practising as a doctor.\"\n\nAmbulance services say they are are doing everything they can to meet the demand.\n\nA London Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to prioritise the most seriously ill and injured patients, and our team of trained clinicians in our control rooms are working hard to monitor and maintain contact with many other patients as needed while they are waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.\"\n\nA South East Coast Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything we can to increase the number of staff available to meet this demand, including increasing overtime, to ensure crews are as available as possible to respond to patients in the community.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Marks & Spencer says sales of sleepwear have soared as people spend more time at home because of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December, with many of them being bought as Christmas presents.\n\n\"The great British public are back in their pyjamas,\" said chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\nDespite this, clothing sales as a whole fell nearly a quarter, although food sales showed modest growth.\n\nM&S said its trading was \"robust\" over the Christmas period, but UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nM&S also said that potential post-Brexit tariffs on part of its range exported to the EU, together with \"very complex\" administrative processes, would \"significantly impact\" its businesses in Ireland and the Czech Republic, as well as its franchise business in France.\n\nMr Rowe said the chain's popular Percy Pig sweets, made in Germany, were one product that could face tax rises.\n\nIt said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" those effects.\n\nMr Rowe thanked staff for \"a first-class execution of Christmas for our customers in near impossible conditions\".\n\nThe High Street stalwart said customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nLike-for-like food sales had risen 2.6% during the period, it said.\n\nHowever, clothing and home sales fell by 24.1%, and UK sales overall were down 7.6% on a like-for-like basis.\n\nTrading was hit particularly badly in November by the national lockdown in England, with clothing and home sales slumping 40.5% in the month and food sales down 4.5%.\n\n\"Near-term trading remains very challenging, but we are continuing to accelerate change under our Never the Same Again programme to ensure the business emerges from the pandemic in very different shape,\" Mr Rowe said.\n\nOn the positive side, M&S said its tie-up with online firm Ocado had produced \"very strong\" results, while customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nRoss Hindle, retail sector analyst at Third Bridge, said: \"Despite the pressure faced by their clothing division, the M&S food division is expected to deliver solid results, propelled by both stockpiling and its Ocado partnership.\n\nHe pointed to reports that M&S was poised to acquire the Jaeger clothing brand as a possible way forward, saying it \"hints at the potential for a more aggressive shift into the multi-brand space\".\n\n\"M&S have numerous large stores which could be filled with non-M&S merchandise in order to drive their top-line. The risk here is whether such brands might cannibalise M&S branded products,\" he added.\n\nEmily Salter, retail analyst at GlobalData, said M&S was \"paying the cost for its inability to adapt fast enough to changing shopping habits\".\n\n\"M&S's recovery is slow versus other apparel players, as it continues to be hurt by an online platform unable to make up for lost store sales,\" she added.\n\nShe saw little point in a potential purchase of Jaeger, as it would be \"costly to turn around and do little to boost the retailer's fortunes\".\n\nHowever, she said M&S's focus on value in food had \"started to pay off, with decent sales growth, especially considering dampened footfall on High Streets\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "The Liberia-flagged oil tanker Nave Andromeda docked at Southampton after the incident\n\nSeven men, including two who had already been charged, will face no action over a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpecial forces stormed the Nave Andromeda on 25 October after the crew raised concerns about stowaways.\n\nMatthew Okorie, 25, and Sunday Sylvester, 22, had been charged with conduct endangering ships.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped their case after evidence analysis \"cast doubt\" on whether the tanker was put in danger.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said initial reports had indicated there was a \"real and imminent threat\" to the vessel, but added mobile phone footage and witness accounts \"could not show that the ship or crew were threatened\" and there was no evidence the men had any intention to seize control of the vessel.\n\nThe CPS said the new evidence meant the \"legal test\" for the offence was \"no longer met\".\n\n\"Our case was that the actions of the men were responsible for the endangerment of the vessel, but further material was then supplied by a maritime expert which significantly undermined whether there was a threat of danger,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed\" by the CPS's decision and added it was working with prosecutors to \"urgently resolve the issues raised by this case\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It is frustrating that there will be no prosecution in relation to this very serious incident and the British people will struggle to understand how this can be the case.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the five other men, who were arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force, also face no police action.\n\nThey will remain detained under immigration regulations.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October bound for Southampton.\n\nAs it approached the Isle of Wight 20 days later, an emergency call came from the ship concerned about stowaways on board while the 22 crew members had locked themselves in the ship's citadel - secure area.\n\nThe men had been found on the ship earlier in the voyage and the vessel had made unsuccessful attempts to dock in other ports.\n\nIt was reported the men became hostile as the tanker approached the UK - but the CPS said it was thought this may have occurred while the ship was outside of UK waters.\n\nAt the time the Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised a special forces operation in response to a police request following a 10-hour stand-off.\n\nIn a nine-minute operation carried out under the cover of darkness, Special Boat Service commandos boarded the vessel and arrested the seven men, believed to be Nigerian nationals seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nThe Liberian-registered tanker later docked in Southampton.\n\nSpecial forces boarded the Nave Andromeda on the evening of 25 October\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump calls for an 'orderly transition of power' to the Biden administration on January 20th\n\nA US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for \"inciting\" the riot.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the Constitution to declare the president unfit for office.\n\nAlternatively, she vowed to initiate the process to impeach the president.\n\nWednesday's violence came hours after Mr Trump encouraged his supporters to fight against the election results as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November vote.\n\nFive people have died in relation to the riot, including Brian Sicknick, an officer at the US Capitol Police (USCP) who was \"injured while physically engaging with protesters\", the police said.\n\nMeanwhile, the top congressional Democrats - Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer - have urged Vice-President Pence and Mr Trump's cabinet to remove the president for \"his incitement of insurrection\".\n\n\"The President's dangerous and seditious acts necessitate his immediate removal from office,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nThe duo called for Mr Trump to be ousted using the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice-president to step up if the president is unable to perform his duties owing to a mental or physical illness.\n\nBut it would require Mr Pence and at least eight cabinet members to break with Mr Trump and invoke the amendment, something they have so far seemed unlikely to do. Mr Trump is due to leave office on 20 January, when Mr Biden will be sworn in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Pelosi indicated that if the vice-president failed to act, she would convene the House to launch their second impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump.\n\nHowever, to succeed in convicting and removing the president, Democrats would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and there is no indication they would get those numbers. And it was not clear whether enough time remained to carry out the process.\n\nMrs Pelosi's deputy, Katherine Clark, told CNN the House could move on impeachment next week.\n\nMedia reports, quoting unnamed sources, said Mr Trump had suggested to aides he was considering granting a pardon to himself in the final days of his presidency. The legality of such a move is untested.\n\nIt wasn't until Thursday night, more than 24 hours after the US Capitol had been ransacked by his supporters, that Donald Trump released a recorded statement calling for \"healing and reconciliation\" in a wounded nation.\n\nThat was the very least that could be expected from a US president in a time of crises, and it probably will not be enough to silence calls for his removal, impeachment or resignation. Those demands have been coming from the political left, of course, but also from parts of the right - longtime critics, from former allies and, remarkably, even the conservative editorial page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.\n\nEver since November's election, when Trump chose to attack the results rather than admit defeat, a reckoning was coming. The pressure, like a malfunctioning steam engine, was building toward a catastrophic ending.\n\nOn Thursday night, the president began trying to pick up the pieces.\n\nTeleprompter Trump had spoken. In past crises, unscripted Trump has quickly returned, with words and actions that reveal his earlier comments were insincere.\n\nWith 12 days left in his presidency, the question is whether, or more likely when, that Trump will return - and what happens when he does.\n\nPresident Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday following a 12-hour freeze of his account. His message was the closest he has come to a formal acceptance of his defeat after weeks of falsely insisting he actually won the election in a \"landslide\".\n\n\"Now Congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th,\" the Republican said in a video, without mentioning Mr Biden by name.\n\n\"My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nMr Trump said he had \"immediately deployed\" the National Guard to expel the intruders, though some US media reported he had hesitated to send in the troops, leaving his vice-president to give the order.\n\nHe also praised his \"wonderful supporters\" and promised \"our incredible journey is only just beginning\".\n\nLaw enforcement have been heavily criticised after they were overrun by the protesters. Mr Biden said: \"Nobody could tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the thugs that stormed the Capitol.\"\n\nImages captured inside the Capitol building showed protesters roaming through some of the corridors unimpeded.\n\nThe FBI is seeking to identify those involved in the rampage, and the Washington DC police have released pictures of \"persons of interest\" for their involvement in the riot. The Department of Justice says people could face charges of seditious conspiracy, as well as rioting and insurrection.\n\nWashington police say 68 people have so far been arrested. One of those detained at the Capitol had a \"military-style automatic weapon and 11 Molotov cocktails (petrol bombs)\", according to the federal attorney for Washington DC.\n\nThe official responsible for security in the House of Representatives, the sergeant at arms, has resigned. Mr Schumer has called for his counterpart in the Senate to be sacked. USCP chief Steven Sund is also resigning, effective 16 January, following calls from Mrs Pelosi.\n\nOn Thursday, crews began installing a non-scalable 7ft (2m) fence around the Capitol which will remain in place for at least 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"\n\nAshli Babbitt, a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran from San Diego, California, was named as the woman fatally shot by a police officer who has now been placed on leave. Law enforcement told US media the victim was unarmed.\n\nThree others died after suffering unspecified medical emergencies on Capitol grounds: Benjamin Philips, 50, from Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, from Alabama; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia. Mr Greeson's family said he died of a heart attack.\n\nPolice said that 14 officers had been injured in the riot.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - one of the longest serving members of the president's administration - became the second cabinet member to quit following the Capitol riot.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms DeVos accused the president of fomenting Wednesday's disorder. \"There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stepped down, saying she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the rampage.\n\nOther aides to quit include special envoy Mick Mulvaney, a senior national security official, and the chief of staff to First Lady Melania Trump. A state department adviser was also sacked after calling Mr Trump \"unfit for office\" in a tweet.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nPeople are being warned about breaking lockdown restrictions after the police got stuck in snow due to rule-breakers.\n\nA car driving on Moel Famau hill, Flintshire, despite roadblocks, skidded off the road on Thursday night, with officers deployed to help the passengers.\n\nHowever, they then became stuck and had to call mountain rescuers.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice has been issued by the Met Office for all of Wales, until midnight on Friday.\n\nPolice said: \"This is why we say to you do not come out.\"\n\nOn a video posted on Twitter, an officer for the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team warned people about the consequences of breaking the rules.\n\n\"It is now involving two agencies, two police vehicles, two mountain rescue vehicles and three police officers and the casualty.\"\n\nRob Taylor from North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said the person who was driving the car, which travelled 200m when it lost control was \"very, very lucky to be alive and escape uninjured\".\n\n\"We've been having problems with people lately flouting the law and going where they shouldn't be going,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been going through them for various reasons whether that's a walk or sledge and gathering in large groups. So we have been paying attention.\n\n\"This issue that was highlighted perfectly yesterday where someone's gone there thinking it's okay to flout the law. They get themselves in trouble and cause an emergency response from police and actually put those police officers' lives at risk.\n\n\"Their actions can really affect many people.\"\n\nSnow and ice warnings are in place for all of Wales\n\nThe snow warning for Friday said 5cm of snow could also fall on hills and mountains, with a widespread frost forecast for the morning.\n\nRoad agencies said driving conditions on the A55 in Flintshire were difficult, with snow on Rhuallt Hill.\n\nOne lane on the expressway has been closed eastbound between Pentre Halkyn and Northop following a crash.\n\nRoads have also been closed in Denbighshire following the heavy snow.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a risk of slips and falls with sleet and snow predicted to fall on to already-frozen ground, creating icy patches.\n\nForecasters said that while snow was likely to fall on hills and mountains, flurries could be seen elsewhere, but this was likely to \"be slight and temporary\".\n\nFurther ice warnings have also been issued until 11:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nResidents in parts of Wales have been waking to snow, including in Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hyundai has sparked confusion over a possible electric car tie-up with Apple.\n\nThe South Korean car company initially said it was in the \"early stage\" of talks with the iPhone maker about a possible electric car partnership.\n\nBut hours later it backtracked and said it was talking with a number of potential partners without naming Apple.\n\nHyundai's share price rose more than 20% when the tie-up was announced.\n\n\"Apple and Hyundai are in discussions but they are at an early stage and nothing has been decided,\" it said in a statement which was later revised. Hyundai's value shot up $9bn (£6.5bn) after the Apple announcement.\n\nWhile an updated statement said it was talking to a number of companies about a possible electric car tie-up including Apple, a later version omitted the US tech firm.\n\nApple is known for its secretiveness when it comes to new products and partnerships.\n\n\"I'm not surprised to see a big jump in the valuation of Hyundai. The stock market loves car companies who are tech firms as seen with Tesla rise,\" said Sarwant Singh, managing partner at consultants Frost & Sullivan. \"This partnership helps Hyundai be seen as a tech innovator.\"\n\nLast month, news emerged that Apple was moving forward with self-driving car technology with a 2024 launch date.\n\nThe electric vehicle (EV) market is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies such as Tesla grabbing the headlines with its rapidly-increasing valuation. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, displacing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nExperts say an electric vehicle from Apple is still at least five years away.\n\nThey say pandemic-related delays could push the start of production into 2025 or beyond.\n\nHyundai has already been pushing into new technologies such as electric, driverless and flying cars.\n\nLast month, it took a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that valued the mobile robot firm at $1.1bn.\n\nThe company is also setting up a $4bn autonomous-driving joint venture with auto parts supplier Aptiv.\n\nBoth partners will invest $2bn, while Ireland-based Aptiv will contribute about 700 engineers and transfer patents and intellectual property to the venture.\n\n\"Apple could certainly jumpstart that project and Hyundai brings the vehicle development and manufacturing expertise,\" said Jeff Schuster at automobile data firm LMC Automotive\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple's efforts to produce an electric car, known as Project Titan, have been on and off ever since plans were revealed in 2014.\n\nThere have been rumours over who would assemble an Apple-branded car as it may be difficult for the tech giant to manufacture them on its own.\n\nIts rival Alphabet's Waymo chose a factory in Detroit to mass produce its own self-driving cars.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "Gordy Philip took an icy bike ride on the Great Glen Way between Blackfold and Abriachan in the hills above Loch Ness. He said of his image: \"Could be the light at the end of the road on the first day of another lockdown.\"", "New data from EU satellites shows that 2020 is in a statistical dead heat with 2016 as the world's warmest year.\n\nThe Copernicus Climate Change Service says that last year was around 1.25C above the long-term average.\n\nThe scientists say that unprecedented levels of heat in the Arctic and Siberia were key factors in driving up the overall temperature.\n\nThe past 12 months also saw a new record for Europe, around 0.4C warmer than 2019.\n\nLast December, the World Meteorological Organization predicted that 2020 would be one of the three warmest years on record.\n\nThis new, more complete report from Copernicus says that last year is right at the top of the list.\n\nHigh temperatures saw fires rage in spring and summer in many locations inside the Arctic circle\n\nThe Copernicus data comes from a constellation of Sentinel satellites that monitor the Earth from orbit, as well as measurements taken at ground level.\n\nTemperature data from the system shows that 2020 was 1.25C warmer than the average from 1850-1900, a time often described as the \"pre-industrial\" period.\n\nOne key factor driving up the temperatures was the heating experienced in the Arctic and Siberia.\n\nIn some locations there, temperatures for the year as a whole were 6C above the long-term average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis exceptional warming led to a very active wildfire season. Fires in the Arctic Circle released a record amount of CO2, according to the study, up over a third from 2019.\n\nThe Copernicus service concludes that while 2020 was very marginally cooler than 2016, the two years are statistically on a par as the differences between the figures for the two years are smaller than the typical differences found in other temperature databases for the same period.\n\nMore data on 2020's temperature will be released in the next week or so from other agencies, including Nasa and the UK Met Office.\n\nThe scientists say that the closeness between the years is all the more remarkable considering the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña weather cycle.\n\nPeople saw their homes burnt down in some parts of Siberia\n\nEurope also saw a new record level of warming for the year, 0.4C warmer than 2019. A major heat wave in July and August was an important factor driving up the mercury across the continent.\n\nGlobally, the 10-year period from 2011-2020 is the warmest decade, with the last six years being the six hottest on record.\n\n\"Twenty-twenty stands out for its exceptional warmth in the Arctic and a record number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic,\" said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"It is no surprise that the last decade was the warmest on record, and is yet another reminder of the urgency of ambitious emissions reductions to prevent adverse climate impacts in the future.\"\n\nWhile a strong La Niña may cool temperatures a little in 2021, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to remain high, contributing to ongoing warming.\n\nNew data from the UK's Met Office suggests that average concentrations of CO2 will reach levels that are 50% higher than they were before the industrial revolution.\n\nResearchers predict that annual average CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa recording station in Hawaii will be around 2.29 parts per million (ppm) higher in 2021 than in 2020.\n\nDespite the global slowdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientists say this rise is being driven by emissions from the use of fossil fuels and from deforestation.\n\nEurope saw a prolonged heat wave in July and August that pushed the year to a new record\n\nWhile weather patterns linked to the La Niña event may boost growth in tropical forests and increase the amount of the gas that's absorbed, it won't be enough to slow the overall rise.\n\nThe Met Office says that CO2 will exceed 417ppm in the atmosphere for several weeks from April to June.\n\nThis is 50% higher than the level of 278ppm that pertained in the late 18th Century as widespread industrial activity was just beginning.\n\n\"The human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere is accelerating,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office.\n\n\"It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25%, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50% increase.\"\n\n\"Reversing this trend and slowing the atmospheric CO2 rise will need global emissions to reduce, and bringing them to a halt will need global emissions to be brought down to net zero. This needs to happen within about the next 30 years if global warming is to be limited to 1.5C.\"", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Parents and teachers are \"frustrated\" about plans to keep schools closed until the February half term and concerned about the impact on children.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio Wales phone-in, callers said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nKaarina Rutta from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, told the programme she was having to work at night when her four children had gone to bed after home schooling.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind I should also be working and doing other things,\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen,\" she added.\n\n\"It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment.\n\n\"I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "David Bowie left his mark with songs like Space Oddity, Let's Dance and Under Pressure\n\nA series of streamed music events, shows and new releases are marking David Bowie's birthday and the fifth anniversary of his death.\n\nThe musician would have turned 74 on Friday, while Sunday is five years since he died of cancer.\n\nA star-studded tribute concert and his 2015 stage musical Lazarus will both be streamed over the weekend.\n\nTwo previously unreleased Bowie tracks have also been released, while his music has now arrived on TikTok.\n\nThe tribute gig, titled A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day, will feature Bowie's former bandmates alongside stars including Boy George, Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Adam Lambert, Gary Barlow and actor Gary Oldman.\n\nStarting at 18:00 PT on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), the show will be led by Bowie's longtime pianist Mike Garson and will be available for 24 hours.\n\nDuran Duran released a timely cover of Bowie's track Five Years ahead of the show. \"My life as a teenager was all about David Bowie,\" singer Simon Le Bon said.\n\n\"He is the reason why I started writing songs. Part of me still can't believe in his death five years ago, but maybe that's because there's a part of me where he's still alive and always will be.\"\n\nOn Friday, Bowie's previously unreleased covers of Bob Dylan's Tryin' to Get to Heaven and John Lennon's Mother were also put out into the world.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by David Bowie - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBBC Four is hosting a Bowie Night on Friday, while there will be special programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music. They include Bowie: Dancing Out in Space, which will air simultaneously on the two stations on Sunday.\n\nIn it, producer Tony Visconti describes how Bowie and Lennon first met awkwardly in a New York hotel room ahead of their collaborations on the former's cover of The Beatles' Across the Universe and his own 1975 song Fame.\n\n\"He was terrified of meeting John Lennon,\" says Visconti. \"About one in the morning I knocked on the door and for about the next two hours, John Lennon and David weren't speaking to each other.\n\n\"Instead, David was sitting on the floor with an art pad and a charcoal and he was sketching things and he was completely ignoring Lennon.\n\n\"So, after about two hours of that, he [John] finally said to David, 'Rip that pad in half and give me a few sheets. I want to draw you.' So David said, 'Oh, that's a good idea', and he finally opened up. So John started making caricatures of David, and David started doing the same of John and they kept swapping them and then they started laughing and that broke the ice.\"\n\nMeanwhile, next weekend will see the release of Stardust, a film biopic about Bowie's journey to becoming Ziggy Stardust, starring singer and actor Johnny Flynn.\n\nHowever, Bowie's family have not given it their blessing, meaning the film-makers were not allowed to use any of his music. Instead Flynn, as Bowie, is seen performing songs by Jacques Brel, The Yardbirds and one of Flynn's own compositions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Heads are calling for limits to the number of pupils in school during lockdown in England, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nThe two head teachers' unions, NAHT and ASCL, say the high numbers attending could hamper the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils who can attend.\n\nIt is insisting that schools ensure all children who qualify can attend.\n\nThe widened categories not only include vulnerable pupils and children of workers in critical occupations but also those who cannot access remote learning either because they do not have devices or space to study.\n\nChildren of parents working on the Brexit arrangements are also included.\n\nTeachers have described streets around schools being packed with parents dropping off their children and almost all staff having to come in and work despite the lockdown.\n\nHeads say they fear schools could be overwhelmed by children who do not have access to lap tops to learn remotely.\n\nJessica Jane, a learning assistant at a school in Hampshire, told the BBC: \"I work in a primary school where we are having to bring in every single member of staff as the list of key-workers is vast in our area and over 50% of our children are attending.\n\n\"Our community school is not closed and streets are packed with parents morning and afternoon collecting their children from open schools.\"\n\nShe added: \"My colleagues and I are still being put at risk every single day as are our families.\"\n\nA teacher from the Midlands who did not wish to be named said the number had risen from 10 pupils a day in the first lockdown to about 90 a day this week.\n\n\"We're talking just under to just over a third of the usual amount of pupils for our school here.\n\n\"The vast majority are key worker children, not vulnerable.\n\n\"I also know that other primary schools in our area have similar amounts of children in school - one neighbouring school in particular, which is only slightly larger than us, is estimating/averaging 100 to 160 children in school every day.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the lack of limits \"bizarre... in a week when the prime minister has told the nation that it is necessary to move schools to remote education in order to suppress coronavirus transmission\".\n\n\"We are hearing reports that attendance in some primary schools is in excess of 50% because of demand from critical workers and families with children classed as vulnerable under criteria which has been significantly widened,\" he said.\n\n\"We are urgently seeking clarification about the maximum number who should be in school while protecting public health.\n\n\"This seems completely illogical given the fact that the government has taken the drastic action of a full national lockdown precisely in order to limit contacts.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, said schools could not \"meet the demand created by government and reduce social mixing in the way the prime minister announced\".\n\n\"The government acknowledges that schools do play a role in the transmission of the virus. Therefore, there comes a point when occupancy levels might be so high that they work against the efforts to bring down infection rates in communities, as is the national aim.\n\n\"This could result in prolonging the amount of time pupils are away from the classroom, which we are all anxious to avoid.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Schools are open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required.\n\n\"If critical workers can work from home and look after their children at the same time then they should do so, but otherwise this provision is in place to enable them to provide vital services.\n\n\"The protective measures that schools have been following throughout the autumn term remain in place to help protect staff and students, while the national lockdown helps reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nBut Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association, reflected head teachers' concerns, saying between 40 and 60% of pupils were attending schools across England.\n\n\"The real problem is we have got two different national narratives going on,\" she said - with the prime minister saying \"stay at home\" but the DfE telling schools to take all eligible children who turn up.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government seemed unable to decide whether schools were safe or unsafe.\n\nCommenting on the latest Coronavirus Infection Survey from the Office for National Statistics, Dr Bousted, said: \"Let this data end their confusion. Schools are clearly driving infection amongst children, and then onto the wider community.\n\n\"This peaked on Christmas Day with one in every 27 secondary-age children and one in 40 primary-age children infected.\n\n\"In London this rises to one in 18 secondary pupils and one in 23 primary pupils. These figures are truly shocking and entirely the result of government negligence.\"\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Marion Ramsey will be remembered by fans for her notable role in the US comedy series Police Academy\n\nMarion Ramsey, best known for her acting in the American film series Police Academy, has died at the age of 73, her agent has announced.\n\nHer management at Roger Paul Inc told the BBC she died at her Los Angeles home on Thursday morning.\n\nThe agency said Ramsey had recently fallen ill, but did not give a cause of death.\n\nRamsey was adored by fans for her portrayal of the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in Police Academy.\n\nShe also had an illustrious career on Broadway, starring in the 1978 production Eubie!, a biographical musical about celebrated jazz pianist Eubie Blake.\n\n\"Her passion for performing and sharing her heart with the world was immense,\" Roger Paul Inc said in a statement.\n\n\"Marion carried with her a kindness and permeating light that instantly filled a room upon her arrival.\n\n\"The dimming of her light is already felt by those who knew her well. We will miss her, and always love her.\"\n\nRamsey featured in six Police Academy films as Officer Laverne Hooks\n\nBorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, Ramsey started her career in the theatre, appearing in both the original Broadway and subsequent touring productions of Hello, Dolly!.\n\nShe was prolific on Broadway, co-starring in many shows, including Harold Prince's Grind with Ben Vereen, and Eubie! with Gregory and Maurice Hines.\n\nHer agent said Ramsey was \"particularly proud\" about Broadway's Dreamgirls finally becoming a major motion picture in 2006, because she was one of the singers that the original Broadway show's producer, Tom Eyen, based the three main characters on.\n\nRamsey's career in TV and film career took off after she appeared as a guest on the hit sitcom The Jeffersons in 1976.\n\nFollowing that, she was a regular on Cos, Bill Cosby's sketch show.\n\nShe starred in six Police Academy films in total, making her a familiar face to fans of the franchise.\n\nRamsey's agent said she had an immense passion for performing\n\nAmerican actor Michael Winslow wrote in a tweet that he had \"no words to say or explain the pain\" of losing Ramsey.\n\n\"In the 80s the Police Academy films cast a long shadow over the comedy genre - they were everywhere & everyone watched them,\" British producer Jonathan Sothcott wrote. \"#MarionRamsey was hilarious as Hooks - a fine comedic actress.\"\n\nA message on the Twitter account for the movie When I Sing read: \"It is with great sadness that I share our loss of my friend, and one of the shining stars of When I Sing (her final role), the beautiful, kind, hilarious, #MarionRamsey. I will miss you, my silly sister.\"", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "Queensland in Australia has seen heavy rainfall as an ex-tropical cyclone crosses the state, bringing warnings of “life-threatening\" flash flooding.\n\nMeteorologists say cyclones are more likely in Australia this year because of La Nina weather conditions.", "Singapore's Covid app is widely used across the country\n\nSingapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances.\n\nOfficials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking.\n\nBut parliament was told on Monday it could also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\".\n\nClose to 80% of residents are signed up to the TraceTogether programme, which is used to check in to locations.\n\nThe voluntary take up increased after it was announced it would soon be needed to access anything from the supermarket to your place of work.\n\nThe TraceTogether programme, which uses either a smartphone app or a bluetooth token, also monitors who you have been in contact with.\n\nIf someone tests positive with the virus, the data allows tracers to swiftly contact anyone that might have been infected. This prompted concerns over privacy - fears which have been echoed across the world as other countries rolled out their own tracing apps.\n\nTo encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities promised the data would never be used for any other purpose, saying \"the data will never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for Covid-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team\".\n\nBut Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament on Monday that it can in fact also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\", adding that \"otherwise, TraceTogether data is to be used only for contact tracing and for the purpose of fighting the Covid situation\".\n\nHowever, the privacy statement on the TraceTogether site was then updated on the same day to state that \"the Criminal Procedure Code applies to all data under Singapore's jurisdiction\".\n\n\"Also, we want to be transparent with you,\" the statement reads. \"TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security is or has been affected.\n\n\"The Singapore Police Force is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether data, for criminal investigations.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, clarified that it was not just TraceTogether data that was used in cases of serious criminal investigations.\n\nHe said under the CPC, \"other forms of sensitive data like phone or banking records\" would also have their privacy regulations overruled in such cases.\n\nMr Balakrishnan added that to his knowledge, police had so far only once accessed contact tracing data, in the case of a murder investigation.\n\nThe minister stressed though that \"once the pandemic is over and there will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand down the TraceTogether programme.\"\n\nMonday's announcement though sparked some controversy on social media, with people calling out the government and some users posting that they had now deleted the app.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised,\" local journalist and activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. \"This is actually something that I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19.\n\n\"It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right.\"\n\n\"I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel like they're constantly being watched,\" one Singaporean, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. \"We already have that through other means like CCTV.\n\n\"It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat.\"\n\nAnother person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but daily life would be impossible without it.\n\n\"So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an invasion of privacy.\"\n\nAustralian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they were \"extremely concerned\" about the news from Singapore.\n\n\"This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned about since the start of the pandemic,\" Programme Director Lucie Krahulcova told the BBC. \"Such an approach will erode public trust in future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy.\"\n\nLike most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy concerns.\n\nSingapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in March last year.\n\nThe introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000 signatures so far.\n\nSingapore has been been one of the most successful countries in tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to zero.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore rolled out its Covid tracing tokens last June", "Whitty: Priority to vaccinate those who would die from virus\n\nAndy Woodcock from the Independent asks about testing for people arriving into the UK from abroad and why it wasn't done sooner. The prime minister says the government will be bringing in measures to \"ensure that we test people coming into this country and preventing the virus from being readmitted\". Responding to a second question on schools and whether teachers and pupils should be vaccinated, Prof Chris Whitty says there is no evidence of hospitals filling up with children and it appears, that even with the new variant, \"children are relatively much less affected than other groups\". He says from a clinical point of view the real priority is to vaccinate the people that we know \"are by far the most likely to die and by far most likely to end up in hospital\". He adds there will have to be decisions made once the most vulnerable groups are vaccinated but we are not yet at that stage. The chief medical officer adds that neither vaccine currently in use in the UK has been licensed for children yet.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Enrique Tarrio says his far-right group will turn out in numbers on Wednesday\n\nThe leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been released after his arrest on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter flag last month.\n\nEnrique Tarrio faces destruction of property charges. On Tuesday, a judge ordered him to stay out of Washington.\n\nHe has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration.\n\nOn Tuesday, a judge released him on his own recognisance pending his trial.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of Congress are due to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's election victory before he takes office on 20 January.\n\nMr Tarrio has said on the social media app Parler that the Proud Boys will \"turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th\", referring to his members as \"the most notorious group of extraordinary gentlemen\".\n\nThe National Guard has been deployed by Washington DC's mayor to assist local authorities. Officials say the troops will not be armed and will be there to assist with crowd management and traffic control.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, Dustin Sternbeck, told the Washington Post on Monday that Mr Tarrio had been stopped in a vehicle shortly after it entered the district.\n\nThe 36-year-old was also found during his arrest to be in unlawful possession of two devices that allow guns to hold additional bullets, a source told CBS News.\n\nThe destruction of property charge relates to a protest in Washington DC on 12 December in support of the outgoing Republican president's unsubstantiated claims of systemic election fraud.\n\nThe mostly peaceful demonstration ended in isolated scuffles as confrontations with counter-protesters broke out. Police said more than three dozen people were arrested and four churches were vandalised.\n\nMr Tarrio - who lives in Miami, where he also reportedly runs a grassroots organisation called Latinos for Trump - told the Washington Post at the time that he had burned the Black Lives Matter flag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Let's make this simple,\" he said. \"I did it.\"\n\nBut he maintained he did not know the Asbury United Methodist Church, where the flag had reportedly flown, was predominantly attended by African American worshippers.\n\nMr Tarrio also said Proud Boy members have had their flags and hats stolen in past demonstrations without anyone being arrested for those alleged incidents.\n\nEarlier on Monday, another black church that was vandalised during December's protest sued Mr Tarrio and the Proud Boys.\n\nCounter-demonstrators were mostly kept at a distance from Trump supporter last month by Washington DC police\n\nThe Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church accused the group of climbing over a fence and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign.\n\nKristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement: \"Black churches and other religious institutions have a long and ugly history of being targeted by white supremacists in racist and violent attacks meant to intimidate and create fear.\n\n\"Our lawsuit aims to hold those who engage in such action accountable.\"\n\nThe city's police department said last month it had been considering a potential hate crime charge over the incident.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sea Shepherd is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise\n\nA Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say.\n\nSea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats attacked one of its vessels in the Gulf of California, where it is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise.\n\nIt said its vessel was trying to leave when one of the boats smashed into it.\n\nThe man's family allege that his boat was intentionally rammed.\n\nHealth official Alonso Perez told AFP news agency on Monday that one fisherman died after sustaining serious injuries, while a second remained in a stable condition.\n\nSea Shepherd said its Farley Mowat vessel was removing an illegal net from a protected area on 31 December when a group of people on small fishing boats launched a \"violent attack\", including throwing Molotov cocktails.\n\n\"Following routine anti-piracy procedures, the Farley Mowat undertook defensive manoeuvring to avoid the attacks. As the vessel attempted to leave the scene, one of the [boats] aggressively swerved in front of the Farley Mowat, crashing directly into the hull\" and splitting in two, it said.\n\nThe group said it provided emergency first aid to the two men who had been on board the fishing boat.\n\nConservationists working for Sea Shepherd have been attacked several times while patrolling the vaquita refuge.\n\nThe group works with Mexican authorities to remove illegal gillnets used to catch totoaba fish, which are highly valued in Chinese traditional medicine. The nets are designed to trap the heads of fish but not their bodies, but are blamed for trapping and killing the endangered porpoises as well.", "Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe grants will be worth up to £9,000 per property, the Treasury says.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC he was \"committed to protecting jobs and supporting businesses\".\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the new help as a good start but warned the money still wouldn't be enough to save many firms from collapse.\n\nThe help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme, which has been extended until the end of April.\n\nFirms do not have to pay the grant money back.\n\nMr Sunak said he would consider whether or how to extend support packages in its Budget on 3 March.\n\n\"The Budget early in March is an excellent opportunity to take stock of the range of support we have put in place and set out the next stage of our economic response,\" he said.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business group, Tony Danker, earlier warned leaving additional support until the Budget could be too late for many firms, saying. \"the comprehensive restrictions required a new comprehensive response\".\n\nIt was a fear echoed by other business groups, the BCC and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\nBCC director general, Adam Marshall, warned many smaller firms would not qualify for help and \"will be left struggling to see how this new top-up grant will help them out of their cashflow problems.\"\n\nHe also called for the support to be extended to firms in other sectors \"who are also feeling the devastating impacts of these restrictions.\"\n\nFSB chair Mike Cherry also said the funds would be a lifeline to many, but \"do not go far enough to match the scale of the crisis that small firms are facing.\"\n\nThe British Beer & Pub Association described the grants as a \"lifeline\", but added that companies on which pubs rely, such as breweries, would also need help.\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, says he needs dates to plan around\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, told the BBC that fixed dates to aim for are crucial for his business.\n\n\"We need a date to work towards and we don't have that so, again, we're in limbo,\" he said. \"It takes three or four weeks\" to prepare, including retraining staff, he added.\n\nHis business has been closed since October because of restrictions in the Manchester area. It borrowed money under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).\n\n\"We start repayment in June and there's good chance we won't be open, so they are going to have to extend that,\" he said.\n\nHe said much of the £9,000 grant will be taken up by the £6,000 a month his business owes in pension contributions and national insurance alone.\n\nMr Sunak said the new support would \"help businesses to get through the months ahead - and crucially it will help sustain jobs, so workers can be ready to return when they are able to reopen\".\n\nBusinesses such as cafes, restaurants, leisure centres and shops that do not sell essentials have been particularly hard hit by coronavirus lockdown measures as people are told to stay at home.\n\nAll non-essential shops, leisure and entertainment venues are now closed, with pubs and restaurants allowed to offer takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks only.\n\nThe new measures contained no additional support for self-employed people.\n\nMel Stride, chair of parliament's Treasury Committee, which scrutinises the finance department's work, warned the chancellor \"must not forget those who have fallen through the gaps around previous support packages.\"\n\nWhile this is welcome and essential support, it is now clear that the most optimistic timetable for economic lift-off from the pandemic is going to be put back.\n\nThis raises questions about the length of the furlough scheme, and government-guaranteed loans.\n\nBefore this, the best-case scenario was that mass vaccination, enabling a confident reopening of the economy, would allow furloughed workers to go straight back to their jobs in late spring.\n\nThis was never the government's central forecast, but looked possible amid optimism about the vaccine last month.\n\nEven if all vulnerable people can be vaccinated by March, the first three months of the year will see school lockdowns which will harm growth, and therefore a possible double dip recession.\n\nBusiness groups which welcomed this support say they now need a clear long-term plan. They want to know that current levels of support will stay in place until most of the population is vaccinated.\n\nHundreds of thousands of self-employed workers who fell through the gaps of support remain under huge pressure, particularly ahead of the self assessment tax deadline.\n\nA decision on extending the £20 a week increase to universal credit will also be required.\n\nEngland's lockdown rules are due to be reviewed on 15 February while Scotland's will be reviewed at the end of January.\n\nIn the UK, the unemployment rate rose to 4.9% in the three months to October, with the jobless total up to 1.7 million people.\n\nThe Office for Budgetary Responsibility, the government's independent forecaster, predicts the UK economy will have shrunk by 11.3% in 2020 - the biggest decline in 300 years. It expects unemployment to peak at 9.7%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM acted \"decisively\" in announcing a new lockdown in England \"in the face of new information\", Rishi Sunak says.\n\nPeople must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons and schools have closed to most pupils.\n\nThe chancellor said the action was \"regrettable\" but it was \"right we take these measures\", which will be reviewed on 15 February, to suppress the virus.\n\nIt came after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nBoris Johnson said vaccinating the top four priority groups by mid-February could allow restrictions to be eased, with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove telling Sky News the measures may remain until March.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is due to hold a press conference in Downing Street at 17:00 GMT with chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have also come into force across the Scottish mainland. Wales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nThe UK reported a record 58,784 cases on Monday, as well as a further 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast: \"The four chief medical officers of the United Kingdom met and discussed the situation yesterday and their recommendation was that the country had to move to level five, the highest level available of alert that meant there was an imminent danger to the NHS of being overwhelmed unless action was taken.\n\n\"And so in the circumstances we felt that the only thing we could do was to close those primary schools that were open.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove:\" With a heavy heart but with clear evidence we had to act.\"\n\nHe said the action was taken \"with the heaviest of hearts\" and \"we had to act\" following that advice.\n\n\"It is a very, very difficult time for the whole country, that's why it's so important we do everything we can in government to vaccinate people,\" he said.\n\nHe said a million people had been vaccinated so far \"up until the weekend\" and it was hoped that number would reach more than 13 million in February.\n\nWhen asked about the target of two million vaccines a week and concerns over logistics and the safety systems, Mr Gove said the vaccination process was a \"complicated exercise\" but the NHS \"has more than risen to the challenge\".\n\nThe government was \"looking at further options\" to restrict international travel, he said.\n\nMr Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, adding: \"I think it is right to say that as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all.\"\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove saying the lockdown may have to last to March may not come as much of a surprise to many.\n\nWhile the government has set a target of offering the most at-risk a jab by mid February, it will take several weeks longer for the full effect to be felt given it takes time for an immune response to kick in.\n\nThe bigger question is whether or not the government could have acted earlier.\n\nIt was clear before Christmas the new variant was pushing up infection rates - and that in turn would mean more hospital admissions.\n\nThe delay looks costly. Since Christmas Day, the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has risen by 50% alone - enough to fill 18 hospitals.\n\nWhile the government did introduce tier four the weekend before Christmas in parts of the south east of England, which banned mixing over the festive period and led to the closure of non-essential shops and gyms, most of the country were allowed to meet up on Christmas Day.\n\nInfections from Christmas Day are now being felt - the numbers have been rising sharply ever since. Some of these are next week's hospital admissions - and is why the chief medical officers warned of the risk of hospitals becoming overwhelmed, which Mr Gove said persuaded them to act on Monday.\n\nIf lockdown had come earlier, it may well have been shorter.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward - a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the lockdown measures \"will save tens of thousands of lives\".\n\nBut he said \"the virus is different\" and \"it may be that the lockdown measures that we have are not enough\"\n\n\"This lockdown period we need to do more than just stay at home, wait for the vaccine, we need to be actively bearing down on it,\" he said.\n\nAt Scotland's daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for people to hold on to the fact there was now \"a clear route out of this pandemic\".\n\nShe said there had been urgent discussions between the four home nations about whether border controls should be tightened - and she hoped there would be an announcement soon.\n\nAnnouncing England's lockdown on Monday, Mr Johnson said hospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\".\n\nHe ordered people to stay indoors other than for limited exceptions - such as essential medical needs, food shopping, exercise and work that cannot be done at home - and said schools and colleges should move to remote teaching for the majority of students until at least half term.\n\nPeople who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhile the rules become law in the early hours of Wednesday, people should follow them now, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMr Johnson said the new variant of coronavirus, which is up to 70% more transmissible, was spreading in a \"frustrating and alarming\" manner and warned that the number of Covid-19 patients in English hospitals is 40% higher than the first peak.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on England's new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "Internet providers are under pressure to do more to help low-income families afford data packages for their children to take part in remote learning.\n\nIt follows a decision to close UK schools to most pupils to enforce new coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England told the BBC that \"broadband companies really need to step up\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added he thought the cost of data was \"a big problem\".\n\n\"We're asking people to endure very tough restrictions. And there has to be the other side of that contract,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Everybody needs to try and make this work. And that includes the companies that can take away the charging for data. It's a serious situation.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the topic at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are looking at... the potential costs to parents of online teaching, and we're going to do our best to support them in any way that we can and to work with the internet companies.\"\n\nThere is concern that some disadvantaged pupils are currently dependent on pay-as-you-go or monthly mobile phone subscriptions that only include a small data allowance because their families cannot afford or otherwise obtain a separate fixed broadband connection.\n\n\"There are 25 million pay-as-you go customers in the UK, and about seven million of those struggle with the cost of topping up their data,\" commented Chris Thorpe from the Centre For The Acceleration Of Social Technology charity.\n\nMany schools are using video-chat software including Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet to live-stream classes, assemblies and other activities, which all benefit from a fast, stable connection and can consume a lot of data.\n\nIn addition, other tools including Google Classroom, Tapestry and Class Dojo are used by pupils to submit schoolwork and receive marks and other feedback.\n\nThe situation became more pressing after the prime minister announced last night that England's lockdown would mean schools and colleges would remain closed to most pupils until at least the February half-term.\n\nTech for UK - a coalition of technologists and other concerned business leaders - has suggested one way forward would be for internet providers to \"zero rate\" edtech apps and websites, so that their data use would be deducted from a mobile subscriber's monthly allowance.\n\nHowever, it acknowledges the challenge in doing so is to pick which platforms to support without giving some providers an unfair advantage over others.\n\nThe Department for Education already runs a scheme for disadvantaged children who do not have access to a home broadband connection to temporarily increase their mobile data allowance.\n\nIn some cases, this involves an extra 20 gigabytes a month. In others - such as Three - it provides an \"unlimited\" data upgrade.\n\nSchools, trusts and local authorities need to request the support on a pupil's behalf.\n\nThe networks involved in the initiative include:\n\nIn cases when this is not available, the government offers 4G wireless routers - which use mobile networks to offer a wi-fi connection - as an alternative.\n\nIn addition, Vodafone provided 350,000 \"free data\" Sim cards to thousands of primary and secondary schools and colleges in November.\n\n\"We are actively considering what to do now about this new situation,\" it said.\n\nO2 pledged in October to donate 10,000 devices and 12 months of free data to \"vulnerable individuals\".\n\nAnd Virgin Media noted it had launched a discounted home broadband service for families facing financial difficulties and receiving universal credit.\n\nBT says it has already removed all caps on its home broadband plans to help ensure children can stay connected to their schools.\n\nAnne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England, said she was also concerned about the provision of devices.\n\n\"A lot of children still don't have laptops. They're surviving on broken phones,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nThe Department for Education said it had delivered more than 560,000 devices to schools and councils in England between the start of the pandemic and the end of last year.\n\nIn addition, it aims to have delivered a further 100,000 laptops and tablets to schools by the end of this week to help get closer to its overall target of one million devices.\n\nHowever, teaching groups have raised concerns about the rollout.\n\nSome children are being provided with tablets to keep them connected to their schools\n\n\"We must hear no more of rationing of equipment, as we did late last year,\" Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) told the BBC.\n\n\"If the stockpiles exist, as the Department for Education claim they do, then they must be distributed urgently. We have heard too many stories of requests from schools not being met, or not being fully met.\"\n\nSteven George of head teachers' union, NAHT added that a website used to order laptops had been inaccessible over the Christmas break, so some members had been unable to make requests.\n\nIn addition, the Association of School and College Leaders suggested the government had \"never really got to grips\" with the issue.\n\n\"It is certainly sending out lots of laptops for disadvantaged children to schools. But there's clearly still a gap, not just in terms of the number of devices that are required but also in terms of whether families have sufficient connectivity,\" said general secretary Geoff Barton.\n\n\"This has happened because it is a crisis situation, and there hasn't been a great deal of time in which to properly assess the level of need that exists, but it does expose the fact that pre-crisis, there hadn't been a properly joined-up national strategy on digital learning.\"\n\nOthers have noted that the device allocation scheme does not extend to printers - which are needed for worksheets and other materials sent by teachers - putting low-income families at a further disadvantage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Food banks have seen increased demand during the pandemic\n\nThe UK \"cannot duck\" tackling inequalities of health, ethnicity, education and jobs post-Covid, a major review has warned.\n\nThe report's chairman, Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton, says a lot of work to repair and rebuild the damage will be needed after the pandemic.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inequalities warned the fabric of society was under threat.\n\nThe review says there is a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle the disadvantages faced by many that this pandemic has so devastatingly exposed\".\n\n\"We now face a set of challenges which we cannot duck.\"\n\nSir Angus said: \"As the vaccines should, at some point this year, take us into a world largely free of the pandemic, it is imperative to think about policies that will be needed to repair the damage and that focus on those who have suffered the most.\n\n\"We need to build a country in which everyone feels that they belong.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic had highlighted the disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups and deprived communities, it also showed that the UK's best-paid and most highly educated have been \"much better able to ride out the crisis\", the report said.\n\nYoung people have been among the worst hit economically\n\nChildren from poorer households found it harder to do schoolwork during lockdown and have been more likely to miss school since September, it noted.\n\nAnd while the biggest risk factor for coronavirus is age, younger people have been hit harder by the economic consequences of the crisis.\n\nThe cost of the pandemic is \"just colossal\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We've seen the biggest reduction in national income, essentially in history, over the last year, we've seen the biggest public deficit in history outside of the two world wars, so there's no getting around the fact that the pandemic and the response to it has had a bigger effect on the economy than anything essentially in the whole of history.\"\n\nThe report highlighted the effects of the pandemic on different groups, including on education, which is \"probably more worrying\" than the overall economic effect, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"The first lockdown lockdown saw a dreadful impact on the education particularly of poorer children... they were getting less in the way of online lessons from their schools.\n\n\"There's a huge private school/state school divide in this, but also a big divide within state schools between those children who had support at home, had the facilities at home - laptops and internet and so on - but who also had the support from school - so there's a big impact on education but also a very unequal one,\" he added.\n\nThe review is calling for extra support for children who have fallen behind and help for school and university leavers to find jobs.\n\nIt says the welfare safety net must be adapted so it supports non-traditional forms of employment, including insecure and self-employed workers, and minority ethnic groups must be given greater economic opportunities.\n\nProgress in reducing poor mental and physical health could be \"one of the clearest indications of success of economic and social policy\", it adds.\n\nMark Franks, director of welfare at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the review, said: \"Individuals are subject to a wide range of potential vulnerabilities around dimensions including age, ethnicity, place of birth, education, income and the nature of their employment.\n\n\"Where these vulnerabilities intersect, they can amplify and reinforce one another and play a huge role in driving unequal outcomes.\"\n\nHowever, the government said it was already spending vast sums to support people and the economy through the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're doing everything we can to ensure our coronavirus support reaches those who need it the most, which is why we've invested more than £280bn to protect the incomes, livelihoods and health of millions of people across the UK.\"\n\nThis included an additional £9bn for the welfare system and £2bn for the Kickstart Scheme, tripling traineeships, incentives for firms hiring apprentices and doubling the number of work coaches \"so that nobody is left without hope or opportunity\", the spokesman said.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "South Wales Police piloted the use of facial recognition in Cardiff - it was later ruled unlawful\n\nPolice should be allowed more access to facial recognition technology, a firm developing it for use in the private sector has said.\n\nLast year, appeal court judges ruled a trial project to scan thousands of faces by South Wales Police was unlawful. The force did not appeal.\n\nWelsh company Credas said laws were not keeping up with the latest technology.\n\nThe Home Office said it wants police to use new crime-reducing technology while \"maintaining public trust\".\n\nCredas believes such facial recognition technology could be a vital tool in fighting crime.\n\n\"Ten years ago it would have felt space age, but now it's everywhere - just logging into my phone or laptop, we're all used to it now,\" said chief executive Rhys David.\n\n\"But the legislation will never keep up with the technological advancements.\"\n\nThe firm, based in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, works with firms to prevent crime in commercial settings, helping them confirm a client's identity.\n\nIt can include estate agents, the legal sector, accountancy or gambling operations - any businesses regulated to reduce fraud and money laundering.\n\n\"There's common stories of people buying houses with someone else's identity and manipulating the paperwork so that the funds get transferred into the wrong account and it's too late then - we can't recover that,\" said Mr David.\n\n\"It's a very difficult position to be in, but technologies like ours are closing the gap.\"\n\nApps can compare people's picture to that on their passport\n\nCredas's app uses facial recognition - people take a selfie and the app compares it to a photograph of their passport to verify they are who they claim to be.\n\nClaire Williams works for FBM estate agent in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, which has been using the software for the past two years.\n\n\"Before we would take people's passports or driver's licence, they would either come into the office and we would photocopy it, or we would even accept a scanned, emailed copy.\n\n\"There would be no way of knowing whether these were legitimate passports and driver's licences.\n\n\"They might have been using fake IDs, trying to launder money through the property industry - putting money into the properties, then reselling them to launder the money.\"\n\nBut scanning faces to confirm details for a mortgage is a very different beast to automated facial recognition, which is what was being trialled by South Wales Police - scanning faces in a crowd, often without people's knowledge.\n\nThat was ruled unlawful after a challenge by civil rights group Liberty and Ed Bridges from Cardiff.\n\n\"Real-time surveillance is considerably more complex than in the commercial space where it's a fairly static, controlled environment. But we should be adopting it and encouraging it to reduce a criminal footprint,\" added Mr David.\n\n\"I find it really sad that the police aren't encouraged to use technology like this to keep our country safe.\n\n\"Let's be honest, the police don't want to sell us trainers. They're not looking to capture our images or biometric footprints to sell us goods. It's to keep us safe, so the police can run very sophisticated facial matching programmes in real time to identify criminals.\"\n\nThe frustration was echoed by the surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, who is the independent regulator appointed to oversee the use of camera systems in England and Wales.\n\nFollowing the appeal court ruling on South Wales Police in August, he said he had been \"fruitlessly and repeatedly\" calling for an updated code the police could follow.\n\nWhile campaigners Liberty felt the court's ruling left little room for the technology to be safely used, Mr Porter disagreed, adding: \"I believe adoption of new and advancing technologies is an important element of keeping citizens safe.\"\n\nHe has issued new guidance on the use of facial recognition in light of the case, but it remains just that - guidance, not law.\n\nIt has left police forces still trying to iron out the problems raised by the Court of Appeal - the potential for gender and ethnic biases and a robust code to cover when, how and where the technology can be used, and in search of whom.\n\nProf Martin Innes, from the Universities' Police Sciences Institute, evaluated the rollout of automatic facial recognition for South Wales Police in 2018, flagging ethical and regulatory challenges facing forces.\n\n\"If you look back at the history of new and innovative technologies in policing this is what always happens. You have to let the law catch up a little bit and find out what matters and where the key points of regulation are,\" he said.\n\nAt present, different standards between the private and public sectors \"could be very, very confusing,\" he added.\n\n\"There is a risk that these technologies get introduced almost by stealth and they start popping up everywhere.\"\n\nPembrokeshire estate agent Claire Williams now uses a facial recognition app to match faces to identity\n\nIn a way, some of that has already happened, from mobile phones that can detect your face to hi-tech doorbells\n\nStopping criminal harm \"seems to be an equally justifiable reason\" to use the technology, argued Prof Innes.\n\n\"But we need to think quite carefully about how far do we want this to go, and where is it appropriate for us to introduce these technologies in our lives.\n\n\"There are issues - but there are potentially opportunities and benefits to be gained if it can be done in the right way, as well.\"\n\nThe Home Office and the police say they will consider any ideas that could improve the way live facial recognition technology is used.\n\n\"We want police to use new technologies, like live facial recognition, in a way that reduces crime while maintaining public trust,\" said a Home Office spokesperson.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police to ensure national College of Policing guidance complies with the Court of Appeal's request to clarify how live facial recognition will be used.\n\n\"The government committed in the Home Office Biometrics Strategy to review the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice and it will be updated in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virgin Holidays has become the latest travel firm to cancel holidays after new coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed.\n\nIt said schedules will be cancelled until mid-February, joining similar moves by Tui, Jet2 and Thomas Cook.\n\nThe companies said customers would be contacted about their future travel options during what Virgin described as \"these extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nThomas Cook said it will call customers to offer refunds or rebooking.\n\nTui said it was \"cancelling all holidays in line with international travel restrictions\". It added that said customers due to depart from England, Scotland and Wales would be contacted to discuss options.\n\nThe company said that customers due to travel from an English airport before mid-February, or from a Scottish or Welsh airport up to 31 January, would not be able to do so.\n\nThose customers will be contacted \"in departure date order to discuss their options\", Tui said, which include rebooking \"with an incentive\", getting a credit note, or a full refund.\n\n\"Customers currently overseas can continue to enjoy their holidays as planned and we will update them directly if there are any changes to their holidays,\" Tui added.\n\nIn a statement, Virgin said: \"In line with the new national lockdown restrictions we have reviewed the upcoming holiday schedule and will be cancelling all holidays up to and including 14 February 2021.\n\n\"To simplify the options and to provide immediate peace of mind for customers whose holidays will no longer be going ahead, we're automatically providing a digital voucher for the value of their trip, redeemable up until 30 September 2021, which they can use to rebook a holiday, departing any time before 31 December 2022.\"\n\nVirgin added that customers \"may also request a refund\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jet2 said it was extending \"the suspension of flights and holidays up to and including 11 February 2021\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"For customers due to travel from 12th February onwards, we will provide another update closer to the time.\"\n\nThomas Cook, which became an online-only travel brand in September after its earlier collapse, said: \"Following the announcement of the latest lockdown, we are calling our customers to offer refunds or move their holidays to a later date.\".\n\nChief executive Alan French said: \"We've seen over the festive period that customers are looking ahead to the summer and beginning to book in earnest for those important summer weeks in the sun.\n\n\"I am sure that after many more weeks spent at home - and with the progress of the vaccine rollout - we will see an even bigger demand for people to escape to the beach this summer.\"\n\nLast month, a number of countries suspended routes to the UK due to the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus.\n\nThe blanket travel ban to the EU was then lifted, but with rules varying from country to country. The suspension of flights between the UK and China remains in place.\n\nLast year Tui was investigated by competition authorities after complaints that it had not given prompt refunds.\n\nBritish Airways Holidays, part of Britain's biggest airline, said it would be offering refunds if customers are no longer allowed travel.\n\nThe firm said in a statement: \"We are contacting all affected British Airways Holidays customers following the announcement of new national lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"Customers due to depart by 12 February 2021 will be offered a refund for their holiday. Our teams continue to monitor the situation and update our policy accordingly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "Potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nKing's College Hospital Trust has cancelled all \"Priority 2\" operations - those doctors judge need to be carried out within 28 days.\n\nCancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nAnd surgery has not been stopped on the same scale as during the first wave.\n\nRebecca Thomas, who has had her bowel cancer surgery at King's College Hospital \"cancelled indefinitely\", told the BBC she felt like she had been left \"in limbo\".\n\nUntil she has surgery her tumour cannot be studied to see how aggressive it is, and so she won't know until then how significant this wait will turn out to be.\n\nA spokesperson for the Trust, which mainly serves patients in south London, said: \"Due to the large increase in patients being admitted with Covid-19, including those requiring intensive care, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone all elective procedures, with the exception of cases where a delay would cause immediate harm.\n\n\"A small number of cancer patients due to be operated on this week have had their surgery postponed, with patients being kept under close review by senior doctors.\"\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said he had heard from members that \"hospitals across London are having to cancel cancer surgeries as a result of the huge number of Covid-19 patients being hospitalised.\"\n\nBut it hasn't yet emerged as an issue affecting hospitals outside London.\n\nWhen Covid-19 hit last March, NHS England developed guidance on prioritising patients who needed operations, with emergency procedures that needed to be carried out within 24 hours coming first.\n\nThese life-saving operations have continued throughout the pandemic and there is no prospect of that stopping.\n\nHowever, patients in the \"priority 2\" category - who should have surgery within 28 days, to save their life or stop their disease progressing \"beyond operability\" - have found their operations being cancelled at King's.\n\nThe 28-day guideline is based on the patient's individual symptoms and the expected growth rate of their particular cancer.\n\n\"Delays further than that could have a negative impact on that person's chance of survival,\" according to Kruti Shrotri at Cancer Research UK.\n\nAnd delays in diagnosis and treatment in general can lead to worsening chances of recovery, she said.\n\nThis will vary dramatically by person and cancer type, but in some cases, a matter of a few weeks can make the difference between a cancer that can be survived or not.\n\nGenevieve Edwards, chief executive at Bowel Cancer UK, said research showed \"even a month's delay to cancer treatment can increase a person's risk of dying by up to 13% - a risk that keeps rising the longer their treatment is delayed\".\n\nWhile this was \"really concerning to hear,\" she said, \"it's not by and large something we've heard is happening widespread across the country\".\n\nThis is an improvement from the first wave of Covid-19 when the NHS had to put a near-blanket ban on non-urgent surgery.\n\nBut for those patients who are affected, this news will be \"incredibly hard,\" and Ms Shrotri stressed that patients with any symptoms that could be cancer should not put off going to see their GP.\n\n\"The NHS is open,\" she said.\n\nSurgery is most at risk because of the shortage of intensive care beds - but other forms of cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, should continue.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses in England, said trusts were doing all they could to \"prioritise on the basis of clinical need\".", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Supermarkets' online shopping operations have come under strain with customers rushing to book deliveries as the new coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nSainsbury's said on Tuesday that earlier it had restricted access to its online services to manage high demand.\n\nThe surge in demand echoes consumers' reaction at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSainsbury's said: \"We temporarily limited access to our groceries online service last night so that we could manage high demand for slots and updates customers were making to existing orders.\n\n\"We're continuing to monitor the situation and are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said customers should now be able to use the Sainsbury's app and website \"as usual\".\n\nAfter the first lockdown in March, supermarkets reported panic buying and a rush to book online delivery slots despite grocers insisting there would be no shortages if consumers shopped sensibly.\n\nShoppers used social media to vent their frustration on Monday, with Twitter user Auld Bryan saying: \"Ocado have already introduced their virtual queue process on their app. It's March 2020 all over again.\"\n\nAnother tweet, by Karl Dyson, said of Ocado: \"You'd think ~10 months in to this, they'd have worked on scalable infrastructure for the website?\"\n\nThere were also reports of people having problems with the Tesco app and website, including when trying to check out and complete payment.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Britain's biggest supermarket said on Monday evening that there had been no reports from Tesco's technical department of any website problems.\n\nThe supermarket had increased the number of slots available for online delivery before the latest lockdown measures.\n\nAn email from Tesco UK boss Jason Tarry already sent to customers said: \"Since March, we have more than doubled home delivery and Click+Collect slots to 1.5 million a week, with over 760,000 vulnerable customers registered with us who are eligible for priority slots.\"\n\nUsers complained that the Sainsbury's app was down following the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nTwitter user Francesca Balgobind wrote: \"What's happening with the Sainsbury's shopping app tonight? Website is down too?\"\n\nAnother social media user, Matt, said some 40 minutes after Mr Johnson had finished speaking: \"Sainsbury's app and website down\".\n\nAsda saw more demand for online shopping after the lockdown announcement, but said it had increased the number of slots available since the first two national lockdowns.\n\nMorrisons also reported a jump in the number of shoppers using its website after the announcement.\n\nHowever, despite the longer waiting queues, the grocer said it continued to have \"good slot availability\" for home deliveries.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, supermarkets have urged people to shop normally.\n\nBefore Christmas, in the run-up to the end of the Brexit transition period, some grocers reported temporary shortages of fresh goods due to congestion at UK shipping ports.", "By 8pm on Monday it felt inevitable.\n\nBut it doesn't mean that a national instruction to close the doors was automatic. Or indeed that new lockdowns in England and Scotland aren't still dramatic and painful.\n\nWith tightening up in Wales and Northern Ireland too, the spread of coronavirus this winter has been faster than governments' attempts to keep up with it - leaving leaders with little choice but to take more of our choices away.\n\nThere is much that's an echo of March. Work, school, life outside the home will be constrained in so many ways, with terrible and expensive side-effects for the economy.\n\nThis time, it's already spluttering - restrictions being turned on and off for months have starved so much trade of vital business.\n\nBut there's a lot that's different too. After so long, the public is less forgiving of the actions taken, and there is frustration particularly over last-minute changes for schools; fatigue too with having to live under such limits.\n\nBy now, Boris Johnson's opponents, inside and outside the Tory party, have plenty of evidence to suggest that he would rather put off difficult decisions.\n\nBut there is another profound change, that the prime minister was unsurprisingly keen to point out on live TV, where the UK, at the moment, has a leading reputation.\n\nVaccines exist, partly due to UK science, and are being injected into willing arms already.\n\nThe scientific triumph still needs to be turned into a logistical victory. But if around 13 million vaccines can be offered over the next six weeks, we may be on the way.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me: \"We should do absolutely nothing but this, the vaccine - it should be the entire focus of the government; every government shoulder should be put to every government wheel.\"\n\nIt's not just the country's health and economic fortunes riding on hitting that stretching target, but the government's reputation too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Last updated on .From the section Celtic\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Celtic have questions to answer about their trip to Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon says possible breaches of social distancing rules while in the Middle East \"should be looked into\".\n\nHowever, Celtic insist the training camp was approved by the Scottish government, while the Scottish FA have no plans to investigate the trip.\n\n\"For me, the question for Celtic is what is the purpose of them being there,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"I've seen comments from the club that it's more for R&R than training.\n\n\"I have also seen some photographs - and I don't know the full circumstances - that would raise a question in my mind about whether all the rules elite players have to follow in their bubble around social distancing are being complied with.\"\n\nPictures have emerged of members of the Celtic party in the UAE not wearing face masks and potentially breaching the social distancing rules that those in Scottish football must adhere to.\n\nIt remains unclear if the Scottish FA will investigate that matter.\n\nCeltic travelled to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday just hours after their 1-0 defeat by Rangers.\n\nTravellers returning from the UAE are exempt from self-isolation protocols in Scotland, with elite athletes in Scotland permitted to travel abroad to compete.\n\n\"Elite sport has been in a privileged position and as long as that is the case it's really important they don't abuse it,\" said Ms Sturgeon at her daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I saw their [Celtic's] statement and have not spent a lot of time looking into it, but as I understand it the government gave advice to the Scottish FA about the rules around training camps in November.\n\n\"The world has changed quite a bit since then but it's not our role to sign off what a club does around these training camps.\n\n\"The rules may have to change, but they were that elite sportspeople and teams can go overseas if it is important in the context of training and competitions.\"\n\nMainland Scotland has been in Tier 4 - the highest level of restrictions - since 26 December, and Ms Sturgeon addressed the nation on Monday ordering people to stay at home where possible.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney has accused Celtic of not setting \"a particularly great example\".\n\n\"I don't think it's a good idea,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland on Monday.\n\n\"When we are asking members of the public to take on very, very significant restrictions on the way in which they live their lives, I think we have all got to demonstrate leadership on this particular question.\"\n\nWhen approached for comment on Monday, a Celtic spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"The training camp was arranged a number of months ago and approved by all relevant footballing authorities and the Scottish government through the Joint Response Group on 12 November.\n\n\"The team travelled prior to any new lockdown being in place, to a location exempt from travel restrictions. The camp, the same one as we have undertaken for a number of years, has been fully risk assessed.\n\n\"If the club had not received Scottish government approval, then we would not have travelled.\"\n\nIn November, Celtic requested their fixture with Hibernian, originally scheduled for this weekend, be moved to Monday, 11 January to accommodate the trip.\n\nThe SPFL granted the change, despite objections from the Easter Road side.", "Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration after most of its stores were forced to close over the Christmas period.\n\nThe firm has filed a notice to appoint administrators, a move that will give it breathing space from its creditors while it works out a rescue plan.\n\nThe company has 127 stores and about 1,500 employees.\n\nThe second lockdown in November came at a crucial period for the firm, which makes a high proportion of sales then.\n\nJust under half its sales, 40%, come from trade in November and December.\n\nPaperchase said: \"The cumulative effects of lockdown one, lockdown two - at the start of the Christmas shopping period - and now the current restrictions have put unbearable strain on retail businesses across the country.\"\n\nThe company went through an insolvency process, known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement or CVA, almost two years ago to cut costs.\n\nThe chain now has 10 working days to find a solution.\n\nPaperchase said its strong online trading had not made it \"immune\" from the impact of shop closures across the country.\n\n\"Out of lockdown we've traded well, but as the country faces further restrictions for some months to come, we have to find a sustainable future for Paperchase,\" it added.\n\n\"We are working hard to find that solution and this [notice of administration] is a necessary part of this work. This is not the situation we wanted to be in.\n\nThe chain is the latest of a string of high-profile retailers to hit trouble in the past year.\n\nThe sector was already battling with the shift to online sales, coupled with rising costs, including rents and higher minimum wages.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions which shut non-essential shops piled on the pressure.\n\nOthers that have run into trouble recently include Debenhams, which last month said it would cease trading putting 12,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, has also gone into administration, putting a further 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh Woollen Mills' brands Peacocks and Jaeger also fell into administration in November, putting 21,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAnd earlier last year, Oasis and Warehouse fell into administration in mid-April after failing to find buyers, and online fashion group Boohoo said in June it was buying the brands but closing all stores.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "Adamo Canto had worked as a catering assistant at the palace's Royal Mews since 2015\n\nA Buckingham Palace catering assistant who stole medals and photographs from the Queen's residence has been jailed.\n\nAdamo Canto, 37, stole items including signed photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a photo album of US President Donald Trump's UK visit.\n\nPolice said some of the goods, worth between £10,000 and £100,000, had been listed for sale on eBay.\n\nCanto, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was jailed for eight months after he admitted stealing the items.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard police recovered a \"significant quantity\" of stolen items when they searched his quarters at the palace's Royal Mews, where he had worked as a catering assistant since 2015.\n\nCanto stole an album of photos from US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK\n\nA total of 37 items were offered for sale \"well under\" their true value, with Canto making £7,741.\n\nOne item was a photo album of US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK, worth £1,500.\n\nCanto also took official signed photographs of the Duke of Sussex and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nSome 77 items were taken from the palace shop, while others were stolen from staff lockers, the Queen's Gallery shop and the Duke of York's storeroom.\n\nCanto also admitted stealing a Companion of Bath medal belonging to the Master of the Household, which was sold online for £350, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order medal from the locker of former British Army officer Maj Gen Richard Sykes.\n\nCanto pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by an employee at a hearing in November and was jailed on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park believed he was carrying out \"an act of religious jihad\", a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, stabbed to death James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, during the attack in Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nAs part of his sentencing, a hearing will decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.\n\nThe prosecution claim the stabbing spree was a terror attack.\n\nSaadallah has admitted three counts of murder and attempted murder, but denies he was motivated by an ideology.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court he \"executed\" his victims and intended to \"kill as many people as he could\" in the name of violent jihad.\n\nShe said: \"In less than a minute, shouting Allahu Akhbar the defendant carried out a lethal attack with a knife, killing all three men before they had a chance to respond and try to defend themselves.\n\n\"Within the same minute, the defendant went on to attack others nearby, stabbing three more people, Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, causing them significant injuries.\"\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah was captured on CCTV leaving his flat on the day of the attack\n\nStating the prosecution's case she said the attack was \"carefully planned and executed\" by the defendant with \"determination and precision\".\n\nShe added: \"The defendant believed that in carrying out this attack he was acting in pursuit of his extreme ideology, an ideology he appears to have held for some time.\n\n\"He believed that in killing as many people as possible that day he was performing an act of religious jihad.\"\n\nAfter the attack Sadallah fled but was chased down by police, and later admitted the attacks in his cell, the court heard.\n\nIn interviews with police he \"howled like a dog\" and claimed to have magic powers, which the prosecution said was a \"disingenuous\" attempt to suggest he had a mental disorder.\n\n\"After a careful period of assessment and treatment at Belmarsh prison, it is clear that he does not have a major mental illness\", a report by a psychiatrist read out in court said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A friend of the victims, Michael Main, said: \"They were always happy\"\n\nSaadallah arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in 2012, having fled the civil war in his home country of Libya in North Africa.\n\nThe court heard the defendant, who had been refused asylum, had been involved with militias as part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2020 he was repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences in the UK.\n\nWhile in HMP Bullingdon, Saadallah was observed to be keen to interact with radical preacher Omar Brooks - associated with banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun - who was also at the jail at the time, the court heard. He was released from the prison in June, days before the attack.\n\nSaadallah had been due to be deported, but was told by the government circumstances in Libya at the time were a \"legal barrier\".\n\nThe court was told he had also searched on the internet \"how to disappear with magic\" and accessed a website with the flag associated with Islamic State.\n\nA probation officer who had contact with Saadallah flagged his concerns about his mental health, but a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road in Reading, launched his attack as people enjoyed a summer Saturday evening in Forbury Gardens on 20 June.\n\nEyewitnesses said he walked along a footpath when he suddenly ran towards a group of men sitting on the grass.\n\nHistory teacher Mr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett, a US citizen, were both stabbed once in the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed in the back.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThree others - their friend Stephen Young, as well as Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sitting in a nearby group - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe sentencing before Mr Justice Sweeney is expected to conclude on January 11.\n\nFloral tributes were left near the entrance to the park where the men were killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "The 90,000 sq ft store is a familiar sight for commuters coming out of Oxford Circus Tube station\n\nThe building that houses Topshop's Oxford Street store is up for sale.\n\nThe High Street chain's owner Arcadia went into administration in November, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nNews of the sale of the three-storey building has prompted an outpouring of emotion on social media, with shoppers recounting how important the flagship store is to them.\n\nThe store, which boasted a DJ booth, nail bar and food stalls, was a retail sensation when it opened in 1994.\n\nHuge crowds gathered at the store for the launch of Kate Moss's Topshop collection in 2014\n\nArcadia - which owns Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins - entered administration on 30 November\n\nThe sale of 214 Oxford Street, managed by agents Savills and Eastdil, follows the failure of Sir Philip Green's retail empire to secure funding to pay its debts after sales slumped during the pandemic.\n\nThe Oxford Street building also houses Nike and Vans stores.\n\nArcadia said that although it was in administration, and so all its assets are to be sold, that did not mean the shops in the building would have to close.\n\nPeople have been sharing their feelings about the London landmark, which was often used as a meeting point for friends and was a must-visit for fashion-loving tourists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nArcadia, which also owns Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Burton, had already closed other Topshop stores across the UK, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts brands were struggling before the pandemic, partly due to competition from online-only fashion retailers such as Asos, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nBeyonce launched her Ivy Park collection at Topshop in 2016\n\nThe flagship store is currently closed, in line with the rules about non-essential retailers\n\nThe Oxford Street store pictured during Pride in 2018", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon: Vaccination programme needs to win the race\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have come into force across the Scottish mainland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the clampdown was necessary to contain the spread of the new strain of Covid-19.\n\nPeople are now required by law to stay in their homes and to work from home.\n\nOutdoor gatherings have been restricted to one-on-one meet-ups, and schools will close to most pupils until February at the earliest.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs on Monday that Scotland faced an \"extremely serious\" situation, with the new, faster-spreading variant of coronavirus \"a massive blow\".\n\nSchools will remain closed to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nThe first minister has said she cannot guarantee when children will be allowed back in classrooms or when the latest lockdown restrictions will be lifted.\n\nShe also told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Tuesday that she hoped 2.7 million people in Scotland would have received one dose of the Covid vaccine by the middle of May.\n\nShe said: \"I can't be definitive right now about when we will lift these restrictions.\n\n\"I have described this as a race - we've got the vaccine in one lane and we are trying to accelerate that.\n\n\"We've got the virus which has learned to run faster in the other lane and we've got to slow it down.\n\n\"Lockdown is about pushing rates of the virus back, and if we manage to do that then hopefully we will be able to start lifting restrictions while the vaccination programme is ongoing.\"\n\nA government document revealed there were now more than 90 patients in intensive care units, with new modelling suggesting that figure could more than double by early February.\n\nThe modelling sets out different scenarios with the most pessimistic predicting hospitals admissions could soar to more than 8,000 with over 700 patients requiring intensive care.\n\nThe document also revealed that Inverclyde - which a few weeks ago had relatively low levels of Covid - now has the highest case rate, almost 550 per 100,000 - while Dumfries and Galloway has seen its rate increase to 475 per 100,000.\n\nDundee City, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and the Scottish Borders all now have case rates exceeding 300 per 100,000.\n\nOnly limited data was released by the government in recent days but a full update on deaths, hospital admissions and local infection rates has now been issued.\n\nCases of Covid have risen sharply in recent days\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight and are, in effect, an enhancement to the level four curbs already in place across the mainland and Skye.\n\nThey will run until at least the end of January and could yet be extended both in scope and duration.\n\nScotland's island communities, with the exception of Skye, are to remain in level three for now, although Ms Sturgeon warned this would also remain under review.\n\nNew regulations mean Scots are prohibited from leaving their homes for anything other than \"essential\" purposes - although the law provides a lengthy list of examples of \"reasonable excuses\".\n\nThese include shopping for food or medical supplies, providing or accessing childcare, exercise, and participation in extended households.\n\nAnyone who can do their job from home must do so, and people in the \"shielding\" category have been advised not to go out to work at all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nNew restrictions have been placed on outdoor gatherings in level four areas, with only two people from separate households now permitted to meet up.\n\nThese restrictions do not include children under the age of 12, who are still allowed to gather to play, but everyone else must abide by them or face a fixed penalty notice.\n\nTravel restrictions remain in place between local authority areas and in and out of Scotland, and people have been urged to stay as close to home as possible when going out for exercise.\n\nSchools will now operate on a remote-learning basis for the majority of pupils when the new term starts on 11 January, with only the children of key workers and vulnerable children to receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nThis is to run until at least 1 February, with a review on 18 January - with Ms Sturgeon saying her \"fundamental priority\" was still to get children back in school full time as quickly as possible.\n\nThe new measures are a bid to control the spread of the new variant of Covid, which is now thought to be responsible for nearly half of all new cases of the virus in Scotland.\n\nOfficials believe Scotland is roughly four weeks behind London - where health services are coming under increasing pressure - and warn that hospitals could hit capacity within the month without major new curbs.\n\nBetween 23 and 30 December, the average number of cases per 100,000 people in Scotland increased by 65%, from 136 to 225.", "\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation\"\n\nA fresh move is under way to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence in England and Wales, after the House of Lords debated the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe government has said it has no plans to change the law, arguing that non-fatal strangulation is already covered by existing legislation.\n\nHowever, campaigners say abusers who use non-fatal strangulation are telling their victims: \"I am controlling you and I can kill you\" - but too often are charged only with common assault.\n\nThis is what happened in Jenny's case. Her abusive partner used non-fatal strangulation as a means of control throughout the five years they were together.\n\n\"It was like his favourite thing to do,\" says Jenny, who asked the BBC not to use her real name.\n\n\"That sounds really awful and trivial but that is how it becomes as an abuse victim. You learn to accept that is part of your life. It was like something I had to manage.\"\n\n\"We would wake up in the morning and he would be in one of those moods, and I would see it in his eyes and I would think today's the day I'm going to get it.\n\n\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nEventually one night she did call the police during an attack.\n\n\"He chased me round the house and every time he caught me he would pin me to the floor and strangle me until I had marks.\n\n\"I had burst blood vessels. I was streaming with tears. I just kept thinking: 'This is how I am going to die.'\n\n\"The doors were locked. He'd smashed my phone. I managed to get to the window and shout and one of the neighbours called the police.\"\n\nHowever, she was dismayed by the police response. \"I thought it was quite lax. They didn't take the strangulation as seriously as they should have.\"\n\nHer partner was charged with common assault. He pleaded guilty and was given a three-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\n\"Strangulation needs to be a specific offence. I think the weak police response contributed to keeping me in the relationship,\" she says.\n\nJenny believed her partner would eventually kill her.\n\n\"I just kept looking in the mirror and thinking: you need to leave and you're the only person who can do it.\n\n\"So one day while he was asleep, I picked up whatever I could carry and I ran and got on a train.\"\n\nBaroness Newlove is bringing forward an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill in the House of Lords\n\nPoliticians and campaigners tried and failed to have a new offence of non-fatal strangulation introduced in the Domestic Abuse Bill when it was going through the House of Commons.\n\nDuring Tuesday's debate on the bill in the Lords, the Conservative peer and former victims' commissioner, Baroness Newlove, said she intended to table an amendment to the bill when it reached the committee stage.\n\nShe said non-fatal strangulation was currently not being picked up adequately by the police, as it often left no physical marks on the victim.\n\nShe described it as a terrifying crime, with many victims testifying they felt as though their heads were going to explode and they were about to die.\n\nPeers from other parties also spoke in support of a new offence.\n\nNogah Offer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence, says: \"We believe this is a real opportunity to make a difference.\"\n\nCommon assault is a summary offence that can be charged by the police.\n\nBut when it involves domestic abuse, it should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, its guidance says.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: \"Non-fatal strangulation is a serious crime which is already covered by existing laws such as common assault and attempted murder.\"\n\nA spokesperson said the government would keep this area of the law under review, but said a specific offence of attempting to choke, strangle or suffocate a person is included in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and, according to the 2015 Serious Crime Act, attempted strangulation can fall under the offence of coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nDr Catherine White: \"Ultimately it can lead to death\"\n\nDr Catherine White, clinical director of St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, says: \"Strangulation often ends up being treated the same as a slap or a punch.\n\n\"It's a very different crime. Often there is no external injury to the neck, which is why it's a very powerful tool for the perpetrator.\n\n\"It can cause confusion but ultimately it can lead to death.\"\n\nA research project led by Dr White describes non-fatal strangulation as a \"gendered crime, with nearly all the patients female and the alleged perpetrators male\".\n\nAnd figures from the Femicide Census, which looked at the cases of women killed by men in the UK, found that in 2018, 29% died through strangulation.\n\nCampaigners point to New Zealand and some parts of the United States and Australia, where non-fatal strangulation has become a specific offence.\n\nMeanwhile, after help from a women's centre and counselling, Jenny now feels stronger and happier.\n\nDespite the pandemic, she says, having finally escaped her abuser: \"2020 was one of the best years of my life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Body Coach says he will be running PE lessons online for children\n\nJoe Wicks is restarting his online PE lessons from next week, to help families keep fit during lockdown.\n\nThe personal trainer told the BBC he wanted to \"give children structure\" and help them feel \"more optimistic\".\n\nHe said live sessions would run on his YouTube channel at 09:00 GMT on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.\n\nSchools across the UK are reopening later than normal, amid tighter measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nConfirming the return of his \"PE with Joe\" sessions in an Instagram post, Wicks, known as the Body Coach, said: \"We all need this for our mental health more than ever and exercising can help.\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had \"a really emotional moment last night\", after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national lockdown for England on Monday evening.\n\n\"I was thinking about all the children in the UK and all around the world that are at home in tiny little flats… and they feel like they miss their friends and they miss school,\" he said.\n\n\"And so PE with Joe three days a week is going to really help them get through those days and give them some structure and hopefully help them feel a little bit happier and a bit more optimistic.\"\n\nWicks first began his free online workouts during the national lockdown in March, with the sessions attracting millions of viewers.", "Boeing's 737 Max plane is safe to return to service in the UK and the European Union, regulators have said.\n\nIt ends a 22-month flight ban for the jet, which followed two crashes which caused 346 deaths.\n\nThe plane had already been cleared to resume flying in North America and Brazil.\n\nBut this week a senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle warned that recertification had happened too quickly.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa), which regulates aviation in 31 mainly EU countries, said it now had \"every confidence\" in the plane following an independent review.\n\n\"But we will continue to monitor 737 Max operations closely as the aircraft resumes service,\" said executive director Patrick Ky.\n\n\"In parallel, and at our insistence, Boeing has also committed to work to enhance the aircraft still further in the medium term, in order to reach an even higher level of safety.\"\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which oversees UK aviation now Britain has left the EU, said the work to return the 737 Max to the skies had been \"the most extensive project of this kind\".\n\nIt said it was in close contact with Tui, currently the only UK operator of the aircraft, as it returned the plane to service.\n\n\"As part of this we will have full oversight of the airline's plans including its pilot training programmes and implementation of the required aircraft modifications.\"\n\nThe 737 Max's first accident occurred in October 2018, when a Lion Air jet came down in the sea off Indonesia.\n\nThe second involved an Ethiopian Airlines version that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, just four months later.\n\nBoth have been attributed to flawed flight control software, which became active at the wrong time and prompted the aircraft to go into a catastrophic dive.\n\nEasa said it had done a full investigation independent of Boeing or the US Federal Aviation Administration and \"without any economic or political pressure\".\n\nAs a result, it demanded software upgrades, electrical working rework, maintenance checks, operations manual updates and crew training.\n\n\"We asked difficult questions until we got answers and pushed for solutions which satisfied our exacting safety requirements,\" Mr Ky said.\n\nThe CAA said it had based its decision on information from Easa, the US Federal Aviation Agency and Boeing, as well as \"extensive engagement\" with airline operators and pilots.\n\nIt comes days after a report by Ed Pierson, a former Boeing manager, claimed that regulators and investigators had largely ignored factors that may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nMr Pierson said that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory in Seattle was badly needed.\n\nOn Wednesday Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband Mick died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, said that the families of victims \"still do not have a full accounting of what happened and why\".\n\n\"Ultimately we are more determined than ever to find out exactly what Boeing knew about this dangerous aircraft, and hold them accountable for the deaths of our loved ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\nBoeing has already agreed to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn) to settle US criminal charges that it hid information from safety officials about the design of the planes.\n\nThe US Justice Department said the firm chose \"profit over candour\", impeding oversight of the planes.\n\nAbout $500m of that will go to families of the people killed in the tragedies.\n\nHowever, attorneys for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash have said the deal would not end their pending civil lawsuit against Boeing.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boeing posted a record $12bn annual loss after it delayed its all-new 777X jet for the third time, incurring huge charges.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has caused demand for the industry's largest jetliners to fall, with airline customers shunning deliveries of planes due international travel restrictions.\n\nThe 737 Max has already been cleared to fly in North America and Brazil - now it has the go-ahead from European regulators as well.\n\nIt's a major step for Boeing - although with the current travel restrictions in place, it's likely to be a while before the decision has much practical effect.\n\nBut the controversy won't end there. Relatives of those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines accident have made it clear they haven't heard enough to be sure the aircraft - modified in accordance with regulators' wishes - is truly safe.\n\nAnd this week, a former senior manager at the 737 factory told the BBC why he thought existing planes might still be carrying potentially dangerous manufacturing defects.\n\nThat may explain why Easa has also chosen to publish a report setting out the detailed reasoning behind its decision.\n\nUltimately, the 737 Max may we'll have decades of successful service ahead of it. But for the moment, winning back passenger confidence will be a formidable challenge.", "The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the inclusion of ransomware payments in first-party cyber-insurance policies.\n\nIt said insurance was \"not an alternative\" to doing everything possible to first minimise the risk.\n\nHowever, it added that firms could face financial ruin without the cover.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the UK needed to rethink its policies on ransomware.\n\nRansomware is a form of malware in which infected computers are remotely locked by cyber-criminals, who then demand a ransom, often in the form of Bitcoin, to unlock them and return the data they hold.\n\nThere are many examples of businesses and public bodies which have chosen to pay because they do not have the data backed up, or cannot afford - or do not have time - to rebuild their systems from scratch.\n\nThe Guardian reported that Prof Martin, now at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, said he believed insurers were \"funding organised crime\" by accepting ransomware claims, but he told the BBC the issue of how to tackle ransomware was far broader than just the insurance sector.\n\nWhile official advice is not to pay the demand, it is not illegal to do so in the UK, he said.\n\n\"I have some sympathy with insurers, because as long as it's legal, there are incentives to pay.\"\n\nWhile the ransom demand may be high, the alternative impact can also be devastating.\n\nWhen the global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro was attacked in 2019, it cost the firm around £45m, and its profits in the immediate aftermath plummeted by 82%, reported Reuters.\n\nNorsk Hydro refused to pay the demand, which would arguably have been cheaper - but it did have insurance.\n\nA spokesman for the ABI said insurers do require that \"reasonable precautions\" are taken to prevent cyber-attacks from succeeding in the first place, just as cars and houses require security measures in place to deter thieves.\n\n\"Some might argue that any insurance that covers against a criminal act could lull the policyholder into a false sense of security,\" he said.\n\nProf Martin said he did not think that banning ransomware insurance claims would necessarily solve the problem.\n\n\"But it's worth a serious piece of consultation because if we continue as we are, things will get worse,\" he said.", "Cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who test positive for the new UK variant of coronavirus, a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe ONS findings are based on positive tests from a random sample of 6,000 people in England.\n\nLoss of taste and smell may be slightly less likely to affect those with the new form of the virus.\n\nHowever, it is still one of the three main symptoms of the virus.\n\nThe NHS website lists the symptoms as a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to sense of smell or taste.\n\nMost people infected with the virus develop at least one of these symptoms.\n\nThe new variant, which was first spotted in Kent in September, spreads more easily than the previous form of the virus and has now spread across the UK, causing a surge in cases which prompted the current lockdown.\n\nThere is some evidence it could be more deadly than other variants, although the data isn't strong enough yet to say for certain.\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and another from Brazil - are also circulating, although at lower levels.\n\nThe ONS analysis looked at the symptoms reported by people up to a week before testing positive for the new variant of coronavirus, compared with those testing positive for the old variant.\n\nThey were tested over two months between mid-November and mid-January.\n\nTest results compatible with the new variant show up as being positive for two genes, rather than three for the other variant.\n\nIn a group of about 3,500 people with the new variant:\n\nIn a group of 2,500 people with the old variant:\n\nThe study found 16% of those with the new variant experienced losing their sense of taste while 15% lost their sense of smell.\n\nThis was slightly lower than reported by people with the old variant (18% for both).\n\nThere was no difference found in levels of headaches, shortness of breath or diarrhoea and vomiting in both groups.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, said the new variant of the virus had 23 changes compared to the original Wuhan virus.\n\n\"Some of these changes in different parts of the virus could affect the body's immune response and also influence the range of symptoms associated with infection,\" he said.\n\nInfected people appear to produce more virus and this could result in more widespread infection within the body \"perhaps accounting for more coughs, muscle pain and tiredness\", Prof Young added.\n\nThe analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the UK population, carried out jointly with Public Health England, the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK nationals and residents returning from \"red list\" countries will be made to quarantine in accommodation such as hotels for 10 days, Boris Johnson has said. While exact details of the policy remain unclear, similar schemes are already in place elsewhere, including in Australia and New Zealand. So how does it work?\n\nAfter finally securing her family's place in Australia's quarantine system, Keri McMenamin prepared for the worst - and ordered a vacuum cleaner.\n\nThe 38-year-old was returning to the country with her husband and two children after securing a job offer - leaving the UK in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last year.\n\n\"It is literally luck of the draw,\" she says of where her family would spend 14 days together once they arrived. \"You didn't know what to expect.\" Having done some research, Keri discovered Facebook groups busy with people relaying their experiences of quarantine.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying, 'Look, just expect the worst and then whatever you get is a bonus.'\"\n\nKeri's children Quinn and Nyala kept busy with board games\n\n\"There were people who had, like, filthy hotel rooms, appalling food, you know, really sort of tiny spaces, no opening windows, no balconies,\" she adds.\n\nThat's when she ordered the vacuum for a friend to deliver when the time came.\n\nIn the end, the family was taken to a hotel in Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and given an interconnecting room. But still, the windows were sealed and their only time outside was 20-minute stints every two to three days.\n\n\"I think what kept us sane was having a routine,\" she adds. \"Joe Wicks in the morning and our yoga in the evening and sort of keeping up your 12,000 steps a day walking around in loops.\" The vacuum came in useful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are strict caps on the numbers travelling to countries using hotels to quarantine arrivals.\n\nBetween July and October 2019, 7.5m people arrived into Australia to live, work and visit. But over the same period last year, when enforced quarantine was in place, just 72,111 people arrived, according to government figures.\n\nPeople like Keri who have been through quarantine in Australia told BBC News that airlines will only confirm seats once a spot in a hotel is secured - leading to last-minute scrambles.\n\nOnline forums suggest expats desperate to get home are facing months of delays, cancellations and uncertainty - around 39,000 have said they want to return.\n\nQuarantine hotel stays themselves are costly - with fees paid for by travellers.\n\nThe quality of food provided to those placed into quarantine in Australia has improved since the start of the pandemic\n\nIn New South Wales, it costs the equivalent of around £1,700 per adult and £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children - billed after the quarantine is completed.\n\nArrivals into New Zealand are charged £1,630 for the first adult, with an extra £500 for each additional adult and £250 for each child.\n\nThe costs include the accommodation and a basic food service and even more basic cleaning - perhaps once per week, or not at all, with one change of linen and towels, depending on the facility.\n\nBut it comes on top of airfares, which have increased due to the pandemic. Fees can be waived for those who cannot pay and there are some exemptions.\n\nEach region has its own rules. In Australia, packages can be brought in from outside, and in New Zealand some of those in quarantine are taken to fields to exercise.\n\nMark Dickinson, from Liverpool, has lived in New Zealand with his wife Lisa for four years but returned to the UK to see their newborn granddaughter in December - he spoke to the BBC 10 days into a 14-day isolation near Auckland.\n\n\"We had to have a test on day zero, then day three, then we're having a test tomorrow on day 11,\" Mark says.\n\n\"The area at the front of the hotel is surrounded by a double-guarded fence. It may have cost us £2,000 but if that means New Zealand stays safe, then we're happy doing it.\"\n\nMark and his wife Lisa added photographs of their newborn granddaughter to a display in a small walking area at their hotel\n\nMany of those isolating found life does not stop in quarantine. Australian Brad Thiele started a new job and celebrated his 51st birthday alone in a 300 sq ft room at the Novotel in central Sydney.\n\nAfter being asked by a person wearing a full hazmat suit at Sydney airport whether he had any concerns about being held in a room for 14 days, Brad was taken to the hotel with a blue-light police escort. On arrival, the military were on hand to ensure he checked in.\n\n\"I quite like practising meditation. So I was able to just sort of just sit and be at peace with the fact this was the first two weeks of the rest of my life having lived abroad in Britain for the past 23 years,\" he says.\n\n\"I had some regimen, it was important to get up in the morning, make the bed, shower, iron a shirt and be smart casual for work. Just finding a rhythm and a pattern in the day.\"\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to take the Novotel up on an offer of a 30% discount on a future stay.\n\nOther countries' experience of setting up a hotel quarantine system provides an insight into the sort of challenges politicians and civil servants in the UK may soon be grappling with.\n\nInitially those in quarantine across the world complained about the quality of food being provided.\n\nThen outbreaks at just two hotels in the Australian state of Victoria were traced to 99% of cases in a second wave across Melbourne that led to around 750 deaths.\n\nA public inquiry found a lack of training, cleaning and contact tracing seeded infections into the local community.\n\nAn urgent review of the hotel quarantine system in New Zealand is under way\n\nReports at the time suggested encounters between private security staff and those staying in quarantine caused the virus to spread. The inquiry did not find evidence to back up the claims.\n\nBut former judge Jennifer Coate criticised a lack of \"health focus\" in the quarantine system in Melbourne, saying risks \"were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen\".\n\nMeanwhile, New Zealand is investigating after a woman who had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice went on to develop symptoms which were confirmed to be the South Africa variant of Covid-19.\n\nThe 56-year-old woman had recently returned from Europe and is said to have visited almost 30 places in New Zealand before her case was detected. Local officials say she is likely to have been infected by a fellow returnee.\n\nBack in Australia, knowing why the quarantine system is in place and the benefits it brings - the country has largely eradicated the virus - helps motivate people to keep to the rules, Keri McMenamin says.\n\nKeri's family have since been able to enjoy a Christmas with minimal restrictions following their stay in hotel quarantine\n\nShe has just spent a public holiday going about the sort of activities many of us in the UK can but dream of - and her children will be in school this week.\n\n\"We went to a local gym and had a group workout with 30 people,\" she says.\n\n\"And then we went to the countryside, and the kids built little boats out of wood and mingled around and there were families picnicking.\n\n\"I almost feel guilty for having gone through this process and now living a normal life,\" she adds. \"I feel like I don't want to talk to my friends in the UK about how easy our life here is and how normal it is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has suggested that Boris Johnson should not visit Scotland as it is not an \"essential\" journey.\n\nThe prime minister is widely expected to travel to Scotland on Thursday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she was \"not ecstatic\" about the plan, saying leaders should abide by the same rules as they ask of the general public.\n\nAsked about the trip, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said Mr Johnson would go \"wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic\".\n\nAnd Downing Street has insisted that it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman did not confirm details of the visit, but said: \"It remains the fact that it is a fundamental role of the PM to be the physical representative of the UK government\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is right that he is visible and accessible to businesses, communities and the public across all parts of the UK, especially during the pandemic.\"\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is due to visit Scotland on Thursday to thank staff involved in the fight against Covid-19, despite the \"stay at home\" lockdown in place across the country.\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon stressed that she was not saying Mr Johnson was unwelcome in Scotland, but added that she was \"not ecstatic\" about the idea of him travelling up from London.\n\nDowning Street says it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the UK during the pandemic\n\nShe said: \"We are living in a global pandemic and every day I stand and look down the camera and say 'don't travel unless it is essential, work from home if you possibly can' - that has to apply to all of us.\n\n\"People like me and Boris Johnson have to be in work for reasons people understand, but we don't have to travel across the UK. We have a duty to lead by example.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her team had suggested she visit a mass vaccination centre in Aberdeen in the coming weeks, but that she had questioned whether the journey was \"genuinely essential\".\n\nShe said: \"If I'm standing here every day saying to all of you watching, don't leave your house unless it is essential, I have a duty to subject myself to that same discipline and decision making.\n\n\"I would say me travelling from Edinburgh to Aberdeen to visit a vaccine centre is not essential - Boris Johnson travelling from London to wherever in Scotland to do the same is not essential.\n\n\"If we're asking other people to abide by that then I'm sorry, I think it's incumbent on us to do likewise.\"\n\nThere are currently cross-border travel restrictions in place for anything other than essential travel, as well as a stay at home order\n\nThe Scottish secretary was asked about the move at Westminster by SNP MP Neale Hanvey, who described the trip as a \"futile\" attempt to bolster the union following a trend of polls suggesting majority support for independence.\n\nMr Jack replied: \"That's ridiculous - the prime minister is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic, he will go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found.\n\nPhilippa Day, 27, was found collapsed at her Nottingham home beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home benefits assessment in August 2019.\n\nShe died after two months in a coma.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard the way her claim was dealt with was the \"predominant factor\" in her overdose.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, coroner Gordon Clow said he could not determine whether she intended to die rather than put her life at risk.\n\nMiss Day, who had been diagnosed with unstable personality disorder, had been receiving disabled living allowance (DLA) payments as she had type 1 diabetes.\n\nThose payments stopped in January 2019 after she made an application for a personal independence payment (PIP), reducing her income from £228 a week to £60.\n\nThis, the inquest heard, was because a form she had sent went missing and her payments were not reinstated for months, despite her eligibility.\n\nThis led to her taking out short-term loans and ending up in debt.\n\nThe court heard in June, she called the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to say she was \"starving\" and \"couldn't survive like this for much longer\".\n\nPhilippa Day (left) took a fatal overdose and died in October 2019\n\nShe was then asked to attend a face-to-face assessment despite it being \"distressing\" for her, Mr Clow said.\n\nThe coroner added Miss Day's mental health problems were \"exacerbated\" by the benefits process.\n\nHe accepted it had been \"the last straw\" for Miss Day who was already experiencing a range of stressors.\n\nHe said: \"Were it not for this problem, it is not likely that she would have [overdosed] on the 7th or 8th of August.\"\n\nCall handlers repeatedly failed to flag that the case required \"additional support\" due to her mental health problems, the coroner said.\n\nThe DWP did not tell her community psychiatric nurse that she had not returned the form before refusing her application, which could have resolved the issue.\n\nThe coroner said call handlers received little to no training on personality disorders like Miss Day's - all that was available was a factsheet.\n\nCapita was made aware of the risks to Miss Day's health from a face-to-face interview by her community psychiatric nurse, but did not act on it, he added.\n\nMr Clow said: \"Given the sheer number of problems in the handling of her claim, I am unable to conclude that each of these was attributable to individual human error.\"\n\nHe concluded the failure to administer her benefit claim in a way that avoided exacerbating her mental health problems was the \"predominant factor\" that caused Miss Day to overdose.\n\nMr Clow recommended changes at both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Capita, the authorities involved.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, Mr Clow said the DWP should consider timely mental health training for call handlers and address \"poor record keeping\".\n\nThe DWP and Capita were also directed to review the change of assessment process so that it does not \"create unnecessary distress\".\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"This is a deeply tragic case. Our sincere condolences are with Miss Day's family and we will carefully consider the coroner's findings.\"\n\nA Capita spokesman said the company also apologised for the mistakes made.\n\n\"We have strengthened our processes over the last 18 months and are committed to continuously working to deliver a high-quality, empathetic service for every claimant,\" he said.\n\n\"In partnership with the DWP, we will act upon the coroner's findings and make further improvements to our processes.\"\n\nThis conclusion amounts to a near dismantling of the process for applying for the main disability benefit for people with psychiatric problems.\n\nWhile around 40% of claimants for personal independence payments have mental health conditions, the inquest found that call handlers for the DWP didn't receive adequate mental health training.\n\nThe coroner found there was an \"institutional assumption\" in the DWP that problems with a claim were the claimants' fault.\n\nLast year a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found the department had investigated 69 suicides of benefit claimants since 2014-15.\n\nThere were more cases they could have looked into, said the NAO, but in any case the department couldn't demonstrate any improvements from their investigations had actually been implemented.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Fonda has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades\n\nUS actress Jane Fonda is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next month's Golden Globes, which celebrate excellence in film and TV.\n\n\"Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition,\" said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) - the ceremony's organiser.\n\n\"While her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained.\"\n\nFonda, 83, has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades.\n\nThe HFPA said she would be given the Cecil B deMille Award at the annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on 28 February.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, later becoming one of the brightest Hollywood stars with films like Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist, most recently as a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThe actress - who has written a book about how people can get involved in such activism - has been arrested several times during protests, and hopes her actions have raised awareness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Hobbs, from Cardiff, had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid\n\nThe family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules.\n\nKaren Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to breathe.\n\nShe was taken to hospital and died on 19 January.\n\nKaren's sister Rachel Hobbs said her normally healthy sister became very ill over Christmas.\n\n\"She just looked dreadful, Christmas Day she was laid up in bed, she couldn't do anything,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew she was really bad but I'd never seen anybody like that before, it was shocking, for someone that healthy to be barely able to walk to a car is quite shocking.\"\n\nOn 2 January, Karen was put into an induced coma.\n\n\"She was really terrified, she said 'I need to come out of this and see my children again'. She never came out of it,\" her sister added.\n\nKaren Hobbs' children are now 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\nThe family were told Karen's organs were beginning to fail and she was \"going downhill\" about a week before she died, and they were allowed to visit.\n\n\"She did look a little bit better, she had more colour, she was quite puffy - swelling and a bit of a rash on her. Her lungs were struggling, so we came home a little bit shocked.\n\n\"They started feeding her in a tube and were able to move her, I thought perhaps she's recovering a little bit and then I had the phone call to say that she'd gone.\n\n\"Her body just couldn't take it any more. I don't think it's sunk in. I think the children are still in a bit of shock as well, I thought she would come out of it but she just had it so severe. \"\n\nKaren's children made her a get well soon card while she was in hospital\n\nRachel said her sister, from Cardiff, was healthy with no underlying conditions.\n\n\"She didn't go anywhere - she did online shopping, she was in the house - so we don't even know where it could have come from, she was one of the ones who stayed safest.\n\n\"It's just shocking to think a young mum of five is no longer here. They've lost their mum and they lost their grandfather and nan a couple of years ago so they must feel 'who will be next'?\n\nRachel Hobbs says it still has not sunk in that she has lost her sister\n\nRachel said her sister was a fantastic mother to her five children, aged 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\n\"I don't think the youngest understands, I think she thinks mummy's still just in the hospital.\n\n\"She was a very hands-on mum, she spent a lot of time with the children. She'd sit and play with them for hours, sit and colour, she was always there for them.\"\n\nRachel says her youngest niece does not yet understand what has happened to her mother\n\nRachel added that Karen had no patience with people who broke lockdown rules: \"She used to get quite annoyed about people who broke the rules and she wasn't slow on coming forward, she'd say it as well.\n\n\"It just goes to show how bad this virus is. She would say 'make sure you follow the rules because nobody is safe, it is real this virus, stay at home and only go out when you need to'.\"\n\nIn the days since Karen's death a fundraising page has been set up by friends to support her children and their dad, and has raised more than £20,000.\n\nKaren spoke of how frightened she was in her final post on Facebook\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at how generous people have been and how kind people have been, the community has come together and I think she'd be proud too that it's raising awareness about the pandemic.\n\n\"That'll help the children going forward now. Out of a bad thing, it's been nice people getting in touch, kind words, messages, little things about what she was like.\"\n\nKaren loved colouring and playing with her children, her sister said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson joined the production line at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow for the unpacking of Covid tests\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted that Scotland's independence debate is \"irrelevant\" to most people as he urged the country to unite against Covid.\n\nThe PM was speaking during a trip to Scotland to emphasise the strength of the UK working together during the pandemic.\n\nThe SNP said he was panicking as opinion polls show declining support for the union.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also questioned if his trip is essential.\n\nThe PM started his day-long visit by going to the Lighthouse Laboratory - which processes Covid tests - at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.\n\nHe later visited troops who are setting up a vaccination centre in the Castlemilk area of the city, and toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston.\n\nThe factory is expected to deliver 60 million doses to the UK by the end of the year if its vaccine is approved.\n\nMr Johnson used the visit to argue that the priority should be \"fighting this pandemic and coming back more strongly together\" rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nAnd he praised the \"amazing performance\" of Scottish people in the \"national effort\" to fight the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think endless talk about a referendum without any clear description of what the constitutional situation would be after that referendum is completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people\".\n\nMr Johnson also criticised the SNP's record in government, and added: \"We don't actually know what the referendum would set out to achieve.\n\n\"We don't know what the point of it would be - what happens to the army, what happens to the Crown, what happens to the pound, what happens to the Foreign Office. Nobody will tell us what it's all meant to be about.\"\n\nHe told reporters that \"the very same people\" who wanted independence \"also said only a few years ago, in 2014, that this was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\n\"I'm inclined to stick with what they said last time,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson met troops who are setting up a vaccination centre\n\nUnder the current Covid regulations, people are only able to travel between Scotland and England for essential reasons, with similar regulations also in place to stop travel across council boundaries within Scotland.\n\nAsked at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday how she felt about the prime minister's visit while the strict travel restrictions were in place, Ms Sturgeon replied she was \"not ecstatic\" about it.\n\nShe argued that leaders should abide by the same rules they impose on the general public, adding that she had herself rejected a suggested visit to a vaccine centre in Aberdeen for this reason.\n\nDowning Street has insisted it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the whole of the UK during the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's criticism, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"These are Covid-related visits. You've seen the prime minister do a number of them over the past few weeks.\n\n\"It is obviously important that he is continuing to meet and see those who are on the front line in terms of those who are providing tests, in terms of those who are working so hard to deliver the vaccination plan.\"\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Scotland is widely seen as being part of a \"charm offensive\" in response to polls indicating a rise in support for independence.\n\nHowever, polls have also suggested that the independence question is currently a lower priority for many people than other issues such as the pandemic, health and education.\n\nA series of opinion polls have suggested that support for independence is now ahead of support for remaining in the UK\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said it was \"only right\" the prime minister visited people on the front line of the vaccine roll-out to make sure it is operating effectively.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast Mr Johnson has visited other crucial locations in the UK's pandemic response, such as the Wrexham plant making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adding: \"No one thinks that's illegitimate.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said he backed the visit. \"I'm with the prime minister on this one,\" he told LBC Radio.\n\n\"He is the prime minister of the UK. It's important that he travels to see what is going on, on the ground.\"\n\nIt comes as the Scottish government sets out its budget, described as the \"most important in the history of devolution\" in the wake of huge spending increases to support people and businesses during the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson had a clear purpose on his visit to Scotland - to talk up what he calls the power of cooperation across the UK.\n\nDressed in white lab coat and protective gear, he was happy to tell me how the UK government is supporting the fight against coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThat includes spending lots of money supporting jobs and businesses, building test centres, and procuring vaccine supplies from companies like the one he was visiting in Livingston.\n\nNo matter what the prime minister does, or that the UK and Scottish governments are following broadly similar Covid strategies - the public in Scotland perceives that Nicola Sturgeon and her team are handling the pandemic response better.\n\nThis visit was controversial because it happened during lockdown but it went ahead because the UK government recognises how much work it has to do to make the case for the union in Scotland, with Scottish elections due in May when the question of indyref2 will be to the fore.\n\nOn Sunday, the SNP revealed an 11-point \"roadmap to a referendum\" on Scottish independence, which sets out how the party intends to take forward its plan for another vote on the issue.\n\nIt says a \"legal referendum\" will be held after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nAnd it says it will \"vigorously oppose\" any legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's SNP has published a \"roadmap\" aimed at holding a legal referendum once the pandemic ends\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to a referendum, and has suggested that another one should not be held for 40 years.\n\nOpposition parties in Scotland have also accused Ms Sturgeon and the SNP of putting the push for independence ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said the prime minister's trip was evidence that he is in a \"panic\" about the prospect of another referendum.", "Jonathan Mok posted a selfie and another photo of his injuries on Facebook\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told \"we don't want your coronavirus in our country\".\n\nJonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nThe teenager was convicted of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm following a trial at Highbury Corner Youth Court.\n\nThe chair of the bench gave the boy an 18-month youth rehabilitation order.\n\nHe was also ordered to wear an electronic tag, follow a curfew order between 20:00 and 07:00 for 10 weeks and must pay £600 compensation to Mr Mok.\n\nChair of the bench Mervyn Mandell warned that had he been an adult he \"would have gone to jail for a very long time\".\n\n\"This was an unprovoked attack for no reason other than his [Mr Mok's] appearance,\" he said.\n\nJonathan Mok had been walking home after having dinner in central London\n\nMr Mok, 23, suffered a complicated fracture to his nose and cheekbone which required surgery, screws and stitches.\n\nImages of his swollen eye were shared widely on social media following the attack.\n\nThe court heard previously how the UCL law student turned around after a friend of the attacker made a remark about coronavirus towards him.\n\nWitnesses described a \"commotion on the street\" where Mr Mok and his friend were \"confronted by a group of white males\".\n\nThey heard someone shout \"you are diseased don't come near me\".\n\nMr Mok was then punched in the face. The teenager joined the attack and continued to punch and kick Mr Mok.\n\nProsecutor Simon Maughan said the teenager was \"quick to get involved\" in the group attack.\n\nA victim impact statement read out on behalf of Mr Mok said the crime had \"taken a heavy toll\" on him and his family.\n\nHe added: \"My legal education had to be halted for a month due to surgery and follow up medical appointments.\n\n\"I have anxiety and have problems sleeping. I believe the defendant is a threat to Singaporeans and South East Asians. He has shown no remorse.\"\n\nThe teenager's defence barrister Gerard Pitt said the boy handed himself in following a police CCTV appeal last March.\n\nNo-one else has been charged in connection with the attack.\n\nMr Pitt said: \"He has always maintained he did not say anything about coronavirus and that was vindicated at the trial.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Mok could not be 100% sure the defendant was the boy who said anything about coronavirus.\n\nThe boy had no previous convictions, but had two youth cautions for common assaults, the court was told.\n\nBefore being sentenced the teenager said: \"When I saw the picture I felt disgusted.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic\n\nHealth workers in Northern Ireland are to get a \"special recognition\" payment for their work during the pandemic.\n\nIt is intended that all staff will receive a payment of £500, said Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\nHowever, it will be subject to approval from the Department of Finance.\n\nThere had been calls from some political parties and health unions for staff to be recognised for their efforts.\n\nScotland has already announced a similar one-off payment and Mr Swann said it would reflect the \"principle of parity\".\n\n\"There are no words to properly convey what health workers have done for us, we will never be able to repay that debt,\" added the minister.\n\nThe development comes as Northern Ireland's Department of Health has recorded 16 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its toll so far to 1,779.\n\nA further 527 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere are 775 people in Northern Ireland's hospitals who are being treated for the virus - 68 of them are in intensive care and the number of people requiring ventilators has risen to 56.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 54 more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded on Wednesday. It brings the Republic of Ireland's death toll to 3,120.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health also confirmed 1,335 more Covid-19 cases.\n\nSpeaking at the weekly health news conference on Wednesday, Mr Swann said the pandemic had caused \"destruction\" and left \"heartbreak in its wake\".\n\n\"Staying at home is making a difference. The R-number has been moving in the right direction,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to sustain and build on that progress.\"\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 after Christmas relaxations.\n\nIt has been falling since lockdown restrictions were introduced on 26 December, and Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said NI's R-number for hospital admissions has now fallen back below one.\n\nBut he warned that the pressure on the system was still significant and would continue for several more weeks.\n\nHe added that there would need to be a \"sustained\" drop in the figures before relaxations of the lockdown could be considered by the executive.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that the number of people in Northern Ireland who have received their first Covid-19 now stands at 168,140.\n\nMore than 50,000 people aged over 80 have been vaccinated.\n\nOn the payment to health workers, Mr Swann said it would \"not be without its challenges\" but that he valued all staff in the health service.\n\n\"For some people, especially some of our lower paid workers, it may in fact have an adverse impact on their social security payments or supports that recipients may be claiming,\" he added.\n\n\"I have written to the ministers of finance and communities asking them to urgently consider the issue and to engage with the tax and benefit authorities in Great Britain to request that these payments are excluded from consideration in this regard.\"\n\nThere will also be a one-off payment of £2,000 for all non-salaried students on clinical placements in the health service.\n\nMr Swann added that he intends to provide a one-off payment for carers as well, describing them as \"among the greatest unsung heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said: \"There is still more work to be done in this regard and it will be significantly more complex to administer than the staff payment.\"\n\nKevin McAdam, who is from Unite the union, said the \"recognition payments\" will be allocated with assurances that this will not affect pay negotiations with healthcare workers.\n\nMr McAdam welcomed that health care workers and non-salaried students on placements will be \"receiving something more tangible than applause\".\n\n\"The student payment is a recognition payment, it does not solve the problems around whether student placements should be paid, I think that is an argument for another day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a senior Department of Finance official has warned there is \"a higher than usual risk\" of some £430m unspent by the NI Executive being returned to the Treasury.\n\nMinisters must submit further funding bids, or risk it being handed back at the end of the financial year.\n\nA department official, Jeff McGuinness, said the Treasury was being pressed to show flexibility in carrying unspent money over but added that it was \"imperative\" Stormont pressed ahead, rather then rely on agreement from Treasury.\n\nHe said the other devolved administrations were also asking the Treasury for similar levels of carry-forward of unspent fiscal allocations.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic led to larger amounts spent via contactless payments on debit cards, credit cards, and cards connected to smartphones.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it will consult \"shortly\" on a change in the rules.\n\n\"It is important that payments regulation keeps pace with consumer and merchant expectations,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Recognising changing behaviour in how people pay, as part of a wider consultation, we will shortly be seeking views on amending our rules to allow for a possible increase in the contactless limit to £100.\"\n\nThe FCA can set the boundaries for payments, under its rules, but the card issuers would have the power to set the actual limits.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurant, and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, the latest data from UK Finance - which represents banks - shows.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\n\"The industry believes that a more flexible approach could be merited in future, which takes into account consumer demand, fraud prevention, security and convenience,\" said a spokesman for UK Finance.\n\n\"Contactless is one of a range of payment methods and the industry will also continue to work closely with the regulator to ensure that customers can pay in a way that suits them.\"\n\nHowever, there may be less enthusiasm from some shopkeepers concerned about higher-value theft as a result of the proposed changes.\n\nAndrew Cregan, payments policy advisor at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"We have concerns about raising the contactless limit, with losses from incomplete contactless payments at self-checkouts currently costing retailers millions in lost revenue.\n\n\"Card companies should take measures to reduce incomplete payments and we urge customers to make sure their own transactions always go through. However, the overwhelming priority at the moment must be for the government to address the rocketing card fees.\"", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute.\n\nPC Steve Lovering was deliberately hit by Callum Fellows in Oldbury, West Midlands, after recognising him as a car crime suspect, police said.\n\nFellows, 18, admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nFootage from 27 August shows Fellows reversing and knocking Mr Lovering off his bike \"sending him sprawling into the road\" before he sped off on the wrong side of the road and through red traffic lights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said he knew pupils and teachers wanted \"nothing more than to get back to the classroom\"\n\nSchools in England will not be able to reopen to all pupils after the February half-term, but could do so from 8 March, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said this was the earliest schools could reopen and \"depends on lots of things going right\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the aim is for all schools and year groups in England to return at the same time.\n\nTheir return would mark the first stage in lifting the lockdown, the PM said.\n\nHe told a Downing Street news conference: \"The date of 8 March is the earliest that we think it is sensible to set for schools to go back and obviously we hope that all schools will go back.\"\n\n\"I'm hopeful, but that's the earliest that we can do it and it depends on lots of things going right, and... it also depends on us all now continuing to work together to drive down the incidence of the disease through the basic methods we've used throughout this pandemic,\" he added.\n\nThere was not enough data yet to decide when to end the lockdown, he said, but intended to set out a plan for how it could be eased - and the criteria involved - in the final week of February\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the 8 March date as \"very much a hope and certainly not a guarantee\".\n\nMeanwhile, a further 1,725 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures. The UK's official coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the country remained in a \"perilous situation\" as he said UK nationals and residents arriving from 30 high-risk countries would soon be ordered to quarantine in hotels.\n\nHe revealed a plan for the \"gradual and phased\" lifting of the lockdown in England could come in the week beginning 22 February.\n\nOther restrictions on daily life could be eased after schools reopen, but he explained this would depend on hitting vaccination targets, the capacity of the NHS, and deaths falling.\n\nAn earlier plan for mass testing for pupils and staff remains in place, the BBC has been told.\n\nEngland's schools have been closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers since the Christmas break.\n\nIn Scotland, it is hoped schools may begin a phased return in the middle of February.\n\nIn Wales, measures including school and college closures will be reviewed on Friday. In Northern Ireland, a review will take place on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister said he understood frustration among pupils and teachers \"and for parents and for carers who spent so many months juggling their day jobs, not only with home schooling but meeting the myriad other demands of their children from breakfast until bedtime\".\n\nThe government initially planned to review England's lockdown measures - including school closures - on 15 February, which had raised hopes that pupils could return to classes after half term.\n\nAcknowledging the impact of continued school closures, Mr Johnson pledged to \"work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure that pupils have the chance to make up their learning\" before 2024.\n\nHe said £300m \"of new money to schools\" would fund a catch-up programme over the coming year, with financial incentives for providers to educate pupils who have missed lessons due to the pandemic.\n\nAfter complaints about confusion and drift about when schools in England are going back, Boris Johnson has sought to bring some certainty.\n\nThey won't be going back straight after half term - but the target date will be 8 March.\n\nSources say the aim is for all schools and year groups in England, in primary and secondary, to return back on that date - rather than it being the starting date of a phased or regional return.\n\nAlthough that could be subject to any changes in local Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen schools do go back it is expected there will be mass testing for pupils and staff, in the scheme initially planned for the start of term.\n\nIt still leaves parents home schooling for another five weeks - and means most of this term will have been without face-to-face lessons.\n\nThis will be a particular worry for pupils heading for whatever replaces GCSEs and A-levels this summer, after almost a full year of stop-start lessons.\n\nHead teachers say the delay is \"no surprise\" - and reopening must be done safely.\n\nAnd Labour says half term should be used to vaccinate teachers to help schools stay open.\n\nBut the prime minister will hope that parents would rather have some clarity about what's happening with schools, even if that means a longer delay.\n\nTeachers' and head teachers' unions said they supported reopening schools but added that it must be safe and not rushed.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that although the most vulnerable would be protected by March, most parents would not be.\n\n\"It fails completely to recognise the role schools have played in community transmission. The prime minister has already forgotten what he told the nation at the beginning of this lockdown, that schools are a 'vector for transmission',\" she said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the government needs to work with head teachers to review safety measures and create a \"workable plan\" for schools to reopen fully.\n\n\"The government will also have to put effort into reassuring families that it is safe to send their children back to school - there is a confidence test the government must pass to make the return a success,\" he said.\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine Image caption: Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine\n\nTom Newton Dunn from Times Radio asks what we know so far about the rate at which people who have had the vaccine can transmit coronavirus.\n\nJonathan Van Tam says there is no clear data on how the vaccine impacts transmission of coronavirus but there are studies working on finding out and we will have that information in time.\n\nHe said the question is less \"will they\" and more \"to what extent\" do they stop transmission.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance says \"you don't have vaccines of this efficacy without there being some effect on transmission\".\n\nHe says it's an important question as \"it will also determine to what extent these vaccines can be used across wider society to reduce transmission overall\".\n\nNewton Dunn asks how the prime minister came to the date of 8 March to reopen schools and whether it would have been \"wiser to wait until you were sure\".\n\nThe prime minister says the date depends on the vaccines working in reducing mortality and serious disease.... and we need to make sure the infection rate is in the right place.\n\n\"We will keep it all under constant review,\" he says.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "Apple sales have hit another record, as families loaded up on the firm's latest phones, laptops and gadgets during the Christmas period.\n\nSales in the last three months of 2020 hit more than $111bn (£81bn) - up 21% from the prior year.\n\nThe gains come as the pandemic pushes more activity online, fuelling demand for new technology.\n\nApple now counts more than 1.65 billion active devices globally, including more than 1 billion iPhones.\n\nApple's gains follow the release of its new iPhone 12 suite of phones, which executives said had convinced a record number of people to switch to the company or upgrade from older models.\n\nThe firm said growth in China - where the pandemic has already loosened its grip on the economy - was particularly strong, helped in part by demand for phones compatible with new 5G networks.\n\nSales in the firm's greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, jumped 57%. In Europe, sales roles 17%, and they rose 11% in the Americas.\n\n\"The products are doing very well all around the world,\" said Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer. \"As we look ahead into the March quarter, we're very optimistic.\"\n\nAnalyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said he thought the firm was just at the beginning of a \"super-cycle\" as Apple devotees finally trade in old phones, coinciding with upgrades to telecommunications networks.\n\n\"With 5G now in the cards and roughly 40% of its 'golden jewel' iPhone installed base not upgrading their phones in the last 3.5 years, [Apple chief Tim] Cook & Co have the stage set for a renaissance of growth,\" he wrote.\n\nBig Tech is having an exceptionally lucrative pandemic.\n\nIt's hard not to be wowed by some of these figures.\n\nThat Apple recorded more than $100bn in sales in just three months is simply astonishing.\n\nFacebook figures are also well up on where they were last year.\n\nAs other companies have struggled to survive, Big Tech has flourished.\n\nThere are other reasons for some of these incredible figures. Certainly it seems iPhone enthusiasts were holding out for the new 5G enabled iPhone12.\n\nBut it's not just Apple and Facebook, all of the massive tech companies are having a bumper year.\n\nCovid-19 means people are spending more time indoors - buying things online, watching things online and chatting online.\n\nPerhaps then it's no surprise that these companies are posting record breaking figures.\n\nBut others point to these figures as yet more evidence that Big Tech has become too big to fail.\n\nThese figures are impressive. But they also attract the attention of politicians who are increasingly asking difficult questions - like are these tech mega companies operating in a market that is fair and with enough competition?\n\nApple said profits in the quarter reached nearly $28.8bn, up 29% compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nThe gains seen by technology firms like Apple contrast with losses hitting many other economic sectors, as the virus restricts activity and keeps shoppers at home.\n\nOther tech firms, such as Microsoft and Facebook, have also enjoyed strong growth.\n\nFacebook on Wednesday said increased online shopping during the pandemic helped lift ad revenue in the quarter by 30%.\n\nThe number of people active on its apps - which also include WhatsApp and Instagram - also rose to 2.6 billion daily, up 15% compared to 2019.\n\nIt said ad spending could slow as the Covid crisis relaxes and shopper appetite returns for services like travel rather than products.\n\nIt also warned that plans by Apple to change how it shares user data could weigh on growth.", "The ink and watercolour maps are believed to have been created the year after the battle\n\nHand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada have been saved for the nation after £600,000 was raised to buy them.\n\nThe 10 maps, believed to have been drawn the year after the famous battle of 1588, were sold to an overseas buyer in July but an export ban was imposed.\n\nThe National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) in Portsmouth raised the money in eight weeks.\n\nIt is now seeking further funds to put the maps on display for the first time.\n\nIt is believed the drawings, completed by an unknown draughtsman, possibly from the Netherlands, were based on a set of engravings from the same year by Elizabethan cartographer Robert Adams.\n\nIn the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England after decades of hostility between Spain's Catholic King Philip II and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nIt is regarded as one of the most significant naval battles in history, when the English fleet of 66 ships defeated the Armada, twice its size, by sailing fire ships into its formation off Calais.\n\nThe English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel in 1588\n\nThe ink and watercolour maps were sold for £600,000, but culture minister Caroline Dinenage imposed an export ban until January and called for a museum or institution to raise funds to purchase them.\n\nNMRN director general Prof Dominic Tweddle said members of the public had \"dug deep in extremely difficult times\".\n\nThe target was reached with the help of £212,800 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £200,000 from the Art Fund.\n\nMs Dinenage said: \"The export bar system exists so we can keep nationally important works in the country and I am delighted that, thanks to the tireless work of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Armada maps will now go on display to educate and inspire future generations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "The Army sent a bomb disposal unit to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine producer Wockhardt's unit\n\nProduction of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has resumed at a plant after it was suspended when a suspicious package was received.\n\nThe Wockhardt UK plant on Wrexham Industrial Estate was evacuated and the Army sent a bomb disposal unit.\n\nPolice said the package had been made safe and its contents would be \"taken away for analysis\".\n\nWockhardt said staff had been allowed to return and its production schedule had not been affected.\n\nBoth Downing Street and Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford had been receiving updates on the incident since police were called at about 10:40 GMT.\n\nA police cordon was put in place near the plant and the public were asked to keep away. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\n\"There are no wider concerns for public safety, however, some roads on the industrial estate will remain closed whilst we continue our investigations,\" North Wales Police said in a statement.\n\nPolice have asked the public to keep away from the site in Wrexham\n\nForensic police officers were seen examining items on the road outside the plant, which remained closed after the cordon had been lifted.\n\nWockhardt UK said: \"We can confirm that the investigation on the suspicious package received today has been concluded.\n\n\"Given that staff safety is our main priority, manufacturing was temporarily paused whilst this took place safely.\n\n\"We can now confirm that the package was made safe and staff are now being allowed back into the facility.\n\n\"This temporary suspension of manufacturing has in no way affected our production schedule and we are grateful to the authorities and experts for their swift response and resolution of the incident.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an earlier statement, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company confirmed it had \"partially evacuated\" its site to protect staff.\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, John Roberts, who runs CMS Wrexham Ltd, next door to the plant, said he heard a \"big bang\" at about 11:35 GMT - although he could not say where the noise came from.\n\n\"We're next door to Wockhardt. Three of us were talking then we heard a hell of an explosion or a bang,\" he said.\n\n\"I went outside, couldn't see anything. I looked the other side and two blokes were on the roof.\n\n\"The next thing the police had blocked off the road and were looking in the bushes.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene on Wrexham Industrial Estate for most of the day\n\nA police cordon had been put in place near the Wockhardt plant\n\nHis son Mark Roberts said: \"The police just closed the road off and we've heard there's a bomb disposal unit.\n\n\"They've been here about an hour or so - we're on tenterhooks.\n\n\"Boris Johnson toured the factory around December time, so I wonder if that's raised the profile, as it's where they make the Oxford vaccine.\"\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year\n\nDave Picken, 53, who lives near Wrexham Industrial Estate, said: \"We've seen lots of police cars and a fire engine.\n\n\"Bomb disposal are here with a robot. We were closer to the factory but police told us to move and cordoned off a bigger area.\n\n\"I did ask an officer how big the bomb is but he said he couldn't say it's a bomb.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson saw the production line for vaccines when he visited the factory\n\nVisiting the plant in November, Prime Minister Boris Johnson it could provide \"salvation for humanity\".\n\nWockhardt UK entered an agreement in August to help prepare the vaccine for distribution.\n\nWhen the company's contract was announced, Ravi Limaye, managing director, said: \"We are immensely proud to have been selected to partner with the UK government on this project.\n\n\"We have a sophisticated sterile manufacturing facility and a highly skilled workforce.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams had worked to ensure the vaccine was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there had been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Elliot Page and choreographer Emma Portner have decided to divorce after three years of marriage.\n\n\"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer,\" the Canadian couple said in a statement.\n\n\"We have the utmost respect for each other and remain close friends.\" They provided no further details.\n\nPage, the 33-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, came out as transgender in 2020.\n\nThat decision was widely praised by his many fans and fellow actors.\n\nPage said at the time that he could not \"begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self\".\n\nHe also used the occasion to address discrimination towards trans people.\n\nPage received international acclaim for starring as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film Juno. Other major films include Inception and the X-Men series, while the actor has more recently starred in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.\n\nPortner, 26, has said she has always supported Page's decision to come out.", "The famous event has been held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913\n\nThe Chelsea Flower Show will take place in September for the first time in its history as a result of the pandemic.\n\nOrganisers had planned to hold a six-day show in May but announced it would be postponed as there was no guarantee what tier London would be in then.\n\nA virtual show will take place in May like in 2020, with the physical event taking place later at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it would be a \"moment in history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chelsea Flower Show exhibitors had to display their gardens online last year\n\nThe world-famous show has been taking place for 108 years but has never happened in September.\n\nThis year's event will go ahead between 21-26 September, with the virtual event showing online from 18-23 May.\n\nIt is usually filled with spring and summer colours but the RHS said it hoped the delay will allow a celebration of autumn horticulture.\n\nThousands of people normally attend the week-long event\n\nThe society, which runs the event, said it had a responsibility to exhibitors, visitors, volunteers and staff to delay the flower show, as more people would be vaccinated and levels of infection may have reduced substantially.\n\nDirector general Sue Biggs said: \"Whilst we are sad to have had to delay RHS Chelsea and are sorry for the disruption this will cause, we are excited that we are still planning to bring the world's best-loved gardening event to the nation at a time when more people are gardening more than ever.\n\n\"We know that the autumn dates may not be suitable for everyone, but with our fantastic industry partners we will do everything we can to support them and create a show that will be a moment in history,\" she added.\n\nThose who bought tickets for the event when it was due to happen in May will be contacted by the RHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "\"A legacy of poor decisions\" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said.\n\nLabour also criticised \"monumental mistakes\" by the prime minister in delaying acting on scientific advice over lockdowns three times.\n\nAfter UK deaths passed 100,000, Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the actions taken.\n\nBut he said it was too soon to learn the lessons from the pandemic response.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, public health expert from the University of Edinburgh, said the UK's current position was \"a legacy of poor decisions that were taken when we eased restrictions\".\n\nShe told the BBC the lack of focus on test and trace and the \"absolute inability to recognise\" the need to address international travel had also led to a more deadly winter surge.\n\nProf Sir Michael Marmot, who carried out a review of inequalities in Covid-19 deaths, said the UK had entered the pandemic \"in a bad state\" with rising health inequality, a slowdown in life expectancy improvements and a lack of investment in the public sector.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth rejected Mr Johnson's claim that he had done \"everything we could\" to minimise the death toll, adding: \"I do not accept that.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister had been given scientific advice to impose lockdowns and \"pushed that back\" - not only in March but again in September and December.\n\nThe government also failed to create a working contact-tracing system, did not introduce effective health controls at the borders and still did not offer \"proper sick pay\", he said.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I mourn every death in this pandemic and we share the grief of all those who have been bereaved. I and the government take full responsibility for all the actions we have taken to fight this pandemic.\"\n\nHe said there would be time to reflect on the decisions taken, but he did not think the right time was in the middle of the pandemic when \"37,000 people are struggling with Covid in our hospitals\".\n\nThe government needed to focus on keeping the virus under control and continuing the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said his message to grieving families was that he \"deeply, personally\" regretted the loss of life and that the best way to honour the memory of those who had died and honour those who were currently grieving was \"to work together to bring this virus down, to keep it under control in the way that we are\".\n\nAsked about the government's \"legacy of poor decisions\", Mr Johnson said ministers followed scientific advice and did everything they could to minimise suffering. He said there were \"no easy solutions\" but the UK could be proud of its efforts to distribute the vaccine.\n\nAfter leading a minute's silence in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes, as Scotland recorded a total of 5,888 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nShe said the government did everything it could, but added: \"I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nNext month, the prime minister hopes to publish a document giving details of the criteria he will use to start lifting the lockdown, a senior government source told the BBC.\n\nIt will include factors such as the number of hospitalisations and deaths, the progress of the vaccination programme, any changes to the virus and the impact easing restrictions might have on the epidemic - but will be dependent on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops the virus spreading.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA scientist advising the government has warned the UK could face as many as 50,000 more coronavirus deaths.\n\nProf Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"It would really not surprise me if we're looking at another 40-50,000 deaths before this burns out.\n\n\"The deaths on the way up are likely to be mirrored by the number of deaths on the way down in this wave. Each one again is a tragedy and each one represents probably four or five people who survive but are damaged by Covid.\"\n\nHe said the UK had experienced some \"bad luck\" with the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant but had also suffered from \"decades of underinvestment\" in the NHS and \"a public health authority that's been eroded\" .\n\nMeanwhile, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell asked people, regardless of whether they had faith, to reflect on the \"enormity\" of the pandemic and join in a \"prayer for the nation\" at 18:00 GMT every day from 1 February.\n\nThey said the death statistics were were not \"just an abstract figure\", saying: \"Each number is a person: someone we loved and someone who loved us.\"\n\nMuslim leaders backed the call for a daily prayer. Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, said Muslims and wider black, Asian and minority ethnic communities had been disproportionately affected by the \"tsunami of pain, grief and devastation\" - with many unable to properly mourn due to Covid restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, a further 1,631 coronavirus deaths were recorded, taking the total number of people who had died within 28 days of a positive test to 100,162.\n\nSeparate figures from the Office for National Statistics, which are based on death certificates, show there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the number of people dying would come down \"relatively slowly\" over the next two weeks - and would probably \"remain flat for a while now\".\n\nElsewhere, bereavement support charities have written to the health secretary calling for more funding in the light of what they call \"the terrible toll of 100,000 deaths\".\n\nThe National Bereavement Alliance, representing a range of charities, said many families had been unable to be with loved ones as they died or to support one another.\n\nThey called for £500m allocated to mental health in England to be used to support the bereaved.\n\nMinister for bereavement Nadine Dorries said the government had given more than £10.2m to charities since March to ensure services were available to those who needed them.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.\n\nThe number of sharks found in the open oceans has plunged by 71% over half a century, mainly due to over-fishing, according to a new study.\n\nThree-quarters of the species studied are now threated with extinction.\n\nAnd the researchers say immediate action is needed to secure a brighter future for these \"extraordinary, irreplaceable animals\".\n\nThey are calling on governments to implement science-based fishing limits.\n\nStudy researcher, Dr Richard Sherley of the University of Exeter, said the declines appear to be driven very much by fishing pressures.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"That's the driver for the 70% reduction in the last 50 years. For every 10 sharks you had in the open ocean in the 1970s, you would have three today, across these species, on average.\"\n\nSharks and rays are caught for their meat, fins and liver oil. They are also captured for recreational fishing and turn up by accident in the catch of fishing boats that are targeting other stocks.\n\nSharks are long-lived species that tend to produce few young\n\nOf the 31 species studied, 24 are now threatened with extinction, and three shark species (the oceanic whitetip shark, and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat category, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nProf Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, said oceanic sharks and rays are at exceptionally high risk of extinction, much more so than the average bird, mammal or frog, despite ranging far from land.\n\n\"Overfishing of oceanic sharks and rays jeopardises the health of entire ocean ecosystems as well as food security for some of the world's poorest countries,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers compiled global data on sharks and rays found in the open oceans (as opposed to reef sharks or those found close to shore).\n\nOf the 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays in the world, 31 are oceanic, travelling large distances across water.\n\n\"These are some of the big, important, open ocean predators that people will be familiar with,\" said Dr Sherley. \"The kind of sharks that people might describe as awe-inspiring or charismatic.\"\n\nHe said political will is needed to reverse the trends.\n\n\"The science is there, there needs to be the desire to do those stock assessments, to implement the measures that are needed to reduce the take of sharks and that political will has to come from pressure from citizens,\" Dr Sherley explained.\n\nDespite this \"gloomy\" picture, the scientists said a few shark conservation stories give cause for hope.\n\nSonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International, a non-profit project of The Ocean Foundation, said a couple of species, including the great white, have started to recover through science-based fishing limits.\n\n\"Relatively simple safeguards can help to save sharks and rays, but time is running out,\" she said.\n\n\"We urgently need conservation action across the globe to prevent myriad negative consequences and secure a brighter future for these extraordinary, irreplaceable animals.\"\n\nPopulations can recover with appropriate conservation\n\nSharks are at the top of the food chain, and crucial to the health of the oceans. Their loss impacts other marine animals as well as human livelihoods.\n\n\"Oceanic sharks and rays are vital to the health of vast marine ecosystems, but because they are hidden beneath the ocean surface, it has been difficult to assess and monitor their status,\" said Nathan Pacoureau of Simon Fraser University.\n\n\"Our study represents the first global synthesis of the state of these essential species at a time when countries should be addressing insufficient progress towards global sustainability goals.\n\n\"While we initially intended it as a useful report card, we now must hope it also serves as an urgent wake-up call.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Nature.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "Enforcement agents have removed protesters from the makeshift camp near Euston station\n\nBailiffs from HS2 have started to evict activists who dug a tunnel near Euston station in protest against the £106bn rail project.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed campaigners spent months digging the tunnel they claim is 100ft (30m) long.\n\nSince August, HS2 Rebellion members have been living in tree houses and tents at a camp nearby.\n\nA HS2 spokeswoman said the protesters were \"trespassing\" on land owned by the company.\n\nThe land being occupied is needed for continued building work around Euston, she added.\n\nEnforcement agents from the National Eviction Team have removed some protesters from the makeshift camp in the park.\n\nPolice have arrested five men and a woman at the site, although one male was later de-arrested.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - was dug as their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters have filmed themselves inside the tunnels\n\nProtesters said they were continuing to dig tunnels and have vowed to stay for as long as possible.\n\nAn 18-year-old, who gave his name as Al, said the tunnels can only be accessed through a section of the makeshift camp and were about 15ft (4.5m) deep.\n\n\"I will stay as long as I can,\" he said, but he added the activists \"have not got much food and water\".\n\nHS2 Rebellion told the BBC four people had \"locked themselves\" to fixing points inside the tunnels.\n\nOne activist, Blue Sandford, admitted the stunt was \"dangerous\" but felt it was \"worth it\".\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nEnforcement agents dismantle the make shift camp where HS2 Rebellion members have been living\n\nThe 18-year-old, who is currently on school strike for climate, said HS2 \"is a waste of money\".\n\n\"I'm in this tunnel because they [the government] are irresponsibly putting my life at risk from the climate and ecological emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"They are behaving in a way that is so reckless and unsafe that I don't feel they are giving us any option but to protest in this way to help save our own lives and the lives of all the people round the world.\n\n\"I shouldn't have to do this - I should be in school - the trouble is they are stealing that future and I have to stop them.\"\n\nEnforcement officers have used aerial platforms to try and coax protesters down from the trees\n\nA protester was brought down from the trees by officers\n\nMartin Andryjankczyk, who was carried out of the camp by enforcement agents earlier, predicted it would take \"at least a week or two\" to evict all the protesters.\n\nThe 20-year-old was taken to Holloway Police Station when he was led away but said he had been \"de-arrested\" and returned to the park.\n\n\"I have been living here for the last four months. They (the remaining demonstrators) aren't going to give up that easily,\" he said.\n\nOne activist used to a rope to tie himself between trees at the camp\n\nThe Met Police confirmed a number of officers were sent to the eviction site at Euston Square Gardens to assist High Court enforcement officers should there be any breach of the peace and to uphold Covid legislation.\n\nThe force said five people who were arrested at the site remain in custody.\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"HS2 has taken legal temporary possession of Euston Square Gardens in order to progress with works necessary for the construction of the new Euston station.\n\n\"These protests are a danger to the safety of the protesters, our staff and the general public, and put unnecessary strain on the emergency services during a pandemic.\"\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nThere is a ring of security surrounding the square outside Euston Station and a crowd of journalists reporting on today's event.\n\nEvery now and then there is a burst of singing through a loud hailer and motivational speeches echo from the trees.\n\nMost of the protesters we can see are among the branches, some have cut their safety lines, others are swinging in harnesses.\n\nEarlier, enforcement officers were lifted up in a cherry picker into one of the tree camps . They have spoken with the demonstrators and are now fixing ropes to the high level platforms.\n\nWe've been told at least four people are inside the tunnels HS2 Rebellion have dug under the site.\n\nPeople inside the fence have said they predict the eviction to \"take weeks\".\n\nThe atmosphere is calm but the police have begun to push back people watching, reminding them of Covid-19 regulations and asking to see press passes.\n\nA fence is being erected by officers around the site\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland is to initially follow UK travel rules, but could introduce stricter measures next week\n\nScotland could introduce tougher quarantine rules for international travellers than other parts of the UK, the first minister has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that UK arrivals from regions with new virus variants will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"concerned the proposal does not go far enough\".\n\nScotland will \"initially emulate\" the UK government measures, she said.\n\nBut further Scottish rules will be set out next week if the four nations do not reach an agreement on a UK-wide approach - which Ms Sturgeon said would be preferable.\n\nThe prime minister has said there are 22 countries with the risk of known new variants, including the South American nations, Portugal and South Africa.\n\nMr Johnson said anyone travelling from these countries who cannot be refused entry to the UK - such as British citizens - will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate \"without exception\".\n\nThey will be met at the airport and transferred to specific places, such as hotels.\n\nFurther details of the plan are expected to be outlined by Home Secretary Priti Patel later.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon - who was briefed on the UK government proposals in advance - told her daily coronavirus briefing that a \"comprehensive system of supervised quarantine\" was required in the next stage of the pandemic.\n\nAnd she said she was \"seeking urgently\" to persuade the UK government \"to go much further\" while providing additional support to the aviation industry.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Our best route back to greater domestic normality right now, as we continue with the vaccine programme, is firstly to suppress the virus here to as low as level as possible - as we did over the summer - then give ourselves a better chance of controlling it through test and protect, and next by doing much more than we did last year to protect our borders.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has also said the PM's proposals do not go far enough.\n\nWhen questioned by journalists, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"not give arbitrary dates\" on when the travel restrictions might come to an end.\n\nBut she said people \"might not be able to go on holiday overseas\" in order to \"get domestic normality\" back - including the reopening of schools and allowing people more interactions with loved ones.\n\n\"I'm not saying that's easy but maybe that might be a price we all need to be prepared to pay,\" she added.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross told the BBC that he believed that countries with higher infection rates and strains with quicker transmission should be prioritised.\n\n\"We've got to look at dealing with this in stages,\" he said. \"This doesn't need to be dragged into a Scotland versus England issue or the rest of the UK issue.\n\n\"This is as big an issue within Scotland. We shouldn't be moving around local authority areas so whether it's north or south of the border or within our own communities we've got to reduce travel as much as possible.\"\n\nIt comes as the deaths of a further 92 people who had tested positive for coronavirus were recorded in Scotland - bringing the total to 5,888.\n\nThe total number of deaths across the UK by that measure passed the grim milestone of 100,00 on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes that had been made in the handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"She said the death toll should make all political leaders \"think very hard about what more we could have done and what lessons we must continue to learn\".\n\nShe added: \"I know that I, and everyone in my government, have tried every day to do everything we possibly can.\n\n\"But I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nA total of 1,330 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, representing 6.2% of people tested.\n\nMeanwhile 462,092 people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Scotland - including 56% of the over 80s and 95% of people in care homes.", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "Leon Briggs died in hospital after being restrained and detained at Luton police station in November 2013\n\nA man shouted \"help me\" and \"get off me\" as he was restrained face-down by police officers hours before he died, an inquest heard.\n\nLeon Briggs, 39, died in 2013 after being detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station.\n\nA jury was told one witness described the father-of-two as \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers.\n\nAnother said he looked her in the eyes and said \"please help me\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe jury has been shown CCTV of Mr Briggs skipping between shops and across roads, before two Bedfordshire Police officers handcuffed him and placed him in leg restraints on Marsh Road in Luton on 4 November 2013.\n\nMr Briggs was detained in a cell at about 14:25 GMT, but he became unconscious and was pronounced dead in hospital at about 16:15.\n\nThe inquest heard his primary cause of death was \"amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling\" with a secondary cause of coronary heart disease.\n\nMr Briggs was described as \"a really good dad\" who loved spending time with his children\n\nThe inquest heard Wendy Hamilton was shopping when she saw one officer restraining Mr Briggs on his lower legs, with another on his shoulders, and a third appeared to be looking through his wallet.\n\nMs Hamilton said she \"thought the amount of pressure being used was not needed\", adding she heard Mr Briggs shout \"get off me\" and \"why are you doing this to me?\".\n\n\"He lifted his head from the pavement, he looked me in the eyes and said 'please help me',\" she said.\n\nShe added when two paramedics arrived \"around 45 minutes\" after she first saw Mr Briggs, she was \"surprised\" they \"did not check Leon at all\".\n\nShe said he was later lifted into a police van \"front first\" and \"face down\", \"like he was a bag of potatoes\" or \"like they were picking up a dog\".\n\n\"They lifted him not in a rough way... but it was not very dignified,\" she said.\n\nFootage showed Mr Briggs walking out of a shop with officers before he was restrained\n\nAnother witness, Raja Khan, said: \"Mr Briggs was crying out... but not in an aggressive manner... in a similar way to a child crying out for a toy.\n\n\"I'm not going to forget what I saw in regard to the restraint... I do not agree with how Mr Briggs was treated... it would have been fair enough if he was being violent but from what I saw, he was not.\"\n\nFormer chairman of the College of Paramedics, Andrew Newton, said paramedics on Marsh Road were likely to have had \"inadequate knowledge\" of dealing with acute behavioural disorder patients like Mr Briggs in 2013, due to a lack of national guidance.\n\nBut Mr Newton added Mr Briggs \"received no meaningful medical care\" because they failed to properly check his vital signs, and this \"fell below the standards of care\".\n\nHe said Mr Briggs should have been taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nThe inquest heard part of a statement from Sgt Loren Short, who said he told paramedics Mr Briggs had been detained under the Mental Health Act when they arrived.\n\nPolice Community Support Officer (PCSO) James Collings described Mr Briggs as \"aggressive\" and \"nonsensical\", and \"shouting 'no, no' and snarling\" while in the police van.\n\nPCSO Collings said when he questioned whether Mr Briggs was on drugs, one officer said: \"[He is] mental\", and Mr Briggs replied: \"Don't take the [expletive]\", to which the officer said: \"I'm not taking the [expletive], I just want to get you back and get you some help.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "Eva Gicain has been celebrating a belated Christmas with her daughter Elleana and husband Limuel Lina after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge\n\nA nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with Covid-19 has held her daughter for the first time.\n\nEva Gicain, 30, had the long-awaited reunion with her baby after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge earlier this month.\n\nBaby Elleana had to be delivered about a month early by C-section, but Mrs Gicain has no memory of her birth.\n\n\"When I held Elleana for the first time I didn't want to let go,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: New mum thanks hospitals after recovery\n\nMrs Gicain was taken to her local hospital with a severe case of Covid-19 at the end of October when she was 34 weeks pregnant, and gave birth a week later.\n\nBut the NHS nurse, who was on maternity leave from her job in London, has no recollection of it or the traumatic weeks that followed.\n\nDays later she was transferred 50 miles (80km) away to Royal Papworth Hospital's critical care unit and became one of the youngest patients ever to be put on to its \"artificial lung\" for acute respiratory failure.\n\nThe extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine acted as Mrs Gicain's lungs so they could recover while she was treated for Covid-19.\n\n\"The first thing I remember is just a few days before Christmas and being told where I was, what I had been through and that Elleana was doing well,\" Mrs Gicain said.\n\nMrs Gicain was given a round of applause by hospital staff after spending the first few weeks of her baby's life in a hospital 50 miles away\n\nHer husband Limuel Lina, 30, who also had Covid-19, was unable to visit her and had to wait three weeks to see Elleana, who was in a special care baby unit.\n\n\"It was so horrible the three of us being in separate places at a time when we should all have been together,\" Mr Lina said.\n\nAlthough the couple knew they were having a girl and had discussed her name, Mr Lina, a healthcare assistant, said he did not know his wife's preferred spelling.\n\n\"[It] meant I couldn't yet get her registered,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily, I found some personalised pyjamas that Eva had bought as a Christmas present and so I managed to get the spelling from there!\"\n\nThe couple and their daughter celebrated a belated Christmas last week at their home in Basildon, Essex.\n\n\"Life is unpredictable and we are now just looking forward to being a little family and spending time together,\" added Mrs Gicain.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The prime minister has responded to calls that were getting louder for clarity about what might happen next and when.\n\nHe pencilled in a date for the country's diary. But 8 March is the hoped-for beginning of the end of lockdown - far from a guarantee.\n\nPolitical demands for more information from his backbench MPs and the opposition were part of the reason for his announcement. But there was also the relentless march of the clock.\n\nThe government had promised it would give schools in England two weeks' notice of whether they would be able to open after half-term.\n\nWith Boris Johnson not expected in Westminster on Thursday, Wednesday was the last viable moment to keep that vow.\n\nWith cases still so high, and hospitals still so full, in theory the announcement wasn't that much of a surprise.\n\nNorthern Ireland is already in lockdown until 5 March, but will confirm its position on schools on Thursday.\n\nWales and Scotland are reviewing whether to extend closures beyond the middle of February in the next couple of days. Without dramatic falls in case numbers, they seem likely to be in step soon too.\n\nIn practice, though, Mr Johnson's announcement still felt like a big admission: that we're heading for 12 months of limits - starting last March - on our lives in one way or another.\n\nFirms and families around the UK will have had to cope with moving in and out of lockdown for a whole year.\n\nLike Tuesday's terrible 100,000-deaths mark, it's a milestone that at the beginning of all of this simply wouldn't have been imagined.\n\nBut as time as worn on, the pattern has become familiar: push the dates back, confront the worst rather than hope for the best.\n\nThe prime minister altered, maybe, too. You could hear it in his tone when asked what the chances of sticking to his date were. \"That's the earliest,\" he warned, suggesting that a long list of things have to go right.\n\nOne cabinet minister described the government's position: \"The decision making has been more and more cautious as they've been caught out so many times.\"\n\nNo one perhaps would be more delighted than Mr Johnson if the pace of the disease slows dramatically and the promise of the vaccine comes good very soon.\n\nBut at this time, with a buffer of several weeks to keep looking at the information, that's not a commitment that ministers are willing to make.", "Victims lost an average of £45,242 last year after investing with fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms.\n\nMore than £78m was lost in total, according to fraud reporting centre Action Fraud.\n\nReports of clone firm investment scams rose by 29% in April - at the time of the first national lockdown - compared with the previous month.\n\nA UK financial watchdog warned people to be alert, particularly when their finances were stretched.\n\nScammers set up clone firms using the name, address and firm reference number (FRN) of real companies authorised by the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThey then send out sales materials linking to the websites of legitimate firms, to trick potential investors into thinking they are dealing with the real firm.\n\nThey use their own, similar contact details, so victims still think they are dealing with the genuine firm as they invest money.\n\nLosses can be high as fraudsters tend to encourage large or regular investments before disappearing with the money.\n\nThe ongoing financial impact of Covid-19 may make people more susceptible to clone scams, the FCA said.\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: \"Fraudsters use literature and websites that mirror those of legitimate firms, as well as encouraging investors to check the firm reference number (FRN) on the FCA Register to sound as convincing as possible.\"\n\nHe said alerts were raised about 1,100 firms, including clones, last year - twice as many as the previous year.\n\nHe said the authorities were taking down clone sites when discovered.\n\n\"When it comes to clones, I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to double check every detail,\" Mr Steward said.\n\nOne victim, called Janet, said: \"After searching the internet for high-return bonds, I received a call the next day about investing in student accommodation.\n\n\"I found legitimate details of the company online - everything seemed genuine, so I invested.\n\n\"A few months later, after a couple more investments, I started to get a bit worried - I still hadn't received confirmation of the latest investment.\n\n\"I tried to call the contacts I had been speaking to, but the numbers were invalid. It was clear I had been scammed.\n\nThe ScamSmart campaign, run by the FCA, has tips to protect yourself from clone investment firms:", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror law\n\nA Scottish man who has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for three years has told the BBC he was tortured to sign a blank confession.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror laws, accused of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.\n\nCourt documents allege he helped fund the crimes and claim he was a member of a \"terrorist gang\".\n\nMr Johal told the BBC via his lawyer he had been \"falsely implicated\".\n\nIn answers to BBC questions obtained by his lawyer during a virtual prison meeting, the 33-year-old says he was physically tortured into signing a blank confession and forced to record a video which was broadcast on Indian TV.\n\n\"They made me sign blank pieces of paper and asked me to say certain lines in front of a camera under fear of extreme torture,\" he said via his lawyer.\n\nMr Johal's legal team also shared a copy of what they say is a handwritten letter from shortly after his arrest in November 2017 in which he details allegations of how the torture took place.\n\n\"Multiple shocks were administered by placing (the) crocodile clips on my earlobes, nipples and private parts,\" the letter says. \"Multiple shocks were given each day.\n\n\"Two people would stretch my legs, another person would slap and strike me from behind, and the shocks were given by the seated officers.\"\n\n\"At some stages I was left unable to walk and had to be carried out of the interrogation room.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify these allegations of torture.\n\nThe Indian authorities strongly deny them, and have said \"there is no evidence of mistreatment or torture as alleged\".\n\nJagtar got married in India in 2017\n\nMr Johal travelled to India in October 2017 for his wedding.\n\nVideos of the occasion show the new groom jumping enthusiastically to Bhangra music as he celebrated.\n\nIn another he is seen holding his wife's hand, as they perform their first dance in front of friends and family.\n\n\"It was a cheerful day for us, it went exactly as planned,\" recalls his brother Gurpreet Singh Johal.\n\nBut a fortnight later, while on a shopping trip with his new bride in the North Indian state of Punjab, Mr Johal was taken away by police and has been in detention ever since.\n\nHis brother Gurpreet, who lives in Scotland, says Mr Johal was a peaceful activist and is convinced he was arrested because he had written about historical human rights violations against Sikhs in India.\n\n\"I believe my brother is being targeted because he was outspoken,\" Gurpreet says. \"I believe he is innocent and will be proved innocent once the trial starts.\n\n\"Otherwise Indian officials should release him and return him back to his country.\"\n\nJagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nCharge-sheets from the Indian authorities outline the case against Mr Johal and a group of men whom they believe were involved in a \"series of killings\" of right wing Hindu leaders.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Johal was a member of Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF), described in the documents as an international \"terrorist gang\".\n\nHe is accused of paying £3,000 to the former head of the KLF to help fund the crimes. The documents claim he \"actively participated and had complete knowledge of the conspiracy\".\n\n\"There are very serious charges against him including murder and abetment of terrorism,\" an Indian government official told the BBC.\n\n\"The seriousness of charges against him have been shared with the British authorities,\" they added.\n\nFootage which claims to show Mr Johal in custody was broadcast on Indian TV\n\nMr Johal's lawyer, Jaspal Singh Manjphur, who has represented him since he was first arrested, told the BBC he was concerned by the length of time it was taking for the case to go through the Indian legal system.\n\n\"He has been in custody for over three years,\" Mr Manjphur said. \"Normally, if the prosecution wants, they can complete the case in that much time.\"\n\nMr Manjphur said the authorities had yet to provide any him with any evidence linking his client to the crimes and feared he was being framed, a charge denied by officials.\n\nA few weeks ago, Mr Johal was accused of being involved in another crime. While in prison he has been arrested for helping to plot the murder of a man in October 2020.\n\n\"He is in a high security jail, he is under CCTV surveillance for 24 hours. How can he be in contact with anyone?\", Mr Manjphur said.\n\nMr Johal was last seen in public at court in Delhi earlier this month\n\nMr Johal is being held at Delhi's maximum security Tihar jail.\n\nHe claims he is often forced to stay in solitary confinement and is denied the same facilities as other prisoners, such as hot water.\n\n\"By making me stay in these conditions, they are ensuring that my mental condition remains disturbed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very tough to live here,\" he said.\n\nThe vast majority of inmates at the prison are, like Mr Johal, held before a conviction in what is known as an \"under-trial\" in India.\n\nAt the end of 2019, 82% of prisoners held in Tihar jail had yet to complete the trial process.\n\nIn India it can take many years before under-trial prisoners ever get to court, especially in terror cases where bail is hard to secure, a concern for Mr Johal's lawyer.\n\n\"He will languish in jail until the trial is completed, in such cases it could take anywhere between five to 10 years,\" Mr Manjphur said.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has raised the case with his Indian counterpart\n\nThe human rights charity Reprieve has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking that he calls for Mr Johal's immediate release.\n\nReprieve is also worried that some of the charges Mr Johal is awaiting trial for carry the death penalty as the maximum punishment. But experts stress that executions in India are extremely rare.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development office told the BBC that Mr Raab did raise the case with his Indian counterpart during his trip to India in December.\n\n\"We have consistently raised concerns about his case with the Government of India, including allegations of torture and mistreatment and his right to a fair trial,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our staff continue to support Jagtar Singh Johal following his detention in India, and are in regular contact with his family and prison officials about his health and wellbeing.\"\n\nHundreds of people protested outside the Foreign Office\n\nBut Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet said the family was still waiting for a meeting with the foreign secretary.\n\nHe said: \"We are calling for either Jagtar to be charged and a fair trial to take place or to be returned back to his country so he can spend his life with his wife in the UK.\"\n\nIn August last year Gurpreet Singh Johal was joined by dozens who protested outside Downing Street.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal's case has sparked protests around the world, from Westminster to Washington, Geneva to Toronto.\n\nIn his statement to the BBC, Mr Johal had this message for officials back home: \"I plead to the UK government to support me, I'm a British citizen and the government should understand that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for teachers and support staff to be vaccinated during the February half term\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to \"use the window\" of the February half-term to vaccinate all teachers and support staff.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Ministers Questions, the Labour leader said reopening schools must be a national priority.\n\nLabour wants to bring forward the vaccination of key workers alongside others in high risk groups.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the proposal would \"delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe PM said teachers in the top nine priority groups would be vaccinated as a \"matter of priority\", adding: \"I know how deeply frustrating it is, the extra burden that we have placed on families by closing the schools.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he remained confident that the top four priority groups - taking in all over-70s, health and care staff and elderly care home residents - would receive a first jab by mid-February \"if we can get the supply\" of vaccines.\n\nBy the end of April those in the next five priority groups, including all over-50s and younger adults with underlying health conditions, should have been offered a jab, under the government's plans.\n\nLabour wants to see workers in critical professions - such as police officers, firefighters and transport workers, as well as teachers - vaccinated alongside these groups.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"The NHS rightly deserve congratulations for their impressive and speedy roll out of vaccinations.\n\n\"But now we need to go further and faster.\n\n\"Not only will vaccination acceleration save lives it will help us to carefully and responsibly reopen our economy and crucially ensure children are back in school as transmission reduces.\"\n\nBut asked about the proposal in the Commons, Mr Johnson said it would \"take vaccines away from the more vulnerable groups and... delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe government has said it will prioritise the reopening of schools as it begins the process of lifting lockdown restrictions, but in a Commons statement after PMQs, Mr Johnson indicated that schools would remain closed until early March.\n\n\"We hope it will... be safe to begin the reopening of schools from Monday, 8 March, with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as and when the data permits,\" he told MPs.", "The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of many much-loved events and traditions but the good people of New Orleans were not going to let it ruin their annual Mardi Gras.\n\nWhen the mayor of the Louisiana city announced that the raucous, crowd-filled street carnival parades would not be going ahead, residents decided to turn their houses into floats instead.\n\nThousands have been transformed for the two-week long carnival that runs until Ash Wednesday on 17 February. In the picture below, you can see The Queen's Jubilee House.\n\nA special project was set up encouraging home-owners to hire the many artists who would normally have months of work preparing for the event.\n\nRené Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats.\n\n\"My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept hearing notifications coming from the website. It was like instant success. It was incredible,\" he told CNN.\n\nThere were a variety of themes such as this reference to the Bernie Sanders meme from last month's presidential inauguration.\n\nAnd this homage to influential women including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last year.\n\nThe idea for the house floats came from a carnival regular, Megan Joy Boudreaux, who had suggested it in a post on Twitter after the mayor's announcement in November.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if your budget is zero and you're recycling cardboard boxes, or whether your budget is tens of thousands of dollars and you've got a mansion on St Charles. We want everyone who wants to do this to participate,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nShe said she had expected a few friends and neighbours to join in, but by the beginning of January more than 9,000 people had signed up - some as far afield as the UK and Australia, the AP reports.\n\nSome homes were decorated in honour of musicians, like this house below that paid tribute to former New Orleans resident and jazz clarinet payer Pete Fountain.\n\nAnd this house which referenced country music star Dolly Parton.\n\nThere were also tributes to musician Dr John.\n\nAnd others evoked Zydeco music pioneers Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier and the 'Cajun Hank Williams', DL Menard.\n\nAn online map of the decorated houses is being made available for people to visit in their own time and, it is hoped, in a socially-distanced way.", "Starmer: Get a grip on getting laptops to children\n\nSir Keir says he is \"no wiser\" over where the PM stands on vaccinating teachers. But he moves on to the supplies of technology for children at home. \"The government has got a duty to make sure every single child can learn at home,\" says the Labour leader. But he says a third of families say they don't have enough laptops or home computers, and over 400,000 children are still not able to get online at home. He asks if the PM understands the anger of families that the government \"still haven't got to grips with this\". Johnson says he \"fully understands the frustration and impatience across the country.\" He says the government has provided 1.3 million laptops to children and a £1bn catch up fund, but he promises more details in his statement this afternoon on \"what more we propose to do on reopening of schools\".", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook is taking steps to rectify the error that saw posts referring to Plymouth Hoe taken down\n\nFacebook has apologised for removing posts that named part of a city it deemed to contain an offensive word.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is a historic part of the Devon city's seafront but the social media platform wrongly identified it as an offensive term.\n\nFacebook users have recently had posts taken down for breaching bullying rules after innocently using the place name.\n\nThe company said it \"will take steps to rectify the error\".\n\nDawn Lapthorn, who created the 'Don't Dump it, Plymouth and Surrounding areas' page said she was surprised to receive notifications from Facebook telling her \"community standards on harassment and bullying\" had been breached.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is famous as the place where Sir Francis Drake finished off a game of bowls before setting off to fight the Spanish Armada in 1588\n\nShe said: \"One woman on the group had been making hats, and she forgot to say where the collection point was so people asked her and she wrote Plymouth Hoe.\n\n\"Suddenly I started getting notifications asking me to remove the comments.\n\n\"And then her daughter contacted me asking why her mum had been banned from commenting on the group.\"\n\nOther people commenting on the group's posts have also received notifications and had posts taken down.\n\nMs Lapthorn said: \"I've heard that some Facebook groups have been closed down because of this, and with the work we do in the community and 26,000 members, I've worked too hard to have that put at risk.\"\n\nA Facebook company spokesperson said: \"These posts were removed in error and we apologise to those who were affected. We're looking into what happened and will take steps to rectify the error.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "The Royal Welsh Show - the biggest agricultural show in Europe - has been cancelled for the second year running because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe board met on Wednesday to discuss holding the show as scheduled in July, but after discussions with Welsh Government decided it wouldn't be feasible.\n\nSteve Hughson, chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, said: “We continue to work alongside the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales to create a road map for the safe re-opening of events.\n\n\"Our events are central to the rural economy and way of life and mean so much to members, exhibitors, traders and visitors.\n\n\"We fully understand the responsibility on all of us to ensure we deliver our events as soon as it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMr Hughson said the society had provided free facilities for a Covid testing centre and a mass vaccination centre at its showground in Llanelwedd, Powys.", "Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal.\n\n1MDB was an investment fund set up by the Malaysian government that lost billions due to fraudulent activity.\n\nThe global web of fraud and corruption led to a 12-year jail term for Malaysia's ex-prime minister Najib Razak which he is appealing.\n\nGoldman Sachs called its involvement in the scandal an \"institutional failure\".\n\nGoldman Sachs helped raise $6.5bn for 1MDB by selling bonds to investors, the proceeds of which were largely stolen.\n\nProsecutors alleged that senior Goldman executives ignored warning signs of fraud in their dealings with 1MDB and Jho Low, an adviser to the fund. Two Goldman bankers have been criminally charged in the scandal.\n\nMr Solomon's pay would have been $10m higher but for the actions its board of directors took in response to the 1MDB saga, Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday.\n\nWhile disclosing his salary had dropped to $17.5m for 2020, the bank stressed that Mr Solomon was unaware of the corruption.\n\nHe was not \"involved in or aware of the firm's participation in any illicit activity at the time... the board views the 1MDB matter as an institutional failure, inconsistent with the high expectations it has for the firm\".\n\nMr Solomon's package consists of $2m in cash base pay, a $4.65m cash bonus, and $10.85m in stock-based compensation.\n\nIn October, Goldman agreed to pay nearly $3bn to government officials in four countries to end an investigation into work it performed for 1MDB. The bank collected $600m for arranging the bond sales in 2012 and 2013.\n\nIt has spent years being investigated by regulators across the globe including those in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.In total, Goldman's dealings with 1MDB cost the bank more than $5bn.\n\nDespite the costs and fines from the fallout from the 1MDB scandal, 2020 was a bumper year for Goldman's businesses with annual revenue of $44.6bn, its highest since 2009.\n\nThe US-based bank got a huge boost from the recovery in global stock markets from the depths of the coronavirus recession.\n\nIn 2018 Malaysian police raided the home of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, as part of their investigation in his involvement with 1MDB.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Handbags and money seized in raids on former Malaysian PM's home (video published in 2018)", "Josh Quigley crashed while cycling at 40mph downhill in Dubai\n\nA record-breaking Scottish cyclist is recovering from his second serious crash in little over a year.\n\nJosh Quigley fractured his spine, pelvis, shoulder, collarbone and elbow after falling off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai on Tuesday.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Livingston is in hospital awaiting surgery.\n\nLast September he broke the North Coast 500 cycling world record just months after suffering life-threatening injuries while riding across the USA.\n\nMr Quigley told BBC Scotland he was in a lot of pain and unable to walk after his latest crash.\n\nHe said: \"I think a gust of wind took my front wheel out.\"\n\n\"Not sure what the recovery process is looking like yet,\" he added on social media.\n\n\"Very grateful to Ben and Tobias who I was riding with for getting me an ambulance and making sure I got to hospital OK.\n\n\"There's a great cycling community here who have been great to me since I've been here and they're all doing a lot to make sure I am looked after and have what I need in here.\n\n\"Huge thanks also to a few people who stopped at the scene and all of the first responders and medical staff who have helped at the hospital so far.\"\n\nMr Quigley shaved six minutes off the existing North Coast 500 world record when he completed the 516-mile Highland route in 31hrs and 17 minutes last September.\n\nThe route is ranked as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges as it has 34,423ft (10,492m) of ascent - more than Mount Everest, which stands at 29,031ft (8,848m).\n\nHis feat came after he was hit by a vehicle in Texas during a round-the-world-trip in December 2019.\n\nHe had life-threatening injuries and operations on a broken heel and ankle as well as a stent fitted in an artery in his neck, which feeds blood to his brain.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM has said he hopes a \"gradual and phased\" relaxation of Covid restrictions can begin in early March.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs he intended to set out a plan for how the lockdown in England could be eased and the criteria involved in the final week of February.\n\nFactors will include death and hospitalisation numbers, progress of vaccinations and changes in the virus.\n\nHe has ruled out schools in England re-opening after the February half term, instead setting an 8 March target.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Mr Johnson said the scientific data was not sufficiently clear to make any decisions now but he hoped to publish a detailed roadmap in just under a month's time as the \"picture became clearer\".\n\nHe also announced plans for tighter border restrictions to combat new variants of Covid, confirming all those arriving from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in hotels and other accommodation for 10 days.\n\nThe PM, who is under pressure from Tory MPs to spell out how the current lockdown will end, said relaxing restrictions would depend on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops virus transmission.\n\nHe signalled any easing of restrictions would start with schools, setting a potential re-opening date of 8 March - when he said he hoped the 15 million or so people in the top four vulnerable groups earmarked for vaccinations by mid-February will have had their jabs and have full protection.\n\n\"Our aim will be to set out a gradual and phased approach to easing the restrictions in a sustainable way,\" he said, adding that the \"first sign of normality\" should be pupils returning to school.\n\nHe added: \"We hope it will be safe to begin the re-opening of schools from 8 March with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as the data permits.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said reopening schools should be a national priority and urged the government to vaccinate teachers and support staff during the February half term.\n\nLabour is also calling for the government to prioritise key workers in critical professions, seeing them added to the first phase of the vaccination programme, alongside those might likely to become seriously ill.\n\nCases are falling and the vaccination programme is going well. So why is the government waiting?\n\nFirstly, there are doubts about how fast infections are falling.\n\nWhile the daily figures show they have almost halved in just over a fortnight, the government's surveillance programmes which involve random testing suggest the drop may be slower.\n\nIt is unclear why there is this discrepancy, but understanding the true trajectory is crucial to knowing what will happen to pressures on hospitals.\n\nWhat impact the vaccination programme has will also be vital.\n\nEarly results from Israel, which is leading the world on vaccination, suggest cases in older age groups start falling three weeks after significant numbers are vaccinated. But ministers want to see that pattern repeated here.\n\nThey also want to know what effect vaccination has on transmission - it is possible vaccinated people can still transmit the infection even if they are protected from illness.\n\nThis will not be completely clear by March, but scientists should at least have a better idea.\n\nWhen a plan for exiting lockdown is set out, the government wants to be certain it can be kept to. But given the cost of lockdown the pressure to lift restrictions will grow if progress keeps being made.\n\nLast week, chair of the Covid Recovery Group Conservative MP Mark Harper said if the government meets its 15 February vaccination deadline, then ministers should begin easing lockdown by 8 March.\n\nHe welcomed the announcement from the prime minster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Harper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the current lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons such as food shopping and exercise.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's lockdown laws are due to end on 31 March. Mr Johnson has previously said this date is to allow for a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nUnder the tier system, different rules are applied to different parts of the country, depending on factors such as pressure on the NHS, number of cases and rates at which case numbers fall.\n\nPupils in England are not expected to return to school before the February half term. Mr Johnson has said schools will be reopened \"as soon as we can\" but did not guarantee that would happen before Easter.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said restrictions in Scotland will continue until mid-February at the earliest.\n\nIn Wales, the lockdown will be reviewed at the end of January, but the government has previously said it does not see \"much headroom for change\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown has been extended until 5 March.", "As a family of chemicals, neonicotinoids cause harm to pollinating insects such as bees\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU.\n\nIn 2018, the EU banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which harm pollinating insects such as bees.\n\nBut following Brexit, the government approved the emergency use of one neonicotinoid to combat a crop disease.\n\nThe charity has told Environment Secretary George Eustice of their intention to challenge the decision.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Eustice, the Trusts says it will push for a judicial review unless the government can \"prove it has acted lawfully\".\n\nMultiple studies, including large-scale field trials, have found that neonicotinoids harm pollinators and aquatic life. Research has also shown that they can be linked to the wider collapse in biodiversity.\n\nThe government says it allowed the use of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam because of the \"potential danger\" to the sugar beet crop from beet yellows virus, which is spread by aphids.\n\nThe virus can have a severe impact on sugar beet.\n\nIt stressed that use of the chemical would be strictly limited, and the risk to bees was \"acceptable\" because sugar beet doesn't flower. Alternative chemicals should be used to kill any wild flowering plants in and around the crops, the government said.\n\nNeonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system.\n\nTwo years ago, the EU's ban was supported by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who said the weight of evidence was \"greater than previously understood\". Unless the evidence changed, he said, the restrictions would be maintained post-Brexit.\n\nThe government says the change in policy is based on \"new evidence\". But, so far, they haven't made this science public.\n\nHowever, Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said there was no new evidence to justify the change in policy.\n\nHe said: \"The government refused a request for emergency authorisation in 2018 and we want to know what's changed. Where's the new evidence that it's okay to use this extremely harmful pesticide?\n\n\"Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into soil and then into waterways. Worse still, farmers are being recommended to use weedkiller to kill wildflowers in and around sugar beet crops in a misguided attempt to prevent harm to bees in the surrounding area. This is a double blow for nature.\"\n\nIt was the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and British Sugar that applied for the authorisation. Victoria Prentis, a minister with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News that it \"wasn't ideal\". But she was \"convinced it was appropriate\" and that the government was \"committed to reducing pesticide use and integrated pest management\".\n\nSugar beet affected by the yellowing disease spread by aphids\n\nThe pesticide will be authorised for use if there is a large enough outbreak of the disease. And it can only be used for a period of up to 120 days. Around a dozen other EU countries, including France and Germany, have also agreed emergency permits.\n\nMs Prentis said the authorisation was very specific, and \"targeted at a non-flowering crop, which bees are not attracted to\".\n\nHowever research, shows that the highly toxic chemicals can persist in the wider ecosystem for some time, potentially to be absorbed by wildflowers that pollinators then visit.\n\nProf Glen Jeffery, from University College London (UCL), said he felt \"horror\" when he learned of the government's decision.\n\n\"We've slowly moved away from it and yet it's creeping back in,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's very prevalent in other parts of the world, but then you find in other parts of the world vast numbers of pollinating insects have just vanished and they've just gone through heavy pesticide use. We reach the ridiculous situation where in parts of California thousands of beehives are trucked from Texas and from Florida into California to pollinate crops.\"\n\nThere has been one full sugar beet harvest since outdoor neonicotinoid use was banned. According to the NFU, the 2019-20 harvest was largely unaffected by beet yellows disease. This year's sugar beet harvest is currently underway, and yields are expected to be down by around 25% compared with the five-year average, with some farmers losing as much as 80% of their crop.\n\nAccording to the NFU, there are 3,000 farmers who grow sugar beet, and the wider industry supports around 9,500 jobs in England, largely in the East.\n\nThe NFU has called the situation \"unprecedented\" and its sugar board chairman Michael Sly said: \"I am relieved that our application for emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment for the 2021 sugar beet crop has been granted.\"\n\nNeurobiologist and environmental pharmacologist Dr Chris Connolly said that, since 2018, when neonicotinoids were banned in the EU, around 400 papers had been published looking into thiamethoxam, and none said they were less harmful.\n\nThe peach potato aphid is responsible for spreading the beet yellows virus\n\nHe said he could be in favour of using it: \"But rarely, and when it's really needed - when it's an emergency. It's not an emergency if you apply for it before an emergency.\n\nHe added: \"Is adding pesticides to pesticides the way to go towards better sustainability?\"\n\nWhen they were introduced in 2005, neonicotinoids were seen as a good alternative to traditional pesticides. They are systemic, which means they are absorbed by the plant, so are applied to seeds as a coating - instead of being sprayed. However, it has become clear they are highly toxic to invertebrates such as insects.\n\nThe government recently committed to spending £3bn of international climate finance to \"supporting nature and biodiversity\".\n\nSeveral hundred thousand people have now signed various online petitions against the move. Earlier this month, more than 30 wildlife and environmental organisations, including Pesticide Action Network and the RSPB, wrote a joint letter to Mr Eustice calling on the government to publish the new evidence that led to the derogation being approved.", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City defender Sol Bamba is being treated for cancer, the Championship club has announced.\n\nThe 35-year-old Ivory Coast international has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.\n\n\"Sol has begun his battle in typically positive spirits and will continue to be an integral part of the Bluebirds family,\" said the Bluebirds.\n\nBamba joined Cardiff in October 2016 under former manager Neil Warnock.\n\nThe National Health Service Wales describes the illness as \"a type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, a network of vessels and glands spread throughout your body.\n\n\"The lymphatic system is part of your immune system\".\n\nThe Bluebirds said Bamba is \"universally admired by team-mates, staff and supporters in the Welsh capital\".\n\nThe club's statement added: \"During treatment Sol will support his team mates at matches and younger players within the Academy, with whom he will continue his coaching development.\n\n\"While we request privacy for him and his family at this time, messages of support to be passed on to Sol may be sent to club@cardiffcityfc.co.uk.\"\n\n\"We are all with you Sol.\"\n\nBamba helped Cardiff win promotion to the Premier League in 2018 and has made more than 100 appearances for the club.\n\nThe former Paris St Germain player has been a hugely popular member of the squad, though this season he has been restricted to five Championship substitute appearances and one League Cup start.\n\nHe is a much travelled player who has had spells at Dunfermline, Hibernian, Leicester City, Trazbonspor and Italian club Palermo as well as Leeds United.\n\nFrance-born Bamba has played 46 times for the Ivory Coast, including World Cup appearances and was part of their African Cup of Nations squad when they were runners-up in 2012.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "In his letter to staff, circulated on social media, Chad Wolf said he had hoped to remain as acting secretary to homeland security until the end of the Trump administration.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this action is warranted by the recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as acting secretary,\" he said, \"which serve to divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time of a transition of power\".\n\nWolf's resignation comes after he last week called on Trump and all elected officials to \"strongly condemn\" the Capitol riot.\n\nHis exit throws the department into turmoil just as it is gearing up for inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January, which has been designated a national security special event.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unison, the UK's biggest trade union, has elected a woman as leader for the first time.\n\nChristina McAnea won 47.7% of the vote and takes over as general secretary from Dave Prentis, who has been in the job since 2001.\n\nThe former assistant general secretary beat fellow officials Paul Holmes, Roger McKenzie and Hugo Pierre in the contest, which began in October.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"I become general secretary at the most challenging time in recent history - both for our country and our public services.\n\n\"Health, care, council, police, energy, school, college and university staff have worked throughout the pandemic, and it's their skill and dedication that will see us out the other side.\n\n\"Their union will continue to speak up for them and do all it can to protect them in the difficult months ahead.\"\n\nUnison is promising action against the government's pay freeze for 1.3 million public sector workers, which it has described as an \"attack\" on members' livelihoods.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"Despite the risks, the immense pressures and their sheer exhaustion, the dedication and commitment of our key workers knows no end. I will not let this government, nor any future one, forget that.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also demanded a U-turn on public sector pay, as he urges ministers to \"protect family incomes\" from the effects of lockdowns and other restrictions in his first speech of the year.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he cannot \"justify a significant, across-the-board\" salary increase while the economy and public finances are suffering in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMs McAnea, an experienced negotiator and former NHS worker, is expected to be broadly supportive of Sir Keir, as Mr Prentis has been.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed her victory, saying: \"I know you will be a brilliant representative for Unison members.\n\n\"And it's a significant moment for the union to elect its first woman general secretary. I look forward to working with you.\"\n\nHer election comes at a strained time between Sir Keir and several other unions whose general secretaries have spoken out in support of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nMr Holmes came second in the Unison contest, with 33.8%, followed by Mr McKenzie, on 10.8%, and Mr Pierre, on 7.8%.\n\nMs McAnea grew up in Glasgow and worked as a housing officer before becoming a union employee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, is taking leave to have surgery on a lung tumour.\n\nThe Old Bexley and Sidcup MP resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in 2018 for surgery to remove a lesion on his right lung.\n\nOn Monday he confirmed that \"frustratingly\" there had been a recurrence of a tumour there.\n\nHe said he was in \"good hands\" with the \"fantastic NHS team\" looking after him.\n\n\"[I'm] keeping positive and blessed to have the love of Cathy and the kids to support me through this,\" the 53-year-old wrote on Twitter.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Brokenshire and his family.\n\n\"Wishing you all the best for your treatment and looking forward to welcoming you back on the team soon,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"saddened\" by the news, adding: \"All my thoughts and prayers are with James and his family during this time\".\n\n\"All colleagues across government send James our love and best wishes, and we look forward to having him back soon,\" she added.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock was among government colleagues wishing him well, adding he was \"sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"Wishing you all the best for your treatment, James. Get well soon.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was first elected to Parliament in 2005 as MP for the former constituency of Hornchurch, has also previously served as housing secretary under former PM Theresa May.\n\nHe has called for efforts to \"break some of the stigma around lung cancer\" and raise awareness of the disease.\n• None Brokenshire: There were some pretty dark moments", "Medical director Steve Stanaway says numbers of Covid patients are rising at the hospital\n\nHospital staff in Wrexham are under immense pressure after a \"rapid increase\" in seriously ill coronavirus patients, a medical director has warned.\n\nWrexham now has the highest rate of Covid-19 in Wales, with 851.7 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThis is more than double the Welsh average.\n\nSteve Stanaway, medical director at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, pleaded with people to abide by rules.\n\n\"The worry from a staff's point of view is how much more stretching can we take, how many more staff can we deploy?\" he said.\n\nThe hospital - which is part of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - was the latest to suspend routine surgery as it tries to deal with rising numbers of Covid patients.\n\n\"That's created more feelings of stress and anxiety, not least to the people who were hoping to get their surgery this week,\" Mr Stanaway said.\n\nThe health board has postponed the majority of surgeries planned for the next two weeks at Wrexham, although some patients will be offered appointments in Bangor instead.\n\nEmergency surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, endoscopy procedures and caesarean sections will continue at the Wrexham hospital.\n\nProf Arpan Guha, acting executive medical director, said: \"There are many patients expecting to undergo an operation in Wrexham over the coming weeks and we recognise how anxious and worried they will already be about having surgery during the current surge of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are sorry for any further distress or inconvenience this decision may cause and would like to reassure those affected that we are doing all we can to prioritise patients in the most urgent need of care.\"\n\nThe spike in cases in communities in north-east Wales has been blamed on the newer \"faster-spreading\" variant.\n\nWhile case rates in many communities have fallen slightly in recent weeks, in Wrexham numbers are continuing to rise.\n\nThe area now has the highest rate in Wales, followed by Flintshire with 754.6 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nBus services in the area have been affected after 28 drivers of Arriva Buses Wales tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, Gwynedd, has the lowest case rate in the whole of Wales, with 110.\n\nThe average case rate for Wales stands at 435.9, according to the most recent Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThere have been calls for mass testing - as seen in parts of the south Wales Valleys - in the area as case rates continue to rise, but Wrexham council has said it has no plans to offer this to the wider community.\n\nMr Stanaway said the critical care unit and respiratory unit at the Wrexham hospital was now under huge pressure with the number of new patients needing this level of care \"rapidly increasing\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"The numbers are really quite alarming\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday. \"It's a huge amount of disease burden within a community.\"\n\nMr Stanaway said there were 125 inpatients being treated with Covid on Sunday night, which he estimated was an increase of 117% since Christmas.\n\nHe said 14 of them where in critical care, with some on ventilators, while 16 where being treated in the hospital's high care respiratory unit - a 45% increase in just four days.\n\n\"There are now so many in that unit they've had to expand it to a completely different part of the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the graphs of the cases they are going up exponentially, they are terrifying to look at, and I think people are very aware that this is what is happening out in the community around them,\" he said.\n\nMr Stanaway said staff were working tirelessly and under huge amounts of pressure to keep caring for the sickest patients, but it was unclear how much more demand the hospital could take.\n\n\"Our current predictions for admissions coming through the door in January are currently sitting at about 350, if you compare that to April, the height of the pandemic, we had 286 people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more, we've already had 112 people in the first nine days of January. And the numbers are going up and up.\"\n\nHe pleaded with people to abide by the rules.\n\n\"This virus is hurting, and has hurt, a lot of people within Wrexham and Flintshire,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say it strongly enough... we will get through this, but you just have to play by the rules.\"\n\nLatest figures show 149 staff were isolating and, with high nursing vacancy rates, staff were under huge pressure and were working tirelessly.\n\n\"Of all the years I've worked in the NHS... the resilience, dedication and professionalism our staff are showing is absolutely unbelievable,\" he said.\n\n\"But you have to bear in mind that people are tired, people are stressed, and it does put a strain,\" he said.\n\n\"We absolutely want to see you if you are unwell, but if you can wait or seek care somewhere else... please do that to give us that little bit of headspace.\"", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nA vaccine strategy unveiled by Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nIt comes after criticism that the rollout of the vaccine has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe latest figures show 86,039 doses had been administered by 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA total of 327,000 doses - 280,000 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 47,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - have now been delivered to the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe figures mean 2.7% of Wales population has so far been vaccinated - compared to just over 4% in Northern Ireland, about 3.5% in England and 3% in Scotland.\n\nAcross the UK nearly 400,000 second doses have been administered, including 374,613 in England, 79 in Wales, 13,949 in Northern Ireland and, as of January 3, 36 in Scotland.\n\nMr Gething admitted the rest of the UK had \"gone slightly faster than we have\", but said the latest vaccinations figures showed a \"significant acceleration\" in the rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the government of a \"stuttering start\", while Plaid Cymru said the plan was \"late in the day\".\n\nEveryone over 70, all care home residents and staff, and front-line NHS and social care workers will be offered a jab by mid-February, under similar timescales to other UK nations.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receive her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Government's vaccination plans aim to cover 2.5 million people by September, with vaccines supplied by the UK government.\n\nMr Gething said: \"Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.\n\n\"We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.\"\n\nThe plan sets out a series of \"milestones\" for the vaccine rollout in Wales - all depending on the supply of vaccines approved for use.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Gething said the government aimed to vaccinate:\n\nMr Gething said 700,000 people would be vaccinated by mid-February.\n\nAccording to the plan, the number of GPs' surgeries delivering vaccines will be increased from around 100 to more than 250 by the end of January.\n\nThe number of mass vaccination centres will increase in the next couple of weeks to 35, according to Welsh Government's plan.\n\nOne of those is Margam Orangery, in Neath Port Talbot, where about 500 people will be vaccinated each day.\n\nAt the press conference, Mr Gething defended the UK-wide decision to increase the gap between giving the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would \"avoid more deaths\".\n\n\"Each of the vaccines provide a high level of protection against harm from coronavirus. That's really good news for all of us,\" he added.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh Government should have a vaccinations minister who \"gets up in the morning thinking about vaccinations and goes to bed thinking about vaccinations\".\n\nHe said such a move would help the government recover from a \"stuttering start\" to the vaccines programme. Mr Davies said the government needed \"focus and direction to drive this forward\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the strategy but said it was \"late in the day\".\n\nMr Price said many people, including his own parents, wanted clarity: \"My parents, who are in their 80s, have been told their surgery won't have the ability to vaccinate them for another three weeks, yet the GP surgery next door is starting this week.\"\n\nLarger supplies of the Oxford jab will be needed to speed up vaccinations\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is crucial to ensuring everyone aged over 70 can have at least one jab by Valentine's Day.\n\nHealth boards plan to use reserves of the Pfizer vaccine, but they alone will not reach the Welsh Government's first milestone. To speed things up, bigger supplies of the Oxford vaccine are needed.\n\nUnlike the Pfizer vaccine however, the stock is not held by the Welsh Government. Instead, it is delivered directly to the frontline - including GPs and community pharmacies - by Public Health England.\n\nAround 24,000 Oxford doses arrived in Wales last week; 26,000 are due this week; and another 80 to 100,000 are expected to arrive in four batches next week.\n\nIf the mid-February milestone is reached, attention then turns to the over-50s and younger people whose health puts them at greater risk.\n\nThey can expect a dose by the Spring, but discussions are continuing between the four UK nations to nail down a more specific date.\n\nDr Helen Alefounder is a GP in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county and part of a team that administered 400 vaccines at care comes last week after receiving the vaccine herself on Wednesday.\n\n\"Between us and the surgery next door that we're working with we've got just shy of 20,000 patients to vaccinate,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's an absolutely huge task, it's really scary, but we are really keen and committed to get it done because everybody is sick of lockdown and let's be honest, everybody wants life to return to as normal as possible and the only way we're going to do that is to mass vaccinate people.\"\n\nA mass-vaccination centre has been set up at Margam Orangery near Port Talbot\n\nOther GP surgeries have posted on social media that they have not received as many doses of the vaccine as promised.\n\nVaccination numbers will now be published daily and the number of mass vaccination centres will rise from 22 to 35. The vaccination plan also suggests pharmacies could be used to deploy the vaccine.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, the senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said GPs were \"raring to go\" to get the vaccine distributed.\n\nShe said the model for Wales' vaccination programme was focused around the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which was approved in late December and \"much larger quantities\" were expected.\n\nShe also said: \"I know it's very difficult if you haven't had a letter and you're feeling anxious but you are going to be approached and when you're approached we'd like it to be as soon as possible and as convenient as possible to you.\"\n\nMichael Sullivan, 93, from Radyr, Cardiff, is one of those who is yet to receive his letter.\n\nHe said: \"I hear of all these other people having their second jabs and nobody's even thought of contacting me to say I'm going to have one in the first place. It's a bit depressing. It makes me think somebody's not doing what they should be doing.\n\n\"It gets stressful more easily, that's another thing one has to bare in mind - it's going to save my life.\"\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nElen Jones, the Wales director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said community pharmacists were \"willing and skilled to help deliver the vaccination programme, as they do with flu every year\".\n\nShe added pharmacists could help deliver the vaccine \"at a more local level\".\n\nWelsh ministers have been under intense pressure since it became clear that Wales was lagging behind every other home nation in the initial weeks of vaccine rollout.\n\nIt's still not clear why that should be the case - the logistical challenges of rollout and the change in advice over the time period between first and second doses apply across the UK, not just to Wales.\n\nThe health minister says that there has already been \"a significant step-up in delivery\".\n\nThe test of that will be whether the system in Wales can meet the delivery goals set out in the vaccination strategy - which (as for the other home nations) also rely on a regular and sufficient supply of vaccine.", "Marks & Spencer has announced that it has bought the Jaeger fashion brand, which fell into administration last November.\n\nM&S is taking on the brand, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.\n\nIt is now in the process of finalising a deal to buy its products and \"supporting marketing assets\".\n\nM&S announced in May 2020 that it planned to stock other complementary brands to boost sales.\n\nSince then, it has started to sell products online from the Early Learning Centre, as well as from two designers, Nobody's Child and Ghost London.\n\nRichard Price, managing director of M&S Clothing & Home, said: \"We have set out our plans to sell complementary third party brands as part of our Never the Same Again programme to accelerate our transformation and turbocharge online growth.\n\n\"In line with this, we have bought the Jaeger brand and are in the final stages of agreeing the purchase of product and supporting marketing assets from the administrators of Jaeger Retail Limited. We expect to fully complete later this month.\"\n\nIn a call with journalists last week, chief executive Steve Rowe said M&S wanted to partner with other brands, largely for its online business, but stressed: \"We have no intention of turning into a department store.\"\n\nJaeger had 244 staff and some 63 stores and concessions. In addition, 13 stores closed after administrators were appointed, with the loss of more than 120 posts across stores, head office and distribution.\n\nIt is unclear if any jobs will be saved. There has been no update from the administrators, FRP.\n\nJaeger was founded in 1884, the same year as Marks & Spencer, which started out as a stall in an open market in Leeds known as Marks' Penny Bazaar.\n\nLast week, M&S unveiled quarterly figures showing that its clothing division had seen sales fall nearly a quarter, although sales of sales of sleepwear had soared.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December. However, UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.", "Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.\n\nEnergydots says they \"counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment\" to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.\n\nBut University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.\n\nThe Devon-based company told BBC News the stickers were programmed with \"scalar energy\", which the scientists' equipment would be unable to detect.\n\nEnergydots markets a range of stickers, including the SmartDot, the SleepDot and even the PetDot.\n\nBBC News bought five SmartDots - a special offer for £55 - and sent them to the university's 6th Generation Innovation Centre.\n\nResearchers tested 4G mobile phones and wi-fi access points with and without the stickers applied to them.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the lab said: \"We could not find any evidence that these products had any effect on frequency or power when used as instructed.\"\n\nAn Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News: \"We state clearly that our products harmonise the fields.\n\n\"And the way to test this is to assess via biological testing.\"\n\nLast November, the company published a press release saying it was extremely proud to announce a partnership with the NHS that would see \"brand-new patient engagement units\" installed in Torbay and Royal College of London hospitals.\n\nAt the time, an Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News adverts for its products would appear in the two hospitals, though she clarified the London hospital was in fact University College Hospital.\n\nBut a Torbay Hospital spokesman then told BBC News it knew nothing of this partnership.\n\nAnd within hours, the press release had disappeared from the company's website.\n\nEnergydots later said there had been a misunderstanding with the agency that had promised to organise the adverts.\n\nIts stickers are among a wide range of products on Amazon from companies offering electric-and-magnetic-field (EMF) protection.\n\nEnergydots also suggests placing its SmartDot stickers on wi-fi routers\n\nThese include protective clothing, canopies to be placed over beds and even devices that block radiation from wi-fi routers - making them effectively useless.\n\nCampaigners claiming radiation from mobile phones and other devices poses a health risk have stepped up protests as 5G networks are rolled out.\n\nBut most scientists say even the higher part of the electromagnetic spectrum that may be used by 5G should not harm humans.\n\nAnd within those limits, there are no known consequences for health, the World Health Organization says.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A hospital's oxygen supply has \"reached a critical situation\" due to rising numbers of Covid-19 infections.\n\nA document shared with the BBC showed Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount it uses to treat patients.\n\nIt said the target range for oxygen levels that should be in patients' blood had been cut from 92% to a baseline of 88-92%.\n\nHospital managing director, Yvonne Blucher, said it was \"working to manage\" the situation.\n\n\"We are experiencing high demand for oxygen because of rising numbers of inpatients with Covid-19 and we are working to manage this,\" she said.\n\n\"The public can play their part by staying home and, where they cannot, following the 'hands, face, space' advice to cut the spread of the virus.\"\n\nIn the document, from the Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has been shared with frontline NHS staff, the oxygen supply was said to have \"reached a critical situation\".\n\nIt said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\" and states patients who are being fed oxygen and have an oxygen saturation of above 92% \"should have their oxygen weaned within the target range\", which is now 88-92%. This means very gradually reducing the saturation level.\n\nIt added that \"maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result\".\n\nGPs in Essex have told the BBC that the threshold for sending a patient to hospital for supplemental oxygen is if their oxygen saturation is at 92%. A level of 96-100% is deemed normal.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure\" on hospital oxygen stocks because giving patients extra oxygen was a \"key part\" of coronavirus treatment.\n\nHe said there were a number of hospitals where this happened in the first phase of coronavirus and over the past few weeks \"similar things have happened\" elsewhere.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure on oxygen systems\"\n\n\"This is the kind of problem that chief executives and trust leadership teams are having to solve day in, day out,\" he said.\n\n\"If you [a hospital] push your oxygen to an absolutely critical level, then the thing that you can't do is have the oxygen system break down... so effectively you will have to dial it down, in which case you will probably have to transfer patients to the nearest neighbouring hospital for a short period of time.\n\n\"I cannot tell you how much work has been done over the summer and autumn to ensure that people [hospital trusts] have been prepared for this... they knew they would come under pressure if there were to be further waves, as has now proved to be the case.\"\n\nEssex has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the country, with seven of the 14 council areas in the county in the top 20 most infected areas of England.\n\nThe Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\"\n\nNews of oxygen issues is understandably worrying, but not unexpected. Tanks may be full, but flow is a problem.\n\nMany people who are sick with Covid will need extra oxygen to help them breathe. As Covid admissions increase, it can put huge demand on a hospital's piped oxygen supply system to provide this high flow.\n\nHospital bosses have been planning for such scenarios for months, learning from experiences during the first wave of Covid when some trusts ran into difficulties.\n\nMany wards have made improvements to their pipework in preparation for a very busy winter, but there is still a limit to what hospitals can provide.\n\nWhen stretched to the maximum, other steps are needed, such transferring patients elsewhere or limiting how much oxygen is pumped to each patient.\n\nSouthend Hospital has taken this latter measure.\n\nAlthough not ideal, it is not unsafe. Patients will be closely monitored and the trust hopes the situation will improve if new Covid admissions start to go down as people follow the stay at home lockdown rules.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'One in 18 have Covid-19' in parts of Essex", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says exemption from quarantine travel requirements for elite sport are to be reviewed\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged football clubs not to \"abuse\" the privileges they are afforded while the rest of Scotland is in lockdown.\n\nPlayers and staff from Celtic FC are having to self-isolate after one tested positive for Covid-19 on return from a mid-season training camp in Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had doubts about whether the trip was really necessary.\n\nAnd she said \"everyone, including football, should be erring on the side of caution\" amid a rise in infections.\n\nScottish football below Championship level is to be suspended for three weeks in light of the current lockdown, with Scottish Cup and lower league ties to be rescheduled.\n\nTop flight football in Scotland is continuing while most Scots are subject to a \"stay at home\" order due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCeltic's home fixture against Hibernian went ahead on Monday evening, despite the club having lost 13 players and three staff to Covid-19 issues.\n\nDefender Christopher Jullien tested positive for the virus on return from the club's training camp in Dubai, with others including the club's manager Neil Lennon being forced to isolate as close contacts.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"disappointed and frustrated\" that her daily coronavirus briefing was again being \"dominated by football\".\n\nCeltic trained in Scotland on Saturday after returning from Dubai\n\nShe said she had doubts about whether Celtic's trip \"was really essential\" and whether rules were strictly adhered to, saying it was for the footballing authorities to decide if further action was necessary.\n\nThe first minister issued a warning to clubs that they must stick to the rules set out for them while the rest of the populace is subject to tight restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"Football and elite sport more generally enjoys a number of privileges right now that the rest of us don't have. These privileges include the right to go to overseas training camps and be exempt from quarantine on return.\n\n\"It is really vital, obviously for public health reasons but also I think out of respect for the rest of the population living under really heavy restrictions, that these privileges are not abused.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is an assistant referee in the game.\n\nHe said that at a time when people are staying at home football games were something many looked forward to.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club.\" He also called for financial support to be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues and Scottish Cup who had had their games suspended for three weeks.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon is among those who are self-isolating\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was currently in \"the most perilous and serious position since the start of the pandemic\", with a record number of people in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nShe said everyone should be doing their utmost not to add to pressure on the health services by following the rules.\n\nShe said: \"This whole episode should underline how serious the situation we are in now is. Everyone including football should be erring on the side of caution.\n\n\"I know fans of other clubs feel very strongly that the whole of football should not pay the price for the actions of any one club, and I agree with that.\n\n\"But of course a situation like this does make it essential for us to review the rules - including those around travel exemptions - and that's what we will be doing. As we do, I do hope that Celtic themselves will reflect seriously on all of this.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon cited photographs which emerged of players socialising in Dubai, but Celtic's assistant manager John Kennedy said these created a \"false picture\" and that there had been \"minor slip-ups\" at worst.\n\nThe club had previously claimed the government had given permission for the trip to go ahead, but Ms Sturgeon said it had only provided guidance to the footballing authorities on the rules.\n\nShe said: \"It's not our role to give approval or not to what a football club is doing.\"\n\nA statement posted on the Celtic website said that \"the reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland\".\n\nIt added: \"Celtic has done everything it can to ensure we have in place the very best procedures and protocols. From the outset of the pandemic, Celtic has worked closely with the Scottish government and Scottish football and we will continue to do so.\"", "As hospital mortuaries fill up in Surrey, England, some of the dead from the coronavirus pandemic are being brought to an emergency body storage facility.\n\nSurrey currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country, and some are concerned the facility may reach capacity.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton paid a visit to the site which has been set up in a Surrey woodland.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSeven centres begin operating this morning across England, a key part of efforts to vaccinate 15 million in the top four priority groups by mid-February. To begin with, more than 600,000 aged 80 or over are being sent letters inviting them to book an appointment at one of the hubs - but if the journey is too long, they're being told closer options will be available soon. The centres will be open 12 hours a day and more large-scale sites will follow. The health secretary will give more details later, while the Welsh government will publish its own vaccination plan. In Scotland, more clinics should start to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Here's how vaccines are approved for use, and some of the challenges a rollout on this scale faces.\n\nScientists have warned stricter measures might be needed to curb infections in England but, right now, the government is focusing on an \"all-out public information\" campaign to improve compliance with the existing rules. Chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty is appearing on TV and radio this morning urging the public to \"stay at home\" given what he called the \"appalling situation\" we are in. He told BBC One's Breakfast that getting case numbers down was \"everybody's problem\", and \"every unnecessary contact\" with someone from another household gave the virus an opportunity to be transmitted. \"We need to really double down\", he added, because \"this is the most dangerous time we've had in terms of numbers into the NHS.\" If you've seen videos online claiming some hospital wards and corridors are empty, BBC Reality Check explains what's really going on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses says a record quarter of a million firms could close over the coming year. The organisation's chairman, Mike Cherry, said financial support provided to businesses during the pandemic had \"not kept pace with intensifying restrictions\". It also wants more help for many self-employed workers who are currently excluded from aid. There's another call for more government support this morning from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He wants teachers, the armed forces and care workers to be left out of a public sector pay freeze, and is urging ministers not to end the temporary £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe body representing prison staff says courts should cease hearing trials to help stop the spread of coronavirus in jails. Mark Fairhurst, from the Prison Officers' Union, said there had been a \"massive outbreak\" at Cardiff Prison, and the site was struggling to find space for newly-sentenced arrivals. However, others within the criminal justice sector argue courts must be kept open to prevent the case backlog growing further. The rate of spread in prisons is still well below the wider population, and a prison service spokesman said shielding, mass testing and limited regimes were in place at all facilities.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools are closed to most pupils, and the switch to virtual learning presents challenges for many families. The BBC is trying to help, and from today lessons and programmes will be broadcast on TV, on BBC Two and CBBC. They'll also be available on iPlayer, with additional content online. Find out all you need to know here. If you're looking for some inspiration for PE, Joe Wicks is also back today. For many families, he was one of the fixtures of the first lockdown, and live classes start at 09:00 GMT on his YouTube channel.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils across Scotland have been experiencing problems accessing Microsoft Teams as the majority move to home learning.\n\nA number of schools, pupils and parents have reported the technology running slowly or not at all.\n\nIt is one of the main platforms being used for remote learning with schools shut to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nMicrosoft Teams tweeted that the issue was being investigated.\n\nA Microsoft spokesperson said: \"Our engineers are working to resolve difficulties accessing Microsoft Teams that some customers are experiencing.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether demand as a result of home schooling was causing the issue, Microsoft declined to comment.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon highlighted the problem during her daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"This is not an issue that is unique to Scotland or indeed unique to schools, but I understand Microsoft is currently working to address it,\" she said.\n\n\"More generally I don't underestimate how difficult this is both for young people learning away from friends… and for parents to juggle home schooling with working.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was also asked about problems which were being experienced by users of digital learning platform Glow.\n\nShe replied: \"It is not an issue with Glow. It is affecting Glow, but the core issue is not with Glow… the issue is with Microsoft Teams.\"\n\nTwo schools in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, said the problem was a \"national issue\" although Renfrew High School urged pupils experiencing difficulties not to panic.\n\nClyde Valley High School tweeted: \"Our online learning provision begins today for all of our pupils. Due to the very high demand for Microsoft Teams across Scotland, there may be issues initially getting logged on or accessing some files.\n\n\"This is a national issue on the site and may take a little time to rectify.\"\n\nColtness High School said: \"Unfortunately it appears Microsoft Teams is struggling to cope with the traffic this morning.\n\n\"This is across Scotland and not isolated to Coltness. Pupils and staff are having difficulty loading files. We have reported the issue and hopefully this will be resolved soon.\"\n\nEdinburgh City Council have texted all parents saying: \"There is a city-wide problem with Microsoft Teams this morning. Please be patient as the council is working to resolve it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RHS Digital Learning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by D&G Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Microsoft has confirmed that this issue is affecting users in the UK and elsewhere in northern Europe. Education Scotland is working closely with the company to resolve the issues.\"\n\nAfter one teacher complained to Microsoft Teams on Twitter, a staff member said: \"We're currently investigating an issue where some users in the UK region are unable to access Microsoft Teams. We will provide further information as soon as this is available.\"\n\nAccording to an Ofcom report in December, about 34,000 (1.2%) premises in Scotland were without a decent broadband connection, while superfast broadband coverage had increased to 94% of homes.\n\nIt also said that fixed and mobile networks in Scotland had \"generally coped well\" with increased demands during the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as plans for remote learning during the latest lockdown reveal big disparities between Scotland's 32 councils.\n\nNot all pupils will be offered live lessons - instead the decision on the best approach has been left to individual schools and teachers.\n\nGuidance on remote learning published by the Scottish government on Friday recommended a \"a balance of live learning and independent activity\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested £25m to address digital exclusion in schools with funding allocations for digital devices and connectivity solutions made to all 32 local authorities.\n\nMore than 50,000 devices such as laptops have been distributed to children and young people to help with remote learning and the programme in total is expected to deliver about 70,000 devices for disadvantaged children and young people across Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Luke Evans plays police officer Steve Wilkins who reopened and solved the two double murders\n\nHollywood actor Luke Evans says telling the true story of the murder of four people was a \"huge responsibility\".\n\nEvans, who was brought up in Aberbargoed, Caerphilly county, returned to Wales to star in ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.\n\nHe plays Dyfed-Powys Police officer Steve Wilkins who in 2006 reopened two unsolved double murders from the 1980s.\n\n\"I just wanted to tell it right and show justice for the victims, which is the most important part,\" Evans said.\n\n\"This is a very serious, sad story where four people lost their lives and their families have struggled and suffered greatly because of it,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"So you do feel a huge sense of responsibility.\"\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders has been adapted from a book about the case written by Mr Wilkins and ITV journalist Jonathan Hill.\n\nIn 1985 brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas were shot at their remote mansion near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, before the property was set alight.\n\nThen in 1989, Peter and Gwenda Dixon were shot dead at close range on the Pembrokeshire coastal path near Little Haven.\n\nThe drama also stars Newport actress Alexandria Riley as Det Insp Ella Richards\n\nBut it was only years later that microscopic DNA and fibres linked the murders to John Cooper, who was already in prison for a string of burglaries.\n\nIn 2011 he was jailed for life.\n\nThe Dracula Untold star said he had not been aware of the notorious case: \"I knew almost nothing about these murders, to the point where when I read what was a treatment two or three years ago… I couldn't believe what I was reading.\n\n\"So I did my own research into it and realised that the story was completely true - it hadn't been embellished, none of this was fiction and it sort of blew my mind.\"\n\nHe said being able to speak to Mr Wilkins while filming was invaluable: \"Me and Steve had a dialogue almost every week for a few hours.\n\n\"We had a lot of conversations before we started shooting where I would speak to him and ask him, not just about the case - obviously that that was very important - but about things like how was it standing in front of John Cooper, having to interview John Cooper, having to deal with his family.\n\n\"You see both sides of the effect of these terrible crimes, you see what the aftermath of what it does to people and how they suffer and you meet Cooper's family as well.\n\n\"Steve has his own family and that also is played into the storyline very powerfully.\"\n\nEvans said the only other time he has worked in Wales was when filming Visit Wales commercials: \"Being Welsh and not getting to work in Wales very often - that certainly was an attraction for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I've done them [the commercials] for a few years - one of them was about the coastal walks of Wales and our beautiful coastline... and then right in this beautiful place I was there back there, portraying a character and trying to find the killer of somebody who murdered people on this coastal path.\"\n\nBut he said he enjoyed playing a Welsh character: \"To go right back to my roots with my accent and that was a really, really exciting to do.\n\nThe series, made by World Productions, the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, finished filming just before Wales' first coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"When we started The Pembrokeshire Murders it was January so we didn't hear anything really, and then just before we finished there was rumblings of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"We were very lucky in a way, we wrapped basically on the Friday then on the Monday everything closed.\n\n\"So it was a big sigh of relief when we got to the final wrap of that day and it was very special.\"\n\nThe three-part series also stars Keith Allen, Owen Teale, Alexandria Riley, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan and David Fynn.\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders in on ITV at 21:00 GMT on 11, 12 and 13 January", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nPremier League rivals Manchester United and Liverpool will meet at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the FA Cup later this month.\n\nNon-league Chorley will host Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers after beating a depleted Derby County in the third round.\n\nLeague Two Cheltenham Town are set to welcome Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to Whaddon Road.\n\nThe fourth-round ties will be played the weekend of 23-24 January.\n\nCrawley Town, who celebrated a famous 3-0 win over Leeds United on Sunday, will travel to Championship side Bournemouth in the next round.\n\nJose Mourinho's Tottenham will face Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park, while Fulham take on Burnley in an all-Premier League tie.\n\nChorley would face 14-time winners Arsenal in the fifth round - if the National League North side overcome Wolves and the Gunners beat Southampton.\n\nDavid Moyes could return to former club Manchester United in the last 16 if West Ham beat League One Doncaster Rovers and United seal victory over Liverpool in the fourth round.\n\nThe fifth-round ties will be played 9-11 February.\n• None Watch all the goals and highlights from the FA Cup third round\n• None Goals, highlights and knockouts. All the action from Sunday's third-round ties are", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "Caroline Rice couldn't afford the ink to print off her child's maths homework\n\nThere are few benefits from lockdown, but one often touted is that people are managing to save a little money: lower transport costs, fewer shop-bought office lunches, cheaper childcare costs and no foreign holidays.\n\nSingle mum Caroline Rice gives a wry smile when asked if she's managed to squirrel away extra cash over the past few months during pandemic restrictions.\n\n\"My spending is up,\" she says. \"The heating costs are higher because it's very cold. I'm having to shop locally because of lockdown, where the prices are slightly higher. The nearest Asda is 12 miles away.\"\n\nThe small savings on little luxuries that many people are making - fewer coffees or restaurant meals - were never an option for her in the first place.\n\nHer meagre finances meant the registered child minder, who lives in rural County Fermanagh, was already living week-to-week. Now it seems like day-to-day, she says.\n\n\"There's a mental stress, fatigue, in having to check the bank balance every day to see how much I'm down,\" she says. \"My child and I haven't bought any clothes in almost a year.\"\n\nShe's having to home-school her child. Many people wouldn't think twice about printing off their child's maths homework project. Caroline had to write it out by hand because they could not afford the ink.\n\nAnd she is not alone. A new report on the finances of low-income families during the pandemic says they are twice as likely to have increased their spending.\n\nIt says extra costs for food, energy and remote learning equipment have piled financial pressure on the poor.\n\nThe study - Pandemic Pressures - was a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation-funded Covid Realities research project at the University of York.\n\nDr Ruth Patrick, a social policy lecturer at the University of York, says talk of saving money during the pandemic is \"worlds away\" from the experiences of many low-income parents and carers.\n\n\"Parents have found their spending increases, as some of the usual strategies they use to get by on a low income - shopping around for the best deal, going to families and friends for a meal when the cupboards are empty - have become suddenly impossible,\" she said.\n\nFor Shirley Widdop, an increase in food costs has been one of the biggest issues. The disabled single parent, who lives in Keighley, now has to shield for health reasons. That means using online deliveries a lot.\n\nShe says: \"There's a minimum basket size [with online orders]. You often have to bulk buy in case there's a problem getting delivery slots.\"\n\nShirley Widdop has not saved on life's little luxuries - because she could not afford them in the first place\n\nWhen not shielding, Shirley would seek out food in her supermarket's reduced-price section. \"There used to be just a couple of people. Now there are crowds,\" she says. \"Not everyone has easy access to the internet. And not everyone has a functioning bus service.\"\n\nThe report notes that the pandemic has been marked by a huge reduction in overall spending, with entertainment and social activities restricted by lockdown.\n\nHigher-income households have been the main beneficiaries of this \"enforced saving\", as they spend 40% more of their income on recreation and leisure activities than the poorest fifth of households.\n\nThe report says that in contrast to this overall picture, the pandemic has in many cases made it more expensive to live on a low income with children.\n\nMore than one in three (36%) low-income households with children have increased their spending during the pandemic so far, compared with about one in six (18%) who have reduced their spending.\n\nAmong high-income households without children, 13% have increased their spending, compared with 40% who have reduced it.\n\nUse of food banks has increased significantly during the pandemic\n\nThe report highlights three main reasons for these extra pressures:\n\nIt should also be noted, the report says, that these extra spending pressures are squeezing living standards that had stagnated even before the pandemic.\n\nTo ease the burden, the report says the government should be seeking to maintain the £20-a-week rise in Universal Credit (UC) into next year. Otherwise, six million households face having their incomes cut by more than £1,000.\n\nMike Brewer, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The pandemic has forced society as a whole to spend less and save more. But these broad spending patterns don't hold true for everyone.\n\n\"The extra cost of feeding, schooling and entertaining children 24/7 means that, for many families, lockdowns have made life more expensive to live on a low income.\"\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said measures had been put in place to \"ensure that nobody is left behind\", including extra welfare payments, job protection safeguards, the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme, and equipment for home-schooling.\n\n\"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nSometimes the overall economic figures can not capture the actual on-the-ground financial reality.\n\nThe pandemic lockdowns have led to a \"K-shaped\" recovery. Across the entire economy, staying at home has meant less capacity to spend on going out and a surge in savings. But the economic picture is both up and down at the same time, depending on which household.\n\nThe average picture is composed of wealthier people saving a huge amount and poorer families more squeezed than ever. This report shows how children staying at home have increased food and energy bills. The cost of buying food has increased with fewer store promotions and a requirement to use more expensive local shops. The furlough scheme has kept people paid, but not necessarily on full pay.\n\nSo the chancellor hopes that the vaccine rollout could unleash pent up demand in the form of huge levels of savings from the already well-off. And yet at the same time, will continue to face pressure over extending support - for example, the £20-a-week increase to universal credit.", "A Sex and the City revival is heading to the small screen, more than 20 years after the hit series made its debut.\n\nThe original HBO show followed the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nBut only three of the fab four are returning for the new TV series - Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.\n\nKim Cattrall, who played the popular character Samantha, will not feature.\n\nThe US network did not say why Cattrall wasn't cast in the revival, titled And Just Like That - a nod to one of the show's original catchphrases.\n\nHowever, Cattrall has had a strained relationship with the show in recent years, and in particular with her former co-star Parker.\n\nThe new series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes. Production will begin in late spring.\n\nThe trailer for the HBO Max show gives nothing away; It features numerous shots of New York, but none of the characters is seen on screen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kristin Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humour and the beloved city that has always defined them,\" Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, said in a statement.\n\nThe original Sex and the City series, created by Darren Star, was based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name. It premiered on HBO in 1998 and ran for six seasons until 2004.\n\nThe show inspired two films, Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010. A prequel series titled The Carrie Diaries, starring Anna Sophia Robb, aired on The CW in 2013/14.\n\nStar also created Netflix show Emily in Paris, and many have drawn inevitable comparisons between that show and SATC.\n\nWhen it first burst on to our TV screens, Sex and the City was seen as revolutionary - four women talking openly about their love and sex lives, not to mention the sex scenes themselves.\n\nThe first series of SATC began filming in 1998\n\nCosmopolitans and rabbit vibrators were trending before trending was a thing.\n\nWhile it was praised by many for its liberating female-led content, it also attracted criticism from some quarters who felt Carrie's ongoing pursuit of Mr Big (Christopher Noth) was not exactly an advert for female independence.\n\nIt was also accused of trivialising issues such as sexual harassment and for its lack of diversity, a criticism levelled at many older shows including Friends.\n\nFashion was a hugely influential part of the series - the tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening credits, teamed with a fur coat and heels, was described as \"an ensemble rich in cultural resonance\".\n\nAnd Manolo Blahnik could never have dreamed of attracting so much publicity for his designer footwear.\n\nIt was a ratings smash, with the hotly anticipated finale in 2004 drawing an audience of 10.6 million viewers in the US.\n\nIn the UK, the final episode was watched by 4.1m on Channel 4.\n\nThe series was predictably most popular in the 18-34 age group.\n\nMany SATC fans will be disappointed that larger-than-life favourite Samantha Jones - played by Kim Cattrall - will not be returning for the sequel series.\n\nSamantha was Sex and the City's most outlandish character and arguably, the star of the show.\n\nWhile Miranda was juggling a career and motherhood, Charlotte was focused on marriage and motherhood and Carrie poured her neuroses into her New York Star column, Samantha was the character perhaps harder to relate to but someone we all wanted to be (at least a little).\n\nShe was fiercely independent and while caring for her friends, she always put her own needs before men.\n\nBut news Cattrall won't reprise the role in And Just Like That comes as no surprise after years of feud rumours which were later confirmed by the British-born Canadian actress.\n\nIn 2017, Cattrall told Piers Morgan she had \"never been friends\" with her co-stars.\n\nShe said there was a \"toxic relationship\" and ruled out appearing in a third Sex and the City movie, denying that her decision was down to pay or \"diva\" demands.\n\nCattrall commented that former co-star Parker \"could have been nicer\" about the situation.\n\nA different actress could play Samantha in the future, she suggested.\n\n\"I played it past the finish line and then some and I loved it and another actress should play it,\" she said. \"Maybe they could make it an African-American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones, or bring in another character.\"\n\nShe later criticised Parker for being \"cruel\" after she sent condolences following the death of Cattrall's brother.\n\nIn an interview with People magazine shortly afterwards, SJP acknowledged Cattrall \"said things that were really hurtful about me\".\n\nParker said: \"So there was no fight; it was completely fabricated, because I actually never responded.\"\n\nOn Monday, Parker replied on Instagram to someone posting that SJP \"didn't tag Samantha Jones\" into her post announcing the new series.\n\n\"I don't dislike her. I've never said that. Never would. Samantha isn't part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do. x.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Small business owner Jon Wilding is facing a dilemma: his livelihood is on hold because of Covid restrictions and he has a big tax bill to settle.\n\nIf his company supplying marquees to outdoor events goes bust, the taxman will get paid, but his reputation as a businessman will be ruined forever.\n\n\"If I shut the business down, I then become director of a business that's gone bankrupt, at which stage getting loans in the future becomes nigh-on impossible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I feel like I'm one of those people who's been left out. We don't need a lot to keep going,\" said Mr Wilding, of Cannock in the West Midlands.\n\n\"The government say their support system is the best in the world, we've done furlough, this that and whatever, but it's not getting to all the people that need it.\"\n\nApart from the Bounce Back Loan scheme, his two-person business has received no government assistance.\n\nHis colleague was furloughed in March last year, but because Mr Wilding is the director, he is not allowed to furlough himself.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is particularly concerned about people like Mr Wilding.\n\nIt says directors of small companies, who pay themselves in dividends rather than drawing a salary, are not receiving any help from the government.\n\nThe FSB says somewhere between 700,000 and 1.1 million people fall into this category.\n\nIt has put forward ideas to help some of those firms, which it hopes ministers will adopt.\n\nThe FSB's proposed Directors Income Support Scheme would pay them grants of up to £7,500 to cover three months of lost trading profits. It would be limited to those who earn less than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"Company directors, the newly self-employed, those in supply chains and those without commercial premises are still being left out in the cold,\" said FSB national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\nWithout further government help to cope with the effects of the pandemic, a record 250,000 small businesses could be lost in the next 12 months, the FSB said.\n\n\"The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions,\" Mr Cherry added.\n\n\"As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe FSB based its prediction on a survey of 1,400 small firms, 5% of which said they expected to close this year.\n\nIf those figures were replicated across the country, some 250,000 of the UK's 5.9 million small firms could disappear, it said.\n\nMr Cherry said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\" and called for help that went beyond the retail, leisure and hospitality businesses.\n\nThe FSB said it had submitted its support scheme proposals to the Treasury and was expecting a decision this month.\n\nThe Treasury said nothing was planned at present, but added: \"Our support schemes are designed to get help to those who need it most whilst protecting the taxpayer from fraud, but of course we keep everything under review and are always open to further ideas.\"", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Douglas Ross: 'All of Scottish football should not be affected by the actions of one club'\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross tells viewers he thinks politics should be put aside and the UK and Scottish governments should work together to get the vaccinations out as quickly as possible. He is reluctant, as an assistant referee, to comment on the Celtic Dubai situation, but he does say that people have to look at the message it sends out. He points out that for many people at home alone at the moment, football is something they look forward to and \"we don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club\". He adds that financial support should be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues & Scottish Cup who have had their games suspended for three weeks.", "Terry Irving, 83, from Dumfries, was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday\n\nEveryone aged 80 or over in Scotland will be given the Covid vaccine by February, the health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman also said care home staff and residents, as well as front-line health and social care staff would be vaccinated in the next few weeks.\n\nAs of Sunday, 163,377 Scots had been given a first dose of vaccine.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Scotland that just under 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the end of the month.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine will be available at more than 1,100 locations from Monday.\n\nScotland has been given an initial allocation of more than 500,000 doses to use in January.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We intend that by the end of this month, the very beginning of February, we will have vaccinated all residents in care homes and staff, all front-line health and social care workers and all those aged 80 or over.\n\n\"So that's just under 560,000. We've already vaccinated about 70% of people in care homes and about half of the health and social care workforce.\"\n\nShe said the Scottish government was on course to match the UK government's commitment to offer a vaccine jab to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nThe health service will be able to vaccinate people as supplies of the jabs arrive, she said, with over-80s being contacted by their GPs.\n\nThe government has now started publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, with 163,377 Scots having been given a first dose as of Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the health authorities in Scotland now had enough supplies to give jabs to all over-80s over the coming four weeks.\n\nShe said the aim was to get through the priority list as quickly as possible.\n\nThis had been expected to be complete by mid-May, but Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very, very hopeful we will be able to accelerate that to an earlier point\".\n\nA total of 1,664 people are in hospital being treated for Covid-19, the highest number since the pandemic began - with Ms Sturgeon saying the country was in a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has already been administered in the Tayside, Lothian, Orkney and Highlands health board areas but this week will see it being used at vaccination centres across the whole country.\n\nRecent figures suggest a slight fall in the average positivity rates for Covid in many parts of Scotland, but pressures on the NHS have intensified.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital in with Covid rose to new highs at the weekend, and Sunday saw a sharp increase in the number of patients requiring treatment in intensive care.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there were few signs that the threat was \"abating\" and that a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nThe majority of Scotland's schools are closed until at least February with pupils now learning from home as the new term begins this week..\n\nOnly vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nLocal authorities said schools were better prepared to roll out digital learning than they were during the first lockdown.\n\nBut one parents' group has raised concerns about \"equal and fair access to home learning\".", "The Prince of Wales is urging firms to back a more sustainable future and do more to protect the planet, as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.\n\nPrince Charles wants companies to join what he is calling \"Terra Carta\" - or Earth charter.\n\nThe charter is being launched alongside a fund run by the Natural Capital Investment Alliance.\n\nIt aims to mobilise $10 billion towards natural capital by 2022.\n\nTerra Carta will harness the \"irreplaceable power of nature\", the prince said in his virtual address to the One Planet Summit on Monday.\n\nHe hopes the new charter will help \"reunite people and planet\".\n\nHe said: \"I can only encourage, in particular, those in industry and finance to provide practical leadership to this common project, as only they are able to mobilise the innovation, scale and resources that are required to transform our global economy.\"\n\nIn his foreword to Terra Carta, the prince writes: \"If we consider the legacy of our generation, more than 800 years ago, Magna Carta inspired a belief in the fundamental rights and liberties of people.\n\n\"As we strive to imagine the next 800 years of human progress, the fundamental rights and value of nature must represent a step-change in our 'future of industry' and 'future of economy' approach.\"\n\nCharles has previously said that people thought he was \"completely dotty\" when he started talking about environmental issues in the 1970s.", "A number of positive cases have been identified among passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year\n\nDubai has been added to Scotland's travel quarantine list with anyone coming from the country told to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe rule, which came into effect at 04:00, will also apply retrospectively for passengers who have made the journey since 3 January.\n\nCeltic confirmed one of their players tested positive for the virus less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip to Dubai on Friday.\n\nIt is not known if he was on the trip.\n\nThe Scottish government said clinicians and the local NHS health protection team were in contact with Celtic providing advice. It also confirmed that quarantine rules did not apply to sports people who had attended \"elite training\" abroad.\n\nHowever, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week questioned the purpose of Celtic's trip and whether they were following social-distancing rules after seeing photos from their Dubai base.\n\nShe warned that professional sport's privileges could be lost if protocols were not followed by all participants.\n\nThe government said the change was due to a number of positive cases being identified in passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year.\n\nIt said the \"preventative action\" would help stem the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"It is evident, both in Scotland and in countries across the world, that the virus continues to pose real risks to health and to life and we need to interrupt the rise in cases.\"\n\nHe added: \"Imposing quarantine requirements on those arriving in the UK is our first defence in managing the risk of imported cases from communities with high risks of transmission. That is why we have made the decision to remove Dubai from the country exemptions list.\n\n\"Whether or not an overseas destination has been designated for quarantine restrictions, our message remains clear that people should not currently be undertaking non-essential foreign travel.\n\n\"People need to stay at home to help suppress the virus, protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJoanne Dooey, president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA), said: \"Removing Dubai from the safe list is understandable. We believe that there has been a cluster of infections around Scots who travelled to Dubai over the Christmas and New Year period.\n\n\"Whilst we're keen to see a return to increased international travel, protecting the health of the whole country remains our key concern and we are supportive of this move.\"", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.\n\nThirteen Celtic players missed the game as they self-isolate after being deemed close contacts of Jullien.\n\nThe hosts led through David Turnbull's free-kick, but are now 21 points behind Scottish Premiership leaders Rangers after Kevin Nisbet's late Hibs strike.\n\n\"There's regret that one person has caught the virus,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"But there's not a regret in terms of the permission we got to go and the protocols that we followed, which we have done the whole season.\"\n• None 'Celtic's lack of remorse over Dubai farce is risible'\n• None Trouble in paradise? Timeline of Dubai bid to Covid crisis\n\nStrachan, who managed the team against Hibs as Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy are also in enforced quarantine, defended the decision to take Jullien - who is out injured for up to four months - on last week's controversial training trip.\n\n\"It was to maintain his treatment with the backroom staff, he went over there so we can get him back as fast as we can,\" Strachan added.\n\n\"Yeah, I can understand the frustration from everybody, because we end up playing with a weaker team, but that could have happened if we were training at home as well.\"\n\nCeltic, who still have three games in hand, fielded an unfamiliar line-up showing six changes, though one of those was enforced by Nir Bitton's suspension, and teenage American forward Cameron Harper was handed a debut.\n\nHibs' request for Celtic players to be retested pre-match was turned down and Jack Ross gave a first appearance to on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Macey.\n\nAnd it was the visitors who tried to stamp their authority on the game early on with Nisbet heading over and later testing Conor Hazard with a shot after Joe Newell's strike had been pushed out by the Celtic keeper.\n\nHarper shot instead of passing from a promising position in Celtic's first incisive move and long-range efforts from Ismaila Soro and Diego Laxalt drew fine saves from Macey.\n\nTurnbull's superb chip found Callum McGregor in behind the Hibs defence but he could not make the right connection.\n\nLewis Stevenson made his 500th Hibernian appearance as a half-time replacement for Josh Doig and Harper limped off to be replaced by another Celtic debutant Armstrong Oko-Flex on the hour.\n\nChances were at a premium and Hazard was quick off his line to snuff out a chance for Melker Hallberg and Drey Wright's replacement Christian Doidge could not get a header on Jamie Murphy's teasing corner.\n\nMikey Johnston claimed unsuccessfully for a penalty after going down in the Hibs box following Ryan Porteous' challenge and soon made way for Karamoko Dembele.\n\nHibs also made a change with Stephen McGinn replacing Hallberg and the midfielder fouled Turnbull to give the Celtic midfielder the chance to put Celtic ahead, and he did. It was a fantastic strike by Turnbull and his fifth goal for Celtic.\n\nHibs went back on the attack and won a free-kick of their own after Laxalt's foul on Paul McGinn and the latter's header from Stevie Mallan's delivery was cleared on the line only for Nisbet to fire high into the net for parity. A point took Hibs to within two of Aberdeen in third.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nUnsurprisingly, Celtic took a while to settle into the match and lacked a focal point in the absence of Leigh Griffiths and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nFor long spells in the second half, the hosts did not look likely to win but took their chance when it came. Defensively, though, they were caught out badly at a set play.\n\nHibs may rue not throwing more caution to the wind at 0-0 but, after three league defeats, a point in Glasgow is a positive result.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nCeltic coach Gavin Strachan: \"The players put a lot into the game and we thought we did enough to nick it. The sucker punch at the end was frustrating. We were hoping we would have enough bodies back to see that out.\n\n\"There's a lot of football still to be played and you never know what's going to happen. Obviously it's a frustrating time just now but we need to get the win on Saturday, keep racking up the points and see what happens.\"\n\nHibernian head coach Jack Ross: \"We wanted to come and win the game. I certainly think we merited taking something from it. It's good for us to stop the bleeding. It hopefully just propels our side in the right direction again.\n\n\"Kevin Nisbet's goalscoring return has been excellent. The accuracy of the finish and the trust in his finishing ability with the goal has to be like that otherwise I don't think he scores it.\"\n\nCeltic will still be without their isolating players when they host Livingston on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Hibs are at home to Kilmarnock at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Nisbet.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 1. Kevin Nisbet (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul McGinn (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Mallan with a cross.\n• None Paul McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Doidge (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Murphy (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul McGinn.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 0. David Turnbull (Celtic) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wales' health minister has acknowledged it was \"entirely understandable people are concerned\" about when they will receive their vaccine.\n\nBut Vaughan Gething also stressed that supplies will increase over the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think a number of people are are anxious because this is a worrying time. And it's entirely understandable on a human level why people are concerned\", he said.\n\nMr Gething admitted that other UK nations had made a better start in rolling out the vaccine.\n\nBut he said that he believed Wales had still made a \"good start\" and \"that's evidenced by the figures\".\n\nWhen asked about the concerns made by some GP practices, Mr Gething said he understands why some of them \"will be frustrated\".\n\nHe added: \"But we're delivering the AstraZeneca vaccine in supplies that we have to keep it going.\n\n\"And as I said, the availability of that vaccine is the current rate limiting step and significantly increasing our delivery because we know there are a range of general practices and others who could deliver more if we had more supply.\n\n\"The supply they're being given is supplied for the week - it's not to stretch through for the whole population that they're covering.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland has said he hopes to make non-fatal strangulation a specific offence after a call by domestic abuse campaigners.\n\nToo many violent offenders' sentences are not tough enough, he said.\n\nAnd he added that strangulation can be a precursor to even more serious crimes against women.\n\nCampaigners argue that perpetrators are often only charged with common assault, which carries a maximum of six months in prison.\n\nBecause non-fatal strangulation may not leave any marks on the victim, prosecutors do not bring more serious charges, they say.\n\nMr Buckland said: \"There are too many violent offenders not getting sentences proportionate to the seriousness of their crimes because in many cases, prosecutors don't have adequate charging options where the victim has been strangled.\n\n\"The vast majority of these crimes are committed against women and they are often a precursor to even more serious violence.\"\n\nThe justice secretary hopes the new offence can be included in the Police and Sentencing Bill, although discussions are at an early stage.\n\nCampaigners had called for a new offence to be part of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The Conservative peer Baroness Newlove was planning to table an amendment to this bill as it goes through the House of Lords. She won cross-party support during a debate in the Lords last week.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice believes that as non-fatal strangulation can be used in situations other than domestic abuse, the legislation should have a broader context.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said strangulation was often a precursor to even more serious attacks on women\n\nWelcoming the move, Nogah Ofer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence said: \"It is time that as a society we stopped normalising and ignoring strangulation.\n\n\"We look forward to police, prosecutors and medical professionals working together to address this with the seriousness it deserves, and hope that survivors of domestic abuse will have greater confidence to seek justice.\"\n\nCampaigner Rachel Williams, who suffered strangulation during an abusive relationship, tweeted that it was \"a great victory\". She was shot and severely injured by her violent partner in 2011, who then killed himself.\n\nLast week, the government said that non-fatal strangulation was already covered by existing legislation from common assault to attempted murder.\n\nIt is now looking at how a new offence was introduced in New Zealand. Parts of Australia and the US have also brought in similar measures.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, crossbench peer Lord Anderson of Ipswich, a QC and former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warned that \"hurried law can be bad law\".\n\nHe asked whether a more generic offence of aggravated assault or recklessly endangering life might cover these circumstances and questioned how strangulation and suffocation would be defined in the law.", "Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim's community said otherwise.\n\nThis story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January.\n\nFor Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt.\n\nShe credits this moment for her \"fairly normal\" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky.\n\nAt the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery.\n\nMontgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Stinnett bled to death.\n\nMattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine.\n\nThe girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Montgomery was left behind with her mother.\n\nLisa Montgomery and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children\n\nIt would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death.\n\n\"One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal,\" says Mattingly. \"The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. And then at the end, she was broken.\"\n\nIn late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy.\n\nHowever, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted.\n\nLisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called \"Ratter Chatter\". Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett.\n\nBut it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies.\n\nWhen Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb.\n\nInvestigators quickly realised that \"Darlene Fischer\" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing.\n\nSince 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell.\n\nMontgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber.\n\nMontgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.\n\nHowever, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore.\n\n\"Bobbie deserves to be here today. Bobbie's family deserves her,\" says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. \"And Lisa deserves to pay.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nLisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness.\n\n\"The whole story is tragic,\" says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. \"But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.\"\n\nFor Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis.\n\nWhen Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly.\n\n\"Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. She enjoyed torturing the people around her,\" says Mattingly. \"She got joy out of it.\"\n\nAfter Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture.\n\nAccording to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house.\n\nAs a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards.\n\nBut the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers.\n\nLawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing.\n\nWhen Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself.\n\n\"There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this,\" says Henry.\n\nMontgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with \"regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa\".\n\nWhen she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her.\n\n\"It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie,\" he said in a statement. \"I felt sick watching the video. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.\"\n\nFriends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into \"a world of her own\". Her children were disturbed by it. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury.\n\nMontgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born.\n\nOne theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children.\n\n\"There was so much pressure on her at that point,\" says Henry. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. \"She was completely detached from reality.\"\n\nHer lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant.\n\nHenry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness.\n\nHer lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done.\n\nAfter five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. They recommended a sentence of death.\n\nDiane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference.\n\n\"I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'\" she says. \"I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. And to not fail her.\"\n\nThe tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could \"get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner\" - but those days are long gone. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved.\n\nThe population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She was quiet and kind, they say.\n\nAt the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child.\n\nAlthough the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett.\n\nThey hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. \"Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill,\" says Jena Baumli.\n\nThe murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents.\n\nFor one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here.\n\n\"I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten,\" says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000.\n\n\"She always wanted to be a mom,\" says Baumli. \"She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.\"\n\nBecause of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie,\" Morrow says.\n\nBut what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation.\n\nNodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way.\n\n\"The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room,\" he says. \"And then go, 'Look at this body'. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. This is the stuff of nightmares.\"\n\nMany of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer.\n\nShe had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner.\n\nDr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to.\n\n\"Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way,\" she says. \"We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Lisa Montgomery is no different. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.\"\n\nThe baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery.\n\nBobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be.\n\n\"I cried,\" says Strong. \"The whole community over there's traumatised by this.\"\n\nSchool friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. She missed the funeral because of it.\n\n\"Let's say I didn't stay clean very long,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. And it's never about what my friend went through,\" she adds. \"I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.\"\n\nThree federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when.\n\nUntil July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years.\n\nProtest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020\n\nTwo other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff.\n\n\"They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to,\" says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.\"\n\nMontgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days.\n\nMattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house.\n\n\"If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?\" she says. \"There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.\"", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "There are concerns about the cost of education for families reliant on mobile connections\n\nCustomers using BT Mobile, EE, and Plusnet Mobile can use BBC Bitesize content from the end of January without eating into their data allowance.\n\nBitesize provides structured lessons in maths and English for all year groups, as well as offering other curriculum material.\n\nContent from other providers is likely to be made free in the coming days.\n\nMore mobile companies are expected to follow suit in making such content free to use.\n\nThe current UK lockdowns mean most children are now learning from home.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has mandated that schools must provide between three and five hours of online content per day.\n\nThis has led to concerns that children in families without access to broadband could fall behind.\n\nSchools remain open for children classed as vulnerable and those whose parents are key workers.\n\nAll contract and pay-as-you-go customers of BT Mobile, EE and Plusnet Mobile will be eligible and the free package will continue while schools remain closed. No registration is required - the free access will happen automatically.\n\nBT has also asked the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations to each suggest one online resource for schoolchildren in its regions, which it will also zero-rate, as the curriculums differ from English schools.\n\nAccording to UK media watchdog Ofcom, some 880,000 families are reliant solely on mobile connections, and many of those will have data limitations.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"With the pandemic forcing schools to close again, we should not allow a lack of digital access to further impact children's education.\n\n\"The BBC will continue to do all we can to ensure every child, whatever their circumstances, can continue to access vital educational materials during this time.\"\n\nThe corporation is also running three hours of curriculum-based TV programmes alongside the BBC Bitesize collection of educational resources. Primary school programming will be on CBBC, with two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, content was available on iPlayer, Red Button services and online, but not on regular TV channels, although viewers in Scotland did have some programming.\n\nBT said the move was part of its wider Lockdown Learning programme.\n\nBT consumer brands chief executive Marc Allera said: \"We want to ensure that no child is left behind in their education as a result of this pandemic and recognise that we all have a role we can play to help families and carers continue their children's education while schools are closed.\"", "Kay and Kenneth Hayward said they felt the journey was too unsafe\n\nPeople waiting to receive the Covid-19 vaccine say they are confused by NHS letters inviting them to travel to centres miles away from their homes.\n\nThe first 130,000 letters have been sent to people aged 80 or older who live about 30 to 45 minutes' drive away from one of seven new regional centres.\n\nBut patients, many of whom are shielding, questioned why they had to travel so far in a pandemic.\n\nLocal jabs are available to people if they wait, the NHS said.\n\nThe seven centres include Ashton Gate in Bristol, Epsom racecourse in Surrey, London's Nightingale hospital, Newcastle's Centre for Life, the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre, Robertson House in Stevenage and Birmingham's Millennium Point.\n\nPeople will not miss out on their vaccination if they do not use the letters to make an appointment at one of the centres, the NHS said.\n\nTwo Labour MPs tweeted about their concerns about the letters being delayed in getting out to people due to coronavirus affecting Royal Mail staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hancock: We are willing to tighten the rules\n\nThe health secretary stresses the importance of the public following the restrictions of the current lockdown. Asked by Emily Morgan of ITV whether it was time to make the rules stricter amid reports of people not sticking to them at the weekend, Matt Hancock says: \"We keep these things under review and we have demonstrated that we're willing to tighten the rules if they need to be tightened. \"But the thing that really matters right here, right now is that everybody follows the rules as they are today. \"And everybody can play their part in doing that.\" He adds he applauds the action supermarket Morrisons has taken in enforcing the wearing of masks by its customers unless they have a medical reason. \"I want to see all parts of society playing their part in this,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Whitty: \"We need to really double down – this is everybody’s problem\"\n\nThe UK will go through the \"most dangerous time\" of the pandemic in the weeks before vaccine rollout has an impact, England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty urged people to minimise all unnecessary contact with others.\n\nThe next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS, he said.\n\nThousands more people are due to receive a vaccine this week after seven mass centres opened across England.\n\nNHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out the government's vaccine delivery plan at a news conference later.\n\nHe said the proposals would be the \"keystone of our exit out of the pandemic\".\n\nOutlining the vaccine rollout in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that ministers aim to give all over-80s the first dose of the vaccine over the next four weeks.\n\nThe Welsh Government plans to offer a vaccine to all over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk by spring.\n\nMr Hancock said on Sunday about two million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nOver the weekend, the UK passed the milestone of 80,000 deaths with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.\n\nCurrently, around one in 50 people across the UK is infected and Prof Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There's a very high chance that if you meet someone unnecessarily they will have Covid.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC One's Breakfast, he said: \"This is everybody's problem. Any single unnecessary contact you have with someone is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead to a vulnerable person.\"\n\nHe said there were over 30,000 people [in English hospitals alone] with Covid-19 - compared to about 18,000 [in England] at the peak last April.\n\nHe added that \"anybody who is not shocked\" by the number of people in hospital \"has not understood this at all\".\n\n\"This is an appalling situation,\" he said.\n\nIn Essex, Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount of oxygen used to treat patients after supply \"reached a critical situation\", according to a document shared with the BBC.\n\nIn Surrey, a temporary mortuary has been opened as hospital mortuaries have reached capacity.\n\nAlmost 200 bodies are being stored at the emergency site, which is a former military hospital, and other local authorities have told the BBC they expect to open similar facilities soon.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England national medical director, said \"this is much bigger than the first wave back in April\".\n\n\"I don't think anyone in the NHS has known anything like this, this is a once-in-a-century pandemic,\" he said.\n\nProf Rupert Pearse, an intensive care doctor, told BBC Breakfast that in a \"normal\" winter it would be \"unlikely\" that more than three of four flu patients would need intensive care at any one time, but his unit is now running 130 intensive care beds because of the effects of Covid.\n\n\"To compare this to a normal winter flu epidemic is out of all proportion, it's orders of magnitude larger,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMinisters held two meetings on Sunday to discuss how to enforce the current lockdown measures more strictly and whether even tighter restrictions may be needed.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said no decisions on further restrictions were taken as there was a desire within government to wait until reliable data on existing measures becomes available in 10 days.\n\nHowever, he added there had been a discussion on better enforcement of existing regulations, including at shops and workplaces.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said \"we need to see the evidence behind nurseries\" remaining open.\n\nAsked whether tighter restrictions were needed, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThere is a lot of debate about whether the lockdown restrictions need to be tightened.\n\nThere are certainly some anomalies. For example, we are told to only leave the home for essential purposes, but coffee shops remain open for takeaways and retail shops for click-and-collect in England and Wales.\n\nHowever, even if those elements are tightened up, there is a limit to what the government can do. It is why, in his round of media interviews on Monday, Prof Whitty repeatedly talked about individual decision-making.\n\nThe mixing of different households continues. Some of it is allowed under the support bubble exemptions, but undoubtedly some of it is taking place outside of this. It is, after all, virtually impossible to police what goes on in people's homes.\n\nIt is why messaging is so important - and so ministers and officials are stressing the pressure the NHS is under. A further tightening of the restrictions could also help make the point.\n\nBut there is also a recognition this is hard. People are fatigued. A further crackdown could also erode goodwill.\n\nThe vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history.\n\nThe seven mass testing sites, which NHS England said were chosen to give a geographical spread, are:\n\nThe new centres will each be capable of delivering thousands of vaccinations each week and will be followed by \"dozens more\" large-scale sites, NHS England said.\n\nThere will be about 1,200 vaccination sites when more GP-led and hospital services open later this week, along with the first pharmacy-led pilot sites, it added.\n\nSome vulnerable people have questioned why they have been asked to travel to centres miles away from their homes during a pandemic, but the NHS has said people would not miss out on their vaccination if they wait for an appointment at a centre closer to home in the coming weeks.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said nobody should be asked to travel more than 10 miles to get a vaccine once more centres open.\n\nAsked on Today why the centres were not open 24 hours a day, he said it was \"more convenient\" for older people to attend during the day.\n\n\"If we need to go to 24-hour work we will absolutely go to 24 hours a day to make sure we vaccinate as quickly as we can,\" he said.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We are limited by the amount of vaccine that is coming through the system.\"\n\nPharmaceutical firm Boots said its first vaccination site was due to open later this week to offer the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to the people most vulnerable.\n\nIt said sites in Huddersfield and Gloucester were planned to open in the coming weeks.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nAre you due to have a vaccination today? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.\n\nThe Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.\n\nThe new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.\n\nIn its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers.\n\nHis team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris's husband Doug Emhoff.\n\nDonald Trump inherited the Potus account's 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama - but that will not happen this time.\n\nMr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant \"the administration will have to start from zero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter has not explained why the decision was made, and said it had nothing further to add beyond an official blog post laying out transition plans.\n\nIn that post it said: \"These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration,\" without a reason why.\n\nBut it said that people who previously followed the official @POTUS and @VP (Vice-President) accounts, or the personal accounts of Mr Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris - would receive notifications giving them the option to follow the new official ones.\n\nMr Obama was the first US leader to have an official Twitter account. The @POTUS account was set up during his tenure in 2015.\n\nAt the end of his second term, a transition plan for handing over the official accounts to Mr Trump was drawn up - with @POTUS going to the new administration.\n\nAll of Mr Obama's official tweets were archived for posterity on a separate account, @POTUS44 (where they can still be read today).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by President Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter said that the official @POTUS account under Mr Trump will be archived in a similar way, under @POTUS45. But Mr Trump rarely used that account, favouring his own Twitter handle.\n\nTwitter notably omitted any mention of the now-suspended @realDonaldTrump account, and declined to answer questions about whether its contents would be archived.\n\nThat is despite a declaration by the White House in 2017 that tweets from that account are considered official statements by the President.\n\nHowever, the US National Archives has already announced - through a tweet - that it will archive all social media content from that account, despite Twitter's lack of a commitment to doing so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by US National Archives\n\nIt said that the White House has been using a special archiving tool to capture all content, including deleted tweets, because of the Presidential Records Act.\n\nThat is likely to result in a record system similar to The Obama White House Social Media Archive, built after the last transition.\n\nA key goal of the Obama transition was to preserve social media posts \"on the platforms where they were created\".\n\nBut Twitter has permanently suspended Mr Trump from its platform and it remains unclear if it will ever archive his account for posterity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nThe hills are alive: This impressive shot of 11-year-old Hamish at sunrise up the Pentland Hills, with the snow starting to be blown off the peak, was captured by dad Andy Dryden.\n\nMinus coo degrees: \"Hardy Highlander at Abriachan\" is how Gordon Bain described his photo.\n\nRed sky thinking: \"I always walk the dog to catch the sunrise and to gather my thoughts before attempting to juggle home schooling of my two primary school kids with working from home and looking after a toddler\", says Mairi Brittan at Cammo Estate, Edinburgh.\n\nRobin red brrr-east: Graham Laird spotted a little feathered friend not looking entirely delighted while taking a breather in the cold in his garden in Wishaw.\n\nUp at the crack of dawn: \"The Beveridge Park pond in Kirkcaldy looking rather icy\", says John Pow.\n\nAn uphill struggle: It's all downhill from here - but in a fun way - for three-year-old Zachary in King's Park, Glasgow.\n\nFire and ice: \"Taken at Dunbar harbour, East Lothian, in the snowfall on the way to work\", says Rowan Davies.\n\nAbbey thoughts: \"Jedburgh Abbey on a crisp January morning\", says Alan Morrison. \"The sun was captured just as it shone through\".\n\nSon rise: Jeanette Taylor says her two boys loved the adventure of getting up early to see the sun come up at Aberdeen beach. \"A chilly visit but oh so worth it\", she says.\n\nLight on her feet: \"As keen figure skaters my daughter Ada (pictured) and I have had an amazing week skating outdoors on our local frozen pond near Glasgow\", says Helen Campbell. \"I was very careful to check it is safe to skate on first; the ice was absolutely solid\".\n\nFlagging up a beautiful sunrise: An Aberdeen morning, from Finlay Gray.\n\nWell-trained eye: \"My husband Kris took this picture of our 12-year-old son Finlay at our local running track in a Falkirk park with the Ochils in the background\", says Emma Horne. \"Finlay can’t play his beloved rugby at the moment due to Covid but is keeping as fit as he can in other ways\".\n\nA strange light in the sky: Joe Gillies captured this Glasgow scene, complete with reflected light shade, on his phone.\n\nSmiles more fun: First sledging experience for the happy pair of 16-month-old Annabel and 21-month-old Hugh in granny's garden, Isle of Skye, courtesy of Hermione Lamond.\n\nThe gloves are off: \"A walk up Culter Fell (near Biggar), in near-Arctic conditions\", says Chris Green.\n\nPark life: Mark McGuire captured Queen's Park in Glasgow looking like a winter wonderland.\n\nSpecial branch: \"I have seen the Kingfisher darting by on the River Carron over the last two years\", says Paul Ross. \"This is the first time I have managed to get a sharpish image\".\n\nTrees frame: Carole Brunton captured this calming, if cold, scene at home in East Neuk, Fife.\n\nCold feet: \"A coot on one of Dundee's frozen Stobsmuir ponds\", from Sandy Forbes.\n\nHaving the foggiest idea: \"An image of atmospheric fog as it envelops Paisley\", says Gary Chittick. \"Hardly a single recognisable part of Glasgow could be seen\".\n\nSniffer dog: \"Ollie, our 12-week-old cockapoo pup, experiences snow for the first time\" says Iain Clow. \"Lockdown garden fun in East Kilbride\".\n\n... and it seems they never learn! \"Zizou enjoying his sunny snowy morning walk at the river Spey in Knockando\", says Colin Coutts.\n\nI love Arran: \"My wife and I stopped at the top of Fairlie Moor Road, looked back, and this is what we saw\", explains Phil Cowling.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Look who we spotted on our walk\", says Ruth Moss. \"He was very bold - wish we’d had something to feed him\".\n\nWatercolour art: \"This is a photo of the Ythan in the centre of Ellon\", says Andy Leonard. \"The colour of the sky is reflected in the water - I used a slow shutter speed to emphasise the water movement.\"\n\nHatman and robin: \"After an overnight fall of snow, Frosty and his friendly robin return to a Glasgow garden\", says John McQueeney.\n\nSmall wonder: \"These mini snowmen on the Prince of Wales Bridge in Kelvingrove Park brightened up a dull and foggy day\", says Geoff Der.\n\nOne man and his dog: \"Snowy walk with my husband and rescue dog Nico\", says Laura Johnstone in Airdrie.\n\nSpot the ball: \"Haggs Castle golf course is closed - maybe!\", says Alan Crozier.\n\nSolar energy: Robert Young's sunset shot from Chapelton looking towards Whitelee wind farm features all sorts of power.\n\nTwo for the price of one: \"Duck!\" could have been the cry from this heron in flight over a fellow bird at the River Avon, Hamilton, as seen by Wilma Phillips.\n\nRoom with a view: A nicely-framed sunset from Audrey Philpott of Skene, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBonnie picture: Sharon Donald was walking Bonnie the collie when she took this shot near Spean Bridge.\n\nKeep it in the family: Derek Warrander making sure lockdown learning is music to the ears of Jessica, 11, and three-year-old Matthew in Aberdeenshire, courtesy of Caseydee Warrander.\n\nFeeling on top of the world: The Cobbler sunset, from Tomasz Zajac.\n\nIce to see you: \"A photo of my husband, Stephen, and Sophie, through a sheet of ice which they then had great fun smashing\", says Leigh Titterington in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire.\n\nSpace station: All quiet outside Glasgow Central, courtesy of Eva Brodie.\n\nSnow angel: \"Exploring a winter wonderland with my daughter Cora at Tyrebagger woods just outside Aberdeen\", says Katherine Blum.\n\nTaps aff: \"Hope this brings a smile to your face\", says Stewart Paul in Cruden Bay. It certainly did!\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Doctors fear the impact of the lockdown and school closures could worsen child obesity\n\nThe health board with the worst child obesity rates in Wales is setting up a unit to tackle the issue.\n\nData from the Child Measurement Programme showed 30.3% of four and five-year-olds in north Wales measured as overweight or obese.\n\nThe Welsh average is 26.4%, but doctors fear this could worsen in the pandemic.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is recruiting a dietetic lead for a new children's healthy weight management service.\n\nThe service is not being launched directly because of the pandemic, but there are fears lockdowns and school closures could compound the problem.\n\nDr Naomi Simmons, consultant paediatrician at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said: \"I do fear that the pandemic will contribute to an exacerbation of what's already a really, really significant problem.\n\n\"Whilst we're pleased that children are not suffering the acute effects of Covid in the same way as older patients are, on the whole, it's the long-term effects of the country being in this pandemic that we're worried about in terms of the long-term health of these children.\n\n\"It's that lack of routine, it's being out of school, and not being able to access their usual forms of physical activity.\"\n\nDaniel, from Denbighshire - not his real name - is the father of a six-year-old girl who was referred to Dr Simmons's clinic when a GP became concerned about her weight two years ago. She is still under the care of the clinic.\n\nHe said: \"We presumed we were feeding her correctly. She was getting fruit, veg, home-cooked meals. But I think our issue was, we kind of let her have treats, like chocolates and sweets.\n\n\"To be told the news [that she was obese], it was horrible. We were very upset. We were kind of angry about it - we didn't see a problem in her, we didn't believe she was overweight or obese. We were both asking what we had done wrong as parents - we gave her fruit, vegetables, home-cooked meals... we were asking ourselves, 'how have we failed as parents?'\"\n\nWith support from Dr Simmons, his daughter made \"great progress\" and lost weight, he said. Previous signs of health issues such as liver problems had improved. Then the pandemic struck and the country went into its first lockdown, followed by the firebreak, then the current lockdown.\n\nExperts said they feared the impact of children not being able to take part in their usual physical activity\n\nDespite making efforts to keep active and eat healthily, Daniel has seen the gradual effects on his daughter, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"It had a bad effect on her, and not just the weight - mental health-wise it's also affected her. She's six years old and is worried about being around other people in the street,\" he said.\n\n\"In years to come, Covid will be gone, we'll have control of it. But obesity, that's the issue that's going to be prolonged.\n\n\"The long-term mental health impact really scares me - not just for my daughter, but for so many other children.\"\n\nDr Simmons said increasing rates of childhood obesity in recent years meant experts were treating more children with conditions normally associated with adults.\n\n\"Even children as young as primary school age, I'm seeing those children with fatty liver changes for example, as a result of their obesity. We're seeing them with high blood pressure and we're seeing children and young people developing type 2 diabetes and many more with pre-diabetic states because of their obesity.\"\n\nDoctors said they were seeing primary school children with high blood pressure\n\nShe revealed her youngest patient was only a year old and encouraged families to get their children \"used to being fit and healthy and consuming a healthy diet\".\n\n\"It's lack of exercise, it's the sedentary lifestyle that we as a nation are sadly embracing these days,\" she added.\n\nIf children remain overweight and remain obese into adolescence, they have an 80% chance of being obese into adulthood, said Dr Simmons.\n\nShe said she hoped the new service would give \"the very best chance of turning things around\".\n\nSteven Grayston, Betsi Cadwaladr health board's assistant area director of therapy services, said the health board had been working for the past five years to develop its obesity services.\n\n\"This is a specialist weight management service for children who are already obese,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to stop them becoming obese, therefore we want to develop preventative services as well as treatment services.\n\n\"We're very concerned about the impact of Covid and the pandemic on children's activity levels, certainly in terms of team-based sports and access to leisure facilities - particularly things like swimming, which we know children enjoy.\n\n\"We're concerned that children just aren't getting out of the house and doing things, and the impact that'll have and the knock-on effect on obesity levels in the future, as children are just less active and less interested in doing those activities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We will shortly be publishing a revised delivery plan for Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales for 2021-22, which will focus on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children and families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK meat exporters have claimed post-Brexit customs systems are \"not fit for purpose\", with goods delayed for hours, sometimes days, at the border.\n\nThe British Meat Processor Association said even experienced exporters were struggling with the system.\n\nIt said meat exports to the EU were 25% of normal levels for this time of year.\n\nOne large French meat importer told the BBC that he and his competitors were starting to look at alternative suppliers in Spain and Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"Fundamentally, this is not a system that was designed for a 24/7, just-in-time supply chain.\n\n\"The export health certification process was designed for moving containers of frozen meat around the world where you have a bit of leeway on time.\n\n\"No matter how much better we get at filling in the forms, it's really not fit for purpose. This is going back to the dark ages in terms of a process really, in this digital age.\"\n\nHe added \"It's going to be a problem for quite a time until we move forward and hopefully get a better digital system in place and can make it work a bit better, but until then, we've got to put up with all this paperwork and lorries arriving in Ireland with box files full of paper.\"\n\nRizvan Khalid, a lamb exporter based in Shropshire, cannot afford to get the paperwork wrong.\n\nHis company, Euro Quality Lambs, exports 70% of its meat to the EU, including France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. He says what was once a once well-oiled machine now has a spanner in it.\n\n\"What used to take us 15 minutes is now taking us three or four hours on average before we can get the paperwork completed for one particular load,\" he says.\n\n\"It's taking them [on the French side] up to six hours to go through the health certificates, to open up the lorry and check the goods.\n\n\"All of that is adding time and costs. It's now an extra day before our product gets into the markets of Paris.\"\n\nMeanwhile, some buyers in the EU are losing patience and are beginning to consider other options.\n\nFrancis Ochoa's meat company, Fory Viandes, is based in one of the world's biggest fresh produce markets - the Rungis market, south of Paris.\n\n\"The delays and extra costs mean me and my competitors in the market are obliged to start looking for other solutions,\" he says.\n\n\"One of the solutions unfortunately is to try produce from other countries, Spain for instance. Some of our competitors are ordering lambs from Ireland instead of the UK, so the consequences for UK meat and UK lambs could be disastrous.\"\n\nDown at the international freight checkpoint in Ashford, near the entrance to the Eurotunnel, customs consultant Steve Cocks gave a downbeat assessment.\n\n\"The temporary border post lorry park is full, roads are being closed off and lorries are being sent back to the Covid testing site to hold them there,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week wasn't much to write home about as it was very quiet, but volumes are building and it's just going to get worse. Exports are grinding to a halt and that will affect imports, but if you are a haulier. you don't want to get a lorry stuck on this side of the Channel.\"\n\nAfter decades of friction-free trade, there are bound to be teething problems. Indeed, the government predicted that there would be \"significant additional disruption\" as traders, officials and customers became accustomed to new procedures.\n\nHowever, some things cannot \"bed in\" and will become permanent features. HMRC estimates the additional cost to UK business of bog-standard customs declarations alone at £7bn.\n\nWhen buyers and sellers want to trade, they will find a way, but significant additional cost and complexity is here to stay.", "Patients have been arriving in a steady flow at a community pharmacy in Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, the first in Wales to offer coronavirus vaccines by appointment.\n\nRosie Bennett, who lives in the village Pwllheli, said: “I’m 82 and don’t have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n“Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They’ve been doing a great job during the pandemic and it’s reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\n\n“And it’s a huge relief to be vaccinated. The last few months haven’t been easy for any of us and hopefully today is another small step towards a better future.”\n\nSteffan John, pharmacist on duty, gave Rosie the vaccine and said: “as pharmacists, we give out flu vaccines regularly, so we’re used to organising clinics like this.\n\n“We’re really pleased to do our bit for our community.\n\n“We have had extra training for today, and we also have to make sure there are enough appointments on the list.\n\n\"The vaccine comes in vials of ten doses, so it’s important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any.”", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has denied reports that his department is planning to dilute UK workers' rights.\n\nIt comes after the Financial Times said some protections brought in under EU law - such as the 48-hour limit on the working week - could be scrapped.\n\nNew rules on rest breaks and changes to how holiday pay is calculated from overtime could be proposed, it added.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng insisted he wanted to \"protect and enhance workers' rights going forward, not row back on them\".\n\nIn a social media post, he said that the UK \"has one of the best workers' rights records in the world - going further than the EU in many areas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour said the newspaper report suggested the government was out of step with public feeling on workplace rules.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"These proposals are not about cutting red tape for businesses but ripping up vital rights for workers. They should not even be up for discussion.\"\n\nThe FT said the proposals were being drawn up with the approval of Downing Street, but that they hadn't yet been approved by ministers or cabinet.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights.\n\n\"The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world, and it is well known that the UK goes further than the EU in many areas.\n\n\"Leaving the EU allows us to continue to be a standard setter and protect and enhance UK workers' rights.\"\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it retained many of its laws, but it is now able to change them.\n\nOne aspect of EU employment regulation is the EU's Working Time Directive.\n\nIt governs the hours employees in the EU can be asked to work. This must not exceed 48 hours on average, including any overtime.\n\nBut employees can choose to opt out of the 48-hour week, if they often work overtime in roles in the emergency services, for example.\n\nIn the 2019 Queen's Speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, changes in employment law were promised.\n\nA new Employment Bill is expected to be published in 2021. One issue it is thought it will address is over the distribution of tips.\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady urged the prime minister to \"make good on his promises to his voters\" on Friday.\n\n\"The best way to do that is to bring forward the long-awaited Employment Bill, to make sure everyone is treated fairly at work,\" she said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America entering the UK has come into force, amid fears over a potentially more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Brazil. The ban also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - off West Africa - because of their links to Brazil, along with Panama in southern Central America. British and Irish citizens, and foreign nationals with residence rights, are exempt but must isolate for 10 days on entering the UK. Find out which other countries are subject to a UK travel ban.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as lockdown restrictions reduced economic activity, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The closure of businesses such as pubs, hairdressers and many shops meant the services sector shrank by 3.4%. The setback came after sixth consecutive months of growth, with the ONS saying UK gross domestic product at the end of November was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nConcerns over child poverty have been raised throughout the pandemic, with a focus on school food vouchers, holiday meal provision and food parcels. Now campaigning Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been joined by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and actress Dame Emma Thompson, in backing charities' calls for a review to \"fix\" the free school meals policy. Downing Street insists \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the pandemic.\n\nFalse claims are likely to be causing people from ethnic minorities to reject Covid vaccines, warns a doctor leading an NHS campaign. Dr Harpreet Sood says much of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccines. \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities,\" he says.\n\nA surprise delivery of pizza from sixth-formers who clubbed together left staff at a hospital critical care unit \"lost for words\". Nurse Tina Waltho says the gift came as a welcome boost to deflated staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. \"The nurse who had been in charge on the day shift was in tears,\" Mrs Waltho says. \"She had barely eaten all day and was a little emotional.\" While the act drew praise on social media, the identity and school of the pupils remains a mystery.\n\nIf you're wondering how concerned we should be about the new virus variants, our health editor Michelle Roberts examines what we know so far.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The guitarist also contributed songwriting and piano to the band's explosive debut album\n\nSylvain Sylvain, guitarist with trailblazing 1970s rock band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 69.\n\nOne of the group's founding members, his visceral riffs bridged the divide between punk and glam, and helped kick-start the punk and new wave movements.\n\n\"As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,\" his wife, Wanda O'Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page.\n\n\"Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let's send this beautiful doll on his way.\"\n\nSylvain's death leaves only one surviving member of the New York Dolls' original line-up from their 1973 debut album, frontman David Johansen. The singer posted his own tribute on Instagram.\n\n\"My best friend for so many years, I can still remember the first time I saw him bop into the rehearsal space/bicycle shop with his carpetbag and guitar straight from the plane after having been deported from Amsterdam, I instantly loved him,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm gonna miss you old pal. I'll keep the home fires burning.\"\n\nThe New York Dolls bridged the gap between glam rock and punk\n\nBorn Sylvain Mizrahi in Cairo, Egypt, on Valentine's Day 1951, the musician lived in France as a child before moving to New York with his family.\n\nAfter playing in several bands as a teenager, he co-founded the New York Dolls in 1971, taking the name from a doll repair shop called the New York Doll Hospital (Sylvain had worked across the street before becoming a musician).\n\nLike the punk movement they helped inspire, the band wanted to shake up the self-indulgent state of 70s rock.\n\n\"The reason why the Dolls got together was because of the boredom with the norm of the day, which was like the stadium-rock era,\" Sylvain told Brooklyn Vegan in 2006. \"The 20-minute drum solos, songs that were a big operetta. They were sort of boring, they'd lost their sex appeal.\"\n\nThe Dolls cut through with urgent, punchy songs about sex, drugs, alienation and dysfunction.\n\nThe band's provocative and vulgar live shows gained them a huge following in New York, but many record labels were reluctant to sign them. That situation not helped by their androgynous look - shocking at the time - with their wardrobe sourced from cheap women's clothing stores on New York's Lower East Side.\n\nLate in 1972, tragedy struck when, during a tour of England, Dolls drummer Billy Murcia died in a drug-related accident. He was replaced by Jerry Nolan, after which the Dolls finally secured a contract with Mercury Records.\n\nTheir debut album, simply called New York Dolls, stalled at number 113 in the US chart but is now regarded as a classic, full of sleazy, raucous anthems like Personality Crisis and Trash.\n\nRolling Stone magazine recently named it one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, writing: \"Glammed-out punkers the New York Dolls snatched riffs from Chuck Berry and Fats Domino and fattened them with loads of attitude and reverb.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine the Ramones or the Replacements or a thousand other trash-junky bands without them.\"\n\nSylvain worked in fashion before becoming a musician\n\nHowever, the band's lack of commercial success saw them dropped after two albums and, despite hiring Sex Pistols guru Malcolm McLaren as a manager, eventually fell apart.\n\nOutside the Dolls, Sylvain toured and recorded with several bands and led various solo projects as his former band's reputation grew.\n\nArtists from the Sex Pistols to Guns N' Roses cited them as an influence, and Morrissey was famously president of their UK fan club before forming The Smiths. In 2004, the singer reunited his idols for a show at London's Meltdown Festival, adding an unexpected second act to their career.\n\nOver the subsequent decade, Sylvain and Johansen, the only remaining members, released three well-received albums.\n\nIn 2019, Sylvain announced his cancer diagnosis, and a GoFundMe was set up to pay his medical bills, raising $79,500 (£58,000).\n\nThe band are cited as an influence by hundreds of musicians\n\nGuitarist Lenny Kaye, best known for playing with Patti Smith, paid tribute to Sylvain's \"heart, belief, and the way you whacked that E chord\".\n\n\"His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.\n\n\"His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision.\n\n\"Though he tried valiantly to keep the band going, in the end the Dolls' moral fable overwhelmed them, not before seeding an influence that would engender many rock generations yet to come.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nLike variants discovered in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious.\n\nVirologist Prof Wendy Barclay said one Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK.\n\nHowever, she said this was not \"the variant of concern\", which is thought to be more infectious.\n\nProf Barclay, head of G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, which is studying the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nEarlier, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Brazilian variant of concern was not \"as far as we are aware\" already in the UK, adding that he did not believe there had been any flights from Brazil in the last week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nLatest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have received the first dose of a vaccine is now approaching three million.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nIt also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nBrazil has seen more than 200,000 deaths and there is concern about the impact the new mutation could have on its health system.\n\nHowever, the UK's travel ban was prompted by fears of how quickly the new variant could spread through the region - since Brazil borders 10 countries.\n\nMr Shapps has said the ban is \"precautionary\", adding he \"can't provide an end date\" to the new rules.\n\n\"We're so close now, we've got three million of these vaccines in people's arms in the UK,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We want to make sure we don't fall at this last hurdle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause holidays are not currently allowed, Mr Shapps said he did not \"expect a large number of Brits to have jaunted off to South America\", and the government was \"not expecting to see a big repatriation issue as a result\".\n\nOne family, who live in Wolverhampton, told the BBC they feared being stuck out in Brazil.\n\n\"I don't know if the government will organise flights,\" said Jon Dent, 31. He and his wife Carla travelled to the Brazilian city of Goiania in October to introduce their baby daughter to Carla's family.\n\n\"I think it's a long shot,\" he said. \"I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months. We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"\n\nJon, pictured here with wife Carla and daughter Luiza, said his initial reaction to the news was worry\n\nMany countries imposed travel restrictions after new variants of Covid-19 were identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nSeveral Central and South American nations - including Brazil - had already restricted travel from the UK before the latest ban on arrivals.\n\nThere is currently no evidence to suggest that any of the variants cause more serious illness, and scientists are confident that vaccines should work against them.\n\nAccording to Felipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the Brazilian state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the new variant's origin was \"undoubtedly\" from the Amazon region.\n\nHe told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson the new variant showed some of the same mutations as the UK and South Africa variants - and \"some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern\".\n\nMr Shapps also announced Qatar and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba were being removed from the UK's travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from those places will need to self-isolate for 10 days from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, France has cracked down on the type of tests that travellers can take to show they are negative.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers will need to show a negative PCR test. Antigen tests - which are the rapid lateral flow tests - will no longer be accepted.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said arrangements allowing hauliers to use rapid lateral flow tests before crossing the border from the UK into France remained in place at the moment.\n\nFrom Monday, everyone travelling to England and Scotland will also have to show proof of a negative test. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the travel ban? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un has been overseeing a huge military showcase broadcast by state media in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as \"the world's most powerful weapon\".\n\nSeveral of the missiles were displayed at a parade overseen by leader Kim Jong-un, reported state media.\n\nThe weapon's actual capabilities remain unclear, as it is not known to have been tested.\n\nThe show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.\n\nIt also follows a rare political meeting where Mr Kim decried the US as his country's \"biggest enemy\".\n\nImages released by North Korean state media showed at least four large black-and-white missiles being driven past flag-waving crowds.\n\nAnalysts noted it was a previously unseen weapon. \"New year, new Pukguksong,\" tweeted North Korea expert Ankit Panda, using the North Korean name for their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).\n\nClad in a leather coat and fur hat, Mr Kim is pictured smiling and waving as he watched the display in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, which also included infantry troops, artillery and tanks.\n\nThe missile was debuted at a military parade which came at the end of an important and rare political meeting\n\n\"The world's most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces,\" the official Korean Central News Agency said.\n\nThe event on Thursday did not showcase North Korea's largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was unveiled at a much larger military parade in October. That colossal weapon is believed to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in the US, and its size had surprised even seasoned analysts when it was put on show last year.\n\nThe country's latest display of its arsenal comes at the end of a five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers' Party.\n\nIn his address to members last week, Mr Kim had pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons and military potential, outlining a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nHe also said that the US was Pyongyang's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change\".\n\nUnder Mr Kim's leadership North Korea has made rapid progress in its weapons programme, which it says is necessary to defend itself against a possible US invasion.\n\nThe unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North's growing military prowess, say experts.\n\n\"They'd like us to notice that they're getting more proficient with larger solid rocket boosters,\" Mr Panda tweeted, noting what appeared to be new solid-fuel short-range ballistic missiles on display too. These missiles can be launched more quickly than liquid-fuelled varieties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nOver the last four years, Pyongyang has had an erratic relationship with the US under President Donald Trump's administration. Mr Kim and Mr Trump engaged in mutual insults and threats of war before an unprecedented summit in Singapore in 2018 and declarations of love by the outgoing US leader.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme and a second summit in Hanoi in 2019 broke down after the US refused Pyongyang's demands for sanctions relief.\n\nKim Jong-un has had a busy week. In this rare party congress at the start of a new year he's earned a new title, pledged to build new nuclear weapons and now he's shown the world some new missiles.\n\nThe general secretary, the title posthumously awarded to his father by which he is now known, had been pretty quiet in 2020 and appeared very few times in state media.\n\nBut 2021 is looking rather different. The party congress has offered him a grand daily domestic platform - even if it is not getting the international attention it may have done due to events in the United States and a global pandemic.\n\nThe parading vehicles include a new submarine-launched ballistic missile and new short-range ballistic missiles. This is a show of strength - flexing the military muscle once more to show the people of North Korea that despite the current bleak economic outlook, this impoverished country is capable of designing and building new strategic weapons.\n\nIt also offers a direct challenge to the incoming US administration.\n\nNorth Korea appears willing to continue with its self-imposed isolation and being subject to strict economic sanctions, and the state has vowed to continue to build nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.\n\nDuring the transfer of power, President Obama told Donald Trump that North Korea should be his top national security concern.\n\nIn the last four years a combination of US and UN sanctions, so-called \"maximum pressure\" policies and three summits between Mr Trump and Mr Kim have done nothing to alleviate those concerns.\n\nKim Jong-un has shown the new US president this week that he faces the daunting prospect of coming up with new solutions for this decades-old problem.", "Craig Ross had been quoted making comments about food bank users on a podcast\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have dropped a Holyrood candidate over what they called \"unacceptable comments\".\n\nCraig Ross recorded a podcast last year in which he described food bank users as being more at risk of diabetes than starvation.\n\nHe also questioned the influence footballer Marcus Rashford has on UK government welfare policy.\n\nThe Conservatives suspended Mr Ross, then later announced he was \"no longer a candidate or a member of the party\".\n\nThe party had launched an investigation after the comments came to light, saying: \"These unacceptable comments do not reflect the views of the party.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf had called for Mr Ross to be thrown out the party and dropped as the Conservative candidate in Glasgow Pollok.\n\nThe Holyrood elections are due to be held on 6 May.\n\nMr Ross, a former lecturer at Langside College, runs a podcast in which he delivers reaction to pieces in The Guardian newspaper \"from the centre-right\".\n\nIn one episode recorded in June 2020, Mr Ross talked about the percentage of body fat of \"ordinary people\".\n\nOriginally reported in the Daily Record, his comments were in response to a Channel 4 News piece featuring foodbanks.\n\nHe said: \"We have no real grasp of just how ridiculously overweight the population is.\n\n\"I'm not saying that every single person who claims to be really hungry and is reliant on charity is also very overweight.\n\n\"But what I am saying is if Channel 4 News is having a reasonable go at showing the reality of food bank usage, then we know the people that they filmed are far from starving. If anything their biggest risk is not starvation, it's diabetes.\"\n\nOn Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, who has called on Boris Johnson to review the UK government's free school meals policy, Mr Ross said: \"Has Marcus Rashford stood for election to anything? Not that I'm aware of.\"", "The government is assessing the impact of a \"technical issue\" that led to 150,000 records being deleted from police databases.\n\nThe error, first reported in the Times, saw data including fingerprint, DNA and arrest histories wiped after being accidentally flagged for deletion.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut Labour said it presented \"huge dangers\" for public safety.\n\nThe data was lost from the Police National Computer - a system that stores and shares criminal records information across the UK.\n\nIt is used to help police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nA coding error resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nThe data loss could hinder future police investigations because the fingerprint or DNA evidence would not be able to be cross-checked against evidence from other crime scenes.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\" - with the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\n\"While the loss relates to individuals who were arrested and then released with no further action, I have asked officials and the police to confirm their initial assessment that there is no threat to public safety,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated.\n\nThe loss of the data means that officers on the ground may get an incomplete search result when interrogating the system.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\n\"She must urgently make a statement about what has gone wrong, the extent of the issue, and what action is being taken to reassure the public. Answers must be given.\"\n\n\"This is an extraordinarily serious security breach that presents huge dangers for public safety.\"\n\nFormer Cumbria Police chief constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nHe said: \"In order to understand the scale, if you think that about between 6-700,000 people are arrested every year in the UK, that's a very large proportion of those people.\"\n\nIt comes after around 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the same database, the PNC, following Britain's post-Brexit deal with the EU.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's likely there are variants all over the world - Vallance\n\nITV's Libby Wiener asks if the move to put restrictions in at the borders is too late. The PM says the government is taking steps to protect against the new variants. \"We have a situation now where we have a very high rate of domestic infection in the UK combined with a vaccination programme,\" he says. \"There will come a point in the next weeks and months where the vaccination programme will take effect... and you will see a decline in the death rate. \"What you can't have is a situation where you have new variants with unknown qualities coming in from abroad and that's why we have set up the system to stop arrivals where new variants are a concern.\" Sir Patrick Vallance says the virus is changing all the time and he suspects there are variants \"all over the world of different types\". \"The countries which have detected them first have got good sequencing,\" he says.", "The UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as England was placed in lockdown for a second time, official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it meant gross domestic product was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nNovember's decline came after six consecutive months of growth.\n\nPubs and hairdressers were badly hit as the service sector suffered, the ONS said, but some manufacturing and construction activity improved.\n\nThe hit to the service sector - which accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy - meant it contracted by 3.4% in November, and is now 9.9% below the level of February 2020.\n\nSome economists said the November figure was better than expected, and it appeared many companies were better prepared for the second lockdown, with some sectors staying open for business and many firms having already put in place plans to expand online operations.\n\n\"Steps taken by businesses earlier in the year to Covid-proof their operations - combined with the time-limited nature of the restrictions, and schools remaining open - meant more companies were able to continue trading safely,\" said Alpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI employers' group.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures showed \"it's clear things will get harder before they get better and today's figures highlight the scale of the challenge we face\".\n\nBut he said the vaccine roll-out and economic support measures meant there were reasons to be hopeful. \"With this support, and the resilience and enterprise of the British people, we will get through this,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the figures showed the UK has an economic \"mountain to climb\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said it would be a \"serious mistake\" if Mr Sunak waited until the Budget in March before providing more support and confidence for business.\n\nONS director for economic statistics Darren Morgan said: \"The economy took a hit from restrictions put in place to contain the pandemic during November, with pubs and hairdressers seeing the biggest impact.\"\n\nHowever, he said many firms adjusted to the new pandemic working conditions, such as by expanding click and collect and other online operations.\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturing and construction generally continued to operate, while schools also stayed open, meaning the impact on the economy was significantly smaller in November than during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Car manufacturing, bolstered by demand from abroad, housebuilding and infrastructure grew and are now all above their pre-pandemic levels.\" Construction activity grew by 1.9% during the month.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) is the sum (measured in pounds) of the value of goods and services produced in the economy.\n\nBut the measurement most people focus on is the percentage change - the growth of the country's economy over a period of time, typically a quarter (three months) or a year.\n\nIf the GDP measure is up on the previous three months, the economy is growing. That generally means more wealth and more new jobs.\n\nIf it is negative, the economy is shrinking.\n\nDespite the GDP figure being better than some analysts had forecast, there are still concerns that the UK could be heading back into recession.\n\nEconomists have warned the UK could see a double-dip recession if restrictions remain in place in the first three months of 2021.\n\nRory Macqueen, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said the November figures confirm a significant slowdown in the last quarter of 2020, \"despite November's lockdown in England clearly having a far smaller effect than the first\".\n\nJames Smith, research director of the Resolution Foundation, said there would be a lot of comment about whether these figures point to the UK heading for only its second-ever double-dip recession on record.\n\nBut, he said, the real \"story of the year will be a vaccine-driven bounce back in economic activity for sectors like hospitality and leisure\".\n\n\"The chancellor must do everything he can to support that recovery once public health restrictions ease,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts at Capital Economics also said there was cause for optimism, saying that the current third lockdown could have less impact than feared.\n\n\"The economy has built up a fair bit of immunity to lockdowns, as November's lockdown was much less painful for the economy than the first lockdown.\n\n\"As a result, the Covid-19 economic hole is smaller than we thought, the economy may get back to its pre-crisis crisis level a bit sooner and it makes us more confident that the Bank of England probably won't resort to negative interest rates.\"\n\nThe fall in the economy in November was still considerable, but the figures show businesses adapting to difficult conditions. The hit was a fraction of what occurred in the first lockdown last April, and was mainly confined to the service sector, with pubs and hairdressing for example in sharp decline.\n\nManufacturing and construction largely remained open, as did previously shut public services such as schools. By November car manufacturing and house building were back above the level of output before the pandemic.\n\nThe trade figures also showed a £7bn increase in EU imports in the three months to November as traders stockpiled car parts, medicines and other goods ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe renewed regional tiered restrictions in December, and more severe national lockdowns this month, still indicate a possible return to overall recession in this tough winter.\n\nBusiness groups continue to argue that extra support is required to support jobs and cash flow well before the Budget in March. But a more sustained lifting of restrictions as vaccines are rolled out should see growth return after the spring.", "Black people are four more times more likely than white people to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to NHS figures.\n\nWhen Antonio Ferreira was sectioned he says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour.\n\nNow a student at Essex University, he hopes to improve police understanding of mental health problems.\n\nIf you are experiencing emotional stress, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre, north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nFake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said it was \"a big concern\" and officials were working \"to correct so much fake news\".\n\nHe said language and cultural barriers played a part in the false information.\n\nA GP in the West Midlands told the BBC some of her South Asian patients had refused the vaccine when offered it.\n\nDr Sood, from NHS England, said officials were working with South Asian role models, influencers, community leaders and religious leaders to help debunk myths about the vaccine.\n\nMuch of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities.\"\n\n\"We're trying to find role models and influencers and also thinking about ordinary citizens who need to be quick with this information so that they can all support one another because ultimately everyone is a role model to everyone\", he added.\n\n\"There's a big piece of work happening where we're translating information, we're making sure the look and feel of it reaches the populations that matter.\"\n\nSome of the disinformation seen by the BBC on social media and on WhatsApp is religiously targeted. Messages falsely claim the vaccines contain animal produce - eating pork goes against the religious beliefs of Muslims, as does eating beef for Hindus.\n\nDr Samara Afzal has been vaccinating people in Dudley, West Midlands. She said: \"We've been calling all patients and booking them in for vaccines but the admin staff say when they call a lot of the South Asian patients they decline and refuse to have the vaccination.\n\n\"Also talking to friends and family have found the same. I've had friends calling me telling me to convince their parents or their grandparents to have the vaccination because other family members have convinced them not to have it\".\n\nWe need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders\n\nReena Pujara is a beauty therapist in Hampshire and a practising Hindu. She said she's been bombarded with false information.\n\n\"Some of the videos are quite disturbing especially when you actually see the person reporting is a medic and telling you that the vaccine is going to alter your DNA,\" she said.\n\n\"For a layman it is very confusing. And also when you read that the ingredients in the vaccine derive from a cow - and as Hindus the cow is sacred to us - it is disturbing.\"\n\nAbout 100 mosques have a joined a campaign to counter vaccine disinformation and persuade their communities to take the vaccine. They've said they'll use their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab.\n\n\"There should be no hesitation in taking [the vaccine] from a moral perspective,\" said Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), which has organised the campaign. \"It is our ethical duty to protect ourselves and others from harm.\"\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Asian Network that faith and community leaders had a big role to play in ensuring a high take-up of the vaccine. He said he had met with more than 150 leaders from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim communities who were taking the message out \"that it's the right thing to do\".\n\nHe added that the government was taking steps to tackle online disinformation around the vaccine, as well as making sure vaccine guidance was available in many different languages.\n\nA recent poll, commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health, suggested just over half of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt found 57% said they would take the vaccine - compared with 79% of white people.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "One of two coronavirus variants first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, says a leading scientist advising the government.\n\nBut the version discovered is not the \"variant of concern\", Prof Wendy Barclay clarified.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" from Brazil, detected in travellers to Japan, is thought to be more infectious.\n\nIt led to travellers from South America and Portugal being banned from entering the UK on Friday.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, who is heading a newly-launched project to study the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations called the G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nProf Barclay, who also sits on Nervtag, a committee which advises government on new and emerging respiratory virus threats, said the variant was \"probably introduced some time ago\" and it \"will be being traced very carefully\".\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nThe body which collects and analyses the genomes of virus samples - Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK) - said this variant seen in the UK contained one of the mutations found in the Brazilian \"variant of concern\".\n\nThe mutation, also found in the South African variant, has been linked to a reduced antibody response meaning our bodies might be less able to fight it off.\n\nCog-UK said this alone was not enough to qualify it as a \"variant of concern\", thought it acknowledged \"no internationally agreed definition of a variant of concern has yet been agreed\".\n\nIn other variants of concern, the mutation sits alongside a \"constellation\" of others which together amount to a high chance of making the virus more transmissible.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nThe latest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate for the reproduction (R) number in the UK - which represents the average number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - is between 1.2 and 1.3.\n\nLast week it was estimated at between 1 and 1.4 by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nWhen the figure is above 1, the number of cases increases exponentially.\n\nDespite other variants entering the country since, the Kent variant remains dominant in the UK and is believed to be 30-50% more infectious than the previous form of the virus.\n\nViruses acquire random changes to their genes constantly as they replicate.\n\nMany are neutral or even hurt the virus's ability to spread, but those that give it an advantage will become more common.\n\nMutations are being detected now because enough time has passed for those random changes to take hold.\n\nEven though there is no evidence any of these mutations make the virus more deadly, a virus that infects more people is likely to have a higher death toll.\n\nWhen the virus gets better at sticking onto and breaking into human cells, in theory someone exposed to the same dose is more likely to become ill.\n\nThe use of masks and personal protective equipment, social distancing and hand washing remain the best defences against the virus's spread.\n\nDowning Street said current evidence did not suggest the concerning Brazilian variant affected vaccines or treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps described the travel ban, which came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday, as a \"precautionary\" measure.\n\nIt covers people who have travelled from or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nThe ban also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an epidemiologist who is part of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, said the travel ban should minimise the risk from a \"more transmissible\" variant.\n\n\"We always have this issue with travel bans, of course, that we're always a little bit behind the curve,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"My understanding is that there haven't really been any flights coming from Brazil for about the past week, so hopefully the immediate travel ban should really minimise the risk.\"\n\nDowning Street said it acted \"as quickly as possible\" to impose the travel ban because the concerning Brazilian variant \"could pose a significant risk to the UK\".\n\nHowever, Portugal's government has described the ban as \"absurd\" and illogical\".\n\nThe country's minister of foreign affairs Augusto Santos Silva said he had requested a conversation with his British counterpart after the \"sudden and unexpected\" suspension of flights.\n\nHe added Portugal was already restricting flights from Brazil and there was \"no evidence\" the new variant existed in his country.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pharmacy in Gwynedd is offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab\n\nA pharmacy has become the first in Wales to offer Covid jabs, as community vaccine trials begin.\n\nFifty people with appointments are to visit the pharmacy near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, on Friday to receive their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe pilot has begun in pharmacies in Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said community pharmacists can help with vaccinations \"in more than one way\".\n\nIt follows a letter from Community Pharmacy Wales to Wales' health minister which said there was an \"urgent need\" to use pharmacies in Wales to help roll out coronavirus vaccines.\n\nUK Government figures show 126,375 people in Wales, 4% of the population, have received their first coronavirus jab so far.\n\nThat compares with 4.1% (224,840) in Scotland, 4.9% in England (2,769,164) and 6% (114,567) in Northern Ireland.\n\nHundreds more pharmacies in Wales will offer the jab in the next two weeks.\n\nRosie Bennett, one of the patients to receive a vaccination at Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy in Llanbedrog, said getting her vaccine was a \"small step to a better future\".\n\nThe 82-year-old said: \"I don't have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn't have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n\"Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They've been doing a great job during the pandemic and it's reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\"\n\nSteffan John, the pharmacist who administered the vaccine to Rosie, said the staff are \"really pleased to do their bit for the community\".\n\nPharmacist Llyr Hughes, who runs four pharmacies, including Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy, said \"vaccinating at scale\" was the \"only way out of the pandemic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Hughes said he expected the rollout to happen \"very quickly across all community pharmacies in Wales\".\n\n\"I don't forsee any big problems,\" he said.\n\n\"Community pharmacists have a wealth of experience in delivering flu vaccinations.\n\n\"We will tailor our work model to accommodate for this, as we did for the flu vaccine.\"\n\nMr Hughes said his pharmacy will have vaccinated in the region of more than 100 people by Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe added: \"If we can deliver locally we can provide easier access to older patients.\"\n\nHe explained local patients would be contacted about an appointment for the vaccine at the pharmacy.\n\nMr John said that the vaccine comes in vials of ten doses which means it's \"important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any\".\n\nLlyr Hughes who runs Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy said 50 patients will be vaccinated today\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford told Friday's Welsh Government press briefing that not all pharmacy premises would be suitable to deliver the Covid vaccines.\n\nHe said some community pharmacists could be asked to administer vaccinations at mass vaccination centres instead, in cases where spaces for vaccinations are small at pharmacies with high volumes of people.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the rollout was still in the \"early stages\" of the \"largest vaccination programme Wales has ever seen\".\n\n\"People can be expected to be asked to attend either a mass or community centre, hospital, GP practice, pharmacy or mobile unit,\" he added.\n\nMr Gething said a mix of vaccination sites and centres were chosen so \"everyone across the country has equal access to a vaccination\".\n\nHe added that people will be notified for an appointment, and before that they should not call GPs or health services to request a vaccine and \"add undue pressure\" to their workloads.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales' vaccination programme was \"improving far, far too slowly\".\n\n\"As important as it is that we have one pharmacy doing it, what's happening in all the others?\"\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said it was clear Wales was \"lagging behind\" the rest of the UK on delivering the vaccinations.\n\n\"It's certainly not happening quickly enough, we need to see the Welsh Government stepping up to the plate,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said more pharmacists and other primary care services, such as dentists and opticians - are being invited to help with the rollout, subject to vaccine supply.", "The UK's epidemic is still officially estimated to be growing, according to the latest R number, but data suggests new cases are beginning to fall.\n\nThe R number - which takes into account cases, hospitalisations and deaths - is estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3, compared with 1 and 1.4 last week.\n\nThis suggests the total number of people with the virus is still rising across the UK.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower.\n\nIn the capital, the estimate - based on data up until 11 January - is between 0.9 and 1.2, compared with 1.1 and 1.4 the previous week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - latest figures show the number at 3,234,946.\n\nAlthough the number of people sick with coronavirus is growing in the UK, data from various sources suggests new infections are declining.\n\nThis provides early signs that lockdown restrictions may be taking effect.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group Sage, which calculates the R number, said areas that have been under tougher restrictions for a longer period of time - including east of England, London, and the south east - are showing \"a slight decline in the number of people infected\".\n\nHowever, they warned that regions such as north-west and south-west England continue to see infections rise, where the spread of the new UK variant may be playing a role.\n\nThe R number is a way of rating coronavirus or any disease's ability to spread. In theory, it describes the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus onto, on average.\n\nIn reality, though, the government's estimate of R gives a wider view of the epidemic's general trend since it also looks at what is happening in hospitals.\n\nCases, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 have been alarmingly high since the beginning of the year and the latest estimate of the R number indicates that the pandemic is continuing to grow.\n\nBut because of the way the data to estimate R is collected - it reflects the situation a week ago. More up to date indicators suggest that there's a slight decline in infections in the east of England, London, and the South East.\n\nThese areas have had the highest prevalence and therefore the toughest restrictions the longest but infections are continuing to rise in the North West and South West probably because of the spread of the new variant of the virus.\n\nDespite this there's some relief at these figures among the government's scientific advisors. They were not sure whether the current restrictions would be enough to prevent the more contagious variant getting out of control. Now they expect Covid-related deaths to level off in a week or so and then decline as the benefits of the vaccine programme begin to take effect.\n\nCases should also begin to decrease in the coming weeks. But all this depends on people continuing to observe the government's social distancing guidelines - and come into contact with others only if it is essential.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said coronavirus deaths were likely to peak in the next week to 10 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the lockdown measures were having an impact, with the peak in infections having passed \"a good few days ago\" which would lead to a reduction in the numbers dying from the disease.\n\n\"They are likely to level off in a week - 10 days maybe - at a peak which is probably going to be bigger than the first wave peak of 1,000-a-day, but then should decline due the reductions in cases that we are seeing and, of course, the vaccine programme.\"\n\nData from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app gives its own estimate of 0.9 for the virus's R or reproduction number. This is based on cases alone, rather than a wider number of data sources included in the official estimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nWhile this leaves out the fact that hospitals are still filling up, looking at cases on their own allows assessment of whether lockdown restrictions are working.\n\nBut the large number of infections recorded at the end of December and the beginning of January means, despite receding cases, hospitalisations and deaths will inevitably continue to rise for some time.\n\nMeanwhile, a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday as a result of a new, potentially more infectious strain linked to Brazil.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, a scientist at Imperial College London advising the government, said this \"variant of concern\" had not been detected in the UK but another variant from Brazil was already in circulation.\n\nIt is not clear whether this second strain is more contagious or not.", "Ambulances were lined up outside the Royal London Hospital on Thursday\n\nCovid patients have been transferred to hospitals in Newcastle from over-stretched London intensive care units.\n\nA small number, fewer than five, have been moved hundreds of miles from the south east, the BBC has been told.\n\nHospitals with the largest critical care capacity have been asked to take patients from other areas to ease pressures.\n\nHowever, NHS England has denied that patients have been transferred to Newcastle from London.\n\nThe patient transfers were first reported by The Guardian.\n\nIt is not uncommon for patients to be transferred from one busy hospital to another within the region, but moving the sick from out of their areas is unusual.\n\nThe North of England Critical Care Network, which co-ordinates provision in the North East, north Cumbria and North Yorkshire, confirmed patients had been moved from other parts of England.\n\nIn statement, director Lesley Durham said: \"During this pandemic and at these times of unprecedented pressures, we have ensured equity of patient access to critical care though mutual aid between units in the form of critical care patient transfers.\n\n\"We are also working with our colleagues and networks further afield.\n\n\"Whilst not ideal, it is correct to ensure that every person, regardless of location, has access to a critical care bed if they require one.\"\n\nOne medical expert described transferring people across the country as \"a challenge\"\n\nElsewhere, Northampton General Hospital - which is about 70 miles from London - has been receiving critical care patients from outside its area.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Some patients have been transferred to our critical care unit in recent weeks from other parts of the country, including London.\n\n\"We currently have one 'out-of-area' patient, but they are not from London.\"\n\nNHS England said in a statement: \"The NHS has tried and tested plans in place to manage significant pressure either from high Covid-19 infection rates and non-Covid winter demands and this has always included mutual aid practices whereby hospitals work together to manage admissions.\"\n\nIt added that no patients had been transferred from London to Newcastle, Birmingham, Northampton or Sheffield.\n\nAcross England in the week to 12 January, there were 32,202 patients in hospital with Covid-19, a rise of 5,735 on the previous week.\n\nIn the week up to 10 January there were 330,616 new cases.\n\nHospitals across the North East are already seeing many more patients than the first wave of the pandemic, and the next few weeks are likely to be the toughest yet.\n\nBut right now some - like Newcastle - have room in intensive care and are being asked to take patients from critical care units in the south which have become overwhelmed and run out of room.\n\nNewcastle and Northumbria NHS trusts have already been taking in patients from across their own patch - most notably from Cumbria where there are not nearly enough intensive care beds for the soaring numbers of Covid patients.\n\nBut patient numbers are growing in the North East's hospitals too, and many are already struggling.\n\nThey expect next week will be the worst week they have experienced yet.\n\nTo prepare, elective work is being postponed, wards are being cleared to take in new patients, and intensive care units are being expanded.\n\nConcerns have been raised about seriously-ill patients travelling such long distances.\n\nDr Uwe Franke, intensive care lead at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, said: \"The critical care networks work regionally and nationally and are trying to spread the workload about the country without pushing other units to their limits or out of the durability of their capacity.\n\n\"But there is a difficulty in this; we know that Covid patients are incredibly ill, they are dependent on breathing machines, they are dependent on other machines that need organ support.\n\n\"To transfer these people across the country is quite a challenge.\"\n\nDr Franke added that while hospitals in the North were keen to support colleagues across the country, some - like his own - were already reaching their limit.\n\nHis hospital currently has in excess of 200 Covid patients, with 32 of those in intensive care.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by The Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who played Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US school-based sitcom, fell ill last week and was taken to hospital.\n\nHis representative, Roger Paul, said the actor is now waiting for further details.\n\n\"We will know the severity of it when the tests are done,\" Paul said, adding they expect an update next week.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and followed a group of high school friends and their principal.\n\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers pull a woman from the rubble after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 42 people, with more feared dead as rescuers search for survivors.\n\nThe 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday morning, just hours after an earlier, smaller tremor.\n\nHundreds of people were injured and thousands displaced by the quake.\n\nIndonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 killed in a 2018 Sulawesi quake.\n\nEight people died when the five-storey Mitra Manakarra Hospital in Mamuju partially collapsed on Friday, officials said. About 60 people were safely evacuated from the hospital.\n\n\"It happened so quickly, around 10 seconds,\" Syamsu Ridwan, a local police spokesman, told the BBC. He said the power in the hospital cut out during the earthquake.\n\nOfficials fear the death toll will increase as rescue efforts continue. Rescuers were still searching for survivors late on Friday, but they have been hampered by power cuts and poor mobile phone service.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo offered condolences to the victims, urging people to stay calm and for the authorities to step up search efforts.\n\nThe epicentre of Friday's quake was six kilometres (3.73 miles) northeast of Majene city at a depth of 10km.\n\nVideo footage on social media showed collapsed houses and a girl pinned under rubble calling for help.\n\nThe situation was \"pretty bad\", Dr Gayatri Marliyani, of the geology department at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta, told the BBC. She said the governor's office was among the collapsed buildings and confirmed that several hospitals and one hotel had also been damaged.\n\nShe also warned that getting response teams to the area could be hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTremors were felt at around 01:00 local time on Friday (17:00 Thursday GMT) for about seven seconds.\n\nNo tsunami warning was issued but thousands are reported to have left their homes, fleeing to safety.\n\nAuthorities have warned that strong aftershocks could follow the two main quakes and that they could still trigger a tsunami.\n\nIndonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the so-called Ring of Fire - a line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions on the Pacific rim.\n\nIn 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a quake of magnitude 9.1.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nChampionship side Derby County have appointed England's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who had been in interim charge since Phillip Cocu was sacked on 14 November, has now also officially retired as a player.\n\nRooney has overseen nine games so far, winning three and drawing four.\n\n\"The opportunity to follow Brian Clough, Jim Smith, Frank Lampard and Phillip Cocu is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew instinctively Derby County was the place for me.\"\n\nLiam Rosenior takes up the role of assistant manager, with former England boss Steve McClaren continuing as technical director and advisor to the board of directors.\n\nShay Given will become first-team coach and Justin Walker will remain as first-team development coach.\n\nThe Rams are third from bottom in the Championship, level on points with fourth-from-bottom Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nA takeover for the club is expected to go through this week, with a deal between current owner Mel Morris and the Derventio Holdings Group having been agreed in November.\n\nRams chief executive Stephen Pearce said in an interview with BBC Radio Derby on Thursday that there were no problems with the takeover, despite the delays meaning players have not been paid their December wages.\n\n\"Our recent upturn in results under Wayne was married together with some positive performances, notably the 2-0 home win over Swansea City and the 4-0 victory at Birmingham City,\" said Pearce.\n\n\"During that nine-game run we also dramatically improved their defensive record and registered five clean sheets in the process, while in the attacking third we became more effective and ruthless too.\n\n\"Those foundations have provided a platform for the club to build on in the second half of the season.\"\n\nRooney made his professional debut for boyhood club Everton in August 2002 aged just 16 and became the Premier League's youngest scorer with a superb long-range goal against Arsenal before his 17th birthday.\n\nAfter a strong Euro 2004 he moved to Manchester United for £27m, then a world record fee for a teenager.\n\nDuring 13 years with United he won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups.\n\nHis time with England was less successful in terms of team honours, although he did break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record of 49 goals before retiring from international football in August 2017.\n\nHe made a farewell appearance for the Three Lions against the United States in a friendly in November 2018 to finish with 53 goals in 120 appearances.\n\nAfter a second stint at Everton and a spell with American side DC United, Rooney joined Derby in January 2020 as a player-coach on an initial 18-month contract.\n\nHe retires as the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history, with 208 goals.\n\nWayne Rooney's presence at Derby County was felt on that hot August evening in 2019 when Phillip Cocu won his first match as manager at Huddersfield, a result overshadowed by the announcement of his signing.\n\nRooney's ambition to become a manager was there for all to see when chairman Mel Morris afforded him the opportunity to be a player-coach on arrival in January. He in fact arrived a few months before that but was unable to play, and stayed low key, observing from the sidelines.\n\nA year ago this month he made an instant impact to Derby's fortunes on the field. Players who were underachieving and perhaps found the grind of the Championship a little hard to handle, were taken up a notch by his presence.\n\nSome would say Rooney saved the Rams' season, but this term he struggled on the field and so did Derby.\n\nI am told it was written into his contract that he would have a chance to take control one day and he has already shown in his nine games in interim charge that he can get the squad playing in his image. Gone is the side-to-side, slow build-up possession game, it is a better product to watch.\n\nThe people around him have good pedigree in the game. Shay Given, Liam Rosenior, Justin Walker and Jason Pearcey have experience at all levels - but his relationship with Steve McClaren will be the most important of all.\n\nDerby fans have been calling out for a positive piece of news. Rooney's appointment is the first duck in a row with the takeover expected to be completed any time now and then Championship survival is the hope.\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "A rejuvenated Northumberland Line will help connect local communities to Newcastle city centre, say supporters\n\nTwo railway lines, closed to passengers since the 1960s, are to get almost £800m funding from the government.\n\nEast West Rail, which will eventually connect Oxford and Cambridge, will get £760m to open new parts of the line.\n\nThe Northumberland Line, which still carries freight, will get £34m for initial work aimed at reintroducing passenger services.\n\nReopening closed lines like these would help connect \"left-behind\" communities, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\n\"Restoring railways helps put communities back on the map and this investment forms part of our nationwide effort to build back vital connections and unlock access to jobs, education and housing,\" he said.\n\nThese investments would return these routes \"to their former glory\" and was part of the government's \"levelling up\" agenda, Mr Shapps added.\n\nDiesel engines will initially run on the lines, but Mr Shapps said he hoped more environmentally friendly trains, for example powered by hydrogen or new battery technology, would replace them in the future.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC why the lines wouldn't be electrified, he said these lines might potentially bypass the overhead wire technology altogether.\n\n\"We're building it in such a way that we can use, probably, the very latest technology, potentially, in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing is the infrastructure,\" he said. \"It's about building the stations, things you need to do no matter what kind of train you're going to run on there, if it's going to take passengers.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Daniel Zeichner, who represents Cambridge, said: \"Every rail expert will tell you it will cost more later to electrify a line.\"\n\n\"In a time of climate emergency, we really shouldn't be building railway lines for diesel, it's got to be electric.\"\n\nThe line connecting Oxford and Cambridge would serve new housing developments, he said, and rail was \"the right way to get people in and out of a city like Cambridge\".\n\n\"It's very important for the UK economy, but it's got to be done in an environmentally sustainable way,\" he said. \"It seems crazy to be building new railways which aren't electrified in the first place, and I really hope the government will reconsider.\"\n\nThe East West Rail investment will rebuild a train line between Bicester and Bletchley which was closed in 1968.\n\nThe project is being delivered by a publicly-owned body called the East West Company.\n\nThe first phase of East West Rail, which was completed in 2016, connected Oxford and Bicester.\n\nBut at the moment, rail passengers wishing to go from Oxford to Bletchley have to take a detour via Coventry.\n\nThe aim is to get trains running between Oxford and Bletchley by 2025, with new stations at Winslow and Bletchley.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the works will create 1,500 jobs, and have a wider economic benefit for the area.\n\nThe eventual aim of the project, which the government expects to be completed by the end of the decade, is to connect Oxford and Cambridge by rail via Bedford, taking in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury on branches.\n\nThe Northumberland Line was closed to passengers in 1964 as part of a rationalisation of the railway network known as the Beeching cuts.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the Northumberland Line was \"a really critical piece of local infrastructure\" that would help bring people in south east Northumberland and north Tyneside closer to Newcastle city centre, and closer to well-paid jobs.\n\nPassengers would be able to take the train between Ashington and Newcastle\n\n\"Having better connectivity will help attract businesses to that area, and it will help to deliver genuine levelling-up,\" he said.\n\nThe new £34m investment, which aims to reopen the line between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ashington, will include funds for preparatory works and land acquisition.\n\nThere are plans for new stations at at Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Bebside, Newsham, Seaton Delaval, and Northumberland Park, in North Tyneside, as well as upgrades to the track and changes to level crossings where new bridges or underpasses were needed, the Department for Transport said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic. We'll have another update for you on Sunday morning.\n\nSenior doctors have asked England's chief medical officer to halve the current 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 vaccine. The wait was originally three weeks but was then extended, a decision which Prof Chris Whitty said would double the number of people receiving jabs. But, in a letter seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association said the delay was \"difficult to justify\". It comes after the prime minister revealed the UK variant of Covid-19 may be more deadly.\n\nEfforts to distribute the jab in the European Union have faced another setback after UK drug-maker AstraZeneca warned of supply issues. Vaccinations have already been halted in some parts of Europe due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine. Cases in many European countries are surging. Germany has reached 50,000 Covid deaths and Spain has seen record infections in recent weeks.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were engaged to be married when they were taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19. As his condition worsened, staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital rallied to arrange a wedding for them - and they were able to marry moments before he was sedated and put on a ventilator. Mrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes. Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. Its streets are bustling again. A year on, John Sudworth explores how it is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - else.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nMillions of us are less physically active than we were before Covid-19. For those working from home, days on end can be spent hunched over a laptop without ever leaving the house. A survey of people working remotely, by Opinium for the charity Versus Arthritis, found 81% of respondents were experiencing some back, neck or shoulder pain. Here are some tips that could help.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWondering when you might be able to get a vaccine? Health reporter Philippa Roxby takes you through what you need to know.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Questions should be asked if politicians who drank on Welsh Parliament premises during a pub alcohol ban can stand for re-election, an ex-standards official has said.\n\nSenedd Tory leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Labour's Alun Davies have apologised - they are not thought to have broken the rules, but the two Tories admitted it would not be seen as in their spirit.\n\nA fourth Senedd Member Nick Ramsay has denied being part of the gathering.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida. Image caption: In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida.\n\nRémy Julienne, one of the world's best-known stuntmen, has died in France with coronavirus, aged 90.\n\nOver a 50-year career, Julienne devised the crashes, crunches and collisions witnessed in more than 1,400 films.\n\nHe also starred in many of them, albeit anonymously.\n\nThe legendary cascadeur (stunt performer) appeared as a body double for a host of stars, including Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Charles Bronson and Jean-Paul Belmondo.\n\nIn wig and appropriate clothing, he also took on the form of Sophia Loren, Carole Bouquet and Gina Lollobrigida.\n\nAmong his most famous works are the chase scenes in 1969's The Italian Job, in which a fleet of Mini-Coopers in Turin cross a river, dive into the metro and jump from the roof of the Fiat factory.\n\nHe also worked on six Bond films, notably going behind the wheel of a battered yellow Citroën 2CV in For Your Eyes Only.\n\nA life-long lover of motorbikes and anything driven at speed, Julienne specialised in spectacular destruction. But he was committed to the maximum elimination of risk and calculated his stunts with extreme precision.\n\n\"What is beautiful about the job is that you can never be 100% certain,\" he said. \"If you could, then frankly it wouldn't be interesting.", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA second boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy was arrested at a Birmingham address on Friday and is in custody, said West Midlands Police.\n\nAnother 14-year-old, arrested earlier on Friday, also remains in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nThe latest arrest was \"another step forward and Keon's family have been fully updated with this latest development,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a challenging investigation given the number of offenders we believe were involved, but I have a dedicated team of officers working 24/7 to identify those involved and we are making swift progress.\"\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away. Police have seized the vehicle.\n\nCordons placed at the scene in Linwood Road and Wheeler Street, where the car was abandoned, have now been lifted, said the West Midlands force.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nDetectives say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nAnyone who could identify the attackers has been urged to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police released body-worn camera footage of people streaming from the premises\n\nTwo officers were injured as they broke up an \"incredibly selfish\" party, involving about 200 people, in one of London's most expensive neighbourhoods.\n\nOfficers investigated an address on Beauchamp Place, Kensington, at about 03.30 GMT on 17 January, following reports of a mass gathering.\n\nAttendees became hostile and pushed through to avoid being fined, injuring two officers, police said.\n\nThe owner has previously been issued with a £1,000 fine, police said.\n\nPolice discovered about 200 guests at a party on Beauchamp Place, Kensington\n\nSupt Michael Walsh said: \"Attending or organising such parties during this critical period is an incredibly selfish decision to make.\n\n\"While the majority of breaches have been resolved without incident, it deeply saddens me that some individuals have chosen to assault police who are simply doing their part in the collective battle against this deadly virus.\"\n\nPolice said the event was one of a string of late-night parties uncovered in Kensington over the last month.\n\nOn 20 December, police shut down an illegal gathering at a commercial property on Montpelier Street. The property has since been closed.\n\nAn owner of a venue on Harrow Road is facing a £10,000 fine after police found more than 30 socialising during a raid on 16 January.\n\nOn Thursday, police also broke up a wedding party in north London.\n\nThe Met Police originally claimed about 400 guests were at the gathering, but then on Friday said 150 people were present at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "Even while posted at the US Capitol, many troops have been seen sleeping on the floor\n\nUS President Joe Biden has apologised after some members of the National Guard stationed at the Capitol were pictured sleeping in a car park.\n\nMore than 25,000 troops were deployed to Washington DC for his inauguration after violence earlier this month.\n\nImages spread on Thursday showing them forced to rest in a nearby parking garage after lawmakers returned.\n\nThe conditions sparked anger among politicians, and some state governors recalled troops over the controversy.\n\nMr Biden called the chief of the National Guard Bureau on Friday to apologise and ask what could be done, according to US media reports.\n\nFirst Lady Jill Biden also visited some of the troops to thank them personally, bringing biscuits from the White House as a gift.\n\n\"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe,\" she said.\n\nThe photographs showing hundreds of troops in a parking garage went viral on Thursday and sparked outrage, including from members of Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany voiced concerns about the conditions, with guardsmen exposed to car fumes and without proper access to facilities like toilets after having been on alert for days.\n\nImages of the cramped conditions also sparked fears about the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA US official, speaking anonymously to Reuters news agency, said on Friday that between 100 and 200 of those deployed had tested positive for Covid-19. The figure - which would represent a small proportion of the more than 25,000 deployed, has not been publicly confirmed.\n\nChuck Schumer, a Democrat and the new Senate majority leader, said that the move was \"an outrage\" and pledged it \"will never happen again\".\n\nRon DeSantis, Florida's governor, was among those who said he had ordered guards from his state to return home following the controversy.\n\n\"This is a half-cocked mission at this point and the appropriate thing is to bring them home,\" he told Fox News on Friday.\n\nThe Senate Rules Committee is also investigating the issue, Senator Roy Blunt told Politico.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about why the troops were moved from the Capitol.\n\nA National Guard spokesman told US media they were moved on Thursday afternoon at the request of the Capitol Police because of \"increased foot traffic\" as Congress came back into session.\n\nThe acting chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, later said her agency \"did not instruct the National Guard to vacate the Capitol Building facilities\", while two officers contradicted her statement in comments to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe decision was reversed later on Thursday, when the troops were allowed to return to the Capitol.\n\nA joint statement from the US National Guard and US Capitol Police on Friday said they had worked together to make sure those in the Capitol Complex had \"appropriate spaces\" to take on-duty breaks.\n\nThey also said off-duty troops were being housed in hotel rooms or other accommodation and thanked members of Congress for their concern.\n\nSome 19,000 guardsmen will return to their home states in the coming days with about 7,000 expected to stay on in Washington, according to the New York Times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nRural GPs are to run new community vaccination centres after concerns over the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nFrom Saturday, three new vaccination hubs will open to give over-80s and those with mobility issues the jab.\n\nIt comes after some living in rural areas said they had been told to travel miles to get the jab or wait weeks to have their first dose.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it would help immunise hundreds of over-80s this weekend.\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales, with some telling the BBC elderly and housebound relatives had been told there would be a wait if they could not get to their GP surgery.\n\nA total of 212,317 people have been given their first dose of vaccine in Wales, up to 21 January - just over 6.7% of the population.\n\nThe Welsh Government hopes to have 70% of over-80s immunised by the end of this weekend.\n\nBy 21 January, 30% of the over-80s and 60% of care home residents had been given the first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, the Welsh Government announced doctors surgeries in rural areas would join forces to help administer the jab to the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThe first of the new community centres, run by clusters of GP practices, are to open on the Llyn Peninsula, in Buckley in Flintshire, and Bridgend.\n\nThey will be able to administer both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nUntil now, the Pfizer vaccine could only be administered at special mass-vaccination centres, due to the low temperatures it needs to be stored at.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped 3,000 people would get the vaccine administered at the centres this weekend.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Vaccination is our top priority so I want to thank all the GP practices right across Wales that are working in unison to set up these new community vaccination centres.\n\n\"This enables GPs to use both of the vaccines available to us and will help more people to be vaccinated somewhere that is much closer to home than the large vaccination centres.\n\n\"Every week, our vaccination programme speeds up as more centres are opened and more vaccines are available for the small army of healthcare professionals administering vaccines.\"\n\nIn north Wales, a group of GPs have formed a group to deliver about 1,000 vaccines to elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP at Ty Doctor Surgery, Gwynedd, said rural GPs had faced a \"real challenge\" to get the most vulnerable patients vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\nThe surgery is about 50 miles away from the nearest vaccination centre in north-west Wales.\n\nHe said bringing three GP practices together to vaccinate hundreds of patients in two days was a \"Herculean effort\".", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "Paul Davies had been preparing to lead his party's Senedd election campaign in the coming months\n\nPaul Davies has been something of an understated figure leading the Welsh Conservative group in Cardiff Bay since he won the race to succeed Andrew RT Davies in September 2018.\n\nThe Senedd member for Preseli Pembrokeshire tried to move the party group in the direction of being more sceptical of devolution.\n\nBut a row over drinking on Senedd premises ended his ambitions to be the first Conservative first minister of Wales.\n\nBorn in 1969, Paul Davies grew up in the village of Pontsian in Ceredigion.\n\nHe attended Llandysul Grammar School and Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School before working for a bank for 20 years.\n\nMr Davies entered Cardiff Bay politics in 2007 when he was elected to the then National Assembly for Wales. He was appointed deputy leader of the Welsh Conservative group in 2011 before becoming interim leader and then leader in 2018.\n\nPaul Davies backed Boris Johnson in the UK Conservative leadership campaign in 2019\n\nPresented as a safe pair of hands during his leadership campaign he has, at times, almost appeared to have been overshadowed by his predecessor Andrew RT Davies, who sometimes seems to enjoy media appearances more than his leader.\n\nFaced with the potential rise of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, Paul Davies attempted to steer the Welsh Tories towards a more devo-sceptic, if not anti-devolution, approach.\n\nHe pledged a future Conservative Welsh Government would not \"tread on Westminster's turf\", and \"respect what is not devolved\" by \"unpicking\" the Welsh Government's international relations department.\n\nThere were also promises to halve the current number of Welsh ministers to seven, freeze civil servant recruitment and not increase the budget of the body which runs the Senedd if he became first minister.\n\nWelsh political structures need a \"dose\" of Dominic Cummings, Paul Davies has said\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has, arguably, made it even harder for opposition party leaders in the Senedd to cut through to the wider electorate.\n\nThe crisis has given Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford a much bigger profile, on a Wales and UK stage, making it more difficult for other Welsh party leaders to get onto the news agenda.\n\nLast July, there were raised eyebrows when Paul Davies suggested \"a dose of Dom\" was needed in Wales to \"shake up\" its governance.\n\nThe reference to the prime minister's now departed chief advisor and brutal political operator Dominic Cummings was interesting, given the criticism heaped on Mr Cummings a couple of months earlier for driving his family 260 miles from his London home to Durham during lockdown, and a subsequent 25-mile trip to check his eyesight before a return trip.\n\nBacking Remain at the 2016 referendum on EU membership, Paul Davies aimed to steer a steady course during a fractious period for a Conservative Party dealing with the polarising issue of Brexit.\n\nHe has been loyal to the UK party leader of the day, and often stuck to the Westminster line rather than try to carve an independent stance.\n\nDespite this, Mr Davies had wanted the Tory Senedd group leader to be given the title Welsh Conservative leader.\n\nIt is something the party has never formally agreed to do despite a review of its Welsh structures.", "Up to 500 new prison cells are to be built in women's jails, the Ministry of Justice has announced.\n\nThese will be built in existing women's prisons to increase the number of single cells available and improve conditions.\n\nThey will include in-cell showers, and some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children to prepare for life at home after release.\n\nIn future, older cells could also be shut if the prison population reduces.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has also pledged almost £2m in funding to 38 charities so their \"vital work in steering women away from crime can continue\".\n\nThis may include addressing mental health problems and drug use, both of which affect around half of women in prison.\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said: \"This funding boost will allow frontline services to continue the incredible work they do with some of the most vulnerable women in our society to prevent them being drawn into crime.\"\n\nAnnouncing the funding, the government reiterated its promise to cut the number of women in custody and provide effective support to deal with problems which could lead to crime in the first place or reoffending.\n\nBut it admitted there could be a temporary rise of inmates in the near future as the number of investigations and prosecutions is expected to increase amid the hiring of 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIt added that the number of women in custody has fallen by 10% since 2010 and stressed that government investment in community services should see this trend continue in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of women in prison falls longer term, the MoJ says the new modern facilities will allow the Prison Service to close old accommodation.\n\nCampaigners largely welcomed the announcement, but warned the efforts do not go far enough to tackle longstanding problems.\n\nKate Paradine, chief executive of charity Women in Prison, said: \"This pledge and funding are just the start, and a far cry from what is needed in order to provide stability for women who face the sharp end of our society.\"\n\nShe called on the government in its upcoming Budget to safeguard the future of women's centres, which she described as an \"anchor that stop women being swept up into crime\" but warned were \"facing a funding cliff edge in April\".\n\nEmily Evison, policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said the plans would need to be backed up by \"action on the ground to prove effective\", adding: \"Instead of planning for a rise (in women prisoners), the government should redouble its efforts to ensure women are not being sent to prison to serve pointless short sentences.\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"If the goal is to reduce the number of women entering the criminal justice system, then today's announcement shows that ministers are looking at the issue down the wrong end of a telescope\", claiming the funding promised was \"dwarfed\" by the cost of the extra prison places.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "A restaurant worker in Lisbon, where benefits to those with symptoms, and those without, are generous\n\nThe idea of a flat £500 payment to anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 has been dismissed by the UK government. Health officials had come up with the suggestion in the hope of encouraging people with the illness to self-isolate.\n\nThere are concerns the virus is continuing to spread because some people are ignoring the instruction to stay home when they show symptoms or test positive. Downing Street has said there is already a £500 sum for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate. But this must be applied for and there have been high rejection rates in England at least, A behaviour expert who advises the government, told the BBC just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nSo how do other countries handle the question of paying people to stay at home, or just trusting they will do the right thing? Here, BBC correspondents from Prague to New York, offer an insight.\n\nIn Portugal, even those who are just at-risk of contracting Covid - having been in direct contact with a confirmed case - are entitled to 100% of their basic salary, for 14 days, writes Alison Roberts, in Lisbon.\n\nFor those who show symptoms, or have tested positive, the same is available for up to 28 days. And the normal waiting times people are used to when claiming while ill have also been done away with - these Covid payments kick in on day one of isolation.\n\nThose not on permanent work contracts tend to be treated as self-employed and are eligible for benefits based on income declared. But there are a lot of people, including many immigrants, who lack the necessary paperwork, and are therefore not eligible to claim.\n\nNevertheless, it's perhaps not surprising that, because people are able to claim full basic pay, there hasn't been much, if any, debate about people obeying self-isolation. If there are reports of people not seeking tests, or not isolating, it seems to be more out of ignorance, which is certainly rather worrying.\n\nSlovenia has been offering compensation to people forced to self-isolate after exposure to coronavirus since it first introduced emergency measures in March, writes Guy De Launey in Ljubljana.\n\nDepending on the circumstances, this covers anything from 80% to the full amount of usual earnings. The payments may be made directly to people in quarantine, or as compensation to employers. A government official told the BBC that with its socialist past, it was normal for Slovenia to take care of people in quarantine by providing payments - and that without compensation, it would be impossible to deal with coronavirus.\n\nWhen the measures were first introduced, they enjoyed broad public support. But the second wave of the epidemic has seen case numbers skyrocket - Slovenia's per capita death-rate is now the third highest in the world - and public confidence overall has dipped.\n\nBy the end of 2020, market research company Valicon said that only 12% of Slovenians viewed the government's measures as \"appropriate\", adding that people were \"worried and dissatisfied with the social situation\", suggesting compensation is not a panacea.\n\nIn March last year, the US agreed to pay for some workers to stay at home - a big change for a country that had never paid sick leave requirement before, writes Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nThe measure guaranteed up to 14 days of pay for workers forced to isolate because they had symptoms, had received medical advice to self-quarantine, or were under government lockdown orders. It also said it would guarantee two-thirds of pay for people caring for someone with the virus for up to two weeks. One study suggested it helped prevent hundreds of news cases a day.\n\nBut the assistance - paid by employers which were then reimbursed by the government via tax credits - expired on 31 December. And even before that, analysts estimated that loopholes meant roughly half of the country's workforce, including many grocery workers and medical staff were potentially excluded.\n\nAs part of his $1.9tn stimulus plan, President Joe Biden is pushing to renew the law, and end the exemptions. But the proposal - which his team estimates would expand the benefit to as many as 106 million more Americans - faces stiff resistance from Republicans and key business lobbies.\n\nIn Germany financial support is generous for people ordered to self-isolate by the authorities because of infection risk, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nAs a result there hasn't been a debate in Germany about breaking self-isolation rules because of financial need. Fines can be huge - tens of thousands of euros - and are strictly enforced. Overall there's no great issue with compliance and Germany's financial package has widespread cross-party backing, and is supported by voters.\n\nEmployees who are unable to work at home receive full pay for up to six weeks. This is paid by the employer, who is then reimbursed by the state. After that, workers may be eligible for sick-pay.\n\nFreelancers and self-employed people are generally also entitled to full pay for six weeks. But they would apply directly to their regional government. The exact rules and level of efficiency for payments vary from region to region. For those in the gig economy - Germany has it, though less so than Britain - this should be covered by state aid, based on tax returns.\n\nThe level of state support was agreed by Germany's national parliament in Berlin. But payments are administered and funded by regional governments.\n\nThere's been some discussion here about paying people to stay home if they test positive for Covid, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe idea is advocated by at least one independent expert group. But it would be expensive, and the Czech state coffers are already stretched from keeping employees on furlough and paying compensation.\n\nInstead, salaried employees who receive a positive diagnosis are left with two choices: work from home - if they're up to it, if their job allows it and if their employer agrees, or go on sick leave for 10 days and receive 60% salary.\n\nFor the self-employed it's worse. Only those who have chosen to pay state sickness insurance will receive anything. Most opt out - the benefits are marginal. So most continue working from home - if their health and profession allows it.\n\nFor many workers, in other words, a positive Covid test can be a real blow to the wallet. It's an open secret that many people - especially freelancers in creative professions - beg friends and colleagues who test positive not to declare them as contacts, to avoid having to go into quarantine. For some the fear of losing work and money outweighs social responsibility.\n\nMoves to compensate people for taking time off work have largely been well received, writes Maddy Savage in Stockholm.\n\nTo encourage people to stay at home from the moment they develop coronavirus symptoms, the government changed the rules to allow Swedish employees and the self-employed to claim sick pay from the first day they are off, rather than the second. Employees receive about 80% of their salary while they isolate (capped at SEK 700 or £61.88 per day), and the self-employed are entitled to payments capped at 804 SEK or £71.05. The government has also introduced an allowance for people isolating because they live with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nWhile Sweden has largely kept primary schools open throughout the pandemic, parents have been able to make use of a pre-existing benefit which allows them to take state-funded time off work if their children are ill (with the virus or any other illness), and an additional benefit has been introduced for parents who are forced to take time off work to look after children affected by school closures as a result of a local outbreak.\n\nBut these measures have also stirred debates about welfare inequality. There are concerns that workers who are paid by the hour or on temporary contracts aren't entitled to the same level of sickness benefits as permanent staff - there are reports that this has encouraged some to keep working despite developing Covid-19 symptoms.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The Black Country Living Museum normally gives visitors a taste of ordinary life in the Victorian era\n\nA venue that has doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders is to operate as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.\n\nUsing Black Country Living Museum, a largely open-air site, to deliver jabs is said to be a \"game-changer\" for the local community.\n\nThe Dudley attraction, which is closed to tourists during lockdown, is expected to help administer thousands of injections a week.\n\nPeople are reminded they need an NHS letter of invitation before turning up.\n\nThe formal appointments will initially prioritise doses for people most at risk of complications from the virus.\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England showed 97,310 Covid jabs had been administered in Dudley and the surrounding area by Thursday - the second highest amount in the Midlands.\n\nBut rollout at the museum - which begins on Monday - will see it become Dudley's first vaccination centre.\n\nIt will complement existing GP-led vaccination services which are already up and running locally.\n\nCillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham-set drama filmed in part at the museum\n\nThe museum normally gives visitors a taste of life in the Black Country during bygone days and has been used as a location for Peaky Blinders, the BBC TV series set in nearby Birmingham in the early 20th Century.\n\nSaying the step was a game-changer, Nicholas Barlow, Dudley Council member for health, said: \"Having the Black Country Living Museum on board as a vaccination centre will greatly increase the amount of jabs we can deliver, and the speed at which we can administer them.\n\n\"It will make people safer from this deadly virus more quickly.\"\n\nSally Roberts, Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group chief nurse, said: \"Our progress [in the area] to date has been incredible and I am delighted that our first vaccination centre, which will be capable of delivering thousands more vaccines each week, is going live.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Skewen in Neath Port Talbot has been badly hit by flooding over the past two days\n\nThere have been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out caused by recent flooding, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nHomes were evacuated in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday as heavy rain caused issues across the country.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said none of its mass vaccination centres or GP surgeries had been affected by floods.\n\nIt added anyone struggling to get to a vaccination appointment because of the flooding would be able to rearrange.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board also said it was not aware of flooding in north Wales causing any issues for the vaccine roll-out.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said on Thursday that teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe latest figures released on Friday showed 212,317 people in Wales had received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with a further 415 receiving a second dose.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nAbout 80 people in Skewen had to be evacuated from their homes after streets were left under water.\n\nFire crews returned to the scene on Friday to continue to pump floodwater away from houses.\n\nMeanwhile, a family in Rossett, Wrexham county, had to be rescued by helicopter after their home became surrounded by floodwater on Thursday night.\n\nNorth Wales has also been hit by floods\n\nOn Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that efforts to rehouse those affected by the floods were being done in \"as Covid-secure a way as possible\".\n\nDorothy Edwards, Covid-19 vaccination programme director for Swansea Bay health board, said: \"None of our mass vaccination centres have been impacted by flooding and we're not aware of any particular issues in primary care.\n\n\"Of course we will be sympathetic if there are people struggling to get to their appointment and if they are booked in at an mass vaccination centres they need to ring the booking line and the appointment will be rearranged.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"There have been no adverse effects on the vaccine roll-out due to flooding.\"", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "An exhibition now celebrates Wuhan's success in controlling the outbreak\n\nWuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.\n\nFrom the moment a new, pandemic coronavirus emerged in the same city as a laboratory dedicated to the study of new coronaviruses with pandemic potential, Prof Shi Zhengli has found herself the focus of one of the biggest scientific controversies of our time.\n\nFor much of the past year she has met the suggestion that Sars-Cov-2 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with angry denial.\n\nNow though, she has offered her own thoughts on how the initial outbreak may have begun in the city.\n\nIn an article in this month's edition of Science Magazine she referred to a number of studies that, she said, suggest the virus existed outside of China before Wuhan's first known case in December 2019.\n\n\"Given the finding of Sars-Cov-2 on the surface of imported food packages, contact with contaminated uncooked food could be an important source of Sars-Cov-2 transmission,\" she wrote.\n\nFrom one of the world's leading experts on coronaviruses, even the discussion of such a possibility seems unusual.\n\nCould a spiralling outbreak of infection that almost destroyed Wuhan's health system, sparked the world's first Covid lockdown and spawned a global catastrophe really have arrived on imported food without any signs of similarly devastating outbreaks elsewhere?\n\n\"The virus came from America,\" this fishmonger told the BBC\n\nBut with the virus vanquished, the idea that it is a foreign import is repeated with almost unanimity across this city of 11 million people.\n\n\"It came here from other countries,\" one woman running a hotpot stall in a busy street tells me. \"China is a victim.\"\n\n\"Where did it come from?\" the next-door fishmonger repeats my question aloud, and then answers: \"It came from America.\"\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes.\n\nThe tough lockdown coincided with the annual spring festival celebrations and came too late to prevent the global spread of the disease - five million people had already left the city ahead of the holiday.\n\nDoctors' warnings had gone unheeded and, in an outpouring of anger on the Chinese internet, the authorities stood accused of covering up the initial outbreak in the interests of political stability.\n\nOne year on, there's little sign of that anger in Wuhan today. In fact it's the humdrum normality that is striking - the traffic jams, the bustling markets and busy restaurants.\n\nIts success in eventually bringing the virus under control is now being celebrated in a giant exhibition hall, complete with models of medical workers in hazmat suits, installations of hospital beds and - everywhere you look - giant portraits of President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe accompanying texts mention his \"all-out war\" against the pandemic, his \"resolute decision making\" and how he has been willing to share \"China's solutions\" with the world.\n\nThere can be no doubting the success of China's mass testing programmes, its tracing apps and the widespread mask wearing.\n\nBut its strict enforcement of lockdowns, with little hand-wringing over the impact on individual rights, may be far less easy for democratic countries to emulate.\n\n\"The strategic success achieved in this battle fully manifested the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the significant advantages of the socialist system of our country,\" the exhibition proclaims.\n\nDespite China's promise of international co-operation, the world is still no closer to an answer to the biggest question of them all - where did the virus come from?\n\nMany prominent scientists believe that - based on past outbreaks - the most likely source of the coronavirus is a natural one, a \"zoonotic\" leap from bats - known to harbour such viruses - to humans, possibly via an intermediate species.\n\nBut China has produced very little evidence to show the work that's been done in its search for the source, in particular the testing of historic human samples stored by hospitals to determine where and when the virus really started spreading.\n\nThose scientists who argue that the possibility of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology should also be included as part of any investigation are curious about this apparent silence.\n\n\"I find it very unlikely that such investigations would not have already occurred,\" Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told me.\n\n\"It's a serious risk to resume life as usual without knowing where a dangerous human pathogen came from.\"\n\nWuhan's exhibition also has a display of hospital beds\n\nInstead of publishing its own evidence though, China appears to be taking an anywhere-but-Wuhan approach, with state media cheerleading the idea that the virus may have arrived in Wuhan on frozen food imports or talking cryptically of \"multiple origins\".\n\nAt a recent daily press briefing, I asked China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, why such narratives were being promoted in the absence of real scientific evidence.\n\n\"Your question reveals your prejudice against China,\" she replied. \"Reports have emerged from Australia, Italy and many other countries that the coronavirus was found in multiple places in the autumn of 2019.\"\n\n\"Aren't these all facts?\" she asked.\n\nNot according to Alina Chan, who told me that such studies \"lack validation\" and some have been conducted without \"the most basic controls\".\n\n\"They do not present persuasive scientific evidence that the virus was circulating outside of China before the late 2019 outbreak in Wuhan,\" she said.\n\n\"The earliest detected cases and outbreak were in Wuhan. Early cases outside of China were found to have travelled from Wuhan. The most similar viruses have been found inside China.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nInterestingly, scientists who have found themselves disagreeing strongly about the likelihood of the lab-leak theory, suddenly find themselves very much aligned on whether the virus came from abroad.\n\n\"I do not find the data linking Sars-Cov-2 to frozen foods to be credible,\" Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in the US, told me.\n\nAs someone who is a firm supporter of China's insistence that the virus could not have escaped from a lab, he gives its latest position much shorter shrift.\n\n\"All the available evidence points to an emergence of the virus somewhere in China in late 2019,\" he said.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli, seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nProf Shi Zhengli recently told the BBC in an exchange of emails that she'd welcome \"any form of visit\" by an inquiry team to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to rule out the possibility of a lab leak.\n\nBut to a follow-up email asking about the alignment of her discussion of possible foreign origins with the Chinese government's own narrative, she sent another reply.\n\n\"Your question is not friendly,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter months of delay and wrangling with China about access, a World Health Organization team has arrived in Wuhan to begin its inquiry into the origins of the virus.\n\nTheir terms of reference hint at the politics behind the scenes, with the document mentioning many of China's talking points, including foreign origins and food-chain transmission.\n\nLast year Wuhan endured one of the strictest lockdowns the world has seen\n\nDr Daniel Lucey, a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington, suggests the stage is being set for a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"In my view, if you line up side-by-side the WHO's terms of reference with the Shi Zhengli Science article,\" he told me, \"then it is clear that the overarching strategic narrative is that the origin of the virus is outside of China.\"\n\nThe crisis that began in Wuhan is now the world's crisis and, with so many lives and livelihoods lost, answers are desperately needed.\n\nIf the virus came naturally from bats, an understanding of that pathway is important to protect humanity from the risk of repeated \"spillover\" events from the same source.\n\nIf it leaked from a lab, an urgent review of safety protocols is needed - not just in China but globally.\n\nBoards in Wuhan say the virus broke out \"in multiple places around the world\"\n\nScientists are beginning to wonder if those answers will ever be forthcoming.\n\n\"It's undeniable now that politics have gotten in the way of science,\" Alina Chan said.\n\n\"I just hope that the WHO team will relay the details of their experience so that the public can understand what the limitations of their investigation are.\"\n\nIn Wuhan's giant exhibition hall, the city's place in history is again called into question by one of the concluding sign boards which says Covid-19 broke out \"in multiple places around the world\".\n\nFor China, this city's past is now propaganda and the truth, like the virus, is being brought under tight control.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said extending the maximum wait from three to 12 weeks was a \"public health decision\" to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said that was \"difficult to justify\" and should be changed to six weeks.\n\nIt comes as early evidence suggests the UK virus variant may be more deadly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street briefing on Friday: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThe government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says unpublished data suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is still effective with doses 12 weeks apart - but Pfizer has said it has tested its vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe World Health Organization has recommended a gap of four weeks between doses - to be extended only in exceptional circumstances to six weeks.\n\nGovernment minister Robert Jenrick said the current strategy ensured \"millions more people can get the first jab\" and the \"high level of protection\" which it offered.\n\nHe said the BMA's concerns would be taken into account but that the government was following the \"very clear advice\" of the medicines regulator and the UK's four chief medical officers who, he said, \"could not have been clearer that this is the right thing to do for this country\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care added: \"Our number one priority is to give protection against coronavirus to as many vulnerable people as possible, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn the letter to Prof Whitty, seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it agreed that the vaccine should be rolled out \"as quickly as possible\" - but called for an urgent review and for the gap to be reduced.\n\nThe doctors' union said the UK's strategy \"has become increasingly isolated internationally\" and \"is proving evermore difficult to justify\".\n\n\"The absence of any international support for the UK's approach is a cause of deep concern and risks undermining public and the profession's trust in the vaccination programme,\" the letter said.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA, said there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"Obviously the protection will not vanish after six weeks, but what we do not know is what level of protection will be offered [after that point],\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We should not be extrapolating data when we don't have it.\"\n\nHe said while he understands the rationale behind the decision, \"no other nation has adopted the UK's approach\".\n\n\"We think the flexibility that the WHO offers of extending to 42 days is being stretched far too much to go from six weeks right through to 12 weeks,\" he added.\n\nThere has been understandable enthusiasm over a promising start to the hugely ambitious UK vaccination rollout.\n\nBut there has been some tension over the decision to lengthen the time between doses for the Pfizer vaccine to 12 weeks.\n\nProf Whitty and other health leaders and experts say this will allow many more people to get vaccinated quickly and the first dose gives most of the protection.\n\nBut critics argue this goes against Pfizer's recommendation of a three-week gap and there is no data to back up the long delay.\n\nThe intervention of the BMA is significant as it shows senior doctors now have widespread concerns, including worries about reliability of supplies if people have to wait longer for a second jab.\n\nThis is a private letter to Chris Whitty seen by the BBC and not a grandstanding press release. The BMA wants to have talks with the chief medical adviser about moving to six weeks.\n\nProf Whitty will no doubt restate his case, but it will be interesting to see whether the BMA argument gains traction in the wider medical world.\n\nThe BMA also suggested second doses might not be guaranteed after a 12-week delay \"given the unpredictability of supplies\".\n\nHowever, Public Health England's medical director said people would get their second dose.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she backed the current strategy, saying it was \"about bearing down on transmission\" to reduce deaths and reduce the chance of more dangerous variants of the virus emerging.\n\n\"The more people that are protected against this virus, the less opportunity it has to get the upper hand,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the letter include:\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have said the \"great majority\" of initial protection comes from the first jab, while the second dose is likely to help that protection last longer.\n\nIn total, the UK has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and 40 million of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines are expected to work against the variant of Covid-19 that emerged in the UK.\n\nWhat has been your experience of receiving the vaccine? Are you waiting for your second dose? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nurses are calling for all UK staff to be given a higher grade of face mask to protect them against new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing warns that inadequate PPE may be putting the lives of nursing staff at risk.\n\nIt has written to the workplace safety watchdog detailing its concerns, soon after a similar appeal from doctors.\n\nEngland's Department of Health says there is no reason to change current guidance.\n\nIt follows a comprehensive review of all the evidence around the new variants and the impact on PPE.\n\nAt present, most nurses working outside of intensive care wear standard surgical masks.\n\nBut the RCN says they may not protect them against the new variant of the virus, and very small airborne viral particles spread in hospitals.\n\nInstead, it wants all NHS staff to be given the kinds of high-grade face masks used in intensive care units, called FFP2 or FFP3 masks.\n\nThe UK guidance on infection prevention and control has recently been updated, but nurses say it allows individual trusts to decide what PPE to use.\n\nAs a result, some hospitals are offering staff high-grade PPE while many are not - and that is leading to unequal levels of protection depending on where nurses work.\n\nMany nurses wear standard surgical masks outside of intensive care\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: \"The government's silence on this issue is creating a postcode lottery for nursing staff.\n\n\"It must stop dragging its feet on this issue. Nursing staff need to have full confidence that they are protected.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff picking up this virus at work are angered at any suggestion they have stopped following the rules - this is down to the new variant and the dangerous shortage of adequate protection.\"\n\nNHS England data shows a 22% rise in the average number of healthcare staff off sick because of Covid-19 in the first week of January, compared with the last week in December.\n\nA spokesman from the Department of Health and Social Care in England said the safety of NHS and social care staff was \"top priority\" but the current guidance did not need changing.\n\n\"In response to the new Covid-19 variants, the UK Infection Prevention Control Cell conducted a comprehensive review of all available evidence and concluded that current guidance and PPE recommendations remain the right ones.\n\n\"New and emerging evidence is continually scrutinised and evaluated by the government, in conjunction with our world-leading scientists,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is asking the governments of the UK to:\n\nIt is also calling for the Health and Safety Executive to review the guidance on appropriate use of PPE in all health and care settings.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "Morriston is seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people die in intensive care\n\nAn intensive care consultant said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nDr John Gorst said the number was \"unprecedented\" at his unit in Swansea's Morriston Hospital that would normally only see one person die.\n\nHe said the second wave of the pandemic was more challenging with patients more severely unwell.\n\nIn Wales, there has been an average of about 34 deaths a day during the pandemic up to 19 January.\n\nNew Year's Day saw the most Covid-related deaths in a single day in Wales - 55 - since the pandemic began.\n\n\"In some 12-hour periods we have lost up to five coronavirus patients,\" said Dr Gorst.\n\n\"Usually we expect to see, on average, one patient a day dying in the intensive care unit. To have five die on one day is unprecedented.\n\n\"That's been a real struggle for their families and for the staff dealing with it.\"\n\nFour additional medical wards have opened to cope with the impact of coronavirus at Morriston, with about 300 patients being treated.\n\nDr John Gorst and senior matron Carol Doggett say Covid patients are sicker and younger in the second wave\n\nDr Gorst said: \"If it wasn't for the treatment given on the wards, intensive care would have been completely overwhelmed.\n\n\"However, when patients have failed on these treatments, sadly the safety net of the intensive care unit [and] getting them on an invasive ventilator, largely doesn't work.\n\n\"Most patients who come to intensive care to go on an intensive ventilator, sadly, will not survive.\n\n\"These patients are mostly of working age. They don't have any significant medical conditions.\"\n\n\"This is alien to us as an intensive care unit. We expect far more patients to survive. Now they are not.\"\n\nMorriston's senior matron Carol Doggett agreed that the \"number of sicker patients has definitely increased\", and she said they were younger than had been experienced in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"That should be a stark warning to anyone not to take chances with this,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said there was cause for concern over new variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the new highly contagious strain - sometimes called the Kent variant - is now widespread across Wales,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the government was closely monitoring three new variant variants: one from South Africa and two from Brazil.\n\nSix cases of the South African variant have been identified in Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has reported another 55,892 daily cases of coronavirus, the highest figure on record.\n\nAnd another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on the 981 on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock appealed to everyone to \"take personal responsibility this New Year's Eve and stay at home\".\n\nHe said he knew how much had been sacrificed this year but, with the NHS under pressure, \"we cannot let up\".\n\nOn Thursday, just after midnight, 20 million more people in England were placed under the toughest restrictions and told to stay at home.\n\nThe new restrictions mean 44 million people, or 78% of the population of England, are now in tier four, where non-essential shops, gyms, cinemas and hairdressers have to stay shut.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said Christmas week had seen a worrying rise in cases - particularly among adults in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"We have all had to make huge sacrifices this year, but please ensure that you keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask,\" she said.\n\n\"A night in at new year will mean you are significantly reducing your social contacts and can help stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nThe 981 deaths recorded on Wednesday was the highest daily figure since April.\n\nMuch of the rise in cases has been blamed on the spread of a new variant, which scientists believe is able to transmit more easily.\n\nIt was initially concentrated in the London, the South East and eastern England, but Mr Hancock has said it is now responsible for the \"majority\" of new cases across the UK.\n\nWith the number of Covid patients in hospitals increasing, some are being moved long distances for intensive care.\n\nDr Michael Marsh, NHS England medical director for the south-west region, said patients had come from Kent to Plymouth and Bristol, where services were \"less stretched\".\n\nThe latest NHS Test and Trace figures show 232,169 people tested positive for Covid in England at least once in the week to 23 December, up 33% on the previous week and the highest weekly rise on record.\n\nCovid case rates are continuing to rise in all regions of England - with London's rate at 735.5 per 100,000 people in the seven days to 27 December, up from 711.9 the previous week, the latest Public Health England report showed.\n\nEastern England saw the second highest rate, 551.3 up from 510.8, followed by south-east England at 450.6, up from 427.4.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland recorded 2,622 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours - a record high for the third day in a row.\n\nPublic Health Wales reported a further 1,831 cases in Wales, with the highest case rates in Bridgend (825.6 for every 100,000 people) and Merthyr Tydfil (754.2).\n\nAnd Northern Ireland has seen another 1,929 cases in the last 24 hours, as hospitals come close to capacity with latest figures showing only six empty beds.\n\nSome hospital trusts in the south of England have also been reporting that they are under extreme pressure because of increasing numbers of Covid patients.\n\nOn Wednesday, Essex and Buckinghamshire declared major incidents, while an intensive care doctor at London's Whittington Hospital said they were facing a \"tsunami\" of Covid cases.\n\nProf Hugh Montgomery said people who did not follow social distancing rules or wear masks \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nThe NHS said London's Nightingale Hospital had been \"reactivated\" and was ready to admit patients, in anticipation of rising pressures from the spread of the new variant.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Father (left) and son have had divergent views on Brexit in the past\n\nThe father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is applying for French citizenship now that Britain has severed ties with the European Union.\n\nStanley Johnson told France's RTL radio he had always seen himself as French as his mother was born in France.\n\nThe 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nHis son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.\n\nStanley Johnson explained his reasons for seeking French citizenship in an interview broadcast on Thursday, hours before the UK was due to leave EU trading rules.\n\n\"It's not about becoming French,\" he told RTL. \"It's about reclaiming what I already have.\"\n\nHe pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. \"I will always be European,\" he added.\n\nStanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.\n\nBrexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister's sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.\n\nTheir brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.", "Tampon tax activist Laura Coryton says scrapping the tampon tax is an important move ‘ending a symptom of sexism’\n\nThe 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the \"tampon tax\" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January.\n\nEU law required members to tax tampons and sanitary towels at 5%, treating period products as non-essential.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak committed to scrapping the tax in his March Budget.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the end to what they called a \"sexist tax\" with activist Laura Coryton saying it was \"about ending a symptom of sexism\".\n\nThe UK was able to get rid of the tax now because it is no longer subject to European Union rules on sanitary products.\n\nThe EU is itself in the process of abolishing the tampon tax. In 2018 the European Commission published proposals to change the VAT rules, which would give countries the right to stop taxing tampons and other period products, but the move has not yet been agreed by all members. The Republic of Ireland has zero VAT on sanitary products as the rate was in place prior to EU legislation imposing the 5% minimum VAT rate on EU members.\n\nMs Coryton, 27, who began campaigning to end the tampon tax when she was 21, told the BBC the move \"challenged the negative message that this tax sent to society about women\".\n\nThe move follows Scotland becoming the first in the world to make period products free in November.\n\nFelicia Willow, chief executive of women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, agreed, saying: \"It's been a long road to reach this point, but at last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as non-essential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books.\"\n\nThe Treasury has estimated the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.\n\nIt's been a long road to getting the tampon tax abolished in the UK. Campaigning and debates in parliament by then-MP for Dewsbury Ann Taylor led to the Labour government moving sanitary products to a reduced rate of 5% from January 2001- the lowest rate possible under the EU's VAT rules.\n\nAnd following more campaigning in 2014 by Ms Coryton and lobbying in parliament by former Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff in 2016, the Conservative government announced that all VAT collected on sanitary products would henceforth be given to charities working with vulnerable women and girls.\n\nAt the same time, the government enshrined in legislation that it would abolish the tampon tax.\n\n\"I'm just so happy and relieved and excited at the same time for this tax to finally be axed,\" said Ms Coryton.\n\n\"It will mean a reduction in prices for period products, and that reduction in cost will be important for the increasing number of people who are battling with poverty, especially due to the pandemic.\"\n\nGemma Abbott is a lawyer and campaigner with the Free Periods group, which successfully campaigned for the government to provide free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England in 2019. The scheme launched in January.\n\nGemma Abbott wants clarity from the government on why the free sanitary products for schools scheme is not mandatory\n\n\"I think it's great news and a real testament to the determined campaigning of many people, like Paula Sheriff and Laura Coryton,\" she said.\n\n\"I think we can agree that any tax that characterises period products as non-essential is absurd and it has no place in a society that is seeking genuine gender equality.\"\n\nFree Periods is now campaigning to ensure that schools and colleges know that the free sanitary products scheme exists and that they sign up for them.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"The latest statistics we have are from last term - at that point only 40% of schools had signed up for the scheme.\"\n\nMs Coryton has set up a social enterprise called Sex Ed Matters with her sister Julia, providing talks in schools and toolkits for teachers to help them deliver the mandatory new sex education curriculum for primary and secondary schools issued in early 2020.\n\nThey did an online survey of 150 teachers and students across the UK, and 100% of respondents said that there is still a stigma attached to periods.\n\n\"If there is a stigma attached to periods, then you're unlikely to speak up when you need period products, or to talk about the free sanitary products scheme that exists,\" stressed Ms Coryton.\n\nBut Free Periods' Ms Abbott is also concerned about the charities supporting women and girls, who will no longer benefit from the proceeds of the previous 5% tax on sanitary products.\n\n\"The tampon tax fund has provided much needed support and funding to a chronically underfunded area,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried that the removal of the tampon tax will spell the end of the ring-fenced funding for charities to address really vital issues like domestic violence and rape.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "After years of silence, The KLF have uploaded a selection of their most famous songs to streaming services like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.\n\nThe band's music has been officially unavailable since 1992, when they deleted their entire back catalogue.\n\nBut eight songs, including dance anthems like 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love, are now available on an eight-track compilation, Solid State Logik.\n\nFly posters in London suggested The KLF would release more music this year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolid State Logik collects all of the band's biggest hits - including the Tammy Wynette collaboration Justified & Ancient, and the Gary Glitter-sampling Doctorin' The Tardis.\n\nIt comes 29 years after founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond turned their backs on music, with a provocative performance at the 1992 Brit Awards - where they tied for best group with Simply Red.\n\nThe duo made their disdain for the industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal while firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience, before an announcer said: \"The KLF have left the music business.\"\n\nDriving the point home, they later dumped a dead sheep on the steps of an after-show party with a note reading, \"I died for ewe\".\n\nCauty and Drummond later burned £1m of their royalties in bundles of £50 notes, on the remote Scottish island of Jura.\n\nIn recent decades the duo have concentrated on book and art projects, including plans to build a \"people's pyramid\", inspired by the death of Cauty's brother and constructed from bricks, each containing 23 grams of human ashes.\n\nBut fans have clamoured for their music - with bootleg clips of their videos and performances achieving tens of millions of views on YouTube, and several \"sound-alike\" versions of their biggest hits appearing on Spotify.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhen other streaming holdouts like AC/DC and Neil Young relented and made their back catalogues available, The KLF still held out. In 2018, Billboard named their absence as one of the eight most significant gaps on streaming services, alongside records by De La Soul and Aaliyah.\n\nThe band announced their surprise resurrection in two posters pasted under a railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London, alongside graffiti referencing The KLF.\n\nThe Instagram account of Cauty's girlfriend showed a figure creating the graffiti creating the graffiti on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sistersofperpetualresistance This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a statement on the band's YouTube page, Solid State Logik (named after the mixing desk the band used to create their biggest hits) is the first of five planned releases, covering all of the band's releases, under a variety of names.\n\nIt read: \"KLF have appropriated the work done between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1991 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords [and] The KLF.\n\n\"This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming. The name of the story is Samplecity Thru Transcentral.\"\n\nThe text goes on to name several projects that are being prepared for release, some of which have never been heard before, including Kick Out The Jams, the Pure Trance Series, and a second volume of Solid State Logik.\n\n\"If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.\n\n\"The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th Century.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK celebrated the start of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRevellers were not able to gather to celebrate the London mayor's display in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nThe new year celebrations also featured a message of hope from David Attenborough.\n\nWatch the full display on the BBC iPlayer", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson is one of five men who have been rebailed by police\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson says he will not fight for re-election in May due to an ongoing bribery and witness intimidation investigation.\n\nMr Anderson, 62, made the announcement after Merseyside Police said he had been rebailed until February following his arrest earlier this month.\n\nHe tweeted he was \"disappointed\" with the police decision as he had \"provided all of the information they asked for\".\n\nHe said it was in the Labour Party's best interests to pick a new candidate.\n\nMr Anderson was arrested on 4 December, along with four other men, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.\n\nThe year-long investigation, Operation Aloft, has focused on a number of building and development contracts in Liverpool.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Anderson said he was \"stepping away from decision-making\" and would take unpaid leave while the police investigation continued.\n\nThe Labour Party also suspended Mr Anderson pending its outcome.\n\nMr Anderson said he would \"continue to fight to demonstrate that I am innocent of any wrongdoing [and] also to protect my legacy as mayor of this city of which I am proud\".\n\nHe said the timing of the police investigation meant \"it would be in the best interests of the Labour Party to select a new candidate for the mayoral election\".\n\nMr Anderson also wrote: \"I have dedicated my life to this city with loyalty and passion and I am not prepared to throw that away.\"\n\nRichard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition on Liverpool City Council, called on Mr Anderson to immediately resign from the local authority.\n\nMr Kemp said his Labour opponent was a \"lame duck mayor\" who was \"preventing the city from moving on\".\n\nMr Anderson said he hoped the police investigation would be completed \"long before\" the expiry of his term of office.\n\nHe said it would confirm he had \"done nothing wrong\" and his name and reputation \"will be exonerated\".\n\n\"I have never done anything that would harm this city,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Merseyside Police said five men had been rebailed until 19 February.\n\nThe Labour Party has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.\n\nAs a player, Glasgow-born Docherty made more than 300 appearances for Preston and won 25 caps for Scotland.\n\nHe went on to manage 12 clubs, leading Chelsea to League Cup success in 1965 and United to a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the 1977 FA Cup final.\n\n\"Tommy passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at home,\" his family said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a much-loved husband, father and papa and will be terribly missed.\n\n\"We ask that our privacy be respected at this time.\"\n• None Docherty - manager of many clubs, quicks and one-liners\n\nDocherty - affectionately known by his nickname 'The Doc' - died at home in the north west of England on 31 December.\n\nAfter spells managing Chelsea, Rotherham, QPR, Aston Villa and Porto, he took over as Scotland boss in September 1971 on a temporary basis before getting the job full-time two months later.\n\nBut he was best known for his five-year spell at Manchester United, who approached him to succeed Frank O'Farrell in December 1972 while Scotland were on course to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals.\n\nUnited were relegated in 1974 under Docherty but they kept the Scot and returned to the top flight at the first time of asking. Two years later, they won the FA Cup with victory over Bob Paisley's Liverpool, who had won the league and would go on to also win the European Cup that year.\n\nDocherty's time at Old Trafford also saw George Best fail to revive his United career, the retirement of Bobby Charlton, and the departure of Denis Law.\n\nIn 2014, he told the BBC he still regretted his decision to leave the Scotland job for United.\n\n\"I was stupid,\" he said. \"I should have stayed with Scotland. [It was] partly the money, I have to be honest about that.\"\n\nDocherty was sacked shortly after the Wembley triumph for having an affair with Mary Brown, the wife of United physiotherapist Laurie Brown.\n\nThe pair later married and they remained together until his death.\n\nDocherty returned to management with First Division side Derby in September 1977, then rejoined QPR two years later. A turbulent time at Loftus Road saw him sacked in May 1980, reinstated after just nine days, then sacked again the following October.\n\nSpells at Sydney Olympic, Preston, South Melbourne and Wolves followed, with Docherty's final managerial job coming at non-league Altrincham in 1987-88.\n\nPost-retirement, he worked as an after-dinner speaker and media pundit.\n\nDocherty was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2013.\n\n\"He was tenacious on the park and a great leader off it,\" Petrie added.\n\n\"Tommy was a regular in the Scotland side in the 1950s that qualified for two World Cups, and his record as Scotland manager was impressive, albeit cut short.\n\n\"Looking at the results and performances he inspired, it is hard not to wonder what might have been had he remained.\n\n\"His charisma and love for the game shone even after he stopped managing and it was entirely fitting Tommy should be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame for his lifelong service.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA £2,500 reward has been offered after a nativity scene was petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scene in Raglan, Monmouthshire, had been installed in a bus shelter for families to enjoy over Christmas.\n\nThe fire destroyed statues of a shepherd, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus - with only the three wise men surviving as they stood outside the shelter.\n\nMiguel Santiago, of the Beaufort Hotel which funded the £10,000 scene, said the attack was \"really disappointing\".\n\n\"I was in the hotel when I saw the fire and I went into panic mode,\" he said.\n\n\"It was about 21:45 on Christmas Eve when it all happened and I ended up using nine extinguishers to put it out.\"\n\nThe wooden nativity was funded by the hotel and put together by retired theatre design lecturer Liz Friendship.\n\nMs Friendship said the festive scene had also been targeted by thieves in the past.\n\n\"In 2018 Mary was taken, in 2019 two shepherds were stolen and never came back, and in 2020 it's burnt down.\n\n\"It's now just three kings staring at the bus stop. It's very sad.\"\n\nThe scene was in ruins following the petrol bomb attack\n\nVillagers are now appealing for help to catch the suspects responsible for the Christmas crime.\n\nMr Santiago added: \"It's a shame because so much effort went into putting it together this year.\n\n\"We added three kings which really made it a great sight, we made sure the figures couldn't be taken by fixing them down.\n\n\"It's really disappointing that this has happened but the locals have been great and we will be back next year with a bigger and better nativity.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: \"Officers are investigating a report of criminal damage to a nativity scene on the High Street, in Raglan on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"It has been reported that fire damage was caused to the set at approximately 9.45pm on the evening of Thursday 24th December 2020.\n\n\"The scene that belonged to the Beaufort Hotel was totally damaged as a result.\"\n\nAnyone with information should contact police on 101, she said.", "The crowd at Edinburgh Castle dispersed after police arrived\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year despite police and government warnings to stay away.\n\nPeople sang and danced before dispersing when several police vans and cars drove on to the castle esplanade.\n\nMost Scots heeded warnings to hold Hogmanay celebrations at home with household members.\n\nThere were no midnight fireworks at the castle, but a display was held at the Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We were aware of gatherings at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill around midnight on Hogmanay.\n\n\"Officers safely engaged with those in attendance and explained the current government regulations resulting in the groups dispersing without incident.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that there should be \"no gatherings, no house parties and no first footing\" at Hogmanay.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and Skye are under level four restrictions, while the other islands are in level three.\n\nDetails have meanwhile emerged of another police enforcement action against a group who gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle during the festive period.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that 32 people were charged with culpable and reckless conduct after officers were called out on 27 December.\n\nAccording to the Scottish Sun, the group had travelled from Glasgow but police were tipped off by locals who spotted vehicles parked outside the property.\n\nPeople in Scotland were urged to stay at home and celebrate the new year with their families\n\nAt Edinburgh Castle, one Hogmanay tradition endured as a lone piper played in the new year at midnight.\n\nWith the capital's traditional new year party cancelled, the organisers of its annual Hogmanay celebration instead released a series of \"drone swarm\" videos titled Fare Well.\n\nThe display featured a swarm of 150 illuminated drones forming symbols and animals in a \"beautiful ode to Scotland\".\n\nEach video was narrated by actor David Tennant and included verses written by Scotland's official poet, makar Jackie Kay.\n\nWhile they appear to be flying above landmarks like Edinburgh Castle, the drones were flown elsewhere before being edited into other footage.\n\nDrones write a message in the sky above the Forth Bridge\n\nThe streets of central Edinburgh were quiet, in contrast to last year's Hogmanay celebrations when about 100,000 visitors attended the street party with live performances from Idlewild and Mark Ronson in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nElsewhere in the UK this year a fireworks and light display, including tributes to NHS staff, was held over the River Thames in London, but people were also told to stay at home rather than go out and celebrate.\n• None UK sees in 2021 with fireworks and light show", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads Image caption: Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads\n\nEarlier we reported that a study by Imperial College had concluded the new coronavirus variant is \"hugely\" more transmissible. Now some experts are saying that means even tougher restrictions will soon be needed.\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said: \"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread - more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person passes the virus onto. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nEarly data suggested that the virus was spreading more quickly among the under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children, but the latest results indicate that it is more infectious in all age groups.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, part of the research team, suggested that it may have appeared to spread more easily among school children simply because the early data was collected during the November lockdown, when adults' movements were restricted but schools remained open.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and teachers have criticised the closure decisions\n\nNine London boroughs have written to the education secretary asking him to reverse plans to reopen primary schools in some areas.\n\nAbout a million primary school pupils will not return to lessons next week in a bid to cut Covid transmission rates.\n\nHowever, schools in 10 London boroughs are due to remain open.\n\nIn the letter, the leaders said they were \"struggling to understand the rationale\" behind the idea as pupils and teachers moved between boroughs.\n\nThe government has said the measure would be reviewed fortnightly.\n\nAll primary schools had been due to fully reopen on 4 January but under government plans those in 23 London boroughs will remain closed.\n\nHowever, schools in the City of London, Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Islington, Kingston, Lambeth and Lewisham will open.\n\nThe letter to Gavin Williamson has been signed by leaders of all of those boroughs apart from Kingston. It has also been signed by the City of London's policy chair.\n\nIt calls for primary school pupils across the capital to \"move to online learning until 18 January\", apart from vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\n\"The omission of 10 boroughs ignores the deep interconnectedness of our city, and the many thousands of teachers and students that study or teach in one borough and live in another,\" the letter states.\n\nThe councils also said they had received legal advice that omitting some councils from the list of areas told to take teaching online \"is unlawful on a number of grounds and can be challenged in court\".\n\nRichard Watts, leader of Islington Council, told the BBC there \"seems to be no reason at all to look at this on a borough by borough basis\".\n\n\"The entirety of the rest of the government's handling of the pandemic has rightly treated London as a single entity and this is the first time anyone... has tried to implement different public health measures in different boroughs,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement Dan Thorpe, leader of the Royal borough of Greenwich, accused the government of providing \"a lack of clarity and answers\", adding that the situation was \"causing uncertainty and concern among our schools, families, carers, and undoubtedly children and young people\".\n\nAlthough Kingston Council did not sign the letter, leader Caroline Kerr said reopening primary schools in the borough \"doesn't make any sense\" and that they were \"urgently seeking clarity on the reasoning for the decision\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has called the plans \"nonsensical\" and has also written to the government calling for a \"delay to all London schools opening until mid-January\".\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the education secretary \"must listen to the leaders of the community, he must listen to school staff and he must listen to the general public who are all telling him that it is not safe to reopen schools on Monday\".\n\nThe Department for Education has previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician was known for his performances in which he always wore a mask\n\nHip-hop star MF Doom has died at the age of 49, his family confirmed on social media.\n\nThe London-born musician, real name Daniel Dumile, was known for his sharp, intricate rhymes and his signature mask, which he never removed in public.\n\nIn a post on the rapper's Instagram account on Thursday, his wife Jasmine confirmed that he died on 31 October.\n\nA number of artists have paid tribute to MF Doom including Run The Jewels and Tyler, The Creator.\n\nIn a note addressed to the rapper, his wife paid tribute to \"the greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for\".\n\nHis representatives confirmed his death to Rolling Stone magazine. No cause of death was disclosed.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mfdoom This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMF Doom was born in London but moved to New York as a child.\n\nAs a teenager he performed in hip-hop group KMD. Following the loss of his younger brother and bandmate DJ Subroc, he disappeared from music becoming, in his own words, \"damn near homeless\".\n\nBut in 1997, he remerged at open mic events in Manhattan, wearing tights over his face. He protected his anonymity for the rest of his career, adopting a mask based on the Marvel villain Doctor Doom for all his public appearances.\n\nHis debut as MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday, was released in 1999, and he followed it up with an almost non-stop outpouring of music.\n\nAs well as six solo albums, he produced a wealth of bootlegs, compilations, collaborations, mixtapes and instrumental albums - including the influential, 10-part Special Herbs series.\n\nHe may be best known for 2004's Madvillainy, which was recorded with crate-digging producer Madlib under the moniker Madvillain, and gave the rapper his first entry on the US album chart.\n\nAnother of his high-profile collaborations was Danger Doom alongside DJ Danger Mouse, and he appeared with Damon Albarn's Gorillaz on their UK number one album Demon Days. Other collaborators included Ghostface Killah, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches and Radiohead.\n\nOne of hip-hop's most respected MCs, he made appearances on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1 in which he discussed his own music and projects with other artists.\n\nMany of them lined up to pay tribute after news of his death broke on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"RIP to another Giant, your favourite MC's MC... MF DOOM,\" wrote A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on Twitter. \"Crushing news.\"\n\n\"He was a writer's writer,\" added El-P of Run The Jewels. \"Grateful I got to know you a little, king. Proud to be your fan. Thank you for keeping it weird and raw always. You inspired us all and always will.\"\n\n\"All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record,\" Flying Lotus tweeted alongside the album cover to Madvillainy. \"My soul is crushed.\"\n\nApple Music presenter Zane Lowe said: \"Rest In Peace to the great MF Doom. A true artist who gifted us with eternal innovation and creativity.\"\n\nWhile the Sleaford Mods said: \"RIP MF DOOM. Sleep well mate.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe UK has seen off 2020 and celebrated the dawn of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff.\n\nRevellers were not able to ring in the New Year in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nPolice had to break up various parties and events across England overnight.\n\nForces have handed out hundreds of fines, with several issuing the maximum £10,000 to event organisers.\n\nMuch of the UK saw in the new year while under lockdown rules, with about 44 million people in England - or 78% of the population - in tier four, the top level of Covid restrictions.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are also under lockdown.\n\nAlthough people were warned not to attend any parties outside their own homes, there were many around the country who ignored the rules.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said police attended 58 parties and unlicensed music events in breach of tier four rules across London overnight, the vast majority of which ended when police intervened, they added.\n\nFixed penalty fines were given to 217 people while five others could be fined £10,000 for organising large gatherings. The police force said four other people were arrested for breaching Covid regulations by gathering in central London.\n\nElsewhere, other forces also broke up parties and handed out hundreds of fines. They included Greater Manchester Police, which issued 105 fixed penalty notices at house parties and larger gatherings. And Leicestershire Police had to issue six on-the-spot £10,000 fines to party organisers.\n\nIn Essex, hundreds of people were dispersed from an illegal New Year's Eve party at a church, while Lancashire Police broke up a party in Hyndburn, near Blackburn, attended by 80.\n\nMeanwhile, in Scotland, Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party was cancelled, with videos of a drone display released instead.\n\nThe series of videos showed a swarm of 150 lit-up drones over the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh were released, which organisers said it was the largest drone show ever produced in the UK.\n\nDespite the cancellation of Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay celebration - which normally attracts 100,000 people on the city's streets - there were some people who ignored the pleas to stay at home.\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year. They sang Auld Lang Syne and danced before eventually dispersing when several police vans and cars pulled on to the castle esplanade.\n\nAn anti-lockdown protest and New Year's Eve celebration was also held in London\n\nPeople cross Hungerford Bridge in London on New Year's Eve\n\nOn New Year's Eve, Health Secretary Matt Hancock called on people to take \"personal responsibility\" and stay at home to avoid spreading Covid-19.\n\nLondon's 10-minute display over the Thames aired on the BBC at midnight, and began with a poem which addressed the pandemic, that said: \"In the year of 2020 a new virus came our way; We knew what must be done and so to help we hid away.\"\n\nLight projections lit up the sky over the O2 Arena, including the NHS logo in a heart accompanied by a child's voice saying: \"Thank you NHS heroes\".\n\nThe show also recognised Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised £33m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden and the Black Lives Matter movement. One 2020 phenomena - working from home - was represented with a mute logo backed by a voiceover saying \"You're on mute\".\n\nThe display ended with a call from Sir David Attenborough about the need for action on climate change.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the display had reflected the resolve of Londoners to endure\n\n300 drones were used in the display to create images in the sky\n\nIn a speech being broadcast on BBC One between Doctor Who and EastEnders this evening, Sir David will say that this \"could be a year for positive change - for ourselves, for our planet and for the wonderful creatures with which we share it\".\n\nDespite the \"challenging\" times we live in, \"the reactions to these extraordinary times has proved that when we work together there is no limit to what we can accomplish\", he will say, as he looks ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year.\n\nThe sounds of a video conference call starting up were played\n\nMuch of London was far quieter than usual\n\nEdinburgh's streets were largely empty, with Police Scotland warning against Hogmanay gatherings\n\nOfficial figures showed 10.75 million viewers watched the 2021 New Year celebrations on BBC One. It's down from the 11.18m who saw in the start of 2020 on the channel.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was proud of the show, which he said \"paid tribute to our NHS heroes and the way that Londoners continue to stand together\".\n\n\"We showed how our capital and the UK have made huge sacrifices to support one another through these difficult times, and how they will continue to do so as the vaccine is rolled out.\"\n\nUsually, around 100,000 people pack into the streets around Victoria Embankment to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his New Year's message, the Archbishop of Canterbury said he saw \"reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead\" despite the \"tremendous pain and sadness\" brought by 2020.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke of his experience volunteering as an assistant chaplain at St Thomas' hospital during the pandemic, saying: \"Sometimes the most important thing we do is just sit with people, letting them know they are not alone.\"\n\nIn his message, filmed at the London hospital and broadcast on BBC One on Friday afternoon, he said: \"This crisis has shown us how fragile we are. It has also shown us how to face this fragility.\n\n\"Here at the hospital, hope is there in every hand that's held, and every comforting word that's spoken.\n\n\"Up and down the country, it's there in every phone call. Every food parcel or thoughtful card. Every time we wear our masks.\"\n\nDid you make a special effort to celebrate this New Year? How did you mark it? Share your experiences and pictures of what you got up to by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "For months, the government has been urging businesses to get ready for a new era in trading with the EU. But it was only on Boxing Day that details of all the new rules were actually published.\n\nBusiness groups are relieved that the threat of a no-deal Brexit, which would have meant tariffs (or taxes) on goods crossing the border with the EU, has been removed. But companies that trade with the EU are still facing a lot of new bureaucracy.\n\nAnd the disruption in mid-December, caused by border closures related to the new variant of Covid-19, was a reminder of how dependent the UK economy is on trade across the English Channel.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, goods entering the EU from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) face large amounts of new paperwork and checks, including:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHauliers will also need to make sure they have the right transportation paperwork before they drive to the border.\n\nThere is particular focus on the \"short straits\" route between Dover and Calais, and the nearby Channel Tunnel, which taken together handle about four million lorries a year.\n\n\"This is the biggest imposition of red tape that businesses have had to deal with in 50 years,\" says William Bain from the British Retail Consortium.\n\nFull controls on British exports to the EU began on 1 January. The first day of the new regime appears to have gone relatively smoothly.\n\nBut it's feared that later in the year, the new controls could cause disruption, even though new border infrastructure has been built at ports such as Calais, to help process vehicles more efficiently.\n\nThere are some mitigating measures though.\n\nIn response to the Covid crisis, the government is delaying full controls on goods entering Great Britain from the EU for a further six months.\n\nThere will be checks from 1 January on controlled substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and traders deemed to be a risk will also be asked to fill in customs declarations.\n\nBut most checks on goods coming in from the EU will be delayed until 1 July, a deadline that could in theory be extended.\n\n\"I think we will want to monitor it,\" the chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, told MPs in November. \"Hopefully we will not still be in a situation where Covid-19 is consuming as much of people's attention.\"\n\nOther measures to tackle potential disruption include diverting trade to other ports around the country and opening lorry parks in Kent, to avoid gridlock on the roads.\n\nSome of these contingencies were put into action early, to deal with the Covid border closures in December.\n\nOperation Brock, for example, involved changing the layout of a section of the M20, using a concrete barrier to allow lorries heading for mainland Europe to queue safely on the motorway.\n\nThousands of lorries were also diverted to temporary parking at a disused airport at Manston.\n\nFrom 1 January drivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to acquire a Kent Access Permit before they enter the county. They will have to show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nBut that doesn't deal with the challenge of the thousands of vans that cross the Channel every week.\n\n\"What has been serially misunderstood by various parts of government is the scale of the complexity for people on the ground dealing with the paperwork,\" says Duncan Buchanan, the Policy Director of the Road Haulage Association.\n\nThat could mean that instead of queues on motorways, many traders won't be able to leave their depots.\n\n\"Either they won't be able to get vets to sign off on their meat exports, or they won't be able to get their permit because they don't have the right bits of paper,\" says Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Storage Federation.\n\n\"We might see a quite significant holding off of trading - people just not moving stuff in the first few weeks.\"\n\nEighty-five per cent of the volume of trade between the EU and Great Britain is carried by EU hauliers, who are often paid not by the hour, but by the kilometre. If they think there will be too many delays, many may simply not come.\n\nThe government says the readiness of traders to deal with the new system remains its biggest concern.\n\nLorries parked on the M20 in Kent\n\n\"The sheer scale of the overall operation means there are literally many millions of moving parts,\" permanent secretary of the cabinet office Alex Chisholm told MPs. \"Inevitably there are going to be some difficulties for some individual people as they adjust to the new regime.\"\n\nThe government has also announced a new Border Operations Centre as part of plans \"for the UK to have the world's most effective border by 2025\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about how changes at the border might affect food supply. The short answer is no-one can say for sure, but nearly 30% of all the food consumed in the UK is imported from the EU.\n\nThe good news is that there is a deal, which makes a big difference. But the challenge is particularly acute because the UK grows relatively small amounts of fruit and vegetables in January and February and is most dependent on supplies from southern Europe at this time of year.\n\nSo, if there are delays, they could cause some shortages on the shelves.\n\n\"Some gaps are possible but we're not going to run out of food - that's not going to happen\" says Ian Wright.\n\nWhen it comes to non-perishable items, there had been some stockpiling in preparation for either outcome, but extra supplies won't last forever.\n\n\"The crunch point is probably not going to be in the first few days or weeks of January,\" William Bain argues. \"Towards the end of the month, when new orders start being placed and delivered, we will start to see the processes in Kent and the other ports really tested.\"\n\nAnd it's not only about food.\n\nOther retailers, which are used to moving their stock freely around the EU customs union, have had to create separate supply chains for the UK. That is costing them more money, and their new systems have yet to be tested properly.\n\nIt's not just about trade across the English Channel.\n\nTrade across the Irish Sea between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be subject to the same pressures, while Northern Ireland will be a special case under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland will remain in the EU single market for goods, and unlike the rest of the UK it will continue to enjoy frictionless trade with the EU with no checks of any kind at the land border with the Republic.\n\nBut there is a price to pay for that - new bureaucracy within the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU, for example, has strict rules on products of animal origin: meat, milk, fish and eggs.\n\nThese products must enter the single market (and, from 1 January, Northern Ireland) through a border control post where paperwork is checked, and a proportion of goods physically inspected.\n\nThere will be a grace period of three months for supermarkets and their suppliers, but some smaller traders may have to get used to the new rules straight away.\n\nAll shipments from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will also need a safety and security declaration, and a customs declaration from a new IT system which none of the traders have used before.\n\nThe government has set up a Trader Support Service to help.\n\nThe details of the new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were announced separately in early December, and provided some clarity. They include an agreement which means the vast majority of goods being shipped from GB to NI will not be at risk of having tariffs imposed.\n\nBut there are plenty of unresolved issues.\n\nTraders are seeking answers about how to send parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and some online retailers have already suspended deliveries.\n\nThe trade from British to Northern Irish ports often involves multiple small shipments on a single lorry - all of which will need the right paperwork.\n\n\"We need clear rules for everyone in the supply chain,\" says Duncan Buchanan, \"and when you scratch the surface it is just not ready.\"\n\nIt is expected that many checks will be carried out on a 'light touch' basis to begin with.\n\nBut anyone trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is going to have to get used to a new way of working very quickly.", "Nearly half a century of the UK's membership of the European Union and its predecessor organisations ended in January of course.\n\nWhat has now ended is the UK's economic membership of the bloc. Forty-eight years in the European customs union, basically the Common Market, and 28 years in the single market.\n\nThe Single Market was a creation for which the UK has paternity rights. It was Margaret Thatcher's rallying call for European reform, her calling card to unleash a wave of Japanese investment in post-industrial Britain and shepherded into existence by her appointee as commissioner Arthur Cockfield.\n\nIts creation served the UK's economic interests, as it grew the home domestic market available for British exporters without tariff or non-tariff barriers, eventually to nearly half a billion Europeans. It was not without irony that the tortuous negotiations of the past four years were made tougher by the EU's insistence on defending what it calls the \"internal market\", itself created by the British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndeed the institutional underpinning of this huge marketplace became too much for Mrs Thatcher. Famously she became suspicious of Commission President Delors turning up to tell the TUC that through the European Union workers could reassert rights rolled back by the Conservative Government.\n\nAt her 1988 Bruges speech PM Thatcher replied: \"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.\"\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market\n\nPerhaps this was the beginning of the path to Brexit, carried along by the push to monetary union and resentment at the overreach of the European Court of Justice and the considerable impact of the \"direct effect\" of community and then union law.\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market. Mrs Thatcher's campaigning for EEC membership was quickly followed by a charm offensive that began as opposition leader to get Japanese investors to build high tech factories to sell cars tariff-free across Europe.\n\nFor the UK it would provide employment, technology, capital and competition for the languishing nationalised UK-owned auto sector.\n\nOngoing membership of the EEC, restrictions on union activity and investment tax breaks were part of the deal communicated in writing to the then chairman of Nissan.\n\nThe Datsun Bluebird was being developed in Sunderland and around the same time the Italians and the French threatened to slap tariffs on what they saw as a Japanese ruse to avoid tariffs and undercut their industry.\n\nThe UK government quickly communicated that it was willing to take this matter to the European Court of Justice. The attempt to kill the Nissan factory at birth was fended off.\n\nFrom this, the UK car industry and other advanced manufacturing prospered from being plugged into rapid continent-wide supply chains, delivering each part just in time and just in sequence.\n\nAll of that was enabled by conformity of regulations, standards, zero tariffs and the eradication of non-tariff barriers, for sale, but also within the manufacturing process.\n\nThe UK became the financial centre for the euro\n\nSimilar stories could be told about the pharmaceutical industry, chemicals, the food industry, aerospace, and financial services.\n\nWithin the EU, the UK even became the financial centre for a new currency, the euro, which it did not participate in.\n\nThe single market itself, with regulations set and enforced in Brussels, became a player on the world stage. And yet there was a balancing act. The UK could influence the direction of one of the biggest tankers in the sea but was restricted in acting more nimbly in new industries. In some sectors, the UK's trade dealings with the US or Asia were more important than with Europe.\n\nAnd so this tension led to breaking point. And for the Conservative Party in particular the single market's institutions it created and championed, became something akin to Frankenstein's monster.\n\nThe EU has agreed an investment deal with China\n\nSome Brexiteers had hoped that the edifice would collapse once the UK left. But it has proven more robust than that. Indeed, Brexit has proven a catalyst of the EU to sign trade and investment deals far more quickly, including even with China.\n\nSo now the UK finds itself outside of the machine it created as its strategic competitor. The trade negotiation wasn't primarily about trade. Great Britain has declared regulatory independence, or to be more specific, has declared as much regulatory independence as is compatible with a zero-tariff trade deal.\n\nThe EU retains levers and switches to turn off some of these tariff advantages should the UK use the deal to turn into an offshore tariff free assembly hub for US and Asian manufacturing to be traded into the single market. Unlike with Nissan four decades ago, the European Court of Justice will no longer be there.\n\nThe global pharmaceutical industry offers an opportunity for the UK\n\nThe PM wants regulatory competition but his own deal contains disincentives, if not actual restrictions, on competing \"unfairly\" or too much.\n\nSo the strategy matters. Britain is free, but to do what exactly? To level up? Well the regions that need levelling up are the ones that are actually most dependent on exports to Europe. Exports to Europe will be spared tariffs, thanks to the deal, but there will be literally millions of non-tariff barriers, that the economists calculate matter more, from health checks, customs formalities, origin paperwork, assessments of standards etc.\n\nEven to qualify for tariff-free treatment means, according to new government guidance on \"rules of origin\", analysis of how complicated is the process of grating cheese, of the shelling of nuts, and formalities on where the eyes of a doll come from. Most apply legally from tonight, having been absent for decades.\n\nThe sweet spot for UK will now be to deploy regulatory freedom in sectors that are truly global, where we are not already overly dependent on EU markets.\n\nCertain sub-sectors within technology, finance and pharmaceuticals, for example. In each of these sectors the UK is likely to have to offer more friendly regulation to the multinational private sector, than the EU.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean lower standards: It could be that UK medicines regulators, for example, build on the record of rapid approval for Covid vaccines in other medical areas.\n\nThe deployment of massive scientific networks within the National Health service, used for rapid clinical testing, could become the envy of the world.\n\nBrexit Britain is likely to become a laboratory for the global economy. Car companies will need to be attracted with more permissive rules on data and, say autonomous driving testing. Some tech companies are already porting their UK customers to be served under US data privacy laws rather than more restrictive EU ones.\n\nBut the government will also have to be very active and judicious. We are already \"picking winners\" again, at least in the satellite business. What about electric power, where the EU will fight aggressively, versus hydrogen power?\n\nThere are a number of structural economic problems, from poor training, declining productivity and low investment that were not caused by EU membership which, in terms of non-tariff barriers, are made immediately worse by this type of Brexit, for which the UK has no option but to deal with.\n\nNorthern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market\n\nThat process of looking outwards may not come quickly. Holyrood and Stormont rejected the Brexit trade deal. The UK has replaced a single market of 500 million Europeans free of non-tariff barriers with a single market smaller than the size of the UK.\n\nThere is a trade border in the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market. There are non-tariff barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a result of this deal.\n\nLastly there are some big unknowns and unknowables.\n\nThe inadvertent diplomatic consequences of changes in trade patterns can be profound. If, for example, the eminent historian RW Johnson is to be believed, the UK's accession to the EEC in the first place created the conditions for the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime which was \"hurt in several ways\".\n\nBritish trade was remodelled away from the Commonwealth to Europe, the EEC offered favourable trade with all of Africa except Pretoria. And then when Portugal followed its ally the UK into the EEC, its African colonies and white rule quickly lost to revolutions by black liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique.\n\n\"Thus the seeds of the 1976 Soweto uprising were sown\" in part by the UK joining the EEC. Which is obviously not to suggest the reverse would be true. It is merely to say that events such as these can have very unpredictable knock on effects.\n\nThe Prime Minister has succeeded in taking the UK out of the Single Market created by his heroes. The UK now stands outside a system that it helped invent. For now its new single market is not the size of the country.\n\nThe test of all of this, is to make the UK's new single market the size of the globe.", "Some lorries have been turned away for not having the correct paperwork\n\nPlans are in place to minimise disruption at Welsh ports - especially Holyhead - as the UK enters a post-Brexit new year.\n\nThe EU Brexit transition period is over, and lorry drivers heading to and from the Republic of Ireland require additional paperwork to travel.\n\nOfficials at Holyhead said some lorries have already been turned away because they had the wrong documentation.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was doing what it could to \"protect\" the port.\n\nTransport Minister Ken Skates said it was \"imperative\" contingency plans were in place for the island, as it wakes up to the new customs regime.\n\nFerry operators in Wales will now require freight customers to link customs information to their booking as they head for the Irish Republic.\n\nWithout that paperwork, port access will be refused.\n\n\"We've had the first few rejects, which is not unexpected,\" said Stena Line's Head of UK Ports, Ian Davies.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales from Holyhead on New Year's Day, he said it showed the new system was working.\n\n\"We've had people that have been passed and allowed to be shipped, and we've had a few failures as well, so it will be a learning curve for these customers.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said a \"worst case scenario\" published by the UK suggested 40% to 70% of heavy goods vehicles arriving at ports after transition ended on New Year's Eve may not have the right documentation to travel.\n\nThe peak period for turning vehicles away is expected to be mid-January.\n\n\"We simply don't know whether things are going to work,\" said Rod McKenzie, who is managing director of policy for the body representing lorry drivers and operators, the Road Haulage Association.\n\n\"There is no question there will be problems, even if all the IT works, things could go wrong, and given traders' unfamiliarity with it there is the potential for a lot of mistakes to be made.\"\n\nA contraflow will allow lorries to be \"stacked\" on parts of the A55 if traffic builds\n\nThe association said it was more worried about \"invisible delays\" in the supply chain, rather than queues at ferry ports.\n\n\"Lorries might not leave their factory gate or depot because the paperwork isn't done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's really, really important that people try to get their paperwork right. The consequences of any mistakes will be a disruption of the supply chain.\"\n\nHe said the sector would know in about a week \"how it's going\".\n\nPembrokeshire council said it had been working to ensure any vehicles turned away from Pembroke Dock and Fishguard were dealt with away from the ports.\n\nIt has arranged overflow locations at Goodwick and Pembroke Dock for its own version of Dover's \"Operation Stack\", where lorries queue along the M20.\n\n\"The importance of Pembrokeshire's ports to the county, Wales and UK as a whole cannot be overestimated,\" said council leader David Simpson.\n\nHolyhead is the UK's second busiest roll-on roll-off ferry port\n\nOn Anglesey, a temporary contraflow is in force on the A55 expressway, eastbound between junctions two and four, allowing any traffic turned away from the port to be redirected back.\n\nIt will be moved to parking locations at Parc Cybi on the outskirts of the town, and if necessary, lorries will be parked on the cordoned-off A55 sections.\n\n\"We will monitor the situation carefully and as soon as it's safe to do so we will remove the temporary contraflow,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"While the next few days are expected to be quiet, we know it will become busier as we approach mid-January.\n\n\"Our aim is to do what we can to protect the port, town of Holyhead and wider community from any possible disruption.\"\n\nOn Friday, port authorities on Anglesey said freight traffic has been quiet, as expected over the bank holiday period.\n\nIt follows an steep rise in lorry crossings in the run up to Christmas and the end of the transition period.\n\nFerry operator Stena Line is also responsible for running Holyhead Port.\n\n\"We can't get complacent over the next few days,\" said a Stena spokesman.\n\n\"It's when freight levels come back up that we'll know whether the systems are really working and whether the hauliers are ready. That will be the real test.\"", "More than 35,000 people have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales\n\nThe Covid vaccine programme is at the \"very beginning\" and vaccination rates are increasing, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething has insisted.\n\nIt follows concerns raised by some politicians over the speed of Welsh vaccine rollout.\n\nInitial figures on how many people have received the first Pfizer-BioNTech jab show Wales is slightly behind those vaccinated elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMr Gething said there were likely to be \"small differences between nations\".\n\n\"Comparisons are naturally being made on the number of vaccinations administered by the four nations of the UK,\" he said in a ministerial statement to Senedd members.\n\n\"Whilst I recognise the data indicates there are other nations ahead of us, the national data presented at this very early stage of the vaccination roll out should be considered provisional and a snapshot of ongoing activity.\"\n\nHe said there would be \"lags\" in data being entered, and local factors affecting vaccinations.\n\n\"For example the vaccination centre in Cardiff and the Vale was unable to operate for two days because of a virus outbreak linked to the site,\" he added.\n\nMore than 35,000 people have now received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales, including healthcare workers who work in Wales but live over the border in England.\n\nAlmost 13,000 of these vaccines were given in the past week.\n\nThe number of vaccinations in Wales up until 27 December account for 1.12% of the Welsh population.\n\nIn England, 1.4% have received a jab, while in Scotland it is 1.7%, and 1.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Welsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies flagged his concerns about the vaccine delivery programme on Thursday.\n\n\"Three weeks ago, the first Covid-19 vaccine was given in Wales, and since that time we have sadly seen confusion and hope drop away,\" he said.\n\n\"Many people over 80 in Wales were desperately waiting for their appointment to do their bit and have the vaccine but as we quickly learnt they would have to wait longer,\" he said.\n\nBut the health minister said daily vaccination rates were \"increasing across Wales\".\n\nThe focus is on delivering vaccines effectively and safely, says Vaughan Gething\n\n\"Looking ahead, all health boards are preparing for significant expansion in capacity from the beginning of January,\" added Mr Gething.\n\nHe said the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved earlier this week would be available from some GPs in Wales from Monday.\n\n\"This is only the very beginning of what will be a programme spanning many months,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the urgency and priority required is clear to all, we must also have some patience and allow the NHS to do what it does so well.\n\n\"My focus, and that of the NHS, is on delivering the vaccine programme quickly but also effectively, safely and equitably.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has also confirmed it will be following the latest advice from medical advisers on introducing a 12-week gap between the two doses of vaccines needed, for both types of approved jabs.\n\nAll four chief medical officers in the UK have supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\n\"It will ensure that more at-risk people are able to get protection from a vaccine in the coming weeks and months, reducing deaths and starting to ease pressure on our NHS,\" said Mr Gething.\n\nVaccinations started earlier in December after regulators approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine\n\nPlaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to ask the UK government to publish evidence to justify increasing the period for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Gething, the party's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the \"sudden switch\" represented \"a very significant departure\" from previous guidelines.\n\nHe added there were \"very real concerns\" that a longer delay between doses \"could significantly decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the resignation of his finance minister who took a trip to the Caribbean while the province remained under lockdown.\n\nMr Ford on Thursday said Mr Phillips' departure showed his government \"takes seriously our obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard\".\n\nCanada's most populous province has discouraged all non-essential travel amid record-high new case counts.\n\nMr Phillips, who is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, had taken a personal trip to St Barts on 13 December and returned on Thursday morning.\n\nAhead of the holiday season, Ontario health officials had urged residents to stay at home when possible amid an ongoing rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPeople line up on Christmas Day at a Covid test site in Ontario\n\nMr Phillips told reporters when he arrived at Toronto Pearson Airport he hoped to keep his job, but would respect the premier's decision.\n\n\"Obviously, I made a significant error in judgment, and I will be accountable for that,\" Mr Phillips said. \"I do not make any excuses for the fact that I travelled when we shouldn't have travelled.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Mr Ford said in a statement he had accepted Mr Phillips' resignation following a conversation with him. Mr Ford has asked Peter Bethlenfalvy, currently president of the treasury board, to step into the finance minister role.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Ford had said he learned of Mr Phillips travel two weeks ago, but said the minister \"never told anyone\" he was going to St Barts, according to CBC.\n\nOntario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath on Wednesday had pushed for Mr Phillip's firing, saying it was unacceptable for him to \"ignore public health advice\" while the government \"demands sacrifice from everyday Ontarians\".\n\n\"It's not believable that a senior member of cabinet didn't tell the premier's office he was leaving the country for weeks during the height of a global emergency,\" she said in a statement. \"If he didn't, that in itself would be enough reason to demote him.\"", "The UK's chief medical officers have defended the Covid vaccination plan, after criticism from a doctors' union.\n\nThe UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThe British Medical Association said cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was \"grossly unfair\".\n\nBut the chief medical officers said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second jab.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two vaccines were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nBut the chief medical officers said the \"great majority\" of initial protection came from the first jab.\n\n\"The second vaccine dose is likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy,\" they said.\n\n\"In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest; the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the second dose has, understandably, caused concern.\n\nThere is some evidence regulators say - at least for the Oxford vaccine - that it will actually boost immunity.\n\nBut for those who are due to get a second dose soon it will undoubtedly be upsetting that they now have to wait.\n\nBut the move is about practicalities. The UK is in the middle of a public health crisis and despite the fact that millions of doses are pre-ordered, there is concern the supply of the vaccine will not be as smooth as everyone would ideally want.\n\nThere is a global demand for these vaccines and there are bound to be times when supply does not meet demand.\n\nSo the logic of the move is that by spreading this thin resource the most widely, it will have the greatest benefit - not only to the vulnerable but to everyone.\n\nLives have been put on hold and livelihoods lost.\n\nThis is the quickest way back to some degree of normality.\n\nEven if it does leave some of the vaccinated susceptible to infection, it should in theory at least protect them from serious illness.\n\nGiven where we are now, the argument is that that is a price worth paying.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday - the second approved for use in the UK - regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses.\n\nThis means more people will get the first jab sooner, even if they have to wait longer for their second jab.\n\nExperts advising the government, including the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\nDefending the move, the UK's four chief medical officers - including England's Prof Chris Whitty - said in a statement released on New Year's Eve: \"In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable.\"\n\nThey said they recognised that rescheduling second appointments was \"operationally very difficult\" and would \"distress patients who were looking forward to being fully immunised\".\n\nHowever, they said that for every 1,000 patients booked in for a second dose, which will \"gain marginally on protection from severe disease\", that would mean 1,000 more people missing out on \"substantial initial protection\".\n\nThe chief medics said that, while one million people had already been vaccinated, approximately 30 million UK patients and health and social care workers eligible in the first phase \"remain totally unprotected and many are distressed or anxious about the wait for their turn\".\n\nThey added that the JCVI was \"confident\" 12 weeks was a reasonable interval between doses \"to achieve good longer-term protection\".\n\n\"We have to follow public health principles and act at speed if we are to beat this pandemic which is running rampant in our communities, and we believe the public will understand and thank us for this decisive action.\"\n\nEarlier, the BMA's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses.\n\nHe said the BMA would support practices who honour the existing appointments for the follow-up vaccination, calling for the government to do the same.", "The first lorries to transport freight under the new arrangements arrived in Belfast on Friday afternoon\n\nThe first goods have crossed the new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe 'Irish Sea border' is a consequence of Brexit and means that most commercial goods entering NI from GB require a customs declaration.\n\nAbout a dozen lorries arrived on a ferry from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast at 14:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThey were met by officials, with some vehicles directed to new border control posts.\n\nMany food products from GB now have to enter NI through these border posts where they can be inspected by the Department of Agriculture.\n\nThese products also need health certificates, though some of the new certification processes will be phased in over the next three months.\n\nThe UK government also announced a three-month \"grace period\" for parcels, meaning those sent by online retailers will be exempt from customs declarations until at least April.\n\nIt said the grace period was necessary to avoid disruption to deliveries at a time when many shops are closed due to pandemic restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has continued to insist the new range of checks, controls and paperwork is not actually a sea border.\n\nBrandon Lewis tweeted: \"There is no 'Irish Sea Border'. As we have seen today, the important preparations the government and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTransport companies are not expecting significant volumes of freight over the next few days.\n\nThere has been significant stockpiling ahead of the changes and it may take one or two weeks before freight volumes are at normal seasonal levels.\n\nSome businesses, particularly haulage companies, are anxious about the new IT systems which are necessary for the border to function.\n\nThey have had less than two weeks to familiarise themselves with the new systems.\n\nPolice officers carried out random vehicle checks near Larne Port on New Year's Eve\n\nSeamus Leheny from Logistics UK said: \"With any reconfiguration of supply chains and new systems there will be teething problems and we expect that.\"\n\nThere will be no new processes or checks for the vast majority of goods leaving NI for GB.\n\nThe new arrangements flow from the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIts purpose is to prevent a hard land border in Ireland.\n\nThat is achieved by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nThis will allow goods to flow from NI to the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU as they do now, without customs checks or new paperwork.\n\nThe Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties who fear it will weaken Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nThe arrangement does not change Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nHowever, it does mean a significant new economic barrier within the UK.\n\nUnionist parties fear the sea border will weaken NI's position in the UK\n\nThe UK government has allocated more than £300m for a Trader Support Service to help businesses deal with the new customs arrangements.\n\nThe government is also covering the costs of the new certification requirements for food products.\n\nA Movement Assistance Scheme will pay vets up to £150 to complete the Export Health Certificates which will need to accompany all live animals and products of animal origin entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nTrucks pass through a customs post at Dublin Port on Friday morning\n\nThere are also new checks and controls on freight arriving at Dublin Port from GB.\n\nOn Friday morning, the first ferry to arrive in Dublin from Holyhead had about 12 lorries on board.\n\nWhile they all cleared customs checks for the first time without delays, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said the change in trading arrangements with the UK would inevitably cause disruption.\n\n\"We have avoided the kind of dramatic disruption of a no trade deal Brexit, but that doesn't mean that things aren't changing very fundamentally, because they are,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now going to see the €80b (£71.2bn) worth of trade across the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland disrupted by an awful lot more checks and declarations, and bureaucracy and paperwork, and cost and delay.\"\n\nOn Saturday new freight sailings will begin between Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland and Dunkirk in France, allowing cargo to bypass GB and go straight to mainland Europe.\n\nThe six-times weekly service will take 24 hours, which is longer than the \"landbridge\" route via GB.", "A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union.\n\nThe UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force.\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK had \"freedom in our hands\" and the ability to do things \"differently and better\" now the long Brexit process was over.\n\nBut opponents of leaving the EU maintain the country will be worse off.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU, tweeted: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said there was a sense of relief in Brussels that the Brexit process was over, \"but there is regret still at Brexit itself\".\n\nThe first lorries arriving at the borders entered the UK and EU without delay.\n\nOn Friday evening, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that border traffic had been \"low due to [the] bank holiday\" but there had been no disruption in Kent as \"hundreds\" of lorries crossed the Channel with a \"small\" number turned back.\n\nSix freight loads travelling from Holyhead in Wales to Ireland had to be turned away due to not having the correct paperwork, the Stena Line ferry and port group said on Friday morning.\n\nBut later on Friday, the group said freight traffic was flowing well through its ports and government customs systems were working well.\n\nIt added that the fall in freight traffic after the Christmas and Brexit stockpiling period meant \"it is too early to draw any conclusions\", but the company remained \"cautiously optimistic that, as freight volumes begin to rise again, we will be able to ensure the continued free movement of goods\".\n\nUK ministers have warned there will be some disruption in the coming days and weeks, as new rules bed in and British firms come to terms with the changes.\n\nBut officials have insisted new border systems are \"ready to go\".\n\nAs the first customs checks were completed after midnight, Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said: \"It all went fine, everything's running just as it was before 11pm.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has different arrangements from other parts of the UK, meaning there will be some customs checks on goods moving between Great Britain and the province.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the first ferry from Great Britain operating under the terms of Northern Ireland trading protocol docked in Belfast, on schedule at 13:45 GMT.\n\nSeamus Leheny, policy manager at Logistics UK, said six out of the 15 lorries that were on the first ship to arrive into Belfast were brought in for inspection, with one being kept at the port for more than three hours.\n\n\"Inevitably there are going to be teething problems because with such a new, complex system as this there are going to be issues in the first few days,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe first lorry loads on to the Eurotunnel shuttle after the UK left the single market and customs union\n\nMandy Ridyard, whose aerospace components company makes daily shipments to Northern Ireland, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme she was \"filling in the same declaration to send goods to the Philippines that I am sending them within the UK\".\n\n\"And obviously that all adds a lot of cost to my business.\"\n\nThe UK officially left the 27-member political and economic bloc on 31 January, three and half years after the UK public voted to leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nBut it stuck to the EU's trading rules for 11 months while the two sides negotiated their future economic partnership.\n\nA treaty was finally agreed on Christmas Eve, and became law in the UK on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, UK manufacturers will have tariff-free access to the EU's internal market, meaning there will be no import taxes on goods crossing between Britain and the continent.\n\nBut it does mean more paperwork for businesses and people travelling to EU countries, while there is still uncertainty about what will happen to banking and services.\n\nThe UK and Spain have also reached an agreement meaning the border between Gibraltar and Spain will remain open.\n\nFabian Picardo, Gibraltar's chief minister, said the deal still needed to be formalised, but by abolishing controls between Gibraltar and the EU's passport-free Schengen area, he said it would prevent queues at the border \"which make people's lives a misery and make business difficult\".\n\nIt is a moment that some will regard with huge optimism, others with deep regret.\n\nAnd while this historic move happens at a moment in time, the impact, in some areas, may be less instant or obvious than others - for example, it's expected there'll be relatively little traffic at Dover on the first day of 2021 as new border checks kick in.\n\nNevertheless, significant changes are here - whether on trade, travel, security or immigration - and those changes could well become more apparent in the months ahead.\n\nMr Johnson - who took the UK out of the EU in January six months after becoming prime minister - said it was an \"amazing moment\" for the UK in his New Year message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he added that the combination of the Brexit deal and rollout of the Oxford vaccine means \"we are creating the potential trampoline for the national bounceback\".\n\nLord Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, tweeted that Britain had become a \"fully independent country again\".\n\nAnd the deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs, David Jones, told the BBC: \"We can now say clearly Britain is a sovereign and independent state.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut opponents of Brexit say the country will be worse off than it was while it was a member of the EU.\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said it was \"not something to celebrate\" and the UK's relationship with Ireland will be different from now on, but \"we wish them well\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK remained a \"friend and ally\", but he added that the choice to leave the EU was \"the child of European malaise and many lies and false promises\".\n\nIn Brussels, there is a sense of relief the Brexit process is over, but there is regret still at Brexit itself.\n\nBasically, the European Union thinks that Brexit makes it - the EU - and the UK weaker.\n\nBut the EU view is this is less bye-bye Britain and more au revoir, because there are so many loose ends between the two sides.\n\nFor example, there are the ongoing practicalities surrounding Gibraltar, the UK is still waiting to find out what access Brussels is going to give its financial services to the single market, there is cooperation on climate change, and there is a reviewal mechanism written into the treaty for every five years.\n\nFor all of those reasons and more, this is not the end of the EU-UK conversation for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe culmination of the Brexit process means major changes in different areas. These include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nMillions around the world have been seeing out 2020 and marking the start of 2021, although the coronavirus pandemic has forced many celebrations to take place in muted form behind closed doors.\n\nWith lockdowns or other restrictions in place in many countries, would-be New Year partygoers were told to have a quiet night in.\n\nOthers have attended ceremonies or festivals wearing masks or taking other precautions.\n\nIn Tokyo, below, people visited the Kanda Myojin Shrine to offer prayers. The popular Shinto shrine reduced the number of visitors allowed, as Japan faces another wave of Covid-19 infections.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, crowds gathered in the city with balloons and festive outfits to count down to midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nFireworks lit up the night sky in Taiwan to mark the beginning of 2021, witnessed by thousands of spectators who gathered in the centre of Taipei.\n\nLike this family in Seoul, South Korea, many globally have marked the celebration in a small way and often at home.\n\nIt was a chilly celebration in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as people gathered at the city hall, waving sparklers in the 1905 Square.\n\nWhile in the United Arab Emirates, one of the largest New Year fireworks displays saw spectacular colours light up the sky over the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah.\n\nPyrotechnics also illuminated the sky around the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, as the clock struck midnight in Dubai.\n\nThe New Year's Eve party at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is usually one of Europe's biggest street parties. But this year revellers were told to stay at home and watch the fireworks and music performances on TV or online instead.\n\nThese worshippers in Abuja, Nigeria, marked the end of 2020 with a gospel service.\n\nMeanwhile, people in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast were able to watch the fireworks display outside with friends and family.\n\nBut in New York City, just a handful of people were allowed into Times Square to watch confetti rain down and the traditional crystal ball drop.\n\nBrazilian authorities closed Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, but that did not stop some people enjoying celebrations.\n\nA fireworks and light show was held across various locations in London. A number of drones filled the sky close to the O2 Arena in East London forming messages referencing the pandemic, including the NHS logo.", "The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 in May with \"a new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown\n\nBBC Radio 4 will mark 70 years of The Archers with a series of features across its output on Friday.\n\nAs well as broadcasting episode number 19,343 of the world's longest-running serial drama, stars from it will appear on the station's other programmes.\n\nThis will include inserts into Woman's Hour, Farming Today, and a quiz.\n\nThe Archers, set in the fictional village of Ambridge, began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nThe show's editor, Jeremy Howe, said its achievements over the years, coming up to the modern day, are incomparable.\n\n\"Almost daily and in real time The Archers has tracked life in the village of Ambridge across years and more than 19,000 episodes,\" he said.\n\n\"No work of fiction or drama can truly compare to that. As I look back on this incredible legacy, I am looking forward to the next 70 years of The Archers.\"\n\nBack in May, The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, with a \"new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nLarge cast recordings with interaction between multiple characters were scrapped in favour of monologues recorded at the actors' homes.\n\nThe storyline of Friday's anniversary episode remains a secret, but celebratory programming on Radio 4 on the day will also include a special edition of With Great Pleasure at Christmas, where cast members from the series share their favourite prose and poetry.\n\nHowe, meanwhile, will appear alongside actor Timothy Bentinck (David Archer) and agricultural story advisor Sarah Swadling in an Archers-flavoured edition of Farming Today.\n\nWoman's Hour will focus on the female characters and storylines that have shaped the show.\n\nFinally, on the day, listeners will be invited to head over to The Bull pub - not literally of course - for the The Archers Anniversary Quiz, hosted by landlords Jolene (Buffy Davis) and Kenton Archer (Richard Attlee).\n\nOn Saturday 2 January, historian David Kynaston will then delve into the history of the programme further documentary feature entitled A Social History of The Archers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain has reached a deal with the UK to maintain free movement to and from Gibraltar once the UK formally leaves the EU on Friday.\n\nTo avoid a hard border, Gibraltar will join the EU's Schengen zone and follow other EU rules, while remaining a British Overseas Territory.\n\nThe deal was announced by Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, just hours before the UK exits the EU.\n\nThe Rock voted Remain in 2016 and about 15,000 Spanish workers go there daily.\n\n\"With this [agreement], the fence is removed, Schengen is applied to Gibraltar... it allows for the lifting of controls between Gibraltar and Spain,\" said Ms González Laya.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal will mean the EU sending Frontex border guards to facilitate free movement to and from Gibraltar. Their role is planned to last four years.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. They elect their own representatives to the territory's parliament, while the British monarch appoints a governor.\n\nThe territory - home to a British military garrison and naval base - is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy.\n\nMs González Laya did not say whether Spanish border guards would eventually be posted at Gibraltar's airport and/or seaport which, under the deal, will be de facto part of the EU's external border.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal would also mean the territory complying with EU fair competition rules in areas such as financial policy, the environment and the labour market, Ms González Laya said.\n\nTwenty-two EU states are in the passport-free Schengen zone, as are Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, but the UK has never been in it.\n\nOnce Gibraltar joins it, EU citizens arriving from Spain or another Schengen country will avoid passport checks, while arrivals from the UK will have to go through passport control, as is already the case.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called Thursday's deal a \"political framework\" to form the basis of a separate treaty with the EU regarding Gibraltar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Gibraltar is British - in 60 secs\n\nThe deal does not address the thorny issue of sovereignty. Spain has long disputed British sovereignty over the Rock which was ceded to Britain in 1713 and which is now home to about 34,000 people. The Remain vote there was an overwhelming 96% in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe plan is to have a six-month transition period and then formalise the new arrangements with a treaty.\n\nUnder the current tight Covid rules, there are restrictions on UK citizens arriving via Gibraltar's airport, the UK Foreign Office says.\n\nDominic Raab said \"all sides are committed to mitigating the effects of the end of the [Brexit] Transition Period on Gibraltar, and in particular ensure border fluidity, which is clearly in the best interests of the people living on both sides.\n\n\"We remain steadfast in our support for Gibraltar, and its sovereignty is safeguarded.\"", "Omar Elabdellaoui is receiving treatment in hospital after an accident with a firework\n\nNorway and Galatasaray footballer Omar Elabdellaoui has been injured by a firework during a New Year's Eve celebration.\n\nThe Norwegian vice-captain's club said he was taken to hospital after \"an unfortunate accident at his home\".\n\nHe suffered burns to his face and damage to his eyes, the club said, adding that further tests would assess the extent of his injuries.\n\nThe New Year's Eve incident was one of many involving fireworks in Europe.\n\nIn Elabdellaoui's case, Turkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of the 29-year-old defender.\n\nTurkish newspaper Hurriyet said the former Manchester City player may have lost vision, without giving further details.\n\nBut in a statement cited by the newspaper, Galatasaray said Elabdellaoui was conscious, in a stable condition and had not undergone surgery.\n\nGalatasaray's manager Fatih Terim and the team captain Arda Turan went to the hospital to visit Elabdellaoui, who joined the club in 2020 from the Greek side Olympiacos FC.\n\nTurkish clubs - including Galatasaray's Turkish Super Lig rivals Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Trabzonspor - took to social media to wish Elabdellaoui a speedy recovery.\n\nTurkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of 29-year-old Omar Elabdellaoui\n\nElsewhere in Europe, at least four people were killed by fireworks during events to mark the new year.\n\nPolice in Alsace in eastern France said a 25-year-old man died after being hit by a rocket in the village of Boofzheim.\n\nA statement said the device beheaded him and severely injured the face of another young man standing next to him.\n\nA similar incident cost the life of a 28-year-old man in Pulle, a village east of Antwerp in Belgium.\n\nFireworks exploded over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year\n\nMeanwhile in Italy's north-western province of Asti, a 13-year-old boy died shortly after midnight of injuries to his abdomen caused by a firecracker.\n\nThere were fireworks casualties in Germany as well. In the state of Brandenburg, police said a 24-year-old man died after setting alight \"self-made pyrotechnics\" while a 63-year-old man lost his hand when handling a firecracker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nInjuries and deaths from fireworks are not unknown over the New Year period. But fewer public fireworks displays than usual were held on New Year's Eve 2020, as coronavirus restrictions placed limits on gatherings worldwide.\n\nSome European countries had moved to limit the use of fireworks ahead of 31 December, with Germany imposing a ban on the sale of pyrotechnics.", "Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown Image caption: Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown\n\nNew parents missing baby classes and playdates due to lockdown say their children's development has been hit by the impact of coronavirus.\n\nWhen Rachael Powell's one-year-old daughter Emmeline met her grandparents for the first time she \"absolutely screamed the place down\" as she \"didn't know who they were\".\n\n\"I was really looking forward to going to coffee shops, meeting other mums and going to baby classes and then everything stopped,\" says the 39-year-old from Greater Manchester.\n\n\"I felt guilty that she didn't get any of that and have that interaction.\"\n\nEducation consultant and child psychologist Paul Kelly says Covid is having a \"massive impact\" on babies.\n\n\"We are social creatures, social beings - it is pre-programmed in our brains,\" he says. \"When children's brains are stimulated, they grow.\"\n\nDr Kelly says there is also an impact on parents, who are missing out on \"mutual support\".\n\nHe says people should \"grab what they can, when they can\" during these uncertain times and focus on \"how you can enhance [your baby's] development... rather than spending time thinking about how your child might be behind\".", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said US policy towards his country would \"never change\"\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the US is his country's \"biggest enemy\" and that he does not expect Washington to change its policy toward Pyongyang - whoever is president.\n\nAddressing a rare congress of his ruling Workers' Party, Mr Kim also pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal and military potential.\n\nHe said that plans for a nuclear submarine were almost complete.\n\nHis comments come as US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Kim's remarks are an effort to apply pressure on the incoming government, with Mr Biden set to be sworn in on 20 January.\n\nMr Kim enjoyed a warm rapport with outgoing US President Donald Trump, even if little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his latest address to the Workers' Party - only the eighth congress in its history - Mr Kim said Pyongyang did not intend to use its nuclear weapons unless \"hostile forces\" were planning to use them against North Korea first.\n\nHe said the US was his country's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,\" state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nHis speech outlined a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nNorth Korea has managed to significantly advance its arsenal despite being subject to strict economic sanctions.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Kim admitted that his five-year economic plan for the isolated country failed to meet its targets in \"almost every sector\".\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders last January to prevent Covid from entering the country.\n\nIts authorities say the country has not had a single Covid case since the pandemic began but experts say this is highly unlikely due to North Korea's cross-border trade with China.\n\nTrade with China has plummeted by about 80%. Typhoons and floods have devastated homes and crops in North Korea, which remains under strict international sanctions, including over its nuclear programme.\n\nThe speech is likely to be Mr Kim's way of setting the stage for talks with President-elect Joe Biden who will take office in less than two weeks' time.\n\nThe aim is perhaps to put pressure on Washington to show that Pyongyang has no intention of being cowed by sanctions and will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal.\n\nMr Kim had three summits with Donald Trump - but they failed to reach a deal. However, North Korea is in a difficult and bleak economic position caused by strict sanctions, border blockades to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and devastating floods.\n\nThis message may seem threatening, but some analysts believe that there is still room for diplomacy.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Stonely is not eligible for the UK government Covid support scheme\n\nA father who has lived on Universal Credit since the Covid-19 pandemic started has called on the UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its support.\n\nDriving instructor and dad-of-three Andy Stonely is not eligible for the government's Covid support scheme.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses Wales has also asked for changes ahead of the next round of grants.\n\nThe Treasury said its Self-Employment Income Support Scheme was \"one of the most generous in the world\".\n\nThis scheme requires claimants to show accounts for the 2018-19 year as well as 2019-20.\n\nHowever, Mr Stonely from Newport hasn't been self-employed for long enough to qualify - so the 35-year-old has had to rely on financial support from his parents.\n\n\"I count myself somewhat lucky because I have been able to claim for Universal Credit,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously it's minimal and luckily through the help of parents I've been able to keep afloat.\n\n\"It's been tough. It would have been ideal if the government was just slightly more flexible.\"\n\nMr Stonely, who hasn't been able to work for much of the past year due to lockdown restrictions, said Universal Credit was worth \"less than half\" of his normal earnings.\n\nDriving school firm owner Gareth Denny said almost a quarter of his drivers can't claim Covid help\n\nThe coronavirus crisis forced his wife to give up her job to look after their three children, aged three, six and 17, when Mr Stonely was able to work for a short period at the end of the initial lockdown period.\n\nAsked how much longer his family could sustain itself if the current restrictions continue, Mr Stonely told the BBC's Politics Wales show: \"Not too much longer… we're going to be in a very tough situation.\"\n\nMr Stonely is part of a local driving school franchise managed by Gareth Denny, who said 11 of his 43 instructors were in this position.\n\n\"If you imagine that somebody lives their life to their income and suddenly there's absolutely no income to pay their mortgage and their bills, Universal Credit simply doesn't pay most people's mortgage,\" Mr Denny said.\n\nRecent research commissioned by the Community and Prospect trade unions and the Federation of Small Businesses found 53% of self-employed people across the UK had lost more than 60% of their income since the pandemic began.\n\nIn addition, 64% of people said they were now either \"unsure\" or \"less likely\" to want to be self-employed or freelance in the future.\n\n\"These are normal people who have mortgages, families to support, who've just had to fund a Christmas for the families,\" said Ben Francis of Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\n\"All those bills are now mounting up the other side of Christmas, and after having an already extremely difficult 12 months, they've now got to see how they manage through the months ahead.\n\n\"We would ask UK government to be flexible in their approach to verifying the statuses of these newly self-employed businesses.\"\n\nThe Community union warns with small businesses \"struggling to get back on their feet\", more people will leave self-employment.\n\nAll non-essential businesses shut in Wales just before Christmas\n\n\"That will be a disaster for our economy, for local economies, for their livelihoods and their families,\" said Kate Dearden of Community.\n\n\"This section of the UK workforce plays a fundamental role and should be properly supported to continue to do so.\"\n\nThe Treasury has already committed to extending the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme until April 2021, although the eligibility criteria for the next round of grants is yet to be published.\n\nA spokesman said the scheme had \"helped more than 2.7 million people so far, claiming over £13.7bn\".\n\nHe added: \"Funding is designed to target those who need it most and protect the taxpayer against fraud and abuse.\n\n\"Those not eligible may still be able to access our loans schemes, tax deferrals, mortgage holidays and business support grants.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "People in England are being told to act like they have got Covid as part of a government advertising campaign aimed at tackling the rise in infections.\n\nBoris Johnson said the public should \"stay at home\" and not get complacent.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nGovernment sources say there is likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\n\"With over 1,000 people dying yesterday it's more important than ever everyone sticks to rules,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government is releasing its advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, says in the advert: \"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nSuch an incident is an emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nWhile the government seeks to reinforce its \"stay at home\" message, some police forces have faced criticism for their approaches to tackling potential breaches of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDerbyshire Police has said it will review fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown after two women were ordered to pay £200 each after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday.\n\nSusan Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, said \"more support and enablement\" was needed for people to adhere to the regulations, for example support to help people self-isolate, rather than punishment.\n\nProf Michie, who sits on a subcommittee of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, also said the current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, she said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring the restrictions were less strict, with more people allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries open, meaning public transport is busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\n\"So even if we went back to that kind of last spring level of reduction in contacts we couldn't be confident that we would see the same effect that we saw last year because of this increased transmission,\" he said.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThere is considerable concern in government about the continued spread of the virus.\n\nNo 10 believes more needs to be done to emphasise how severe the current situation is - which is why we are getting some very stark warnings from the medical experts.\n\nMinisters continue to praise the public - but there is also more emphasis on people taking the rules seriously, as was the case last spring when the first lockdown was imposed.\n\nThe prime minister warns people against complacency, saying: \"Your compliance is now more vital than ever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital are struggling to cope with an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients\n\nLatest figures from Public Health England reveal the coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nLondon councils have urged places of worship to close and the bishop of London Sarah Mullally said churches should \"consider the seriousness of the situation\" before holding in person services this weekend.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast all London hospitals had \"effectively been working in major incident mode for the last couple of weeks\".\n\n\"Most hospitals have expanded their intensive care capacity to somewhere in the region of three times their normal capacity. Obviously we don't have three times the number of staff so our staff are being spread more thinly,\" he said.\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nIn Wales, senior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy said she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at Royal Glamorgan Hospital last Saturday, with no capacity at the unit.\n\nAnd Dr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they don't have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas \"so it is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Three people were found inside the gym in Stean Street in Hackney on Friday\n\nThe owners of a London gym have been fined for breaching Covid-19 rules by remaining open during lockdown.\n\nPolice were called to the fitness centre in Stean Street, Hackney, on Friday to reports of a regulation breach.\n\nThree people were found inside the gym at 09:30 GMT. The owners were given a £1,000 fixed penalty notice.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" its hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in London had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there are 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nNHS England figures published on Friday showed the number of Covid patients in London hospitals stands at 7,277, up 32% on the previous week.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"Whilst there are certain rules around people being allowed to exercise in public under this lockdown, nowhere in the legislation does it allow people to go to gyms to work out.\n\n\"Those found to be flouting the rules, as with this instance, should expect necessary enforcement action to be taken against them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police\n\nTwo women who criticised a police force for its \"intimidating\" approach to lockdown fines have welcomed a review.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at a reservoir five miles from their home when they were stopped by officers and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown but later said new guidance meant it would look again at the issue.\n\nBoth women said they were pleased the force had decided to think again.\n\nDerbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa said an \"urgent review\" was under way about how fines had been issued.\n\nLongstanding guidance from the College of Policing says officers should follow the \"Four Es\" and only give fixed penalty notices as a last resort.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived\n\nMs Allen said: \"We are happy to hear that Derbyshire Police have been told to not be so heavy handed with fines and return to the Four Es they were originally doing.\n\n\"We are yet to hear anything regarding our fine but if we have managed to save somebody the worry of going for a walk and fearing they would be fined then we have done what we set out to do.\"\n\nMs Allen and Ms Moore drove separately from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire the five miles to Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police, questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nInitially Derbyshire Police defended its actions, saying legislation said trips should be \"local\" and driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nDerbyshire police also fined visitors to other beauty spots like Calke Abbey\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit beauty spots at Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nBut later, the force said new guidance from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nMr Dhindsa said: \"It would appear that the force has been a little over-zealous in its interpretation of the guidance.\n\n\"While the police can enforce the regulations, guidance is just that which can make this a very challenging and complex situation to police.\"\n\nThe chief constable of neighbouring Nottinghamshire, Craig Guildford, said: \"We are not out and about telling people they have gone too far from home. We trust the public to take these regulations seriously.\n\n\"Derbyshire to be fair to them have some unique places that people may want to go to from a load of counties.\n\n\"But our approach is around reasonableness. If someone has gone 50 miles, we will take action, if someone has gone a couple of miles we are very sensible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nFootballers \"can get things wrong\" but must not be \"picked on\" despite several breaches of coronavirus guidelines, says West Ham manager David Moyes.\n\nHammers midfielder Manuel Lanzini was one of numerous Premier League players to attend a party over Christmas.\n\nMore than 60 games in England have been called off because of coronavirus outbreaks at clubs.\n\n\"We have to be careful that everybody isn't picking on football players,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We will all know people who have broken the rules in their own way.\n\n\"The players have followed the protocols. Every day at the training ground they have to go through rituals just to get into the building. They know what their job is. Like most human beings at times, they can get things wrong.\"\n\nArgentina international Lanzini was reminded of his responsibilities by the club and later apologised for his actions on Twitter.\n\nOn Friday, he announced he would be donating to a local foodbank as he wanted \"something good\" to come of his actions.\n\nMoyes praised Lanzini for his \"really good gesture\" but does not want to see players treated unfairly.\n\n\"If you are going to take tough measures on players, then you might as well take on the government people as well who have broken the rules because it's certainly not just football players who have done it,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got to be careful. A lot of people are throwing stones in glass houses at the moment regarding this. We all know what the protocols are, we all know we have to be ever-vigilant and make sure we're doing the right things.\"\n\nThe Premier League has implemented stronger coronavirus protocols in light of a recent surge in cases, including reminding players and managers to avoid handshakes and high fives.\n\nCompliance officers will also apply more robust policies to reporting breaches of protocols and will be tasked with checking hotel stays, travel plans and behaviour in dressing rooms.\n\nThe number of staff attending training grounds will also be reduced, social distancing will be enforced more strictly and the use of canteens will be further limited.\n\nStricter matchday protocols include avoiding unnecessary contact at all times, and substitutes wearing face masks.\n\nIn a note sent to clubs, the Premier League has warned it may take disciplinary action if they fail to to ensure people who breach the rules are \"appropriately investigated and sanctioned\".", "Kevin Hughes was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital before he died with coronavirus\n\nA man has died with Covid-19 less than a month after the funeral of his mother, who also died with the virus.\n\nFlintshire councillor Kevin Hughes, 63, was being treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital but died on Friday morning, the authority said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of his sadness at missing his mother's funeral last month after he tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCouncil colleague Chris Dolphin said he was a \"big man with a big heart\".\n\nThe independent councillor, also a former policeman and journalist, sat with the Liberal Democrat group.\n\nHe said missing the funeral of his mother, June Margaret Hughes, was one of the \"darkest days\" of his life.\n\nGroup leader, Mr Dolphin, called him a \"friend, fellow councillor, above all, a good man. Not one to stand on the side-lines - a doer. A man of enthusiasm, who was in life to be really involved.\"\n\nCouncil chief executive, Colin Everett, said: \"Kevin was a wonderful person with a big heart. Kevin was one of the most thoughtful and generous people I have worked with in my long career.\n\n\"I will miss him so much as both a councillor and as a friend.\"\n\nThe politician (left) will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January\n\nAuthority leader, Ian Roberts, called Mr Hughes a \"special person and friend who will be very sadly missed by all\".\n\nHe added: \"His contribution as a councillor has been considerable and he was highly respected by his community, members of the council and officers.\n\n\"He was an active local member and represented his community with integrity and in a positive and engaging way.\"\n\nMr Hughes will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January.\n\nThe authority's chairwoman, Marion Bateman, said: \"Our sincere condolences go to his wife Sally, along with his family and friends, at this very sad time.\"", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Google has suspended \"free speech\" social network Parler from its Play Store over its failure to remove \"egregious content\".\n\nParler styles itself as \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nBut Google said the app had failed to remove posts inciting violence.\n\nApple has also warned Parler it will remove the app from its App Store if it does not comply with its content-moderation requirements.\n\nOn Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nHowever, both Apple and Google have said the app fails to comply with content-moderation requirements.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.\n\nIn a statement, Google confirmed it had suspended Parler from its Play Store, saying: \"Our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.\n\n\"In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.\"\n\nApple has warned Parler it will be removed from the App Store on Saturday in a letter published by Buzzfeed News.\n\nIt said it had seen \"accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate\" the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMr Matze said Parler had \"no way to organise anything\" and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organise action.\n\nBut Apple said: \"Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service.\"\n\n\"We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a related development, Google has kicked Steve Bannon's War Room podcast off YouTube, saying it had repeatedly violated the platform's rules.\n\nThe ex-White House aide's channel had more than 300,000 subscribers.\n\nSteve Bannon served as President Trump's chief strategist for eight months in 2017\n\n\"In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War room' and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines,\" Google said in a statement.\n\n\"Any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube.\"\n\nThe action was taken shortly after the channel posted an interview with Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he blamed the Democrats for the rioting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.\n\nOne anti-misinformation group said the action was long overdue after \"months of Steve Bannon calling for revolution and violence\".\n\n\"The truth is YouTube should have taken down Steve Bannon's account a long time ago and they shouldn't rely on the labour of extremism researchers to moderate the content on their platform,\" said Madeline Peltz, Senior Researcher at Media Matters for America.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "Fishing \"clears the mind of other worries\" says John Ellis from the Canal and Rivers Trust\n\nAnglers have hailed the mental health benefits of the sport after it was given the all-clear to continue, despite lockdown.\n\nThe government said it would be treated as a form of exercise, but subject to restrictions such as social distancing.\n\nRegulations mean people in England must stay at home except for specific purposes, including exercise, shopping for essentials and childcare.\n\nFigures show thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic.\n\nJohn Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager for the Canal and Rivers Trust, said rod licence sales increased by 17% over the last year, the equivalent of about 100,000 people - some new to the sport and others returning.\n\nHe said, despite the colder weather which usually causes a drop in fishing, there are more people out than in a typical January.\n\n\"It is certainly one of few things people can do legally, can do locally,\" he said.\n\nSpencer Moore said it was easy to maintain social distance while fishing\n\nUnder current restrictions in England, anglers must fish alone, or with members of their household, and must not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe government regulations permit people to meet for exercise, but not \"for recreational or leisure purposes\".\n\nThe Department for Culture Media and Sport told the BBC while angling could continue, overarching government guidance meant people should minimise time spent outside their homes.\n\nMr Ellis said he had received emails from parents pleased their children could go fishing at the weekend, adding that for some people it was linked to their mental wellbeing.\n\n\"When you are focussing on fishing, it is very hard to think about anything else, it clears the mind of other worries, at least temporarily,\" he said.\n\nHeadway said fishing was one of its most popular sporting activities for clients\n\nHeadway Birmingham & Solihull, a charity which helps people living with brain injuries, runs regular fishing sessions, which were very popular with its clients.\n\n\"It encourages them to be more active and get some fresh air out in the countryside,\" she said.\n\n\"It also helps their motivation and mental wellbeing, giving them something to look forward to each week, something to talk about and a chance to form friendships with others who enjoy fishing too.\"\n\nSpencer Moore, a bailiff for Blackfords Progressive Angling Society, based in South Staffordshire, said the sport was perfect for social distancing.\n\n\"There are people furloughed, sitting in their house or working from home, but at least they can fish and can get out and wind down,\" he said.\n\n\"Being a fisherman, you are on your own on your peg. Someone might be on another peg, but they can be 20 to 30ft away, so you are nowhere near anyone else.\"\n\nChris Wood advised people to speak to their local angling club before going fishing for the first time\n\nChris Wood, from Shrewsbury Anglers Club, said the group had seen a definite \"upsurge\" in interest during the pandemic.\n\nBut, he said, it had also seen an increase in illegal fishing by people who were not aware of the proper permits needed.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva's father, Paul Slapa, says the generosity of strangers has been \"amazing\"\n\nA 10-year-old girl who needed to travel to the United States for treatment on an inoperable brain tumour has died.\n\nFamily of Eva Williams raised £250,000 needed for a new life-extending trial.\n\nBut the schoolgirl, from Marford, Wrexham, was unable to travel due to coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nAt the start of 2020, she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and died on Friday. Her father said in a tribute: \"We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known.\"\n\nPaul Slapa, said on social media that his daughter was surrounded by all of her family when she died.\n\nHe posted: \"Over the past week, Eva had lost the ability to speak, eat and swallow fluids, and she has suffered more than any child should ever have to suffer.\n\n\"Watching her still fight each day has been heart-breaking.\n\n\"Eva is an inspiration to many, certainly to me, and I cannot begin to imagine how we will go forward from here.\n\n\"How do we wake up each day and go on? How do we face the world without our baby girl with us? Why did this happen to the most caring and loving of little girls?\n\n\"Every single part of us is in pain and I can't see how that can change. We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known - and we will keep you with us every day for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nAfter Eva was diagnosed with a high-grade DIPG she had been undergoing radiotherapy treatment to shrink the tumour.\n\nHer father and mother Carran Williams started a fundraising campaign to access the trial treatment in the US, and managed to raise the money in the space of three weeks.\n\nThey had been originally due to take part in the trial in New York in April.\n\nBut then Covid-19 measures saw international flight bans and travel restrictions imposed.\n\nHer plight was raised by the Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton during Prime Minister's Questions in July and Boris Johnson said he would look at what help can be offered to get her to the United States.\n\nEva also had radiotherapy as part of her treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown, scientists advising the government have said.\n\nProf Robert West said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nProf Susan Michie also said the spread of the new more infectious variant meant the restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\nThe government said it had adapted its approach and taken \"swift action\" to try and stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe warnings come after ministers launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new variant of Covid is around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it's not stricter,\" he said\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London, also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to the first lockdown and he said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore people are in schools, after the Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Michie, who is also a member of Sage, agreed the current lockdown was \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\nHe said that even if people reduced their contacts to levels seen last spring, it would not have the same effect on virus transmission.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast the \"unprecedented\" numbers of patients requiring intensive care treatment meant staff were spread \"more and more thinly\".\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they do not have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned that the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas and added: \"It is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority from the outset has been to protect the NHS to save lives and we have taken advice from scientific and medical experts throughout. As new evidence has emerged, we have adapted our approach and taken swift action to try and stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by coronavirus by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has narrowly seen off a rebellion by 33 Tory MPs, who want to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to be committing genocide.\n\nMPs voted by 319 to 308 to remove an amendment to the Trade Bill which would have forced ministers to withdraw from deals with nations the UK High Court ruled guilty of mass killings.\n\nIt comes amid condemnation of China's treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe rebels believe they have enough support to secure another vote soon.\n\nAmong those to defy the government were ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, former cabinet ministers David Davis and Damian Green and Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.\n\nThe rebellion is one of the largest on an issue not related to the Covid-19 pandemic during Boris Johnson's time as prime minister.\n\nThe government has a Commons majority of 80 but this was whittled down to just 11 as prominent ex-ministers such as Tobias Ellwood, Caroline Nokes and Nusrat Ghani, as well as a number of MPs first elected last year, sided with the opposition.\n\nMPs have been debating proposals, tabled by cross-bench peer Lord Alton, to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide, a decision currently left to the jurisdiction of international courts.\n\nThe proposals, also backed by Labour, would mean that ministers would have to revoke post-Brexit trade deals with countries that were ruled to be carrying out systematic mass killings.\n\nThe issue is expected to resurface when the Trade Bill returns to the House of Lords.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Conservative rebels, led by former leader Iain Duncan Smith, were unable to force a vote on a separate amendment they had proposed.\n\nEvery speaker in today's debate - from the front and back benches - said genocide was abhorrent. The worst of crimes. There was united criticism of China's brutal treatment of the Uighurs too.\n\nBut the question Parliament has been wrestling with is whether the High Court should have the right to decide if a country is committing genocide. And if they did judge a country has been carrying out mass killings, should the High Court be able to compel the government to revoke any trade treaty it has with that country?\n\nMinisters insist it should be the job of elected governments, not judges, to determine trade policy. But opposition parties and a large cohort of Tory backbenchers argue it's essential the High Court can rule on genocide and ensure the UK's new trade-making freedom has an obligation to uphold human rights too.\n\nThis also is an argument about where power lies after Brexit and what role Parliament should have in shaping trade policy after decades in the EU.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said that by securing large, but not overwhelming, support for Lord Alton's amendment in the Commons, the rebels hope the government will accept Mr Duncan Smith's own amendment - which would give the Commons the right to debate whether trade deals can be halted if genocide is proven.\n\nThe debate came as the US government formally declared that China was committing genocide in its repression of Uighur muslims in Xinjiang.\n\nThe UK government has been critical of China's treatment of the Uighurs and last week announced measures to cut UK business links with forced labour camps in the region.\n\nBut some MPs suspect the government is pulling its punches to avoid antagonising Beijing.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said the debate was \"all about simply shining a light of hope to all those out there who have failed to get their day in court and failed to be treated properly\".\n\n\"If this country doesn't stand up for that then I want to know what would it ever stand up for again?,\" he added.\n\nBut Trade Minister Greg Hands said it was unprecedented and unacceptable to give the courts powers to revoke trade deals agreed by elected governments.\n\nAnd he argued that no one would benefit from the proposal because the UK currently had no free trade deal with China.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "US tariffs have hit the Scotch whisky industry hard\n\nThe UK and US have failed to do a much hoped for \"mini-deal\" over trade in the last days of the Trump administration.\n\nThere were hopes the US would lift tariffs on imports of Scotch whisky and cashmere imposed last year as part of the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.\n\nBut those duties will now stay in place while President-elect Biden awaits confirmation of his trade team.\n\nThe talks were revealed in a BBC interview with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in December.\n\nAt the time he said he was hopeful that he and his UK counterpart, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, could \"get some kind of an agreement out\".\n\nBut the BBC understands that a broad offer from the US was rejected last week by the UK after concerns were expressed by the Business Department about the impact on Airbus' business in the UK.\n\nSince 2019, the EU and US have both imposed tariffs on each others' goods amid a long-running trade dispute between the planemakers Boeing and Airbus.\n\nThe tariffs centre on a long-running dispute between Boeing and Airbus\n\nEarlier last month the UK's Trade Department announced it would unilaterally break from the EU's position of levying tariffs on imports of Boeing aeroplanes, after the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nIt was, said Ms Truss, an attempt to create goodwill to solve the 16-year old dispute.\n\nBut the UK aerospace industry was furious with what it saw as the government reneging on promises made in early 2020 to support Airbus in the dispute, even after Brexit.\n\nThese concerns were the main block to a deal, but the chaos in Washington DC over the past week also played a part.\n\nThe US was also looking for tariffs on its exports of bourbon to the UK - part of a separate trade dispute over steel - to be settled.\n\nA government source said: \"Ultimately we came close to resolving an intractable 16-year dispute, but didn't quite get there. Any deal must be balanced and work for the whole UK and all of UK industry.\"\n\nThey added: \"No one has fought harder on this than Liz, and she's going to continue pushing it with the Biden administration. She absolutely understands the pain of affected businesses and is determined to get these tariffs lifted and support jobs.\"\n\nThe source said the government had pursued a \"clear de-escalation strategy\" with the Trump administration over the dispute which meant it had avoided being hit with further US tariffs, unlike the EU.\n\nMs Truss still hopes to settle the dispute quickly and has committed to meet Katherine Tai, the new US Trade Representative, in Washington DC as soon as she assumes office, the source added.\n\nKaren Betts, head of the Scotch Whisky Association, said her industry was \"very frustrated\" a deal was not reached.\n\n\"There is deep disappointment across the Scotch whisky industry that distillers are still paying the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do with us.\n\n\"The tariff on single malt Scotch whisky, now in place for 15 months, has caused us to lose over £450m in exports to the US, and our losses continue to mount.\"", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the 130-car pile-up on the Tohoku Expressway\n\nA huge snowstorm has struck a highway in Japan, causing a 130-vehicle pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10.\n\nThe storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nSome 200 people have been caught up in the pile-up and rescuers are currently at the scene, officials said.\n\nJapan has been hit by severe snow storms in recent weeks with some parts of the country seeing double the average expected snowfall.\n\nImages from the expressway in the north of the country show the sheer scale of the pile-up.\n\nOne person died and at least 10 were injured after the vehicles collided\n\nAuthorities had already enforced a 50km/h (31mph) speed limit on the road due to visibility.\n\nThere was a maximum wind speed of about 100km/h (62mph) at the time of the incident, local weather officials said.\n\nThose who were involved have been given drinking water and food, and have been provided with blankets to keep warm, NHK News reports (in Japanese).\n\nThose stuck behind the vehicles have been given food, water and blankets\n\nThe snow has affected some of Japan's high-speed railway network, with a number of train services in the Tohoku region cancelled.\n\nAccording to local media, the region is expected to record up to 40cm (15 inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe country has been experiencing a large amount of snowfall this winter.\n\nLast month, heavy snow left more than 1,000 vehicles stranded on the Kanetsu expressway for two days.\n\nThe weather was so bad that an emergency meeting was called and the country's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on members of the public to be cautious.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nSchools in England may reopen region by region after half term, the government's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries has said.\n\nSpeaking to the Commons education committee, Dr Harries suggested there would be different rates of infection across the country when lockdown ends.\n\nThis would mean a \"differential application\" of restrictive measures would be required, she said.\n\nSchools were closed at the start of January to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAlthough schools remain open to vulnerable children and those of keyworkers, all others are due to learn remotely from home until after the February half term holiday.\n\nBut the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested they may not return fully then.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the department was continuing to keep plans for the return to school under review and that it would inform schools, parents and pupils of the plans ahead of February half term.\n\nCommittee chairman Robert Halfon said he suspected schools would be closed for quite \"a few weeks yet\", but there has been no formal confirmation of this.\n\nMedical and science advisers were warning the government before Christmas that the NHS would not be able to manage the number of Covid-19 cases if schools remained open.\n\nThe new, more transmissible variant of the virus had been increasing exponentially in London and the south-east before Christmas.\n\nBut in some parts of the north and north-east saw rates of increase were reducing.\n\nDr Harries said: \"It is highly likely that when we come out of this national lockdown we will not have consistent patterns of infection in our communities across the country.\n\n\"And therefore, as we had prior to the national lockdown, it may well be possible that we need to have some differential application.\"\n\nBut Dr Harries said schools would be at the top of the priority to ensure that the balance of education and wellbeing were \"right at the forefront\" of consideration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries says schools in England might reopen ''region by region''\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Although the government intends that schools will fully reopen after the February half-term holiday, it is clearly in the balance when this happens and whether there will be any sort of regional approach.\n\n\"We expect that it will depend on coronavirus infection rates and the pressure on the NHS, and that the government will make a call on this issue nearer the time.\n\n\"What is important is that when schools fully reopen, everything possible is done to keep them open and to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"This is why we are calling for education staff to be prioritised for vaccinations as soon as possible, and for schools to be given more support in the use of rapid turnaround mass testing.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said if the government was planning to stagger opening of schools by region, it needed to \"provide clarity sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"This will give vital time to prepare for a smoother reopening of schools and business,\" he said.\n\nOn calls for vaccination of teachers, Dr Harries suggested the safe re-opening of schools did not depend on this.\n\nBut members of the committee suggested education would be less disrupted by teachers needing to go home and isolate when infected.\n\nThe vaccination programme had been worked out in order of vulnerability to the disease, she stressed.\n\nAnd Dr Harries added that although pupils could and did transmit the virus, she did not have evidence of them being \"a significant driver\" of \"large-scale community infections\".", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only 155 out of more than 23,000 university professors in the UK are black, according to official figures.\n\nIt remains below 1%, the same as for the past five years, and is an increase of only 50 posts despite the number of professorships rising by more than 3,000 in that time.\n\nAt this senior academic level, women hold 28% of professorships, up from 23% five years ago.\n\n\"The pace of change is glacial,\" said lecturers' union leader Jo Grady.\n\n\"Universities must do more to ensure a more representative mix of staff at a senior level and stop this terrible waste of talent,\" said Dr Grady, general secretary of the UCU university union.\n\nThe figures on black professors were \"disappointing\" and \"inexplicable\", said Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust race equality think tank, \"given the symbolic importance of education as the foundation of our values.\"\n\n\"Around a quarter of British postgraduates are from ethnic minorities, there is clearly no shortage of qualified black and minority academics seeking elevation to senior teaching and research roles in our universities,\" said Dr Begum.\n\nShe called on vice chancellors to take action over a problem they can \"literally discern with their own eyes every single day they are on campus\".\n\nThe annual figures, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, provide a breakdown of the UK's academic workforce - and show while there has been a focus on widening access for students, there are still few black academic staff.\n\nAt the level of professor, the number of black professors rose from 105 to 155 between 2014-15 to 2019-20.\n\nBut new higher education providers included in the figures meant an additional 3,200 staff at professor grade, with the proportion of black professors only increasing marginally from 0.5% to 0.7% over five years.\n\nThis compared to 7% of professors who are Asian and 89% white in the figures for 2019-20.\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said that rather than universities being \"progressive dreamlands\", the \"make-up of professors is the perfect reflection of the narrow Eurocentric views still produced by universities\".\n\n\"I have seen very few genuine attempts to address the issues of racism at any level across the sector,\" said Prof Andrews.\n\nAmong all academic staff, 2% are black, 10% are Asian, 75% are white, with the remainder under categories of \"mixed\", \"other or not known\".\n\nThere is still a significant gender gap in professorships, among a group that is also heavily skewed to older age groups, with most in their fifties, sixties and above.\n\nFive years ago, more than 4,500 professors were women, which has risen to 6,300 - from 23% to 28% of these senior posts.\n\nThis is despite women representing 46% of all academic staff.\n\nBaroness Amos, who was the UK's first black female university head, has previously warned of \"deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes which need to be overcome\" in the recruitment of senior staff in higher education.\n\nUniversities UK said \"the evidence is clear that black and minority ethnic staff continue to be under-represented\" at these senior academic levels.\n\n\"More needs to be done to address this inequality which exists within higher education, which mirrors inequalities evident in wider UK society and which will require an unequivocal commitment to change,\" said the universities' organisation.", "Many think the courts system needs to invest more in technology\n\nWhen Louise Westra and her partner decided to adopt a child in November 2018, they were aware of the long process that was ahead of them, but they were not to know that the coronavirus pandemic would hold them back from completing the adoption of their son.\n\nOn 27 March, their petition was due in court. As lockdown had taken effect, telephone conferencing would be used instead of going to court.\n\nHowever, after the phone call, Ms Westra received an email from her solicitor explaining that the papers had not been served to the biological parents of the child. This continued every month after lockdown, as it wasn't possible for the papers to be physically served.\n\n\"It's farcical because one of them is the biological father who lives with the biological mother who has had her petition but the biological father hasn't and they live in the same premises,\" Ms Westra says.\n\nServing papers has to be completed by post via Royal Mail or in some cases lawyers would instruct a process server to physically take the papers and hand them to the person.\n\n\"It sounds very archaic but if [the person] won't take them by hand, the processor can drop the papers near them and tell them what the document contains and that's technically counted as full service,\" says Rebecca Ranson, a solicitor for Maguire Family Law.\n\nUnless a judge approves it, emailing or any other forms of digital communication are not considered valid - even though the majority of people in the UK have access to email and the internet. It is this kind of process, in need of a digital upgrade, that is frustrating for Ms Westra.\n\nMs Westra's case is one of many that have been delayed. The number of outstanding Crown court cases was 43,676 on 26 July, and the entire backlog across magistrates' and Crown courts is more than 560,000. The Commons Justice Committee has announced an inquiry into how these delays could be addressed.\n\nThe reality, however, is that there was already a huge backlog back in December, and Covid-19 has just exacerbated an existing problem. Cases like Ms Westra's have been affected by the pandemic, but many lawyers believe that the legal system could have been better prepared through technology investment over the years.\n\n\"We've got people being held for longer than they otherwise would be, and for every person in custody waiting for trial or waiting on bail for trial, there are witnesses, and complainants and their families awaiting a resolution. Whether it's the lack of technology links in prison, using Skype and improvising or not having enough Nightingale courts - it all boils down to a lack of investment,\" says Joanna Hardy, a London-based barrister.\n\nIn 2016 HM Courts & Tribunals Service began a £1bn court reform programme. This included a video-conferencing tool called the Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which allows for a dedicated private conference area, so criminal lawyers can speak to their clients without visiting prison.\n\nA programme for testing and adopting video technology was planned out until 2022, but in the pandemic, the government had to get CVP up and running in 10 weeks. This has since been extended to civil courts. But this implementation has been challenging, as there are only a restricted number of physical video links allowed.\n\n\"As we weren't ready for this huge technological revolution no-one had manned the tech rooms or built enough rooms on the other end in the prison. We can have as many laptops as we like, as much software as we like but if we can't put a prisoner into a room with a screen, the other end is pointless,\" Ms Hardy says.\n\nAccording to Ms Hardy, the waiting times to get these slots have been \"completely unacceptable\", and it has meant that sometimes hearings had to go ahead without the defendant present.\n\n\"It's like human beings failing where technology could have bridged the gap,\" she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said that it had offered more than 400 CVP meeting rooms since the outbreak of coronavirus, but added that it is taking steps to increase the available capacity of video conferencing at some locations by extending operating hours. The spokesperson said that the MoJ is also undertaking urgent action to increase the physical number of video link outlets at critical sites.\n\nAt the moment, criminal trials are going ahead using social distancing - meaning sometimes a second courtroom is linked by technology, but this is creating further backlogs, as it means one case is occupying the same space as two.\n\nJustice, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation, has trialled a virtual jury trial with a mock case, and suggested it should be considered as a possible option, but this hasn't been taken on by the courts.\n\nThe issue with virtual jury trials is whether or not they could affect the outcome of a trial. Some lawyers feel like juries should see a witness, feel an exhibit and dispense justice to a fellow human being in the confines of a court room.\n\nJodie Hill says it is more difficult to cross-examine people in video hearings\n\n\"You can lose the impact of cross examination. When you're challenging their evidence in person it's easier to get them to trip up if they're not being honest, whereas if they're on video it might be easier for them to cover it up,\" says Jodie Hill, solicitor and managing director of Thrive Law, an employment law specialist.\n\nFor smaller hearings, online alternatives could be here for the long term, as it means lawyers don't have to travel all over the UK unnecessarily. This doesn't mean that every hearing that can be done remotely, should be done remotely.\n\n\"We don't want overkill. We think some cases still need to be in the room, particularly if you're dealing with vulnerable people or sensitive cases. It has to be a balancing act of harnessing the benefits of technology and thinking about the specific case,\" says Ms Hardy.", "The UK is forging its post-Brexit path as a \"confident, independent nation - and an energetic force for good\", according to the government.\n\nIt's free to set trade on its own terms, pursue opportunities and higher living standards. But can it square profit with principle?\n\nIs turning a blind eye to human rights violations worth it to have a trade deal that knocks a couple of quid off the price of an imported shirt?\n\nThat New Year's resolution is already being tested, as China falls increasingly out of favour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has referred to conditions, under which over a million Uighur Muslims are being held in camps and forced into work, as \"at the worst... torture and inhumane and degrading treatments\".\n\nHe warned that British companies will face fines, if they can't show that their supply chains are free from forced labour.\n\nIn December, a BBC investigation revealed thousands of Uighurs and other minorities have been compelled to toil in the cotton fields of Xinjiang. The region accounts for a fifth of the world's crop - it's not always easy to tell where your t-shirt hails from.\n\nThe UK and Canada have led the charge here, but one wonders how much further can it go.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC that the UK should not be engaging in free trade negotiations with countries whose record was \"well below the level of genocide\".\n\nThere are several issues with this: first, working out who gets to decree human rights abuses.\n\nAmendments to the Trade Bill currently going through Parliament would oblige the government to assess the human rights records of potential partners.\n\nIn July, Dominic Raab accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population\n\nOne amendment proposes allowing the High Court to declare a genocide in other countries, and forcing the immediate cancellation of trade deals with said nations.\n\nMr Raab, however, says the decision to declare a genocide can't, and shouldn't be, delegated to the courts. Rather, it's for MPs to hold the government to account over trade deals.\n\nBut Labour MPs, who have written to their Conservative counterparts urging them to support the amendments, say they've already been denied powers of scrutiny.\n\nThey highlight trade deals rolled over with Egypt, Cameroon and Turkey, with whom the UK previously enjoyed similar deals the EU had struck.\n\nThese three countries, they argue, have questionable records on human rights.\n\nAnd then there's China. The UK is not planning a deal with Beijing and has indicated it won't do a deal with countries that don't share its democratic values.\n\nBut both nations have their eye on joining the wider Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.\n\nWith imports and exports worth almost £80bn in 2019, China already scores as one of the UK's largest trading partners, and it's not just about frocks and financial services crossing borders.\n\nSince Xi Jinping and David Cameron famously sipped a pint in a Buckinghamshire pub in 2015, Chinese investment in the UK has exploded, backing everything from football clubs to restaurant chains.\n\nNow China's appeal has soured, but it may not be easy to back away from encouraging investment, or a trade deal which touts lower import prices and greater opportunities for exporters, when the UK economy is already reeling.\n\nThe Wolverhampton Wanderers are owned by Chinese investors Fosun International\n\nTake textiles - a free trade deal would do away with a 12% tariff on clothes hailing from China. Ultimately, trade deals build on an existing - in this case very lucrative - relationship.\n\nCritics argue it's not enough to refrain from boosting ties with nations with chequered records - they should be lessened.\n\nBut it's even harder to snub countries that are already providing jobs for thousands, or items from the frivolous, such as smartphones, to the vital, like billions of PPE items.\n\nSome say the UK has its own issues elsewhere. It resumed the sales of arms to Saudi Arabia last year, after the government said the method for licensing had been reformulated to ensure they wouldn't be used in Yemen. Human rights groups are less sure.\n\nBalancing its quest to be a responsible citizen, together with exploring fresh fortunes, is just one dilemma the UK faces, as it shapes its new identity on the global stage.", "Boris Johnson will be glad Donald Trump has not been re-elected for a second term as US president, ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill has suggested.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken.\"\n\nHe said he \"would not have been to the benefit\" of British or European security, trade or environment issues.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson looked forward to working with Joe Biden.\n\nThis month he said Mr Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol.\n\nAnd in 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused him of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut after Mr Trump's victory in the US election in 2016, then Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and while running for the Conservative leadership in 2019, he said the President had \"many good qualities\".\n\nMr Trump later praised Mr Johnson, saying: \"they call him Britain Trump\".\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Mr Biden in a phone call after his US election win, saying he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Lord Sedwill's remarks would not be unhelpful to Downing Street as any perception in Washington that Mr Johnson was like Mr Trump becomes a liability with the arrival of President Biden.\n\nIn his Daily Mail article, Lord Sedwill, who was the UK's most senior civil servant until he stood down in September, said there was \"relief in Western capitals\" that normal diplomatic relationships will be restored once Mr Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday.\n\nThe former Cabinet Secretary said: \"Those of us who regard ourselves as close American allies have badly missed US leadership over the past four years.\n\n\"Based on my time working for Boris Johnson in Downing Street, I believe those who have said he would have preferred a second Trump term are mistaken. That would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed.\"\n\nLord Sedwill added: \"With Brexit accomplished and the Biden administration ready to re-engage, this is the moment for Global Britain to step up.\"", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hancock said he would be working from home until Sunday, adding \"we all have a part to play in getting this virus under control\".\n\nHe contracted coronavirus in March 2020 and suffered \"mild symptoms\".\n\nMr Hancock said he learned from the app he had been \"in close contact with somebody who's tested positive\" and so self-isolating was \"how we break the chains of transmission\".\n\n\"So you must follow these rules like I'm going to,\" he said. \"I've got to work from home for the next six days, and together, by doing this, by following this, and all the other panoply of rules that we've had to put in place, we can get through this and beat this virus.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was alerted by the app on Monday night, having earlier led a Downing Street press conference alongside NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis and Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins.\n\nThe NHS app tells a person if they have been in close contact with someone who has later tested positive for coronavirus and tells them to isolate for 10 full days from their last contact.\n\nWhile it is not clear from Mr Hancock's statement if his isolation ends on Sunday or Monday, his period of quarantine suggests he was last in contact with the person who was infected on Wednesday or Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street confirmed that Mr Hancock would not receive the vaccine early because he is leading the pandemic response.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The PM and the rest of the cabinet will take the vaccine when it's their turn to do so based on the priority lists that have been published.\n\n\"We don't think it's right that the PM or other members of cabinet take the vaccine in place of somebody who is at higher clinical risk.\"\n\nIn March, the health secretary revealed he had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson had confirmed he too had the virus.\n\nWhile the health secretary recovered fairly swiftly, and was able to work from home during his illness, Mr Johnson required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSelf-isolation, which means staying at home and not leaving, is a legal requirement for anybody who has Covid symptoms, has tested positive for the virus, lives with someone who has symptoms, has arrived from abroad or has been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn December, the self-isolation period required was cut from 14 days to 10 days.\n\nUsing Bluetooth technology the NHS app makes contact between mobile phones when they are near each other, if an owner of a phone later tests positive for the virus and shares that with the app, alerts are sent to anyone who is deemed to have been a close contact.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's climate change leadership is being undercut by a government decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, MPs have warned.\n\nThe UK is hosting a UN climate summit in November, where it will urge other nations to phase out fossil fuels.\n\nThe MPs say the government's decision to allow a new colliery at home will make it harder to secure a deal.\n\nThe Woodhouse mine was approved by Cumbria County Council because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment.\n\nThe planning minister Robert Jenrick could have overruled it, but said the issue was best decided at a local level.\n\nThat verdict was derided by environmentalists, who pointed out that climate change from fossil fuel burning is a global problem.\n\nAlok Sharma, who is leading the COP26 climate summit and who co-ordinates UK policies on climate change, was asked by the Commons business select committee whether the mine approval was \"an embarrassment\". He replied: \"I take your point\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the committee there was a \"slight tension\" between approving the mine, near Whitehaven, and broader attempts to clean up the economy.\n\nBut he said ministers decided to allow the pit because it will produce coking coal for steel-making, which otherwise would have to be imported.\n\nHe said: \"There's a slight tension between the decision to open this mine and our avowed intention to take coal off the grid… there was a debate in the government about what we could do about this, but this was a local planning decision.\n\n\"If we don't have sources of coking coal in the UK we would be importing those anyway\".\n\nThis appears to run counter to advice from the Climate Change Committee which has said all coal - including coking coal - should be phased out by 2035. Doubts have been raised about investors in the mine being left with a \"stranded asset\" if the pit is forced to close on climate grounds.\n\nThe mine approval is even more poignant because the UK founded the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance\" - a global club to persuade nations to leave coal in the ground.\n\nA source close to the Alliance secretariat told BBC News that staff were enraged by the decision. They believed the decision had been made to help secure so-called \"Red Wall\" votes in areas which previously voted Labour .\n\nMohamed Adow, from a pressure group, Powershift Africa, told BBC News: \"It is quite bizarre that the UK government, in the year it hosts the biggest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement, has approved a new coal mine.\"\n\nThe young campaigner Greta Thunberg said the decision showed pledges to achieve net zero emissions targets by 2050 \"basically mean nothing\".\n\nDarren Jones, chair of the business committee, told BBC News it would be hard for the UK to persuade countries like Poland to abandon coal whilst building a mine.\n\nHe argued that the government should have found another way to bring jobs to Cumbria. He said: \"Carbon-intensive industries are looking to the government for leadership on the transition to a green future.\n\n\"Backing coal at home doesn't look in line with the recent Energy White Paper and certainly makes our efforts to secure international agreement on ambitious decarbonisation harder to achieve.\"\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne, told BBC News: \"If the UK is to achieve its ambition to be an environmental world leader, the government must offer clear guidance on how we can take every industry to net-zero, and offer a pipeline of investable projects.\n\n\"The steel sector needs to develop alternatives to importing coking coal. This could also support the next generation of green jobs - which are urgently needed.\"\n\nThe cross-bench peer Baroness Worthington told BBC News: \"This decision is real laziness of thinking from the government. Just think of signal it sends to all those countries who want to cling on to coal.\n\n\"The government doesn't yet have a cohesive strategy that makes sense. It's crazy. Absolute madness.\"", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home at least until then. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions, which have been in place since Boxing Day. It comes as England's deputy chief medical officer said schools may reopen region by region after February half term.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app. He urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app and said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\". Mr Hancock, who is MP for West Suffolk, suffered \"mild symptoms\" when he contracted coronavirus in March 2020.\n\nA group of politicians drank alcohol on Welsh Parliament premises, days after a coronavirus rule banning pubs from serving drinks took effect. BBC Wales has been told Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were drinking together in early December, with Labour Senedd member Alun Davies also involved. Senedd authorities said they are investigating an \"incident\". Elsewhere, an internal investigation has began after railway workers allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nHeadlines about footballers and Covid have been hard to miss lately - with questions about dressing room distancing, off-pitch partying and all those post-goal hugs. But what's football in lockdown actually like for players and their families? BBC Newsbeat has found out by speaking to Wycombe Wanderers footballer Joe Jacobson and his wife Louise.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "The death happened in the alpine resort of Verbier, in Switzerland\n\nA British man has been killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police have said.\n\nThe man was among 10 people swept away at the alpine resort of Verbier, to the east of Geneva, on Monday morning.\n\nPolice said the skier, who has not been named, lived in Verbier and died at the scene.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital with serious injuries, while eight others were uninjured, local police said.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"The avalanche occurred outside the piste between the Verbier ski area and 'Les Attelas'.\n\n\"At around 10:20, a skier was driving down a corridor below the 'Attelas' area.\n\n\"A snow drift came loose and carried the skier as well as another person who had been further down at the time.\"\n\nAn investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was offering support to the British man's family and was in contact with the authorities in Switzerland.\n\nThe death comes after several days of heavy snowfall across Switzerland, which led to the death of another skier who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in Gstaad.\n\nIt takes the total deaths due to avalanches in the country to seven since last weekend.\n\nMore than 200 British skiers left the popular Verbier resort in December after Switzerland imposed a coronavirus quarantine following the discovery of a new variant of the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Not all parents have found it easy to home school their children during coronavirus lockdowns\n\nLevels of stress, depression and anxiety among parents and carers have increased with the pressures of the lockdowns, suggests research from the University of Oxford.\n\nMany parents, especially those of secondary-age pupils, say they are worried about their children's futures.\n\nThe government has said it is aware how challenging it is for parents to support children with home learning.\n\nThe research, based on responses from 6,246 parents and carers between mid-March and the end of December 2020, found problems including:\n\nOn an established scale of depression, anxiety and stress, parents' depression scores increased from April through to June from an average of 9.03 to 9.71, says the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.\n\nWhile these average scores decreased over the summer, when Covid-19 restrictions were eased, to a low of 8.23 in September, they rose again over the course of the autumn term to a high of 10.1 points in December.\n\nParents' stress scores were at their lowest in August and September at 11.4 points, but increased to a high of 13.2 in December, following the pre-Christmas lockdown.\n\nThe researchers said higher levels of stress were detected particularly in low-income families, as well as single-parent households and those with children with special educational needs.\n\nWhile average anxiety scores were relatively stable throughout the whole period - ranging from a 4.71 points in April to 4.24 in July - they hit a high of 5 points in December.\n\nThe study also found just over a third (36%) of parents with young children (10 years or younger) said they were \"substantially worried\" about their children's behaviour, in contrast to just over a quarter (28%) of parents who had older children only (11 years or older).\n\nHowever, nearly half (45%) of those with secondary-age children were worried about their children's education and future, compared to 32% of those with young children.\n\nLeticea, a parent who took part in the study, said: \"I think that UK leaders should have access to this data to see what is going on with the mental health of families and how they are being affected by Covid-19 with increased levels of stress, depression and anxiety - we need something to look forward to.\n\n\"I am also worried that the next three months will show a sharper increase in anxiety and stress where parents are having to do more teaching at home.\n\n\"Children are more worried as their teachers are becoming ill - the 'new variant' sounds more scary, my daughter keeps commenting on an increasing worry of catching Covid-19 which she didn't do so much before.\"\n\nAnother parent, Madiha, said: ''Current times are hard enough as they are.\n\n\"As a working parent, the most important thing for me is to ensure my family's wellbeing, their safety, and their continued development.\n\n\"Prolonged screen time, disruption to daily routine, frequent arguments, lack of exercise, and stress of exams have all been contributing factors to our mental health and wellbeing.\n\nMadiha said she hoped the study would play a part in informing policy and developing interventions to help families.\n\nCathy Creswell, professor of clinical developmental psychology at Oxford University and co-leader of the study, said the findings showed parents were particularly vulnerable to distress during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our data highlight the particular strains felt by parents during lockdown when many feel that they have been spread too thin by the demands of meeting their children's needs during the pandemic, along with home-schooling and work commitments.\"\n\nSchools were first closed to most pupils in March\n\nJohn Jolly, head of the charity Parentkind, said the research highlighted \"the additional stress and pressure that partial school closures place on parents\".\n\n\"Given the disruption to family life, it is vital that policymakers consult and listen to the concerns of parents on issues that directly impact them and their children's futures.\n\n\"This includes the safety and reopening of schools, the fair allocation of grades in the absence of exams, and remote learning provision.\"\n\nThe Oxford researchers are tracking children's and parents' mental health throughout the current crisis, to help them identify what protects young people from deteriorating mental health and how this may vary according to child and family characteristics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert’s report finds eight-year-old Saffie \"could have been saved\" if treated properly for her injuries\n\nA man has described how he tried to help the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack as she lay badly injured after the explosion.\n\nPaul Reid, 46, was the first person to reach eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos after the bomb was detonated.\n\nHe said she asked for her mum and said he tried to keep her awake by talking about the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nIt comes after a new report found Saffie could have survived if she had received better medical help.\n\nTwenty-two people were murdered and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the arena foyer as fans left the concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Reid, who was selling posters at the concert, told the BBC he ran into the foyer seconds after the bomb went off.\n\n\"There was a big bang and I could see up on to the foyer, and there was smoke and you could hear things pinging off the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"I still had the posters in my hand. It was mad because it was like I wasn't there, like I was watching myself.\n\n\"People were just screaming and running in every direction you could think of.\"\n\nSaffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nMr Reid said he tried to help two other people before he noticed Saffie lying on the floor.\n\n\"She was still conscious. I asked her her name and I thought she said Sophie,\" he said.\n\n\"She just got a little bit upset. She asked me for her mum and I said not to worry, we're going to find her in a minute.\n\n\"And I sat there trying to keep her calm. I had to talk to her about the concert, and did she enjoy it.\n\n\"All the time I was sat there, I just thought hundreds of people are just going to come running in here and help us. And, well, hardly anybody came in.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack, which started in September, began to examine the emergency response to the atrocity on Monday.\n\nMr Reid said he began watching the inquiry but said some details given in the opening days did not marry up with his recollection of what happened, and he switched it off.\n\nHe told the BBC after a while another person came to help, but after cutting away some of Saffie's clothing they left and went to the aid of someone else.\n\n\"I gave her [Saffie] a sip of water, because in all this madness there's somebody handing water out,\" he said.\n\n\"So you can imagine in the foyer now, all this is going on and there's a man walking about with water.\"\n\nPaul Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night\n\nMr Reid said a police officer suggested moving Saffie out of the foyer, but with no stretchers to lift her they had to use a piece of plastic hoarding.\n\n\"The policeman came and said 'she's got to go, I'll take her in my car',\" he added.\n\n\"There was a plastic sheet under somebody's leg who was injured, I started pulling the sheet from under his leg. We put her on it and I started to carry her out, but the board was slippy.\"\n\nHe said they could not get the makeshift stretcher into the officer's car, so they flagged down an ambulance.\n\nMr Reid said he then returned to the foyer, where he went back to the man who he had taken the hoarding from.\n\n\"He had a gash in his stomach, and a paramedic was sitting there holding something against his stomach,\" he said.\n\n\"I held his hand. He had a Liverpool accent so I talked to him about football to take his mind off things, and my mind off things.\"\n\nMr Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night.\n\n\"It's like yesterday. I can still smell the smoke in that foyer. Still hear the alarms when I go to sleep, when I close my eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm first aid trained, but the most I'd done is put a plaster on.\n\n\"To step in that foyer, it was carnage. It was a war zone.\"\n\nSaffie's parents have said they would not have expected member of the public to have known how to treat her injuries.\n\nHer father Andrew Roussos told the BBC: \"There was a member of the public with her, I can't expect him to tourniquet her, splint her legs and so on.\n\n\"But the medically trained people that were with her, and were with her throughout and didn't apply basic first aid to give Saffie a chance.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard it is important to acknowledge the enormous pressure which those who responded that night came under.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "News of the extended lockdown has not been welcomed by business leaders.\n\nLast month, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) estimated that each week of lockdown meant non-essential stores missing out on £135m of lost sales.\n\nSince then, garden centres and homeware shops have been compelled to close too, and the government has placed curbs on retailers’ click and collect services.\n\nThe SRC says today's extension is a further blow to non-food stores who have already borne a lot during the pandemic.\n\nIt said Scottish stores were set to miss out on almost £950m of lost revenues during the current lockdown period.\n\nQuote Message: The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable. from David Lonsdale Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable.", "On his final full day in office, outgoing president Donald Trump delivered a farewell speech from the White House.\n\nCurrently locked out of his personal social media accounts, Trump struck a concilatory yet defiant tone in the video released via the government's official social media accounts.\n\n\"We did what we came here to do - and so much more,\" he said. \"I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices – because that’s what you elected me to do.\"\n\nHe warned that \"the greatest danger\" now facing the country was \"a loss of confidence in our national greatness\".\n\nThe 45th president ran through actions taken by his administration - from \"stand[ing] up to China like never before\" to \"a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East\".\n\nHe added: \"I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.\"\n\nReferring to the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, he said: \"All Americans were horrified by the assault on the Capitol... It can never be tolerated.\"\n\nTrump acknowledged that a new administration would take office, but said: \"I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.\"", "It is not known when the artwork was taken as no one reported it missing\n\nA 500-year-old painting has been discovered in a flat in Italy and returned to a museum - where staff were unaware it had even been stolen.\n\nThe copy of Salvator Mundi, which is believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was found in a bedroom cupboard in Naples on Saturday.\n\nThis copy is thought to have been painted by one of da Vinci's students.\n\nThe 36-year-old owner of the flat was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, police said.\n\n\"The painting was found on Saturday thanks to a brilliant and diligent police operation,\" Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe artwork is usually part of the Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in the city.\n\nBut Mr Melillo said officials were not aware it had been stolen because \"the room where the painting is kept has not been open for three months\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is not known when the artwork was taken as no one had reported it missing, but the museum said it was in its possession as recently as last January.\n\nSome experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have painted the artwork\n\nPolice are now investigating the circumstances of the theft, but there was no sign of a break-in at the museum.\n\n\"It is plausible that it was a commissioned theft by an organisation working in the international art trade,\" Mr Melillo said.\n\nIt is not known who painted the artwork, but some experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have done so in the early 1500s.\n\nIt shows Christ with one hand raised, with the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nAnd to add to the mystery - whether or not the original painting is an authentic Leonardo da Vinci is disputed. Leonardo died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The original painting was cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nThe original Salvator Mundi has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half. Efforts to restore it have also resulted in abrasions.\n\nThis did not detract buyers, however, and the painting became the most expensive ever sold when it was auctioned for a record $450m (£341m) in 2017.\n\nThe unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.", "A refusal to accept cash is \"creeping into the wider UK economy\", an expert has said, after a survey suggested coronavirus had hastened a shift towards a cashless society.\n\nConsumer group Which? said that 34% of people asked said they had been unable to pay with cash at least once since March when trying to buy something.\n\nGrocery stores, pubs and restaurants were most likely to refuse.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who wrote a report on the issue, called for ministers to act.\n\n\"The figures show that it's not simply the odd coffee shop going cashless, but this is creeping into the wider economy,\" said Ms Ceeney, who wrote the Access to Cash Review.\n\n\"We can't just blame individual businesses - many are going cashless because they can't easily bank cash takings because their local branch is closed or some distance away. The government needs to urgently legislate to protect the viability of cash - as it promised to do so last year. Time is running out.\"\n\nWhich? said the lack of cash access was a problem for those who relied on notes and coins - such as people with certain health conditions or without computer access.\n\nSome shops are still keen to accept cash\n\nJenny Ross, Which? Money editor, said: \"We have repeatedly warned about the consequences that coronavirus will have on what was an already fragile cash system, but nowhere near enough action has been taken by the government or the regulator to understand the scale of this issue.\"\n\nThe Treasury has proposed giving the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, control of overseeing future access to cash and has thrown its weight behind the idea of cashback in shops, without the requirement to buy anything.\n\nDavid Fagleman, director at financial consultancy Enryo, said: \"Our own research shows that despite a decline in use for day-to-day purchases, nearly three-quarters of people think the move to a cashless society is happening too fast and risks leaving some people, particularly the vulnerable, behind.\"", "Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a drama which follows Tommy Shelby and his family\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has confirmed the hit BBC crime drama will conclude with a film following the show's final TV series.\n\nOn Monday, Knight said the upcoming sixth series would be the last but teased that \"the story will continue in another form\".\n\nHe has now confirmed to Deadline: \"My plan from the beginning was to end Peaky with a movie.\n\n\"This is what is going to happen,\" he added.\n\nHe explained that \"Covid had changed our plans\" but did not elaborate.\n\nHelen McCrory, who plays Polly, is the Shelby family matriarch\n\nThe final BBC TV series has resumed filming after being hit by Covid-related production delays.\n\nOn Monday, Knight described the show as being \"back with a bang\" and warned fans that the mobsters would face \"extreme jeopardy\" in the sixth season.\n\nKnight had previously planned for a seven-season run of the drama, which is set in post-World War One Birmingham.\n\n\"My ambition is to make it a story of a family between two wars,\" he said in 2018 ahead of season five. \"I've wanted to end it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham in 1939. It'll take three more series to reach that point.\"\n\nIt now looks like the film might be replacing his plan for series seven.\n\nKnight, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, previously revealed he had been \"approached\" to take the Shelby crime family universe to the big-screen.\n\nSam Claflin as Tommy's political rival Oswald Mosley was a central figure in series five\n\nThe sixth series of the show, which follows Tommy Shelby and his family, will see Anthony Byrne return as director and Nick Goding produce.\n\nTommy Bulfin, executive producer for the BBC, said he was \"very excited\" filming had begun and promised a \"truly remarkable... fitting send-off that will delight fans\".\n\nHe added he was \"so grateful to everyone for all their hard work to make it happen\".\n\nThe production team have developed comprehensive safety protocols to ensure that the series will be produced responsibly and in accordance with government guidelines during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nExecutive producer Caryn Mandabach said the \"safety of our cast and crew is always our priority\" and that they had been \"working diligently\" to get safely back into production since filming was halted last March.\n\n\"Thank you to all the Peaky fans who have been so unwaveringly supportive and patient,\" she added.\n\nPeaky Blinders, which stars Cillian Murphy, first aired on BBC Two eight years ago to widespread critical acclaim.\n\nRatings quickly grew from over two million for the first series to over four million by series four and it found further popularity on Netflix.\n\nIt made the transition to BBC One for the fifth series in 2019, achieving audiences of over five million.\n\nThroughout its run, a host of awards have followed, including NTAs, which are voted for by the public, and a Bafta for best drama series in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh experts have found a problem with MND patients' nerve cells which could be repaired by repurposing drugs approved for other diseases.\n\nThe study has been welcomed by charities including the foundation set up by Scots rugby legend Doddie Weir.\n\nMy Name'5 Doddie foundation described it as \"a very exciting breakthrough\".\n\nMore than 1,500 people are diagnosed with the degenerative condition in the UK every year.\n\nThere is no known cure and more than half die within two years of diagnosis.\n\nThe research found that the damage to nerve cells caused by MND could be repaired by improving the energy levels in mitochondria - the power supply to the motor neurons.\n\nThey discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells.\n\nAnd the movement of the mitochondria, which travel up and down the axons, was impaired\n\nThe scientists showed that this was caused by a defective energy supply from the mitochondria and that by boosting the mitochondria, the axon reverted back to normal.\n\nDr Arpan Mehta, who led the study at Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research said: \"The importance of the axon in motor nerve cells cannot be overstated.\n\n\"Our data provides hope that by restoring the cell's energy source we can protect the axons and their connection to muscle from degeneration.\n\n\"Work is already under way to identify existing licensed drugs that can boost the mitochondria and repair the motor neurons. This will then pave the way to test them in clinical trials.\"\n\nThe research centre was established by Euan MacDonald, who was 29 years old when he was diagnosed with MND in 2003\n\nCraig Stockton, the chief executive of MND Scotland, said the \"exciting\" results of the research were another piece of the puzzle to finding an effective treatment for the degenerative condition.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing if these positive results can be replicated for patients,\" he said.\n\n\"Once researchers have identified a drug they believe could have the desired effect, this treatment could then be fast-tracked for human trials using the pioneering MND-SMART clinical trial platform - into which MND Scotland has invested £1.5m.\n\n\"Researchers, clinicians, charities and supporters are all working hard to take us closer to finding a cure and by joining together we'll get to that day even sooner.\"\n\nThe researchers used stem cells taken from people with the C9orf72 gene mutation that causes both MND and frontotemporal dementia.\n\nThey used the stem cells to generate motor neuron cells in the lab.\n\nThe study also used human post-mortem spinal cord tissue from people with MND.\n\nAlthough the research focused on the people with the commonest genetic cause of MND, the researchers said they were hopeful the results would also apply to other forms of the disease.\n\nThe results of the study are now being used to look for existing drugs that boost mitochondrial function.\n\nThe study was funded by the Medical Research Council, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, UK Dementia Research Institute and Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government is facing a rebellion over the Trade Bill, and opposition proposals to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nRebel Tory MPs want to allow Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries responsible for genocide.\n\nThe government says trade policy should not be set by the courts.\n\nBut some MPs think the proposal would be a good way of targeting China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nOn Tuesday, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo, in his last day in the role, said the US had determined that China's persecution of the Muslim group and other minorities in Xinjiang province represented genocide and crimes against humanity under international law.\n\nThe UK has repeatedly condemned the actions of the Chinese authorities but stopped short of describing them as genocide - saying only international courts should determine this.\n\nAnd ministers also argue that trade deals are matters for governments, not the courts, to decide upon.\n\nThe MPs' amendment to the Trade Bill is a watered-down version of an earlier proposal from the House of Lords, which would force the government to withdraw from any free trade agreement with any country found guilty of genocide by the High Court of England and Wales.\n\nThe new proposal is signed by 10 Conservative MPs, one of whom described their amendment as \"tidier\" than the Lords version and designed to attract more support.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Sir Edward Leigh asked \"is there any way we can acknowledge that genocide is taking place in a discussion on a trade deal\".\n\nIn response, International Trade minister Greg Hands said ministers were prepared to have further discussions but not within the scope of the current legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the government was \"answerable to Parliament, not the courts\" and the Lords version would have led to an \"unacceptable erosion\" of its authority.\n\nThe UK, he added, had \"no plans\" to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with China due to concerns about its human rights record, particularly its persecution of the Muslim Uighur community.\n\nNusrat Ghani urged ministers to consider the \"compromise\" proposal, which she said recognised the \"separation of powers\" between the executive, Parliament and the courts.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister said the UK should \"never let economic concerns trump ethical ones by dealing with genocidal states\".\n\n\"Why would we want to use our newfound freedom to trade with states that commit and profit from genocide? Britain is better than that.\"\n\nSpeaking to Politics Live, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said it is currently \"impossible\" for international courts to rule on whether there has been genocide, as other countries can block hearings in the UN.\n\nHe argued it is therefore important to allow British courts to make the judgement.\n\nThe MP insisted he is not \"anti-China\" but said the Chinese government need to be \"reasonable and behave in a way that is acceptable\" if it wanted to be part of global trading organisations.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour would be supporting the new amendment arguing that the government \"does not consider human rights abuses enough before signing up to trade deals\".\n\nThis is an interesting story in its own right because of the issues involved but it's also a neat metaphor for Brexit.\n\nThe government has taken back control of trade policy from the EU but is already having to share it with the House of Lords, Tory MPs and potentially with the High Court.\n\nDuring the passage of the Trade Bill, the government also had to beef up the powers of the Trade and Agriculture Commission - an independent body of experts - in response to lobbying from farmers who were worried about the dilution of food standards.\n\nSoon trade disputes with other countries will partly be overseen by the new Trade Remedies Authority, another organisation that reports to ministers but is independent of them.\n\nAnd of course, everything has to be compatible with World Trade Organisation rules, anyway.\n\nThe government has control of trade. It's just not total.", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "A team of Nepalese climbers has become the first ever to summit the world’s second highest mountain, K2, in winter.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, is notoriously challenging - with high winds and sub-zero temperatures.\n\nOne of the leading members of the team is a former Gurkha and British special forces soldier, Nirmal Purja. He spoke to BBC Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani.", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "How has the justice system responded to the pandemic? Stories from inside prisons and courts, where lawyers fear delays are creating miscarriages of justice. Helen Grady reports.\n\nAre court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? When the UK locked down, so did its court system, adding to a backlog that’s left defendants, witnesses and victims facing long waits for trials. Helen Grady speaks to people inside the justice system to find out how it’s coped with the pandemic - from delays in making courts covid-secure to a lack of PPE and overcrowding in prisons. We hear stories from prisons under lockdown and talk to lawyers who fear delays are leading to abuses of the criminal justice system.\n\nProducer: Rob Cave", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia pulled off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988, win the fourth Test by three wickets and take one of the all-time great series. Needing 328, a Brisbane record run-chase, the injury-hit tourists got home with three overs to spare. Shubman Gill made 91 and Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 89. They win the series 2-1, keeping the Border-Gavaskar they won in Australia two years ago. It is perhaps one of the finest Test series wins by any away side, especially given the list of players unavailable to India by the time the final match was played. That included captain and talisman Virat Kohli, who only played in the first Test before departing to be at the birth of his first child, a host of fast bowlers and first-choice spin pair Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. In addition to the absent players, India somehow recovered from being bowled out for 36 - their lowest total in Test cricket - in losing the series opener by eight wickets. What followed were three Tests of the highest quality and drama, with India producing a stunning comeback to win the second Test by eight wickets, then defiantly batting through the final day to earn a draw in the third. But they saved their best performance for last, a superb contest that ensured the series went down to the final hour of the last day, with the shadows lengthening and a near-empty Gabba filled with the sound of a smattering of raucous India supporters. The tourists were 4-0 overnight and, for them to even get to the point where victory might be possible, Cheteshwar Pujara had to come through a barrage of hostile bowling from the Australia quicks - he was hit 10 times in his 56. He added 114 for the second wicket with the free-scoring Gill, while stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane, who has presided over India's fightback, signalled their intent with 24 off only 22 balls. Tireless Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins was a threat throughout, removing Pujara, Rahane and Rohit Sharma. Fast bowler Pat Cummins took four wickets for Australia Still, even though India knew a draw would see them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they never lost sight of the chance of victory and promoted wicketkeeper Pant to number five. At the beginning of the final hour, India were 259-4, meaning they needed 69 runs and Australia six wickets from the final 15 overs. Though Cummins had Mayank Agarwal caught at cover for his fourth wicket, Pant attacked in the company of debutant Washington Sundar. Runs came with increasing freedom and, although Sundar was bowled trying to reverse-sweep Nathan Lyon and Shardul Thakur miscued Josh Hazlewood, Pant could not be stopped. The left-hander's drive down the ground off Hazlewood secured a famous win and sparked joyous India celebrations. 'One of the top three series of all time' - reaction India captain Rahane: \"I don't know how to describe this victory. I'm really proud of all the boys. We didn't talk about anything after Adelaide, we just wanted to show good character and express ourselves. It was all about a team effort.\" Australia captain Tim Paine: \"In the key moments we were found wanting and completely outplayed by India, who fully deserved their series win.\" Man of the match Pant: \"This is one of the biggest things in my life. It has been a dream series.\" Player of the series Cummins: \"The whole India side played fantastically and deserved to win. The game was there for to win, but we didn't take the wickets.\" Former Australia fast bowler Stuart Clark on ABC: \"What a victory that is by India. They have been absolutely outstanding. The man of the moment is Rishabh Pant. He played some of the most insane shots you will ever see. Australia bowled their hearts out, but it wasn't enough.\" Former Australia captain Ian Chappell: \"It had everything. It was an absolutely amazing day. This has been one of top three Test series of all time.\"\n• None Can this British team make an impact on the global scene?\n• None The show must go on in lockdown:", "Nicola Sturgeon is to announce later whether Scotland's Covid-19 lockdown is to continue past the end of January.\n\nThe first minister said Tuesday's statement at Holyrood would concern the \"duration\" of restrictions rather than whether any new ones would be imposed.\n\nMinsters will also decide at a cabinet meeting whether schools will be allowed to re-open in full from 1 February.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has suggested it would be a \"tall order\" for pupils to return to classrooms.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Monday that she did not want to \"raise parents' expectations\", saying transmission of the virus \"is still higher than we would want it to be\".\n\nThe whole Scottish mainland and several islands have been in a strict lockdown since early January, with a \"stay at home\" message in force.\n\nThis was initially due to run until February, but this will be reviewed by ministers on Tuesday morning with a view to having the restrictions last longer.\n\nWhile Ms Sturgeon has warned that the government would consider further measures if necessary, she said \"it is the duration rather than the content of restrictions that we will be looking at\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe outcome of this review will then be announced to MSPs in a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will announce the result of the latest review in a Holyrood statement\n\nThe review will also cover the situation in schools, with the majority learning remotely from home and only some children of key workers and vulnerable pupils being allowed into school buildings.\n\nOn Monday, the first minister said she did not want to \"raise expectations\" about classes returning to normal, but added that she was \"not going to make any assumptions\" ahead of the cabinet meeting.\n\nShe said: \"I am not going to raise parents' expectations, you can see from the numbers we are seeing some positive signs in the numbers that lockdown is starting to stabilise things and tip them into decline, but transmission is still higher than we would want it to be.\n\n\"We want to get schools back as quickly as we possibly can, it is not in the interests of kids to be out of school for any longer than is absolutely necessary, but community transmission has always been a key factor in these decisions.\"\n\nThis echoed comments from Mr Swinney, who had previously said it would be \"a tall order\" for schools to fully re-open with \"the virus still at a very high level in general within society\".\n\nI am expecting continuity rather than change from today's announcement on coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe continuation of the current lockdown and presumably the extension of remote learning for most school pupils into the February break at least.\n\nBoth decisions are likely to be reviewed again next month. But it's not clear if the first minister will feel able to suggest a target date for restrictions to ease.\n\nCabinet will also be giving special attention to the serious Covid outbreak on Barra and considering if the level three restrictions that apply in the Western Isles remain appropriate.\n\nWhile there are signs the pace at which the current wave of coronavirus is spreading is starting to slow, evidence of much greater suppression will be required before the stay at home lockdown in place across mainland Scotland is lifted.\n\nThe review comes less than a week after restrictions in Scotland were tightened, with some click and collect services ordered to close and outdoor alcohol consumption banned.\n\nThe entire Scottish mainland has been in the top level of restrictions - level four - since Boxing Day, with level three measures in place in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and some islands in Argyll and Bute and the Highlands.\n\nScots are subject to a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes, such as shopping for essentials, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nThe number of new cases reported each day on average has begun to fall, but the number of people in hospital with the virus continues to rise and is now \"significantly\" above that seen in the first wave in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"position overall is very precarious, very concerning in terms of the level of transmission\", but said there were \"some early signs to be optimistic that measures are having an effect\".\n\nThe first minister will take questions from opposition leaders following her statement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have voiced concerns that Covid-19 vaccines are not being rolled out quickly enough, saying the Scottish government are \"trailing their own targets\".\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland has vaccinated 264,991 people so far - 6% of its adult population.\n\nThis is lower than the figure for England, where 8% of the adult population - 3,520,056 people - have been vaccinated, and Northern Ireland, which has the highest vaccination rate in the UK at 8.7%.\n\nWales has a similar figure to Scotland at 6%.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has insisted that all parts of the UK are \"working to the same targets\" to vaccinate priority groups, and said her government is \"on track\" to hit them subject to supplies arriving.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.\n\nBy that time the government aims to be vaccinating up to 400,000 people a week on average, with all priority groups getting a first jab by early May and the rest of the adult population in line thereafter.", "About one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December, roughly double the October figure, data has shown.\n\nEstimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest between 8% of people in Northern Ireland and 12% of people in England showed signs of past Covid infection.\n\nIn October, antibody positivity ranged from 2% to 7% around the UK.\n\nAnd 6,586 Covid deaths were registered in the UK in the week to 8 January.\n\nThat brings the total registered so far close to 96,000.\n\nNearly a quarter of deaths were people living in care homes - a disproportionate impact on a group of people which accounts for less than 1% of the population.\n\nBack in July, though, care home residents accounted for 40% of deaths.\n\nThe ONS regularly tests a representative sample of the population, both for current infection and for antibodies indicating a past infection.\n\nPeople taking part in the survey are tested whether or not they have had symptoms.\n\nThis is used to estimate how common both the virus and antibodies are in the population as a whole.\n\nAntibodies are proteins in the blood which fight off specific infections.\n\nThey are developed if somebody catches an infection and their body fights it off, or if they have been vaccinated.\n\nYorkshire and the Humber topped the chart with 17% of people having positive antibodies, followed by London.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School, said: \"This study shows that infection with the Sars-Cov-2 virus is much more widespread in the UK than previously realised, with around 1 in 10 people estimated to have been infected by December 2020.\n\n\"The implications are that infection rates increased significantly between November and December.\"\n\nBut Scotland had a considerably smaller growth in antibodies than the rest of the UK, rising from 7% to 9% of the population.\n\nThe fact that more people show signs of having at least some protection against Covid-19 is consistent with the dramatic rise in infections during that period.\n\nBut we know that antibodies from natural infection can fade.\n\nIn England, the ONS said, positive antibody tests equated to 5.4 million people aged over 16 having signs of past infection.\n\nThat does not tell you the total number of people infected, however, but acts as a snapshot in time.\n\nIn London, about 16% of people had antibodies in December, up from 11% in October. But at the last peak in May, an estimated 15% of the population had antibodies. This proportion fell, as detectable antibodies recede with time.\n\nExactly what this means for someone's likelihood to become infected again, however, is not fully known.\n\nIt also remains to be seen how long vaccines will protect people for, before they need a booster jab.\n\nBut Public Health England data suggests natural immunity provides at least five months' protection on average, and vaccines often give better protection than natural immunity.\n\nMore than 4 million people in the UK have been given their first dose of the vaccine.\n\nProf Janet Lord, director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham, urged caution among those who have already been vaccinated.\n\nAsked whether people who have received the jab can hug their children, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I would certainly advise not to do that at the moment because, as you probably know, with the vaccines they take several weeks before they are maximally effective.\n\n\"It's really important that people stay on their guard even if they've had that first vaccination.\"", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today's rising number of UK deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday’s numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays registering deaths over the weekend tend to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half that.\n\nBut there are two chinks of light in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 - for a third day in a row. At the turn of the year it was touching 60,000 new diagnoses.\n\nThat means, in the coming weeks, we should start to see fewer hospitalisations and, eventually, deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.\n\nThey say the way the self-employed income support scheme or SEISS is calculated- by averaging out profits between 2016 to 19 - is unfair to to around 75,000 women who’ve taken time off in that period for maternity leave. The government insists using a three-year average is the best way of reflecting a self-employed worker’s income.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "An Instagram post said the alleged baby shower was a \"lovely surprise\"\n\nA rail company has begun an internal investigation after staff allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nChiltern Railways workers told BBC News up to 20 colleagues, including some who were on shift, attended the gathering.\n\nThey claim some party-goers then had positive Covid tests, forcing most of the team to self-isolate.\n\nChiltern said \"appropriate action\" would be taken after its investigation.\n\nMembers of Chiltern Railways customer services staff based at the station told BBC News that about 30 people had been invited to the baby shower on the afternoon of 23 November - both via WhatsApp before the alleged gathering, and face to face on the day of the event.\n\nA national coronavirus lockdown was in place in England in November, so people were banned from meeting anyone indoors who was not part of their household.\n\nOne worker, David [not his real name], said he declined an invitation to the event but walked past the bakery later in his shift to see about 20 colleagues gathered inside.\n\nHe said he was \"shocked and alarmed\" to see people hugging each other, with most of them not wearing masks.\n\nPhotos of the alleged gathering, seen by the BBC, show a table inside a Patisserie Valerie outlet covered with dozens of cupcakes, mince pies, crisps and sandwiches, bunting saying \"it's a boy!\" and handmade flags reading \"happy baby shower\".\n\nOne photo appears to show a group of eight colleagues posing in front of the table of party food, without socially distancing from one another.\n\nSome images were shared on Instagram on 23 November with the caption: \"What a lovely surprise being thrown a baby shower at work today!\"\n\nA Patisserie Valerie spokesman said the company had not been informed of any such event and that none of its team members had access to the Marylebone station cafe, which has remained closed since March due to Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added it was normal for a member of station staff to have keys to the premises for \"security reasons\".\n\nDavid and another colleague claimed three people who allegedly attended the event tested positive over the following four days.\n\nThe positive tests meant 16 members of staff out of the team of about 26 people had to self-isolate for 14 days, David said.\n\nHe said colleagues who lived with, or cared for, vulnerable people were \"petrified\" to hear there had been a staff outbreak, with some \"scared to go home\" for fear of endangering loved ones.\n\nDavid added that he had been caring for his elderly grandmother so self-isolation was \"a real nightmare\" as he had to arrange alternative care for her.\n\nChiltern Railways confirmed a \"small number\" of workers tested positive for Covid or had to self-isolate in the 14-day period after 23 November, but a spokeswoman said \"none of the staff who were alleged to have attended [the baby shower] tested positive\".\n\nShe said Chiltern Railways was investigating and was \"making every effort\" to maintain a Covid-secure environment for staff and customers.\n\nChiltern Railways staff members congratulated their colleague using information boards at the station\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, which was sent to Chiltern Railways employees on 24 November, a manager said one team member had tested positive and added: \"It is disappointing that social distancing measures do not appear to have been followed and I will be investigating this further.\"\n\nDavid's colleague Peter (not his real name) said he was one of about 10 team members who had to work while the rest of the team was self-isolating.\n\nPeter said the outbreak left those at work feeling \"stretched\" and \"raised the anxiety levels of everyone\" as they worried they might have caught Covid as a result of having worked alongside the alleged party's attendees.\n\n\"A lot of us don't want to be at work during this time, for obvious reasons. We're doing a job where we do come into contact with a lot of people - it's stressful enough with your own family, who are a bit worried about you going in to work at a train station and asking if you're getting the proper protection,\" Peter said.\n\nHe added he felt \"demoralised\" to hear about the alleged party when he spends his shifts encouraging customers to wear masks and socially distance.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had been made aware of the incident and had contacted Chiltern Railways for a \"full explanation\".\n\nA spokesman for the Office of Rail and Road - which protects the interests of rail and road users - said it had investigated \"an issue relating to Covid-19 concerns\" and had taken action, jointly with Westminster City Council, to \"ensure Chiltern Railways tightens its risk assessment for workers and to revise working arrangements\".", "When Amelia Strike, 21, was logged out of her Depop social shopping app account in October, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.\n\n\"I thought I had just forgotten my password when I couldn't get back in, but a couple of days passed and I realised something wasn't right,\" says the Birmingham-based law student.\n\nShe then received a message from a stranger on Instagram, alerting her to the fact that her account had been taken over by a scammer advertising Apple AirPod headphones for £50.\n\nShe immediately used her brother's Depop account to comment on the offending post and contact the app. It was removed by the firm in a few hours and her password was reset.\n\nBut when Ms Strike logged back in, she was shocked by what she found.\n\n\"I felt sick - I scrolled and scrolled through hundreds of messages people had sent the scammer,\" she says.\n\nThe fraudster had been instructing shoppers to pay them directly through PayPal's \"Friends and Family\" option, which sidesteps Depop's fees and doesn't offer any protection for buyers.\n\nThe scammer sent messages like this one to other Depop users from Amelia's account\n\nMs Strike counted at least three Depop users who made unauthorised payments of £50 to the scammer.\n\nIn Ms Strike's situation, to get users to trust scam listing, the hacker had also uploaded a photo of her name on a post-it note next to the headphones that were supposedly for sale.\n\nThis is a common tactic used by people selling second-hand items online, to prove that the photos were not stolen from another listing.\n\n\"I just felt so violated,\" she says.\n\nShe is not alone - 14 other users have told BBC News that their Depop accounts have been hacked in recent months. In all cases, the fraudsters demanded to be paid directly, rather than through the app.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, a journalism student in Tewkesbury, was scared when her account was hacked and a fraudster posted a listing for a £350 jacket.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, told the BBC a fraudster hacked her Depop account and advertised a £350 Moncler jacket\n\nDepop took the listing down within 12 hours and reset her password, but Ms Goold says such incidents are becoming commonplace.\n\n\"You always know somebody who's had a Depop horror story. It's such a widespread problem now.\"\n\nScammers have continued to plague many online services through the pandemic.\n\nOne \"have a go\" method called \"credential stuffing\" involves using automated tools to repeatedly log into accounts, entering usernames and password information previously exposed from data breaches of other popular online services.\n\nIf a user doesn't use the same password on multiple services or has changed their passwords after being exposed in a data breach, this won't work.\n\nAccording to Liv Rowley, a threat intelligence analyst at cyber-security firm Blueliv, cyber criminals are now targeting Depop accounts on an \"industrial scale\" using this method, capitalising on the fact that people often use similar passwords.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under\n\nDepop told the BBC that the safety and security of its community is its \"number one priority\", and that the service has never had a data breach or had its infrastructure compromised.\n\nThe firm confirmed that credential stuffing is a big part of the problem.\n\n\"Weak passwords and the use of the same password across multiple accounts is the greatest source of account takeover, which is why we have initiated a campaign in the second half of 2020 to force some users to strengthen their passwords and to remind others of the importance of strong and unique passwords,\" says Depop's chief operating officer Dominic Rose.\n\nDepop has started resetting passwords for some 12 million users that have not changed them in over a year and told the BBC it had sent reminders to a similar number to make sure their log-in details are unique.\n\n\"We will continue to remind our community about the importance of account security and updating their passwords.\"\n\nThe firm, founded in 2011, told the BBC that although the number of its users increased nearly two-fold to 26 million last year, it had seen a 50% decrease in account \"takeovers\" since its campaign began.\n\nBut Blueliv found that login details for several thousand hacked Depop accounts are being advertised for as little as $1.05 (77p) each on the dark web - a part of the internet that is only accessible using specialised tools.\n\nWhile a Vice investigation first highlighted the problem in May, there is now evidence that account logins are being sold across multiple dark web \"marketplaces\".\n\nThe information for sale includes usernames and passwords, with extra charged for details such as follower count, the number of sales completed by a user and their ratings by other shoppers.\n\nOn the dark net marketplace White House Market, \"premium\" Depop accounts are being sold for $5\n\n\"The accounts are being compromised and that definitely is concerning,\" Ms Rowley says. \"While it's not a Depop-specific problem, I think [credential stuffing] is one we're going to see expand in the next five years.\"\n\nOne Depop user told the BBC they would feel \"much more comfortable\" if the app introduced two-factor authentication, where users enter a one-time code sent to them via email or text, for example, after attempting to sign in.\n\nDepop confirmed that it intends to implement multi-factor authentication in 2021.\n\nBut Aman Johal, director at law firm Your Lawyers, which specialises in consumer action claims, says the platform needs to act urgently, \"particularly given its relatively young user base, where the duty of care is greater\".\n\n\"The fact that this has been going on for months...is unacceptable. Given the volume of compromised accounts for sale, the horse has already bolted,\" he added.\n\nFor some users, trust in the company has been dented.\n\n\"I feel like their security measures need to be amped up because it's just not good enough,\" says Ms Strike, who has been a Depop user since 2015.\n\n\"I've used [Depop] for a long time but I'm reluctant to continue because it just doesn't feel safe anymore.\"", "HSBC is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year, claiming customers are turning to digital banking.\n\nThe company will have 511 branches across the country following the closure programme.\n\nManagers said they did not expect to make any redundancies, with staff moved to nearby branches instead.\n\nCoronavirus and changing customer habits have altered the way we bank, but there are concerns over closures.\n\nCampaigners say that local branches provide a lifeline for those who need access to cash and face-to-face services, and allow small businesses to bank without too much disruption to their own trade.\n\nHSBC said all but one of the branches earmarked for closure were within one mile of a Post Office, where these day-to-day transactions could be carried out.\n\nIt said - even stripping out the effects of the pandemic - the number of customers using branches had fallen by a third in the past five years, and 90% of all customer contact was over the phone, internet or smartphone, in addition to contacts on social media.\n\nJackie Uhi, HSBC UK's head of network, said: \"The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for the changes that we are making.\n\n\"It hasn't pushed us in a different direction but reinforces the things that we were focusing on before and has crystallised our thinking. This is a strategic direction that we need to take to have a branch network fit for the future.\"\n\nThis would include changing some branches to concentrate on cash access, as well as the use of \"pop-up\" branches in some areas by the end of the year. It means some remaining branches will offer fewer services.\n\nThe branches to close are:\n\nMay: Brighton, Ditchling Road; Hull, Merit House; Wednesbury; Sutton Coldfield, Four Oaks; Hull, Holderness Road; Pontyclun, Talbot Green; London, Fleet Street; London, Fenchurch Street; London, Old Broad Street; London, Charing Cross; Sheffield, Darnall; Oxford, Summertown; Leeds, Chapel Allerton; Cardiff, Rumney; Torquay, Strand; Staines", "The Met Office warned heavy rain combined with melting snow on higher ground was likely to cause flooding\n\nAn amber rain warning has been issued for parts of northern and central England as Storm Christoph approaches.\n\nThe Met Office told people in Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England to expect heavy rain and potential floods.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 70mm (2.75in) of rain is forecast to fall within 48 hours in the worst-hit areas from Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said the downpours, set to last throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, were likely to cause flooding when combined with melting snow on higher ground.\n\nIt said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and warned some communities there was a good chance they would be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nCouncils and emergency services have warned people to prepare for potential flooding.\n\nMayor of Doncaster Ros Jones declared a major incident in South Yorkshire ahead of possible flooding.\n\nIn a tweet, she said emergency protocols were instigated on Sunday, with sandbags handed out in flood-risk areas, and told people not to panic but to be prepared.\n\nCalderdale councillor Scott Patient urged residents and businesses to \"take all the steps they can to protect themselves and their property\".\n\nDue to Covid-19 restrictions, Mr Patient said, the authority was preparing \"virtual community support hubs\" to help people if there was flooding.\n\n\"The virtual hubs work similarly to the physical ones, but everything will be done remotely to reduce the need for face-to-face contact and to protect staff, volunteers, those affected by flooding and vulnerable people in our communities,\" he said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has 14 flood warnings - meaning \"immediate action\" is required - in place across England, stretching from the south east to the north east.\n\nThe Met Office amber rain area initially covered parts of the north, but has since been expanded to include some central areas\n\nMet Office forecaster Jon Griffiths said about 40-70mm (1.57-2.75 in) of rain was expected in the north-west over three days, potentially rising to 100-120mm (3.93-4.72 in) in hilly areas.\n\nMr Griffiths said river systems in some areas were already close to capacity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "An ambulance service has experienced its busiest day of calls on record.\n\nOn Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service dealt with 5,383 calls in 24 hours. The previous record was 5,001 calls in March 2018.\n\nSeven hundred of those calls came from London as its calls system struggled, according to BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano.\n\nThe ambulance service said Covid-19 and winter weather had resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\".\n\nAt the hosptials, the longest a patient waited was five hours and 39 minutes, with two of the longest waits at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.\n\nA combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\"\n\nAt one point on Monday night, 15 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients outside New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\nA source told the BBC it was \"a very challenging day\" and in total, handovers had accounted for 759 hours of crews' time, equivalent to taking 63 ambulances off the road.\n\nWhile another said at 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, ambulances were still responding to emergency calls from the night before.\n\nTraditionally, the first Monday after New Year is always busy. GP surgeries have been closed and people wait until after the festivities to get medical treatment.\n\nThis year, the number of calls was exacerbated by the service taking about 700 calls for the London ambulance service after its system struggled.\n\nThere was also the perfect storm of snow and ice coupled with coronavirus - made worse because many of our trusts, particularly University Hospitals Birmingham have been struggling with capacity for many months. Usually hospitals would put patients on corridors, they can't because of Covid risks.\n\nThey also have fewer beds due to wider spacing to prevent infection and fewer staff on duty. Hence patients left for hours on ambulances outside.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service is the best performing in the country, but even with near to 500 ambulances a day on the road, it cannot keep up with demand.\n\nProf David Loughton, the chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, warned its capacity would \"soon be compromised\".\n\n\"The numbers are ramping up enormously and I don't think we've seen the full impact of what happened on Christmas Day yet, that will take time to come through,\" Prof Loughton said.\n\nHe added a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worst before they get better.\n\n\"As I always say today's Covid rate is my order book for intensive care in two weeks' time.\"\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"A combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being extremely busy which unfortunately resulted in hospital handover delays.\n\n\"We work closely with the hospitals to try and ensure our crews are able to handover patients quickly and safely, but due to the extremely high demand some patients did wait longer to be handed over than we would normally see.\"\n\nIn a statement London Ambulance Service NHS Trust said : \"As is standard practice during periods of high demand and high levels of staff sickness, ambulance services provide support for each other, which includes answering 999 calls.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s\n\nAuthor Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 years, has died aged 59.\n\nThe US writer wrote 30 novels about breathless relationships and thrilling adventures involving young African American characters.\n\nThey included Friends & Lovers, Milk In My Coffee, Cheaters and Finding Gideon.\n\nHe also wrote a series of Marvel comics about a love story between Storm from the X-Men and the Black Panther.\n\n\"His work has become a cultural touchstone over the course of his multi-decade writing career, earning him millions of dedicated readers around the world,\" his publicist Becky Odell told USA Today in a statement.\n\nWriter Roxane Gay was among those paying tribute, describing him as \"a great storyteller\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by roxane gay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther authors to add their voices included Luvvie Ajayi, who described him as \"a literary legend\", and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, who said he was \"an amazing author and an even better friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wesley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Memphis, Tennessee, Dickey started out as a software developer in the aerospace industry. Being laid off from that job gave him a chance to take writing classes and see whether he could make it as an author.\n\nHe emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s, and his 1996 debut Sister, Sister - about the lives and loves of three siblings - was recently named one of the 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years by Essence magazine.\n\nHe was particularly praised for his ability to write \"believable\" female characters, and many of his readers were women.\n\nWhen the New York Times profiled him in 2004, it billed him as the \"chick lit king\". Patrik Henry Bass, Essence's books editor, told the paper: \"He is singular in the way he is tapping into the African-American female psyche.\"\n\nAnd Calvin Reid, an editor at trade magazine Publishers Weekly, said: \"He captures black language and black middle-class characters with more depth than you often see in commercial fiction.\"\n\nBy that time, he was selling 500,000 books a year. He was nominated four times for the NAACP Image Award for best work of fiction, winning in 2015 for A Wanted Woman.\n\nBy then, he had branched out into stories of crime, suspense, thrills and spills as well as the steamy and tangled relationships with which he made his name.\n\nHe had four daughters, but said he never based his plots on his own life. \"I avoid my life,\" he once said. \"It bores me. Trust me. A book about me would be a snoozefest.\"\n\nHis final novel, The Son of Mr Suleman, will be published in April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp is set to be named the BBC's next chairman, the corporation's media editor Amol Rajan says.\n\nMr Sharp spent 23 years working for the banking giant and was reportedly Chancellor Rishi Sunak's boss there.\n\nHe has recently been acting as an unpaid economic adviser to Mr Sunak during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis new role will see him lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.\n\nThe licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost, currently £157.50, should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence.\n\nMr Sharp's career at Goldman Sachs culminated as chairman of its principal investment business in Europe before his departure in 2007. He was then on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee for six years until 2019.\n\nAs an advisor to the Treasury about its pandemic response, the 63-year-old reportedly played a key role in the £1.57bn arts rescue package, and the film and television production restart scheme.\n\nMr Sharp is a former donor to the Conservative party.\n\nHe was chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2012, and founded the charity London Music Masters.\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS Committee, said in a statement: \"It is disappointing to see this news about the next BBC chairman has leaked out ahead of a formal announcement from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Committee previously expressed some concerns over the appointments process, calling for it to be fair and transparent.\n\n\"The DCMS Committee looks forward to questioning the preferred candidate for the post in a pre-appointment hearing next week on their views at a critical time for the BBC about its role and the future of public service broadcasting more generally.\"\n\nHis views on the BBC itself are unknown. But like new director general Tim Davie, who he met a few weeks before Christmas, he has a commercial background. Just as the relationship between Lord Hall, Davie's predecessor, and Sir David was strong, so the bond between the new DG and chair will be critical.\n\nWhether Sharp supports the licence fee as the pillar of a future BBC settlement is unclear.\n\nThe last time the BBC's future was negotiated with a sceptical Conservative government, the relationship between the director general and the chancellor - then George Osborne - was critical, as Lord Hall explained to me in his exit interview.\n\nThis time, Davie will go into that negotiation with a very close ally of the current chancellor - though Sharp's first duty is to support Davie, and the BBC, and not his old mentee.", "New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry's trade body.\n\nIt was also the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were being turned over to military production, the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.\n\nAbout 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019 - a decline of 29%.\n\nIt was the lowest total since 1992.\n\nThe bulk of the lost sales occurred during the first lockdown in the Spring, when showrooms were forced to close, and factories shut down.\n\n\"We lost half a million units from March, April, May - and we never recovered them,\" said the SMMT's chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\nThe restrictions introduced later in the year were less damaging, largely because dealers were able to sell cars remotely, using 'click and collect' services.\n\nThat remains the case during the new lockdown, announced on Monday.\n\n\"We can still do click and collect, which is important, because that's the very minimum we need,\" said Mr Hawes. \"Not just to keep retail going, but also to keep manufacturing going.\"\n\nOverall, the SMMT said the Covid crisis has cost the car industry some £20bn - and cost the exchequer nearly £2bn in lost VAT.\n\nThere are also serious questions about the extent to which the car market can recover this year. Previous forecasts, which had suggested new registrations could rise to about 2 million in 2021, have been thrown into doubt by the latest restrictions.\n\nBut while the market as a whole has suffered over the past year, sales of electric cars have risen dramatically, increasing their share of the market from 1.5% to 6.5%. Sales of plug-in hybrids also rose sharply.\n\nCar showrooms re-opened from the first lockdown in June\n\n\"If we see this continued level of uptake in electric vehicles, then we anticipate that sales of new EVs and plug-in hybrids will overtake diesel cars in 2021,\" said Ian Plummer, commercial director of motoring website Auto Trader. \"Then, pure EVs will overtake those of their internal combustion engine counterparts in 2026.\"\n\nWith the pandemic continuing to inflict serious damage on the industry, Mr Hawes says the trade deal between the UK and the EU came as a \"massive relief\".\n\nIt confirmed that cars and car parts could continue to move between the two regions, without tariffs - or taxes - being imposed, provided certain conditions are met.\n\nThe SMMT had previously warned that failing to reach a deal could have cost the industry £55bn over five years - and add £2,000 to the cost of each vehicle\n\nBut manufacturers still face potentially significant additional costs due to so-called non-tariff barriers - including border formalities, and the need to obtain extra regulatory approvals for new designs.\n\n\"This is not a free deal\", said Mr Hawes.\n\nAnother consequence of the trade deal is that the UK will need to focus on battery production, if it is to maintain its car industry while phasing out petrol and diesel engines.\n\nThat's because in order to qualify for tariff-free access to the European market, the value of car components made outside the UK and the EU will have to be strictly limited.\n\nSpecific rules relating to batteries effectively mean that from 2027, they themselves will have to be made in the EU or the UK.\n\nThe SMMT believes that, based on current investment plans, UK battery factories will have a capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) by 2024.\n\nThat is more than seven times the current level, and would be enough to produce 250,000 electric cars per year.\n\nBut the SMMT insists much more is needed: 60GWh in order to produce 1 million cars per year by 2030, and 120GWh to produce 2mby 2040.\n\nThat, says Mr Hawes, will require \"massive investment\".", "Greggs expects up to a £15m loss for the year, which would be its first annual loss since it listed its shares on the stock exchange in 1984.\n\nThe bakery chain said it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\n\nIt has been battling a sales slump due to the coronavirus pandemic, but sales declines have been lessening.\n\nGreggs made 820 job cuts at the end of last year, after its sales were hit by coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said the impact of the Covid-19 crisis had been \"enormous\" and that a fresh lockdown meant \"significant uncertainties remain in the near term\".\n\nCoronavirus restrictions towards the end of last year led to \"variable trading conditions across the UK\", he said.\n\nSales in the final three months of the year fell by nearly a fifth, but this decline was less than its sales slump in the third quarter.\n\nIn September, Greggs, which is based in Newcastle, said it was in talks with staff to cut hours in an effort to minimise job losses.\n\nBut it still decided to cut 820 jobs because of \"lockdown levels of business\" as High Streets were hit by the crisis.\n\n\"Looking ahead, the significant uncertainty over the duration of social restrictions, along with the impact of higher unemployment levels, makes it difficult to predict performance,\" the firm said.\n\n\"However, we do not expect that profits will return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\"\n\nGreggs said on Wednesday that total sales for the year were down nearly a third to £811m, but government support had helped to limit pre-tax losses.\n\nIt said it had developed its takeaway business and a delivery tie-up with Just Eat, and had also seen \"strong sales\" through its partnership with retailer Iceland.\n\n\"We have taken action to position Greggs to withstand further short-term shocks and are optimistic about our prospects for growth once social restrictions are lifted,\" Mr Whiteside added.\n\nGreggs wants to open about 100 new stores, on a net basis, over the year ahead.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at insolvency consultants Begbies Traynor, said: \"The latest national lockdown will be unwelcome news for Greggs, which has operated shrewdly during the past year in spite of a lack of footfall, with non-essential stores forced to close and millions working from home.\n\n\"The bakery chain has had to adapt its business model and invest digitally to accommodate for the rapid change in shopping habits, offering click-and-collect purchases, as well as a nationwide delivery service through its partnership with Just Eat.\n\n\"This should provide a solid base for the business to expand when government restrictions are eased and the world returns to some normality.\"", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "The US is facing another huge election - one that could define how much new president Joe Biden can get done in his first term.\n\nMore than 100 people are gathered in the grey and damp cold in Stone Mountain.\n\nIt's a miserable start to the New Year but this city near Georgia's capital, Atlanta, feels anything but sleepy or hung over.\n\n\"The energy we get here in Georgia is something I've never seen before,\" says Mr Gardner, who was born and raised in local DeKalb County.\n\n\"We've had other Senate races and I'm just excited.\"\n\nHe is joined by fellow Democratic supporters who are singing and dancing outside a house-turned-campaign centre.\n\nIt's to rally support for the two men who are probably President-elect Joe Biden's most important friends right now: Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.\n\nThis traditionally Republican state was won by Mr Biden in November's election - but there were no clear winners for the state's two Senate seats. Now there is a run-off between the top candidates in each race.\n\nIf the two Democrats, Mr Ossoff and Rev Warnock, beat incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Mr Biden's party effectively controls the Senate.\n\nShirley Shepphard is handing out stickers, with a smile and confidence.\n\n\"The Democrats can win! Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!\" she says.\n\nThere's a huge cheer as Mr Ossoff's large blue bus makes its way down the road and pulls up opposite the house.\n\nHe is only 33 years old and, in case his youth wasn't clear enough, he makes a point of jogging on to the small stage.\n\nDuring a polished speech he exclaims: \"The place we demand better is at the ballot box.\"\n\nIf Mr Ossoff wins, he'd be the youngest member of the Senate - a title once held by Joe Biden himself.\n\nNo pressure, but I put to him that the fate of Mr Biden's presidency is in his hands.\n\nIf he loses, is Mr Biden a weakened president before he's even begun?\n\nWithout missing a beat, Mr Ossoff says: \"We will win.\"\n\nFellow Democrat and Senate candidate Mr Warnock could make history alongside him.\n\nHe could become Georgia's first black senator, in a state that has a higher proportion of black people than any other in the US.\n\nRallies have been held for all four candidates, including this one featuring the US vice-president\n\nGeorgia has also found itself becoming the final battleground for an aggrieved President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Republican Senate candidates here - Mr Perdue and Ms Loeffler - are his last foot soldiers.\n\nBoth appeared at his rally the previous night, where he focused on repeating his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.\n\n\"There's no way we lost Georgia, that was a rigged election,\" were the first words out of his mouth.\n\n\"We run all over the world telling people how to run their elections and we don't even know how to run ours.\"\n\nMr Trump has also gone after Georgia's Republican governor and begged another official here, in an astonishing phone call, to find votes to overturn Mr Biden's victory.\n\nThe president has also called the Georgia Senate races \"invalid and illegal\" without any evidence.\n\nThere are concerns from some Republicans he's putting people off voting on Tuesday.\n\nI asked supporters at Trump's rally why they would take part in an election process if they didn't believe it was fair. Some hesitated and suggested it was their civic duty.\n\nFor those who won't vote, it's an advantage that may work for the Democrats.\n\nWhen I ask two Ossoff and Warnock supporters about the claims of election fraud, both women throw their heads back, burst into a long laugh in perfect unison and shake their heads bemused: \"Yeah, that's a good one.\"\n\nThere's another factor in this runoff - teenagers.\n\nSince the 3 November presidential election, more than 23,000 people will have turned 18 in the state and can now vote in this Senate race.\n\nMany young voters have been holding live-streaming events in counties across Georgia.\n\nValerie Ponomarev just turned 18 and is very excited at getting to vote. She was upset she couldn't cast a ballot in the recent presidential election.\n\n\"I did the math in my head and was short by a month as I was born in December,\" she says.\n\n\"I was mad at my mum that I hadn't been born sooner!\"\n\nShe said at first, she didn't even realise the Senate runoff was so crucial in Georgia.\n\nShe's voting for the Democrats, Ms Ponomarev says, adding that a lot of younger people have shown support for Mr Ossoff.\n\n\"I think the youth finally want representation in government because we're so often underrepresented and now that we have Jon Ossoff who is closer to our age,\" she says.\n\nMichael Guisto found himself in the same situation as Ms Ponomarev - too young to cast a ballot in November - and says missing out on that vote was painful.\n\n\"It feels like a redemption,\" he says of this Senate race.\n\nThe polls are suggesting it's a very tight race. But this state knows that whatever it decides, it will have an impact on the country as a whole.\n\nMr Guisto says even though he missed out on the November election, this vote matters.\n\n\"I get to in some ways influence the country but this time it's a bit closer to home.\"", "The deaths of a further 68 people who tested positive for Covid have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt comes as official figures show 33,381 people received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the week to 27 December.\n\nThat takes the total number of people to get a vaccine in Scotland since 8 December to 92,188.\n\nPatients in hospital with coronavirus rose from 1,347 on Tuesday to 1,384.\n\nHospital admissions have been rising sharply but are still 136 short of the peak figure of 1,520 recorded on 20 April last year.\n\nThe latest statistics show 2,039 new cases of the virus, which is 10.5% of those recently tested, a slightly lower figure than in recent days.\n\nA total of 95 people are in intensive care - a slight increase but significantly lower than the April peak of 208.\n\nHealth officials have expressed concern about the situation in Inverclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders, in particular, which have seen sharp rises in positive tests.\n\nWeekly figures show Inverclyde recorded 538.5 cases per 100,000, Dumfries & Galloway 538.1 and the Scottish Borders 435.5.\n\nThere were a further 603 confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in the past 24 hours, with an additional 296 in NHS Lanarkshire, 206 in NHS Grampian and 164 in the NHS Lothian area.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, there have been 141,066 cases in Scotland, with a total of 4,701 people dying within 28 days of first testing positive.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures were released after doctors in Scotland raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move, saying the first dose will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks.", "Doctors are calling for a significant ramping up of the vaccination programme following approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe first patients are expected to receive the jab - the second approved for use in the UK - on Monday.\n\nBut with just over 500,000 doses available to use next week, experts are worried there may be a bottleneck in the system.\n\nThere are more than 25m people in the nine priority groups identified so far.\n\nThis includes all those over 50 and younger adults with health conditions, as well as frontline health and care staff.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs have questioned the wisdom of cancelling patients already booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first jab that was approved and has been used since early December.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford vaccine on Wednesday, regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses needed, to ensure faster rollout of vaccination.\n\nBut the British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses. The original advice said they should be given three weeks apart.\n\nHe said it was \"grossly unfair\" and would waste staff time.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Stella Joseph, who is 82 and has a chronic lung condition.\n\n\"The thing I feel most is utterly helpless, that there's nobody to appeal to, that you can't get any assistance with this at all.\n\n\"I think it is so hard that those of us who were in this first wave were obviously people who are at high risk and we're the ones who have been left high and dry.\"\n\nThe move has also prompted some debate about how strong the evidence is for delaying the second dose.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, of Imperial College London, said there was \"pretty convincing\" data showing it would enhance the effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut he said because the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had not been tested in the same way, there was no comparable evidence.\n\nSo far nearly 950,000 people have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe hope was that when the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved, it would lead to a significant increase in the rate of vaccination.\n\nThe jab is easier to store and distribute as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech one that has to be kept in ultra-cold storage.\n\nThere are thought to be more than five million doses of the Oxford vaccine in the UK, but only just over 500,000 are ready for use.\n\nThat is because vaccines have to be put into vials and batched and certified.\n\nSources at the NHS expressed frustration at the situation. \"The NHS is ready to go, but we can only go as quickly as supply allows,\" one said.\n\nQueen Mary University epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani said there appeared to be a \"bottleneck\", and the government looked like it was still going to be under its target of two million doses a week.\n\n\"We really need to speed up rollout,\" she said.\n\nThere are currently more than 700 vaccination sites up and running, with several hundred more thought to be ready to go once vaccines are available.\n\nBut the limited supply of the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be shipped in from Belgium, has meant some centres have not been able to vaccinate people every week.\n\nDame Clare Gerada, a former chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We really now need a massive operational system. We need a 24/7 system with GPs, mass vaccination centres and hospitals - this needs to be scaled up.\n\n\"It's got to be football stadia, all these large venues that we've got currently lying dormant.\n\n\"If we can really get a mass operational system up and running, then I can't see why we can't be getting the whole population immunised by the spring.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director for primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani, promised there would be a significant expansion of the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.\n\nShe predicted the majority of care home residents would be protected by the end of January, and frontline staff would start to get a vaccination in large numbers.\n\nShe also praised the progress made so far, thanking the \"tireless efforts of staff\".\n\nEngland Health Secretary Matt Hancock also praised staff, adding the numbers being vaccinated would \"rapidly increase in the months ahead\".", "The 19-year-old victim was attacked on Canonbury Road in Islington shortly before 19:00 GMT on 29 December\n\nA man was left partially blind after he was repeatedly hit in the face during a street robbery in north London.\n\nThe 19-year-old had been walking along Canonbury Road in Islington on 29 December when he was approached by two men, one of whom stole his bag and hit him with a \"baton-style weapon\".\n\nThe Met said he had suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in the \"vicious and unprovoked attack\".\n\nNo arrests have been made and the detectives have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe attacker has been described by police as black, aged in his late teens with spikey hair and of a skinny build.\n\nDet Con Faisal Issaouni said the 19-year-old victim had been \"left with injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life\".\n\n\"We're reviewing CCTV from the area and have spoken to a number of witnesses as we try to track down the man responsible,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clap for Carers is to return under a new name of Clap for Heroes, the initiative's founder has said.\n\nThe weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during the UK's first coronavirus lockdown last spring.\n\nFounder Annemarie Plas tweeted that it would return at 20:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMs Plas said she hoped the initiative would \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annemarie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event later faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nLast May, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said the weekly applause should end after its 10th week and instead become an annual event.\n\nAt the time, she said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\n\"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised,\" she told the PA news agency ahead of the final clap in May.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"", "YouTuber JoJo Siwa has said she had \"no idea\" that \"gross\" and \"inappropriate\" questions were featured in a board game bearing her image.\n\nIt follows a parental backlash about the Nickelodeon-branded game, marketed to children aged six and over.\n\nThe \"Truth or Dare\" category contained questions like: \"Have you ever gone outside without underwear?\" and \"Have you ever been arrested?\".\n\nParents have expressed disapproval on social media in recent days.\n\nIn response to the online outcry, the 17-year-old internet star said she was \"really upset\" to discover the content of the game, which is called JoJo's Juice.\n\nShe added she was working with Nikelodeon to have removed it from the shops.\n\n\"Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that my name and my image have been used to promote this board game that has some really inappropriate content,\" said Siwa, in an Instagram video message.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by itsjojosiwa This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When companies make these games, they don't run every aspect by me and so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards.\"\n\nShe added: \"Now when I first saw this, I was really really really upset at how gross these questions were. And so I brought it to Nickelodeon's attention immediately and since then, they have been working to get this game stopped being made, and also pulled from all shelves wherever it's being sold.\"\n\nShe went on to say that she would have \"never approved or agreed to be associated with this game,\" if she had seen the cards beforehand.\n\nOther questions featured in the board game included: \"Have you ever stolen from a store?\" and \"Have you ever walked in on someone naked?\"\n\nThe US teenager posts videos of her day-to-day life on her YouTube channel, Its JoJo Siwa.\n\nShe is also a singer and dancer, having appeared on the reality TV series Dance Moms, alongside her mother, Jessalynn Siwa.\n\nHer musical offerings so far include the singles Boomerang and Kid in a Candy Store.\n\nLast year, she was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Dr Dre, seen here in 2018, is one of hip-hop's most successful stars\n\nRapper and producer Dr Dre, one of hip-hop's most successful and influential stars, is being treated in hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm.\n\nThe 55-year-old was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, TMZ reported.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he said: \"I'm doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team.\"\n\nHe is \"resting comfortably\" after the aneurysm, his lawyer told Billboard.\n\nIn his post, Dr Dre also wrote: \"I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by drdre This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends and fellow stars have sent their well wishes after the reports of his ill health emerged.\n\nIce Cube, his former bandmate in trailblazing 1980s hip-hop group NWA, tweeted: \"Send your love and prayers to the homie Dr. Dre.\"\n\nSnoop Dogg, who was discovered by Dr Dre in the early 1990s, wrote on Instagram: \"GET WELL DR DRE WE NEED U CUZ.\"\n\nMissy Elliott wrote: \"Prayers up for Dr. Dre and his family for healing & Strength over his mind & body.\" And singer Ciara tweeted: \"Praying for you Dr. Dre. Praying for a full recovery.\"\n\nWith NWA and then as a solo artist, leading producer and record label mogul, Dr Dre shaped west coast rap and was instrumental in the careers of other stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nAn aneurysm is a bulge in a weakened blood vessel where the blood pressure causes a small area to bulge outwards.\n\nMost brain aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst, leading to bleeding on the brain, which can cause a very serious condition and can be fatal.", "(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park was suffering from psychosis \"right up to the day\" of the killings, a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, attacked James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in the Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nA hearing to decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause has been told he was \"no radical Islamist\".\n\nThe hearing at the Old Bailey is part of his sentencing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road, Reading, has pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders.\n\nAn examination of his mobile phone revealed extremist material, including an image of the Islamic State flag and the 9/11 Twin Towers attack, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution is seeking a whole-life prison order, meaning he would never be considered for release.\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, said the sentence should be one of life imprisonment with a starting point of 30 years, due to a lack of serious premeditation, the \"fleeting\" strength of his commitment to Islamist jihad, and his mental health issues.\n\nKhairi Saadallah previously admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nHe said while the attack in Reading was \"terrifying\" and \"senseless\", it did not justify the failed Libyan asylum seeker being jailed for more than 30 years.\n\nHe added that \"as brutal as these killings were\", the suggestion they were \"ruthlessly efficient\" had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nSaadallah took \"certain steps to facilitate the killings\", he said, but \"significant planning or premeditation simply does not exist\".\n\nHe told the hearing Saadallah had \"come to the attention of the authorities on hundreds of occasions\", and had a history of frequent interactions with the police, criminal justice system and mental health services.\n\nHe said Saadallah had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder and \"right up until the day of killing he was plainly suffering from episodes of psychosis\".\n\nMr Scamardella said there is no suggestion this caused his offending but insisted his \"culpability [for the attack] is reduced\".\n\nThe court heard earlier that a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah was visited and filmed by police during a welfare check the day before the attack\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah had described himself in interview as \"part Muslim and part Catholic\", said Mr Scamardella, adding: \"No radical Islamist would countenance adoption of another faith, it's inconceivable.\"\n\nHe said portraying Saadallah as a committed jihadist was a \"superficially attractive proposition\" based on \"pieces of evidence that exist that demonstrate or at least might demonstrate a fleeting interest\".\n\nThree others - Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Paul Trauberman from Rainbow Smiles said it was hard to give reassurance without knowing the facts about the new variant\n\nNursery staff say they are being \"treated like the bottom of the rung\" after schools in England were told to shut to reduce the virus transmission.\n\nPaul Trauberman, of Rainbow Smiles in Weston-super-Mare, said despite his staff being \"scared\" about the new Covid-19 variant they had come to work.\n\nThe government announced a strict lockdown across the country on Monday.\n\nIt was after the UK moved to Covid-19 threat level five, meaning there is a risk the NHS could be overwhelmed.\n\nMr Trauberman, who took over Rainbow Smiles nursery in 2016, said he felt conflicted.\n\n\"I've come in this morning and I've got staff crying and saying they are scared of this new variant.\"\n\n\"We don't have PPE, we can't social distance, on the other hand we still have a business that is operational and we are not going bankrupt.\"\n\nHe said prolonged closure also carried the risk of going out of business but it was difficult to reassure staff when \"you don't have any of the facts\".\n\n\"One minute it is fine and the schools are going back, and two days later they are sending everyone home.\n\n\"It makes the staff feel insecure and... they just feel like they are being treated like the bottom of the rung.\n\nSchools are expected to remain closed until after the February half-term\n\n\"With this new variant ... they are having to deal with very close contact with children, with a virus around, which they are saying is very, very bad, but with no more information than that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Early years settings remain low risk environments for children and staff and there is no evidence that the new variant of coronavirus disproportionately affects young children.\"\n\nIt said keeping nurseries open supported parents and delivered crucial education for children as Bristol mother-of-three Eleni Franklin has found.\n\nShe said she \"really valued\" Acorns Nursery in Henbury Hill, being open as she and her husband are both key workers - so their children, Allegra, five, Aria, two and Rafe nine-months-old, will attend school and nursery throughout the lockdown.\n\n\"I can see that nurseries are different to schools. There has been one case at Aria's nursery during this whole period, whereas in school there has been quite a few,\" she said.\n\nEleni Franklin said she could see why nurseries were being treated differently to schools\n\n\"The nursery have been pretty good and although I understand there is a risk to staff, they have put a lot of measures in place to keep people safe.\"\n\nOne of the biggest challenges for nurseries - with some staff now unable to work because of their own childcare responsibilities - is maintaining child-to-staff ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman said they worked on a basis of one-to-three for babies, one-to-four for under-three's and one-to-eight with under five-year-olds.\n\n\"We are trying to maintain these bubbles, but normally we would move staff around to accommodate highs and lows of staff and children, to balance it out, but we are unable to do that to enable these bubbles,\" he said.\n\nHis nursery is now identifying families that could potentially keep their children at home if they were unable to meet those ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman, who is a member of an online group for nursery owners, said some people were calling for nurseries to shut, but said if that happened they risked \"not having a business to come back to\".\n\n\"Small businesses are the backbone of the country and if a lot of those go under, the financial implications for the whole country are going to be catastrophic.\"\n\nMother-of-two Kara Willetts, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, said she felt it was important her daughter Isobel continued going to nursery as she noticed her behaviour had changed when she had to stop going during the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Isobel is a really sociable, outgoing child and she really suffered with not going in and seeing her friends during the first lockdown. Her mental health suffered and she displayed behaviour I had never seen from her before,\" she said.\n\nKara Willetts said her daughter Isobel's mental health suffered when nurseries closed during the first lockdown\n\nMrs Willetts said she had full confidence in the measures introduced at the nursery three-and-a-half-year-old Isobel attends in Cheltenham.\n\nShe said that with her husband working from home and a seven-month-old son also at home, the option of Isobel going to nursery was \"beneficial to the whole family\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult for my husband to concentrate on work with two kids at home. Transmission rates in young children are very low and if I had any safety concerns I wouldn't send Isobel there,\" she added.\n\nTom Shea, a former advisor to the Early Year's minister, said: \"The biggest issue is that as a society we regard childcare as something like babysitting, rather than the start of the early year's development of learning.\n\n\"Sadly it seems the main reason for keeping us open is for protecting employment rather than protecting children.\"\n\nMr Shea owns Child First Nursery in Worksop and said he thought there was a \"hierarchy\" among key workers in terms of vaccination priorities. He said \"sensibly\" the first priority was NHS staff, followed by social carers for the elderly. He said teachers ranked a \"reasonable\" third, but that Early Years workers did not feature at all.\n\n\"They are expected just to work, and I am not sure if the government thinks that we are invisible,\" he said.\n\nHe called for early vaccination of Early Years workers to allow them to stay open and be protected.\n\n\"The irony now is that we are being told to keep open even though we are private businesses, we are dictated to about the funding we can receive and how we receive it… and if parents are frightened of their children going into the childcare setting then suddenly we don't get paid for that, so you find nurseries half empty being forced to open and it is not economical to do that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We are funding nurseries as usual and all children are able to attend their early years setting in all parts of England.\n\n\"Working parents on coronavirus support schemes will still remain eligible for childcare support even if their income levels fall below the minimum requirement.\"", "An investment firm has bought 50% of the rights to all Neil Young's songs.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Fund spent an estimated $150m (£110m) on 1,180 songs written by the Canadian folk rocker.\n\nThe fund, which lets people invest in hit songs, has previously splashed out about £1bn snapping up rights to songs from the likes of Mark Ronson, Chic, Barry Manilow and Blondie.\n\nFounded by music industry veteran Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis turns music royalties into an income stream.\n\n\"This is a deal that changes Hipgnosis forever,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"I bought my first Neil Young album aged seven. Harvest was my companion and I know every note, every word, every pause and silence intimately.\n\n\"Neil Young, or at least his music, has been my friend and constant ever since.\"\n\nHipgnosis has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since July 2018. When songs owned by the fund get played on the radio or placed in a film or TV show, it makes money.\n\nBefore setting up Hipgnosis, Mr Mercuriadis managed artists such as Beyoncé, Elton John, Iron Maiden and Guns 'N' Roses.\n\nIn his view, songs are \"as investible as gold or oil\".\n\nHe says hit songs are a stable investment because their revenue is unaffected by fluctuations in the economy.\n\nThe sale of song catalogues has become a booming business during the Covid-19 pandemic, with investors seeing music as a relatively stable asset in an otherwise turbulent market.\n\nEarlier this week, Hipgnosis bought 100% of the rights to Lindsey Buckingham's 161 songs for an undisclosed amount.\n\nThe songs include hits that Buckingham wrote or co-wrote for Fleetwood Mac, including Go Your Own Way and The Chain.\n\nThe group's Stevie Nicks sold 80% of her publishing rights last year to Hipgnosis rival Primary Wave for about $80m.\n\nLast month, Universal Music Group announced it had bought 100% of Bob Dylan's 600 songs for between an estimated $200m and $450m (£150m-£340m).\n\nThe singer-songwriter was the latest of a number of artists to join up with the Los Angeles-based Universal, following other big names such as Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.\n\nNeil Young rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s and is one of the most influential songwriters of all time.\n\nHe is known not only for his work as a solo artist, but also with the bands Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.\n\nYoung has released almost 50 studio albums and more than 20 live albums, of which 18 have been certified gold, seven are platinum and three are multi-platinum.\n\nSeven of his albums were included on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time chart: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Déjà Vu (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Harvest, On The Beach, Tonight's the Night and Rust Never Sleeps.\n\n\"I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs.\n\n\"There will never be a 'Burger of Gold', but we will work together to make sure everyone gets to hear them on Neil's terms.\"", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps.\n\nThe apps include popular payments platform Alipay, as well as QQ Wallet and WeChat Pay.\n\nThe order, which takes effect in 45 days, says that the apps are being banned because they are a threat to US national security.\n\nIt flags the possibility that the apps could be used to track and build dossiers on US federal employees.\n\nTencent QQ, CamScanner, SHAREit, VMate and WPS Office are also included within the order, which only kicks in after Mr Trump has left office.\n\n\"The United States must take aggressive action against those who develop or control Chinese connected software applications to protect our national security,\" the order said.\n\nPresident Trump's order says \"by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, Chinese connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Chinese companies in its final months in office, including those it considers a national security risk.\n\nPresident Trump has signed executive orders against a range of Chinese firms arguing they could share data with the Chinese government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panorama: How safe is TikTok for young users?\n\nChinese social media app TikTok and telecoms giant Huawei have been among the casualties of Washington's crackdown.\n\nLast month, the Commerce Department added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and drone manufacturer DJI Technology, to a trade blacklist.\n\nThe administration also restricted a number of Chinese and Russian companies with alleged military ties from buying sensitive US goods and technology.\n\nChina has consistently denied claims that these firms share their data with the Chinese government and has responded by imposing its own export laws restricting the export of military technology.\n\nIn August, the US ordered ByteDance, the owner of social media app TikTok, to either shut down or sell off its US assets.\n\nDespite missing a deadline to complete the sale, the US is yet to shut down the app and negotiations continue over its future.\n\nThe latest ban comes as the White House quietly pushed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to consider a second U-turn on its decision to delist three Chinese telecoms giants.\n\nLast week the NYSE announced it would delist the China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom in line with another executive order.\n\nOn Monday, however, the NYSE reversed that decision, announcing it had decided not to delist the three companies after further consultation with US regulators.\n\nThe NYSE made the decision based on ambiguity about whether the securities were actually covered by the order.\n\nHowever, the exchange has come under pressure over its decision.\n\nThe US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the NYSE President Stacey Cunningham to tell her he disagrees with the decision, according to Reuters.\n\nRepublican Senator and China hardliner Marco Rubio has also spoken out, saying that the NYSE's refusal to delist the companies was an \"outrageous effort\" to undermine the President's executive order.\n\nThe NYSE is owned by Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is run by billionaire Jeffrey Sprecher.\n\nHis wife Kelly Loeffler is one of two Republican senators facing run-off elections on Tuesday in Georgia.", "The new \"highly infectious\" variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout Wales, the health minister has said.\n\nGiving the first coronavirus briefing of the year, Vaughan Gething said cases of the virus remained very high.\n\nHowever, the case rate across Wales has fallen from a high of 636 per 100,000 people on 17 December to 446 on Monday.\n\nBut cases are rising quickly in north Wales, which Mr Gething believed was due to the new variant.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe measures announced on Monday have now become law, but MPs will actually vote retrospectively to approve them later today. They're expected to pass with ease - Labour has pledged its support, but said ministers must deliver a round-the-clock vaccination programme. The regulations allow restrictions to potentially be in place until mid-March. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all imposed lockdowns too, but will they be enough? An estimated one in 50 people in private households in England had coronavirus last week - one in 30 in London, while the number of daily confirmed cases topped 60,000 for the first time. Our health correspondent has more - as we've come to understand, the R number is everything. This graph shows how the R number could drop this time (in red), compared with how it fell during the first lockdown - the slower decline is down to the new, more transmissible variant.\n\nStudents have been anxiously waiting for news after the cancellation of A-Level and GCSE exams in England - not least because of the chaos that surrounded last year's results. Exams had already been cancelled elsewhere in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will reveal more in a statement to MPs later. He'll also give more details of support for pupils following the switch by schools and colleges to remote learning. There are fears a digital divide will mean some children are excluded. We've got some advice for parents on virtual learning, and BBC Bitesize will be broadcasting lessons on BBC Two, CBBC and online from Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents spoke to the BBC after Monday's announcement about school closures in England\n\nPeople arriving in the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they've had a negative coronavirus test before setting off. The Department for Transport says it's one of several measures being considered to prevent new cases arriving from abroad. Full details are still to be agreed, but it's thought hauliers coming through ports would be exempt. Currently, arrivals from countries not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days. See more on the existing rules. Travel firms have been cancelling trips since the latest lockdowns were imposed.\n\n2020 was a dreadful year for the UK car industry and preliminary figures from the industry's trade body show just how bad it was. New car registrations dropped to levels not seen since 1992, and saw the biggest one-year fall since World War Two when factories were turned over to military production. Showrooms and even factories were forced to close in the spring, and the switch to working from home means fewer of us need a vehicle on a daily basis. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said firms were desperately trying to minimise redundancies.\n\nUnable to leave Taiwan due to the pandemic, Peter Lowe decided to get a boat to pass the time. A leisurely hobby soon turned into a quest to clear the country's waterways, river banks and mangrove forests of plastic. His efforts have inspired local volunteers to join in the clean-up, and even prompted the government to take notice. Peter has some advice for all of us feeling trapped right now: \"Do something positive, do something meaningful, particularly towards saving and protecting the earth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, when lockdown was imposed last Spring, some of life's most basic household tasks suddenly got a lot harder. What are they like now?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.\n\nTwo members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances.\n\nHowever, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged.\n\nThe long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO.\n\nThe virus was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019, with the initial outbreak linked to a market.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was \"very disappointed\" that China had not yet finalised the permissions for the team's arrivals \"given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute\".\n\n\"I have been assured that China is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment,\" he told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday, explaining that he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials to stress \"that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team\".\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the BBC \"there might be some misunderstanding\" and \"there's no need to read too much into it\".\n\n\"Chinese authorities are in close co-operation with WHO but there has been some minor outbreaks in multiple places around the world and many countries and regions are busy in their work preventing the virus and we are also working on this,\" she said.\n\n\"Still we are supporting international co-operation and advancing internal preparations. We are in communication with the WHO and as far as I know with dates and arrangements we are still in discussions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nThe WHO has been working to send a 10-person team of international experts to China for months with the aim of probing the animal origin of the pandemic and exactly how the virus first crossed over to humans.\n\nLast month it was announced that the investigation would begin in January 2021.\n\nThe two members of the international team that had already departed for China had set off early on Tuesday, said the WHO. According to Reuters news agency, WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan said one had turned back and one was in a third country.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central Hubei province in late 2019.\n\nIt was initially believed the virus originated in a market selling exotic animals for meat. It was suggested that this was where the virus made the leap from animals to humans.\n\nBut the origins of the virus remain deeply contested. Some experts now believe the market may not have been the origin, and that it was instead only amplified there.\n\nSome research has suggested that coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades. It is not known, however, what intermediate animal host transmitted the virus between bats and humans.", "US President Donald Trump and others have made new unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud following the rerun of two crucial Senate races in the state of Georgia.\n\nWith the Democrats looking likely to win both seats and with them control of the US Senate, we've debunked some of the theories that have been widely shared on social media.\n\nSince the November election, the president has repeatedly made baseless allegations that Dominion voting machines have been manipulated to engineer electoral fraud.\n\nReferring to the vote in Georgia, Mr Trump said these machines had stopped working in Republican strongholds for \"over an hour\".\n\nThe official in charge of Georgia's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, said there has been an issue in one county due to \"a programming error on security keys\" but that it was resolved hours before the president made his comments.\n\nMr Sterling tweeted: \"The, votes of everyone will be protected and counted. Sorry you received old intel Mr President.\"\n\nGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also clarified in a statement that there had been some issues but they did not stop people from voting, Reuters news agency reports.\n\n\"At no point did voting stop as voters continued casting ballots on emergency ballots, in accordance with the procedures set out by Georgia law,\" said Mr Raffensperger.\n\nAn image that has been shared thousands of times on Twitter purported to show a pile of destroyed ballots in Georgia on election day.\n\n\"Our team is in Georgia. They took a little walk. They found shredded ballots in Dell boxes,\" the tweet said.\n\nAlthough the post provided no detail as to where exactly the picture had been taken, we were able to geolocate it to the absentee ballot processing centre at the Georgia World Congress Center in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.\n\nFulton County elections director Richard Barron told the BBC that the papers in the picture were \"definitely not ballots\", but waste from a letter-opening machine used to cut ballot envelopes.\n\nWe've reported on similar claims about alleged ballot shredding in Georgia before.\n\nIn November, an investigation into the shredding of papers in Cobb County concluded that it was part of a \"routine clean-up operation\" and the documents disposed of were not actual votes \"relevant to the election or the re-tally\".\n\nIn a tweet generating some 300,000 likes and retweets, President Trump claimed there was a \"voter dump\" planned against Republican candidates.\n\nBut there's no evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nIt's not clear exactly what he means by a \"voter dump\", but he may be referring to the fact that large batches of votes are released at once.\n\nThis is standard practice and a valid part of the vote-counting process.\n\nIn Georgia, as in the presidential elections, larger districts, often including cities that may lean Democrat, take longer to report their results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump has falsely claimed on multiple occasions that millions of genuine votes in November's presidential election that were counted after polls closed were \"fake\".\n\nIn Georgia, election official Gabriel Sterling noted after the polls closed that some 171,000 early, in-person ballots from DeKalb County, which is Democrat-leaning, were yet to be counted.\n\nAuthorities knew how many of these \"advanced\" votes were coming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of Republican officials and activists, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the founder of conservative activist group Turning Point USA, claimed workers at the Chatham county count had suddenly stopped counting for the rest of the night and gone home, raising the prospect of foul play.\n\n\"They're doing this again. You can't make this up,\" Charlie Kirk tweeted.\n\nSimilar claims of fraud or suspicious activity were made during the presidential election count in the county, after it took a few days for all the absentee and mail-in ballots to be tabulated.\n\nBut Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems implementation manager, took to Twitter to say the count \"didn't just stop\".\n\nWorkers had finished counting all the ballots they had except absentee ballots received on election day, Mr Sterling, a Republican, added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe county's board of elections chairman, Tom Mahoney, confirmed later that about 3,000 to 4,000 election day absentee ballots were left to count.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Fraudsters are sending out bogus text messages about the coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to steal bank details.\n\nThe scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website, trading standards officers have warned.\n\nThat, in turn, asks for personal information and - crucially - bank details \"for verification\".\n\nThe warning comes the same day as MPs heard that Covid is leading some people into the net of pension fraudsters.\n\nThe fake NHS message is one of a range of scams which have sought to take advantage of the pandemic and the isolation and legitimate worries of potential victims, according to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.\n\nOthers have included people travelling door-to-door selling counterfeit or useless protection equipment, or fraudsters claiming to be from the official test and trace service and demanding payments.\n\nThe latest scam is preying on those elderly or vulnerable people who are fully expecting to receive legitimate information about their vaccine.\n\nHealth authorities have stressed they would never ask for an individual's banking details.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead office at the CTSI, said: \"I have been tracking and warning the public about Covid-related scams since the beginning of the pandemic, and at every stage of response, unscrupulous individuals have modified their campaigns to defraud the public.\n\n\"The vaccine brings great hope for an end to the pandemic and lockdowns, but some only wish to create even further misery by defrauding others. The NHS will never ask you for banking details, passwords, or PIN numbers and these should serve as instant red flags.\"\n\nShe urged people to report the scams to Action Fraud or Police Scotland.\n\nPensions have been stolen or put into high-risk schemes\n\nThe warning came as MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee heard how fraudsters were seizing on victims' financial uncertainty during the pandemic to draw them into pension scams.\n\nRules allowing people to withdraw cash from their pension pot from the age of 55 have led some people to move money into investment schemes which look generous, but are simply vehicles to steal money.\n\n\"Household finances are stretched and so the temptations to use savings or to be tempted by offers of 'free pension reviews', for example, which we've warned about, are very real,\" Mark Steward, from the Financial Conduct Authority told the committee.\n\n\"Of course, a 'free pension review' is hardly free. It is the first step on a process that will lead someone to investing in something that is too good to be true.\"\n\nHe said that fraudsters had used social media advertising to \"industrialise\" this kind of fraud.\n\nWhereas previously, fraudsters had to produce sophisticated glossy brochures and office fronts, they could now operate in anonymity on social media, sending fake information to millions of people.\n\nMillions of pounds have been lost to pension scams in recent years, but it is a crime considered to be widely under-reported by victims and pension companies.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the National Economic Crime Centre, told the committee that fraudsters were continuing to use new avenues to reach potential victims.\n\n\"What we're looking to do next is to move on to fake comparison websites, which is this new gateway into investment frauds, to spot those and take them down at source,\" he said.", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "Albert Roux pictured in the kitchen of Le Gavroche in 1989\n\nChef and restaurateur Albert Roux, who brought great French cooking to the UK with his brother Michel, has died at the age of 85.\n\nThe pair made gastronomic history in 1982 when their London restaurant, Le Gavroche, became the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars.\n\nAlbert's death comes almost a year after Michel died at the age of 78.\n\nGordon Ramsay, one of many leading chefs who earned their stripes in Le Gavroche's kitchen, led the tributes.\n\n\"So so sad the hear about the passing of this legend, the man who installed Gastronomy in Britain,\" Ramsay wrote on Instagram.\n\nMarco Pierre White, Marcus Wareing, Pierre Koffman and Monica Galetti are among the other chefs who rose through the ranks at Le Gavroche.\n\nIn his tribute, TV chef James Martin described Albert Roux as \"a true titan of the food scene in this country [who] inspired and trained some of the best and biggest names in the business\".\n\nA family statement said: \"The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, OBE, KFO, who had been unwell for a while, at the age 85 on 4th January 2021.\n\n\"Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with starting London's culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967.\"\n\nHis son Michel Roux Jr, who now runs Le Gavroche and is a former judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, said: \"He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.\"\n\nFood critic Jay Rayner described Albert Roux as \"an extraordinary man who left a massive mark on the food story of his adopted country\".\n\nHe added: \"The roll call of chefs who went through the kitchens of Le Gavroche alone, is a significant slab of a part of modern UK restaurant culture.\"\n\nChef Tom Kitchin wrote that \"one of the true culinary greats has left us\", and baker and food writer Dan Lepard said it was the \"end of an era\".\n\nAlbert and Michel Roux came from a family of butchers in eastern France, and trained to be patissiers before moving to the UK.\n\nAlbert arrived in the mid-1950s, and in 1967 put his £3,000 savings with money borrowed from friends to open the first Gavroche off Sloane Square in Chelsea.\n\nWith uncompromising standards, elaborate presentation and first-rate service, it raised the standards of haute cuisine in a then-limited English restaurant scene.\n\nIt moved to Mayfair in 1981, and soon became the first British-based establishment to carry the maximum three Michelin stars.\n\n\"An Olympic gold medal,\" Albert said at the time. \"I have had no other ambition.\"\n\nThe Roux dynasty (left-right): Alain Roux, Michel Roux Jnr, Michel Roux and Albert Roux in 2009\n\nIts kitchen would also become the training ground for a new, enlightened generation of British chefs.\n\n\"If cooking is an art form, Le Gavroche was the Royal College of Music, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Rada and the Courtauld and Warburg institutes all rolled up into one, poached, wrapped in a puff pastry shell with foie gras and served with truffle sauce,\" The Guardian wrote in 2010.\n\nThe brothers also launched the Roux Scholarship, an annual chef competition, in 1983, with many scholars having gone on to win Michelin stars themselves.\n\nAlbert and Michel opened a string of other restaurants, fronted a 13-part TV series on BBC Two in 1990, and published a series of best-selling books about French cookery.", "Shows like Tiger King kept people entertained during the first UK lockdown\n\nNetflix is raising the cost of some of its UK subscriptions from next month, its customers have been told.\n\nThe streaming service said the price rises reflected money spent on content.\n\nIts standard monthly package will go up from £8.99 to £9.99 and its premium one will rise from £11.99 to £13.99, but its basic plan remains at £5.99.\n\nHowever, comparison site Uswitch said the timing of the price rises was unfortunate with UK citizens living under new national lockdowns.\n\nThe streaming service's subscriber numbers have jumped during the pandemic, with almost 16 million new customers added worldwide in the first three months of 2020 alone.\n\nIn the UK, during the first national lockdown which started in March 2020, the amount of streaming content watched by consumers rose by a third compared with the previous year.\n\nBut Netflix faces tough competition from rivals, such as Disney+, which has also announced price rises of £2 per month up to £7.99 or £79.90 for a full year.\n\nNetflix said: \"This year we're spending over $1bn [£736m] in the UK on new, locally-made films, series and documentaries, helping to create thousands of jobs and showcasing British storytelling at its best - with everything from The Crown, to Sex Education and Top Boy, plus many, many more.\n\n\"Our price change reflects the significant investments we've made in new TV shows and films, as well as improvements to our product.\"\n\nA standard Netflix subscription gives users HD streaming on two devices at the same time with the ability to download to two phones or tablets. The premium service allows streaming on up to four screens at once, as well as offering 4K streaming and downloading to four phones or tablets.\n\nSubscribers who do not want to pay the extra can cancel their plan at any time without penalty or simply shift to the basic package, which allows users to watch movies and TV shows in standard definition on one device only and download to one mobile or tablet.\n\nNick Baker, streaming and TV expert at Uswitch.com, said: \"Netflix has been a lifeline for many people during lockdown, so this price rise is an unwanted extra expense for households feeling the financial pressure.\n\n\"It's unfortunate timing that this price hike coincides with another national lockdown, when all of us will be streaming more television and films than ever.\"", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"", "Supermarkets are seeking to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy products as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nAsda asked its customers to \"continue to shop considerately and not buy more than they normally would.\"\n\nThere was a surge in online grocery shopping after new lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday, but demand has since dropped back.\n\nStores said they have good availability and have increased delivery slots.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's have doubled the number of delivery slots since March.\n\nWhen fresh lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday there was a rush online by supermarket shoppers to book delivery slots.\n\nThat surge has since calmed down, but big supermarkets were keen on Wednesday to reassure customers that there is no need to bulk-buy, as stores would like to avoid a repeat of the panic-buying that was triggered by the first lockdown.\n\nAsda said it \"currently has strong product availability across its stores and depots and its colleagues are working around the clock to keep the shelves stocked.\"\n\nSainsbury's said it had \"good availability and encourage customers to shop as normal. We aren't currently restricting products.\"\n\nTesco has had buying limits on various products since the first lockdown, and most recently limited items including eggs, rice, soap and toilet roll after freight delays in December as ports got snarled up.\n\nTesco said on Wednesday that it had \"good availability in stores and online, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown supermarkets saw a huge spike in demand for online shopping as people tried to avoid mixing in shops.\n\nThe big chains have all increased their capacity to deliver food.\n\nTesco, the biggest UK supermarket chain, has more than doubled the number of online delivery slots available since the start of the crisis, and now has 1.5 million slots per week.\n\nNot all of these get used across the UK at present, so Tesco has no plans at the moment for further slots.\n\nSainsbury's, the second biggest, has also more than doubled the number of its online delivery slots since March, and can meet more than 800,000 orders per week.\n\nAsda, the third biggest chain, has upped the number of available weekly slots by 90% since March to 850,000, and by the start of April it's planning to offer 900,000 slots per week.\n\nMorrison's, the fourth largest UK supermarket chain, said it had increased its online operation fivefold since March.\n\nAsda said on Wednesday that it was also doubling the size of its partnership with Uber Eats. From February Asda will offer a 30-minute delivery service from 200 stores.\n\nAsda is also stepping-up Covid safety measures, including doubling safety marshal hours, more sanitation stations, increasing cleaning, and \"adding a protective antimicrobial coating to customer 'touch points' in stores such as fridge and freezer handles, checkout areas, plus all trolley and basket handles\".\n\nThe chain also has a virtual queueing app called \"Quidini\" whereby customers can sit in their car to wait for a slot in a store if it is busy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC team came across roadblocks as they tried to report on research into viruses that bats carry\n\nA Chinese scientist at the centre of unsubstantiated claims that the coronavirus leaked from her laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has told the BBC she is open to \"any kind of visit\" to rule it out.\n\nThe surprise statement from Prof Shi Zhengli comes as a World Health Organization team prepares to travel to Wuhan next month to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.\n\nThe remote district of Tongguan, in China's south-western province of Yunnan, is hard to reach at the best of times. But when a BBC team tried to visit recently, it was impossible.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers and other officials in unmarked cars followed us for miles along the narrow, bumpy roads, stopping when we did, backtracking with us when we were forced to turn around.\n\nWe found obstacles in our way, including a \"broken-down\" lorry, which locals confirmed had been placed across the road a few minutes before we arrived.\n\nAnd we ran into checkpoints at which unidentified men told us their job was to keep us out.\n\nAt first sight, all of this might seem like a disproportionate effort given our intended destination, a nondescript, abandoned copper mine in which, back in 2012, six workers succumbed to a mystery illness that eventually claimed the lives of three of them.\n\nBut their tragedy, which would otherwise almost certainly have been largely forgotten, has been given new meaning by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThose three deaths are now at the centre of a major scientific controversy about the origins of the virus and the question of whether it came from nature, or from a laboratory.\n\nAnd the attempts of Chinese authorities to stop us reaching the site are a sign of how hard they're working to control the narrative.\n\nFor more than a decade, the rolling, jungle-covered hills in Yunnan - and the cave systems within - have been the focus of a giant scientific field study.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nIt has been led by Prof Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).\n\nProf Shi won international acclaim for her discovery that the illness known as Sars, which killed more than 700 people in 2003, was caused by a virus that probably came from a species of bat in a Yunnan cave.\n\nEver since, Prof Shi - often referred to as \"China's Batwoman\" - has been in the vanguard of a project to try to predict and prevent further such outbreaks.\n\nBy trapping bats, taking faecal samples from them, and then carrying those samples back to the lab in Wuhan, 1,600km (1,000 miles) away, the team behind the project has identified hundreds of new bat coronaviruses.\n\nBut the fact that Wuhan is now home to the world's leading coronavirus research facility, as well as the first city to be ravaged by a pandemic outbreak of a deadly new one, has fuelled suspicion that the two things are connected.\n\nI would personally welcome any form of visit, based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\n\nThe Chinese government, the WIV, and Prof Shi have all angrily dismissed the allegation of a virus leak from the Wuhan lab.\n\nBut with scientists appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to visit Wuhan in January for an inquiry into the origin of the pandemic, Prof Shi - who has given few interviews since the pandemic began - answered a number of BBC questions by email.\n\n\"I have communicated with the WHO experts twice,\" she wrote, when asked if an investigation might help rule out a lab leak and end the speculation. \"I have personally and clearly expressed that I would welcome them to visit the WIV,\" she said.\n\nTo a follow-up question about whether that would include a formal investigation with access to the WIV's experimental data and laboratory records, Prof Shi said: \"I would personally welcome any form of visit based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\"\n\nThe BBC subsequently received a call from the WIV's press office, saying that Prof Shi was speaking in a personal capacity and her answers had not been approved by the WIV.\n\nThe BBC denied a request to send the press office a copy of this article in advance.\n\nDr Peter Daszak: \"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak\"\n\nMany scientists believe that by far the most likely scenario is that Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, jumped naturally from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary species. And despite Prof Shi's offer, for now there appears to be little chance of the WHO inquiry looking into the lab-leak theory.\n\nThe terms of reference for the WHO inquiry make no mention of the theory, and some members of the 10-person team have all but ruled it out.\n\nPeter Daszak, a British zoologist, has been chosen as part of the team because of his leading role in a multimillion dollar, international project to sample wild viruses.\n\nIt has involved close collaboration with Prof Shi Zhengli in her mass sampling of bats in China, and Dr Daszak previously called the lab-leak theory a \"conspiracy theory\" and \"pure baloney\".\n\n\"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak,\" he said. \"I have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south-east Asia.\"\n\nAsked about seeking access to the Wuhan lab to rule the lab-leak theory out, he said: \"That's not my job to do that.\n\n\"The WHO negotiated the terms of reference, and they say we're going to follow the evidence, and that's what we've got to do,\" he added.\n\nThe Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was linked to early cases of the new coronavirus\n\nOne focus of the inquiry will be a market in Wuhan which was known to be trading in wildlife and was linked to a number of early cases, though the Chinese authorities appear to have already discounted it as a source of the virus.\n\nDr Daszak said the WHO team would \"look at those clusters of cases, look at the contacts, look at where the animals in the market have come from and see where that takes us\".\n\nThe deaths of the three Tongguan workers following exposure to a mineshaft full of bats raised suspicions that they'd succumbed to a bat coronavirus.\n\nIt was exactly the kind of animal-to-human \"spillover\" that was driving the WIV to sample and test bats in Yunnan.\n\nIt is no surprise then that, following those deaths, the WIV scientists began sampling bats in the Tongguan mineshaft in earnest, making multiple visits over the next three years and detecting 293 coronaviruses.\n\nBut apart from one brief paper, very little was published about the viruses they collected on those trips.\n\nIn January this year, Prof Shi Zhengli became one of the first people in the world to sequence Sars-Cov-2, which was already spreading rapidly through the streets and homes of her city.\n\nShe then compared the long string of letters representing the virus's unique genetic code with the extensive library of other viruses collected and stored over the years.\n\nAnd she discovered that her database contained the closest known relative of Sars-Cov-2.\n\nRaTG13 is a virus whose name has been derived from the bat it was extracted from (Rhinolophus affinis, Ra), the place it was found (Tongguan, TG), and the year it was identified, 2013.\n\nSeven years after it was found in that mineshaft, RaTG13 was about to become one of the most hotly contested scientific subjects of our time.\n\nChina imposed tough restrictions on Wuhan to stop the spread of the virus\n\nThere have been many well-documented cases of viruses leaking from labs. The first Sars virus, for example, leaked twice from the National Institute of Virology in Beijing in 2004, long after the outbreak had been brought under control.\n\nThe practice of genetically manipulating viruses is also not new, allowing scientists to make them more infectious or more deadly, so they can assess the threat and, perhaps, develop treatments or vaccines.\n\nAnd from the moment it was isolated and sequenced, scientists have been struck by the remarkable ability of Sars-Cov-2 to infect humans.\n\nThe possibility that it acquired that ability as a result of manipulation in a laboratory was taken seriously enough for an influential group of international scientists to address it head on.\n\nIn what has become the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak, RaTG13 has a starring role.\n\nPublished in March in the magazine Nature Medicine, it suggests that if there had been a leak, Prof Shi Zhengli would have found a much closer match in her database than RaTG13.\n\nWhile RaTG13 is the closest known relative - at 96.2% similarity - it is still too distant to have been manipulated and changed into Sars-Cov-2.\n\nSars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into the potent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.\n\nMedics and scientists in Wuhan battled to control the early stages of the pandemic\n\nWhere though, some scientists are beginning to wonder, are those reservoirs of earlier natural infection?\n\nDr Daniel Lucey is a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington DC and a veteran of many pandemics - Sars in China, Ebola in Africa, Zika in Brazil.\n\nHe is certain that China has already conducted thorough searches for evidence of precursor viruses in stored human samples in hospitals and in animal populations.\n\n\"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans,\" he said.\n\nFinding the origin of an outbreak was vital, he said, not just for wider scientific understanding, but also to stop it emerging again.\n\n\"We should search until we find it. I think it's findable and I think it's quite possible it's already been found,\" he said. \"But then the question arises, why hasn't it been disclosed?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nDr Lucey still believes that Sars-Cov-2 is most likely to have a natural origin, but he does not want the alternatives to be so readily ruled out.\n\n\"So here we are, 12, 13 months out since the first recognised case of Covid-19 and we haven't found the animal source,\" he said. \"So, to me, it's all the more reason to investigate alternative explanations.\"\n\nMight a Chinese laboratory have had a virus they were working on that was genetically closer to Sars-Cov-2, and would they tell us now if they did? \"Not everything that's done is published,\" Dr Lucey said.\n\nIt's a point I put to Peter Daszak, the member of the WHO origins study team.\n\n\"You know, I've worked with the WIV for a good decade or more,\" he said. \"I know some of the people there pretty well and I have visited the labs frequently, I've met and had dinner with them over 15 years.\n\n\"I'm working in China with eyes wide open, and I'm racking my brain back in time for the slightest hint of something untoward. And I've never seen that.\"\n\nAsked if those friendships and funding relationships with the WIV presented a conflict of interest with his role on the inquiry, he said: \"We file our papers; it's all there for everyone to see.\"\n\nAnd his collaboration with the WIV, he said, \"makes me one of the people on the planet who knows the most about the origins of these bat coronaviruses in China\".\n\nThe conclusion [of the Kunming Hospital University thesis] is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it’s used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me\n\nChina may have provided only limited data about its hunt for the origin of Sars-Cov-2, but it has begun to promote a theory of its own.\n\nBased on a few inconclusive studies conducted by scientists in Europe that suggest Covid-19 may have been circulating earlier than previously thought, state propaganda is full of stories suggesting the virus didn't start in China at all.\n\nIn the absence of proper data, speculation is only likely to grow, much of it focused on RaTG13 and its origins in a Tongguan mineshaft. Old academic papers have been dug up online that appear to differ from the WIV's statements about the sick mine workers - among them a thesis by a student at the Kunming Hospital University.\n\n\"I've just downloaded the Kunming Hospital University student's masters thesis and read it,\" Prof Shi told the BBC.\n\n\"The narrative doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"The conclusion is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it's used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me. If you were me, what you would do?\"\n\nProf Shi has also faced questions about why the WIV's online public database of viruses was suddenly taken offline.\n\nShe told the BBC that the WIV's website and the staff's work emails and personal emails had been attacked, and the database taken offline for security reasons.\n\n\"All our research results are published in English journals in the form of papers,\" she said. \"Virus sequences are saved in the [US-run] GenBank database too. It's completely transparent. We have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nThere are important questions to be asked in the Yunnan countryside, not just by scientists, but by journalists too.\n\nAfter a decade of sampling and experimenting on viruses collected from bats, we now know that back in 2013 the closest known ancestor was discovered of a future threat that would claim well over a million lives and devastate the global economy.\n\nYet the WIV, according to the published information, did nothing with it, except sequence it and enter it into a database.\n\nOught that to call into question the very premise on which the expensive, and some would say risky, mass sampling of wild viruses is based?\n\n\"To say that we didn't do enough is absolutely correct,\" Peter Daszak told the BBC. \"To say that we failed is not fair at all. What we should have been doing is 10 times the amount of work on these viruses.\"\n\nBoth Dr Daszak and Prof Shi are adamant that pandemic prevention research is vital, urgent work.\n\n\"Our research is forward-looking, and it's difficult for non-professionals to understand,\" Prof Shi wrote by email. \"In the face of countless micro-organisms that exist in nature, we humans are very small.\"\n\nThe WHO is promising an \"open-minded\" inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but the Chinese government is not keen on questions, at least not from journalists.\n\nAfter leaving Tongguan, the BBC team tried to drive a few hours north to the cave where Prof Shi carried out her ground-breaking research on Sars almost a decade ago.\n\nStill being followed by several unmarked cars, we hit another roadblock, and were told there was no way through.\n\nA few hours later, we discovered that local traffic had been diverted onto a dirt track that skirted the obstruction, but as we attempted to use the same route, we met yet another \"broken down\" car in our path.\n\nWe were trapped in a field for over an hour, before finally being forced to head for the airport.", "The low temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch\n\nThe UK has had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982.\n\nThe same temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coldest night of the winter so far has come amid days of freezing temperatures in Scotland, and more widely across the UK.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow \"be aware warnings\" for snow and ice for Scotland for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nForecasters said a band of sleet and snow was expected arrive across north west Scotland on Wednesday afternoon and move south east across most parts of Scotland overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said up to 2cm, almost an inch, of snow was likely to settle at low levels \"quite widely\" with up to 6cm (2in) above 200m (656ft) and as much as 10cm (4in) above 300m (984ft).", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "A polar bear cub playing in a snow drift in the area of the proposed oil lease sales\n\nThe Trump administration is pushing ahead with the first sale of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.\n\nThe giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species, including polar bears, caribou and wolves.\n\nNow, after decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the refuge will go ahead.\n\nOpponents have criticised the rushed nature of the sale, coming just days before President Trump's term ends.\n\nCovering some 19 million acres (78,000 sq km) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is often described as America's last great wilderness.\n\nIt is a critically important location for many species, including polar bears.\n\nIn the winter months, pregnant bears build dens in which to give birth.\n\nAs temperatures have risen and sea ice has become thinner, these bears have started building their dens on land.\n\nMany indigenous groups with strong links to the ANWR have opposed oil exploration\n\nThe coastal plain of the ANWR now has the highest concentration of these dens in the state.\n\nThe refuge is also home to Porcupine caribou, one of the largest herds in the world, numbering around 200,000 animals.\n\nIn the spring, the herd moves to the coastal plain region of the ANWR as it is their preferred calving ground.\n\nThe same coastal plain is now the subject of the first ever oil lease sale in the refuge.\n\nThe push for exploration in the park has been a decades long battle between oil companies supported by the state government and environmental and indigenous opponents.\n\nMany of Alaska's political representatives believe that drilling in the refuge could lead to another major oil find, like the one in Prudhoe Bay, just west of the ANWR.\n\nPrudhoe Bay is the largest oil field in North America and supporters believe the ANWR shares the same geology, and potential reserves of crude oil.\n\nOil revenues are critical for Alaska, with every resident getting a cheque for around $1,600 every year from the state's permanent fund.\n\nIn 2017, the Trump administration's tax cutting bill contained a provision to open up the ANWR coastal plain for drilling. It was seen as a way of offsetting the costs of the tax cuts.\n\nThe US Bureau of Land Management is now selling the drilling rights to 22 tracts of land covering about one million acres. These oil and gas leases last for 10 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bernadette Demientieff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA last-minute attempt to stop the sale in the courts failed but opponents say it will not be the end of their efforts to protect the refuge from drilling.\n\n\"The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich'in people who have relied on this land for millennia,\" said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.\n\n\"That's why we've taken them to court. We can't let Trump turn this amazing landscape into an oil field.\"\n\nReports indicate that interest in the lease sales has been low.\n\nThinning ice has seen more polar bears make their dens on land\n\nWhile estimates suggest around 11 billion barrels of oil lie under the refuge, it has no roads or other infrastructure, making it a very expensive place to drill for oil.\n\nSeveral large US banks have said they will not fund oil and gas exploration in the area.\n\nThere is also the matter of a change of leadership in the White House. The Biden team have nominated Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. She is on record as being strongly opposed to drilling in the ANWR.\n\nWith climate change set to be a central focus for the Biden administration, it's likely that efforts to extract new fossil fuels in Alaska will be subject to review and delay.\n\nThis could ultimately limit the interest and opportunity for oil exploration in the refuge.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: The woman watching the ice melt from under her feet", "Stephen Stennett had a head on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy in Fife\n\nA driver who caused a crash in Fife that led to his passenger losing her baby has admitted causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nStephen Stennett, 23, had a head-on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy on 3 October 2018.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard he had attempted a \"dangerous\" overtaking manoeuvre.\n\nJudge Lady Stacey deferred sentence until next month for background reports.\n\nPassenger, Shannon Myers, 18, who was 30 weeks pregnant, had to have an emergency caesarean section due to her injuries in the crash.\n\nHowever, her son Luke Myers died 32 minutes later.\n\nProsecutor Murdoch McTaggart said: \"The accused pulled out and drove into the path of an oncoming van.\n\n\"The accused's vehicle ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.\"\n\nMs Myers, who was in the front passenger seat, complained about pain in her abdomen and was taken to hospital.\n\nA scan showed the baby had a heartbeat of 60 beats per minute.\n\nMr McTaggart said this was regarded as low and gave cause for concern, prompting doctors to perform an emergency C-section.\n\nLuke's cause of death was recorded as \"complications of traumatic abruption due to road traffic collision\".\n\nPathologists said the baby had red marks on his face as well as fractures to his collarbone and four ribs.\n\nA 15-year-old girl, who was also a passenger in the car, sustained a fractured spine, collarbone and sternum.\n\nA fourth passenger, a boy also aged 15, suffered a fractured spine and eye bone as well as a minor head injury.\n\nVan driver Ian Baker, his wife Clara and their 10-year-old daughter had minor injuries.\n\nThe baby's mother paid tribute to Luke on Facebook shortly after his death.\n\nShe said: \"I love you so much my handsome little boy.\"\n\nThe judge Lady Stacey said: \"You will understand you pleaded guilty to a serious crime which had tragic results.\n\n\"When a life is lost, the court will almost always impose a period of imprisonment.\"\n\nStennett said: \"I'm sorry\" before being bailed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Julian Assange will remain in jail as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States.\n\nDistrict Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would abscond.\n\nOn Monday, she ruled the Wikileaks founder cannot be extradited to the US because he might kill himself.\n\nThe US is now appealing that decision - and had opposed releasing the 49-year-old from a maximum security prison before the case is heard.\n\nMr Assange, who was wearing a dark suit and face mask, was not seen to react to the decision at Westminster Magistrates Court.\n\nHe's been held in prison since 2019, after hiding for seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition.\n\nUS prosecutors want to put him on trial for hacking and disclosing classified information - including the identities of informants who were helping intelligence agencies in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\n\nIn her ruling, DJ Baraitser said Mr Assange still had the incentive to abscond.\n\n\"He is willing to flout the order of this court,\" she said. \"As a matter of fairness, the US must be allowed to challenge my decision and if Mr Assange absconds during this process they will lose the opportunity to do so.\"\n\nDuring the bail application, Mr Assange's barrister Ed Fitzgerald QC said his client had been offered a London home by a supporter, where he could be with his partner and their two young children - but also compelled to remain under the strictest bail conditions.\n\n\"Your decision [on Monday] changes everything and it certainly changes any motive to abscond,\" said Mr Fitzgerald.\n\n\"On any view... [Mr Assange] would be safer isolating with his family in the community, subject to severe restrictions, than if he were in Belmarsh which has, very recently, had a severe outbreak...(of coronavirus). He wishes to live a sheltered life with his family.\"\n\nBut Clair Dobbin, for the USA, told the court Mr Assange had the \"resources, abilities and the sheer wherewithal\" to secretly arrange a flight to another country.\n\n\"[Mr Assange] regards himself as above the law and no cost is too great, whether that cost be to himself or others,\" said the barrister.\n\nJulian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, was among a large group of his supporters who had gathered at court.\n\n\"This a huge disappointment,\" she said. \"Julian should not be in Belmarsh prison in the first place. I urge the [US] Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Baraitser blocked Julian Assange's extradition on Monday, ruling that that while he had a case to answer, he was so mentally unwell that the US authorities could not guarantee he would not kill himself once inside a maximum security prison in the country.\n\nThe USA's appeal against that ruling - which will go to more senior judges later this year - will challenge that finding.", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "There are warnings that replacement grades must avoid the problems that saw protests and U-turns last summer\n\nHead teachers have warned a replacement system for cancelled exams in England must avoid the \"shambles\" of last year's results.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson is to make a statement on \"alternative arrangements\" for GCSE and A-level exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis could include using teachers' estimated grades.\n\nA replacement system must not \"inflict further disadvantage on students\", says the exams watchdog Ofqual.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said there were \"no easy answers\" in picking an approach - but it had to avoid repeating the \"disaster\" of last summer's cancelled exam season.\n\nHe said there was a \"real need for urgency\" to allow schools time to plan - and that any system for grading had to show \"fairness and consistency\".\n\nWritten papers for GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson will instruct the exams watchdog to come up with proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, which could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' grades, with some process of moderation, is likely to be a key option once again.\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them.\n\nBut if students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will be able to take them at a later date or otherwise still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they could consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nAlthough the process is only formally beginning, with a consultation likely on proposals, it is understood that contingency planning had already started to find a back-up if exams were cancelled.\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\n\"We are discussing alternative arrangements with the Department for Education. We know that many are seeking clarity as soon as possible,\" said Simon Lebus, Ofqual's interim chief regulator.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Helen Mort was told no action could be taken over the deepfake porn images\n\nA woman who has been the victim of deepfake pornography is calling for a change in the law.\n\nLast year, Helen Mort discovered that non-sexual images of her had been uploaded to a porn website.\n\nUsers of the site were invited to edit the photos, merging Helen's face with explicit and violent sexual images.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Mobeen Azhar, Helen said she wanted to see the creation and distribution of these images made an offence.\n\n\"This is a crime which in many cases is going on invisibly,\" Helen said. \"Those images of me had been out there for years and I didn't know about them, and I'm still having nightmares about some of them now. It's an incredibly serious form of abuse.\"\n\nDeepfakes are realistic computer-generated images or video, based on a real person.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nHelen, a poet and writer from Sheffield, was alerted to the deepfake images by an acquaintance.\n\nThe original images were taken from her social media and included holiday pictures and photos from her pregnancy.\n\nShe said although some of the images were clearly manipulated, there were a few more \"chilling\" examples that were a \"lot more plausible'.\n\n\"You go through different phases with things like this,\" she said. \"There was one point where I was just trying to laugh about the almost ridiculous nature of some of it.\n\n\"But obviously, the underlying feeling was shock and actually I initially felt quite ashamed, as if I'd done something wrong. That was quite a difficult thing to overcome. And then for a while I got incredibly anxious about even leaving the house.\"\n\nShe alerted the police to the images but was told that no action could be taken.\n\nDr Aislinn O'Connell, a lecturer in law at Royal Holloway University of London, explained that Helen's case fell outside the current law.\n\n\"In England and Wales, under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, it is an offence to non-consensually distribute a private sexual photograph or film with the intent to cause distress to the person depicted,\" she said.\n\n\"But this only applies where the original photo or video was private and sexual.\n\n\"In Helen's situation, where non-sexual photos were merged with sexual photos, this isn't covered by the criminal offence.\n\n\"Furthermore, as the photos were not shared with Helen directly, nor did the intention seem to be to cause distress to Helen, the second element is not fulfilled - even though it did, evidently, cause distress. The other potential criminal offence would be harassment, but given the perpetrator here did not direct it at Helen herself, this didn't apply either.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deepfake videos: Can you really believe what you see?\n\nThe independent Law Commission is currently reviewing the law as it applies to taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent. The outcome of the consultation is due to be published later this year.\n\nHowever, Dr O'Connell said the process of changing the law would take years which she says is \"too long\".\n\nHelen hopes to use her experience to raise awareness around deepfake pornography and has launched a petition calling for a change in the law.\n\nIt has received more than 3,400 signatures.\n\nShe has also written a poem in response to the images.\n\n\"I'm a writer by trade,\" she said. \"And I thought the only thing that is going to allow me to reclaim any sense of agency here is to say something about it using my art form. That's the only power that I have.\n\n\"The intention of this person, as they said in their post, was to humiliate. They said they wanted to see this person humiliated, and I thought well actually I'm not humiliated, and I'm going to speak out about it because I shouldn't be the one who feels ashamed.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was taking steps to tackle new and emerging forms of violence against women and girls, including intimate image abuse, \"whether this be cyber flashing, revenge porn or deep fake videos.\"\n\n\"We are currently consulting on the development of our new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and we encourage people to give their views,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This new strategy will ensure victims and survivors are supported, and that perpetrators are identified and brought to justice.\"", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Travellers to the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they have had a negative coronavirus test.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the measure is one of several being considered to \"prevent the spread of Covid-19 across the UK border\".\n\n\"Additional measures, including testing before departure, will help keep the importation of new cases to an absolute minimum,\" the department added.\n\nIt is thought that haulage drivers coming through ports would be exempt.\n\nHowever, the DfT said full details are still to be agreed and will be set out in \"due course\".\n\nAny such measure would be a devolved issue, so the the DfT would need to agree a path forward with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to make it UK-wide.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"With a new strain of the virus on the loose in South Africa and a more infectious variant already widespread in the UK we need to do more.\"\n\nThe measures were being discussed as Boris Johnson imposed the third national lockdown in England to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThe prime minister has faced some calls to strengthen border protections to prevent the arrival of new cases, particularly of new and concerning strains.\n\nHowever, there was no mention of tougher border controls during his address to the nation on Monday, or press conference on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove said announcements will come in the days ahead on \"how we will make sure that our ports and airports are safe\".\n\n\"It is already the case that there are significant restrictions on people coming into this country and of course we're stressing that nobody should be travelling abroad,\" he told ITV.\n\nCurrently, international arrivals from countries that are not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days.\n\nBut under the test and release scheme introduced in December, this can be shortened if they have a private test five days after their departure and it comes back negative.\n\nIt is possible lorry drivers could be exempt, but no final decision has been made\n\nDuring the first lockdown, the government argued against introducing border restrictions while the prevalence was so high in the UK, with experts arguing it would do little to bring down infection rates.\n\nA quarantine period, however, was introduced in June after the first peak, when cases were more under control.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel was accused of leaving the \"nation's doors unlocked\" to new coronavirus variants coming to Britain from overseas.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to Ms Patel calling for an \"urgent review and improvement plan\" as he raised concerns over checks on the arrival of people who are meant to go into quarantine.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is especially worrying given the concerns regarding mutation of the virus that emerged in South Africa, which the health secretary rightly said is 'incredibly worrying'.\n\n\"However, the lack of a robust quarantine system as a result of shortcomings from the government mean that it is virtually impossible to keep a grip on this spread or other variants that may come from overseas, leaving the UK defenceless, and completely exposed, with the nation's doors unlocked to further Covid mutations.\"\n\nThe Home Office defended its \"stringent measures\", and pointed to its move to stop direct flights from South Africa to the UK amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant in high prevalence there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "I'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators. This is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this.\n\nNormally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.", "Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.\n\nBy 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.\n\nBosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.\n\nThat meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.\n\nThe High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.\n\nHigh Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.\n\n\"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s,\" he said.\n\n\"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades.\"\n\nHe said the figures should raise concern about the governance of Britain's biggest companies. \"They should also prompt debate about the effects that high levels of inequality can have on social cohesion, crime, and public health and wellbeing,\" he said.\n\nMedian FTSE 100 chief executive pay was £3.61m in 2019, the last year for which a full set of data is available, the High Pay Centre said.\n\nThe centre said its analysis was based on chief executives' average working day being 12 hours.\n\nHowever, critics said such analysis just fuels the politics of envy without looking at why chief executives matter and the contribution they make.\n\nDaniel Pryor, head of programmes at the Adam Smith Institute, said: \"Good management is more important than ever in a globalised world and small differences in top talent make a big impact on a business' bottom line.\n\n\"That bottom line makes a big difference to workers across the UK, anyone with a private pension, and shareholders.\"\n\nHe pointed out that there is strong, if morbid, evidence about chief executive deaths that shows why the corporate and investment world believe leadership makes a huge difference to the fortunes of their companies.\n\n\"In the past 60 years, unexpected CEO deaths have consistently affected stock price, profitability, investment and sales growth - for better or worse,\" he said, adding: \"Which is why it makes sense for firms to open their wallets to attract the best talent.\"", "Doctors in Scotland have raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move.\n\nThey said that the first dose of either the Pfizer or the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines - the only two so far approved for use in the UK - will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks of being administered.\n\nAnd they said that the second dose was \"likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy\".\n\nThe Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises UK health departments and recommended the new strategy, said data showed that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine would be \"90% effective\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it would not recommend following the UK's decision to delay giving the second Pfizer dose, saying there was no evidence to support the decision.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was the first to be approved for use in the UK, with more than a million people having already been given the first dose.\n\nThe change to the vaccination strategy has meant health boards have had to change plans and cancel people booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThis includes medics who are among the priority groups for Covid vaccinations.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish Council, raised concerns about the logistical impact of changing the vaccination strategy\n\nDr Morrison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some doctors had told him they would have waited for the AstraZeneca jab, which has been proven to work in the longer timetable, if they had known the second Pfizer dose was going to be delayed.\n\nHe said: \"We are concerned because there's clearly disagreement about the effectiveness of the second dose of Pfizer after that period of time.\n\n\"Furthermore I think if you give more people the first dose when you don't know what vaccine supplies are going to be within that 12-week window, that's a worry that has been expressed to me by a lot of doctors.\n\n\"If we give more people the first dose, do we definitely know that the second one is coming?\n\n\"The announcement about this before a four-day NHS holiday weekend left many places with great difficulty in reorganising vaccinations, with a real risk that vaccination numbers might perversely drop because of the organisational issues.\"\n\nOpposition parties want the Scottish government to publish daily figures for how many people have been vaccinated\n\nIt comes as NHS staff were left queueing for hours outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary on Tuesday after an \"scheduling error\" meant vaccination staff did not turn up.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has apologised to those affected and said it was rearranging the appointments.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it aims to have given at least one vaccine dose to everyone over the age of 50 and younger people with underlying health conditions by the start of May.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the timetable could be accelerated if there were sufficient supplies of the jab.\n\nThe Scottish government is being pressured to provide daily figures on the number of people being vaccinated, as the UK government has already pledged to do.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"There are now no excuses left for the SNP government to dodge publishing daily vaccination rates alongside the daily infection numbers as soon as possible.\n\n\"The SNP's evasion to try and avoid scrutiny is nothing new but on something so important, the Scottish public must have the same information as will be provided across the UK.\"\n\nHis call was echoed by Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, who added: \"It is simply unacceptable that scores of NHS staff were left queueing outside in the cold for hours, and well into the evening.\n\n\"It's time for Health Secretary Jeane Freeman to get to grips with the vaccination programme, publish daily figures on the number of vaccinations available and administered, and ensure that our NHS staff do not pay the price of a bungled rollout.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says schools will be the first places to reopen\n\nThe end of England's lockdown will not happen with a \"big bang\" but will instead be a \"gradual unwrapping\", Boris Johnson has told MPs.\n\nThe prime minister made the comments in the Commons ahead of a retrospective vote later on the lockdown measures.\n\nHe said the legislation runs until 31 March to allow a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government's decisions \"have led us to the position we're now in\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there were now 30,074 patients with coronavirus in UK hospitals.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown.\n\nIt came as the UK reported a further 1,041 people have died with coronavirus, the highest daily death toll since April.\n\nIn a statement to the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new variant had \"led to more cases than we've seen ever before\" and that this had left the government with \"no choice but to return to national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the legislation ran until the end of March \"not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow a steady, controlled and evidence-led move down through the tiers on a regional basis\".\n\nHe said this would happen \"brick-by-brick... without risking the hard-won gains that protections have given us\".\n\nBut in response to MPs' questions, he said there was a \"cautious presumption\" that restrictions could start being eased from mid-February.\n\n\"And as was the case last spring, our emergence from the lockdown cocoon will be not a big bang but a gradual unwrapping,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need a plan\", Keir Starmer told MPs while declaring Labour would support new lockdown\n\nUnder the measures, which came into force legally on Wednesday, people in England will only be able to go out for essential reasons, for exercise outdoors only once a day, and outdoor sports venues must close.\n\nPolice have the powers to enforce the new restrictions with a £200 fine for each breach, doubling on every offence up to a maximum of £6,400 - and a £10,000 penalty for mass gatherings.\n\nOfficers in London arrested at least a dozen people in Parliament Square after a protest against the new measures on Wednesday.\n\nThe need to debate and vote on the restrictions means the Commons has been recalled from its Christmas break for the second time - the first being for the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nWith Sir Keir saying Labour will support the motion, the measures are expected to pass with ease.\n\nThe restrictions will be kept under \"continuous review\", Mr Johnson added, with a statutory requirement to reconsider them every two weeks.\n\nAddressing the closure of schools, the PM said \"we did everything in our power to keep them open as long as possible\" and that was why schools were the \"very last thing to close\".\n\nThey would be the \"very first thing to reopen\" after lockdown - that could be after the February half term - but \"we must be very cautious\" about the timetable, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that GCSEs, A-level and AS-level exams would be cancelled this year in England, replaced by a form of teacher-assessed grades.\n\n\"This year, we're going to put our trust in teachers, rather than algorithms,\" he said, referencing controversy over the way exam grades were awarded to some students last year.\n\nAll national curriculum tests for primary school children, often known as Sats, are now cancelled, Mr Williamson confirmed.\n\nHe said every school will be expected to provide between three and five hours of virtual teaching each day and that 750,000 laptop and tablet devices will have been distributed by the end of next week.\n\nThe prime minister wasted no time in emphasising the \"fundamental difference\" between this and previous lockdowns.\n\nTo keep opposition from his own MPs at bay he needs to demonstrate that the government's aim to vaccinate the most at-risk groups by mid-February is viable.\n\nHe is also under pressure to give a sense of how quickly restrictions might be lifted after that.\n\nThe course of the pandemic has changed swiftly at times, though, and may do so again, so it's unlikely we'll get any firm new timelines from Boris Johnson today.\n\nMost Conservative backbenchers seem resigned to the need for this new national lockdown and agree the prime minister had \"no choice\" but to act.\n\nBut MPs on all sides are impatient to hear how soon things may start returning to something like life as normal at last.\n\nMr Johnson said unlike in March last year, during the first lockdown, vaccines offered \"the means of our escape\".\n\nBut he said there was now a race to vaccinate vulnerable people quickly, with the government setting a target of immunising the four most vulnerable groups - some 13 million people - by mid-February.\n\n\"After the marathon of last year, we are indeed now in a sprint, a race to vaccinate the vulnerable faster than the virus can reach them,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Every needle in every arm makes a difference.\"\n\nEarlier, Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was \"confident\" the government would meet its \"ambitious\" target, adding that community pharmacies would be brought in to assist the vaccination programme.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that new daily vaccination figures for the UK - which will be released for the first time on Monday - will show there has been a \"significant increase\" in the number of people who have received the jab.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson said 1.3 million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nMr Zahawi also said nursery schools presented \"very little risk\", are Covid-safe and he defended the decision to keep them open during England's lockdown.\n\nResponding to the prime minister's statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party will support the new restrictions and urged people to comply with them.\n\n\"The virus is out of control, over a million people in England now have Covid, the number of hospital admissions is rising, tragically so are the numbers of people dying,\" he said.\n\n\"It's only the early days of January and the NHS is under huge strain. In those circumstances, tougher restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nBut he added \"this is not just bad luck, it's not inevitable, it follows a pattern\" of the government being slow to respond.\n\n\"These are the decisions that have led us to the position we're now in - and the vaccine is now the only way out and we must all support the national effort to get it rolled out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by Covid? What will lockdown mean for you? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police raided an illegal rave in a railway arch attended by 300 people.\n\nPolice have issued more than £15,000 in fines after 300 people attended an illegal rave in a railway arch.\n\nOfficers raided an unlicensed music event in Nursery Road, Hackney, at 01.30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nMany people fled the scene, while organisers padlocked the doors from the inside to stop officers getting in, police said.\n\nNo arrests were reported, but 78 fines of up to £200 for breaching lockdown restrictions were issued.\n\nA dog unit and helicopter were deployed to the scene, with police saying they made numerous attempts to contact the organisers.\n\nOrganisers padlocked the door from the inside to prevent officers getting in, police said\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"This was a serious and blatant breach of the public health regulations and the law.\n\n\"Officers were forced, yet again, to put their own health at risk to deal with a large group of incredibly selfish people who were tightly packed together in a confined space - providing an ideal opportunity for this deadly virus to spread.\n\n\"Not just organisers, but all those present at such illegal parties can expect to be issued a fine.\"\n\nOfficers surrounded the property as dozens of guests scaled fences at the rear of the arch to escape\n\nThere is an England-wide lockdown in place which prevents any social mixing between households.\n\nUnder these restrictions people are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nThe Met Police has broken up several large gatherings in London over the last month including a 150-person wedding at a north London school.\n\nTwo officers were injured as police broke up a party involving about 200 people in Kensington on 17 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'It's right that I am properly scrutinised'\n\nScotland's first minister has insisted she did not mislead parliament about when she learned harassment allegations had been made against her predecessor Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"false conspiracy theories were being spun\" about her involvement by Mr Salmond's supporters.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the allegations against Mr Salmond is under way.\n\nShe said she expects to give evidence to the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr asked Ms Sturgeon how she responded to Mr Salmond saying that parliament had been repeatedly misled, and that evidence she gave to the inquiry was \"simply\" and \"manifestly untrue\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that she would \"refute that vigorously\".\n\nHer interview came after the inquiry announced it would use legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's interview, a spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\".\n\nA committee of MSPs is investigating the government's handling of two harassment claims against the former first minister, after he successfully challenged the complaints process in court.\n\nShe said it was right that she was scrutinised and that she had hoped to appear before the committee on Tuesday but that this had been delayed by \"a couple of weeks\".\n\nAsked if Alex Salmond was \"spinning false conspiracy theories\", Nicola Sturgeon said: \"There are false conspiracy theories being spun about this... by Alex Salmond, by people around him - you can draw your own conclusions around that.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I certainly reflect on is that at times I appear to be simultaneously accused of colluding with Mr Salmond to somehow cover up accusations of sexual harassment on the one hand.\n\n\"And then on the other hand, being part of some dastardly conspiracy to bring him down.\n\n\"Neither of those are true.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I didn't collude with Alex Salmond and I didn't conspire against him.\"\n\nThe first minister reiterated that Mr Salmond had told her about the allegations during a meeting at her home on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, Mr Salmond has insisted that she already knew about the allegations as she had been told about them four days earlier by one of his aides.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously acknowledge that she initially \"forgot\" about this meeting.\n\nIn evidence to the Holyrood inquiry which was published in October, she said: \"From what I recall, the discussion [with Mr Salmond's aide] covered the fact that Alex Salmond wanted to see me urgently about a serious matter, and I think it did cover the suggestion that the matter might relate to allegations of a sexual nature.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Andrew Marr Show, she added: \"I, at the time I became aware of all of this, just tried hard not to interfere with what was going on and not to do anything that would see these swept aside rather than properly investigated.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon conceded that the Scottish government had made mistakes in how it handled the allegations.\n\n\"What I will never do is apologise for doing everything I could to make sure that complaints about sexual harassment were investigated, and not simply swept under the carpet because of the seniority and powerful position of the person who was subject to them,\" she added.\n\nLast March, Mr Salmond was cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The two inquiries under way are into why Nicola Sturgeon's government acted unlawfully.\n\n\"Alex has submitted his evidence as requested and the parliamentary committee is now challenging the Crown Office to produce some of the text messages which they believe are being suppressed.\n\n\"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\"", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "27 of the 29 miners that died in tragedy\n\nThe Pike River mining disaster was a tragedy that shocked the world. Twenty-nine men who were in the New Zealand coal mine died when it collapsed in a series of explosions. The BBC's Phil Mercer covered the accident 10 years ago and has been talking to families of victims still coming to terms with their loss.\n\nThe day after his 17th birthday, Joseph Ray Dunbar began his first shift underground at the Pike River coal mine in New Zealand.\n\nHe was a \"strong-minded boy\" who wanted to carve his own path in life, but on that day in November 2010 he became the youngest victim of a mining disaster that killed 29 men.\n\nTheir bodies have never been recovered, and a decade later the teenager's father Dean is still looking for answers.\n\n\"In a modern society you don't wipe out 29 men and just walk away,\" he told the BBC. \"Joseph's legacy is righting the wrongs of the past whether it be by government agencies, police or politicians.\"\n\nJoseph Dunbar was the youngest among the victims\n\nIn 2012, a Royal Commission found the miners and contractors were exposed to \"unacceptable risk\" and that \"there were numerous warnings of a potential catastrophe at Pike River,\" but there have been no prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry concluded the men \"died immediately, or shortly afterwards\" from a methane gas blast or the \"toxic atmosphere\". Two workers did manage to escape the blast and survived.\n\nNews of an accident at the mine in the Paparoa Ranges began to emerge in the middle of the afternoon on Friday, 19 November, 2010.\n\nFamily members soon gathered, and in the hours and days that followed, there was hope that the men might still be alive, although the authorities said a rescue mission was too dangerous. A nation prayed for another mining miracle.\n\nOn the right, the tags of the 29 miners who never made it out\n\nA few months earlier, 33 miners in Chile's Atacama Desert had been pulled out alive after being trapped underground for 69 days.\n\n\"That was totally on my mind the whole time,\" explained Anna Osborne, whose husband, Milton, died at Pike River.\n\n\"I saw how successfully those Chilean miners were rescued and I thought if they can all come out alive, it can happen to us. But little did I know that that mine (in Chile) wasn't a gassy one.\"\n\nFor five long days the families waited. As a reporter sent to cover the story at the time, it was excruciating for me to watch their anguish and frustration grow.\n\nThere would be no rescue, and on 24 November another explosion ripped through the mine, and all hope was gone.\n\nFire at the entrance to the mine\n\nMs Osborne told the BBC that she is \"still fighting to get the truth and still wondering why our guys were allowed underground when the mine was so volatile (and) was a ticking time bomb.\"\n\nNot all of the families want the men's remains to be recovered, but she said it would be a great comfort to bring her husband home.\n\n\"He was working in the south (part of the mine), which was flooded. My husband couldn't swim, so he hated the water and I close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water that he hated so much and I just thought I can't have him down there. If we can, I would like as many men to be retrieved,\" she added.\n\nI close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water\n\nThe Pike River Recovery Agency is a government department that has re-entered the so-called drift, a 2.3km (1.4 miles) tunnel that connects the entrance of the mine to the working areas and coal seams.\n\nIt is looking for clues that might help explain the explosions and to \"help prevent future mining tragedies.\" Re-entering the mine was delayed by safety concerns.\n\nThe end of the drift is blocked by a huge mass of fallen rock. This roof collapse was caused by the ignition of methane, and there are no plans for the agency to move further into the mine where most, if not all, of the bodies remain.\n\nRecovery teams only made it into an initial tunnel but not the mine proper\n\n\"The Agency's mandate from the government did not include recovering beyond the drift access tunnel,\" said a PRRA spokesperson. \"It remains less likely that we will recover human remains.\"\n\n\"That rockfall is impenetrable,\" said Tony Kokshoorn, the former mayor of the local Grey District. \"The 29 miners are in the coal mine proper. At least they are all together and that is their final resting place.\"\n\n\"Many of the families want them to be together in there because it would have been pretty tough on a lot of families if some had come out and the others couldn't come out.\"\n\nThe police inquiry into the disaster is continuing, with a spokesperson saying they \"remain committed to a full and thorough investigation into events\" and will everything they can to \"provide answers\".\n\nThe grief was felt far beyond New Zealand's rugged West Coast by bereaved families in Australia, Scotland and South Africa.\n\nThe mine will almost certainly never reopen, but Bernie Monk, whose 23-year old son Michael died in the disaster, wants one, final push to bring the men out.\n\n\"The times that I went up to the mine portal with anniversaries, I swore and declared and I looked down that tunnel, and I said to them, 'we're coming to get you guys out'. It was an emotional day for me when I first went down into the mine,\" he said.\n\n\"We're are only 50 to 100 metres away from them. I think we've got a right to go and get those men,\" Mr Monk told the BBC.\n\nOut of tragedy comes pain, anger and calls for accountability and change. It is 10 years since Anna Osborne's husband, affectionately known as Milt, never came home, and she continues to agitate for stronger health and safety laws, and for employers to be prosecuted when things go wrong.\n\n\"We have had 700 people lose their lives in workplace accidents since Pike River. That is like a Pike River every five months in New Zealand,\" she said.\n\nBut above all else there is a sadness that may never fade.\n\n\"I love him so much. It still hurts. It is still very, very raw.\"", "National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy Philip Gannaway (left) on the SS Demosthenes in 1916, when it was being used as a troop ship\n\nAn appeal has been made to trace the family of a sailor from New Zealand buried more than a century ago on an island off Anglesey.\n\nLt Philip Gannaway had recently married his wife Muriel when he enlisted during World War One.\n\nHe joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving on motor launches on the Menai Strait.\n\nBut he died aged 32 during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and is buried on Church Island in the strait.\n\nLocal historian Bridget Geoghegan says she has already had responses following a story about Lt Gannaway on the New Zealand news website Stuff.\n\nHowever, she is still waiting to hear from his direct relatives.\n\n\"I have met family members of some people I have researched, and that is always a delight - a bonus,\" she said.\n\nThe grave notes Lt Gannaway's military service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve\n\nLt Gannaway's funeral took place on 9 November 1918 with full naval honours, just two days before the armistice that brought fighting to an end.\n\nNewspaper reports found by Ms Geoghegan said more than 200 men and officers joined the procession, with shipyard work pausing as a mark of respect.\n\n\"I found he had married his sweetheart not long before volunteering and coming over to UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It seemed like a bitter end to a love story.\"\n\nHe is buried at St Tysilio's on Church Island, which is linked to the rest of Anglesey by a short causeway.\n\nThe Australian and New Zealander are both remembered on the war memorial\n\nBut Lt Gannaway is not the only man on the island buried so far from home.\n\nRemembered alongside him on the war memorial is William Connington, a 23-year-old corporal in the Australian Flying Corps who died with flu in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Connington had family in the area - his father must have emigrated to Australia,\" Ms Geoghegan said.\n\n\"His aunt and cousin lived in Menai Bridge. I think it likely that he had been up to stay with the family and when he died his aunt brought him back to Menai Bridge from Aylesbury so that he would be buried amongst friends.\"\n\nSt Tysilio's sits on Church Island in the Menai Strait\n\nFor several years Ms Geoghegan has joined others in researching and commemorating the people named on local war memorials and graves.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown restrictions, she created a walk for Church Island with the stories behind the names.\n\n\"I devised a walk round St Tysilio to include the graves of those lost and the family commemorations for their loved-ones buried elsewhere or lost at sea - the pain is almost palpable,\" she said.\n\nThe inscription from Lt Gannaway's parents to their \"beloved son\" reads simply: \"In peace he lived, in peace he died\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "British employers made plans to cut 795,000 jobs last year, a record number, as Covid lockdowns took their toll on the economy.\n\nMore than 10,000 firms planned job cuts, however the pace of planned cuts slowed at the end of the year.\n\nWithout the government's furlough scheme, designed to protect jobs, the numbers might have been higher still.\n\nThe figures were obtained in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service.\n\nEmployers must notify the Insolvency Service when they plan to cut 20 or more jobs, giving an earlier indication of changes in the labour market than waiting for official joblessness statistics.\n\nLarge parts of the British economy were brought to a standstill for weeks on end during 2020 by the measures imposed to contain Covid-19, and many employers were forced to cut staff as a result.\n\nThe number of job cuts proposed through the year was well above the 530,000 seen the last time the UK was in recession, in 2010, and higher than any year in the records which go back to 2006.\n\nHowever, in recent months the pace of layoffs has slowed, even though the new Covid variant has seen surging case numbers and new lockdowns imposed across the UK.\n\nLast month employers notified government of plans to cut 23,100 job cuts, which is the lowest monthly figure for 2020, though still a third higher than December 2019.\n\nThe decision to extend the furlough scheme, where government pays most of a worker's wages if their employer can't, will have enabled more firms to keep their staff, believes Tony Wilson, Director of the Institute for Employment Studies.\n\n\"The question now though is where redundancy figures go next,\" he says.\n\n\"If they start to stabilise around these levels, then [job cuts] would be at least one third higher than what we've seen over most of the last decade, and it's possible that a combination of this lockdown and then furlough unwinding from May could see numbers creeping up.\"\n\nDespite that, Mr Wilson sees the situation as \"pretty positive\".\n\nEmployers planning to cut 20 or more staff have to notify the Insolvency Service of their plans at the start of the process.\n\nThese notifications give an earlier indication of the state of the labour market than data published by the Office for National Statistics, which appear with a time lag of a few months.\n\nInsolvency Service figures showed record levels in redundancies in June and July, which was confirmed when the ONS published its own figures three months later.\n\nThe latest figures, for the period from August to October, saw a new record of 370,000 redundancies across the UK.\n\nAs redundancy processes covering fewer than 20 workers aren't included, the total number of job cuts planned will be higher than the Insolvency Service totals.\n\nBut individual firms often make fewer cuts than the number they first propose to government.\n\nEmployers in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "Simon Spurrell (C) from the Cheshire Cheese Company says he was advised to set up an EU hub\n\nUK firms that export to the EU say they are being encouraged by the government to set up subsidiaries in the bloc to avoid disruption under new trade rules.\n\nFirms have been hit by extra charges, taxes and paperwork, leading some to stop exporting to the EU altogether.\n\nBut several say they have been told that setting up hubs in Europe would minimise the disruption, even if it means moving investment out of the UK.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was \"not government policy\".\n\n\"The Cabinet Office have issued clear guidance, available at www.gov.uk/transition, and we encourage all businesses to follow that guidance.\"\n\nThe Cheshire Cheese Company said it had been advised by an official to set up in the EU after it was forced to stop its exports to the bloc due to trade rules that came in on 1 January.\n\nThe firm, which sold £180,000 of cheese to the EU last year, found that every £25-30 gift box of cheese it sends to consumers on the Continent now needs a veterinary-approved health certificate costing £180.\n\n\"I spoke to someone at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for advice. They told me setting up a fulfilment centre in the EU where we could pack the boxes was my only solution,\" co-founder Simon Spurrell told the BBC.\n\nThe firm, which had been optimistic about Brexit, is now looking at setting up a hub in France where it would \"test the water\".\n\nBut it has also scrapped plans to build a new £1m warehouse in Macclesfield employing 20-30 people.\n\n\"Instead we might end up employing French workers and paying tax to the EU,\" Mr Spurrell said.\n\n\"I left the EU as a UK citizen but now they are suggesting I rejoin my company to the EU, so what was Brexit for?\"\n\nThe issue, he said, was that the under the post-Brexit trade deal, a vet must approve every consignment of fresh food that his company ships to the EU.\n\nIt is a complex and costly process that has hit exporters of fresh meat and fish as well, and was partly why the government set up a £23m support fund for UK fishing companies.\n\nUK retailers who export to the EU have also complained about being hit with unsustainable costs when customers in the bloc return goods bought online. This is due to new customs clearance charges incurred by shipping firms.\n\nSome retailers have even warned they could burn clothes stuck at borders as it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards, who runs her sustainable fashion brand Vildnis from the UK, told the BBC last week she had stopped exporting to the EU, which was her fastest growing market, because of the new processes.\n\nShe also said that she had been advised - this time by a Department for International Trade (DIT) representative - that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub might help.\n\n\"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it,\" she said.\n\nAs early as last October, trade consultants Blick Rothenberg warned that thousands of UK businesses might need to set up an EU presence in order to keep exporting to European markets.\n\nHowever, experts say EU firms exporting to the UK - which currently enjoy a grace period over the imposition of some rules - will soon face the same issues.\n\nIndeed, some EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nThe DIT said it was not government policy to advise UK firms to set up EU hubs and that it was \"ensuring all officials are properly conveying\" the right information.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "The Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\"\n\nA police and crime commissioner (PCC) has written to the government to say smart motorways are \"inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire PCC Dr Alan Billings wrote his open letter to Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport.\n\nHis comments come after a coroner found two men had been unlawfully killed on a \"smart\" section of the M1.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\".\n\nOn 19 January coroner David Urpeth called for a review of the road schemes.\n\nMr Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHe was speaking following the inquests for Jason Mercer, 44, from Rotherham and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, of Mansfield, who died when a lorry crashed into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nNow Labour's Dr Billings has told Grant Shapps: \"I believe smart motorways of this kind - where what would be a hard shoulder is a live lane with occasional refuges - are inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned.\n\n\"The relevant test for us is whether someone who breaks down on this stretch of the motorway, where there is no hard shoulder, would have had a better chance of escaping death or injury had there still been a hard shoulder - and the coroner's verdict makes it clear that the answer to that question is - Yes.\"\n\nAlexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nJason Mercer's widow, Claire, had previously told Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5Live she considered a government review of the smart motorway system \"was just a paperwork exercise and a PR exercise.\"\n\nTalking to BBC Look North Yorkshire after publishing the letter on Sunday, Dr Billings said: \"The Department for Transport and Highways England have argued all along that these sorts of motorways are actually safe, they even go as far as to say they are safer than ordinary motorways, now I think that whatever formula they are using to come to that conclusion is wrong.\n\n\"The coroner in his verdict has made it pretty clear that these two particular lives in South Yorkshire would not have come to such a sad end if there had been a hard shoulder there, so I think this is new evidence they have to take into account.\"\n\nHe added: \"If they thought this type of motorway was even smarter, or safer, than a conventional motorway, then why not convert the entire system to smart motorways, making it safer? As soon as you say it, I think you realise it's absurd.\n\n\"I think they (smart motorways) were done originally not because it was a safer way of doing a motorway, I think it was done in order to expand the capacity, get the traffic flowing by having an extra lane, but to do it cheaply, and I think we're trading cost - cheapness - for other people's lives.\"\n\nIn response to Dr Billings' open letter, the Department for Transport said: \"The stocktake [of smart motorways] showed that in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones.\n\n\"The Transport Secretary has tasked Highways England with delivering an 18-point action plan to ensure they are safer still, and he has called an urgent meeting with the company to discuss their progress.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.\n\nDespite a recent Public Health England report warning they are six times more likely to die from coronavirus, as a group, they have not been prioritised for a vaccine.\n\nLegal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff are scared to work at the UK vehicle licensing agency's contact centre in Swansea where 500 workers have contracted coronavirus since the pandemic began, a union says.\n\nThe PCS union has urged ministers to intervene and described the numbers as a \"scandal\".\n\nA DVLA spokesperson insisted safety was a priority and it followed guidance to \"help keep our offices Covid secure\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had been \"worried about the DVLA for a while\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he has repeatedly raised concerns over case numbers at the offices.\n\nMinister Eluned Morgan said the decision to introduce tougher Covid regulations for workplaces in Wales was made, in part, due to the situation at the DVLA.\n\nIn December, a coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre at Swansea Vale in Llansamlet after 352 cases of Covid-19 in the space of four months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DVLA has about 6,000 staff based in Swansea but said it was currently operating on a \"far reduced capacity\".\n\nA DVLA worker, who did not want to be identified, told BBC Wales News that close contacts of people testing positive are not always sent home to self-isolate, social-distancing is not being followed and homeworking is not always possible because of \"archaic\" systems.\n\n\"There are certain elements within management who are trying to bend the rules and regulations,\" they said.\n\n\"It has been mentioned that you don't need your track and trace [contact tracing app] on. If someone's off with Covid, the people who haven't had their app on haven't been sent home.\n\n\"They'll say 'your app hasn't pinged, you're not going home'.\"\n\nThe worker said it was difficult for staff to adhere to the two-metre distancing rule because of the way the office was laid out and some staff had resigned.\n\n\"The atmosphere sucks, people are scared. I have heard of some people walking out,\" they said.\n\nOne worker said two-metres distancing was not always being observed\n\n\"I think they have been raising concerns. They probably didn't get the answer they wanted. It's not necessarily the manager's fault, the managers are struggling too.\"\n\nPCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is a scandal that DVLA are not doing more to reduce numbers in the workplace when Covid infections are on the rise.\n\n\"Our members are telling us they are scared to enter the workplace for fear of catching Covid 19.\n\n\"Minsters must intervene and ensure DVLA are doing their utmost to enable staff to work from home and temporarily cease non-critical services.\"\n\nEluned Morgan told Radio Cymru the Welsh Government has been keeping an eye on the situation at the Swansea offices.\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government has been concerned at the situation at the DVLA for \"some time\".\n\nThe wellbeing minister said: \"We've been worried about the DVLA for a while, now. We've been putting pressure on them.\n\n\"It comes up time and again from the people who represent Swansea, and we're worried the pressure on people working there hasn't helped.\n\n\"The situation is one of the reasons why we've introduced new rules, new legislation, to tighten the restrictions on people at work.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"We're concerned about anecdotal reports we've heard from the trade union side, individuals, that all of the requirements weren't being followed.\"\n\nHe said there would be questions for management to answer if there had been a breach of the rules.\n\nThe DVLA said some staff have been able to work from home \"in line with government advice\", though others were required to be in the office due to their roles\n\n\"In view of the essential nature of the public services we provide, some operational staff are required to be in the office where their role means they cannot work from home,\" said a spokesman.\n\nThe DVLA said it has worked closely with Public Health Wales, Swansea council's environmental health staff and union officials to try to make its buildings Covid safe, including opening an additional site in Swansea.\n\nHowever, there were currently four Covid cases across its estate, with none at its contact centre.\n\n\"Before Christmas, when transmission infection rates were extremely high in the local community where most of our staff live, we saw a rise in staff testing positive for Covid,\" he said.\n\nSwansea MP Carolyn Harris said, during the first lockdown, she was in \"constant contact\" with the DVLA due to concerns raised by workers.\n\n\"Since Christmas, I've not been able to get hold of anyone from the DVLA,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"Last night I spent a long time trying to hold of the chief executive.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that I am now reading, and some of the stuff I've had in over the last 24 hours, really worries me.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its inspector had been tackling \"a series of concerns\" since August and had spoken to the PCS, which it said was \"broadly supportive of DVLA's approach\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Most recently HSE joined Swansea Environmental Health Officers and Public Health Wales for some joint visits to premises, in our role to assist public health to assess the potential of work place transmission as part of their wider work to contain outbreaks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than five million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - thanks to an army of more than 80,000 volunteers and NHS workers who have been trained to give the jabs.\n\nMany of the vaccine volunteers have had no previous medical training and come from all walks of life. So why did they sign up? And how does it feel to stick a needle into a stranger's arm?\n\nYou could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house\n\nCallum Finnegan, 23, has been juggling his 40-hour week as a Tesco delivery driver with giving Covid jabs at Manchester's Etihad tennis centre. A St John Ambulance volunteer, he completed extensive online and face-to-face training, which included practising administering jabs on silicon arms before giving them to patients. He says he'd never given an injection before.\n\nThe biomedical science graduate wanted to get involved in the vaccination effort as soon as the call was put out and says he feels \"grateful and privileged\" to be helping the rollout - an effort he hopes will save as many lives as possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCallum, who volunteered for four weeks at London's Nightingale hospital at the beginning of the pandemic, says his first shift giving jabs was \"one of the best days\" he's had since Covid hit.\n\n\"They were incredibly emotional,\" he says of the people he has given the jab to. \"You could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house, or seeing only one or two people. One of those could have been a Tesco delivery driver - there's a lot of people I deliver to who tell me that I'm the only person they're seeing face-to-face at the minute.\"\n\nIt just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people\n\nKate Donaghy, who runs an IT team for a travel company, was inspired to train as a vaccinator after seeing the impact of the disease first hand. A St John Ambulance volunteer for four years, Kate, 28, spent time at a London hospital last year helping to care for recovering Covid patients - before volunteering at an A&E department.\n\nAfter seeing just how desperate the situation was, she switched her focus to becoming a vaccinator. \"I just thought how can we stop this happening to people in the first place? If we can vaccinate people, that feels like a better way forward to solve the problem, and a great use of my time.\"\n\nShe says she overcame her initial nerves in giving the jabs thanks to some supportive colleagues and has already signed up for shifts at London's ExCel centre most weekends going forward.\n\nHer elderly patients were \"so happy it was the beginning of the end to their isolation\". \"It just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people.\"\n\nIt did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\n\nDr Andy Bates, a 57-year-old dentist from North Yorkshire, recently gave his first vaccinations at Long Lee surgery, in Keighley. He is used to giving injections - albeit in the mouth - but he says helping to protect people against this virus \"did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\".\n\nDr Bates is working as a paid vaccinator alongside a four-day week at his dental practice. He says both roles have served as a reminder that he could be the first person a patient has seen for months. And he says his day job - particularly calming people who are nervous about lying back in his dentist's chair - has helped him.\n\nHe says he managed to relax a \"very nervous\" lady in her 90s, who hadn't left the house since last March, by talking about their shared love of alpine cycling.\n\nAnd it's not just Dr Bates and his fellow vaccinators that have stepped up. He says after a \"huge dump\" of snow in the area, the community sprang into action to ensure elderly patients could safely come for their jabs - with a local farmer towing the van delivering the vaccines up the hill to the surgery, and volunteers clearing snow and ice from the car park.\n\nI just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus\n\nWhen theatres closed last year, Amanda Baldwin's career as a full-time chorus member at London's Royal Opera House came to a \"heartbreaking\" standstill.\n\nStuck at home in south-east London with nothing to do, Amanda and her husband Julian Johnson, 55 - a freelance theatre stage manager - decided to volunteer for the NHS through the GoodSam app, which later connected them with the vaccinator training run by St John Ambulance.\n\nAmanda applied shortly after her 84-year-old mother tested positive for the virus - just before she was due to have the vaccine. \"Luckily she came through it, and she wasn't hospitalised. But I just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus.\"\n\nAmanda recently passed her full SJA training in London and is now waiting for her first shift as a vaccinator. She thinks her performance background will help keep her nerves in check for when she administers her first jabs - joking that she hopes her patients \"don't wriggle about as much\" as her pet cat did when she had to give it injections for its diabetes.\n\nAfter feeling \"like a part of [her] soul was missing\" when theatres closed, she says training as vaccinator has given her a \"purpose\" again. \"I feel like I've now got [another] skill that can really help people.\"", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said people in NI need to \"come together to fight against Covid\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said a potential vote on a united Ireland would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nShe was speaking after a poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in NI found 51% of people want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, the first minister said \"we all know how divisive a border poll would be\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said there was an \"unstoppable conversation under way\" on the issue.\n\nThe deputy first minister called on the Irish government \"to step up preparations\" for a border poll.\n\nProvisions for a possible border poll on Irish reunification are included in the the Good Friday Agreement - the deal which led to peace in Northern Ireland after decades of violence.\n\nIt states that the Northern Ireland Secretary must call a border poll if it at any time it appears \"likely\" to that a majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote for a united Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Foster said she thought it was \"very disappointing\" that some nationalist parties in the UK were focusing on \"constitutional politics\" during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We all know how divisive a border poll would be, and for us in Northern Ireland what we have to do is come together to fight against Covid, and not be distracted by what would be absolutely reckless at this time,\" she said.\n\nShe added if there was a vote on Irish unity, the arguments for the union are \"rational, logical, and they will win through\".\n\nThe polling was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, with similar polling in England, Scotland and Wales to gauge attitudes towards the union.\n\nIt found that in Northern Ireland, 47% still want to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland and 11% undecided.\n\nHowever for those aged under 45, supporters of Irish reunification outnumber those who want to stay in the UK by 47% to 46%.\n\nRespondents also said they believed there would be a united Ireland within 10 years, by a margin of 48% to 44%.\n\nPolls like this come with the usual health warning - they are a snapshot in a moment in time.\n\nNonetheless there is some interesting reading here - not least the fact that it paints a picture of a disunited kingdom.\n\nWe shouldn't really be surprised about that because we have had very different approaches to the global Covid-19 pandemic with different outcomes.\n\nWe know that Brexit is starting to bite and there is a lot of frustration out there and uncertainty and that, I'm sure, has fed into these figures.\n\nThe big question for NI, unsurprisingly, is around constitutional change.\n\nIt shows that 51% of those polled would want to see a border poll within the next five years, compared to 44% who would not.\n\nHowever, if they flip that question around it's interesting to see that 42% would want to see a united Ireland, but 47% would want to remain, with 11% of don't knows.\n\nSo according to these figures there may be an appetite for a border poll - but if that question was posed the majority are saying they would stay in the UK.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the poll placed a \"solemn obligation\" on those seeking a united Ireland \"to engage with every community, sector and generation\".\n\n\"The United Kingdom may be coming to an end but we are all called to build a new future together. That's the work the SDLP is engaged in,\" said the Foyle MP.\n\nThe polling found 47% of people in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland, and 11% undecided\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said \"all political energy should be focused on making Northern Ireland a better place to live and work rather than a divisive border poll\".\n\n\"We need to concentrate on the here and now, fostering better relationships and plotting a way through and out of the Covid-19 pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"As Northern Ireland enters its second century, we should be talking about recovery, renewal and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe polls also found across the UK, respondents believed Scotland would become independent within the next 10 years.\n\nIn Scotland, it found a large poll lead for the Scottish National Party, with them potentially being on course to win 70 of 129 seats in Holyrood.\n\nThe SNP is set to reveal its 'roadmap to a referendum' to its national assembly on Sunday.\n\nIt outlines plans to pursue a vote after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nThe research was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, Panelbase in Scotland, and YouGov in England and Wales.\n\nThe polling was carried out between 15 and 22 of January, with 2,392 people polled in Northern Ireland, 1,206 in Scotland, 1,416 in England, and 1,059 in Wales.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Keon Lincoln died from a gunshot and stab wounds police said\n\nThree more teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA post mortem examination has revealed Keon died from a gunshot and stab wounds.\n\nDetectives have been granted extra time to question a 14-year-old boy arrested on Friday morning.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy arrested later on Friday has been released under investigation.\n\nA boy, also aged 14, was arrested from his home in Birmingham on Saturday night, the force said.\n\nTwo other boys aged 15 and 16 were arrested from an address in Walsall in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading the murder inquiry, described the arrests as \"significant\".\n\n\"We are gathering a substantial amount of evidence which will take time to analyse, but we must be thorough to get justice for Keon's family.\n\n\"They have been fully updated with the latest developments.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew RT Davies has taken over as leader of the Welsh Conservatives for the second time\n\nAndrew RT Davies has been named as the new leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd for a second time.\n\nMr Davies succeeds Paul Davies who resigned from his post on Saturday after drinking with other politicians in the Senedd, four days into a Wales-wide alcohol ban in licensed premises.\n\nIn a statement, Andrew RT Davies said it was \"a great honour and privilege\".\n\nHe has already announced his shadow cabinet, which includes four women.\n\nThere are no responsibilities for Paul Davies or Darren Millar, who also previously apologised for being part of the group who were drinking at the Senedd.\n\nMr Davies said his party \"will put forward a positive plan to get Wales moving again\" and \"unleash our country's potential\" at the Senedd election, scheduled for May.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have moved quickly this afternoon and announce my Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet which is built on the strong foundations of experience, talent and vision,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in a moment like no other, and the Covid-19 pandemic has sadly only served to shine a spotlight on the challenges in people's everyday lives.\n\n\"We shouldn't doubt our country's potential. Wales is full of ambitious people and communities that crave the opportunity to succeed.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' shadow cabinet reshuffle sees Angela Burns MS replace the new leader as shadow health minister and Mark Isherwood MS replace Darren Millar MS as chief whip.\n\nDavid Melding MS has been appointed shadow minister for mental health, wellbeing, culture and sport.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders MS remains as shadow minister for environment, energy and rural affairs, and Suzy Davies MS in education, skills and Welsh language.\n\nLaura Anne Jones MS stays as shadow minister for equalities, children and young people, but with extra responsibilities for housing and local government.\n\nRussell George MS remains in the shadow cabinet, responsible for the economy, transport and mid Wales.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Davies, the Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central, quit as leader of the Conservative group after seven years in charge.\n\nHe was given the unanimous backing of fellow Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd.\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart, MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, tweeted his congratulations to \"a formidable campaigner\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAndrew RT Davies faced criticism earlier this month from former Tory politicians and Labour after comparing rioting in the US Congress to people who backed a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nThe deputy leader of the UK Labour Party said it was was a \"disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives\" had appointed \"this Donald Trump tribute act\" as leader.\n\nAngela Rayner MP said: \"Just weeks ago, Labour called on the Conservatives to suspend Andrew RT Davies and remove him as a candidate over his disgraceful and dangerous comments equating peaceful democratic debate in the UK with deadly violence at the US Capitol.\n\n\"The Conservative Party failed to act and he has refused to apologise.\n\n\"It is a disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives have just appointed him leader and their candidate for first minister of Wales.\n\n\"The people of Wales deserve so much better than this Donald Trump tribute act.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price MS said: \"After a car crash the backseat driver returns to put Wales in reverse.\n\n\"Once rejected by his own Senedd team, he will now embark on his pet project of stripping our Senedd of powers and setting Welsh democracy back decades.\"\n\nHis appointment comes just a day after Paul Davies stood down along with Tory MS Darren Millar, who was chief whip, in connection with the same incident.\n\nBoth have apologised for drinking alcohol with their meals on 8 and 9 December but both deny having broken the Covid-19 rules in place at the time.\n\nWelsh Conservatives chairman Glyn Davies said: \"They've both been friends of mine a long time but I could see the way the story was developing and I must say I think it was inevitable in the end.\n\n\"Obviously, I've been pretty disappointed with the position that we find ourselves in but this is politics and it's a challenge.\"\n\nAn investigation by the Senedd's authorities found five people, including four members of the Welsh Parliament, drank alcohol on its premises during the Wales-wide alcohol ban.\n\nA third member of the Senedd, Labour's Alun Davies, apologised earlier in the week and has been suspended by his party.\n\nBBC Wales has asked for clarification as to the identity of the fourth Senedd member investigators have referred to.\n\nPaul Smith, the Tory group chief of staff, was the fifth person involved.\n\nThe Senedd has referred the \"possible breach\" of Covid rules to Cardiff council and its own standards watchdog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nDustin Poirier (left) has had nine mixed martial arts fights since November 2016, while Conor McGregor has had just three Former two-weight world champion Conor McGregor was left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier claimed victory in their rematch at UFC 257. McGregor came out of retirement for a third time to face fellow 32-year-old Poirier at Abu Dhabi's Fight Island. And although the Irishman edged the first round, Poirier unleashed a flurry of punches to seal a technical knockout two minutes 32 seconds into round two. \"I'm gutted, it's a tough one to swallow,\" said McGregor. \"I felt stronger than him, but his leg kicks were good. I didn't adjust. My leg was badly compromised, I've never experienced those low calf kicks, and I wasn't as comfortable as I needed to be. \"I have no excuses. It was a phenomenal performance by Dustin. I have to dust it off and come back. I need activity, you don't get away with being inactive in this business.\"\n• None Trilogies, Pacquiao or YouTuber - what next for beaten McGregor?\n• None UFC 257 - All the action as it happened When the pair first met in a featherweight bout in September 2014, McGregor stopped the American inside 106 seconds, setting \"the Notorious\" on course for global stardom. He became the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight champion before facing Floyd Mayweather in one of the richest bouts in boxing history in 2017. Poirier, meanwhile, had to gradually work his way back into title contention and is now the number-two ranked lightweight contender, losing just two of his 13 fights since 2014. McGregor now has a 22-5 mixed martial arts record having lost three of his past six UFC fights McGregor has been relatively inactive though. Since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018, he has had just 40 seconds in the octagon - beating Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in style last January. But McGregor seemed to start well in front of about 2,000 fans at the new 18,000-capacity Etihad Arena. He survived an early takedown and pinned Poirier against the fence for most of the first round, landing a few shoulder strikes like those that did so much damage against Cerrone. McGregor said before the fight that what motivates him now is building a \"highlights reel like a movie\", and he tagged Poirier with a couple of right-hand shots. But, unlike their first fight, Poirier was unmoved. Poirier admitted McGregor won the mind games before they met in 2014. This time round, instead of swapping verbal barbs before the fight, McGregor pledged to donate $500,000 (£367,000) to Poirier's charity and at the weigh-in Poirier presented McGregor with a bottle of his own brand of Louisiana hot sauce. And it was the American southpaw that brought the heat midway through the second round. Having replied to that early pressure with a series of leg kicks, he pounced to inflict the first TKO/KO defeat of McGregor's MMA career and take his own record to 27-6. \"It was a lot of things, but it wasn't payback. That wasn't the driving force,\" said Poirier. \"The first time I was a deer in the headlights. This time I was just fighting another man who bleeds like me. \"The goal was to be technical, pick my shots and not brawl at all. Then I had him hurt so I went a little crazy.\" What now for Poirier? Poirier's first world title shot - against Nurmagomedov - came 31 fights into his MMA career Since beating McGregor in 2018, lightweight champion Nurmagomedov won unification bouts against Poirier and Justin Gaethje to stay undefeated, announcing his retirement immediately after beating Gaethje in October. Nurmagomedov's title is yet to be vacated and UFC president Dana White said this week that the Russian may consider returning for a rematch with McGregor or Poirier if he \"saw something spectacular\". But speaking after UFC 257, White said: \"He said to me, 'be honest with yourself, I'm so many levels above these guys. I've beaten these guys'. \"I don't know, it doesn't sound very positive, but he won't hold the division up.\" In the co-main event, former Bellator world champion Michael Chandler marked his UFC debut with an impressive first-round knockout of sixth-ranked lightweight Dan Hooker, who Poirier beat last time out. Poirier said: \"It was a great win, but to come in and beat a guy I just beat and get a title shot? I've had more than 20 UFC fights, fighting the toughest of the toughest guys to get my hands on gold [a belt]. \"Let Chandler and Charles Oliveira go at it. That [Chandler] doesn't interest me at this point - or I'll go and sell hot sauce. A rematch with Conor interests me, and I've always wanted to beat Nate Diaz.\" \"Conor McGregor's not an old dog, he's definitely ready to keep going. \"Going around doing other things is not what Conor needs. He's young, fit and still ready to go. He'll 100% be back.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Watch: Vaccine plea to prioritise those with learning disabilities\n\nAs high risk groups continue to be immunised, there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out. \"Just because we've got a learning disability, doesn't mean we should sit in the corner and rot,\" says Amanda. \"We need help now.\" \"There are so many people that are going to die, and it's not fair.\" \"Even before Covid, more than four in 10 people with a learning disability died of a lung condition like pneumonia,\" says Professor Tuffney-Wijne, of Kingston University. \"As a group of people, they really are at risk.\" Legal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said it had made \"a clinical decision to prioritise those with profound and severe learning disabilities within our first six categories\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "A protester holds a poster that reads \"One for all and all for one\" in support of opposition leader Navalany\n\nTens of thousands of people rallied across Russia on Saturday in some of the largest demonstrations held against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nCrowds defied police to show support for opposition leader Alexei Navalny - who was arrested last weekend after returning to the country following a near-fatal nerve agent attack last year.\n\nMonitors say more than 3,000 were arrested for taking part in rallies in dozens of cities across the country.\n\nReuters estimated that some 40,000 gathered in Moscow alone, but authorities played down the figure and said only a tenth of that number showed up.\n\nRiot police were pictured dragging away and beating some protesters. The US and UK have condemned the heavy-handed response and called for the release of peaceful protesters.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, also expressed concern and said foreign ministers would discuss \"next steps\" on Monday.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said more than 1,200 had been detained in Moscow alone.\n\nDemonstrations, held from Russia's Far East to St Petersburg, were some of the biggest seen in years.\n\nIn Omsk protesters braced freezing temperatures of almost -30C (-22F) to protest against Mr Navalny's detention.\n\nAnd conditions were even colder, -52C (-62F), at another protest held in Yakutsk in Siberia.\n\nMr Navalny, a lawyer and blogger, has long been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin. He forged reputation as an anti-corruption campaigner and has become the most prominent face of the country's opposition.\n\nHe was arrested immediately on arrival into the country last Sunday after flying home from Germany, where he had been recovering from an attempted assassination attempt which he and investigative journalists have blamed on Russian authorities - a claim officials deny.\n\nPolice said Mr Navalny had violated parole conditions and have kept him in custody pending further hearings.\n\nMuch of the international community have condemned his arrest and called for his immediate release.\n\nMr Navalny called for street protests and his team further galvanised support this week after releasing an investigative documentary about an opulent Black Sea property allegedly owned by President Putin.\n\nThe investigation, now watched more than 70m times, alleges the property cost £1bn ($1.37bn) and was paid for \"with the largest bribe in history\" but the Kremlin denies it belongs to the president.\n\nRussian authorities had warned in advance of Saturday that any unauthorised demonstrations would be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nSome demonstrators were pictured with injuries, including wounds to the head, following the promised crackdown.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "Some of the party-goers have travelled from Newcastle and London, police said\n\nA student party that attracted people from up to 200 miles away has been broken up by police.\n\nSome of the guests were found hiding in cupboards when officers raided the gathering in Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, on Friday night.\n\nOne officer was assaulted as one guest made off but was not hurt, West Midlands Police said.\n\nParty-goers had travelled to the event from places such as Newcastle, Nottingham and London.\n\nThe flats are private accommodation but predominantly used by students from Aston University and University College Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.\n\nInsp Steve Barnes added: \"We understand that young people are frustrated at not being able to enjoy themselves and I do feel their pain, but we have to stick to the rules so that we can get back to some sort of normality sooner rather than later.\n\n\"People are dying and we have to prevent the spread of this virus.\"\n\nOfficers were also called to a party on Soho Road where shop owners had set up a sound system, and a 30th birthday party attended by about 20 people in Kingstanding.\n\nAcross 32 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules on Friday night, the force issued 58 fines of £200 and five of £1,000.\n\nThe West Midlands is under an England-wide lockdown with people not allowed to leave home to meet others socially.\n\nOn Thursday, the government said fines of £800 would be introduced in England this week for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "People who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules, England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nMatt Hancock said 75% of over-80s in the UK have now had a first virus jab.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr that around three quarters of care homes had also been vaccinated.\n\nProf Van-Tam said \"no vaccine has ever been\" 100% effective, so there is no guaranteed protection.\n\nIt is possible to contract the virus in the two- to three-week period after receiving a jab, he said - and it is \"better\" to allow \"at least three weeks\" for an immune response to fully develop in older people.\n\n\"Even after you have had both doses of the vaccine you may still give Covid-19 to someone else and the chains of transmission will then continue,\" Prof Van-Tam said.\n\n\"If you change your behaviour you could still be spreading the virus, keeping the number of cases high and putting others at risk who also need their vaccine but are further down the queue.\"\n\nLast week, the person coordinating Israel's Covid response reportedly suggested a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine might not be as effective as reported.\n\nIsrael has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world against coronavirus, with scientists keenly watching data shared by the country for signs of how effective the vaccine is when given to the whole population.\n\nThe country's health minister Yuli Edelstein told the Andrew Marr Show that some people \"still get sick\" with coronavirus after getting the first dose of the vaccine, but said there were \"some encouraging signs of less severe diseases, less people hospitalised after the first dose\".\n\nSenior doctors have called on health officials in England to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe maximum wait was extended from three to 12 weeks in order to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said the policy was \"difficult to justify\" and the gap should be reduced to six weeks.\n\nIts chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, told the BBC there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Prof Van-Tam said: \"What none of these (who ask reasonable questions) will tell me is: who on the at-risk list should suffer slower access to their first dose so that someone else who's already had one dose (and therefore most of the protection) can get a second?\"\n\nA further 32 vaccine sites are set to open across England this week.\n\nMore than 5.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nNHS England said new vaccine sites were preparing to open across England from Monday.\n\nThey include Dudley's Black Country Living Museum, which doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders, Plymouth Argyle FC's stadium Home Park and an old Ikea store in Stratford, London.\n\nThe 32 sites will prioritise health and social care staff on Monday, and other priority patients from Tuesday.\n\nThey will bring the number of mass vaccination sites across England to 49 - as well as 70 pharmacies, more than 1,000 GP surgeries and 250 hospitals offering the jab.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that more than a third of over-80s had received their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nMore than half of over-80s in Northern Ireland have had the jab, though Health Minister Robin Swann said \"it will take time\" for the programme to have a \"major effect.\"\n\nIn Wales, four vaccination centres have been shut as officials brace for more snowy weather.\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed that the UK needs to \"bring the number of cases down as soon as we can whilst we vaccinate our most vulnerable\".\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections.\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients were on hospital ventilators in the UK as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have been your experiences of vaccination, lockdown, work or travel? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers in China have freed the first of a group of miners who have been trapped 600m underground for two weeks, state media report.\n\nAn explosion closed the entrance tunnel to the Hushan gold mine in Shandong province on 10 January.\n\nTV footage from China has shown the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "Jim Haynes was both an icon and a relic of the Swinging Sixties, an American in Paris who was famous for inviting hundreds of thousands of strangers to dinner at his home. He died this month.\n\nLast February, I took my last trip abroad before lockdown closed in on us. I bought a last-minute ticket and jumped on the Eurostar to Paris, motivated by a sudden urge to have dinner with a friend. Jim Haynes had entered his late 80s and his health was declining, yet I knew he would welcome a visit. Jim always welcomed visitors.\n\nThe essence of that trip now feels like the antithesis of Covid times. I was far from the only guest wandering into the warm glow of his atelier in the 14th arrondissement on a wet winter's night. Inside, people were squeezing, shoulder to shoulder, through the narrow kitchen. Strangers struck up conversations, bunched together in groups, balancing their dinners on paper plates and reaching over each other to press the plastic spout on a communal box of wine.\n\nJim had operated open-house policy at his home every Sunday evening for more than 40 years. Absolutely anyone was welcome to come for an informal dinner, all you had to do was phone or email and he would add your name to the list. No questions asked. Just put a donation in an envelope when you arrive.\n\nThere would be a buzz in the air, as people of various nationalities - locals, immigrants, travellers - milled around the small, open-plan space. A pot of hearty food bubbled on the hob and servings would be dished out on to a trestle table, so you could help yourself and continue to mingle. It was for good reason that Jim was nicknamed the \"godfather of social networking\". He led the way in connecting strangers, long before we outsourced it all to Silicon Valley.\n\nA ballet dancer staying with Jim in the late 1970s suggested cooking for him and friends to repay the hospitality; the dinners became weekly for 40-plus years\n\nI only knew Jim in his later years, but his entire life was extraordinary. Born in Louisiana in 1933, he had lived in Venezuela as a teenager; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and all before becoming a university lecturer in sexual politics in Paris, his home since 1969.\n\nAnd yet he was often seen as a son of Scotland, following an influential stint there in the late '50s and late '60s, when he established Edinburgh's first paperback bookshop, co-founded the Traverse Theatre and helped kickstart the Fringe festival.\n\nWhen Jim died, at 87, earlier this month, a Herald obituary called him \"the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland\".\n\nWhile a lot of highly regarded people tend to retreat into their own circles after finding success, Jim never stopped reaching out to new people. The first time I heard from him was an email out of the blue in 2008.\n\nI had written a newspaper article from Barcelona - not the one in Spain but the one on the coast of Venezuela - and it had brought back memories for him. His father worked in the oil business and had moved the family there when Jim was in his early teens.\n\nMy article was about meeting people through the Couchsurfing website, where locals opened their homes to strangers for free around the world. This was before AirBnB worked out how to monetise the idea, and the concept of non-commercial cultural exchange was right up Jim's street. \"When you are back in Europe, come to dinner,\" he wrote, promising to tell me about an old travel project of his own that he thought I might like.\n\nIntrigued, I headed to Paris soon after my return. I had imagined some sort of intimate dinner party with cultural elites, but what I found was more like a student house party - albeit with more mature attendees and only moderate alcohol consumption. (Jim was teetotal and proceedings ended strictly by 23:00.)\n\nJim never cooked himself, instead he invited guest cooks\n\nJim instantly greeted me like an old friend and, as we chatted, he reached up on to his living room shelves to offer me a book. People to People read the cover line. It was the project he had wanted to tell me about.\n\nHe explained that, in the late 1980s, he had founded a guidebook series for countries behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of the standard descriptions of sights and hotel listings, the format was like an address book, including the contact details for hundreds of in-country hosts. The idea was that if people could not easily see the Western world themselves, he would bring it to them via travellers. It was \"couchsurfing\", but offline.\n\nThe hand-sized copy he pressed into my palm centred on Poland. I loved it and decided to travel there to see if the participants were still up for receiving random visitors, even though so much had changed.\n\nJim created the People to People guidebooks for multiple Eastern European countries\n\nEach person was filed under the town where they lived, followed by two or three lines, including their address, date of birth, phone number and hobbies. Through a combination of Google and snail-mail, I managed to get hold of several of them. Most had all known Jim either personally or through friends of friends. All had fond memories of the project and all were still willing to act as local guides to show me around.\n\nIn Gdansk, I asked civil servant Krystyna Wróblewska why she had signed up originally. She told me she had been working as a media fixer, helping reporters cover the anti-communist shipyard strikes. \"They [the media] went looking for women with handkerchiefs on their heads and horses with carts, perpetuating the same old picture. I suppose I wanted to meet people to subvert stereotypes and show that not all the pictures you have in your head are real.\"\n\nKrystyna Wroblewska signed up in the late 1980s to show travellers around Gdansk\n\n\"It surprised me how easy it was,\" Jim insisted to me. He produced guides for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltics and Russia, featuring thousands upon thousands of locals. Some of his contacts came from his personal, multi-volume address books, and he got new sign-ups after placing interviews in local papers and jazz magazines.\n\n\"Some of the older people in Russia were scared about being put on a Western list, because they thought it would be easier to be rounded up and carted away,\" he said. \"But a lot of younger people wanted to be in the book… I was getting sackfuls of mail. I'm sure the local postman wondered what the hell was going on.\"\n\nOver the years, the authorities often wondered what was going on at Jim's place. Not least during the period when he started issuing fake passports. It was back in the 1970s, after he had caught wind of an American traveller, who, 20 years before, had renounced his American citizenship and created his own \"world passport\".\n\nFor Jim, non-national passports seemed to encapsulate his ideals of peace and global freedom. So he turned his home into an \"embassy\" and started producing world passports for anyone who wanted one. The documents were so convincing that some people used them to cross borders.\n\n\"Look, you can't do this any more. You have to stop making passports,\" exasperated French police would say when they came to his door. But Jim continued until he ended up in court. Though he was eventually acquitted of fraud and counterfeiting, he was found guilty of \"confusing the public\".\n\nJim always dismissed the idea that it was a naïve undertaking, but he was trusting to a fault, according to some of his friends, and this led to financial mistakes and legal troubles over the years. He wouldn't deal with problems, waiting until they blew up instead.\n\n\"I often had to stop him signing things. Sometimes he didn't even read them,\" says Jesper, his son, who was born during Jim's marriage to Viveka Reuterskiold in the 1960s.\n\nJesper grew up in Stockholm after they separated, but visited Paris every summer from the age of 10.\n\n\"There were mattresses on every spare bit of floor, people sleeping everywhere,\" he says, as he recalls his earlier visits. \"It was exciting and fun, but sometimes I felt jealous. Lots of people did. People were very possessive of him. People wanted to claim him, but he was unclaimable.\"\n\nJesper credits his father with opening the world to him. He used Jim's contacts books extensively as he travelled and he is currently living with his own family in Bangkok, where he briefly replicated the Sunday dinners. \"Just for six months... It was a lot of work.\"\n\nDuring the 1990s, the crowds started to dwindle at the Paris dinners, as the original hippy crowd aged. But then a new wave of younger visitors started to get in touch. The bloggers had discovered him.\n\n\"The internet both ruined and saved the dinners,\" says Seamas McSwiney, a close friend who helped on Sunday evenings for decades. \"It became less spontaneous as people tried to book six months ahead - which was anathema to how Jim travelled and also annoying as those people were more likely to do a no-show - but at the same time, these online articles re-energised the idea. There was a younger crowd and new momentum.\"\n\nAt the dinners' peak, Jim would welcome up to 120 guests, filling his atelier and spilling out into the cobbled back garden. An estimated 150,000 people have come over the years.\n\n\"The door was always open,\" says Amanda Morrow, an Australian journalist who stayed with Jim for a year-and-a-half. \"It was a revolving door of guests - some who wanted to stay over, and others who just wanted to say hello. Jim never said no to anyone.\"\n\nThe only thing that really got Jim down was people leaving,\" says Jesper. \"He struggled with that. He didn't like being on his own... Though fortunately there was usually a new person to distract him.\"\n\nIn the final years, Jim would sit quietly, as others gravitated into his orbit. On my last visit, he looked frail and pained by his various ailments, but he also had an air of contentment, clearly never tiring of being the conduit for human interactions.\n\n\"I was wondering when you'd come back,\" he said to me, in the rasping American accent he somehow had never lost.\n\nHere was a man who had spent time with Lennon and Bowie, who was once friends with Sonia Orwell and used to walk round Paris with Samuel Beckett. And yet he made everyone feel special. Every connection mattered.\n\n\"It felt like politician's trick, but it was natural,\" says Seamas.\n\nIn very recent times, Covid restrictions reduced the dinners' clockwork schedule, but his friends say he was not depressed by the pandemic. He had figured the get-togethers would resume and, until then, had enjoyed a smaller stream of visiting carers and, whenever possible, friends.\n\nAmid the outpouring of online tributes since his death in his sleep on 6 January, these words from Jesper stand out: \"His goal from early on was to introduce the whole world to each other. He almost succeeded.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Rani has co-hosted BBC One's Countryfile since 2015\n\nCountryfile host Anita Rani is to join Emma Barnett as a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\nShe will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the long-running programme, beginning on 15 January.\n\nRani, 43, said she had \"long been a fan\" of the programme and that she was \"really looking forward to getting to know the listeners and discussing issues that matter to them the most\".\n\nLong-time hosts Jane Garvey and Dame Jenni Murray left the show last year.\n\nBarnett, 35, who made her name on Radio 5 Live and Newsnight, made her Woman's Hour debut on 4 January. She hosts the show from Monday to Thursday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Rani said it was \"an honour\" to be joining Radio 4's \"mothership\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anita rani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRani joined the BBC's Asian Network in 2005 and is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. She is also known for her appearances on The One Show and Watchdog, and for competing on the 2015 series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"Woman's Hour has always given a voice to people who may not be heard elsewhere and I want to continue that important tradition,\" she said.\n\nRadio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya said he wanted the station to \"better reflect and be relevant to the audience across the UK\". Rani will bring \"a wealth of broadcasting experience\" as well as a \"valuable\" perspective and insight, he added.\n\nComedian Shappi Khorsandi was among those to welcome her new role, saying she would be \"listening even more\".\n\nRani's appointment means the new Woman's Hour presenters are considerably younger than their predecessors. Dame Jenni was 70 when she left on 1 October, while Garvey was 56 when she signed off last month.\n\nEmma Barnett took the reins of Woman's Hour earlier this month\n\nBefore leaving, Garvey expressed a hope that whoever joined Barnett would be closer to her own age.\n\n\"Emma is in her 30s and that's great,\" she told the Daily Telegraph. \"It will give the programme a real energy, which I think is brilliant.\n\n\"So I think the person working alongside her should be somebody nearer my age to make sure we give the audience as broad a range of life experience and interests as possible. I would prefer it if the other presenter were in her 50s.\"\n\nBarnett had an eventful first week on the Radio 4 institution, opening her stint by reading out a message from The Queen.\n\nTwo days later, one of her guests dropped out of a discussion after objecting to remarks the presenter made about her off air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A twenty-year-old from Cambridgeshire who spent a week in intensive care with Covid-19 says he can't believe so many young people are in denial about the virus.\n\nJay Clack fell ill on December 27th and within five days, 80% of his lungs has stopped functioning.\n\nWhile in intensive care he had a goodbye phone call with his family.\n\nBut now, he's showing signs of recovery and spoke to the BBC's Jon Ironmonger.", "The police are stepping up enforcement because they believe many people breaking the Covid regulations are doing so because they are stubborn, not because they don’t understand what is allowed.\n\nThe public, police, and legal experts do struggle to keep up with the ever-changing rules.\n\nBut the organisers of a party on a boat in Hertfordshire, the passengers on a minibus heading for Wales, and the couple who travelled 120 miles to \"watch seals\" would have struggled to explain to the officers issuing them with fines that they were confused.\n\nThose were clear breaches. More complicated is the fine line between the law - which police officers can enforce - and the government guidance, which they can’t.\n\nNo law says exercise can only be conducted once a day, or for a specific duration. These are pieces of firm guidance, along with the request to \"stay local\", which resulted in criticism of the prime minister after his bike ride in east London.\n\nIt would be difficult to set a distance limit which would work for both people living in rural areas and inner cities. Impossible to prove that a 65-minute run was in breach of the law.\n\nWhich is why the success of the measures will rely on personal responsibility in the end.\n\nAnd why some experts are saying that different messages such as \"act like you’ve got it\" or \"thanks for doing the right thing\" might cut through better than a list of regulations to be obeyed.", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "John Lewis is suspending its click and collect services and tightening safety measures after a \"change in tone\" from the government over the virus.\n\nThe department store will also pause in-home services, unless they are \"essential to customers' wellbeing\".\n\nThe retailer said it felt the changes were right with the country at a \"critical point in the pandemic\".\n\nHowever customers will be able to collect John Lewis orders from Waitrose stores.\n\nWaitrose, which belongs to the John Lewis Partnership, is also tightening rules over face coverings, following moves from the other supermarkets to make face masks mandatory for shoppers unless they have a medical exemption.\n\n\"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days,\" said Andrew Murphy, Executive Director, Operations.\n\n\"While we recognise that the detail of formal guidance has not changed, we feel it is right for us - and in the best interests of our Partners and customers - to take proactive steps to further enhance our Covid-security and related operational policies.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said click and collect from its department stores would be switched off for new orders from the end of Tuesday.\n\nExisting orders and bookings for services, such as installing washing machines, will still be carried out, if customers wish to proceed, but there will be no further bookings for non-essential services.\n\nMany other shops from coffee chains to craft suppliers are offering click and collect services. However, with the continued rise in coronavirus cases the government is examining ways to reduce social contact further.\n\nThe book chain Waterstones stopped offering click and collect services from its shops at the start of the current lockdown.\n\nMarks and Spencer said it was continuing to offer customers the opportunity to collect other items at its food halls, which are still open for grocery shopping.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\"\n\nThe father of one of three men murdered in a park terror attack has called on the home secretary to \"tell us why\" the killer was deemed safe to be free.\n\nGary Furlong, whose son James, 36, was killed in Reading's Forbury Gardens attack in June, said it was \"beyond\" him why Khairi Saadallah was considered \"not a danger to the public\".\n\nSaadallah was jailed for the rest of his life over the murders.\n\nThe Home Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nAt the time of the attack Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We must learn the lessons from what has happened... to prevent anything like this from happening again.\"\n\nDuring his trial, London's Old Bailey heard Saadallah \"executed\" James Furlong, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, as an \"act of religious jihad\" on the afternoon of 20 June.\n\nHe was jailed on Monday having previously admitted the three murders and the attempted murders of three other men.\n\nKhairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three of attempted murder\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a Serious Further Offence (SFO) review had been completed into how Saadallah was managed by the National Probation Service.\n\nThe victims' families would be offered a meeting to discuss the findings of the review, it added.\n\nIt comes after the killer had been subject to licence conditions at the time of the attack.\n\nThe court previously heard on the 18 June, two days before the attack, Saadallah's probation officer had emailed his mental health team as he had been talking about \"magic\".\n\nSaadallah also contacted the mental health crisis team himself, but he did not not open the door when they visited on 19 June.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nAnalysis of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material and the court heard while at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Gary Furlong, from Liverpool, said Ms Patel needed to \"tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him\".\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets,\" he added.\n\nSaadallah, 26, had been told just before his release from prison that the Home Office wanted to deport him, but it was not legally possible due to the situation in Libya.\n\nIn law, what are known as the Hardial Singh principles place certain limits on the government's power to detain people ahead of deportation.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman said the government \"always tries to remove foreign national offenders where possible\".\n\nHe was released from custody on 5 June, and proceeded to research the location for his attack online and carry out reconnaissance in the park.\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer on 19 June, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near to a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nSaadallah's brother, Aiman, said he had asked for police to detain him under the Mental Health Act, and added \"lives would have been saved\" if more had been done.\n\nThames Valley Police has been contacted for comment.\n\nReading Refugee Support Group's (RRSG) also said it had raised concerns about his potential for radicalisation over three years and the possibility of a \"London Bridge\" scenario.\n\nIn a statement, it said Saadallah had a \"known, significant mental health problem\".\n\n\"This in no way excuses what he did. He murdered three innocent people. But there must be accountability on the part of services that should have supported him,\" it said.\n\nBut passing sentence Mr Justice Sweeney said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nGary Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\n\n\"How was he ever allowed to stay in this country? How was he allowed in, in the first place?\"\n\nHistory teacher James Furlong and pharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett each died from a single stab wound to the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nGary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\" who was loved by family, friends and students.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has published a list of areas where there have been delivery delays due to its workforce being affected by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe postal service said some areas will see a reduced service due to workers being off sick or self-isolating.\n\nRoyal Mail listed 28 areas where post might be late, with 27 in England and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nProblems with deliveries over Christmas had prompted shoppers to complain about parcels not arriving on time.\n\nRoyal Mail said: \"Despite our best efforts and significant investment in extra resource, some customers may experience slightly longer delivery timescales than our usual service standards.\n\n\"This is due to the exceptionally high volumes we are seeing, exacerbated by the coronavirus-related measures we have put in place in local mail centres and delivery offices to keep our people and customers safe.\"\n\nMany of the affected areas are in or near London, while others include Chelmsford in Essex, Leeds in West Yorkshire, Margate in Kent, and Widnes in Cheshire.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, whose Ilford constituency is one of the areas affected, tweeted on Sunday that he was concerned about vaccination invitations getting caught up in Royal Mail delays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi replied that the government would work with Royal Mail to ensure that vaccine invitations were prioritised.\n\nCustomers have taken to Twitter to complain about delays to their postal service.\n\n\"Unfortunately I live in one of these areas.,\" wrote Matt S. \"N8 has been receiving an absolutely dreadful service since April 2020 - @RoyalMail what are you going to do to improve the situation?\"\n\nMark Harrison wrote: \"We could manage and expect a bit of disruption - but we've had only 2 deliveries in a month. Nothing for a fortnight. SE11 not even on the list of disrupted areas. Royal Mail need to get a grip.\"\n\nIn a service update on Tuesday, Royal Mail said: \"Due to resourcing issues, deliveries in the following areas are likely to be limited.\"", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vogue editor Anna Wintour said images of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris were meant to celebrate her achievements\n\nUS Vogue editor Anna Wintour has defended the magazine following criticism of its front-cover portrait of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\nThe image shows Ms Harris wearing an informal outfit including jeans and a pair of Converse trainers.\n\nSocial media users have criticised Vogue for the photo's \"washed out\" lighting and styling, saying it does not reflect Ms Harris's achievements.\n\nBut Ms Wintour said the photos were intended to highlight her success.\n\n\"We want nothing but to celebrate Vice-President-elect Harris's amazing victory and the important moment this is for America's history and particularly women of colour all over the world,\" Ms Wintour said in a statement to the New York Times' Kara Swisher.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vogue Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also defended Vogue's decision to use the picture for the print cover of its February issue, rather than an alternative portrait of her in a more formal suit.\n\nA member of Ms Harris's team told AP news agency that Vogue staff, including Ms Wintour, agreed to feature the blue-suited image on cover. But Ms Wintour denied that any formal agreement had been made.\n\n\"All of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the vice-president-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in,\" said Ms Wintour.\n\n\"We felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture... really reflected the hallmark of the Biden/Harris campaign and everything they were trying to - and I'm sure they will - achieve,\" the editor - herself an influential supporter of the Democratic Party - added.\n\nSources at Vogue told the New York Times that the second, more formal image may be used as a cover for a separate print edition.\n\nBoth pictures were taken by Tyler Mitchell who, in 2018, became the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover.\n\nThe magazine has been criticised in the past over issues relating to race.\n\nSeveral former employees previously shared experiences of alleged racism in the workplace with the New York Times.\n\nEarlier this year, British Vogue editor Edward Enninful spoke out after he was allegedly \"racially profiled\" by a security guard at the magazine's UK offices.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HBO's Insecure is making sure lighting people of colour is not an afterthought", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "As major social media platforms crack down on accounts promoting US election conspiracy theories, many conspiracy and far-right groups in the US are looking for a new home online.\n\nTwitter hasn’t just kicked the president off the platform. It’s also closed down some 70,000 accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy, while Facebook said it is continuing efforts to shut down “Stop the Steal” groups which allege, with no evidence, that Donald Trump was cheated of the presidency.\n\nOne of the most popular alternatives had been the self-styled “free speech” social media outlet Parler, but then over the weekend that was banned too for posts inciting violence.\n\nThen there’s Gab, a Twitter-like platform popular with right-wing groups, which is awash with extreme content and welcomes QAnon followers with open arms. It claims to have added 600,000 new users since the riots.\n\nIt’s thought Gab’s user base is far smaller than that of the now-closed Parler, which had around 16m users.\n\nOthers seem to be moving to MeWe, which is similar to Facebook.\n\nThere are some parallels with online jihadists, who also found their voices silenced after the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East.\n\nThe Islamic State group and al-Qaeda frequently have to re-establish their online presence after social media companies identify and close their accounts, leading to a nomadic online existence.\n\nThey have already adapted to life outside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and have exploited less well known platforms and apps to get their messages out.\n• 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "Sir David Attenborough has previously spoken of his support for the Covid-19 vaccines\n\nSir David Attenborough has become the latest well-known name to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, his representative has confirmed.\n\nThe news about the 94-year-old natural historian comes a few days after it was revealed the Queen had been vaccinated.\n\nIt's not known which vaccine Sir David has been given or exactly when he had it.\n\nThe Perfect Planet host is one of several stars to receive the first of two doses of the vaccine.\n\nThey include The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith, actor Sir Ian McKellen, choreographer Lionel Blair, actor Brian Blessed and actress Dame Joan Collins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are currently three vaccines approved for administration in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, although supplies of the latter are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nSir David, who has been isolating at his London home, has previously talked about his support for the work in developing a means of protection from Covid-19.\n\nIn an interview with The Telegraph last month he said he would definitely accept an invitation to be vaccinated when his time came.\n\n\"At 94, I think I'm entitled!\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I'm sufficient of a scientist still, I hope, to realise this is the thing to do.\"\n\nHe added that the work that had gone into developing the vaccines showed the positive effects of international cooperation in combating global problems, such as the climate crisis.\n\n\"It (the virus) has drawn attention to the fact we aren't as omnipotent and all-controlling as we think we are,\" he told the paper.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: Are supermarkets following the rules?\n\nSupermarket workers are facing abuse for challenging shoppers not wearing masks during the pandemic, staff say.\n\nOne Mold supermarket worker said she was challenging people every day and seeing \"loads of people walking around\" the store without masks and in groups.\n\nThe Welsh Government has hinted rules will be tightened amid concerns Covid-19 rules are not being followed.\n\n\"This is not a social event, come in on your own, not as a family of five,\" the supermarket worker said.\n\nSupermarket workers spoke to BBC Radio Wales as Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the \"onus\" was on supermarkets to make sure shoppers abided by the rules.\n\nThere has been an \"escalation of abuse\" towards supermarket staff in the last nine months, and the role of policing such rules must not fall on those on the shop floor, Nick Ireland Divisional Officer of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) said.\n\nHe said measures in stores had \"rolled back\", with many no longer enforcing systems, and people walking the wrong way down one-way systems, and \"whole families\" shopping with just one basket.\n\nMeanwhile Bally Auluk, an area organiser in Cardiff and Barry for Usdaw, said abuse towards shopworkers was happening on \"a daily and weekly basis\".\n\nHe said retailers and the Welsh Government should \"start protecting shop workers\" after dealing with members himself who were \"threatened with physical violence and spat on\".\n\n\"Customers now are treating it almost like it was last year, that it's not a problem, that is where the big issues arises,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nMorrisons and Sainsbury's had pledged to challenge shoppers not wearing face coverings in store, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to follow the move and challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules, people must wear face coverings in order to enter shops across the UK, while supermarkets should have social distancing and strict hygiene measures in place.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been in talks with retailers on how to improve safety and return to the strict observance of social distancing from the first lockdown, although no new guidance has been issued.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets, such as limited numbers allowed in store, hand sanitiser and security on doors.\n\nThe Mold supermarket worker said staff had been told not to challenge people not wearing masks, and had seen people being yelled at.\n\nJane, who did not give her last name, told BBC Wales customers were offered a mask on the way in, but many did not want them.\n\n\"You do see a lot of customers walking around without a mask on,\" she said.\n\n\"Of course there are people with hidden disabilities who can't wear a mask but there can't be that many of them.\"\n\nJane said enforcement needed to be greater, but it should not be led by the shopfloor staff.\"We're told not to challenge people as we don't know someone's personal situation and we don't want to face any abuse if they don't want to wear it or don't agree with it,\" she said.\n\n\"At the moment people will ask politely, but I have witnessed quite a few occasions where customers have been verbally abusive to the person greeting them on their way in.\n\n\"There needs to be someone enforcing this, it can't be left to retail staff: whether its a police officer or a security guard.\"\n\nSupermarket aisles carrying non-essential items are closed off again, as they were during the firebreak lockdown\n\nOne security guard at a supermarket in Aberdare said he had had more \"hassle\" working in the past 10 months at the store, than from drinkers while working as a nightclub doorman for more than 20 years.\n\n\"The attitude towards yourself... they don't appreciate that you're standing there for 12 hours a day, they don't understand how hard it is to try and keep people distancing,\" he told Dot Davies on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"When they go inside the shop it all goes out the window... we keep the two metres outside, but we've got people coming outside to tell us we should be in there sorting it out.\"\n\nOne supermarket manager said the lengths people were going to in order to shop together were \"ridiculous\", with families coming in with a number of trolleys or baskets in order not to be challenged.\n\n\"We've seen families turning up to go shopping for a basket shop, it's just not on,\" said Mr Ireland, who called on supermarket staff to be prioritised for vaccines.\n\nHe suggested those who do not observe the rules should be banned and fined.\n\nBut one mother said that she had no choice but to shop with her children, and she had been unable to get a click and collect or delivery slot.\n\n\"It's easy to get caught up in the fear of it, but some people are at the shops as they have no choice,\" she said.\n\nOthers have spoken of shop staff themselves not wearing masks.\n\nJames Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, said it was \"everyone's responsibility\" to abide by the rules, rather than for shop workers to enforce.\n\n\"Doing that [enforcement of rules] in a small store, where you don't have lots of colleagues around, has been a trigger for more abuse and even violence,\" he said.\n\nMr Lowman said making businesses Covid secure was down to the local authority, while individuals' behaviour was a matter for police, but \"in practicality\" it is everyone's responsibility.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the \"onus\" for getting shoppers to follow Covid-19 rules, such as wearing masks, social-distancing and cordoning off non-essential items, was on the supermarket managers.\n\n\"[It needs to be made] clear that you do need to wear a mask unless you can demonstrate that you have a particular exemption,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think there's any lack of understanding. We've been through this before and I do think a number of supermarkets are going to go and make clear there are a range of items that are off-limits for shoppers coming in.\n\n\"Supermarkets understand what they need to do.\"", "London's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital has been reopened and is admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread in the capital.\n\nMedical director Dr Vin Diwakar said the facility at London's ExCeL Centre also had a vaccination centre on site.\n\nIt was placed on standby in May after fewer than 20 patients were treated following a grand opening on 3 April.\n\nDr Diwakar said the Nightingale was being used to treat non-coronavirus patients.\n\nIn the Downing Street press conference, he explained it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"This means that hospitals have more beds to care for Covid-19 patients and for our very sickest patients. We cannot do this indefinitely.\n\n\"There comes a point where if the infection gets further out of control, more and more patients from London will need to be transferred elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nAt the start of November, he said, London had 1,000 Covid-19 patients.\n\nThis increased four-fold to 4,000 on Christmas Day and has doubled to just under 8,000 today, with more than 1,000 of those on critical care, he told the press conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Dr Diwakar said there was \"hope\", with one hall of the ExCel Centre having opened as London's first mass vaccination centre.\n\n\"I can tell you Covid-19 is a horrible, horrible disease that leaves so many, including young people, breathless and gasping for life,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, the Mayor of London declared a \"major incident\" as he described the coronavirus spread in the capital as \"out of control\".\n\nMore than 120 firefighters and 75 Met Police officers have been drafted in to help the London Ambulance Service cope with demand.", "The data showed men were more likely to be admitted to intensive care units\n\nAround half of patients admitted to Welsh intensive care units during the second wave of the pandemic have died, a study has found.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) found men aged in their 60s were more likely to need intensive care.\n\nIt also found those from Asian backgrounds and deprived areas were disproportionately affected.\n\nBut a leading doctor said, overall, people were more likely to survive now.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said new treatments meant only the sickest patients were reaching intensive care, where outcomes were poorer.\n\nICNARC collected information on 431 Welsh patients who were critically ill with coronavirus from 1 September to 31 December 2020 as part of a UK-wide audit of intensive care patients.\n\nOf the patients who were admitted, 68% were men and 32% women. The average age of a patient was 59.5 years.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said, overall, patients were more likely to survive Covid now\n\nWhile the vast majority of patients were white (91.6%), the number of patients of Asian ethnicity was more than double the proportion of the Asian population, with 6.3% of patients recorded as being Asian, compared to an average of 2.4% in their local population.\n\nThe audit of patients found that, excluding those still being treated at the unit, half had died while half had been discharged.\n\nAlthough the numbers of patients surveyed is relatively low for statistical purposes, Dr Morgan said the survival rate reflected the situation in hospitals.\n\n\"We are putting fewer people, who are in the first stage of their illness, on to life support machines. And that is because we have treatments now that we know can help,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, you are more likely now to survive Covid than ever before, and that is in every age group - sometimes by as much as 10% more.\n\n\"What we do know is that overall, out of every ten people who come to intensive care with Covid about six of them will survive and will leave the intensive care unit. Which means sadly four of them won't, four of them will die.\n\n\"That's similar overall to the first wave but that data is based on some patients who are still in the intensive care unit. So that may change and it's more likely to get worse rather than better.\"\n\n\"We also know patients who are on life support machines in the intensive care unit will do worse than those who come to the intensive care unit and are not on life support machines.\n\n\"For those people, it's probably five out of 10 people who will survive and five who will sadly die and that may be worse when we have the data on those who are still there.\n\n\"And there's a big effect of age. So for those over the age of 70 it may be as little as four people out of 10 who survive, maybe less. And for those over the age of 80 it may be as low as one or two people out of ten who survive.\n\nThe figures from ICNARC also highlight how people from poorer backgrounds were more likely to need treatment in intensive care.\n\nUsing a deprivation score from 1 to 5, more than half of patients scored 4 or 5, representing the most deprived postcodes in Wales.\n\nDr Morgan said: \"Sadly, disease is an illness of deprivation.\n\n\"And so that's why we feel it, particularly in Wales where the industrial scars of our past are still very much there - and our health is there.\"", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Retailers suffered their worst annual sales performance on record in 2020, driven by slump in demand for fashion and homeware products, figures show.\n\nWhile food sales growth rose 5.4% on 2019, non-food fell about 5%, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nIt meant an overall fall of 0.3% in a year dominated by the Covid-19 impact, the worst annual change since the BRC began collating the figures in 1995.\n\nChristmas offered little cheer, with much of the High Street still closed.\n\n\"Physical non-food stores, including all of non-essential retail, saw sales drop by a quarter compared with 2019,\" said Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive.\n\n\"Christmas offered little respite for these retailers, as many shops were forced to shut during the peak trading period,\" she said.\n\nThe 5.4% rise in food sales was fuelled by shoppers flocking to supermarkets and online grocers to ensure they were stocked up during the pandemic.\n\nIn December, total retail sales increased by 1.8% as shoppers spent more in the run-up to Christmas. Like-for-like sales for the month were up 4.8% as overall shop takings were still affected by restrictions and temporary closures.\n\nOnline non-food sales jumped by 44.8% in December, according to the new figures, as a higher proportion of shopping took place online.\n\nThe BRC's sales monitor is collated with the consultancy KPMG, whose UK head of retail, Paul Martin, said: \"In the most important month for the retail industry, there was some positive growth due to the ongoing shift of expenditure from other categories such as travel and leisure.\n\n\"Once again we saw big swings in the types of products being purchased and the channels used for shopping, with much of the growth taking place online, where nearly half of all non-food purchases were made.\"\n\nBut he warned that the new lockdown would worsen conditions for many non-essential shops and the High Street generally.\n\nLast week, a report from the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, the CRR said.", "The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.\n\nThere were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.\n\nThis represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.\n\nWhen the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.\n\nThis measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.\n\nThe data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008.\n\nThe data on deaths can be confusing.\n\nOn one hand, excess deaths are at their highest since World War Two, while on the other, death rates, once age and size of population are taken into account, are at their worst level for a little over a decade 'only'.\n\nHow should that be interpreted?\n\nExcess deaths are basically a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years.\n\nClearly, 2020 saw a huge and unexpected rise in deaths because of the pandemic, just as World War Two led to a sudden jump.\n\nBut in determining how much those jumps affected the chances of dying, a measure known as age-standardised mortality, which takes into account the age and size of the population, is important.\n\nIt shows the pandemic has undone the progress made in the last decade or so. That is significant - especially given this has happened despite lockdowns and social-distancing measures to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBut it also helps put the death toll over the past 12 months in a wider context.\n\nKing's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.\n\n\"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US,\" he said.\n\n'It will take a public inquiry to determine exactly what went wrong, but mistakes have been made.\n\n\"In a pandemic, mistakes cost lives. Decisions to enter lockdown have consistently come late, with the government failing to learn from past mistakes or the experiences of other countries.\n\n\"The promised 'protective ring' around social care in the first wave was slow to materialise and often inadequate, a contributing factor to the excess deaths among care home residents last year.\n\n'Like many countries, the UK was poorly prepared for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nMatthew Reed, of the end-of-life care charity Marie Curie said the focus on Covid should not hide the fact there has been a \"silent crisis\" of deaths at home.\n\nHe said people have died prematurely in 2020 from other causes - with a big jump in deaths at home.\n\n\"We are concerned many have not had the care they needed,\" he added.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Officer Eugene Goodman is being celebrated for his heroics\n\nCapitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is being called a hero for a second time after footage shown at the impeachment trial shows him directing Mitt Romney away from an advancing mob.\n\nIn the video, the officer is seen notifying Mr Romney that the rioters were heading in his direction and guiding him away.\n\nThe Utah senator, an unpopular figure among Trump supporters, said he looked forward to thanking the police officer for his actions.\n\nOfficer Goodman was already being praised for his bravery that day, after singlehandedly steering a mob away from the Senate chambers.\n\nVideo footage showed him just steps ahead of rioters as they chase him up a flight of stairs.\n\nMr Goodman is then seen glancing towards the Senate entrance before luring the men in the opposite direction.\n\nFive people, including a police officer, died as a result of the riots.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a pro-Trump rioter during the attack\n\nMembers of the 2,000-person Capitol police department are tasked with protecting the Capitol building and those inside, it.\n\nA group of senators has introduced a bill to award Officer Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal.\n\nNews of his additional heroics involving Senator Romney will only amplify calls for him to be recognised.\n\nThe senator said he was unaware of the danger he was in until he saw the footage at the trial on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney said he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman\n\nIt formed part of the Democratic prosecution in trying to underline the peril the heart of US government was under as Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol.\n\nSenator Romney said it was \"overwhelmingly distressing and emotional\" to see the violence again, six weeks after the attack.\n\nAnd reflecting on his own narrow escape, he added he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman \"when I next see him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nNew York Law School criminal law professor and 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department Kirk Burkhalter called Mr Goodman's response to the rioters \"tremendous\".\n\n\"I don't think there was any type of training that would prepare you for that situation,\" Mr Burkhalter told the BBC, speaking days after the attack.\n\nIn the video shot by Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic, Mr Goodman, who is black, is antagonised by the group of Trump supporters - who are all white men.\n\nThe man at the front of the pack, wearing a QAnon T-shirt, has been identified as Doug Jensen of Iowa. He was later arrested by local police and the FBI for his role in the riots.\n\nFootage shows Mr Jensen leading the mob that chased Mr Goodman up a flight of stairs - just a few feet away from the entrance to the Senate floor. As he is pursued, Mr Goodman shouts \"second floor!\" into his radio, seemingly alerting other officers of the group approaching the chamber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mr Goodman glances toward the Senate chamber entrance, he shoves Mr Jensen - a move seemingly designed to draw attention on to himself, luring the mob away from the chambers and those hiding inside.\n\nThe image of Mr Goodman trailed by a mob - some armed with Confederate flags, others with allusions to the Nazi flag - was extremely disturbing, Mr Burkhalter said.\n\n\"Police officer, not a police officer, to see a black man being chased by someone carrying a Confederate flag - there is something wrong with that picture. That should never happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"It just reeks of everything we need to correct.\"\n\nMr Goodman's standoff with the mob came just minutes before authorities were able to seal the chamber, according to reporting from the Washington Post.\n\nHis heroics were noted at the highest level - he was invited to the inauguration as a guest of Vice-President Kamala Harris.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. Kibue 🇰🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne tweeter said the backlash revealed an unhealthy attitude in Kenya: \"At the end of the day, it's all about who will get the job done. This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPolice patrols were stepped up around the Scotland-England border around Christmas\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nSo many of us are spending more time staring at a screen right now and an eye health charity is recommending we learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect our sight. Fight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you're working at a screen, in order to reduce eye strain. The charity also commissioned a survey of 2,000 people which found more than a third believed their eyesight had worsened in the past year. It says the number of us getting regular eye tests is also down and is urging people not to miss their appointments.\n\nIt sadly comes as no surprise to learn that 2020 was the worst year on record for UK retailers, especially those focused on clothing and homeware. Food bucked the trend, particularly over Christmas, with the highest ever festive spending on groceries. But overall, retail sales declined by 0.3% across the year, and non-food by nearly a quarter, the biggest annual dip since the British Retail Consortium began collating the figures in 1995. The BRC says many retailers are struggling to survive and the government should extend the business rates holiday to save jobs.\n\nA father who'd campaigned for a change in the coronavirus rules to make life easier for non-resident parents to see their children has welcomed a government rethink. Previously, parents could visit children they don't live with during lockdown, but restrictions prevented them from staying overnight in a hotel. Ex-BBC journalist Tom De Castella said the ban \"had a massive bearing on seeing my daughter\", who lives a three-and-a-half hour drive away from his home. Now the rules have been rewritten, he's relieved. \"This is about building a bond with your child, it's crucial to their development,\" he added.\n\nTom De Castella said the rethink was \"great news\" for parents like him\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, three vaccines are now approved for use in the UK, but there are many differences between them. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Lockdown rule-breakers are more likely to be fined as Covid laws will be enforced \"more quickly\", the UK's most senior police officer has said.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers have had to break up parties, despite hospitals struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nA minister confirmed her pledge that fines were \"increasingly likely\".\n\nKit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [are illustrating] to them that if they don't they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" Mr Malthouse, the policing minister, told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"These current measures should in theory, if we all stick by them, be enough to drive the numbers down so that we can start to move through the gears of tiers from mid-February,\" he added.\n\nAsked if tighter restrictions for England were on the way - something the health secretary has refused to rule out - Mr Malthouse said ministers were \"on tenterhooks\" watching the daily figures for Covid deaths, new cases and hospital admissions, as rules continue to be kept under review.\n\nHe said the government's ramped-up efforts to give vulnerable people the coronavirus vaccine should help the UK to \"get back to some sort of normality later this year\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there was currently no expectation that Westminster will impose more extensive restrictions.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she discussed possible tighter restrictions with members of her cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, will hold a coronavirus press conference at Downing Street later.\n\nThe latest figures on Monday showed a further 529 people had died within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, while another 46,169 cases were reported.\n\nThere are also more than 32,200 people in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme some 75 police officers are joining 185 firefighters in being trained to drive ambulances in the capital, to help London Ambulance Service as the number of cases of the virus continues to rise.\n\nAnd writing in the Times, she said her officers had found people hosting raves, house parties and basement gambling events, despite clear laws that ban social gatherings.\n\n\"It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus,\" she said, adding that people breaking Covid laws were \"increasingly likely to face fines\".\n\nPolice chiefs in other parts of England have also warned \"patience is running out\" with rule-breakers, with the public increasingly willing to report alleged rule breaches.\n\nSince March, some 32,000 penalties for breaching Covid laws have been issued in England and Wales - with a sharp rise in penalties during England's November lockdown.\n\nAlmost 6,500 penalty tickets were handed out in the weeks up to Christmas as police began moving more quickly from \"engage\", \"explain\" and \"encourage\" to the fourth \"e\" - \"enforcement\".\n\nExpect the rate of fines to continue upwards during January, given the scale of the emergency and the pressure from government on constabularies to enforce the law.\n\nBut there is also a tension here. Police chiefs have told their officers they will often have to use their own judgement because the list of \"reasonable excuses\" in the law for why someone can be outside is not fixed in stone.\n\nThere is a lot of wriggle room in the law to allow daily lives to continue.\n\nWhile ministers, scientists and health experts are all hammering home the message that people should stay at home as much as possible, the law is more liberal - for instance, there is no restriction on exercise in England.\n\nAnd that's why some police officers believe they are stuck between a rock and a hard place as people who don't want to be locked down find more and more creative ways to stretch the rules to breaking point.\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nDame Cressida told the Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nShe also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cycle in east London at the weekend was \"not against the law\", but added the \"stay local\" guidance on exercise for England could be made more clear.\n\nUnder Scotland's lockdown restrictions, people must start and finish their exercise in the same place - and to do so, they may travel up to five miles from the boundary of their local authority area. People in Wales should start and finish exercising from their home, while those in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.\n\nAsked if she would like to see similar detail in England's guidance, Dame Cressida said: \"That is certainly something the government could consider.\n\n\"Anything that brings greater clarity, for officers and the public, in general, will be a good thing.\"\n\nDame Cressida also said she was delighted that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers for vaccines was being discussed\n\nPolice chiefs have been under increasing pressure to enforce the lockdown laws - with a number of news reports about breaches of Covid rules in recent days.\n\nIn one case, Derbyshire Police withdrew penalties for two women who had been fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk together - following widespread media attention.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has defended the way police have handled breaches, saying there is a need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nFour people were arrested in Edinburgh on Monday after anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - which are in charge of making their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn her article, Dame Cressida said she was \"delighted to hear\" that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers to get vaccinated was being \"actively discussed\", as the rate of officers self-isolating has risen.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, as part of the government's plan to vaccinate tens of millions of people by the spring.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said members of the armed forces were working \"hand in hand with the NHS\" to help with the response to the UK's epidemic.\n\nSome 5,300 members of the armed forces are currently involved in the Covid response including personnel to help with vaccinations and community testing across the UK, he said.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS Louisa Jordan was built in two weeks in April response to concerns over hospital capacity\n\nA shortage of NHS staff could prevent the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan to Covid patients if capacity is exceeded elsewhere, a leading doctor has said.\n\nPresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Prof Mike Griffin, said the increasing numbers off work was a \"major problem\".\n\nThe Scottish government says the NHS is not being \"overwhelmed\" and staffing plans are in place to deal with demand.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan is currently being used for outpatient services.\n\nThe temporary hospital at the SEC in Glasgow was set up in April in response to concerns over hospital capacity.\n\nIt was not used for Covid care during the first surge of the pandemic and has since been made available for outpatient services, such as orthopaedics, plastic surgery and dermatology.\n\nIt is also being used for Covid vaccinations.\n\nProf Mike Griffin told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the pressure on the NHS workforce was particularly acute in the west of Scotland, where the number of cases was high.\n\n\"Particularly in Glasgow and Lanarkshire, there's been significant increases recently because of the new variant. Without any doubt, that new variant is increasing transmissibility, and therefore increasing infection rates and increasing hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's not just the admissions that's the problem. Our doctors, surgeons, nurses and everyone are really working extremely hard - but there is an increase in absenteeism because of illness and because of self-isolation amongst nursing staff.\"\n\nTwo of Scotland's health boards - NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Lanarkshire - are currently over their capacity for Covid patients.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has reached 85% capacity and NHS Tayside is at 81% capacity, according to the latest Scottish government figures.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan has capacity for 1,000 Covid patients if it is needed, but Prof Griffin said that using it as a Covid facility could be dependent on retired or former staff returning to work for NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Opening the Louisa Jordan as a Covid institution without staff is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"It is equipped to be able to do it. And if the staffing is there, if we get returners and so on, then perhaps that might happen.\"\n\nThe number of Covid patients in hospital across Scotland is now higher than it was in April, although the numbers in intensive care are lower.\n\nNumbers initially appeared to be declining in November, but never reached low levels and began to climb sharply again at the end of the year.\n\nProf Griffin added that it was likely that better treatments for Covid patients were also reducing mortality and so keeping those patients in hospital for longer.\n\nNHS Scotland has an overall capacity for 13,000 beds, with 2,400 assigned to Covid patients.\n\nThis is down from a capacity of about 3,600 in the autumn because of additional seasonal pressures on the NHS, including weather-related issues and increased staff absence.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, accepted that having around 1,500 patients in hospital with Covid had forced the cancellation of procedures such as cataract operations and hip replacements.\n\nBut he said that ability to \"flex\" within the system meant that the NHS remained within capacity.\n\nProf Leitch also pointed to the situation in England where there have been reports of limits being put on the amount of oxygen that patients can receive and some intensive care patients having to be treated in non-ICU beds.\n\nSpeaking at the first minister's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"People shouldn't be scared that the health service is full or overwhelmed - it isn't.\n\n\"It is fragile, and you just have to look a few hundred miles south to see what happens when it is even more fragile.\n\n\"So we need to avoid that as much as we can in Scotland.\"", "The Northern Lights from Munlochy on the Black Isle in the Highlands\n\nDisplays of the Aurora Borealis were visible from north and north east Scotland overnight.\n\nAlso known as the Northern Lights, the aurora appear as shimmering waves of light when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun.\n\nBBC Weather Watchers photographed the \"lights\" from Shetland, the Highlands and Moray.\n\nBrae, Shetland, was among the vantage points for observing the aurora overnight on Monday into Tuesday\n\nA view of the aurora from Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast\n\nA colourful scene at Nairn on the Highlands' Moray Firth coast\n\nThe aurora from Glenelg in the west Highlands\n\nThis stunning image was captured at Durness by Andy Walker\n\nClear skies over Moray offered opportunities to see the lights, including from Elgin\n\nFreck Fraser's image of the aurora from a snowy Belladrum near Beauly\n\nThe green glow of the aurora from Portmahomack in the Highlands\n\nAnother image of the aurora from Brae in Shetland\n\nBright lights of the aurora from Uig in the Highlands", "Meddyg Care Dementia Home was due to receive vaccinations last week\n\nA care home manager is \"frightened\" for the residents after its delivery of Covid vaccinations failed to arrive.\n\nLorna Jones said Meddyg Care Dementia Home in Criccieth, Gwynedd, was due to have a delivery of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca jab a week ago.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived amid claims other people in the area have already had the jab.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board admitted there had been \"logistical problems\" in north west Wales.\n\nThe health board insisted it is \"committed\" to vaccinating those most vulnerable.\n\nOn Monday, it was announced that all over-50s in Wales are to be offered jab by spring, after criticism the rollout of the vaccine in Wales has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nWith family visits suspended, the care home has not recorded a single Covid-19 case and a phone call on New Year's Eve to say it was to receive the vaccine was met with \"glee and happiness\".\n\nUnder the Welsh Government's vaccination rollout plan, care home residents and staff are first in line to get the immunisation - or priority one - ahead of elderly people within communities across Wales.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived while, the home claimed, local GP surgeries have been administering the vaccine to over 80s in the community.\n\nLorna Jones is demanding answers as to why the vaccine has not arrived\n\nMs Jones said: \"I can't understand why Betsi Cadwaladr have veered away from the priority list.\n\n\"It's very clear. If there are vaccines coming into the local community, which there are, why have our residents not been vaccinated?\n\n\"I know some care homes have had it in Caernarfon, so why haven't we. What's the difference?\"\n\nMs Jones said the delay is causing concern among staff, residents and families.\n\n\"I'm frightened for our residents. I'm getting a lot of contact from families and I just can't give them anything,\" she said.\n\nThe home's owner said he had now taken matters into his own hands.\n\nKevin Edwards, managing director of Meddyg Care, said he had spent hours ringing around GP surgeries \"begging\" for spare vaccines.\n\nHe said the residents would now be vaccinated on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're a specialist dementia home, you can't just turn up one day and give the vaccine to the residents, there needs to be an element of preparation,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said it was working to ensure those with the highest priority are vaccinated.\n\nTeresa Owen, the health board's executive director of public health, said: \"Last week we vaccinated nearly 10,000 people in north Wales.\n\n\"This week, staff from primary care practices will be going into the local nursing and residential homes to administer the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccination to residents.\n\n\"The initial supply of vaccinations to the west of BCUHB has caused some logistical problems with commencing this programme, but vaccines have now been allocated for all the nursing and residential homes in the locality.\"", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - is a keen cyclist\n\nDowning Street has defended Boris Johnson for riding his bicycle seven miles from home, saying he complied with Covid rules during his trip.\n\nLabour accused the prime minister of having double standards, after it was reported he had been spotted in the saddle at east London's Olympic Park.\n\nGovernment guidance says daily outdoor exercise is allowed but people should not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said any suggestion he had broken the rules was \"wrong\".\n\nBut he did not confirm whether Mr Johnson had been driven to the Olympic Park from Downing Street or cycled there.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the trip had not been \"against the law - that's for sure\".\n\nPeople should go for exercise \"from your front door and come back to your front door\", she said, adding: \"That's my view of local.\"\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said the Commissioner's words were \"wise\".\n\n\"The instruction is to stay local and for her a reasonable interpretation was to exercise from their front door but for some people it's more complicated. Everyone needs to exercise their own judgement\", she added.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that the prime minister had been seen in the Olympic Park, with his security detail, on Sunday.\n\nThere's nothing in English lockdown law that says Boris Johnson shouldn't have pedalled around London's Olympic park on Sunday, seven miles from Downing Street.\n\nBut this comes at a time when the government is desperately pleading with people to take Covid-19 seriously and follow the rules.\n\nIn England that means leaving home only for essential work, shopping and exercise. The guidance also says \"stay local\" without defining how far people can roam.\n\nTravel for exercise is allowed \"a short distance within your area\" to access an open space.\n\nNumber 10 will insist that's precisely what Mr Johnson did.\n\nBut his ride highlights the problem everyone faces trying to interpret rules, and relying on people using common sense.\n\nThe outing certainly doesn't help ministers straining to tell the public - in clear, consistent, easy-to-understand terms - to stay at home.\n\nAndy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, west London, criticised the prime minister for having a \"do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do\" attitude.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"What we are asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local.\n\n\"Now local is, obviously, open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means.\n\n\"If you can get there under your own steam and you are not interacting with somebody... then that seems perfectly reasonable to me.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman added: \"We have always trusted the public to exercise good judgement. We did throughout the first lockdown and continue to do so.\"\n\nDame Cressida Dick said Boris Johnson had not broken the law\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after police in Derbyshire fined two women £200 after they drove five miles from home to take a walk - a penalty that was later dropped.\n\nGovernment advice for England says people can leave home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nThe government also states: \"The law is what you must do; the guidance might be a mixture of what you must do and what you should do.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is that exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nIn Wales, exercise also has to start from and finish at home. There no limits on distance travelled, although the advice is that \"the nearer you stay to your home, the better\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "England is currently under a third national lockdown, in an attempt to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.\n\nBut there has been speculation that ministers could be considering tightening restrictions, amid concerns the \"stay-at-home\" message isn't being followed by enough people.\n\nAt Monday evening's Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to follow the existing rules but added, \"we won't rule out taking further action if it's needed\". Other ministers have struck a similar tone.\n\nBut what is the case for more changes?\n\nIn March, nurseries closed to all but vulnerable children and those whose parents were key workers.\n\nBut so far this lockdown, early-years provision has remained open in England.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have chosen to keep nurseries closed to most children for now.\n\nBut England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said keeping them open \"would allow people who need to go to work, or need to do particular activities, to do so\".\n\nYounger children carry a lower risk of transmission than adolescents, scientists say.\n\nBut according to Public Health England, 10% of coronavirus outbreaks or clusters in educational settings since September have been in early-years provision.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations have called on the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early-years staff now there is a more transmissible variant of Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he too would like to hear more from scientists about the risks - and nurseries should \"probably\" close.\n\nGoing out to exercise once a day is one of the \"reasonable excuses\" for leaving home during lockdown.\n\nPeople can walk, run, cycle or swim with those they live - or are in a support bubble - with.\n\nIn addition, they can exercise, on their own, with one person, each time, from another household - as long as they stay 2m (6ft) apart.\n\nHowever, Mr Hancock said, \"we've been seeing large groups and that is not acceptable\" and warned that, \"if too many people keep breaking this rule, then we are going to have to look at it\".\n\nThe rules say exercise should be \"local\" - in the village, town, or part of the city where you live - but do not currently specify how far people can travel.\n\nDerbyshire Police recently fined two women £200 each for driving five miles to meet for a walk, saying driving for exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown. They were told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed, either, as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nThe penalties have now been withdrawn.\n\nProf Whitty, meanwhile, has urged people to \"double down\", avoid unnecessary contact and stick to the rules.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live about coffee shops remaining open for takeaways, he advised against meeting up there.\n\n\"Really, please don't,\" he said.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in almost all public indoor settings - including shops - unless people are exempt.\n\nPremises \"should take reasonable steps to promote compliance with the law\", government guidance says.\n\nLast summer, when customer face coverings became law, many supermarkets said they would not make their staff responsible for enforcing the rules.\n\nHowever, Morrisons has now updated its policy to bar shoppers who refuse to cover their faces, unless they are medically exempt. Sainsbury's says security guards at its stores will challenge customers who do not comply.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose have followed suit and say they too will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they have an exemption.\n\nThere have been suggestions face coverings should be required in outdoor public places.\n\nHowever, Sage has previously suggested it would have a \"very low impact\" on community transmission\n\nProf Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the risk posed by joggers, for example, was \"very low\" - but there \"might be some logic\" to people wearing masks in a busy outdoor queue or crowded around a market stall.\n\nOne change the government has ruled out is to support bubbles - which allow people living alone and single, or new parents to mix with another household of any size, without having to socially distance.\n\nAt the government briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I can rule out removing the bubbles.\"\n\nThe official guidance says it's best if a support bubble is formed with a household who live locally.\n\nBut there is currently no limit to how far people can travel to visit their bubble, meaning they could go from areas with high infection rates to those with lower ones, potentially spreading the virus.\n\nWhen \"bubbling\" was first suggested, in May, Sage rejected it as too dangerous, because the reproduction (R) number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - was close to one.\n\nCurrently, the R number in England is between 1.1 and 1.4. Sage says stopping all indoor contact between different households could lower this by as much as 0.2.\n\n\"Active contract tracing should be a precondition of introducing bubbling\", Sage added.\n\nUnlike in March, places of worship are allowed to open in England, although they are closed in Scotland.\n\nThey provide spiritual leadership for many and bring communities together - but their \"communal nature\" also makes them \"vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus\", the government guidance for England says.\n\nWhen the latest lockdown was announced, the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted: \"The government hasn't suspended public worship - but some may feel it better not to attend in person and some parishes are expected to offer online services only for now.\"\n\nSage has previously suggested places of worship pose a high risk to vulnerable groups but closing them would have a low to moderate impact on overall coronavirus transmission.", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate from coronavirus in Wales - with another 34 hospital deaths in the latest week\n\nThere have now been more than 5,100 deaths in Wales involving Covid-19 since the pandemic began.\n\nThe latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 310 deaths in the week ending 1 January, which is 32 more than the week before.\n\nThis is nearly 42.6% of all deaths.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest numbers of weekly deaths in Wales, the most since the end of April at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 76 deaths in the area - including 66 in hospitals and six in care homes.\n\nLooking at council areas, Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales, with 34. The London borough of Newham had 35.\n\nThe ONS again urged caution when interpreting this week's figures, due to the Christmas and new year holidays, which will affect the number of registrations.\n\nThe total number of Covid deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 1 January, was 4,963.\n\nBut when deaths registered over the following few days are included, there was a total of 5,169.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan health board, with 68 deaths registered involving Covid, also had its highest number in a single week since the end of April.\n\nHywel Dda health board reported 37 deaths - its highest weekly figure since the pandemic began. Of these, 18 were patients in hospital from Carmarthenshire and 10 were hospital patients from Pembrokeshire.\n\nSwansea Bay health board had 61 deaths in this week. The Swansea council area itself had the seventh highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales.\n\nThere were 36 deaths in Cardiff and Vale, 25 deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales - 10 of which were hospital deaths in Wrexham - and seven in Powys.\n\nAll counties recorded at least one death involving Covid-19.\n\nThis map shows three valleys areas in south Wales among the highest for crude mortality rates involving Covid in the pandemic so far\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf, with 685 deaths, has the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales up to the latest week, followed by Cardiff with 578.\n\nWhen looking at crude death rates - based on the number of deaths compared to local populations - Wales has three of the five worst across England and Wales.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has 283 deaths per 100,000 in total so far in the pandemic.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil is second with 253.6 and Blaenau Gwent is ranked fourth.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths fell from 825 to 727 in the latest week, but this was still 209 deaths (40.3%) higher than the five-year average for that week. This is the second highest proportion after London.\n\nThe ONS figures report where doctors mention Covid-19 on death certificates, including confirmed and suspected cases.\n\nThey include deaths occurring in all places, not only hospitals and care homes but also people's own homes.\n\nIt has been estimated that Covid is the underlying cause in around 90% of these deaths and not just a contributory factor.", "An eye health charity is recommending people learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect their sight, as lockdown has increased people's time using screens.\n\nFight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you look at a screen.\n\nOut of 2,000 people, half used screens more since Covid struck and a third (38%) of those believed their eyesight had worsened, a survey suggested.\n\nOpticians remain open for those who need them, the charity said.\n\nThe representative survey of 2,000 adults suggested one in five were less likely to get an eye test now than before the pandemic, for fear of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nRespondents reported difficulty reading, as well as headaches and migraines and poorer night vision.\n\nThe research charity, which commissioned a survey from polling company YouGov, said it wanted to emphasise the importance of having regular eye tests and to remind people \"the majority of opticians are open for appointments throughout lockdown restrictions\".\n\nFight for Sight chief executive Sherine Krause said: \"More than half of all cases of sight loss are avoidable through early detection and prevention methods. Regular eye tests can often detect symptomless sight-threatening conditions.\"\n\nBut even simple screen breaks can help to prevent eye strain, the charity suggested.\n\nGovernment guidance states that under lockdown people can leave home for medical appointments and to \"avoid injury, illness or risk of harm\".\n\nThe College of Optometrists said its members should continue to provide eye care under lockdown for people who experience any eyesight changes or problems.\n\nOptometrists are the professionals who will carry out your eye test when you visit an optician's practice.\n\nRoutine appointments can also be provided \"if capacity permits, and if it is in the patients' best interests\", the guidance states.\n\nClinical adviser Paramdeep Bilkhu said the college's own research suggested just under a quarter of people noticed their vision deteriorate during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our research showed us that many people believe that spending more time in front of screens worsened their vision,\" he said.\n\n\"The good news is that this is unlikely to cause any permanent harm to your vision. However, it is very important that if you feel your vision has deteriorated or if you are experiencing any problems with your eyes, such as them becoming red or painful, you contact your local optometrist by telephone or online.\"\n\nUK health and safety legislation states employers must pay for eye tests for their employees if they have to use a screen for work for more than one hour a day.\n\nIn the summer, the UK Ophthalmology Alliance and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists calculated that at least 10,000 people had missed out on essential eye care in Britain.\n\nIn the most extreme cases, the Royal National Institute of Blind People said it feared some people were at risk of losing their sight because of a fear of attending hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA Royal College of Ophthalmologists spokesperson said: \"It is important that people who have found significant changes in their vision seek the advice of an optometrist who will examine, and determine if the changes require further investigation by an ophthalmologist - a medically-trained eye doctor.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "New England Patriots's Bill Belichick is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history\n\nTop NFL coach Bill Belichick says he will not accept President Donald Trump's offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing the US Capitol riot.\n\nBelichick, of the New England Patriots, said he was flattered when he was first offered the medal - the top award given to civilians in the US.\n\nBut he said he changed his mind after a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress last week. Five people died.\n\nThe celebrated coach had previously spoken of his friendship with Mr Trump.\n\n\"Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honour represents and admiration for prior recipients,\" Belichick said in a statement.\n\n\"Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.\"\n\nBelichick, who has won a record six Super Bowl titles, is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history.\n\nThe Presidential Medal of Freedom recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to \"the security or national interests of America\".\n\nIn 2019 Mr Trump gave the award to golfer Tiger Woods, as well as radio personality Rush Limbaugh and posthumously Elvis Presley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Super Bowl: How Tom Brady and Bill Belichick built a New England Patriots dynasty\n\nDonald Trump may only have recently made a career of politics, but he's always loved sport.\n\nHe owns 17 golf courses and once bought and ran the New Jersey Generals of the US Football League.\n\nJust last week, he awarded three presidential medals of freedom to professional golfers. This week he was planning to honour the most successful professional football coach in modern times, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.\n\nThe president seems to particularly enjoy the company of sport figures and revel in their achievements and prowess.\n\nSo for Belichick, a personal friend of the president's, to decline the award is a stinging rebuke.\n\nThe coach's decision reflects the depth of the political crisis president has created in the past week. It also highlights the troubled relationship Trump has had with the National Football League and its players, who he has disparaged for Black Lives Matter protests during the US national anthem.\n\nBelichick, a sometimes bristling, controversial figure with more than a few detractors, is used to public animosity. A coach can't win without the commitment of his players, however, and Belichick clearly believed his relationship with his team would be jeopardised by associating himself with Trump at this point.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "The US has placed Cuba back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing the communist country's backing of Venezuela.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration made the announcement just days before he leaves the White House.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on 20 January, has previously said he wants to improve US-Cuban relations.\n\nMr Biden has said he is seeking closer ties between the long-term adversaries but Mr Trump's decision is likely to hinder a quick repair of relations.\n\nCuba's place on the list will require a formal review that could take months, analysts say.\n\nThe Caribbean island was removed from the list by President Barack Obama in 2015, but Mr Trump has taken a harder line towards the country.\n\nIn 2016 Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Cuba since 1928\n\nWhen explaining the decision, officials cited Cuba's support of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro who the US refuses to recognise.\n\n\"With this action, we will once again hold Cuba's government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of US justice,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.\n\nIn response, Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted: \"We condemn the cynical and hypocritical qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States.\"\n\nIn advance of the announcement, House Democrat Gregory Meeks called it \"another stunt by President Trump and Pompeo, trying to tie the hands of the incoming Biden administration on their way out the door.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Obama began to normalise relations with Cuba in 2015. He called the decades-long US efforts to isolate the country \"a failure\".\n\nSince the Cold War era, the US had pursued various policies to undermine Cuba which it saw as a great threat.\n\nCuba now rejoins countries including Iran and North Korea on the list of sponsors of terrorism. The impact on the island country include severe limits on foreign investment.", "Mr Williamson says his department is doing all it can to support remote learning\n\nAn extra 300,000 laptops and tablets have been bought to help disadvantaged children in England learn at home, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson said the devices would be delivered to schools.\n\nHe also pledged to publish a remote education framework to support schools and colleges with delivering lessons during the latest national lockdown.\n\nIt comes as research says children from poorer families are likely to struggle more with remote learning.\n\nThe Department for Education said its data showed that over 700,000 devices had been delivered to schools in England so far during the pandemic - 100,000 of which were delivered last week.\n\nThe department says the additional 300,000 laptops and tablets lifts government investment by another £100m, meaning over £400m will have been invested in supporting disadvantaged children who need help with access to technology during the pandemic.\n\nBut the department has faced mounting criticism over huge percentages of pupils not having access to digital devices, nine months into the pandemic.\n\nMr Williamson said the DfE was \"doing everything in our power to support schools with high-quality remote education\".\n\nHe said: \"These additional devices, on top of the 100,000 delivered last week, add to the significant support we are making available to help schools deliver high-quality online learning, as we know they have been doing.\"\n\nOn top of this, the remote education framework would support schools and colleges with delivering education for pupils who are learning from home, he said.\n\nThe frameworks, which are voluntary and should be adapted for schools' individual circumstances, will \"help them to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in the lessons and teaching they provide remotely\".\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"While we welcome the extra laptops and tablets announced, it is pretty poor that nearly a year after this crisis began we are only now inching up to the number of devices that are needed.\n\n\"The reality is that this extra provision is coming when we are already well into the new lockdown and after a heavily disrupted autumn term in which many children had to self-isolate in line with coronavirus protocols,\" he said.\n\n\"The government was slow off the mark to address the digital divide early in the crisis and is now trying to make up for lost time.\"\n\nMr Williamson's laptop announcement comes as research by the University of Sussex found that nearly one in five less advantaged parents said they struggled with home-learning during the first lockdown.\n\nThe research surveyed 3,409 parents in the UK between 5 May until 31 July last year and found families of lower socioeconomic status were more likely to report their home environment made it harder for pupils to complete schoolwork from home.\n\nThe study says secondary school pupils eligible for free school meals (39%) were more likely to report that a lack of technology - such as laptops and computers - made learning from home more difficult, compared to 19% of pupils who are not eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere are concerns poorer children will fall further behind\n\nPrimary school pupils from struggling households were found to be more likely to find home learning learning harder than their more comfortable off peers due to the environment - such as noise levels (59% to 50%), lack of space (45% to 22%), lack of technology (45% to 26%) and lack of internet (35% to 16%).\n\nThe researchers warned that educational inequalities were likely to increase due to further school closures this year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Matthew Easterbrook said: \"These results show that school closures disproportionately disrupt the education of those who are most economically disadvantaged, suggesting that educational inequalities are likely to rise because of the pandemic.\n\n\"The results show that parents of pupils from disadvantaged families - those who are eligible for free school meals, who have lower levels of education, or who are financially struggling - are much more likely to report that learning from home is challenging.\"\n\nReport co-author Lewis Doyle, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, added: \"School closures, while clearly necessary during this public health crisis, risk entrenching inequality.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the government also published figures on how many pupils were physically in schools across England before the Christmas holidays.\n\nThe data shows 79% of pupils in state schools were in class on Wednesday16 December - down from 85% on Thursday 10 December.\n\nIn secondary schools, attendance fell from 80% to 72% on 16 December, while pupil attendance in primary schools fell from 89% to 86%, the figures show.\n\nBetween 9% and 11% of pupils - up to 872,000 children - did not attend school for Covid-19 related reasons on 16 December.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "The disease is still spreading. There are more people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK than at any other point in the pandemic.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, hit the airwaves on Monday morning to tell us it's \"everyone's problem\".\n\nAnd a possible further increase in the numbers from those get-togethers that did take place over Christmas is yet to filter through.\n\nIt is cheering, and crucial, to see the elderly and vulnerable attending vaccine super-centres in huge numbers for their injections.\n\nBut there is no getting away from it: at this moment, the coronavirus situation seems pretty dire. And there is real concern in government that the public, this time round, is just not paying attention to the rules as closely as they did back in the spring.\n\nWhat is the government's answer? It is not, at least not yet, despite calls from the opposition, another big clampdown.\n\nIt might not feel like it, but it is only seven days since Boris Johnson took what used to be the rare step of making a national address, live on primetime TV, telling us, across the UK, once more to \"stay at home\".\n\nThere is hardly any political appetite to go even further.\n\nAs one senior minister said today: \"We have gone as far as we possibly can in terms of shutting things down\".\n\nThe prime minister was reluctant to go this far, only moving back to a lockdown in England when the evidence put forward by the government's top medics got worse, and worse and worse.\n\nThere are in fact even more limits that ministers, not just in Westminster but in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast too, could introduce.\n\nSchools could be forcibly closed to all pupils. Nurseries could shut.\n\nGovernment sources say the nurseries policy isn't going to change. Number 10 firmly denies they would ever take such a drastic step on schools which have always been open to key workers' children and it is hard to imagine that ever happening.\n\nIn extremis though there are measures that could be taken - in theory the government does not want to do any of this, but in practice there are other potential steps.\n\nBuilding sites could be made to lock their gates. Factories where machines are still whirring because they are operating under Covid guidelines could be made to pause.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland could follow Wales and ban people from seeing anyone they don't live with even outdoors.\n\nPlaygrounds, launderettes and chiropractors, could, along with many others on the list of premises allowed to stay open, have to shut up shop after all.\n\nBut while ministers have talked about squeezing the advice for takeaways to try to prevent big queues gathering at popular places, encouraged the supermarkets to make sure they are doing as much as they can to be safe, and even discussed the prospect of asking for masks to be worn outdoors, there is no expectation, at least at the start of this week, that a more extensive clampdown is coming from Westminster.\n\nAlthough, it's worth noting that the Scottish cabinet will discuss restrictions again on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Matt Hancock ruled out getting rid of support bubbles.\n\nOne reason for the reluctance to go much further is that every step that affects a business affects jobs and livelihoods too.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs on Monday that 800,000 people have lost their jobs since February, admitting the economy will get worse before it gets better.\n\nSo trying to preserve activity that can be done safely matters to the government too.\n\nThere's also a question in government circles about whether cranking up different rules bit by bit is really what would help.\n\nChris Whitty this morning bluntly suggested there was limited value in \"tinkering\" with the rules, and what is required instead is for all of us to realise how grave the situation really is.\n\nInstead of worrying about whether we are allowed to sit on a park bench at all, (and yes, this has been a lively conversation in Westminster today) , perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether we really need to be out at all.\n\nThe NHS has been under huge pressure dealing with a surge in Covid cases this winter.\n\nBut when what happens next will be in large part shaped by our behaviour as individuals, working out the dos and don'ts can get sticky fast.\n\nTwo women who hit the headlines for driving five miles to go for a snowy walk with a takeaway cuppa had their fines withdrawn today, just as the prime minister caused a stir when a newspaper revealed he'd gone seven miles to the other side of London for a cycle in the Olympic Park.\n\nYou might be a reader who feels, 'so what?'. In both cases they were exercising outside, within the law, so who cares?\n\nBut you might feel when the firm instruction is to stay at home, and stay local, that is pushing the rules.\n\nFor now though, with grimmer and grimmer medics' warnings ringing in our ears, and reminders about enforcement from the police coming too, ministers seem resolved to encourage the public to comply rather than crack down further.\n\nBut it is however, only a week since the lockdown the prime minister had so hoped to avoid returned. By now, it's not surprising, Boris Johnson would never quite rule anything out.\n\nP.S. In all the gloom, the cheerier news is that the vaccination programme across the UK is certainly getting going, with 2.3 million people having had their first jab.\n\nThe number of people getting vaccinated has been added to the list of statistics that the government publishes every day. The targets the government has set are tough, but the numbers so far, are growing fast.", "RAF Typhoons, similar to the aircraft pictured, took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the civilian aircraft to London Stansted Airport\n\nA sonic boom has been heard across the East of England after RAF Typhoon aircraft were launched to intercept a plane that had lost communications.\n\nThe Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby and \"safely escorted\" the civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport in Essex, an RAF spokesman said.\n\nThe boom, at about 13:05 GMT, was reported by people across social media.\n\n\"The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to transit at supersonic speed for operational reasons,\" the RAF said.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and parts of London heard the boom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People's reaction to the sonic boom was caught on camera\n\n\"We have received numerous calls from the public with reports of a sonic boom... between Huntingdon and Cambridge,\" Cambridgeshire police said, in a Facebook post.\n\n\"Nobody has been injured. Some callers reported the incident had shaken properties but no major damage is thought to have occurred.\"\n\nAn image from a police officer's body-worn camera captured the RAF Typhoon aircraft flying over Cambridgeshire\n\nCommunications with the aircraft were re-established after the Typhoons were launched and it was intercepted before being escorted to Stansted.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said the \"private jet\" was believed to have been flying from Germany to Birmingham.\n\nHe confirmed the plane had been brought into land at about 13:40.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers are the first in line to get Covid jabs\n\nA sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation drive.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line workers who will be the first to receive jabs.\n\nIndia has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world after the United States.\n\nMillions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive.\n\n\"We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows the world our capability,\" Mr Modi, said, addressing the country on Saturday morning.\n\nA sanitation worker is the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine\n\nHe added that India was well prepared to vaccinate its population with the help of an app, which would help the government track the drive and ensure that nobody was left out.\n\nMr Modi spoke at length about doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \"who showed us the light\" in \"dark times\".\n\n\"They stayed away from their families to serve humanity. And hundreds of them never went home. They gave their life to save others. And that is why the first jabs are being given to healthcare workers - this is our way of paying respect to them.\"\n\nDoctors and medical staff at Delhi's Max hospital tell me a lot of hope is being pinned on the vaccination drive. One official described it \"as a new dawn\" and said \"it's the beginning of Covid's end\".\n\nInside the waiting room, there are posters on the wall with information about the documents one needs to bring, how safe the vaccine is, and the precautions that need to be taken even after one's been vaccinated. Among those being vaccinated on Saturday are doctors, nurses and front-office staff from all departments.\n\nThe names have been been chosen alphabetically so those getting jabs are mostly those with names starting with the letter A.\n\n\"The pandemic has played havoc in the country. I hope the vaccine will rid us of the fears and we will be able to breathe easy,\" Dr Anil Dass said after getting the jab.\n\nAshutosh Chaturvedi, a 31-year-old male nurse described as a \"Covid warrior\" by hospital officials, became the first recipient of the vaccine at Max.\n\n\"I'm fine, I feel good,\" he told reporters as he came down the hospital ramp, which has been decorated with blue, green and white balloons.\n\nSince April, he told me, he's worked in the emergency wing of the Covid ward, tending to those afflicted with the coronavirus.\n\n\"I haven't seen my wife and nine-month-old daughter since then. A month later, once I've received the second dose, I'll visit my family,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi also appealed to people to continue adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols like wearing masks and following social distancing. He said the country cannot afford to be complacent as vaccinating the entire population will take time.\n\nHe also urged people not to believe any \"propaganda and rumours about the safety of the vaccines\".\n\n\"I want to tell people that the approval to these vaccines was given only after scientists and experts were satisfied about its safety,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.\n\nHealth workers have been queuing up at vaccination centres for their turn\n\nNext in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls.\n\nSeveral hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August\n\nDr Atul Peters was among those who got the jab at Max hospital.\n\n\"It's a very big day. I'm grateful to those who worked hard to make this a reality. I was very very happy when I got a call informing me that my name was on the list.\n\n\"We worked hard during the pandemic to save lives and we are also taking the jab first to dispel fears in people's minds that the vaccine is not safe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMillions of vaccine doses have been shipped across India\n\nIndia's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.\n\nBut concerns have been raised over the efficacy of Covaxin because the regulator's emergency approval came before the completion of Phase 3 clinical trials. The regulator and the manufacturer have said the vaccine is safe, and that the efficacy data would be available by February.\n\nBoth vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.\n\nThe status of the vaccines and recipients will be electronically tracked in real time - some 8 million people who will receive the early jabs have been already registered. More than 600,000 people have been trained for the drive.\n\nThe jabs will be voluntary, and recipients will be given a certificate of vaccination after they complete both doses.\n\n\"I expect India's vaccination programme will be run much better than most countries because of the considerable government investment and early preparedness,\" Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's best-known vaccine experts, told the BBC.\n\nWith more than 10 million cases, India has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, after the US.\n\nThe largest vaccination drive in the country, however, begins at a time when infections have fallen sharply, and much of life has returned to normal. A limited availability of doses in the initial phase, therefore, is not likely to pose a problem.\n\nMost scientists feel India is primed for the challenge as it is a vaccine-making powerhouse and has run, for decades, a well-oiled immunisation programme for tens of millions of new-borns and mothers-to-be.\n\nBut the real challenges will begin when the general population starts receiving the jabs.\n\nIndia will use its formidable election machinery to deliver and track doses to recipients in far corners of the country. It is also likely to use digital platforms and apps to enable people to register for the doses.\n\nHowever, not every Indian owns a smart phone or knows how to operate an app, so it will be interesting to see what the government does to make sure that there are no inadvertent exclusions.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is the other concern.\n\nHealth activists Seema Pal and Rama Negi say they have been busting misinformation about the vaccine\n\nThe recent controversy over the hurried approval of Covaxin, many feel, could undermine confidence. There's a history of hesitancy about receiving the polio vaccine in parts of northern India, triggered by rumours about vaccines being impure and affecting fertility. Similar disinformation is now circulating about Covid vaccines on social networking apps, such as WhatsApp.\n\nThe government will need consistent, clear-eyed communication to bolster vaccine acceptance and community perception of the programme.\n\nVaccines come with side effects for some people. India has a 34-year-old surveillance programme for monitoring such \"adverse events\" following immunisation.\n\nBut researchers have found that benchmarks for reporting side effects still remain weak. A failure to transparently report adverse effects could easily lead to fear-mongering around vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The number of reported incidents of children dying or being seriously harmed after suspected abuse or neglect rose by a quarter after England's first lockdown last year, figures indicate.\n\nThe Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel received 285 serious incident notifications from April to September.\n\nThis is an increase of 27% from 225 in the same period the previous year.\n\nThe data also includes children who were in care and died, regardless of whether abuse or neglect was suspected.\n\nThe Children's Society described the figures as \"shocking\".\n\nThe serious incident notification system requires councils in England to report all incidents of death or serious harm involving children in their area to the Department for Education, which publishes the data.\n\nThey are also required to inform the education secretary and Ofsted if a looked-after child dies, regardless of whether they suspect abuse or neglect.\n\nChild deaths increased from 89 to 119 and those seriously harmed rose from 132 with 153 compared with the same period in 2019, according to the data.\n\nThe number of serious incidents involving children under one increased by 30% as did the harm suffered by those aged 16 and over.\n\nThe majority (54%) of incidents related to boys, and almost two thirds related to white children.\n\nIn two-thirds of the 285 cases reported, the harm occurred while children were living at home.\n\nThe number of serious incident notifications had fallen in 2019-20 compared with 2018-19 when there were 274 such notifications.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the increase in incidents last year happened at a time when Covid-19 was having a \"huge impact on the well-being of children and families and disrupted help available to those who needed it most\".\n\nEngland's first lockdown began at the end of March last year and ended on 4 July.\n\nMs Pona said: \"During the first lockdown many vulnerable children were stuck at home in difficult, sometimes dangerous situations, often isolated from friends and support networks.\n\n\"Sadly, children also continued to be targeted and groomed by people outside their families for sexual and criminal exploitation like county lines drug dealing operations, which can lead to serious violence or death.\n\n\"At the same time, they were often hidden from view of professionals like social workers and teachers who are best placed to spot the signs if they may be in danger.\"\n\nShe added that in the current lockdown it was \"vital\" that social care and schools work together closely to ensure all vulnerable children, including those in care, have regular contact with a trusted professional.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every single incident of this nature is a tragedy and we are working to understand the impact the pandemic may be having.\n\n\"Throughout the past months, we have prioritised the most vulnerable children and their families and put in place support to protect babies.\n\n\"We've maintained vital frontline services because we know it has been a challenge for many, especially for new parents, and we've invested thousands of pounds in charities working with vulnerable children and their families.\n\n\"Today we have launched a wholescale review of children's social care to reform the system and think afresh about how we support the most vulnerable. This data will provide important information to the care review to help address major challenges.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Irish hauliers have been bypassing ports in Wales because of Brexit, say industry leaders\n\nIrish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy, industry leaders say.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.\n\nGwynedd Shipping said it was operating at 65% normal volumes and the pressure of extra paperwork was challenging.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, the firm's managing director, said: \"It's an enormous strain on our staff in terms of processing bookings.\n\n\"We process around 400 or 500 bookings a week, the reality is we're operating at 65-70% of previous volumes.\n\n\"Whilst we see recovery in the number of clients and we're starting to get to a better pattern in terms of shipments I still think it's going to take several weeks for things to return to normal. Whether things return to pre-Christmas, pre-Brexit volumes remains to be seen.\"\n\nMr Kinsella thinks there will be long-term consequences for the ports.\n\nStena Line is among firms that have made changes to the routes its uses\n\n\"You can already see the shift in terms of the number of sailings,\" he said.\n\n\"I think you're seeing a shift away from Holyhead particularly in terms of weekend, off-peak traffic. I think longer term, the viability of all of these services will be something those ferry services will continue to scrutinise.\"\n\nThis week Stena Line moved its new ship to the route from Rosslare, in the Republic of Ireland, to Cherbourg, France.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, a new weekend sailing from Dublin to Cherbourg will also begin on 23 January, resulting in a temporary reduction in weekend capacity on the Dublin to Holyhead route.\n\nIt also intends to sail the Belfast-to-Liverpool route.\n\n\"Due to the current Brexit-related shift for direct routes and increasing customer demand, Stena Line has decided to temporarily deploy the Stena Embla on Rosslare-Cherbourg,\" Stena Line said.\n\nAt Rosslare Europort, business is booming, says general manager Glenn Carr.\n\n\"We've seen unprecedented demand in the first two weeks of trading compared to last year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"On our European routes there's a 500% increase in freight volume going through the port compared to last year.\"\n\nHe added that 18 months ago they would have had three sailings a week directly to mainland Europe from Rosslare Europort: \"Today we have 15.\"\n\nMr Carr says his customers want to bypass the UK because of Brexit.\n\n\"I think that's testament to demand, particularly from our exporters and importers, on the island of Ireland and the need to unfortunately bypass the UK because of Brexit to trade directly with the EU,\" he added.\n\nHe believes this change in operations will not be temporary.\n\nHe said decisions by ferry companies and businesses who trade with the EU to re-direct freight, have been made based on market analysis.\n\n\"The business case for the extra services out of Rosslare were not based on the first two weeks of this year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"They were based on analysis of the market and conversations with our exporters and importers who were switching.\n\n\"So there is a genuine switch and we foresee services being maintained out of Rosslare.\"\n\nUK government ministers have played down concerns about the long term viability of Welsh ports.\n\nGiving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee this week, Wales Office Minister David TC Davies MP, said former haulage industry colleagues referred to the issues as \"teething problems\".\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart MP, said: \"There is some evidence that things aren't looking necessarily, permanently bleak.\n\n\"It's one of those areas where we have to keep a very wary eye on it, but I think and hope that it is a temporary dip in the graph.\"\n\nBut transport expert Prof Stuart Cole, of the University of South Wales, thinks Brexit delays will be the incentive Irish companies needed to switch permanently to trading directly with the European mainland.\n\nProf Cole said the EU wanted to reduce congestion and pollution in parts of Europe.\n\nOne solution was to move freight by sea rather than road.\n\nThere have been problems with paperwork for drivers travelling to the European mainland\n\nUntil now there was no reason for Irish hauliers to move from using Welsh ports and Dover, Prof Cole said.\n\n\"The route worked perfectly, there was a predictable journey time and that's important for food and component parts going to factories,\" he said.\n\n\"That kind of change required a significant shift, and that's what's there now.\"\n\nBangor University economics lecturer, Dr Edward Thomas Jones, believes it is too soon to predict longer term changes.\n\n\"Because businesses stockpiled before Christmas in anticipation of Brexit, there is of course less use of the port [at Holyhead] since Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"On top of that, coronavirus means there are fewer tourists going on holiday to Ireland.\n\n\"We'll have a better idea of the future of the port in six months when these businesses who have stockpiled start buying again.\n\n\"Hopefully, by the second half of the year coronavirus will have been resolved and tourists will once again be able to travel back and forth.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru warned if traffic continued to be diverted away from the UK then Wales would suffer.\n\n\"I urge the UK government to work with the Welsh Government to provide substantial investment into Welsh ports to secure their viability into the future,\" said MP Hywel Williams, Plaid's Cabinet Office spokesman.\n\n\"If the trend of rerouting traffic through direct routes continues, I fear that our local economies both in the north west and south west of Wales will suffer enormously.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Douglas Jones was fulfilling a lifelong dream when he became a pilot\n\nThe aviation industry has been among those hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nPilot Douglas Jones was working for Aegean Airlines, flying out of Athens, when it began.\n\nIt cost him his job and also prompted him to return to the small Scottish town where he grew up.\n\nNow he is now turning his hand to a very different line of work producing PPE, in a sector which is enjoying something of a boom.\n\nMr Jones saw much of Europe in his work with Easyjet and Aegean Airlines\n\nThe 27-year-old, who was born in Haywards Heath in Sussex but raised in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, was enjoying his dream job at the start of 2020.\n\nHaving gained a commercial pilot's licence, he was based in Berlin with Easyjet before landing a position in Greece.\n\n\"It is definitely what I have always wanted to do,\" he said.\n\n\"With Aegean I have flown a good way across all the major airports of Europe.\"\n\nHowever, life changed \"very quickly\" as coronavirus spread across the continent.\n\n\"I flew to Copenhagen and I flew back from Copenhagen and I was on unpaid leave when I landed back in Athens,\" he explained.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks he received confirmation that his job was gone.\n\nMr Jones returned to Moffat amid fears of being stranded in Greece\n\nMr Jones said it took some time for him to fully appreciate that he would not be returning to the skies any time soon.\n\n\"Half of my stuff is still in Greece because we came back to our home countries thinking this will only be three to six months and that will be that,\" he said.\n\n\"We had just no concept of how bad this was ever going to be.\"\n\nIt meant he was back home in a region where he admits there are \"not a huge amount of options career-wise in normal times\".\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I was just desperate to do something, to have work.\"\n\nAlpha Solway is producing millions of masks for NHS Scotland\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAfter interview, he was offered a job in June which proved to be something of a change of pace from day one.\n\n\"I came in and I sat and cut elastic for visors for most of the day - I think I cut like something like 3km worth of elastic because one of the machines had a fault,\" he said.\n\nSince then he has helped make filter units for masks, developed standard work procedures and become a \"jack of all trades\" for the business.\n\nMr Jones said of his abilities as a pilot were useful at the PPE factory\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he said.\n\n\"When you are talking health and safety around large automated machinery you have to be aware of what things are doing and when and who is doing what.\n\n\"As a pilot - as you might like to think - we have quite a logical way of looking at things. The way we are trained to look at problems is very applicable to manufacturing.\"\n\nAn \"incredible\" summer helped ease the transition from Greece to Moffat\n\nSo how has the transition back to rural Scotland gone?\n\n\"We are so lucky that the summer we had here was quite incredible,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"To be out in Moffat, even during lockdown, you can access the hills, you don't have to drive outside a five-mile radius.\n\n\"You can just go out and walk and you will never see a soul.\"\n\nSome things, however, take more getting used to, like his more conventional nine to five day.\n\n\"I think that has probably been the biggest shock to my system, getting into that working routine,\" he said.\n\nAlpha Solway is taking in large numbers of new staff to cope with demand\n\nAlpha Solway secured a major contract to supply the NHS in Scotland earlier this year which has helped to keep Mr Jones \"extremely busy\".\n\nHowever, flying gets \"into your blood\" and he hopes to get back into a plane at some time in the future.\n\n\"My goal is when the jobs start to come - which they will - I will return to the sky in some capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will be a double-edged sword in that I have learned a huge amount here and I have met a lot of very good people.\n\n\"I'm working with a really good team of people here - there are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Disabled workers at one of the UK's oldest charitable enterprises, Clarity, have allegedly been denied £200,000 in wages by the new owner.\n\nThe company produces toiletries and beauty products under the Clarity, Beco and Soap Co brands.\n\nActress Joanna Lumley and Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP have spoken out strongly over the claims.\n\nNicholas Marks, who bought the company last year, says all currently employed staff have been paid.\n\nCommunity, the union which represents Clarity's workers, claims that a number of disabled employees at the firm have not been paid wages and furlough payments.\n\nStephen Steppens says he has received no money since September\n\nStephen Steppens, 60, has been blind since birth, and has worked at Clarity since 1985. He is officially on furlough until his redundancy is completed at the end of January.\n\nHe says he has received no money since September and has been relying on his savings to get by.\n\n\"I loved it,\" he says of working there. Losing the job, and the fight over the organisation's future, have taken a toll on his mental health, he says.\n\n\"I want to see justice done, not just for me, but also for my friends who are visiting food banks.\"\n\nA number of employees have brought successful employment tribunal claims for unauthorised deduction of wages against Clarity, including Mr Steppens. Clarity was ordered to pay him £706. A number of other employment tribunal claims are ongoing, according to Community.\n\nJoanna Lumley, who had been a supporter of Clarity, called it \"the best of the best\" and said she was \"shocked\" to learn of the allegations over treatment of workers. \"Justice must be done as soon as possible,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClarity was founded in 1854 by a wealthy blind woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, as the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, to provide opportunities for workers whom other employers overlooked because of their disabilities. Before the takeover, three-quarters of its staff were disabled people.\n\nA factory in London run by General Welfare of the Blind, about 1901\n\nIts supporters and patrons in the past have included Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria.\n\nClarity went into administration last year, as it was losing money and unable to fund the hole in its pension scheme, according to a spokesman for the administrators, FRP. In January, it was bought by Nicholas Marks.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith, whose London constituency is home to Clarity's headquarters, raised the issue in the House of Commons on 12 January.\n\n\"Staff have failed to receive national insurance contributions, with many failing to receive their wages or support while undertaking childcare,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The total amount that these decent but very vulnerable people have failed to receive is now around £200,000. They cannot claim benefits because they are essentially employed.\"\n\nCommunity estimates that about 60 former employees of Clarity are still awaiting payment of their wages and furlough payments, most of them disabled workers.\n\nA spokesman for Nicholas Marks said that Sir Iain's remarks were \"highly inaccurate\" and the company \"does not recognise\" the £200,000 figure.\n\n\"The grievances echoed by Sir Iain Duncan Smith simply reflect disgruntled ex-employees. All employees currently working have been paid in full up-to-date and the company is dealing with redundancies and gross misconduct of former employees,\" he said.\n\nCommunity says it is not aware of any staff who have been dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe spokesman for Mr Marks said that Mr Marks had \"saved this historic company from permanent failure\".\n\nHowever, other bids for Clarity were made, including one from the well-known social entrepreneur, Cemal Ezel, who runs the Change Please coffee business, which creates opportunities for homeless people.\n\nHe is still interested in buying the brands, he told BBC News.\n\nThough Mr Ezel's final bid was slightly higher, the administrators' report says they chose to sell to Mr Marks because he was in a better position to complete the deal by 31 January.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman said that he had to make \"some sensible commercial decisions to place it on to a proper business footing and regrettably some staff had to be let go\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Clarity's website was still running the Certified Social Enterprise mark, denoting an organisation devoted to \"creating positive social change\".\n\nThe spokesman said Clarity Products was not a social enterprise and was not \"purporting to clients\" that it was, though it retained the \"social enterprise ethos through the continued employment of fully paid disabled staff\".\n\nWrongly using the logo for nearly a year was \"simply an oversight\", and it is being removed. On Thursday morning, the website was unavailable - the company spokesman said he was not aware why.\n\nIn a response to Sir Iain's query, Treasury Minister Jesse Norman wrote that he had \"specifically asked HMRC to note the circumstances you describe, and to consider whether and how there may be a case for early intervention\".\n\nAnother company owned by Mr Marks, a Preston-based caravan maker called Lunar Automotive, was reported to HMRC by the local MP, Sir Mark Hendrick, for allegedly refusing to pay wages and pension contributions for its workers.\n\nThis company was also bought out of an administration run by FRP.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman was not able to comment in detail on the Lunar Automotive case, but said the company had not heard back from HMRC.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international community has missed previous deadlines on ensuring access to school\n\nBoris Johnson says it is his \"fervent belief\" that improving girls' education in developing countries is the best way to \"lift communities out of poverty\".\n\nThe prime minister has announced MP Helen Grant as a special envoy for efforts to support girls' education.\n\nIt is expected to be a key theme of the UK's presidency this year of the G7 group of major industrial countries.\n\n\"It can change the fortunes of not just individual women and girls, but communities and nations,\" says the PM.\n\nEven before the pandemic, millions of children in developing countries did not have any access to school - and girls from disadvantaged families are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education. whether through poverty or prejudice.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has created even more barriers to education, with a peak of 1.6 billion children around the world having faced school closures.\n\nBoris Johnson wants girls' education to be a focus of the UK's G7 presidency\n\nMr Johnson, as foreign secretary and prime minister, has previously highlighted girls' education as a key to improving the health, wealth and security of the poorest countries.\n\nHe once described it as the \"Swiss army knife\" of development, as getting girls to stay in education could avoid early marriage, improve their chances of getting a job and provide more income for children to be better fed.\n\nThe prime minister said the international target of ensuring all girls can have 12 years of good quality education would be the \"simplest and most transformative thing we can do\" to tackle poverty and to \"end the scourge of gender-based violence\".\n\n\"The benefits of educating girls are enormous - a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to live past the age of five and twice as likely to attend school themselves. With just one additional school year, a woman's earnings can increase by up to a fifth,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nHelen Grant, now the special envoy for girls' education, said: \"High quality female education empowers women, reduces poverty and unleashes economic growth.\n\n\"I will be making it my mission to encourage a more ambitious approach to girls' education from the international community.\"\n\nThere has been a series of pledges from the international community over the past three decades to provide at least a primary school education for all children - all of which have been missed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said hosting the G7 should be a chance for the UK to act as a \"moral force for good in the world\", but accused the Conservatives of engaging in \"a decade of global retreat\".\n\n\"We need to seize this chance to lead again, just as Blair and Brown did over global poverty and the financial crisis.\"", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nThe first person I see early each morning when I arrive at the hospital is our cleaner, Karen Smith. During 10 months of uncertainty, Karen has been the one constant, apart from a few weeks in spring, when she was ill with Covid-19.\n\nUsually Karen cleans the offices of the hospital's Institute for Health Research, but in the first wave of the pandemic she was called to the Covid wards. It was a frightening time for everyone, but Karen volunteered for an extra shift on Good Friday as there was a staff shortage - and on that day she thinks she was infected.\n\nWe know that working in hospitals increases your risk of infection by a factor of three, but this risk is not evenly spread. Antibody tests carried out in many NHS hospitals over the summer showed it was not the ICU consultants or infectious \"red zone\" clinical staff who had the highest rate of infection, but porters and cleaners working in those areas. Their risk of infection was double that of their clinical colleagues.\n\nThis heightened risk for hospital staff also applies to their household contacts.\n\nAs she cleaned the hospital in April, Karen was scared not for herself, but for her family. She and her husband, Mal, had moved into a caravan in Mal's parents' garden, while his mother was ill with cancer - and they stayed on after she died, to support Mal's 80-year-old father, Malcolm. Mal, a hospital porter, was shielding because he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Malcolm senior was clearly vulnerable because of his age.\n\nStopping work, however, was not a luxury Karen could afford. And unlike some hospital staff who were housed in hotels to protect their families, she went back home every night.\n\nShe became ill towards the end of April, followed by Mal at the beginning of May. The weather was hot, she remembers, as they coughed and wheezed in the caravan.\n\n\"It was like being in a tin box,\" she says. \"I got Covid and couldn't get over it properly. And then Mal got it and his was on another level compared to mine - and then his dad got ill, and that was a different ball game altogether.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nThe couple had to go inside the house to cook and to use the bathroom but did their best to keep away from the elderly Malcolm, who would go into a different room whenever they entered.\n\n\"We tried so, so hard not to give it to him - but then he got ill and he just went to his bed. Honestly, he was just like a little child, under the quilt looking all bewildered. He started with the shivers and we rang 111. They said to bring him to Accident and Emergency to get him tested, and we couldn't believe it when it came back positive,\" Karen says.\n\nLater, he was brought into hospital. I have fond memories of meeting Malcolm on the ward after he was admitted, acutely struggling with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath from his Covid infection. He was a kind and gentle man, stoical and patient.\n\nHe was adamant that he had been careful to keep his distance from Karen and Mal in the house, but admitted wandering over to show them articles in the Telegraph and Argus - Bradford's daily newspaper - whenever I was mentioned in it. I felt strangely culpable that I might have been the cause of the transmission.\n\nMalcolm made a good recovery and was eager to be discharged. But Covid is an unpredictable illness, and it can happen that improvements in a patient's condition are followed by a sharp deterioration. And this is what happened with Malcolm soon after he arrived home.\n\n\"He didn't want to go back into hospital - he said to get him some Tunes because they would help him breathe,\" says Karen. \"But nothing could help him, he was so, so ill. We had to say to him, 'No, you've got Covid and you need proper medical care.' He was such a lovely man, bless him.\"\n\nMalcolm was readmitted after two nights at home and died on 28 May.\n\nMalcolm as he turned 80, visiting his brother in Canada\n\nKaren returned to work. But like many people who have had this illness, she has been suffering the after-effects, both physically and mentally. She's now on an inhaler for breathlessness, can barely taste anything seven months later, and is constantly tired. She is also receiving medication for anxiety because of the fear that she will have to return to the Covid wards, where potentially she could get ill again.\n\nAnd in her case there is the added pain of having lost a loved one, mixed with feelings of guilt.\n\n\"When I start to think about him the tears come and sometimes I'll be crying almost all day - cleaning and crying. If I'm having a bad day, I won't be able to talk,\" she says.\n\n\"The guilt is always there, as I'll never know for sure where he picked it up. Mal's dad didn't set foot out of the door, and so in my head I feel such guilt, because we had to go into the house, we didn't have any choice. I go over it all but it's hard to escape from, because I got it, Mal got it and then his Dad got it. Deep down I think that's what's happened, and it will take time to come to terms with.\"\n\nKaren has been referred for counselling, but there is a long waiting list.\n\nBoth Karen and Mal also had to wait for the vaccine, though both had it on Wednesday. This was a huge relief for Karen, as anything that reduces her chance of reinfection also helps her cope with her anxiety. If NHS trusts are serious about following the science then arguably they should be vaccinating cleaners and porters first.\n\nThe fear of transmitting the virus to our loved ones at home is the ghost that haunts all front-line staff. Many went into isolation during the first wave, but this was never a sustainable approach, and with a virus that is so contagious and an environment in which it is so prevalent, transmission to family members is unfortunately common.\n\nKaren and Mal personify this occupational risk, and its potential deadly impact.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK were blanketed in snow on Saturday as forecasters warned of the potential for disruption.\n\nEast Anglia woke up to a thick layer that had settled overnight and there were warnings that rural communities could be \"cut off\", with up to 8cm (3in) of snow forecast.\n\nPeople in eastern England were warned to expect power cuts and travel delays.\n\nHowever, by midday snow had stopped falling across most parts of the UK, replaced by rain and sleet in places.\n\nSome further light snow is still expected in the hills and mountains of Scotland.\n\nParts of Wales and Northern Ireland were mostly cloudy, with some bands of rain in the northern regions.\n\nThe Met Office had predicted between 4-8cm (1.5-3in) of snow could fall in the worst-affected regions, and warned drivers to accelerate their cars \"gently\" and leave a large gap between surrounding vehicles.\n\nBut the worst of the wintry weather has passed and earlier amber and yellow weather warnings have been cancelled.\n\nA man trekking through the snow at a golf course in Gleneagles\n\nGreg Dewhurst, a Met Office forecaster, said earlier that Saturday was expected to be the colder of the two days over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"Temperatures are unlikely to rise above 10C, with a lot of areas closer to freezing.\"\n\nThere were also 25 flood warnings across England on Saturday\n\nLuke Miall, meteorologist at the Met Office, said earlier patches of snow could reach parts of Greater London.\n\nHe said the snow had the potential to cause some \"fairly significant disruption\".\n\nThere were also 22 flood warnings across England on Saturday, stretching from the South East to the North East, meaning \"immediate action is required\", according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThis is expected to clear up in the evening, going into Sunday, when southern and eastern parts of the UK will see dry, sunny spells.\n\nNorth-western regions are expected to see showers, with a \"spell of more persistent rain\" later on in the day.\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOn Friday, over-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could rebook rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Holiday firms say they are expecting more people to take holidays in the UK this year\n\nStaycations are expected to boom in 2021 after lockdown ends, UK holiday firms have said.\n\nBosses at the Caravan and Motorhome Club said the lifting of restrictions would be like \"a cork popping from a bottle\".\n\nDirector general Nick Lomas said although coronavirus had hit the industry hard, they were optimistic about the coming season.\n\nOther firms said they also expected more people to holiday in the UK.\n\nMr Lomas said: \"2020 was a very difficult year for the tourism and hospitality sector.\"\n\nThe West Sussex-based Caravan and Motorhome Club had suffered \"significant financial losses\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"When our campsites were allowed to be open last year we actually saw record levels of bookings, with new memberships up by 14%.\n\n\"Sadly, this surge does not make up for the losses we suffered during nearly six months of lockdown.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown popular resorts like Skegness were largely deserted\n\nBut, despite the current restrictions, Mr Lomas said he had every reason to believe this year could finish as one of \"the best and busiest yet\", due to the appetite for outdoor UK holidays.\n\n\"In fact, we think that 2021 is going to be like a cork popping from a bottle,\" he said.\n\nOperators say people are keen to experience the \"great outdoors\" once restrictions are lifted\n\nExperience Freedom, which operates glamping holidays in the UK, said bookings for 2021 were already up as people looked to spend more time in the \"great outdoors\".\n\nLincoln-based Anne's Vans said they were expecting a \"bumper year\"\n\nSmaller operators such as Anne's Vans, based in Lincoln, are also expecting to benefit.\n\nOwner Anne Davies said so far they had no bookings, saying \"uncertainty over when lockdown will end\" was putting people off at the moment.\n\nHowever, she said: \"Based on last year's experience we are expecting a bumper year in 2021... once this latest lockdown is over.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said it was inundated with visitors after restrictions were lifted last year\n\nThe chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, David Butterworth, said visitor numbers after the first lockdown ended were \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"The challenge for 2021 is to capitalise on this trend, and capture the hearts and minds of the people who have experienced the Dales for the first time to make sure they keep coming back,\" he added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday.\n\nThe UK will face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, as the pharmaceutical company makes modifications to its plant in Belgium. But the government says it still plans on achieving its target of vaccinating all top four priority groups by 15 February. Six EU nations have called the situation \"unacceptable\" and warned it \"decreases the credibility of the vaccination process\". Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia urged the EU to apply pressure on Pfizer-BioNTech. Pfizer says the reduced deliveries are a temporary issue, and the changes being made to its plant will speed up production in the longer term. So will a vaccine give us our old lives back?\n\nNew tighter Covid restrictions have come into force in Scotland with changes for takeaway outlets and click and collect shopping. Among the six new rules announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, customers buying takeaway food and coffee are no longer allowed inside premises, and staff must serve from a hatch or doorway. Plus, only retailers selling essential items - clothing, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books - can now provide click and collect services. Customer collections can only be made outdoors, with staggered pick-up times to avoid queues.\n\nEveryone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19, but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill while doing her job, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nIt is almost a month since Christmas was \"downsized\" across the country. But in most parts of the UK, people did meet in Christmas \"bubbles\" if only for just one day. So what impact did this have? The overall picture shows a sharp increase in cases around this time. However, a closer look at the numbers suggests this trend was already happening and was probably caused by the new, more infectious variant of the virus rather than increased contact between people. Take a closer look at what happened over Christmas.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd if you're wondering whether you can catch the virus outside, our science editor David Shukman considers the risks.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\" Image caption: Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\"\n\nAn RAF veteran has been among hundreds of people over 80 to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral, in Wiltshire, today.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin described receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as \"absolutely marvellous\".\n\nThe landmark cathedral is hosting a vaccination hub for five GP surgeries in the area, with the aim of vaccinating more than 1,000 elderly residents and staff.\n\nMr Godwin recalled having jabs in Egypt after the war \"which knocked me over for a week\".\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' - and I thought he hadn't started!\"\n\nThe veteran pilot, who has 12 great-grandchildren, said the pandemic could not be compared to the war.\n\n\"It was entirely different because this has divided people.\n\n\"The vaccine is nothing, you don't feel a thing... so anybody that needs one and can get one, I would say go ahead and do it quickly.\n\n\"It's the only way we're going to beat the virus.\"\n\nPatients queued for a short time around the cloisters on Saturday, before going into the cathedral where they were treated to a programme of music on the famous Father Willis organ.\n\n\"It is a bonus to be in such a iconic, wonderful place,\" said Dr Dan Henderson, co-clinical director for the Sarum South Primary Care Network.\n\n\"It's great to be getting the vaccine out there and getting them in people's arms and knowing that this is hopefully the start of some sort of normality again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrated England as Sri Lanka fought back on the third day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nBowled out for 135 in the first innings, Sri Lanka showed great spirit to reach 156-2 - trailing by 130 - after England had posted 421.\n\nJoe Root progressed to a magnificent fourth Test double century before he was last man out for 228 as England lost their last six wickets for 49 runs.\n\nSam Curran and Jack Leach took a wicket apiece in Sri Lanka's second innings, but off-spinner Dom Bess rarely threatened on a pitch that has offered assistance to spin since day one.\n\nKusal Perera contributed 62 to an opening stand of 101 with the patient Thirimanne, who was dropped on 51 by Dom Sibley at gully as he compiled his highest Test score since 2013.\n\nThe left-hander will resume alongside nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya at 04:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali, who tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival in Sri Lanka, spent time at the ground in the afternoon after finishing his quarantine period.\n\nFor the first time in two years, England failed to take a wicket in the first 30 overs - with seamers Curran, Stuart Broad and Mark Wood finding the going tough given the minimal swing or seam movement on offer.\n\nHowever, credit must be paid to the Sri Lanka openers. Thirimanne and Perera were criticised for their first-innings failures, but their century stand was the first time in six Tests that a Sri Lanka opening pair had survived longer than 10 overs.\n\nPerera showed restraint - he scored at a strike-rate of 57, compared to 74 over his Test career - but hit Leach over mid-wicket for six and swept and also drove well before slapping a Curran long hop to wide third man.\n\nThirimanne, who averaged 22 in 70 Test innings before this match, was happy to play second fiddle to Perera, although he did find the leg-side boundary with flicks and sweeps.\n\nHaving taken 5-30 in the first innings, Bess failed to maintain a consistent length and allowed Thirimanne and Perera to play off the back foot too often.\n\nLeft-arm spinner Leach, who bowled more accurately, failed with a review for lbw against Thirimanne on 61 before having Kusal Mendis caught behind off a beautiful delivery that turned and bounced in what proved to be the penultimate over of the day.\n\nResuming on 168, Root reached his fourth Test double century with the minimum of fuss.\n\nHe showed more intent than on day two - when he was happy for debutant Dan Lawrence to take more risks - hitting the third ball of the day to the cover boundary before driving down the ground for six.\n\nIt was almost fitting that Root reached 200 with a sweep for four - it was a productive shot throughout his innings, with 88 runs coming via sweeps and reverse sweeps.\n\nIn his 321-ball innings Root became the eighth Englishman to pass 8,000 Test runs - in 178 innings, two more than Kevin Pietersen, who holds the record.\n\nEngland passed 400 in the first innings for the sixth time in their past 12 Tests, having failed to do so in their previous 23.\n\nBut they lost their last six wickets in 13 overs as they chased quick runs, possibly with an eye on the rain forecast later in the game.\n\nSri Lanka were much more disciplined than on the previous two days, with pace bowler Asitha Fernando impressing, while off-spinner Dilruwan Perera mopped up the tail to finish with 4-109.\n• 372-6: Sam Curran is bowled first ball as Fernando gets one to nip back and crash into off stump.\n• 382-7: Dom Bess disagrees and is well short of his ground, a third wicket to fall in 12 balls.\n• 398-8: Jack Leach is trapped lbw for four by Dilruwan Perera.\n• 406-9: Mark Wood toe-ends a sweep straight up in the air to be caught by Niroshan Dickwella off Dilruwan Perera.\n• 421 all out: Joe Root holes out on the mid-wicket boundary.\n\n'Chasing anything will be tricky' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"It feels good to be in the position we are.\n\n\"It would have been nice to get a couple more wickets tonight but that one late on is a real bonus for us.\n\n\"It gives us a great opportunity in morning to apply a lot of pressure and hammer home what is a strong advantage in this game.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Sam Curran: \"It is a strange looking wicket. It played a bit better than we thought this evening.\n\n\"It didn't offer much for the seamers and there was real slow turn for the spinners. The two openers played really well.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Sri Lanka came back really well - they have shown fight and discipline.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka bat the whole day tomorrow things will get interesting. Chasing anything on last day becomes tricky.\n\n\"I expect England will take eight wickets tomorrow and win the game.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"Sri Lanka really have fought back well. It is good to see.\n\n\"If weather plays a factor and there is some resistance from the lower order this could bubble into an exciting finish.\"\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "Mr Laschet is now in a good position to stand for German chancellor\n\nCentrist Armin Laschet has been elected leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, defeated two rivals in the party's virtual conference.\n\nHe is now in a good position in the race to succeed Mrs Merkel when she steps down as German chancellor in September, after 16 years in office.\n\nBut he faces a changed political landscape following the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Laschet, 59, defeated conservative businessman Friedrich Merz in a run-off vote by 521 votes to 466. A third candidate, Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated in the previous round.\n\nHe replaces as chair of the party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who failed to live up to her billing as Mrs Merkel's appointed successor after taking office more than two years ago.\n\nGermany goes to the polls in September, but the CDU leader is not guaranteed to become its candidate for chancellor.\n\nHealth Minister Jens Spahn, who has been elected as one of Mr Laschet's deputies, and Markus Söder, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU, could also step into the ring, though neither has yet said that they want the job.\n\nA final decision will be made in the spring.\n\nMr Laschet is a loyal supporter of Mrs Merkel, and said during the campaign that a change of direction for the party would \"send exactly the wrong signal\".\n\nIn his victory speech, he said: \"I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year... and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the [CDU/CSU] union.\"\n\nArmin Laschet is a short, cheerful chap. The popular premier of Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, he throws himself with gusto into traditional carnival celebrations.\n\nHe touts himself as a continuity candidate and, for a time at least, was thought to have been Angela Merkel's preferred candidate. He defended her stance during the 2015 refugee crisis and is known for his liberal politics, passion for the EU and ability to connect with immigrant communities.\n\nBut his call for an early relaxation of Covid restrictions last spring surprised many and reportedly infuriated Mrs Merkel. He has since retreated from that position but he's had to work to repair the damage to his political credibility.\n\nThe big question now is whether the CDU will put him up as their chancellor candidate in September's general election.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn - who supported Mr Laschet in his leadership bid - is thought to harbour ambitions to the chancellory. And recent opinion polls suggest that Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder would be a popular choice too.", "The US is in a race to vaccinate its population amid a winter surge\n\nA highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK could become the dominant strain in the US by March, health officials have said.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of \"rapid growth\" of the variant in coming weeks.\n\nIt said such a spike could further threaten health systems already strained by a winter Covid surge.\n\nThe warning came on Friday as President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious plan to ramp up vaccinations.\n\nTo meet his target of inoculating 100 million Americans within his first 100 days in office, Mr Biden said his administration would take a more active role in accelerating the distribution of vaccines.\n\nHe outlined a plan to set up new mass vaccination centres, hire extra health workers, and ensure the shot is available to everyone, including minority communities that have been hit hardest by the epidemic.\n\nOfficial data shows that, so far, 12.2 million vaccine doses of have been administered in the US - a figure Mr Biden has criticised as insufficient. More than 30 million doses have been distributed to states.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Biden told Americans that \"we remain in a very dark winter\", admitting that \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"This is going to be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country,\" Mr Biden, who takes office on 20 January, said of the vaccination drive.\n\nHis address came a day after he announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus package for the battered US economy that included a further $20bn for the vaccine roll-out. The plan will need to pass Congress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"I promise we will not forget you\"\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections - 23.5 million - of any country in the world. At about 391,000, the country's coronavirus deaths account for a fifth of the global total, which passed the two-million mark on Friday.\n\nThe crisis is particularly acute in the state of California, where deaths have surged by more than 1,000% since November.\n\nIn its report, the CDC said that the UK variant would spread quickly in the coming weeks.\n\nThe latest research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests the variant - now dominant in much of Britain - is between 30% and 50% more transmissible than previous strains. There is currently no evidence to suggest it causes any more serious illness.\n\nExperts have also played down the possibility that the current vaccines will not be as effective against it.\n\nSo far, 76 people from 10 US states have been confirmed to have been infected with the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7.\n\nBut the CDC said: \"The modelled trajectory of this variant in the US exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.\"\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and one from Brazil - are also thought to be more contagious than the original one that started the pandemic. Studies are under way to assess the threat they pose.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nAn inquest into the death of a teenager who went missing during a holiday in Malaysia has left several questions unanswered, her family has said.\n\nNóra Quoirin, whose mother is from Belfast, disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August 2019.\n\nHer body was found 10 days later about 1.6 miles (2.5km) away.\n\nEarlier this month a coroner ruled that she died as a result of misadventure, but her family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict.\n\nIn an interview with Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Nóra's mother Meabh said there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted.\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nNóra, who was born to Irish-French parents, lived with her family in London and was understood to be in Malaysia on an Irish passport.\n\nShe was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nSince her disappearance, her parents have believed that she was abducted. They have always maintained that wandering off was not something they could imagine their daughter doing.\n\nMeabh Quoirin told RTÉ: \"One of the most compelling things that we found out was that in a relatively small area, the plantation where Nóra was eventually found, there was vast numbers of specialist personnel deployed to find Nóra.\n\n\"Not only that, on four different occasions, trained personnel went to the plantation area and searched it and, in fact, some officers were even in the precise location Nóra's body was recovered.\n\n\"They had all reported that there were no signs of human life at any point. That for us is compelling evidence to say that she was not there by herself.\"\n\nNóra went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia in August 2019\n\nMrs Quoirin added that \"there was a lack of evidence around DNA and prints\".\n\nShe said that when the family went to the inquest, \"we had a lot of unanswered questions and while many of those questions cannot be answered, we actually found out a great deal about what went on during those 10 days when Nóra was missing\".\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quorin, pictured during the search for Nóra\n\n\"In fact we felt it really strengthened our case, our belief, that Nóra was abducted and we found some compelling evidence to support our view on that.\"\n\nMrs Quoirin added that her daughter \"was not physically or mentally capable\" of leaving the chalet via the window.\n\n\"Not only that - we also learned that none of her fingerprints could be found on the window and yet other unidentifiable prints were found on that window.\"", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year Image caption: Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year\n\nA nationwide lockdown in Israel is to be extended until the end of the month amid a spike in cases - despite an intense vaccination campaign, with more than two of the nine million population already having received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIt takes time for immunity to build up, so its expected to take several weeks for vaccines to have an impact on cases\n\nThe man coordinating Israel’s pandemic response, Nachman Ash, has warned that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the country has been “less effective than we thought”.\n\nAccording to Israeli Army Radio, Prof Ash told cabinet members on Tuesday the data on the protective effect of a first dose against the virus was “lower than Pfizer presented”. Pfizer said its vaccine was roughly 52% effective two weeks after the first dose and reaches maximum efficacy of 95% after the second.\n\nIt’s not clear what data he is referring to, but a not-yet published study from Israel’s largest healthcare provider suggested a 33% fall in infections by day 14, at which point, full immunity would not have been reached.\n\nInfections continued to fall in the following days but the numbers were too small to put a percentage on it.\n\nIsrael saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections Image caption: Israel saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections\n\nThe health ministry said on Tuesday more than 12,400 Israelis had tested positive for Covid-19 ten days after being vaccinated – 69 of these had already received a second dose.\n\nThis was 6.6% of the 189,000 people who took Covid tests after being vaccinated, roughly tallying with the reported efficacy.\n\nHealth experts say they are analysing the new Israeli data closely but warn it may be too early to draw any conclusions on the single dose efficacy of the vaccine based on the initial data gathered in Israel, which began vaccinating its population on 19 December.", "Drug treatment services in England are to receive an extra £80m as part of government's efforts to cut crime.\n\nThis will mean more places for people released from prison and criminals handed community sentences.\n\nIt comes after warnings last year over government cuts to help for addicts.\n\nA further £40m is being earmarked for law enforcement to target drug gangs including so-called county lines operations in which young and vulnerable people act as couriers.\n\nThe investment will also see another £28m put into a three-year pilot project called ADDER - Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery - which will combine policing with treatment and recovery services.\n\nThe funding will see police target dealers, and local councils and health services help people with addictions, in five areas with high rates of drug use - Blackpool, Hastings, Middlesbrough, Norwich and Swansea Bay.\n\nAnnouncing the £148m package, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The government's work to tackle county lines drugs gangs has already resulted in thousands more people being arrested and hundreds more vulnerable people being safeguarded, but we must do more to tackle the underlying drivers behind serious violence.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock added: \"Addiction and crime are inextricably linked and to truly break the cycle we must make sure people can access the help they need to get their lives back on track for good.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to focus on rehabilitation and treatment for drug addicts as well as law enforcement, saying this was \"something we've not been doing enough of\".\n\n\"We have to do much more to support individuals whose lives have been blighted by years and years of drug abuse,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office-commissioned review into the drugs trade by Prof Dame Carol Black released last February put the total cost to society of illegal drugs at about £20bn a year in England and said treatment services have been curtailed by local government funding cuts.\n\nDame Carol welcomed the funding, saying: \"Drug treatment has a vital role to play in helping people to come off drugs and thereby reduce crime, from minor acquisitive crime right through to homicide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "That's where we'll end our coverage of this week's PMQs.\n\nAs events get underway in Washington DC ahead of the Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th President of the USA, our colleagues will bring you all the details of the inauguration here.\n\nOur coverage of this week's PMQs was brought to you by Gavin Stamp, Justin Parkinson, and Sinead Wilson. The editor was Johanna Howitt.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoris Hobday and her twin sister Lilian Cox, known as the Tipton Twins, were admitted to hospital after testing positive earlier this month.\n\nHer family said Mrs Hobday had died on 5 January, adding they were \"totally heartbroken to lose Doris in this way\".\n\nMrs Cox has since been discharged from hospital and is continuing to recover, the family said. The siblings were among the UK's oldest living twins.\n\nDoris Hobday died in hospital on 5 January, her family has announced\n\n\"We are so grateful for all the special memories we have created and got to share with you all,\" the family said in a statement.\n\nThe twins, from Tipton, West Midlands, became popular figures online with their positive outlook on life and sense of humour.\n\nTipton Twins Doris and Lilian both tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month\n\nThey appeared on BBC Breakfast, ITV's Good Morning Britain and This Morning, charming presenters with jokes about wearing their drawers inside out and their love for actor Jason Statham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter���s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLilian and Doris said they did everything together. They lived in the same street after getting married, worked together at an ale-making factory in Birmingham and more recently lived next to one another at sheltered accommodation in Tipton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on their 95th birthday, Lilian revealed her sister's secret to a long life was \"no sex and plenty of Guinness\" - her own being simply \"lemonade\".\n\nDoris Hobday's family said she had passed away peacefully and they were grateful for all their memories with her\n\n\"Doris will be laid to rest with her husband who she lost 11 years ago after 65 years of happy marriage,\" her family said.\n\nA crowdfunding page has been set up in Mrs Hobday's memory, with funds raised being donated to The Beacon Centre for the Blind, which supported her late husband Raymond for 20 years.\n\nDoris will be buried next to her husband Ray, who, along with half a Guinness, was \"her favourite thing\"\n\nThe family said Mrs Cox had only been told of her sister's death on Monday, \"once she was strong enough to take the news\".\n\n\"She is now being comforted by family and staying with her daughter Vivien while she fully regains her strength.\"\n\n\"Both were determined to live until 100, they had so much to look forward to,\" their family said. \"It's just so cruel that Covid has stopped Doris like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bannon was once considered among the most influential men in Mr Trump's administration\n\nPresident Trump's former top advisor, Steve Bannon, has been suspended from Twitter over the \"glorification of violence\" amid the election aftermath.\n\nMr Bannon said a re-elected Mr Trump should fire the top infectious disease expert and the FBI director, and called for violence against them.\n\nIt comes as the tech firms continue a clampdown on misinformation.\n\nFacebook has shut down a large group which alleges fraud, and announced new measures to amplify genuine results.\n\nMr Bannon, once widely thought of as one of the most powerful men in Washington, served as the boss of Mr Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a top presidential advisor for the first several months of his presidency.\n\nOn Thursday, he posted a video podcast to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in which he said both Dr Anthony Fauci - the face of the country's fight against coronavirus - and FBI Director Christopher Wray, should be fired after Mr Trump's re-election, but also said they should be subjected to violence.\n\nPresident Trump has expressed frustration with both men, clashing with Dr Fauci over the pandemic, and with Mr Wray over what he sees as a failure to investigate his opponent, Joe Biden.\n\nFacebook and YouTube both removed the video, but Twitter issued an outright suspension of Mr Bannon's \"war room pandemic\" account, for violating its policy on the glorification of violence.\n\nThe account has been permanently suspended, rather than banned for a limited amount of time, Twitter said in a statement.\n\nPresident Trump, meanwhile, had another of his tweets hidden and labelled by Twitter after falsely claiming victory and alleging the existence of \"illegal votes\".\n\nThe President responded by tweeting: \"Twitter is out of control\".\n\nThe Stop the Steal Facebook group had about 350,000 members when the social media giant removed it, something the social network admitted was an \"exceptional\" measure. It did so because it was \"creating real-world events\" and \"we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group\", Facebook said.\n\nThe social network is now taking further measures to restrict the flow of \"inaccurate claims\" in order \"to keep this content from reaching more people\".\n\n\"These include demotions for content on Facebook and Instagram that our systems predict may be misinformation, including debunked claims about voting. We are also limiting the distribution of live videos that may relate to the election on Facebook,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Facebook Newsroom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs President Trump continues to allege, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud took place, Facebook also said it would alter its election banner notifications and spread news of the projected winner, once a majority of independent outlets projected the result.\n\nThe same notice will be put on posts from both candidates.\n\nSeparately, Bloomberg reports that Twitter will remove the \"special treatment\" it affords President Trump as a world leader, in the event of Joe Biden winning the presidency.\n\nTwitter has specific rules for world leaders, which means it will not ordinarily ban them for the same offences for which it would ban ordinary users. Twitter argues that such posts - even when violating its rules - are sufficiently newsworthy to stay up, with a handful of exceptions.\n\nInstead, Twitter can label the post of a world leader, hiding it from view and restricting engagement - but leaving it viewable to anyone who clicks through a warning message about the content.\n\nIt has repeatedly done this to Mr Trump's tweets, leading to high-profile arguments with the president and his supporters.\n\nBut Mr Trump would return to the status of a regular user if he loses the election, Bloomberg reported - meaning that his tweets could be deleted outright or his account suspended, for policy violations.", "Liam Gallagher, Sir Elton John and Nicola Benedetti have put their names to the letter\n\nSome of the UK's biggest music stars have written to the government demanding action to ensure visa-free touring in the European Union.\n\nSir Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Nicola Benedetti are among 110 artists who have signed the open letter.\n\nIt said they had been \"shamefully failed\" by the government over post-Brexit travel rules for UK musicians.\n\nThe government said the signatories should be asking the EU why they \"rejected the sensible UK proposal\".\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet music industry representatives on Wednesday to address their concerns.\n\nEarlier this week, culture minister Caroline Dinenage said the EU's \"very broad\" offer \"would not have been compatible with the government's manifesto commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nHowever, she said \"the door is open\" if the EU was willing to consider the UK's proposals to reach an agreement for musicians.\n\nIn the meantime, she confirmed, musicians and artists touring the continent \"will be required to check domestic immigration and visitor rules for each member state in which they intend to tour\".\n\nThat may require them to have multiple visas or work permits, which some industry experts say will be expensive and potentially prohibitive - especially for musicians at the start of their careers.\n\nOther names on the open letter include Ed Sheeran, Sir Simon Rattle, Sting, Radiohead, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Kim Wilde, Roger Daltrey, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, and Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music.\n\nThe letter was organised by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Liberal Democrats, and published in The Times.\n\n\"The reality is that British musicians, dancers, actors and their support staff have been shamefully failed by their government,\" it said.\n\n\"The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where the promised free movement for musicians should be. Everyone on a European music tour will now need costly work permits for many countries they visit and a mountain of paperwork for their equipment.\"\n\nThe extra costs will \"tip many performers over the edge\", it claimed.\n\n\"We call on the government to urgently do what it said it would do and negotiate paperwork-free travel in Europe for British artists and their equipment,\" it added.\n\n\"For the sake of British fans wanting to see European performers in the UK and British venues wishing to host them, the deal should be reciprocal.\"\n\nThe Who frontman Daltrey signed despite telling the BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme in 2018: \"It's nothing that can't be solved. I mean, we used to work in Europe before the EU was even thought about. We had the golden period of the 60s and the 70s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Who frontman Roger Daltrey gave his take on Brexit in 2018\n\nOn Wednesday, the veteran rocker said the two positions were compatible. \"I have not changed my opinion on the EU,\" he said in a statement to the PA news agency. \"I'm glad to be free of Brussels, not Europe.\n\n\"I would have preferred reform, which was asked for by us before the referendum and was turned down by the then president of the EU. I do think our government should have made the easing of restrictions for musicians and actors a higher priority.\n\n\"Every tour, individual actors and musicians should be treated as any other 'goods' at the point of entry to the EU with one set of paperwork. Switzerland has borders with five EU countries, and trade is electronically frictionless. Why not us?\"\n\nDeborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said: \"World-renowned performers, emerging artists from every genre and the most respected figures from leading organisations within our sector are now sending a clear message.\n\n\"It is essential for the government to negotiate a new reciprocal agreement that allows performers to tour in Europe for up to 90 days, without the need for a work permit.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, a UK government spokesperson said that musicians' concerns were being taken seriously.\n\n\"We absolutely agree that musicians should be able to work across Europe,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"The UK Government put forward a proposal, based on feedback from the music sector, that would have allowed musicians to tour - but the EU repeatedly rejected this.\n\n\"The EU's offer in the negotiations would not have worked for touring musicians: it did not deal with work permits at all, and would not have allowed support staff to tour with artists. The signatories of this letter should be asking the EU why they rejected the sensible UK proposal.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to host a roundtable discussion with representatives from the music industry, addressing their concerns, on Wednesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joe Biden has spent 50 years in politics working towards this moment, but he could never have expected such huge challenges would be facing him on his first day at the helm. What are his priorities?\n\nHe'll get started with a 10-day flurry of executive orders.\n\nThese are presidential directives that don't require congressional approval.\n\nTop of the list are rescinding a controversial travel ban, imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump against countries he viewed as a security threat, and rejoining the Paris climate deal.\n\nHere's what else we know about what will demand the new president's immediate attention.\n\nThe coronavirus has killed more than 400,000 people in the US - and the pandemic and its wide-ranging impact will be the new administration's top priority.\n\nMr Biden has called it \"one of the most important battles our administration will face\" and has vowed to implement his Covid strategy straight away.\n\nOne of his first moves will be executive action requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on federal property nationwide and by federal employees and contractors.\n\nStill, there's no guarantee the state governors who've so far opposed mask mandates will suddenly change their minds - there appears to be no legal authority that grants a president the power to bring in a nationwide mask rule.\n\nMr Biden seems to have conceded that point, and says he'll personally try to persuade governors to come around.\n\nIf they're not receptive, he's vowed to make calls to mayors and municipal officials to recruit them to the cause. There's also no word yet on how a mandate will be enforced.\n\nMr Biden wants to speed up the vaccine rollout with the ultimate goal of vaccinating 100 million people with at least a first dose against Covid in his first 100 days in office.\n\nOne part of the acceleration plan is to release all available vaccine doses instead of holding some in reserve for the necessary second jab.\n\nHe is also expected to take executive action on efforts to develop and deploy rapid testing and to put in place a national supply chain for equipment, medications and personal protective equipment, or PPE.\n\nOn his agenda is a pledge to reverse the decision to have the US leave the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nMr Trump announced plans over the summer to pull the country out of the WHO, accusing it of mismanaging Covid after the virus emerged in China and saying it failed to make \"greatly needed reforms\".\n\nMr Biden's team has said he has immediate plans to extend a moratorium on evictions and on foreclosures on home mortgages - both of which were paused early in the pandemic - as well as the current pause on federal student loan payments and interest.\n\nMr Biden's transition team said he plans to direct Cabinet agencies this week to \"take immediate action to deliver economic relief to working families\", though they did not offer more detail.\n\n$1.9tn for the US coronavirus economy\n\nLast week, Mr Biden announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy, saying that \"a crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste\".\n\nIf passed by Congress, it would include direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans. He has also included funding to help schools safely reopen, which he wants to happen in the first 100 days.\n\nIt'll be in addition to a long-awaited $900bn stimulus package Congress passed in December, which Mr Biden had called a \"down payment\" on the larger proposed package.\n\nRepublicans lawmakers are likely to object to parts of the bill, which will add more debt to what the US has already spent dealing with the pandemic - and Mr Biden will need bipartisan support for the plan.\n\nDemocrats currently control both chambers of Congress, but only by narrow margins.\n\nCovid aid isn't the only priority on the incoming president's economic agenda. He has pledged to get rid of Mr Trump's signature tax cuts as soon as he takes office.\n\nMr Trump passed the cuts in 2017, early in his presidency, and the Biden team says they unfairly reward the wealthiest Americans and favour corporations over small businesses.\n\nMr Biden has also said he would swiftly double the taxes that US firms pay on foreign profits - part of his Made in America push - which would come in addition to a rise in corporate taxes.\n\nHis tax policy legislation will need to pass Congress.\n\nAnother move Mr Biden says he will make on his first day in office is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, a global accord that includes the goal to keep temperatures below 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C.\n\nHis predecessor pulled the US out of the 2015 accord - it became official on 4 November - making it the first nation in the world to do so.\n\nThe US will officially be part of the agreement again within 30 days.\n\nMr Biden has also pledged to \"up the ante\" and aim for higher standards on climate mitigation measures, and to convene a climate world summit within the first 100 days in office.\n\nMr Biden has said he wants to work with Congress to enact legislation this year that will allow the US to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.\n\nIn a move that has already sparked alarm with his northern neighbours, Mr Biden is reportedly planning to immediately rescind the cross-border permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a planned project from the oil sands of Canada's Alberta province, through Montana and South Dakota, to rejoin an existing pipeline to Texas.\n\nA further agenda item is a U-turn on much of Mr Trump's legacy of climate and energy deregulation, like the easing of vehicle emissions targets.\n\nMr Biden has said he will negotiate \"rigorous\" new emissions limits on cars and heavy-duty vehicles, to conserve 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, to ban new drilling on public lands, and to close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.\n\nThe new administration says it plans also to bring in \"aggressive\" methane pollution limits for oil and gas operations and to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.\n\nThe travel ban, signed by Mr Trump just seven days after taking office in January 2017, will be among the first policies to be discarded.\n\nThe ban initially excluded people from seven majority-Muslim countries, but the list was modified following a series of court challenges.\n\nIt now restricts citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.\n\nIn another major immigration pledge, Mr Biden has said he'll swiftly send a bill to Congress laying out a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"And all of those so-called dreamers, those Daca [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme] kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship,\" he said in late October.\n\nLate in the election, the campaign announced Mr Biden would create a task force to reunite some 545 migrant children separated from their parents at the US southern border.\n\nIn December, the Biden team conceded it would need more time to roll back one of Mr Trump's policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols that force thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US immigration court hearings.\n\nOnce a \"Day One\" pledge, officials now say it could take about six months to address.\n\nMr Biden has vowed to halt construction of a project synonymous with Mr Trump's presidency - the border wall between the US and Mexico. His campaign had called it \"a waste of money\" that \"diverts critical resources away from the real threats\".\n\nThe administration says it will instead divert the federal funds towards efforts like new border screening measures.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tours and signs a section of the US-Mexico border wall\n\nThe national reckoning with race is the fourth crisis - alongside Covid, the economy and climate - Mr Biden says he must tackle quickly.\n\nSome of those policies - like addressing racial disparities in housing and healthcare - overlap with his other plans.\n\nMr Biden will sign an executive order on racial equality and call on all US agencies to create a plan to tackle any unequal barriers to opportunity. It will also rescind Mr Trump's executive order limiting the ability of federal government agencies to implement diversity and inclusion training.\n\nMr Biden has promised to set up a national police oversight body to assist in reforming police departments in his first 100 days in office, though details of that plan are scarce.\n\nHe has said he wants swift passage by Congress of the \"Safe Justice Act\", which includes measures on reforming mandatory minimum sentences and increasing funding for community based policing.\n\nHe has made commitments to the LGBT community as well, like directing resources towards helping prevent violence against transgender people, ending the ban on transgender people serving in the military, and restoring guidance for transgender students in schools.\n\nOne other priority is passing the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights laws, though how fast he can pass that legislation remains unclear.\n\nThe incoming president says he plans to quickly reach out to US allies to smooth ruffled feathers and promise that \"America has your back\", saying the US must \"prove to the world that [it] is prepared to lead again - not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example\".\n\nHe has said on his first day in the Oval Office he would reach out to Nato allies with the message \"we're back and you can count on us again\".\n\nThough Mr Trump was not the first president to pressure other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to spend more on defence, he threatened at times to withdraw from the alliance that Mr Biden has called the \"bulwark of the liberal democratic ideal\".", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "The last vestiges of the Trump presidency will be swept away on Wednesday, as the Bidens move into the White House. Desks will have been cleared out, rooms scrubbed clean and the president's aides will be replaced by a new team of political appointees. It's part of the massive transformation that a new presidency brings to the heart of government.\n\nOne evening last week, Stephen Miller, a policy adviser and central figure in the Trump White House, was lounging in the West Wing.\n\nMiller, who has crafted speeches and policies for the president since his early days in office, is also one of the few members of the president's initial team still with him at the end.\n\nLeaning against a wall and chatting with colleagues about a meeting scheduled for later that day, he seemed in no hurry to leave.\n\nThe West Wing usually hums with activity but it seemed deserted. The phones were quiet. Desks in empty offices were cluttered with papers and unopened letters, as if people had left in a hurry and would not be coming back. Dozens of senior officials and aides quit in the wake of the Capitol riots on 6 January. A handful of loyalists, like Miller, remain.\n\nAs the conversation began to wind down, he broke away from his colleagues. When I asked him where he was headed next, he smiled. \"Back to my office,\" he said and sauntered down the hall.\n\nOn inauguration day, Miller's office will have been cleaned out, swept of signs that he and his colleagues had ever been there, ready for the Biden team to move in.\n\nThe cleaning out of West Wing offices, and the transition between presidents, is part of a tradition that dates back centuries. It's a process that has not always been imbued with warmth.\n\nAnother impeached president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, snubbed Republican Ulysses S Grant in 1869 and skipped the inauguration. Grant, who had backed Johnson's removal from office, was hardly surprised.\n\nStaff have started moving paperwork and pictures out of the White House\n\nThis year, however, the transition stands out for its acrimony. The process usually starts straight after the election, but it started weeks late after Trump refused to accept the result. And the president has said he will not attend the inauguration. Most likely, he will instead travel to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.\n\nStill, the handover is taking place, just as it has in the past. \"The system is holding,\" says Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University. \"It's very rocky, it's very bumpy, but nevertheless the transition is going to occur.\"\n\nEven in the best of times, the logistics of a transition are daunting, involving the transfer of knowledge and employees on a massive scale.\n\nStephen Miller is just one of 4,000 political appointees hired by the Trump administration who will lose their job and be replaced by individuals hired by Mr Biden.\n\nDuring an average transition, between 150,000-300,000 people apply for these jobs, according to the Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan organisation based in Washington. About 1,100 of the positions also require Senate confirmation. Filling all of these positions takes months, even years.\n\nFour years of policy papers, briefing books and artefacts relating to the president's work will be carted off to the National Archives where they will be kept secret for 12 years, unless the president himself decides that portions may be released early.\n\nOn a weekday evening during Trump's last week in office, the door to the office of Kayleigh McEnany, the president's press secretary, was partly open.\n\nMcEnany has been one of the president's most high-profile defenders. Impeccably groomed, she is a precise speaker who maintains her composure amidst chaos.\n\nKayleigh McEnany has packed up her office in the White House\n\nHer office, too, was organised in a meticulous manner, even as she prepared to leave. A mirror stood on her desk, and several fireplace logs were wrapped in clear plastic and packed up.\n\nGenerally, the last few days are \"controlled chaos,\" says Kate Andersen Brower, who has written a book about the White House, The Residence.\n\nFurniture in the White House, such as the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, most of the artwork, china and other objects, belong to the government and will remain on the premises.\n\nBut other items, like photos of the president that hang in the hallway, will be taken down as the White House is transformed for its new occupants.\n\nStaffers are already moving some items out of the building. One White House staffer, a woman in sturdy heels, was lugging several images of First Lady Melania Trump out of the East Wing. The pictures are known as \"jumbos\" because of their extra-large size, she says, and they will be taken to the National Archives.\n\nThe Trumps' personal belongings, such as clothes, jewellery, and other items will be moved to their new residence, most likely at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.\n\nAnd this year, the place will be deep cleaned.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to make decorative changes to the Oval Office\n\nThe president, as well as Mr Miller and dozens of others at the White House, were infected with the coronavirus over the past several months, and the six-floor building, with its 132 rooms, will be thoroughly scrubbed down. Everything from handrails to elevator buttons to restroom fixtures will be wiped and sanitised, according to a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees the housekeeping effort.\n\nIncoming first families usually do some redecoration. Within days of arriving at the White House, Mr Trump had chosen a portrait of populist president Andrew Jackson for the Oval Office. He also replaced the drapes, couches and a rug in the office with ones that were gold-coloured.\n\nOn inauguration day, Vice-President Pence and his wife will also make way for Kamala Harris, and her husband, Doug Emhoff. They will be settling into their official residence, a 19th Century residence on the Naval Observatory grounds, a couple of miles from the White House.\n\nPolicy adviser Stephen Miller may have lingered in the West Wing, but others were ready to go. At the White House, people were lugging thick manila envelopes, framed photos and bags from a gift shop. \"It's my last day,\" says one man, smiling as he took a photo of his sons on the north lawn. A bulging backpack was slung over his shoulder.\n\nA group of National Security officials posed in front of the West Wing, asking me to take their picture. \"Make sure you get the marine guard,\" says one of the officials, referring to a marine who stands in front of the doorway when the president is in the Oval Office. The officials were in high spirits, joking and vamping for the camera.\n\nThe political appointees at the White House were in a good mood for a reason. For weeks, they had been caught in an in-between world. Their boss was denying the validity of the election, but they knew that their days were numbered. Now they could plan openly for their future, and they seemed almost giddy.\n\nOne political appointee, a man dressed in a dark suit, was already making plans. He ran into a colleague outside the Palm room, a reception area on the ground floor. \"See you on the flip side,\" he said, brightly. He was referring to the time after the inauguration, when they will both be out of their White House jobs. He mused about where they might meet again. \"Hopefully in the Greek isles or somewhere.\"\n\n\"Oh, yes. That is for sure,\" said his colleague, laughing. They smacked a high-five and then parted ways.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "The government does not know how many cases might be affected by hundreds of thousands of police records being accidentally wiped, the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson told the House of Commons the police were working \"round the clock\" to rectify the error.\n\nAround 400,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records were deleted from the police database.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was not yet known whether any of the data had been permanently lost.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"The Home Office is actively working to assess the damage and... they believe that they will be able to rectify the results of this complex incident and they hope very much that they'll be able to restore the data in question.\"\n\nAsked by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer how many convicted criminals had had their records wrongly deleted, Mr Johnson said: \"We don't know how many cases might be frustrated as a result of what has happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course it is outrageous that any data should have been lost.\"\n\nLast week it was revealed that the information was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nAn estimated 213,000 offence records, 175,000 arrest records and 15,000 records on people were potentially incorrectly deleted as a result of a defective code.\n\nMs Patel, who has launched an internal investigation, told ITV's Good Morning Britain that criminals would not get away with serious crimes as a result of the error.\n\n\"It is not about serious criminals getting away with anything. Multiple records are held on the same individuals on the same crimes on other profiling systems as well.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that officials could be instructed to re-submit the entries manually.\n\n\"I'm also clear with Home Office engineers and technicians that if we have to do manual uploads from other systems, that is effectively what we will do and that will potentially take time, but that is another option for us right now.\n\n\"We will absolutely provide updates once we know what has happened in terms of retrieving data. This will take time because it is a coding error.\"\n\nThe Home Office previously said that the faulty script was introduced in November 2020, but it did not run until earlier this month when the error within it immediately became apparent.", "After vowing to uphold and defend the Constitution of United States, Joe Biden has been officially sworn in as the 46th US president.\n\nThe new president's oath of office was administered by Chief Justice John G Roberts.\n\nRead more:Joe Biden becomes the 46th US president", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Sophie Davies, from Shropshire, recovering from cervical cancer, says delays to screening could be a matter of life and death\n\nSmear-test delays during lockdown have prompted calls for home-screening kits.\n\nCervical cancer screening has restarted across the UK - but some women say they will not attend their appointments for fear of catching Covid.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust is urging \"faster action\" on home tests for HPV, which causes 99% of cervical cancers.\n\nAn NHS official said GP practices should continue screening throughout lockdown, and \"anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend\".\n\nCancer Research UK said it was not yet known how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nScreenings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have restarted after being halted during the first lockdown.\n\nIn England, the NHS told GPs and clinics not to halt smear tests - but, as the prime minister heard last week, some patients were experiencing cancellations and long waiting times.\n\nAbout 600,000 tests had failed to go ahead in the UK in April and May, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said, in addition to a backlog of 1.5 million appointments missed annually.\n\nIn March, Sophie Davies was told she needed a hysterectomy \"within the month\" but had to wait until December for surgery\n\nA survey by gynaecological cancer charity the Eve Appeal indicates nearly one in three missed smear tests are the result of people being \"put off\" by coronavirus.\n\nAnd a Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust survey during the pandemic suggests the same proportion would prefer to take their own human-papillomavirus (HPV) test rather than go to a GP.\n\nActing chief executive Rebecca Shoosmith said coronavirus had added \"more barriers\" to going for a smear test.\n\n\"Sadly those who found it difficult before are likely to be no closer to getting tested,\" she said.\n\nBoth charities emphasise smear tests are for \"women and anyone with a cervix\" and transgender and non-binary people may have additional barriers to going.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust said DIY tests could also help people who had been sexually assaulted and those with disabilities or from backgrounds where smear tests were taboo.\n\nSamantha Renke felt anxious about catching coronavirus when she went for her smear test\n\nSamantha Renke had received an abnormal test result and needed to go for a follow-up test during the pandemic.\n\nThe broadcaster and campaigner, who has brittle bones and uses a wheelchair, said a home-testing kit would have made things easier.\n\n\"I am at very high risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19,\" the 35-year-old, from Lancashire, said.\n\n\"So I was incredibly anxious sitting in the waiting room for my test.\n\n\"Women with a physical disability are so much more likely to find cervical screening difficult, to the point where it can sometimes be impossible just to get through the door.\n\n\"We shouldn't have to fight to get this life-saving test.\n\n\"Self-sampling would be so much easier for people like me.\n\n\"It would allow me to take my health into my own hands.\"\n\nIshita Ranjan said talk of smear tests was taboo in traditional South Asian families\n\nIshita Ranjan finally went for her smear test in August, having put it off for a \"really long time\".\n\n\"In most traditional South Asian families, women's sexual health is not something you talk about openly,\" the 31-year-old, from London, said.\n\n\"Young women are left to figure this stuff out.\n\n\"Until you get married, older female relatives find it problematic to share that kind of information.\"\n\nA fear of catching coronavirus could be also stopping people belonging to ethnic minorities attending appointments.\n\n\"We have seen high Covid infection and death rates and people are genuinely scared,\" Ms Ranjan said.\n\n\"And it's really important that you do still go and do it.\n\n\"I was in and out in five minutes, no sitting around waiting rooms.\"\n\nHelen Austin founded At your Cervix, a support network for people who find smear tests difficult\n\nAfter experiencing sexual violence, it took Helen Austin 10 years to work up the courage to go for her smear test.\n\n\"When my first invite arrived through the post, years ago, my body froze, and I then ripped it up,\" she said.\n\nSelf-sampling would have given her time and privacy, the 35-year-old, from Lincolnshire, said.\n\n\"If my appointment had been during the pandemic and I could not have brought someone I trust with me to help me, I would never have gone,\" she said.\n\n\"Other trauma survivors I speak to find wearing a mask triggering and are putting off attending their test partly for this reason too.\"\n\nSophie Davies, 32, saw in the new year alone in hospital, after having a hysterectomy\n\nAfter developing a rare form of cervical cancer, Sophie Davies had a trachelectomy to remove her cervix, in April 2018, allowing doctors to save her ovaries and two-thirds of her womb.\n\nBut in March 2020, she was told the risk of cancer coming back meant she needed a hysterectomy and the removal of both ovaries.\n\n\"I was advised the operation needed to be done 'the sooner the better' and 'within the month',\" the 32-year-old, from Shropshire, said.\n\nAnd she had an \"agonising\" wait, until 30 December, for her surgery.\n\n\"I'm still awaiting my results, more than three weeks on, and praying I have not been left for the best part of a year with cancer growing inside me,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"These months of delay could be the difference in saving fertility or losing fertility.\n\n\"It could be the difference in needing chemotherapy or radiotherapy or not needing it, or could be the difference of life or death.\"\n\nCancer Research UK early diagnosis head Dr Jodie Moffat said research was under way to understand how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nBut getting more people screened \"is not the only hurdle to overcome\".\n\n\"The NHS is under immense pressure and would need more staff and equipment to ensure patients receive their results and any follow-up treatment as quickly as possible,\" she said.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"The NHS guidance that cervical screening should continue has not changed, which has been communicated to GP practices, which have adjusted the way they work to remain open and safe, while local NHS services across the country have put extra measures in place to protect people from coronavirus and so anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend.\"", "The government has unveiled details of a £23m fund to support fishing firms as it tries to quell industry anger over Brexit border delays.\n\nThe money will help firms whose exports to the EU have fallen sharply since rules changed on 1 January.\n\nFishing firms say extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to the EU before it goes off, hammering their businesses.\n\nOne trade group called the fund \"welcome\" but a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nOn Monday, fish exporters held demonstrations outside government departments in central London, warning their livelihoods were under threat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson admitted many had experienced \"bureaucratic delays [and] difficulties getting their goods through\" to buyers on the other side of the channel.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nCovid has worsened the issue, with the industry also facing lower market prices and demand from restaurants due to the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the scheme would be targeted at small and medium-sized fishing businesses who will be able to claim a maximum of £100,000 to cover losses.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said: \"This further £23m package of support will help our hardworking fishing sector navigate the challenges of the next few months.\n\n\"It is vital that no community nor region within our United Kingdom is left behind as we continue to support British jobs and build back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIn addition to funding, the government will provide further training to help fishing businesses adapt to the new export processes.\n\nSeparately, the prime minister committed to providing a further £100m to help modernise UK fishing fleets and the fish processing industry.\n\nDonna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, said: \"After almost three weeks of voicing their concerns and frustrations, we welcome the fact that the Scottish seafood sector has been heard and action is being taken.\n\n\"This [fund] will offer a ray of light to some small and medium-sized companies that have experienced crippling losses over the past few weeks.\"\n\nHowever, while the money was \"a much-needed sticking plaster\", she said it would not \"completely staunch the wound\".\n\n\"The sector still needs a period of grace during which the [new trade] systems must be overhauled so they are fit for purpose.\"", "Under current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nNine Met Police officers have been fined for breaching lockdown rules to meet at a cafe while on duty.\n\nPictures emerged online showing the officers, from the South East Basic Command Unit, eating at The Chef House Kitchen Cafe, Greenwich, on 9 January.\n\nAll nine officers have been issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nCh Supt Rob Atkin, said: \"It is right that they will pay a financial penalty and that they will be asked to reflect on their choices.\n\n\"Police officers are tasked with enforcing the legislation that has been introduced to stop the spread of the virus and the public rightly expect that they will set an example through their own actions.\n\n\"It is disappointing that on this occasion, these officers have fallen short of that expectation.\"\n\nThe group were spotted by a member of the public in the Greenwich cafe while their patrol vehicles were parked outside.\n\nUnder current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "Father Lee Taylor said people have \"really missed communal singing\"\n\nOnline \"Pimm's and Hymns\" singalong sessions at a north Wales church have attracted people from as far away as South Africa, Brazil and Canada.\n\nFather Lee Taylor, from St Collen's Church, Llangollen, set up the Facebook Live shows when his pews fell silent due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe former bartender said: \"People started to share it and the online audience just exploded.\"\n\nIt adds \"a real light in the darkness\" of lockdown and a \"few drinks\".\n\nThe sessions, which have been running since last March, are a homage to the summer garden party known as 'Pimm's and Hymns' Mr Taylor, 43, hosts each year.\n\n\"I get phone calls, emails and letters from people all over the world, saying, 'You've lifted my spirits', and asking me to pray for their loved ones who are sick with the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"I started the sessions as I was trying to think of ways to bring comfort reassurance and cheer to people at home.\n\n\"While I can't hear people joining in, I feel them there with me in the room.\"\n\nFather Lee Taylor hosted annual 'Pimm's and Hymns' garden parties before Covid restrictions came in last March\n\nBelting out everything from Abide With Me to Pack Up Your Troubles, the vicar, who lives with his partner of 14 years, Fabiano Duarte, is known for pouring a glass of wine or a cocktail before performing for his Facebook congregation.\n\n\"I like to keep a libation on the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"When we started, people tuning in could see a glass of wine one week and a gin and tonic the next, so began to join in and have a drink with me.\n\n\"Soon, this became a discussion in the Facebook comments and people would send in photos of themselves with a tipple, singing along.\n\n\"I've got a bit carried away on the piano after a few drinks and played all the wrong notes a couple of times - which is always quite funny. It's joyful, really.\"\n\nHe said \"losing the churches and restricting the number at funerals\" was painful and people were \"missing communal singing\".\n\n\"[So] I got some elderly people set up on the internet and sent out instructions via email, so they could watch the live stream singalongs,\" he said.\n\n\"People were soon chatting through the comments and it felt like we were all connected.\n\n\"I wanted to raise spirits through music and it's been a real light in the darkness.\"", "Louise worries about her prospects for the next 12 months\n\nFreelance TV and film sound editor Louise Burton is one of those who are unable to benefit from government pandemic support schemes, despite being out of work.\n\nLouise, 28, of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, has not had a single penny of assistance since her last job ended eight months ago.\n\n\"With the last production that I was on, I was hired as a PAYE freelancer, which means that I essentially do exactly the same job as what I do as a freelancer, but I was paying tax at source,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"What often happens with film is that production companies are made for the sole purpose of the film. So they create these companies and everything goes through the company - and then once the film is completed, they then shut the company.\"\n\nThat means Louise fell foul of tax rules relating to self-employed people. And she could not go on furlough, because the company that had employed her no longer existed.\n\n\"I always feel guilty saying that I am one of the people who is suffering, because actually, I still have a roof over my head and I can just about put food on my table, but it's not easy,\" she says, adding that she fears for her prospects in the next 12 months.\n\nAccording to MPs, whole groups of people like Louise are falling through the cracks of Covid-19 support schemes because of out-of-date tax systems.\n\nSome freelancers and self-employed people have been particularly excluded, despite lockdowns and restrictions meaning they cannot work, the Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nOthers, meanwhile, are able to abuse the system, it said.\n\nThe government said its \"top priority\" was helping those who are struggling.\n\nSince March, HM Revenue and Customs has provided more than £80bn in support to companies and individuals through government coronavirus support schemes, the committee said.\n\nThey are also supporting the incomes of many of the self-employed.\n\nBut despite this, a report from the MPs says \"quirks in the tax system\" have meant that groups of workers - including freelancers and self-employed people who recently moved onto company payrolls or work on a series of short-term employment contracts with gaps in between - have been ineligible for furlough payments.\n\n\"As public spending balloons to unprecedented levels in response to the pandemic, out-of-date tax systems are one of the barriers to getting help to a significant number of struggling taxpayers who should be entitled to support,\" said MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).\n\nBy contrast, she said some large companies that had used government support schemes had continued to pay dividends to shareholders and high salaries to executives.\n\nShe added that HMRC was in many cases failing \"to capture or deal with those wrongly claiming\" support.\n\nThe tax agency should explain to freelancers and other groups why they have been excluded from receiving support and set out steps to fix the problem within six weeks, the MPs said.\n\nThe PAC also said that a lack of certainty about government coronavirus support schemes had made it difficult for businesses to plan effectively.\n\nFor example, HMRC could not provide clarity on whether the Job Retention Bonus scheme had been delayed or scrapped, the committee said.\n\nThe scheme was meant to pay employers an incentive for every worker they brought back from furlough and kept in employment until January.\n\n\"Such lack of clarity may lead to unnecessary hardships for some businesses, who in good faith were relying on the payments from the scheme to meet some of their needs,\" the MPs said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had done \"all it can to help as many people as possible\".\n\n\"HMRC delivered Covid-19 support schemes at unprecedented speed, protecting the livelihoods of millions of people.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the challenges faced by individuals and businesses during the pandemic, and our top priority is getting financial support to those struggling... while protecting the taxpayer against fraud.\n\n\"Those not eligible for support through these schemes can still benefit from the strengthened welfare safety net, accessing help like universal credit.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Louise Casey: \"The country has been torn to shreds by the pandemic\"\n\nThe government has been urged by its former homelessness adviser to extend benefit increases worth £20 a week beyond the end of March.\n\nDame Louise Casey said ending the universal credit top-up, introduced during the Covid pandemic, would be \"too punitive a policy right now\".\n\nShe said people would view the Tories as the \"nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nThe government said it was committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"No decisions have yet been made on a range of Covid support measures that run through until the end of March and April, and it is right to wait until we know more about where we are in the vaccination process before making any decisions.\"\n\nLabour and anti-poverty campaigners are pressing for the increase, worth £1,000 a year, to remain in place beyond its scheduled end date of 31 March.\n\nOn Monday they were joined by six Conservative MPs, who defied party orders to abstain and backed a symbolic motion calling for an extension.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Louise said the £20-a-week increase had proved a \"lifeline\" to poorer families.\n\n\"The Treasury need to step back and not feel this constant responsibility to close the books all the time, and fight and fight and fight,\" she said.\n\nOn the idea the top-up could end in March, she added: \"It's not the right thing to do.\"\n\nReferencing a phrase coined by Theresa May in 2002 about how the Conservatives were sometimes perceived, she added they would \"go back to being the nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nDame Louise added that the country had been \"torn to shreds\" by the pandemic, with an impact \"far deeper and greater than anything I've ever seen in my lifetime\".\n\n\"I think we will have to have a big plan to deal with the wounds inflicted by this pandemic once everybody's vaccinated,\" she added.\n\n\"And I think the government needs to turn its attention to that now, and not leave it until the summer.\"\n\nDame Louise, who was made a crossbench peer by the prime minister in July, also urged ministers to think about long-term reforms to the welfare system.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the NHS and vaccinations, that I think everything else we see is incredibly reactive,\" she said.\n\nShe called on the government to take inspiration from the World War Two-era Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the UK's welfare state, and draw up a long-term strategy for recovery after the pandemic.\n\n\"We're all in this storm, everybody's experienced it, just some people are in decent boats and some people are in rafts that are sinking.\n\n\"And that gives the prime minister the moment to say 'I am going to step into the shoes of a Beveridge moment'.\n\n\"If there's any reason for government to decide to actually rebuild Britain, so the divide between the rich and the poor isn't as big as it is... it's this pandemic\".\n\nUniversal credit can be claimed by both people who are in and out of work\n\nUniversal credit is a working-age benefit claimed by around 6m people, replacing six benefits and merging them into a single payment.\n\nPoverty campaign charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty if the temporary £20 top-up is rolled back.\n\nHowever the Institute for Economic Affairs think tank has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\".\n\nThe top-up, estimated to cost around £6bn a year, was brought in at the start of the pandemic as a temporary response due to lockdown.\n\nA government spokesperson said that support was being targeted by raising the living wage, spending on the furlough scheme, boosting welfare spending and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThe NHS's child gender-identity service has been rated \"inadequate\" after inspectors identified \"significant concerns\".\n\nThe Care Quality Commission inspected the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in October.\n\nMore than 4,600 young people were on the waiting list and some had waited over two years for a first appointment.\n\nThe trust said it took the CQC report \"very seriously\".\n\nEngland and Wales' only children's gender-identity service was inspected after healthcare professionals and the children's commissioner for England raised concerns around \"clinical practice, safeguarding procedures, and assessments of capacity and consent to treatment\".\n\nThe children's commissioner had been provided evidence of staff concerns by BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe CQC's previous inspection, in 2016, had resulted in an overall \"good\" rating.\n\nBut in the latest inspection at clinics run by the trust in north London and Leeds, Gids was rated:\n\nOverall, the service is now rated as \"inadequate\".\n\nAnd the CQC has begun enforcement action, demanding monthly updates of the numbers on the waiting list and actions to reduce them.\n\nThe inspectors found Gids \"difficult to access\" and raised concerns over managing the risk to those on the waiting list, saying many of those waiting for or receiving a service were \"vulnerable and at risk of self-harm\".\n\n\"The size of the waiting list meant that staff were unable to proactively manage the risks to patients waiting for a first appointment,\" they added.\n\nRecord-keeping at Gids was also criticised, with the CQC noting that \"staff had not consistently recorded the competency, capacity and consent of patients referred for medical treatment before January 2020\".\n\nThis had changed since, but the CQC noted that in an audit of 10 records of young people referred for hormone blockers in March 2020, \"only three contained a completed consent form and checklist for referral\".\n\nA rating of inadequate is the lowest a healthcare provider can receive from the Care Quality Commission. It means that a service is \"performing badly\".\n\nGids had been rated good at its last inspection in 2016, but since then a number of concerns have been raised about the service.\n\nThe number of young people referred to Gids has increased significantly in recent years - leading to some of the delays in care highlighted by the inspection.\n\nBBC Newsnight has explored the standard of healthcare received by young people questioning their gender identity for the last 18 months.\n\nIn that time, NHS England has changed its guidance on the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria, saying little is known about the long-term side effects, and an independent review of this area of health is under way.\n\nLast June we revealed how some Gids staff had raised serious concerns about safeguarding at the service, the speed of assessments, and whether patients' traumatic backgrounds and other difficulties were always adequately explored.\n\nThe comments were made as part of an official internal review into Gids, which also described how staff felt they had been \"shut down\". We also discovered that some of these concerns dated back to 2005.\n\nFurthermore, it was not possible to clearly understand why clinical decisions had been made.\n\nAfter reviewing 35 care records, the CQC found there was \"no clearly defined assessment process\" and \"many records did not demonstrate good practice\".\n\nThe records also appeared to be \"insufficient\" in considering the needs of young people with autism spectrum disorders.\n\nIn a sample of 22 records, the CQC found more than half mentioned autistic spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but \"records did not demonstrate consideration of the relationship between autistic spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria\".\n\nSignificant variation in the clinical approach of different staff members was also noted. Assessments of young people ranged from \"two or three sessions\" in some cases to over 25, or even more than 50.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals Kevin Cleary said his team continued to monitor the trust \"extremely closely\" and inspected the service again because \"we were extremely clear that there were improvements needed in providing person-centred care, capacity and consent, safe care and treatment, and governance\".\n\n\"In addition, vulnerable young people were not having their needs met as they were waiting too long for treatment.\"\n\nThe leadership at the trust knew \"exactly what improvements are needed\", he added.\n\nThe trust said: \"We take the CQC's report very seriously and would like to say sorry to patients for the length of time they are waiting to be seen, which was a critical factor in arriving at this rating.\"\n\nAccepting there was a \"need for improvements in our assessments, systems and processes\", the trust said it agreed with the CQC that the \"growth in referrals has exceeded the capacity of the service\".\n\nIt added improvements were being made, saying: \"We are already finalising plans to bring in senior clinical and operational expertise from outside the service to help us implement the necessary changes and consider how we can improve on current processes and practice - including how we standardise our assessment process.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "(From left to right) Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Deb Haaland\n\nPresident Joe Biden's first cabinet is being described as the most diverse ever. The latest historic first is an openly gay cabinet secretary.\n\nWhen George Washington convened the first cabinet meeting two centuries ago - though he didn't call it by that name - he enshrined the idea of promoting diverse perspectives at the heart of US government. Of course, back in 1791, all the voices in the room were white and male.\n\nYou won't find the cabinet mentioned in the lines of the Constitution, but the first president saw the value of advisers who could guide him on major issues while bringing different viewpoints to the table.\n\nIn 2021, America has seen its first openly gay cabinet secretary in Pete Buttigieg - the latest Biden confirmation - as well as its first female treasury secretary, first black Pentagon chief and more.\n\nMr Biden has been under pressure from all sides to deliver on his promises of a cabinet that truly reflects the country rather than a line-up of familiar political faces.\n\nThe graphic above shows all of Mr Biden's nominees - those with black and white photos are white men, while those with colour photographs are in one or more of these categories: women; people belonging to ethnic minorities; member of the LGBT community.\n\n\"This cabinet will be more representative of the American people than any other cabinet in history,\" Mr Biden told reporters in December.\n\nIf approved by the Senate, it will include Congresswoman Deb Haaland as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history and Miguel Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, as his education chief.\n\nMr Biden's first cabinet is even more diverse than that put together by Barack Obama, who came close to truly reflecting the country but fell short with seven women to 16 men, and just one black secretary.\n\nBut not everyone has been pleased with his choices. When Mr Biden chose General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon - the first black man to do so - other activists were upset that the position was yet again denied to a woman. And Mr Biden picked two white men to head the state and agriculture agencies - Anthony Blinken and Tom Vilsack - when progressive groups would rather have seen him nominate black women to the roles.\n\nProgressive liberals have also criticised Mr Biden's selections as too safe, too moderate, too establishment and too old. For many of the supporters who delivered Mr Biden the presidency, he's not there just yet.\n\nSince 1933, only 11 presidents have named women to cabinet-level positions. No cabinets have ever matched the gender or racial balance of the country.\n\nThe cabinet size can vary depending on administration, but they're roughly composed of around 15 executives. In the last 30 years, the trend has been towards greater representation - or at least it was, until the Trump administration.\n\nOn the day of President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the Washington Post wrote that the new Democratic leader had assembled \"the most diverse Cabinet in history: five women, four blacks and two Latinos\".\n\nMr Clinton's small business administrator Aida Alvarez was the first-ever Latina appointed to a cabinet-level position.\n\nPresident George W Bush's first cabinet was lauded by the New York Times as \"a governing team every bit as ethnically and racially diverse as President Clinton's\".\n\nMr Bush chose Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, to become the country's first black secretary of state. He also tapped Norman Mineta - a Democrat who became the first Asian American to hold a cabinet-level spot under Mr Clinton - to head his transportation department.\n\nLater on, the Bush administration made history again with the appointment of Condoleezza Rice: the first black woman to serve as secretary of state and then as national security adviser. Mr Bush also placed the first Pacific Islander and Asian American woman, Elaine Chao, in a cabinet role as labour secretary.\n\nPresident Barack Obama's history-making first cabinet was dubbed a \"majority-minority\". Mr Obama's inner circle had seven women, nine minorities and just eight white men.\n\nUnder Mr Obama, Susan Rice became the first black woman to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, and Eric Holder became the first black US attorney general.\n\nIn a throwback to the Reagan era, President Donald Trump's inner circle was notably white, affluent and male - though he had more women in his White House than previous Republicans.\n\nAnd Mr Trump did appoint women to other roles in the administration. He named the first Indian-American, Nikki Haley, as UN ambassador.\n\nBut why has it taken this long for women and minorities to make it into the room where decisions happen?\n\n\"When we think about how you get to these roles, one way is to come through elected office,\" says Professor Kelly Dittmar of the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.\n\n\"So if you have a dearth of women and women of colour in elective office, and that's where presidents are looking, in part, to identify cabinet officials, then you already start with an uneven pool.\"\n\nWe saw the first woman in US Congress in 1916, she explains, but it took nearly two more decades before President Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a cabinet role (that was Labor Secretary Frances Perkins).\n\nThe story for black and other ethnic minority Americans has taken even longer. The first black man took a seat in Congress in 1870, but we didn't see a black man in the cabinet until President Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert Weaver in 1966. It took until 1968 for the first black woman to be elected to Congress. The first black woman in the cabinet followed in 1977 (Patricia Roberts Harris, Housing Secretary).\n\nThe US has no formal rules requiring equal representation for these groups in government, either.\n\nCountries with quotas in government or at the political party level have made strides towards equality at leadership levels. For example, Rwanda in 2018 saw 61% women in its lower chamber.\n\nIn three key posts, the Defence, Treasury, and Veteran's Affairs departments, there has never been a woman in the job - until now.\n\nOn 25 January, Janet Yellen was confirmed as Treasury Secretary, breaking that particular glass ceiling.\n\nOld time stereotypes have given way in this sector. Surveys show people nowadays are more likely to rate the genders equal when it comes to handling the economy.\n\nProf Dittmar says there are more persistent stereotypes about men versus women's expertise when it comes to defence and national security matters, and public opinion polls have shown this divide. Women weren't allowed in the military until 1948.\n\n\"Even though we have certainly seen greater diversification, these fields are among the most male dominant, especially at the highest levels,\" says Prof Dittmar. \"There's all sorts of biases going on within those structures to prevent women's advancement, I'm sure. That helps explain why those gaps have been there at least historically.\"\n\nOhio State University political science and gender studies Professor Wendy Smooth says these appointments are a way of signalling broader initiatives and values - inextricably tied to policy, but also indicators of identity.\n\n\"One of the early ways that a presidential administration expresses that willingness to be accountable is through cabinet picks,\" Prof Smooth says.\n\n\"These are the first acts that demonstrate the will of the administration, the spirit of the administration, the values of the administration. It's an identity moment. It's going to be the who we are as the Biden administration and who we are interested in connecting with in the American public.\"\n\nIt may be difficult to directly measure the importance of symbolism, but turning preconceived notions of leadership upside down can have very tangible implications.\n\n\"If you see a woman as secretary of defence for the first time, does that start to disrupt expectations that men are better and more expert in areas of defence? Yes, inevitably it does,\" Prof Dittmar says.\n\nShe says the same is true for Vice-President Kamala Harris and her history-making appointment.\n\n\"I hope that after her tenure as vice-president, the next time we have women running for president that these questions about electability or qualifications or capability will be at least fewer than they were.\"\n\nAnd research from an increasingly diverse Congress has shown that women bring priorities and issues to the table that may otherwise have been ignored. \"And that, ultimately, is better for making policy that better speaks to the experiences of the population that they serve,\" Prof Dittmar explains.\n\n\"Unless you can tell me that living your life as a woman or as a black woman or as a South Asian woman in the United States is the same as living your life as a white man, then I don't at all understand why we wouldn't expect that to make a difference in the lens through which they see policy.\"", "Joy Morgan was a second year midwifery student at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nA student murdered by a fellow church member may have been given drugs without her knowing, an inquest heard.\n\nThe body of Joy Morgan, 20, was found in Hertfordshire woodland in October 2019, two months after Shohfah-El Israel was convicted of her murder.\n\nTraces of MDMA were found in her body and the inquest was told there was no evidence that Ms Morgan would have taken the drug herself voluntarily.\n\nIsrael, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of 17 years for Ms Morgan's murder in August 2019, despite the fact her body had not been found.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Michael Soole said Israel's \"cruel and cowardly\" refusal to reveal her whereabouts caused \"continuing distress and suffering\" to her family.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court\n\nTwo months later, the remains of Ms Morgan were found in woodland off Chadwell Road, Norton Green, near Stevenage.\n\nPart of the police evidence showed the killer had been in the area of the woods shortly after Ms Morgan's disappearance in December 2018.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February 2019 after failing to return to her studies.\n\nBoth Israel and Ms Morgan, who was in her second year at the University of Hertfordshire studying midwifery, were worshippers at the Israel United in Christ Church in Ilford.\n\nAn inquest at Hatfield Coroner's Court heard her body was found badly decomposed, and wrapped in black plastic bin liners and gaffer tape.\n\nThe court heard toxicology tests showed MDMA in her body, and Det Insp Justine Jenkins said there was no evidence to indicate she would have voluntarily or knowingly taken illegal drugs.\n\n\"She was a church-goer, there is nothing to suggest [she took drugs] at all.\n\n\"We did, however, find MDMA in Israel's car, and it is likely that he was responsible for giving her these drugs.\"\n\nJoy Morgan's remains were found in woodland at Norton Green\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said there were three possible minor bruises on Ms Morgan's limbs. She added there was no evidence that Ms Morgan had been stabbed or shot, or restrained or suffered injuries consistent with a sexual assault.\n\nShe found evidence of a possible fracture to her hyoid bone, but there was nothing to suggest she had suffered compression of the neck.\n\nDr Randall said there was no evidence the student had suffered a head injury, but said she could have been rendered unconscious by a blow to the head that was \"non-fatal\".\n\nShe could not rule out suffocation as a cause of death, potentially following milder blunt force trauma to the head.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said: \"[The MDMA] is not something that she would have taken and one can't exclude that she was given that, and it in some way rendered her incapable or unconscious.\"\n\nHe said the cause of Ms Morgan's death could not be ascertained.\n\nAfter the inquest, her mother Carol Morgan described her daughter as \"an amazing person\".\n\n\"She's been cremated, I haven't decided where to put her ashes so at the moment she's still at home with me,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "In the end, the master provocateur ended up provoking the wrong person in the wrong way at the wrong time.\n\nUntil August 2017, Steve Bannon was arguably the second most powerful man in Washington. The president's one-time chief strategist was the puller of strings, the Trump-whisperer, revelling in his role as an agent of chaos.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, he was among \"the best talent in politics\" - in Trump's words.\n\nThen he became \"Sloppy Steve\", a derogatory nickname used by the US president after Bannon was quoted in a book saying several things that appear to have made his former boss unhappy.\n\nOne example that made headlines was that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr, had committed a \"treasonous\" act in talking to Russians.\n\nBannon's backers cut their ties with him, he left the powerful right-wing media empire Breitbart, and the future of the man behind some of Trump's most headline-grabbing policies was left up in the air.\n\nAnd then in August 2020, more bad news. Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud over an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nProsecutors said he received more than $1m - and used some of it to pay off personal expenses. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nEven in a White House where political careers have the life expectancy of a house fly, Bannon's sudden rise and fall over four years is remarkable. Here's how it came about.\n\nAs executive chairman of Breitbart - a combative conservative site with an anti-establishment agenda - Bannon was an early cheerleader for Trump and Trumpism.\n\nBut it was not until 15 months into the property tycoon's presidential race that Bannon joined his team.\n\nBy that point he was already, according to a profile on the Bloomberg website, \"the most dangerous political operative in America\", a man with Democrats and establishment Republicans in his crosshairs, and a knack for well-timed confrontation. A disruptive Trump presented Bannon with a golden opportunity.\n\nWithout Seinfeld, there is no Steve Bannon - it will become clear, don't worry\n\nBannon was born into a family of Irish Catholics - all Kennedy Democrats - in Virginia in November 1953.\n\nHe was not political, he said, until an eight-year stint with the Navy starting in 1977, when he became a Reagan Republican in response to President Carter's handling of the Iran conflict.\n\nA master of reinvention, he went on to work as an executive with the Goldman Sachs bank, before helping finance and produce Hollywood films and later emerging as a political Svengali.\n\nHis record in Hollywood can be described as patchy at best (\"The business runs on talent relationships,\" one former colleague told the New Yorker. \"He had this real will-to-power vibe that was so off-putting.\")\n\nBut Bannon did strike gold in one big way - by negotiating a share of the profits in a new television show, Seinfeld, in 1993. The show ran for nine seasons and was widely syndicated - in November 2016, Forbes estimated that Bannon, if he owned only a 1% share in the show's profits, would have earned $32.6m (£24m) by that point.\n\nAfter returning to the US from the Chinese city of Shanghai in 2008 feeling the Bush administration was a \"disaster\", Bannon was struck by what he described to the New Yorker as \"this phenomenon called Sarah Palin\". Bannon warmed to the brand of populism employed by the Alaskan governor picked as John McCain's Republican running mate in the 2008 presidential race.\n\nThat populist wave would come crashing to shore with Trump's participation in the 2016 election, a wave Bannon proudly rode the whole way. In Trump, he recognised a willing outlet for his idea that, according to Wolff, \"the new politics was not the art of compromise, but the art of conflict\".\n\nBannon had long talked up Trump's chances on Breitbart News Network, which he took over in 2012 after the death of its founder, Andrew Breitbart. Bannon considered Trump, according to Wolff's book, \"a big warm-hearted monkey\".\n\nLike many of the businessman's cheerleaders, Bannon was eventually invited into his inner circle, becoming the CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016.\n\nDishevelled, regularly unshaven, and prone to wearing two shirts at the same time, he was an unlikely candidate to work closely with Trump, who places a high value on appearance. But somehow it worked.\n\nBannon's economic nationalist outlook and his eagerness for a \"deconstruction of the administrative state\" - a tearing apart of the system of taxes and regulations that he believed had hindered the US over years - chimed with Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" plea.\n\nTwo days after his arrival, Bannon replaced Paul Manafort as campaign chairman.\n\nBannon's counterpart in the Democratic camp, Robby Mook, responded furiously: \"Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, sometimes racist... sometimes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.\"\n\nThe provocateur in Bannon will almost certainly have enjoyed the reaction to his appointment. Less than three months later, he'd have even more to celebrate.\n\nTrump and Bannon thought as one in the last weeks of the campaign, to the extent that the Republican candidate would often demand: \"Where's my Steve? Where's my Steve?\", according to one former Trump aide.\n\nIn interviews after the event, Bannon said he always believed Trump would win. But not everyone else did, according to Michael Wolff's book. Indeed, in the weeks after the billionaire won, \"he had come to credit Bannon with something like mystical powers\" for having predicted the victory.\n\nWhite House appointments aren't often met with wide protests - but then Steve Bannon's was no ordinary appointment\n\nDays after the election, Trump named his trusted lieutenant as \"chief strategist\" - a newly created role - in his cabinet.\n\nThere were wide protests against the decision, and 169 members of the House - all Democrats - sent a letter to the president-elect asking him to withdraw Bannon's nomination, saying \"bigotry, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia should have no place in our society, and they certainly have no place in the White House\".\n\nBannon's vision was made clear in Trump's bleak inaugural address, which he wrote. Wolff says in his book it was \"a Bannon-driven message to the other side that the country was about to undergo profound change... his take-back-the-country, America-first, carnage-everywhere vision of the country\".\n\nThe \"American carnage\" speech painted a vision of a US with \"mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation\".\n\nThe full ramifications of Bannon's America First policy were made clear a week later, with Trump signing an executive order dreamt up by his chief strategist that banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US. It caught many White House staff unaware.\n\nBannon, Wolff writes, was \"satisfied\" at the move and the subsequent outrage. \"He could not have hoped to draw a more vivid line between the two Americas - Trump's and liberals',\" Wolff writes, adding that the timing of its release before a busy weekend was deliberate - so it could cause as much chaos as possible.\n\nOne word that regularly features in interviews with Bannon is \"war\". Trump HQ on election night was \"the war room\", the same name he gave to the Oval Office when Trump took over. When Bannon would go on to leave the White House, he said he was going to \"war\" on Trump's behalf.\n\nFor Bannon, disorder was the new order in the White House. He and Trump were creating conflict and confusion, and that suited Bannon just fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Bannon's three goals for the Trump presidency\n\nA day after Trump's executive order on immigration was signed, there was another controversial announcement - the US president downgraded military chiefs of staff from his National Security Council and gave a regular seat to Bannon instead.\n\nOnly career diplomats and generals usually join the council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. By being invited to be a member, Bannon - in his first government job, aged 63 - was allowed to join high-level discussions about national security.\n\nThe reaction was, predictably, one of shock.\n\nDemocrat former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called the move \"dangerous and unprecedented\", and Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice tweeted: \"This is stone-cold crazy. After a week of crazy.\"\n\nThe White House, of course, defended their man as being more than capable enough to be on the council, pointing out his Navy service.\n\nBut in retrospect, this promotion is about as good as it got for Bannon in the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the people who have resigned or been fired under President Trump\n\nIn the end, Bannon lasted a little over two months on the National Security Council, leaving in April.\n\nIt was not a demotion, White House officials said, but the reasons for the change were not clear. Perhaps, just by shaking up the old order, the appointment had done its job.\n\nBut this change in his responsibilities became an indication of what was to come.\n\nAfter a summer of reports that Bannon was less and less visible in a White House suffering infighting and leaks, he left his position last August.\n\nIt was sold as a strategic move - Bannon would head back to Breitbart, where he would fight for Trump's agenda. \"I've got my hands back on my weapons,\" he said. \"It's Bannon the Barbarian.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBreitbart welcomed back what it called its \"populist hero\", with editor-in-chief Alex Marlow saying Bannon had \"his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda\".\n\nBut his departure from the White House came at the end of a week in which Bannon had come under fire from a number of quarters, and amid reports of tension with key aides including National Security Adviser HR McMaster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlottesville was the culmination of months of protests by white supremacists\n\nClashes had taken place the previous weekend between far-right and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after which Trump blamed \"both sides\" for the violence - Bannon had once said his Breitbart site was \"a platform for the alt-right\" who were responsible for the violence.\n\nTwo days before he left his job, an interview with Bannon in the American Prospect, a liberal magazine, reportedly infuriated the president. Bannon was quoted as dismissing the idea of a military solution in North Korea, undercutting Trump.\n\nThen, a day later, a BuzzFeed report that said that Trump was unhappy with the credit his adviser was taking for the election victory.\n\n\"He undermined Trump's ego,\" Joshua Green, the author of a book on Bannon's relationship with Trump, Devil's Bargain, told the BBC.\n\n\"Trump can't abide the thesis of my book and Michael Wolff's book, which is that Bannon is the brains of the operation and Trump is an erratic charlatan. That's what Trump won't abide.\"\n\nBannon backed Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race - it didn't end well for them\n\nNow on the outside looking in, Bannon was more than happy to tell Trump where he thought he was going wrong. He attacked him through Breitbart for reversing course and sending more troops to Afghanistan, and called Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey the biggest mistake in \"modern political history\".\n\nBut Bannon was back in his natural habitat as he gunned for the Republican establishment, putting his weight behind ultra-conservative populist candidate Roy Moore in a senate race in Alabama.\n\nMoore comfortably won the primary against Luther Strange, the incumbent backed by Trump and the Republican machine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Moore went on to face allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, which he denied, and in December he lost the race to Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years.\n\nBannon's man, one eventually backed by Trump and the Republican party, had suffered a humiliating loss in what was supposed to be Bannon's first big victory. A win would have given him momentum in his campaign to field populist candidates against Republican senators in the 2018 mid-terms. A loss made that much harder.\n\nBannon - humbled, surprised - credited Democrats for having worked hardest, but the defeat risked grounding his populist movement to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump harsher on Bannon than he is on his 'worst enemies'\n\nTrump may once have been Bannon's \"big warm-hearted monkey\". But even cuddly monkeys can bite.\n\nAs details of Michael Wolff's book emerged, one key line stood out - Bannon described a meeting Donald Trump Jr held in New York with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election campaign as \"treasonous\".\n\n\"They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,\" he told Wolff.\n\nThe reaction from the White House - reeling from a special-counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia - was swift. Bannon had \"lost his mind\" after losing his White House position, the president said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSoon after, Rebekah Mercer, a wealthy benefactor of Bannon's, said she had ended her support for his political efforts.\n\nBannon, left with fewer and fewer allies, insisted his comments were not directed at Mr Trump's son but at another former aide, Paul Manafort, who was also present at the meeting in Trump Tower.\n\nBut there was only one way left to go. The goodbye from Breitbart was polite, and Bannon was out.\n\nSomewhere, somehow, Bannon the master string-puller will re-emerge - possibly in a different guise.\n\nCould he and Trump ever reconcile?\n\n\"Trump has fired people before and then let them back in,\" Joshua Green, the author of Devil's Bargain, said.\n\n\"But I've never seen Trump bury somebody as forcefully as he did Bannon, both in his statement and the parade of White House officials who have come out to heap scorn and derision on Bannon.\n\n\"It's awfully hard to imagine how Bannon could recover from that.\"\n\nAn unexpected twist unfolded ahead of the November 2020 election when Bannon and three other people were arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nYou'll remember that building this wall was a key pledge of Trump's 2016 campaign, which Bannon played a leading role in.\n\nBannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the \"We Build the Wall\" campaign, which raised $25m (£19m), the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.\n\nBannon received more than $1m, at least some of which he used to cover personal expenses, the DoJ said.\n\nEach of the two charges - conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. He leaves office with two impeachments and the nation on edge. But his supporters say he kept his promises.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "The National Audit Office has had full access to the BBC's accounts since 2010\n\nThe BBC faces \"significant\" uncertainty over its financial future due to changes in viewing habits, a National Audit Office report has found.\n\n\"While the BBC remains the most used media brand in the UK, its share of younger audiences has been under pressure,\" the spending watchdog said.\n\n\"Falling audience share poses a financial risk as people are less likely to pay the licence fee.\"\n\nThe BBC said it had already set out plans for \"urgent\" reforms.\n\nAccording to the NAO report, the BBC has seen \"a notable drop\" in audience viewing while its income from the licence fee has also declined.\n\nThe BBC \"faces considerable uncertainty\" about its licence fee income and should produce \"a long-term financial plan... as soon as possible\", it states.\n\nSuch a plan, the report recommends, should \"set out the detail for the next stage of its savings, and how it will fund its new strategic priorities\".\n\nIn 2019-20, the BBC generated total income of £4.94bn, of which £3.52bn was public funding from the licence fee. That was £310m less than the corporation received from the licence fee between 2017-18.\n\nThe current cost of an annual television licence is £157.50\n\nThe report also highlighted a 30% decline in BBC TV viewing over the past decade. On average, the amount of time an adult spent watching broadcast BBC television fell from 80 minutes a day in 2010 to 56 minutes in 2019.\n\nAnd the NAO said the BBC's financial health had been \"unexpectedly weakened\" by the impact of the coronavirus response.\n\nLast November, the BBC began negotiations with the government about the future funding it will receive from the licence fee. The fee, which is currently £157.50 annually, is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nIn response, the BBC said it had made \"significant savings and increased efficiencies, while maintaining our spending on content, and continuing to be the UK's most-used media organisation\".\n\nIt added: \"We have set out plans for urgent reforms focused on providing great value for all audiences and we will set out further detail on this in the coming months.\n\n\"The report also stresses the importance of stable funding for the future, which we welcome as we begin negotiations with government over the licence fee.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists said the report's findings \"come as no surprise\" and that the BBC needs \"a financially secure long-term deal that will guarantee its future.\"\n\nThe NAO scrutinises the finances of government departments and other public sector bodies. Last week Richard Sharp, the BBC's incoming chairman, said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the corporation, but it \"may be worth reassessing\" in future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At noon on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's term will end. It's been a whirlwind four years, so what might the legacy be of such a history-making president?\n\nThere's a lot to consider, so we asked the experts to break it down for us.\n\nResponses have been edited for length and clarity.\n\nMatthew Continetti is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement.\n\nDonald Trump will be remembered as the first president to be impeached twice. He fed the myth that the election was stolen, summoned his supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote, told them that only through strength could they take back their country, and stood by as they stormed the US Capitol and interfered in the operation of constitutional government.\n\nWhen historians write about his presidency, they will do so through the lens of the riot.\n\nThey will focus on Trump's tortured relationship with the alt-right, his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, the rise in violent right-wing extremism during his tenure in office, and the viral spread of malevolent conspiracy theories that he encouraged.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nIf Donald Trump had followed the example of his predecessors and conceded power graciously and peacefully, he would have been remembered as a disruptive but consequential populist leader.\n\nA president who, before the pandemic, presided over an economic boom, re-oriented America's opinion of China, removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, revamped the space program, secured an originalist (conservative) majority on the US Supreme Court, and authorised Operation Warp Speed to produce a Covid-19 vaccine in record time.\n\nLaura Belmonte is a history professor and dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. She is a foreign relations specialist and author of books on cultural diplomacy.\n\nHis attempt to surrender global leadership and replace it with a more inward-looking, fortress-like mentality. I don't think it succeeded, but the question is how profound has the damage to America's international reputation been - and that remains to be seen.\n\nThe moment I found jaw-dropping was the press conference he had with Vladimir Putin in 2018 in Helsinki, where he took Putin's side over US intelligence in regard to Russian interference in the election.\n\nI can't think of another episode of a president siding full force with a non-democratic society adversary.\n\nIt's also very emblematic of a larger assault on any number of multilateral institutions and treaties and frameworks that Trump has unleashed, like the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the withdrawal of the Iranian nuclear framework.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump's applauding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, really turning himself inside out to align the US with regimes that are the antithesis of values that the US says it wants to promote. That is something that I think was really quite distinctive.\n\nAnother aspect is extricating the US from any really assertive role in promoting human rights throughout the world, and changing the content of the annual human rights reports from the State Department and not including many topics, like LGBT equality, for instance.\n\nKathryn Brownell is a history professor at Purdue University, focusing on the relationships between media, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the American presidency.\n\nBroadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way. As a historian who studies the intersection of media and the presidency, it is truly striking the ways in which he has convinced millions of people that his fabricated version of events is true.\n\nWhat happened on 6 January at the US Capitol is a culmination of over four years during which President Trump actively advanced misinformation.\n\nJust as Watergate and the impeachment inquiry dominated historical interpretations of Richard Nixon's legacy for decades, I do think that this particular post-election moment will be at the forefront of historical assessments of his presidency.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nKellyanne Conway's first introduction of the notion of \"alternative facts\" just days into the Trump administration when disputing the size of the inaugural crowds between Trump and Barack Obama.\n\nPresidents across the 20th Century have increasingly used sophisticated measures to spin interpretation of policies and events in favourable ways and to control the media narrative of their administrations. But the assertion that the administration had a right to its own alternative facts went far beyond spin, ultimately foreshadowing the ways in which the Trump administration would govern by misinformation.\n\nTrump harnessed the power of social media and blurred the lines between entertainment and politics in ways that allowed him to bypass critics and connect directly to his supporters in an unfiltered way.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan also used new media and a celebrity style to connect directly to the people in this unfiltered way, ultimately transforming expectations and operations of the presidency that paved the path for Trump.\n\nMary Frances Berry is a professor of American history and social thought at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on legal history and social policy. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights.\n\nIn what he did with judges, Trump has made a long lasting change over the next 20 years, 30 years in how policies will stand up to legal tests and how they're able to be implemented - no matter what any particular president or administration proposes.\n\nThe courts are controlled by the Republican appointees. Sometimes judges surprise us, but for the most part, the historical evidence is that they pretty much do what their politics and their backgrounds say they will do.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nWhen he supported that package of measures that helped particular people in the black community, like First Step, pardoning people at the same time that he supported an amendment in the appropriations bill that gave a whole bunch of money to historically black colleges and universities for the first time.\n\nHe put all of these things together, as well as having the first stimulus programme making sure that black businessman and entrepreneurs get some of those loans they've had trouble getting before.\n\nThe effect of all of that, which we will see over time, was in the midterms, a lot more young black men voted for Trump than before. And if that's a trend, it may help the Republican party.\n\nTrump also made egregious comments about black people and other people of colour, tried to have protests against police abuse disrupted and in other ways appealed to his white supremacist base.\n\nHis lasting impact on race relations depends on what the Biden administration does on policy, and on healing and how long the pandemic and economic downturn lasts.\n\nMargaret O'Mara is history professor at the University of Washington, focusing on the political, economic, and metropolitan history of the modern US.\n\nContesting a very constitutionally and numerically clear election victory by Joe Biden.\n\nWe've had plenty of really unpleasant transitions. Herbert Hoover was incredibly unpleasant about his loss, but he still rode in that car down Pennsylvania Avenue at inauguration. He didn't talk to Franklin Roosevelt the whole time, but there still was a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nTrump is a manifestation of political forces that have been in motion for a half century or more. A culmination of what was not only going on in the Republican party, but also the Democratic party and more broadly in American politics - a kind of disillusionment with government and institutions and expertise.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump is exceptional in many ways, but one of the things that really makes him stand out is that he is one of the rare presidents who was elected without having held any elected office before.\n\nTrump may go away, but there is this great frustration with the establishment, broadly defined. When you feel powerless, you vote for someone who's promising to do everything differently and Trump indeed did that.\n\nA presidency is also made by the people that the president appoints, and a great deal of experienced Republican hands were not invited to join the administration the first go round.\n\nOver time, his administration has diminished to a band of loyalists who are really not very experienced and are ideologically uninterested in wise governance of the bureaucracy. What has happened within the bowels of the bureaucracy is going to be a slow slog to rebuild.\n\nSaikrishna Prakash is a University of Virginia Law School professor focusing on constitutional law, foreign relations law and presidential powers.\n\nThe last gasps of his administration are the most consequential, as he exerts a control over his most devoted followers and he's talking about running again.\n\nHe forced people to consider what the presidency has become in a way that wasn't true I think either during the Bush or Obama administrations. Issues like the 25th Amendment and impeachment hasn't been thought of since Bill Clinton, really.\n\nIt's possible that people now when they think of the presidency are perhaps going to adopt a different stance going forward, knowing that someone like Trump could come along.\n\nIt's possible that Congress will delegate less to the president and take away some authority.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nThe president has demonstrated that there's a constituency who's opposed to a lot of these trade deals and that there are people willing to vote for those who will either extricate us from these trade deals or \"make them fairer\".\n\nThe president has also suggested that China has been taking advantage of the United States in ways that are deleterious to our economic and national security - and I think there's a consensus behind this view. No one wants to be accused of being soft on China, whereas no one cares if you're \"soft\" on Canada, right?\n\nI think people are going to fall all over themselves to be tougher or at least say they're tougher on China.\n\nDomestically the president had a populous tone to him. It wasn't ever fully realised in his policies, but we see more Republicans adopting populist ideas.", "Testing of close contacts of identified cases was due to start in secondary schools and colleges in England\n\nThe government has paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing of close contacts, in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges.\n\nTesting close contacts of a positive case as an alternative to isolation showed some benefits in trials.\n\nBut the emergence of a new variant means the risk of missing infections has risen, health officials say.\n\nRegular testing of staff will now increase to twice a week.\n\nMore research is needed on how daily contact testing would work given the new, more transmissible, coronavirus variant, Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace say.\n\nIn the meantime, routine testing to pick up asymptomatic cases in staff and pupils remains a key part of the government's plans.\n\nMass testing in schools, using pregnancy-style lateral flow tests to detect the virus, had been due to start in January.\n\nHowever, under new lockdown restrictions, schools have had to switch to providing online teaching until February - although children of key workers are still allowed to attend - and plans were postponed.\n\nHow testing of pupils will be organised once schools reopen is still not clear.\n\nThe original plan for rapid Covid testing in all secondary schools and colleges included:\n\nThe aim was to keep as many children in schools as possible by avoiding a whole bubble, class or year having to be sent home, and to reduce disruption from staff having to isolate.\n\nBut some scientists have consistently expressed concerns about the accuracy of the rapid tests, which do not need to be sent to a lab for the results.\n\nThey say the high number of false negatives means close contacts may wrongly think they are not infectious and go on to mix with more vulnerable people.\n\nAnd now PHE and NHS Test and Trace say the new variant, which \"increases the risk of transmission everywhere, including in school settings\", has made this a risk no longer worth taking.\n\n\"The balance between the risks (transmission of virus in schools and onward to households and the wider community) and benefits (education in a face-to-face and safe setting) for daily contact testing is unclear,\" their statement adds.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"NHS Test and Trace and Public Health England have reviewed their advice and concluded that, in light of the higher prevalence and rates of transmission of the new variant, further evaluation work is required to make sure it is achieving its aim of breaking chains of transmission and reducing cases of the virus in the community.\n\n\"There is no change to the main rollout of regular testing using rapid lateral flow tests in schools and colleges, which is already proving beneficial in finding teachers and students with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You wouldn’t want to give this to anybody'\n\nI was last here at University Hospital Monklands on 1 May when those dealing with the first wave of an unknown disease were already tired.\n\nAt that time, the deaths of 29,059 people had been registered in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nI returned 259 days later with the number of deaths at 89,230 to find that the staff are exhausted.\n\n\"We're all physically, mentally and emotionally drained now,\" says Fiona Bauld, an intensive care unit (ICU) staff nurse.\n\nIn the first wave, the Lanarkshire hospital was almost empty except for patients being treated for Covid or other critical and emergency needs.\n\nThis time there are just a handful of spare beds in the entire building. Staff who had helped out with critical care last year are back in their own departments, and the ICU specialists are alone once more.\n\n\"There's not really enough extra nurses to account for the extra patients so the amount of work everyone is doing is much more,\" says intensive care consultant Daniel Silcock.\n\nThe patients are changing too.\n\nIn the first wave, most patients were old and often ill before they contracted the virus, says ICU ward manager Margaret Harkins.\n\n\"This time the patients are a much younger age group and some have no underlying health conditions,\" she adds.\n\n\"We are getting people in in their 20s, 30s and 40s,\" Ms Bauld says. \"Younger people are catching this virus and becoming really critically ill with it.\"\n\nMae Mamaril (right) and her parents Jaramias and Sonia tested positive\n\nMae Mamaril is one of them. She is 26 and has no underlying health conditions.\n\nMae and her parents Jaramias and Sonia, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, tested positive for Covid within days of being vaccinated for their jobs.\n\nAll three ended up in Monklands but Mae was the sickest and the only member of her family admitted to intensive care.\n\nShe had to wear an oxygen mask and lie face down on a bed for three days, a treatment called proning which medics say can improve lung function in many patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mae Mamaril, 26, was moved to intensive care at the start of the year\n\n\"I couldn't breathe,\" she says. \"It was really bad because they moved so quickly to give me oxygen and told me to lie on my stomach.\n\n\"All I could think about was wanting to come home, but then at the same time, I knew that if I didn't have enough oxygen, even if I went home, I would never survive.\"\n\nNot only is the hospital busy with younger people in this wave but senior doctors say a third of all patients here now have the virus.\n\nThere is another big difference outside the building.\n\nIn May, when I drove from Glasgow to the hospital in Airdrie the roads were empty, the streets silent.\n\nThat is no longer the case. Heading east to Monklands again, the M8 is the busiest I have seen it since the pandemic began.\n\nDoctors and nurses have noticed the increase in traffic too - and they are worried.\n\n\"Without a lockdown, I think it would just be a disaster,\" Dr Silcock says.\n\n\"We've had twice as many admissions this time as we did in the first wave.\"\n\nDr Sanjiv Chohan, who runs the intensive care department, says he too is worried.\n\nBut what about the many harmful side effects of lockdown - on other medical conditions, especially mental health, as well as the impact on education and the economy?\n\n\"I sympathise completely,\" says Dr Chohan, pointing out that the ICU staff are also affected by these issues.\n\n\"It's a really difficult balancing act. It's choosing the least harmful options,\" he says, adding: \"We have to preserve some ability to have functioning hospitals.\"\n\nAt times, Monklands has not been able to function normally.\n\nSince the autumn, around a third of all intensive care patients here have had to be transferred out of the hospital to other facilities — primarily to Wishaw and Hairmyres but sometimes out of Lanarkshire entirely.\n\nChief nurse Karen Goudie says she is worried about the coming weeks\n\nThe chief nurse at Monklands, Karen Goudie, says that was necessary to reduce pressure and create capacity for incoming patients.\n\nThere has not yet been a point when all Scotland's hospitals have been overwhelmed at the same time.\n\n\"No, not yet but we're worried about the coming weeks,\" says Ms Goudie. \"The projections look - scary, I guess, is the right word to use. \"\n\nStaff here believe a current increase in cases is attributable to families mixing at Christmas and to people not sticking to the current lockdown rules.\n\nStill, they have coped. Patients are now less likely than in the first wave to need the dangerous intervention of a ventilator as knowledge of how to treat the disease develops.\n\nFor many though, a Covid diagnosis can remain frightening and perilous.\n\nJim McShane, 56, works for a gas company in Motherwell. I leave intensive care to meet him on the Covid ward where he is being treated.\n\n\"You just don't know what's ahead,\" he tells me. \"It just destroys you sometimes. Brings you right down.\"\n\n\"I would tell people to stay out the road of one another,\" he says.\n\nAfter I leave, Jim is transferred to intensive care. He is now on a ventilator.\n\nThere may be some signs that Scotland's latest surge in hospital admissions may be easing.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The driver sat on his overturned van until rescuers arrived\n\nA supermarket delivery driver had to be rescued from his overturned van after he careered off the road and ended up in a fast-flowing ford, police said.\n\nFirefighters and police were called to the River Wear, Westgate, in Weardale, after reports that a Morrisons van was stuck at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said the van had \"careered\" off the road and the man sat on top of the vehicle before being rescued.\n\nCounty Durham Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was \"challenging.\"\n\nWater specialists from the fire service braved the river in a raft attached to a nearby footbridge and gave the man a life jacket.\n\nPolice said the driver was not injured but was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe fire service tweeted a video of the scene, and said they were \"so proud\" of the water rescue team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScott Bisset, who lives nearby, went to see if he could help after he was called by people who heard the driver shouting for help.\n\nMr Bisset, a member of the local mountain rescue team, said he thought the driver may have ended up there after being directed by his sat-nav.\n\nHe said: \"There's not a vehicle in the world that could have got through.\n\n\"The river was in flood - the snow here has melted and there was rain, so there was a lot of water in the river.\n\n\"The van was washed off and turned over on its side, luckily the front was pointing upstream, so it acted like a boat.\n\n\"If the water had been hitting the side of the van or the back, the driver would unfortunately have drowned.\n\n\"When I got there the driver was extremely distressed.\"\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water\n\nHe also said that rescuers had put their lives at risk.\n\n\"I know they practice for this but in those conditions, with that freezing water travelling at great speed, in the dark and the pouring rain, it was very dangerous and they were very brave,\" he said.\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election, asking Americans to help him \"finish the job\" he started more than two years ago.\n\nMr Biden, 80, faced a turbulent first two years in office marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic woes and geopolitical challenges including the US pull-out from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Biden - who served as Vice-President under Barack Obama - is likely to focus on his efforts to prop up the US economy after the pandemic, as well as his successes pushing through legislation focused on infrastructure, climate change and prescription drugs.\n\nBut a key argument for a second term will be what he has described as a turn towards authoritarianism from Donald Trump and his supporters in the \"Make America Great Again\" movement.\n\n\"The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,\" he said in a video launching his new campaign. \"I know what I want the answer to be. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election.\"\n\nThe President, however, is also likely to face questions about his age and ability to serve, as well as about his handling of inflation, immigration and other issues that worry Americans.\n\nThe upcoming campaign is likely the last in a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, and may again see him square off against Donald Trump.\n\nSo who is Joe Biden and how did he get to the White House?\n\nMr Biden ran for the Democratic 2008 nomination before dropping out and joining the Obama ticket.\n\nHis eight years in the Obama White House - where he frequently appeared at the president's side - has allowed Mr Biden to lay claim to much of Mr Obama's legacy, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the stimulus package and reforms enacted in response to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nAs a long-time Washington insider, Mr Biden had solid foreign affairs credentials, and helped balance Mr Obama's comparative lack of executive experience.\n\nThe so-called \"Middle Class Joe\" was also brought on board to help woo the blue-collar white voters who had proved a difficult group for Mr Obama to win over.\n\nHe made headlines in 2012 by saying he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with same-sex marriage, comments that were seen to undercut the president, who had yet to give full-throated support for the policy. Mr Obama ultimately did so, just days after Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's two terms supporting the first black president followed a long political career.\n\nThe six-term senator from Delaware was first elected in 1972. He ran for president in 1988 but withdrew after he admitted to plagiarising a speech by the then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.\n\nHis lengthy tenure in the nation's capital has given critics ample material for attacks.\n\nEarly in his career, he sided with southern segregationists in opposing court-ordered school bussing to racially integrate public schools.\n\nAnd, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he oversaw Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings and has been sharply criticised for his handling of Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by the nominee.\n\nIn 1974, Biden was the youngest US senator\n\nMr Biden was also a fierce advocate of a 1994 anti-crime bill that many on the left now say encouraged lengthy sentences and mass incarceration.\n\nThe record made Mr Obama's moderate vice-president a sometimes uncomfortable fit for the modern Democratic Party.\n\nMr Biden's life has been dogged by personal tragedy.\n\nIn 1972, shortly after he won his first Senate race, he lost his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. He famously took the oath of office for his first Senate term from the hospital room of his toddler sons Beau and Hunter, who both survived the accident.\n\nIn 2015, Beau died of brain cancer at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.\n\nMr Biden garnered considerable goodwill following Beau's death, which served to highlight one of Mr Biden's central strengths: a reputation as a kind and relatable family man.\n\nThis perceived warmth is not without its pitfalls. After entering the 2020 race, he faced accusations of unwelcome physical contact during interactions with female voters - complete with uncomfortable accompanying footage.\n\nBut the avuncular politician responded by saying he was an empathetic person, though he accepted standards had changed. The episode, however, stoked a perception for some that he was out of touch.\n\nMr Biden's return to the White House came at a difficult time in US politics, with the country still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks before his inauguration, the country had also seen supporters of former President Donald Trump storm Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of his election victory after Mr Trump falsely claimed that the election had been rigged.\n\nMr Biden's new campaign is likely to focus heavily on the fight against the ideology on display during the 6 January riot. The video announcing his re-election bid opens with images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol.\n\n\"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they've had to defend democracy,\" he said. \"This is ours. Let's finish the job.\"\n\nAs he campaigns, Mr Biden is likely to point to a number of accomplishments during his tenure, including job creation, efforts to prop up the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the passing of a bipartisan infrastructure law billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" investment by the White House.\n\nBut he will face tough questions on his handling of immigration and the US-Mexico border, as well as on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden has also acknowledged that many Americans have raised \"legitimate\" questions about his age and ability to serve as President.\n\n\"And the only thing I can say is, watch me,\" he said earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "When Joe Biden becomes US president on 20 January plenty of change is expected under his new administration.\n\nFor those who want to put Donald Trump in the rear view mirror, there's a lot to look forward to.\n\nOthers are not sure if he can bring unity to a divided country and enact lasting change.\n\nHere's what members of our BBC voter panel told us.\n\nPeyton Forte is a recent college graduate who now works as a reporter. She was not the big supporter of Biden and Kamala Harris, but says getting rid of Donald Trump is an urgent and necessary first step towards change.\n\nWhat are you hopeful the Biden administration can accomplish?\n\nFor starters, easing the pandemic and ensuring more collaboration between federal and state governments on vaccine distribution. I'm looking forward to his stimulus packages to kickstart the economy and make sure people are actually alive to reap the benefits of it. We can also look forward to a president whose main mode of communication is not Twitter. The biggest thing is undoing the damage of the prior administration, from immigration laws to our relationships with foreign allies.\n\nWhat are your fears for the Biden presidency?\n\nTo be honest, I haven't really gotten to that point because I'm so ready for the Trump administration to be gone. So ask me that question again in a few weeks. I'm really encouraged by Biden's financial and economic cabinet picks because I think he is trying to stunt the racial wealth gap. There will be a time and place to nitpick his choices, but not yet. As somebody who is black, I know he rejected calls to defund the police. The phrase is inflammatory, but that money is redirected into our communities, so I'd like for him to take another look at it and maybe he'll reconsider.\n\nWith so much talk of the need for unity and healing, where does the country go from here?\n\n'Unity and healing' is the new 'thoughts and prayers'. I know it has been kind of a calling card for Biden to contrast himself with Trump, but I'm going to have to see it to believe it. Are you just faking it or are you doing the work to actually unify people? Time will tell if people actually want unity or if some are just mad that their candidate lost.\n\nJim is a property manager and conservative Republican who no longer supports President Trump since his refusal to accept the results of the election. He wants the incoming administration to find common ground rather than be too left wing.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm hopeful for some stability and less drama. America's standing in the world, particularly in the last couple of weeks, has really diminished and I would hope they would be able to return us to our traditional position in the world. I would like to see the bill he puts forward on Covid relief. If we're going to put money into people's hands, we need to make sure it actually makes a difference. Six hundred dollars is a slap in the face when you look at how we're giving away billions of dollars to other countries.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI am worried they're going to overreach and placate the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and create deeper polarisation. I worry they will try to pack the Supreme Court. I am concerned about immigration policy. I would hope they have the courage to be more moderate in tone, action and policy, at least for the first few years. That way, things can level off and then we can have reasonable debate about issues on a case-by-case basis. One side is really having a hard time accepting the reality of [Trump's] loss; that's too many people to just ignore and it seems like there's a real mood for retaliation.\n\nCompromises will need to happen and both sides on the extreme right and left will not be happy with it. In the immediate moment, we need to have a good tone from the top that is conciliatory and respectful. I'm looking for Biden to reassure Americans their vote was secure and legitimate, restore a sense of public confidence and competence to the US government and spend serious time on rebuilding unity.\n\nLesley is a small business owner and an immigrant from Canada. Joe Biden was not her first choice for president by a long shot, but she now says he is \"the best person\" for this moment in the country's history and she hopes he can follow through.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm looking forward to real leadership and an administration that actually cares about getting things done. We need to get the virus under control. They have an actual plan; I hate that it's going to cost another $2tn, but it wouldn't have cost that if we had taken the time to do the hard work early. From climate change and fire management to infrastructure and renewable energy, they'll get us back on track. From a civil rights perspective, we have the greatest opportunity. The administration is diverse and he's trying to give everyone a seat at the table.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nNothing comes to mind. I feel like this administration is going to reset, refocus and prioritise things that should be prioritised. There's so much that needs to be addressed at once, but like the rest of the world, they have to learn to multitask and do their jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?\n\nWe need our elected officials, when doing their jobs, to not just represent one segment of the population. They can see what has happened by turning a blind eye and not listening. For the Democrats, they need to find a way to communicate so the concerns they've raised are taken seriously but without turning off the other side. For the Republicans, they need to pay attention not just to the loudest people - just being loud doesn't mean they're right. Moving forward, everybody has to do their part to prioritise what is best for the country. We're never going to get rid of the element that attacked the Capitol, but it's like herd immunity. The only people who were surprised by what happened last week were the ones who were not paying attention.\n\nJazmin is a writer and youth voting rights activist who says the past four years have damaged the psyche of young people. She wants the new administration to rebuild trust and show people like her that government can be a force for good in their lives.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI hope that the Biden administration is bold on climate, an equitable Covid economic recovery and racial justice. Personally though, I think we fundamentally need to look at our broken system. Restoring voting rights, stronger ethics and anti-corruption measures, as well as campaign finance reform can restore balance and transparency within our government, so we can trust in our elections and elected officials.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI've been thinking a lot about the pace of change. There's so much that needs to be done but we're also looking at departments that have been gutted. The damage of the past three years has been so deep and the rolling back of it will take a lot of time, so we have to practise patience and we have to be realistic.\n\nOur government only works when people decide not to disengage and be cynical, but instead step up and figure out how to get involved. The events of the Capitol work were horrific and traumatising for so many people, but the day before it was a Georgia election with incredibly high youth voter turnout. There is a lot of vitriol and hate, but the majority of folks believe in working to ensure our country is serving the best interests of everyone.\n\nGabriel is a writer and the activism chair for the New York Young Republicans. He wishes the Biden administration good luck, but is concerned it will sow more division in a vulnerable moment for the country.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nAs an American, I am hopeful that things go well under this administration. I don't wish for Joe Biden to fail because the president is like the pilot of a plane: if he goes down, so do we. I hope he can answer the renewable energy debate, create more nuclear power plants and allow the United States to remain the number one exporter of energy. Hopefully, we'll see some sort of voter ID laws enforced, for greater election integrity. I hope he doesn't fuel more divisions.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nMy fear is that he will listen to people like AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders, who are trying to push him to accept more far left policies that will do more harm than good to the US in an economic sense. He may continue the harsh lockdowns and ignore censorship of conservatives. Under the Trump administration, we decreased our presence in the Middle East and were stopping the forever wars, so I really hope we don't return there.\n\nAfter what happened at the Capitol, Biden came out and started very well, then devolved into race-baiting rhetoric - that's not something our country needs right now. There are millions of people who feel as though they were cheated and did not get a fair election, and some of them might not even recognise Biden as president, so it's very important that he treads lightly and focuses on unity. Don't lump them together as insurgents or other labels because you're going to further alienate people. Speak to every American and say that it is time to come together.", "As Donald Trump comes towards the end of his presidency, we've put together a selection of striking moments from his four years in office.\n\nCrowds are seen gathered at Mr Trump's inauguration ceremony on 20 January 2017.\n\nJust days later, the new president accused the media of lying about the attendance. He was said to be angry that images appeared to show the crowds were lower than for Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the media it had been \"the largest audience to ever see an inauguration, period\".\n\nFar-right supporters and white nationalists took part in a torch-lit rally through Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.\n\nThe following day a woman was killed and 19 were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd of counter-protesters in the city.\n\nIn response, President Trump condemned violence by \"many sides\", prompting a wave of criticism. Some 48 hours later, he denounced far-right extremists calling \"KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists repugnant to everything we hold dear\".\n\nJoe Biden has said it was the president's response to the tragedy that prompted his own decision to run against him.\n\nMr Trump's attendance at the G7 summit in Canada in June 2018 did not get off to a good start, when prior to the event, the president announced import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Mexico and Canada.\n\nOther images from the meeting showed more friendly relations between the leaders - but this photo was considered by many to reflect the underlying tensions of the gathering.\n\nMr Trump left the summit before other leaders and claimed that America was \"like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing\".\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump is pictured wearing a jacket in June 2018 which reads \"I really don't care, do you?\" on the back, during a trip to a migrant child detention centre.\n\nThere was speculation over what message Mrs Trump intended to send by wearing the jacket on that trip, which came as the president was under fire for his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.\n\nThe First Lady later admitted it had been a message \"for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me. I want to show them I don't care. You could criticise whatever you want to say. But it will not stop me to do what I feel is right\".\n\nMr Trump called for compromise in politics during his State of the Union address in February 2019 but Nancy Pelosi was pictured giving what many saw as a sarcastic clap.\n\nHe broke protocol by not waiting for the customary introduction from the House Speaker before beginning his speech.\n\nThe image, termed the \"Pelosi clap\" quickly went viral and appeared to show the political rivalry between the two.\n\nMr Trump walks into the northern side of the military demarcation line that divides North and South Korea in June 2019. In doing so, he became the first US sitting president to cross the line.\n\nHis decision to meet Kim Jong-un without pre-conditions stunned the world.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nKim Kardashian West speaks at a White House event about prison reform in June 2019.\n\nIn 2018, the celebrity activist lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of a grandmother jailed for life. Alice Johnson was later granted clemency in a high-profile decision by Mr Trump.\n\nPresident Trump has already given pardons to 94 people and there is speculation he may pardon 100 others before he leaves office.\n\nMr Trump holds a bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House in June 2020.\n\nPeaceful anti-racism demonstrators had been cleared from nearby Lafayette Square with pepper spray and flash-bang grenades so that the president and his entourage could walk to the church.\n\nHis actions prompted shock and anger from many religious leaders, who accused him of using religion for political purposes.\n\nThe Trump family watch as Donald Trump debates with Joe Biden at their first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September 2020.\n\nThey broke debate rules that all spectators wear masks - sparking the same criticism often aimed at their father for taking a cavalier attitude to the virus.\n\nA few days after the debate, the president tested positive himself.\n\nHe spent three nights in a hospital receiving treatment before returning to the White House and declaring he felt \"really good\" and urging others not to be afraid of the virus.\n\nCrowds of Trump supporters climb on the US Capitol in DC earlier this month following a \"Stop the Steal\" rally.\n\nIt followed a 70-minute address by the president in which he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians were meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The mob ransacked the Capitol building and attempted to enter the chambers where lawmakers were hiding.\n\nMr Trump has since been impeached, becoming the first president ever to be impeached twice. But he denies charges that he incited the mob to attack the Capitol.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state before departing for Washington on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "More than 60 flood warnings remain in place in northern, central and eastern England\n\nResidents have been evacuated, roads closed and rail services were suspended as Storm Christoph batters England.\n\nHouseboat residents were moved from Northwich, Cheshire, for their safety as Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold an emergency meeting later.\n\nNorthern, central and eastern England are braced for flooding which will be discussed at the Cobra meeting.\n\nMore than 60 flood warnings remain in place and three police forces have declared major incidents.\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nPeople living in houseboats in Cheshire have been moved to hotels for their safety, say police\n\nCheshire Police has declared a major incident - along with forces in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire - and moved 33 people from Hayhurst Marina for their safety as water levels rise.\n\nIn Greater Manchester up to 3,000 properties could be affected by flooding near the River Mersey where a peak is expected at 23:00 GMT.\n\nDowning Street said Covid-secure evacuation centres would be made available to those forced to leave their homes as a result of flooding.\n\n\"Preparations to create Covid-secure rest centres have been made by relevant agencies as a precautionary measure,\" the Prime Minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"The important message for the public now is to continue to monitor the information the Environment Agency are providing and sign-up for flood alerts if they haven't already.\"\n\nThe River Eden has flooded Rickerby Park in Carlisle\n\nMore than 120mm (nearly 5in) of rain has already fallen in some parts of England, with 123.4mm at Honister Pass in Cumbria in the 24 hours up to 06:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNearby Seathwaite saw the second highest total, with 107.2mm (4.2in), and some isolated spots could see up to 200mm (7.8in), the Met Office said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 60 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 180 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA road in Lancashire was shut by police after six vehicles got stuck in surface water\n\nIn North Yorkshire, York is currently predicting the River Ouse could rise above 4m (13.1ft) but that is a level the defences can cope with.\n\nHowever, if people are forced out of their homes due to flooding they can stay with friends or family without the risk of a Covid fine during Storm Christoff, North Yorkshire Police has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force declared it a major incident on Tuesday to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\nHe believes up to 3,000 properties in the region could be affected by flooding in Didsbury, Northenden and Sale near the River Mersey.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden, Todmorden on Tuesday\n\n\"This is a significant incident in terms of disruption to people and those people have been advised with regard to action to take,\" he said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman added: \"The Environment Agency is on the ground now working with local partners and stand ready to respond to any flooding.\n\n\"They have already ensured there are 40km (25 miles) of temporary barriers, which they are ready to deliver anywhere in the country and that is alongside high-powered pumps and trained staff who are ready to assist and provide information to local communities.\"\n\nWhen asked if local authorities would be given further financial support to deal with flooding, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: \"We have a number of flood recovery schemes that can be made available to those who are affected by flooding.\"\n\nFlood warden Keith Crabtree from Todmorden, West Yorkshire, said he was hoping improved flood defences had \"done the trick\" after checking river levels in Mytholmroyd.\n\n\"There appears to be plenty of rain about but it does not seem to be having and serious impact on the river levels,\" he said.\n\n\"We will see over the years to come how it performs in reducing the flood risk for the village. Things can change very quickly in the Calder Valley and we are not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the floods? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fluttering flight patterns of butterflies have long inspired poets but baffled scientists.\n\nResearchers have struggled to understand how these delicate creatures can fly with their large but inefficient wings.\n\nNow, a new study shows that butterflies evolved an effective way of cupping and clapping their wings to generate thrust.\n\nThe scientists say that this ability helps them avoid dangerous predators.\n\nFlying species have evolved various methods of evading death. Some have developed powerful and efficient wings to speed them to safety.\n\nOthers survive by tasting awful when eaten.\n\nBut what about the slow-moving, meandering butterfly?\n\nThe problem for these creatures is that they have unusually large wings relative to their body size, which are aerodynamically inefficient for flight.\n\nBack in the 1970s, researchers developed a theory that their big wings allowed the butterfly to clap them together on the upstroke to power their take off.\n\nBut no one has shown how this works in natural flying conditions.\n\nNow, Swedish scientists, using a wind tunnel and high-speed cameras, have captured the butterfly's unique flying skill.\n\n\"The wings are behaving in quite an interesting way,\" co-author Dr Per Henningsson, from Lund University, in Sweden, told BBC News.\n\n\"The leading and the trailing edge are meeting before the central part, forming this pocket shape.\n\n\"We think that sort of behaviour is going to improve the clap because it forms an air pocket between the wings which, when the wings collapse, that makes the jet even stronger and more efficient.\"\n\nA butterfly in the wind tunnel for the experiment\n\nAs well as recording slow-motion video of the butterflies in flight, the researchers constructed two simple pairs of mechanical clappers to test their ideas. One was rigid, the other flexible and more akin to the butterfly wings observed in the wind tunnel tests.\n\nThe team found that the flexible wings dramatically increased the force created by the clap.\n\nIt also improved the efficiency by 28%, which the authors describe as a huge amount for a flying animal.\n\nThis leads them to conclude that the large wings and cupped, clapping action were an evolutionary advantage for butterflies when faced with predators.\n\n\"If you are a butterfly that is able to take off quicker than the others, that gives you an obvious advantage,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's a strong selective pressure then, because it's a matter of life and death.\"\n\nA silver washed fritillary , one of the creatures used to show the mechanics of butterfly flight\n\n\"I don't really know if they use it in free flight, but I think they typically don't flap their wings together.\n\n\"But in the take-off phase, they definitely do it a lot.\"\n\nThe authors believe that their research might prove useful in other spheres.\n\nSome drone devices and underwater vehicles already use propulsion systems based on wing clapping motion, but with limitations.\n\nThe incorporation of the approach used by butterflies might bring major improvements, the scientists say.\n\n\"We're suggesting that the people that are working on these designs, they should look into this cup-shape behaviour, since there are lots of efficiency and effectiveness to be gained from it,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's certainly something that would be worthwhile looking into.\"\n\nThe report has been published in the journal of the Royal Society Interface.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRelegation-threatened Fulham lost some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but showed battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.\n\nOf the three sides currently adrift at the bottom of the Premier League, the Cottagers seem the most capable of clawing their way to safety, as illustrated by their impressive win at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nBut they failed to repeat that bright and incisive display at Turf Moor against a typically hard-working and competitive Clarets side, who married their industry with the game's main moments of attacking ingenuity.\n\nIt was the visitors, though, who took the lead, as much through fortune as design, with Ola Aina's chested effort from a corner finding the net despite an attempted clearance from Robbie Brady on the line.\n\nCrucially, the visitors were denied the time to draw confidence from the opener, with Burnley hitting back three minutes later through a well-taken Ashley Barnes finish, following a superb low ball from Jay Rodriguez.\n\nThe same two strikers had both narrowly failed to get a goal-bound touch on a superb low cross from James Tarkowski in the first half, while Rodriguez saw a low drive kicked away by Alphonse Areola shortly after his side had levelled the score.\n\nThe draw represents an opportunity missed for Burnley to put further ground between themselves and the London side, with the gap between the two a sizeable but not yet entirely comfortable eight points.\n\nScott Parker's side remain six points shy of safety, with Newcastle the 17th-placed side most in danger of being reeled in.\n• None Follow live text commentary of Burnley v Fulham in the Premier League\n\nA point gained, or two lost for Fulham?\n\nEarning a result at Burnley against a side built to expose the mental and physical weaknesses in an opponent, especially a newly promoted one, is not an easy task.\n\nIn doing so, Fulham have further demonstrated their growth into a top-flight side, after claiming a number of creditable draws earlier in the campaign and then dispatching an aspiring big-hitter in Everton last weekend.\n\nUnfortunately, the Cottagers' development could have come too late.\n\nOnly wins will really eat into the gap between themselves and safety and they cannot afford to let one slip from their grasp when it is there to be had.\n\nIt is why Parker and his side will be so disappointed at the speed and manner with which they conceded the equaliser at Turf Moor, throwing away the lead and momentum they had seized by allowing Barnes a free run in on goal to finish.\n\nThey had been on the back foot for large periods before that and were indebted to a bit of fortune for their goal, but aesthetics come a distant second to actual points right now.\n\nThe biggest positive for Burnley will be that their advantage over the Cottagers remains the same as it was before kick-off.\n\nWith the likes of Newcastle and Palace in far worse form than they are, and Brighton a point worse off, they will feel relatively calm about their situation.\n\nWhat will worry manager Dyche is further injuries to his already depleted squad, with Johan Berg Gudmundsson having to depart, and his replacement Robbie Brady also needing to be replaced.\n\nThere is no respite for either side, with both facing further important fixtures at the weekend.\n\nBurnley host West Brom, the side a place below Fulham in the table, while Parker's men welcome bottom club Sheffield United to Craven Cottage.\n\n'When we get ahead we need to weather something'\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche talking to Sky Sports: \"Another point on the board, we are stripped to the bare bones. A committed performance.\n\n\"The reaction to their goal was excellent and I thought we defended well. It's remarkably unfortunate how many injuries we have had.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker talking to Sky Sports: \"It is a tough place to come, the ball is in play not a lot, it is scrappy. We got our noses in front and disappointed with the goal we have conceded.\n\n\"We take the point though. That is four points so far this week. When we get ahead we need to weather something. There were a couple of mistakes for their goal.\n\n\"I thought we were solid, dealt with the threat of balls coming in but were not able to get our identity on it.\n\n\"We regroup, it has been a busy week. Every game is big for us. Six points. This team has honest belief and confidence.\"\n• None Burnley are unbeaten in their past 31 home meetings with Fulham in all competitions (W25 D6), extending their longest ever unbeaten run against an opponent at Turf Moor in their history. Their last such defeat was back in April 1951 (2-0).\n• None Fulham's 31-game winless streak away from home against Burnley in all competitions is their longest run without a victory on the road against an opponent in their history.\n• None There have been just 24 Premier League goals scored at Turf Moor this season (Burnley scoring 10 and conceding 14) - the joint-lowest total at a top-flight ground in 2020-21 (level with Craven Cottage).\n• None Fulham have gone six consecutive away games without defeat in the Premier League (W1 D5), their joint longest such run in the competition (also in August 2004 under Chris Coleman).\n• None Burnley have conceded the first goal of the game in eight of their 12 Premier League matches at Turf Moor this season, including each of the past five - only Sheffield United (10) have done so more often on home soil in the competition this campaign.\n• None There were just 224 seconds between Ola Aina's opener for Fulham and Ashley Barnes' equaliser for Burnley.\n• None Burnley's Jay Rodriguez has assisted in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career, with this his 196th appearance in the competition.\n• None Burnley's Robbie Brady is the only player to have been substituted on and off in two separate Premier League games this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) header from very close range misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Josh Maja.\n• None James Tarkowski (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Josh Maja (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Tottenham and Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed head coach of Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe Argentine, 48, who succeeded Thomas Tuchel, has signed a deal until 30 June 2022, with the option of an extra year.\n\nPochettino, who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003, has been out of work since being sacked by Spurs in November 2019.\n\nPSG are third in Ligue 1 and will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League in February and March.\n\nGerman Tuchel was sacked on 29 December after two and a half years in charge.\n• None Pochettino is back - but why has he chosen PSG? Read Guillem Ballague's column\n\nPochettino will take his first training session on Sunday following the French league's winter break.\n\nHe said he was \"happy and honoured\" to take on the role and that the club \"has always held a special place in my heart\".\n\n\"I return to the club today with a lot of ambition and humility, and am eager to work with some of the world's most talented players,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"This team has fantastic potential and my staff and I will do everything we can to get the best for Paris St-Germain in all competitions. We will also do our utmost to give our team the combative and attacking playing identity that Parisian fans have always loved.\"\n\nPSG chairman and chief executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Pochettino's return \"fits perfectly with our ambitions\", adding: \"It will be another exciting chapter for the club and one I am positive the fans will enjoy.\"\n\nPochettino began his managerial career at Espanyol and spent 18 months at Southampton before joining Tottenham in May 2014.\n\nHe guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season, while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2016-17.\n\nA former Argentina defender, Pochettino led Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019, where they lost to Liverpool.\n\nHe was sacked five months later, with the club 14th in the Premier League, and replaced by Jose Mourinho.\n\nTuchel's final game in charge of PSG was a 4-0 win over Strasbourg on 23 December, which moved the reigning champions to within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon and second-placed Lille before a two-week winter break.\n\nPSG have been linked with a January loan move for Tottenham's Dele Alli, who made his Premier League debut under Pochettino.\n\nWe all wanted to see him back and we all thought he was waiting for the Manchester United job. PSG is a massive job. There's a massive expectation there.\n\nWith the squad he can pick from and the players he can attract, it's a match made in heaven.\n\nPochettino has got the best out of Dele Alli in the past and it would probably be a clever move all round to get him out there with with the Euros looming.\n\nYou have to have success [at PSG]. They have moved Thomas Tuchel on because PSG are actually in a title race rather than winning at a canter. It's a great opportunity for Pochettino.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Arwel Morris said national park staff and police had been engaging with visitors\n\nBeauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy over the last few days\" despite restrictions meaning all but essential travel should be avoided.\n\nSnowdonia park warden Arwel Morris reiterated the message that people should not be driving to visit places.\n\nOn Saturday, police stopped people from Milton Keynes attempting to walk up Snowdon in breach of Covid rules.\n\nMr Morris blamed a \"perfect storm\" of good weather and people being off work for the number of visitors in the area.\n\n\"We try and enforce the fact that exercise should begin and end at home, meaning people should not try and drive to a location where they plan to exercise,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"And this has been really difficult over the last few days.\n\n\"We have dealt with people from London, Birmingham… numerous people from north Wales travelling to beauty spots.\"\n\nMr Morris, a warden for Snowdonia National Park, said police had been doing their \"absolute best\" dealing with visitors despite other pressures, as wardens could not enforce breaches in lockdown rules.\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nOn New Year's Day, the force tweeted to say people had been reported for breaching travel restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a nationwide level four lockdown since 20 December.\n\nWales is in a tier four lockdown\n\nTravelling is only allowed for essential purposes, such as for work and for caring responsibilities. International travel is also not allowed.\n\nPeople are still allowed out of their homes to exercise for unlimited periods each day, but must maintain social distancing and not exercise with anyone outside their household.\n\nMore than three quarters of England is also under the strictest tier four coronavirus measures, putting restrictions on people's daily lives.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "Owen Thomas says metal detecting has been his escape from the stresses of the pandemic.\n\nThe writer from Tongwynlais, Cardiff started metal detecting after bumping into his long-time friend Bob Wiseman - an avid detectorist - during lockdown.\n\nAside from his first outing, when he followed his metal toe cap boots thinking he had found treasure, he has discovered artefacts dating back to the 13th Century.\n\nOwen says he has fallen in love with his new-found hobby and it is \"the link with a life that's gone” that appeals to him so much.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Lisa Montgomery is scheduled for execution in January 2021\n\nA US appeals court has lifted a stay of execution on the only woman awaiting a federal death penalty.\n\nLisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.\n\nIf the execution goes ahead, she will be the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years.\n\nMontgomery's execution date was originally set for last month but a stay was put in place after her attorneys contracted Covid-19.\n\nIt was then rescheduled for 12 January by the Justice Department. But Montgomery's lawyers argued that the date could not be set while a stay was in place.\n\nA court sided with her attorneys, stopping an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling her death.\n\nBut on Friday, a panel of judges concluded that the director had acted under the law, allowing the execution to take place.\n\nMontgomery's legal team said they will file a petition for the judges to reconsider their ruling.\n\nThe last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nFederal executions had been on pause for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered them to resume earlier last year.\n\nIf the remaining executions go ahead, Mr Trump will have overseen the most executions by a US president in more than a century.\n\nMontgomery's execution date is just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.\n\nMr Biden, who for decades was a fierce supporter of the death penalty as a Delaware senator, has now said he will seek to end federal executions once he takes office.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove from Kansas to the home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy, according to a Department of Justice press release.\n\n\"Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett - who was eight months pregnant - until the victim lost consciousness,\" it says.\n\nMontgomery cut into Stinnett's body to remove the baby, which she took with her in an attempt to pass it off as her own.\n\nIn 2007, a jury found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.\n\nBut Montgomery's lawyers say she experienced brain damage from beatings as a child and is mentally unwell, so should not face the death penalty.\n\nUnder the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts, at a national level, or in state courts, at a regional level.\n\nCertain crimes, such as counterfeiting currency or mail theft, are automatically tried at a federal level, as are cases in which the US is a party or those which involve constitutional violations.\n\nThe death penalty was outlawed at state and federal level by a 1972 Supreme Court decision that cancelled all existing death penalty statutes.\n\nA 1976 Supreme Court decision allowed states to reinstate the death penalty and in 1988 the government passed legislation that made it available again at federal level.\n\nAccording to data collected by the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 people were sentenced to death in federal cases between 1988 and 2018 but only three were executed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's in store for US President-elect Biden in 2021? Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher looks ahead\n\nThe latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed.\n\nA Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican Louie Gohmert, seeking to stop Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the final result.\n\nLawyers for Mr Pence had asked for the case to be thrown out on Thursday.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is due to take office on 20 January. Mr Trump is yet to concede.\n\nMr Gohmert, a Republican congressman, told Newsmax TV that he planned to appeal against the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's friends and colleagues in the Republican party have presented dozens of legal challenges to the November outcome which delivered a decisive win to Mr Biden.\n\nHis victory was announced after days of vote-counting that took longer than in recent years because of the huge number of postal ballots cast due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Trump has made numerous unsubstantiated claims that Mr Biden's win, which saw the president-elect gain 306 electoral college votes to his rival's 232, was fraudulent.\n\nThe electoral college is a system whereby each US state has an allocated number of points that is granted to the overall winner in each state. The candidate who gains the majority wins the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nCongressman Gohmert's case sought to allow Vice-President Mike Pence to reject some electoral college votes when they are ratified by Congress on 6 January.\n\nThe vice-president presides over the vote certification in Congress in a ceremonial role that involves opening and tallying the envelopes containing electoral college votes before announcing the result.\n\nMr Gohmert's case aimed to expand that role to allow Mr Pence to cast judgement on the validity of the votes and potentially replace votes for Mr Biden with ones for Mr Trump.\n\nBut Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who was appointed to the Texas court in 2018 by Mr Trump, rejected the case, saying it was based on speculative events.\n\nOn Thursday a lawyer from the US Justice Department representing Mr Pence urged Mr Gohmert to drop the case, suggesting that it was not the vice-president's office that should be scrutinising the outcome.\n\nAlthough most Republicans in Congress are expected to vote in favour of certifying the results, a small number including Senator Josh Hawley, say they plan to object. But their vote is not expected to change the outcome.\n\nMr Biden is due to be sworn in as president on 20 January at a scaled-back ceremony with just 1,000 tickets available due to Covid-19 precautions.", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 2,500 people take part in an illegal rave in northern France, despite the nationwide curfew\n\nAn illegal warehouse rave that began on New Year's Eve in France in defiance of coronavirus precautions has been shut down by police after arrests and clashes.\n\nSome of the 2,500 ravers in Lieuron near Rennes in Brittany had planned to party until Tuesday.\n\nPolice issued fines to revellers found leaving and the organisers were being identified as the party ended.\n\nA number of party-goers were from the UK and Spain, police said.\n\nAttendees clashed with police, setting fire to a car and throwing objects at officers attempting to shut the event down. At least three officers were injured.\n\nPolice broke up the three-day party that defied a nationwide curfew\n\nA driver was apprehended with turntables, speakers and a generator in the boot of the vehicle, according to French TV station BFM TV.\n\nPolice trying to stop the event faced \"fierce hostility from many partygoers\", a statement from local authorities said.\n\nBut at 05:30 local time on Saturday the ravers began to accept the party was over and started to leave the two disused warehouse hangars, the local prefecture said.\n\nSome revellers said they were hoping to stay until Tuesday\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter that trucks, sound equipment and generators were seized at the scene and an investigation has been opened.\n\nMore than 1,200 fines were issued for non-compliance with the curfew, not wearing a mask and attending an illegal gathering, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gérald DARMANIN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday authorities said they had opened a sanitary cordon around the party and anyone leaving the event was urged to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nOne of the party-goers, who gave his name as Jo, told the AFP news agency that \"very few had respected social distancing\" at the event.\n\nA number of people slept in their cars before returning to dance, Le Monde newspaper reports.\n\nOne reveller told Le Monde that the rave was \"very well organised\" with food stalls inside.\n\nAnother, who came with four friends from Finisterre in north-west France, told the newspaper that she had wanted to \"escape\" for a few hours.\n\nOn Friday an interior ministry crisis meeting was held and all vehicle exits from the rave were blocked as police sought to shut down the party.\n\nFrance introduced strict rules ahead of the New Year including a curfew from 20:00 until 06:00.\n\nMore than 100,000 police officers were deployed across the country to break up parties and enforce the curfew.\n\nOfficers were instructed to break up underground parties as soon as they were reported, fine participants and identify the organisers.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 2.6 million coronavirus cases and 64,892 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nOfficers elsewhere in Europe have also had to break up events in recent days.\n\nPolice dispersed a mass gathering near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Saturday where 300 people had been partying for more than 40 hours.\n\nThree footballers from London-based football team Tottenham Hotspur were photographed at a Christmas party last week in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd in Essex, an illegal New Year's Eve party damaged All Saints Church near Brentwood. Church authorities have since received hundreds of pounds to pay for repairs.\n\nOfficers in Spain broke up the rave near Barcelona, which had been going on for more than 40 hours", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to pay for repairs to a 500-year-old church that was \"trashed\" during an illegal New Year's Eve party.\n\nHundreds of revellers attended the party at All Saints Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, after the building was broken into.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nVolunteer group Friends of All Saints said it was \"completely overwhelmed\" by peoples' \"support and generosity\".\n\nChurch volunteer Astrid Gillespie said the damage was \"devastating\"\n\nThe fundraising page was set up on Friday and aimed to raise £2,000, but in less than 24 hours it had raised more than £8,700.\n\nIt said a \"massive clean-up\" was needed at the \"much-loved\" church after \"hundreds of revellers trashed the place\".\n\nEquipment was seized by police at the illegal party\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints, said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up. They had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church. To find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nReferring to the money that was raised, she said: \"Faith in humanity restored\".\n\nThe church, which is owned and maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust, has not been used for religious services since 1970, but regularly houses community events.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Amanda Quinn, who has early onset dementia, is cared for by her 23-year-old daughter Bethany\n\n\"It feels like you're being punished for something you didn't do.\"\n\nAmanda Quinn describes living through lockdown with early onset dementia as \"scary\" and \"feeling lost\".\n\nTwo years ago, she was diagnosed with the condition aged 49, and said the disease was a \"ticking time bomb\" for her husband and four children.\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support worker Lorraine Davies said lockdown had brought a \"great sense of loss\" to many families.\n\nSince her diagnosis, Amanda says she has lost her sense of what day it is, her concentration, and she struggles with speech occasionally and suffers more with incontinence.\n\nWhen Wales went into a UK national lockdown on 23 March, Amanda said she did not leave her home in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for weeks.\n\nShe said her children have noticed a \"big change\" in her.\n\n\"I used to have a wicked sense of humour - I still have one, but it's not how I used to be,\" she said.\n\nBut for Amanda one of the worst parts of her condition is \"losing so many friends\" whom she said \"would rather cross the road\" than talk to her.\n\n\"They don't know how to interact with me anymore,\" she said.\n\nAmanda says her children have noticed a \"big change\" since she was diagnosed aged 49\n\nHer 23-year-old daughter Bethany Kingsley, who cares for her, said the pandemic has caused caring work to increase ten-fold.\n\n\"I have to keep an eye on mum a lot more now, because she doesn't know what to do with herself.\n\n\"But I have also got to look after my mental health side of it as well. There are days where I'm struggling,\" she said.\n\nNow Amanda does activities at home such as adult colouring books, baking with Bethany, and watches movies.\n\n\"It is like being a child,\" Amanda explained.\n\n\"My daughter says it's like we've switched roles and she has become the adult as she holds my hand when we cross the road.\n\n\"Although I can see a car, it doesn't register to me that it is not safe to walk out, all I can think is that I need to be on the other side of the road.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, she attended dementia support groups in person, such as Memoria, a theatrical group of people with dementia and carers, whereas now she does this virtually.\n\nBethany says Covid has had a big impact on caring for her mother\n\nLast year, before the pandemic, Bethany put off moving away to study midwifery at university in Bristol.\n\nAlthough she said it was a \"difficult\" decision as she had wanted to do it for years, she said she was glad she was home to care for her mother during the pandemic.\n\nInstead she chose to study for an Open University course in health and social care from home.\n\n\"I thought my mother is the only person I've got at the end of the day and I would rather make sure she is safe and happy, rather than go off and leave her,\" she said.\n\nBut Amanda said she was concerned about how her condition will progress and affect her family more.\n\nThe 51-year-old said it was \"not fair\" that her daughter had to stay home because of her condition.\n\n\"It worries me how it will affect my children. I'm fortunate, I suppose, that I'm not going to know.\n\n\"I say I don't want to go into a care home but that wouldn't be fair on them - they have still got their whole lives to lead\".\n\nAmanda was still in her 40s when she was diagnosed\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support adviser for younger people Lorraine Davies said there was a stigma attached to younger people with the disease and a \"lack of public awareness\".\n\n\"Some have mortgages, some have young families, and often they also care for older adults - so it has a different impact on them, and their social network of people.\n\n\"A lot of people living with dementia don't always feel they will have next year, so 2020 has been a great sense of loss to them because of the lockdown and restrictions,\" she said.\n\nThe charity estimates that there are between 2,000 to 3,000 people with young onset dementia in Wales, according to 2018 figures from the first Welsh Government national dementia action plan.\n\nHowever Lorraine said the figure was likely to be higher as getting a dementia diagnosis can be harder for younger people, and can take more than a year to have it confirmed.\n\n\"It is also more common for younger people to have rarer forms of dementia, so rather than being a typical Alzheimer's disease, associated with memory loss, a patient might have behavioural changes, but you might just think they are upset, stressed, or put it down to mood swings.\n\n\"Some people have been accused of being drunk, because they have slurred speech, but actually that is a symptom.\"\n\nShe said the Alzheimer's Society has organised virtual support groups for people with the condition and their carers during lockdown.\n\n\"Often younger people want to meet people like them, because it helps them not to feel so alone in this. Knowing that brings people comfort.\"\n\nSimon Hatch, the director of Carers Trust Wales, said the pandemic had highlighted the \"crucial role unpaid carers play both in providing exceptional, expert care to family and friends\".\n\nMr Hatch said the trust found that 44% of young adult carers it spoke to felt overwhelmed by the pressures they were facing.\n\nHe said although there was support available to carers they would need \"sustainable\" forms of this in the future.\n\nThere are about 45,000 people with dementia in Wales, according to the Alzheimer's Society.\n\nThe disease is considered \"early onset\" when it affects people under 65, according to Young Dementia UK.\n\nLorraine said the age distinction was made to mark the difference in financial support, as 65 was state pension age at the time.\n\nDementia itself refers to a set of symptoms caused by many diseases of the brain. The most common symptom is memory loss and difficulty concentrating.\n\nOther symptoms can include struggling to remember recent events, changes to behaviour, mood, becoming lost in familiar places or being unable to find the right word in a conversation.\n\nSpecific symptoms will depend on the parts of the brain that are damaged and the disease that is causing the dementia.", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.\n\nA picture on social media showed Argentina forward Erik Lamela, Spain defender Sergio Reguilon and Argentina midfielder Giovani lo Celso at a party.\n\n\"We are not happy - it was a negative surprise for us,\" said Mourinho.\n\nIn a statement, Tottenham said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and \"the matter would be dealt with internally\".\n\nWest Ham reminded Argentina forward Manuel Lanzini, who also attended the party, of his responsibilities.\n\nLanzini apologised in a tweet on Saturday, saying he made a \"bad mistake\".\n\n\"I take full responsibility for my actions,\" he said. \"I know people have made difficult sacrifices to stay safe and I should be setting a better example.\"\n\nLamela and Lo Celso were not involved in Saturday's 3-0 Premier League win at home to Leeds, while Reguilon, who joined from Real Madrid in September, was on the bench.\n\n\"I gave an amazing gift to Reguilon - Portuguese piglet,\" Mourinho said. \"Amazing for Portuguese and Spanish. I was told he would spend Christmas on his own. He was not alone as you could see.\n\n\"We, the club, feel disappointed because we gave the players all the education and conditions. We know what we are internally. We don't need to open the door to you and let you know what is going on internally.\n\n\"What are going to be the consequences and how deeply we approach that negative surprise? I feel disappointed.\"\n\nThe Spurs statement added: \"We strongly condemned the image showing some of our players with family and friends together at Christmas, particularly as we know the sacrifices everybody around the country made to stay safe over the festive period.\n\n\"The rules are clear, there are no exceptions, and we regularly remind all our players and staff about the latest protocols and their responsibilities to adhere and set an example.\"\n\nLamela has made two league starts and Lo Celso four this season.\n\nLanzini has featured in nine of West Ham's 17 league games, coming on as a substitute in Friday's 1-0 win at Everton.\n\nA West Ham spokesperson said: \"The club has set the highest possible standards with its protocols and measures relating to Covid-19 so we are disappointed to learn of Manuel Lanzini's actions.\n\n\"The matter has been dealt with internally and Manuel has been strongly reminded of his responsibilities.\"\n\nTottenham's home league game with Fulham, scheduled to take place on 30 December, was called off three hours before kick-off after a number of Fulham players tested positive for coronavirus or showed symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, Fulham told BBC Sport they are looking into claims Aleksandar Mitrovic broke coronavirus rules by attending a New Year's party with Crystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic.\n\nImages on social media, reported in the Sun , allegedly show the Serbia team-mates celebrating in London with at least seven other adults.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned in London under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\n'Mourinho must be so angry'\n\nMourinho has been so critical and vocal of how the Premier League handled their situation [the Fulham postponement], which I totally disagree with him.\n\nYou have to accept we're in strange and difficult times - if it has to be called off at whatever time then it has to be called off.\n\nTo then see some of his players breaking the rules and laws, particularly when millions of people are sacrificing so much not only in this country but around the world, Mourinho must be so angry.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bitcoin's value has soared over the past year\n\nBitcoin's value surged above $34,000 (£24,850) for the first time on Sunday as the leading cryptocurrency continued to soar.\n\nIt put the gain this year at almost $5,000, although by 17:00 GMT the price had drifted lower to about $33,000, according to the Coindesk website.\n\nThe rise was put down to interest from big investors seeking quick profits.\n\nIt comes after Bitcoin soared 300% last year, with the price of many other digital currencies also rising sharply.\n\nEthereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency, gained 465% in 2020\n\nSome analysts think Bitcoin's value could rise even further as the US dollar drops further.\n\nWhile the value of the US currency rose in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as investors sought safety amid the uncertainty, it has since dropped due to major stimulus from the US Federal Reserve. The currency ended last year with its biggest annual loss since 2017.\n\nBitcoin is traded in much the same way as real currencies like the US dollar and pound sterling.\n\nRecently it has won growing support as a form of payment online, with PayPal among the most recent adopters of digital currencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the cryptocurrency has also proved to be a volatile investment.\n\nThe soaring price has raised concerns that Bitcoin is due for a dramatic correction, as happened three years ago when the value collapsed after a bull run.\n\nDuring the rally in 2017 Bitcoin came close to breaking through the $20,000 level, only to hit extreme lows and fall below $3,300.\n\nIt passed $19,000 in November last year before dropping sharply again.\n\nIn October, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments pointing out that investors should realise its price is extremely volatile.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced 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How did it get so bad? BBC News finds out.", "Hundreds of thousands of bats have invaded Ingham and residents are fed up.", "A number of prisoners are likely to challenge the government's new terror laws in court, a lawyer says.", "Hashem Abedi denies he was involved with the \"instigation, preparation or commission\" of the attack.", "Ant and Dec, David Walliams, Piers Morgan and James Corden applaud the ITV presenter's announcement.", "It's the biggest change in overdrafts in a generation and could mean you paying double.", "A man who took photographs up the skirts of 20 women and girls is convicted of voyeurism.", "Harry Baker was \"brutally murdered\" by a gang after selling drugs on their turf, a court hears.", "The Grammy and Brit award-winning singer has written on Instagram that her \"recovery took time\".", "Iraj Harirchi mopped his brow at a news conference before testing positive for coronavirus disease.", "The three Scottish soldiers were lured to their deaths by the IRA in Belfast in 1971.", "David Steel says he is retiring from public life after an inquiry accuses him of \"turning a blind eye\" to claims of child abuse.", "The campaigners posed for a photo together at Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford.", "We spoke to three young people about their dream home and how it matches up with reality.", "The Department for Work and Pensions created a \"hostile environment\" for one employee, a judge rules.", "Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin was meeting Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar on Tuesday.", "Carrot uses phone data to measure braking and acceleration - but some say it often fails to work.", "The Wikileaks co-founder was not to blame for unredacted files being published online, a court hears", "Milly and Toby Savill were on Greek Island Santorini when their hired buggy fell into a ravine.", "Salman Abedi's brother Hashem denies murder, attempted murder and conspiring to cause explosions.", "Embassies from around the world also owe over £200,000 in parking fines, the Foreign Office says.", "The US president announces defence deals with India but says there's work still to do on trade.", "The Hollywood producer faces the threat of life in jail in a criminal trial taking place in New York.", "The bill blocking automatic release of convicted terror offenders is approved by the House of Lords.", "The supermarket chain says it will need fewer members of staff as it makes changes to its larger stores.", "Lucy Martindale says men and boys make girls carry weapons as they are less likely to be searched.", "Italy is now the European country worst affected by coronavirus and 11 towns have been cordoned off.", "He made the original design to help raise money for charity following the presenter's death", "Scotland Yard says it’s credible an ex-police spy had a relationship with a teenage campaigner.", "Updates as they happen after the World Health Organization says most new cases are outside China.", "A report criticises the political establishment but finds no evidence of a \"paedophile ring\".", "The businessman is considered the most powerful man in Hollywood.", "The former president, who was ousted by the military in 2011, has died in hospital in Cairo aged 91.", "Thousands attended a service for the NBA star and his daughter who died in a helicopter crash in January.", "Policy experts will offer \"constructive challenge to traditional Whitehall assumptions\", says No 10.", "Gui Minhai, who has Swedish citizenship, has published books on the personal lives of Chinese leaders.", "The judge said this was not a referendum on #MeToo. But at times, his trial felt like one.", "League leaders Liverpool are forced to come from behind to beat relegation-battling West Ham in a nervy encounter at Anfield.", "The opera star says he is \"truly sorry\" for the hurt caused to women who accused him of harassment.", "Fire crews and kayakers rescue residents in Shrewsbury, while part of Ironbridge is evacuated.", "The EU will follow this blueprint in talks, as UK ministers also agree their stance.", "A married couple bought and re-sold gig tickets worth millions of pounds using multiple identities.", "The Vietnamese passengers had earlier sailed across the channel from France to Cornwall.", "Demonstrators try to block authorities from replacing overcrowded camps on Lesbos and Chios.", "\"If health has stopped improving, that means society has stopped improving,\" author of report says.", "One of two main accusers in Harvey Weinstein's trial says she feels \"huge relief\" at his conviction.", "A Sunderland family among the thousands of people affected say they have been given no information.", "The head of the Environment Agency says new buildings should be made more resilient to flooding.", "Salman Abedi's brother Hashem denies murder, attempted murder and conspiring to cause explosions.", "The FTSE 100 suffered its sharpest drop in four years as investors worry about the virus spreading.", "The firm urges people to \"try to be kind\" after Tory minister's picture brews up a Twitter storm.", "Farmers say allowing food imports that would be illegal to produce in the UK would be \"morally bankrupt\".", "Scientists are debating whether it is still possible to contain the new coronavirus.", "MSPs back the general principles of Monica Lennon's bill but warn changes must be made before it becomes law.", "The shooting happened at a Somerset property which is next to Stanley Johnson's rural estate.", "There are two \"danger to life\" warnings on the Severn and flood defences are likely to be breached.", "Internet jokers cause a circular hole outside a bank to rise up the TripAdvisor rankings.", "Covid-19, the new form of coronavirus, becomes a notifiable disease under Scottish public health rules.", "France remain on course for a first Grand Slam in 10 years as they win in Cardiff for the first time since 2010 with a 27-23 victory.", "The family were involved in a two-car collision on the A82 at Torlundy near Fort William.", "Man Utd fan Daragh Curley said Liverpool were \"winning too many games\" and it was making him sad.", "The former England star's voice cracks as he pays tribute to \"the greatest man in the world\".", "Ofcom is asking why broadband firms charge people to keep old email addresses after switching providers.", "Manchester United greats Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Bobby Charlton and Denis Law are among the mourners.", "Jurgen Klopp says 10-year-old Daragh's letter asking for Liverpool to lose was \"nice\" and \"cheeky\".", "One worker at Hampton House had been turning up in a kayak, its manager said.", "BBC Sport speaks to boxing fans in Las Vegas at the weigh-in ahead of the eagerly anticipated rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury.", "Trevor Weston was at a cash machine and says the man threatened to stab him.", "The governor of Mecca says Asayel Slay's music video is an \"insult to the customs\" of the city.", "Plans to secure a trademark have also been abandoned, a spokesperson for the duke and duchess says.", "UK nationals evacuated from a cruise ship arrive at Arrowe Park, where they will spend the next 14 days.", "The Democratic race to decide who will take on Donald Trump in November's election resumes.", "The occupants of two cars became stuck in floods in the early hours and the road has since been shut.", "Safiyya Shaikh told an undercover police officer she wanted to \"kill 'til I'm dead\".", "Scientists at the Open University are studying minerals collected during the 1969 Moon landings.", "Waitrose has been rated the best UK in-store supermarket again in Which?'s annual supermarket satisfaction survey.", "The victim suffered a wound to his neck, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.", "One woman has to be rescued from her vehicle by canoe after her car became deluged by floodwater.", "The cast of Friends is to reunite for a one-off special, more than 15 years after the show ended.", "", "Dr Jeremy Morris is moving aside while an internal review into how allegations were handled takes place.", "The SNP's Joanna Cherry is challenging Angus Robertson for the Edinburgh Central seat at Holyrood.", "Staffordshire Police release CCTV footage of a lorry driver making a dangerous manoeuvre on the M6 Toll.", "Beauty should be cherished not banished; that is the message of The Cellist.", "The victims are named as Gemma Cousin, 26, her husband Rhys, 25, and their daughters Peyton, three, and Heidi Cousin.", "Emergency crews were called to flooded homes after more rain hit the already-swollen rivers.", "Promises of progression as nurses and doctors attract young people into hard-to-fill NHS jobs.", "The former teacher campaigned for the rights of the wrongly accused after he was cleared of sex abuse.", "Gloucester fly-half Danny Cipriani releases an emotional video tribute to ex-girlfriend Caroline Flack, saying \"it's OK to be vulnerable\".", "Substitute Gabriel Jesus scores an 80th-minute winner as Manchester City extend their advantage over Leicester to seven points in the battle for second spot in the Premier League.", "Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon says she is concerned about the state of Northern Ireland's roads.", "The Ryanair boss says Muslim men should be profiled at airports because \"that is where the threat is\".", "They will begin to replace the current burgundy passports, following the UK's departure from the EU.", "The 12 wild dogs were able to enter a neighbouring compound at West Midlands Safari Park.", "The court heard Thomas Nulty raped the six-year-old in the 1970s when he was babysitting her.", "In 2019, ex-prisoner Gareth Evans protected others from London Bridge attacker Usman Khan.", "The retailer says its £1 engagement rings are a hit, as it taps growing demand for Valentine's Day goods.", "Medics in Wuhan resort to shaving their heads in a bid to prevent cross-infection of the coronavirus.", "More than 135,000 UK residents left without online public services after hackers take out computers", "US Attorney General William Barr said he would not be bullied by anyone, including the president.", "Mysterious archaic hominins may have interbred with early humans in West Africa, scientists say.", "Ashar had to be left behind in Pakistan while his parents sought medical help for his brother.", "A photographer is challenging the culture of victim blaming for sexual assault victims.", "Appeal judges overturn a ruling that found Islamic faith weddings were legally recognised in the UK.", "Double amputee Janet Prince was left on an inappropriate mattress on a trolley for nine hours.", "US President Donald Trump tweets that he has \"the legal right\" to intervene in criminal cases.", "Manchester City are banned from European club competitions for two seasons by Uefa.", "Labour MP Tracy Brabin auctioned off the dress for charity after it caused controversy in the Commons.", "Stephanie Simpson is thought to have died in a \"tragic accident\" while hiking in a national park.", "Jayne Rowland was on her way to hospital when she went into the final stages of labour on the M5.", "New chief executive Alison Rose calls the bank's latest results the \"start of a new era\".", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reshuffles cabinet positions, two months after winning the general election. Who's in it?", "The temperature was recorded on an island off the Antarctic continent's northern tip.", "Jackson Carlaw had been the party's interim leader since Ruth Davidson quit the role in August.", "Court of Appeal judges rule in favour of St Mary's Hospital over the treatment of Midrar Ali.", "Boris Johnson sets priorities for his top team, following Sajid Javid's shock resignation.", "The UK is not an \"Orwellian society\", warns a judge as he rules officers interfered with freedom of speech.", "Rishi Sunak takes over at the Treasury, as his predecessor says he had \"no option but to resign\".", "The Rutter sea map, said to be the oldest accurate chart in existence, could fetch at least £15,000.", "There were 241 female homicide victims in England and Wales in the year to the end of March 2019.", "A former finance analyst, Rishi Sunak has won the premiership second-time round.", "A Tory donor provided holiday accommodation to the PM, according to the register of MPs' interests.", "Hundreds join service for Billy and Joe Smith, who were found dead together in a country lane.", "Kristyna Ng, who moved to Canada from China as a child, says Jeopardy! helped her learn English.", "Internet, pay-TV and phone customers will now be offered the best deals when their contracts end.", "But Boris Johnson's decision to centralise power in Downing Street will also bring risks.", "Former England doctor Alan Bass - who was present at four World Cups, including 1966 - has died aged 90.", "A representative from the World Health Organization wants tech firms to fight fake news on coronavirus.", "Scientists say they have overturned the prevailing idea for how the planets in our Solar System formed.", "A video emerges of a car being driven on the wrong side of the road near where Harry Dunn was killed.", "Leila Nathoo looks back at the day in politics, as the PM's reshuffle went further than even he perhaps expected.", "Lewys Crawford was not given antibiotics for hours after he arrived at hospital.", "Every junior minister in both departments will have a joint role - is it a takeover by stealth?", "Fallon Sherrock narrowly misses out on another stunning victory, drawing with Glen Durrant on her Premier League debut.", "Rayan Crawford, who lived in the UK for 22 years, says he was crying in pain on the plane to Jamaica.", "Flooding and power cuts are forecast with amber weather warnings in place across England and Wales.", "Some may have to \"down drills\" following curbs on how many they can order, the dentists' union says.", "Fernando Murphy has been jailed for the abuse, which left the Irish News reporter \"full of anxiety\".", "An undercover investigation finds companies offering training for fraudulent qualifications.", "The controversial high-speed rail project could potentially cost as much as £106bn.", "The wettest weather in 30 years brings flooding - but also puts out two massive bushfires.", "Samia Tabbal's bank account was used to buy items from B&Q after she left the UK, a court hears.", "Officials are in discussions with Europe to ensure a deal would not breach state aid rules.", "Nearly 150 million Americans had personal data compromised in the hack of the credit rating giant.", "Non-disclosure agreements should not be used routinely in these cases, says arbitration service Acas.", "The fourth case came as the UK's final rescue flight arrived in Oxfordshire.", "Oscar-ologists have been studying the nominations list for clues about who might win what.", "Families say their babies would have survived had East Kent NHS Trust provided better care.", "Labour says the plan \"doesn't make up for deep cuts\" to services since 2010.", "Three-month-old Lewys Crawford died the day after his parents took him to hospital.", "Pictures show the effects of Storm Ciara's strong winds and heavy rain in the UK.", "Jojo Rabbit, 1917 and Toy Story 4 were also among the winners.", "A 34-year-old man dies after being found with serious injuries at a house in Ayr.", "Ex-Speaker says it is \"blindingly obvious\" there is a campaign to keep him out of the House of Lords.", "The UK is lashed by heavy rain and winds of up to 90mph.", "As viewing figures fall again, some film fans say the ceremony is \"too long\" and \"boring\".", "As waves battered the coast, two people were spotted trying to take photos of themselves on rocks.", "The awards ceremony bucked a decline in viewers last year but ratings reached a record low on Sunday.", "Mohiussunnath Chowdhury was cleared a year ago of a sword attack on police near Buckingham Palace.", "Experts close to the review of HS2 have cast doubt on the significance of the £106bn cost figure.", "Meanwhile, another 60 people have caught the virus on a quarantined cruise ship in Japan.", "NHS staff pressures are leaving 120,000 patients a year \"in the dark\" about their illness, a charity says.", "Stars including Laura Dern, Olivia Colman and Billy Porter shone on the famous red carpet.", "Forecasters predict the storm will bring gusts of over 90mph (145km/h) in some areas.", "It comes after a leaked Windrush report called for a review of foreign-born offender deportations.", "BBC Africa Eye uncovers evidence that torture is being used by the Nigerian police and armed forces.", "Ruby Williams received £8,500 after taking legal action over her school's uniform policy.", "Mountain rescuers said the weather on the mountain was \"horrendous\" with a wind chill of about -20C.", "Police launched an investigation following allegations of abuse during an Old Firm game in December.", "Stephanie Lowe says she loves her husband \"as much as ever\" following his announcement he is gay.", "The European probe will gather some of the most detailed ever pictures and movies of our star.", "England secure a 1-1 series draw with South Africa by beating the hosts by two wickets in the third one-day international in Johannesburg.", "Find out who won the golden statuettes at this year's Academy Awards.", "Sony is the latest firm to withdraw from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.", "Police say a 58-year-old man died in Hampshire after his car was hit during the storm on Sunday.", "The girl is being questioned on conspiracy to murder Babacar Diagne in Coventry.", "The Dragons' Den-style scheme for entrepreneurs has further distanced itself from its Royal founder.", "The BA Boeing 747-436 reached speeds of 825 mph in the jet stream accelerated by Storm Ciara.", "The ceremony saw history being made as the first non-English language film won the main award.", "The cause of the collapsed road is not yet known but there have been reports of a broken sewer.", "One man dies as a tree falls on his car and weather warnings remain in place after Storm Ciara.", "\"We should all really break out all the soju and makgeolli to celebrate with Bong,\" said one.", "Six in 10 over-50s with HIV receive a late diagnosis, as experts call for more awareness of sexually transmitted infections.", "Debbie Douglas was key to setting up the independent inquiry into disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson.", "Live coverage of RTÉ's party leaders' debate ahead of the general election in the Republic of Ireland.", "A coroner is reviewing cases where 23 patients died having previously been treated by Ian Paterson.", "A man has been shot by armed officers in a \"terrorist-related\" incident in Streatham High Road, south London.", "Rush Limbaugh, 69, reveals the diagnosis during his radio show on Monday.", "A former elder, who says he was abused, says the group is \"inadvertently\" protecting child abusers.", "A woman describes the moment Sudesh Amman launched his attack in south London on Sunday.", "Academics at Queen's University Belfast are studying pancreatic and oesophageal cancers.", "Shipman, Mid Staffordshire, Morecambe Bay, and now Paterson - it's tempting to say the NHS is not learning lessons. But is that fair?", "He cites fake news and privacy concerns as the reasons he is abandoning the social network.", "The inquiry chairman, Sir Patrick Coghlin, will make a statement in Parliament Buildings in Belfast.", "The health secretary says global cases of the new virus are \"doubling every five days\".", "Hashem Abedi denies 22 counts of murder over the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017, a court is told.", "Tracy Brabin says the criticism is another example of the \"every day sexism\" women face.", "Google-owner Alphabet shares details of YouTube's ad business for the first time.", "French skater Sarah Abitbol says her former coach, Gilles Beyer, first raped her when she was 15.", "The Harriet star says this year's lack of diversity needs to serve as a signal for change.", "Payments to lessen the impact of the so-called bedroom tax in Northern Ireland were due to run out on 31 March.", "Our home affairs reporter recalls how Sudesh Amman smiled as he was sentenced for terror offences.", "The summit, known as COP26, will take place in November and aims to assess progress in tackling climate change.", "The show defends its presenters for asking the singer about losing his mother and sister.", "The Swedish furniture giant's Coventry branch will close this summer, putting 352 jobs at risk.", "Brendan Rowan-Davies cut Kelly-Anne Case's throat before setting her house on fire in Gosport.", "Exhaust emissions from new cars have been increasing for the past three years, research suggests.", "Disbelief and denial about family sex abuse help perpetrators evade justice, a report says.", "Boris Johnson unveils the plan as he launches a \"year of climate action\" alongside Sir David Attenborough.", "UK lorry drivers describe the rigorous steps they take to avoid migrants getting on board in France.", "The sacked president of the COP26 Glasgow conference says Boris Johnson 'saltily' rejected the suggestion.", "Michael Kinane, 41, was caught following a joint FBI and British police inquiry.", "The sister of victim Fahad Mohamed Nur calls it a \"senseless and horrific act of evil\".", "The Premier League has to \"try and make VAR better\", says new chief executive Richard Masters.", "A group of MPs wants families that lost babies more than 40 years ago to be told where their remains are.", "Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill attended the launch of the police campaign.", "The aircraft is the first of nine Poseidons that will be operated from RAF Lossiemouth.", "Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy says captioning errors by the BBC and Evening Standard are part of a pattern.", "Greek police attempted to break up angry protests over conditions for migrants on the Greek island.", "Mr Trump had appeared to snub a handshake from the senior Democrat before the State of the Union.", "The government acts after attacks in Streatham and London Bridge by two men released from prison.", "The nursery school teacher is recovering at home after being stabbed by attacker Sudesh Amman.", "The prime minister's wife is to be formally charged with murdering her husband's previous wife.", "People are \"scared\" to transfer onto the new benefit which has been beset by problems.", "A report by Ofcom also found that 3-8 year olds are watching YouTube for eight hours a week on average.", "Bad weather in the south of the country has hampered rescue efforts with hundreds still awaiting rescue.", "Boris Johnson has failed to lead over the UK's hosting of a key climate summit, its former boss says.", "Jessica Breeze stabbed her father in the back during a violent row in the family home.", "A cleaner resigned after discovering the \"weeks old\" corpse in a block used to house the homeless.", "Eyewitnesses describe scenes of panic during the attack in Streatham, London, on Sunday.", "An inquiry recommends Ian Paterson's 11,000 patients have their treatment reassessed.", "The Grammy and Brit award-winning singer has written on Instagram that her \"recovery took time\".", "Police evacuate part of a Shropshire town as barriers are \"overwhelmed\" by rising river water.", "The three Scottish soldiers were lured to their deaths by the IRA in Belfast in 1971.", "MPs debated the main principles of the Environment Bill.", "The campaigners posed for a photo together at Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford.", "Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin was meeting Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar on Tuesday.", "Muhammad Bilal's relatives said he went missing while searching for grass to use as cattle fodder.", "The ex-chancellor tells MPs No 10's plan to remove his advisers was not in the \"national interest\".", "Stock markets are mixed after days of turmoil driven by fears about the coronavirus.", "Gabriel Jesus and Kevin de Bruyne score late goals as Manchester City fight back to beat Real Madrid 2-1 and take control of their Champions League last-16 tie.", "The home secretary signals the return of crime targets, saying \"outcomes\" in key areas will be measured.", "The agreement between the SNP and Greens will see extra funding committed to public transport and local government.", "A think tank says Rishi Sunak risks breaking Treasury rules on borrowing if he is to boost public spending.", "Cases emerge in several countries involving travellers from Italy, but borders remain open.", "The Ireland v Italy men's and women's Six Nations games scheduled for 7 and 8 March are postponed because of coronavirus.", "There were raids in Merseyside, Lancashire, Cumbria and Tayside on Tuesday morning.", "Thomas Hanlon is charged with causing the death of pedestrian Sakine Cihan by careless driving.", "Anything said by witnesses to the inquiry will not be used to prosecute them, the attorney general says.", "Updates as they happen after the World Health Organization says most new cases are outside China.", "Police bodycam footage captured the moment a visibly distressed child was arrested at her school in Orlando.", "The businessman is considered the most powerful man in Hollywood.", "A report criticises the political establishment but finds no evidence of a \"paedophile ring\".", "Policy experts will offer \"constructive challenge to traditional Whitehall assumptions\", says No 10.", "The number of journeys made by public transport in Scotland drops while the number of cars hits three million.", "Mubarak was forced out of office by an Arab Spring uprising in 2011, after 30 years in power.", "The release of Joshua Molnar comes days before the anniversary of Yousef Makki's death in Cheshire.", "Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova is \"saying goodbye\" to tennis at the age of 32.", "Police said there was a risk of \"falls and crushing\" if thousands of people joined the Bristol protest.", "The gunman dies from \"self-inflicted wounds\" during the shooting in the mid-western Wisconsin state.", "There are two \"danger to life\" warnings on the Severn and flood defences are likely to be breached.", "Sir Richard Branson's firm says it is releasing more tickets for flights into space.", "A report finds part-time nursery care costs more than £130 per week in England, Scotland and Wales.", "The Radio 1 Presenter says his body temperature went up to around forty degrees.", "Political \"dramas\" played out online are taking resources away from \"more important matters\".", "The money will go towards accommodation, but Labour says No 10 underestimates the scale of the issue.", "Demonstrators try to block authorities from replacing overcrowded camps on Lesbos and Chios.", "One of two main accusers in Harvey Weinstein's trial says she feels \"huge relief\" at his conviction.", "John Manley \"erupted like a volcano\" and left a \"trail of destruction\" at the Travelodge.", "His re-design is credited with boosting ridership and making the map more visually representative.", "Salman Abedi's brother Hashem denies murder, attempted murder and conspiring to cause explosions.", "A native predator of the red squirrel seems to be an unlikely ally in its battle with its grey rival.", "Diageo, which makes Guinness, expects sales to slide this year as bars across China close.", "Grace Firth was fined £40 after pleading guilty to a littering offence which happened in March 2009.", "Scientists are debating whether it is still possible to contain the new coronavirus.", "Forecasters say parts of the Midlands and southern England could see their first snowfall of winter.", "A woman tells how her beloved pet kept sniffing the right side of her head before two brain tumours were diagnosed.", "Liverpool's Champions League defence hangs in the balance as Saul Niguez gives Atletico Madrid a slender lead after the first leg of their last-16 tie.", "The scale of the devastation is apparent, as severe flood warnings remain in place across the UK.", "The trial suggested more people fitted with stents were dying after three years than those given surgery.", "West Ham co-chairman David Gold apologises for liking a social media post that described the late Caroline Flack as \"weak\".", "New documents reveal the \"strongest evidence yet\" of China's crackdown on people in Xinjiang.", "Donalda MacKinnon told staff it was the \"right time\" for her to go after nearly four years in the post.", "The Londoner raps about the government, before winning his first-ever Brit for album of the year.", "Researchers describe the first \"articulated\" remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade.", "In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the singer speaks ahead of her performance at the Brit Awards.", "There were 622 serious injuries or near misses in three years, figures compiled by the GMB union claim.", "People hit by flooding during Storm Dennis explain what it is like to find your home under water.", "NHS chiefs in Glasgow have passed details of their investigation into Milly Main's death to the procurator fiscal.", "British Army officer Capt Rosie Wild, 28, passes the brutal five-day P Company course.", "Coverage of flooding across Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire in the wake of Storm Dennis.", "Images from around the UK show the strong winds and heavy rain that have swept across the country.", "The Amazon boss and world's richest man gives 8% of his fortune to fight the planet's \"biggest threat\".", "Rocco Wright, three, drowned in a David Lloyd Leisure pool in the Moortown area of Leeds in 2018.", "The targeted man \"showed great bravery,\" says South Wales Police.", "A 10-year-old girl had a machete held at her throat when three men broke in to steal eight puppies worth £8,000.", "Residents in communities on the river are being evacuated as water threatens to top flood defences.", "Scans suggest people who show antisocial behaviour throughout life have some brain abnormalities.", "Yvonne Booth went missing on Sunday after getting out of her car which was stuck in water.", "Helen Gittos lost her baby Harriet when she was eight days old, and she believes the death was preventable.", "One woman, who has waited over two years to be seen, said it had left her suicidal.", "John Shipton said Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had felt \"ceaseless anxiety\" over the past decade.", "The former footballer was accused of beating his estranged wife Shelley Barlow in Hale.", "Football clubs need to \"wean themselves off\" gambling sponsorship, Mark Palios says.", "Average wages - when adjusted for inflation - exceed pre-crisis levels for the first time since 2008.", "Extinction Rebellion members are protesting over what they claim to be \"the destruction of nature\".", "The producer, who turned Primal Scream's Screamadelica into a hit, suffered a pulmonary embolism.", "Megan Newton had offered Joseph Trevor a place to sleep as an \"act of kindness\", a court hears.", "\"Remember anxiety is created by you,\" the YouTuber told 3.7 million followers on Twitter.", "It is the first UK overseas territory to be named and shamed by the EU for not cracking down on tax abuse.", "The ravenous pests have devoured crops and pasture threatening a food crisis in East Africa.", "Keith Farquharson's claim that he accidentally killed his wife Alice is rejected by a jury.", "The Scottish budget allocated an extra £37m to Police Scotland but it still faces a deficit of £49m.", "Fresh \"danger to life\" flood warnings are issued as the UK reels from damage caused by Storm Dennis.", "\"Vicky\" alleges her birth mother was a 13-year-old when she was raped by a family friend", "The chief negotiator says the UK's \"particular proximity\" to the bloc rules out a similar agreement.", "The UK's first industrial contribution to the orbiting platform will improve its communication links.", "The singer is favourite to win best new artist and best single at the ceremony on Tuesday.", "The best of Britain's musical talent and some top international stars are out to impress.", "Private jet firms have seen a huge rise in people hoping to hire planes but they can't meet demand.", "The SNP's former Westminster leader hopes to contest the Edinburgh Central seat held by Ruth Davidson.", "The organisation says the move will allow it to build a compensation fund for sex abuse victims.", "The family of Khawaja Anwar, 82, complained about his lack of care at Royal Liverpool Hospital.", "Manchester United are up to seventh in the Premier League after beating Chelsea 2-0 in another game in which the video assistant referee played a key role.", "The UK government is trying to organise flying 74 British nationals home from the quarantined ship.", "David Armstrong-Jones and his wife Serena are separating after 26 years, a spokesman says.", "Three people are held following damage to a Cambridge college lawn and four for other offences.", "Dr Peter Hutchinson wrote the book the same year sexual harassment complaints were made against him.", "Nominations for the Razzies, which celebrate the worst films in Hollywood, are announced.", "Officials say Boris Johnson's 20,000 target is not high enough as so many are set to leave the police.", "Specialist counsellors say there are not enough services tailored for children who have experienced domestic abuse, so thousands do not receive the care they need.", "England win back the Calcutta Cup and keep their Six Nations title hopes alive with a turgid victory over Scotland in awful weather conditions.", "The NHS and Kent Police are investigating an alleged assault at the William Harvey Hospital.", "Former Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb says the convention has done nothing to help strengthen the UK.", "Battery-only cars accounted for less than 1% of the 51,512 new cars sold in Northern Ireland in 2019.", "The club claims the newspaper received advanced notice of the attack on its vice-chairman's home.", "Efforts to sell all 23 stores together have failed, administrators KPMG said.", "Three woman are fighting for refunds after Thai Airways forced them to sit in economy seats.", "The Welsh Government is removing parents' right to withdraw their children from religious and sex education.", "The Scout Association has failed to recognise the part its \"inadequacies\" played in his death, coroner says.", "When Li Wenliang warned about a Sars-like virus at his hospital in Wuhan, authorities tried to silence him.", "The provisional reading of 18.3C (64.9F) beats the previous record of 17.5C, logged in 2015.", "Huawei is facing opposition to its 5G expansion from the US - but which other countries allow it to operate?", "A total of 160 representatives will be returned to the 33rd Dáil, which will sit on 20 February.", "Christian Hirte tweeted his congratulations to a liberal candidate who was supported by the AfD.", "Prince Harry speaks at the event, a month after the couple announced plans to step back as senior royals.", "Jon Ashworth says Labour could be out of power for 15 years - and Michael Gove defends Tory strategy.", "\"Yao\" told the BBC that hospital staff are not allowed to eat, rest or use the toilet while at work.", "The 16-year-old who was sent 270 messages by the former finance secretary speaks to detectives.", "The four killed by suspected electrocution include a pregnant female, a conservation group says.", "UK citizens returning from the coronavirus-hit city will be quarantined for 14 days.", "A junior solder killed his commanding officer, stole weapons and opened fire in a shopping centre.", "Provides an overview of Thailand, including key dates and facts about this South East Asian state.", "He was compelled to write and write, even on holiday, but still found time to correspond with a fan.", "Brett Kinloch, 31, died of a brain tumour just three hours after his daughter Ariya was born.", "The social media giant restores its account after a Dubai-based hacking group temporarily took over.", "The fitness coach is the latest star aiming to send children to sleep on CBeebies.", "A soldier has gone on a shooting spree in a city north-east of the capital Bangkok.", "Thousands of people around the world remain under observation for signs of coronavirus.", "Parts of New South Wales have seen their heaviest flooding in almost 20 years.", "Exit poll suggests little difference between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin.", "The secretary of state says he wants to \"have a conversation\" after US warnings went unheeded.", "Hundreds of thousands of bats have invaded Ingham and residents are fed up.", "They say there are alternatives to the Chinese firm and want Tory MPs to raise their concerns.", "Several former skating champions have accused three trainers of sexually abusing them as teenagers.", "Ant and Dec, David Walliams, Piers Morgan and James Corden applaud the ITV presenter's announcement.", "Rosa (not her real name) describes how she was attacked by convicted terror offender, Sudesh Amman.", "John Bercow dismisses the claims, while Diane Abbott is criticised for saying it was 'unlikely' Mr Leakey was bullied.", "David Abel is stuck on the Diamond Princess, docked near Yokohama, after 10 others tested positive for coronavirus.", "David Cameron's protection officer is investigated after the incident on a British Airways flight.", "As senators prepare for the big vote on removing the president from office, here's how we got here.", "Acquittal was always the likely outcome - but the path of how we got there was intriguing.", "Tim the elephant had tusks so long, they reached the ground. He died of natural causes.", "The Premier League has to \"try and make VAR better\", says new chief executive Richard Masters.", "Government charter comes after expats were urged to leave China as the outbreak claims more lives.", "The \"irresponsible\" advert invited viewers to view women as sex objects, the regulator rules.", "Long-awaited report finds NHS Tayside's mental health staff were left \"demoralised\" by failings at the trust.", "Debbie Douglas was key to setting up the independent inquiry into disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson.", "The ongoing impeachment trial is hanging over the president's address to Congress this year.", "Rachel Maclean says she now has \"doubts about the procedure and my health years later\".", "Suspects could be restricted for longer if there are risks to victims, witnesses and the public.", "The inquiry chairman, Sir Patrick Coghlin, will make a statement in Parliament Buildings in Belfast.", "The George Medal was awarded to a boxer who helped save her from an attempted armed kidnap.", "Tracy Brabin says the criticism is another example of the \"every day sexism\" women face.", "About a third of FTSE 100 firms have no ethnic minority representation on their boards, a report shows.", "The culture secretary says the fee needs to remain \"relevant\" in a \"changing media landscape\".", "Democrats hope the ex-White House aide's book could deliver a plot twist in the president's trial.", "The leaders of Ireland's three biggest parties exchange insults in the final TV election debate.", "The UK's advertising watchdog says Europe's biggest airline misled consumers about its carbon footprint.", "An inquiry recommends Ian Paterson's 11,000 patients have their treatment reassessed.", "Pupils are being removed rather than helped, says a manager of schools for those excluded.", "About a quarter of the size of Wales, the A68 iceberg is about to enter the open ocean.", "A key meeting will be held on Wednesday to hammer out the details of sharing rural networks.", "Officers cannot watch every terrorist who is released, the head of UK counter-terror policing warns.", "Live coverage after the US Senate clears Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction.", "Shipman, Mid Staffordshire, Morecambe Bay, and now Paterson - it's tempting to say the NHS is not learning lessons. But is that fair?", "Scientists said 99% of understanding of cancer was missing until today.", "Hashem Abedi denies 22 counts of murder over the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017, a court is told.", "One couple lost almost £1m after being persuaded to hand over all their savings and pensions.", "Boris Johnson answers questions from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and backbench MPs.", "Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill attended the launch of the police campaign.", "Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy says captioning errors by the BBC and Evening Standard are part of a pattern.", "Mr Trump had appeared to snub a handshake from the senior Democrat before the State of the Union.", "The former PM thinks the job of heading the COP26 summit should go to a government minister.", "Batley and Spen MP Tracy Brabin said people needed to \"listen to what we say not what we wear\".", "Hundreds of mourners accompanied by steel bands join a mile long procession for Miriam Saleh's funeral.", "Two \"monolithic\" campaigns are dominating the race but all hopefuls should be on the ballot, she says.", "Iderval Da Silva, 46, was beaten to death as he tried to stop a group of teenagers stealing his moped.", "It is \"clearly not possible\" to stop every terror attack, Britain's most senior police officer says.", "Convicted killer Ian Simms is released on parole despite never revealing where he hid her remains.", "Nasa astronaut Christina Koch completes the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman.", "A woman describes the moment Sudesh Amman launched his attack in south London on Sunday.", "The Swedish furniture giant's Coventry branch will close this summer, putting 352 jobs at risk.", "After a bitter, two-week impeachment trial, the US Senate clears Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction.", "Boris Johnson unveils the plan as he launches a \"year of climate action\" alongside Sir David Attenborough.", "Dan Houser founded the studio behind Grand Theft Auto with his brother in 1998.", "The Spartacus actor, one of the great stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, has died aged 103.", "Reece Dempster admits killing Dorothy Woolmer after breaking into her home at night.", "Hashem Abedi denies 22 counts of murder over the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "The star says she is to appear in her first major movie after leaving the crime drama on a high.", "The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737 broke into three parts after landing at an airport in Istanbul.", "A cleaner resigned after discovering the \"weeks old\" corpse in a block used to house the homeless.", "First Minister Arlene Foster says there are more important things to be addressed than a unity vote.", "Selina Lund said fellow guests were not following hygiene rules to prevent the spread of the virus.", "Police evacuate part of a Shropshire town as barriers are \"overwhelmed\" by rising river water.", "The Newsnight host is named network presenter of the year for quizzing the Duke of York.", "Muhammad Bilal's relatives said he went missing while searching for grass to use as cattle fodder.", "The announcement came as the first case of the virus to occur on US soil was announced.", "More drugs than ever before are reaching the UK, costing society billions each year, a report says.", "UK government minister Kit Malthouse dismisses calls for pilot scheme to take users off the streets.", "Researchers develop a satellite antenna that could end the frustrations of millions of rail passengers.", "Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang misses a golden chance with the last kick as Arsenal are handed their first defeat of 2020.", "The agreement between the SNP and Greens will see extra funding committed to public transport and local government.", "Businesses in China are turning to live streaming apps and messaging groups to try and sell their products.", "A study hopes to discover whether our hands are truly unique by looking at anatomical differences.", "How countries are battling the virus - from disinfectant lorries in China to roadblocks in Italy.", "Gabriel Jesus and Kevin de Bruyne score late goals as Manchester City fight back to beat Real Madrid 2-1 and take control of their Champions League last-16 tie.", "Levelling up disadvantaged parts of the UK will need long-term thought and investment, a report says.", "Environmental campaigners win ruling against third runway at Heathrow Airport.", "Thomas Hanlon is charged with causing the death of pedestrian Sakine Cihan by careless driving.", "The government says it will pull out of talks in June if insufficient ground has been covered.", "The house was left close to the cliff edge after a storm destroyed a large chunk of land.", "Relatives of the Australian nine-year-old say they will give the crowdfunded cash to charity.", "Anything said by witnesses to the inquiry will not be used to prosecute them, the attorney general says.", "John Zurick, 67, and wife Deborah, 56, were found with shotgun injuries at their Somerset cottage.", "Mr Green failed to freeze the account of a customer who won £50,000 and gambled it away.", "Dedicated car parking and other steps to avoid people parking on roadsides are planned for Space Hub Sutherland.", "Staff claim they often miss out on overtime amid allegations of poor cleaning practices at some branches.", "Tory Women and Equalities committee chair criticises Boris Johnson's previous comments on women in burkas.", "The US index shed nearly 1,200 points, one of the sharpest drops in history.", "A former soldier says he was assaulted by Barry Bennell in Blackpool after being introduced to him by a Scottish coach.", "The National Trust urges Britons to \"actively\" experience nature to help tackle wildlife crisis.", "Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova is \"saying goodbye\" to tennis at the age of 32.", "Police said there was a risk of \"falls and crushing\" if thousands of people joined the Bristol protest.", "Campaigners say plans for a third runway should be cancelled, but the airport says it will appeal.", "No country should assume it will not get cases, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns.", "A new scheme is being introduced to ease pressure on health services, as experts expect more cases to emerge.", "The gunman dies from \"self-inflicted wounds\" during the shooting in the mid-western Wisconsin state.", "Singer-songwriter James Newman will represent the United Kingdom with his song My Last Breath.", "The money will go towards accommodation, but Labour says No 10 underestimates the scale of the issue.", "The owner of the disinfectant brand says sales have risen, with demand outstripping supply in China.", "A ruling will decide whether Heathrow's expansion plan should have taken the climate more into account.", "On a visit to flood-hit Shropshire, George Eustice says decisions have been made \"in a timely way\".", "The hungry ducks could be sent to eat the insects that are devouring crops in Pakistan, experts say.", "Scientists are debating whether it is still possible to contain the new coronavirus.", "The primary school in Buxton has had a precautionary deep clean and will be closed until Monday.", "Applications to university could switch to after pupils get their A-level results, says watchdog.", "Six of the 10 largest providers of children's homes and foster care are in debt, a report suggests.", "Police said 15 arrests have been made, 25 stolen vehicles found and £150,000 seized.", "Andy and Ryan Tohill will direct a reboot of the 1974 horror cult classic.", "Chancellor Sajid Javid says the UK will have a \"better future\" despite the end of frictionless trade.", "Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn say their separation is best for their two daughters.", "The controversial high-speed rail project could potentially cost as much as £106bn.", "The legislation would end the release of convicted terror offenders halfway through their sentence.", "Fernando Murphy has been jailed for the abuse, which left the Irish News reporter \"full of anxiety\".", "Officials are in discussions with Europe to ensure a deal would not breach state aid rules.", "A couple are being forced to leave their home on the HS2 route.", "The dog walker was killed by a falling branch, as forecasters say Storm Dennis will hit this Saturday.", "The prime minister says that the government has approved the HS2 rail line.", "Boris Johnson tells MPs the controversial HS2 rail project will go ahead with a minister to oversee it.", "A long-running battle over care-workers' pay will reach the Supreme Court on Wednesday.", "Labour says the plan \"doesn't make up for deep cuts\" to services since 2010.", "Pauline and Geoffrey Walker posted a video on Instagram in a bid to find Mrs Walker's purse.", "The prime minister says he will appoint a full-time minister to oversee the project and \"restore discipline\".", "Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards tie the knot in County Antrim following a landmark law change.", "The party's deputy leader Michelle O'Neill says she and colleague Gerry Kelly will not be deterred.", "As waves battered the coast, two people were spotted trying to take photos of themselves on rocks.", "The awards ceremony bucked a decline in viewers last year but ratings reached a record low on Sunday.", "Mohiussunnath Chowdhury was cleared a year ago of a sword attack on police near Buckingham Palace.", "Tech firms will need to ensure that illegal content is quickly removed from their platforms.", "Imogen Ashwell-Lewis, who is eight and has cerebral palsy, has missed 20 months of school.", "Ruby Williams received £8,500 after taking legal action over her school's uniform policy.", "Mountain rescuers said the weather on the mountain was \"horrendous\" with a wind chill of about -20C.", "The British artist's painting, depicting the moment after a diver hits the water, is sold at Sotheby's.", "Warning comes after Michael Gove tells firms to prepare for post-Brexit border checks from January.", "The vehicles are caught out in Dumfries and Galloway as winter weather affects much of Scotland.", "Police launched an investigation following allegations of abuse during an Old Firm game in December.", "Aid agencies are struggling to ensure millions of Yemenis receive food crucial to their survival.", "The vehicle was stranded for five hours at one point while making deliveries.", "Three other men arrested are released, one without charge, the other two pending reports to prosecutors.", "Voters in New Hampshire pick who they want to run against Donald Trump in the year's first primary.", "Up to a fifth of the Amazon rainforest has become a net source of CO2, research suggests.", "The animal was rescued from under the perfume counter of a Superdrug store in Northampton.", "Raphael Coleman who starred in the film Nanny McPhee has died, after collapsing, at 25.", "Quincy says she's in \"hot water\" with her father as they spar over which Democrat can beat Donald Trump.", "Women's choices on when to have children may be affected by the current law, ministers say.", "Police say a 58-year-old man died in Hampshire after his car was hit during the storm on Sunday.", "Sanders narrowly beats Pete Buttigieg in the second key contest in the race to take on Donald Trump.", "Footage shows the storm sweeping in from the Black Sea and hitting the town of Hopa.", "The fossils of the predator, which stood around 8ft (2.4m) tall, were found by a farmer in Alberta.", "The HS2 high-speed rail link has been given the go-ahead - what was the reaction in Parliament?", "Flagship 5G handset has 100x zoom camera and records 8K video while 4G foldable has clamshell design.", "Lee Castleton was left broke after the Post Office spent £320,000 pursuing him over false losses.", "The cause of the collapsed road is not yet known but there have been reports of a broken sewer.", "President Trump initially said no US troops were injured in the Iranian attack on US bases in Iraq.", "Manchester passengers call HS2 \"a raw deal\", while the council leader says it is \"very good news\".", "In her first podcast, the Duchess of Cambridge says she was \"not the happiest of pregnant people\".", "He went missing from a liquid petroleum gas tanker anchored off Margate.", "The court heard Thomas Nulty raped the six-year-old in the 1970s when he was babysitting her.", "A Russian protest artist is held after Benjamin Griveaux is forced to ditch his Paris mayoral bid.", "A new storm has arrived in the UK. So what impact will Storm Dennis have?", "ITV pull Saturday's edition of Love Island following the death of the show's former host.", "The Labour leadership contenders agree that revitalising the party's fortunes north of the border is vital.", "Medics in Wuhan resort to shaving their heads in a bid to prevent cross-infection of the coronavirus.", "More than 100 people remain in quarantine in a hotel after arriving from China last weekend.", "Images from around the UK show the strong winds and heavy rain that have swept across the country.", "Pictures show the effects of Storm Ciara's strong winds and heavy rain in the UK.", "Mysterious archaic hominins may have interbred with early humans in West Africa, scientists say.", "Mark Zuckerberg says social media firms should not decide what counts as legitimate free speech.", "Houthi rebels say they shot down the plane, while Saudi Arabia says only that it \"fell\".", "An offensive word has been spray painted over the street artist's latest work in Bristol.", "Beau Benedict Enthoven Williams was born via the same surrogate as daughter Coco, Ayda Field Williams says.", "Appeal judges overturn a ruling that found Islamic faith weddings were legally recognised in the UK.", "US President Donald Trump tweets that he has \"the legal right\" to intervene in criminal cases.", "Manchester City are banned from European club competitions for two seasons by Uefa.", "Troops are helping bolster flood defences as flights are grounded and sporting fixtures called off.", "Liverpool's unstoppable charge towards their first top-flight title in 30 years is \"outstanding\", says Jurgen Klopp after Sadio Mane's goal gives them victory at Norwich.", "Jackson Carlaw had been the party's interim leader since Ruth Davidson quit the role in August.", "The UK is not an \"Orwellian society\", warns a judge as he rules officers interfered with freedom of speech.", "Viewers and the TV world are in shock after the announcement of the death of the Love Island host.", "Three severe flood warnings are issued in the Scottish Borders following heavy rainfall.", "Michelle O'Neill and Gerry Kelly have been told dissidents are planning attacks against them.", "Demonstrators have called for the government to help curb the rising number of murders of women.", "Jemma Nicklin, who had recently opened a help-to-buy ISA, says the news \"hasn't quite sunk in\".", "China's state railway company says it could build the line in just five years, according to reports.", "A video emerges of a car being driven on the wrong side of the road near where Harry Dunn was killed.", "The shadow foreign secretary fails to secure enough support to qualify for the members' ballot.", "Communities across the UK face more disruption following the torrential rain brought by Storm Dennis.", "The former Love Island host was found dead in her London flat.", "Tony Camoccio says he is \"excited to be heading home and can't wait to see all of my family\".", "Flooding and power cuts are forecast with amber weather warnings in place across England and Wales.", "Internet jokers cause a circular hole outside a bank to rise up the TripAdvisor rankings.", "Covid-19, the new form of coronavirus, becomes a notifiable disease under Scottish public health rules.", "France remain on course for a first Grand Slam in 10 years as they win in Cardiff for the first time since 2010 with a 27-23 victory.", "The International Center of Photography is showcasing photos of hip-hop's greatest stars.", "\"Mad\" Mike Hughes, 64, wanted to launch himself into space to prove that the Earth was flat.", "One worker at Hampton House had been turning up in a kayak, its manager said.", "England rediscover some of their World Cup form to reignite their own hopes of landing the Six Nations title with a 24-12 win over Ireland.", "The governor of Mecca says Asayel Slay's music video is an \"insult to the customs\" of the city.", "The team were greeted by elderly fans instead of children before their game with Watford.", "UK nationals evacuated from a cruise ship arrive at Arrowe Park, where they will spend the next 14 days.", "The 118 evacuees leave after 14 days, as 30 others from a virus-hit cruise ship begin their isolation.", "President Trump hailed the \"great American comeback\", so why are working families still struggling?", "The Democratic race to decide who will take on Donald Trump in November's election resumes.", "The French president's doubts come as the UK government is set to publish its demands.", "News Group Newspapers still paying out millions over phone-hacking scandal.", "The patients caught the virus on the Diamond Princess cruise liner, bringing the total UK cases to 13.", "The first winter series concludes, a week after the show's former host Caroline Flack was found dead.", "Tyson Fury wins the WBC world heavyweight title after producing a sensational performance against Deontay Wilder.", "Tyson Fury says his career would be \"completed\" if he faces Anthony Joshua after becoming a two-time world heavyweight champion with a stunning win over Deontay Wilder.", "Scientists discover a new link between a protein and an eye condition which affects 1.5 million people.", "The victim suffered a wound to his neck, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.", "One woman has to be rescued from her vehicle by canoe after her car became deluged by floodwater.", "Tyson Fury powered up the Las Vegas lights with a brutal display of boxing - this is how social media and the boxing world reacted.", "After his seventh-round defeat of Deontay Wilder, a unique place in sporting history awaits Tyson Fury if he secures a unification fight against Anthony Joshua.", "Passengers have been left stranded after a strong sandstorm caused poor visibility.", "Dr Jeremy Morris is moving aside while an internal review into how allegations were handled takes place.", "The SNP's Joanna Cherry is challenging Angus Robertson for the Edinburgh Central seat at Holyrood.", "Staffordshire Police release CCTV footage of a lorry driver making a dangerous manoeuvre on the M6 Toll.", "Quincy Anyiam, 26, is accused of causing the death of Anisha Vidal-Garner in Brixton Hill.", "The victims are named as Gemma Cousin, 26, her husband Rhys, 25, and their daughters Peyton, three, and Heidi Cousin.", "The SNP leader also defended her plans for a Scottish visa system on The Andrew Marr Show.", "US officials accused “malign” Russian actors of promoting unfounded theories about the virus online.", "BBC Sport meets the team behind Tyson Fury, including new trainer SugarHill Steward, Andy Lee and cutman Jacob 'Stitch' Duran, before Saturday's WBC world heavyweight title fight with Deontay Wilder.", "The nine-month-pregnant nurse was portrayed as heroic for continuing to work on the frontlines.", "The third Democratic nomination contest is over and Bernie Sanders is on his way up. But who is down?", "The family's demand comes after the US refused to extradite the suspect involved in Mr Dunn's death.", "The London MP says she wants Labour's new leader to be able to choose their own top team.", "The moment of Brexit is a time for healing, says the PM. But what does that mean?", "There is sadness, determination and reflection as Brexit finally arrives, our Europe editor writes.", "Julian Smith says people injured during the Troubles \"fought hard for too long\" for compensation.", "How did rugby develop into an integral part of Welsh culture more than 100 years ago?", "Two recycling workers managed to find the pensioner's life savings after they were accidentally thrown out.", "Christopher Hasson, a former lieutenant, was arrested last year after stockpiling weapons.", "The drug is aimed at protecting against accidental exposure, but may cause a fatal reaction.", "As senators prepare for the big vote on removing the president from office, here's how we got here.", "The Hollywood producer faces the threat of life in jail in a criminal trial taking place in New York.", "The messaging app will become obsolete on older operating systems from 1 Feb.", "It was more an evening of intimate cabaret than a stadium blockbuster show.", "Shane Gross captured the haunting photo while diving near the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas.", "Several fake profiles appeared using photos of Oscar Saxelby-Lee who is having treatment for leukaemia.", "LeBron James leads tributes to Kobe Bryant at the LA Lakers' first game since he died in a helicopter crash.", "Uninspired Ireland beat Scotland 19-12 in the Six Nations in Dublin as Stuart Hogg's knock-on over the line sums up Scotland's missed opportunity.", "After the celebrations, the UK will start to find out what life outside the EU will really mean.", "As the clock struck 11pm in the UK, thousands of Brexit supporters were ready to ring in the new era.", "It was more an evening of intimate cabaret than a stadium blockbuster show.", "Imelda Staunton will play the monarch in the fifth and final series of the royal TV drama.", "Mohammed Allawi, a former communications minister, has backed the protests which began in October.", "Dramatic images from the famous annual event which celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage.", "After a bitter, two-week impeachment trial, the US Senate clears Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction.", "French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire threatens to block the firm's takeover by China's Jingye.", "The government department responsible for child maintenance faces criticism for long delays.", "The UK government sacks the woman it appointed to run the crucial UN climate summit in November.", "Anyone who has taken a \"Red Bull\" pill should seek medical advice, police said.", "The founding member of the British post-punk band had only recently come off tour.", "The first minister says she still believes attending the funeral service was the \"right thing\" to do.", "Jewellery valued at tens of millions of pounds was stolen from Tamara Ecclestone's London home.", "Nike's controversial Vaporfly range is not banned but there is to be tighter regulations around high-tech running shoes, World Athletics says.", "More than 100 firefighters are tackling the blaze at a Wakefield bakery.", "Dramatic footage shows a worker trying to run to safety as the massive structure disintegrates.", "People gathered across the country to mark the moment the UK officially left the EU.", "LeBron James leads the tributes as the LA Lakers remember Kobe Bryant in the team's first game since he died in a helicopter crash alongside his daughter Gianna and seven other people.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "Crowds mark the historic moment, as 47 years of membership come to an end.", "She wrote novels such as A Stranger is Watching and sold over 100 million books in the US alone.", "The journey to leaving the EU, tracked by what people said at the time.", "The bodies of Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa were found in a freezer by officers in April.", "France's Emmanuel Macron says he is deeply sad but David Davis says everybody will win from Brexit.", "From free trade agreement to no deal, find out what the key terms mean.", "The storm is causing travel disruption across the UK as well as affecting sporting fixtures.", "The fourth case came as the UK's final rescue flight arrived in Oxfordshire.", "Nominations for the Razzies, which celebrate the worst films in Hollywood, are announced.", "Pictures show the effects of Storm Ciara's strong winds and heavy rain in the UK.", "England win back the Calcutta Cup and keep their Six Nations title hopes alive with a turgid victory over Scotland in awful weather conditions.", "Jojo Rabbit, 1917 and Toy Story 4 were also among the winners.", "A 34-year-old man dies after being found with serious injuries at a house in Ayr.", "Battery-only cars accounted for less than 1% of the 51,512 new cars sold in Northern Ireland in 2019.", "Ex-Speaker says it is \"blindingly obvious\" there is a campaign to keep him out of the House of Lords.", "The UK is lashed by heavy rain and winds of up to 90mph.", "Some renters are choosing the option without understanding the costs involved, housing groups warn.", "The government plans to lower the minimum salary for migrants from £30,000 to £25,600, the BBC understands.", "Forecasters predict the storm will bring gusts of over 90mph (145km/h) in some areas.", "Universities are urged to clarify if they would tell families when students have mental health problems.", "Winning film-maker Lulu Wang says \"you don't have to encourage women - just give them the job\".", "Christian Hirte tweeted his congratulations to a liberal candidate who was supported by the AfD.", "The 16-year-old who was sent 270 messages by the former finance secretary speaks to detectives.", "The European probe will gather some of the most detailed ever pictures and movies of our star.", "England secure a 1-1 series draw with South Africa by beating the hosts by two wickets in the third one-day international in Johannesburg.", "Sir Keir and his leadership campaign team deny allegedly hacking Labour's membership database.", "Sony is the latest firm to withdraw from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.", "The four killed by suspected electrocution include a pregnant female, a conservation group says.", "A junior solder killed his commanding officer, stole weapons and opened fire in a shopping centre.", "Provides an overview of Thailand, including key dates and facts about this South East Asian state.", "The girl is being questioned on conspiracy to murder Babacar Diagne in Coventry.", "The BA Boeing 747-436 reached speeds of 825 mph in the jet stream accelerated by Storm Ciara.", "Its UK ambassador criticises Tory politicians opposed to the firm's role in the UK's mobile network.", "An appeal and TV documentary about Stuart Lubbock's death in the entertainer's pool bring \"new information\".", "Thousands of people around the world remain under observation for signs of coronavirus.", "Exit poll suggests little difference between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin.", "The story of how Jasper and Jinx became Tom and Jerry - and defied the Cold War.", "A soldier has gone on a shooting spree in a city north-east of the capital Bangkok.", "Several former skating champions have accused three trainers of sexually abusing them as teenagers.", "At least 20 people were killed and dozens more injured in the attack in Nakhon Ratchasima.", "Liverpool's Champions League defence hangs in the balance as Saul Niguez gives Atletico Madrid a slender lead after the first leg of their last-16 tie.", "The offer of a Commons tour in exchange for a donation was part of a Green Party crowdfunding drive.", "Oxford University faces accusations of unfairness over the cost of applying for courses.", "Four maps on how immigration has changed Britain.", "The scale of the devastation is apparent, as severe flood warnings remain in place across the UK.", "The trial suggested more people fitted with stents were dying after three years than those given surgery.", "The Londoner raps about the government, before winning his first-ever Brit for album of the year.", "The Liverpudlian comedian was diagnosed after his 80th birthday and says he will \"try and beat it\".", "Rowan Baxter's wife reportedly jumped from the car yelling \"he's poured petrol on me\".", "People hit by flooding during Storm Dennis explain what it is like to find your home under water.", "The group infiltrated more than 2,000 BT customer accounts and used the details to buy luxury goods.", "A dead soldier's parents demand action as investigation reveals multiple health and safety breaches.", "British bank notes and coins could disappear much earlier than expected, campaigners warn.", "Scotland's environment watchdog raises concerns about operations at Grangemouth and Mossmoran in Fife.", "British Army officer Capt Rosie Wild, 28, passes the brutal five-day P Company course.", "The discovery raises fresh concerns about potential safety issues for the US plane-making giant.", "The World Health Organization says \"radical change\" is needed before it is too late", "The targeted man \"showed great bravery,\" says South Wales Police.", "A multinational private equity firm takes a 20% stake in the Shetland Space Centre project.", "Residents in communities on the river are being evacuated as water threatens to top flood defences.", "Nicola Sturgeon says proposals to stop giving visas to low-skilled workers is the wrong route to take.", "A man was shot on Wednesday morning at a house in the Hollywood hills, police confirmed to Newsbeat.", "She appeared on TV shows ranging from Blue Peter to The Sky At Night, as well as documentaries.", "Helen Gittos lost her baby Harriet when she was eight days old, and she believes the death was preventable.", "Katrina O'Hara's phone was seized for evidence, leaving her with no means of communication.", "The duke and duchess will no longer carry out duties on behalf of the Queen.", "Priti Patel says businesses should train the 8.5 million economically inactive people. But only two million of them want a job.", "The title of oldest person in the UK is now shared by two men, both born on 29 March 1908.", "Professional musician Dagmar Turner was diagnosed with a large brain tumour in 2013.", "Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano says club licensing and FFP breaches are \"simply not true\".", "It is the first UK overseas territory to be named and shamed by the EU for not cracking down on tax abuse.", "John and his wife, Joan, are publicising what happened to warn others.", "Social care providers tell Newsnight the number of EU nationals working in the sector has fallen since Brexit.", "The UK retailer has removed the Daily Telegraph newspaper from 120 shops in railway stations.", "In a post released ahead of her inquest, the TV host said her \"future was swept from under my feet\".", "The Foreign Office says it hopes to evacuate the stranded UK passengers \"later this week\".", "Lady Scotland also criticises \"malicious media stories\" and urges diplomats to end \"biased leaks\".", "The UK government is trying to organise flying 74 British nationals home from the quarantined ship.", "The clothing and furnishing retailer secures money to meet its immediate funding needs.", "Three people are held following damage to a Cambridge college lawn and four for other offences.", "Lawyers and women's rights groups react to a judge who dismissed a woman's claim she had been raped.", "Rare video shows Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman being processed at a high-security jail in Mexico.", "US company Blackhall Studios wants to build a movie-making complex at Thames Valley Science Park.", "Kirk Douglas clawed his way up from poverty to become one of Hollywood's leading stars.", "The engine left the tracks and apparently hit a freight wagon before running into a building.", "Following the resignation of Scotland's finance secretary, Public Finance Minister Kate Forbes steps in to deliver the budget.", "Acquittal was always the likely outcome - but the path of how we got there was intriguing.", "Cerys Price killed Robert Dean as he was driving to his granddaughter's fourth birthday party.", "Key things we learnt from this rancorous impeachment trial, asks legal scholar Jonathan Turley.", "Ex-chancellors sacked by the PM for opposing a no-deal Brexit are set for the Lords, the BBC learns.", "Marie McCourt wants \"to give Helen the last goodbye\" as her daughter's killer is released on parole.", "Use the BBC News postcode search to see how your school has done in this year's secondary league tables.", "The middle-aged man, diagnosed in Brighton, is being treated at a London hospital, it is understood.", "In a pre-FMQs statement, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tells MSPs that Derek Mackay has been been suspended from the SNP.", "Tracy Brabin faced criticism for wearing the dress in the Commons.", "The young boy suffered life changing injuries when he was thrown from a 10th floor viewing platform.", "A new series of \"culturally diverse\" classic book covers sparked a backlash online.", "Regulator Ofwat had told water firms to invest more in improving services between 2020 and 2025.", "A team of mathematicians and physicists say they have the formula for consistently good coffee.", "The former Speaker says he has a right to answer his accusers after criticism from the Commons.", "Suspects could be restricted for longer if there are risks to victims, witnesses and the public.", "Stars join Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones in paying their respects to the movie legend.", "The star comes out as queer after receiving criticism for being cast in an LGBT-interest show.", "The social media giant is facing a backlash over plans to encrypt messages across its platforms.", "The move follows the unveiling of a new railcard that will offer veterans discounted train travel.", "A selection of images from the life and career of US actor Kirk Douglas, who celebrates his 100th birthday on 9 December.", "A vulnerable man died in his bed after \"maladministration and service failure\", an ombudsman finds.", "BBC Ireland Correspondent Chris Page assesses the prospects for Saturday's election.", "Heads of government reject calls for Baroness Scotland to be given an automatic second term.", "For the better part of 2019, the impeachment saga has dominated Washington politics.", "Derek Mackay's departure is a calamity, without caveat, for his party, his government and his boss.", "Jhon Jairo Velásquez, who boasted of killing 300 people, died in hospital of stomach cancer aged 57.", "As Derek Mackay prepares to deliver the budget, the Scottish Sun claims he has been messaging a 16-year-old boy on social media.", "An annual industry event continues to use promotional models wearing revealing outfits.", "A number of prisoners are likely to challenge the government's new terror laws in court, a lawyer says.", "Fire and rescue services could be given a wider role in keeping people safe under new plans.", "About a quarter of the size of Wales, the A68 iceberg is about to enter the open ocean.", "Officers cannot watch every terrorist who is released, the head of UK counter-terror policing warns.", "Scientists said 99% of understanding of cancer was missing until today.", "Tax rates will not change in the coming year in Scotland, Public Finance Minister Kate Forbes announces.", "One day after his Senate trial ended, Mr Trump hosts a White House event to assail \"corrupt\" foes.", "Government adviser calls for change in culture on painkillers with greater focus on social issues.", "Local authorities can bid for the money to pay for a new fleet of up to 200 electric buses.", "The name of Hashem Abedi's account translates from Arabic as \"to slaughter we have come\", a court hears.", "Companies who worked on the building had threatened not to give evidence, as it could incriminate them.", "Dozens of women who thought they were having a \"complete mesh removal\" are said to be affected.", "Two \"monolithic\" campaigns are dominating the race but all hopefuls should be on the ballot, she says.", "Mohammed Zahir Khan is due to be freed in three weeks' time after having served half of his sentence.", "The FA is set to launch new coaching guidelines that will restrict the amount of heading by under-18 players in training.", "Nearly half the UK's 14 million people in poverty are disabled or live with someone who is, research suggests.", "Convicted killer Ian Simms is released on parole despite never revealing where he hid her remains.", "Nasa astronaut Christina Koch completes the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman.", "After a bitter, two-week impeachment trial, the US Senate clears Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction.", "A rise in hate incidents expressed online is the single most obvious factor, a trust says.", "Derek Mackay's sudden resignation as finance secretary cuts short a meteoric rise through Scottish politics.", "Stanley Johnson accidentally reveals Chinese concerns about lack of a support message from the PM.", "The Spartacus actor, one of the great stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, has died aged 103.", "Jonty Bravery told his care workers he wanted to push someone off a building about a year before the attack.", "The star says she is to appear in her first major movie after leaving the crime drama on a high.", "The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737 broke into three parts after landing at an airport in Istanbul.", "The coastguard dealt with 90 migrants from eight vessels, a record figure for a single day.", "The PSNI initially received a report about an explosive device at Belfast docks on 31 January.", "The 118 evacuees leave after 14 days, as 30 others from a virus-hit cruise ship begin their isolation.", "The first winter series concludes, a week after the show's former host Caroline Flack was found dead.", "The training guidelines are effective immediately but do not recommend a heading ban during matches.", "After his seventh-round defeat of Deontay Wilder, a unique place in sporting history awaits Tyson Fury if he secures a unification fight against Anthony Joshua.", "Quincy Anyiam, 26, is accused of causing the death of Anisha Vidal-Garner in Brixton Hill.", "Caroline Thomson is sentenced to nine years after leaving the boy brain damaged and blind in one eye.", "The presenter won her employment tribunal last month against the corporation over equal pay.", "Terence Whall lay in wait for Gerald Corrigan and shot him as he tried to fix his satellite dish.", "Key moments in the cases against the producer, who has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault.", "The Hollywood producer faces the threat of life in jail in a criminal trial taking place in New York.", "The team were greeted by elderly fans instead of children before their game with Watford.", "The patients caught the virus on the Diamond Princess cruise liner, bringing the total UK cases to 13.", "Concerns were raised about the sexual content of social media posts by FlowJob, following an event in Paisley.", "Scientists discover a new link between a protein and an eye condition which affects 1.5 million people.", "The £60,000-a-year role involves overseeing the recruitment and treatment of special advisers.", "Millions of people who have long opposed the Syrian regime are trapped at the border with Turkey.", "Lucy Monaghan waives her right to anonymity after decision is taken not to prosecute alleged attacker.", "The supermarket chain says it wants to give a better reflection of ethnic diversity.", "The FTSE 100 suffered its sharpest drop in four years as investors worry about the virus spreading.", "Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey remain in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.", "The new head of Wales' exam watchdog believes \"significantly more\" tests could be sat online.", "The toddler fell into a waterslide area, leaving his parents \"devastated\", the resort says.", "A spate of spoof reviews saw the hole ranked as one of Ilkeston's top-rated attractions.", "Salman Abedi's brother Hashem denies murder, attempted murder and conspiring to cause explosions.", "The bill blocking automatic release of convicted terror offenders is approved by the House of Lords.", "England rediscover some of their World Cup form to reignite their own hopes of landing the Six Nations title with a 24-12 win over Ireland.", "A Met Office yellow warning for snow is in place affecting most parts of Scotland on Monday.", "Thousands attended a service for the NBA star and his daughter who died in a helicopter crash in January.", "Oxford City said Finn Tapp left without telling them in January to take part in Love Island.", "The home secretary hits back at reports of distrust from security bosses and bullying behaviour.", "Fire crews and kayakers rescue residents in Shrewsbury, while part of Ironbridge is evacuated.", "One woman has to be rescued from her vehicle by canoe after her car became deluged by floodwater.", "Passengers have been left stranded after a strong sandstorm caused poor visibility.", "Hundreds queued at a supermarket in Daegu, one of the South Korean epicentres of the virus outbreak.", "The firm urges people to \"try to be kind\" after Tory minister's picture brews up a Twitter storm.", "George Gibson was responsible for the backdrops of some legendary films during Hollywood's golden age.", "A recent surge in building by local authorities suggests the council house may be returning.", "MPs and assembly members ask the chancellor for £30m to help affected areas in Rhondda Cynon Taff.", "The London MP says she wants Labour's new leader to be able to choose their own top team.", "Taxpayers are facing a £346m bill after a spate of high-profile business failures on the High Street.", "The family of a boy who died in a river has questioned why a suspect has not been prosecuted.", "Educated people cause most harm to the planet so schools must change, say teenage climate campaigners.", "News Group Newspapers still paying out millions over phone-hacking scandal.", "The judge said this was not a referendum on #MeToo. But at times, his trial felt like one.", "Fresh questions over Mo Farah's relationship with his disgraced former coach Alberto Salazar are raised in a new BBC Panorama investigation.", "US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania visit the Taj Mahal on day one of a trip to India.", "The drama series draws ire for a gruesome and fictitious human chess scene at Auschwitz.", "A married couple bought and re-sold gig tickets worth millions of pounds using multiple identities.", "The Vietnamese passengers had earlier sailed across the channel from France to Cornwall.", "The UK's first industrial contribution to the orbiting platform will improve its communication links.", "Prolonged shutdowns for businesses in China are bringing many firms to the brink of collapse.", "The third Democratic nomination contest is over and Bernie Sanders is on his way up. But who is down?", "The Wikileaks co-founder appears at a court in London on the opening day of his extradition hearing.", "The Commons approves legislation blocking the automatic release of prisoners in jail for terror offences.", "Geoffrey Cox, Andrea Leadsom and Julian Smith are out as Boris Johnson begins cabinet reshuffle.", "A couple are being forced to leave their home on the HS2 route.", "The dog walker was killed by a falling branch, as forecasters say Storm Dennis will hit this Saturday.", "The oil giant's new chief executive Bernard Looney said BP must be \"cleaner\".", "They were among 12 people helped to safety by a mountain rescue team after their vehicles became stuck.", "With the country reeling from the massive public health disaster, what might it mean for the economy, society and those in power?", "A long-running battle over care-workers' pay will reach the Supreme Court on Wednesday.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says it is for doctors to decide the future of the department.", "With the country reeling from the massive public health disaster, what might it mean for the economy, society and those in power?", "Shauna Coxsey is selected as Team GB's first sport climber for the inaugural event at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer.", "The support resource officer at a high school in Arkansas had been under investigation for use of excessive force.", "Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards tie the knot in County Antrim following a landmark law change.", "The prime minister says he will appoint a full-time minister to oversee the project and \"restore discipline\".", "The second contest in the Democratic nomination is over - we take a look at who's up and down.", "The 18-year-old will be the fourth-generation wrestler in the family", "The bridge was closed on Monday evening after snow and ice fell from cables, damaging eight vehicles.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tells the BBC a sales ban could be brought forward again.", "Tech firms will need to ensure that illegal content is quickly removed from their platforms.", "Refugees in Jordan and scientists from the UK are growing fresh food using old mattresses.", "As the UK government announces its plans, what are its options for regulating the firms?", "Wayne Erasmus says he has not been able to see or speak to his son Huw for three years.", "The world's largest mobile industry showcase will not go ahead, organisers confirm.", "The British artist's painting, depicting the moment after a diver hits the water, is sold at Sotheby's.", "Prime Minister's Questions is dominated by heated exchanges over the removal of foreign offenders.", "The vehicles are caught out in Dumfries and Galloway as winter weather affects much of Scotland.", "Catherine's first solo visit to Northern Ireland promoted a UK-wide survey she launched last month.", "A Tory donor provided holiday accommodation to the PM, according to the register of MPs' interests.", "The case of Google versus the European Commission will be heard in Luxembourg over three days.", "An image of two mice fighting on the underground over a crumb of food tops a popular wildlife photo poll.", "Often used against Jewish people as an offensive term, it can now also mean a Tottenham fan, the OED says.", "The four men, who were saved from the mountain in bad weather, have sent a donation and apologised.", "Officials say not to panic over coronavirus, but some residents are ordering masks and keeping children at home.", "East Kent Hospitals Trust's boss disputes the numbers of baby deaths it accepts responsibility for.", "Two fighter jets had to be scrambled to accompany the Jet2 flight back to Stansted in June.", "Up to a fifth of the Amazon rainforest has become a net source of CO2, research suggests.", "Sir David Clementi says putting the broadcaster's services behind a paywall would have a big impact.", "England throw away the opportunity to defeat South Africa in the first Twenty20 international, losing a dramatic contest by one run in East London.", "Sonia Boyce will be the first black woman to represent Great Britain at the prestigious art festival.", "A judge jails Peter Turner for 20 years and says he had \"brought evil into this world\".", "Koalas along with birds, fish and frogs need the most help after Australia's fires, says a report.", "Ms McKee, who was 29, was observing rioting in Londonderry when she was shot on 18 April 2019.", "Victims of switching mistakes will be paid automatically under a compensation scheme starting in May.", "A woman says she was \"bled dry\" by the scammer, who said he wanted to marry her.", "Islamic leaders have previously refused to perform funeral prayers saying sex work is \"immoral\".", "The Archbishop of Canterbury apologises for racism since the Windrush generation came to the UK.", "Sanders narrowly beats Pete Buttigieg in the second key contest in the race to take on Donald Trump.", "The HS2 high-speed rail link has been given the go-ahead - what was the reaction in Parliament?", "Millions of litres of water are being slowly put back into the system in Cumbria, United Utilities says.", "Flagship 5G handset has 100x zoom camera and records 8K video while 4G foldable has clamshell design.", "Catherine, who is known as the Countess of Strathearn in Scotland, made a trip to Aberdeen.", "Manchester passengers call HS2 \"a raw deal\", while the council leader says it is \"very good news\".", "A water firm says it is \"throwing everything we can at this problem\" but weather is hampering repairs.", "Unilever, which owns brands such as Twister and Cornetto, says it is responding to rising obesity rates.", "In her first podcast, the Duchess of Cambridge says she was \"not the happiest of pregnant people\".", "Hundreds of homes and businesses are damaged in flooding caused by Storm Dennis.", "Kevin Lygo said her \"passion, dedication and boundless energy contributed to the show's success.\"", "Grant Shapps says the new chancellor, Rishi Sunak, needs \"a few days to decide on the date\".", "A new storm has arrived in the UK. So what impact will Storm Dennis have?", "A Russian protest artist is held after Benjamin Griveaux is forced to ditch his Paris mayoral bid.", "ITV pull Saturday's edition of Love Island following the death of the show's former host.", "The Labour leadership contenders agree that revitalising the party's fortunes north of the border is vital.", "More than 100 people remain in quarantine in a hotel after arriving from China last weekend.", "Images from around the UK show the strong winds and heavy rain that have swept across the country.", "The former England star's voice cracks as he pays tribute to \"the greatest man in the world\".", "Mark Zuckerberg says social media firms should not decide what counts as legitimate free speech.", "Posting on Twitter he said the past three-and-a-half months have been the worst of his life.", "Houthi rebels say they shot down the plane, while Saudi Arabia says only that it \"fell\".", "Environmentalists win a temporary injunction against forest clearance for a new \"Gigafactory\".", "David Abel and his wife, Sally, accuse the UK government of ignoring their pleas for help.", "England pull off a stunning chase of 223 to beat South Africa in the third Twenty20 in Centurion and take a pulsating series 2-1.", "A deluge of water overnight and into the morning has left communities reeling.", "Cars and homes bear the brunt of Storm Dennis after a month's rain fell in two days.", "Troops are helping bolster flood defences as flights are grounded and sporting fixtures called off.", "Why is a Benedictine monk travelling to Mali to save Islamic texts?", "Laura Whitmore breaks down in tears as she remembers her \"vivacious\" friend Caroline Flack.", "Liverpool's unstoppable charge towards their first top-flight title in 30 years is \"outstanding\", says Jurgen Klopp after Sadio Mane's goal gives them victory at Norwich.", "Events are cancelled and travel disruption continues with road and rail travel affected by wind and rain.", "The child actress in the 2016 Disney film about a Ugandan chess prodigy had a brain tumour.", "Viewers and the TV world are in shock after the announcement of the death of the Love Island host.", "A US firm claims the service it offers saves more than a tonne of carbon, after a pilot study.", "From Strictly Come Dancing champion to Love Island and The X Factor host.", "The party says the \"purpose and intent\" of plans to merge teams in No 10 and the Treasury must be explained.", "Nearly £5bn is due to be spent on flood defences in England up until 2026, government figures show.", "The disease, which normally affects people later in life, forced Ryan to make a \"scary\" decision.", "The airport says the \"technical issues\" have been resolved and \"systems are returning to normal\".", "Police found more than five tonnes of the illegal dug hidden in a shipment of flowers, officials say.", "Communities across the UK face more disruption following the torrential rain brought by Storm Dennis.", "Tony Camoccio says he is \"excited to be heading home and can't wait to see all of my family\".", "People are rescued from flooded homes in Wales, and there are a record number of flood warnings and alerts in England.", "The scale of the devastation is apparent, as severe flood warnings remain in place across the UK.", "Twelve British nationals suspected of running the underground factory in Spain were arrested.", "The bill weighed on the bank's profits, but is close to drawing a line under the mis-selling saga.", "Historic Environment Scotland says it wants to be \"net-zero\" by 2045 in line with government targets.", "A neo-Nazi is suspected of having shot Walter Lübcke, who defended migrant rights.", "Muhammed, a German citizen of Turkish origin, describes how he survived a shooting in a shisha bar.", "It comes after the former Love Island host was found dead at her north-east London home on Saturday.", "The ex-PM says the party faces a \"make-or-break\" moment after losing four elections in a row.", "The group infiltrated more than 2,000 BT customer accounts and used the details to buy luxury goods.", "People hit by flooding during Storm Dennis explain what it is like to find your home under water.", "A man and a woman died at the scene, police say, and seven others were taken to hospital.", "The 17-year-old stamped on the face of Frank Sinclair, 61, severing his spine from his head.", "A new polymer £20 banknote featuring artist JMW Turner starts to appear in ATMs on Thursday.", "The company says it sent the strange \"1\" alert to Samsung devices by mistake.", "Provides an overview of Germany, including key dates and facts about this European country.", "The UK Labour party leader also blamed Brexit and the media for the election result.", "A man was shot on Wednesday morning at a house in the Hollywood hills, police confirmed to Newsbeat.", "Mark Zuckerberg faced jibes on social media over a claim that he has staff blow-dry his armpits.", "She appeared on TV shows ranging from Blue Peter to The Sky At Night, as well as documentaries.", "Several people are dead following two shootings at shisha bars in the western German city of Hanau.", "The duke and duchess will no longer carry out duties on behalf of the Queen.", "James Watson is accused of killing six-year-old Rikki Neave who was found strangled in woodland.", "A man in his 70s is injured in the attack, which police are not treating as terror related.", "Paul Golding was charged after refusing to give police access to his phone after returning from Russia.", "The Love Island host says she was photographed against her will as she arrived in South Africa.", "Larry Tesler was responsible for many of the innovations that made personal computing accessible.", "The title of oldest person in the UK is now shared by two men, both born on 29 March 1908.", "Former NI Secretary Julian Smith dismisses claims the PM was unaware of the Stormont deal details.", "Gillian Millane spoke to the court via video-link, saying her daughter 'died terrified and alone'.", "Chancellor Merkel says there are many signs the Hanau gunman acted on right-wing, racist motives.", "Professional musician Dagmar Turner was diagnosed with a large brain tumour in 2013.", "The trial of Grace Millane's killer is perhaps the most highly publicised murder case in New Zealand's history.", "\"Grace is gone\", her cousin says in a BBC interview, and no jail term will change the fact.", "Saima Afzal and Maryam Batan were the first female Asians to be elected to Blackburn council.", "The bank's software to monitor the amount of time staff spent at their desks was condemned as \"creepy\".", "The project has been hit by legal disputes between the Welsh Government and its contractor.", "The actress tells Victoria Derbyshire her next film, The Secret Garden, could possibly be her last.", "Only those who are well can travel, and they will be quarantined on their return, it is understood.", "A new report calls for more contingency measures to ensure the prison system can cope with \"failing\" jails.", "Mya-Rose Craig has been campaigning for equality in the environmental movement since 2015.", "The outgoing Labour leader says he would be \"happy\" to serve his successor \"in any capacity\".", "You cannot get in to the bricked-up first floor room - but someone has snapped it up for a cool £1.", "Several people are dead following two shootings in the western German city of Hanau.", "The home secretary and her official disagreed but she did not bully him, a source tells the BBC.", "The Hanau crime fuels fears that Germany has underestimated the far-right terror threat.", "Peggy died in 1947 and another Bull Terrier accepts her posthumous PDSA commendation on her behalf.", "In a post released ahead of her inquest, the TV host said her \"future was swept from under my feet\".", "Witnesses reported windows of a house being broken and men running away carrying plants.", "The biggest animal on Earth is returning to waters where it was nearly driven to extinction.", "Health campaigners welcome the move as the trust says chocolate will be \"less of a focus\" from 2021.", "The city is unrecognisable as people work from home and avoid going out.", "Police say it's \"amazing\" there weren't more casualties on board the train carrying 153 people.", "The police officers were on their way back to base when they were flagged down.", "Rare video shows Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman being processed at a high-security jail in Mexico.", "But the ex-European Council president warns an independent Scotland would not be automatically accepted.", "France's Emmanuel Macron says he is deeply sad but David Davis says everybody will win from Brexit.", "A man has been shot by armed officers in a \"terrorist-related\" incident in Streatham High Road, south London.", "Parts of east Africa see the largest invasion of the insects in 25 years, threatening food supplies.", "The drug is aimed at protecting against accidental exposure, but may cause a fatal reaction.", "Albert Evans' granddaughter says they had to persuade him to accept France's highest honour.", "Charlotte Arter lowered her previous best time by one second in Cardiff on Saturday.", "Chicago rapper Young QC ordered a hitman to kill his mum and then withdrew all her savings.", "Our home affairs reporter recalls how Sudesh Amman smiled as he was sentenced for terror offences.", "A man reported to have stabbed a number of people in south London is shot dead by police.", "Several fake profiles appeared using photos of Oscar Saxelby-Lee who is having treatment for leukaemia.", "Uninspired Ireland beat Scotland 19-12 in the Six Nations in Dublin as Stuart Hogg's knock-on over the line sums up Scotland's missed opportunity.", "As the clock struck 11pm in the UK, thousands of Brexit supporters were ready to ring in the new era.", "Mohammed Allawi, a former communications minister, has backed the protests which began in October.", 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to get me to a point where I am able to see that I was deliberately keeping people at arm's length to avoid getting close to people who would subsequently leave,\" he said.\n\n\"I continued to hold people at arm's length into adulthood, wanting largely to be invisible.\n\n\"Always feeling inferior, always feeling negatively judged, I got to a point where I considered myself to be disposable.\n\n\"When my mood was low/is low, I struggle to deal with those feelings of inferiority.\n\n\"It is fair to say that my treatment within services has been patchy, which I think is the experience of most people that I talk to who have been in similar situations.\n\n\"There have been times when I have been pretty much left to my own devices, with very little support in keeping myself safe.\"\n\nLast year, UK suicide rates rose for the first time since 2013, with people born in the 1960s and 1970s being the most vulnerable. The Office for National Statistics said changes to the way the figures are recorded may account for some of the rise.\n\nExperts are now calling for all self-harm patients to be offered a safety plan - an agreed set of bespoke activities and guidelines to help them deal with depressive episodes.\n\nBut Simon, who is from Derbyshire, said: \"After one of my first hospital admissions, I received a safety plan through the post 18 months after I had been discharged.\n\n\"When I struggle, I look for things that reinforce my negative view of myself - missing out on a safety plan on discharge reinforced that message that I am worthless.\n\n\"There have been times when I've been given a generic plan which has little or no relevance to me. And, truthfully, if it's not personal, for me it's pretty pointless\n\n\"For some, reaching out to a partner would be the first safe step. However, for others, that same action could have a negative effect.\n\n\"Everybody's individual journey is unique and the safety plans that are created need to be tailored for them.\"\n\nAnother patient, in his 20s, from London, told BBC News: \"I thought that I was going to be getting divorced and felt really really low.\n\n\"I noticed the signs and had a GP appointment in which the doctor said he would refer me for some counselling.\n\n\"About eight weeks later I got an email telling me that actually counselling referrals weren't available where I lived.\n\n\"In the meantime, I had found my own ways of propping myself up.\n\n\"But if I hadn't been able to do that, I don't really know where I'd have ended up.\"\n\nDr Huw Stone, who chairs the patients' safety group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said patients, especially those under 30, were being systematically let down in their most vulnerable state.\n\n\"With hospital admissions for self-harming under-30s more than doubling in the last 10 years, there has never been a more important time to ensure patients are getting the care that they need,\" he said.\n\nAn NHS England official said: \"While suicide rates have decreased over the last 10 years, reducing them even further is an NHS priority and in the past three years, as part of our long-term plan, we have invested to ensure that every general hospital now has expert mental-health teams on hand for patients who have self-harmed.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, these organisations offer advice and support.\n\nIn addition, you can call the Samaritans free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland). Mind also has a confidential telephone helpline - 0300 123 339 (Monday-Friday, 09:00-18:00).", "South Korea has stepped up measures to contain the spread of the deadly new coronavirus, as the number of confirmed cases rose above 200.\n\nThe southern cities of Daegu and Cheongdo have been declared \"special care zones\".", "The A82 at the scene of the fatal crash was closed for 11 hours to allow for a police investigation\n\nTwo girls aged one and three have died along with their parents in a two-car crash near Fort William.\n\nThe family were in a Mini Cooper involved in the incident on the A82 at Torlundy just after 17:30 on Thursday.\n\nPolice confirmed the dead mother was aged 26 and the father was 25.\n\nThe 56-year-old female driver of a Ford Fiesta freed from the wreckage by firefighters was taken to hospital in Fort William with serious but not life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe A82 around the scene of the crash was closed for 11 hours to allow for a police investigation. Police Scotland has appealed for witnesses.\n\nSupt Simon Bradshaw said the scene faced by police officers, firefighters and ambulance personnel on Thursday was \"extremely challenging\".\n\nHe said: \"I would take this opportunity to thank everyone involved for their efforts in the face of such a distressing incident.\n\n\"Every loss of life on our roads is a tragedy but the impact on families, friends and entire communities after an incident like this cannot be underestimated. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been involved or affected.\"\n\nSupt Bradshaw added: \"An investigation is ongoing to establish the full circumstances leading to this tragedy and it would be wrong for me to speculate on the cause at this time.\n\n\"However, I would ask that anyone who was in the area last night, who may have seen either vehicle involved before the collision or who may have dashcam footage to please contact police 101, quoting incident 2942 of 20 February.\"\n\nFort William and Ardnamurchan councillor Andrew Baxter said the \"thoughts and prayers of everyone in Lochaber\" would be with those affected by the crash.\n\nHe said: \"This is devastating news for the family and friends of those who have been tragically killed in this accident.\n\n\"What I have seen on local social media is great sadness.\"\n\nKate Forbes, SNP MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, tweeted: \"This is extremely sad news. Thinking of the families and friends who are dealing with the shock of all of this.\"", "An illegal cigarette factory has been uncovered in Spain where six foreign workers were found gasping for air before being rescued, authorities said.\n\nTwelve British nationals suspected of running the factory were arrested.\n\nThe bunker under horse stables in the southern province of Malaga could produce up to 3,500 cigarettes an hour, according to Spain's Guardia Civil.\n\nIt is the first underground counterfeit cigarette factory found in the EU, Europol and Spanish police said.\n\nSix Ukrainian and Lithuanian workers were found struggling to breathe due to a generator designed to pump air into the bunker running out of power, police said.\n\nThe underground bunker is in the southern province of Malaga\n\nTwenty people had been arrested earlier in the day but had not informed police that the workers were still inside. The panicked workers banged and shouted from below as police searched the area.\n\nOfficers eventually found the workers and freed them.\n\nIn a statement (in Spanish), the Guardia Civil said police had confiscated 153,000 packs of cigarettes, more than 17 tons of rolling tobacco, 20 kg (44 lbs) of hashish and 144 kg of marijuana.\n\nThe factory could produce up to 3,500 counterfeit cigarettes an hour\n\nSix workers were left gasping for air", "Opposition parties have criticised the Scottish government after an official report revealed a decline in the exam performance of school pupils.\n\nThe analysis was posted on the government's website at 20:00 on Thursday.\n\nIt reveals that the number of students achieving passes in core Higher subjects dropped significantly in 2019, in some cases by as much as 10%.\n\nThe Conservatives said there were \"clearly major problems\" in education.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney said the government \"regularly monitors and analyses performance to inform decision-making\".\n\nHe denied that the government was trying to \"sneak out the report\" and insisted it was fulfilling \"commitments we had made to parliament\".\n\nMr Swinney told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We had a Freedom of Information request that had to be responded to.\n\n\"We felt it was appropriate (to release the exams report at the same time) because so much of that material was included in the report that I had promised we would publish.\"\n\nThe Freedom of Information request was made by a lecturer and former school teacher.\n\nThe timing of its release led to ministers being accused of a \"snide and cynical\" attempt to avoid scrutiny of its record on education.\n\nOpposition parties said the figures highlighted a \"worrying decline\" in pupils' exam performance.\n\nScottish Conservative education spokesman Jamie Greene said: \"This is a snide and cynical move by an SNP government which is increasingly in crisis across all of Scotland's public services.\n\n\"There are clearly major and systematic problems within our education system that the SNP simply refuses to acknowledge or take action on.\n\n\"John Swinney insisted there were no issues concerning the drop in pass rates, but this snuck-out report proves him wrong.\"\n\nThe drop in the numbers passing some key Highers begs important questions.\n\nThe rate of the fall in some of the most important subjects is far greater than the headline fall in the number of Higher passes overall.\n\nBut it is important not to jump to conclusions about what may be to blame.\n\nThere are a number of possible contributory factors.\n\nThere may be questions over how well prepared some young people are for their Higher courses.\n\nBut not all of the possible explanations are necessarily worrying.\n\nCould some schools or teachers be encouraging more borderline candidates to attempt a Higher?\n\nIt is unlikely, though, that the exams system will be the reason for the drop.\n\nThe SQA adjusts pass marks and grade boundaries every year to allow for exams being a little easier or harder than anticipated.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it regularly analyses exam performance\n\nSpeaking after the publication of the report, Mr Swinney said the Scottish government regularly monitored and analysed performance to inform decision-making.\n\n\"Taken together, this analysis demonstrates good progress in a number of areas and that it is challenging to identify significant drivers of change or to draw firm conclusions about some subjects due to small numbers of entries,\" he said.\n\n\"The analysis has, however, identified areas that justify further exploration and highlight actions that have been agreed.\n\n\"My key areas of focus are to ensure that curriculum and assessment are aligned, how to better support professional learning and development, and maintaining a clear focus on enhancing learning and teaching.\"\n\nLarry Flanagan, general secretary of the EIS teaching union, said it was important to look at the wider context \"including such variables as different pupil cohorts in each year\" and to \"balance dips against improvements in some qualifications and at various levels of presentation\".\n\nHe added: \"Focusing solely on Higher passes alone, for example, is an unhealthy and unhelpful fixation. The EIS would like to see an evaluation of the impact of longer exams on pupil performance but overall we believe that schools and teachers deliver well for students, especially in a period of ongoing austerity and budget cuts.\"\n\nIn January, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon agreed to a wider inquiry into Scottish education after opposition MSPs demanded one.\n\nA study of the senior phase of schooling had already been ordered, but Holyrood voted to say this should be a \"full review\" of broader education.\n\nSNP members opposed the move in the vote, but Ms Sturgeon said she would \"abide by the decision of parliament\".\n\nThe motion passed also said there were \"key weaknesses in some key aspects of Scotland's school education\" system.", "The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the police watchdog following the death of TV star Caroline Flack.\n\nScotland Yard's directorate of professional standards (DPS) reviewed all previous contact with Ms Flack, 40, before it made Wednesday's referral.\n\nIt was standard practice for a referral to be made when a person who had recent contact with police died, the Met said.\n\nMs Flack was found dead at her London flat on Saturday as she awaited trial for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend.\n\nAn inquest into the former Love Island host's death was opened and adjourned on Wednesday.\n\nA statement from the Met said: \"No notice of investigation has been served on any officer and no conduct issues have been identified by the DPS. No officer is on restricted duties or suspended.\"\n\nAn Independent Office for Police Conduct spokesman said: \"We will make a decision on the level of our involvement after carefully assessing the information we have received.\n\n\"Receipt of a referral does not mean an investigation will necessarily follow.\"\n\nFlowers were left outside Caroline Flack's former house\n\nMs Flack left her role presenting the ITV2 dating show after being charged with assaulting her partner Lewis Burton in December and was due to stand trial next month.\n\nIn an unpublished Instagram post shared by her family, she said her \"whole world and future was swept from under my feet\" following her arrest.\n\nMs Flack pleaded not guilty to assault by beating at a court appearance in December, when it was heard her partner did not support the prosecution.\n\nShe was released on bail but was ordered to stop any contact with Mr Burton ahead of the trial.\n\nLove Island did not air on Saturday or Sunday but returned on Monday with a tribute to the former X Factor presenter and Strictly Come Dancing winner, who started hosting the programme in 2015.", "Hannah Clarke and her children are being mourned across the country\n\nAn Australian police detective investigating the murders of Hannah Clarke and her children has been stood down from the case over comments that were seen as \"victim shaming\".\n\nClarke and her children died when her estranged husband Rowan Baxter set their car on fire. He also died.\n\nIn comments to the media on Thursday, Det Insp Mark Thompson had said it could be a case of a man \"being driven too far by issues that he's suffered\".\n\nQueensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said on Friday that Det Insp Thompson had been \"distraught\" over his comments and \"how it came out\", and had volunteered to stand aside.\n\nHannah Clarke and her children were in the car in Brisbane with her estranged husband on Wednesday when it caught fire.\n\nThe three children - Laianah, aged four, Aaliyah, six, and Trey, three - died in the car. Police say Rowan Baxter was found dead nearby from self-inflicted wounds. Ms Clarke died in hospital later from severe burns.\n\nWitnesses said she had jumped out of the car screaming that he had poured petrol on her.\n\nIt later emerged that Ms Clarke - who was originally reported as going by the surname Baxter - had repeatedly sought police help over domestic violence and had secured court orders.\n\nThe reports sparked anger about some of the media treatment of the incident.\n\nIn a news conference on Thursday, Det Insp Thompson had suggested it could not be assumed the case was straight forward and that it was investigators' job \"to keep a completely open mind\".\n\nHe appealed for anyone with information about the family to come forward.\n\n\"We need to look at every piece of information and, to put it bluntly, there are probably people out there in the community that are deciding which side to take, so to speak, in this investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"Is this an issue of a woman suffering significant domestic violence and her and her children perishing at the hands of the husband, or is this an instance of a husband being driven too far by issues that he's suffered, by certain circumstances, into committing acts of this form?\"\n\nCommissioner Carroll told ABC Radio Brisbane that the comments were \"victim-blaming at its worst\" and offered her sincere apologies to the community and victims.\n\n\"The phraseology was completely wrong, and the words and way it was said should not have been used.\"\n\nShe said Det Insp was \"an exceptionally good police officer\" and was \"distressed\" by the impact of the comments, but that \"we want to remove the noise and concentrate on the issue\".\n\n\"So, the issue is there is a murder, there is a mother and three children who have been murdered. And I want to concentrate on that.\"", "The funeral of former Manchester United and Northern Ireland goalkeeper Harry Gregg has taken place in Coleraine.\n\nGregg, a hero of the 1958 Munich air disaster who made 25 appearances for Northern Ireland between 1954 and 1963, died on Sunday aged 87.\n\nHe bravely rescued team-mates and other passengers following the Munich plane crash in which 23 were killed, including eight United players.\n\nHis funeral service was held in St Patrick's Parish Church in Coleraine.\n\nSir Alex Ferguson and Denis Law arriving at the funeral for Harry Gregg\n\nAfterwards he was buried in Coleraine Cemetery.\n\nAmong the mourners were former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Bobby Charlton and former striker Denis Law.\n\nAlso attending were First Minister Arlene Foster; former Northern Ireland international and manager Sammy McIlroy; members of Coleraine FC, including manager Oran Kearney; and David Healy, Northern Ireland's record goalscorer and Linfield manager.\n\nSir Bobby Charlton is also among the mourners\n\nWelcoming mourners, Rev Ian Ballentine said the large crowds outside the church were a tribute to Harry Gregg, who he described as an \"outstanding professional footballer and a man of exceptional courage\".\n\nIn a eulogy, BBC NI's Stephen Watson said Gregg was a \"great stickler for timekeeping\" so would have been thrilled that everyone had arrived at the church on time.\n\nHe said his idol as a child was Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thompson.\n\nHe added that Gregg had deliberately flunked an exam so he did not have to go to a grammar school which played rugby, rather than football.\n\nRecalling the Munich disaster, he said that Gregg was told by the captain of the plane to run away as it was about to explode, but he \"went back into the carnage\" to rescue several team-mates and a pregnant woman and her daughter.\n\nMr Watson said: \"What happened at Munich was a mental torment for Harry - he had a constant battle against grief and guilt.\n\n\"But as he told me - it was getting back to football that saved his sanity. He used the game to heal his scars.\"\n\nMr Watson said on the 50th anniversary of the Munich crash he met the young Yugoslavian woman he rescued from the plane, as well as the son she was pregnant with at the time.\n\nHowever, he said Gregg's darkest hour was the death of his wife Mavis, the mother of his eldest two children, from breast cancer in her mid-20s.\n\nIn 1965, he remarried to Carolyn and they had four children together.\n\nHe suffered another personal tragedy around the time of the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster when his daughter Karen died from breast cancer.\n\nIt felt as if the whole of Coleraine had turned out as Harry Gregg made his final journey to St Patrick's Church.\n\nHundreds braved the wind and rain to pay their final respects to the hero of Munich.\n\nSome of the biggest names in the history of football - Sir Alex Ferguson, Denis Law and Sir Bobby Charlton - arrived to remember a man who left his mark both on and off the pitch.\n\nEulogies recalled Gregg's strong work ethic, passion for the game and wise words of advice.\n\nThey also paid tribute to the family man - a father of six, grandfather of 10 and great grandfather of five. And there was time for some memories of a man who didn't suffer fools and wasn't averse to the use of some \"industrial\" language.\n\nSixty-two years to the day after his Manchester United team-mate Duncan Edwards died from the injuries he suffered in the Munich disaster, Harry Gregg was laid to rest.\n\nMr Watson said that Gregg's \"notoriety because of the Munich air crash came at a price\" and \"cast a shadow over his life that he found difficult to dispel\".\n\n\"Harry's actions though on the runway that fateful day meant he transcended sporting greatness,\" Mr Watson added.\n\n\"He was called the Hero of Munich, but he always wanted to be remembered simply as a footballer and a coach of some repute.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster arrives at the church\n\n\"He was that figure that gave everyone from a working class walk of life hope. I could always look at him, he was the perfect role model,\" he said.\n\n\"He never courted publicity, that's what I loved about him - all the adulation that people poured on his shoulders he took in his stride.\n\n\"When I saw him most at ease with himself was with the family. That was when he was most content.\"\n\nPeople queued outside St Patrick's Church, where a number of seats were made open for the public\n\nMr Beckett also reflected on Gregg's legacy: \"I was thinking of the legacy he has left, the Harry Gregg foundation, which is something I know he was so proud about - his pride and joy.\n\n\"It is about giving kids a structured platform, structured in such a way that kids could go out and enjoy it.\"\n\nThe congregation also listened to a poem written by Gregg entitled Jumpers for Goalposts and another written by Pablo Doherty, the son of legendary Northern Ireland international Peter Doherty who signed Gregg for Doncaster Rovers at the age of 19 and managed the national side at the 1958 World Cup where Gregg was named best goalkeeper.\n\nIn a tribute, Gregg's son John said: \"Dad as a father was really, really good. The thing with dad was everybody said about his bark, but at the back of that was a real softness you very rarely saw.\n\nCrowds line the streets of Coleraine as the cortege makes its way to the cemetery\n\n\"Dad knew we all loved him, ever single one of us, and towards the end I told him every single day. We all had one of the best dads. I am going to really miss him.\"\n\nHe added that while heaven is supposed to be a quiet and peaceful place, that would change within 30 minutes of his father's arrival.\n\nGregg and his family moved to Coleraine after he was born in Tobermore, County Londonderry, and he excelled as a player for his home town club before moving to England.\n\nWhen he joined United in December 1957 for £23,500, Gregg was the world's most expensive goalkeeper and was voted the best at the following year's World Cup.\n\nThe Irish FA opened a book of condolence in his memory at the National Stadium at Windsor Park.\n\nA book of condolence was also opened in Coleraine Town Hall.", "A young Manchester United fan who made a bid to stop Liverpool winning the title has been left shocked after Jurgen Klopp sent him a personal reply.\n\nDaragh Curley, from County Donegal, wrote to the Liverpool boss for a school assignment.\n\nThe 10-year-old asked if it would be possible for Liverpool to lose some games so they wouldn't win the league.\n\nKlopp said the letter was \"nice\" and \"cheeky\".", "Two people have died and seven were injured after a crash involving seven vehicles and a pedestrian in Romford, east London.\n\nA man and a woman died at the scene on Squirrels Heath Road on Thursday afternoon, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nEmergency services were called at about 13:15 GMT and fire crews cut three people free from their cars.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said seven people were taken to hospital.\n\nAt the scene of the crash, one vehicle had rolled over and come to rest near a bus, while two hatchbacks, one blue and one black, were at an angle on the opposite site of the road.\n\nA silver Range Rover was also involved, but appeared undamaged.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIranians have voted in elections in an exercise widely expected to result in a more hardline parliament loyal to the country's supreme leader.\n\nIt is the first such poll since the US renewed sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme, battering its economy.\n\nThousands of moderate would-be candidates were barred from running for not meeting strict election criteria.\n\nObservers say authorities were hoping for a high voter turnout as a sign of support for the regime.\n\nVoting was extended three times on Friday because of a \"rush of voters\", state TV quoted the interior ministry as saying. The polls have now closed.\n\nCritics of Iran's rulers had called on citizens to boycott the polls as a way of showing their opposition to what they say is widespread repression of human rights and intolerance of dissent.\n\nThe field of candidates running in the election was dominated by conservatives and hardliners, with the outcome likely to politically weaken President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate.\n\nThe parliament is subservient to Iran's supreme leader\n\nMore than 7,000 candidates were vying for 290 seats in the parliament, known as the Majlis. It is part of Iran's mixed system of democratic and theocratic governance, under which the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say in the most important matters.\n\nMore than 16,000 contenders - including 90 mostly reformist members of the current Majlis - were disqualified from standing by the Guardian Council, a vetting committee loyal to Mr Khamenei.\n\nOn Thursday the US imposed sanctions on five members of Council for \"preventing the Iranian people from freely choosing their leaders\".\n\nOne of those blacklisted, Abasali Kadkhodai, responded mockingly. He said he felt \"honoured to be sanctioned by America\" - Iran's foremost foe - the Iranian national broadcaster Irib reported, according to Reuters.\n\nThe Islamic republic has been at loggerheads with the US and much of the West since a revolution in 1979 brought a radical Shia Muslim leadership to power.\n\nMr Khamenei said voting in the parliamentary elections was a \"religious duty\" which would show steadfastness in the face of US efforts to isolate and pressurise the country into changing.\n\nTensions between Iran and the US have soared since 2018 when President Donald Trump abandoned a multi-country agreement, which lifted sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nForeign powers suspect Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, although Iran insists its nuclear activities are for purely peaceful purposes.\n\nDivisions over the elections have become increasingly crystallised on social media, with Iranians expressing pro- and anti-government positions.\n\nIt is unclear how many Iranians will heed calls to vote, with many disenchanted by the state of the economy, as well as the Iranian president's failure to deliver on promises of improving civil liberties.\n\nThe elections come weeks after a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests\n\nRecent crackdowns on anti-government protesters have also deepened opposition to the ruling classes.\n\nSupporters of Ayatollah Khamenei have been posting under the hashtags \"strong majlis\" and \"I take part because\", with one user tweeting \"each vote is a bullet in the eye of the enemy\".\n\nAnti-establishment Iranians, meanwhile, have been commenting under hashtags \"I do not vote\" and \"no vote\".\n\n\"If our opinion was really important and it could change something, they would never ask for our opinion,\" one critic tweeted.", "Airlines stand to lose $29.3bn (£23.7bn) of revenue this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, the global airline industry body has warned.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association (IATA) predicts demand for air travel will fall for the first time in more than a decade.\n\nAirlines in China and other parts of the Asia Pacific region are expected to take the vast majority of the impact.\n\nIt comes as carriers around the world have been forced to reduce flights.\n\nIn total, airlines in the Asia Pacific region are set to see a $27.8bn revenue loss in 2020, while those outside Asia are expected to lose $1.5bn in revenue, IATA has forecast.\n\nOf that figure, IATA predicts that carriers in China are set to lose revenue of $12.8bn in their home market alone.\n\n\"Airlines are making difficult decisions to cut capacity and in some cases routes,\" said IATA's director-general Alexandre de Juniac. \"This will be a very tough year for airlines.\"\n\nHowever, IATA cautioned it was too early to predict what this expected revenue loss would mean for airlines' profitability this year.\n\nIATA said it had based its estimates on the slump in demand that was seen during the Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak in 2003. That was characterised by a six-month period that saw a sharp fall in demand followed by an equally quick recovery.\n\nThat year Sars was responsible for the 5.1% fall in demand for airlines in the Asia-Pacific region.\n\nThe forecast also assumes that the virus remains centred on China, but IATA warned the effect could be far worse if the infection spreads further in the region.\n\nIATA has previously forecast that the Asia Pacific region would be the biggest driver of air travel demand between 2015 and 2035, with four of the five fastest-growing markets in terms of passengers being from Asia.\n\nOn Thursday, two major airline groups warned of a severe financial impact as a result of the coronavirus hitting demand for travel in Asia.\n\nAustralia's Qantas said the outbreak would cost it up to 150m Australian dollars ($99m; £76m), while European carrier Air-France KLM put the cost at up to €200m ($213m; £168m) for the period between February and April.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to stop using their \"SussexRoyal\" brand from spring 2020.\n\nThe couple had been in discussions with aides and senior royals about using the name following their decision this year to step back from royal duties.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the couple said it was agreed the word \"royal\" could not be used due to government rules.\n\nApplications to trademark the SussexRoyal brand have also been withdrawn.\n\nThe couple's popular Instagram account uses the name SussexRoyal, as does their website.\n\nA spokesperson for the Sussexes said they were \"focused\" on plans to establish their new organisation in the spring.\n\nBut they had agreed not to name it the Sussex Royal Foundation.\n\nRoyal author Robert Hardman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the decision on the brand name was a \"setback\" for the couple.\n\n\"They've spent a great deal of money registering the trademarks,\" he said.\n\nHowever, branding expert Rita Clifton told the programme the inability to use SussexRoyal would be an \"inconvenience\" rather than an insurmountable problem.\n\nShe said any brand \"is not just a name and a logo but also what you do\".\n\nThis was not what Harry and Meghan thought it would be.\n\nTheir bombshell statement in early January was full of talk about \"a progressive new role\" in the Royal Family, about \"collaboration\" with other members of the family, about \"continuing to support Her Majesty the Queen\".\n\nThey thought a hybrid role, half-in, half-out, could be possible - some royal duties, some Commonwealth duties, on their terms, with private lives attached.\n\nInstead, there is now nothing royal about them other than their names, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and their private connections with their relatives.\n\nThere will be no public royal role, no military commands, no royal tours and now not even use of the word \"royal\".\n\nThe loss of \"SussexRoyal\" will be a blow. It is their public face, their brand, their hugely popular social media name.\n\nBut \"royal\" could not survive alongside a private existence.\n\nThe couple have had to bow to the logic of their desire for a new and independent life - they will be royal no more.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Sussexes said: \"While the duke and duchess are focused on plans to establish a new non-profit organisation, given the specific UK government rules surrounding use of the word royal, it has been therefore agreed that their non-profit organisation, when it is announced this spring, will not be named Sussex Royal Foundation.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex do not intend to use 'SussexRoyal' in any territory post-spring 2020.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman said trademark applications that were filed as protective measures \"acting on advice from and following the same model for the Royal Foundation\" have been removed.\n\nIn a statement on their website, the couple said: \"While there is not any jurisdiction by the monarchy or Cabinet Office over the use of the word 'Royal' overseas, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex do not intend to use 'Sussex Royal' or any iteration of the word 'Royal' in any territory (either within the UK or otherwise) when the transition occurs spring 2020.\"\n\nIt was announced this week that the couple will formally step down as senior royals from 31 March.\n\nThey will no longer carry out duties on behalf of the Queen but arrangements will be reviewed after 12 months.\n\nA spokesperson for the couple said they intended to split their time between the UK and North America, and would be in the UK \"regularly\".\n\nThey will attend six events in the UK in February and March, including the Commonwealth Day Service on 9 March.\n\nThe couple and their son Archie spent time in Canada over Christmas\n\nHarry is also expected to attend the London Marathon in April in his capacity as patron, while the couple will also attend the Invictus Games in the Netherlands in May.\n\nThe couple have been in Canada with their son Archie for much of this year, after briefly returning to the UK in January following an extended six-week Christmas break on Vancouver Island.\n\nBefore announcing their plans to step back from royal duties in January, they had spoken about how they had struggled under the media spotlight.", "The coaches with the evacuees arrived at the hospital in a convoy of vehicles\n\nBritish nationals evacuated from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan have arrived at a hospital where they will spend the next two weeks in quarantine.\n\nCoaches carrying 30 British and two Irish citizens arrived at Arrowe Park hospital in Wirral on Saturday evening.\n\nThe group had travelled from an airbase in Wiltshire after leaving Tokyo on a flight late on Friday night.\n\nThey have so far tested negative for the virus.\n\nAs the coaches arrived at the hospital just before 18:00, one passenger was pictured making a heart sign with her hands while another gave an OK signal through the coach windows.\n\nArrowe Park Hospital was previously used to quarantine 83 British nationals who were flown back to the UK from Wuhan.\n\nThe chief executive of Wirral Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Janelle Holmes, said Arrowe Park was using that experience as a \"blueprint\" for treating the new group.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the group's arrival, she said: \"The group of people is slightly different.\n\n\"Obviously, they have come from a cruise ship rather than from their own homes over in China, but we are working exactly the same as we did before, with the healthcare professionals and Public Health England to make sure they are safe, well managed and comfortable while they are with us.\"\n\nThe plane landed at Boscombe Down, a MoD base in Wiltshire\n\nThe evacuation flight took off from Tokyo's Haneda Airport late on Friday evening (GMT) and landed at Boscombe Down, a Ministry of Defence base in Wiltshire, about 11:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nIn a statement issued after the plane landed, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the Foreign Office had \"worked hard\" to get the passengers \"back to the UK securely\".\n\n\"Our number one priority has consistently been the health and safety of UK nationals,\" he added.\n\nThe flight had previously been delayed after the British embassy said it was \"logistically complicated\".\n\nThe plane set off from Haneda Airport, Tokyo, late on Friday evening (GMT)\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged the NHS is working on plans to test people for coronavirus in their own homes, if the outbreak begins to spread in the UK.\n\nA pilot scheme has already been launched in London, where tests are being carried out by NHS nurses and paramedics.\n\nThe health service is planning to expand the scheme to other areas outside of the capital in the coming weeks.\n\nProfessor Keith Willett, the NHS strategic incident director for coronavirus, said the aim was to avoid the risk of people spreading the infection by going to their GP or A&E.\n\nElsewhere, Italy has reported its second death from the virus - a woman living in the northern region of Lombardy - a day after a 78-year-old man died.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome 78 Britons were on the Diamond Princess when it was quarantined 16 days ago.\n\nSome of the British passengers on the Diamond Princess had already been evacuated over the last week on flights to Hong Kong, organised by the Chinese authorities there, a government source has told the BBC.\n\nOthers are being treated for the virus in health facilities in Japan.\n\nDavid and Sally Abel, a couple from Northamptonshire who were diagnosed with coronavirus on the cruise ship, have since been told they have pneumonia, their son said.\n\nAppearing alongside wife Roberta, Steve Abel said in a YouTube video late on Friday evening that his father's condition was \"very serious\", while his mother has a more mild form of pneumonia.\n\nHe also said his \"really distressed\" parents - who had been on the cruise for their 50th wedding anniversary - called him to say they were being moved to a different hospital.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMr Abel said: \"They've gone from being told that they're going to have all these wonderful treatments, and 'we're going to wait over the next two or three days just to see how they respond to the treatments', and now all of a sudden they're being told 'we have to move you to a different hospital'.\"\n\nHe said his father is so \"weak\" he has been using a wheelchair, and has been told he could be put on a ventilator.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Abel told BBC Breakfast his father told him \"we can't take any more of this, it's like a prison\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said the welfare of all British nationals is of the highest priority to the UK government.\n\nThey added they are working with the Japanese authorities to ensure those British nationals who are remaining in Japan for health reasons get the best possible care.\n\nAt least four UK nationals have contracted the virus on board the cruise ship, but those flying home have tested negative.\n\nMore than 620 people on board the cruise ship tested positive for the virus - the largest cluster of cases outside China.\n\nIt is understood that some British nationals are members of the ship's crew who could be staying on board the ship.\n\nTwo Japanese passengers - both in their 80s and with underlying health conditions - were confirmed to have died after contracting the virus on the Diamond Princess.\n\nThe cruise liner was carrying 3,700 people when it was quarantined in Yokohama on 5 February, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was found to have the virus.\n\nSouth Korea says the number of new coronavirus cases in the country has more than doubled in one day.\n\nOfficials said on Saturday that 229 new cases had been confirmed since Friday, raising the total to 433.\n\nIn the UK, a total of 5,885 people have been tested for the virus, as of 14:00 GMT on Friday. Nine people have tested positive.\n\nWere you on the flight? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "\"You should appreciate your fans,\" Brown told the podcast\n\nVeteran EastEnders actress June Brown has said she has left her role as much-loved character Dot Cotton after 35 years.\n\n\"I've left for good,\" said the 93-year-old in an interview with podcast Distinct Nostalgia.\n\nShe is one of the BBC soap's longest-running characters and has become a firm favourite with viewers.\n\nHer character Dot has not been in an episode since January. An EastEnders spokesman said the \"door remains open\".\n\nBrown joined the show in 1985, the year it was created.\n\nIn the last episode she featured in, aired last month, Dot Cotton - or Dot Branning - left a voicemail message for character Sonia Fowler saying she had moved to Ireland.\n\nBrown told the podcast she is hoping to do a documentary next\n\nAsked by interviewer and former co-star Rani Singh whether EastEnders had put her on a retainer, Brown replied: \"I don't want a retainer. I've left. I've left for good.\n\n\"I've sent myself to Ireland and that's where she'll stay. I've left EastEnders.\"\n\nAn EastEnders spokesman said: \"We never discuss artists' contracts, however as far as EastEnders are concerned the door remains open for June, as it always has if the story arises and if June wishes to take part.\"\n\nActor John Altman, who played Nick Cotton (Dot's son), told BBC News: \"June as an actress is one of the greatest we've got, and I learned a lot from her too. She's an incredibly hard worker.\"\n\nAsked about the rather low-key send-off her character had on screen, he said: \"I think it could've been a better exit, that's for sure, but she must have discussed this with the powers that be. It's the way it is, it's a shame.\"\n\nOne of EastEnders' best-known stars, Brown was in her late 50s when she joined Albert Square.\n\nActor Leslie Grantham, who played Dirty Den, suggested her for the role. Until then, Brown's career had incorporated stage, film and television, with appearances in Coronation Street and Doctor Who.\n\n\"I think I got it because they thought I was a punctual actress,\" Brown told the podcast, which aired a special episode to celebrate 35 years of EastEnders.\n\n\"I'm not really but I became so. In fact I became so punctual I used to be in an hour before I should be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe said it \"was a very strange feeling\" leaving the soap.\n\n\"I was feeling rather down the other day,\" she said. \"I thought, 'what's the matter? Why do I feel so sad?' It's almost as if I've been bereaved.\n\n\"I've played two people simultaneously for 35 years. Really Dot wasn't me, but spiritually she probably was.\"\n\nBrown took a four-year break from the soap between 1993 and 1997\n\nAn episode from 2008 shows Dot being teased by a gang as she walks to the Tube\n\nIn 2008, Brown became the first actor in a British soap to carry an entire episode alone, with an emotional monologue dictated to a cassette for her screen husband to listen to in hospital following a stroke.\n\nThat same year she was made an MBE for services to drama and charity.\n\nLast year, Brown revealed she was losing her sight after being diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration and could no longer recognise her friends.", "A crime scene is in place at the London Central Mosque near Regent's Park in central London\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing inside a central London mosque.\n\nThe victim, in his 70s, was injured in an attack at London Central Mosque, near Regent's Park, which police are not treating as terror-related.\n\nHe was taken to hospital by paramedics where his condition has been assessed as non-life threatening.\n\nA 29-year-old man was apprehended by worshippers who broke from prayer to restrain him until police arrived.\n\nIn a statement, the mosque said the injured man was the muezzin, the person who makes the call to prayer, and he had been stabbed shortly after 15:00 GMT during afternoon prayer.\n\nThe mosque's director general, Dr Ahmad Al Dubayan said he had a brief phone conversation with the muezzin in hospital, who said he was \"okay and feeling well\".\n\nAyaz Ahmad, an adviser to the mosque, said the stabbing \"would have been life-threatening if it wasn't for the worshippers\".\n\nImages from inside the mosque showed a man wearing a red hooded top, jeans and with bare feet being pinned to the floor by police officers.\n\nOne video showed a knife on the floor under a plastic chair.\n\nA 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder\n\nMustafa Field, director of the Faiths Forum for London, told reporters the attack was \"one stab, one strike, around the neck\" of the victim.\n\nHe said: \"Then the congregation members, some of them broke their prayers, and intervened, restrained the individual.\"\n\nAbi Watik, who witnessed the attack, said the arrested man had been seen at the mosque previously and the muezzin was stabbed once in the shoulder.\n\n\"He was praying behind him [the muezzin] and then he stabbed him.\n\n\"He was waiting for him I think to start praying. He was right behind him.\"\n\nThe 59-year-old added that the suspect \"was silent the whole time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man was arrested inside building, then led outside\n\nDr Al Dubayan said: \"We are so sad about what has happened and we hope it's just one off incident, not related or motivated by any kind of hatred.\"\n\nMiqdaad Versi, from the Muslim Council of Britain, said: \"It is deeply concerning that this has happened... Given other recent attacks elsewhere, many Muslims are on edge,\" he said.\n\nPolice believe the attack was an isolated incident and have increased patrols around the area to \"provide reassurance to worshippers and the local community\".\n\nCh Supt Helen Harpe said: \"A 29-year-old man was arrested at the scene and he has been taken into custody.\n\n\"The man is believed to have been attending prayers inside the mosque.\n\n\"This incident has undoubtedly caused a great deal of concern and we are working as swiftly as possible to establish the circumstances.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted he was \"deeply saddened\" by the stabbing and his \"thoughts are with the victim and all those affected\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the Met Police would be \"providing extra resources in the area\" following the attack.\n\n\"Every Londoner is entitled to feel safe in their place of worship,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The leader of far-right group Britain First has been charged with an offence under the Terrorism Act after refusing to give police access to his phone.\n\nPaul Golding was stopped at Heathrow Airport in October on his way back from a trip to the Russian Parliament in Moscow by officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nHe refused to give the pin codes for a number of his electronic devices.\n\nHe is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court next Thursday.\n\nMr Golding, 38, is charged with refusing to comply with a duty under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act.\n\nIn a statement he said he was not a terrorist and described the charges as \"an abuse of legislation\".\n\nSchedule 7 allows police to interrogate, search and detain anyone for up to six hours at UK ports.\n\nIt is designed to determine whether an individual is involved in the \"commission, preparation or instigation\" of acts of terrorism.", "Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling, pictured at London's Hard Rock Hotel in November\n\nLaura Whitmore has criticised a photographer for taking pictures of her in an airport against her will.\n\nOn Thursday, the Love Island host landed in Cape Town, South Africa, where she was greeted by her boyfriend, comedian Iain Stirling.\n\n\"It was the first time I've been with Iain since Caroline [Flack] passed away,\" Whitmore explained on Twitter.\n\nBut a photographer began taking pictures of the pair, despite them telling him they were \"mourning\".\n\n\"We tried to ignore it but he continued to follow us as we got coffee and left the building,\" she said.\n\n\"So I asked him would he stop as he had what he wanted. I said we were mourning a friend and could he allow us space.\"\n\nWhitmore and Stirling were both friends with Flack, who took her own life on Saturday.\n\nWhitmore said the photographer told them: \"Can you give me a reaction. It's a public place and I can take pictures if I want.\"\n\nThe presenter also uploaded a video of the incident, which was filmed by Stirling.\n\nIt is not illegal in South Africa to photograph someone without their permission provided they are in a public space.\n\nCaroline Flack took her own life on Saturday at her home in London\n\n\"I have never courted the paparazzi but understand at work events it comes with the territory,\" she added. \"But this morning was too much. Iain filmed him and he didn't like it.\n\n\"I don't like attacking people but we need to call people out when they do things like this. Iain and I just wanted some privacy.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Whitmore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStirling is Love Island's narrator and is currently based in South Africa while the show is being filmed.\n\nHowever, presenter Whitmore remains based in the UK and flies out to Cape Town any time she is needed for filming. She is due to appear in the final of the current season of Love Island on Sunday.\n\nLast week, Whitmore used her BBC Radio 5 Live show to \"call out\" the paparazzi, following the death of Flack, her predecessor as host of the ITV2 show.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Drake's Island lies 500m off the mainland, in the heart of Plymouth Sound\n\nAn island is reopening for a one-off public tour after more than 30 years of closure.\n\nDrake's Island, located about 500m off the Plymouth coast, is a former fort, prison and adventure centre, but has been closed to the public since 1989.\n\nSome 105 tickets are being offered for the 15 March tour, with funds going to St Luke's Hospice.\n\nNew owner Morgan Phillips plans to open the island fully in the future, with plans for a museum and heritage centre.\n\nThe island has been left largely untouched since an adventure training facility closed in 1989\n\nThe six-acre island is home to a 16th Century barracks, pier and network of underground tunnels.\n\nIts history includes tales of brandy smuggling, a sketch by Queen Victoria and a hoax \"invasion\" by a group of schoolboys in 1957.\n\nMr Phillips said he chose St Luke's as the beneficiary of the tour after witnessing the staff's \"unwavering dedication\" during a recent visit.\n\nThe charity looks after 300 terminally-ill people every day.\n\nThere is a rumour Drake's Island is joined to the mainland by two secret tunnels\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British passengers have begun to leave the cruise ship and were seen travelling by coaches\n\nAn evacuation flight for Britons trapped on a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan has been delayed by a day, the British embassy has said.\n\nThe flight is \"logistically complicated\" and will now leave on Saturday, the embassy says.\n\nIt is thought about 35 UK nationals - who have been quarantined on the liner for 16 days - will be on the flight.\n\nThe group are expected to land in Wiltshire before being quarantined at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral.\n\nA number of Britons began to leave the Diamond Princess around 01:30 local time (16:30 GMT) and were seen travelling away in coaches.\n\nThe Britons on the evacuation flight will have passed screening tests for the virus.\n\nThe Diamond Princess was carrying 78 Britons when it was quarantined in Yokohama.\n\nSome have already been evacuated over the last week on flights to Hong Kong, organised by the authorities there, a government source has told the BBC.\n\nOthers are being treated for the virus in health facilities in Japan.\n\nIt is also understood that some British nationals are members of the ship's crew who could be staying on board the ship.\n\nMore than 620 people on board the Diamond Princess tested positive for the virus\n\nMore than 620 people on board the cruise ship tested positive for the virus, the largest cluster of cases outside China.\n\nTwo Japanese passengers - both in their 80s and with underlying health conditions - were confirmed to have died after contracting the virus on board the ship.\n\nThe cruise liner was carrying 3,700 people, including 78 Britons, when it was quarantined in Yokohama on 5 February, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was found to have the virus.\n\nAt least four UK nationals also contracted the virus on board, but those flying home have tested negative.\n\nOn Wednesday, when the two-week quarantine period on the liner expired, officials allowed passengers who had tested negative for the virus to disembark.\n\nBBC correspondent Laura Bicker says she saw one little girl \"so filled with glee as she pulled her suitcase behind her\".\n\n\"Remember they've been stuck in their cabins for 14 days, only allowed out for a couple of minutes each day. It has been both frustrating and anxious-ridden for many of them.\"\n\nWhile citizens of other countries disembarked, the Foreign Office advised all UK nationals to stay onboard until it organised an evacuation flight for them, warning there could be administrative problems if they left the ship.\n\nTheir flight home is expected to land at Boscombe Down, a Ministry of Defence base in Wiltshire.\n\nThey will then spend 14 days in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital, where two groups of people travelling from China have previously stayed.\n\n\"There is no risk to the public, and the hospital will continue to run as normal,\" the Department of Health said.\n\nOne of the passengers from the ship catching a taxi after being allowed to leave\n\nOne of the British passengers, Alan Sandford, said he and his wife Vanessa were both \"very happy\" about the prospect of returning home to Nottinghamshire after being found not to have contracted the virus.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the last few weeks had been \"a major inconvenience\" but that other passengers had faced \"horrific\" circumstances such as getting ill, being separated from their partners or being trapped inside cabins without windows.\n\nAlan Sandford says he and his wife have their fingers crossed they will be on the evacuation flight to the UK\n\nAnother British passenger, Elaine Spencer, from Sittingbourne, in Kent, said the wait for repatriation had been \"frustrating\", and criticised the Foreign Office's \"slow\" response.\n\n\"My daughter telephoned them many weeks ago asking to find out if they had anything in place, and we were told it was going to be left in the hands of the Japanese health ministry,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said she is \"relieved\" to be returning to her family in the UK, after living in a \"bubble\" on the ship with limited access to news.\n\nBut two of the British passengers who will not be returning on the flight are David and Sally Abel.\n\nMr Abel, who earlier this week revealed he and his wife had tested positive for the virus, posted a picture of himself in a hospital bed in Japan after they were removed from the cruise ship.\n\nDavid Abel and his wife Sally, from Northamptonshire, are being treated in a hospital in Japan\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mr Abel said he and his wife were being treated \"in the best place\".\n\n\"Outside the hospital I came over a bit weird and nearly passed out. Every pore on my body opened and I was wheelchaired to our room.\n\n\"Full health inspection and now we know what's going on. We both contracted a cold (unaware of) and it has not yet turned into pneumonia. (we do have coronavirus).\n\n\"We are both in the best place! They do know what they are doing and our two nurses are gorgeous. Sally likes the Dr too.\"\n\nMr Abel said that following treatment, the couple will need three rounds of all-clears on coronavirus tests.\n\nBritish honeymooner Alan Steele, who was diagnosed with coronavirus on the cruise ship, announced on Facebook that he had left hospital and was in a hotel in Yokohama - ahead of his return to the UK.\n\nMr Steele wrote: \"Informed we will have to do another 2weeks quarantine back in blighty although japan has set me free as all ok.\"\n\nJapan has faced criticism over its handling of the outbreak, with one health expert calling the situation onboard \"completely chaotic\".\n\nThe Foreign Office is advising affected British nationals affected to call the British embassy in Tokyo on +81 3 5211 1100.\n\nMeanwhile, any British passengers on board a cruise ship docked in Cambodia amid fears of an outbreak will not be treated as being at high risk of coronavirus, Public Health England (PHE) has said.\n\nThe MS Westerdam made shore in Sihanoukville on 13 February, after being rejected by five countries because one of its former passengers was found to be carrying the virus.\n\nThe ship was originally carrying 2,257 people - including a reported 100 Britons - with the majority having already disembarked - leaving 255 passengers and 747 crew members on board.\n\nPHE said any of the ship's passengers flying back to the UK will be asked to self-isolate when they return.\n\nThe majority of passengers have disembarked the MS Westerdam Cambodia, pictured here at Preah Sihanouk port last week\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has said it is piloting home-testing for coronavirus, where NHS staff, including nurses and paramedics, visit people in their own homes.\n\nThe pilot, which is aimed at limiting the spread of infection, is being offered in London.\n\nThis will be expanded to other areas outside of the capital in the coming weeks.\n\nAnyone who is concerned they have signs and symptoms of the virus are advised to call NHS 111.\n\nIn China, Covid-19 - the illness brought on by the coronavirus - has now claimed 2,004 lives, according to the latest Chinese data released on Wednesday.\n\nThere have been 74,185 confirmed infections recorded in mainland China and about 700 cases in other countries.\n\nIn the UK, a total of 5,885 people have been tested for the virus, as of Friday 14:00 GMT. Nine people have tested positive.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happening on the Diamond Princess cruise ship? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. About 200 people gathered in the centre of Pontypridd to see Prince Charles\n\nThe Prince of Wales has met flood victims and their rescuers during a visit to south Wales.\n\nStorm Dennis hit more than 1,000 homes and businesses in Rhondda Cynon Taff alone after heavy rain last week.\n\nDamage to council infrastructure alone across this region could cost up to £30m, leader Andrew Morgan said.\n\nMore warnings of heavy rain have been issued for some areas of England and Wales still cleaning up after the last floods.\n\nMet Office yellow weather warnings for heavy and persistent rain - meaning further flooding could occur - are in place for Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday across parts of the UK.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council leader Andrew Morgan (right) said the repair bill is already up to £30m\n\nThe various warnings affect already flooded areas, including south and mid Wales, parts of the north of England and the Midlands.\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the rainfall would likely lead to flood alerts and flood warnings.\n\nMeanwhile, the Environment Agency has warned the deluges are set to continue into next week. A spokesman said \"ongoing river flooding remains probable for the River Severn on Monday and Tuesday\".\n\nMore than a month's worth of rain fell in 48 hours on Saturday and Sunday when Storm Dennis hit Wales, and further heavy rain fell on Thursday.\n\nPrince Charles was in Pontypridd to meet residents and businesses affected by recent floods\n\nIn Pontypridd, Charles visited business owner Emma Jamal who said people's lives had been \"turned upside down\" and the devastation needed to be seen by people such as the Prince.\n\nHer boutique store Kookoo Madame was badly damaged with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of jewellery, clothes and cosmetics, ruined after about 4ft (1.21m) of floodwater filled the premises.\n\n\"It had taken 12 years to get the business to where it was, it's hard to know where to start,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a bit surreal to have his royal highness in our tiny little business in Pontypridd.\n\n\"But he was very down to earth and his visit is good for the town, to highlight the devastation and hopefully get more help.\"\n\nMs Jamal said many independent businesses in the town were now finding out their insurance policies did not cover them for flooding, and the town needed to be safeguarded to stop it being flooded again.\n\n\"Things need to change, no-one can get insurance now, so what do we do next year, what do we do when it happens again?\"\n\nEmma Jamal said cabinets filled with charms and shelves of bath bombs were among the stock ruined by the flood water\n\nCharles also visited Prince's cafe where the bakery in the basement was badly damaged in the flood.\n\nBragdy Twt Lol brewery, also known as the Trefforest Brewery, managed to reopen after volunteers spent days helping with the clean-up after flood water destroyed beer bottles, hops, malt and yeast.\n\nOwner Phil Thomas said while they had stock for the Six Nations and weeks ahead, it was not yet clear when they would be able to start brewing again.\n\n\"We initially thought it was about £10,000 of damage, but we are probably now looking at up to £30,000,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heavy rain caused \"multiple\" floods and landslides, according to South Wales Police\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said seven bridges have been seriously damaged and some could be condemned after foundations were undermined.\n\nMr Morgan added: \"I wouldn't be surprised if the cost rises even higher [than £30m]. We're in the tens of millions of pounds now.\"\n\nMeanwhile contractors have been brought in to stabilise a former coal tip in the Rhondda where a landslide occurred during the heavy rain.\n\nDramatic footage of the landslide at Tylorstown, emerged on social media, and the former tip has been under 24 hour surveillance ever since.\n\nEngineers were also looking to make land safe near Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon following a landslide above the site, Torfaen council said.\n\nMany of businesses on Mill Street have been cleaning up following the flooding\n\nMeanwhile volunteers say they have been overwhelmed by support, with donations of food, clothing, furniture and cleaning products to help.\n\nThe Manic Street Preachers have given £3,000 towards those dealing with the fallout in Pontypridd, where a fundraising page has raised more than £20,000.\n\nOther donations to the page, set up by Pontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, are listed as being from Line Of Duty star Vicky McClure and her partner Jonny Owen, and another under the name of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock.\n\nA day after it was set up another fundraiser, arranged by film star Michael Sheen, has raised more than £30,000.\n\nA major clean up operation has been carried out at Welsh language club Clwb y Bont\n\nCharles also visited the Aston Martin factory in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, where the company launched its first Wales-made car in November.\n\nHe also spent time at the Marie Curie Hospice in Penarth and officially opened a train-making factory in Newport.\n\nAnd he visited Cardiff Airport's British Airways maintenance centre to mark the company's 100th anniversary.\n\nThe Prince added Pontypridd to the previously-planned itinerary following the flooding.", "Safiyya Shaikh told undercover police she wanted to bomb St Paul's Cathedral and a hotel\n\nA supporter of the banned Islamic State terror group has admitted plotting to blow herself up in a bomb attack on St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nMuslim convert Safiyya Shaikh went on a reconnaissance trip to scope out the London landmark and a hotel.\n\nThe 36-year-old, born Michelle Ramsden, was arrested after asking an undercover police officer to supply bombs.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Shaikh, of west London, admitted preparing an act of terrorism and will be sentenced in May.\n\nShe was considered such a threat that MI5 made her the highest-level priority for investigation in the weeks before her arrest, according to Whitehall security sources.\n\nIt meant she was subject to a level of surveillance reserved for only the most dangerous potential attackers.\n\nOver the two months before her arrest in October 2019, Shaikh built up a relationship with two undercover officers who were posing as a husband and wife extremist team.\n\nShe messaged one of them via an encrypted social media app.\n\n\"I want to kill a lot,\" she told the officer. \"I would like to do church... a day like Christmas or Easter good, kill more.\n\n\"I always send threats. But I want to make threats real.\"\n\nShe sent a picture of St Paul's Cathedral to the officer and wrote: \"I would like to do this place for sure.\n\n\"I would like bomb and shoot 'til death... I really would love to destroy that place and the kaffir there.\"\n\nShaikh was caught thanks to a combination of critical pieces of the picture of her extremism that came together over time.\n\nFirst, there was mounting intelligence of her extremist ideology. She stopped going to a mosque because she suspected she would be reported for her views.\n\nSecond, a cyber operation revealed she headed a significant pro-IS social media chat platform that was pumping out propaganda and urging attacks on targets in Europe. Dutch counter-terrorism investigators linked that account to numerous threats in The Netherlands, one of which had led to the evacuation of a church.\n\nIn the first, she was befriended by an \"online role player\" - an officer posing as a fellow extremist to gain more insight into her intentions.\n\nThese operations have become increasingly important in fighting terrorism as officers track extremists in social media and work out which ones will convert their talk into attacks.\n\nOnce Shaikh's intentions were confirmed, a real-world undercover operation had to prove how dangerous she was in the meeting where she explicitly asked for bombs.\n\nJust over a week later Shaikh, of Hayes, visited St Paul's and sent videos to her contact, writing: \"I will to the bomb under the dome.\n\n\"I will also do something in hotel, then church, then kill 'til I'm dead.\"\n\nProsecutors say she gave two bags which she wanted to be fitted with homemade bombs to the female undercover officer.\n\nShaikh worked with Dutch IS supporters who issued a threat against a church in The Netherlands, leading to its evacuation\n\nShaikh converted to Islam in 2007 after being impressed by the kindness of her Muslim neighbours but later became isolated and apparently rejected mainstream Islam.\n\nShe began to court the extremist violent ideology of IS and other jihadist groups and by 2016 Shaikh stopped attending mosques.\n\nShe was also reported to the government's Prevent programme.\n\nIn a police interview Shaikh admitted posting extremist material and plotting a bomb attack, although she said she might not have gone through with it.\n\nIn court she pleaded guilty to the preparation of terrorist acts and dissemination of terrorist publications.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney ordered reports ahead of sentencing on 11 May.\n\nIn November, Neil Basu, head of counter terrorism policing, said the UK's counter terrorism policing team had about 800 live counter-terrorism investigations.\n\nHe said 24 attack plots had been thwarted since the Westminster attack in March 2017.\n\nSafiyya Shaikh planned to bomb \"under the dome\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Royal Mail is increasing the cost of postage, with first-class stamps rising 6p to 76p and second-class up 4p to 65p.\n\nPrices will climb from 23 March, less than a year after they were hiked to their current levels.\n\nThe 65p second-class stamp is the maximum under an Ofcom price cap.\n\n\"These changes are necessary to help ensure the sustainability of the one-price-goes-anywhere Universal Service,\" Royal Mail said.\n\nIt blamed the increases on \"a challenging business environment\".\n\nStephen Agar, managing director of letters at Royal Mail said: \"We are operating in a tough market at present, under the threat of making a loss by 2021. These price increases will help us maintain the quality of service that is expected by our customers,\"\n\nThe likelihood has increased that Royal Mail in the UK will be loss-making in 2020-21, the company said in a statement, adding: \"We want to invest £1.8bn in the UK to turnaround, grow and sustain the Universal Service.\"\n\nIt said it understands that many companies and households are finding it hard in the current economic environment.\n\n\"As a result, we have considered any pricing changes very carefully and in doing so have sought to minimise any impact on our customers.\"\n\nBut the move has angered small businesses. \"When the cost of doing business is already rising across the board, this latest rise in stamp costs for letters and for parcels is just another expense that small businesses will be forced to carry, affecting small firms that rely on Royal Mail as a major part of their business,\" said Federation of Small Businesses national chair Mike Cherry.\n\n\"We should be doing all we can to support small firms to grow and succeed, price hikes like this only prevent that. From next month it will be twice as expensive to post a letter as it was in 2006.\"\n\nCommunications watchdog Ofcom said: \"Royal Mail has the flexibility to set its own prices in order to respond to a rapidly-changing market and safeguard the universal postal service. Ofcom imposed a cap on the price of a Second Class stamp to protect vulnerable consumers, and these price increases are within this safeguard.\n\n\"Royal Mail has assured us that these price changes will be clearly communicated to customers and we will continue to monitor its performance closely, to ensure that the postal market is working well for consumers.\"\n\nMeanwhile consumer experts advised people to stock up on stamps before the price rise, to beat the increase.\n\nGuy Anker, deputy editor of Moneysavingexpert.com said: \"As stamps just say 1st or 2nd on them (Or 1st or 2nd large for the bigger ones) if you buy them now they are valid in perpetuity after.\n\n\"So while it's only pennies, if you're going to send even a big batch of Christmas cards, you may as well stock up now.\"", "Gillian Millane spoke to the court via video-link, saying her daughter \"died terrified and alone\".\n\nGrace Millane was killed while travelling in New Zealand.\n\nA 28-year-old male, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been sentenced to a minimum of 17 years in prison.", "Grace's cousin, Hannah O'Callaghan, spoke to BBC Breakfast about the impact of her death\n\nA cousin of murdered British backpacker Grace Millane has said the sentencing of her killer this week will not bring closure to the family.\n\n\"We've lost Grace,\" said Hannah O'Callaghan. \"The sentence will not change the fact that Grace is gone.\"\n\nMs Millane, from Wickford in Essex, was strangled by a man she met on a dating app in New Zealand in December 2018.\n\nHer family have set up a project in her memory collecting handbags and toiletries for domestic abuse victims.\n\nSo far, more than 1,000 bags have been donated in the UK and there are appeals in New Zealand and North America.\n\nGrace Millane was last seen alive on the eve of her 22nd birthday\n\nGrace's cousin and mum donate the bags to refuges along with a tag reading: \"Love Grace x\"\n\nMs Millane's killer, a 28-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty last year and will be sentenced in Auckland on Friday morning - Thursday evening, UK time.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Breakfast, Ms O'Callaghan was asked whether the family felt as if this week was a big week, or marked a chapter ending.\n\nMs Callaghan said: \"No. Every week is going to be a big week.\n\nThe University of Lincoln graduate loved to travel\n\nShe said the project to help female victims of domestic abuse had been \"incredibly cathartic\" for the family.\n\n\"It's brought us together as a family in a time of grief. We're all talking together, we're remembering Grace, we're talking about day-to-day life.\"\n\nIt had \"absolutely\" helped Grace's mum, she added. \"It's allowed her to express her grief. Sometimes when things like this happen you do feel useless. You can't change it so let's make some positives out of our negative.\"\n\nMs Millane, who died on the night before her 22nd birthday, was described as a \"fun-loving, carefree individual\" by cousin Ms Callaghan.\n\nShe had wanted to travel around the world from the age of 11, and had been selling her own artwork online to fund her trip.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grace Millane’s father David paid tribute to his daughter and said her murder had \"ripped apart\" the family\n\nAnd when asked whether the death raises questions about the safety of dating apps, Ms Callaghan said: \"This could have happened anywhere, anytime.\n\n\"It's not because of a dating app. She went on a date and met the wrong person.\n\n\"People shouldn't change the way they live because of this. It was one individual who did this.\"", "Barclays says it has scrapped a system that tracked the time employees spent at their desks and sent warnings to those spending too long on breaks.\n\nThe bank introduced the computer monitoring system last week, but faced a staff backlash, reported by City AM.\n\nBarclays said axing the tracking system was a response to \"colleague feedback\", but would not say if it was permanent.\n\nThe software, Sapience, claims to create \"unprecedented transparency\" within companies.\n\n\"It also determines when an employee goes offline for periods of time,\" the software firm's website says. A Barclays source said the tool was used to monitor the \"effectiveness\" of people's time at their desks.\n\nBut in addition to sparking unease within the bank, it attracted criticism from privacy campaigners and HR professionals.\n\nSilkie Carlo, director of privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch, said \"intrusive monitoring\" deprived staff of privacy in the workplace.\n\n\"Managers would never get away with breathing down employee's necks, personally monitoring their screens or logging toilet and water breaks,\" she said. \"The availability of technology to [monitor] staff surreptitiously does not make it any more acceptable.\"\n\nShe described the software as \"creepy\" and called on Barclays to \"urgently review\" its use.\n\nBarclays said the software was part of a pilot that was rolled out in part of its investment banking division.\n\nBut after the City AM newspaper revealed details of the scheme and published damning comments from an employee who spoke to the paper anonymously, Barclays said managers would no longer be able to track the activities of individual workers.\n\nIn a statement, the bank said: \"We always intended to listen to colleague feedback as part of this limited pilot which was intended to tackle issues such as individual over-working as well as raise general productivity.\"\n\nBut Edward Houghton, head of research at Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, questioned whether it was ever appropriate to use what he described as a \"Big Brother\" approach to workplace monitoring.\n\n\"Technologies like this may actually cause more harm than good,\" he said. \"They can... create mistrust or low levels of trust for employees - employees can feel like they're being watched and not trusted to do their own work effectively.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the bank has come under fire for using technology to monitor its staff.\n\nIn 2017, Barclays faced widespread criticism after it installed black boxes under the bankers' desks to track how long they were spending at work.\n\nCampaign group Privacy International said: \"Data protection rules are very clear, strict and do not allow employers to carry out such monitoring unless they are able to prove that this is strictly necessary and proportionate and it does not severely impact employees' rights.\n\n\"People are entitled to some fundamental rights even if they are in work,\" it said. \"International banks are no exception.\"\n• None How does it feel to be watched at work all the time?", "Friends, which first aired in 1994, ended in 2004 after 10 series\n\nThe cast of Friends is to reunite for a one-off special, more than 15 years since the show ended.\n\nThe unscripted episode will air on the HBO Max streaming service, launching in May. A date is yet to be announced.\n\nJennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer will all appear.\n\nPerry posted on Instagram: \"It's happening\" with a photo of the cast from the 1990s. The rest of the cast then started sharing the same post.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mattyperry4 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends aired from 1994 until 2004. The final show was watched by 52.5 million viewers in the US, making it the most watched TV episode of the 2000s.\n\nThe show has since picked up legions of younger fans through Netflix.\n\nIt was the UK's favourite streaming show and Netflix's second most popular show in the US in 2018.\n\nRumours of a reunion intensified after Aniston posted a photo of the cast together on Instagram in October.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by jenniferaniston This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHBO Max has now secured rights to the show's back catalogue for $425m (£339m).\n\n\"Guess you could call this the one where they all got back together - we are reuniting with David, Jennifer, Courteney, Matt, Lisa and Matthew for an HBO Max special that will be programmed alongside the entire Friends Library,\" said Kevin Reilly, chief content officer for the channel.\n\nHe said the reunion special will capture the spirit of a time when \"friends - and audiences - gathered together in real time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurgen Klopp on learning English by watching US sitcom Friends\n\nThe cast will be involved in producing the episode.\n\nAccording to Variety, each actor is expected to receive $2.5m (£1.9m) for taking part in the special, which will be available when HBO Max - a new subscription streaming service - launches.\n\nFans of the show reacted with glee to the announced on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah Jenkins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Matt Allwright, Nikki Fox and Steph McGovern have hosted Watchdog from Salford since 2017\n\nThe BBC's long-running consumer rights series Watchdog is to end as a standalone programme, instead becoming part of The One Show.\n\nWatchdog began in 1980 as a strand of Nationwide, but proved so popular it became a separate programme in 1985.\n\nCo-host Steph McGovern has moved to Channel 4, but Matt Allwright and Nikki Fox will stay to front the new strand.\n\nThe BBC said they would investigate viewer complaints all year round rather than for two series a year.\n\nAlice Beer, Jonathan Maitland, Anne Robinson and Chris Choi on Watchdog in 1995\n\nAlison Kirkham, controller of BBC Factual, said Allwright and Fox would \"continue to be the viewers' trusted guide\", and would \"achieve even greater prominence and success\" in raising awareness of consumer rights.\n\nThe One Show editor Rob Unsworth said the change would mean that \"more than ever the team can react on behalf of consumers whenever stories come up\".\n\nHusband and wife John Stapleton and Lynn Faulds Wood are among the past presenters\n\nMore recently, it has been on air for 12 episodes per year. The 42nd and most recent series attracted an average of 3.1 million viewers per episode. Watchdog will be incorporated into The One Show this spring.\n\nThe news comes weeks after the corporation announced that Victoria Derbyshire's investigative BBC Two programme will end as a result of cuts to BBC News.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who was stabbed inside London Central Mosque during afternoon prayers has said he forgives his attacker.\n\nRaafat Maglad, who is in his 70s, was treated in hospital for stab wounds to his neck after the attack on Thursday.\n\nReturning to the mosque near Regent's Park for Friday prayers, he said he did not hate his attacker and felt sorry for him.\n\nA 29-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder remains in police custody.\n\nHe had been apprehended by worshippers who broke from prayer to restrain him before officers arrived.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by LondonCentral Mosque This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Maglad, who is a muezzin at the mosque - someone who calls Muslims to prayer - told the BBC it had \"felt like someone was hitting me with a brick\" when he was stabbed from behind.\n\n\"I just felt blood flowing from my neck and that's it, they rushed me to the hospital. Everything happened all of a sudden,\" he said.\n\nAsked why he had returned to the London Central Mosque so soon after the attack, Mr Maglad said it was \"very important\" for him to attend Friday prayers.\n\n\"If I miss it, I just miss something very important. It is very important for us as Muslims.\"\n\nScotland Yard said they were not treating the attack as terror-related.\n\nSadiq Khan joined worshippers at the mosque for Friday prayers.\n\nPolice were also present and addressing those in attendance, London's mayor urged everyone to remain vigilant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Quaden Bayles (left) has received support from YouTubers and celebrities like Hugh Jackman (right)\n\nPeople around the world have rallied behind a nine-year-old Australian boy after a video of his deep distress over being bullied went viral.\n\nYarraka Bayles posted the clip of her son, Quaden, crying after he was targeted at school for his dwarfism.\n\n\"This is what bullying does,\" she says in the video, in which her son also says he wants to end his life.\n\nThe clip, viewed over 14 million times, has triggered an outpouring of support and #WeStandWithQuaden messages.\n\nCelebrities including actor Hugh Jackman and basketball player Enes Kanter have spoken out, while parents in other countries have shared video messages from their children.\n\nJackman told Quaden \"you are stronger than you know, mate\" and called on everyone to \"be kind\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The family, who are Aboriginal Australian, live in Queensland.\n\n\"I've just picked my son up from school, witnessed a bullying episode, rang the principal, and I want people to know - parents, educators, teachers - this is the effect that bullying has,\" Ms Bayle says as her son sobs.\n\n\"Every single... day, something happens. Another episode, another bullying, another taunt, another name-calling.\n\n\"Can you please educate your children, your families, your friends?\"\n\nThe words #StopBullying were trending on Friday as people described their own experiences and urged Quaden to \"stay strong\".\n\nChildren in different countries have also posted messages of friendship.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jillian Barberie This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS comedian Brad Williams, who has the same dwarfism condition of Achondroplasia, said he had raised more than $130,000 (£100,000) in less than a day to send the family to Disneyland.\n\n\"This isn't just for Quaden, this is for anyone who has been bullied in their lives and told they weren't good enough,\" he wrote on the fundraising page.\n\n\"Let's show Quaden and others, that there is good in the world and they are worthy of it.\"\n\nEric Trump, the son of the US president, described the video as \"absolutely heartbreaking\". Meanwhile basketball star Enes Kanter tweeted \"the world is behind you\" and invited the family to an NBA game.\n\nSports teams in Australia have also rallied behind Quaden, with the indigenous rugby league side inviting him to lead out the team at a match this weekend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by NRL This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues around this story, in Australia you can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. In the UK these organisations may be able to help.", "The property (centre) is one inaccessible room above an alleyway\n\nA town centre property with river frontage and far-reaching views has been snapped for a cool £1 at auction.\n\nAlthough it might seem like a bargain, the drawback is there is no way to get into the 12sq m first-floor space.\n\nHowever, the room, wedged between two properties and suspended over an alleyway in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, appealed to one bidder whose hand shot up when the £1 price tag was announced.\n\nThe guide price of £100+ was dropped to £1 at the last minute.\n\nThe unusual property is in a terrace of old buildings, believed to have been built as granaries or shops in the 16th Century on Nene Quay.\n\nIt is bricked up from both sides and even the auctioneer had not been in to see it.\n\nFenland District Council, which has owned it since 1966, put it up for sale alongside other \"surplus properties\" with Norwich-based auctioneers William H Brown.\n\nYou would currently need a ladder even to look through the front window\n\nThere is no record of anyone ever having used the room and the contents and condition remain a mystery.\n\nWhen it first went on their books, auctions partner Victoria Reek described it as \"certainly one of the weirdest ones we've had at auction\" and admitted it was \"probably just full of cobwebs\".\n\nShe said the vendor instructed the auctioneer to remove the £100 guide price just before the auction opened.\n\n\"So we told bidders the first one to offer £1 could have it - one gentleman put up his hand and it was gone - all done and dusted,\" she said.\n\nIt is not yet known who bought the inaccessible room.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS in England is hiring 10,000 school leavers given training by the Prince's Trust charity.\n\nThe new staff will go some way towards solving the shortage caused by rising demands on the service and falling EU migration.\n\nThe trust's research suggests there is concern among public-sector employers that jobs are becoming harder to fill.\n\nThe new staff will work in non-clinical jobs although some may train as nurses or doctors eventually.\n\n\"There are lots of young people who struggle to access the kinds of careers and opportunities that we offer and the opportunity of this partnership is to reach out to those young people,\" NHS Employers chief executive Danny Mortimer told BBC News.\n\nIn Birmingham, where the NHS is the city's biggest employer, training of the new staff is well under way, with some already in post.\n\nRoisin Brown, 24, has a new job as a health-care assistant on a cancer ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham's biggest.\n\nShe was referred to the Prince's Trust after struggling to find work once she had re-taken her English GCSE at a further education college.\n\nShe said: \"If you want to go into nursing but don't feel like university is something that you want to do or something that you feel like you could possibly do, then try different avenues.\n\n\"I could work and build up to become a nurse eventually.\"\n\nA YouGov poll of 1,000 managers across all sectors, conducted in September 2019 for the Prince's Trust but not yet been published, found 63% of those in the public sector believed there was currently a skills shortage in their area.\n\nPrince's Trust chief executive Dame Martina Milburn said: \"Some employers use recruitment processes that make it hard for them to fill vacancies as well as making it hard for young people to get their first job.\n\n\"It is vital that employers start thinking about recruitment differently.\"\n\nEmployers need to change their recruitment practices to fill jobs, the Prince's Trust says\n\nThe trust also hopes to train young people for the social-care sector, which employers fear suffers because it doesn't carry the same prestige as the NHS.\n\nThe training organisation Skills for Care estimates there is a shortage of 11,500 staff in adult social care in the West Midlands region alone.\n\nJagdeep Khatkar, director of Oakview care home, in the Birmingham suburb of Quinton, has begun to hire younger staff from his home city.\n\nHe said: \"The sector has had a bit of a PR issue in the past.\n\n\"It's important that we now appeal to the younger people in particular and show that there is a real career path for young people to follow.\"", "Some have accused media outlets of using female medical workers as a \"propaganda tool\"\n\nA video featuring a pregnant nurse treating patients in a hospital in the virus epicentre of Wuhan has sparked a backlash across China.\n\nThe video by state media outlet CCTV was meant to portray nine-month pregnant Zhao Yu as a hero.\n\nBut instead social media users criticised the hospital for allowing a heavily pregnant nurse to work in a highly contagious environment.\n\nOne user said the woman was being used as a \"propaganda tool\".\n\nMore than 2,200 people have now died from the coronavirus in China, with the majority of deaths coming out Wuhan, capital of Hubei province.\n\nIn China alone, there have been more than 75,000 cases of infection. The virus has also spread around the globe with more than 1,000 cases and several deaths worldwide.\n\nState media outlet CCTV had last week released a video featuring Zhao Yu, who works in the emergency ward at a military hospital in Wuhan.\n\nThe heavily pregnant Zhao Yu is seen in this video screenshoot\n\nThe video shows her walking around the hospital in a hazmat suit while heavily pregnant. She's seen making the rounds and testing a patient who is later sent to the fever department. The patient is heard telling her not to work as it is \"dangerous\".\n\nZhao Yu acknowledges in the video that her family objects to her continuing to work, but adds that she hopes to do her part in fighting the virus.\n\nBut the video - which was meant to be a touching tribute to her self-sacrifice - touched a nerve, with many accusing the broadcaster of using her story as a form of \"propaganda\".\n\n\"Can we stop all this propaganda? Who made the decision that this video was okay? Pregnant women should not be [on the frontlines], that's it,\" another said.\n\n\"What is this, a show for political purposes? Don't send a woman who is nine months pregnant to do this,\" said one comment.\n\n\"I really think that this message... blindly advocating women to fight on the frontlines regardless of their health... it's really sick,\" one person said.\n\nAnd it's not the only video that has got netizens angry.\n\nAnother video posted this week by state-owned media outlets in Gansu showed several female nurses weeping as they had their heads shaved.\n\nThe video explained that the head-shaving exercise took place so it would be easier for women to wear protective head gear while treating patients.\n\nBut many doubted the logic of this, asking why women couldn't simply have short hair instead of shaving their heads off entirely. Others asked why there weren't videos of men having their heads shaved.\n\nThe hashtag #SeeingFemaleWorkers - calling for people to recognise the contribution of women on their front lines - also started to go viral on Weibo.\n\n\"Professionalism. Faith. Loyalty. Strength. These are all qualities worth being proud of. Women aren't capable and great just because they're shaving off their long hair,\" said one comment.\n\n\"Why does the media always use women's sacrifices as a tool for propaganda? Wouldn't it be equally as admirable for these women to go on the front line with their long hair? For women who are not pregnant to be fighting?\" said one commentary on WeChat.\n\n\"They must be beautiful, a mother, a partner, and then make sacrifices. Only then will they be considered great.\"", "Highland councillors approved the plan for a golf course at Coul Links in 2018\n\nA controversial plan to build an 18-hole championship golf course in the Highlands has been refused planning permission by the Scottish government.\n\nAbout 32 acres of the planned course was proposed for dunes at Coul Links at Embo, near Dornoch.\n\nHighland councillors gave the project the go-ahead last June, before Scottish ministers called in the planning application for further scrutiny.\n\nFollowing a public inquiry, the government has refused permission.\n\nIn their decision, Scottish ministers said the plan would have supported economic growth and rural development.\n\nBut they agreed with government-appointed planning officials' findings that the golf course would have \"significant\" effects on rare plantlife, wintering and breeding birds and the the dunes themselves.\n\nThe government said the \"likely detriment to natural heritage is not outweighed by the socio-economic benefits of the proposal\".\n\nPlanning Minister Kevin Stewart said: \"This proposal does not comply with the relevant provisions of the Highland Wide Local Development Plan, and runs contrary to Scottish Planning Policy's emphasis on protecting natural heritage sites and world class environmental assets.\n\n\"The Scottish government has considered the reporter's findings carefully and agree with the recommendation that planning permission should be refused.\"\n\nThe plan also included a clubhouse and the renovation of existing buildings to form a maintenance facility, along with a pro shop, caddy hut, workshop, administration building and information booth.\n\nThe developers behind the project argued that the golf course would improve and protect the area of land involved, and bring much-needed jobs to the area.\n\nThe Scottish government said the potential harm to natural heritage out-weighed the socio-economic benefits\n\nA group of conservation charities opposed to the project, including RSPB Scotland, Butterfly Conservation Scotland and the Scottish Wildlife Trust.\n\nAnne McCall, director at RSPB Scotland, said: \"I am incredibly grateful to everyone who stood up against this application over the past few years - it's been a huge partnership effort and inspiring to see how many people raised their voice in support of this amazing place.\"\n\nThe Scottish Wildlife Trust said \"difficult decisions\" were necessary to address the \"urgent crisis facing nature\".\n\nRamblers Scotland has also welcomed the government's decision.\n\nDirector Brendan Paddy said: \"The decision sends out a clear signal that Scotland's finest landscapes, habitats and beauty spots aren't simply up for sale to the highest bidder.\"", "Daragh Curley wrote the letter to Jurgen Klopp as part of a school project\n\nA young Manchester United fan who made a bid to stop Liverpool winning the title has been left shocked after Jurgen Klopp sent him a personal reply.\n\nDaragh Curley, from County Donegal, wrote to the Liverpool boss for a school assignment.\n\nThe 10-year-old asked if it would be possible for Liverpool to lose some games so they would not win the league.\n\nKlopp said the letter had been \"cheeky\" and he had written the response privately.\n\n\"I cannot answer all the letters, I get a lot,\" said Klopp, speaking at a press conference on Friday.\n\n\"But it was nice, it was cheeky. We had time that day so I read the letter and I replied.\n\n\"It's a private thing, I get a letter, I respond and the next day it's in a newspaper - I don't like that too much but it's all fine.\n\n\"I like working for Liverpool and I like the rivalry we have,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But I love even more if we can keep that (rivalry) on the pitch. But apart from that they can be happy and we should be happy and I hope Daragh is now happy - he looked like it on the picture I saw later, so good.\"\n\nIn the letter, Klopp praised Daragh's passion, but explaining Liverpool could not drop points on his behalf.\n\nDaragh's dad Gordon told BBC News NI that while most of his classmates were writing fan letters, Daragh instead decided to write a letter of complaint to the Liverpool boss.\n\nIn the letter, the Glenswilly National School pupil wrote: \"Liverpool are winning too many games. If you win nine more games then you have the best unbeaten run in English football. Being a United fan that is very sad.\n\n\"So the next time Liverpool play, please make them lose. You should just let the other team score. I hope I have convinced you to not win the league or any other match ever again.\"\n\nMr Curley said he was shocked when a reply came.\n\n\"My wife Tricia was up in the local post office/shop and she was told that there was a registered letter there for Daragh Curley,\" he said.\n\n\"She was wondering who would be sending Daragh a registered letter, but when she mentioned it to Daragh he said 'oh it's Jurgen Klopp'.\n\n\"And it actually was Jurgen Klopp.\"\n\nKlopp's Liverpool are on course to win the Premier League and have not lost a league fixture so far this season.\n\nIn his letter to Daragh, he said: \"Unfortunately, on this occasion I cannot grant your request, not through choice anyway.\n\n\"As much as you want Liverpool to lose it is my job to do everything that I can to help Liverpool to win as there are millions of people around the world who want that to happen, so I really do not want to let them down.\"\n\nJurgen Klopp's Liverpool are on course to win the Premier League\n\n\"Luckily for you, we have lost games in the past and we will lose games in the future because that is football.\n\n\"The problem is when you are 10 years old you think that things will always be as they are now but if there is one thing I can tell you as 52 years old it is that this most definitely isn't the case.\"\n\nHe added that Manchester United were lucky to have Daragh as a fan and praised his passion for football and for his club.\n\nMr Curley said that Klopp \"seems to be an awful, awful decent individual\".\n\n\"I would be a Man Utd fan myself, it's grating that Liverpool are doing so well, but behind it all you have to respect Klopp and what he's done,\" Mr Curley said.\n\n\"He came across as a nice guy all along, I suppose this letter really confirms to me that he is a decent, decent guy.\n\n\"What I love about the letter is that it's about sportsmanship and respect too and I think saying that to a 10-year-old is great.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Curley said his admiration for Klopp would not cause either himself or Daragh to switch their allegiances.\n\n\"There's reinforcement techniques ongoing just to ensure that there's no swaying from the Man Utd mandate,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nGloucester fly-half Danny Cipriani has released an emotional video tribute to ex-girlfriend Caroline Flack, saying \"it's OK to be vulnerable\".\n\nFormer Love Island host Flack, 40, was found dead at her home in London on Saturday after taking her own life.\n\nCipriani said he was speaking out about his own mental health issues in the hope her \"life will not go in vain\".\n\nDuring the 18-minute clip on Instagram , the 32-year-old admits he tried to buy a gun to end his life 10 years ago.\n\n\"I couldn't do it because I had some fight in me,\" a tearful Cipriani said.\n\nThe England international said he had been speaking to Flack over the past \"three or four months\" and she had been dealing with negative media attention \"for 20 years\".\n\nFlack was due to stand trial next month after being charged with assaulting her partner in December.\n\n\"Embarrassment and shame is not something that should make you do this,\" said Cipriani.\n\n\"I've worried my whole life what people say about me. I don't care any more. I know who I am.\"\n\nCipriani, who played in Gloucester's Premiership defeat by Exeter last Friday, said he had shared \"everything\" with the television presenter.\n\nGloucester had already announced their next home match - against Sale Sharks on 28 February - would be used to raise awareness of mental health issues.\n\nFollowing the news of Flack's death, Cipriani said he had missed a phone call from her.\n\n\"I have to see the meaning in why she decided to call me in her last moments, when she was with her two best friends,\" he said in Friday's video.\n\n\"How much love and trust did she have for me because we had been vulnerable and shared together? She felt it was a safe space so I thank her for that because I felt safe with her.\"\n\nHe had also previously posted on Twitter his criticism of sections of the media - accusing them of lying, and saying Flack - who he dated last year - had been \"bullied\".\n\nIn his latest post, he said: \"We can't just blame the media, we can't blame ourselves, but we can change what's happening.\"\n\nHe said Flack's death meant he could \"see clearly now\" and was \"strong enough to share my moments of vulnerability\".\n\n\"I am just asking that we are kind and if you have vulnerable moments, and you have people you care about and close to you, you should share it with them,\" he added.\n\nAt the end of the video, Cipriani thanks people for \"being kind\" to Flack's family and friends.\n\n\"Continue being kind,\" he said. \"Don't make it take for an artist to die before you buy his painting. If it's great, buy it.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by mental health issues, help and support is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline", "The National Trust has said this year's Easter egg hunts will be the last with Cadbury as it seeks to focus on \"nature and the outdoors\".\n\nAnnual egg hunts have taken place for 13 years, but the trust said it wanted to make chocolate \"less of a focus\".\n\nHealth campaigners said they \"applaud\" the trust for ending the \"unhealthy association\" with sugary food.\n\nCadbury said they had come to a mutual decision to end the \"wonderful\" partnership.\n\nThe move will affect hundreds of trails through the grounds of National Trust properties across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from 2021.\n\nThe trust said: \"Now is the time for change as we look to increase our emphasis on nature and the outdoors.\n\n\"To reflect that in our Easter activities, from next year we will be making chocolate less of a focus.\"\n\nCadbury said \"the time is right for both sides to move on\". But the company said it would continue to \"look for ways to bring Easter trails to more families across the UK\".\n\nBarbara Crowther at the Children's Food Campaign said she was \"really pleased\" that the National Trust was moving its Easter activities away from chocolate.\n\n\"We can imagine so many healthy, fun and active ways for children to explore National Trust properties at Easter that don't involve lots of sugary treats,\" she said.\n\n\"Children are growing up in a marketing environment that constantly nudges them towards snacks and treats, so we applaud the National Trust in recognising it is the right time to end the unhealthy association with chocolate.\"\n\nThe Easter egg hunts have proved controversial in the past, with former Prime Minister Theresa May and the Archbishop of York intervening in 2017 to criticise the apparent absence of the word \"Easter\" from the event marketing.\n\nBoth Cadbury and the National Trust said Easter was explicitly mentioned dozens of times.\n\nAnd in 2018, the chocolate manufacturer's partnership with the National Trust for Scotland was deemed to have broken advertising rules over marketing junk food to children.", "Rush Limbaugh said he would not present his show while he receives treatment\n\nProminent conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has revealed he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.\n\nThe 69 year old, an influential political commentator in the US, made the surprise announcement during his radio show on Monday.\n\nMr Limbaugh said the diagnosis was confirmed on 20 January after he had suffered from shortness of breath.\n\nThe veteran broadcaster said he would not present his show while he receives treatment.\n\nMr Limbaugh told his audience he hoped to be back hosting his long-time programme, The Rush Limbaugh Show, later in the week.\n\n\"I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn't have to tell you,\" Mr Limbaugh told his listeners at the end of the show.\n\n\"It's a struggle for me because I had to inform my staff earlier today. I can't help but feel that I'm letting everybody down with this. The upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.\"\n\nThe radio personality's producer commented on the announcement in an emotional tweet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bo Snerdley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Limbaugh's show, which first aired 31 years ago, attracts around 27 million listeners each week. A self-described conservative, Mr Limbaugh has drawn support from US President Donald Trump and other Republican Party figures.\n\nOn his show, he has been known to lambast Democrats and strongly opposed Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election.\n\nLast month, the host had signed a new long-term contract with Premiere Radio Networks, the company that syndicates his show.\n\n\"Rush is both a colleague and a dear friend, and I know he will handle the situation with courage and grace,\" said Rich Bressler, the president of Premiere's parent company, iHeartMedia. \"I know millions of people nationwide join me and all of iHeart in wishing him a full recovery.\"\n\nMr Limbaugh has been consistently supportive of Donald Trump\n\nPresident Trump announced Mr Limbaugh's new deal with Premier at a rally in Miami.\n\n\"We have great people. Rush just signed another four-year contract,\" Mr Trump said. \"He just wants four more years, OK?\"", "A man has been shot by armed officers in a \"terrorist-related\" incident in Streatham High Road, south London, according to the Met Police.\n\nIt is believed that two other people were injured in the incident at Streatham High Road, police said.\n\nThis footage was filmed by a witness in the moments after armed police shot the man.", "Lyra McKee was observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate when she was shot\n\nThe Police Ombudsman is investigating a complaint from the family of journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nMs McKee, 29, died after she was shot in April 2019 while observing a riot in Londonderry's Creggan estate.\n\nThe complaint from Ms McKee's family relates to aspects of the policing operation which took place in Derry on the night of her death.\n\nIt is understood the complaint relates to the decision of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to search a house in Creggan on 18 April 2019.\n\nNothing was found in the search and while it was happening, rioting broke out during which Lyra McKee was shot dead.\n\nIn a statement, the McKee family said: \"Whilst we hold Lyra's killer and their associates completely responsible for her murder, we have asked the police ombudsman to investigate the aspects of the policing operation on 18 April 2019.\n\n\"The police ombudsman investigation is completely separate to the ongoing murder investigation. We consider this a very personal family matter and have no further comment.\"\n\nThe New IRA is believed to have been formed between 2011 and 2012.\n\nIt followed the merger of a number of smaller groups, including the Real IRA, which itself was born out of a split in the mainstream Provisional IRA (PIRA) in October 1997 over Sinn Féin's embrace of the peace process.\n\nDetails of the complaint emerged as the police say they know who killed Lyra Mckee, but can't give an undertaking that her killer will be brought before the courts because of difficulties gathering evidence.\n\nPSNI Det Ch Supt Raymond Murray acknowledged the complaint had been made but defended police actions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In relation to the Lyra McKee murder, Det Ch Supt Murray revealed police know the identity of her killer\n\n\"The ombudsman will conduct their investigation and it will come to its own conclusion.\n\n\"What I will say is that the officers acted in good faith with the information at the time. That is all we can do,\" he said.\n\nLocals say the search provoked a riot, during which Lyra McKee was shot by a dissident IRA gunman firing at police lines.\n\nIn a separate development, SDLP MLA and policing board member Dolores Kelly accused the PSNI of failing the people of Northern Ireland.\n\nShe has criticised the PSNI for not catching dissident republican killers in the high profile murders of Lyra McKee and Jim Donegan, 43, who was shot in west Belfast in December 2018.\n\n\"I think the biggest test in terms of adequacy of the police response lies in the conviction of the people responsible and to date, unfortunately, in both cases, no one has yet been brought before the courts, either directly charged with the murder or assisting those responsible.\n\n\"I think not only will people be disappointed but they will be angry that that no one has been charged.\"\n\nBut Det Ch Supt Murray defended the police response to the murders of Ms McKee and Mr Donegan.\n\n\"Those investigations are very far from over and so I do feel in all honesty that these remarks potentially are premature.\n\n\"These investigations still have quite a considerable way to travel. Dissident republican murders are extremely difficult. I will go so far as to say we operate in one of the most challenging investigative environments in Europe.\"\n\nIn relation to the Lyra McKee murder, Det Ch Supt Murray revealed police know the identity of her killer.\n\n\"We certainly believe that we do know who pulled the trigger and who murdered Lyra McKee on that horrendous night in Creggan.\n\n\"I think it would be a failure of policing if we did not do everything in our power to bring people before the courts. We have to find the evidence.\n\n\"We have to try to get the evidence. It is incredibly difficult.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked if he was convinced that someone will be brought before the courts and charged with Ms McKee's murder, he said: \"Those are not undertakings I give families. I don't think it is fair.\n\n\"I think it raises expectations unnecessarily. What I will say is I am convinced my officers will do everything we reasonably can to bring people to the courts. \"\n\nThe Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland confirmed it has begun an investigation of a complaint it received about aspects of policing in Derry on 18 April, the day Ms McKee was shot dead.\n\nA spokesperson for the ombudsman said it will \"look at aspects of the policing operation in the Creggan area of the city that day\".\n\nIt is understood this includes examining why police decided to raid a house in Creggan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lyra McKee was shot during rioting in Derry\n\nEamonn McCann, a councillor for Derry City and Strabane District, also raised questions about the police operation in Derry that night.\n\nHe said: \"People find it very difficult to understand why there was such a large force of policemen and armoured vehicles in the area that night. And to say that is not for a moment to excuse the sheer madness and the disregard for other people's lives involved in the actions of the New IRA.\"\n\nCommenting on the search operation, Det Ch Insp Murray said: \"The officers who commissioned the search, I fully support them in commissioning the search based on the information that they had at the time. They acted in good faith to keep people safe.\n\n\"The reason for the murder of Lyra Mckee lies with the New IRA, their apologists , the man who pulled the trigger and those who assisted him that night.\"\n\nIn relation to Ms McKee and Mr Donegan's murders, the PSNI said police had \"pursued\" over 3,000 investigative actions, arrested over 30 people, and searched over 40 premises.\n\nSo far no one has been charged with either murder.", "Sainsbury's Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds and Barclays are among major High Street banks still unable to offer online currency services.\n\nThe problem stems from provider Travelex, which is still working to bring back services more than a month after it suffered a major cyber attack.\n\nCustomers are able to buy in branches, but cannot order money online or over the phone.\n\nIt is understood the currency firm aims to start restoring services this week.\n\nTravelex had to take down its website after the hack was discovered on New Year's Eve.\n\nA gang called Sodinokibi claimed to have accessed reams of sensitive customer data and demanded that it pay a $6m (£4.6m) ransom to retrieve it.\n\nCashiers resorted to using pen and paper to keep money moving at bureau de changes in airports and on high streets but orders online were suspended.\n\nMeanwhile, banks reported that their supply of notes from Travelex had dried up and were forced to apologise to customers.\n\nLenders that use Travelex also include Virgin Money and HSBC.\n\nOn Monday, RBS confirmed it was still not offering foreign currency services online but declined to comment on when its services would be restored.\n\nA spokeswoman for Sainsbury's Bank said: \"We're continuing to work closely with Travelex in order to resume our online money ordering service soon.\"\n\nTravelex, which declined to comment, has said there is no evidence customer data was been compromised by the cyber attack.", "Species like the Red Admiral have been unsettled by warmer winters\n\nWarmer winters and increasingly erratic weather is causing confusion among Britain's wildlife, putting some at risk, the Woodland Trust has warned.\n\nThe trust said that \"lost\" winters are causing species such as butterflies and blackbirds to nest earlier than normal.\n\nAn analysis of 50 spring events found that all but one was early in 2019.\n\nThe data comes from the annual Nature Calendar, which asks members of the public to record the signs of changing seasons.\n\nThe Woodland Trust, which runs the calendar, warned that many species are beginning to lose their seasonal cues as winters warm and the distinction between seasons blurs. The news comes amidst a large increase in global temperatures over the past decade.\n\nThe latest data found that seasonal shifts have caused some birds to start breeding too late, meaning they cannot make the most of vital food sources. Meanwhile, other animals have been leaving hibernation too soon, only to be hit by plunging temperatures and erratic weather conditions, the charity said.\n\nBlackbirds have been spotted nesting earlier than usual\n\nLorienne Whittle, Nature's Calendar citizen science officer at the Woodland Trust, stressed the danger of shifting seasons on the habitats of Britain's wildlife: \"It seems that last year we almost lost winter as a season - it was much milder and our data shows wildlife is responding, potentially putting many at risk.\"\n\n\"Our records are showing random events such as frogspawn arriving far earlier than expected, possibly to be wiped out when a late cold snap occurs.\"\n\nShe noted that some species and plants have dealt well with the blurring seasons. \"It appears that some species are able to adapt to the advancing spring better than others. Oak trees respond by producing their first leaves earlier and caterpillars seem to be keeping pace.\"\n\n\"But blue tits, great tits and pied flycatchers are struggling to react in time for their chicks to take advantage of the peak amount of caterpillars, the food source on which they depend.\"\n\nAmong the surprising sightings recorded by the trust were two reports of peacock butterflies on the wing in Kent and Cornwall in December, while a red admiral was spotted in the Channel Islands. The butterflies were thought to have been woken early due to the mild weather in the south of England.\n\nPeacock butterflies have been seen in Kent in December\n\nIn other parts of the UK, active newts were recorded in Cheshire in December and a blackbird was spotted building a nest at the beginning of January.\n\nThe breeding season for blackbirds usually begins in March and usually lasts until July, while great crested newts spend winter hibernating underground and are usually seen from March. They breed in ponds during the spring and spend the majority of the year in woodlands, hedgerows, marshes and grassland.\n• None Last decade 'on course' to be warmest\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cities in parts of Europe have been suffering from some of the worst air quality in the world.\n\nWinter smog has become a big issue in the Western Balkans.\n\nSerbia is the country with the highest rate of pollution-related deaths in Europe, according to the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution.\n\nJasna Cizler is a cycling campaigner in the capital Belgrade, who believes two-wheeled transport holds the key to cleaner air.", "The UN says the situation in the Horn of Africa is the worst in 25 years\n\nSomalia has declared a national emergency as large swarms of locusts spread across east Africa.\n\nThe country's Ministry of Agriculture said the insects, which consume large amounts of vegetation, posed \"a major threat to Somalia's fragile food security situation\".\n\nThere are fears that the situation may not be brought under control before the harvest begins in April.\n\nThe UN says the swarms are the largest in Somalia and Ethiopia in 25 years.\n\nMeanwhile, neighbouring Kenya has not seen a locust threat as severe in 70 years, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).\n\nHowever, Somalia is the first country in the region to declare an emergency over the infestation.\n\nSomalia's unstable security situation means that planes cannot be used to spray insecticide from the air.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn January, the FAO called for international help in fighting the swarms in the Horn of Africa, warning that locust numbers across the region could grow 500 times by June.\n\nThe swarms spread into east Africa from Yemen across the Red Sea, after heavy rainfall in late 2019 created ideal conditions for the insects to flourish.\n\nLocusts can travel up to 150km (93 miles) in a day. Each adult insect can eat its own weight in food daily.\n\nIn December, a locust swarm forced a passenger plane off course in Ethiopia. Insects smashed into the engines, windshield and nose, but the aircraft was able to land safely in the capital, Addis Ababa.", "Live coverage from Washington DC, as President Donald Trump's impeachment trial continues in the Senate.\n\nThe impeachment is in its final stages as senators prepare to cast their final vote on Wednesday, with acquittal almost certain.", "Albert Evans' granddaughter said it had taken a lot of persuasion to get him to accept the medal\n\nA D-Day veteran has been awarded France's highest honour, the Legion d'Honneur.\n\nAlbert Evans, 98, from Leicestershire, landed at Pegasus Bridge in a Horsa glider in 1944 as part of the 6th Airborne Division.\n\nRemembering the war, he said: \"All your mates who were standing by your side one minute were gone the next.\"\n\nHis granddaughter, Lisa Meakin, said it had taken a lot of persuasion to get him to accept the medal.\n\nShe said: \"He has always said 'I am not a hero. The heroes didn't come back'.\"\n\nThe World War Two veteran was saluted by the Royal British Legion and the Parachute Association at a ceremony to honour his bravery.\n\nMs Meakin said her grandfather was accepting the medal on behalf of those who lost their lives in the war\n\nMr Evans received the Legion D'Honneur at his care home in Loughborough from the French vice consul.\n\nHe said his thoughts would always be with those whose did not return from World War Two.\n\n\"One minute we were blown up and the next minute you've lost your mates.\n\n\"They're gone and I'm here. It just doesn't add up to me.\n\n\"A lot of them were laid at your side. It was horrific,\" he said.\n\nMs Meakin said: \"As a family, we are immensely proud of him. It has taken a lot of persuasion to get him to accept this medal.\n\n\"It's been over several years, lots of different people asking him.\n\n\"The persuasion was 'well if that's how you really feel, accept it on their behalf'.\"\n\nMs Meakin said their family were \"extremely proud\" of their grandfather\n\nShe added it was \"very hard to hear\" about her grandfather's time in the war.\n\n\"It makes you feel quite emotional that that's what he and many others went through, and that's what they did to liberate France and ultimately the rest of Europe,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new coronavirus \"will be with us for at least some months to come\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told the House of Commons that the number of new cases worldwide was \"doubling every five days\" and dealing with it was \"a marathon, not a sprint\".\n\nA second evacuation flight for British nationals arrived back in the UK on Sunday from Wuhan in China.\n\nOne of the 11 passengers was taken to hospital for tests after feeling unwell, but later said he felt \"fine\".\n\nThere have so far been more than 17,000 confirmed cases of the virus in China. Some 361 people have died there.\n\nOutside China, there are more than 150 confirmed cases of the virus - and one death, in the Philippines.\n\nThere have been two confirmed cases of the virus in the UK, where two Chinese nationals - a University of York student and one of their relatives - are being treated in the specialist infectious diseases unit at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary.\n\nThe UK authorities have so far overseen two evacuation flights of UK nationals from China.\n\nThe first group arrived in the UK on Friday and are spending two weeks in quarantine in two apartment blocks normally used to house nurses.\n\nThe second group landed at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, on Sunday evening, after returning from Wuhan - the centre of the outbreak - via Marseille, in France.\n\nPassenger Anthony May-Smith, who was on the second flight, told Sky News he was put into isolation after landing because of a cough and sore throat and was waiting for test results to come back on Tuesday.\n\nHe added: \"I feel fine now, I think it's probably the stress of getting back and being run down more than anything.\"\n\nMr May-Smith is being looked after in Oxford, while the other 10 passengers were taken to Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, joining 83 other people evacuated last week.\n\nA Wirral Council statement said: \"None of the other new arrivals have shown any symptoms, but as a precautionary measure they were allocated rooms in a separate area of the facility, isolated from those already there.\"\n\nThe virus can cause severe acute respiratory infection and symptoms seem to start with a fever, followed by a dry cough.\n\nA British man living in Wuhan has told how he recovered from the virus and plans to stay in the Chinese city.\n\nTeacher Connor Reed, 25, from Llandudno in north Wales, contracted the virus last December but initially thought it was a cold.\n\n\"It sounded like I was breathing through a paper bag. And it was at that point that I thought, OK this is serious,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\n\"I went to the hospital and they did a whole manner of tests over the course of two days.\n\n\"Once the results came back they said, 'yes you've got an infection and you should go home and rest'. And they gave me a Ventolin inhaler which worked really, really well.\"\n\nMr Reed said he planned to stay in Wuhan despite agreeing that it looked like a ghost town\n\n\"I consciously decided to stay just because I think it's the right thing to do,\" he added.\n\nMr Hancock told the Commons that analysis from Public Health England of the two cases in the UK suggested the virus had not evolved in the last month.\n\nHe said that if the situation in the UK was to get \"much more serious\", there were 50 \"highly specialist beds\" available and a further 500 beds available for isolation.\n\nThe Department of Health said that as of Monday afternoon a total of 324 people had tested negative from 326 tests in the UK.\n\nThe British embassy in Beijing tweeted on Monday that it was working hard to get seats for British nationals on a number of new flights this week out of Hubei province, where the virus originated.\n\nThe statement said they \"may be the last flights for foreign nationals out of Hubei\" and urged any British nationals to get in touch if they wanted to travel.\n\nMr Hancock said there were no plans to evacuate all remaining UK nationals in China.\n\n\"There's an estimated 30,000 UK nationals in China, and the proportion of the population who have the virus outside of Wuhan is much lower than in Wuhan itself.\"\n\nHe added that the government had launched a public information campaign setting out how members of the public can help by \"taking simple steps to minimise the risk to themselves and their families\".\n\n\"Washing hands, using tissues when you sneeze, just as you would with flu.\"\n\nAnd, asked if face masks work, Mr Hancock said: \"There are circumstances in which they work, but we are not recommending them for people generally to wear.\n\n\"But, of course, it's a free country.\"\n\nLast week, the risk level to the UK was raised from low to moderate as the World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency.\n\nBut health professionals say the risk to individuals getting the illness in the UK remains \"low\".\n\nThe UK government has donated £20m towards a plan to produce a vaccine to combat the virus.\n\nThe money will go to CEPI - the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations - a global body aiming to fast-track a vaccine within six to eight months.\n\nMeanwhile, China's top leadership has admitted \"shortcomings and deficiencies\" in the country's response to the deadly outbreak.", "Last updated on .From the section American football\n\nPatrick Mahomes produced a staggering fourth-quarter performance to guide the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl win in 50 years as they came from 10 points behind to stun the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 in Miami.\n\nQuarterback Mahomes, 24, had endured a difficult evening under the pounding pressure of the 49ers and looked set to miss out on the big prize.\n\nBut then, with his side 20-10 down heading into the fourth quarter, last year's MVP found two superb throws on third down to continue a season of comebacks as the Chiefs scored 21 unanswered points in four minutes and 57 seconds to take home the Vince Lombardi Trophy.\n\nDamien Williams' second touchdown of the final quarter put the gloss on the scoreline as the Chiefs capped their wonderful late rally before celebrating a famous win in emotional scenes.\n\n\"We never lost faith. Everybody on this team, no one had their head down and we found a way to win in the end,\" Mahomes, who was named Most Valuable Player, said in a TV interview as his team-mates celebrated under a cloud of confetti.\n\n\"The defence got some big stops for us and we found a way to win. Coach [Andy] Reid told me 'keep firing, keep believing' and he gave me a lot of confidence to go out there no matter what.\n\n\"The 49ers have an amazing defence, one of the best defences I've played against so far and I'm just glad our guys kept fighting. This team has heart, coach pushes us to be the best we can be. We did it baby!\"\n• None Super Bowl 54 - relive a sensational final quarter and the best reaction\n\nFrom good to great? Mahomes' 15 minutes of madness\n\nThroughout a forensic week of pre-match questioning, Mahomes had found himself under scrutiny like never before. After another season of brilliance, including no-look passes and a touchdown pass with his left hand, he found himself in the bizarre position of being compared with some of the all-time greats of the game while also being asked if he may choke on the biggest stage.\n\nAfter three quarters of an excellent game those questions seemed reasonable enough - despite the superstar quarterback running in the game's opening score.\n\nMahomes only threw five interceptions in the whole of the regular season but coughed up two in back-to-back drives as the incessant pressure from the 49ers defence took its toll and the team from the west coast looked set for a record-equalling sixth win.\n\nThe Chiefs were up against it, 20-10 down, but found resilience in the form of their star man and the fact that they had already won twice on this post-season run after being at least 10 behind.\n\nAt third & 15 on their own 35-yard line, Mahomes evaded a tackle and launched a 44-yard bomb downfield to find Tyreek Hill and start the ball rolling.\n\nThat turned into a touchdown for Travis Kelce - after another huge throw on third down from Mahomes - to cut the deficit to three.\n\nAfter the 49ers were shut out in response, Mahomes found Williams for a score which had to be reviewed, but was given to put the Chiefs ahead.\n\nWilliams then sprinted in for a second to cap a memorable win, as the 49ers crumbled.\n\nRichard Nixon was in the White House, Diana Ross was still in the Supremes and Paul McCartney hadn't quit the Beatles last time the Chiefs won the Super Bowl.\n\nAnd McCartney was among the galaxy of stars in the house to see that run come to an end in Miami on a superb Sunday night.\n\nThe 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was a ballboy at this very stadium when San Francisco won their fifth Super Bowl trophy back in 1995.\n\nHis father Mike was on the coaching staff, and went on to win two Super Bowls as a head coach with the Denver Broncos.\n\nHis son seemed set to join him after a fine defensive display and a neat performance at quarterback from Jimmy Garoppolo.\n\nTouchdowns from Kyle Juszczyk and Raheem Mostert looked like sending the 49ers home with the trophy once again, but Mahomes' MVP-winning final 15 minutes knocked the stuffing out of them.\n\nIt was to be big night deja vu for Shanahan, who was offensive co-ordinator at Super Bowl 51 when his Atlanta Falcons blew a 28-3 lead to lose to Tom Brady's New England Patriots.\n\n\"It was a tough loss and it hurts everybody in that room,\" said Shanahan. \"We had opportunities to win and came up short. They were better than us, we can deal with that but we're obviously disappointed.\n\n\"I felt real good at 10-10 at half time, especially with us having the ball for the start of the second half.\n\n\"Kansas can score very fast, they are hot and cold, that's how that team is.\n\n\"They're just hurting, the guys put it all out there. Guys put their heart into the season and came up one game short.\"\n\nThis was a Super Bowl that delivered during half-time as well.\n\nAfter last year's Maroon 5 performance failed to inspire, the organisers had turned to Shakira and Jennifer Lopez to deliver an all-female co-headline show.\n\nThe pair had promised more songs than ever before during their 12 minutes in the spotlight, and rattled through around 20 hits between them.\n\nThe show also incorporated a tribute to basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who died alongside his daughter and seven others in a helicopter crash last weekend.\n\nAs Lopez's daughter performed the opening bars of Let's Get Loud, a giant cross illuminated the field of Miami's Hard Rock stadium in yellow and purple, the colours of Bryant's team, the Los Angeles Lakers.\n\nThe Chiefs' win by the numbers\n• None Nearly 50 years to the date of their last Super Bowl appearance (11 January 1970, Super Bowl 4), Chiefs have their first world championship in five decades.\n• None Coach Andy Reid has won his first Super Bowl. Reid has 222 career wins, including post-season. Only five coaches in the history of the league have more victories, including the post-season\n• None Mahomes is the second-youngest quarterback ever to win a Super Bowl after Ben Roethlisberger in Super Bowl 40\n• None The 49ers won the toin coss in Miami - the last five teams to win the coin toss have lost the Super Bowl\n• None Mahomes is the third quarterback to win Super Bowl MVP despite throwing multiple interceptions, joining Terry Bradshaw (three INTs in Super Bowl XIV) and Tom Brady (two in Super Bowl XLIX).", "Google's parent company has published details of its YouTube and cloud business for the first time, as the firm's advertising business continues to slow.\n\nYouTube's ad sales in the last three months of 2019 rose 31% year-on-year to $4.7bn (£3.62bn), Alphabet said.\n\nOverall Alphabet revenue increased by 17% year-on-year to $46bn - the slowest rate in more than two years.\n\nFor years the business did not publish revenue figures for its various divisions, to the concern of investors and regulators.\n\nWhen Sundar Pichai took over as Alphabet chief executive last year the policy changed, although it is still not releasing profit figures for individual units.\n\nAlphabet said it earned $2.6bn in cloud revenue for the most recent quarter - compared to almost $10bn at Amazon. However it is fast-growing, rising more than 50% year-on-year.\n\nAlphabet and others make money in cloud computing by charging companies to host their data remotely, rather than firms maintaining their own servers.\n\nAlphabet shares fell more than 4% in after-hours trade.\n\nAlthough growth missed analyst forecasts, Alphabet's business remains strong, said Nicholas Hyett, equity analyst at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"It's always important to put these sorts of misses into perspective,\" he said. \"The core businesses, like Search and YouTube, continue to generate prodigious quantities of cash.\"\n\nAlphabet reported quarterly profits of almost $10.7bn, up 19% year-on-year, while costs rose 18% to $36.8bn, as the firm invested in data centres and hired new staff.\n\nYouTube now counts about two million paid subscribers, Mr Pichai said.\n\nAt more than $15bn for 2019, YouTube's ad business accounted for almost 10% of Alphabet's overall revenues last year - but the firm also said it shares a large portion of YouTube ad revenue with people posting videos.\n\nMr Pichai said the firm sees opportunity to make even more money off its YouTube adverts, including by targeting them more precisely.\n\n\"We see that as a big opportunity and are investing for it,\" he said.", "Michelle O'Neill and Deirdre Hargey announced the proposals at Stormont on Monday\n\nPlans for an extension of welfare mitigations to the so-called bedroom tax have been announced by the minister for communities.\n\nThe scheme currently provides financial support to people who would otherwise have faced welfare cuts.\n\nBut it was due to run out on 31 March.\n\nAbout 38,000 households in Northern Ireland are in receipt of supplementary payments, which protect them from the tax, the Department for Communities said.\n\nThe minister Deirdre Hargey said the proposal would cost £23m per annum.\n\n\"We have a responsibility to protect the poorest and most vulnerable in society,\" said Ms Hargey.\n\nShe said the executive agreed her recommendation on Monday.\n\nIt was first outlined in New Decade, New Approach - the deal that restored devolution after three years of political deadlock in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"A society is judged on how we protect the most disadvantaged,\" she added.\n\n\"I am a minister who will fight to protect those families living in poverty; low-income families, single-parent families, those with disabilities and children and young people. I am working hard to target resources towards those most in need.\"\n\nShe said there were other mitigations \"which need to be looked at\" and she will be working with stakeholders \"in moving forward with that important piece of work\".\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The cost of the annual television licence fee will increase by £3, from £154.50 to £157.50, from 1 April 2020.\n\nIn 2016, the government said the fee would rise in line with inflation every year for five years from 1 April 2017.\n\nThe latest increase comes amid debate around the future of the licence fee, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in December that it needs \"looking at\".\n\nThe government said last year it would consider whether failure to pay the fee should cease to be a criminal offence.\n\nAnd it comes a week after Match of the Day host Gary Lineker, the BBC's highest paid presenter, called for the fee to be made voluntary.\n\nThere has also been controversy about plans to stop providing free TV licences to most over-75s from 1 June.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: \"A £3 a year increase to the TV licence fee may not sound much but will be yet another blow to the hundreds of thousands of over-75s who will struggle to afford a TV licence from June.\"\n\nThe new fee works out at £3.02 per week, or £13.13 per month, and pays for BBC services including nine national TV channels, 10 national radio stations plus local radio and websites, as well as the BBC Sounds app and BBC iPlayer.\n\nOutgoing BBC director general Tony Hall said last month that the licence fee \"guarantees... commitment to creativity and risk-taking\".\n\nA licence is required if you watch or record programmes as they're being shown on TV, or download or watch any BBC programmes on iPlayer.\n\nThe government and BBC are to negotiate over what will happen to the level of the licence fee after 2022, after the end of the current agreement to raise the amount in line with inflation every year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Streatham attacker Sudesh Amman was aged 18 when he was jailed for terror offences in 2018\n\nSudesh Amman, the 20-year-old responsible for the attack in Streatham, south London, on Sunday, pleaded guilty in November 2018 to six charges of possessing documents containing terrorist information and seven of disseminating terrorist publications.\n\nThree of the terrorist manuals Amman admitted owning were about knife fighting.\n\nIn fact, much of Amman's fascination with conducting an attack was said to be focused on using a knife.\n\nHe was jailed at the Old Bailey the following month for three years and four months.\n\nI was there and recall Amman smiling as he was sentenced.\n\nHe was automatically released from HMP Belmarsh on 23 January 2020 after serving half of his sentence in custody.\n\nIt is understood that he had since been living at a bail hostel in south London.\n\nHe was under a curfew and had to wear a GPS tag, coupled with exclusion zones such as ports and airports. He had to surrender his passport and had limited access to electronic devices and restrictions on his internet use\n\nAmman was first arrested in north London in May 2018 by armed officers on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, although he was not ultimately charged with doing so. Scotland Yard said that, following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, \"we did not charge with this offence.\"\n\nThe prosecution of Amman related instead to his ownership and distribution of terrorist propaganda and instructional manuals.\n\nForensic specialists recovered in more than 349,000 media files from Amman's devices\n\nAt the time, he was living in Harrow and studying science and maths at the nearby North West London College. Prior to that, Amman had studied at Park High School between 2011 and 2016.\n\nHe came to the attention of counter-terrorism police in April 2018 when a Dutch blogger made officers aware of postings on the Telegram messaging app.\n\nThe posts included a photo showing an image of a knife along with two firearms on a Shahada flag along with Arabic words meaning: \"Armed and ready April 3\".\n\nOne of the Telegram posts that led to Amman being identified by police in 2018\n\nThe blogger also said the same person had linked to a YouTube video of a pro-gay rights speaker who frequented Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park.\n\nThe post called on others to \"all unite together to attack one another. He will be there this Sunday at Hyde Park\".\n\nPolice enquiries showed the user of the relevant Telegram account was Amman and a decision was taken to arrest him.\n\nThe Dutch blogger, named Azazel van den Berg, told the BBC he was \"shocked\" to have heard that Amman was responsible for the attack.\n\nHe said: \"I had heard of the attack on Dutch television. When I sat down at my computer I saw that message with his photo late last night.\"\n\nHe added: \"I did everything that was possible, I also did not know that man was already free. I think that jihadists like him should be punished harder with prison sentences and not conditionally free with a single bond.\n\n\"If he had just served his whole sentence, what happened now would never have happened. But English law must be applied to that, which is a task for the politicians in your country.\"\n\nAmman had elsewhere written of how he was thinking of conducting a terror attack in north London and that he had conducted reconnaissance.\n\nDetectives discovered that the student was using a WhatsApp group to expose young members of his family to violent terrorist material.\n\nHe used it to share an al-Qaeda magazine and exclaimed \"the Islamic State is here to stay\".\n\nA BB gun was recovered when the Met Police searched his home in Harrow\n\nThe WhatsApp group - entitled La Familia - included images of Amman's younger siblings in poses reminiscent of IS supporters.\n\nIn messages with one family member Amman claimed that, as Yazidi women were slaves, the Koran made it permissible to rape them.\n\nHe sent beheadings videos to his girlfriend - whom he said should kill her \"kuffar\" parents - and told her: \"If you can't make a bomb because family, friends or spies are watching or suspecting you, take a knife, molotov, sound bombs or a car at night and attack the tourists (crusaders), police and soldiers of taghut, or Western embassies in every country you are in this planet.\"\n\nIn messages to her, Amman said he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and wished to carry out acid attacks.\n\nElsewhere, he asked if he could have a knife delivered to her address and told her he considered Isis to be the best thing to happen to Islam.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe wrote that he preferred the idea of a knife attack over the use of bombs and discussed whether he would stand his ground if police came to arrest him.\n\nIn a notebook - in which he had written about explosives and detonators - he had listed his \"goals in life\". These included: \"Die as a shuhada\" (martyr) and go to '\"jannah\" (paradise).\n\nBefore he was jailed Amman had previous convictions for possession of an offensive weapon - a broken bottle - and cannabis.", "Qaw'mane Wilson was an aspiring rapper who used the name Young QC\n\nAn aspiring rapper has been sentenced to 99 years in prison after paying to have his mother killed.\n\n30-year-old Qaw'mane Wilson - who performed under the name Young QC, ordered a hitman to kill Yolanda Holmes back in 2012.\n\nHe was convicted on Friday in Chicago alongside the hitman Eugene Spencer, who received a 100 year sentence.\n\nThe court heard how Wilson cleared his mum's bank accounts out after her death.\n\n\"The word is 'matricide,' meaning murder of one's own mother,\" Cook County Judge Stanley Sacks said in court.\n\n\"Whatever he wanted, his mother gave to him. A car. A job. One could say he was spoiled. She gave Qaw'mane life, and it was his choice to take it away from her.\"\n\nIn a video on his YouTube channel, Qaw'mane Wilson and his friends are seen withdrawing cash and giving it crowds of people\n\nAfter her death, Wilson used his mum's money to customize the Mustang she had bought him and evidence was shown to the jury of him withdrawing large amounts of money and later throwing cash into crowds of people at one of his shows.\n\nWilson, who was 23 at the time of her killing, ordered Spencer to enter her apartment in Chicago, where he shot her in her sleep.\n\nWhen asked if he had anything to say before the verdict was given, Wilson said: \"I just want to say, nobody loved my mother more than me. She was all I had. That's it.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Motorists in Birmingham and Sheffield have been confronted by a BBC reporter who secretly filmed them buying red diesel to use in their own cars.\n\nIt's illegal for regular drivers to use the fuel, which is about 50p cheaper than a litre of normal diesel.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs estimates that the crime costs the UK £100m a year in lost tax revenue.\n\nRed diesel is intended for use by farmers and construction workers in tractors and diggers.\n\nSee this story in full on BBC Inside Out West Midlands at 19:30 BST on BBC One on Monday 3 February, or via iPlayer for 30 days afterwards.", "Louis Tomlinson is currently promoting Walls, his first solo album\n\nLouis Tomlinson has said he will not appear on BBC Breakfast again, after being asked questions about the deaths of his mother and sister.\n\nHosts Dan Walker and Louise Minchin asked the singer about the grief he felt over their loss.\n\n\"Defo wont be going on there again,\" he tweeted after Monday's show.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We wanted to cover all aspects of Louis's life that have influenced his new album and feel the questioning was fair.\"\n\nTomlinson's mother died from cancer in 2016, and his sister Felicite died of an accidental drug overdose last year.\n\nThe former One Direction singer was also quizzed about his time with the band - who went on hiatus in 2016 - and his reported feud with former band member Zayn Malik.\n\nThe 28-year-old accused the hosts of \"proper going in\" on him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Louis Tomlinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReplying to Tomlinson directly on Twitter, Walker wrote: \"Sorry you feel like that. It was nice to speak to you on #BBCBreakfast this morning. Can I ask what you are upset about?\"\n\nTomlinson responded: \"I was upset that you continued to ask me about my grief.\n\n\"It goes without saying how hard it is to lose both people so close to me. The least I ask is that you respect my decision of not wanting to be asked in interviews about something so painfull [sic].\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm lucky enough to have a creative outlet for me to talk about grief this doesn't however give you the right to talk about it for gossip purposes.\"\n\nWalker replied: \"Hi Louis. We were asking you about the song on your new album about your mum.\n\n\"We know it's painful which is why we didn't dwell on it. No intention to upset you or be 'gossipy' about it at all. That's not our style on #BBCBreakfast.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Breakfast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen asked about Malik on the BBC Breakfast sofa, Tomlinson said he was \"just not ready to have that conversation yet\".\n\nThe singer said it was \"inevitable\" the band would get back together one day and that they would be \"stupid\" not to.\n\n\"You've ticked them all off now,\" he said when asked about a possible reunion. \"You've gone trauma, Zayn, and now we are finally on this one, I like it.\"\n\nTomlinson is currently promoting Walls, his first solo album, and will perform in his home town of Doncaster later.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Gerald Corrigan died three weeks after being shot outside his Anglesey home\n\nA witness has denied having sex with a defendant on the night he is accused of killing a man with a crossbow.\n\nMr Whall had told police he was having sex with Thomas Barry Williams at the time.\n\nBut Mr Williams told Mold Crown Court their friendship had \"never\" been sexual and denied seeing the defendant that night.\n\nMr Corrigan suffered two holes in his stomach and organ damage during the attack at his home on 19 April 2019.\n\nHe died in hospital three weeks later, after developing sepsis.\n\nMr Williams told the court he had met Mr Whall, a sports therapist, about five years ago when he was referred for a chest issue, and began receiving weekly massage therapy for a few months.\n\nBoth men had a \"keen interest in martial arts\", and became friends.\n\n\"After a while I started helping him with self-defence DVDs,\" he told prosecutor Peter Rouch QC.\n\nThey met to train around once a week and would go out to eat as well as go walking and biking, but Mr Williams said their contact \"dwindled\" when he began seeing his partner, Susie Holmes.\n\nOn the night of the shooting, Mr Williams said he had dropped her at work in Conwy at about 21:50 BST on 18 April before meeting his cannabis dealer in an Anglesey lay-by and smoking with him for half an hour.\n\nHe then went to Newborough on Anglesey to his parents' house and talked to his sister until about 01:00 on 19 April, before going to Llanddwyn beach for an hour and travelling back to Conwy.\n\nAsked if he saw Mr Whall during that time, he replied: \"No, I didn't.\"\n\nMr Williams told the court he had broken his mobile phone during an argument with Ms Holmes that evening and it was just about useable.\n\nCross-examined by David Elias QC, defending, he said he had thrown the phone away a couple of days later without calling or texting anyone in the meantime.\n\nMr Williams said he first knew about the suggestion he and Mr Whall were having a sexual relationship about two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, the court heard in the summer of 2019 he went to seek advice from the legal firm representing Mr Whall.\n\nMr Elias said Mr Williams had told that firm he had engaged in sexual activity with Mr Whall.\n\n\"No, I listened to them telling me,\" he said.\n\nAsked why he had chosen that firm, Mr Williams said he had heard they were a good firm.\n\n\"It wasn't that you had information to give them?\" asked Mr Elias.\n\nThis image of Gerald Corrigan's house shows where North Wales Police believe the shooter was located\n\nMr Williams declined to comment at first on whether he had said anything to the solicitors about the allegations he was having a sexual relationship with Mr Whall.\n\nPressed on the matter, he said he was \"not sure what I'd been thinking with all of it\" and everything that had gone on \"between me and Terry\".\n\nCall data taken from Mr Williams' phone, was presented to the court, showing several calls between him and Mr Whall on 18 April.\n\nAsked what they were talking about, he said \"when are we training....what are you up to....\"\n\nAsked about one four-minute call, Mr Elias asked: \"It was about meeting up that night, wasn't it?\"\n\n\"No,\" he replied, adding that he could not remember what it was about.\n\nThe court heard a text message was sent from Mr Williams's phone at about 12:15 on 19 April. Within half an hour of that message being sent, a new phone was operational.\n\nMr Elias said it showed the phone he said was damaged was actually working.\n\nAsked by Mr Elias if it would surprise him that Mr Whall's number was the third most popular number called from the mobile phone he got rid of, he said: \"It would actually, yeah.\"\n\nRe-examined by Peter Rouch QC, for the prosecution, Mr Williams said he had no memory of what was said during the meeting with Mr Whall's solicitors.\n\nHe said Mr Whall had told him he \"just needed an alibi\" but did not say what for.\n\nHe said the solicitors were \"suggesting stuff\" and it was easier for him to \"just agree\".\n\nAsked if he had walked along the coastal path with Mr Whall on 18-19 April for a sexual liaison in front of Gof Du, he said: \"No.\"\n\nMr Whall also denies a charge of perverting the course of justice, along with three others, amid allegations they conspired together to set fire to a vehicle later found burnt out.\n\nThe other three - Martin Roberts, 34, of James Street in Bangor, Darren Jones, 41, of the Bryn Ogwen estate at Penrhosgarnedd and Gavin Jones, 36, of High Street, Bangor - also deny the charges.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Do I look bothered?\" - body cam footage reveals abuse faced by Southeastern staff\n\nA rail worker thrown from a train by an angry passenger during \"three weeks of hell\" at work has spoken of the impact it had on his mental health.\n\nSoutheastern train manager Neil Chapman said he was close to \"losing it completely\" before seeking help.\n\nIncreased episodes of violence and people taking their own lives have contributed to Mr Chapman's struggles.\n\nHowever, he has turned his life around with the help of a scheme started by the rail firm and a colleague.\n\nMr Chapman said Lee Woolcott-Ellis, a fellow train manager who persuaded bosses to let him set up a mental health support system, was a \"genius\".\n\nNeil Chapman says he went through \"three weeks of hell\"\n\nMr Chapman's problems started with an attempted suicide in front of his train. Then, about a week later, he woke up a sleeping passenger.\n\n\"He'd missed his stop and of course somehow that was my fault,\" said Mr Chapman.\n\n\"When I told him he'd have to get off the train, he actually says 'you get off' and grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and physically threw me off the train, actually assaulted me.\"\n\nThe following couple of weeks \"it just seemed every other passenger was somebody giving me grief, didn't want to buy a ticket, wanted to pay for nothing and all that sort of thing\".\n\n\"I came very, very close to losing it completely, and I ended up taking three months off with stress.\"\n\nIn January, a report from mental health charity Mind and consultancy firm Deloitte showed poor mental health in the workplace cost UK companies more than £43bn in 2018, with the number of days taken off for mental health reasons rising even though total sick days in general were falling.\n\nFigures provided by Southeastern showed 2018 had the highest number of reports of violence and serious public order offences since 2007.\n\nBetween 2014 and 2018 there were 3,233 reports of violence and 3,243 reports of serious public order.\n\nMental health co-ordinator Mr Woolcott-Ellis said: \"I've been certainly threatened to be stabbed on more than one occasion. I've had someone on my train threatening to kill people.\n\n\"That individual, I removed a knife from him. You deal with it as a professional and it's afterwards you think of the implications of what you've just been through.\"\n\n\"He has helped so many people,\" he said.\n\n\"You can learn these things out of books, you can get your trained, qualified psychiatrists and psychologists but because Lee's been through it, because he's experienced it for himself, it gives him so much more of an insight.\n\n\"He saved my job, almost saved my life. I don't know how far I would have gone. With Lee's help, I'm just back to me.\"\n\nSoutheastern said rail travel was one of the safest means of transport, with the \"vast majority\" of the 640,000 passengers that use its services each day travelling without incident.\n\nIt said it was \"proud to have developed a mental health advocate scheme led by our staff\" to respond to \"occasions when incidents happen, both at work and outside work\".\n\nYou can see more on Inside Out South East at 19:30 GMT on BBC One, and later on BBC iPlayer\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly one million people in the UK missed the deadline for filing their tax return, but this was an improvement on the previous year.\n\nA total of 11.1 million did hit the deadline of the end of Friday to complete their self-assessment tax forms.\n\nMostly those with more than one source of income and the self-employed are required to complete returns.\n\nAnyone with a genuine excuse can talk to the tax authority to avoid fines.\n\nPaper returns had an earlier deadline of 31 October, but a record 10.4 million people filled in the forms electronically for which the deadline is 31 January.\n\nLast year, just over one million people missed the 31 January cut-off. Fines can be issued immediately for late filing.\n\nMore than 700,000 people submitted their tax returns on deadline day, peaking between in the hour from 16:00 GMT, when 56,969 filed. Some 26,562 people completed their returns in the final hour before the deadline.\n\nAngela MacDonald, director general for customer services at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), said: \"Customers who have missed the deadline should contact HMRC.\n\n\"The department will treat those with genuine excuses leniently, as it focuses penalties on those who persistently fail to complete their tax returns and deliberate tax evaders. The excuse must be genuine and HMRC may ask for evidence.\"\n\nPrevious, failed, excuses for missing the deadline in recent years had included someone claiming they were unable to log on because they were up a mountain in Wales.\n\nThe current system means HMRC could demand a penalty of £100 for late filing during the first three months after the deadline.\n\nAfter three months, additional penalties of £10 per day can be demanded, up to a maximum of £900, followed by further charges six and 12 months after the deadline.\n• None How does your money pay for schools and hospitals?", "Researchers believe they are the first to film grey seals clapping their flippers underwater.\n\nDr Ben Burville from Newcastle University has spent 17 years trying to capture a seal producing the gunshot-like sound, which they make during the breeding season.\n\nHe recorded this footage off the Farne Islands, near Northumberland.", "The Saltire is now displayed with the flags of the remaining 27 EU nations\n\nA city in the Netherlands is flying the Scottish Saltire in place of the Union Flag after the UK left the EU.\n\nThe deputy mayor of Leeuwarden, Sjoerd Feitsma, came up with the idea after visiting Edinburgh for a Robert Burns festival.\n\nThe Saltire is now displayed with the flags of the remaining 27 EU nations at the city's main railway station.\n\nMr Feitsma alerted BBC Scotland in a tweet saying: \"Bye bye Britain (England). Hello Scotland!\"\n\nHe added: \"On Brexit day, the Scottish flag is prominently (and permanently) visible at the Central Station in @leeuwardenstad. We'll leave a light on.\"\n\nPeople in Scotland voted by 62% to 38% to remain in the EU in the 2016 referendum.\n\nThe overall UK result backed Leave by 52% to 48%.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sjoerd Feitsma This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLeeuwarden, which is the capital of the Friesland region in the north of the Netherlands, has a number of cultural ties with Edinburgh.\n\nAnd Mr Feitsma said he had been moved by the response of Scots to Brexit - with pro-EU demonstrators staging candelit vigils in several Scottish cities on Friday evening.\n\nHe told the Dutch daily newspaper Friesch Dagblad: \"I was thinking of replacing the Union Jack with an EU flag or a rainbow flag.\n\n\"I noticed what a big deal it was for the Scots that they're no longer in the EU and that they are still flying the European flag in the Scottish Parliament.\n\n\"That's when I thought, we could do something with this too.\"\n\nThe Saltire will remain on display outside the railway station for an indefinite period of time.\n\nMr Feitsma said: \"This isn't an official area so we can decide for ourselves which flags we hang here.\"", "Edward Vines wrote to Emily Maitlis's mother twice last year in the hope of getting through to the presenter\n\nA stalker who has harassed Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis for two decades has been sentenced for breaching a restraining order for the 12th time.\n\nEdward Vines, 49, was serving a 45-month sentence when he wrote to her mother Marion Maitlis last year.\n\nHe sent two letters in May and October, Nottingham Crown Court heard.\n\nJudge Stuart Rafferty QC said Vine had a \"lifelong obsession\" with the journalist and sentenced him to a further three years in jail.\n\nVines, who is in custody at HMP Nottingham, pleaded guilty to two breaches of the order, which was originally imposed in 2009 and prevents him from contacting Ms Maitlis and her family.\n\nThe defendant, from Oxford, first met Ms Maitlis when they were students at Cambridge University.\n\nHe was first convicted of harassing her in 2002.\n\nMs Maitlis has previously spoken publicly of the \"devastating impact\" Vine's harassment has had on her family.\n\nEdward Vines met Ms Maitlis while they were studying at Cambridge University\n\nProsecutor Ian Way said Vines \"persistently and systematically\" breached the restraining order 12 times, resulting in six court hearings.\n\nIn May, a letter to Marion Maitlis was intercepted and opened by prison officers.\n\n\"The defendant said he was troubled by Emily's treatment of him while they were at university,\" Mr Way told the court.\n\n\"That he was in love with her and was distressed when she terminated contact with him.\"\n\nMr Way said Vines claimed Ms Maitlis had lied during the original trial and he believed the justice system \"was against him\".\n\nThe court heard a second letter was intercepted in October in which Vines said he was \"keen\" to talk to the broadcaster and would \"continue to write seeking answers\".\n\nMr Way added Ms Maitlis had not been approached for a victim impact statement because \"each repeated episode compounds the distress\".\n\nVines wrote in the letters that he loved Ms Maitlis and was \"distressed\" by her cutting off contact\n\nDefending Vines, Stefan Fox said his client was now aware any concerns he had about his previous trials would have to be aired elsewhere.\n\nJudge Rafferty said: \"If you love Ms Maitlis as you say you do, you have a very strange way of showing it because you have made her life a misery.\"\n\nHe said he feared \"there was no sign of this ending\" and if Vines continued to breach the order he would \"continue to age in custody\".\n\n\"This at the moment has to be treated as a lifelong obsession by you. All the court can do is try to protect Ms Maitlis and her family as best as it can,\" Judge Rafferty added.\n\n\"Until you can take the step to stop being the unrequited 19-year-old that you were at the start of all of this, nothing will ever change.\"\n\nPreviously the government has apologised to Ms Maitlis after Vines was able to write to her from HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire, and again while living in a bail hostel.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some 8.6 million people threw sick days last year because they found their jobs \"too painful\", a survey suggests.\n\nReleased on what some dub \"National Sickie Day\", the research claimed concerns about work culture, colleagues and workloads were to blame.\n\nHowever, it also said 12 million workers went to work genuinely sick.\n\nThe IT company Insight, which did the research, warned of \"serious issues within organisations' culture\" and called for more flexible working.\n\nIt based the findings on a Kantar survey of 1,246 working adults, done over a week in January this year.\n\nThe responses were weighted to draw a picture of the wider working population, which numbers almost 33 million people, according to official figures.\n\n\"Employers have a duty of care to their employees to look after their safety and wellbeing, and this includes their physical and mental health,\" said Tom Neil, Acas Senior Adviser.\n\n\"For people to be able to be honest about how they feel at work, good work practices including having an inclusive culture and effective people management are key.\"\n\nIn the survey, a quarter of respondents said they had taken a sick day in the last year because doing so felt \"too painful\".\n\nSome said they felt overworked or that poor systems and processes made it hard to get work done. Others blamed conflicts with workmates.\n\nHowever, 37% of respondents said they had come into work in the past year despite feeling sick.\n\nMany said this was because they could not afford unpaid sick leave or did not want to use up a paid sick day. Others said they did not want to feel judged by their employer or co-workers.\n\nMeanwhile about a fifth - or an estimated 6.5 million - said they would be happy to work from home when sick but their firms would not let them.\n\nAccording to some surveys, more employees call in sick on the first Monday of February than any other day of the year, with an estimated 215,000 doing so last year.\n\nBut in 2019, the employment law firm Elas said it had found other days with higher absence rates.\n\nIt said the top 10 days for absence last year all fell on a Monday, with 16 September topping the list. The most comment reasons given were:\n\nAccording to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the typical employee's number of sick days dropped to 5.9 in 2019 - the lowest in the 19-year history of its annual survey of HR professionals.", "Ellie Gould was murdered by her ex-boyfriend at her home\n\nThe friends of a teenager who was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend are campaigning for self-defence lessons to be taught in schools.\n\nEllie Gould, 17, was killed by Thomas Griffiths, who was jailed for life for her murder in November.\n\nHer friend Tilda Offen said if Ellie had \"just known the simplest technique to get him off her she would still have her life\".\n\nNorth Wiltshire MP James Gray is supporting their campaign.\n\nHe said he intended to raise the idea in Parliament and said if self-defence were taught in schools then a potential murderer \"would realise he would have met his match\".\n\nGriffiths, 17, admitted stabbing Ellie repeatedly in the neck in a \"frenzied attack\" in May before trying to make it appear her wounds were self-inflicted.\n\nThe court heard Griffiths spent an hour at the house in Calne, Wiltshire, before he drove home, changed his clothes and dumped a bag of Ellie's items in a wood.\n\nEllie's friends and her mother (second from left) are campaigning for self-defence to be taught\n\nEllie's family had called for his jail term of life with a minimum of 12-and-a-half years to be increased but this was turned down by the Court of Appeal.\n\nA group of her friends and her mother Carole Gould have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to question the length of his jail term, given Griffiths was almost an adult.\n\nThey have also written to the Minister of State for Education Nick Gibb calling for self-defence to be made compulsory.\n\nEllie's friends have also called for more education on healthy relationships and warning signs of coercive control.\n\n\"That's why I do believe that self-defence is such a big thing that needs to be introduced into our school system because it could give a potential victim a chance of being able to escape their attacker,\" her friend Tilda said.\n\nAnother close friend, Harriet Adams, added: \"When Griffiths comes out after his mere 12 years in prison, he's going to have a second chance at life and a whole other life to restart and our Ellie isn't going to because of his actions.\n\n\"With us pushing for self-defence classes to be a mandatory part of physical education, we like the idea that we are preserving and helping to protect other young, vulnerable people.\"\n\nThomas Griffiths was 17 when he killed Ellie in her family home\n\nMr Gray, who is the Conservative MP for North Wiltshire, said there was no routine self-defence training in the national curriculum.\n\n\"You're not talking here about judo, just basic self-defence techniques,\" he said.\n\n\"If that was taught to all kids all the way through school then it would significantly reduce crime because the potential criminal, murderer or rapist would realise he would have met his match.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said there were no plans to make self-defence mandatory, but \"schools have flexibility to provide this should they choose\".\n\n\"As part of the new relationships and sex education curriculum, pupils will be taught the characteristics of positive and healthy relationships, as well as types of behaviour within relationships that are criminal, violent and include coercive control,\" the spokesperson added.\n• None The Conversation, Women and self defence - BBC World Service", "A teenager has saved her father's life just two weeks after being taught CPR at school.\n\nAli Holborn, 15, from Poole, performed the life-saving technique on her dad, Kevin, after he became unresponsive following a cardiac arrest.\n\nCompulsory CPR lessons will be rolled out in schools across England from September this year.", "Claire O'Neill was sacked from her role as President of COP26\n\nThe former head of this year’s vital climate summit may sue the UK government for sacking her, the BBC has learned.\n\nClaire O’Neill, an ex-minister, was told by Downing Street that she couldn’t chair the Glasgow meeting because she was no longer a minister.\n\nBut sources close to Mrs O’Neill say they think she was fired for criticising government failings.\n\nThey say the process for the climate meeting was in disarray.\n\nThe sources said different ministers were jockeying to lead the UN meeting, known as COP26, adding that the Prime Minister was out of touch.\n\nThe conference is supposed to corral governments into improving their offers to avoid dangerous climate change by cutting emissions faster.\n\nThis was always a mountain to climb, especially since President Donald Trump began the process of pulling the US out of the Paris climate agreement.\n\nA government spokesperson said preparations for the conference were going well, and that the meeting would be a success.\n\nBut I understand that some of the basics still aren’t in place. It seems the meeting might even be switched away to London from Glasgow because security costs there are much higher.\n\nI’m told the original total cost of the conference signed off by Cabinet was £250m. It is said now to be closer to £450m, with no agreed final budget.\n\nTo compound the issue, the prime minister infuriated the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon by reportedly telling the Conservative conference he didn’t want her \"anywhere near” the meeting.\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow will host COP26 and includes the Armadillo and the SSE Hydro\n\nScottish government sources insist that the venue is booked and they expect the summit to happen there as planned.\n\nMrs O’Neill has previously expressed the view that the conference needs an Olympics-style delivery body.\n\nCompared with the huge French diplomatic effort that brought about a surprisingly positive deal in Paris in 2015, the UK’s preparations are lagging. The French had more than 200 diplomats working for years on the meeting.\n\nThe UK has scrambled just over 100 for the task. What’s more, the challenge has been made more difficult because when Boris Johnson was Foreign Secretary he fired many of the UK’s overseas climate change envoys.\n\nOne source close to Mrs O’Neill said: “Boris doesn’t really know anything about climate change. He pays lip service, but hasn't got a clue. He promised to chair a Cabinet committee on climate change – but he hasn’t even convened a meeting.”\n\nI’m told he has only discussed climate once in Cabinet. On that occasion, Mr Johnson didn’t discuss policy, according to the source, but simply said he used to be a sceptic but isn't one anymore.\n\nThere are others close to the government, though, who are unsurprised at Mrs O’Neill’s departure.\n\nSources said she derided some of the UK’s most experienced climate diplomats because she thought they were moving too slowly and were tied to old and ineffective methods.\n\nInstead, she controversially brought in the Boston Consulting Group to advise her in meetings. She is said to have been exasperated at the pace of progress over an issue she considers to be vitally important, and is reported to have upset officials with her tone.\n\nMrs O'Neill has previously described herself as a \"crap diplomat but someone who gets things done\".\n\nSome observers who oppose the UK's climate change laws have celebrated her demise, arguing that she echoed environmental groups too closely.\n\nBut her departure leaves a big hole, with the conference set for November. I understand that Michael Gove is keen to oversee the project.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWorld Cup finalists England fell to a chastening defeat by a resurgent France as their Six Nations hopes wilted in the Parisian rain.\n\nCoach Eddie Jones had talked of unleashing a brutal physicality upon a callow France side with an average of just 10 caps apiece.\n\nBut it was France who tenderised England in a one-sided first half, converted tries from Vincent Rattez and captain Charles Ollivon plus a Romain Ntamack penalty opening up a deserved 17-point lead.\n\nOllivon dived over for his second try to stretch that advantage to 24, before two brilliant solo scores from Jonny May suddenly brought hope in the final quarter.\n\nBut England could add only a late Owen Farrell penalty, their hopes of only a second Grand Slam in 17 years disintegrating in the face of a France defence superbly drilled by Shaun Edwards.\n\nJones said his team wanted to become the greatest team in history, but they were second-best to Fabien Galthie's new wave of Gallic talents.\n• None 'We felt sorry for ourselves' - Jones blames England defeat on slow start\n\nIn a febrile atmosphere England made early inroads when Sam Underhill capitalised on an overthrown line-out to thunder deep into the French 22 before his back-row partner Tom Curry spilt the ball in the tackle.\n\nBut it was France who struck first to light up the stadium, Teddy Thomas with a quicksilver break down the right before left wing Rattez - only in as a late replacement for Damian Penaud - cut a cute line on Ntamack's inside shoulder to crash through Ben Youngs' tackle and over.\n\nNtamack popped over the conversion, and when England's forwards were penalised at a ruck a few metres from their own line, the young fly-half landed his second kick to extend the lead to 10 points.\n\nWorse was to come for the men in white. Talismanic centre Manu Tuilagi limped off, to be replaced by Jonathan Joseph, then France struck a second hammer blow.\n\nAs Ollivon challenged for a kick ahead, England stopped, expecting referee Nigel Owens to blow for a knock-on. But the whistle never came, and Ollivon galloped 30 metres to dive into the left-hand corner.\n\nNtamack's nerveless conversion made it 17-0, tricolors being waved frantically all round celebrating stands as the brass band behind the England posts blasted out the Can-Can.\n\nUnder that intense aural and physical assault England's errors began to mount, debutant George Furbank dropping one pass, captain Owen Farrell knocking on another.\n\nNot since 1988 had England been kept scoreless at half-time in a Five or Six Nations match, but the scoreline reflected a fractured and ugly display.\n\nMay day comes too late for battered England\n\nA year ago France led Wales by 16 points in their opening game of the tournament only to capitulate in a dramatic second half.\n\nAnd when England opted to take a scrum on successive penalties in front of the France posts the pressure was finally on Galthie's side, only for Joseph to have the ball stripped as he took a short pass five metres out, and then Itoje knock on in a subsequent ruck.\n\nIt was the seventh time England had been within five metres of the France tryline without coming way with a point, and Jones rang the changes.\n\nLuke Cowan-Dickie came on for Jamie George and Ellis Genge for Joe Marler with half an hour to go, but it initially did nothing to stem the irresistible blue tide.\n\nMay was turned over by replacement prop Jefferson Poirot, and when scrum-half Antoine Dupont stepped through a static defence there was Ollivon once again to slide over the line.\n\nAt 24-0 England were facing humiliation, the noise around the Stade de France defeaning.\n\nMay's opportunistic try after kicking ahead with 23 minutes left provided a desperately needed ray of sunshine for England on a sodden, grey afternoon.\n\nAnd he conjured up something even better eight minutes later, racing on to Elliot Daly's fast, flat past to carve past three weary defenders and under the posts.\n\nFrom nowhere England had hope, France mangling a line-out in their own 22 after a clever George Ford kick to set up a series of drives.\n\nBut replacement scrum-half Willie Heinz lost the ball as he tried to burst through off a ruck, and, although George Kruis was held up over the line at the death, France held on to secure a famous win.\n\n'Everyone made errors today' - what the BBC pundits said\n\nFormer England captain Dylan Hartley: \"It was a collective - everyone made errors today. From one to 15, guys were making errors and that's why we had such a poor performance. The best thing to do is restart, that's all you can do. If we eradicate personal errors, we're in that game.\"\n\nFormer England centre Jeremy Guscott: \"Eddie Jones must be fuming. You can't have that many entries into the opposition 22 and come away with zero. The tries England scored were literally flashes of brilliance from Jonny May.\"\n\nFormer England captain Martin Johnson: \"England needed to turn pressure into scores. You need more subtlety against a big, strong team like France because they can defend all day.\"\n\nReplacements: Poirot for Baille (49), Bamba for Haouas (49), Palu for Willemse (57), Woki for Cros (57), Mauvaka for Marchand (67), Jalibert for Ntamack (77) Vincent for Vakatawa (80).\n\nReplacements: Joseph for Tuilagi (16), Cowan-Dickie for George (49), Genge for Marler (52), Ludlam for Lawes (54), Kruis for Ewels (57), Heinz for Young (62), Stuart for Sinckler (73), Devoto for Ford (76).", "Model Caprice was partnered up with Hamish Gaman\n\nCaprice Bourret has quit Dancing on Ice to \"recover and look after herself and her family\".\n\nA representative for the model and businesswoman confirmed to Radio 1 Newsbeat that she would not be taking part in Sunday night's show.\n\nShe said \"it's been a hard few months [for Caprice] and she's had to keep silent for contractual reasons\".\n\nThe exit comes after she split from her dance partner Hamish Gaman on the ITV show two weeks ago.\n\nCaprice's spokesperson added that her \"mental wellbeing has been affected over the last two months and recent stories leaked to the press are not only salacious but extremely hurtful\".\n\nOn Saturday she posted pictures online of some of the injuries she had sustained in practice alongside her new dance partner Oscar Peter.\n\nBut hours later it was confirmed by ITV that she would no longer be taking part in the show.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCaprice, 48, made her debut on the second week of the series, securing second place on the leaderboard after performing a routine to Lewis Capaldi's Someone You Loved in front of judges John Barrowman, Ashley Banjo, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.\n\nA week later it was revealed she was parting ways with partner Hamish, but a reason for the split has not been given.\n\nCaprice, who has also appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and Come Dine With Me, has also deleted her Twitter account and hasn't posted about her exit from the show on her Instagram page.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "As many as 20 civilians have been killed in an overnight attack in north-western Burkina Faso.\n\nUnidentified heavily armed men on motorbikes carried out the attack in Lamdamol village in Seno province, north of the capital Ouagadougou, on Saturday night, AFP news agency says.\n\nThe attack comes a week after 39 people were killed when militants attacked a market in the province of Soum.\n\nThe Sahel region has seen an increase in jihadist violence in recent months.\n\nNews of Saturday's attack came as France announced it would send a further 600 soldiers to the Sahel region, bringing the total number of French troops to more than 5,000.\n\nThousands have been displaced by violence in northern Burkina Faso\n\nLast year saw the highest death toll due to armed conflict in the region since 2012, with more than 4,000 people killed.\n\nThe security crisis in the Sahel began when an alliance of separatist and Islamist militants took over northern Mali in 2012. France then launched a military intervention against them.\n\nAlthough a peace deal was signed in 2015, it was never fully implemented.\n\nNew armed groups have since emerged and expanded to central Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, including groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group (IS).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Raab: EU alignment not a red line, it's not even in negotiating room\n\nBritain will \"not be aligning with EU rules\" in any post-Brexit trade deal, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nDominic Raab argued agreeing to stick strongly with EU regulations would \"defeat the point of Brexit\".\n\nBut Irish PM Leo Varadkar said the UK needed to commit to a level playing field to get a free trade deal.\n\nTalks to negotiate a free trade deal between the UK and the EU are due to start next month, following the UK's formal withdrawal from the bloc.\n\nOn Monday Boris Johnson is expected to set out his position ahead of those talks, where he will tell the EU he is prepared to accept customs checks at Britain's borders if he cannot secure the sort of trade deal he wants.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier will also outline his approach to negotiations.\n\nOne option the PM could support would be a Canada-style free trade deal which allows tariff-free trade for the majority of goods, but would not cover the UK's service industry - which accounts for more than 80% of UK jobs.\n\nReports in recent days have suggested EU chiefs want the UK to continue to follow EU rules on standards and state subsidies - while accepting the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in any trade disputes.\n\nThe PM is expected to say that he will accept no alignment and no jurisdiction of the European courts when talks start in March.\n\nHe is also preparing to say he would rule out relaxing rules on workers' rights, food hygiene standards and environmental protections.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Varadkar said it was possible for the UK to have a \"Canada-style agreement\".\n\nHowever, he added: \"Canada isn't the UK; you're geographically part of the European continent, we share seas and airspace and our economies are very integrated.\n\n\"And one thing we feel very strongly in the EU is that if we are going to have tariff-free, quota-free trade with the UK, which is essentially what we have with Canada on almost everything, then that needs to come with a level playing field.\n\n\"We, for example would have very strong views on fair competition and state aid.\"\n\nA level playing field is a trade policy phrase for a set of common rules and standards that prevent businesses in one country undercutting their rivals over those operating in other countries in areas such as workers' rights and environmental protections.\n\nHe also cautioned against \"setting rigid red lines\" for the post-Brexit trade negotiations arguing \"it makes coming to an agreement more difficult because the other side doesn't feel like it has got a fair deal unless those red lines are turned pink.\"\n\nMr Raab said the UK would enter trade talks \"with a spirit of goodwill\" but added \"the legislative alignment - it just ain't happening\".\n\nLabour's John McDonnell said Mr Johnson's desire to diverge from EU rules \"contradict\" what the PM had previously said on protecting environmental, consumer and employment rights.\n\n\"On the one hand he said there will be [protections] on the other hand he is sabre-rattling saying that won't happen in the negotiations,\" he said.\n\nBut Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage welcomed the prime minister's approach arguing it was in the UK's \"national interest\" to be \"a competitor on their [the EU's] doorstep.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leo Varadkar on UK seating advice: \"Surely everyone should be trying to work with everyone\"\n\nThe government also wants to make progress in striking free trade agreements with countries such as the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThe EU's own approach to the negotiations needs to be agreed by all 27 member states - which would be unlikely to happen before the end of February.\n\nWhile the UK officially left the EU at 23:00 GMT on Friday, it will remain wedded to EU rules during a transition period which ends in December this year.\n\nThe UK can request an extension to this transition period, but Mr Johnson has previously said he will not do so.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pre-recorded bongs from Big Ben played out as the UK left the European Union", "Greek police have used tear gas to break up protests by migrants over living conditions on the Greek island of Lesbos.\n\nHundreds of people, including women and children, attempted to march to the town of Mytilene.\n\nIt comes after the Greek government invited proposals for a floating barrier to block migrants from arriving by sea.\n\nMigrants trying to reach Europe often travel through Turkey to Greece. Arrivals have proved hard to manage.\n\nMany are fleeing violence and persecution. The majority are from Afghanistan and Syria, according to the United Nations.", "A man shot dead by police after he stabbed people in south London had been released from prison in January.\n\nSudesh Amman, 20, was released about a week ago after serving half of his sentence of three years and four months for terror offences.\n\nHe was under active police surveillance at the time of the attack on Streatham High Road, which police believe to be an Islamist-related terrorist incident.\n\nThree people were injured but none is in a life-threatening condition.\n\nScotland Yard said officers were searching addresses in south London and Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.\n\n\"No arrests have been made and inquiries continue at pace,\" the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nStreatham MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy said: \"He [Amman] was under surveillance quite soon after being released which begs the question, why was he released so soon?\"\n\nTreasury minister Rishi Sunak said \"the police are obviously doing absolutely everything they can to keep people safe\".\n\nHe said new measures to toughen terrorism laws - already announced by the PM after last November's attack near London Bridge - will give the police \"more powers and resources to do that as well\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the government would announce further plans for \"fundamental changes to the system for dealing with those convicted of terrorism offences\" on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt the time of Amman's release there were concerns about the danger he might pose to the public but there were no legal mechanisms to keep him in prison, BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said.\n\nGiven November's attack also involved a man convicted of terrorism offences released mid-way through his sentence, our correspondent said there was \"a desperate desire\" within government to be seen to be acting quickly.\n\nGunshots were heard on Streatham High Road just after 14:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nReports suggest Amman entered a shop and started stabbing people. It appears he then left the shop and stabbed a woman.\n\nWitnesses reported hearing three gunshots and seeing a man lying on the ground outside a Boots pharmacy, as armed police approached and shouted at those nearby to move back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Lucy D'Orsi said armed officers were in \"immediate attendance\" after the attack\n\nThe Met Police said armed officers - who were part of a \"proactive counter-terrorism operation\" following the suspect on foot - were in \"immediate attendance\".\n\nThe man had a hoax device strapped to his body, police said.\n\nThe BBC's Daniel Sandford said the events appeared to unfold after witnesses saw an unmarked police car pull in front of another car near Streatham Common, forcing it to stop.\n\nForensic officers were seen working at the site into the evening\n\nPeople who live locally spoke of their shock for the attack to have happened in Streatham\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it treated the three people for injuries at the scene and all were taken to hospital.\n\nA man in his 40s was initially considered to be in a life-threatening condition but this is no longer the case.\n\nA woman in her 50s whose injuries were not life-threatening has been discharged from hospital.\n\nAnother woman in her 20s continues to receive hospital treatment for minor injuries, believed to have been caused by glass following shots from the police.\n\nSudesh Amman pleaded guilty in November 2018 to six charges of possessing documents containing terrorist information and seven of disseminating terrorist publications.\n\nOne of the manuals Amman admitted owning was one about knife fighting.\n\nHe was jailed at the Old Bailey the following month for three years and four months.\n\nI was there and recall Amman smiling as he was sentenced.\n\nAmman was first arrested in north London in May 2018 by armed officers on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack.\n\nDave Chawner, who had been on the way to the cinema, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I heard what I thought at that time was a car backfiring.\n\n\"I turned back and turned round and saw a small group of people around a man who was on the floor who was incredibly distressed, he was holding his lower right quadrant and there was blood everywhere.\n\n\"I happened to have a blanket in my bag and I gave it to them to help stem the bleeding and I ran to the nearest crossroads to wave down the ambulance.\"\n\nMr Chawner said the ambulance \"took well over half an hour to arrive\", which was \"incredibly frustrating and distressing\".\n\nEarly on, police said they were treating the incident as \"terrorist-related\"\n\nMeanwhile, Gjon Kathegjolli said he was in a barber shop when he heard a woman, who was with a baby in a push chair and two young boys, scream and saw her being stabbed.\n\nA man then walked past carrying a knife the size of his forearm, he said.\n\nDaniel Gough said he was out for a run when he heard shots and everyone ran.\n\n\"There was panic, people were yelling,\" he said. \"A young girl running alongside me kept asking 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' - she was very distressed.\n\n\"I saw a policeman and he yelled, telling everyone to get back. His gun was pointing in the direction of a man on the floor.\"\n\nA police officer was seen pointing a gun at a man, who was seen on the floor outside Boots\n\nAdam Blake, who was walking along Streatham Common, described how he saw two or three cars crash into each other, including an unmarked police car, as the incident unfolded.\n\n\"Another police car carried on towards the hill pursuing someone,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe swift response of officers has almost certainly saved lives but there will be inevitable questions about the operation.\n\nCounter-terrorist police and MI5 have about 3,000 so-called \"subjects of interest\" at any one time but a much smaller number are under round-the-clock surveillance because it takes a huge team of specialist officers to watch a suspect covertly.\n\nThis means that preventing terrorism is all about taking difficult decisions. Which suspects should be watched? What level of risk do they pose and when is the best time to make an arrest, given the need to capture real evidence?\n\nThose decisions have become harder in recent years as would-be attackers are increasingly likely to act alone and to use low-tech weapons, sometimes on a whim.\n\nFormer military intelligence officer Philip Ingram told BBC Radio 5 Live it was \"right and proper\" that the government should assess the laws in place.\n\n\"We're treating these terrorists as criminals. You have to ask the question as to whether some of them may not ever be able to be rehabilitated and, therefore, is the law we have at the moment right and proper to keep the public safe?\"\n\nOfficers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command are leading the investigation into the incident.\n\nStreatham High Road remains closed and a cordon is in place, with enhanced police patrols in the area.\n\nThe prime minister said his thoughts were with those injured and their loved ones and he paid tribute to the \"speed and bravery\" of emergency services who responded.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"Terrorists seek to divide us and to destroy our way of life - here in London we will never let them succeed.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information, images and footage of the incident which can be shared via www.ukpoliceimageappeal.com or on 0800 789 321.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Trump said that, for the first time in 51 years, \"the cost of prescription drugs actually went down\".\n\nIn the year to May 2019, the average monthly cost of prescription drugs fell by 0.2% according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics' Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures the increase in the cost of household items in the US .\n\nThis is the first price decrease over a 12-month period since 1973, some 47 years ago.\n\nBut this may not be the most reliable way to measure drug prices according to Inma Hernandez, a pharmacy lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh.\n\n\"The CPI is based on a basket of drugs which is representative of popular drugs. So it tends to include widely-used drugs, which are usually cheaper,\" she says.\n\n\"However, it is less likely to include newer or less-prescribed drugs, which are more expensive and have higher price increases.\"\n\nThe lack of transparency around drug pricing makes it very difficult to know exactly what's happening to the cost of prescription medication.", "The move follows a knife attack in Streatham, south London, by Sudesh Amman\n\nEmergency legislation will be introduced to end the automatic early release from prison of terror offenders, the government has said.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland told MPs the change would apply to both current and future offenders.\n\nTerror offenders will only be considered for release once they have served two-thirds of their sentence and with the approval of the Parole Board.\n\nIt follows two attacks by men convicted of terror offences in recent months.\n\nOn Sunday, Sudesh Amman, 20, was shot dead by police in Streatham, south London, after stabbing two people. And in November two people were killed near London Bridge by Usman Khan.\n\nAmman was released from prison towards the end of January, while Khan was out on licence from prison when he launched his attack in central London.\n\nMr Buckland said the latest attack made the case \"for immediate action\".\n\n\"We cannot have the situation, as we saw tragically in yesterday's case, where an offender - a known risk to innocent members of the public - is released early by automatic process of law without any oversight by the Parole Board,\" he said.\n\nHe said the new legislation would mean people convicted of terrorism offences will no longer be released automatically after they have served half of their sentence.\n\nBecause we face \"an unprecedented situation of severe gravity\", the legislation will also apply to serving prisoners, Mr Buckland said.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the legislation would be introduced \"when parliamentary time allows\".\n\nThe government will also consider making new legislation to ensure that extremists are more closely monitored on release and will review whether the current maximum sentences for terrorist offences are sufficient.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland: \"We face an unprecedented situation of severe gravity\"\n\nThe Parole Board for England and Wales has welcomed the plans.\n\nIn a statement, it said it would not \"direct the release of an offender unless [it is] satisfied, taking account of all the evidence, that detention is no longer necessary for the protection of the public\".\n\n\"The board's focus is rightly on those who have committed the most serious criminal offences and it is vital that the most serious offenders are subject to a proper assessment before their release,\" it added.\n\nHowever, human rights group Liberty described the government's actions after recent terror attacks as a \"cause of increasing concern for our civil liberties\".\n\nClare Collier, an advocacy director for the campaign group, said: \"From last month's knee-jerk lie detector proposal, to today's threat to break the law by changing people's sentences retrospectively, continuing to introduce measures without review or evidence is dangerous and will create more problems than it solves.\n\n\"It's clear the UK's counter-terror system is in chaos and desperately needs proper scrutiny and review.\"\n\nResponding to the government announcement in the Commons, shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon said the justice system was in \"crisis\" due to funding cuts.\n\n\"The government cannot use sentencing as a way of distracting from their record of bringing the criminal justice system to breaking point,\" he said.\n\nFormer government counter-terrorism adviser Professor Ian Acheson argued that there might be instances where offenders should stay in prison.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"There will be some people for whom their ideology is bulletproof and there is no way we can get inside that.\n\n\"If there are people who are absolutely determined not to accept any intervention that will change that toxic mind-set, yes they should be in prison and if necessary, indefinitely.\"\n\nAlthough plans for the Parole Board to decide if people convicted of terrorism offences should be released after serving two thirds of their sentence were in the Queen's Speech, there were no proposals at that stage for the measures to apply retrospectively.\n\nAll that changed after the Streatham attack - the third incident involving convicted Islamist extremists in two months.\n\nMinisters are clearly concerned about the risks posed by other prisoners serving sentences for terrorism who are due to be let out: there's about one release, on average, every week.\n\nBut the measures, if approved by Parliament, will almost certainly be the subject of a challenge in the courts. Is it fair that a prisoner who's been convicted and sentenced under one set of rules suddenly finds themselves locked up for longer under a different set of rules?\n\nThe government is likely to justify its approach on the grounds of national security, so prepare for an epic legal battle that may well end up at the Supreme Court.\n\nAmman was shot dead on Streatham High Road on Sunday afternoon after stabbing two people in what police called an Islamist-related terrorist incident. He wore an imitation suicide belt.\n\nHe had been released from prison about a week ago after serving half of a sentence for terror offences, and was under police surveillance.\n\nArmed officers were following Amman on foot as part of a \"proactive counter-terrorism surveillance operation\", Scotland Yard said.\n\nHe was seen entering a shop in Streatham High Road shortly before 14:00 GMT, where he is believed to have stolen a knife. Once outside the shop he attacked two people.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the Metropolitan Police said its officers responded within 60 seconds of Amman's attack, fatally shooting him.\n\nThe force did not reveal more details about its surveillance operation on the terror convict.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dave Chawner said he \"used a blanket to stem the bleeding\" of one of the victims\n\nThree people were taken to hospitals, including the two stabbing victims.\n\nOne victim, a man in his 40s, is now said to be recovering after sustaining injuries that were initially thought to be life-threatening. Another, a woman in her 50s, has been discharged from hospital.\n\nA third woman in her 20s suffered minor injuries, thought to have been caused by broken glass from the gunfire.\n\nThe attack comes after convicted terrorist Khan fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge on 29 November last year.\n\nKhan had been released from jail on licence in 2018, half-way through a 16-year sentence for terrorism offences.\n\nThis prompted a raft of measures to be proposed by the Home Office in January.\n\nThe so-called Counter-Terrorism Bill would also ensure people convicted of serious offences, such as preparing acts of terrorism or directing a terrorist organisation, spend a minimum of 14 years in prison.\n\nThere are currently at least 74 people who were jailed for terror offences and subsequently freed on licence.\n\nThere are also 224 people convicted of terrorism offences in prison in Great Britain, most of whom must be released at the end of their custodial sentence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman near to the scene reacts after a man stabbed two people in Streatham, south London\n\nStreatham High Road - a spot usually bustling with shoppers - is now quiet. As forensic teams search the area for clues, people in this south London suburb have been coming to terms with Sunday's terror attack.\n\nSudesh Amman, 20, was shot dead by police on Sunday afternoon after stabbing two people in what police called an Islamist-related terrorist incident.\n\nThe convicted terrorist was being followed by police when he pulled out a knife and attacked.\n\nStreatham is a far cry from the tourist areas of central London, where previous terror attacks in the capital have taken place.\n\nMany in Streatham are shocked that an event like this could have happened on their doorstep.\n\nEliza Viscount, 39, had been shopping when the attack happened.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I was just out getting usual bits and bobs when I heard police shouting to get back and to get out of the area,\" she said.\n\n\"I had no idea what was going on. I dropped my basket on the floor and ran.\n\n\"I didn't stop shaking for hours later. I'm still in shock.\n\n\"If that can happen on a quiet Sunday when people are just shopping - well that's very worrying isn't it.\"\n\nElizabeth Rowland, another shopper, said she was concerned the attack had happened outside of central London.\n\n\"I can't believe it,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not a tourist place or even a landmark. It's a high street.\n\n\"There's no political reason for doing it here. It's really concerning that it happened so close to home.\"\n\nBecky Smyths, who lives in the area, said she heard \"so many sirens\" echo around Streatham.\n\nBecky Smyths described hearing emergency services respond to the attack on Sunday afternoon\n\nGustof Francis said: \"Streatham has its ups and downs - but nothing like this\"\n\n\"I heard that shots had been fired and I got really scared,\" she said.\n\n\"I only live up the road so it was really scary. It's only February and this has already happened.\"\n\nSunday's attack was the third described by police as terror-related in London since the threat level was downgraded by the Home Office in November.\n\nA large police cordon remains in place and forensic teams remained in the Boots pharmacy on Monday swiping the floors for clues.\n\nAlthough bewildered and concerned, many locals expressed a determination to carry on as normal.\n\n\"Yesterday I saw police, armed officers, the army and ambulances swarm to this area,\" said Qasim Khan, who owns a business near to the scene.\n\nQasim Khan vowed to carry on his life as normal\n\n\"It was crazy - just like a movie scene.\n\n\"But I will carry on working. I'm not scared.\"\n\n\"There is a need for extra kindness right now,\" Joanna Lockwood said as she walked her dog Pepper.\n\n\"What's really important to know is that this place is very multicultural. We get along together and we're all friends. It's important to let love be the order of the day.\n\n\"We must go back into the shops and not let evil win.\"\n\nSudesh Amman was shot dead by armed police in Streatham outside a Boots on the high street\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joaquin Phoenix has received praise for using his Baftas speech to call out \"systemic racism\" in the film industry.\n\nPhoenix collected the best actor award for Joker on Sunday, and his comments followed an outcry about the all-white acting nominations line-up.\n\n\"I think that we send a very clear message to people of colour that you're not welcome here,\" he said.\n\nActress Viola Davis and director Lulu Wang, who made The Farewell, were among those to applaud him on Twitter.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhile no women were nominated for best director for the seventh year in a row, Wang was at the London ceremony after The Farewell was nominated for best film not in the English language.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lulu Wang This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDavis, who won a Bafta award in 2017 for her role in Fences, thanked Phoenix for his \"honesty, solidarity and courage\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Viola Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I feel very honoured and privileged to be here tonight. The Baftas have already been very supportive of my career and I'm deeply appreciative. But I have to say that I also feel conflicted, because so many of my fellow actors that are deserving don't have that same privilege.\n\n\"I think that we send a very clear message to people of colour that you're not welcome here. I think that's the message that we're sending to people that have contributed so much to our medium and our industry and in ways that we benefit from.\n\n\"I don't think anybody wants a handout or preferential treatment - although that's what we give ourselves every year. People just want to be acknowledged, appreciated and respected for their work.\n\n\"This is not a self-righteous condemnation because I'm ashamed to say that I'm part of the problem. I have not done everything in my power to ensure that the sets I was on are inclusive.\n\n\"But I think it's more than just having sets that are multi-cultural. We have to do really the hard work to truly understand systemic racism.\n\n\"I think it is the obligation of the people that have created and perpetuate and benefit from a system of oppression to be the ones that dismantle it. So that's on us.\"\n\nOther figures from the film and TV industries were quick to applaud the actor for telling some hard \"facts\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by kerry washington This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlma Har'el, who directed 2019 film Honey Boy, tweeted: \"Correct me if I'm wrong but this is the first time... In a long time... I see a white man uses the stage he's given to say what we all need to hear.\"\n\nShe added: \"We mostly hear women speak up and this is encouraging and will help our work. Thank you Joaquin.\"\n\nYvette Nicole Brown, known for starring in TV shows including Community, posted: \"Tell the truth then, Joaquin!\" followed by a series of hand-clap emojis.\n\nShameless and The Walking Dead writer LaToya Morgan added: \"This is how you use your time & platform. Well said, Joaquin. Well said.\"\n\nBritish stand-up comedian Tez Ilyas wrote: \"Thank you Joaquin for articulating how many people feel and aren't able to express.\"\n\nPhoenix shared a conversation with the Duke of Cambridge at the ceremony\n\nPhoenix, who had previously been nominated for The Master, Gladiator and Walk the Line, is favourite to win best actor at the Oscars next Sunday.\n\nWriter and broadcaster Hanna Ines Flint said she now wants to see him \"put his words into action\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Hanna Ines Flint This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge, who is president of Bafta, also spoke at the ceremony about the need for change, noting that the organisation \"takes this issue seriously\".\n\nHe said: \"In 2020, and not for the first time in the last few years, we find ourselves talking again about the need to do more to ensure diversity in the sector and in the awards process - that simply cannot be right in this day and age.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The NHS in England is hiring 10,000 school leavers given training by the Prince's Trust charity.\n\nThe new staff will go some way towards solving the shortage caused by rising demands on the service and falling EU migration.\n\nThe trust's research suggests there is concern among public-sector employers that jobs are becoming harder to fill.\n\nThe new staff will work in non-clinical jobs although some may train as nurses or doctors eventually.\n\n\"There are lots of young people who struggle to access the kinds of careers and opportunities that we offer and the opportunity of this partnership is to reach out to those young people,\" NHS Employers chief executive Danny Mortimer told BBC News.\n\nIn Birmingham, where the NHS is the city's biggest employer, training of the new staff is well under way, with some already in post.\n\nRoisin Brown, 24, has a new job as a health-care assistant on a cancer ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham's biggest.\n\nShe was referred to the Prince's Trust after struggling to find work once she had re-taken her English GCSE at a further education college.\n\nShe said: \"If you want to go into nursing but don't feel like university is something that you want to do or something that you feel like you could possibly do, then try different avenues.\n\n\"I could work and build up to become a nurse eventually.\"\n\nA YouGov poll of 1,000 managers across all sectors, conducted in September 2019 for the Prince's Trust but not yet been published, found 63% of those in the public sector believed there was currently a skills shortage in their area.\n\nPrince's Trust chief executive Dame Martina Milburn said: \"Some employers use recruitment processes that make it hard for them to fill vacancies as well as making it hard for young people to get their first job.\n\n\"It is vital that employers start thinking about recruitment differently.\"\n\nEmployers need to change their recruitment practices to fill jobs, the Prince's Trust says\n\nThe trust also hopes to train young people for the social-care sector, which employers fear suffers because it doesn't carry the same prestige as the NHS.\n\nThe training organisation Skills for Care estimates there is a shortage of 11,500 staff in adult social care in the West Midlands region alone.\n\nJagdeep Khatkar, director of Oakview care home, in the Birmingham suburb of Quinton, has begun to hire younger staff from his home city.\n\nHe said: \"The sector has had a bit of a PR issue in the past.\n\n\"It's important that we now appeal to the younger people in particular and show that there is a real career path for young people to follow.\"", "The letter, dated last week, was written by DUP leader Arlene Foster\n\nThe DUP has highlighted sticking points to a deal on the Troubles legacy issues in a letter sent to Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith.\n\nThey include examining whether all state-related killings should be investigated by a new body.\n\nIn her letter, party leader Arlene Foster details four areas she wants addressed in talks ahead of legislation being tabled at Westminster.\n\nShe writes \"substantive discussions\" are needed on the way forward.\n\nAs part of the deal which saw Stormont return, the government pledged, within 100 days, to introduce legislation to implement a legacy deal struck five years ago.\n\nIt includes an Historical Investigations Unit (HIU) to look into Troubles killings.\n\nSinn Féin has requested an urgent meeting about Troubles legacy issues with Secretary of State Julian Smith\n\nMrs Foster's letter, dated last week, states its caseload should not necessarily examine \"all state-related deaths\".\n\nIt adds that concerns about the HIU \"has led to many victims and survivors of terrorism losing confidence or not being supportive\".\n\nIt suggests victims could help \"co-design\" it and points out \"over 90% of the deaths and injuries of the Troubles were caused by terrorist organisations\".\n\nMrs Foster writes the idea the HIU could also investigate non-criminal police misconduct \"is causing considerable angst\".\n\nShe also repeats the party wants a new definition of a victim to mean a person killed or injured through no fault of their own.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News on Sunday, Mrs Foster said \"we need to revisit the Stormont House Agreement, because what is being proposed is not acceptable\".\n\n\"Victims were not treated well in the Belfast Agreement - that was left as an open wound.\n\n\"We now have been left, nearly 22 years later, and we're still dealing with these issues.\"\n\nShe said it was important to \"recognise what actually happened here in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"We did have a terrorist campaign and there were so many innocent victims as a result of that.\"\n\nA public consultation on proposals to address the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland was launched in 2018\n\nSpeaking after Mrs Foster's interview, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said she had requested an urgent meeting with Julian Smith to address concerns about the British government's approach.\n\nThe deputy first minister said: \"The British and Irish governments and the political parties, including the DUP, signed up to the Stormont House Agreement to ensure that victims of the conflict could get full disclosure about the killings of their loved ones.\n\n\"That agreement must be implemented in full, including the mechanisms for dealing with the legacy of the conflict, and cannot be cherry-picked by the British government or the DUP.\"\n\nShe added: \"The British government needs to implement its commitments in full in a human rights compliant manner.\"", "Stories like Paula's, whose first universal credit payment wasn't enough to live on, are thought to have \"scared people\"\n\nFull rollout of universal credit, the government's flagship welfare reform, is being delayed again, adding £500m to its overall cost, the BBC has learned.\n\nOfficials say not enough people are moving to the benefit as they are \"scared\" to move to universal credit.\n\nThe system was meant to be fully live by April 2017, but the new delay will push it back to September 2024.\n\nThe welfare delivery minister, Will Quince, said claimants would not lose money as a result of the change.\n\nThe backroom discussions leading to the latest delay were recorded by a BBC team whose series, Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State, starts on Tuesday.\n\nThe new benefit, which replaces six existing payments, has been beset by problems, with claimants having to wait at least five weeks for the payments to start and many reports of people falling into debt, and having to resort to food banks as a consequence.\n\nPeople transferring to universal credit have to wait five weeks for the first payment\n\nOn top of that, advance payments of the benefit, introduced to help people through the five weeks with no money coming in, have been blamed for putting claimants into debt. That's because once the benefit finally comes through, payments are reduced to pay off the advance.\n\nClaimants are meant to transfer onto universal credit when they have a change of circumstances, such as moving in with a new partner.\n\nThe film-makers were allowed access to meetings inside the Department for Work and Pensions, and officials are seen pondering what to do when they realise fewer people are reporting changes of circumstances and therefore being transferred to the new benefit, than expected.\n\nOne programme shows Bolton mum Paula struggling to feed her family when her first universal credit payment comes in at just over £500 for a month, because of deductions to pay off the advance she took during the five-week wait.\n\nShe ends up resorting to a food bank. \"I have just got myself into one big mess and I have lost control over everything,\" Paula tells a debt counsellor.\n\n\"I am in debt up to my eyeballs and it's not going to go away.\"\n\nThe counsellor tells her: \"Any customer on universal credit, we already know that you're standing on the back foot.\n\n\"If you don't have money saved up already or you don't have backup of family who can support you, you will fall into taking an advance payment.\"\n\nShe added that benefit deductions to pay off the advance, leave people \"constantly trying to catch up\".\n\nNeil Couling, the senior civil servant in charge of the rollout for the past five years, is filmed telling a Whitehall meeting: \"We've got a lot of anecdotal evidence of people being scared to come to universal credit.\n\n\"It's a potentially serious issue for us, in terms of completing the project by December 2023, but I'm urging people not to panic.\"\n\n\"I'll take the beating\": senior civil servant Neil Couling decides to delay full rollout by another nine months\n\nBut a few weeks later, in September 2019, he decides to delay full rollout to September 2024, putting £500m on the bill.\n\n\"Three, six or nine months, it doesn't matter - the headline will be: 'Delay, disaster',\" he says\n\n\"I would say, 'Go safe, put the claimants first, and I'll take the beating.'\"\n\nDespite the problems, Mr Couling says he believes that once universal credit is fully implemented, it will be successful and regarded as \"the right thing to do\".\n\n\"This is the system that will form the bedrock of social security for the next 30 years.\"\n\nHe expects universal credit to continue to grow, with 2.6 million people already on it by September last year: \"Right now there's no way I can put the brakes on and stop.\n\n\"I have to keep going to the destination or you have to set me a different destination, because there's 2.6 million people, and if we get something wrong we could disrupt their lives and they've got no alternative. There's no alternative bank they can go to get help. We are the payer of last resort.\"\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary, Margaret Greenwood, called the news \"hugely embarrassing\" for the government and called for universal credit to be scrapped.\n\n\"Universal credit was supposed to be its flagship social security programme.\n\n\"Instead we now find that it is being forced to delay the full rollout because the public have so very little faith in it and many are actually afraid of it,\" said Ms Greenwood.\n\nThe government says universal credit was always intended to be introduced slowly.\n\nIt is \"the biggest change to the welfare system in a generation, bringing together six overlapping benefits into one monthly payment and offering support to some of the most vulnerable people in society\", said Mr Quince.\n\n\"It is right that we revisit our forecasts and plan, and re-plan accordingly, ensuring that the process is working well for people on benefits.\"", "Mike Hoare, seen here with his bodyguard in 1964, was internationally renowned until his career ended in an embarrassing anti-climax\n\nMichael \"Mad Mike\" Hoare, widely considered the world's best known mercenary, has died aged 100.\n\nBorn in India to Irish parents, he led campaigns in the Congo in the 1960s that earned him fame at the time, and a controversial legacy years later.\n\nHis career reached an embarrassing end in 1981, when he was jailed for leading a failed coup in the Seychelles.\n\nMr Hoare's son, Chris Hoare, said in a statement that his father died in a care facility in Durban, South Africa.\n\n\"Mike Hoare lived by the philosophy that you get more out of life by living dangerously, so it is all the more remarkable that he lived more than 100 years,\" he said.\n\nAfter serving in the British Army during the Second World War and reaching the rank of major, Mr Hoare began his post-war career as an accountant, running several small businesses in South Africa.\n\nBut it was in 1961 that he was introduced to Moïse Tshombe - a Congolese politician and businessman who would go on to become prime minister of the Congo three years later.\n\nIn 1964, Mr Tshombe hired Mr Hoare to take on the communist-backed Simba rebellion.\n\nWhen the campaign was completed 18 months later, Mr Hoare and his unit of mercenaries - which he nicknamed the \"Wild Geese\" - were internationally known.\n\nHis fervent anti-communist beliefs earned him no fans in many nations, with East German radio regularly describing him as \"that mad bloodhound Hoare\". This led to him being nicknamed \"Mad Mike\" - a moniker with which he was delighted.\n\nIn 1978, a mercenary adventure film called The Wild Geese was released. The film starred Richard Burton as Colonel Allen Faulkner, a character based heavily on Mr Hoare.\n\nActors Richard Harris, Roger Moore, Richard Burton and Hardy Krüger starred in the 1978 film The Wild Geese, based on Mike Hoare's mercenaries\n\nBut following his successful campaigns in the Congo, what came next turned him into an international laughing stock.\n\nMr Hoare appeared to be retired from military life by the start of the 1980s - but in 1981 he launched a surprise attempt at overthrowing the government of the Seychelles.\n\nIt is believed that Mr Hoare knew the Seychelles well, and had a particular hatred of its socialist government under President Albert René.\n\nHaving gained the tacit support of the governments of South Africa and Kenya, Mr Hoare began to plot.\n\nIn October 1981 he had a cache of weapons delivered to his suburban bungalow in South Africa, which he hid in his cellar. He recruited 46 men, and with them he planned to enter the Seychelles disguised as a charitable drinking club of former rugby players.\n\nAlmost all of the men managed to get through customs at Mahe airport. However, one of their group joined the wrong queue, got into an argument with a customs officer, and ended up having his bag searched.\n\nWhen officers found a dismantled AK-47, the man panicked and revealed that there were more weapons outside.\n\nAt this point the entire plan unravelled, and amid the ensuing conflict at the airport the mercenaries commandeered an Air India plane and flew it back to South Africa.\n\nWhen they arrived the mercenaries were jailed for six days, and Mr Hoare and his plans - dubbed \"the package-holiday coup\" - were ridiculed in the global press.\n\nA year later they were tried for hijacking the Air India plane. Mr Hoare was sentenced to 20 years, with 10 years suspended. He was released after 33 months.\n\nMr Hoare spent his final years in South Africa, and published several memoirs - including Mercenary, The Road to Kalamata, and The Seychelles Affair.", "Jessica Breeze said she could not remember stabbing her father\n\nA woman who stabbed her \"controlling\" father after suffering years of abuse has been found not guilty of his murder and manslaughter.\n\nJessica Breeze, 20, denied murdering Colin Brady, 49, at the family home in Keith Road, Middlesbrough, in June.\n\nMiss Breeze told Teesside Crown Court her father had frequently injured her in regular bouts of violence.\n\nHe had punched and threatened to kill Miss Breeze and her mother before he was stabbed in the back, jurors heard.\n\nThe prosecution alleged Miss Breeze had stabbed her father as he was leaving the house.\n\nIn evidence, the nursery worker recalled how her father would \"kick off\" and \"smash the place up\" if she returned home late.\n\nAsked by her barrister, Simon Russell Flint QC, if she ever reported her father's violent outbursts, she replied: \"No. I was scared. I thought it was pointless.\"\n\nMr Brady had previous convictions for violence, including causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nHe had attacked Miss Breeze's mother, Kelly Breeze, in an assault a police constable said was the worst he had seen.\n\nColin Brady was stabbed during a violent row at the family's home in Middlesbrough last summer\n\nThe trial had heard that an argument broke out after Miss Breeze's parents discovered she had been secretly seeing her boyfriend when she said she had been at work.\n\nDuring the row, Mr Brady slapped or punched his then 19-year-old daughter several times, before her mother intervened, the court heard.\n\n\"He was punching me in the face with his fists,\" Miss Breeze told the jury. \"He said he was going to kill us.\"\n\nShe was one digit away from dialling 999 when he demanded she hand over her phone, the court heard.\n\nThe court was told she had \"no memory of picking up the knife\".\n\nHe was taken to hospital with an 18cm-deep wound to his left lung, but could not be saved.\n\nJessica Breeze and her lawyer Sean Grainger spoke outside the court\n\nOutside court, Miss Breeze's solicitor, Sean Grainger, said in a statement: \"The jury accepted she was acting in lawful self-defence of herself and her mother when under a sustained and violent attack by her father.\n\n\"Further, whilst Jessica was brought up in a highly toxic home environment where she and her mother were regularly subject to extreme physical and emotional abuse by her father, Jessica wishes to make it clear she loved her father, she still does and wishes he was still here.\n\n\"She now wishes to rebuild her life, get back to work and move on from the seven-month ordeal she has endured since her arrest.\"\n\nFollowing the acquittal, a CPS spokesperson said: \"While there was evidence of a sometimes violent relationship between the victim, Colin Brady, and the defendant, Jessica Breeze, the circumstances of his death made a charge of murder wholly appropriate in this case.\n\n\"Regardless of the alleged provocation for the attack, the victim was attacked in the back as he walked away from the defendant.\n\n\"He was stabbed with such force that it passed from his back through his entire left lung and into his chest. Despite claims of self-defence by the defendant, the evidence was such that there was a case to answer.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eyewitnesses have described scenes of distress and panic when a man was shot dead by police after stabbing people in Streatham, London.\n\nThey told the BBC how they fled at the sound of gunshots on Streatham High Road just after 14:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThree people were injured in the attack - carried out by Sudesh Amman, 20 - but none is in a critical condition.\n\nOne man said he gave people looking after one of the victims a blanket to \"help stem the bleeding\".\n\nDave Chawner, who had been on the way to the cinema, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I heard what I thought at that time was a car backfiring.\n\n\"I turned back and turned round and saw a small group of people around a man who was on the floor who was incredibly distressed, he was holding his lower right quadrant and there was blood everywhere.\n\n\"I happened to have a blanket in my bag and I gave it to them to help stem the bleeding and I ran to the nearest crossroads to wave down the ambulance.\"\n\nMr Chawner said the ambulance \"took well over half an hour to arrive\", which was \"incredibly frustrating and distressing\".\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said its medics were at the scene in four minutes, but were sent to a rendezvous point until police told them it was safe to treat patients.\n\nPeople gathered near the scene in Streatham\n\nAdam Blake, who was walking along Streatham Common, described how he saw two or three cars crash into each other, including an unmarked police car, as the incident unfolded.\n\n\"Another police car carried on towards the hill pursuing someone,\" he told the BBC.\n\nA police officer was seen pointing a gun at a man, who was seen on the floor outside Boots\n\nGjon Kathegjolli said he was in a barber shop when he heard a woman, who was with a baby in a push chair and two young boys, scream and saw her being stabbed.\n\nA man then walked past carrying a knife the size of his forearm, he said.\n\nDaniel Gough said he was out for a run when he heard shots and everyone ran.\n\n\"There was panic, people were yelling,\" he said. \"A young girl running alongside me kept asking 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' - she was very distressed.\n\n\"I saw a policeman and he yelled, telling everyone to get back. His gun was pointing in the direction of a man on the floor.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClare Henson-Bowen, who was walking past a pub with her husband and children, initially thought there had been a shoplifting incident.\n\n\"It happened really quickly. Lots of people were running. A lady on a bike looked like she was pushed…. another guy was wrapping a shirt around his arm, and the guy who had stolen something ran, thankfully, in the other direction,\" she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"I don't think it's really sunk in,\" she said, adding that residents had \"come together\" in the aftermath.\n\nLee Ford, a local electrician, said: \"To see this happen on my doorstep - our doorstep - it's very shocking.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's something you see on the news, not necessarily what you see on your on your doorstep.\"\n\nDo you have any information to share? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Sam Mendes won best director and best film for 1917\n\nWorld War One film 1917 was the big winner at the Bafta Film Awards on Sunday, with seven prizes in total.\n\nThe trophies for Sir Sam Mendes's movie included best film, best British film, best director and best cinematography.\n\nJoker won three awards including best actor for Joaquin Phoenix, while Renee Zellweger was named best actress for her portrayal of Judy Garland.\n\nPhoenix took aim at \"systemic racism\" and \"oppression\" within the film industry in his acceptance speech.\n\nHis words, and those of the Duke of Cambridge later, came in the wake of a diversity row prompted by the all-white line-up of acting nominees.\n\nSouth Korean film Parasite won two prizes - for original screenplay and film not in the English language.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nThere were no major upsets or surprise winners, with 1917 unarguably dominating the evening.\n\n\"I couldn't be more thrilled,\" director Sir Sam told BBC News backstage. \"There's the personal delight in seeing a story very close to me and my family be developed and enlarged but the massive thing has been audiences going in large numbers.\n\n\"None of us knew if an audience would turn up, it wasn't certain at all. It's coincided with awards season and the fact this is still number one in the UK after four weeks, [the awards have] really alerted people to the fact the movie is on, it rarely happens like that.\"\n\nSir Sam is the first British winner of best director at the Baftas since Danny Boyle won for Slumdog Millionaire in 2009.\n\nDern was the hot favourite to win her award for best supporting actress\n\nBrad Pitt won best supporting actor for his role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and made a Brexit joke in a message read out by his co-star Margot Robbie.\n\n\"Hey, Britain, hear you've become single - welcome to the club! Wishing you the best with the divorce settlement,\" the actress read.\n\nShe added: \"He says he is going to name this Harry because he is really excited about bringing it back to the States with him. His words not mine.\"\n\nLaura Dern was named best supporting actress for her performance as a divorce lawyer in Marriage Story.\n\n\"Thank you Bafta, thank you for including me in this room of extraordinary artists as we get to tell stories and do the job we love,\" she said.\n\nIt is the first time since 1977 that all four of the Bafta awards for acting have been won by Americans.\n\nAccepting the leading actress award for her performance in Judy, Zellweger said: \"This is very humbling. Miss Garland, London town, which you have always loved so much, still loves you back. This is for you.\"\n\nZellweger, Phoenix, Dern and Pitt have now won their acting categories at every major ceremony of awards season so far. In addition to their Baftas, they have won at the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics' Choice Awards.\n\nAll four are highly likely to triumph at next weekend's Oscars.\n\nRenee Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix won the two leading actor categories\n\nJoker picked up best original score for its composer Hildur Gudnadottir and the inaugural casting award, which went to Shayna Markowitz.\n\n\"I feel very honoured and privileged... but I have to say that I also feel conflicted because so many of my fellow actors that are deserving don't have that same privilege,\" Phoenix said as he accepted his best actor award for the film.\n\n\"I think that we send a very clear message to people of colour that you're not welcome here, I think that's the message that we're sending to people that have contributed so much to our medium and our industry and in ways that we benefit from.\"\n\nHis comments follow a row about the lack of diversity among this year's Bafta nominations.\n\nAll 18 acting nominees were white, and no female directors were nominated for the seventh year in a row.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge, who is the president of Bafta, also spoke at the ceremony about the need for change.\n\n\"In 2020, and not for the first time in the last few years, we find ourselves talking again about the need to do more to ensure diversity in the sector and in the awards process - that simply cannot be right in this day and age,\" he said.\n\n\"Bafta take this issue seriously, and following this year's nominations, have launched a full and thorough review of the entire awards process to build on their existing work and ensure that opportunities are available to everyone.\"\n\nNetflix's festive animation Klaus won best animation, beating big hitters like Toy Story 4 and Frozen 2.\n\nBombshell, which tells the story of the 2016 sexual harassment scandal at Fox News, picked up best hair and make-up.\n\nBest short animation went to Granddad Was A Romantic, while best costume went to a new adaptation of Little Women, directed by Greta Gerwig.\n\nThe award for best adapted screenplay went to Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit.\n\nMicheal Ward, star of Top Boy and Blue Story, was named the Bafta rising star.\n\n\"Blue Story, I wouldn't be here without the movie,\" he said. \"To people watching at home, looking at me, life doesn't have to be this way, see the opportunities, see a vision.\"\n\nFor Sama, a film about a young mother's experience of the Syrian civil war, won best documentary.\n\nSyrian film-maker Waad Al-Kateab took her four-year-old daughter Sama, for whom the film was made, with her on to the stage.\n\nShe told the audience in London's Royal Albert Hall: \"I wanted to dedicate it to the great Syrian people who are still suffering today and the nurses, doctors and volunteers, I dedicate it to them, let them hear your voice.\"\n\nAndy Serkis was honoured with the outstanding British contribution to film award, presented to him by Sir Ian McKellen.\n\n1917 might have walked off with the top prize - best film - but its success might not necessarily bode well for next week's Oscars.\n\nFor the past five years, the Bafta best film winner has not gone on to win best picture at the Academy Awards.\n\nBafta winners and nominees in most categories are voted for by 6,700 academy members, who are industry professionals and creatives around the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "An ITV boss has said staff at the TV station are \"devastated\" by the \"tragic\" death of ex-Love Island presenter Caroline Flack.\n\nDirector of television Kevin Lygo said that when Flack stepped down after being charged with assaulting her boyfriend, the door was left open for her to return as host on the ITV2 show.\n\nTonight's episode will carry a tribute to her from Iain Stirling and the team.\n\nA lawyer for Flack's family said she had taken her own life.\n\nIn a statement, Lygo, ITV's director of television, said Flack had been part of the dating show \"from the very beginning\" and her \"passion, dedication and boundless energy contributed to the show's success\".\n\nCaroline \"was very vocal\" in her support of the show, and viewers \"could relate to her and she to them\", he said.\n\nLygo added that, after Flack stepped down, the channel \"made it clear that the door was left open for her to return\".\n\nHe said the show's team remained in \"regular contact with her\" and \"continued to offer support over the last few months\".\n\n\"We will all miss her very much,\" he added.\n\nLove Island is to return tonight after two episodes over the weekend were cancelled after the 40-year-old was found dead in her north London home on Saturday.\n\nITV confirmed companion show Love Island: Aftersun will not air on Monday while the Morning After podcast will not take place on Tuesday.\n\nIn a joint statement, ITV and Just Eat, Love Island's advertising partner, said they have worked with Samaritans to replace the branding for tonight's episode \"so that anyone affected by Caroline's death can access support\".\n\nLaura Whitmore replaced her as host of the dating show after Flack was charged with assaulting her boyfriend, Lewis Burton, last December, and had been due to stand trial. Flack denied the charge.\n\nHer management company said she had been \"under huge pressure\" since the assault charge.\n\nFollowing her death, a petition was launched calling for new laws to prevent sections of the media \"knowingly and relentlessly bullying people, famous or not\".\n\nThe petition, calling for the introduction of \"Caroline's Law\", has had more than 500,000 signatures so far.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nDozens of celebrities, friend and former Love Island contestants have paid tribute to Flack, who had also co-hosted The X Factor and won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014, describing her death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe also shared on Instagram a picture of Flack taken on Friday night, the last time she saw her.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Burton wrote an emotional tribute to Flack on Instagram, promising he would \"try [to] make you proud everyday\".\n\n\"I am so lost for words I am in so much pain I miss you so much I know you felt safe with me you always said I don't think about anything else when I am with you and I was not allowed to be there this time I kept asking and asking,\" the 27-year-old tennis player wrote.\n\nFlack's management company has criticised the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for refusing to drop the charge against her, even though Mr Burton said he did not want the case to go ahead.\n\nBail conditions had stopped Flack having any contact with Mr Burton ahead of her trial next month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe CPS said it would not comment on the specifics of the case but in response to questions about its role, it outlined on Sunday how it reached decisions over whether or not to charge someone.\n\nA statement said: \"We do not decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offence - that is for the jury, judge or magistrate - but we must make the key decision of whether a case should be put before a court.\"\n\nIt said every decision over whether to charge someone is based on the same two-stage test - does the evidence provide a realistic prospect of conviction, and is it in the public interest to prosecute?\n\nThat includes asking how serious the offence is, the harm caused to the victim and whether prosecution is a proportionate response.\n\nFormer chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said his impression was that the case had been determined to be a serious case, and one which the CPS felt it should proceed with \"regardless of what the victim thought\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLove Island's sixth season and first winter series, which is currently being filmed in South Africa, is due to end on Sunday, 23 February.\n\nOn Monday, former Love Island contestants spoke of their feelings on The Victoria Derbyshire Show.\n\nCally Jane Beech, who was one the show in 2015, said controls on what people say on social media needed to be be put in place.\n\n\"There needs to be better protection for people, setting up identification when you open a profile or account, there needs to be some sort of ID attached to it so that you are accountable for what you say to people.\"\n\nLaura Whitmore had also paid tribute to her \"vivacious\" and \"loving\" friend on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting on his Instagram story on Monday, former Apprentice candidate and Flack's ex-boyfriend Andrew Brady said: \"I love you Caroline Flack and I think I always will.\"\n\nResponding to reports that the ambulance service was called to Flack's address the day before she was found dead, a London Ambulance spokesperson said: \"We were called shortly after 22:30 on 14 February to a residential property in north London.\n\n\"Crews attended and, following a clinical assessment, the person was not taken to hospital. Due to patient confidentiality we cannot comment further.\"\n\nChannel 4 has said it will not broadcast its forthcoming show The Surjury, which was to have been hosted by Flack.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Japan's economy shrank at the fastest rate in five years at the end of 2019 as it was hit by a sales tax rise, a major typhoon and weak global demand.\n\nAnnualised gross domestic product (GDP) fell by a much steeper than expected 6.3% in October-December.\n\nThere are also concerns the coronavirus outbreak will mean the slump continues this quarter.\n\nThat has raised fears that the world's third-biggest economy may fall into recession.\n\nDuring the period Japanese consumer spending fell 2.9% after the country's sales tax was raised in October to 10% from 8%. In the same month Typhoon Hagibis hit large parts of the country.\n\nLast quarter, capital spending dropped by 3.7% and exports slipped 0.1% amid the ongoing US-China trade war.\n\nInvestors are now watching to see whether the economy will rebound after the coronavirus forced China to shut down factories and led to a big drop in Chinese tourists visiting Japan.\n\nIn response to today's data economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said the Japanese government was ready to take all necessary steps to deal with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the economy and tourism.\n\nIn December Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government approved $120bn (£90bn) in spending aimed at cushioning the impact of the sales tax rise.\n\nThe shrink in GDP was the first in more than a year and the largest since a 7.4% fall in 2014, the last time Japan raised its sales tax.", "A document that appears to give the most powerful insight yet into how China determined the fate of hundreds of thousands of Muslims held in a network of internment camps has been seen by the BBC.\n\nListing the personal details of more than 3,000 individuals from the far western region of Xinjiang, it sets out in intricate detail the most intimate aspects of their daily lives.\n\nThe painstaking records - made up of 137 pages of columns and rows - include how often people pray, how they dress, whom they contact and how their family members behave.\n\nChina denies any wrongdoing, saying it is combating terrorism and religious extremism.\n\nThe document is said to have come, at considerable personal risk, from the same source inside Xinjiang that leaked a batch of highly sensitive material published last year.\n\nOne of the world's leading experts on China's policies in Xinjiang, Dr Adrian Zenz, a senior fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, believes the latest leak is genuine.\n\n\"This remarkable document presents the strongest evidence I've seen to date that Beijing is actively persecuting and punishing normal practices of traditional religious beliefs,\" he says.\n\nOne of the camps mentioned in it, the \"Number Four Training Centre\" has been identified by Dr Zenz as among those visited by the BBC as part of a tour organised by the Chinese authorities in May last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC previously visited one of the camps identified by scholars using the Karakax List\n\nMuch of the evidence uncovered by the BBC team appears to be corroborated by the new document, redacted for publication to protect the privacy of those included in it.\n\nIt contains details of the investigations into 311 main individuals, listing their backgrounds, religious habits, and relationships with many hundreds of relatives, neighbours and friends.\n\nVerdicts written in a final column decide whether those already in internment should remain or be released, and whether some of those previously released need to return.\n\nIt is evidence that appears to directly contradict China's claim that the camps are merely schools.\n\nIn an article analysing and verifying the document, Dr Zenz argues that it also offers a far deeper understanding of the real purpose of the system.\n\nIt allows a glimpse inside the minds of those making the decisions, he says, laying bare the \"ideological and administrative micromechanics\" of the camps.\n\nRow 598 contains the case of a 38-year-old woman with the first name Helchem, sent to a re-education camp for one main reason: she was known to have worn a veil some years ago.\n\nIt is just one of a number of cases of arbitrary, retrospective punishment.\n\nOthers were interned simply for applying for a passport - proof that even the intention to travel abroad is now seen as a sign of radicalisation in Xinjiang.\n\nIn row 66, a 34-year-old man with the first name Memettohti was interned for precisely this reason, despite being described as posing \"no practical risk\".\n\nAnd then there's the 28-year-old man Nurmemet in row 239, put into re-education for \"clicking on a web-link and unintentionally landing on a foreign website\".\n\nAgain, his case notes describe no other issues with his behaviour.\n\nThe 311 main individuals listed are all from Karakax County, close to the city of Hotan in southern Xinjiang, an area where more than 90% of the population is Uighur.\n\nPredominantly Muslim, the Uighurs are closer in appearance, language and culture to the peoples of Central Asia than to China's majority ethnicity, the Han Chinese.\n\nIn recent decades the influx of millions of Han settlers into Xinjiang has led to rising ethnic tensions and a growing sense of economic exclusion among Uighurs.\n\nThose grievances have sometimes found expression in sporadic outbreaks of violence, fuelling a cycle of increasingly harsh security responses from Beijing.\n\nIt is for this reason that the Uighurs have become the target - along with Xinjiang's other Muslim minorities, like the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz - of the campaign of internment.\n\nThe \"Karakax List\", as Dr Zenz calls the document, encapsulates the way the Chinese state now views almost any expression of religious belief as a signal of disloyalty.\n\nTo root out that perceived disloyalty, he says, the state has had to find ways to penetrate deep into Uighur homes and hearts.\n\nIn early 2017, when the internment campaign began in earnest, groups of loyal Communist Party workers, known as \"village-based work teams\", began to rake through Uighur society with a massive dragnet.\n\nWith each member assigned a number of households, they visited, befriended and took detailed notes about the \"religious atmosphere\" in the homes; for example, how many Korans they had or whether religious rites were observed.\n\nThe Karakax List appears to be the most substantial evidence of the way this detailed information gathering has been used to sweep people into the camps.\n\nIt reveals, for example, how China has used the concept of \"guilt by association\" to incriminate and detain whole extended family networks in Xinjiang.\n\nFor every main individual, the 11th column of the spreadsheet is used to record their family relationships and their social circle.\n\nAlongside each relative or friend listed is a note of their own background; how often they pray, whether they've been interned, whether they've been abroad.\n\nIn fact, the title of the document makes clear that the main individuals listed all have a relative currently living overseas - a category long seen as a key indicator of potential disloyalty, leading to almost certain internment.\n\nRows 179, 315 and 345 contain a series of assessments for a 65-year-old man, Yusup.\n\nHis record shows two daughters who \"wore veils and burkas in 2014 and 2015\", a son with Islamic political leanings and a family that displays \"obvious anti-Han sentiment\".\n\nHis verdict is \"continued training\" - one of a number of examples of someone interned not just for their own actions and beliefs, but for those of their family.\n\nThe information collected by the village teams is also fed into Xinjiang's big data system, called the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP).\n\nThe IJOP contains the region's surveillance and policing records, culled from a vast network of cameras and the intrusive mobile spyware every citizen is forced to download.\n\nThe IJOP, Dr Zenz suggests, can in turn use its AI brain to cross-reference these layers of data and send \"push notifications\" to the village teams to investigate a particular individual.\n\nThe man found \"unintentionally landing on a foreign website\" may well have been interned thanks to the IJOP.\n\nIn many cases though, there is little need for advanced technology, with the vast and vague catch-all term \"untrustworthy\" appearing multiple times in the document.\n\nIt is listed as the sole reason for the internment of a total of 88 individuals.\n\nThe concept, Dr Zenz argues, is proof that the system is designed not for those who have committed a crime, but for an entire demographic viewed as potentially suspicious.\n\nChina says Xinjiang has policies that \"respect and ensure people's freedom of religious belief\". It also insists that what it calls a \"vocational training programme in Xinjiang\" is \"for the purposes of combating terrorism and religious extremism\", adding only people who have been convicted of crimes involving terrorism or religious extremism are being \"educated\" in these centres.\n\nHowever, many of the cases in the Karakax List give multiple reasons for internment; various combinations of religion, passport, family, contacts overseas or simply being untrustworthy.\n\nThe most frequently listed is for violating China's strict family planning laws.\n\nIn the eyes of the Chinese authorities it seems, having too many children is the clearest sign that Uighurs put their loyalty to culture and tradition above obedience to the secular state.\n\nChina has long defended its actions in Xinjiang as part of an urgent response to the threat of extremism and terrorism.\n\nThe Karakax List does contain some references to those kinds of crimes, with at least six entries for preparing, practicing or instigating terrorism and two cases of watching illegal videos.\n\nBut the broader focus of those compiling the document appears to be faith itself, with more than 100 entries describing the \"religious atmosphere\" at home.\n\nThe Karakax List has no stamps or other authenticating marks so, at face value, it is difficult to verify.\n\nIt is thought to have been passed out of Xinjiang sometime before late June last year, along with a number of other sensitive papers.\n\nThey ended up in the hands of an anonymous Uighur exile who passed all of them on, except for this one document.\n\nOnly after the first batch was published last year was the Karakax List then forwarded to his conduit, another Uighur living in Amsterdam, Asiye Abdulaheb.\n\nShe told the BBC that she is certain it is genuine.\n\nAsiye Abdulaheb decided to speak out, despite the danger\n\n\"Regardless of whether there are official stamps on the document or not, this is information about real, live people,\" she says. \"It is private information about people that wouldn't be made public. So there is no way for the Chinese government to claim it is fake.\"\n\nLike all Uighurs living overseas, Ms Abdulaheb lost contact with her family in Xinjiang when the internment campaign began, and she's been unable to contact them since.\n\nBut she says she had no choice but to release the document, passing it to a group of international media organisations, including the BBC.\n\n\"Of course I am worried about the safety of my relatives and friends,\" she says. \"But if everyone keeps silent because they want to protect themselves and their families, then we will never prevent these crimes being committed.\"\n\nAt the end of last year China announced that everyone in its \"vocational training centres\" had now \"graduated\". However, it also suggested some may stay open for new students on the basis of their \"free will\".\n\nAlmost 90% of the 311 main individuals in the Karakax List are shown as having already been released or as being due for release on completion of a full year in the camps.\n\nBut Dr Zenz points out that the re-education camps are just one part of a bigger system of internment, much of which remains hidden from the outside world.\n\nThe outside of one of the camps in Xinjiang\n\nMore than two dozen individuals are listed as \"recommended\" for release into \"industrial park employment\" - career \"advice\" that they may have little choice but to obey. There are well documented concerns that China is now building a system of coerced labour as the next phase of its plan to align Uighur life with its own vision of a modern society.\n\nIn two cases, the re-education ends in the detainees being sent to \"strike hard detention\", a reminder that the formal prison system has been cranked into overdrive in recent years.\n\nMany of the family relationships listed in the document show long prison terms for parents or siblings, sometimes for entirely normal religious observances and practices.\n\nOne man's father is shown to have been sentenced to five years for \"having a double-coloured thick beard and organising a religious studies group\".\n\nA neighbour is reported to have been given 15 years for \"online contact with people overseas\", and another man's younger brother given 10 years for \"storing treasonable pictures on his phone\".\n\nWhether or not China has closed its re-education camps in Xinjiang, Dr Zenz says the Karakax List tells us something important about the psychology of a system that prevails.\n\n\"It reveals the witch-hunt-like mindset that has been and continues to dominate social life in the region,\" he said.", "The car seats ranged in price from £3.99 to £30.99\n\nAmazon says it \"regrets\" that suspect child car seats have once again been found on sale on its UK store, and says it has removed them.\n\nThe products were discovered by BBC Panorama as part of a wider-ranging programme.\n\nThe US firm has repeatedly faced complaints about listing such seats.\n\nA case dating back to 2013 led to a trading standards investigation that confirmed one example would tear apart if involved in a 30mph (48km/h) crash.\n\nMore recently, Which? magazine found examples on Amazon of fabric-based seats that lacked the required safety labelling in 2019. Other outlets, including eBay, were also found to be selling the items at the time.\n\nFour obscure brands were involved in the latest case.\n\nOne listing described the product as being an \"Infant Safe Seat\" capable of preventing injury to a baby if a car urgently braked. It was on sale for just £3.99.\n\nPanorama attempted to contact the brands involved. It received a reply from only one of them, which said it was not the manufacturer.\n\nThe programme purchased three of the suspect seats. They appeared similar in design to some of those involved in the 2013 case and lacked safety labels.\n\nThe documentary-maker alerted Surrey Trading Standards at the start of January. Officers have begun a fresh investigation but have yet to publish their findings.\n\nAmazon's UK chief said the company took proactive steps to ensure the products it sold were safe.\n\n\"Automated algorithms [survey] over five billion product pages every day and we monitors tens of millions of customer reviews,\" Doug Gurr said.\n\nIn a follow-up statement, the firm added: \"Safety is extremely important to us and we regret that these products were available from third-party sellers using our stores.\n\n\"After a thorough investigation, we identified the issue and are removing these products, and we're also contacting each customer who purchased one of these products to explain the situation and issue a refund.\n\n\"We will continue to leverage and improve our tools and technology to ensure only safe and compliant car seats are available worldwide.\"\n\nAt present, the operators of online markets, including Amazon Marketplace, are exempt from liability if they are not aware of illegal content being sold on their platform.\n\nBut Which? has campaigned for this to change as part of the forthcoming Online Harms Bill.\n\n\"The voluntary nature of current checks by marketplaces fails to recognise their role as the primary interface for consumers with the technical, as well as commercial, ability to hold their suppliers to account for consumer safety,\" it blogged in November.\n\n\"Clearer government guidance is needed while this legislation is being drafted.\"\n\nAmazon has sent emails to consumers who purchased the removed seats.\n\nThey said: \"The product you received from a third-party seller may not be compliant with applicable child restraint standards.\n\n\"If you still have this product, please stop using it immediately, cut the straps to ensure it cannot be used, and dispose of the item.\"\n\nAmazon: What They Know About Us will be broadcast on BBC One at 20:30GMT", "A woman looks out of her window as ducks swim past in floodwater after the River Severn burst its banks in Bewdley, west of Birmingham", "Former England striker Ian Wright has tearfully paid tribute to a childhood teacher he remembers as \"the greatest man in the world\".\n\nThe ex-footballer had a hard time keeping the emotion out of his voice as he told Desert Island Discs about being reunited with Sydney Pigden in 2010 (footage of their reunion later went viral).\n\nWhen you were younger, was there a person or a life-changing experience that helped shape who you are today? We'd love to hear your stories. Please email us - haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk", "Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has pledged $10bn (£7.7bn) to help fight climate change.\n\nThe world's richest man said the money would finance work by scientists, activists and other groups.\n\nHe said: \"I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change.\"\n\nWriting on his Instagram account, Mr Bezos said the fund would begin distributing money this summer.\n\nMr Bezos has an estimated net worth of more than $130bn, so the pledge represents almost 8% of his fortune.\n\nSome Amazon employees have urged him to do more to fight climate change. There have been walkouts and some staff have spoken publicly. Also, Mr Bezos is financing the Blue Origin space programme.\n\nCompared to some multi-billionaires, Mr Bezos had done only limited philanthropy. His biggest donation before Monday's pledge is thought to have been $2bn in September 2018 to help homeless families and fund schools.\n\nHe has also been criticised for not signing the Giving Pledge, under which the super-rich promise to give away half of their wealth during their lifetimes.\n\nThe Seattle-based company is a neighbour of Microsoft, which in January unveiled a plan to become carbon negative by 2030.\n\nMr Bezos's full Instagram post read: \"Today, I'm thrilled to announce I am launching the Bezos Earth Fund.⁣⁣⁣\n\n⁣⁣⁣\"Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share. This global initiative will fund scientists, activists, NGOs - any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world.\n\n\"We can save Earth. It's going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation states, global organisations, and individuals. ⁣⁣⁣\n\n⁣⁣⁣\"I'm committing $10bn to start and will begin issuing grants this summer. Earth is the one thing we all have in common - let's protect it, together.\"⁣⁣⁣", "Rocco Wright died in the David Lloyd Leisure pool in Leeds in April 2018\n\nA leisure group is facing prosecution after a three-year-old boy drowned in one of its swimming pools.\n\nRocco Wright died after being found in the pool at the David Lloyd Leisure centre in Moortown, Leeds, in 2018.\n\nEarlier on Monday a jury inquest at Wakefield Coroner's Court ruled his death was accidental.\n\nAfter the inquest Leeds City Council said it believed the group had breached health and safety laws and intended to \"prosecute in the near future\".\n\nIn a statement, the council said: \"The death of a child in any circumstances is tragic, and we continue to offer the Wright family our sincerest sympathy.\n\n\"We will keep in regular contact with the family and ensure they are informed and supported throughout this next stage.\"\n\nThe inquest previously heard how Rocco had to be pulled from the water by his father Steven Wright in April 2018.\n\nMr Wright described how his panic grew as he searched for Rocco before he spotted him at the bottom of the main pool.\n\nHe said his son had never got into the pool by himself and the inquest heard there were no witnesses or CCTV evidence that could explain how Rocco ended up in the water.\n\nThe jury found that the youngster had probably been under the 1.2m (4ft) deep water for more than two minutes.\n\nPolice said there were no witnesses or CCTV to help determine how Rocco got into the pool\n\nJurors were told that at the time of the drowning, there had only been one 17-year-old lifeguard on duty.\n\nDavid Lloyd Leisure's operations director Stephen Brown denied in the inquest there had been cuts to the lifeguard budget at the pool.\n\nHe told the hearing the company's policy was that a maximum of 50 people in a pool could be supervised by a single lifeguard.\n\nMr Brown also denied David Lloyd Leisure had a policy of employing young lifeguards because they were cheaper and added lifeguard staffing levels were for local managers to decide.\n\nOutside the coroner's court, Natalie Marrison - representing Catharine and Steven Wright - said Rocco's parents supported Leeds City Council's investigation and planned prosecution.\n\nMs Marrison said: \"At the heart of this is a three-year-old boy who has lost his life.\n\n\"The family remain devastated by the loss.\"\n\nMr Wright said that the family had \"lost the fun from our lives\" following Rocco's death.\n\n\"We're definitely going to fight for further law and guidelines in this field, just to make sure it can't happen to anyone else,\" he said.\n\n\"No-one should lose a child at a family swim session.\"\n\nIn a statement after the inquest, David Lloyd Leisure said it wanted \"to express our deepest sympathies to Rocco's family\".\n\n\"David Lloyd Leisure never places profit above safety,\" the company said.\n\n\"Subsequent evidence given by David Lloyd Leisure at the inquest showed no evidence of budget cuts to lifeguarding at the Leeds Club at the time of the accident, on the contrary lifeguarding had in fact received increased investment.\"\n\nThe firm added that safety was its \"number one priority\" and it was \"unaware on what basis Leeds City Council intend to prosecute\".\n\nThe jury returned its conclusion after coroner Jonathan Leach told jurors that accident was the only one available to them.\n\nCorrection 17 February: This story has been amended to make it clear it is David Lloyd Leisure that is facing prosecution.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nPep Guardiola has told friends he intends to stay at Manchester City despite the club's two-year ban from the Champions League.\n\nUnless City overturn the ban imposed by Uefa on Friday, they will not compete in European football until 2022 after this season.\n\nGuardiola's contract is due to expire in 2021.\n\nHe is expected to speak about the subject for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nHis contract does have a break clause at the end of this season and it was anticipated he would activate it should City fail to win their appeal which they will be submitting to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the next few days.\n\nHowever, it is understood the 49-year-old has said he will not be doing that and remains committed to the club.\n\nGuardiola is likely to discuss the issue after Wednesday's rearranged Premier League game against West Ham.\n\nIn a bizarre situation, neither side has played since the initial game was postponed due to bad weather on 9 February.\n\nAs both clubs held pre-match news conferences two days before the game was supposed to be played, they have been told by the Premier League there is no contractual requirement to hold another and it is understood neither side will do so.\n• None 'The stakes are high' - why Man City v Uefa is a watershed moment", "The BBC is governed by a Royal Charter, which protects the licence fee until at least 2027\n\nTwo senior Tory MPs have warned Downing Street not to pick a fight with the BBC amid reports it wants the broadcaster \"massively pruned back\".\n\nThe Sunday Times suggested No 10 believed the current licence fee should be replaced by a subscription service and certain channels sold.\n\nFormer Tory cabinet minister Damian Green said it would be \"foolish\" to put public service broadcasting at risk.\n\nHe added that the plans were not part of his party's election manifesto.\n\nHuw Merriman, the MP for Bexhill and Battle who is chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on the BBC, warned No 10 against \"ramping up an unedifying vendetta\" against the BBC, saying the corporation should \"not be a target\".\n\n\"This is not a fight the BBC is picking nor a contest my party promised if we got elected,\" he wrote in the Daily Telegraph. \"If the BBC ends up in decline, it will be the government which will be accused by the very people we will rely on for support at the next election.\"\n\nAsked about the government's plans at a press briefing on Monday, a No 10 spokesman said individual services were a matter for the BBC but the PM was on the record as saying the future of licence fee needed \"looking at\".\n\nDuring the election campaign Boris Johnson questioned whether the BBC's long-standing funding model still \"made sense\" given the growing popularity of on-demand streaming services like Netflix.\n\nThe PM, who worked for many years as a journalist for rival organisations such as The Telegraph Group and The Spectator, said it remained to be seen whether requiring people to pay a flat fee for a single's broadcaster's output was \"justified\".\n\nMinisters recently launched a consultation on whether non-payment of the licence fee should remain a criminal offence.\n\nAbout 95% of the UK's 27 million households pay the licence fee\n\nReferring to sources quoted in the Sunday Times piece, Mr Green said: \"The unattributed source was quoted as saying, 'we're going to have a consultation and then we're going to whack the BBC.' That tells me the consultation isn't a real one and there are legal implications about that.\"\n\nHe added that his views are shared by MPs \"across the House of Commons\", saying that while many are \"permanently irritated with the BBC and accept that the BBC does things that are stupid and is occasionally arrogant,\" they agree \"that nevertheless, it's an institution worth defending\".\n\nMany MPs say those who are unwilling or unable to pay the compulsory fee - which from April will rise by £3 to £157.50 a year - should not be prosecuted. The BBC has warned such a change could have a significant impact on its finances and potentially put some of its output at risk.\n\nThe Conservatives' election victory has triggered a wider debate about how the BBC should be funded in future and whether the licence fee, which is protected in law until 2027 when the BBC's current Royal Charter ends, is still the best model.\n\nDuring the campaign Boris Johnson, who worked for the Daily Telegraph, Spectator and other titles during a 30-year career in journalism, said the licence fee looked outmoded and its abolition needed \"looking at\".\n\nThe Sunday Times reported senior aides as saying the PM was \"really strident\" about the need for major changes at the BBC. It said there was support in No 10 for the broadcaster being downsized and to sell off the majority of its 61 national and local radio stations.\n\nBBC chairman Sir David Clementi has warned that putting the broadcaster's services behind a paywall would lessen its ability to \"bring the country together\".\n\nMore than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for an end to \"political attacks\" on the BBC and for politicians to support the role the BBC \"plays in independently holding the government to account\".\n\nBut other Conservatives said the BBC must \"get its house in order\" if it wanted to continue in its current form.\n\nSimon Hoare, chairman of the Northern Ireland select committee, said the broadcaster must immediately reverse its decision to remove free TV licence from millions of over-75s. from this June.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Jonathan Gullis, the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, described the licence fee as \"outmoded\" and said there were alternative models including funding services through advertising.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Stoke that while he was a big supporter of local radio, the taxpayer should \"not necessarily have to fund it all\".\n\nAsked on Monday whether the broadcaster would be told to shut down some of its channels, a Downing Street spokesman said: \"How the BBC is run is a matter for the BBC.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would point you to what the prime minister has said on this before, which was 'at this stage we are not planning to get rid of all licence fees, though I am certainly looking at it'.\"\n\nLabour's shadow culture secretary Tracy Brabin called on new Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, who was appointed in last week's reshuffle, to \"speak up for\" public service broadcasting and ensure the BBC remained \"fit for the future\".", "Dancing On Ice professional skater Hamish Gaman has pulled out of Sunday's show, saying he's been \"struggling\" over the past few months.\n\nPosting on social media he said the past three-and-a-half months have been the worst of his life.\n\nIt's after his celebrity dance partner Caprice quit the show after parting ways with Hamish with no reason given to viewers.\n\nITV told Radio 1 Newsbeat they had nothing further to add.\n\nCaprice was later paired with skater Oscar Peter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Numerous defamatory articles have been stopped from running in the press over the past few weeks,\" Hamish said.\n\n\"These untrue stories are continually being fed to the press by a 'source'.\"\n\nIt's unknown what lead to Caprice and Hamish's split on the show and why Caprice eventually left, but a spokesperson for her said \"she's had to keep silent for contractual reasons\".\n\nThe speculation has lead to Hamish feeling that he \"couldn't face it\" but hopes it will \"all be over soon\".\n\n\"It's become relentless and I feel extremely vulnerable. I'm asking them to stop,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I desperately want to move on from all of this and focus on the skating. I've done absolutely nothing wrong, and was told by the team who reviewed all the rehearsal footage that I was an 'exemplary pro'.\"\n\nThis year's Dancing On Ice has been featured in the news since it launched after it became the first reality TV show in the UK to pair a same-sex couple together.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Yvonne Booth pictured with her late husband and her son\n\nA body has been found in the search for a woman who went missing in floods after her car got stuck in water.\n\nPolice said Yvonne Booth, 55, was swept into floodwater near a bridge which crosses the River Teme, near Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, on Sunday.\n\nHer family said they were \"devastated\" and \"appreciate the continued support from the emergency services\".\n\nHundreds of flood warnings remain in place, including several severe warnings meaning a danger to life.\n\nCh Supt Tom Harding said the body of Ms Booth, from Great Barr near Birmingham, was found during a search and rescue operation in Tenbury.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to reports of two people being swept into the water near Eastham Bridge.\n\nA man who was rescued close to where Ms Booth disappeared was airlifted to hospital and remains in a stable condition.\n\nWest Mercia Police Assistant Chief Constable Geoff Wessell said the man and woman \"stopped and got out of the car because of the water and then got caught up into more of a stream of water that took them away\".\n\nRescue teams were searching the area around Tenbury Wells for Ms Booth\n\nStorm Dennis has left more than 400 properties flooded, with about 270 of those in the West Midlands, the Environment Agency (EA) said.\n\nAmong the worst affected areas are Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire, where major incidents were declared.\n\nWorcestershire has borne the brunt of the flooding with about 200 homes affected, according to figures from the agency's John Curtin.\n\nWest Mercia Police said residents in Upton upon Severn and Uckinghall in Worcestershire were being advised to evacuate, with water levels expected to rise on Monday evening.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Dennis flooding as seen from the air in Hereford\n\nRescuers used boats to ferry residents to safety in Hereford\n\nEmergency evacuations were also under way in Hereford, where the River Wye reached its highest level on record.\n\nHerefordshire Police tweeted that officers were carrying out emergency evacuations to a leisure centre.\n\nFamilies rescued from flooded properties could be seen disembarking from evacuation dinghies with their pets and belongings.\n\nIn Shropshire, 16 roads have been closed due to flooding.\n\nTelford and Wrekin Council said it had handed out 2,000 sandbags to residents in the Ironbridge Gorge.\n\nStaff are \"working hard to repair the damage caused\" by flooding at Drayton Manor Theme Park, it said\n\nAfter a severe flood warning was put in place for Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire residents were advised to have a bag ready with vital items like medicines and insurance documents and call 999 if in immediate danger.\n\nThe A38 in Branston, near Burton, was closed in both directions on Monday night due to flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by East Staffs Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElsewhere in the county, Drayton Manor Theme Park, near Tamworth, is set to be closed until at least Thursday due to flooding.\n\nFlood barriers are up in Ironbridge\n\nThousands of sandbags were distributed in York where the River Ouse continued to rise, although the EA said the situation in the city was an \"improving one\".\n\nElsewhere, about 60 homes flooded in Lowdham in Nottinghamshire.\n\nResidents of park homes on the River Stour near Christchurch, Dorset, were also told to leave as water levels continue to rise.\n\nA record number of flood warnings and alerts - more than 600 - were issued by the EA across England on Sunday, falling to below 500 on Monday afternoon.\n\nAbout 130 homes in Tenbury were evacuated overnight on Sunday", "Demonstrators take part in an anti-Tesla protest in Germany\n\nTesla has been ordered to temporarily halt preparations for a car factory in Germany after environmentalists won a court injunction on Sunday.\n\nThe electric carmaker had been clearing forest land near the capital, Berlin, ahead of building its first European car and battery plant.\n\nThe court emphasised the injunction was temporary and subject to further hearings, probably this week.\n\nProtesters say the factory is a threat to local wildlife and water supplies.\n\nTo much fanfare, Tesla's boss Elon Musk announced plans last November to build a European facility known as a \"gigafactory\" in Grünheide, in the eastern state of Brandenburg.\n\nBut the factory has become a flashpoint between environmentalists and Germany's pro-business Christian Democrat and Free Democrat parties, who fear the issue could damage the country's image as a place to do business.\n\nThe dispute highlights the risks for the US carmaker, which has not been officially granted permission to build the factory. Tesla was, however, granted permission by Germany's environment ministry to begin site preparations \"at its own risk\".\n\nThis has involved clearing about 91 hectares (225 acres) of forest and the felling of thousands of trees - something that outraged an alliance of environmentalists called the Green League.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the court representing the Berlin and Brandenburg region cautioned: \"It should not be assumed that the motion seeking legal protection brought by the Green League lacks any chance of succeeding.\"\n\nTesla bought almost 300 hectares (the size of more than 400 football pitches) in Grünheide from the state of Brandenburg to build the factory, which is scheduled to open in 2021. Tesla has ambitions to produce up to 500,000 cars a year at the factory, employing about 12,000 people.\n\nBut the company is in a race to get production up and running as Germany's big motor manufacturers are investing heavily in new electric car technology.\n\nAccording to local media reports, Tesla has promised to relocate colonies of forest ants, reptiles and bats, and is working with conservationists. Last month, authorities defused seven Second World War bombs discovered at the site.\n\nTesla currently has two Gigafactories in the US and one in Shanghai, China.", "Labour is calling for Andrew Sabisky to be sacked from his adviser position\n\nDowning Street has refused to condemn controversial past remarks on pregnancies, eugenics and race reportedly made by a new adviser.\n\nLabour said Andrew Sabisky should be sacked for suggesting black people had lower average IQs than white people and compulsory contraception could prevent \"creating a permanent underclass\".\n\nNo 10 did not officially confirm his appointment or any role he may have.\n\nThe SNP and Liberal Democrats also said Mr Sabisky should go.\n\nMr Sabisky, appointed after the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings called for \"misfits and weirdos\" to apply for jobs in Downing Street, has been contacted by the BBC for comment.\n\nWhen asked on Monday, Downing Street did not comment on the remarks attributed to Mr Sabisky.\n\nBoris Johnson's spokesman added: \"The prime minister's views on a range of subjects are well publicised and documented.\"\n\nLobby briefings see journalists pile into a room to ask the Prime Minister's official spokesman whatever they like.\n\nIt doesn't mean that the spokesman - or in today's case the deputy - will give a fulsome answer. And certainly, today, one was not forthcoming.\n\nThe spokesman was asked about the PM's views on eugenics. On race. On women's sport. Repeatedly.\n\nRather than explicitly condemn Andrew Sabisky's reported remarks the response was to point to Boris Johnson \"well documented\" views.\n\nBut it proved to be an inadequate effort to deflect the story; adding fuel to the fire rather than dampening it down. And, of course, Boris Johnson has been known to attract criticism for some of his own controversial comments - on a variety of subjects - in the past.\n\nThe normal laws of politics might dictate that Andrew Sabisky is in line to lose the job he's so recently attained.\n\nBut this Downing Street operation has shown that it isn't afraid of a bit of controversy. It doesn't necessarily feel bound by the 'rules'. And Dominic Cummings has, at times, appeared to enjoy outraging the establishment.\n\nThat isn't to say the views apparently expressed by Andrew Sabisky are in anyway shared by his new colleagues at Number 10. And it may be that today's hesitant and tight-lipped response was a clumsy effort to buy time rather than a decisive show of defiance.\n\nHowever if they don't sack Andrew Sabisky, that is exactly what it will be.\n\nIn response, Conservative MP Caroline Nokes tweeted: \"Cannot believe No 10 has refused to comment on Andrew Sabisky. I don't know him from a bar of soap, but don't think we'd get on... must be no place in government for the views he's expressed.\"\n\nIn a comment on a 2014 blog post on Mr Cummings' website, made by a user called \"Andrew Sabisky\" that used the same picture as his Twitter page, it is suggested that compulsory contraception could be used to stop a \"permanent underclass\".\n\n\"One way to get around the problems of unplanned pregnancies creating a permanent underclass would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of puberty,\" says the post.\n\nDominic Cummings has sought to bring advisers into No 10 from outside the normal channels\n\nIn a comment on another blog post on a different website in 2014, what appears to be the same user suggested black Americans had a lower average IQ than white Americans.\n\nIn a comment on a different blog that same year, a user with his name said: \"There are excellent reasons to think the very real racial differences in intelligence are significantly - even mostly - genetic in origin, though the degree is of course a very serious subject of scholarly debate.\"\n\nMr Sabisky also suggested to Schools Week in July 2016 that the benefits of a purported cognitive enhancer, which can prove fatal, are \"probably worth a dead kid once a year\".\n\n\"Eugenics are about selecting 'for' good things,\" he said in the same interview. \"Intelligence is largely inherited and it correlates with better outcomes: physical health, income, lower mental illness.\n\nAnd in a Twitter post from 2019, he said: \"I am always straight up in saying that women's sport is more comparable to the Paralympics than it is to men's.\"\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"It is disgusting that not only has Number 10 failed to condemn [these] appalling comments, but also seems to have endorsed the idea that white people are more intelligent than black people.\n\n\"Boris Johnson should have the backbone to make a statement in his own words on why he has made this appointment, whether he stands by it, and his own views on the subject of eugenics.\"\n\nLabour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said: \"[Mr Sabisky] must of course be removed from this position immediately.\"\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey urged the prime minister to \"put an end to the offence caused and sack Andrew Sabisky\".\n\n\"This Conservative government is a national embarrassment,\" he said. \"By giving Dominic Cummings such power and then failing to control him, Boris Johnson is revealing who really is in charge.\"\n\nAnd Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the government must \"demonstrate some basic but fundamental values\", tweeting: \"These are really not acceptable headlines for any government to be generating.\"\n\nWhen asked about the remarks on Sky News, Environment Secretary George Eustice said it was a \"matter for Dominic Cummings and Number 10\".\n\nOn Sunday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC: \"I don't know the individual but they are particularly not views that I or the government shares in any way, shape or form.\"", "Matthew Wood hopes the gene therapy will help him keep his remaining vision\n\nA new gene therapy has been used to treat patients with a rare inherited eye disorder which causes blindness.\n\nIt's hoped the NHS treatment will halt sight loss and even improve vision.\n\nMatthew Wood, 48, one of the first patients to receive the injection, told the BBC: \"I value the remaining sight I have so if I can hold on to that it would be a big thing for me.\"\n\nThe treatment costs around £600,000 but NHS England has agreed a discounted price with the manufacturer Novartis.\n\nLuxturna (voretigene neparvovec), has been approved by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which estimates that just under 90 people in England will be eligible for the treatment.\n\nThe gene therapy is for patients who have retinal dystrophy as a result of inheriting a faulty copy of the RPE65 gene from both parents. The gene is important for providing the pigment that light sensitive cells need to absorb light. Initially this affects night vision but eventually, as the cells die, it can lead to complete blindness.\n\nAn injection is made into the back of the eye - this delivers working copies of the RPE65 gene. These are contained inside a harmless virus, which enables them to penetrate the retinal cells. Once inside the nucleus, the gene provides the instructions to make the RPE65 protein, which is essential for healthy vision.\n\nMatthew Wood started losing his sight as a child, and is now registered blind. However, he does have some peripheral vision and can detect large objects and bright lights. He told the BBC: \"Since I was a child I was continually told there was no treatment for this condition, so it's amazing to receive this gene therapy.\"\n\nMr Wood, from London, had his right eye treated during an hour-long operation at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.\n\nHis left eye will be injected in a few weeks. The surgery was carried out by Prof Robert MacLaren, who has pioneered research into gene therapies for preventing blindness.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"This is very exciting - this is the first approved NHS gene therapy for an eye disease, but there are opportunities to use gene therapy to treat other diseases in future, not only in the eye.\"\n\nThe treatment is only suitable for patients who have some remaining vision. It should bring the biggest benefits to children with RPE65 retinal dystrophy, as it could halt sight loss before permanent damage is done.\n\nIt is not known how long the benefits of the treatment will last, but it's thought it could be several decades.\n\nJake Ternent, 23, from Durham, had his gene therapy at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.\n\nJake Ternent had his gene therapy at Moorfields Eye Hospital\n\nLike Matthew Wood, he is registered blind, but has some limited sight. He told the BBC: \"I hope the treatment could improve my night vision, and possibly even my day vision, which would be incredible. I feel lucky and privileged to get this on the NHS.\"\n\nProf James Bainbridge - from Moorfields Eye Hospital - who treated Jake, told the BBC: \"To be at the point now where we are able to offer this treatment on the NHS, is truly remarkable. This is the first example of what's anticipated to be a whole new generation of treatments.\"\n\nIt will take a month or two before Matthew and Jake know what changes the gene therapy has made to their vision. But even if it simply prevents further sight loss, both say they will be delighted.\n\nProfessor Stephen Powis, NHS medical director, said: \"Loss of vision can have a devastating effect, particularly for children and young people, but this truly life-changing treatment offers hope to people with this rare and distressing condition.\"", "Nikita Pearl Waligwa is being buried in Kampala\n\nStars of the film Queen of Katwe have paid tribute to actress Nikita Pearl Waligwa who has died at the age of 15.\n\nWaligwa had been diagnosed with a brain tumour and died in hospital in Kampala on Saturday.\n\nShe starred in the 2016 Disney film which was based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi, a chess prodigy from a Ugandan slum.\n\nHer co-star David Oyelowo wrote on Instagram: \"She was a ball of light in Queen of Katwa and in life.\"\n\nHe played the role of Phiona Mutesi's chess teacher while Lupita Nyong'o played her mother.\n\nWaligwa featured as the character Gloria, a friend of Phiona who explained the rules of chess to her.\n\nMs Nyong'o said on Instagram: \"She played Gloria with such vibrancy. In her real life she had the enormous challenge of battling brain cancer.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by lupitanyongo This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGloria Nansubuga, the 19-year-old Ugandan chess star who was played by Waligwa, told the BBC: \"I couldn't bear to hear that someone who acted as me in a film had died. I loved her from my heart.\n\n\"She told me she wanted to learn how to play chess. I wanted to have lessons with her but she was always in hospital. She was so caring even though she was so young.\"\n\nWaligwa was first diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2016 and Queen of Katwe director Mira Nair reportedly mobilised people to help fund her treatment in India, with Ugandan doctors quoted as saying they did not have the necessary equipment.\n\nIn Uganda, only a fraction of patients with such serious conditions get the medical help they need due to costs.\n\nShe was given the all-clear in 2017 and went back to secondary school. However, last year, she was found to have another tumour.\n\nHer death was announced by her school on Twitter.\n\n\"You were a darling to many and we have lost you to a brain tumour at such a tender age,\" Gayaza High School said.\n\nThe funeral service for Waligwa was held on Sunday, and she is being buried on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lupita Nyong'o talks about her role in the Queen of Katwe\n\nIn the middle of the day on the outskirts of Kampala, hundreds of mourners huddled under tarpaulin tents and trees for Waligwa's burial.\n\nFrom the speeches given, especially by Waligwa's mother and father, the toll of her long battle against cancer comes to light.\n\nThree recurring tumours and almost as many surgeries left her young body weaker and more fragile.\n\nHer mother, Rachel Asiimwe Waligwa, talked of her daughter's pain but also the grace with which she managed to carry on through difficult times.\n\nThe cost of Nikita's treatment from her first diagnosis in 2016 was supported by the Disney company which produced Queen of Katwe, relatives, family friends and her parents' colleagues. Many of them attended the funeral.\n\nHer story resonates because a beautiful talented girl who achieved success at a young age, died much sooner than she should have.", "Not all of the toilet paper was stolen, some of it was left behind by the robbers\n\nArmed robbers in Hong Kong made off with hundreds of toilet rolls worth more than HKD1,000 ($130; £98).\n\nToilet rolls are currently in short supply in Hong Kong due to shortages caused by panic-buying during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nKnife wielding men robbed a delivery man outside a supermarket in the Mong Kok district, police said.\n\nPolice have arrested two men and recovered some of the stolen loo rolls, local media reports said.\n\nThe armed robbery took place in Mong Kok, a district of Hong Kong with a history of \"triad\" crime gangs, early on Monday.\n\nAccording to local reports, the robbers had threatened a delivery worker who had unloaded rolls of toilet paper outside Wellcome Supermarket.\n\nAn Apple Daily report said that 600 toilet paper rolls, valued at around HKD1,695 ($218; £167), had been stolen.\n\nStores across the city have seen supplies massively depleted with long queues when new stock arrives.\n\nDespite government assurances that supplies remain unaffected by the virus outbreak, residents have been stocking up on toilet paper.\n\nOther household products have also seen panic-buying including rice, pasta and cleaning items.\n\nFace masks and hand sanitisers are almost impossible to get as people try to protect themselves from the coronavirus, which has already claimed more than 1,700 lives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"A delivery man was threatened by three knife-wielding men who took toilet paper worth more than HK$1,000 ($130),\" a police spokesman said.\n\nAuthorities blame false online rumours for the panic buying and say supplies of food and household goods remain stable.\n\nThere has also been some panic-buying of toilet rolls, hand sanitisers and face masks in Singapore, which has 75 confirmed coronavirus cases.", "Last updated on .From the section Irish\n\nHarry Gregg was an outstanding club and international goalkeeper, but he will best be remembered for his bravery in the 1958 Munich air disaster.\n\nThe Northern Ireland player signed for Manchester United just two months before the tragedy, in which 23 people died.\n\nGregg is often referred to as the 'Hero of Munich' after pulling passengers free from the burning wreckage.\n\nTwo weeks later, Gregg kept a clean sheet as Manchester United put Sheffield Wednesday out of the FA Cup.\n\nThe goalkeeper was determined that the tragic event would not define his career, or indeed his life.\n\nHenry Gregg was born on 27 October 1932 in the County Londonderry village of Tobermore.\n\nHis family moved to Coleraine and he excelled with his hometown club after starting his career at Windsor Park Swifts.\n\nGregg secured a cross-channel move to Doncaster Rovers at the age of 18 before joining Manchester United in December 1957 for £23,000, at the time a world record fee for a goalkeeper.\n\nThe 'Busby Babes' were returning from a European Cup game when the plane they were travelling crashed while attempting to take off on the slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport on 6 February 1958.\n\n\"There was a sudden crash and debris began bombarding me on all sides,\" said Gregg.\n\n\"One second it was light, the next dark. There were no screams, no human sounds, only the terrible tearing of metal. Sparks burst all around.\"\n\nGregg escaped from the burning wreckage but went back in and brought Vera Lukic, the pregnant wife of a Yugoslav diplomat, and her young daughter, Vesna, to safety.\n\nHe returned to the plane and dragged out injured United pair Bobby Charlton and Dennis Viollet, and came to the aid of manager Matt Busby and fellow Northern Ireland international Jackie Blanchflower.\n\nEight players were among the dead including Duncan Edwards, Roger Byrne and Eddie Colman.\n\nLater in the year Gregg starred for Northern Ireland at the World Cup finals in Sweden.\n\nThe Red Devils player, who won 25 international caps, helped Northern Ireland reach the quarter-finals and he was named goalkeeper of the tournament.\n\nGregg was to experience personal tragedy in 1961 when his wife, Mavis, died from breast cancer, leaving him to care for their two daughters.\n\nHe married Carolyn Maunders four years later and they had four children together.\n\nGregg's time at Manchester United was blighted by injuries and he made 247 appearances for the team.\n\n\"He will always be remembered for what he did at Munich, but on top of that he was a really great goalkeeper,\" said Manchester United and England legend Sir Bobby Charlton.\n\nGregg moved to Stoke City in December 1966, but made only two appearances before retiring at the end of the season.\n\nHe moved into management, starting with Shrewsbury Town in 1968 followed by spells with Swansea City and Crewe Alexandra.\n\nGregg returned to Old Trafford as a goalkeeping coach before becoming assistant manager at Swindon Town and finally manager with Carlisle United.\n\nFollowing his career in the game he returned to Northern Ireland and ran a hotel in Portstewart.\n\nWhen he was awarded the MBE in 1995, Gregg dedicated it to those who lost their lives at Munich and Peter Doherty, his manager at Doncaster Rovers and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe 50th anniversary of the Munich disaster was an emotional trip back in time for Gregg, who returned to the old airport building and runway in the city for the first time since the disaster.\n\nThere was also a first meeting with Vera Lukic's son, Zoran, with whom she was pregnant when Gregg rescued her in 1958.\n\nThe death of his daughter, Karen, in 2009 from cancer at the age of 50, brought more personal grief.\n\nA testimonial for Gregg, between Manchester United and Irish League Select, was played at Windsor Park in 2009.\n\nIn 2015, the Harry Gregg Foundation was launched with the aim of encouraging young people's participation in football and other health, lifestyle, educational, heritage and social inclusion activities.\n\nHe made his final trip to Old Trafford in 2018, before being named OBE in the Queen's 2019 New Year's Honours.\n\n\"He is part of the rich history of our club and we should never forget that,\" said former United manager Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nIt was his career as a player, and not for heroic actions at Munich, which Gregg wished to be remembered.\n\n\"I'm Henry Gregg, 34 Windsor Avenue, who played football. Who was useful at it on good days and rubbish at it on bad days,\" he said in 2008.\n\n\"That's what I want to be remembered for - not something that happened on the spur of the moment.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresenter Laura Whitmore has paid tribute to her \"vivacious\" and \"loving\" friend Caroline Flack, who was found dead in her London flat on Saturday.\n\nFighting back tears on her BBC Radio 5 Live show, she said the former Love Island host \"loved to love\".\n\nShe also appealed to listeners to \"be kind\" to others and said she wanted to use her platform to \"call people out\".\n\n\"To paparazzi and tabloids looking for a cheap sell, to trolls hiding behind a keyboard - enough,\" she said.\n\nA lawyer for Flack's family said on Saturday that she had taken her own life.\n\nThe 40-year-old had been \"under huge pressure\" since she was accused of assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton in December, her management company said.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nBurton, who did not support the ongoing case against Flack, wrote an emotional tribute to the presenter on Instagram on Sunday, promising the star he would \"be your voice baby\", and that he would \"try [to] make you proud everyday\".\n\n\"I am so lost for words I am in so much pain I miss you so much I know you felt safe with me you always said I don't think about anything else when I am with you and I was not allowed to be there this time I kept asking and asking,\" the 27-year-old tennis player wrote.\n\nHe concluded: \"I love you with all my heart.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mrlewisburton This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBail conditions had stopped Flack having any contact with Burton ahead of her trial next month.\n\nITV cancelled the scheduled broadcasts of Love Island on Saturday and Sunday but said that the show would return on Monday night with a tribute to its former presenter \"who will be forever in our hearts\".\n\nWhitmore, who took over presenting Love Island following Flack's arrest, said her friend \"loved to laugh\" and had the \"most infectious chuckle\".\n\n\"I'm not going to pretend she was perfect, but is anyone? She lived every mistake publicly, under the scrutiny of the media.\n\n\"Caroline loved to love. That's all she wanted. Which is why a show like Love Island was important to her, because the show is about finding love, friendship, having a laugh. The problem wasn't the show. The show... is loving and caring and safe and protected.\n\n\"The problem is, the outside world is not. Anyone who has ever compared one woman against another on Twitter, knocked someone because of their appearance, invaded someone else's privacy, who have made mean, unnecessary comments on an online forum - they need to look at themselves,\" she said.\n\nWhitmore said she had been debating whether she \"should, would or could come on air today\" but she wanted to talk about her friend \"to give her the respect she deserves\".\n\nShe said she had also been harassed for \"just doing her job\" and \"words affect people\".\n\n\"So to listeners - be kind. Only you are responsible for how you treat others and what you put out in the world,\" she said.\n\nShe then played Angels by Robbie Williams, saying her friend, who she met at V-festival about 10 years ago, loved music and loved to dance, and the song always reminded her of Flack because she \"danced so beautifully to it on Strictly\".\n\nCaroline Flack danced to Angels with her partner, Pasha Kovalev, on Strictly Come Dancing, which she won in 2014\n\n\"Caroline, I'm so sad for you, for your family. I'm angry that you saw this as your only option as I know how much love and support you had. I'm sorry you didn't know that,\" she said just before she played the song.\n\n\"I am not sure when, but I know I'll see you on the dance floor again and I hope you are at peace and know that you are loved.\"\n\nFlack had co-hosted The X Factor and won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014, as well as presenting ITV's Love Island.\n\nFollowing her death, an ITV spokeswoman said she was a \"much-loved member of the Love Island team\". The show did not air on Saturday night.\n\nThe presenter stood down from the dating show after she was charged with assault in December. She denied the charges.\n\nHer management company has criticised the Crown Prosecution Service for refusing to drop charges, even though Burton said he did not want the case to go ahead.\n\nThe CPS said it would not comment on the specifics of the case \"given the tragic circumstances\".\n\nFormer chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said his impression was that the case had been determined to be a serious case, and one which the CPS felt they should proceed with \"regardless of what the victim thought\".\n\nResponding to reports that the ambulance service was called to the star's address the day before she was found dead, a London Ambulance spokesperson said: \"We were called shortly after 22:30 on 14 February to a residential property in north London.\n\n\"Crews attended and, following a clinical assessment, the person was not taken to hospital. Due to patient confidentiality we cannot comment further.\"\n\nCaroline Flack arriving for X Factor auditions with judges and co-host Olly Murs in 2015\n\nA petition on the online site 38 Degrees, dubbed \"Caroline's Law\", which calls for new laws around media regulation in the wake of the presenter's death, has attracted more than 110,000 signatures.\n\nHoney Lancaster-James, a TV psychologist who worked with celebrity contestants on an early series of Love Island, said it was important not to \"point the finger of blame\".\n\n\"There are often a number of factors, and a number of things that have led to a deterioration in mental health,\" she said.\n\nOther celebrities and ex-Love Island stars have also paid tribute to Flack, describing her death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nHer co-presenter on The X Factor and The Xtra Factor, Olly Murs, said he \"always knew how fragile\" she was and his heart was \"forever broken\" because she was \"like a sister\" and they were \"friends for life\".\n\n\"This will hurt forever, love you cazza, Your Ols,\" he said.", "Trinity College did not want to make a report about the action, police said\n\nClimate activists have dug up a lawn outside a Cambridge University college over its role in a major development in the Suffolk countryside.\n\nExtinction Rebellion members said the action at Trinity College was taken against the \"destruction of nature\".\n\nActivists then took dug-up mud to a local Barclays Bank branch.\n\nInnocence Farm in Trimley St Martin has been part of plans, involving Trinity, for a lorry park. The college said it supported work to fight climate change.\n\nA Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman said the force was liaising with the college and that \"a crime has been recorded for criminal damage\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Barclays Bank confirmed activists carrying wheelbarrows full of mud had spread it across the banking hall of its St Andrew's Street branch.\n\nShe added the branch had been kept open and staff ensured customers were safe.\n\nActivists, who also chained themselves to an apple tree on the college's front lawn, said they \"were careful to ensure that the digging took place a safe distance from the tree so as not to cause any damage to it\".\n\nThe local group also claimed on Twitter the college invested more money in oil and gas companies than any other Oxbridge college.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerek Langley, a member of Extinction Rebellion Cambridge, said: \"The idea that a rich institution like Trinity College, which tells the world it is serious about tackling this crisis, is looking for profit from environmental destruction is quite simply astonishing.\"\n\nLocal businessman Dr Tim Norman described the action as \"counter-productive vandalism\".\n\nHe said: \"[It] seemed to confuse the tourists too, as it wasn't clear what they were doing it for.\"\n\nTrinity College, which was founded in the mid-16th Century, has produced several British prime ministers\n\nA Trinity spokeswoman said the college \"respects the right to freedom of speech and non-violent protest but draws the line at criminal damage and asked the protesters to leave\".\n\nShe added: \"Academics at Trinity are actively engaged in research to understand and develop solutions to climate change, and taking practical steps forward.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added the college supported the university's Cambridge Zero project, which was launched in November and led by Dr Emily Shuckburgh, one of the UK's leading climate scientists.\n\nA Barclays spokeswoman said: \"We recognise that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today, and are determined to do all we can to support the transition to a low-carbon economy, while also ensuring that global energy needs continue to be met.\"\n\nMembers of the group have also been taking part in a week-long road blockade in the city - prompting police to use emergency powers to shut off roads.\n\nLast week a meeting had to be abandoned when a protester abseiled into the council chamber.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian predicted the two sides would \"rip each other apart\"\n\nFrance has warned Britain to expect a bruising battle with the EU in post-Brexit trade negotiations.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian predicted the two sides would \"rip each other apart\" as they strove for advantage in the negotiations.\n\nHe also said it would be tough for the UK to achieve its aim of agreeing a free trade deal by the end of the year.\n\nThe UK government said it wanted a deal based on \"friendly co-operation between sovereign equals\".\n\nBoris Johnson's chief Brexit negotiator is expected to give more details of the UK's negotiating aims in a speech in Brussels later.\n\nDavid Frost is expected to say the UK will be happy with a trade deal based on that agreed by the EU with Canada in 2016 but to rule out any form of regulatory alignment with the bloc from 2021 onwards.\n\nThe UK formally left the EU two weeks ago but still trades like a member under a transition period which ends on 31 December.\n\nTalks on their future relationship are set to begin next month once the EU's 27 members have agreed the bloc's negotiating mandate.\n\nSpeaking at a security conference in Munich on Sunday, Mr Le Drian said the two sides were far apart on a range of issues.\n\nHe said: \"I think that on trade issues and the mechanism for future relations, which we are going to start on, we are going to rip each other apart.\n\n\"But that is part of negotiations, everyone will defend their own interests.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has previously cast doubt on Boris Johnson's aim to reach a comprehensive agreement by the end of the year\n\nMr Le Drian, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, is the latest senior EU figure to warn that the negotiations will be difficult.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and chief negotiator Michel Barnier have both cast doubt on Boris Johnson's aim to reach a comprehensive agreement by the end of the year.\n\nThe EU has repeatedly warned that the UK cannot expect to enjoy continued \"high-quality\" market access if it insists on diverging from EU social and environmental standards.\n\nLast week the European Parliament called for the UK to follow EU rules in a host of areas, such as chemicals regulation, food labelling and subsidies for companies, as part of a process of \"dynamic alignment\".\n\nBut UK ministers have repeatedly ruled out such a close regulatory relationship.\n\nThere is expected to be a particularly tough fight over fishing rights, with the EU insisting continued access to UK waters must form part of any agreement.\n\nMr Johnson, in turn, has said the UK will act as an \"independent coastal state\" taking control of its own fisheries.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"Our approach is clear - we are not asking for anything special, bespoke or unique, but are looking for a deal like those the EU has struck previously with other friendly countries like Canada.\n\n\"We want a relationship based on friendly cooperation between sovereign equals, one centred on free trade and inspired by our shared history and values.\"", "Megan Newton's grandmother said her death had \"wiped out that spark in our lives\"\n\nA man who raped and murdered a youth football coach who had given him a place to sleep has been jailed.\n\nMegan Newton, 18, was found dead in her bedsit in Fletcher Road, Stoke-on-Trent, on 20 April.\n\nJoseph Trevor, of Trentham, pleaded guilty to her murder and two additional charges of rape on what was to be the first day of his trial.\n\nThe 19-year-old was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 21 years and 65 days.\n\nHe was also placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers QC said Trevor, the son of a retired Staffordshire Police officer, carried out a \"brutal and sustained attack, conducted in a most callous way in her own home\".\n\nWhen Trevor learned Miss Newton's body had been discovered by a neighbour, he confided to his family that he had \"done something bad\" and was later arrested, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nJoseph Trevor, formerly of Danebower Road, admitted murder and two charges of rape\n\nStafford Crown Court heard that Miss Newton, who knew Trevor from school, had, as an \"act of kindness\", given him a place to sleep.\n\nProsecutor Adrian Keeling QC said she had invited him back \"because he got so drunk on drink and drugs he could not face going home to his parents\".\n\n\"He raped her, strangled her unconscious and then stabbed her in the back eight times,\" he said.\n\nYouth football coach and self-described \"sports fanatic\" Miss Newton was applying to become the first of her family to go to university.\n\nShe intended to pursue a career in physiotherapy or sports therapy and had been working towards her level one Football Association coaching badge.\n\nMiss Newton had also spent time volunteering with Norton Wanderers FC in Stoke and been instrumental in fundraising for training and match kits.\n\nFloral tributes were left outside Miss Newton's flat in Fletcher Road\n\nIn a tribute read in court on behalf of the family, Miss Newton's grandmother Beryl Smith said: \"Megan's death has wiped out that spark in our lives.\n\n\"We're heartbroken and always will remain so.\"\n\nShe said Miss Newton's mother Sarah felt she had a \"best friend\" in her daughter but had lost the promise of her life and future grandchildren.\n\nMiss Newton's father Michael Baggaley said: \"The thought of never seeing her beautiful smile or hearing her voice again breaks my heart.\n\n\"How could this happen to such an amazing, caring, kind, loving, funny young lady. This is something I will never understand and get over.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Breast enlargement is one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries worldwide. There are millions of satisfied patients, so just how safe are implants?", "Caroline Flack with Love Island's Bafta Award for best reality show in 2018\n\nViewers and the TV world are in shock after the death of Caroline Flack, who rose from children's TV to become one of Britain's most successful presenters.\n\nLove Island, Strictly Come Dancing, The X Factor, I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! - Flack starred on some of Britain's biggest shows of the past decade.\n\nHowever, at the time of her death her career was under a cloud after she was replaced for the winter series of ITV's Love Island after being charged with assaulting her boyfriend.\n\nWith Sam and Mark on TMi in 2007\n\nMany fans first got to know her bubbly, likeable personality when she joined Sam and Mark to front the zany Saturday morning children's show TMi in 2007.\n\nFrom there, she joined Ian Wright when Sky One revived game show Gladiators, and became one of the hosts of I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here Now! in 2009.\n\nShe went on to host another ITV spin-off, The Xtra Factor, two years later, before being chosen to front a series of the main talent show itself with Olly Murs in 2015.\n\nShe won Strictly Come Dancing with Pasha Kovalev in 2014\n\nShe confirmed her popular appeal when she won Strictly with dance partner Pasha Kovalev, fending off competition from Frankie Bridge and Simon Webbe.\n\nBut she talked about the difficulties she faced after lifting the glitterball trophy, saying: \"I couldn't get up and just couldn't pick myself up at all that next year.\"\n\nWhen Love Island was relaunched in 2015, she was the natural choice to host, and she helped make it one of the biggest shows on British TV.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first few series performed well, but the show really became a TV phenomenon from 2018, particularly among younger viewers.\n\nWhen the show won the Bafta for best reality show that year, she picked up the award.\n\nFlack made her West End stage debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago in 2018, starred in a touring version of Crazy For You, and appeared on the celebrity version of The Great British Bake Off.\n\nWith the success came close scrutiny of her personal life and relationships, which made her a regular in the tabloids. Notably, she dated One Direction star Harry Styles when he was 17, and stories about a brief romance with Prince Harry made headlines in 2009.\n\nIn her 2015 autobiography Storm In A C Cup, she said she and the prince had \"spent the evening chatting and laughing\", but \"once the story got out, that was it. We had to stop seeing each other.\"\n\nWhen she was arrested and subsequently charged with assaulting her boyfriend in December, it was completely at odds with her public persona.\n\nPolice found former tennis professional Lewis Burton covered in blood when he called them to her Islington home.\n\nShe pleaded not guilty and was in tears in court just before Christmas. She stepped down as host of the winter series of Love Island.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Burton did not support the prosecution, but she was due to stand trial early next month.\n\nTwo days before her death, she posted photos of herself with her dogs, with no message except a simple love heart. Before that, her last message was on Christmas Eve - the day after her court hearing.\n\n\"This kind of scrutiny and speculation is a lot to take on for one person to take on their own...\" she wrote.\n\n\"I'm a human being at the end of the day and I'm not going to be silenced when I have a story to tell and a life to keep going with.\n\n\"I'm taking some time out to get feeling better and learn some lessons from situations I've got myself into to.\n\n\"I have nothing but love to give and best wishes for everyone.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The process takes 30 days and relatives can then scatter the remains on plants or under a tree\n\nA US firm has given scientific details of its \"human composting\" process for environmentally friendly funerals.\n\nA pilot study on deceased volunteers showed that soft tissue broke down safely and completely within 30 days.\n\nThe firm, Recompose, claims that its process saves more than a tonne of carbon, compared to cremation or traditional burial.\n\nIt says that it will offer the world's first human composting service in Washington state from next February.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to BBC News, Recompose's chief executive and founder, Katrina Spade, said that concerns about climate change had been a big factor in so many people expressing interest in the service.\n\n\"So far 15,000 people have signed up to our newsletter. And the legislation to allow this in the state received bi-partisan support enabling it to pass the first time it was tabled,\" she said.\n\n\"The project has moved forward so quickly because of the urgency of climate change and the awareness we have to put it right.\"\n\nRecompose boss Katrina Spade says her plan has proved so popular because of climate change\n\nMs Spade spoke to me as results of the scientific study into the composting process, which Recompose calls natural organic reduction, was being presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle.\n\n\"There is a loving practicability to it,\" she said, in one of the few interviews she has given since announcing details of the project a year ago.\n\nShe told me that she came up with the idea 13 years ago when she began to ponder her own mortality - at the ripe old age of 30!\n\n\"When I die, this planet, which has protected and supported me my whole life, shouldn't I give back what I have left?\n\n\"It is just logical and also beautiful.\"\n\nMs Spade draws a distinction between decomposing and recomposing. The former is what happens when a body is above ground. Recomposing involves integrating it with the soil.\n\nShe claims that natural organic reduction of a body prevents 1.4 tonnes of carbon being released into the atmosphere, compared with cremation. And she believes there is a similar saving compared to traditional burial when transportation and the construction of the casket is taken into account.\n\n\"For a lot of folks it resonates with the way they try to lead their lives. They want to pick a death care plan that resonates with the way they live.\"\n\nThe process involves laying the body in a closed vessel with woodchips, alfalfa and straw grass. The body is slowly rotated to allow microbes to break it down.\n\nThirty days later the remains are available to relatives to scatter on plants or a tree.\n\nAlthough the process is straightforward, it has taken four years of scientific research to perfect the technique. Ms Spade asked soil scientist Prof Lynne Carpenter Boggs to undertake the work.\n\nComposting livestock is a well-established practice in Washington state. Prof Carpenter Boggs's task was to adapt it for human subjects and ensure that the remains were environmentally safe.\n\nShe carried out pilot studies with six volunteers who had given their enthusiastic consent to the research prior to their deaths. She told me that the work took an emotional toll on her and her team.\n\n\"We all kept checking in on each other. My physiology felt different, I wasn't sleeping well for a few nights, I wasn't hungry - it was a distress response.\"\n\nProf Carpenter-Boggs found that the recomposing body reached temperatures of 55C (131F) for a period of time.\n\n\"We are certain that there has been a destruction of the vast majority of [disease-causing organisms] and pharmaceuticals because of the high temperatures that we reached.\"\n\nRecompose will begin business later this year. Anyone can participate but the process is legal only in Washington state. Legislation to allow natural organic reduction is currently being considered in Colorado. Ms Spade believes that it will be a matter of time before it is more widely available - in the US and elsewhere.\n\n\"We hope other states will pick up the idea once we get going in Washington. We have had lots of excitement from the UK and other parts of the world and we hope to open branches overseas when we can.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fashion buyer Xia Yae purchases clothing in Bicester Village, Selfridges and Harrods for clients in South Korea\n\nWhile February is typically a quiet time for the Oxfordshire retail village, staff the BBC spoke to said visitor numbers were much lower than usual.\n\nCut-price handbags and coats draw thousands of Chinese tourists to the retail outlet each year.\n\nBut the number of those diagnosed with coronavirus in China has spiked, and this has taken its toll on popular tourist destinations.\n\nEager shoppers, many of them from Asia and the Middle East, wear face masks and apply hand sanitiser on the Thursday morning train.\n\nMixed in with commuters, some snack on pastries and carry Oxford Street-branded tote bags.\n\nBut fashion buyer Xia Yae says she has noticed a \"lot less people\" travelling to the retail village in the last two weeks.\n\nPurchasing designer items for South Korean clients from brands including Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Burberry, Xia says that Bicester retailers are having a \"tough time\".\n\nFew shoppers made their way around the pastel, wood-panelled shops\n\n\"Usually, fashion buyers would be restricted on how many discounted items they can buy. But now, they're allowed to buy as many as they want - the retailers clearly need to make more money,\" she adds.\n\nMore than seven million people visited Bicester Village in 2019, according to its owner Value Retail. It was established in 1995 by American Scott Malkin, and reported sales of £259m in 2018.\n\nThe Hwang family are visiting Bicester as part of their week-long holiday to London.\n\nThe daughter says the family \"aren't worried\" about the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThey are looking forward to searching through discounted items in Burberry. Being able to claim back the 20% VAT available to non-EU visitors is also a perk.\n\nWearing traditional red uniforms resembling those of bellboys, Bicester Village \"hosts\" greet them as they arrive and help other tourists buy tickets for travel.\n\nBicester Village host Jefferson helps tourists travelling to the luxury shopping destination from London Marylebone\n\nAnnouncements in Mandarin and Arabic are made over the tannoy as the train pulls in. Tourists make their way through a neon walkway and past an empty car park to the 160 shops on-site.\n\nFew shoppers walk along the artificial streets between pastel-coloured storefronts.\n\nA shop assistant at one store says they are \"concerned\" about how reliant Bicester Village is on tourism.\n\nMore than 72% of Chinese visitors to the UK go shopping during their trips, according to research by VisitBritain.\n\nIn total, there were 415,000 visits from China to the UK in the 12 months to September 2019, the tourism body says.\n\nStaff say Chinese tourists are the biggest group for the luxury shop.\n\nThey add that the last two weeks have been \"quiet\", estimating the branch has seen a drop of about 85% in the number of Chinese customers entering the store.\n\nThey say: \"It's been a double whammy. Storm Ciara also meant a lot of the trains and coaches from London were cancelled. It's really scary.\"\n\nAnother sales adviser at the high fashion label Balenciaga says the last week has been \"very quiet\" in the shop.\n\nMany of the people the BBC spoke to requested not to be named as they do not have permission to speak to the press.\n\nSales assistants in Balenciaga said tourists visiting in the week buy bigger-ticket items than British shoppers\n\nHe says he uses hand sanitiser every five minutes. Stations are placed at the back of the store for staff, away from customers.\n\nIn several stores, retail assistants outnumber customers. They huddle for chats near the doors of Givenchy, Diesel and Karl Lagerfeld.\n\nFour staff members in Burberry wear surgical masks, and tell the BBC they've been \"advised not to speak to journalists\".\n\nThe complex is privately owned and restricts filming. The BBC was asked not to speak to \"guests\" by security at the site.\n\nDominic Hare, chief executive of the nearby Blenheim Palace, is hoping that any shortfall in visitor numbers will eventually be recouped.\n\nHe said: \"We need to ensure that these are visits deferred, not deleted.\"\n\nMr Hare said that in the meantime they were \"working hard to attract people from short-haul markets, as well as the UK.\n\n\"We're optimistic we can make it up from the local audience - and that's important because the jobs in the wider economy depend on us, and we depend on them too.\"\n\nFor now, Bicester Village shoppers seem happy enough as they wander down the makeshift streets. One tells the BBC through Google Translate that there are fewer people to fight for bargains.\n\nIts owner Value Retail has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.", "She took part in Let's Dance for... Comic Relief with Joe Swash in 2011. The pair also presented I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here Now!", "People were rescued by boat from their flooded homes in Hereford on Monday\n\nMore floods have hit towns as extreme weather brought by Storm Dennis continues to cause widespread damage.\n\nResidents have been advised to leave their homes in parts of Worcestershire as the River Severn burst its banks.\n\nMore than 200 flood warnings are in place across England, Wales and Scotland, including nine severe - or \"danger to life\" - warnings for the rivers Lugg, Severn, Wye and Trent.\n\nA body has been found after a woman was swept away in Worcestershire.\n\nYvonne Booth, 55, was swept into floodwater after her car became stuck near Tenbury Wells, West Mercia Police said.\n\nHer family said in a statement: \"Yvonne is a very much loved member of our family and we are all devastated by this news.\"\n\nYvonne Booth pictured with her late husband and her son\n\nEmergency service workers in boats had to rescue residents in Hereford as the River Wye rose to its highest level on record.\n\nPeople also had to be rescued in Shrewsbury after the River Severn burst its banks.\n\nBBC correspondent Phil Mackie, who was in Upton upon Severn, said it is believed defences built after the 2007 floods could be breached overnight.\n\nTwo of the seven severe warnings in England on Monday evening were for Uckinghall and Upton upon Severn - where residents were advised to evacuate their homes.\n\nThere were two severe warnings in Wales for the River Wye at Monmouth - where homes have been evacuated - and no severe warnings in Scotland, as of 21:00 GMT.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC the government \"can't protect every home\" and defended its response to the storm.\n\nYvonne Booth was swept into floodwater near Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire\n\nTravel continues to be disrupted across the UK, with some A-roads closed and train lines disrupted.\n\nThe Environment Agency said more than 480 properties had been flooded after the storm brought torrential rain and strong winds.\n\nJohn Curtin, the Environment Agency's head of floods and coastal management, said on Twitter that number was \"likely to rise\" - but indicated figures were lower than those for Storm Ciara earlier this month.\n\nFurther heavy rain is forecast later in the week.\n\nRachel Cox's home is one of more than 100 flooded homes in Nantgarw, near Cardiff\n\nSeveral schools have been closed and roads remain blocked by floods and landslips.\n\nThe South Wales valleys saw the highest water levels for more than 40 years over the weekend - an \"unprecedented\" scale of flooding, according to Natural Resources Wales.\n\nJeanette Cox said the only surviving object on the bottom floor of her home the village of Nantgarw, near Cardiff, was a wedding photograph of her and her late husband.\n\nMrs Cox, 68, said it was \"terrifying\" to discover water at the bottom of the stairs in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nShe and her daughter Rachel were evacuated from their home but returned on Monday to assess the scale of the damage.\n\n\"The water has moved things I didn't think could move. I think there are just two cupboards standing - the rest is gone,\" Mrs Cox said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents were rescued from their homes by boat in Hereford on Monday\n\nA relief centre for displaced residents has been set up at the high school in the town, where around 130 properties were evacuated on Sunday.\n\nResponse teams worked into the early hours of Monday to rescue stranded residents from their homes by boat.\n\nThe county council has warned more evacuations could be necessary.\n\nA rescue boat takes residents to safety in Nantgarw, near Cardiff\n\nIn Staffordshire, serious flooding cause a youth climate strike conference to be called off.\n\nThe first ever national conference was due to start on Sunday afternoon, with delegates travelling from across the UK.\n\nBut police advised the event should be cancelled after heavy rain made roads around the venue impassable, the UK Student Climate Network said.\n\nSophia Coningham, 15, from London, said there was a \"bleak irony\" in their efforts to highlight climate change being hindered by this week's dramatic weather.\n\nA car park was flooded in York after the River Ouse burst its banks\n\nIn York, the River Ouse reached 4.41m above its normal level.\n\nThousands of sandbags have been placed around vulnerable properties nearby, but the Environment Agency has said the situation in the city is \"improving\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Eustice said about £2.5bn has been spent on tackling extreme weather conditions since 2015 and £4bn has been allocated for the next five years.\n\nHe added that convening Cobra, the government's emergency committee, was not needed \"at this point\". A Cobra meeting was held when parts of the UK saw flooding in the run-up to the 2019 general election.\n\nDowning Street said Prime Minister Boris Johnson will receive \"regular updates\" on the flooding, which it described as \"terrible\".\n\nLuke Pollard, shadow environment secretary, said it was a \"disgrace\" that Mr Johnson had not visited affected communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Welsh residents are trying to clean up the substantial damage left in the wake of the storm\n\nThe government has activated an emergency funding scheme for areas affected by the flooding, which include parts of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Worcestershire and Herefordshire.\n\nUnder the Bellwin scheme, local authorities can apply for the government to reimburse non-insurable costs above a certain threshold, which has not been specified.\n\nBedford Road car park in Guildford, Surrey, was also flooded\n\nA record number of flood warnings and alerts were issued for England on Sunday, according to the Environment Agency's Mr Curtin.\n\nHe said \"the saturated ground conditions\" left by Storm Ciara earlier in the month had contributed to the severe floods caused by Storm Dennis.\n\nMajor incidents were declared in south Wales and parts of England, as parts of the UK were buffeted by gusts of more than 90mph.\n\nMore than a month's worth of rain fell in 48 hours in places.\n\nFlights and train services were cancelled and roads closed, while emergency centres were set up for those who had to leave their homes.\n\nFor more information, check the BBC Weather website and your BBC Local Radio station for regular updates.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Dennis? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Boris Johnson and his new chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will have a joint team of advisers following the reshuffle\n\nThe government should be scrutinised by MPs over changes to its teams in Downing Street, the SNP has said.\n\nEarlier this week, No 10 confirmed it would be merging its team of special advisers with those at the Treasury.\n\nThe move led to the resignation of former Chancellor Sajid Javid, who refused to fire his own aides.\n\nThe SNP's Ian Blackford said key figures - including the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings - should now appear before the Liaison Committee.\n\nThe panel, which is made up of the chairs of each of the select committees, is tasked with holding the government and its ministers to account over public policy.\n\nIn a letter to the clerk of the committee, Mr Blackford wrote: \"It is substantially in the public interest to summon those involved in designing these changes - we should know their purpose and intent.\n\n\"Dominic Cummings... has been widely reported as the main catalyst for these alterations and so it's right that he is the first to be summoned and required to answer questions on this matter.\"\n\nDominic Cummings is the prime minister's chief adviser in No 10\n\nMr Javid was expected to keep his job in No 11 ahead of the government reshuffle on Thursday, despite reported tensions between him and Mr Cummings.\n\nHowever, in a surprise move, the former chancellor quit his post, saying \"no self-respecting minister\" could accept the condition of getting rid of his staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: I had no option but to resign\n\nIn a letter to the PM, Mr Javid urged Mr Johnson to \"ensure the Treasury as an institution retains as much credibility as possible\".\n\nHe has now been replaced by the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe decision to amalgamate treasury advisers into a Downing Street unit has led to significant concern among some who believe it will limit the ability of the chancellor to resist demands from the prime minister.\n\nNow the SNP are calling on the Liaison Committee to look into the change, saying it amounts to a fundamental re-ordering of how the government operates and functions.\n\nCommittees do have the power to summon witnesses - although it would be highly unusual for the prime minister's key adviser to appear so publicly, and the committee has not met since the election. Frankly, it's unlikely Dominic Cummings will appear.\n\nBut the call for him to do so is illustrative of the fact many at Westminster are concerned about the influence of Mr Johnson's advisers, and the changes they are involved in overseeing.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Blackford said: \"It is crucial that key appointed officials, responsible to the prime minister, are compelled to give evidence on these changes - in full, in detail and in public.\n\n\"I hope parliament's Liaison Committee is favourable to facilitating this as a matter of public interest and transparency.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Downing Street for comment.", "General Motors has said it will retire the iconic Australian car brand Holden as it leaves more markets.\n\nThe American car giant said it will wind down Holden sales, design and engineering operations in Australia and New Zealand by next year.\n\nIt also said China's Great Wall Motors had agreed to buy its manufacturing plant in Thailand.\n\nThe announcement comes three years after GM ended manufacturing in Australia.\n\nIn a statement posted on GM's website, chief executive Mary Barra said: \"I've often said that we will do the right thing, even when it's hard, and this is one of those times.\"\n\nThe statement did not say how many jobs would be lost as a result of the move but reports suggest it will mean up to 600 layoffs.\n\nIn response to the news, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said: \"I am disappointed but not surprised. But I am angry, like I think many Australians would be.\n\n\"Australian taxpayers put millions into this multinational company. They let the brand just wither away on their watch. Now they are leaving it behind,\" he added.\n\nGM President Mark Reuss said the company had explored ways to keep the Holden brand but had decided that it would cost too much to remain in the \"highly fragmented right-hand-drive market\".\n\nIt comes as GM is accelerating its exit from unprofitable markets as it focuses on the US, China, Latin America and South Korea.\n\nThe move will end 160 years of the Holden name's association with Australia. The company was founded as a saddle maker in South Australia in 1856 before it started building vehicles in 1908.\n\nHolden was bought by GM in 1931, beginning their 89-year history as a combined entity.\n\nThe hashtag #RIPHolden is trending on Twitter as people post pictures and memories of the much-loved Australian brand.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Esther Clerehan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLate last year the company also said it would stop selling its most iconic model the Commodore after more than four decades.\n\nAt the end of 2013 Holden announced that it would halt production in Australia and start importing vehicles from its overseas plants. GM said a strong Australian currency, high manufacturing costs and a small domestic market were among the reasons behind its decision.\n\nThe ending of Australian production of Holdens in 2017 resulted in nearly 2,900 job losses.", "Rikki Neave was found strangled in woodland in Peterborough in 1994\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a six-year-old boy 25 years ago.\n\nRikki Neave was last seen leaving his Welland estate home in Peterborough on the morning of 28 November 1994. His naked body was found strangled in woodland nearby.\n\nJames Watson, 38, of no fixed address, has been charged with his murder and will appear before magistrates in Peterborough on Thursday.\n\nRikki was last seen leaving his home in Redmile Walk for school at about 09:00 GMT.\n\nHis body was found the next day in a wooded area about a five-minute walk away.\n\nHis school uniform was found dumped in a bin close to the scene.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded that Rikki died as a result of being strangled.\n\nPolice on the scene shortly after the murder of Rikki Neave\n\nRikki's mother Ruth Neave was cleared of his murder at a trial in 1996, but she was jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to child neglect.\n\nA Crimewatch appeal broadcast on the 20th anniversary of his death led officers to release an e-fit of two teenage boys they wanted to talk to in connection with the case.\n\nThe pair had been seen walking out of the woods where Rikki's body was found on the morning of 29 November.\n\nFollowing the charge decision, Rikki's sister Rochelle, said \"People must respect we are still grieving and traumatised by the whole case.\n\n\"Rikki has left a remarkable mark on this planet that no-one will ever forget.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Paul Fullwood said: \"The cold case review into Rikki's murder was undertaken by the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit in 2014.\n\n\"We began re-investigating the case in 2015 and following extensive investigative work, we have now been authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service to charge James Watson in connection with his death.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home owners are trying to clean up the substantial damage left in the wake of Storm Dennis.\n\nResidents are counting the cost of \"unprecedented\" flooding after Storm Dennis left parts of Wales under water.\n\nThere are cancellations and significant delays on trains after a month's worth of rain fell in 48 hours.\n\nRoads across south and mid Wales remain blocked by floods and landslips.\n\nMeanwhile, homes were evacuated in Monmouth on Monday night after two severe flood warnings for the River Wye were declared.\n\nThe river's water levels are predicted to reach 7.2m (23ft) between 03:00 and 07:00 on Tuesday.\n\nAnd more rain has been forecast with a Met Office yellow warning for rain issued from 18:00 GMT on Wednesday until 15:00 on Thursday in areas of south, mid and north Wales.\n\nPeople living in areas at immediate risk in Monmouth have been evacuated and other properties nearby have been provided with sandbags and support. The Wye Bridge has been closed, with pedestrians and motorists warned to keep away.\n\nAnyone affected by the bridge closure or flooding is asked to use a rest centre set up at the Shire Hall.\n\nNatural Resources Wales still had eight flood warnings in place at 21:10 GMT, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nIt said 163mm (6.5in) of rain had fallen in the 48 hours between lunchtime on Friday and Sunday and described the scale of flooding as \"unprecedented\".\n\nMeanwhile, Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has defended the Welsh Government's investment into flood defences following the widespread damage after Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said it \"clearly isn't adequate\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford meets householder Caroline Jones in her flood-affected house in Pontypridd\n\nMr Drakeford said the impact of the weekend's events would have been \"even worse\" if there had not been major investment in flood defences, adding a £350m programme was ongoing over this assembly term.\n\n\"The impact of global warming is real and there for anyone to see, the science tells us we will have to face in greater frequency these intense weather events in future,\" he said.\n\nMr Drakeford said the Welsh Government would work with local authorities to repair infrastructure damage by flooding including bridges, roads and existing flood defences and explore whether there are funds available to help flood victims, local authorities and emergency services.\n\n\"For individuals our first focus will be on those families who don't have any form of insurance who lost everything and have no way of replacing it,\" he said.\n\nA card shop in Pontypridd was flooded during the storm\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A massive clean-up operation is underway after rivers burst their banks during heavy rainfall.\n\nTransport for Wales engineers are assessing the full extent of damage but the company warned of \"significant delays\" in many areas and asked passengers to check their rail journeys on Monday.\n\nMore than 200 services were disrupted on Monday and more than 70 journeys were cancelled.\n\nA flock of sheep had to be rescued from a flooded field in Carmarthenshire\n\nBethan Jelfs, from Transport for Wales, said there was \"significant damage\" to the track, a landslide near Ebbw Vale and flooding north of Pontypridd which has cut off services to Porth, Aberdare and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nFloodwater was still causing problems in Nantgarw on Monday morning\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dai Lygad 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPowys council bosses said the bridge at Crickhowell was damaged in the floods and would remain closed until after an inspection.\n\nA woman embraces a relative - her new car was found 250m away after floating down a flooded street in Nantgarw\n\nWhile river levels have fallen, South Wales Police has warned people to only travel if necessary and not to go near rivers and waterways.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jenny Gilmer said: \"It's vitally important that people still follow safety advice. Whilst things may appear to be getting better, there is still a serious risk to people and property.\"\n\nThis football pitch in Cwmbran turned into a boating lake for this canoeist\n\nA roof was carried into her garden from about 400m away\n\nTaff Street in Pontypridd was left underwater after heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday\n\nClearing up in the centre of Pontypridd on Monday\n\nAt the peak of the flooding on Sunday, we had 900 tonnes of water per second flowing down the River Taff.\n\nThat's not just a massive amount of water flowing very fast, it's the damage it can bring, especially when debris is carried along in such a torrent.\n\nWell over a month's rainfall came in just 48 hours.\n\nThis product of Storm Dennis came hot on the heels of Storm Ciara - drenching land that was already soaked through and filling rivers fast.\n\nMonitoring sites on rivers and streams flowing down from the mountains through the south Wales valleys started reporting record-breaking levels of water.\n\nWe saw the highest levels ever recorded on the rivers Taff, Tawe, Neath, Rhondda, Cynon, Usk and the Wye.\n\nThis shows river Taff levels at Pontypridd over the last month up until 1500 on Monday\n\nIf we look at the NRW monitoring site at Pontypridd in isolation over the last month, the level surges to well over 5m on Sunday at the peak of Storm Dennis.\n\nEven down in Cardiff, river levels were 80cm higher than the previous record set in 1979.\n\nSince then, there has been widespread investment in flood defences across south Wales, which has played a big part in saving tens of thousands of homes from damage this time around.\n\nThat will be no comfort to those people closest to rivers, who have still been affected,\n\nAll the science around climate change is suggesting that weather events like this will become more frequent and more extreme.\n\nSo the questions that are sure to be asked over the coming weeks and months is how we cope with that.\n\nEmergency services and volunteers were praised for evacuating hundreds of people from their homes\n\nDo you have any questions about flooding in Wales?\n\nUse this form to send us your questions:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nWe may get in touch if we decide to follow up on your suggestion.", "Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe\n\nHeathrow Airport has apologised for disruption after the west London hub was hit by \"technical issues\".\n\nOne passenger said the situation was \"utter chaos\" after a problem with the airport's IT system saw staff called in to help passengers get to gates on the second day of the half-term weekend.\n\nAt about 22:25 GMT on Sunday, Heathrow said the issues had been resolved and \"systems are returning to normal\".\n\nBritish Airways, the biggest airline at Heathrow, has cancelled 20 flights.\n\nIn a tweet, Heathrow Airport said: \"Today's technical issue has now been resolved and Heathrow's systems are returning to normal.\n\n\"We apologise for the inconvenience caused.\n\n\"Our teams will continue to monitor our systems and be on hand to provide assistance to passengers as we work to resume our regular operations.\"\n\nAir traffic control was not affected by the technical failures, but the IT issues, which came on a busy day for family travel, have further compounded delays triggered by bad weather across the weekend.\n\nSam Mills said he hadn't been able to eat or drink \"for fear of losing his place in the line\" for customer services\n\nSam Mills, who was travelling from London to Pittsburgh with British Airways, explained how when he arrived at the airport shortly after lunchtime on Sunday the flight boards were not updating.\n\n\"I was continually getting 'Delayed' messages on the board, with no gate information for my flight,\" he told the BBC. \"A BA representative informed me that it should update before my flight, and not to worry.\"\n\n\"But as soon as the gate did pop up [on the board] - it told me the flight had departed, without me on that plane.\n\n\"As of right now, I am stranded. There's a line of people about 300ft in both directions at the British Airways service desk. We haven't been told any information from anybody.\"\n\nCaitlin Gould said passengers had to rely on white boards to find out where they should be\n\nCaitlin Gould, who travelled to London from Cornwall on Sunday morning, has been waiting for a flight to Munich with Lufthansa since 16:00 GMT, after her British Airways flight was cancelled.\n\nShe said the staff were \"really helpful... if you can find them\".\n\n\"At the gate there is almost no information,\" she told the BBC, adding that everyone was dependant on white boards to find out where they should be.\n\n\"None of the online information matches up with any of the boards. People are walking around with signs trying to find people to take them to the plane.\"\n\nBritish Airways said the cancellations were the result of Heathrow's IT issues combined with the existing disruption caused by Storm Dennis.\n\nIt added that anyone on a cancelled flight would be entitled to a refund or could be re-booked. Overnight accommodation would be provided if necessary.\n\nIn response to a customer on Twitter, the airline wrote: \"We're aware Heathrow Airport is currently experiencing a technical issue that is impacting some of their IT systems across the airport, affecting a number of airlines.\n\n\"We are working with them to resolve the issue as a priority and apologise for the delay to our customers.\"\n\nBA has experienced two high-profile IT failures in recent years.\n\nIn August last year, more than 100 flights had to be cancelled and a further 200 were delayed after an IT glitch involving two separate systems, one dealing with online check-in and the other with flight departures.\n\nThe airline also suffered a major computer failure over the spring bank holiday weekend in May 2017, which saw 726 flights cancelled and tens of thousands of passengers left stranded.", "Rescue teams have been searching the area around Tenbury Wells for the missing woman\n\nA woman who went missing in floods after her car got stuck in water is believed to have died, police said.\n\nThe woman disappeared on Sunday near a bridge which crosses the River Teme, near Tenbury Wells, in Worcestershire.\n\nThe search resumed earlier but is now a \"recovery rather than rescue mission\", West Mercia Police said.\n\nWidespread evacuations are taking place across Worcestershire and Herefordshire as river levels continue to rise in the wake of Storm Dennis.\n\nHundreds of flood warnings remain in place, including several severe warnings meaning a danger to life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Dennis flooding as seen from the air in Hereford\n\nSome residents in Hereford were rescued from a window\n\nAt least 30 homes have been flooded in Ludlow, Shropshire, with water up to the level of kitchen worktops in one home, Ludlow North councillor Andy Boddington said.\n\nHe said the River Teme peaked just under the highest level recorded in 2007.\n\nThe River Wye in Hereford reached its highest recorded level overnight - 6.3m (20.7ft).\n\nWater is also touching the walkway of the Victoria Bridge in the city, as levels on the river continue to rise.\n\nWater has reached the Victoria Bridge in Hereford\n\nPolice said the search for the missing woman, who has not been identified, included the use of the force helicopter.\n\n\"Sadly, however, due to the circumstances of the length of time in the water and other conditions we believe that this will now be a recovery rather than rescue operation,\" they added.\n\nOfficers said her family had been informed.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to reports of two people being swept into the water near Eastham Bridge.\n\nA man who was rescued close to where the woman disappeared was airlifted to hospital and remains in a stable condition.\n\nWest Mercia Police Assistant Chief Constable Geoff Wessell said the man and woman \"stopped and got out of the car because of the water and then got caught up into more of a stream of water that took them away\".\n\n\"It absolutely illustrates - do not drive into water, do not go into water, it's far too dangerous,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parts of Ludlow in Shropshire have been flooded\n\nAbout 130 homes in Tenbury were evacuated overnight, with roads in the area described as \"virtually all impassable\" by Worcestershire County Council.\n\nThe authority said it was working with the Environment Agency, police, fire service and paramedics to evacuate more residents.\n\n\"Although in some areas river levels are dropping, they are set to rise again over the next few hours, peaking during the evening,\" a council spokesman said.\n\nAbout 420 properties have been flooded across the UK with about 270 of those in the West Midlands, the Environment Agency said.\n\nWorcestershire has borne the brunt of the flooding with about 200 homes affected, according to figures from the agency's John Curtin.\n\nFamilies and their pets have been evacuated from homes in Hereford\n\nNatalie Gibson had to ride her horse out of a flooded field\n\nHerefordshire Police tweeted that officers were carrying out emergency evacuations to a leisure centre.\n\nFamilies rescued from flooded Hereford properties could be seen disembarking from evacuation dinghies with their pets and belongings.\n\nAbout five boats are at work ferrying people from their homes around Hinton Avenue and Hinton Crescent.\n\nNatalie Gibson said she had to ride her horse out of a flooded field to ensure he was safe.\n\n\"He was stuck up to his knees. He wouldn't move so I had to jump on him. I had people at the top of the field calling him so we rode through the floods,\" she said.\n\nShe said she had to wade over her submerged settee to answer banging on the door from her neighbours before abandoning her home.\n\nDave Throup, from the Environment Agency, described the scene in Hereford as \"just unbelievable\" with river levels now the same as the floods in 2007.\n\nHinton Road and the adjoining Hinton Avenue were eerily quiet, BBC reporter Andrew Marston said\n\nWest Mercia Police said residents in Upton-upon-Severn and Uckinghall, Worcestershire, were being advised to evacuate their homes after severe flood warnings have been declared due rising river levels.\n\nThe government's emergency funding Bellwin scheme, to help people affected by the storm, has been extended to include \"qualifying areas\" of Herefordshire and Worcestershire as well as Shropshire.\n\nTelford & Wrekin Council said it would be distributing sandbags \"for anyone to pick up from the Ironbridge park-and-ride site\".\n\nThe River Severn is expected to peak in Ironbridge on Tuesday, the authority said, adding that flood barriers were already in place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Telford & Wrekin Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFloodwater broke the banks of the river in Shrewsbury and spilled on to Smithfield Road, one of the busiest in the town, and Chester Street, at about 14:30 GMT.\n\nElsewhere, thousands of sandbags have been distributed in York where the River Ouse continues to rise, although the Environment Agency has said the situation in the city was an \"improving one\".\n\nThe Ouse had been expected to peak at 4.8m (15.7ft) above normal levels later on Monday.\n\nThat level is higher than during Storm Ciara, but significantly lower than the record high of 5.4m (17.7ft) in November 2000.\n\nThe River Ouse has caused widespread flooding south of York\n\nCraig McGarvey, from the Environment Agency, said the peak was well below the city's flood defences.\n\nHe added: \"It's a much improving situation and we haven't had as much rain as we were concerned about before the weekend.\"\n\nLowdham, in Nottinghamshire, was one of the areas hardest hit in the East Midlands, with about 60 homes flooded.\n\nNewark and Sherwood District Council said teams were out with three mechanical road sweepers clearing debris and silt.\n\nResidents of park homes on the River Stour, near Christchurch, Dorset, are also being told to leave as water levels continue to rise.\n\nPower is being shut off at Iford Bridge Home Park and occupants are being told to find alternative accommodation and move cars to high ground.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United closed in on the Champions League places with victory over Chelsea as Frank Lampard's side were left with a sense of injustice after contentious video assistant referee decisions went against them.\n\nUnited closed to within three points of Chelsea in fourth place with headed goals either side of the interval from Anthony Martial and Harry Maguire at Stamford Bridge.\n\nMartial glanced in Aaron Wan-Bissaka's cross on the stroke of half-time before Manchester United captain Maguire powered in a header from Bruno Fernandes' corner after 66 minutes.\n\nChelsea felt aggrieved as Maguire was fortunate to escape a red card for kicking Michy Batshuayi in the groin in the first half as they tangled on the touchline, despite the incident being examined by VAR.\n\nAnd the review system denied them again when Chelsea thought substitute Kurt Zouma had made it 1-1. The goal was ruled out for a push by Cesar Azpilicueta on Brandon Williams, although replays showed United's Fred put a hand on the back of Chelsea's captain.\n\nChelsea's frustration was complete when Olivier Giroud's 76th-minute header was ruled out because his foot was in an offside position as he moved to meet Mason Mount's free-kick.\n\nBeing on the right side of the decisions helped Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's organised and diligent United side to complete their first league double over Chelsea since 1987-88.\n• None 'Man Utd right in race for top four - somehow'\n• None How you rated the players at Stamford Bridge\n\nThis was not a glittering performance by any means from Manchester United but it can be satisfactorily filed under 'job done'.\n\nVAR was United's friend in two pivotal moments, with Maguire's goal adding insult to injury as Chelsea felt - with understandable conviction - he should have been given a red card for kicking out at Batshuayi.\n\nWhere United had the decisive advantage over Chelsea was in front of goal, where they made the most of their rare opportunities with a clinical edge that was notably lacking in their opponents.\n\nMartial was on the margins for most of the first half but showed his quality with an angled header beyond the grasp of Chelsea keeper Willy Caballero.\n\nUnited sealed an important win that gives them hope of a top-four finish when Maguire escaped the attentions of Antonio Rudiger to head home.\n\nNew boy Fernandes will have added to Solskjaer's pleasure with some nice touches, including a free-kick against the post as well as creating Maguire's goal before he was substituted to a loud ovation from the away end in the closing moments.\n\nIt puts them firmly back in contention for the top four, with only five points separating Everton in ninth place from Chelsea in fourth.\n• None Football Daily podcast: A Bridge too VAR for Chelsea and Lampard\n\nChelsea manager Lampard's constant gripe this season has been a lack of cutting edge to accompany some neat approach play and plentiful possession - and so it proved again here.\n\nAs they continued a slump that has brought only one win in six league games, Chelsea again paid a heavy price for once more failing to make the most of the opportunities that presented themselves.\n\nWith Tammy Abraham sidelined through injury, responsibility fell on Batshuayi - but the Belgium striker looked short of confidence and drew Stamford Bridge's wrath when he missed two first-half chances.\n\nThe experienced Giroud looked more threatening when he came on but it was too late for Chelsea, who came up short again.\n\nThese are difficult times for Lampard as he must find a way to drag Chelsea out of their current form, get his strikers scoring and deal with a dilemma over his goalkeeper - with £71m keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga clearly behind 38-year-old Caballero.\n\nIt means the stakes are high in the battle for top-four places when Jose Mourinho's Spurs visit Stamford Bridge on Saturday lunchtime.\n\nChelsea host Tottenham in the Premier League on Saturday (kick-off 12:30 GMT) while Manchester United travel to Club Bruges in the Europa League on Thursday, followed by a Premier League game against Watford on Sunday (14:00 GMT).\n\nSolskjaer's away joy against top sides - the stats\n• None This is the first time Manchester United have completed a league double over Chelsea without conceding a goal since 1964-65.\n• None Chelsea have lost seven home games in all competitions this season, their most in a single campaign since 1994-95 (also seven).\n• None Chelsea have lost all five of their home league games when conceding the first goal this season; only two other sides have failed to recover a single point at home when conceding first in the Premier League this season (Norwich and West Ham).\n• None Manchester United scored with both of their first two attempts on target in this match and scored two headed goals in a Premier League game for the first time since November 2017 against Newcastle.\n• None Chelsea became the second side to have two goals awarded and then overturned by VAR in a Premier League match this season, following Sheffield United against Brighton in December.\n• None Anthony Martial has scored four Premier League goals against Chelsea; he hasn't scored more goals against any other side. Those four strikes have come in his last three appearances against the Blues.\n• None Martial became the first Manchester United player to score in three consecutive Premier League appearances against Chelsea, and the third to score home and away Premier League goals against the Blues in the same season (Wayne Rooney 2011-12 and Eric Cantona 1992-93).\n• None Harry Maguire scored his first Premier League goal for Manchester United; each of his last four strikes in the competition have been away from home, with his first since January 2019 at Liverpool.\n• None Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has won all five of his away games as Man Utd manager against Chelsea and Man City in all competitions - more than the Red Devils had won in their previous 19 such games under Alex Ferguson, David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho combined.\n• None Odion Ighalo became the 200th player to make an appearance for Man Utd in the Premier League, and the first Nigerian to do so.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Attempt saved. Odion Ighalo (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fred.\n• None Mason Mount (Chelsea) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Reece James.\n• None Attempt blocked. Reece James (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A doctor who worked at the same private healthcare firm as rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson has been suspended, it has emerged.\n\nSpire Healthcare said Mike Walsh - a specialist in trauma and orthopaedic surgery - was suspended in April 2018 over concerns about patient treatment.\n\nAlmost 50 of his patients from its Leeds hospital had been recalled.\n\nThe details emerged following an independent inquiry into Paterson, who is serving a 20-year jail sentence.\n\nPaterson was found guilty in 2017 of intentionally wounding his patients.\n\nEarlier this month, an inquiry into the breast surgeon found that a culture of \"avoidance and denial\" had allowed him to perform botched and unnecessary operations on hundreds of women.\n\nSpire said in a statement that it acted after concerns were raised about Mr Walsh's work at its hospital in Leeds in 2018.\n\nThe company, which contacted the Royal College of Surgeons to assist with its investigation, said it had reviewed the notes of fewer than 200 patients, of which \"fewer than 50\" had been invited back for a follow-up appointment.\n\n\"Where we have identified concerns about the care a patient received, we have invited the patient to an appointment with an independent surgeon to review their treatment,\" a spokesman for Spire Healthcare said.\n\n\"This is a complex case and the review is ongoing.\"\n\nIt said that Mr Walsh, who was immediately suspended after the concerns were raised, was no longer working with Spire Healthcare.\n\nThe company said any patients at its Spire Leeds Hospital who had concerns about their treatment under Mr Walsh should contact the hospital.\n\nIt said its findings had also been shared with the Care Quality Commission and the General Medical Council (GMC).\n\nThe GMC said that while Mr Walsh was still on the medical register, he does not currently have a licence to practise, having held full registration until January 2019.\n\nLast month, Spire also said it was reviewing the care of more than 200 patients after stopping another of its surgeons - Habib Rahman - from practising.\n\nHe worked at Spire's Parkway hospital in the West Midlands - where Paterson had also worked.\n\nSpire has 39 hospitals across the UK and one specialist cancer centre.", "Last updated on .From the section Irish\n\nFormer Manchester United and Northern Ireland goalkeeper Harry Gregg, hailed as a hero of the 1958 Munich air disaster, has died at the age of 87.\n\nGregg bravely rescued team-mates and other passengers following the plane crash in which 23 were killed.\n\nWhen he joined United in December 1957 for £23,500 he was the world's most expensive goalkeeper and was voted the best at the following year's World Cup.\n\nHe made 25 appearances for Northern Ireland between 1954 and 1963.\n• None Archive: Harry Gregg - \"I want to remember those happy times\"\n\nThe former goalkeeper's charitable Harry Gregg Foundation said that the goalkeeping great died in Causeway Hospital in Coleraine.\n\n\"Harry passed away peacefully in hospital surrounded by his loving family.\n\n\"The Gregg family would like to thank the medical staff at Causeway Hospital for their wonderful dedication to Harry over his last few weeks.\n\n\"To everyone who has called, visited or sent well wishes we thank you for the love and respect shown to Harry and the family.\n\n\"Details of his funeral arrangement will be issued in the next few days. We would ask that the privacy of the family is respected at this difficult time.\n\n\"Never to be forgotten!\"\n\nManchester United's players will wear black armbands as a mark of respect for the late Gregg in Monday's Premier League game against Chelsea.\n\nLess than three months after making his Old Trafford debut, Gregg and his team-mates were travelling back from a European Cup tie in Belgrade on 6 February when their plane crashed after they stopped to refuel in Munich.\n\nGregg would become known as the 'hero of Munich' for his actions following the crash, where he rescued a number of survivors including a young baby and team-mates Bobby Charlton and Jackie Blanchflower from the wreckage.\n\nTwo weeks after pulling several team-mates from the wreckage of the Munich Air Disaster, Gregg kept a clean sheet as Manchester United put Sheffield Wednesday out of the FA Cup.\n\nThe goalkeeper was determined that the tragic event would not define his career, or indeed his life.\n\n\"I would be telling lies if I said that I thought about it all the time. In fact I would go insane,\" he said in 2018 before a service marking 60 years since the disaster.\n\n\"I know the media would like to talk about what happened on a runway. I don't blame people for that but if all I was ever part of, or all I ever achieved was to do with what happened in Germany, in Munich, if that was what my life was all about, it didn't come to very much.\"\n\nIndeed, the career that followed would cement Gregg's legacy as one of the finest goalkeepers in Manchester United and Northern Ireland history.\n\nA life in professional football saw Gregg, who Sir Alex Ferguson described as his hero, spend 35 years in England and Wales.\n\nAfter his return home to Northern Ireland, he opened a hotel in Portstewart and in 2015 launched a charitable foundation aimed at encouraging young people's participation in football and other health, lifestyle, educational, heritage and social inclusion activities.\n\nHe made his final trip to Old Trafford in 2018, before being named OBE in the Queen's 2019 New Year's Honours.\n\nNorthern Ireland's football governing body, the Irish Football Association called Gregg a \"legend of the game and a brave, selfless giant of a man\".", "Last updated on .From the section Irish\n\nSir Bobby Charlton says Harry Gregg was \"a fantastic goalkeeper but more importantly an incredible human being\".\n\nGregg passed away on Sunday at the age of 87 and Charlton paid an emotional tribute to his former Manchester United team-mate.\n\nCharlton survived the Munich air disaster in 1958 when Gregg pulled him and other passengers from the plane's burning wreckage.\n\n\"I was proud to call him a team-mate,\" said United and England great Charlton.\n\nGregg rescued United team-mates Charlton and Dennis Viollet from BEA Flight 609, as well as a 20-month-old baby and her badly injured, pregnant mother.\n• None Archive: Harry Gregg - \"I want to remember those happy times\"\n\nSpeaking to the Manchester United website, Charlton added: \"Lady Norma and I are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Harry Gregg.\n\n\"For all the matter of fact things Harry said about that night in Munich for me he will always be remembered as a heroic figure.\n\n\"It's incredible to think that he went on to play in a match against Sheffield Wednesday just 13 days after that tragic night.\n\n\"A shining light both on and off the pitch. For so many reasons, he deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest names in Manchester United's history.\n\n\"Harry will be deeply missed and our thoughts are with [his wife] Carolyn and his family at this very sad time.\"\n\nFormer Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said he was \"deeply saddened\" by Gregg's death.\n\n\"Harry was a man of great character and a true legend at our club,\" said Sir Alex.\n\n\"I remember that he was always very excited and proud to host our youth team at his boarding house for the Milk Cup [Northern Ireland youth football tournament] every summer so he could recount the tales of his playing days.\n\n\"I loved his company and the many pieces of advice he gave me.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with Carolyn and his family at this very sad time.\"\n\n'What a man he was' - Jennings\n\nPat Jennings, who took over from Gregg as Northern Ireland keeper in the 1960s, recalls a \"great relationship\".\n\n\"I'm sad to hear the news and condolences to his family,\" said the former Tottenham and Arsenal player.\n\n\"He was one of the lads I watched at internationals in Belfast in the late 1950s and encouraged me to become a goalkeeper.\n\n\"We met more in recent years at the National Stadium in Belfast and we had great craic talking about the old days.\n\n\"What a man he was to go back into that wreckage and pull people out. Most people would be running away. That tells you what he was about.\"\n\nEx-Manchester United star and Northern Ireland boss Sammy McIlroy said Gregg's actions during the Munich air disaster \"summed up the man\".\n\n\"He was a fantastic goalkeeper. Brave as a lion and brave as a lion off the field as well,\" said McIlroy.\n\n\"Going into the burning wreckage and pulling people away from it.\"\n\nMcIlroy, who was legendary United manager Sir Matt Busby's last signing as manager in 1969 before he stepped down from the job, was at the club until 1982 and his time at United included a period when Gregg was the club's goalkeeping coach.\n\n\"He was the goalkeeping coach under Dave Sexton. He always had something to say about our performances,\" McIlroy said.\n\n\"After working with the goalkeepers, he would join the lads in five-a-sides.\"\n\nMcIlroy's subsequent managerial career included a three-year stint in charge of Northern Ireland and Gregg was never short of a word of advice to the then national team boss.\n\n\"He would come to the hotel. It would start with a cup of tea and the chat would go on for two or three hours. It was very hard to get rid of him,\" laughed the former Northern Ireland boss.\n\n\"After the game when I would come back to Manchester, he'd be phoning me up once, twice a week.\n\n\"He was always there for advice and help. I'll never forget him. He was a fantastic character.\"\n\nFormer Irish League player and BBC Radio Ulster football pundit Liam Beckett, who was with the Manchester United great when he passed away at Coleraine's Causeway Hospital on Sunday night, described Gregg as a \"man of integrity\".\n\n\"Despite all the adulation that was showered upon Harry, he was very much a private man,\" said Beckett, who is a patron of the Harry Gregg Foundation.\n\n\"A humble man, a modest man, a man of integrity, a man of principle and he was most happy when he was among family.\n\n\"He loved kids, so he set up the foundation to provide a proper structured platform for kids to be able to go out and play the game that he loved.\n\n\"When people would always bring up Munich, his answer would always be the same: 'I only did what any other man would have done'.\n\n\"Of course, we know that's not true. He was exceptional. The very word legend, it doesn't come close in this instance.\"", "Clean-up in Pontypridd: 'Everything is covered in mud'\n\n5 Live's Rory Carson has been speaking to people in Pontypridd, where he says the clean up operation is well under way. Geraint Day is chair of Clwb Y Bont - a club that promotes Welsh language and culture in the centre of the town. \"Sunday night was the time it was really bad,\" he said, \"looking in the function room now it's covered with mud. The ceiling has stayed up but the rest of the club is a complete mess, the bar, everything is covered in mud... there's not a hope of saving anything electrical. \"Anything with soft furnishing is going to be covered with flood mud and contaminated with sewage as well.\" Mr Day said he has \"no idea\" how much it will cost to repair. \"Because it's an area of high risk flooding, despite the flood walls, we can't get insurance for flood protection so we'll have to do it ourselves.\" He said they're appealing for donations, and relying on volunteers: \"We'll pull together and reopen I'm sure.\"", "The musician found fame as an acid house DJ and forged a stellar career as a producer\n\nAndrew Weatherall, one of the UK's most respected DJs and record producers, has died aged 56.\n\nThe musician, who was born in Windsor, rose to fame during the acid house era, and worked with the likes of New Order and Happy Mondays.\n\nHis production and remix work on Primal Scream's Screamadelica turned it into an era-defining album, and earned the band the first Mercury Prize in 1992.\n\nWeatherall died in hospital on Monday morning, his spokesman confirmed.\n\nThe cause of death was a pulmonary embolism.\n\n\"He was being treated in hospital but unfortunately the blood clot reached his heart. His death was swift and peaceful,\" said a statement.\n\n\"His family and friends are profoundly saddened by his death and are taking time to gather their thoughts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt reads tributes to Andrew Weatherall and celebrates the life of a music icon\n\nThe musician started his career singing with post-punk bands at his local arts centre - but found his feet as a DJ in the late 1980s.\n\n\"I saved up all my money and went to London at the weekend to buy records,\" he told the BBC in 2014. \"I just got a really good record collection together to the point where people started to say 'Why don't you play this at our party?', 'Why don't you play this at our club?'\"\n\nWhen the acid house scene started to develop around the Roundshaw Estate in Sutton, he discovered that club nights were playing a lot of the music he already owned.\n\n\"I knew I had records as good as that, or even better, that they might not know,\" he later explained, adding: \"I was kind of in the right place at the right time\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by PrimalScreamVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs the scene exploded, Weatherall was invited to play at the London nightclub Shoom by DJ Danny Rampling, and helped document rave culture with the fanzine Boys Own - a name he later gave to his own record label.\n\nHis DJ career led to Weatherall remixing New Order's Worlds in Motion and, along with Paul Oakenfold, the Happy Mondays' Hallelujah.\n\nAs a result, he was sought out by Primal Scream, who asked him to remix their single I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have for the meagre sum of £500.\n\nAfter an initial attempt on which he \"basically slung a kick drum under the original\", Weatherall decided to try a much more radical approach.\n\nThe result was Loaded, which retained about seven seconds of Primal Scream's song - the bass line and a slide guitar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graeme Park pays tribute to DJ and producer Andrew Wetherall who has died aged 56.\n\nWeatherall added vocal samples from the US soul group The Emotions, a drum loop from an Italian bootleg of Edie Brickell's song What I Am, alongside snatches of other Primal Scream songs, and frontman Bobby Gillespie singing a line from Robert Johnson's Terraplane Blues.\n\nGillespie saw Loaded as being part of the Jamaican tradition of dub records, where songs are deconstructed at the mixing desk, adding new elements and desecrating existing ones.\n\nIt propelled the rock band onto the dance floor, and kick-started their career.\n\n\"I think it's time to stop saying 'this is a dance record' and 'this is a rock record,'\" said Gillespie at the time. \"If you can play music, you can do whatever you want. Just use your imagination.\"\n\nThe success of Loaded led to Weatherall being recruited for the whole of Screamadelica, establishing him as one of the UK's most in-demand producers.\n\nWhile remixing acts like St Etienne, Beth Orton and My Bloody Valentine, he also held down a DJ slot on London's Kiss FM and ran two club nights in London.\n\nHowever, he never became a household name like his contemporaries Paul Oakenfold and Fatboy Slim - a career move that was entirely deliberate.\n\n\"That sort of carry-on was never for me,\" he told the Independent in 2016. \"It's a lot of work, once you go up that slippery showbiz pole, and it would keep me away from what I like, which is making things.\"\n\nInstead, he carved out a career on the cutting edge of techno, with projects including Sabres of Paradise and Two Lone Swordsmen.\n\nIn 2017, he explained the lure of the dancefloor in an interview with Uncut magazine.\n\n\"It's the enduring appeal of transcendent experience, which has been with us for 200,000 years. A room, coloured lights, smoke and music? Over to you, Roman Catholics. There are ancient Greek rituals involving herbal drugs to achieve transcendence.\n\n\"People were having transcendent experiences in 1940s dancehalls, dancing to a big band; now we do it with drum machines and electronic technology - it's the same concept. Humanity hasn't changed for 100,000 years, but our technology has.\"\n\nMusicians paying tribute to Weatherall included Ride guitarist and former Oasis bassist Andy Bell, who described him as \"absolute titan of music\".\n\nBBC 6 Music DJ Gilles Peterson said it was \"hard to put into words\" the \"influence and impact he has had has had on UK culture.\"\n\nHacienda DJ and author Dave Haslam tweeted he was \"one of the greatest, sweetest, funniest guys I've ever met\".\n\nAnd Tim Burgess from The Charlatans wrote he was \"shocked and saddened to hear that cosmic traveller Andrew Weatherall has left the building\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andy Bell This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Tim Burgess This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTrainspotting author Irvine Welsh, who was once described as the \"poet laureate of the chemical generation\", said he was \"absolutely distraught\" by the news.\n\n\"Andrew was a longtime friend, collaborator and one of most talented persons I've known. Also one of the nicest. Genius is an overworked term but I'm struggling to think of anything else that defines him.\"\n\nWeatherall's family released a statement on Tuesday, thanking fans and friends for their messages.\n\n\"Lizzie, Bob and Ian would like to thank everybody quite literally everywhere for their lovely messages and tributes to Andrew,\" read the statement.\n\n\"We know what a special person he was and are overwhelmed at the number of people who knew this too… and to hear their stories and how he influenced them is a real joy at such a raw and dreadful time.\n\n\"Please do what he would have wanted… creating, listening, dancing, but above all pushing boundaries.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Kate Forbes was formerly public finance minister, but has now been promoted\n\nKate Forbes has been appointed as the Scottish government's new finance secretary following the resignation of Derek Mackay.\n\nThe 29-year-old became the first woman to set out a budget at Holyrood or Westminster when she stepped in for Mr Mackay earlier this month.\n\nIn a reshuffle of Nicola Sturgeon's cabinet, Fiona Hyslop will now take on extra responsibility for the economy.\n\nJenny Gilruth has joined the government as Europe minister.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the appointments \"bring new talent into government and deliver a real focus, not only on driving forward our economy, but also on addressing the challenges of Brexit, increasing our population and ending Scotland's contribution to the climate crisis\".\n\nThe appointments of Ms Forbes and Ms Gilruth will be confirmed in a vote by MSPs on Tuesday.\n\nMs Forbes was praised by both SNP colleagues and opposition MSPs after stepping in due to Mr Mackay's resignation on the eve of the budget.\n\nMr Mackay quit on 5 February after saying he had \"behaved foolishly\" by sending hundreds of social media messages to a 16-year-old boy.\n\nHe was subsequently suspended from the SNP pending investigation, and Ms Sturgeon told BBC Scotland that he \"is receiving some medical assessment and treatment and won't be in parliament over the next few days\".\n\nMs Forbes set out the government's tax and spending plans in his place, and defended them during a scrutiny session with Holyrood's finance committee. MSPs are due to debate the plans on 27 February, giving her only a few weeks to secure a budget deal with opposition parties.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was pleased to promote \"two incredibly talented colleagues\"\n\nThe reshuffle of the cabinet sees the finance and economy portfolios split up, with Ms Forbes taking the finance role and Fiona Hyslop adding economy and fair work to her previous job of culture secretary.\n\nMs Hyslop's responsibilities for external affairs and tourism are being taken on by Constitution Secretary Mike Russell and Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing respectively.\n\nIn the junior ministerial team, Ben Macpherson takes on Ms Forbes' old job of public finance minister, while Ms Gilruth has entered government to replace him as Europe and international development minister.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"pleased to be able to put Scotland's finances and economy into the hands of two incredibly talented colleagues\".\n\nShe said Ms Forbes and Ms Hyslop would \"continue to drive forward our economy, support our key industries and maintain Scotland's long tradition as an outward-looking, dynamic and enterprising nation\".\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Conservative finance spokesman Murdo Fraser said Ms Forbes' promotion was \"well-deserved\", but said that \"no shuffling of personnel can disguise the fact that the SNP's time in government is up\".\n\nAfter 18 months as a junior minister, Ms Forbes has now replaced Derek Mackay as finance secretary\n\nHaving become a full cabinet secretary during her first term in parliament and still shy of her 30th birthday, Ms Forbes is one of the SNP's fastest-rising stars.\n\nBorn in Dingwall, she was raised in Glasgow and India - where her father worked to provide healthcare to those unable to afford it - before studying history at the University of Cambridge.\n\nShe worked as an accountant in the banking industry and as an assistant to MSP Dave Thompson, before being nominated to succeed him as SNP candidate for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch in the 2016 Holyrood election.\n\nAs a backbencher, she campaigned to ban plastic straws and once gave a speech in the Holyrood chamber entirely in Gaelic.\n\nShe entered government as minister for public finance and the digital economy in June 2018, working alongside Mr Mackay - and has now replaced him as both finance secretary and as the favourite with many bookmakers to eventually succeed Ms Sturgeon as first minister.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMajor incidents have been declared in south Wales and parts of England, as Storm Dennis batters the UK.\n\nSouth Wales Police has been dealing with \"multiple\" landslides and floods - some trapping residents.\n\nHomes have also been flooded, while police in Worcestershire are searching for a person who is feared to have been swept into the River Teme.\n\nMore than 700 flood warnings and alerts are in place across the UK, as of 23:45 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThere are currently eight severe flood warnings in England, which mean there is a danger to life.\n\nA record number of flood warnings and alerts were issued for England on Sunday, according to John Curtin, the Environment Agency's head of floods and coastal management - reaching a combined total of 624 by Sunday night.\n\nHe said \"the saturated ground conditions\" left by last weekend's Storm Ciara has \"driven\" the severe flooding seen across the UK over the past 24 hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Curtin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHeavy rainfall has caused multiple floods and landslides, according to South Wales Police.\n\nDramatic video footage emerged of a landslide tearing down a mountain in Tylorstown, Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales, on Sunday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heavy rain caused \"multiple\" floods and landslides, according to South Wales Police\n\nJessica Falk Perlman, who is on holiday with her family in Crickhowell, Powys, to celebrate her mother's 60th birthday, told BBC Radio 5 Live that firefighters woke them at 04:00 GMT to tell them they were being evacuated because the River Usk had burst its banks.\n\nBut water quickly came flooding into their holiday home, forcing them upstairs and stalling their evacuation.\n\n\"The door of our house burst open and water came flooding in right up to the top of the stairs which was quite nerve wracking at the time,\" she said.\n\n\"It's well over the front door of the house, it's flooded all the way up to the ceiling.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Falk Perlman in Crickhowell, south Wales: \"Our cars are completely underwater\"\n\nAmy Price, 20, said her family were trapped in the upstairs of their home in Llanover, Monmouthshire, because water on the ground floor had reached as high as the light switches.\n\n\"The river started rising about 1am and at 3am it started coming into the house,\" she said.\n\n\"We started sweeping the water away and then at 6am the river started coming over the bank.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police said emergency services were working with local organisations to ensure the safety of people in communities cut-off by flooding, and to minimise damage and disruption.\n\nEmergency centres have been set up for those who have been displaced.\n\nAssistant chief constable Jennifer Gilmer praised rescue workers' professionalism and advised people \"not to panic\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cars swept away by flood water in Hay-on-Wye\n\nA man's body was recovered from the River Tawe near Trebanos in the Swansea Valley but Dyfed-Powys Police later said his death was not linked to the extreme weather. It is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nWest Mercia Police said a man had been rescued from the River Teme close to Eastham Bridge, Worcestershire, and taken to hospital by ambulance but that a woman was still missing.\n\nThe search for the woman has been called off until Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, in Herefordshire, the council said it was working with the emergency services, the Environment Agency and health partners to assist residents.\n\nIt urged people to avoid unnecessary travel and check on their neighbours, and said \"rest centres\" are being set up for those who need to be evacuated.\n\nAn aerial view of the Welsh village of Crickhowell shows the extent of the flooding\n\nSarah Bridge, 55, compared Storm Dennis to a tornado and said water had flooded her home in Pontrilas in Herefordshire despite specialist flood doors, reaching her knees.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking,\" she said. \"The kitchen is completely flooded, I can hear things floating about downstairs.\"\n\nA major incident has also been declared after flooding at properties in Lowdham in Nottinghamshire.\n\nProperties were also flooded in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire - and residents were urged to take \"extreme care\" by the area's Environment Agency manager.\n\nA major incident has been declared by police following flooding in Shropshire.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSevere flood warnings, posing a danger to life, are in place at the Teme river in Ludlow, Shropshire.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told Sky News's Sophy Ridge that the UK government was \"stepping up its response\" to extreme weather conditions.\n\nHe said it had put £2.4bn into defences over a six-year spending period up until next year, and would allocate £4bn for the next six-year period.\n\nNew Environment Secretary George Eustice denied that the government had been caught off guard by the floods caused by Storm Dennis.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"We'll never be able to protect every single household just because of the nature of climate change and the fact that these weather events are becoming more extreme, but we've done everything that we can do with a significant sum of money, and there's more to come.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the Forth and Tay road bridges have been closed to all traffic.\n\nWinds battered most of Scotland on Sunday with a Met Office warning in place until 11am on Monday.\n\nIn York, the Environment Agency has predicted the River Ouse could come close to record levels seen in 2000.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned that levels in the River Ouse in York could come close to record levels\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAcross the UK road, rail and air travellers also face disruption.\n\nAbout 170 flights were cancelled on Sunday morning, affecting at least 25,000 passengers.\n\nStorm Dennis caused disruption for 19 train companies, according to National Rail, with routes suspended across south Wales and in parts of England and Scotland.\n\nHighways England said strong winds had closed part of the M48 Severn Bridge eastbound, while flooding closed part of the M54 and A-roads in Lincolnshire, Herefordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Gloucestershire.\n\nAmber warnings for rain and yellow warnings for wind are in place for most of the country into Sunday evening.\n\nThis means flooding could cause a danger to life, power cuts are expected and there is a good chance transport links will continue to be impacted.\n\nA family is helped by emergency workers in Nantgarw, Wales\n\nWind gusts reached 91mph on Saturday, according to the Met Office.\n\nFlood defences were prepared in Mytholmroyd, in the Upper Calder Valley\n\nLast weekend Storm Ciara brought as much as 184mm of rain and gusts reaching 97mph. It also caused hundreds of homes to be flooded and left more than 500,000 people without power.\n\nFor more information, check the BBC Weather website and your BBC Local Radio station for regular updates.\n• None YellowSevere weather possible, plan ahead, travel may be disrupted\n• None RedDangerous weather expected - take action to keep safe\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Dennis? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Littering and fly-tipping are a growing problem in many towns, cities and rural areas across Britain.\n\nThere were about 90,000 cases of fly-tipping in England during 2014-15, according to government statistics, costing local authorities an estimated £50m.\n\nIn addition, littering is one of the UK's biggest low-level crimes, and costs the taxpayer between £717m and £850m a year to clean up.\n\nBut what can be done to reduce the scale of the problem?\n\nOne radical solution is to use DNA testing to trace the identity of people who drop litter, a deterrent which has been used recently in Hong Kong.\n\nInside Out's Mike Dilger looks at whether DNA evidence can help to identify people dropping rubbish in the UK.\n\nHe meets experts from Kings College London who attempt to extract DNA from litter to trace people dropping rubbish.\n\nInside Out is broadcast on BBC One England on Monday, 19 September at 19:30 BST and nationwide on the iPlayer for 30 days thereafter.", "Oils, snacks and drinks containing the cannabis extract cannabidiol (CBD) will be \"taken off the shelves\" next year if they do not gain regulatory approval.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) said products had to be registered by March 2021 or they would be pulled.\n\nDespite rising sales of CBD goods, not one product has been approved in the UK yet, raising safety concerns.\n\nThe FSA has also issued new advice on CBD use, saying it should not be used alongside other medication.\n\nCannabidiol is derived from cannabis but does not have any psychoactive properties. It is sold in some pharmacies and health food shops as a supplement and used to treat conditions such as pain or insomnia.\n\nHowever, the FSA only began regulating the market in January last year and some argue it has dragged its feet.\n\nTrials have found CBD products on sale that contain unlisted and potentially hazardous ingredients, or illegal levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.\n\nMany may contain little or none of the extract itself, contrary to their marketing claims and despite their high prices.\n\nThe FSA said producers had been slow to submit their products for approval, forcing it to impose the deadline.\n\n\"The CBD industry must provide more information about the safety and contents of these products to the regulator by March 2021, or the products will be taken off the shelves,\" boss Emily Miles said.\n\nCBD products have been on sale in the UK for years, so the FSA has not been quick out of the blocks to act. But the stance it has now taken is a strong one.\n\nIt had been hoping individual companies would come forward with product information. But as none provided enough documentation, the regulator is now forcing them to - or threatening to take them off the shelves. For companies hoping for a slice of the UK's multi-million pound CBD industry, that's a big incentive to comply.\n\nThe new advice to consumers, that CBD oil should not be taken alongside any other medication, will come as shock to many who have turned to these new oils, drops, foods and supplements to help them with medical problems.\n\nAlthough CBD products are not allowed to make any health claims, many people say they help with everything from mental health problems to coping with cancer treatments - so they are likely to be taking them alongside other medicines.\n\nThe FSA also told healthy adults to \"think carefully\" before taking CBD, and then not to take more than 70mg a day. That equates to about 28 drops of 5% strength CBD oil.\n\nThose who are pregnant, breastfeeding or taking any medication are advised not to use CBD products at all.\n\nThe regulator based its recommendations on advice from the government's Committee on Toxicity (COT), which has found evidence of \"potential adverse health effects\" from CBD.\n\nBut COT said it \"still does not know enough to be sure about such a risk\".\n\nSteve Moore, from the Association for the Cannabinoid Industry (ACI), said CBD producers welcomed the new guidance.\n\n\"We believe that this will elicit the safety studies that are vital to build consumer confidence and help develop a socially responsible and sustainable industry.\"\n\nThe FSA's advice will apply in England, Wales and Northern Ireland but not Scotland which is covered by a separate regulator.\n\nIt does not cover CBD cosmetics and vaping products, or cannabis used for medicinal purposes, which are also subject to different rules.", "The cost of repairing the Elizabeth Tower, which houses the famous Big Ben bell, has risen by £18.6m following the discovery of bomb damage and asbestos.\n\nThe need for more money was only discovered during a survey of the 177-year-old structure in central London.\n\nThe House of Commons Commission said it was \"extremely disappointed\" that the cost had risen to £79.7m.\n\nThe new budget will have to be approved by the accounting officers of the Houses of Parliament.\n\nIan Ailles, director general of the House of Commons, said the Elizabeth Tower restoration - which began in 2017 and is scheduled to continue until next year - \"had been more complex than we could have anticipated\".\n\nHe explained that it had not been possible to understand the \"full extent of the damage\" until scaffolding had gone up and a survey was carried out.\n\nThe four clock dials on the outside of the tower contain a total of 1,296 individual pieces of glass, each of which need to be replaced as part of the restoration work.\n\nAnd 700 stone repairs have been needed - 300 more than the initial estimate - and every new piece of stone needs to be painstakingly recarved.\n\nThe Elizabeth Tower is often mistakenly called Big Ben by tourists and Londoners alike - but that latter name only refers to the bell that it houses.\n\nThe tower only gained its current name, having previously been called the Clock Tower, when it was renamed in honour of the Queen to mark her diamond jubilee in 2012.\n\nThe 12-tonne Big Ben bell has now been dismantled and taken away for a complete overhaul.\n\nA statement from the House of Commons Commission said: \"It is very frustrating to learn that the Elizabeth Tower project requires yet more funding, having agreed an extra £32m in 2017.\n\n\"We have requested more detailed information about the lessons learned from this experience - as well as assurances that more robust estimates are prepared for works of this nature in the future.\"\n\nThe Elizabeth Tower project is separate from the planned full-scale restoration of the Palace of Westminster.\n\nBoth Houses of Parliament are due to temporarily relocate out of the Palace as part of wider refurbishment plans due to begin around 2025.\n\nPlans to put a new Olympics-style delivery body in charge of the works were approved by MPs and peers last year.", "Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith and Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom are among the early casualties as Boris Johnson begins a cabinet reshuffle.\n\nHousing Minister Esther McVey and Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers are also out of the government.\n\nSenior figures such as Chancellor Sajid Javid, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Home Secretary Priti Patel are expected to remain in place.\n\nMost of the cabinet were appointed when Mr Johnson became prime minister in July.\n\nIn a statement confirming his resignation as the government's most senior law officer, Mr Cox said: \"I have been truly privileged to have served as attorney general during the recent turbulent political times.\"\n\nKnown for his booming delivery and his legal advice that effectively scuppered Theresa May's Brexit deal in March last year, he said he had been asked to resign by the prime minister.\n\nMr Smith has been widely praised for his brief tenure at the Northern Ireland Office - he was in the role just 204 days.\n\nHis departure comes weeks after brokering the deal which restored the power-sharing administration in Stormont.\n\nMr Smith said on Twitter that it had been \"the biggest privilege\" to serve the people of Northern Ireland and he was \"extremely grateful\" to have been given the chance to serve \"this amazing part of our country\".\n\nIreland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called Mr Smith \"one of Britain's finest politicians of our time\".\n\n\"In eight months as secretary of state, Julian, you helped to restore power-sharing in Stormont, secured an agreement with us to avoid a hard border, plus marriage equality,\" he told the former minister in a tweet.\n\nThe prime minister left his cabinet largely untouched following the Conservative Party's decisive election victory in December, pending what sources suggested at the time would be a more significant overhaul after the UK left the EU on 31 January.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to make changes at junior ministerial level - namely parliamentary under-secretaries of state - that could see a 50/50 gender balance in a push to promote female talent.\n\nEducation minister Chris Skidmore and transport ministers Nus Ghani and George Freeman have been sacked.\n\nThere are expected to be promotions for a number of female MPs in government, including Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Suella Braverman and Gillian Keegan.\n\nCabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden and International Development Secretary Alok Sharma are also expected to get more prominent roles.\n\nBaroness Morgan is also expected to be among the departing ministers.\n\nWhen she was re-appointed as culture secretary in December, she said she only expected to stay in the role for a couple of months, having stood down as an MP at the election and been appointed a peer.\n\nAmong more junior ministers, those tipped for promotion include Victoria Atkins, Oliver Dowden, Kwasi Kwarteng and Lucy Frazer, while Stephen Barclay could make a quick return to cabinet after his role as Brexit Secretary was scrapped following the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to appoint a new minister to oversee the building of the HS2 rail line, final approval for which was given this week.\n\nHe also needs to find someone to run the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow later this year after its previous president Claire Perry O'Neill was sacked, and two former Tory leaders, David Cameron and Lord Hague, rejected the job.\n\nIn a statement on her Facebook page, Ms Villiers said: \"What the prime minister giveth, the prime minister taketh away: just over six months ago, I was delighted to be invited by the prime minister to return to government after three years on the back benches.\n\n\"This morning he told me that I need to make way for someone new.\"\n\nShe said she was \"sad\" no longer to be a part of the cabinet, but she said the prime minister would continue to have her \"full support\".", "There was no hint of what was to come from the lips of Chancellor Sajid Javid.\n\nHe had been reassured of his future in post, when I spoke to him 48 hours ago.\n\nHe was planning not just the Budget, but also a Spending Review, and a finance white paper involving negotiations with the EU over the ongoing access of UK finance to the EU.\n\nHis team had signalled the Budget was going to be a significant new chapter in UK economic policy. The first Budget of this government and its healthy majority, able to plan its own long term strategy.\n\nHowever, there had been a strange series of last minute reorganisations regarding the chancellor's traditional round of interviews on the GDP figures.\n\nThis was on the same day and in the same place as the Prime Minister's HS2 announcement.\n\nMr Javid had crossed swords with the prime minister's top adviser Dominic Cummings, and had won those key battles. First and foremost the chancellor won the argument over manifesto costings and looser but still binding limits on public spending ahead of the election. He also won the argument on HS2.\n\nHe had begun to establish his credibility as chancellor after an early few months where he was nicknamed \"chancellor in name only\", after Mr Cummings summarily fired the chancellor's press aide, having earlier boosted spending to health and police.\n\nBut he had also made the argument that now was the time to invest more, as the borrowing rates faced by the government were at historic lows.\n\nThe question was - just how much.\n\nRelations between Number 10 and Number 11 are the foundation of any stable government. There should be tensions. The Treasury's role as keeper of the purse strings does not always accord with the short-term political needs of Number 10.\n\nBut the roots of this are a clash over long term strategy - that austerity was over - and that the Conservatives needed to pour money into the regions where their majority was won, and change politics in the UK forever.\n\nThe Prime Minister has the title of \"First Lord of the Treasury\", but it has not always felt that way in recent history. Demanding the firing of his aides is a rather drastic way to assert that power.\n\nMr Javid's replacement, the well-regarded chief secretary Rishi Sunak, begins his role with a problem. He arrives as a thirty-something Chancellor of the Exchequer, appointed in part because of a vacancy caused by Number 10 trying to assert itself over Number 11.\n\nWill he stick to Sajid Javid's recently announced new fiscal rules? Or does he open the chequebooks further? The first Budget of any parliament is traditionally the moment to get the bad news out of the way, on for example tax rises.\n\nBut it is difficult not to see this development as an attempt to loosen the fiscal straitjacket further, ahead of that Budget.", "Alice Dearing, 22, could make history in 2020 by becoming the first black woman to represent Great Britain in swimming at the Olympics.\n\nShe speaks to BBC Sport about breaking down stereotypes in the sport - as well as everyday issues, such as how she manages her hair in the pool.\n\nREAD MORE: Coxsey named as first GB sport climber", "Barclays chief executive Jes Staley has the full confidence of the board, the bank said\n\nBarclays boss Jes Staley said he \"deeply regrets\" his connection with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nHis comments come after Barclays revealed that UK regulators are investigating the chief executive's links with the disgraced financier.\n\nMr Staley admitted he maintained contact with Epstein, who died in New York prison cell last year, for seven years after his conviction.\n\nBarclays said Mr Staley has the \"full confidence\" of the board.\n\n\"It has been very well known I had a professional relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,\" Mr Staley told reporters on Thursday. \"It goes back to 2000 when I was asked to run the JP Morgan private bank and he was already a client when I joined the private bank.\n\n\"The relationship was maintained during my time at JP Morgan but as I left JP Morgan the relationship tapered off quite significantly. Obviously I thought I knew him well and I didn't. For sure, with hindsight with what we know now, I deeply regret having any relationship with Jeffrey.\"\n\nEpstein died in his prison last August after being charged with sex trafficking underage girls. It came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, for which he was registered as a sex offender.\n\nThe probe by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority will focus on Mr Staley's \"characterisation to the company of his relationship\" with Epstein.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority oversees bad behaviour in the City, while the Prudential Regulation Authority looks into financial stability.\n\nIn a statement to the stock market, Barclays said: \"As has been widely reported, earlier in his career Mr Staley developed a professional relationship with Mr Epstein. In the summer of 2019, in light of the renewed media interest in the relationship, Mr Staley volunteered and gave to certain executives, and the chairman, an explanation of his relationship with Mr Epstein.\"\n\nBarclays added that Mr Staley said he had had no contact with Epstein since joining his current employer in December 2015. The bank added: \"The relationship between Mr Staley and Mr Epstein was the subject of an inquiry from the Financial Conduct Authority, to which the company responded.\n\n\"The FCA and the Prudential Regulation Authority subsequently commenced an investigation, which is ongoing, into Mr Staley's characterisation to the company of his relationship with Mr Epstein and the subsequent description of that relationship in the company's response to the FCA.\"\n\nSeparately, in an interview on Bloomberg Television on Thursday, Mr Staley said that he feels he has been transparent with how he characterised his relationship with Epstein.\n\n\"The board has done its own review, and they've looked back at my transparency and they concluded indeed that I have been transparent and open with the bank and with the board all along this process,\" he said. \"But there is a regulatory process that is ongoing, and we'll let that run its course.\"\n\nThe BBC's business editor, Simon Jack, said Barclays conducted an internal inquiry last year, and was satisfied with Mr Staley explanation.\n\nNevertheless, the news will be a fresh blow to Mr Staley, who is trying to rebuild his image after being sanctioned for attempting to unmask the identity of a whistleblower at Barclays.\n\nEpstein was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges when he was found dead in his cell on 10 August\n\nThe bank was fined $15m (£11.6m) in the US and Mr Staley was fined £642,430 in the UK for breaching rules by attempting to find whoever raised concerns over an executive Mr Staley hired.\n\nThe bank received two letters in 2016 criticising the decision and raising concerns about the executive's experience. Instead of being handed to the bank's investigations team, one of the letters was distributed among senior managers, including Mr Staley.\n\nBarclays also cut his bonus by £500,000.\n\nIn another embarrassing episode in 2017, Mr Staley fell for an email prank when a disgruntled customer pretended to be his boss at the time, former chairman John McFarlane.\n\nMr Staley exchanged several emails with the imposter, who used a Gmail email address, the Financial Times reported. Under his stewardship, the bank's shares have lost about 25% of their value.\n\nThe shares were down more than 3% in early trading on Thursday as the bank reported that pre-tax profits for the year jumped 25% to £4.4bn.\n\nHigher revenue and lower costs helped profits advance, the bank said, particularly at its international business.\n\nIt's hardly surprising that Jes Staley had business links to Jeffrey Epstein - Mr Staley ran the private wealth division of JP Morgan, one of America's biggest banks for several years, looking after the private investments of wealthy Americans.\n\nThat's exactly the business in which Mr Epstein was a big player, and the New York Times has reported that Mr Staley was one of his key contacts, with several of the deceased financier's big clients being referred to JP Morgan.\n\nThis morning Barclays said in an announcement to the Stock Exchange that Mr Staley had volunteered information about that relationship to the Barclays board - but that the Financial Conduct Authority, and the Prudential Regulation Authority, Britain's two largest financial watchdogs, were now looking at exactly what he said.\n\nThe key word in Barclays' statement is that investigation is into how the relationship was \"characterised\" - which infers that the investigators want to work out whether Mr Staley and Barclays gave a completely accurate picture.\n\nThis does not necessarily mean big trouble for Mr Staley, and the Barclays board has given him a vote of confidence. Regulators, however, take a dim view of bank bosses who don't play ball from the start, and Mr Staley has blotted his copybook before.", "Cameras will be issued to staff, including conductors and station staff, as part of a trial\n\nSelected train staff in Wales will be issued with body cameras to tackle violence and antisocial behaviour.\n\nOver 350 incidents of physical violence towards staff and members of the public were recorded in Wales last year.\n\nAdditional security staff have already been introduced and there is a commitment to provide CCTV cameras at every station across the network.\n\nTransport for Wales said the latest move was part of a trial to improve the safety of customers and staff.\n\nBritish Transport Police recorded 359 incidents of violence towards staff or members of the public across Wales in 2018-19.\n\nThat is up from 293 incidents in 2017-18 and 214 in 2016-17.\n\nThere were also 364 incidents of public disorder related to rail travel in Wales in 2018-19, compared to 307 in 2017-18 and 200 in 2016-17.\n\nTransport for Wales, which oversees the Wales and Borders franchise, said that while the number of incidents was \"small\" in relation to its total passenger and journey numbers, any incident \"should not be tolerated\".\n\nFour different types of camera will be used in the trial\n\nConductor Marc Clancy said most customers were polite but at times staff were subjected to abuse.\n\n\"The introduction of these cameras should act as a deterrent to antisocial behaviour, support assault prosecutions and boost public confidence in safety,\" he said.\n\n\"They will provide our front-line staff with more confidence when dealing with difficult situations and abusive customers.\"\n\nSupt Andrew Morgan of British Transport Police said: \"We know from experience that body-worn video is a fantastic piece of kit that helps us in securing convictions against those who target staff with unnecessary violence or abuse.\"\n\nThe cameras will be issued to selected railway staff including conductors and station staff as part of a trial involving four different camera types.\n\nAfter a review period one company will be chosen to provide 300 cameras across the network.\n\nKen Skates: \"The rail staff there to help us are no different to our family and friends\"\n\nTransport Minister Ken Skates said the cameras were intended to be a \"robust deterrent to anti-social behaviour\" that would \"support assault prosecutions, and boost public confidence with cameras acting as a deterrent\".\n\n\"The rail staff there to help us are no different to our family and friends.\n\n\"We must stamp out antisocial behaviour and do everything we can to support staff to do their jobs and let passengers make their journeys in a safe and pleasant environment.\"\n\nIn a statement to assembly members, Mr Skates said the camera trials would be held in Machynlleth, Holyhead, Cardiff and Carmarthen.\n\nAfter the review Transport for Wales would \"work towards rolling out the introduction of body worn cameras to all train staff\", he said.\n\nThe plans were welcomed by Conservative transport spokesman Russell George.\n\nHowever he added it was a \"regrettable sign of the times\" that Transport for Wales staff \"going about their jobs require body cameras for protection, and to tackle violence against them and passengers, as well as anti-social behaviour\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Westerdam was finally able to dock in Sihanoukville, Cambodia\n\nA cruise ship that was stranded at sea, because ports were worried about passengers bringing coronavirus, has been allowed to dock in Cambodia.\n\nThe MS Westerdam had been turned away by five places in Asia in recent days.\n\nAnother cruise ship in quarantine in Japan has more than 200 infections - but the Westerdam, with more than 2,000 crew and passengers, has none.\n\nOnly on Tuesday, the cruise liner attempted to dock in Bangkok but was denied permission.\n\nA Thai Navy ship escorted her out of the Gulf of Thailand, from where she set course for Cambodia.\n\nOn Thursday morning, the ship finally arrived at an anchoring point in the port city of Sihanoukville.\n\n\"This morning, just seeing land was such a breathtaking moment,\" passenger Angela Jones from the US told Reuters. \"I thought: is this real?\"\n\nAccording to the English-language Khmer Times, the ship will allow passengers to disembark on Friday, after 20 people on board who had fallen ill tested negative for coronavirus.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Westerdam, run by the US-based Holland America Line, departed Hong Kong on 1 February with 1,455 passengers and 802 crew on board.\n\nThe cruise had been scheduled to run for two weeks - and with those 14 days running out, there were worries about fuel and food supplies.\n\nAs well as Thailand, it was also turned away by Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, and Japan.\n\n\"We've had so many near moments - we thought we were going home only to be turned away,\" Ms Jones said.\n\nThe ship's captain Vincent Smit said the ship would anchor outside Sihanoukville to allow authorities to conduct health checks on board.\n\nPassengers have had to kill time and uncertainty\n\nPassengers will then be able to leave the ship and return to their home countries from the country's capital Phnom Penh.\n\nThe US embassy in Cambodia said it had sent a team to assist its citizens with planning their journey.\n\nCambodia's decision to welcome the MS Westerdam was praised by the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nIt was \"an example of the international solidarity we have consistently been calling for\", Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said.\n\nThere have been regular health checks for all passengers on board the Westerdam, and there have been no cases so far.\n\nThe ship in Japan, quarantined in the port of Yokohama, currently has more than 200 confirmed cases - making the Diamond Princess the largest coronavirus cluster outside China.\n\nNot all passengers have been tested, and the number of cases may continue to rise. Another 44 were added to the tally on Thursday.\n\nJapanese Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said elderly passengers who test negative for the virus would be allowed to leave on Friday, five days before the scheduled end of the quarantine.\n\nAbout 80% of the ship's passengers are aged 60 or over. Japanese media reports that 215 passengers are in their 80s, and 11 are in their 90s.\n\nAnother cruise ship was quarantined for several days off Hong Kong, because a previous guest had been diagnosed with the virus.\n\nAll passengers have now been allowed off.", "In case you struggle to read the small print, here is the letter in full:\n\nIt has been a privilege to serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Since being elected as the MP for Bromsgrove 10 years ago, I have had the huge honour of holding several ministerial roles - running five departments, including two of the great offices of state.\n\nWhile I am grateful for your continued trust and offer to continue this role, I regret that I could not accept the conditions attached to the reappointment. It is crucial for the effectiveness of the government that you have people around you who can give you clear and candid advice, as I have always sought to do. I also believe that it is important as leaders to have trusted teams that reflect the character and integrity that you would wish to be associated with.\n\nThe government you lead has an enormous opportunity in the coming years to transform our country. Millions of people have given their renewed trust in a Conservative government to move on from the divisions and distractions of recent years, and lead us forward into a decade of social and economic renewal. We must not waste a moment in delivering on that promise.\n\nAs you know, the agenda we have been developing over the last seven months is one that I have long supported. From maintaining strong public finances, investing in infrastructure, protecting our environment, recruiting 20,000 police officers, and boosting housing and skills so the next generation can have the opportunities they deserve.\n\nI would urge you to ensure the Treasury as an institution retains as much credibility as possible. The team there has impressed me with the energy and intellect they have brought to delivering the shifts in policy that I have led. They are among the very best public servants we have and I hope they can continue to play a central role in driving an economic agenda that puts people and place at its heart.\n\nMy biggest hope is that this government will bring the country together, and help to level the playing field so that stories like mine are not exceptional or lucky. While it is of course disappointing that I will no longer be in the position to see this vision through as one of your cabinet ministers, I am very optimistic about our country's future. You and the government you lead will continue to have my full support from the backbenches.\n\nI am very much looking forward to spending more time with my family, and to continuing to serve the people of Bromsgrove.", "Tracy Brabin's dress attracted 180 bids before eventually going for £20,200\n\nLabour MP Tracy Brabin raised £20,000 for charity after auctioning an off-the-shoulder dress which caused controversy in the Commons.\n\nShe faced criticism from \"keyboard warriors\" after her dress slipped down her shoulder as she leaned on the despatch box due to a broken ankle.\n\nThe Batley and Spen MP put the black Asos dress up for sale on eBay with proceeds going to Girlguiding.\n\nMs Brabin said young girls' \"lives will be changed because of this money\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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Tracy Brabin: 'A woman is always judged more harshly than a man'\n\nMs Brabin later told BBC Breakfast she had been \"startled by the vitriolic nature\" of some comments she had received online.\n\nShe said it was her responsibility to \"call it out\", adding: \"Women around the world... are being demeaned every day because of what they wear.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tracy Brabin MP 🌹 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe garment was listed on eBay as a \"Black dress worn by Tracy Brabin MP in 'shouldergate' as widely covered across the media\".\n\nMs Brabin said the dress had been \"flying off the shelves as a result of the coverage.\"\n\nThe size 12 pencil dress attracted 180 bids with two potential buyers battling it out until the last minute.\n\nIt eventually eventually went for £20,200 as bidding closed on Thursday evening.\n\nMs Brabin said the money would be going to Girlguiding, a charity for girls and young women in the UK, \"in the hope that they grow up to be leaders\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Girlguiding This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British rap star Stormzy has postponed the Asian leg of his tour because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHe had been due to play in locations including Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia in March.\n\n\"Due to the ongoing health and travel concerns surrounding the coronavirus, I'm regrettably having to reschedule this leg of the tour,\" he wrote on Instagram.\n\nMore than 1,350 people have died from the virus in China.\n\n\"I was seriously looking forward to bringing the #HITH World tour to Asia and playing some epic sold out shows,\" the rapper said.\n\n\"Information regarding the rescheduled dates will follow in due course. Please contact your local ticket vendor for any further queries. I promise I'll be back.\"\n\nStormzy, who headlined the Glastonbury Festival last year, kicked off a major world tour in Dubai last week.\n\nHe had also been due to visit Japan, South Korea and Indonesia in March and April.\n\nUS rock group The Pixies have also cancelled three shows in China in February and March, but are still touring Japan.\n\nKenny G, 98 Degrees and Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley have also postponed upcoming dates in Singapore.\n\nSporting events have also been affected, with the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing and the F1 Grand Prix in Shanghai being postponed.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office is currently advising against all but essential travel to mainland China.\n\nStormzy will be back in London next week for the Brit Awards, where he is nominated for best British male, best British album and best British single.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Councils in England are calling for tougher sentences for fly-tippers - as new analysis shows nobody has faced the maximum penalty at magistrates' court since new guidelines were introduced five years ago.\n\nFly-tipping incidents in England have risen by nearly 40% in five years, to almost one million in 2017/18.\n\nThe LGA wants the government to review its guidance to courts on the issue.\n\nHe added that the practice is \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nMinisters introduced new sentencing guidelines in 2014, with a £50,000 fine or 12 months in prison the maximum punishment, if a case is dealt with at a magistrates' court.\n\nIf a case is passed to the crown court, they can issue an unlimited fine, as well as a two-year prison sentence, or five years if the waste is hazardous.\n\nThere were 997,553 recorded fly-tipping incidents in England in 2017/18 - a 39.6% rise from 714,637 in 2012/13, according to the the LGA analysis of statistics from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).\n\nCouncils can issue fixed penalty notices for more minor offences of fly-tipping, but they say they have less money available to enforce such powers because of pressure on their budgets.\n\nOverall, councils took action on 494,034 incidents in 2017/2018, up by just under 70,000 cases in five years.\n\nMartin Tett, chairman of the LGA's environment board, said: \"Fly-tipping is unsightly, unacceptable and inexcusable environmental vandalism. Councils are doing everything they can to try and deter fly-tippers.\n\n\"However, prosecuting them often requires time-consuming and laborious investigations, with a high threshold of proof, at a time when councils face significant budget pressures.\"\n\nHe argued that \"consistent and hard-hitting prosecutions are needed to deter rogue operators and fly-tippers\" and that \"councils also need adequate funding to investigate incidents and ensure fly-tippers do not go unpunished\".\n\nThe Defra spokesman said: \"We have strengthened local authorities' enforcement powers and made it easier for vehicles suspected of being used for fly-tipping to be stopped, searched and seized.\n\n\"Our actions are delivering results, with no increase in the number of incidents over 2017/18 for the first time in five years.\n\n\"The maximum penalty on indictment for fly-tipping is imprisonment of up to five years or a potentially unlimited fine.\"", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has carried out a reshuffle of ministers in cabinet positions, two months after winning the general election.\n\nThere was speculation ahead of the reshuffle about how diverse the new Cabinet would be, particularly considering women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nWho's in what job? Here's a guide to the people that make up Mr Johnson's cabinet, with the latest new faces and who's changed places.\n\nNote: BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) is a term widely used in the UK to describe people of non-white descent, as defined by the Institute of Race Relations.\n\nThis is the second reshuffle for Mr Johnson, who became prime minister last July after winning a Conservative leadership election.\n\nBig names to have left cabinet on Thursday included Chancellor Sajid Javid, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox and Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom.\n\nThe make-up of the cabinet has also changed. The proportion of women in it has increased - but the actual number has fallen from eight to seven because some positions were closed.\n\nMembers of the cabinet are more than 10 times more likely to have gone to a private school than members of the public.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May, 70% of cabinet had not been privately educated, whereas almost 70% of Mr Johnson's new cabinet have.\n\nAccording to the Sutton Trust social mobility charity, every prime minister since 1937 who attended university was educated at Oxford - except for Gordon Brown. Half of Mr Johnson's cabinet went to Oxford or Cambridge universities.\n\nThis compares with 27% of all Conservative MPs and 18% of Labour MPs.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust, said December's election led to a seismic shift in the political landscape and Conservative MPs now represent a more diverse range of constituencies than before.\n\n\"Yet in terms of educational background, the make-up of Johnson's cabinet is still over 60% from independent schools,\" he said. \"Today's findings underline how unevenly spread the opportunities are to enter the elites and this is something Boris Johnson must address.\"\n\nMichael Gove is by far the most experienced of Mr Johnson's new top team. The ministers who have had 204 days of cabinet experience are new faces appointed by the PM when he took power in July last year.\n\nClick here if you cannot see the Cabinet Guide.", "All of the bushfires in New South Wales (NSW) are now considered contained, say fire officials in the Australian state.\n\nThe NSW Rural Fire Service said it was \"great news\" after \"a very traumatic, exhausting and anxious\" time.\n\nThe development is thanks in part to heavy rain, which has lashed the state since last weekend.\n\nBut the severe storms led to flash flooding in Queensland where a 75-year-old man is reported to have died.\n\nRecord rainfall caused chaos in Sydney, and the weather woes are set to continue, with further storms expected along the east coast over the next few days.\n\nFlood warnings have been issued for NSW and for southern Queensland.\n\nEx-tropical cyclone Uesi will bring winds of up to 130km/h to the tiny Lord Howe Island, about 600km off the east coast.\n\nResidents and tourists on the island have been warned to seek shelter from the \"destructive winds\".\n\n\"After what's been a truly devastating fire season for both firefighters and residents, who've suffered so much this season, all fires are now contained in New South Wales,\" RFS Assistant Commissioner Rob Rogers said on Thursday.\n\nIt is the first time in the fire season that containment - meaning firefighters managing to build a perimeter around the fire, so it cannot spread further - has been achieved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile there was still some fire activity in the south of the state, said the RFS, emergency workers could now \"really focus on helping people reboot\".\n\nAustralia has always had a fire season, with naturally occurring blazes sparked during the dry summer season, but this year's season has been unprecedented in the scale and intensity of the fires.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAcross the country, fires have killed at least 33 people and destroyed thousands of homes in the past few months.\n\nMore than 11 million hectares of land - an area comparable to the size of England - has been affected across all states and territories.\n\nNSW has been the worst-affected state. Two blazes alone - the Currowan and Gospers Mountain fires - each burned about 500,000 hectares.\n\nBut both were declared out after rains earlier this week, along with dozens of smaller fires.\n\nFurther north, heavy rainfall in Queensland on Wednesday and Thursday led to flash flooding and power outages across the state.\n\nA record 232mm of rain was recorded in 24 hours at Sunshine Coast airport.\n\nA 75-year-old kayaker was reported missing on Sunday after heading out on Mary River.\n\nOn Thursday, Queensland Police said a body had been found.\n\nA 26-year-old woman has also been reported missing and the search for her is being impeded by the poor conditions, according to police.\n\nMore storms are forecast for Queensland and NSW, and areas still recovering from bushfires are likely to be hit, according to senior meteorologist Grace Legge.\n\nRescue services were called to flooded roads in Queensland's Sunshine Coast", "The world's largest mobile phone showcase, Mobile World Congress (MWC), has been cancelled over coronavirus concerns, organisers have confirmed.\n\nThe GSM Association (GSMA) said it had become \"impossible\" for the event to go ahead as planned in Barcelona.\n\nBT, Facebook, LG, Nokia, Sony and Vodafone were among the high-profile exhibitors to have pulled out of the annual event, citing coronavirus fears.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mr Illa said people should \"trust in the Spanish health system\" and \"take decisions based on scientific evidence\".\n\nMWC was due to be held in Barcelona on 24-27 February. More than 100,000 people usually attend the annual event, about 6,000 of whom travel from China.\n\nPreparations for the event were already under way, with banners offering hygiene advice\n\nThousands of companies exhibit their latest innovations, giving a huge lift to the local economy.\n\nBut earlier this week, Amazon, Sony, LG Electronics, Ericsson, Facebook, and chipmakers Intel and Nvidia said they would not attend the conference.\n\nFrench telecoms group Orange also pulled out, despite the fact its chief executive, Stephane Richard, chairs the GSMA.\n\nDeutsche Telekom had said it would be \"irresponsible\" to send its staff to a large gathering with so many international guests.\n\nIn a statement, GSMA chief executive John Hoffman said: \"With due regard to the safe and healthy environment in Barcelona and the host country today, the GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020.\"\n\nHe said \"global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances\" had made it impossible to hold the event.\n\nIndustry analyst Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy, said the GSMA had been a \"victim of circumstances out of its control\".\n\n\"It's a huge disappointment the show will not go ahead this year,\" he said.\n\n\"The impact on small companies who have invested a disproportionate amount of their budgets and time on this event should not be under-estimated. MWC is an anchor event for many and now they face the challenge of having to figure out the best way to salvage something from this difficult situation.\"\n\nA report by technology news site Wired suggested the GSMA had urged Spanish authorities to declare a health emergency so that it could cancel the event.\n\nThe report suggested its insurance policies would not cover the GSMA's losses, if the organisation chose to cancel the event, rather than being required to do so by authorities declaring a health emergency.", "A qualification in dry-stone walling was on the hit list\n\nMore than 5,000 qualifications in England studied by few or, in some cases, no students are being scrapped.\n\nThe Department for Education is pulling funding from about 40% of the 12,000 post-16 qualifications as it prepares to introduce new T-levels in September.\n\nT-levels are post-GCSE courses, equivalent to three A-levels, developed in collaboration with businesses.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said finding the right course was like looking for a needle in a haystack.\n\nHe added: \"Removing funding for qualifications that have no or low numbers of enrolments will help make sure students have a clearer choice of the qualifications on offer, and ensure they get the skills they need to progress.\"\n\nThe move is the latest step in the government's wider review of post-16 qualifications at Level 3 - A-level standard - and below.\n\nBut the head of the well respected qualification provider City and Guilds said the move would be \"disastrous for social mobility\".\n\nThe qualifications purge will move closer to a system where teenagers choose at age 16 from one of three routes - A-levels, apprenticeships or T-levels.\n\nBut Tom Bewick, the head of the trade association for examining bodies the Federation of Awarding Bodies, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There are 50,000 degree courses in this country, and you haven't had a vice-chancellor sitting here in front of you having to explain why there is so many.\"\n\nHe questioned whether Whitehall officials were the people best placed, to make \"really important life chance decisions about qualifications\".\n\n\"This is clearly a very top down review... vocational technical qualifications have been a great idea but they're for other people's children - and they certainly aren't for the people that are in the senior levels within the Department for Education.\"\n\nT-levels will offer students a mixture of classroom learning and \"on-the-job\" experience during an industry placement. The first three will be available in some qualifications from September, but only 2,000 places will be on offer initially.\n\nThe qualifications - in subjects such as accountancy, catering, finance, hair and beauty and manufacturing - have been developed in collaboration with employers and businesses to meet the needs of industry and prepare students for work.\n\nCandidates will be awarded one of four overall grades after their two years of study, ranging from distinction* to a pass.\n\nThey will also get a nationally recognised certificate which will show their overall grade and a breakdown of what they have achieved across the T-level programme.\n\nThe aim of Thursday's announcement was to ensure all qualifications on offer were high-quality, necessary, and supported students to progress into employment or further study, the DfE said.\n\nThe kind of qualifications being scrapped are certificates for specific businesses or jobs, such as dry-stone walling, nail art and warehouse management, but they also include entry-level qualifications and one designed to boost the confidence of pupils who struggle with learning.\n\nSome qualifications aimed at pupils with learning and physical disabilities are being axed, too.\n\nThe move is also intended to ensure funding goes towards more popular qualifications that help students learn skills they need to go on to have successful careers.\n\nThe government is seeking views on whether any of the 5,000 qualifications on the list should continue to attract public funding\n\nMr Bewick said not everyone would feel one of the three routes was suitable for them.\n\nHe said: \"Clearly where there are qualifications where they are no longer in demand, they will discontinue.\"\n\nBut he gave the example of one of the qualifications which could be at risk - Level 3 in aromatherapy, used by the Royal National College for the Blind.\n\n\"It's actually a qualification that helps learners who have visual impairment gain access employment in the therapeutic and spa industries,\" he said. \"It enrols very few numbers but nevertheless that's an example of a very niche qualification that helps people into the labour market.\"\n\nHe said: \"We have got young people, who are leaving school who are turned off by classroom learning. They need opportunities for learning by doing, to get practical vocational qualifications.\"\n\nCity and Guilds chief executive Kirstie Donnelly said many students were simply not ready to make the jump from GCSEs to T-levels.\n\nThe introduction of T-levels is the biggest shake-up in vocational education in a generation. They will be tough and are meant to help more people to attain the higher-level skills businesses say they need.\n\nEach year, about 70,000 teenagers in England do not pass a single GCSE at Grade 4 or above. A further 136,000 do not get a single GCSE at the strong pass, Grade 5.\n\nFor those expected to then go on to study T-levels, a transition year will try to help them prepare - but not all will be able to make the leap.\n\nAnd some of the qualifications being scrapped were aimed at these very teenagers, who may be disengaged and lacking in basic employability skills.\n\n\"Removing that vital rung on the skills ladder towards Level 3 and above will be disastrous for social mobility and leave more and more people stranded with no route into work,\" she said.\n\n\"We urge the government to think carefully before removing this lifeline for people and leaving employers unable to access the skilled workforces they need.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "What are the solutions to the problem of fly-tipping?\n\nThe scourge of fly-tipping across England is getting worse with councils spending more than £67m to clean up public land and prosecute anyone they catch, according to official figures. So what should be done about the problem?\n\nFrom old mattresses and fridges to tyres and masonry - and even coffins and live turtles - almost a million incidents of rubbish dumped illegally are recorded each year.\n\nCouncils have been given new powers to fine people up to £400 for \"smaller\" offences, but this depends on evidence. It has left local authorities having to consider new ways to clamp down on those who illegally dump their waste - or try to persuade them not to do it in the first place.\n\nWhether it is cutting-edge DNA profiling or covert surveillance, online naming and shaming or conscience-pricking children's artwork, BBC Inside Out has been exploring the different ways to stop dumping and littering.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf neither the carrot nor the stick brings down illegal dumping, could science hold the key?\n\nIn Hong Kong a campaign group used the DNA found on litter to create a photo-fit picture of the alleged culprits. \"The Face of Litter\" was used by Hong Kong Cleanup and communications firm Ogilvy & Mather, working with a forensics company to create the images.\n\nDNA can narrow down the search to gender and some visible characteristics, such as the most likely hair colour, eye colour and ethnicity of the litterbug.\n\nRafael Guida of Ogilvy said: \"While this method may not identify specific individuals, it will be enough to make people think twice about littering. The campaign combines a public service message with science and technology, enabling us to communicate with Hong Kongers in a very different way.\"\n\nHowever, Dr Denise Syndercombe-Court, reader in forensic science at King's College London, said: \"I think it's crazy talking about catching somebody who has dropped litter.\n\n\"It's too expensive. The result that you get can't be used in a court of law.\n\n\"It won't be precise enough and it will mean the law enforcement agencies will be targeting people, the majority of whom are going to be innocent.\"\n\nFor the time being at least, councils will have to rely on trying to catch offenders in the act.\n\nRichard Weston was caught on camera throwing a kitchen appliance into a ditch\n\nAs the dishwasher tumbled from his hands into the weeds at the side of the road, Richard Weston was caught on camera by a council surveillance operation.\n\nThe 38-year-old of Woodville, Derbyshire, was fined £1,200 in April after pleading guilty to dumping waste illegally.\n\nMatt Holford, environmental health manager at South Derbyshire Council, says surveillance works and appears to have been a deterrent.\n\n\"We have adopted the use of inconspicuous, highly mobile surveillance cameras to help with fly-tipping enforcement work and as a result we've recently caught a number of waste offenders.\n\n\"We have secured four successful convictions in the last 12 months and have interviewed 10 people under caution in the last three months.\n\n\"Since April 2016 we've recorded a significant reduction in fly-tipping incidents again.\"\n\nSouth Derbyshire Council, which had to clean up after 498 incidents of fly-tipping in 2014-15, is not alone in using surveillance tactics. Rhonda Cynon Taff Council in south Wales puts wardens on the streets with cameras to catch people dropping litter, which it then posts online for the public to see.\n\nFly-tipping is a criminal offence punishable by a fine of up to £50,000 or up to five years' imprisonment.\n\nFrom May 2016, councils in England were given the power to issue fixed penalty notices between £150 and £400 for \"small-scale\" offences.\n\nDespite the threat of fines, fly-tipping has been getting worse, having previously been in steady decline. Statistics from Defra showed there were 900,000 cases of fly-tipping in handled by local authorities in England in 2014-15, a 5.6% rise on the year before.\n\nLittering also costs the taxpayer between £717m and £850m a year to tidy up. However, fining people requires them to be caught first.\n\nLondon boroughs make up seven of the 10 worst affected areas for fly-tipping by head of population.\n\nCouncil workers have found everything from typical bulky items such as mattresses and tyres to the more bizarre. Redbridge Council staff discovered an empty coffin dumped with a pile of tyres behind some garages in Ilford in 2014. In a separate incident the same year they found two turtles in a shoebox in Hainault and sent them to the RSPCA.\n\nChildren's artwork gives people in the Forest of Dean the impression they are being watched\n\nPerhaps a softer approach will work. In the Forest of Dean, six primary schools and one secondary school work with a charity using children's art to make would-be dumpers and litterers think again.\n\nFifty children's models of faces, attached to trees at 16 sites, are intended to give people the impression they are being watched.\n\nEnvironmental charity Hubbub has called it the \"Communitrees\" project.\n\nThe charity was inspired by similar schemes such as 10,000 Eyes in Rotterdam, which saw eyes painted on buildings and down alleyways in a bid to deter crime.\n\nElle McAll from Hubbub said: \"The eyes on the trees form a new community of 'Communitrees', keeping a watchful eye on their forest floor to deter litterers and encourage others to keep their ancient flora and fauna clean and green.\n\n\"We're are collecting data at seven of the Communitree sites. Early indications suggest a slight reduction in the quantity of litter found. The full impact of the campaign is being assessed and will be widely shared both good and bad in the next few months.\"\n\nForest of Dean District Council had to handle in excess of 800 incidents of fly-tipping in 2014-15, costing more than £34,000 of taxpayers' money to clean up and a further £56,000 to investigate and take action.\n\nNatalie McDermoth was named in a council \"hall of shame\"\n\nCan the shaming of others deter would be fly-tippers and litterbugs from blotting the landscape in the first place?\n\nThat was how Croydon Council, which has seen an 84% rise in fly-tipping since 2014, decided to handle the problem. (The latest figures showed London was the worst-affected area of England with 367,075 incidents of fly-tipping across the capital in 2014-15.)\n\nA £420 fine was handed to 24-year-old Natalie McDermoth for dropping a single cigarette butt. She had refused to pay an £80 on-the-spot fine and was taken to court.\n\nYet while the financial penalty was significant, it was not the end of the punishment.\n\nMiss McDermoth was among more than 100 people added to a \"hall of shame\" published by the authority for littering and fly-tipping.\n\n\"I was embarrassed,\" she said. \"I was mortified. If my kids grow up and put my name in Google, that's what's going to come up.\"\n\nInside Out is broadcast on BBC One England on Monday, 19 September at 19:30 BST and nationwide on the iPlayer for 30 days thereafter.", "Julian Smith said serving the people of Northern Ireland \"has been the biggest privilege\"\n\nJulian Smith has been sacked as Northern Ireland Secretary as part of the prime minister's cabinet reshuffle.\n\nMr Smith was appointed in July 2019 and lasted 204 days in the role.\n\nHe took over from Karen Bradley who was sacked by the new prime minister Boris Johnson after 562 days as NI secretary.\n\nMr Smith oversaw a talks process that led to the Northern Ireland parties agreeing a deal to restore a power-sharing government at Stormont last month.\n\nHe was also praised for his role in helping legislation to provide compensation to historical abuse victims pass through Parliament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Julian Smith MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said serving the people of Northern Ireland \"has been the biggest privilege\".\n\nHe added: \"The warmth and support from people across NI has been incredible. Thank you so much.\"\n\nSo it's farewell Julian Smith and we'll be getting a fourth NI Secretary in under four years.\n\nThis will be a hugely unpopular decision in both Belfast and Dublin, and will leave some wondering why the prime minister would sack a secretary of state who actually managed to do what seemed impossible - get devolution restored.\n\nBut remember, Julian Smith and Boris Johnson had never seen eye to eye - on Brexit and other NI matters.\n\nMr Smith had also been known for fighting his corner in cabinet, rather than being quietly loyal.\n\nIn his short-lived time in this complicated place, Julian Smith not only stopped the ship from sinking but was helping to chart a new course.\n\nHe will surely be a tough act to follow.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar called Mr Smith \"one of Britain's finest politicians of our time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister and Tánaiste (deputy first minister) Simon Coveney said Mr Smith had been \"such an effective secretary of state for NI at a time of real challenge and risk\".\n\nHe added: \"Without your leadership I don't believe NI would have a government today.\n\n\"Thank you Julian Smith for your trust, friendship and courage; the UK and Ireland can look to the future with more confidence because of it.\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said she had spoken to Mr Smith on Thursday morning to thank him for his help in getting devolution restored.\n\n\"We may not have always agreed (we did sometimes) but his dedication to the role was incredible,\" she said.\n\n\"Best wishes to him and his family. Always welcome in Fermanagh.\"\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said she was writing to the government for an urgent meeting with the incoming secretary of state.\n\n\"In that meeting, Sinn Féin will take the opportunity to raise the financial commitments made by the British government in the New Decade New Approach agreement only weeks ago,\" she said.\n\n\"Reports from London that Julian Smith was sacked as a result of commitments made to bring forward legislation to implement the legacy bodies agreed at Stormont House are very concerning for victims of the conflict and their families.\"\n\nIn a tweet, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said that \"sacking the most successful secretary of state in a decade shows Johnson's dangerous indifference to us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said no-one could question Mr Smith's dedication to the job.\n\n\"Julian Smith`s successor should take a leaf out of his book and spend time in Northern Ireland getting to know the place and its people,\" he added.\n\n\"The last thing Northern Ireland needs is a Boris Johnson 'yes' man or woman.\"\n\nThe chairman of campaign group Survivors North West, Jon McCourt, paid tribute to Mr Smith and tweeted that the abuse compensation legislation would \"not have crossed the line without your committed and passionate support\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Chairman This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile Mr Smith's effectiveness has been widely praised, more critical voices argue he became secretary of state at a more opportune time than his immediate predecessors, with both the DUP and Sinn Féin eager to return to government at Stormont.\n\nPeople Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said that no Conservative NI Secretary had ever been good for Northern Ireland, and accused Mr Smith's party of \"launching economic war on working class communities\".\n\nMr Smith, who has been an MP for Skipton and Ripon since 2010, served Theresa May as chief whip, a job in which he was unable to guide her proposed EU Withdrawal Agreement through the House of Commons.", "The stand is now being dismantled ahead of further storms forecast for Saturday\n\nStructural engineers have begun dismantling a football club stand after it was destroyed during Storm Ciara.\n\nStrong winds on Sunday left the North Stand at non-league Wisbech Town FC in Cambridgeshire in a mass of buckled and mangled metal.\n\nSaturday's home tie against Yorkshire club Frickley Athletic has been called off on the advice of safety inspectors.\n\nClub secretary Spenny Larham said: \"It was a case of the wrong wind, in the wrong direction at the wrong time.\"\n\nThe £13,000 cantilevered stand at the Fenland Stadium - on the Cambridgeshire-Norfolk border - was built in 2010 and included 54 seats.\n\nTethered goalposts were also damaged in the storms.\n\nMr Larham said discussions with insurers were ongoing but the money may not cover the cost of a new, modern stand.\n\n\"The safety of supporters is paramount,\" he said.\n\n\"We were hoping to get a game on Saturday because a team are travelling down from Yorkshire, but we had to make sure it was safe to do so.\n\n\"Elderly supporters and wheelchair users need shelter. It's a bit al fresco at the moment.\"\n\nThe stand at the Fenland Stadium was destroyed in Storm Ciara on Sunday\n\nThe terraced enclosure as it looked before the storm\n\nThe 100-year-old club, which plays in the eighth tier of English football in Northern Premier League Division One South East, has an average attendance of 250 supporters.\n\nAn online fundraising page, set up by fan Steve Campion, has raised more than £1,200 of a £10,000 target in two days.\n\n\"When you lose a stand completely it's a disaster,\" the page reads. \"Hopefully all fans around the world might dip into their pockets for the restoration of the stand that Storm Ciara has destroyed.\"\n\nThe stand is being dismantled but the ground will not be ready by Saturday, the club said\n\nThe chief executive of Sport England, Tim Hollingsworth, tweeted his support for smaller club grounds affected by storm damage.\n\n\"Not first on list I am sure when it comes to repairing damage,\" he wrote about the Wisbech stand, \"but we want to ensure we can help.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Larham said the strength of a metal fence behind the stand prevented it completely collapsing into another football pitch.\n\n\"Loss adjusters and inspectors are very busy at the moment and I know that a football stand will be well down the pecking order compared to flooding and downed trees,\" he added.\n\n\"We don't want to take any risks where the safety of supporters or players is concerned.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The duchess got up close and personal to a number of creatures at the Ark Open Farm in Newtownards\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has met young children during a visit to an open farm in County Down, Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a one-stop solo visit on Wednesday, the duchess received a guided tour of the Ark Open Farm outside Newtownards, meeting the owners and staff.\n\nThe duchess visited NI as part of a nationwide tour to promote a survey she launched on early years development.\n\nDuring her visit she met representatives of local charities helping children and their families.\n\nThe duchess was greeted on arrival by the Lord Lieutenant of County Down, David Lindsay, the Sheriff of County Down, Austin Baird and the Mayor of Ards and North Down, Bill Keery.\n\nThe survey launched by Catherine and conducted by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Royal Foundation, asks questions on the early years development of children.\n\nIt is thought to be the biggest poll of its kind, asking \"five big questions on the under-fives\".\n\nThe duchess has made the issue of the \"future health and happiness\" central to her public activities and hopes the results of the survey spark a conversation on early childhood and guide the focus of her work.\n\nWell-wishers turned out to greet the duchess on her first solo-visit to Northern Ireland\n\nAfter leaving Northern Ireland the duchess headed to Scotland, visiting a cafe run by a homeless charity in Aberdeen.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced on Twitter they would be visiting the Republic of Ireland from 3 to 5 March.", "Mr Johnson took a holiday on the island of Mustique with partner Carrie Symonds after Christmas\n\nLabour has called on Boris Johnson to clarify who paid for his Caribbean holiday over the New Year.\n\nAccording to the MPs' register of interests, the accommodation - has a \"value\" of £15,000 - and was covered by David Ross, the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Ross said the register \"is correct\" and he \"facilitated accommodation\" for the PM.\n\nDowning Street said the trip had been properly registered.\n\nThe register also shows earnings Mr Johnson received last year before becoming PM, including more than £327,000 for seven speaking engagements, one of which was a three-hour speech where he was paid £122,899.74.\n\nThe prime minister took the holiday to St Vincent and the Grenadines with girlfriend Carrie Symonds between Boxing Day 2019 and 5 January 2020.\n\nLabour's shadow minister for the cabinet office, Jon Trickett, said Mr Johnson \"must come clean\" about the holiday accommodation, adding that if he does not, Parliament's standards watchdog \"should step in\".\n\n\"The public deserves to know who is paying for their prime minister's jaunts,\" Mr Trickett added.\n\nThe entry in Mr Johnson's register of interests says Mr Ross donated accommodation \"for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000\".\n\nBut a spokesman for Mr Ross told the Daily Mail: \"Boris wanted some help to find somewhere in Mustique, David called the company who run all the villas and somebody had dropped out.\n\n\"So Boris got the use of a villa that was worth £15,000, but David Ross did not pay any monies whatsoever for this.\"\n\nA later statement from the spokesman added: \"Mr Ross facilitated accommodation for Mr Johnson on Mustique valued at £15,000.\n\n\"Therefore this is a benefit in kind from Mr Ross to Mr Johnson, and Mr Johnson's declaration to the House of Commons is correct.\"\n\nMr Ross has not provided any further details as to what he means, in this context, by a 'benefit in kind.'\n\nBut sources in Westminster have suggested to me that this could refer to some sort of swap whereby David Ross agreed to give up his property - at a later date - in order to facilitate the prime minister's stay elsewhere on the island.\n\nAnd that there was no kind of cash donation.\n\nDavid Ross, the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, at a photography exhibition in 2011\n\nMr Ross was one of Mr Johnson's aides in City Hall and was appointed to the Olympics organising committee.\n\nBut he resigned from the roles, and his company, over a share scandal in 2008.\n\nIt emerged Mr Ross had used millions of pounds' worth of Carphone Warehouse shares as collateral against personal loans without informing the company's other directors - a potential breach of City rules at the time.\n\nMr Ross has been a long-standing donor to the Conservative Party, pledging £250,000 in the last election campaign.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"All transparency requirements have been followed, as set out in the Register of Members' Financial Interests\".\n\nMr Johnson faced criticism over his holiday for not returning sooner, after the US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani raised tensions in the Middle East.\n\nIt is the first trip abroad that Mr Johnson has declared since going to Saudi Arabia in September 2018.\n\nOnly one other MP has declared a free holiday in the last year.\n\nMr Johnson also declared payments he had received prior to becoming prime minister, including book royalties and hundreds of thousands of pounds for speaking engagements.\n\nIn the first six months of 2019, Mr Johnson earned more than £327,000 for the seven speaking engagements, which lasted a total of 17.5 hours.\n\nHe was also paid £22,916.66 a month for his column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which was published weekly.", "Rapper Slowthai has \"unreservedly apologised\" to comedian Katherine Ryan after making sexual comments towards her at the NME Awards.\n\nThe 25-year-old said it started out as a joke but \"escalated to a point of shameful actions on my part\".\n\nKatherine said Slowthai \"didn't make me uncomfortable\" but the artist was accused of harassing her.\n\nThe rapper also apologised to anyone who \"saw a reflection of situations they've been in\" in the videos.\n\nThe interaction between Slowthai and Katherine, who was co-hosting the awards, came before Slowthai won the hero of the year award - which was voted for by the public.\n\nHe's now asked for the award to be forwarded on to Katherine instead, saying: \"I am not a hero.\"\n\nNME said it would \"take him up\" on the offer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian Katherine replied telling Slowthai that \"a bad day on social media passes so quickly\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Katherine Ryan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVideos on social media show Slowthai and the Canadian comedian with their arms around each other, with co-host Julie Adenuga asking \"What is happening?\" after Slowthai told Katherine to smell his cologne.\n\n\"Babygirl, I don't want to have to do this to you right now, but everybody - she needs to understand the levels right now,\" Slowthai said to Katherine.\n\n\"If you want to do something, see me later,\" he said before walking off.\n\nLater, when they were on stage together again, the pair had a conversation including sexual words and phrases, with Slowthai telling the crowd: \"She wants me to tend to her flowers.\"\n\nKatherine responded saying that she \"loves\" him - in a seemingly sarcastic tone.\n\n\"Thank you for the attention,\" she said, adding, \"You are younger than my babysitter\", as he left the stage.\n\nKatherine Ryan later said Slowthai \"didn't make me uncomfortable\"\n\nPlenty of people watching at home and in the Brixton Academy in south London tweeted to say that Katherine was using sarcasm to \"mask her discomfort\".\n\nThe host tweeted afterwards to say that she wasn't uncomfortable - but there has still been a lot of criticism for Slowthai's actions.\n\nA number of women reacting online said they recognised the situation as one they'd been in.\n\nThe rapper apologised to those people, saying: \"To any woman or man who saw a reflection of situations they've been in in those videos, I am sorry.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSlowthai was heckled for his behaviour towards Katherine when collecting the hero of the year award - leading to a scuffle.\n\n\"NME, thank you,\" Slowthai said, before pointing down at someone in the audience, saying \"thank you for ruining my speech\" and dropping his mic from the stage.\n\nSomeone then used the mic that Slowthai had dropped to call him a \"wasteman\", before the microphone and a drink were thrown at him.\n\nThe 25-year-old threw his own drink back before jumping down into the crowd where security staff held him back.\n\nThe Metropolitan police has confirmed to Newsbeat that no complaints were made, police did not attend the event and there is no investigation into what happened.\n\nSlowthai had previously been announced as the ambassador for next month's Record Store Day - but that invitation has been withdrawn since the NME Awards.\n\n\"The individual record shops who organise Record Store Day have spoken this morning and have unanimously agreed that Slowthai's behaviour and statements do not reflect their values or those of Record Store Day,\" a spokesperson says in a statement.\n\nSlowthai, who was nominated in seven categories, also won best collaboration with Mura Masa for Deal Wiv it.\n\nTaylor Swift was also honoured at the ceremony, picking up the best solo act in the world award.\n\nThe singer told the audience that thanks to a previous NME award she won she is now able to display two of the middle finger-shaped trophies side by side in her home.\n\nTaylor Swift was at the event in south London\n\nShe added: \"This is like the craziest awards show I have ever been to, thank you.\"\n\nIn the other categories Little Simz picked up the award for best British album for GREY Area, while AJ Tracey won best British song with Ladbroke Grove.\n\nThe best album in the world award went to Lana Del Rey's Norman F***ing Rockwell, while best song in the world went to Billie Eilish for Bad Guy.\n\nBest British solo artist went to FKA twigs and best British band was chosen as The 1975.\n\nUS heavy metal band Slipknot won the best band in the world gong.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None Slowthai: 'I've got daisies in my stomach'", "The Oxford English Dictionary has changed its definition of the word Yid to include a \"supporter of or player for Tottenham Hotspur\".\n\nThe word has frequently been used against Jewish people as an offensive term but over the years has been appropriated by Spurs fans.\n\nSpurs have a strong Jewish following and have been targeted with anti-Semitic abuse by opposing fans.\n\nThe club has labelled the new definition as \"misleading\".\n\nA Spurs spokesman said the club has maintained that \"our fans (both Jewish and gentile) have never used the term with any intent to cause offence\", and said the OED failed to distinguish the contexts in which the term is and is not offensive.\n\nBut Jewish groups said the OED must make clear the word is a \"term of abuse\".\n\nThe OED, regarded as the leading dictionary of British English, has also added the word \"yiddo\" to its latest edition, saying its use is \"usually derogatory and offensive\" but can also mean a Tottenham supporter or player.\n\nIt says the word \"Yid\" is offensive when used by non-Jewish people to refer to Jews, and when used to refer to Spurs fans or players, it says the word is \"frequently derogatory and offensive\" - but is also used by fans to refer to themselves.\n\nThe words come from the Yiddish term for Jew but are thought to have been taken up as an insult during the 20th Century, particularly during the time of Oswald Moseley's fascist movement in Britain in the 1930s.\n\nChants of \"Yids\", \"Yid Army\" and \"yiddos\" are frequently heard in the home stands at White Hart Lane, with some Spurs fans saying they have reclaimed the word.\n\nBut Jewish groups have condemned the way it has been used, saying the word \"must not be tolerated\" by the club.\n\nThe OED said it takes a historical approach, meaning it records the usage and development of words rather than prescribing how they are used.\n\n\"We reflect, rather than dictate, how language is used which means we include words which may be considered sensitive and derogatory. These are always labelled as such,\" it said, in a statement.\n\nThe OED said the reference to Tottenham reflected the evidence that the club was associated with the Jewish community and that the term was used as a \"self-designation\" by some fans.\n\nIt said the entry for \"yiddo\" was marked as \"offensive and derogatory\" and it would ensure the context was made clear in both definitions.\n\nProminent Jewish football fans including David Baddiel and groups such as the Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Semitic abuse, have called on Spurs to stop using the words in chants.\n\nThe CST said the dictionary bore a \"special responsibility to ensure that anti-Semitic or otherwise offensive terms are clearly marked as such\".\n\nSimon Johnson, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, which represents many British Jewish community groups, said: \"This is a term of abuse with malicious anti-Semitic overtones.\n\n\"If the OED wishes to include such an expression it must make it abundantly clear that this is a despicable term of abuse.\"\n\nJewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard said the word was \"not controversial among many of the Jewish Spurs supporters, such as myself, who are proud to be Yiddos\".\n\nThe \"Y-word\" is not used on official merchandise, but has been adopted unofficially by fans\n\nBut rival fans also asked on social media if the definition meant it was acceptable for other teams to use the word or whether it was no longer considered racist.\n\nSpurs said in their statement that they \"have never accommodated the use of the Y-word on any club channels or in club stores\".\n\nIn December, the club released the results of a survey on the word, with more than 23,000 responses.\n\nNearly half of respondents wanted fans to abandon the chant or use it less, with 94% acknowledging it could be considered a racist term against a Jewish person.\n\nBut 33% of of respondents said they used the word \"regularly\" in a football context, while 12% also used it outside of football.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: I had no option but to resign\n\nSajid Javid has shocked Westminster by quitting as chancellor in the middle of Boris Johnson's cabinet reshuffle.\n\nMr Javid rejected the prime minister's order to fire his team of aides, saying \"no self-respecting minister\" could accept such a condition.\n\nHe has been replaced as chancellor by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak - who just seven months ago was a junior housing minister.\n\nMr Javid had been due to deliver his first Budget in four weeks' time.\n\nThe former home secretary was appointed chancellor by Mr Johnson when he became prime minister in July.\n\nHis resignation follows rumours of tensions between Mr Javid and the prime minister's senior adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nMr Javid said his advisers had worked \"incredibly hard\" and he could not agree to them being replaced.\n\n\"I felt I was left with no option but to resign,\" he said, adding that Mr Sunak and the rest of the government retained his \"full support\".\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Javid explained that he could not accept the PM's conditions saying: \"I believe it is important as leaders to have trusted teams that reflect the character and integrity that you would wish to be associated with.\"\n\nDowning Street said there would now be a joint team of economic advisers for both the chancellor and prime minister.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Alok Sharma has been appointed business secretary and minister for the upcoming climate conference COP26, in Glasgow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leila Nathoo looks back at the day in politics, as the PM's reshuffle went further than even he perhaps expected\n\nHe is being replaced at the international development department by Armed Forces minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan.\n\nThere is a return to government for former Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, who becomes paymaster general.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Cleverly is made a joint minister in the Foreign Office and Department for International Development.\n\nCabinet members remaining in place include Home Secretary Priti Patel; Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab; Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove; Health Secretary Matt Hancock; International Trade Secretary Liz Truss; Transport Secretary Grant Shapps; Defence Secretary Ben Wallace; Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg; and Chief Whip Mark Spencer.\n\nThe reshuffle reduces the number of women in the full cabinet from seven to six.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to appoint a new minister to oversee the building of the HS2 rail line, final approval for which was given this week.\n\nMeanwhile, a former adviser to Mr Javid said Downing Street had misjudged the reshuffle and that the Budget could be delayed as a result.\n\nSalma Shah told BBC Newscast she thought No 10 estimated Mr Javid would take up an offer to remain in his post, despite a request to fire his team of aides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former advisor to Mr Javid says Downing Street misjudged the reshuffle.\n\nEarlier Mr Sunak tweeted that he felt \"honoured\" to become chancellor, adding that Mr Javid had done a \"fantastic job\" and been \"a pleasure to work with\".\n\nCommenting on Mr Javid's resignation, Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"This must be a historical record with the government in crisis after just over two months in power.\n\n\"Dominic Cummings has clearly won the battle to take absolute control of the Treasury and install his stooge as chancellor.\"\n\nLosing a chancellor is no small event, and it wasn't what Boris Johnson set out to do. But today shows that No 10's priority was political control rather than keeping personnel they valued.\n\nWhen Mr Javid refused, they chose instead to see him leave.\n\nThis begs a wider question - is it stronger to share power or hoard it?\n\nBoris Johnson and his team have made the choice today to do the latter - to lose a chancellor rather than allow a rival faction offering different political advice to the next door neighbour.\n\nJulian Smith's sacking - weeks after he brokered the deal which restored the power-sharing administration in Stormont - was greeted with shock in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe former minister said on Twitter that doing the job had been \"the biggest privilege\" and he was \"extremely grateful\" to have been given the chance to serve \"this amazing part of our country\".\n\nIreland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called Mr Smith \"one of Britain's finest politicians of our time\".", "Nestle has axed its range of chocolate that used a new low-sugar technique, less than two years after it was launched.\n\nThe Swiss food giant said demand for its Milkybar Wowsomes had been \"underwhelming\".\n\nThe bars used what Nestle described as \"hollow\" sugar crystals to cut the amount of sugar by almost a third.\n\nConfectionery makers have come under pressure from health authorities to cut the amount of sugar in their products.\n\nNestle's Milkybar Wowsomes was the first product to use technology developed by the company that creates sugar with a more porous structure, which it likened to hollowing out the sugar crystals.\n\nSome industry experts had seen the discovery as a breakthrough that would help Nestle take a leading position in a growing market for low-sugar products.\n\nAt the time of the launch Stefano Agostini, Nestle's chief executive for UK and Ireland, said: \"A new product like Milkybar Wowsomes introduces greater choice and allows parents to treat their children with chocolate that tastes great but has less sugar.\n\n\"We are demonstrating how we can, and will, contribute to a healthier future and that we take our public health responsibilities very seriously,\" he added.\n\nLast year, reduced sugar versions of Mars and Snickers were launched by Mars Wrigley UK, while Mondelez ­followed suit with low-sugar Cadbury Dairy Milk.\n\nNestle said it is now working on new sugar reduction technology that it aims to introduce next year.\n\nThe announcement highlights a major issue facing the world's big processed food producers. While governments and many consumers have called for lower-sugar products, most people have yet to warm to less sweet alternatives.\n\nAttempts to cut obesity rates have seen processed food giant Unilever this week promise to stop marketing its products to children. The maker of Twister ice cream and Popsicle ice lollies, said it would limit the use of cartoon characters in its advertising.", "When a candidate is down, but not yet out, they need a zinger to keep them in the game.\n\nEmily Thornberry secured such a moment in Newsnight's Labour leadership debate with a withering put-down of her rival, Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\n\"Sorry, I don't remember,\" Ms Thornberry said after Mrs Long-Bailey claimed she had challenged Jeremy Corbyn about alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party during shadow cabinet meetings.\n\nNeeding to garner attention - and with little to lose - Ms Thornberry happily cast herself as the outsider ready to spill the beans from the shadow cabinet.\n\nShe spoke of how she warned Mr Corbyn against agreeing to Boris Johnson's timetable for an election and had foreseen Labour's subsequent heavy defeat.\n\nMs Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, needed to punch through because she is the only one of four candidates still in the contest without a place in the final round.\n\nShe needs to be nominated by a further six constituency Labour parties to allow her to go through on Friday to the final ballot.\n\nThe prize for outsider of the night went to Lisa Nandy, the Wigan MP, who resigned from the shadow cabinet in 2016 in protest at Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Nandy joined Ms Thornberry in a show of hands on Newsnight when the presenter Katie Razzall asked who had foreseen the defeat.\n\nBut Ms Nandy went furthest in criticising the leadership, suggesting that Labour had still not understood how the ground collapsed beneath the party in December's election. In a swipe at the manifesto she added that it was wrong to try to nationalise everything.\n\nAs the candidates trailing in the contest, Ms Thornberry and Ms Nandy needed to make their mark with more aggressive pot-shots at the leadership and their rivals in the contest.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, the frontrunner, and Mrs Long-Bailey, the candidate of the Corbyn left, needed to avoid dropping the proverbial Ming vase with any unforced errors.\n\nThey were careful to show respect for Mr Corbyn. Sir Keir said it was wrong to blame the Labour leader for four successive election defeats while Mrs Long-Bailey said it was wrong to dismiss his \"transformative\" policies.\n\nBut Mrs Long-Bailey showed she believes Sir Keir's weak point was his advocacy of a soft Brexit in the last parliament.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary seemed to be acutely aware of his vulnerability when he interrupted Mrs Long-Bailey to say that the shadow cabinet had agreed the policy.\n\nAdopting a tone of sympathy, Mrs Long-Bailey said she understood why her rival had acted to avoid a no-deal Brexit. But she said that to people in Labour's communities it all looked like parliamentary games which had contributed to Labour's defeat.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would step down as Labour leader following the party's heavy defeat in December's general election\n\nSir Keir came well-prepared for attacks on Brexit. But he later showed that he had no qualms about being pro-European, as he called for his children's generation to be given the same opportunities he enjoyed.\n\n\"All my life I have been able to go and work in Europe or to live in Europe or to study in Europe and I want the next generation to have those opportunities,\" he said. \"I don't want to kick that away for them.\" But he stopped short of advocating a return to EU membership.\n\nThe first televised debate of the Labour leadership contest highlighted the battle lines as it enters the final stage. Sir Keir, the frontrunner, and Mrs Long-Bailey, his nearest rival, are gently trying to cast themselves as new brooms while showing suitable respect for the retiring leader.\n\nThe trailing outsiders, by contrast, are taking no prisoners as they rail against the current leadership - with the odd snipe against their rivals - as they issue dire warnings about the dangers of failing to embrace radical change.\n• None Who will be Labour's next leader?\n• None What Labour members want in a leader", "Harry Richford would have survived but for failings by the hospital\n\nAn independent review will be held into maternity services at the East Kent NHS Trust after up to 15 babies died there in recent years.\n\nNadine Dorries, minister for patient safety, pledged immediate action and said NHS England would investigate the two hospitals in Margate and Ashford.\n\nOn Wednesday the trust's chief executive said there had been \"six or seven\" avoidable deaths since 2011.\n\nHowever, on Thursday a board meeting heard there were 15 possible deaths.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons earlier Ms Dorries said: \"NHS England and NHS improvements are commissioning themselves an independent review into East Kent maternity services.\"\n\nShe said the trust was having issues with \"ensuring the right staff with the right skills in the right place\".\n\nShe added that midwives and doctors working clearly together was a problem, along with communication and leadership support.\n\nNHS England and NHS Improvement has revealed Dr Bill Kirkup CBE will carry out a review into the circumstances of maternity deaths at the trust.\n\nDr Kirkup, who will meet the families affected, has led several public investigations including chairing the investigation of Morecambe Bay maternity services.\n\nAn independent support team has already been sent into the trust to ensure improvements are carried out.\n\nA series of failings came to light during the inquest of Harry Richford, who died seven days after being born at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate in November 2017.\n\nHarry's grandfather Derek Richford, who the trust previously accused of \"undermining\" its reputation, told the BBC he was \"delighted\" about the review.\n\nHe added: \"This is very much needed for the other families.\n\n\"We do need to know the extent of the problems before the appropriate actions can be put in place.\"\n\nOn Wednesday Susan Acott, chief executive of the trust, said there had been \"six or seven\" avoidable deaths at the trust, including the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, since 2011.\n\nHowever, during a board meeting on Thursday Ms Acott said there were actually 15 possibly preventable baby deaths.\n\nMs Acott was asked by a public governor if she would resign from her role.\n\nShe declined, saying \"continuity\" was \"particularly important\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to use the memory of Harry Richford to just really maintain our energy and focus.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care is examining 25 individual maternity cases, and the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) and Care Quality Commission (CQC) are also investigating the trust.\n\nNorth Thanet MP Sir Roger Gale earlier asked an urgent question and told the Commons: \"This morning at an early hour I spoke with, for half an hour, a husband and wife living now in Australia who two months after the death of Harry Richford lost their own child under similarly tragic circumstances - and it was the most harrowing phone call I've ever taken in 36 years in this House of Commons.\n\n\"They deserve and need the opportunity to achieve closure and move forward.\n\n\"These parents need to know that the failures in protocol, that the failures in clinical judgement and that the failings in management have been addressed.\"\n\nSir Roger said an independent inquiry would ensure the parents of Harry and others \"will know that their children have not died in vain and that this will never, ever happen again\".\n\nSusan Acott earlier told a meeting she would not resign as chief executive of the hospital trust\n\nCanterbury MP Rosie Duffield said women in her constituency were \"terrified\" about using maternity services.\n\nShe added: \"There are so many questions from my constituents.\n\n\"Dozens of whom are now really terrified about their future pregnancies and having babies in the area.\"\n\nTom Richford, baby Harry's father, said he was looking forward to meeting Dr Kirkup and said he wanted to highlight all the information they had gathered as a family.\n\n\"We've got a number of areas which we think are quite focal to look at going forward,\" he said.\n\n\"If those individuals who are leading the inquiry could look into all of those areas I believe they would find a number of significant failings.\"\n\nThe independent clinical support team sent into the trust includes a director of midwifery services from a CQC-rated outstanding trust, two consultant obstetricians and a consultant paediatrician and neonatologist.\n\nMs Dorries said the very best had been placed \"at the heart of the trust - on the wards, at the bedside of patients\".\n\nA spokesman for East Kent Hospitals said: \"To date the medical director has reviewed perinatal deaths on our incident reporting system between 2012-19 and has identified 15 wholly or potentially preventable perinatal deaths, all of which have been investigated.\n\n\"As a result the chief executive has asked the medical director to do a detailed review supported by the independent medical consultants who are now working with the trust.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"We know that we have not always provided the standard of care for every woman and baby that they expected and deserved, and wholeheartedly apologise to every one of those families we have let down.\n\n\"Around 7,000 women give birth under our care each year, and one death that could be prevented is one too many. We will not rest until we are delivering an outstanding maternity service that has the full confidence of all families in east Kent.\"\n\nA meeting with the trust, CQC and \"key health system partners\" is scheduled for 21 February to check the action so far and made any further necessary interventions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mary Annie Sowerby, Aliny Godinho, Elize Stevens, Alison Hunt, Asma Begum and Dorothy Bowyer were among the women killed last year\n\nThe number of female homicide victims in England and Wales has risen to the highest level since 2006.\n\nThere were 241 female victims of murder, manslaughter and infanticide in the 12 months to the end of March 2019, up 10% on the previous year.\n\nThe number of separate homicide incidents rose to 662, up from 644 the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nHowever, the overall number of victims fell to 671.\n\nThis was 33, or 5%, fewer than the previous year.\n\nIt represents the first fall since 2015, although this was partly due to those killed in the London and Manchester terror attacks and the Shoreham air crash being included in the 2018 figures.\n\nThe ONS said the year-on-year decline was driven by a fall in male victims - down 11%, from 484 to 429.\n\nThe number of black homicide victims was the highest in 17 years - totalling 97 in 2018/19.\n\nThe majority of homicide victims (64%) were male, while just over a third (36%) were female.\n\nAlmost half (48%) of female victims were killed in a domestic homicide, with the suspect a partner or ex-partner in 38% of cases.\n\nOne of these was Kay Richardson, 49, who was beaten and strangled to death by her estranged husband Alan Martin, 53, in September 2018, just days after he had been arrested for allegedly raping her.\n\nHe had been released under investigation by police, without any restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are haunted by what happened to Kay'\n\nThe number of baby girls and toddlers killed in the period also reached a decade high, with homicide victims including 14 females under the age of one and 13 toddlers aged between one and four.\n\nThese are the highest numbers since the earliest available figures, when six female babies and eight children aged between one and four were killed in the year to March 2009.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips, who has campaigned on domestic violence, said the figures were \"horrendous\" but an \"inevitability\" in light of cuts to public services.\n\nThe \"degradation of police resources\", a \"crumbling criminal justice system\" and cuts to council services which have affected routes out of danger for women trying to escape abusive relationships have all played a factor, she said.\n\nMs Phillips added that the number of suspects being released under investigation with no restrictions on their movements by police, rather than with stricter bail conditions, was of particular concern.\n\nThe Victims' Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird, said the number of women killed by a partner or ex-partner was \"not surprising\" but \"deeply troubling\".\n\n\"In the name of these women we need urgently to take more action on early intervention,\" she said.\n\nCrime Minister Kit Malthouse said the government was recruiting 20,000 new police officers and ensuring violent and sexual offenders spent longer behind bars to help protect the public.\n\nHe said the figures were a \"stark reminder of the devastating impact of domestic abuse\" and the Domestic Abuse Bill, which the government plans to reintroduce to Parliament, would also provide greater protections for victims.\n\nThe bill would place a legal duty on councils to offer secure homes to those fleeing violence, as well as introducing a government definition of domestic abuse, including emotional and financial abuse, and a commissioner to hold government to account.", "Two insect species never before seen in the UK have been discovered in a forest in Lochaber.\n\nThe two male fungus gnats were caught along with tens of thousands of insects in a special trap in 2018.\n\nThey were identified by Ian Strachan after he carefully sifted through the specimens.\n\nThe species - Boletina gusakovae and Mycetophila idonea - are usually found in parts of continental Europe and were trapped at Loch Arkaig Pine Forest.\n\nMr Strachan said: \"My guess is that these two have always been here, or at least for a long time, but just not found before.\"\n\nWoodland Trust Scotland, which manages the forest, said Boletina gusakovae is usually found in Finland and Russia and Mycetophila idonea in Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, Georgia and Luxembourg.\n\nMr Strachan spotted the two species among more than 1,500 fungus gnats he had separated out from tens of thousands of other insects in the sample.\n\nFungus gnats are a large group of tiny flies whose larvae feed on mushrooms and fungi.\n\nThe flies were among tens of thousands of insects caught in a trap\n\nMr Strachan said: \"This was a very exciting find. It makes all the hours of sorting seem worthwhile.\"\n\nThe Roybridge-based expert has sorted through some 20,000 specimens from the Loch Arkaig traps so far - using a binocular microscope as most are less than 1mm in size.\n\nA considerable number of specimens remain to be sorted or identified.\n\n\"It is a very laborious process. It could be several years before all the species are identified - but I am determined to get as many as possible done,\" said Mr Strachan.", "The Duchess of Cornwall has said domestic abuse \"affects everybody\" and urged people to \"get up and talk about their experiences\".\n\n\"No one knows what goes on behind any front door. It doesn't matter who you are,\" she told the Daily Mail.\n\nThe interview comes after she hosted an event for the charity SafeLives at Clarence House in London on Wednesday.\n\nThe duchess told guests the \"taboo\" around domestic abuse \"weakens\" every time somebody shares their story.\n\nShe said she had had nightmares after hearing women's accounts of abuse at a SafeLives event in 2016.\n\n\"I had the privilege of hearing incredibly brave women... standing up to tell their stories. Harrowing stories that reduced many of us listeners to tears,\" Camilla said in a speech to guests at Clarence House.\n\n\"That memorable day fired my interest in domestic abuse. I did know of people who had suffered from it, but I was both shocked and horrified by just how many thousands of people across the world live with it.\"\n\nSince then the duchess, 72, said she has been championing the issue by hosting events to bring together various organisations.\n\nLast year she wrote a letter of support for a survivor-led conference on domestic violence in Wales.\n\nThe duchess held a reception in Clarence House to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the charity, SafeLives\n\nIn the Daily Mail interview, Camilla described the 2016 event as one of her \"most harrowing experiences\".\n\n\"I thought to myself, this is going on, what are we doing about it?,\" she said. \"You know people, I know people that it has happened to. But I don't think we ever believed it was that bad.\"\n\n\"Whoever you are, wherever you are from, there are organisations that can help you,\" she added.\n\n\"Talk to them, just get up and talk about your experiences. They will help.\"\n\nThe duchess began speaking out against domestic abuse after hearing survivors' stories at a SafeLives event in 2016 (pictured)\n\nSafeLives provides various services for people affected by domestic abuse as well as working with other organisation to tackle the issue.\n\nOffice of National Statistics figures for 2018 suggest 4.2% of men and 7.9% of women suffered domestic abuse, which equates to about 685,000 men and 1.3 million women.\n\nMurders related to domestic violence are at a five-year high, with an average of two women murdered every week.\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by domestic abuse or violence, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There were clashes between supporters of Mr McIntyre and police officers\n\nScuffles broke out outside a courthouse in Londonderry as a man appeared inside charged with the murder of the journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nPaul McIntyre, 52, from Derry has been charged with murder, possession of a firearm and membership of a proscribed organisation, the IRA.\n\nMs McKee, who was 29, was observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate when she was shot on 18 April 2019.\n\nProtesters scuffled with police as Mr McIntyre was taken into court.\n\nSupporters held a number of placards claiming he was a \"political hostage\" and a \"British scapegoat\".\n\nThey scuffled with up to 40 police officers as they refused to move from the court's entrance, cheering loudly as Mr McIntyre was driven into the court buildings.\n\nInside the Bishop Street building on Thursday, the court heard that evidence in the case included footage from music television channel MTV, as an MTV crew had been in the city filming that day, as well as mobile footage from members of the public.\n\nPaul McIntyre raised his arms as he was brought into Londonderry Magistrates' Court\n\nMr McIntryre's defence solicitor, Derwin Harvey, said his client faced allegations that he was seen \"picking up casings\" that had come from a gun after it was fired by another male who Mr McIntyre was standing behind.\n\nHe added that there was \"scant\" evidence against his client, adding that the case rested on a \"snapshot\" of low-quality mobile phone footage.\n\nThe courtroom was full throughout the 50-minute hearing.\n\nFriends and relatives of Lyra McKee - including her partner Sara Canning - sat in the public gallery, about 15ft away from the accused in the dock.\n\nSome wore white t-shirts with the message \"Speak Out For Lyra\" printed above a picture of the journalist.\n\nPaul McIntyre, who wore a grey sweater, looked straight ahead at the judge and lawyers during most of the proceedings.\n\nHe spoke only to confirm his name and address.\n\nDistrict Judge Barney McElholm said: \"A woman with her entire life ahead of her, a very promising life, was murdered needlessly and pointlessly, like all the other murders in this country.\n\n\"It is very important that the murderers of Lyra McKee are brought to justice if this can be done, but we need to get the right people.\"\n\nThe judge said that protesters' behaviour, blocking the court's entrance and \"threatening journalists\", was doing Mr McIntyre \"no favours whatsoever\".\n\nAn application for bail was adjourned and Mr McIntyre, from Kinnego Park, was remanded in custody until 27 February.\n\nLyra McKee was named Sky News young journalist of the year in 2006\n\nThe 29-year-old writer and campaigner from Belfast had only recently moved to Derry when she was killed.\n\nShe was standing near a police 4x4 vehicle on the night of 18 April 2019 when a masked gunman fired towards officers and onlookers.\n\nRegarded by many as a rising star in Northern Ireland media circles, she had written for many publications, including Buzzfeed, Private Eye, the Atlantic and Mosaic Science.\n\nShe was named Sky News young journalist of the year in 2006 and Forbes Magazine named her as one of their 30 under 30 in media in Europe in 2016.\n\nThe Belfast woman had signed a two-book deal with the publisher Faber and Faber, with her forthcoming book The Lost Boys due out this year.\n\nAccording to those who knew her best, the gay rights advocate was someone who \"believed passionately in social and religious tolerance\".\n\nAt her funeral at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast Fr Martin Magill received a standing ovation when he asked why it took her death to unite politicians.\n\nDays later the British and Irish governments announced a new talks process aimed at restoring devolution.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe boss of an NHS trust at the centre of concerns about preventable baby deaths has claimed the scale of the failings is not clearly defined.\n\nSusan Acott, chief executive of East Kent Hospitals Trust, said there had only been \"six or seven\" avoidable deaths at the trust since 2011.\n\nHowever, the BBC revealed on Monday that the trust previously accepted responsibility for at least 10.\n\nMs Acott said some of the baby deaths were \"not as clear-cut\".\n\nA series of failings came to light during the inquest of Harry Richford who died seven days after his birth at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate in November 2017.\n\nThe inquest was told Harry would have survived but for failings by the hospital\n\nA coroner ruled Harry's death was \"wholly avoidable\" and was contributed to by hospital neglect.\n\nMs Acott added she had not read a key report from 2015 drawing attention to maternity problems at the trust until December 2019.\n\nThe trust has apologised to the Richford family and Ms Acott says she has offered to meet them.\n\nMs Acott claims that from 2011 to 2020 there were \"about six or seven\" baby deaths that were viewed as preventable.\n\nShe says the other deaths were being investigated adding \"these things aren't always black and white\".\n\nMs Acott said: \"It is not always quite as clear cut as that. That is not to say we shouldn't learn and shouldn't investigate.\"\n\nDespite the most recent preventable death taking place in November, Ms Acott said she believes the trust has improved.\n\nShe said: \"I think it is about trying to persist. Are we going about trying to improve our clinical care, are we doing everything that's expected of us. I think we are.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's an organisation with a lot of issues and problems, of that there's no doubt. We have to use the memory of Harry Richford to say we will learn, we will do better and we won't let this happen again.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew Hinds fears for the future of smaller town centres if there is no change\n\nFor one national chain of jewellers, the government's business rates system is having a devastating effect on retail outside big cities and shopping malls.\n\nAndrew Hinds, a director at family-run firm F Hinds, says business rates place an unfair burden on shops and are leading to more store closures.\n\n\"In a smaller town, if you lose a few retailers, you lose critical mass and there's less reason for people to go into town,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We have stores in various different locations - cities, towns, out-of-town shopping centres. But we fear for the future of smaller towns in more rural locations.\n\n\"If we don't reduce the cost of doing business in these towns to a sustainable level, we will kill their High Streets.\"\n\nFor that reason, F Hinds has joined forces with more than 50 other retailers to write a letter to Chancellor Sajid Javid calling for business rates reform.\n\nThe signatories include the bosses of leading supermarkets, department stores and other big High Street names.\n\nMarks & Spencer, Superdrug, Morrisons, Debenhams, Boots and Greggs are among those involved.\n\nThe letter notes that the \"burden of business rates has become unsustainable for many retailers\" and that the system is broken.\n\nAmong other changes, they want businesses to be able to appeal against excessive business rates.\n\nThe system is a complex one, but businesses complain that changes in the rateable value of their properties can lead to their being unfairly clobbered.\n\nMr Hinds says the burden of the system falls disproportionately on retailers, who make up 5% of the economy but pay 25% of all business rates.\n\n\"For more than a decade, we've been opening new shops in larger places rather than smaller ones,\" he says.\n\n\"The smaller towns that we're in already are becoming less vibrant. Eventually, older people and poorer people will have less access to shopping, because they can't drive 50 miles to the nearest supermall.\"\n\nF Hinds says it opens more stores in big shopping centres because of the business rates system\n\nF Hinds has 127 shops across the UK, which makes it too big to qualify for business rates relief from the government. Mr Hinds jokes that they would fare better if they could relaunch as 127 small businesses.\n\nHe says that if business rates are not reformed, many town centres will change radically.\n\n\"I think we will end up with a very different social fabric,\" he says. \"You can have other things in town centres apart from shopping, but if you lose shopping, will people go into the town to do the other things?\"\n\nThe campaign has the backing of the British Retail Consortium, whose chief executive, Helen Dickinson, called on Mr Javid to address retailers' concerns in next month's Budget.\n\nShe said: \"Every year, retail faces higher and higher business rates bills, holding back much needed investment in an industry that is transforming at a dramatic pace.\n\n\"Swift action at the upcoming Budget would show the chancellor was serious about levelling up all parts of the UK and supporting a retail industry towards realising a brighter future.\"", "Boris Johnson took a holiday on the island of Mustique with partner Carrie Symonds after Christmas\n\nLabour has called for an investigation into who funded Boris Johnson's Caribbean holiday over the New Year.\n\nThe MPs' register of interests stated the accommodation had a \"value\" of £15,000 and was covered by Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross.\n\nMr Ross initially said he had not paid for the holiday, but in a clarification insisted the register \"is correct\" and he had \"facilitated accommodation\".\n\nDowning Street said the trip had been properly registered.\n\nThe prime minister took the holiday to Mustique, a private island that is part of St Vincent and the Grenadines, with girlfriend Carrie Symonds between Boxing Day 2019 and 5 January 2020.\n\nLabour's Jon Trickett has now asked the parliamentary commissioner for standards to investigate who paid for it.\n\nIn a letter to the watchdog, the shadow Cabinet Office minister said: \"The code of conduct requires members to provide the name of the person or organisation that actually funded a donation.\"\n\nHe said that the \"evidence suggests it was not David Ross\" who funded the donation and that the entry made by the prime minister in the MPs' register of interests \"appears to be incorrect\".\n\nDavid Ross, the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, at a photography exhibition in 2011\n\nMr Trickett said a number of questions needed \"urgently answering\", including \"the true source of the £15,000 donation\" and \"did the PM knowingly make a false entry into the register\".\n\n\"Transparency is crucial to ensuring that the public have confidence that elected Members of this House have not been unduly influence by any donations or gifts that they may receive,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson's entry in the register of interests says Mr Ross donated accommodation \"for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000\".\n\nBut a spokesman for Mr Ross told the Daily Mail: \"Boris wanted some help to find somewhere in Mustique, David called the company who run all the villas and somebody had dropped out.\n\n\"So Boris got the use of a villa that was worth £15,000, but David Ross did not pay any monies whatsoever for this.\"\n\nA later statement from the spokesman added: \"Mr Ross facilitated accommodation for Mr Johnson on Mustique valued at £15,000.\n\n\"Therefore this is a benefit in kind from Mr Ross to Mr Johnson, and Mr Johnson's declaration to the House of Commons is correct.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"All transparency requirements have been followed, as set out in the Register of Members' Financial Interests\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the standards commissioner said the office could not confirm whether an investigation had been opened into the prime minister.\n\nShe explained this was due to a decision by MPs in 2018 to allow colleagues being investigated to remain anonymous.\n\nMr Ross has not provided any further details as to what he means, in this context, by a 'benefit in kind.'\n\nBut sources in Westminster have suggested to me that this could refer to some sort of swap whereby David Ross agreed to give up his own property - at a later date - in order to facilitate the prime minister's stay elsewhere on the island.\n\nAnd, I'm told, that there was no kind of cash donation.\n\nBut until there's total clarity, from Downing Street, the questions will keep coming. Such as, whose villa did Boris Johnson stay at?\n\nAnd opposition parties may not wish to miss the chance of pointing out that the PM didn't pay for at least part of his own holiday.\n\nMr Ross was one of Mr Johnson's aides in City Hall and was appointed to the Olympics organising committee.\n\nBut he resigned from the roles, and his company, over a share scandal in 2008.\n\nIt emerged Mr Ross had used millions of pounds' worth of Carphone Warehouse shares as collateral against personal loans without informing the company's other directors - a potential breach of City rules at the time.\n\nMr Ross has been a long-standing donor to the Conservative Party, pledging £250,000 in the last election campaign.\n\nMr Johnson faced criticism over his holiday for not returning sooner, after the US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani raised tensions in the Middle East.\n\nIn April 2019 Mr Johnson was rebuked by the parliamentary commissioner for standards for failing to register a share of a Somerset property within 28 days of acquiring it.", "At just 42, Rishi Sunak is the youngest prime minister in modern times - taking the record held by his old boss David Cameron, who was 43 when appointed.\n\nHis rise to the top has been fast. He only became MP for Richmond in North Yorkshire in 2015 and joined the Cabinet in 2019.\n\n\"I showed up and people were surprised,\" Mr Sunak said about being selected to represent Richmond, with its overwhelming white population. But his \"Yorkshire values\" of hard work resonated with people and he won them over by showing an interest in what mattered to them, he said. Seven years on and he has made history as the UK's first British Asian prime minister.\n\nMr Sunak joined Boris Johnson's cabinet in 2019 as chief treasury to the secretary working with chancellor Sajid Javid, and his career rocketed from there.\n\nA self-confessed \"huge Star Wars fan\" with a sizeable collection of lightsabers, he tweeted a photo of himself and his \"Jedi Master\" Mr Javid at a screening of The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. A few months later, the apprentice became the master when he replaced Mr Javid as chancellor, and was plunged into pandemic crisis planning and budgeting.\n\nFor quite a few people, Mr Sunak appeared to be a reassuringly steady hand at the tiller as chancellor.\n\nWhen he pledged to do \"whatever it takes\" to help people through the pandemic in the spring of 2020 - and unveiled support worth £350bn - his personal poll ratings went through the roof.\n\nBut the UK continued to be buffeted by stormy economic weather, and Mr Sunak himself had to deal with the fallout of being fined by police for breaking lockdown rules in Downing Street in June 2020.\n\nIn July, he resigned from the cabinet, saying he felt his own approach to the economy was \"fundamentally too different\" to that of the PM, Boris Johnson. The move was instrumental in ousting Mr Johnson, which some of the former PM's allies will not have forgotten.\n\nJust 16 weeks later, he has become leader himself.\n\nHis appointment as PM came on the day millions celebrated Diwali, and as a practising Hindu he has said one of his proudest career moments was lighting ceremonial diyas (oil lamps) outside 11 Downing Street while chancellor. A traditional Hindu red bracelet, meant for good luck and protection, could be seen on his wrist when he posed on the steps of 10 Downing Street for the first time as UK leader.\n\nFamily: Married to businesswoman Akshata Murty with two daughters\n\nThere is no denying that Mr Sunak's wealth is a world away from that of most. Together, he and his wife Akshata Murty have an estimated worth of more than £700m - a sum which supersedes the personal wealth of King Charles III.\n\nCritics of Mr Sunak have raised the question of whether the millionaire can grasp the scale of the cost-of-living squeeze facing struggling households.\n\nIn April, the finances of Mr Sunak and his family came under intense scrutiny, with the tax affairs of his wife - the daughter of Narayana Murthy, Indian billionaire and co-founder of IT services giant Infosys - placed in the spotlight. Headquartered in Bangalore, Infosys reported revenues of more than $11.8bn (£9bn) in 2019, $12.8bn in 2020, and $13.5bn in 2021. The company's latest annual report shows Ms Murty owns a 0.9% stake in Infosys.\n\nShe announced in April she would start paying UK tax on this income to relieve political pressure on her husband.\n\nMr Sunak's appointment as prime minister has made his own wealth and tax affairs a hot topic again. He has been tight-lipped about his personal wealth and maintains that he has never benefited from funds based in tax havens.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether he and his family will split their time between Downing Street and the £4.5m five-bedroom townhouse in South Kensington, London where they currently reside.\n\nThe Sunaks are understood to own a further three properties: a Grade II-listed manor house in the village of Kirby Sigston, near Northallerton, in his Richmond constituency, was bought for £1.5m in 2015. The couple also own a flat in South Kensington and a penthouse apartment with views of the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California.\n\nMr Sunak won the approval of 202 Tory MPs to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt says his colleagues find him \"very personable\", but also someone who is \"very clear and certain in what he thinks\".\n\nFor example, in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum - in which he campaigned to Leave - he was called into Downing Street and asked for his support to remain in the EU but he refused.\n\n\"He said 'No, I think Brexit is the right thing to do' - which is quite a thing for a newly elected MP to say to Downing Street.\"\n\nMr Sunak told the Yorkshire Post he believed leaving the EU would make the UK \"freer, fairer and more prosperous\".\n\nHe said changing immigration rules was another key reason for his Leave vote: \"I believe that appropriate immigration can benefit our country. But we must have control of our borders.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak says that when it comes to helping the most vulnerable \"that's what I did\".\n\nBefore entering politics Mr Sunak was an analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs and then worked for two multibillion dollar hedge funds.\n\nHis supporters hope his eye for statistics and data will be an asset in making the right economic decisions.\n\nMr Sunak's parents came to the UK from east Africa and are both of Indian origin.\n\nHe was born in Southampton in 1980, where his father was a GP, and his mother ran her own pharmacy.\n\n\"In terms of cultural upbringing, I'd be at the temple at the weekend - I'm a Hindu - but I'd also be at [Southampton Football Club] the Saints game as well on a Saturday - you do everything, you do both.\"\n\nIn the interview he said he had been fortunate not to have endured a lot of racism growing up, but that there was one incident that had stayed with him.\n\n\"I was just out with my younger brother and younger sister, and I think, probably pretty young, I was probably a mid-teenager, and we were out at a fast food restaurant and I was just looking after them. There were people sitting nearby, it was the first time I'd experienced it, just saying some very unpleasant things. The 'P' word.\n\n\"And it stung. I still remember it. It seared in my memory. You can be insulted in many different ways.\"\n\nHowever, he said he \"can't conceive of that happening today\" in the UK.\n\nHe attended the exclusive private school Winchester College and worked as a waiter at a Southampton curry house during his summer holidays. He has attracted criticism from Labour for donating more than £100,000 to his former school, to fund bursaries for children who could not afford to attend it.\n\nAfter finishing school he went on to Oxford to study philosophy, politics and economics, before studying for an MBA at Stanford University in California. There he met his wife, and the couple have two daughters.\n\nDuring the previous leadership campaign, he often mentioned his daughters in the context of climate change. Answering a question on climate change during a BBC TV debate, Mr Sunak said he took \"advice from my two young daughters, who are the experts of this in my household\".", "Food waste refers to reduced food due to actions by retailers and consumers\n\nCommon estimates for global food waste are too low, according to Dutch researchers, who suggest every person in the world is wasting about 500 calories of food a day.\n\nWithout waste, we could feed five people instead of four, they said.\n\nThe study found food waste goes up with the increase of money in our pockets, possibly reaching more than twice the levels we thought previously.\n\nWasted and lost food accounts for almost 10% of all our greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN.\n\nStopping food waste is a win for consumers and it's definitely a win for the planet, said Dr Monika van den Bos Verma of Wageningen University in The Netherlands.\n\n\"Throwing food out in your dustbin is like throwing a five euro note out - why would you do that?\"\n\nPrevious estimates have put global food waste at 214 calories per day per person (214 kilocalories/day/capita - a kilocalorie is another word for what's commonly called a calorie).\n\nSparrows feeding on leftovers at a cafe in Germany\n\nThe researchers looked in detail at the issue of food waste, using data from the FAO, World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nFood waste started to rise above a daily income of about seven dollars per day.\n\nAnd while the FAO estimated food waste to be 214 calories per day per person in the world in 2015, their model for the same year gave a figure of 527 calories.\n\n\"What we estimate is that FAO's original estimate of 214 kilocalories per capita per day is actually a vast underestimate of the global food waste as we measure it, because we have a factor two larger estimate of 527 kilocalories per capita per day,\" said Dr Thom Achterbosch, also of Wageningen University in the Netherlands.\n\nFood waste is more of a problem in richer countries than we think but it's also going to rise faster in poorer countries, he added.\n\n\"From what we currently have in our kitchens we could feed five persons instead of four if we don't waste,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers point to some simple solutions for reducing food waste, such as reducing food portion sizes.\n\nThey say behavioural change is important, such as encouraging shoppers to switch from buying in excess or hoarding to buying \"enough\", with the thought that you can always buy more. And food must be valued and appreciated more in society.\n\nThe research, published in the journal, Plos One, did not include food lost in the production process before it gets to the consumer. The widely quoted figure of one third of all food available for human consumption lost or wasted is made up of both food lost before it reaches the consumer, which the study did not look at, and food wasted once it arrives in the kitchen.\n\nThe figures are global and give a basis for measuring progress towards the international goal to reduce food waste by half between 2015 and 2030.\n\n\"It's essentially the most sustainable way to solve part the problem of how to feed the world in the future,\" said co-researcher, Dr Martine Rutten.", "England threw away the opportunity to defeat South Africa in the first Twenty20 international, losing a dramatic contest by one run in East London.\n\nThe tourists needed three from the final delivery of the match, but Adil Rashid could only manage a single.\n\nEngland were cantering to their target of 178 as Jason Roy plundered 70 from 38 balls, only for his dismissal to spark South Africa's resurgence.\n\nEven then, Eoin Morgan's 52 meant England needed just seven from the final over, yet the brilliant Lungi Ngidi had Tom Curran caught at deep mid-wicket and bowled Moeen Ali.\n\nRashid was asked to be the hero from the only ball he faced, but an inside edge to mid-wicket meant he was run out coming back for a second run which would have forced a super over.\n\nIt was cruel on Rashid who, along with fellow spinner Moeen, earlier helped England recover from a dreadful start with the ball and in the field to limit South Africa to 177-8 on a superb batting pitch.\n\nThe second in the three-match series is in Durban on Friday.\n\nThis is the start of England's road to the T20 World Cup in Australia in October and November and, unlike the experimental line-up used during the drawn one-day series, captain Morgan has promised his team will be at its strongest throughout these matches.\n\nWhat Morgan saw was a side who began terribly, fought back admirably, gained complete control, then threw it all away.\n\nAfter choosing to field first, the tourists were facing the prospect of an enormous chase as their pace bowlers were flayed, catches went down, the ground fielding was untidy and the sole review wasted.\n\nSouth Africa reached 97-1 from nine overs, only for England to improve to take 7-80 in the final 11 overs and 4-8 in the last two, leaving the Proteas with a total that seemed no better than par.\n\nWhen Roy was in full flow, the chase was set to be complete with time to spare, but he became the first in a string of batsmen to be complicit in their own downfall, coinciding with the excellent death bowling of Ngidi.\n\nEngland first stalled, then panicked, allowing South Africa to steal a game they had almost no right to win.\n\nEven as they were carried to the 50-over World Cup by a power-packed batting line-up last July, England were still capable of an aberration, and fell to this defeat in six overs of madness.\n\nRoy had taken left-arm spinner JJ Smuts for 22 in a single over on the way to a 22-ball half-century, sharing stands of 72 with Jonny Bairstow and 42 with Morgan.\n\nHowever, he helped an innocuous Beuran Hendricks slower ball to short fine leg, with Joe Denly and Ben Stokes holing out in the next three overs.\n\nWith 23 needed from 12 balls, Morgan took control. Hendricks was hit for 14 from three deliveries, only for the captain to hit the last ball of the 19th over straight to long-on.\n\nEngland were still favourites, especially when Curran shovelled Ngidi for a couple to make the target five from five.\n\nHowever, he targeted the leg-side fence needlessly and was caught, and Moeen swung, nudged and ultimately missed to be bowled, leaving Rashid a task he was not up to.\n\nMoeen and Rashid prove their worth again\n\nThough they would later come up short with the bat, off-spinner Moeen and leg-spinner Rashid - who this week each reiterated their unavailability to England's Test side - once again proved how integral they are to Morgan's white-ball teams.\n\nUsing variations of line, length and pace, they returned a combined 2-45 from their eight overs. Even then, the numbers only tell part of the story. Moeen bowled three of his overs in the powerplay, while Rashid was the unfortunate bowler when Roy and Denly each dropped catches.\n\nWhile Moeen and Rashid were twirling away, pace bowlers Curran, Mark Wood and Chris Jordan were being flayed by Temba Bavuma's 43, and each of Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen, who both made 31.\n\nAs usual, it took the arrival of Stokes to inspire England, with the talismanic all-rounder paving the way for Jordan and Wood to make impressive returns.\n\nHowever, it would prove to be not enough. In a game decided by the tightest of margins, England were not only punished for their batting collapse, but also their slow start with the ball and in the field.\n\n'We have to improve'\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan told the TMS podcast: \"We have to improve how we played the end of the chase. At the halfway stage we talked about how South Africa batsmen coming in struggled to hit the ball. We'll talk about that over the next 24 hours and hopefully get an answer and a clear mindset going into Durban.\"\n\nSouth Africa's Lungi Ngidi, who took 3-30 in four overs: \"I didn't panic under pressure. One of their best batsmen was in and they seemed to be cruising the game. I was told my job was to take wickets and that's all I wanted to do.\"\n\nSouth Africa captain Quinton de Kock: \"It was very tight, but we knew that halfway through. We had to keep to our basics and we could end up winning. We knew this wicket gets slow and is tough to bat on in the last five overs. We'll enjoy it tonight but the planning for the second game in the series starts tomorrow and we want to be ruthless.\"", "The landslide happened at Crafnant in Conwy county\n\nNine homes have been evacuated following a large landslip, thought to have been caused by Storm Ciara.\n\nPeople are being advised to stay away from Crafnant, near Trefriw in Conwy county, by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and Conwy council and roads and footpaths have been closed.\n\nStaff from NRW will work with geoscience and engineering experts to monitor the landslide.\n\nMore rain is expected from Storm Dennis over the weekend.\n\nA woman in her 80s, who lives alone, was one of the nine households evacuated. Others included families with children, according to Trefriw councillor Tomos Jones.\n\nTrefriw councillor Tomos Jones said: \"The elderly resident lived nearest the landslide. I believe she's staying with her family in Trefriw.\n\n\"Another resident lives near the bridge that was taken out by the landslide.\"\n\nSian Williams, NRW's head of operations in north west Wales, said: \"We are working quickly with a number of partners to monitor the landslip and determine if there are any movements.\n\n\"In the meantime, North Wales Police, Conwy County Borough Council and NRW have advised the residents of nine properties to evacuate their homes, as there is a concern that this area remains unstable with an immediate risk to properties and highways in the area.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson promised not so long ago that Sajid Javid would be his chancellor, in front of an audience and the TV cameras.\n\nIn characteristically bombastic style, before he could be completely sure he would be back as PM, he said: \"I'm going to give you an absolutely categorical assurance I will keep Sajid Javid as my chancellor. I think he's a great guy, and I think he is doing a fantastic job.\"\n\nSo what on earth has just then happened?\n\nAs one cabinet minister suggested, it seems Sajid Javid's departure is \"a little bit of accident and a little bit of design\".\n\nTwo weeks ago, if the now former chancellor had been fired it might not have seemed that surprising.\n\nThere were well-known tensions between the two teams, not necessarily between the two men themselves.\n\nAnd there was plenty of briefing around that the relationship was strained between Mr Javid and the prime minister's top adviser, Dominic Cummings.\n\nThere were not profound policy clashes perhaps, but there was certainly some of the traditional friction - No 10 that wants to be able to spend, No 11 that wants to hold the cheque book tightly.\n\nBut in recent days, there had been plenty of warm noises that Mr Javid was safe in government.\n\nEven though No 10 has bold ideas for reform, they had concluded it seemed there wasn't much point ripping up the relationship at the top.\n\nWhat however they were determined to change was the atmosphere and the balance between the wider institutions - the political machine of Downing Street and the wider Treasury team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: I had no option but to resign\n\nFor a deeply motivated group inside No 10, that meant forcing changes on the chancellor as noted by the well plugged-in Conservative blogger Paul Goodman earlier this month.\n\nThe possibility of that had not gone unnoticed by the Treasury team, and I understand that Mr Javid had discussed with friends what to do in that circumstance.\n\nIf he were presented with a fait accompli, he had considered that he might have to quit.\n\nWalking in front of the cameras at Downing Street this morning therefore, he was aware of what might have been about to happen.\n\nI'm told the meeting between the two powerful men started cordially, with Mr Johnson praising Mr Javid's time in the job, before hitting him with the demand that he'd love him to stay, but without his team.\n\nWhispers suggest the chancellor (still in the job at that point) asked the prime minister for what precisely his advisers had actually done wrong, but he was short on evidence.\n\nAfter the pair went \"round in circles\", they took a break, at which point in a series of \"side meetings\" senior figures like the chief whip and Eddie Lister, another senior No 10 adviser, tried to persuade Mr Javid to stay.\n\nHe did not back down though, and then it's said in another one-on-one meeting with the PM, he tendered his resignation.\n\nMr Javid was appointed chancellor by the prime minister last July\n\nIn the coming days, the blow-by-blow accounts of what exactly happened will be the subject of spin in plenty of different directions.\n\nSajid Javid may decide to give a fuller account. But right now, his departure seems not therefore to have been a dastardly, and deliberate plan to force him out.\n\nNo 10 hoped he would go for it, but must have gamed the possibility that he might not accept, just as Mr Javid had gamed the possibility that he might be asked to choose between his job and his team.\n\nLosing a chancellor is no small event, and it wasn't what Boris Johnson set out to do. But today shows that No 10's priority was political control rather than keeping personnel they valued. When Mr Javid refused, they chose instead to see him leave.\n\nThis begs a wider question - is it stronger to share power or hoard it?\n\nBoris Johnson and his team have made the choice today to do the latter - to lose a chancellor rather than allow a rival faction offering different political advice to the next door neighbour.\n\nOf course, any prime minister is entitled to do this. And there is nothing written in scripture that says the occupant of No 11 must be forever considered a near equal competitor to the PM next door.\n\nStalwarts of the department believe it is a vital check on prime ministers who would otherwise simply splash the cash.\n\nBut one former minister, no fan of the current administration, suggested there is a very good case to be made for cutting back the political power of the Treasury, rethinking its role as a rival centre of power to No 10.\n\nAnd Javid is, by nature, unlikely to become a deliberate pain on the backbenches.\n\nMaybe then, as a minister told me tonight, the ultimate effect of this confusing cock-up will be \"benign\".\n\nBut the manner of Sajid Javid's exit may really counts - a symbol of a government that wants, if you are diplomatic, a smooth and complete focus on its agenda at the very top.\n\nPut that less kindly, a group that wants to grab control of everything it sees.\n\nFor now, it may make it easier for Boris Johnson to push through his desires. But centralising power in one building centralises risk too.\n\nIf and when things go well, credit may flow in one direction. If and when things go wrong, there may be only one target for the blame.\n• None Who is in Boris Johnson's new cabinet?", "Lyra McKee was regarded by many as a rising star in Northern Ireland media circles\n\nA 52-year-old man has been charged with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry.\n\nHe is also charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and professing to be a member of a proscribed organisation.\n\nMs McKee, who was 29, was observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate when she was shot on 18 April 2019.\n\nThe 52-year-old, from Derry, is due to appear at Londonderry Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nDet Supt Jason Murphy said a number of individuals were involved with the gunman on the night Ms McKee was killed.\n\n\"And while today is significant for the investigation the quest for the evidence to bring the gunman to justice remains active and ongoing,\" he added.\n\nMs McKee was a writer and campaigner from Belfast who had only recently moved to Derry when she was killed.\n\nShe was standing near a police 4x4 vehicle on the night of 18 April 2019 when a masked gunman fired towards officers and onlookers.\n\nRegarded by many as a rising star in Northern Ireland media circles, she had written for many publications, including Buzzfeed, Private Eye, the Atlantic and Mosaic Science.\n\nMs McKee's death caused widespread revulsion in Northern Ireland and further afield\n\nShe was named Sky News young journalist of the year in 2006 and Forbes Magazine named her as one of their 30 under 30 in media in Europe in 2016.\n\nThe Belfast woman had signed a two-book deal with the publisher Faber and Faber, with her forthcoming book The Lost Boys due out this year.\n\nAccording to those who knew her best, the gay rights advocate was someone who \"believed passionately in social and religious tolerance\".\n\nHer death caused widespread revulsion in Northern Ireland and further afield.\n\nHer funeral was attended by then prime minister Theresa May, Irish PM Leo Varadkar and Irish President Michael D Higgins at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.\n\nFr Martin Magill received a standing ovation when he asked why it took her death to unite politicians.\n\nDays later the British and Irish governments announced a new talks process aimed at restoring devolution.\n\nNorthern Ireland's political institutions were restored last month after three years of deadlock.", "A judge said Peter Turner had \"brought evil into this world\"\n\nA former monk at a Catholic boarding school who sexually abused three boys aged under 13 has been jailed for more than 20 years.\n\nPeter Turner, 80, of Redcar, admitted 14 charges including indecent assault, gross indecency and another serious sexual offence.\n\nThe offences took place at Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire, and a parish in Cumbria between 1984 and 1990.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said Turner was \"clearly a very depraved individual\".\n\nSentencing him at York Crown Court, Judge Sean Morris said: \"You have brought evil into this world when, by your calling, you should have brought hope, help and succour.\"\n\nThe court heard parents sent their children to Ampleforth to be cared for by \"men of God\" but Turner was \"a man of evil\"\n\nTurner, formerly known as Father Gregory Carroll, targeted the first boy at Ampleforth.\n\nThen after he confessed to the church authorities about sexual contact with a boy he was sent to a parish in Workington.\n\nHe went on to indecently assault a boy in the Cumbrian town and committed indecent assault and gross indecency against a third victim.\n\nThe court heard victim impact statements in which the men spoke about the impact Turner's abuse had had on their lives.\n\nHe was recalled and confined to the monastery at Ampleforth after the Nolan Report on the problem of clerical child abuse was published in 2001.\n\nTurner was previously jailed for four years in 2005 after admitting offences against 10 pupils at the school between 1979 and 1987. The sentence was later reduced by 12 months.\n\nOn Tuesday he pleaded guilty to 11 counts of indecent assault, two counts of a serious sexual assault and one count of gross indecency with a child.\n\nPauline McCullagh, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Turner committed a truly sickening breach of trust, sexually abusing young boys who innocently placed their trust in him as a monk and priest.\"\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said Turner was \"clearly a very depraved individual\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alan Bass, the doctor for England's 1966 World Cup-winning team, has died at the age of 90.\n\nThe former Harley Street consultant was seated next to manager Sir Alf Ramsey as England beat West Germany 4-2.\n\nBass was also England's doctor at the 1970 World Cup, and treated Gary Lineker's broken wrist before the striker went on to win the Golden Boot at the 1986 World Cup.\n\nThe doctor led a \"brilliant\" life, said his sister Shirley Livingstone.\n\nPreviously, Bass worked at Arsenal with former Gunners manager and England defender Billy Wright, and also helped famous film stars on set such as Sir Sean Connery.\n\n\"The England players almost treated him like a father,\" Livingstone told BBC Sport. \"He was very good at his job, and Alf had a great regard for Alan and how fit the players were.\"\n\n'Alan Ball nailed his shoes to the floor'\n\nThat bond with Ramsey - the only England manager to win a senior World Cup - was crucial in keeping some of the England players in order, Livingstone said.\n\n\"My brother had a great sense of humour, and he needed it, because they were a terrible bunch,\" she joked before telling a story about former midfielder Alan Ball.\n\n\"This wasn't at the World Cup but Alan was a real prankster. He had a leg injury and they didn't know if he was match-fit for a game against Norway, I think.\n\n\"My brother and the physios decided to check if he was match fit by getting Alan to run up the stadium steps with a sack of sand on his back.\n\n\"He was a bit peeved about this, as you can imagine, but he did it. That night, my brother put his shoes outside to be cleaned as they did in those days, on a beautiful polished wooden floor.\n\n\"Next morning, he heard a clatter and thought it was the staff bringing his shoes back but he went outside and Alan Ball had nailed them to the floor.\"\n\nTreating Lineker and looking after Jules Rimet Trophy\n\nLivingstone also described how Bass was dedicated to his profession and never became star-struck as he treated famous golf and tennis athletes.\n\nThat outlook even applied to the 1966 World Cup celebrations, where he took the chance to offer then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson his opinions on the state of the health service.\n\nThat was why he left for Canada to become a professor, she said. He also became head of Fifa's medical committee, but his benefit to England did not stop there.\n\nBass was on hand to help Lineker when he broke his wrist during a friendly in Vancouver before the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.\n\nThe level of trust between Ramsey and Bass was summed up by another tale he told about the Jules Rimet Trophy - which was then awarded to the world champions - following the success in 1966.\n\nLivingstone said: \"The team had been entertained in Dublin or Belfast, and they put the World Cup on the stands so everybody could see it but when they returned home to Heathrow, there was nobody to meet Alf.\n\n\"Alf said to Alan, who was a big chap, I'm wrapping the trophy up in newspaper and you're going to take it home with you and put it under your bed and we'll call for it tomorrow.\n\n\"I'm not sure if it's a true story, but he had the World Cup under his bed at some point.\n\n\"When he got the job, I just remember Alan wrote to my mother to tell her how proud he had been asked to be the doctor for England.\"", "Rupert Smith, one of 17 convicted offenders deported to Jamaica, says he has \"had his life taken away\".\n\nThe 32-year-old, who lived in London, was deported after being convicted in 2016 of actual bodily harm, when he plead guilty to attacking a man with a wrench.\n\nHe received a 15-month sentence. He subsequently received a deportation order in 2017.\n\nSmith arrived in the UK aged 13 and has three children in the UK, all British citizens.\n\nAll of those deported were Jamaican nationals who have been convicted of criminal offences and given prison sentences of 12 months or more.\n\nMr Smith told BBC Newsnight that he was \"serving his sentence three times over\".", "The Kuiper belt object Arrokoth is a pristine remnant of planet formation in action\n\nScientists say they have \"decisively\" overturned the prevailing theory for how planets in our Solar System formed.\n\nThe established view is that material violently crashed together to form ever larger clumps until they became worlds.\n\nNew results suggest the process was less catastrophic - with matter gently clumping together instead.\n\nThe study appears in Science journal and has been presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle.\n\nThe study's lead researcher, Dr Alan Stern, said that the discovery was of \"stupendous magnitude\".\n\nThe moment Alan Stern (L) had confirmation that New Horizons had flown by the Kuiper Belt object\n\n\"There was the prevailing theory from the late 1960s of violent collisions and a more recent emerging theory of gentle accumulation. One is dust and the other is the only one standing. This rarely happens in planetary science, but today we have settled the matter,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe claim arises from detailed study of an object in the outer reaches of the Solar System. Named Arrokoth, the object is more than six billion km from the Sun in a region called the Kuiper belt. It is a pristine remnant of planet formation in action as the Solar System emerged 4.6 billion years ago, with two bodies combining to form a larger one.\n\nScientists obtained high-resolution pictures of Arrokoth when Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft flew close to it just over a year ago. It gave scientists their first opportunity to test which of the two competing theories was correct: did the two components crash together or was there gentle contact?\n\nThe analysis by Dr Stern and his team could find no evidence of violent impact. The researchers found no stress fractures, nor was there any flattening, indicating that the objects were squashed together gently.\n\n\"This is completely decisive,\" said Dr Stern. \"In one fell swoop, the flyby of Arrokoth was able to decide between the two theories.\"\n\nThe newer gentle clumping theory was developed 15 years ago by Prof Anders Johansen\n\nHe is bullish because these so-called Kuiper belt objects have largely remained the same since the formation of the Solar System. They are, in effect, perfectly preserved fossils from this distant time.\n\nThe newer gentle clumping theory was developed 15 years ago by Prof Anders Johansen at Lund Observatory in Sweden. At the time he was a young PhD student. The idea emerged from computer simulations.\n\nAfter speaking to Dr Stern, I broke the news to Prof Johansen that his theory had been confirmed. There was a pause on the line before he replied that he \"felt great\".\n\nHe added: \"It is a special moment. I remember when I was a PhD student and feeling very nervous about these new results because they were very different to the ones before. I was worried that there was an error in my code or that I had made a calculation error.\n\n\"And then when you see these results confirmed from actual observations it is a real relief.\"\n\nAnders Johansen marks the confirmation of his theory with his daughter Laura\n\nProf Johansen commemorated the occasion with a pizza and coke with his family.\n\nEngineer Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who co-presents the BBC's Sky at Night programme, cautioned against toppling a theory based on the observation of one object, but said that Dr Stern's interpretation \"makes a lot of sense\".\n\n\"It is nice to have this evidence because the crashing together theory was a nice theory, but there were some challenges to it. Why did the objects stick together and not bounce apart. There was a lot that didn't add up.\"\n\nWhen Arrokoth was discovered six years ago, it was known only by its designation 2014 MU69. At the time of the New Horizons flyby, it had been given the informal name Ultima Thule. While that name came from a classical and medieval term for a far-off place at the borders of the known world, its use by Nazi occultists as the mythical homeland of the Aryan race caused controversy.\n\nThe official name Arrokoth is a Native American term meaning \"sky\" in the Powhatan/Algonquian language.\n• None Distant object 'like nothing seen before'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Claudia almost lost her job because of a county court judgement\n\nReceiving a county court judgement (CCJ) can have damaging consequences. So, not even knowing there is a ruling against you can come as a shock.\n\nClaudia only discovered the CCJ against her when she got her first job. \"If it hadn't been for my job I would never have known,\" says the 23-year-old.\n\nThe number of people in their 20s with court orders for unpaid debt has risen sharply in the last year, according to figures seen by Radio 4's Money Box.\n\nCourt records from the Registry Trust show that last year 160,000 were given CCJs, up 30% from the year before.\n\nZero hour contracts, payday loans, unstable jobs, mobile phone bills, subscription services and increasing rent prices are thought to be partly behind the rise, the Registry Trust says.\n\nClaudia's CCJ was for £270, for two weeks' outstanding rent when she was in student accommodation at university.\n\n\"I [had] moved out from my family home into a different home, so I never received any correspondence from the court,\" she said.\n\n\"The CCJ was filed in April 2017. I found out about it in July 2018 with my first job. It came about again with my second job in 2019.\n\n\"I didn't understand the severity until I got my latest job. It was insinuated that 'it needs to come off [be paid off]' or else I could lose my job,\" she said.\n\nClaudia disputes the £270 her ex-landlord says she owed him, and said she had faced problems applying for credit because of her CCJ.\n\nSo she sought legal advice to challenge it and it's now been resolved, an outcome she's happy with.\n\nClaudia disputes the claim against her\n\n\"I tried to change my phone contract from my parents' name to my name. That didn't work. My car broke and I tried to finance a new car in my name. That didn't work.\"\n\nMost judgements in the last year for Claudia's age group were for amounts between £100 and £500. The second largest proportion was for amounts between £500 and £1,000.\n\nA CCJ is a court order in England, Wales and Northern Ireland that can be issued to an individual if they fail to repay money they owe.\n\nIt's an action creditors can take as part of the debt collection process. If the debt is not paid, the CCJ can be filed on an individual's credit report and remain on it for six years.\n\nThat can lead to problems getting things like a mortgage, credit card, a lease on a rental property and a mobile phone contract.\n\nThe file can be removed from a credit report if the debt is paid within one month of receiving the judgement. If it's settled later, it remains on an individual's credit report with a note marking that it's been paid.\n\nIn Scotland, county court judgements are called decrees. Like CCJs, they can remain on a credit file for six years.\n\nThe Registry Trust, a not-for-profit group which manages court records on behalf of the Ministry of Justice, said the rise in CCJs for low amounts can be explained by banks and phone companies selling off smaller debts to specialist debt collection agencies.\n\n\"We've seen a massive rise in the number of judgements but a fall in the average value of judgements, which means that more and more creditors are using the courts to recover smaller debts,\" said Mick McAteer, chairman of the Registry Trust.\n\nHe said that for some people, they only find out there is a CCJ on their credit record when they apply for a loan.\n\n\"Younger people tend to move house more often than their older counterparts, so they might miss letters about CCJs,\" he said. \"However, the purpose of a CCJ is to get someone to pay the money they owe.\"\n\nSir Bob Neill, chairman of the House of Commons Justice Committee, said the rise is \"very troubling and it's part of an underlying problem of a lack of financial education that we have\".\n\nHe added that the next stage after a CCJ is when bailiffs are used to enforce a payment. But by then, he added, \"a lot of the harm of the CCJ has already been done to people's credit rating\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice, which is responsible for the Courts and Tribunals service which issues CCJs, said it \"doesn't routinely comment on rises in statistics\".\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.", "Leila Nathoo looks back at the day in politics, as the PM's reshuffle went further than even he perhaps expected.", "Millions of tonnes of water will now be reintroduced to the system\n\nEngineers working to restore the water supply to thousands of homes and businesses in Cumbria after Storm Ciara have finished repairing a mains pipe.\n\nA major incident was declared after the damaged pipe near Kendal threatened supplies to about 8,000 properties.\n\nAppleby, Shap, Orton, Low Braithwaite, Threlkeld and Glenridding are among the areas to have been affected.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was slowly putting water back into supply across the network.\n\nBut the firm said it would take \"some time\" to put 90 million litres of water into the system as this needed to be done \"gradually\" to avoid the risk of the pipe bursting.\n\nFree bottled water will continue to be made available for anyone affected \"for the next few days until we are confident everything is back to normal\".\n\nUnited Utilities said free bottled water will continue to be available\n\nEarlier, United Utilities warned repair efforts were being hampered by severe weather conditions and said it could be Thursday or Friday before work on the main was completed.\n\nDr Martin Padley said that even after the pipe was fixed \"it will take time to refill what is a huge system\".\n\nSchools, GP practices and businesses have been forced to close due to problems with their water supply.\n\nExtra equipment and tankers from the Midlands and Scotland has been brought in.\n\nFree bottled water is available for those affected at:\n\nUnited Utilities has issued a telephone number for those who are elderly, vulnerable or sick who are unable to get their own bottled water - it is 0345 672 3723.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock narrowly missed out on another stunning victory, drawing 6-6 with Glen Durrant on her Premier League debut appearance in Nottingham.\n\nTwo months after becoming the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship, she was on course to beat the three-time BDO world champion.\n\nShe broke in the seventh leg of the match and had the advantage of throw in the final leg, leading 6-5.\n\nBut Durrant took out a 70 checkout in the final leg to claim a point.\n• None Sherrock 'still in disbelief' at Premier League chance\n\nSherrock, 25, was granted the opportunity to appear as a Premier League \"challenger\" after reaching the last 32 at the Alexandra Palace in December.\n\nNone of the previous 10 \"challengers\" had won their games and Sherrock fell just short of more darting history.\n\nShe told Sky Sports: \"I've loved every minute. I'm so happy to have played again on the big stage. I'm speechless and I'd like to thank everyone here supporting me.\n\n\"Opportunities are opening up for me all the time and I can't wait to see what the rest of 2020 holds for me.\"\n\nDurrant added: \"The crowd were fantastic, it was a really big challenge and all credit to Fallon.\n\n\"She's had the most amazing couple of months. That's the most difficult match I've ever had.\"\n\nA group of nine \"challengers\" play one match each against a player in the main field in the first phase of the Premier League and, while they do not collect league points, they can earn prize money depending on their result.\n\nThe format was introduced in 2019 after Gary Anderson pulled out of the event at short notice with a back injury, and has been continued into the 2020 tournament.\n\nDefending champion Michael van Gerwen is the only player with a 100% winning record after two rounds of fixtures, following a crushing 7-1 win over Daryl Gurney.\n\nFormer PDC world champion Rob Cross was the only other winner on Thursday, defeating in-form Nathan Aspinall 7-5.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rayan was deported to Jamaica after being convicted for burglary\n\nAmid controversy and protests, 17 convicted offenders - many of them living in the UK since childhood - were deported to Jamaica. BBC Newsnight has been following their stories.\n\n\"If somebody commits a crime and they went to prison for it, and they've been rehabilitated, why would you punish them again by deporting them to Jamaica?\" says Rayan Crawford.\n\nMr Crawford had not set foot in Jamaica since he was 12 years old, he says. Now 34, he is living there at the house of his sister Yanique after being deported from the UK.\n\nBack home in Bow, east London, he has a partner of 14 years, Jana, as well as two boys aged three and 12.\n\nHe served 12 months in prison after he was convicted of burglary in 2017. Then, on 27 January, 10 officials detained him at his home.\n\nHe and 16 others were flown out of the UK on Monday, designated as \"serious foreign national offenders\" by the government.\n\nThe Home Office said those detained included people convicted of manslaughter and rape, and all of them had their cases \"fully reviewed\" to ensure there were no legal barriers to their removal.\n\nIt said Mr Crawford was convicted 10 times for a total of 22 offences, including the burglary.\n\n\"We make no apology whatsoever for seeking to remove dangerous foreign criminals,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBut Mr Crawford says his deportation did not make anyone safer. \"I regret what I've done, but I don't think I'm a danger to the public,\" he says.\n\n\"Where am I going to go from here?\" says Mr Crawford, back in Jamaica for the first time in 22 years\n\nMPs and campaigners said the government was risking another Windrush scandal, in which the children of Commonwealth citizens were threatened with deportation despite living in the UK for decades.\n\nA leaked report into the scandal, revealed by Newsnight last week, recommended that the UK stop deporting people who had arrived in the UK as children or reserve deportation for the most serious cases.\n\nUnder both of these tests it would be unlikely that Rayan Crawford would be eligible for deportation.\n\nMr Crawford says he voted for Boris Johnson and thought he was going to be a good prime minister, but believes the law around deportation needs to be re-examined.\n\n\"I feel British,\" he says. \"I've been there from a child. I went to school there, I went to college there. I spent my whole life there.\"\n\nHis belongings are still in the UK, he adds, with a plastic bag containing two pairs of jeans being all he could bring with him.\n\nMr Crawford, who has inflammatory arthritis and the bone disorder Blount's disease, says he was also made to leave without his medication.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rupert Smith, one of 17 convicted offenders deported to Jamaica says he has \"had his life taken away\"\n\nHe says officials told him if he did not have the medication for his arthritis with him when he was detained, they could not give it to him.\n\n\"I thought I was going to have a heart attack, I was panicking so much I started getting pain in my chest. Even on the plane I was crying. My back was killing me so much I was crying.\"\n\nThe Home Office said individuals were assessed to establish they were medically fit to fly.\n\nIt said they travelled on the removal flights with their medical notes and those with pre-existing conditions were brought to the attention of accompanying medical staff.\n\nMr Crawford believes the medication he needs is not available in Jamaica. He adds that he had been told in detention he could not access the medication without doctors' reports.\n\nNow he does not know what the future holds.\n\n\"There's nothing around here to do. There's no work to do or anything. Even finding somewhere to stay - I don't know how long I can stay here. Where am I going to go from here?\"", "Food giant Unilever has vowed to stop marketing its products to children in order to tackle rising obesity rates.\n\nThe firm, which owns brands such as Twister ice cream and Popsicle ice lollies, said it would limit the use of cartoon characters in its advertising.\n\nIt also promised to stop using social media stars or celebrities \"who primarily appeal\" to children under 12.\n\nAds for Unilever ice creams have been pulled in the past over complaints they marketed unhealthy food to children.\n\nThe new rules will apply to all of the firm's products by the end of 2020, kicking off with its Wall's ice cream brands.\n\nWall's will also launch a range of \"responsibly made\" products for children that contain \"no more than 110 calories and a maximum of 12g of sugar per portion\".\n\n\"Our promise is a genuine commitment to make and market products to children responsibly,\" said Matt Close, executive vice president of the firm's global ice cream business.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Unilever This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2016, 18% of children and adolescents - more than 340 million people aged 5 to 19 - were overweight globally - up from 4% in 1975, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nIt says there is \"unequivocal evidence\" that the marketing of unhealthy foods is related to the problem and recommends that governments limit the reach of such advertising.\n\nThe UK, Chile, Mexico and Ireland have all implemented stricter rules for children's advertising over the last decade.\n\nHowever, the problem persists. In 2018 Cadbury, Chewits and Squashies sweets became the first companies to have online adverts banned under new rules targeting junk food ads for children in the UK.\n\nAnd in 2016, a Unilever ad for the ice cream Paddle Pop - known in the UK as Twister - was pulled in Australia over complaints it encouraged young children to eat unhealthy foods.\n\nUnilever, whose portfolio includes more than 400 brands, generally has a reputation for leading the business world on issues such as sustainability. It also has had a policy for \"responsible\" marketing to children since 2003.\n\nUnder the new rules, it said it planned \"strict controls\" on the placement of ads in movies and would not appeal to children under age 12 on traditional media or 13 on social media.\n\nIt has previously pledged to make adverts less sexist and threatened to pull ads from Facebook and YouTube if they do not do enough to police their content.", "Energy bills are to fall for millions of British households this April after the regulator lowered price caps.\n\nOfgem has reduced the default price cap and pre-payment meter cap by £17, which the regulator said would lower bills for about 15 million households.\n\nThe cap was introduced to protect customers on poor value default or standard variable tariffs.\n\nOfgem chief executive Jonathan Brearley said households could get even lower bills by switching suppliers.\n\nThe default price cap, which protects about 11 million households, is set to fall from £1,179 to £1,162 for the April-September period.\n\nThe pre-payment meter cap, which protects a further 4 million households, will fall from £1,217 to £1,200 per year for the same six months.\n\nWholesale gas and electricity prices are currently at their lowest levels for about 10 years, and there had been speculation that Ofgem would make deeper cuts, of between £20-£60.\n\nOfgem said in its statement that \"a strong supply of gas, such as record amounts of liquefied natural gas and healthy gas stock inventories, has been the main factor pushing down wholesale prices\".\n\nMr Brearley said the default price cap was designed to \"protect consumers who do not switch from overpaying for their energy, whilst encouraging competition in the retail market\".\n\n\"Suppliers have been required to become more efficient and pass on savings to consumers. In its first year, the cap is estimated to have saved consumers £1bn on average on their energy bills and switching rates have hit record levels.\n\n\"Households can reduce their energy bills further by shopping around for a better deal,\" he added.\n\nAll those who usually get a bashing for high energy bills - company bosses, their regulator, ministers as well - are now hostages to this six monthly resetting of the price cap.\n\nIf it goes up they cower in their bunkers from the criticism. If it goes down they can step gingerly into the light and gain some respite.\n\nThis time they can claim not only that the cap has kept prices lower than they would otherwise be, but also that more customers are switching and that there is a bigger choice of cheaper deals than ever.\n\nBut complacency can be dangerous. There are still millions who haven't bothered to scour the market for the best offer.\n\nIf the cap is raised in future, they will be sitting ducks.\n\nOfgem has to consider over the summer whether the system is really working for them.\n\nThen the government needs to decide not just if the price cap should continue next year, but also whether more action is needed to get people onto the lowest rates.\n\nEarlier this week, data from consumer group Which? suggested that the number of energy deals priced at under £1,000 a year had surged over the past 12 months.\n\nWhich? looked at the availability of cheaper energy tariffs priced under £1,000 a year for a medium user. It found 78 deals available, compared with just 12 when the energy price cap was first introduced on 1 January 2019.\n\nOfgem, which reviews the price cap every six months, also said it would carry out a review this summer on whether the market conditions exist for the default price cap to be lifted or be extended past the current year.\n\nThe regulator has faced intense scrutiny from MPs and pressure groups to control price increases amid complaints that suppliers had been been overcharging for electricity and gas.\n\nThe UK's energy market is dominated by big six suppliers - Centrica's British Gas, new entrant Ovo Energy that has taken over SSE's retail arm, Iberdrola's Scottish Power, Innogy's Npower, E.On and EDF Energy.", "Households struggling with energy bills may get help from a government review of clean technology funding.\n\nAt the moment, an annual levy is imposed on gas and electricity bills to fund renewables such as offshore wind.\n\nThe burden falls disproportionately on the poorest in society, and it will get worse as the UK expands clean energy to tackle climate change.\n\nThe BBC has been told the government may shift the cost onto tax payers to avoid anger at climate policies.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are definitely considering the way that costs are distributed.\"\n\nCurrently about £10bn a year is being invested to support clean technology. Consumers pay about £5.5bn of that total through a levy on bills, which is about £186 of a typical energy bill.\n\nThey added: “The Treasury is looking at the costs of transition to net zero emissions by 2050.\n\n\"This will include how costs may be distributed across different groups to create a fair balance of contributions.”\n\nCentrica, which owns British Gas, estimates that more than £20bn a year will be needed over a decade to fund the transition to a zero-carbon economy.\n\nCentrica chief executive Iain Conn told the BBC: “The big question is, ‘who pays for this and how do they pay it?’.\n\n“The people who can least afford energy as part of their outgoings are paying just the same (as the rich), which means as a percentage they are being hit harder.\n\n“Before the costs get much higher I would advocate that the government needs to move the funding to income tax, which would mean a typical low income worker would save £100 a year. This would mean something like 2p in the pound on income tax.”\n\nMr Conn said another option for a government wanting to avoid increasing taxes would be to means-test households - but this would be complicated.\n\nHe said for average income households, shifting the emphasis from bill payers to tax payers would not make a great difference in overall annual costs.\n\nMr Conn continued: “In private a number of politicians do admit that the current system of paying is regressive. If one is thinking about who pays for things, it’s the right thing to be addressed.”\n\nHe is meeting the chancellor to talk through his proposal, but the BBC has been told that the idea is already being discussed as part of a Treasury review of climate and energy policy.\n\nThe government already has a package of measures to protect vulnerable energy consumers.\n\nThis includes the warm home discount that reduces the bills of vulnerable customers by £140, and the energy company obligation, which is focused on making fuel-poor households more efficient.\n\nIts critics say it needs to be much more ambitious, with a national home insulation project to keep down bills and cut emissions.\n\nThese are the sort of issues that will be discussed by the UK Climate Assembly meeting in Birmingham this weekend.", "The device was uncovered attached to a lorry in Lurgan on Monday\n\nPolice believe the Continuity IRA (CIRA) was responsible for a bomb found attached to a lorry in County Armagh on Tuesday morning.\n\nIt is thought the device may have been intended for a Brexit day attack.\n\nPolice said they first received a report about an explosive device in a lorry at Belfast docks on 31 January - the date the UK left the EU.\n\nIn a call to a media outlet, it was claimed the lorry was due to travel by ferry to Scotland.\n\nA search was conducted but nothing was found.\n\nIt is understood the lorry did not leave the industrial estate between the times of the two calls\n\nOn Monday, a more detailed report helped locate the device at Silverwood Industrial Estate in Lurgan.\n\nPolice have not yet given an indication of the size of the bomb, but it is understood the lorry did not leave the industrial estate between the times of the two calls.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable George Clarke said the initial report claimed the lorry would travel \"on the midnight ferry\", and added that no such ferry crossing exists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said they worked with a haulage company, who own the lorry, to search about 400 vehicles and locate the explosive device.\n\nIt was made safe by ammunition technical officer (ATO).\n\nDet Supt Sean Wright said the \"only conclusion that we can draw is that once again dissident republicans have shown a total disregard for the community, for businesses and for wider society\".\n\nPolice search the area around Silverwood Industrial Estate in Lurgan\n\nHe added that \"had this vehicle travelled and the device had exploded at any point along the M1, across the Westlink or into the Harbour estate the risks posed do not bear thinking about\".\n\nDet Supt Wright appealed for information, in particular from anyone who noticed any suspicious activity at Silverwood Industrial Estate between 16:00 and 22:00 on 31 January.\n\nSeamus Leheny, from the Freight Transport Association, called the attack \"reckless\".\n\n\"If it was viable, it could have put the driver of the lorry and their colleagues, road users and anyone in the vicinity of the lorry in serious danger. The consequences could have been catastrophic.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable George Clarke said the initial report claimed the lorry would travel on a ferry to Scotland", "Ms Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nShamima Begum has lost the first stage of her appeal against the government's decision to remove her UK citizenship.\n\nMs Begum, now 20, left London in 2015, aged 15, to join Islamic State. She was found in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.\n\nFormer Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped her of her UK citizenship later that month.\n\nA tribunal ruled that Ms Begum could be stripped of her nationality because she had not been left stateless.\n\nThe Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), a semi-secret court which hears national security cases, said she could instead turn to Bangladesh for citizenship.\n\nUnder international law, it is illegal to deprive nationals of citizenship if to do so would leave them stateless.\n\nRejecting the 20-year-old's case that she had been left stateless, the Commission concluded that Ms Begum was \"a citizen of Bangladesh by descent\".\n\nMs Begum is understood to have a claim to Bangladeshi nationality through her mother.\n\nHowever, in February 2019, Bangladesh's ministry of foreign affairs said Ms Begum was not a Bangladeshi citizen and there was \"no question\" of her being allowed into the country.\n\nMs Begum's lawyer, Daniel Furner, said his client would \"immediately initiate an appeal\" against the decision \"as a matter of exceptional urgency\".\n\nHe added that the dangers Ms Begum faced had now increased and \"her chance of survival [was] even more precariously balanced than before\".\n\nAt present, she remains in Camp Roj, a refugee camp in northern Syria. The commission also ruled that Mr Javid had not exposed Ms Begum to human rights abuses by leaving her in the camp.\n\nJudge Doron Blum, announcing the decision of the tribunal, said that although there were concerns about how Ms Begum - in Syria - could take part in the proceedings in London, those difficulties did not mean the home secretary's decision should be overturned.\n\n\"[Ms Begum] left the UK apparently of her own free will some years before the decision - and she was not outside the UK as a result of the decision.\"\n\nThe Home Office welcomed the ruling, adding that \"it would be inappropriate to comment further whilst legal proceedings are ongoing\".\n\nThe case will now move on to consider whether the government had legitimate national security grounds to bar Ms Begum from coming back to the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum's lawyers say she professed sympathy for IS to protect herself and her son (Video from February 2019)\n\nAt a hearing in October last year, Ms Begum's lawyers said she had only professed sympathy for the Islamic State group in media interviews to protect herself and her newborn son, who later died in the refugee camp.\n\nMs Begum left Bethnal Green, in east London, for Syria in February 2015, with two school friends.\n\nWithin days she had crossed the Turkish border and eventually reached the IS headquarters at Raqqa, where she married a Dutch convert recruit. They had three children - all of whom have since died.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sydney, who cares for her disabled mother, says the current system isn't working for her\n\nNearly half the 14 million people living in poverty in the UK are disabled or live with someone who is, research for a charity suggests.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation blames the high cost of coping with disability and the struggles disabled people face in finding jobs that pay enough.\n\nExecutive director Claire Ainsley said their plight was \"fundamentally wrong\".\n\nThe government says it is committed to tackling poverty, spending £55bn this year on benefits for disabled people.\n\nIn its annual state-of-the-nation report, to be published on Friday, the charity urges:\n\nThe correlation between disability and poverty is not new but the charity's analysis demonstrates how closely connected the two are across the UK.\n\nThe charity says \"shamefully high numbers\" of disabled people are being pulled into poverty and the social security system is failing to protect them.\n\n\"The fact that disability continues to be an indicator of poverty shows the economy is not working for everyone,\" Ms Ainsley said.\n\nThe researchers found that, compared with the rest of the population, people with disabilities:\n\nAnd of almost 4.5 million informal adult carers in the UK, almost a quarter were living in poverty, with working-age female carers particularly at risk.\n\nSingle mum-of-three Jennifer Hobbs cares for both her 12-year-old son, Nathan, who has a neurodevelopmental disorder, and her elder son, Stanley, 15, who has heart problems.\n\nIt is so time-consuming that she has had to give up her cleaning job and now relies on food banks.\n\n\"It really does infuriate me,\" Jennifer, from Bristol, told the BBC.\n\n\"There should be more help out there for families with disabled people - not just disabled children, disabled people, because people forget disabled children turn into disabled adults.\n\n\"I think to myself, what's going to happen to my son when my son gets older if he can't work because of his disabilities.\n\n\"He might get penalised and end up on the dole or on disability benefits for the rest of his life.\n\n\"I don't want him to have to resort to food banks, like I do.\"\n\nJen Hobbs from Bristol cares for her two disabled sons\n\nImran Hussain, Action for Children's policy and campaigns director, said austerity and problems with universal credit left too many families like Jennifer's \"fighting to keep their heads above water\" and called their predicament \"frankly appalling\".\n\nDisability benefits are supposed to help people cope with the extra costs related to their conditions but research by disability equality charity Scope has shown they fall short.\n\nHouseholds with disabled members are also much more likely to claim other income-related benefits, which have been frozen for the past four years while prices have risen, says Scope.\n\nJames Taylor, its head of policy and campaigns, said the findings were shocking, but not surprising.\n\n\"Life costs much more for disabled people - on average £583 a month.\n\n\"At the same time, huge numbers of disabled people are denied the opportunity to get into and stay in work.\"\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said it wanted one million more disabled people to be in work by 2027 compared with 2017 and recently consulted on how businesses could best support disabled people to thrive in work.\n\nIt also plans to introduce a national strategy for disabled people.", "\"Climate chaos\" has caused widespread losses of bumblebees across continents, according to scientists.\n\nA new analysis shows the likelihood of a bee being found in any given place in Europe and North America has declined by a third since the 1970s.\n\nClimbing temperatures will increasingly cause declines, which are already more severe than previously thought, said researchers.\n\nBumblebees are key pollinators of many fruits, vegetables and wild plants.\n\nWithout them, some crops could fail, reducing food for humans and countless other species.\n\nDr Tim Newbold of University College London (UCL) said there had been some previous research showing that bumblebee distributions are moving northwards in Europe and North America, \"as you'd expect with climate change\".\n\nHe added: \"But this was the first time that we have been able to really tie local extinctions and colonisations of bumble bees to climate change, showing a really clear fingerprint of climate change in the declines that we've seen.\"\n\nBumblebee declines are already more severe than previously thought, said lead researcher Peter Soroye of the University of Ottawa in Canada. \"We've linked this to climate change - and more specifically to the extreme temperatures and the climate chaos that climate change is producing,\" he said.\n\nBumblebees are among the most important plant pollinators. Declines in range and abundance have been documented from a range of causes, including pesticides, disease and habitat loss.\n\nIn the new study, researchers looked at more than half a million records of 66 bumblebee species from 1901 to 1974 and from 2000 to 2014.\n\nThey found bumblebee populations declined rapidly between 2000-2014: the likelihood of a site being occupied by bumblebees dropped by an average of over 30% compared with 1901-1974.\n\nBees have been hardest hit in southern regions such as Spain and Mexico due to more frequent extreme warm years. And, while populations have expanded into cooler northern regions, this has not been enough to compensate for the losses.\n\nJonathan Bridle and Alexandra van Rensburg of the University of Bristol described the findings as \"alarming\". Commenting in the journal Science, they said: \"The new study adds to a growing body of evidence for alarming, widespread losses of biodiversity and for rates of global change that now exceed the critical limits of ecosystem resilience.\"\n\nThere are around 250 species of bumblebee in the world. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), declines have been documented in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia, caused by a variety of threats that range from habitat loss and degradation to diseases and pesticide use.", "A shortage of contraception is causing chaos and risks unplanned pregnancies and abortions, doctors are warning.\n\nLeading sexual health experts have written to ministers warning that the supply shortage is beginning to lead to serious problems across the UK.\n\nA number of daily pills and a long-acting injectable contraceptive are thought to be affected.\n\nThe problem follows a shortage of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women last year.\n\nBut there are signs that those supply difficulties might soon start to be resolved as a key ingredient is now being manufactured again.\n\nIt is currently unclear what has caused the contraception shortages.\n\nDrug firm Pfizer first reported supply problems with Sayana Press, which provides three months' protection and can be self-administered by women, last year.\n\nIt is the only self-injectable contraceptive on the market and is also used to help women control period-related problems, such as heavy bleeding.\n\nThe Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare said there were also now shortages of a number of daily pills, including Noriday, Norimin and Synphase.\n\nNikki Heresford, 34, from Lancashire, had been using Sayana Press to control her periods.\n\nShe liked the fact she could administer the injection herself as it meant she did not have to take time off work to make regular trips to the doctor's.\n\nBut when she ran out of her supply last autumn she did not find out there were supply issues until she went to her local pharmacy to pick up her next prescription.\n\nShe said it left her \"upset\" because she had no choice but to start using another injectable contraceptive.\n\nShe managed to get a last-minute appointment at her GP surgery to have the injection that time.\n\nBut this week when she needed another one, she could not get an appointment for five weeks so was forced to travel to an evening clinic at a community health centre.\n\n\"It's obviously inconvenient as I have to drag my five-year-old to the next town when he should be in bed.\"\n\nIt is unclear how many women use these types of contraception - overall around three million women take daily pills, and more than 500,000 use long-acting contraception, such as coils, implants and injections.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs said its members were doing their best to help women find alternatives - there are many different types of daily pill available.\n\nFaculty president Dr Asha Kasliwal said; \"We are aware that women are sent away with prescriptions for unavailable products and end up lost in a system. This is causing utter chaos.\"\n\nThe faculty has teamed up with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the British Menopause Society to write to ministers, asking them to set up a working group to address the problems.\n\nThe letter warns women are becoming distressed by having to find alternative products that might not necessarily suit them or go without contraception altogether.\n\nIt said this was affecting the \"physical and mental wellbeing of girls and women\" and could lead to a \"rise in unplanned pregnancies and abortions\".\n\nThe government in England said it was working with manufacturers to resolve the problems and expected the shortages to ease soon.", "The Philharmonic in Liverpool was built between 1898 and 1900\n\nAn opulent pub once praised by Bill Bryson for its ornate toilets has been given the same listed status as Buckingham Palace and Chatsworth House.\n\nThe Philharmonic Dining Rooms in Liverpool is the first purpose-built Victorian pub in England to be given Grade I status, Historic England said.\n\nTen other pubs have also had their status updated to include details of their interiors.\n\nThey include four of eight in the country known to have no actual bar.\n\nThe Philharmonic in Liverpool is known for its ornate interior\n\nHistoric England said the Philharmonic as regarded as a \"cathedral among pubs\" for its grandeur, and was \"one of the most spectacular pubs to be completed in the golden age of pub building\" at the end of the 19th Century.\n\nIt was constructed between 1898 and 1900 by architect Walter W Thomas and was Grade II* listed in 1966.\n\nBill Bryson wrote about it in his 1995 book Notes From A Small Island saying: \"There is no place in the world finer for a pee than the ornate gents' room of the Philharmonic.\"\n\nFormer Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney played a surprise show at the pub in 2018 while he was recording an episode of Carpool Karaoke with James Corden.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt now joins the 2.5% of protected historic buildings to have the highest grade, a list that also includes Liverpool's Anglican cathedral as well as Buckingham Palace and Chatsworth.\n\nTwo other Liverpool pubs have also been reassessed to have details of their interiors included in their listed status description.\n\nThe Grade II* Vines on Lime Street was built in 1907 and retains original Edwardian features including a large stained glass dome and \"a number of striking fireplaces\", while Grade II Peter Kavanagh's on Egerton Street has carved corbels (wall brackets) thought to be caricatures of the pub's regulars and original tables featuring spilt drink channels and in-built ash trays.\n\nThe Philharmonic has ornate gates and toilets\n\nThe Vines has had its status updated to include its interiors\n\nElsewhere in the country, the Grade II Blue Ship, in Billingshurst in West Sussex, was built as a cottage in the 16th Century and converted into a pub in the 1850s.\n\nIt is one of only eight pubs known to have no bar counter and its updated listing includes its \"rare\" tap room \"servery\" arrangement.\n\nThe Blue Ship is one of eight pubs known to not have a bar counter with drinks instead served from a hatch\n\nOther pubs without a bar to have their status updated include the Grade II Square and Compass in Worth Matravers, Dorset, and the Rose and Crown in Huish Episcopi and Tucker's Grave Inn in Radstock, both Somerset.\n\nThe Rose and Crown dates from around 1800\n\nTwo Grade II pubs in London to have their status updated include the Hand and Shears in Middle Street, Smithfield, which retains original features and the Coach and Horses on Greek Street, Soho, which was famous for being the haunt of celebrated names such as Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Peter O'Toole and John Hurt, and as a meeting place for The Spectator and Private Eye magazines.\n\nThe Coach and Horses has been a favourite of famous faces from the arts and theatre world\n\nThe Grade II* Haunch of Venison in the centre of Salisbury, Wiltshire, began as a church house in the 1400s before becoming a public house.\n\nIt retains many of the features installed in a 1909 refurbishment including divided drinking spaces and a small ladies snug.\n\nThe Haunch of Venison dates from the 15th Century\n\nThe Grade II Red Lion in Rugeley, Staffordshire, is one of the last surviving 17th Century buildings on what was once a busy commercial street and retains an unusual salt safe and inter-war interior including panelling and fireplaces.\n\nThe Red Lion began as a house in the 1600s\n\nDuncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said: \"English pubs are some of our best-loved community buildings and are often threatened with closure so we are delighted to see 11 historic pubs receiving further protection.\"\n\nThe listings have been made by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.\n\nPeter Kavanagh's in Liverpool is named after its landlord and designer\n\nThe list of pubs was proposed by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) Pub Heritage Group, part of an ongoing collaboration between Historic England and Camra to protect historic pubs and their interiors.\n\nPaul Ainsworth, chairman of the heritage group, said: \"So few of England's 40,500 pubs retain interiors which have not suffered major alterations over the years.\n\n\"Camra has identified 280 pubs whose interiors it considers to be of national historic importance, and we feel it is vital for these precious survivors to be preserved for future generations to enjoy.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Carl is a survivor of domestic violence who writes about the beatings he suffered at the hands of his father when he was a child.\n\nHe is now an advocate for Operation Encompass, a charity that supports children at schools affected by domestic abuse.\n\nNow specialists can treat children who have experienced abuse, but these services are in short supply.\n\nIt's estimated that one in six children witness or experience some form of domestic abuse or violence.\n\nIf you're affected by any issues in this video, there is information and support at www.bbc.co.uk/actionline", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage shows the final moments before Fahad Mohamed Nur was attacked\n\nThree men who \"hunted down\" and stabbed a teenager to death have been jailed.\n\nFahad Mohamed Nur, 18, was found with 21 knife wounds near Cathays railway station in Cardiff last June.\n\nShafique Shaddad, 25, from Butetown, and brothers Mustafa Aldobhani, 22, and Abdulgalil Aldobhani, 23, from Cathays, were found guilty of murder by a jury.\n\nAll three were jailed for life. Shaddad was given a minimum term of 23 years, Mustafa Aldobhaini 22-and-a-half years and Abdulgalil Aldobhani 24 years.\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Hilliard said it was \"plain that Fahad Nur was involved in supplying drugs on the street\".\n\nHe said there were \"tensions between rival drug-dealers\" and this dispute was \"most likely behind what's happened\".\n\n\"It was their intention to trap him in the lane... this was a very tight-knit, joint-enterprise - everyone was playing an important part for the common purpose,\" he told Cardiff Crown Court.\n\n\"I'm sure that he [Fahad] was not the aggressor - I'm sure they decided to attack Fahad Nur. This is not a case of spontaneous violence - it was pre-meditated.\"\n\nFahad Mohamed Nur had 21 knife wounds, including a fatal injury through the heart\n\nThe judge praised passerby Ethan Moore, who intervened when Mr Nur was being kicked on the ground.\n\nHe said Mr Moore should be commended for his courage and public spiritedness, awarding him £400 from public funds.\n\nProsecutors described the three men trying to \"hunt down\" Mr Nur after spotting him riding a bike.\n\nShortly after midnight on 2 June, the three men chased the teenager to a lane behind a Cardiff University building.\n\n(L-R) Abdulgalil Aldobhani, Mustafa Aldobhani and Shafique Shaddad were sentenced to life in prison\n\nHe was attacked and left in the street with multiple stab wounds, including a fatal knife wound to the heart.\n\nMr Nur later died at the University Hospital of Wales.\n\nHe had almost £1,000 in cash and a large quantity of Class A drugs on him when he was killed.\n\nOne defence barrister described Mr Nur as \"a drug dealer on active duty\" on the night he was stabbed.\n\nTwo weeks after the attack, a meat cleaver and a kitchen knife were found hidden in the hollow of a tree\n\nA victim impact statement from Mr Nur's sister, which was read to the court on Tuesday, said: \"He was ambushed and stabbed to death in such a cowardly and vicious attack when he was clearly running away.\n\n\"He was a young educated boy who had ambitions and dreams. He was loved by so many people. It was a senseless and horrific act of evil.\"\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, senior investigating officer Det Ch Insp Mark O'Shea said the case \"highlights the devastating and far-reaching consequences of knife crime\".\n\nA fourth defendant, Aseel Arar, 35, from Middle Park Road, Birmingham, was found guilty of assisting an offender. She will be sentenced later this month.\n\nThe three killers all denied murder but were found guilty at Cardiff Crown Court after more than 27 hours of deliberating by the jury.", "East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust alerted police over the alleged assault of a man in December\n\nSeveral hospital staff have been suspended and a police investigation is under way into the alleged assault of a patient.\n\nBoth East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust and Kent Police are probing the alleged assault on 15 December at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.\n\nThe trust also runs the QEQM Hospital in Margate which has been criticised over a seven-day-old baby's death.\n\nThe trust said it had alerted police over the alleged assault of a man in December.\n\nA spokesman said it began an \"investigation into an incident involving the care of a patient\" following a concern raised by a member of staff.\n\n\"We are treating this incident with the utmost seriousness and reported it to the police,\" he added.\n\n\"We also reported it to our regulators and are keeping the patient's family informed of our investigation.\n\n\"We suspended a number of staff in order to facilitate the investigation which is currently ongoing.\"\n\nKent Police said it was investigating \"an alleged assault of a man which is reported to have taken place at William Harvey Hospital\".\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Warner Music Group, home to a host of stars including Ed Sheeran and Katy Perry, plans to sell shares in the US.\n\nBillionaire Sir Len Blavatnik bought the company for $3.3bn (£2.5bn) in 2011, when the industry was in the depths of a multi-year slump.\n\nHe looks set for a major windfall as music sales have jumped in recent years.\n\nThe growth in demand has been helped by the rapid rise of paid streaming services such as Spotify and Apple.\n\nThis has boosted the value of music companies, attracting more investors back to the record industry.\n\nWarner Music has filed notice of its plans to float with regulators, but has not said when it could list on the stock market nor how much of the company might be sold.\n\nIt has been estimated that Warner Music could now be worth around $6bn, roughly double what it sold for less than a decade ago.\n\nLast year, rival Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, was valued at more than $33bn after media group Vivendi sold a minority share of it to a group led by China's Tencent.\n\nIn contrast to other recent high-profile stock market listings, Warner Music is profitable, reporting net income last year of $256m.\n\nWarner Music includes some of the world's biggest record labels including Warner, Atlantic, Elektra, and Parlophone. Across its roster of labels, the company also counts Bruno Mars, Dua Lipa, and Cardi B amongst its artists.\n\nThe firm also owns Warner Chappell, one of the world's largest music publishers, which has more than 1.4m copyrights. While recorded music makes up the vast majority of Warner Music's income, publishing is a more profitable and stable business.\n\nUkraine-born Mr Blavatnik now has joint UK-US citizenship and received a knighthood in 2017 for services to philanthropy.\n\nHe sold a stake in Russian oil company TNK-BP for $7bn in 2013, and he now has a net worth of more than $25bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.", "The United States has killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), President Donald Trump said.\n\nQasim al-Raymi, who has led the jihadist group since 2015, was killed in a US operation in Yemen, the White House said.\n\nThe jihadist leader had been linked to a series of attacks on Western interests in the 2000s.\n\nHe took over the leadership after his predecessor was killed by a US drone strike.\n\nAQAP was formed in 2009 from two regional offshoots of Al-Qaeda in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, with the goal of toppling US-backed governments and eliminating all Western influence in the region.\n\nRumours of Raymi's death began circulating in late January. In response, AQAP released an audio message with Raymi's voice on 2 February in which he said AQAP was behind a deadly shooting at a US naval base in Pensacola, Florida.\n\nThe shooting took place in December, and the message may have been recorded earlier.\n\nThe statement from the White House confirmed Raymi's death but it did not say when he was killed.\n\n\"His death further degrades AQAP and the global al-Qaeda movement, and it brings us closer to eliminating the threats these groups pose to our national security,\" the statement read.\n\nYemeni fighters loyal to the government close in on a suspected location of AQAP in 2018\n\n\"The United States, our interests, and our allies are safer as a result of his death.\"\n\nRaymi was a trainer at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan in the 1990s . He travelled to Yemen in 2004, where he was imprisoned for five years in connection with a plot to attack five foreign embassies in the capital.\n\nHe is believed to have overseen the formation of al-Qaeda in Yemen.\n\nUS officials once described AQAP as \"the most active operational franchise\" of al-Qaeda beyond Pakistan and Afghanistan.\n\nMost of its attacks have been in Yemen, where it has taken advantage of political instability that has plagued the country for years.\n\nIt is thought to have been behind a large number of attacks in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, in which hundreds of people have have been killed, as well as a series of sophisticated airline bomb plots targeting the US that were narrowly foiled.", "US President Donald Trump has taken a victory lap one day after his impeachment acquittal, in a tirade against his political enemies.\n\n\"I've done things wrong in my life, I will admit... but this is what the end result is,\" he said as he held up a newspaper headlined \"Trump acquitted\".\n\n\"We went through hell, unfairly. We did nothing wrong,\" he said at the White House. \"It was evil, it was corrupt.\"\n\nHe earlier criticised impeachment foes who invoked their religious faith.\n\n\"Now we have that gorgeous word. I never thought it would sound so good,\" Mr Trump said from the East Room, which was crammed with supporters and cabinet officials.\n\nMr Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives in December for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, but was acquitted on Wednesday after a two-week trial in the Republican-controlled Senate, which did not include any witnesses.\n\nMr Trump also used a swear word to describe the justice department inquiry into whether his 2016 election campaign had colluded with the Kremlin.\n\n\"It was all bullshit,\" he said. \"This should never happen to another president ever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccording to the president, it was neither speech nor news conference; it was \"nothing\", it was a \"celebration\".\n\nIt was certainly about 62 minutes long and veered wildly between self-congratulation, via self-justification, to self-pity with a smattering of bilious expletives and insults to describe his political opponents en route.\n\nIt was both a lap of honour and an emotional rollercoaster, all played out in front of his Republican flock, the nation and the world.\n\nFrankly, it was hard to keep up.\n\nOne moment the president was railing against liars, leakers and \"dirty cops\"; the next we were into an anecdote about a wrestling team from Penn State University.\n\nThe acquitted, no doubt, enjoy a moment of catharsis - the moment of euphoria when the pall of guilt is lifted and renewal can begin. But don't expect this president to put this one behind him - it's far too valuable an electoral stick with which to beat his rivals right up to polling day.\n\nPresident Trump's appeal in 2016 was as the outsider, the man to \"drain the swamp\" and give power back to the people.\n\nThe impeachment process will allow Trump 45 to once again assume the mantle of the heroic political outlaw.\n\nThe president's tone on Thursday suggested he is confident of Republican party loyalty ahead of November's White House election.\n\nMr Trump's post-acquittal celebration contrasted with President Bill Clinton's address in 1999, when the impeached Democratic president offered a sombre apology to the American people.\n\n\"I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people,\" Mr Clinton said.\n\nAs he concluded his remarks, Mr Trump also offered a rare apology - to his family, for having to \"go through a phony, rotten deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Trump spoke about his \"terrible ordeal\" of impeachment during the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual cross-party event in Washington DC to celebrate religious freedom.\n\nMr Trump continued: \"I don't like people that use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong.\n\n\"Nor do I like people that say 'I pray for you' when they know that's not so.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Senator Mitt Romney cited his deep Mormon faith as he became the only Republican to vote to remove Mr Trump from office.\n\nIn December, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who launched the impeachment inquiry, cited her own Catholic faith as she said she prays for Mr Trump.\n\nMr Trump cited the matter again later in the East Room, saying: \"I doubt she [Pelosi] prays at all.\"\n\nReacting to Mr Trump's prayer speech, Mrs Pelosi, who sat near Mr Trump as he spoke, told reporters: \"He's impeached forever, no matter what he says or whatever headlines he wants to carry around.\n\n\"You're impeached forever. You're never getting rid of that scar.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The impeachment saga from beginning to end", "Ed Woodward was not at home when his home came under attack\n\nManchester United have accused the Sun newspaper of receiving advanced notice of an intended attack on the house of executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.\n\nThe club has filed a complaint to the press regulator regarding the Sun's coverage of the attack on 28 January.\n\nThe newspaper confirmed a reporter attended \"following a tip-off that there was to be a protest\".\n\nBut it added it was not made aware of \"what was to take place nor incited it or encouraged any criminal activity\".\n\nIn a statement, Manchester United said: \"The Club believes that the Sun newspaper had received advance notice of the intended attack, which included criminal damage and intent to intimidate, and that the journalist was present as it happened.\n\n\"The quality of the images accompanying the story indicate that a photographer was also present.\n\n\"Not only did the journalist fail to discharge the basic duty of a responsible member of society to report an impending crime and avert potential danger and criminal damage, his presence both encouraged and rewarded the perpetrators.\"\n\nIn response, the Sun said it \"condemns fully\" the attack on Mr Woodward's home and that it was \"happy to cooperate fully with any police inquiry\".\n\nIt added that it \"vigorously\" defended its right to report and that the article \"made it clear that the behaviour was criminal and unacceptable\".\n\nThe attack on Mr Woodward's house in Cheshire saw a flare thrown and a group chanting that he was \"going to die\".\n\nMr Woodward and his family were not at home at the time.\n\nThe newspaper said it \"accurately reported the events that unfolded\" and that it \"supports wholeheartedly the Editors' Code Of Conduct and will defend the complaint to IPSO\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Do Nothing are from Nottingham\n\nA band who had equipment stolen during a car break-in has thanked the public after most of it was recovered from a buy-and-sell store.\n\nDo Nothing, from Nottingham, appealed for help after gear worth £1,000 was taken from an underground car park in George Street, in the city, on Monday.\n\nThe items were recovered a day later from a Cash Generator store.\n\nThe band, who have featured in the NME, told those who helped: \"You've restored faith to our cold dead hearts.\"\n\nA Facebook appeal with pictures of the equipment, including bass pedals, was shared hundreds of times.\n\nGuy Elderfield, a local music producer, saw the post and, by chance, later spotted some of the items in Cash Generator.\n\nThe band's equipment was stolen from a car\n\nAfter noting down the serial numbers he realised they matched those stolen.\n\n\"[The thieves] weren't very bright,\" he said.\n\n\"Bass is a massive part of what Do Nothing sound like. If you take that away they wouldn't sound like the same band.\n\n\"It's always nice to do good things.\"\n\nHe said the store's attendants were \"really helpful\" and took the items off the shelves and contacted the police.\n\nThe band's latest track is being played on BBC 6 Music\n\nBassist Charlie Howarth said most of the equipment stolen belonged to him.\n\n\"Our drummer had gone to his car and noticed that a brick had been put through the back window,\" he said.\n\n\"They took my pedal board, which is a case that provides various effects for your instrument. They can be quite expensive.\n\n\"The [pedals] are just so small, not much bigger than a phone, so when they get taken out the case they're really hard to track down.\"\n\nHe described the moment the band received a call from Mr Elderfield as being \"pretty remarkable\" and \"pretty mad\".\n\n\"I never thought we'd get it back and so quickly,\" Mr Howarth said, adding it was only 24 hours after the band had discovered the equipment had been stolen.\n\nThe band's new track, titled LeBron James, is currently on the BBC Radio 6 Music playlist.\n\nThe NME said Do Nothing are at the \"front of the new guitar wave in the UK\" and one of their \"top tips for 2020\".\n\nCash Generator has not yet responded to a request for a comment when approached by the BBC.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said no arrests have been made.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Department store chain Beales is to close 12 of its shops in a bid to sell the rest.\n\nEfforts to sell all 23 outlets together have failed, the administrators KPMG said.\n\nThe dozen being closed will trade for a few weeks to sell remaining stock, and staff will keep their jobs until then.\n\nThe department store began trading in 1881 in Bournemouth, which is one of the stores that will close, the administrators confirmed.\n\nBeales had tried to secure rent reductions with landlords and was in negotiations with potential investors and buyers.\n\n\"There is currently no intention to implement closure plans for the remaining 11 stores, which will all continue to operate as usual until an outcome with regards to a sale of the business is clarified,\" said KPMG.\n\nBeales' Bournemouth flagship store is among those to close\n\nBut the stores have been racking up losses, with the firm reporting a £3.1m deficit for its last financial year.\n\nThe following stores will close:\n\nThe company's decision to appoint administrators comes at a difficult time for UK retailers.\n\nRecent data from the British Retail Consortium revealed that retail sales fell for the first time in a quarter of a century last year.", "The Scout Association is \"putting lives of young people at risk\" following the death of a 16-year-old boy on a trip to north Wales, a report has said.\n\nBen Leonard, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, died after falling from the Great Orme, Conwy, in August 2018.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, coroner David Pojur said none of the scout leaders on the trip knew where Ben was when he fell and died.\n\nThe Scout Association said it had since strengthened its policies.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pojur, assistant coroner for North Wales East and Central, said: \"The lives of young people are being put at risk by the Scout Association's failure to recognise the inadequacies of their operational practice and the part this has played in the death of Ben.\"\n\nBen was walking on the Great Orme when he fell to his death\n\nHe added that the Reddish Explorer Scouts trip did not adhere to the Scout Association's own policies.\n\nThe coroner said there was no list of participants on the trip, no risk assessment had been carried out and there was no full understanding of what a risk assessment was.\n\nHe added that each of the three leaders on the trip - Sean Glaister, Gareth Williams and Mary Carr - assumed Ben and his friends were with another leader when the incident happened.\n\nThe inquest jury at Ruthin County Court was discharged on Friday after new evidence was revealed.\n\nMr Pojur was critical that the Scout Association failed to tell the inquest that the leaders had been placed on restricted duties after the death.\n\nHe told the jury they had been \"misled\" by not being presented with the information about the leaders.\n\nBen had camped at Betws-y-Coed the night before his death and the group had been due to climb Snowdon, but went to Llandudno instead because of the weather conditions.\n\nA statement from the Scout Association said: \"We were truly saddened by Ben's tragic death. This was a terrible event, and our deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends.\n\n\"We take this matter very seriously. We will be carefully considering the coroner's concerns and will respond in detail.\n\n\"The safety of young people is our number one priority. Following this tragic event, we have strengthened our policies and procedures to ensure young people can enjoy activities safely.\"\n\nHis mother, Jackie Leonard, told the inquest the teenager had received his GCSE results three days before his death and had enrolled to study film and television at a college in Media City, Salford.\n\nShe said: \"He was a wonderful boy and a fantastic son and brother.\"\n\nA second inquest, where the chief executive of the Scout Association is expected be called to give evidence, is due to take place on 13 July.", "Military veterans will be guaranteed interviews for some government jobs as part of a pilot scheme to boost their employment prospects.\n\nThe initiative, launched by the Office for Veterans' Affairs (OVA) in the Cabinet Office, will start in the spring within certain departments.\n\nVeterans will be shortlisted provided they meet basic selection criteria.\n\nCabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden said veterans have \"incredible skills\" needed in government.\n\nMr Dowden and veterans' minister Johnny Mercer jointly oversee the OVA, which was created last July to improve support for ex-members of the Armed Forces.\n\nFour government departments will be taking part in the project:\n\nThere will not be a time limit for those leaving the military on when they can take up the guaranteed interview offer.\n\nThe offer applies retrospectively to all veterans.\n\nPrevious studies have shown ex-servicemen and women face many barriers to civilian employment.\n\nAlmost a fifth of UK employers are unlikely to consider hiring ex-military personnel, according to research unveiled last October.\n\nA YouGov survey for the Forces in Mind Trust found 18% of more than 1,000 UK firms surveyed said they were unlikely to consider employing veterans, mostly due to \"negative perceptions\" of their former careers.\n\nAir Vice-Marshal Ray Lock,, the organisation's chief executive, said the introduction of the scheme was a \"valuable step\" towards providing veterans with \"equality of access to employment\".\n\nHe said: \"Negative stereotypes can prevent ex-service personnel accessing the same employment opportunities as their civilian counterparts.\n\n\"Such misperceptions damage not only the individual, but also UK business.\"\n\nHe praised the public sector for \"setting a good example\" the private sector could follow.\n\nLewis Moore, who spent five years with the Navy, previously told BBC Newsbeat how employers struggled to see how his military skills could be useful to them.\n\nVeterans minister Johnny Mercer said the pilot scheme would \"shine a light\" on the skills of ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen\n\nMr Mercer, a former Army officer and now the minister for defence, people and veterans, said ex-servicemen and women are \"agile, strategic and excellent team players\" and \"a guaranteed interview will shine a light on these skills and help boost job prospects\".\n\nMr Dowden added: \"From teamwork to problem-solving, our veterans have incredible skills and experience that employers on civvy street, and indeed Whitehall, are crying out for.\"\n\nThe scheme follows last month's announcement of a new Veterans' Railcard that will offer discounted train travel for ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen.\n\nThe railcard - to be released on Armistice Day in November - will save a third off most train fares.\n\nIt will cost £21 for a limited period, before rising to £30.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the OVA's announcement delivers on the government's manifesto pledge to support and invest in veterans.", "Dame Karen Pierce is currently the UK's permanent representative to the United Nations\n\nThe government has named Dame Karen Pierce as the new ambassador to the US.\n\nDame Karen - who is currently the UK's permanent representative to the United Nations - will become the first woman in the post.\n\nShe replaces Sir Kim Darroch, who resigned in 2019 after he called President Donald Trump's administration \"clumsy and inept\" in leaked emails.\n\nDame Karen said she hoped to \"strengthen the special relationship\" between the countries.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called her \"an outstanding and accomplished diplomat\", tweeting: \"I can think of no better person to drive forward our hugely important relationship with the United States at this time.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab also congratulated Ms Pierce on her appointment, saying it was \"a time of huge opportunity for the friendship between the UK and US\".\n\nThe posting comes ahead of post-Brexit trade deal negotiations with the US, and amid rows between the two nations over the future of the Iran nuclear deal and the use of Huawei technology.\n\nDame Karen joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1981.\n\nShe held posts in countries around the world, including Japan, Switzerland and the US, before becoming the British Ambassador in Afghanistan between 2015 and 2016.\n\nShe then returned to London as the FCO's political director and chief operation officer until her posting at the UN.\n\nAfter the announcement of her new role, Dame Karen said: \"I am honoured to have been asked to represent the UK in the US. I think it is the UK's single most important relationship. There is a deep bond between Britain and the US, built on many pillars.\n\n\"We have a fantastic cross-government team across the US and I look forward to working with them to strengthen and even further deepen the special relationship between our two countries and peoples.\"\n\nMr Raab added: \"I am delighted that Karen Pierce will take forward this exciting new chapter in our relationship.\n\n\"We're proud to be sending to Washington such an outstanding diplomat, and I warmly congratulate her on her appointment.\"\n\nDame Karen Pierce is widely regarded in the diplomatic world to be a good egg.\n\nShe is a Foreign Office lifer who has served all over the world. Blunt and no-nonsense, maybe, but also wily in the ways of Washington.\n\nShe has held several posts both there and at the United Nations in New York, and she has the confidence of the prime minister who got on well with her when he was foreign secretary.\n\nSo, Dame Karen is hugely qualified for the job, but will need every bit of her charm and guile in the months ahead.\n\nUK/US relations are at a low ebb after disagreements about Iran, Huawei and digital taxes, along with the diplomatic row over the death of Harry Dunn.\n\nHer biggest challenge, of course, will be to help secure a trade deal between the US and post-Brexit Britain. And that will be no easy task.\n\nThe UK has not had an ambassador in the US since Sir Kim resigned in July after the emails - dating from 2017 - were leaked.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Kim said the situation made it \"impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like\".\n\nPresident Trump branded him \"a very stupid guy\" and said he would no longer work with the diplomat.\n\nThe row erupted in the middle of the Tory leadership contest, with the now-Prime Minister Boris Johnson heavily criticised for not fully supporting Sir Kim.", "Police have released photographs of the Brexit day bomb they believe the Continuity IRA (CIRA) was responsible for.\n\nA bomb was found attached to a lorry in Lurgan, County Armagh, on Tuesday morning.\n\nIt is thought the device may have been intended for a Brexit day attack.\n\nPolice said they first received a report about an explosive device in a lorry at Belfast docks on 31 January - the date the UK left the EU.\n\nIt was claimed the lorry was due to travel by ferry to Scotland.\n\nA search was conducted but nothing was found.\n\n\"These images clearly show the explosive device attached to the lorry,\" said Det Supt Sean Wright.\n\n\"They also demonstrate the sheer recklessness of those who knowingly put the driver, road users and the wider public at risk of death or serious injury.\"\n\nPolice have not yet given an indication of the size of the bomb, but it is understood the lorry did not leave the industrial estate between the times of the two calls.\n\nThey said they worked with a haulage company, which owns the lorry, to search about 400 vehicles and locate the explosive device.\n\nIt was made safe by ammunition technical officers (ATOs).", "Dr Li posted this picture of himself from a hospital bed on 31 January - a day before he was diagnosed with coronavirus\n\nDr Li Wenliang, who was hailed a hero for raising the alarm about the coronavirus in the early days of the outbreak, has died of the infection.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the Wuhan hospital where he worked and was being treated, following conflicting reports about his condition on state media.\n\nDr Li, 34, tried to send a message to fellow medics about the outbreak at the end of December. Three days later police paid him a visit and told him to stop. He returned to work and caught the virus from a patient. He had been in hospital for at least three weeks.\n\nHe posted his story from his hospital bed last month on social media site Weibo.\n\n\"Hello everyone, this is Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital,\" the post begins.\n\nIt was a stunning insight into the botched response by local authorities in Wuhan in the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nDr Li was working at the centre of the outbreak in December when he noticed seven cases of a virus that he thought looked like Sars - the virus that led to a global epidemic in 2003. The cases were thought to come from the Huanan Seafood market in Wuhan and the patients were in quarantine in his hospital.\n\nOn 30 December he sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning them about the outbreak and advising they wear protective clothing to avoid infection.\n\nWhat Dr Li didn't know then was that the disease that had been discovered was an entirely new coronavirus.\n\nAfter falling sick, Dr Li said on Weibo that he wondered why authorities were still saying no medical staff had been infected\n\nFour days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he was told to sign a letter. In the letter he was accused of \"making false comments\" that had \"severely disturbed the social order\".\n\n\"We solemnly warn you: If you keep being stubborn, with such impertinence, and continue this illegal activity, you will be brought to justice - is that understood?\" Underneath in Dr Li's handwriting is written: \"Yes, I do.\"\n\nHe was one of eight people who police said were being investigated for \"spreading rumours\".\n\nAt the end of January, Dr Li published a copy of the letter on Weibo and explained what had happened. In the meantime, local authorities had apologised to him but that apology came too late.\n\nFor the first few weeks of January officials in Wuhan were insisting that only those who came into contact with infected animals could catch the virus. No guidance was issued to protect doctors.\n\nBut just a week after his visit from the police, Dr Li was treating a woman with glaucoma. He didn't know that she had been infected with the new coronavirus.\n\n\"We hope you can calm down and reflect on your behaviour,\" the letter police told him to sign says\n\nIn his Weibo post he describes how on 10 January he started coughing, the next day he had a fever and two days later he was in hospital. His parents also fell ill and were taken to hospital.\n\nIt was 10 days later - on 20 January - that China declared the outbreak an emergency.\n\nDr Li says he was tested several times for coronavirus, all of them came back negative.\n\nOn 30 January he posted again: \"Today nucleic acid testing came back with a positive result, the dust has settled, finally diagnosed.\"\n\nHe punctuated the short post with an emoji of a dog with its eyes rolled back, tongue hanging out.\n\nNot surprisingly the post received thousands of comments and words of support.\n\n\"Dr Li Wenliang is a hero,\" one user said, worrying about what his story says about their country. \"In the future, doctors will be more afraid to issue early warnings when they find signs of infectious diseases.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Antarctic Peninsula is among the fastest-warming regions on earth\n\nA record high temperature of 18.3C (64.9F) has been logged on the continent of Antarctica.\n\nThe reading, taken on Thursday by Argentine research base Esperanza, is 0.8C hotter than the previous peak temperature of 17.5C, in March 2015.\n\nThe temperature was recorded in the Antarctic Peninsula, on the continent's north-west tip - one of the fastest-warming regions on earth.\n\nIt is being verified by the UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).\n\n\"[This] is not a figure you would normally associate with Antarctica, even in the summertime,\" WMO spokeswoman Clare Nullis told reporters in Geneva.\n\nTemperatures on the Antarctic continent have risen by almost 3C over the past 50 years, the organisation said, and about 87% of the glaciers along its west coast have \"retreated\" in that time.\n\nThe glaciers have shown an \"accelerated retreat\" in the past 12 years, the WMO added, due to global warming.\n\nIce loss, seen in this Nasa image from 2017, threatens Antarctica\n\nScientists warn that global warming is causing so much melting at the South Pole, it will eventually disintegrate - causing the global sea level to rise by at least three metres (10ft) over centuries.\n\nMs Nullis added: \"The amount of ice lost annually from the Antarctic ice sheet increased at least six-fold between 1979 and 2017.\n\n\"The melting from these glaciers, you know, means we are in big trouble when it comes to sea level rise.\"\n\nWhile 18.3C is a record for the Antarctic continent, the record in the wider Antarctic region - which includes the continent, islands and ocean that are in the Antarctic climatic zone - is 19.8C, logged in January 1982.\n\nLast July, the Arctic region hit its own record temperature of 21C, logged by a base at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Justin Rowlatt experiences some of the challenges of filming in the Antarctic", "Kevin Mcleod's body was found in Wick harbour on 9 February 1997\n\nPolice reviewing the case of a man's death 23 years ago have made a new appeal for information.\n\nKevin Mcleod's body was found in Wick harbour in Caithness on 9 February 1997.\n\nHis family has long campaigned to have his death investigated as murder because of injuries found on his body.\n\nA team of six retired \"experienced\" detectives and two serving officers from Merseyside Police have been reviewing the case.\n\nMr Mcleod's family has accused former Northern Constabulary and also Police Scotland of failings in their handling of the 24-year-old's death.\n\nLast year, Police Scotland asked Merseyside Police to carry out a \"detailed review\" of the case. It is being done separately from a review by the Crown and Procurator Fiscal Service.\n\nIn the new appeal, the Merseyside team said: \"Kevin had gone out with a friend for the evening in Wick on Friday 7 February 1997 and was last seen in the early hours of Saturday 8 February.\n\n\"He was found deceased in Wick harbour at 11:00 on Sunday 9 February.\"\n\nMr Mcleod was described as being 5ft 9in tall and having an athletic build, short brown hair and was clean shaven.\n\nHe was wearing a black sweatshirt with \"Levi\" written in white across the chest, blue denim jeans and black Caterpillar boots.\n\nPolice said he was not wearing a coat even though it was a \"very windy\" night.\n\nMerseyside Police has set up an online page where people can submit information.\n\nMr Mcleod's uncle Allan Mcleod urged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nHe said: \"In the years since Kevin's death people's circumstances, allegiances and lifestyles may have changed.\n\n\"Our appeal today is for those people who know anything, saw anything, or heard anything at the time to please search your conscience and call or write to Merseyside Police - even if you had contacted the local police previously.\"\n\nThe review, which has already started, is expected to take a minimum of nine months to complete.\n\nA post-mortem examination at the time revealed Mr Mcleod, an electrician from Wick, had sustained stomach injuries.\n\nIt prompted a procurator fiscal to instruct Northern Constabulary to treat his death as a potential murder inquiry.\n\nBut police determined his injuries were not suspicious and described his death as a \"tragic accident\".\n\nThey said Mr Mcleod had been injured either falling on to a bollard, on part of a berthed boat or a boat's fishing creels before he ended up in the water.\n\nA pathologist's report concluded he had died from drowning and the \"major abdominal injury\" was consistent with him falling on to an object such as the bollards found at Wick harbour.\n\nBut Mr Mcleod's family believe he suffered the injuries during his murder.\n\nThe inquiry's sheriff criticised elements of the initial police investigation. He concluded it had not been established the \"very serious abdominal injuries\" were the result of an assault, but this remained \"a possibility\".\n\nTwo years ago, Police Scotland, which replaced Northern Constabulary in 2013, apologised for \"serious failings\" on the part of the former force and said officers had missed \"the opportunity to gather vital evidence\".\n\nIn 2018, the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, instructed an experienced prosecutor to review police handling of Mr Mcleod's death. This review remains ongoing.\n\nIn July last year, Police Scotland asked Merseyside Police to carry out a separate \"detailed review\" of the case.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Windrush generation take their name from the ship that brought the first West Indies immigrants to Britain in 1948\n\nCampaigners have branded compensation to victims of the Windrush scandal as \"paltry\" after it was revealed that only £62,198 has been paid out so far.\n\nSo far 1,108 claims have been made for the estimated £200m fund - but only 36 people have received money by December, the Home Office said.\n\nThe scandal saw people with a right to live in the UK being wrongly targeted as illegal immigrants.\n\nThe scheme, unveiled in April 2019, is being extended by two years.\n\nApplications will now remain open until 2 April 2023.\n\nThe Home Office said many of the payouts under the Windrush Compensation Scheme so far were interim payments but it would not say how many people had received final payouts or the proportion of cash per person.\n\nUp to 15,000 claims are expected to be lodged in total.\n\nThe Windrush generation arrived mainly from Commonwealth countries between 1948 and 1971. They had lived in the UK for decades before some were wrongly told they were in the country illegally after changes to immigration law in 2012.\n\nDawn Hill, chairwoman of the Black Cultural Archives' board, which is supporting victims, said a \"paltry amount\" had been paid out given the time the scheme had been operating.\n\nCampaigner Patrick Vernon said the payout figures were \"quite low\", given the thousands of people caught up in the scandal.\n\nHe called for victims to be given automatic payouts of £10,000 with the chance to make an additional claim.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chiplyn Burton was denied entry back into the UK after a trip to Jamaica in the 1970s\n\nCampaigners also urged the Home Office to put more funding behind publicity, saying a national campaign was needed on the scale of the EU settlement scheme - which has an advertising budget of about £4m.\n\nThe Home Office would not confirm how much was being spent on publicising the scheme but said it was committed to ensuring as many eligible people apply and funding had been given to Citizens Advice to help participants.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the government had listened to feedback to hear how the government \"can begin to do justice to those who have contributed so much to our country\".\n\nThe application criteria is also now being made \"more flexible\" to take a wider range of circumstances into account.\n\nThe scheme is open to people from Commonwealth countries who arrived and settled in the UK before 1973. Some relatives, including children and grandchildren, may also be eligible.\n\nIt is also open to people from any nationality who have the right to live or work in the UK without restrictions or are now a British citizen and arrived in the country before December 31 1988.", "Harry arrived in Canada to join his wife Meghan last month\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended a JP Morgan event in Miami on Thursday, a palace source has said.\n\nPrince Harry spoke at the event but it is unclear whether he was paid to appear.\n\nIt comes after the couple said they would step back as \"senior royals\" and work to become financially independent.\n\nThey intend to split their time between the UK and North America and, from the spring, will no longer be full-time working royals.\n\nThey will stop using their HRH titles, no longer carry out royal duties or military appointments and no longer formally represent the Queen.\n\nThe New York Post's Page Six, which first reported the story, said the Sussexes were \"keynote speakers\" as they made their first appearance together since the Queen granted their wish to step back as full-time royals.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond says the \"presumption has to be that they weren't paid\" for the event because, for now, they are still working members of the Royal Family.\n\nCBS News host Gayle King introduced Meghan, who spoke of her love for her husband, before introducing him at 1 Hotel in Miami's South Beach, Page Six reported.\n\nHe is said to have talked about his mental health, something he has spoken about many times in the past.\n\nIn 2017, the duke revealed he sought counselling after \"shutting down\" his emotions for almost 20 years following the death of his mother.\n\nIn an ITV documentary last year, Prince Harry described his mental health and the way he deals with the pressures of his life as a matter of \"constant management\".\n\nPrince Harry arrived in Vancouver Island last month, where his wife Meghan had been staying with their nine-month-old son Archie.\n\nThe couple briefly returned to the UK in January following an extended six-week Christmas break there.\n\nSince the couple announced their desire to become financially independent there has been speculation about how they might make money.\n\nPublic speaking, TV production and book deals have been touted as possible income sources for the couple. They also plan to launch a charitable foundation.\n\nCurrently, 95% of the couple's income comes from Prince Charles's income from the Duchy of Cornwall, a vast portfolio of property and financial investments, which brought in £21.6m last year.\n\nIt is believed the couple will continue to receive money from Prince Harry's father under the new agreement, although it is unclear whether this will come from the Duchy, his personal wealth, or a combination of the two.\n\nHowever, the Sussexes will stop receiving money from the taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant, which makes up the other 5% of their income.", "Health worker Yao (not pictured) said hospital staff are not allowed to eat, rest or use the toilet during their 10-hour shifts\n\nMore than 600 people have been killed by a new strain of coronavirus since its outbreak began in China at the end of last year.\n\nBut while infection numbers rise, information about conditions on the ground in China is limited.\n\nInitially, news organisations in the country were able to report on the epidemic in detail.\n\nIn recent days, however, internet platforms have taken down several articles criticising the government's efforts to curb the virus.\n\nOfficials have also sought to crack down on the warnings shared by a doctor when the coronavirus began to spread.\n\nIn a rare occurrence, the BBC spoke with a health worker in Hubei, the province at the outbreak's epicentre.\n\nTo protect her identity, she asked to be referred by her family name, Yao.\n\nYao is based at a hospital in Hubei's second-largest city, Xiangyang. She works in what she describes as a \"fever clinic,\" where she analyses blood samples taken to diagnose anyone suspected of having coronavirus.\n\nBefore the outbreak, Yao had planned to travel to Guangzhou to spend Chinese New Year with her family.\n\nHer child and mother travelled ahead of her, but when the epidemic broke out, Yao decided to volunteer in Xiangyang instead.\n\n\"It's true that we all live one life, but there was just this strong voice inside me saying 'you must go,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nAt first she had to overcome her doubts about the decision.\n\n\"I told myself: be prepared and protect yourself well,\" Yao said. \"Even if there was no protective suit, I could always wear a raincoat. If there was no mask, I could ask friends all over China to send one to me. There is always a way.\"\n\nYao says she found that the hospital is better supplied than she expected. The government has delivered resources and private companies have donated equipment to help.\n\nThere is still a shortage of protective masks and suits, however, and not every member of staff is properly protected.\n\n\"It's a difficult job, it's very sad and heart-breaking, and most of the time we just don't have time to think about our own safety,\" said Yao.\n\n\"We also have to treat the patients with tender care, because many people came to us with great fear, some of them were on the verge of a nervous breakdown\".\n\nTo deal with the high number of incoming patients, staff at the hospital work in 10-hour shifts. Yao said that during these shifts no-one can eat, drink, take a break, or use the toilets.\n\n\"At the end of the shift, when we take off the suits, we'll find our clothes are completely wet with sweat,\" said Yao. \"Our forehead, nose, neck and face are left with deep marks by the tight masks and sometimes even cuts.\n\n\"Many of my colleagues just sleep on chairs after the shifts, because they're too tired to walk,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's online health editor on what we know about the virus\n\nBut despite the hardship, Yao says none of the hospital's medical staff have been infected.\n\nShe and her colleagues have also been boosted by warm messages from members of the public. Some people have even sent food and other daily necessities.\n\n\"I feel that even though they are quarantined at home, the virus brings our hearts together,\" said Yao.\n\nIn all, she said China's government's response to the coronavirus outbreak has been \"fairly quick,\" and no other country could have given a better response.\n\n\"In the West, you talk more about freedom or human rights, but right now in China, we're talking about the matter of life or death,\" said Yao.\n\n\"We're talking about whether you might see the sunrise tomorrow. So all people can do is to cooperate with the government and support the medical staff\".", "A GP who cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health has been found guilty of sexually assaulting 23 women.\n\nManish Shah preyed on cancer concerns to carry out invasive intimate examinations for his own sexual gratification, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nHe convinced his victims to have unnecessary checks between May 2009 and June 2013.\n\nHe was convicted of 25 counts of sexual assault and assault by penetration.\n\nJurors acquitted 50-year-old Shah, of Romford, of five other charges.\n\nThey were told afterwards he had already been found guilty of similar allegations relating to 17 other women, bringing the total number of victims to 23.\n\nHe will be sentenced for all the offences on 7 February. The BBC's health editor Hugh Pym said it was one of the biggest cases of its kind involving one doctor.\n\nThe trial heard Shah mentioned a news story to one patient about Hollywood star Jolie having a preventative mastectomy, before asking if she would like him to examine her breasts.\n\nIn another instance involving a different complainant, he mentioned TV personality Goody - who died of cervical cancer - and advised an examination was in her best interests, it was claimed.\n\nProsecutor Kate Bex QC told the trial: \"He took advantage of his position to persuade women to have invasive vaginal examinations, breast examinations and rectal examinations when there was absolutely no medical need for them to be conducted.\"\n\nOne of Shah's patients told the BBC how she became one of the GP's victims.\n\n\"He would say you need to have these sexual health tests, to make sure you're safe - you never know if somebody goes with somebody else even though you might have a safe partner,\" she said.\n\n\"He was just encouraging the tests along when I didn't think anything of it, I thought if a doctor suggests it you pretty much go along with it.\n\n\"He just duped so many people. He used our weaknesses and fears and took complete advantage. But not one time did I actually think he was doing anything untoward.\"\n\nThe NHS in London said it \"extended sympathies\" to the victims and added: \"As soon as the allegations came to light, swift action was taken and we have supported the police throughout their investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England's schoolboys have had worse exam results than girls for 30 years, secondary school league table data just published confirms.\n\nGirls are now 14% more likely to pass English and maths GCSE than boys, with 64% of girls doing so and 56% of boys.\n\nYet there is little national focus on the difference in results or measures addressing why boys lag behind.\n\nAnd campaigners and academics accuse consecutive governments of ignoring the issue.\n\nCheck how your local schools have done by clicking here.\n\nSorry, your browser does not support this tool. \n\n Please visit the Department for Education. Compare schools in your area on the Department for Education website by entering your postcode or council in the box below The BBC uses the postcode you enter here to create a web link to the Department for Education website. The BBC is the data controller of the data you enter here. Please be aware that when you leave the BBC website you will be subject to the Department for Education’s privacy policy. If you have any questions about how the BBC process data, please read our Privacy and Cookies Policy. Department for Education website\n\nIf you can't see the postcode lookup, click or tap here.\n\nOn current trends, the gap between rich and poor is set to be eclipsed by the gap between males and females, in terms of university entrance, within a decade, campaigners say.\n\nData going back 30 years shows the gap between the percentage of girls' and boys' GCSE passes more than doubled between 1989 and 1999, from four to nine percentage points - a change often attributed to the introduction of GCSEs.\n\nBut there was little change over the next two decades. It remained stable for a few years, then dipped slightly to seven percentage points in 2009, then widened again over the next decade to nine percentage points.\n\nThe former head of university and college admissions services, Mary Curnock Cook said she was \"baffled by this yawning inequality\", which revealed a \"massive policy blind spot\".\n\n\"On current trends, a girl born today will be 75% more likely to go to university than her male peers,\" she said.\n\n\"By then, the gap between women and men will be larger than the gap between rich and poor.\"\n\nThe data also shows the gender gap is apparent in the EBacc, which measures those pupils who achieve a grade 4 or above across the core academic subjects of English, maths, science, history or geography and a language.\n\nIt shows girls are one and a half times more likely to pass all components of the Ebacc, with 28% of girls passing compared with 18% of boys.\n\nThere is now a clear need to tackle the underachievement of boys, according to the Men and Boys Coalition - a group of organisations, academics and individuals campaigning on male equality issues.\n\nChief executive Dan Bell said: \"For decades, this problem has existed but successive governments and the wider education establishment has buried its head in the sand and, in effect, ignored it.\n\n\"There has never been an explanation for this attitude despite clear evidence that generations of boys and young men are being left behind.\n\n\"That attitude can no longer be tolerated if we are to live in a modern inclusive society that truly tackles inequality.\n\n\"The time has now come that we must see positive action from the government and the wider education establishment to not just recognise this critical inequality faced by boys and young men but to systematically create strategies to tackle it.\"\n\nSchool Standards Minister Nick Gibb focussed on the achievement gap between disadvantaged pupils and their better off peers, saying it remains stable, but highlighting that it has dropped by about 9% since 2011.\n\nHe added: \"The EBacc is instrumental in driving up educational standards.\n\n\"Overall more pupils are studying these core academic subjects than at any time since the EBacc measure was introduced and the entry rate is particularly high in our free schools.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's online health editor on what we know about the virus\n\nThe third person in the UK to be diagnosed with coronavirus caught it in Singapore, it is understood.\n\nHe is thought to have tested positive for the virus in Brighton before being taken to hospital in London.\n\nThe government is now telling travellers arriving in the UK from a total of nine Asian countries and territories to check for symptoms.\n\nThey are advised to stay at home and call the NHS if they are ill and have flown home in the past 14 days.\n\nThe initial advice had only covered mainland China, but now also includes:\n\nAnyone returning in the past fortnight from those place who has symptoms like a cough, fever, or shortness of breath should stay indoors and call the NHS 111 service.\n\nThe Department of Health said they should do so \"even if symptoms are mild\", adding: \"These countries have been identified because of the volume of air travel from affected areas, understanding of other travel routes and number of reported cases. This list will be kept under review.\"\n\nThe new UK patient is understood to be a middle-aged man who was isolated at home, tested positive and was taken to St Thomas's Hospital in central London, where he is being treated at a specialist infectious diseases unit. It had previously been reported he was at Guy's Hospital in the city.\n\nIt is the first UK case in which the virus was contracted outside mainland China.\n\nThe NHS is \"well prepared\" to manage cases, said Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer. He added: \"We are now working quickly to identify any contacts the patient has had.\"\n\nThere have been more than 28,000 cases worldwide.\n\nOf these, 565 people have died but only two of the deaths have been outside mainland China - one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.\n\nMeanwhile, the Chinese ambassador to the UK warned against \"panic\" and \"over-reaction\" in response to the virus.\n\nTwo other patients - both Chinese nationals - are still being treated at the Royal Victoria Infirmary infectious diseases centre in Newcastle.\n\nThe patients - a university of York student and one of their relatives - tested positive for the virus after falling ill at a hotel in York.\n\nThe University of Sussex, which has a campus on the outskirts of Brighton, said in a statement the new case was not a student or member of staff from the university.\n\nThis is not a surprise, not a reason to panic and not a reason to press the alarm bell.\n\nFor as long as the epidemic rages in China, there is a risk of people travelling to other countries, including the UK, before they become sick.\n\nBut there are crucial differences between the UK and China.\n\nFirst is the scale of the problem. The UK has three confirmed cases, China has 28,000.\n\nThis case in the UK is an event that was planned for - the patient is already being isolated and anybody who came into close contact is being traced.\n\nIt is also notable this patient caught the infection abroad, it is not due to the York patients spreading the virus.\n\nChina, however, is still playing catch-up and fighting to get on top of the outbreak.\n\nThe big question is not whether the UK can handle these three cases, it's whether China can contain the outbreak.\n\nEarlier, the Chinese ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, called on the UK government to support China in its handling of the outbreak and said Chinese measures to control the spread of the virus had been effective.\n\nChina is introducing more restrictive measures. In some areas group dining is banned, there are limits on how often people can go outside, and lifts have been turned off in some buildings.\n\nIt comes as the Chinese doctor who tried to issue the first warnings about the outbreak has died of the infection, according to Chinese media.\n\nNearly 100 Britons have been flown out of Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak, on flights arranged by the UK government.\n\nAll are now in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral for 14 days - the incubation period of the virus - to ensure they are not carrying the infection.\n\nThe UK government is chartering a final flight to bring British nationals back from Wuhan, which is due to leave on Sunday.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also advised Britons in other parts of China to leave the country if they can to minimise the risk of exposure to the virus, which has now spread to more than two dozen nations.\n\nThe World Health Organization said the world was still \"shadow boxing\" with the new virus because many things about it remain unknown, including its precise origin, transmissibility and its severity.\n\nThe WHO had declared the outbreak to be a global health emergency last week but said it did not yet constitute a \"pandemic\".\n\nThe coronavirus causes severe acute respiratory infection and symptoms usually start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. Most people infected are likely to fully recover - just as they would from a flu.", "A GP has been given three life sentences for 90 sexual assaults on female patients.\n\nManish Shah assaulted 23 women and a 15-year-old girl while working in London - carrying out invasive examinations for his own gratification.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he used Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody as examples to frighten patients about their health.\n\nJudge Anne Molyneux described him as a \"master of deception who abused his position of power\".\n\n\"You made up stories which got into heads and caused panic,\" she said, as she sentenced Shah to a minimum of 15 years in prison.\n\nShah, from Romford, convinced his victims to have unnecessary checks between May 2009 and June 2013.\n\n\"Your behaviour was not only sexual but was driven by your desire to control and on occasions humiliate women,\" the judge said.\n\nThe youngest victim told the court she was left \"anxious, fearful and shaking\" at the prospect of visiting the doctor after being abused by Shah.\n\nShe said she felt differently about men and worried about being seen as a \"sex object\".\n\nThe 50-year-old doctor who claimed the assaults were \"defensive medicine\" was found guilty of 25 sexual offences against six victims at Mawney Medical Centre last autumn.\n\nShah claimed he had been practising \"defensive medicine\" at Mawney Medical Centre between 2009 and 2013\n\nAt an earlier trial in 2018, he was convicted of offences relating to 18 other people, bringing the total number of offences to 90 relating to 23 patients.\n\nThe court heard how Shah picked up on patients' vulnerability, because of their age or family history of cancer.\n\nHe brought up a news story about Hollywood star Jolie having a preventative mastectomy as he asked a woman if she would like him to examine her breasts.\n\nHe also mentioned Goody to another woman, saying an examination was in her best interests.\n\nJurors heard that Shah would not always wear gloves and left one patient entirely naked on an examination table.\n\nIn mitigation, Zoe Johnson QC said: \"It goes without saying that all of these women feel grossly abused, humiliated, and that the trust that they placed in Manish Shah has been so dreadfully exploited.\n\n\"He deeply regrets hurting them and cannot say sorry enough.\"\n\nOutside court, Det Supt Tara McGovern said Shah \"placed himself in a busy surgery as a GP and accessed vulnerable women and preyed on their vulnerabilities so that so he could carry out unnecessary clinical examinations for his own sexual gratification.\"\n\n\"He has caused significant harm to these women and has betrayed the trust they placed in him as their doctor.\n\n\"It's been a long process - we've spoken to 130 women, we've taken dozens of statements and so we thank the victims for their patience.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly 100 Britons have already been flown out of Wuhan on flights arranged by the UK government\n\nAround 150 Britons on the next UK government flight back from Wuhan will be taken to a conference centre in Milton Keynes for a 14-day quarantine.\n\nUK citizens on two earlier repatriation flights from the Chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak are at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral.\n\nThere have been three cases of coronavirus in the UK so far.\n\nThe third patient caught the virus at a business conference in Singapore, the BBC's Hugh Pym says.\n\nSingaporean authorities contacted the man, who is British, to warn him there had been a confirmed case.\n\nHe is thought to have tested positive for the virus in Brighton and called NHS 111 from home for advice before going by arrangement to an isolation facility at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.\n\nHe was tested and then went home, isolating himself while he waited for the results. The man was then transported by the NHS to St Thomas's Hospital in London, where he is being treated.\n\nThe latest British nationals to be flown out of Wuhan on Sunday will be taken to Kents Hill Park, a training and conference venue on the outskirts of Milton Keynes.\n\nMilton Keynes University Hospitals NHS Trust said there was no risk to local people as anyone showing symptoms would not be allowed to board the plane.\n\nAfter they arrive, passengers will continue to be monitored and anyone who shows symptoms during their two-week stay will be tested for the virus, the trust said in a statement.\n\nAnyone who tests positive will be isolated and given specialist NHS care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sea urchins and Swiss rolls: Quarantine around the world\n\nThe two other UK cases - both Chinese nationals - are being treated at the Royal Victoria Infirmary infectious diseases centre in Newcastle.\n\nThe patients - a University of York student and one of their relatives - tested positive for the virus after falling ill at a hotel in York.\n\nThere have been more than 31,000 cases worldwide, mostly in China.\n\nMore than 600 people have died but only two of these were outside mainland China - one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.\n\nMeanwhile, 61 people - including one British national - have tested positive for the virus on a cruise ship off the coast of Japan.\n\nBriton Alan Steele, from Wolverhampton, who was on his honeymoon with his wife Wendy, is among those to be taken off the ship for hospital treatment.\n\nHe posted on Facebook on Friday that his new wife had remained on board.\n\nHe told friends: \"Would also like to say that at the moment I am not showing any symptoms so just possibly a carrier. Will let you know how I am going on when possible.\"\n\nSome 3,700 people are on board the Diamond Princess, which is quarantined in Yokohama for at least two weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Diamond Princess passenger David Abel: \"In addition to the face masks, we've now been given gloves\"\n\nNearly 100 Britons have been flown out of Wuhan on flights arranged by the UK government.\n\nAll are now in quarantine on the Wirral for 14 days - the incubation period of the virus - to ensure they are not carrying the infection.\n\nA final chartered flight for Britons is due to leave the city on Sunday, the Foreign Office said.\n\nOn Thursday, the government updated its advice for people arriving in the UK from nine Asian countries and territories.\n\nAnyone returning from the specified countries in the past fortnight who has symptoms including a cough, fever or shortness of breath is advised to stay indoors and call the NHS 111 service.\n\nPreviously this advice had only applied to travellers arriving from mainland China.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also advised Britons in China to leave the country if they can to minimise the risk of exposure to the virus.\n\nThe coronavirus causes severe acute respiratory infection and symptoms usually start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. Most people infected are likely to fully recover - just as they would from a flu.\n\nThe World Health Organization said data from 17,000 patients suggested 82% have mild disease, 15% severe and 3% critical.", "The chairman of the Grenfell Tower inquiry has backed a request from firms that refurbished the building that evidence they give should not be used against them in criminal prosecutions.\n\nSome firms had threatened to stay silent in the inquiry into how Grenfell was covered in flammable cladding.\n\nSir Martin Moore-Bick said he had asked Attorney General Geoffrey Cox for the assurance \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nThe fire at the west London tower block in June 2017 killed 72 people.\n\nRepresentatives from organisations including cladding company Harley Facades, building contractor Rydon and the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation had asked for a guarantee that anything they say in the hearings would not be used as part of any potential future prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry - which is in its second phase - was paused while Sir Martin considered the firms' application, which was vigorously opposed by lawyers representing a group of the bereaved, survivors and residents.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is conducting its own investigation into possible crimes ranging from gross negligence manslaughter and corporate manslaughter to health and safety offences.\n\nIn its ruling, the inquiry panel said it would immediately write to Mr Cox - who will make the final decision - in order to secure the terms under which evidence will be given when the inquiry resumes.\n\nIt added that the deal must ensure that no \"oral evidence given by a natural or legal person before the Inquiry in Modules 1, 2 and 3 will be used in evidence against that person in any criminal proceedings or for the purpose of deciding whether to bring such proceedings\".\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said this deal - if it is backed by the Attorney General - would not provide immunity from prosecution, as the police can still gather their own information.\n\nBut he added: \"They couldn't use what a witness said at the inquiry as evidence at a trial.\"\n\nCampaign group Grenfell United has criticised companies involved in the tower's refurbishment for \"passing the buck and minimising their own role in the disaster\".\n\nThe inquiry's second phase, which began last week, is looking at how the building came to be covered in a flammable type of cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016.\n\nEmails disclosed to the inquiry suggested that companies knew a planned cladding system would fail in the event of a fire.\n\nThe investigation has heard that - with the \"sole exception\" of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, which accepted that the tower's refurbishment should not have been signed off - all organisations involved in the work have denied responsibility.\n\nThe first phase of the inquiry heard how the fire on 14 June 2017 spread quickly up the 23-storey tower in west London, claiming the lives of 72 people.", "The public are losing faith in the criminal justice system as police workloads affect outcomes, a report finds\n\nVictims are no longer reporting some crimes to police because so many offenders are never brought to justice.\n\nA new report said the public are losing faith in the criminal justice system and have \"rumbled\" that police do not have the capacity to investigate.\n\nThe constabulary inspector said a suspect was charged in just 7.8% of crimes in England and Wales in the year to March 2019.\n\nThe Home Office said action should be taken if forces are not performing.\n\nIt came as a report by the spending watchdog warned the government could run out of prison places in two years because of tougher sentencing measures, combined with a drive to recruit 20,000 police officers.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said ministers have failed to deliver a promised 10,000 new prisoner places.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice said it would \"always have enough prison places\".\n\nDifferences in the way police forces carry out investigations, rising demand and falling resources in some areas means people face a postcode lottery getting justice, Her Majesty's inspector of constabulary said.\n• None 7.8%of crimes led to a suspect being charged, down from...\n\nMatt Parr said the public has \"rumbled\" that the police do not have the capacity to deal with common crimes, such as burglaries or car crime, and have given up reporting incidents to police.\n\n\"I think particularly in the volume crime area the public has rumbled that the police capacity to deal with this is extremely limited.\"\n\n\"There are some strikingly low figures about car crime resolution, meaning most of the public simply give up reporting it because the chances of anything positive happening are so slim.\"\n\n\"The country is just short of investigators,\" he said. \"There's lots of forces that haven't got enough detectives - therefore, very often, crimes aren't allocated to the right people to investigate.\"\n\n\"They are not supervised properly and the people that investigate them haven't had as much training as we'd like. And the net result is, as we've seen, under 8% of recorded crimes getting a suspect charged.\"\n\nThe public has concluded that there aren't sufficient police resources to deal with minor crimes\n\nMr Parr added that \"policing across England and Wales is largely in good shape\" but that \"we cannot ignore that forces are providing services under the twin pressures of rising demand and failing resources\".\n\nA suspect was charged in just 7.8% of crimes recorded in England and Wales in the year to March 2019, down from 9.1% the previous year; the proportion of crimes closed because the victim did not support a prosecution rose to 22.6% from 20%.\n\nLucy May Walker, a licensed busker, was performing in London's Euston Station when a woman stole €20 (£16.95) out of her collection box.\n\n\"I just watched her run away and thought 'I've just been robbed'... for me, I didn't think police straight away,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"I just feel like the police - for just twenty quid - were not the first port of call. I think they [the police] are overstretched as it is,\" she said.\n\nThe Home Office said inspectors had found many police forces were performing well and that it is \"giving police the resources they need\".\n\n\"In areas where services are not up to scratch, we expect police to take action and implement the inspectorate's recommendations at pace,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nIn Enfield, north London, parents mount their own patrols in an attempt to prevent their children being targeted by criminals.\n\nThere is now such an instinctive feeling that the \"police are stretched\" that often crimes aren't reported at all.\n\nThere are many reasons. In the last decade funding cuts reduced police numbers, and it will take time to restore the number of available officers.\n\nBut it isn't just about the number of \"bobbies on the beat\". The dramatic drop in the proportion of suspects charged suggests other factors are involved too.\n\nModern policing requires deft handling of evidence from devices such as phones and CCTV cameras.\n\nHer Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary found even in the best forces this can take months. In the worst, it can take a year and a half.\n\nPolice forces lack resources to analyse and use intelligence they get from the community. They are also struggling to push ahead with investigations where victims aren't co-operative. They are short of investigators.\n\nIt all contributes to a sense that if you become a victim of lower-level crime in modern Britain, you can't expect to get justice.\n\nMeanwhile the National Audit Office has found the government has so far only increased prison places by 200, despite a pledge in 2016 to deliver 10,000 places over four years.\n\nDemand for prison places could begin to outstrip supply by October 2022, the NAO said\n\nThe NAO's report said the building programme was delayed because of disagreements about funding. It found 3,000 places were still under construction.\n\nThere are currently more than 83,000 people locked up - and the number is forecast to increase.\n\nThe report said analysis by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) showed that from October 2022, demand for prison places could begin to outstrip supply, as an increase in police officer numbers potentially leads to more offenders being caught.\n\nFurther pressures are expected because of sentencing reforms, with the most serious offenders spending longer periods behind bars.\n\nThe NAO report also criticised prison conditions, with poor safety reaching \"record levels\" and \"huge maintenance backlogs\".\n\nThe prime minister has pledged 10,000 new prison places\n\nMinisters have announced a new £2.5bn prison building programme but the NAO said no timetable has been set and the 10,000 places which they have again promised may not be enough to keep up with the expected rise in the prison population.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it recognised the need to invest in maintenance and safety and pledged to spend an additional £256m to carry out improvements over the coming year.", "Mr Mackay quit just hours before he was due to unveil the Scottish government's budget for the coming year\n\nThe Scottish government has defended its handling of the Derek Mackay scandal amid claims it tried to \"throw up hurdles\" to prevent publication.\n\nMr Mackay quit as Scotland's finance secretary after the Scottish Sun revealed he sent 270 messages to a 16-year-old schoolboy.\n\nThe newspaper says the government demanded to know the name of the boy when it was approached for comment.\n\nIt also says it was asked to justify its \"intrusion into private life\".\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said the government had \"simply asked for information to give us the veracity and the substance of the points that were being put to us\".\n\nFurther newspaper allegations about Mr Mackay's behaviour were published on Friday morning, with the Daily Record reporting that he sent dozens of unwanted messages over a four-year period to a married SNP activist, including one asking: \"Got any naughty pics?\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Herald claims that Mr Mackay, 42, was banned by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon from drinking during SNP conferences because of concerns over his behaviour.\n\nMr Mackay has not responded to requests for comment about the allegations against him.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw accused the Scottish government of being \"more interested in protecting its own reputation than in the welfare of potential and actual victims\".\n\nHe added: \"A pattern of behaviour is now beginning to emerge, and it's vital the SNP leadership - instead of spinning - acts to establish a complete picture.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have called for a confidential hotline to be set up so people can report any concerns about Mr Mackay.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament on Thursday that she had not known about Mr Mackay's \"unacceptable\" behaviour until Wednesday evening, and was \"not aware of any further allegations\" against him.\n\nMr Swinney, her deputy, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that he had been \"utterly stunned\" by the revelations.\n\nHe said he had not heard any \"revelations of this type\" about Mr Mackay in the past, and had no previous concerns about his behaviour.\n\nThe Scottish Sun has claimed that the Scottish government's initial response to being told about the allegations against Mr Mackay was to attempt to \"throw up hurdles to prevent us from publishing the bombshell revelations\".\n\nIt said these attempts included: \"Demanding to know the name of the 16-year-old schoolboy as well as asking for our 'justification for publication, given the intrusion into private and family life, and correspondence including digital communication'.\"\n\nThe newspaper stressed that it had not identified the boy to the government, which subsequently refused to comment on the allegations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scottish Sun political editor: 'The family are not baying for blood'\n\nChris Musson, the political editor of the Scottish Sun, spoke to the Podlitical podcast about how the newspaper broke the Derek Mackay story, and what the boy and his family wanted to achieve by going public.\n\nMr Swinney insisted that the government had taken \"decisive\" action once the seriousness of the allegations against Mr Mackay became clear.\n\nHe added: \"The government became aware of these allegations at about 6pm on Wednesday night, and we simply - because of the significance of what was being put to us - asked for information to give us the veracity and the substance of the points that were being put to us.\n\n\"We saw nothing in writing until we saw the first edition of The Sun later on Wednesday evening, so we were simply asking for the detail that we would ask in any situation where allegations are being put to us so that we can be confident about the detail that is being asked.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: “It was unacceptable and falls seriously below the standard required of a minister.\"\n\nMr Mackay is said to have quit as finance secretary on Wednesday evening, although his resignation was not made public until the following morning. It has been reported that he is in line for a £12,000 severance payment.\n\nHe was subsequently suspended by the SNP pending further investigations \"when we saw the full detail in the Sun newspaper printed in their edition on Thursday morning\", Mr Swinney added.\n\nMr Mackay now sits as an independent MSP, although he has been urged to stand down completely from Holyrood by opposition leaders who have said his behaviour could \"constitute the grooming of a young individual\".\n\nThe Scottish Sun said that Mr Mackay persistently contacted the schoolboy over a six-month period, and told him that he was \"cute\".\n\nThe newspaper detailed allegations that the politician contacted the boy \"out of the blue\" in August of last year and sent about 270 messages on Instagram and through Facebook.\n\nIt has published a list of messages - the most recent of which is from earlier this week - involving Mr Mackay and the boy, in which its says the MSP invited him to dinner and to attend a rugby event.\n\nThe newspaper also reported that Mr Mackay contacted the boy several times on Christmas Day, and told him on another occasion that he was \"looking good with that new haircut\".\n\nIn a statement released on Thursday morning, Mr Mackay said: \"I take full responsibility for my actions. I have behaved foolishly and I am truly sorry. I apologise unreservedly to the individual involved and his family.\"\n\nMr Mackay, who had been widely tipped as a future first minister, came out as gay when he left his wife in 2013.\n\nHis resignation came just hours before he was due to present the Scottish government's spending plans for the next year - a major set piece event in the Scottish Parliament.", "Princess Beatrice's wedding to Eduardo Mapelli Mozzi will take place on 29 May, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nThey will be married at the Chapel Royal at St James Palace, with a reception later at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen will host the private reception in the palace gardens.\n\nBeatrice, the 31-year-old daughter of the Duke of York and the Duchess of York, became engaged to her property tycoon boyfriend in Italy last September.\n\nBuckingham Palace says that the choice of the Chapel Royal, a family chapel adjacent to the home of Princess Beatrice, is an indication of the scale and nature of the wedding.\n\nIt has been chosen by Beatrice and Mr Mapelli Mozzi, known as Edo, for its \"intimate atmosphere\". The chapel is also where the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was held in February 1840.\n\nThe announcement ends weeks of speculation over the date of the wedding, amidst the scandal over Beatrice's father, Prince Andrew's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew has retired from royal duties for the foreseeable future.\n\nPrincess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi got engaged in Italy last year\n\nWhile the wedding of Beatrice's sister, Eugenie, was shown on ITV in 2018, there is no intention to televise this ceremony, said Buckingham Palace.\n\nNo public money is to be spent on the event, which is set to be more of a low-key affair.\n\nIt will be the fourth royal wedding in two years. The previous three - Princess Eugenie, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Lady Gabriella Windsor - all took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.\n\nBeatrice's wedding venue can hold 150 guests, while around 800 attended her sister's wedding.\n\nMillionaire Mr Mapelli Mozzi, who has been a friend of Beatrice's family for several years, started dating the princess in autumn 2018. Their relationship is said to have started after they met each other again at Eugenie's wedding.\n\nBeatrice, a cousin of the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex, is ninth in line to the throne. She is not a full-time royal but works for artificial intelligence software firm Afiniti, where she is vice president of partnerships and strategy.\n\nThe couple have only been seen in public together on a few occasions - including here at St James's Palace at a Pitch@Palace event last June\n\nAt the time of their engagement, the couple said, in a joint statement: \"We are both so excited to be embarking on this life adventure together.\n\n\"We share so many similar interests and values, and we know that this will stand us in great stead for the years ahead, full of love and happiness.\"\n\nHis parents, Nikki Williams-Ellis and former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, said at the time of the engagement that the couple was \"made for each other\" and that the family had \"known Beatrice for most of her life\".\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi, who is also a count, has a young son, Wolfie, from a previous relationship.", "Protests against deportation flights have been held outside the Jamaican embassy in London\n\nThe government should consider ending the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children, according to a draft report into the Windrush scandal.\n\nAhead of a deportation flight to Jamaica next week, a leaked copy of the Windrush report calls on the government to consider an overhaul of the law.\n\nThe findings come in a draft of the Windrush Lessons Learned review, leaked to the Labour MP David Lammy and seen exclusively by Newsnight.\n\nSajid Javid commissioned the review in July 2018, while home secretary, to avoid any future repeat of the Windrush scandal.\n\nThe Windrush scandal revealed that citizens of Commonwealth countries - who had an automatic right to settle in the UK until 1973 - had wrongly faced questions about those rights.\n\nSome were denied entry to the UK when they sought to return home after visiting their country of birth, whilst others were wrongly denied access to public services and benefits.\n\nOne of the aims of the Windrush review, written by Wendy Williams - an inspector of constabulary, is to rebuild confidence among members of the Windrush generation and their relatives.\n\nAccording to the draft of the report, that process would be helped by ending the deportation of foreign-born offenders who have mainly been raised in the UK.\n\nThe draft of the report, written in June last year, says: \"Government should review its policy and approach to FNOs [foreign national offenders], if necessary through primary legislation. It should consider ending all deportation of FNOs where they arrived in the UK as children (say, before age of 13).\n\n\"Alternatively, deportation should only be considered in the most severe cases.\"\n\nThe Detention Action group estimates that at least two offenders due to be deported to Jamaica next week would be able to remain in the UK if the recommendations in the draft report were implemented.\n\nThe Windrush generation take their name from the ship that brought the first West Indies immigrants to Britain in 1948\n\nDiane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, told Newsnight she would be calling on the government to publish the report.\n\n\"This draft report is very embarrassing and shaming for the government.\n\n\"Campaigners have said for years that it is unfair to deport people who came here as children and really don't know any other country, and now this report confirms that.\n\n\"We will be pressing the government to release this report as soon as possible.\n\n\"You shouldn't be deporting people who have never known another country.\"\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs this week that it is right that foreign-born offenders are deported.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think the whole House will understand that the people of this country will think it right to send back foreign national offenders.\"\n\nBut the mother of an offender due to be deported to Jamaica next week says her son would be allowed to stay if the recommendations in the draft Windrush report were implemented.\n\nCarline Angus says her son, Tajay Thompson, 23, was convicted as a teenager for possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply, serving seven months of a 15-month sentence at the age of 17.\n\nShe told Newsnight: \"My son came here when he was five, so why is he in this category [to be deported]? I think he should be given a chance.\n\n\"If you don't give him a chance to rehabilitate himself, how can he learn? He has already made his mistake, he apologised for it. All he needs is just a chance.\"\n\nThe Home Office told Newsnight it does not comment on leaks.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The planned charter flight to Jamaica is specifically for removing foreign criminals. Those detained for removal include people convicted of manslaughter, rape, violent crime and dealing Class A drugs.\"", "Manish Shah is accused of 34 sexual assaults against eight female patients\n\nA GP accused of molesting female patients as young as 11 cited celebrities Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to convince them to have unnecessary checks, a court has heard.\n\nManish Shah, of Romford, allegedly carried out \"invasive\" intimate examinations between May 2009 and June 2013 for his own sexual gratification.\n\nThe eight alleged victims are aged between 11 and 39, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nProsecutor Kate Bex QC described how on one occasion, Mr Shah brought up a news story about Hollywood star Jolie having a preventative mastectomy as he asked a woman if she would like him to examine her breasts.\n\nIn another instance, he mentioned Goody as he told another woman an examination was in her best interests, it was claimed.\n\nMs Bex told jurors: \"He took advantage of his position to persuade women to have invasive vaginal examinations, breast examinations and rectal examinations when there was absolutely no medical need for them to be conducted.\"\n\nThe first complaint against him emerged in July 2013, jurors were told heard.\n\nMs Bex said one theme of the case was the defendant's \"sexualised\" behaviour.\n\nHe would allegedly give patients hugs and kisses, singling some out as \"special\" and his \"star\", saying he had a soft spot for them.\n\nThe 50-year-old did not always wear gloves and left one patient entirely naked on an examination table, it was claimed.\n\nMr Shah allegedly attempted to justify an examination in medical notes by suggesting it was \"requested\".\n\nMs Bex said he flouted NHS guidelines on giving healthy women under 25 smear tests and routine breast examinations on women under 50, which were said to cause more harm than good.\n\nHe also allegedly breached guidelines on the use of chaperones during intimate examinations.\n\nMr Shah has denied 13 charges of sexual assault and 21 counts of assault by penetration.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Audio recording of Jonty Bravery telling carers in autumn 2018 about his plan to commit murder\n\nThe teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern in London had spoken about plans to push someone off a high building about a year earlier.\n\nA care worker to Jonty Bravery said opportunities to stop him were missed.\n\nBBC News has obtained a recording of Bravery telling his care workers about a plan to kill someone and go to jail.\n\nHis care provider, Spencer & Arlington, said they had \"no knowledge or records of the disclosure\".\n\nAt the time of the attack Bravery, who has autism, was in the care of Hammersmith and Fulham Council. He lived in a flat in Northolt, west London, with round-the-clock care.\n\nIn the autumn of 2018, a worker called Olly - not his real name - recorded Bravery talking to him and another care worker about his plan to commit murder.\n\n\"In the next few months I've got it in my head I've got to kill somebody,\" Bravery said in the recording, obtained by a joint investigation with the Daily Mail.\n\nHe also tells his care workers he wants to go into central London and visit a tall landmark to push somebody off it.\n\n\"It could be the Shard, it could be anything just as long as it's a high thing and we can go up and visit it and then push somebody off it and I know for a fact they'll die from falling from a hundred feet,\" Bravery said in the recording.\n\nHe explains he is fed up with his situation and wants to be sent to prison.\n\nThe six-year-old victim fell five floors from a tenth floor viewing platform\n\nOlly said this was not the first time Bravery had spoken about this plan.\n\n\"There were a few incidences regarding trying to hurt people, life-wrecking incidences that he had planned in his head,\" he said.\n\nThe former care worker said he told a more senior colleague about what Bravery had said and played the recording to someone else involved in his care. They both deny this.\n\nIn a statement, Spencer & Arlington said there is \"absolutely no evidence\" that Jonty \"may have told his carers of his plan\".\n\nIt said there was no record of the disclosure in any care plan, care report or review from managers or his care workers, psychologists, or health workers.\n\nHowever, the company said it recognised the \"gravity of this claim\" and had reported the concerns to the Care Quality Commission and local authority so they could be examined independently by the serious case review.\n\nBravery, 18, admitted attempted murder at the Old Bailey and is due to be sentenced this month.\n\nAfter his arrest he told police he planned to hurt someone at the gallery to highlight his autism treatment on TV.\n\nThe victim, a French tourist, suffered life-changing injuries, including a \"deep\" bleed to the brain, from the attack last August.\n\nIn January, his family said he was still unable to stand but could now open his left hand.\n\nThe victim suffered life-changing injuries from the attack\n\nOlly said when Bravery went to Spencer & Arlington in the summer of 2018, all trips out were supervised by two care workers at all times and had to be risk assessed.\n\nBut he claims that in the spring of 2019 the regime changed and Jonty was allowed to go out alone.\n\nHe said he recalled conversations with other support staff who told him Bravery had asked to visit the Tate and was later given permission to go out unsupervised by management.\n\nAn eyewitness, who restrained Bravery for around 20 minutes after he threw the boy from the Tate balcony, also told the BBC he saw no evidence of a care worker or anyone else with him at the time.\n\nOlly said he believed the decision was \"strange\" and \"very wrong\", adding that it showed \"a lot of precaution wasn't really taken in terms of how serious the matter could potentially be\".\n\nBBC News has spoken to a second care worker who also said that Bravery's regime became more relaxed to the extent that he was allowed out on his own, in spite of serious incidents when he was outside the flat.\n\nSpencer & Arlington did not deny Bravery was allowed out unsupervised, either in general or during his visit to the Tate, but told BBC News it would be \"inappropriate to make detailed comment\" ahead of the serious case review and a pending sentencing hearing.\n\nA terrible sign of a broken system is how some experts will see the claims that Jonty Bravery's warning that he wanted to kill, went unheeded.\n\nIt will be the task of the serious case review, through interviews and by examining records, to find answers to the many questions this raises about the teenager's care.\n\nHis is a rare case, but some point to the wider pressures on the system that supports people with mental health issues, autism and learning disabilities in the community.\n\nSir Stephen Bubb, who led a review into care for this group, maintains the failure to shut expensive longer stay hospitals - despite abuse scandals - has starved community services of money, so leading to difficulties finding the right facilities and enough staff.\n\nThe NHS and the government have said change is happening, but this case may raise some difficult questions about how that is working.\n\nAt the time of the attack Bravery was already on bail, accused of attacking and racially abusing another care worker on a day out.\n\nSpencer & Arlington, which is rated \"good\" by the care regulator, said it believed it had \"acted entirely properly in managing and reporting in its provision of care\" for Bravery.\n\nOnce aware of the Tate incident it acted \"swiftly and properly in notifying all key regulatory bodies\", it added.\n\nA statement from the Care Quality Commission said it was in direct contact with Spencer and Arlington, adding: \"The local authority are the lead for the serious case review and we will be supporting this in any way required.\"", "Labour MP Tracy Brabin is auctioning an off-the-shoulder dress for charity after it caused controversy in the Commons this week.\n\nShe was forced to defend her attire on Monday after her dress slipped down her shoulder as she leaned on the despatch box due to a broken ankle.\n\nFrom a starting price of £10, bidding had reached over £1,600 on Friday morning, proceeds going to Girlguiding.\n\nThe listing says the ASOS dress had been \"flying off the shelves\".\n\nThe Batley and Spen MP had been raising a point of order in the House of Commons about journalists being asked to leave a Downing Street press briefing on the next stage of Brexit talks, when her shoulder was exposed.\n\nMs Brabin, the shadow culture secretary, said she had been to a music event earlier in the day and was not expecting to be called to the despatch box.\n\nMs Brabin was raising a point of order in the House of Commons on Monday\n\nShe later told BBC Breakfast she had been \"startled by the vitriolic nature\" of some comments she had received online.\n\nShe said it was her responsibility to \"call it out\", adding: \"Women around the world... are being demeaned every day because of what they wear.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracy Brabin: 'A woman is always judged more harshly than a man'\n\nHer online listing reads: \"Black dress worn by Tracy Brabin MP in 'shouldergate' as widely covered across the media.\n\n\"This is an ASOS dress which has been flying off the shelves as a result of the coverage.\"\n\nThe money raised will go to Girlguiding, a charity for girls and young women in the UK, \"in the hope that they grow up to be leaders\", the listing said.", "The boy was thrown five floors in the attack\n\nA boy who was thrown from a balcony on the 10th floor of the Tate Modern has recovered enough to be able to open his left hand again, his parents said.\n\nThe French tourist, then aged six, suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain when he was attacked at the London gallery, last August.\n\nHis family say he is making progress and \"manages to open his left hand when we ask him to do it\".\n\nJonty Bravery, 18, has admitted throwing the boy to be on the TV news.\n\nThe boy's family said he was making progress with his recovery\n\nHis victim sustained a fractured spine, along with leg and arm fractures, when he fell five floors from the viewing platform.\n\nHis latest health developments were posted in a statement on the family's fundraising page.\n\n\"Hello everybody, One month has passed, and we are more and more tired. But our son is still in progress. He can now eat mash.\"\n\n\"We hope that he will be able to drink soon, with a straw to start with,\" they added.\n\n\"He cannot use his left arm but he manages to open his left hand when we ask him to do it (two or three times in a row),\" they said.\n\nLast month, the family said their son had begun uttering syllables and on Friday said: \"We understand better and better what he tells us.\n\n\"However, he still cannot stand or walk, and has great difficulty staying focused and thinking.\"\n\nHis their latest statement, his parents added: \"Thank you for your help. We keep fighting with our little knight.\"\n\nTheir GoFundMe page has raised more than €186,000 (£156,500) towards the cost of their son's treatment.\n\nBravery, from Ealing, who pleaded guilty to attempted murder, told police he carried out the attack because he wanted to be on TV news to highlight his autism treatment.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey in February.\n\nJonty Bravery was 17 years old when he was charged\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands outside of China have been put under quarantine, as they remain under observation for signs of coronavirus.\n\nThey have either been evacuated from China to their home countries or have been in contact with infected people, and now have to stay in isolation for at least 14 days.\n\nWhile some of those quarantined within China, particularly in Hubei province, have reported poor living conditions, many of those in lockdown in the rest of the world have been put up in comfortable converted military camps and government facilities.\n\nSome are also on cruise ships - or being housed in seaside holiday resorts.", "Children appeared to be among migrants lead to an ambulance in Dover\n\nNinety migrants including children have been rescued from the English Channel, a record figure for a single day.\n\nEight small boats were earlier reported off the coast of Dover, one of which was carrying a group of 21 men.\n\nFifteen of the 90 \"claimed to be minors\", the Home Office said as it confirmed those rescued included nationals of Syria, Yemen and Mali.\n\nThe migrants will be \"dealt with according to immigration rules\", it added.\n\nThe rescued children, subject to age assessment, will be transferred into the care of social services.\n\nAn ambulance was on hand to assess the health of those who crossed the Channel\n\nSix boats were intercepted in the Channel by Border Force, with a group of five migrants found by police in Dover town centre and another five people found in Samphire Hoe.\n\nRNLI lifeboats from Dover and Littlestone and a fixed wing aircraft and HM Coastguard Search and Rescue helicopter from Lydd were scrambled this morning.\n\nHome Office vessels Searcher, Speedwell and Alert were sent to intercept the boats.\n\nTony Eastaugh, Home Office director for crime and enforcement, said the government was \"tackling illegal migrant crossings on all fronts with every agency\".\n\nPatrols of French beaches have been increased, with the use of drones, specialist vehicles and detection equipment, he said.\n\nLast year at least 1,892 arrived in Britain after crossing the Channel in boats.\n\nFrench authorities have said 371 migrants attempted the crossing last month, with 95 of them succeeding.\n\nTwo boats carrying 26 men were met by Border Force in the Channel\n• None Are migrants who cross the Channel sent back?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Sydney has had its wettest day in well over a year'\n\nTorrential rain across the east coast of Australia has extinguished a third of the fires in the region - and could put more out, officials say.\n\nA wide band of rain sweeping New South Wales (NSW) has put out 20 of about 60 fires in the state in the past day.\n\nAuthorities have welcomed the downpour, but warned of flash flooding in Sydney and other cities along the coast.\n\nSome of the affected areas had received the most rain recorded in over a year, said the Bureau of Meteorology.\n\nAustralia's largest city, Sydney, recorded its wettest day in over 15 months on Friday. Many locals cheered on the downpour despite the inconvenience.\n\n\"It was fantastic to wake up to much-needed rain this morning!\" tweeted the city's lord mayor Clover Moore.\n\nMuch of NSW has been in drought for over three years, and such conditions have fuelled the intensity of the summer's unprecedented fires.\n\nFire officials in NSW said they were \"over the moon\" to see the state's forecast for a week-long drenching finally eventuate.\n\n\"This is that constant, steady, decent rainfall that we've been praying for for so long,\" said NSW Rural Fire Service (NSWRFS) spokeswoman Angela Burford.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"This isn't just one of those scattered showers we saw a month ago. This is really helping our firefighters, and in some places, giving them a well-needed rest.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shane Fitzsimmons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, Ms Burford warned that the largest blazes, in the state's inland south and near the capital city of Canberra, had received limited showers so far and were still of concern.\n\nThe weather system hit south-east Queensland on Wednesday before moving south to affect neighbouring NSW.\n\nAuthorities have issued a severe wet weather warning for a 1,000km (621 miles) stretch of the state - with damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and \"abnormally high\" tides forecast.\n\nOver 280mm of rain was recorded at the holiday town of Byron Bay in northern NSW. Locals there described the downburst on Thursday night as heavier than that experienced in a 2017 cyclone.\n\nRescue services said they had rescued a number of people trapped in cars amid rising water. There have been close to 1,000 calls for help in NSW and Queensland since Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why heavy rain doesn't always help drought-affected farmers\n\nThe heavy rains are predicted to continue until next week, providing relief to some drought and fire-ravaged zones. Some fires, which were finally contained this week, have been burning for over two months.\n\n\"This has been an absolute welcome disruption to the weather pattern and a massive reprieve and relief to so many people,\" said NSWRFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons on Friday.\n\nHe said while hotter and drier conditions would likely return in the coming weeks, this particular period of rain \"is breaking the back of this fire season, no doubt\".\n\nThe state's bushfire season, which began in September, could run until as late as April. Officials have also warned that the peak of fire danger is still to come for the southern states of Victoria and South Australia.\n\nNSW has been the state most devastated in Australia's bushfires crisis this year. The unprecedented scale and intensity of the blazes is a direct effect of climate change, scientists say.\n\nNationally, blazes have killed at least 33 people and destroyed thousands of homes. More than 11 million hectares of land - an area comparable to the size of England - has been scorched.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A timelapse of the fires which threatened Canberra last week", "The Duke of York has asked to defer an honorary Navy promotion he was due to receive when he turned 60, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nPrince Andrew was set to be promoted to Admiral on 19 February, in line with a policy that sees senior royals treated as serving military members.\n\nBut the palace said he had asked the Ministry of Defence to defer it until a time when he returns to public duty.\n\nHe stepped back from royal duties in November.\n\nIt followed after a backlash over his past friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew said his links to the US financier, who was found dead in his jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, had become a \"major disruption\" to the Royal Family.\n\nThe Duke of York retired from the Navy in 2001, but it is a tradition that senior members of the royal family continue to receive military promotions as they get older.\n\nBuckingham Palace said: \"By convention, the Duke of York would be in line for military promotion on his 60th birthday.\n\n\"Following the decision by His Royal Highness to step back from public duties for the foreseeable future, the Duke of York has asked the Ministry of Defence if this promotion might be deferred until such time that His Royal Highness returns to public duty.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the government has said it would be advising local councils that there is no requirement to fly the Union flag on the the duke's birthday, following his decision to step back from public duties.\n\nPrince Andrew's birthday - 19 February - is included on a list of \"designated days\" when the government advises the Union flag to be flown at council buildings.\n\nOn Thursday, some councils said they would still be flying the flag on Prince Andrew's birthday, 19 February \"in accordance with government guidance\".\n\nOther councils said they fly the Union flag most of the year anyway, while some councils' flag-flying policy is already a slimmed-down list, not including the duke's birthday.\n\nDowning Street said the flag-flying matter was looked into after critics branded the celebration \"crass and offensive\".\n\nBut it has been confirmed that the bells of Westminster Abbey will still ring out in celebration.\n\nCertain royal birthdays, including the duke's, are traditionally marked by the ringing of bells at the Abbey.\n\nA spokeswoman for the abbey said there were \"no plans to change these arrangements\".", "Overall, the FAO estimates the desert locust affects the livelihood of one in 10 people on the planet - making it the world's most dangerous migratory pest.\n\nBut there were also large and damaging upsurges in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Some of them spanned multiple regions, reaching the numbers required to be declared a \"plague\".\n\nThe last major upsurge - a sharp rise in the number of swarms - in West Africa in 2003-05 cost $2.5bn in harvest losses, according to the UN.\n\nNote: Recession means locusts are present at low density; upsurge means several locust outbreaks have accelerated through breeding; a plague means widespread and heavy infestations for more than a year; the end of a plague is called a decline.\n\nEven an average swarm can destroy crops sufficient to feed 2,500 people for a year, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).\n\nSuch swarms of locusts can be huge. They can contain up to 10 billion individuals and stretch over hundreds of kilometres. They can cover up to 200km (120 miles) in a day, devastating rural livelihoods in their relentless drive to eat and reproduce.\n\nIn this newly-sociable phase, the insects change colour and form groups that can develop into huge flying swarms of ravenous marauding pests.\n\nBut every now and then, desert locusts undergo a Jekyll and Hyde transformation. When they get crowded together - such as on diminishing areas of green vegetation - they stop being solitary creatures and become \"gregarious\" mini-beasts.\n\nA desert locust like this - a type of grasshopper - usually likes to live a shy, solitary life. It develops from an egg into a young locust - known as a hopper - and then into a flying adult. It's a simple, if unremarkable, existence.\n\nVast swarms of desert locusts that tore through East Africa and beyond earlier this year are breeding again, with a second wave of insects now threatening food supplies and livelihoods. It's the worst infestation in a quarter of a century. How did it get so bad?\n\nOverall, the FAO estimates the desert locust affects the livelihood of one in 10 people on the planet - making it the world's most dangerous migratory pest.\n\nBut there were also large and damaging upsurges in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Some of them spanned multiple regions, reaching the numbers required to be declared a \"plague\".\n\nThe last major upsurge - a sharp rise in the number of swarms - in West Africa in 2003-05 cost $2.5bn in harvest losses, according to the UN.\n\nEven an average swarm can destroy crops sufficient to feed 2,500 people for a year, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).\n\nSuch swarms of locusts can be huge. They can contain up to 10 billion individuals and stretch over hundreds of kilometres. They can cover up to 200km (120 miles) in a day, devastating rural livelihoods in their relentless drive to eat and reproduce.\n\nIn this newly-sociable phase, the insects change colour and form groups that can develop into huge flying swarms of ravenous marauding pests.\n\nBut every now and then, desert locusts undergo a Jekyll and Hyde transformation. When they get crowded together - such as on diminishing areas of green vegetation - they stop being solitary creatures and become \"gregarious\" mini-beasts.\n\nA desert locust like this - a type of grasshopper - usually likes to live a shy, solitary life. It develops from an egg into a young locust - known as a hopper - and then into a flying adult. It's a simple, if unremarkable, existence.\n\nNote: Recession means locusts are present at low density; upsurge means several locust outbreaks have accelerated through breeding; a plague means widespread and heavy infestations for more than a year; the end of a plague is called a decline.\n\nSource: FAO Note: Recession means locusts are present at low density; upsurge means several locust outbreaks have accelerated through breeding; a plague means widespread and heavy infestations for more than a year; the end of a plague is called a decline.\n\nNew swarms of locusts are developing Earlier this year, the worst swarms of desert locusts in decades decimated crops and pasture across East Africa and beyond, threatening the food security of the entire sub-region. The ravenous insects spread rapidly in January and February through a number of countries in East Africa - including Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia - as well as areas of Pakistan. It became the worst infestation in Kenya for 70 years and the worst in Somalia and Ethiopia for 25. The FAO now fears that favourable wet weather in March and beyond will lead to a second wave of swarms posing an \"unprecidented threat\" to livelihoods once again. Insect numbers could grow another 20 times, the FAO warns, unless control activities are stepped up. A number of countries are on locust alert This could be particularly devastating in East Africa - a region already suffering widespread food insecurity because of conflict, droughts and floods. But the situation is also worrying in Iran and Yemen, the FAO says, where new swarms are also developing. Tens of thousands of hectares of croplands and pasture have already been damaged by locusts throughout East Africa. At their peak earlier this year, swarms were eating 1.8m tonnes of vegetation a day across 350 sq km (135 sq miles), the FAO says. The organisation believes one swarm in Kenya covered an area 40km by 60km (25 miles and 40 miles). How much can a locust consume? An adult desert locust can eat its own weight in food every day - about 2g The prospect of a new wave of locusts in Kenya and Ethiopia, possibly bigger than the first, is worrying in itself, but the timing couldn't be worse, says Keith Cressman, the FAO's senior locust forecasting officer. \"Now is the beginning of the rainy season in those countries and the beginning of planting. Seeds are germinating and they're sprouting and now you've got locust swarms.\" These current maturing swarms will soon lay eggs that will produce another generation of locusts maturing around harvest time, Mr Cressman says, threatening crops twice. The locust crisis also comes at a time when countries are dealing with a rise in coronavirus cases as well as the asssociated restrictions on movements, complicating control operations. Ali Bila Waqo, a 68-year-old farmer working in north-eastern Kenya, was one of those affected by the recent swarms. He was hopeful of a good grain harvest this season, with recent rainfall ending a long period of drought. But locusts destroyed all his maize and beans in February. \"They ate most of our grains and what they didn't eat, dried up,\" he says. \"That has hurt us a lot. We saw the food with our eyes but we never even got to enjoy it.\" Mr Waqo, who remembers a previous locust infestation in the 1960s, describes how the swarms blacken the skies. \"It gets dark and you can't even see the sun,\" he says. The causes of the current infestation go back to the cyclones and heavy rains of 2018-19. Desert locusts typically live in the arid areas of about 30 countries between West Africa and India – a region of about 16 million sq km (6.2 million sq miles). But the wet, favourable conditions two years ago on the southern Arabian Peninsula allowed three generations of locusts to flourish undetected, the UN says. The upsurge has been developing since 2018 By early 2019, the first swarms headed to Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Iran, breeding further before moving to East Africa. Further swarms formed and by the end of last year had developed in Eritrea, Djibouti and Kenya. Spring breeding is now expected to cause further infestations in East Africa, Yemen and southern Iran in coming months. Even though such infestations are notoriously hard to battle because of the wide geographical area affected, the FAO's Mr Cressman believes more could have been done earlier to tackle this particular locust upsurge. \"If there were greater and more successful efforts of control made in some of the key countries, it might have minimised the situation,\" he said. People are trying to tackle the huge swarms With the locust swarms in East Africa unprecedented in terms of their size and destructive potential, countries are scrambling to deal with them. Containment of the outbreak depends on two major factors - monitoring and effective control. The Desert Locust Information Service, run by the FAO, provides forecasts, early warning and alerts on the timing, scale and location of invasions and breeding. But once populations reach critical levels, such as in East Africa, urgent action needs to be taken to reduce locust populations, as well as prevent more swarms from forming and spreading. Although there is ongoing research into more environment-friendly solutions, such as biological pesticides or introducing natural predators, the most commonly used control method is pesticide spray. Showered onto the pests via hand pumps, land vehicles or aircraft, whole swarms can be targeted and killed with chemicals in a relatively short period of time. For this reason, the FAO is currently working with governments to carry out a number of aerial pesticide spraying campaigns. So far, more than 240,000 hectares across 10 countries have been treated and hundreds of people have been trained to carry out ground operations. The campaign is much more efficient than it was earlier in the year, Mr Cressman says, and restrictions on movements caused by coronavirus have not hampered operations to any significant extent. But controlling such large populations of insects over large, remote areas remains a logistical challenge. You never really know what percentage of the locust population you have successfully targetted, explains Mr Cressman. But action taken now will determine what happens next. If the current upsurge crosses more borders and infests more regions, devastating more crops, it could be declared a \"plague\". For this reason it crucial to \"join hands and share knowledge and skills\" to prevent further deterioration of the situation, Mr Cressman adds. Yet, for Kenyan farmer Ali Bila Waqo, such action comes too late. The only thing he and his family could do to battle the pests when they descended was to bang on jerrycans and shout. Yet, he remains philosophical about what has happened. \"It is God's will. This is his army,\" he says.\n\nWords and production by Lucy Rodgers, field production by Joe Inwood, design by Zoe Bartholomew and Millie Wachira, development by Becky Rush, Catriona Morrison and Purity Birir. Locust images by Swidbert R Ott and Stephen Rogers and Getty Images. Kenya farming images by the BBC.\n\nMore on this story\n• Hundreds of billions of locusts swarm in East Africa", "Hundreds of thousands of bats have invaded the town of Ingham in Queensland, Australia, and residents are fed up.\n\nThe bats now outnumber the residents in the town and upset locals have asked their council to do something about it.\n\nThe animals have caused chaos, with residents complaining about the smell, the dirt and the noise.\n\nHowever, the bats are protected by law and cannot be culled. Local authorities now say they are trying to \"persuade\" the bats to move back to their habitat.", "The emergency legislation, pushing back the release date of terror offenders, was announced after the Streatham attack\n\nTerror offenders who were due to be released from prison in the next two months are being told they will not be let out under planned new laws.\n\nEarlier this week, the government said that new terror legislation to end automatic early release will apply to current as well as future offenders.\n\nLawyer Simon Creighton said one client who was due to be freed in March had been told his release date has changed.\n\nMr Creighton said a number of offenders were likely to challenge the new laws.\n\n\"I'd imagine it's inevitable that it will go the Supreme Court,\" he said.\n\nMr Creighton said those affected, who are currently serving sentences, were a \"wide range\" of offenders including animal rights activists, \"people fighting Islamic terrorism with the Kurds\", and Islamist extremists.\n\nThe government had already announced plans for tougher terror laws, including an end to automatic early release half-way through their sentence. Instead, it would be up to the Parole Board to decide if people convicted of terrorism offences should be released after serving two thirds of their sentence.\n\nBut there were no proposals for the new measures to apply retrospectively, until last Sunday's attack in Streatham when convicted terror offender Sudesh Amman - who had been out of prison less than two weeks - stabbed two people.\n\nIt followed the London Bridge attack in November last year, when another convicted terror offender Usman Khan was on licence when he killed two people.\n\nResponding to the latest attack in south London, the government announced that the new terror legislation - once passed by Parliament - would apply to offenders currently serving sentences.\n\nMinisters are trying to get the legislation passed before the next terror offender is due to be released.\n\nSudesh Amman was under covert surveillance when he stabbed two people in south London on Sunday\n\n\"We've been told by one of our clients that he's had a notification that his release date is going to be changed as a result of this legislation,\" said Mr Creighton.\n\nHe said it was \"very disconcerting\", saying \"the principle of not changing prison sentences, not changing any criminal sentences, is deeply embedded in English law\".\n\n\"It really is quite a troubling idea about the certainty of the criminal process that long after conviction you can be called back as a result of a change in legislation and told your sentence doesn't stand anymore - you can serve longer, you can do more time. It's really against all our legal traditions.\"\n\nHe added that he imagines there will be \"a number of people wanting to challenge this and that the cases are likely to be consolidated as one case before the High Court initially\".\n\nHe added: \"I'd imagine it's inevitable that it will go the Supreme Court. It's something that is so fundamental to our principles of how we run justice and society that it has to go to the Supreme Court.\"\n\nAnnouncing the emergency legislation earlier this week, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said it would apply to serving prisoners because the UK faces \"an unprecedented situation of severe gravity\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland: \"We face an unprecedented situation of severe gravity\"\n\nThe government's Counter-Terrorism Bill would also ensure people convicted of serious offences, such as preparing acts of terrorism or directing a terrorist organisation, spend a minimum of 14 years in prison.\n\nThere are currently at least 74 people who were jailed for terror offences and subsequently freed on licence.\n\nThere are also 224 people convicted of terrorism offences in prison in Great Britain, most of whom must be released at the end of their custodial sentence.", "Prosecutors say Hashem Abedi was complicit in sourcing and stockpiling components for the bomb that killed 22 people\n\nThe brother of the Manchester Arena bomber said he would have told his mother had he suspected his sibling's murderous intent, a court hears.\n\nHashem Abedi said he had no involvement in the \"instigation, preparation or commission\" of the attack on 22 May 2017 that killed 22 people.\n\nHe told detectives he was \"shocked\" when he discovered his brother, Salman Abedi, had detonated a suicide bomb.\n\nHashem Abedi has denied 22 counts of murder and other charges.\n\nFollowing the attack, the 22-year-old was arrested in Libya, where he claims he was tortured and held for about two years, before he was sent back to the UK for police questioning.\n\nProsecutor Duncan Penny QC read a statement that Hashem Abedi gave to police in the summer, condemning his elder brother's actions.\n\nThe prosecution say Hashem Abedi was complicit in sourcing and stockpiling components for the bomb and was \"just as guilty\" as his brother Salman.\n\nThe Crown suggests \"Hashem Abedi's connection to the events in the Arena on May 22 2017 could not be clearer\".\n\n\"At all stages of this dreadful chain of events, and in all locations ... his presence and his involvement with this, the most monstrous of projects, loom large,\" Mr Penny said.\n\nHashem Abedi's statement heard by jurors at the Old Bailey on Friday rejected those claims and stated: \"I deny any involvement in the terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017.\n\n\"I was not involved in the instigation, preparation or commission of it.\n\n\"Had I had any idea of it I would have reported it, to my mother initially and then to other family members, to prevent it from happening.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\n\"I was shocked my brother had done this and felt bad for everybody. I could never have envisaged that my brother had it in him to do this to innocent people.\"\n\nThe statement of 14 August 2019 was issued through his solicitor after he declined to answer detectives' questions, the court heard.\n\nThe former electrical installation student said he was a practising Muslim, did not hold extremist views, and had \"no interest in Daesh (ISIS)\".\n\nHe accepted that he had asked people to buy sulphuric acid, a key ingredient for explosives, on behalf of his brother, who told him it was for a car battery for his family in Libya.\n\nMr Abedi addressed the allegation he was party to buying tools to build the bomb, and nails and screws to use as shrapnel.\n\nHashem Abedi was returned to the UK from Libya in July 2019 and was later charged\n\nHe stated: \"I accept I was present at B&Q Stockport on the 26th of March 2017 when the items mentioned in the case summary were purchased.\"\n\nHe said his elder brother had told him they \"were purchasing these items to do the shed up\".\n\n\"I purchased some small bags of nails but [do] not recollect where from,\" his statement said, adding that his memory had faded in the intervening years during which time he claimed he had been held by the militia in Libya \"in a very small dark cell\" where he was \"subjected to torture\".\n\nHis statement said he was \"relieved to be back in the UK\" and wanted to \"assist the police as much as I am able to\".\n\nMr Penny said the jury \"will wish to consider the credibility of some of the claims made in that statement, against the overall body of evidence\".\n\nHashem Abedi denies 22 counts of murder, one count of attempted murder encompassing the injured survivors, and conspiring with his brother to cause explosions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phillip Schofield on ITV's This Morning: \"Every person I tell, it gets a little lighter\"\n\nTV presenter Phillip Schofield has received an outpouring of support after revealing he is gay.\n\nThe 57-year-old, who has two daughters with wife Stephanie Lowe, made the announcement via a statement on Instagram.\n\n\"Huge respect and admiration for our friend Schofe,\" tweeted fellow ITV presenters Ant and Dec. \"Sending love to you P, and your 3 lovely girls ❤️.\"\n\n\"Takes a lot of guts to do this, not least when you're a very public figure and know it will all be dissected in a very public way,\" said Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan. \"Sending my very best to Schofe and his family.\"\n\nSchofield, who has been married to Lowe for 27 years, said in his statement: \"Today, quite rightly, being gay is a reason to celebrate and be proud.\n\n\"Yes, I am feeling pain and confusion, but that comes only from the hurt that I am causing to my family.\"\n\nHe later thanked fans for their support and urged others to reach out for help in a post on Instagram.\n\n\"Please please, no matter your age or your thoughts, TALK to someone, don't let your head beat you and hopefully you'll find out that your friends & family have a remarkable ability to surprise you with their love and understanding,\" he wrote.\n\nSchofield presents Dancing on Ice and This Morning with Willoughby\n\nSchofield presents ITV programmes including Dancing On Ice and This Morning, which won a National Television Award last week.\n\nThe presenter was interviewed by his co-host Holly Willoughby on Friday's edition of This Morning.\n\n\"You know this has been bothering me for a very long time,\" he said. \"Everybody does this at their own speed when the time is right.\"\n\nThe presenter added his sexuality has recently \"become an issue in my head\".\n\n\"All you can be in your life is honest with yourself and I was getting to the point where I knew I wasn't honest with myself. I was getting to the point where I didn't like myself very much because I wasn't being honest with myself.\n\n\"[Coming out] is my decision. This is absolutely my decision. It was something I knew that I had to do. I don't know what the world will be like now. I don't know how this will be taken or what people will think.\"\n\nBut Schofield said he is not ready yet for a relationship with a man.\n\n\"You never know what's going on in someone's seemingly perfect life, what issues they are struggling with, or the state of their wellbeing - and so you won't know what has been consuming me for the last few years. With the strength and support of my wife and my daughters, I have been coming to terms with the fact that I am gay.\n\n\"This is something that has caused many heart-breaking conversations at home. I have been married to Steph for nearly 27 years, and we have two beautiful grown-up daughters, Molly and Ruby. My family have held me so close - they have tried to cheer me up, to smother me with kindness and love, despite their own confusion. Yet still I can't sleep and there have been some very dark moments.\n\n\"My inner conflict contrasts with an outside world that has changed so very much for the better. Today, quite rightly, being gay is a reason to celebrate and be proud. Yes, I am feeling pain and confusion, but that comes only from the hurt that I am causing to my family.\n\n\"Steph has been incredible - I love her so very much. She is the kindest soul I have ever met. My girls have been astonishing in their love, hugs and encouraging words of comfort. Both my and Steph's entire families have stunned me with their love, instant acceptance and support.\n\n\"Of course they are worried about Steph, but I know they will scoop us both up. My friends are the best, especially Holly, who has been so kind and wise - and who has hugged me as I sobbed on her shoulder. At ITV, I couldn't hope to work with more wonderful, supportive teams.\n\n\"Every day on This Morning, I sit in awe of those we meet who have been brave and open in confronting their truth - so now it's my turn to share mine. This will probably all come as something of a surprise and I understand, but only by facing this, by being honest, can I hope to find peace in my mind and a way forward.\n\n\"Please be kind, especially to my family.\"\n\nSocial media was filled with support for Schofield after his announcement on Friday morning.\n\nThe BBC's Victoria Derbyshire added: \"So much love for Schofe for his open, honest, dignified statement.\"\n\nDancing on Ice star Ian H Watkins, who recently made history by dancing with his same-sex partner on the show, welcomed Schofield to \"our beautiful rainbow family!\"\n\nRichard Osman of BBC One's Pointless said: \"When you create a new entertainment show and start discussing who should host, the first name on the list is always Phillip Schofield. That's a fact.\n\n\"He's just the very best at what he does, and the public adore him. Looking forward to many more years of his charm and brilliance.\"\n\nSchofield found fame on children's TV in the 1980s alongside Gordon the Gopher in the BBC's Broom Cupboard, and on Saturday morning show Going Live!\n\nHe has starred in the West End in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Doctor Dolittle, and fronted TV game shows like Talking Telephone Numbers and Schofield's Quest before joining This Morning in 2002.\n\nThe programme has won at the National Television Awards for 10 years in a row, including the prize for best live magazine show at last month's ceremony.\n\nSarah Greene and Phillip Schofield presenting Going Live! in 1987\n\nSchofield also presents a programme with his wife every December where they review Christmas gifts.\n\nEntertainment reporter Caroline Frost told BBC Radio 5 Live that stars from the previous generation were likely to have been told in the past that coming out as gay could damage their careers.\n\n\"You see all these young stars coming through and they don't have to think about it,\" she said. \"They're fluid. They just define their own terms.\n\n\"But a lot of those older entertainers are having to play catch-up. They branded themselves and were probably advised 'Don't come out because it will ruin your following'.\n\n\"So they are having to catch-up and climb back up the hill of enjoying the same privileges that have come very naturally to that new generation.\"\n\n\"Coming out\" is a moment which unites all LGBT people, whether they are eventually able to do it, or not. Some never will.\n\nSocial media reactions show that this is being seen as an incredibly brave decision for Philip Schofield to make. Whilst Schofield is seen as a national treasure, and someone trusted with hearing deep and personal experiences on a daily basis, for him to become the story is wholly different.\n\nWhen someone with such a massive public platform comes out as LGBT, their entire life in the public eye is suddenly questioned, with some on-lookers inevitably claiming they \"knew all along\". In many cases, the person coming out may not have even known, let alone their family and friends.\n\nLGBT acceptance in the UK has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Whilst there are still issues, on the whole, people are much more free to be themselves than ever before. As a result, national LGBT charities such as the LGBT Foundation now offer tailored 'coming out' guidance to the growing numbers of LGBT people who are choosing to come out later in life, helping them navigate any barriers they may face.\n\nThis huge moment for Phillip Schofield may just be the green light that others need to come out themselves.\n\nInformation and support: If you or someone you know needs support for issues about sexuality, these organisations may be able to help.", "Arranged overdrafts are most often used by 18 to 24-year-olds, according to the Financial Conduct Authority. With 44% having dipped into theirs during the past 12 months.\n\nBut on 6 April, overdrafts are changing. Radio 1 Newsbeat reporter, Rick Kelsey, has been finding out how and why these changes could leave you paying almost double.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A man who admitted upskirting schoolgirls at a supermarket has been convicted of voyeurism.\n\nLewis Taylor, 33, from Newport, took photographs up the skirts of 20 women and girls on their lunch break at a Sainsbury's supermarket in Caerleon.\n\nAt Cardiff Crown Court, Taylor was given a community order and a rehabilitation requirement.\n\nHe must carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and do a three-year course.\n\nThe court heard Taylor \"mingled\" amongst the girls before kneeling down in the store and filming under their skirts.\n\nLisa McCormick, prosecuting, said: \"He attended a Sainsbury's Local on five occasions in the school lunch break intent on taking pictures up the skirts of schoolgirls aged between 11-16.\n\nTaylor was spotted by a member of staff at the Sainsbury's store\n\n\"He was seen by the manager upskirting and the police were called.\n\n\"A staff member stood near him with a view to distract him from his endeavours, but the defendant was not disturbed.\n\n\"He was loitering in the sandwich section while schoolgirls were there in uniform.\"\n\nStaff confronted Taylor and passed his car number plate on to police who arrested him at his home.\n\nWhen officers searched his home they found films and pictures taken at the Sainsbury's store in Caerleon, near Newport.\n\nMatthew Evans, defending, said if Taylor had been caught by an older woman \"he might have got a slap around the head\".\n\nMr Evans added: \"This was very uncharacteristic. Clearly he wasn't himself.\"\n\nGina Martin's campaign led to the new law\n\nUpskirting was made a criminal offence last year and anyone convicted can be jailed for up to two years.\n\nThe Voyeurism (Offences) Act came into force in April 2019 after a campaign led by Gina Martin, who was shocked to discover upskirting was not against the law.\n\nShe went to police after a man put his phone between her legs and took pictures at a festival, but officers were unable to take any action.\n\nA Facebook post detailing her experience went viral and she wrote a feature for the BBC News website explaining how she was fighting back.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Baker's body was found by workers arriving for their morning shifts\n\nA teenager was killed in a \"merciless, swift and bloody attack\" after being chased through a town to a docklands yard, a murder trial has heard.\n\nHarry Baker's body was found early on 28 August 2019 at a container port in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nNewport Crown Court heard the 17-year-old, from Cardiff, was \"ruthlessly hunted\" by drug dealers who felt he was \"on their turf\" after selling in Barry.\n\nOne of the defendants, Leon Clifford, 22, has admitted manslaughter and told police he climbed into the compound and stabbed Harry.\n\nProsecutor Paul Lewis QC said Harry's body was found by workers arriving for their early morning shifts.\n\nHe said: \"Harry Baker was lying face down on the ground. He had been repeatedly stabbed and his clothing had been stripped from his body.\n\n\"Harry Baker was deliberately targeted as a victim. He was ruthlessly hunted down by people who were determined to harm him.\"\n\nMr Lewis said Harry was chased \"through the town for a distance of about a mile by an armed and deadly gang\".\n\nHe added: \"Harry took refuge in a secure compound and he no doubt thought he would be safe there but he was not. His killers were determined.\n\n\"They then subjected him to a swift, bloody and merciless attack before fleeing the scene.\"\n\nThe court heard the initial confrontation and chase was captured in part on CCTV and there were eyewitnesses to some of what happened.\n\nMr Lewis said the group had acted \"in joint enterprise\" to murder him.\n\nHe said: \"All of them either themselves attacked and stabbed Mr Baker or otherwise they intentionally provided their encouragement and support to those who did. All of them are guilty of murder.\n\n\"They took umbrage because Harry Baker had ripped them off or had come on to their turf and stolen their business. And it is because of drugs that he was murdered.\"\n\nThe court heard Harry and his friend Louis Johnson had visited drug users Poppy Davies and Michael Sparks at Ty Gwenfo flats with drug samples before telling Ms Davies to spread the word he was a new dealer in town.\n\nMs Davies had previously seen Harry with a knife and Louis Johnston with a machete, which suggested the two had anticipated trouble caused by their drug dealing, the prosecution alleged.\n\nHarry Baker and Louis Johnson ran to Wimborne Road after an initial attack\n\nMr Lewis said: \"What they were doing certainly came to the notice of the defendants.\"\n\nSome of the defendants visited Ms Davies looking for Harry on the night of the murder.\n\nThe 16-year-old boy and another defendant, Leon Symons, 21, had their faces concealed, while a third, Lewis Evans, 61, was driving them.\n\nThere were various calls and texts between Harry and some of the defendants, and between the defendants, in the days leading up to the murder, Mr Lewis said.\n\n\"Initial violence\" towards Harry took place at a patch of land at Little Moors Hill in Barry, before he and his friend ran to Wimborne Road, where the container port is located.\n\nThe court was told Louis Johnson had refused to cooperate with the police investigation and trial.\n\nNathan Delafontaine, 32, Raymond Thompson, 47, Lewis Evans, 61, Leon Symons, 21, Ryan Palmer, 33, and Peter McCarthy, 36, along with Mr Clifford and a 16-year-old boy all deny murder.\n\nSix of them also deny violent disorder while Mr Evans denies a charge of assisting an offender.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last six weeks, continues.", "Grammy award-winning singer Duffy has revealed she was drugged and raped after being held captive by an attacker.\n\nThe 35-year-old Welsh star posted on her verified Instagram account that her \"recovery took time\".\n\nThe performer, who had a UK number one single Mercy in 2008, wrote to her 33,000 followers: \"The truth is, and please trust me I am OK and safe now.\"\n\n\"I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days,\" she wrote.\n\nDuffy, whose debut album Rockferry went seven times platinum as it went to number one in six countries, won three Brit Awards and a Grammy following her breakthrough.\n\nAt the Brits, she won British Breakthrough, Best British Female and Best British Album awards.\n\n\"You can only imagine the amount of times I thought about writing this,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"Well, not entirely sure why now is the right time, and what it is that feels exciting and liberating for me to talk.\n\n\"I cannot explain it. Many of you wonder what happened to me, where did I disappear to and why. A journalist contacted me, he found a way to reach me and I told him everything this past summer. He was kind and it felt so amazing to finally speak.\n\nDuffy wrote about her ordeal to her 33,000 Instagram followers\n\n\"The truth is, and please trust me I am OK and safe now, I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days. Of course I survived. The recovery took time. There's no light way to say it. But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine.\"\n\nDuffy - whose real name is Aimee Anne Duffy - went to number one in 12 countries with Mercy, which was the UK's third-best-selling single of 2008 with sales of more than 500,000 copies.\n\nThe singer, from Nefyn in Gwynedd, then enjoyed success with her first album Rockferry as it became the UK's biggest selling album of 2008.\n\n\"You wonder why I did not choose to use my voice to express my pain? I did not want to show the world the sadness in my eyes,\" she added.\n\n\"I asked myself, how can I sing from the heart if it is broken?\n\nDuffy went to number one in 12 countries with her single Mercy\n\n\"And slowly it unbroke. In the following weeks I will be posting a spoken interview.\n\n\"If you have any questions I would like to answer them, in the spoken interview, if I can. I have a sacred love and sincere appreciation for your kindness over the years. You have been friends. I want to thank you for that. x Duffy.\n\n\"Please respect this is a gentle move for me to make, for myself, and I do not want any intrusion to my family. Please support me to make this a positive experience.\"\n\nEleri Butler, chief executive of Welsh Women's Aid, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers the singer's choice to speak out was a \"strong, courageous and powerful statement\".\n\n\"It's really difficult to speak out… for some women it's the right time to talk many years after the experience, and for some it's never the right time,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC attempted to contact Duffy to confirm the details of her post.", "Iranian Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi mopped his brow repeatedly at a televised news conference on Monday, a day before he tested positive for the new coronavirus disease.\n\nThe official death toll from the Covid-19 outbreak in Iran has risen to 15, while 95 cases have been confirmed.", "Three Scottish Soldiers Campaign For Justice The soldiers who died were, from left, Fusilier Dougald McCaughey, Fusilier John McCaig and Fusilier Joseph McCaig\n\nA former member of the Parachute Regiment was centrally involved in the killings of three off-duty soldiers almost 50 years ago, a BBC Spotlight investigation has established.\n\nThe Scottish soldiers were John McCaig, 17; his brother, Joseph, 18, and Dougald McCaughey, 23.\n\nThey were found shot dead in Ligoniel, north Belfast, on 10 March 1971.\n\nThe Royal Highland Fusiliers had been drinking in a city centre pub when they were lured to their deaths by the IRA.\n\nThe Spotlight investigation reveals that Paddy O'Kane, who had served seven years in the Parachute Regiment, shared a drink with the three Scots before taking them away to their deaths.\n\nMembers of O'Kane's family and a former member of the IRA confirmed to Spotlight that O'Kane said he was involved in the killings.\n\nO'Kane, from north Belfast, joined the Parachute Regiment in 1957 and served in Cyprus and Jordan.\n\nA memorial stone marks the spot where the three soldiers were found on the outskirts of Belfast\n\nHe was a member of the boxing team for 2 Para. When he left the Army in 1964, his duty was officially recorded as \"very good\".\n\nHe is believed to have joined the Provisional IRA in 1969.\n\nPolice identified him as a prime suspect almost immediately after the killings.\n\nThe funeral for John and Joseph McCaig took place in Ayr\n\nHe was seen drinking with the soldiers in a city centre pub by a work colleague.\n\nBut O'Kane evaded arrest and went on the run in the Republic of Ireland where he remained very active in the IRA for at least another five years.\n\nFormer IRA intelligence chief Kieran Conway knew O'Kane. He told Spotlight that O'Kane spoke openly about his role in the killings.\n\nConway described the former Para as \"a psychopath\".\n\n\"I believe any man that could execute three young Scottish soldiers in that manner must have been a psychopath,\" he said.\n\nSeparately, multiple sources confirmed to Spotlight that Paddy O'Kane was also a lead suspect for the Kingsmills massacre of January 1976, when 10 Protestant workmen were ordered off a minibus and shot dead by the IRA.\n\nO'Kane was listed as wanted for questioning about the Kingsmills killings for many years afterwards.\n\nHe was first refused an \"On-the-Run\" (OTR) letter in 2003, but in 2007 an OTR letter was approved, giving him confirmation that he was not wanted by any police force in the UK.\n\nO'Kane died two years later, in Shannon, County Clare, where he had lived since 1976.\n\nPaddy O'Kane was also wanted for questioning about the Kingsmills killings\n\nThe bodies of the soldiers were discovered by a teenage girl.\n\nThree years ago, Brenda Kielty made her only recorded interview about that evening.\n\n\"They were just shot and dumped on top of each other. I didn't know whether it was three Protestants or three Catholics, but I never dreamt it was three soldiers,\" she said.\n\n\"There was nothing to indicate that it was three soldiers.\"\n\nMs Kielty, who died shortly after the interview, was then 14 years old, a little younger than the youngest of the victims, John McCaig.\n\n\"The wee boy had loads of freckles on his face. I actually put my hand on the wee boy's face and he was warm. He definitely wasn't cold like, he was warm,\" she said.\n\nThe Spotlight investigation retraces the soldiers' last day.\n\nIt scrutinises a longstanding rumour that women were used to lure the soldiers to their death in what was known as a \"honey trap\".\n\nIt identifies three other men whom the police also suspected of involvement in the killings.\n\nOne of those men told Spotlight that he \"vehemently denies any involvement\".\n\nAs more emerges about the killings, there have been calls for a fresh inquest and a new investigation but police said that the clearest evidence has always been against O'Kane, who is now dead.\n\nSpotlight, The Killings of the Three Scottish Soldiers, is on Tuesday at 22:35 GMT on BBC 1 Northern Ireland.", "Lord Steel is to retire from public life\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader David Steel has quit the party and the Lords after an inquiry said he \"turned a blind eye\" to claims of child abuse.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse criticised political groups for not acting on complaints.\n\nIt accused Lord Steel of an \"abdication of responsibility\" over accusations against the late MP Cyril Smith.\n\nLord Steel said he was quitting because he wanted to avoid \"distress\" for his family and \"turmoil\" for his party.\n\nThe former MP and MSP also said he was being made \"a proxy for Cyril Smith\", the former Rochdale MP who was investigated over allegations about the abuse of teenage boys in 1969.\n\nLord Steel had told the inquiry that he was made aware of the allegations against Smith 10 years later and \"assumed\" they were true, but said they were \"nothing to do with me\" because they predated Smith's time in parliament.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse ( IICSA) report said that political institutions \"regularly put their own reputations or political interests before child protection\".\n\nIt said Lord Steel was \"an example of a highly placed politician turning a blind eye to something that was potentially troublesome to his party, with no apparent regard for criminal acts which might have occurred or for any victims, past or future\".\n\nCyril Smith (left) and David Steel (right) discussed the allegations against Smith in 1979\n\nThe inquiry heard that complaints about Smith abusing boys were investigated by the police in the 1960s, while he was serving as a Labour councillor, but no prosecution was brought.\n\nHe was elected as a Liberal MP in 1972, and Lord Steel said he had discussed the allegations with him in 1979 after an article appeared in Private Eye.\n\nThe peer told the inquiry that he \"assumed\" that Smith had committed the offences, but took no further action because \"it was before he was an MP, before he was even a member of my party - it had nothing to do with me\".\n\nThe inquiry's report said that \"this failure to recognise the risk that Cyril Smith potentially posed to children was an abdication of responsibility by a political leader\".\n\nBut the politician responded that \"at no point did Cyril Smith admit to me the truth of the allegations in the Private Eye report\", and said he was \"never a friend of mine\".\n\nHe said: \"Nowhere do IICSA explain what powers I was supposed to possess to investigate 14-year-old allegations against someone who at the time of the actions alleged was not even a member of my party, that the police and successive prosecutors reviewed with access to all files.\"\n\nThe former Holyrood presiding officer was suspended and investigated by the Lib Dems after his appearance before the inquiry in 2019, but was ultimately reinstated.\n\nThe 81-year-old said he understood some in the party wanted him suspended again, while others had threatened to resign if he was subject to a new investigation.\n\nHe said: \"I wish to avoid any such turmoil in my party and to prevent further distress to my family. I have therefore thanked my local party secretary for their stalwart support through the whole inquiry process, and have informed the local party that my resignation is with immediate effect.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said the \"powerful report\" had lessons for everyone, and that it was \"right that David Steel has decided to resign from the Liberal Democrats and retire from public life\".\n\nDavid Steel was first elected as MP for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles in 1965, and represented the area at Westminster for more than 30 years.\n\nHe became Liberal Party leader in 1976, aged 38, and was in post during the party's 1988 merger with the Social Democratic Party to form the Liberal Democrats.\n\nHe retired from the Commons in 1997, and was made a life peer as Baron Steel of Aikwood.\n\nLord Steel campaigned for Scottish devolution, and entered the newly formed Scottish Parliament as a Lib Dem member for the Lothians region in 1999.\n\nHe subsequently became the first presiding officer of the parliament, before stepping down as an MSP in 2003.", "Greta Thunberg has met Malala Yousafzai during a visit to Oxford University.\n\nThe climate change campaigner, 17, made the trip to Lady Margaret Hall where she met the human rights campaigner, 22, on Tuesday.\n\nMs Thunberg is set to join a school strike in Bristol. Ms Yousafzai is studying politics, philosophy, and economics at the university.\n\nThe student posted a picture of the two young activists on Instagram, saying simply: \"Thank you @gretathunberg\".\n\n\"She's the only friend I'd skip school for,\" she added on Twitter.\n\nAlso posting on social media, Ms Thunberg said: \"So...today I met my role model. What else can I say?\"\n\nIt is not known what the pair discussed, though according to Alan Rusbridger, the principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Ms Thunberg spoke to students about \"science, voting, the limits of protest, divestment, real zero v net zero, and much more\" during her visit.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by arusbridger This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReplying to the young women's posts, others have declared them \"legends\" and described the meeting as \"awesome\".\n\nPosting on Twitter, one fan, Stefan Reichwein, said: \"Pure inspiration and hope - the world needs women like you.\"\n\nWhile Ida Skibenes said: \"Thanks for being the sheroes we need and for giving us hope.\"\n\nJennifer Cassidy, a lecturer in politics at the University of Oxford, wrote: \"I walk out my door, up one street and see @Malala and @GretaThunberg talking outside.\n\n\"Two powerful young women standing for justice, truth and equality for all.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr. Jennifer Cassidy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGood Morning Britain host Piers Morgan said: \"What a photo... the two most influential young women of my lifetime meet in Oxford.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers were less complimentary, describing the pair as \"overrated\".\n\nTwitter user Luis Hulyer said: \"One risked her life to go to school, the other plays truant.\"\n\nTwo years ago, Ms Thunberg started missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building, in what turned out to be the beginning of a huge environmental movement.\n\nShe has become a leading voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world.\n\nIn 2012, Ms Yousafzai was shot in the head, neck and shoulder by a Taliban fighter while travelling home from school after writing an anonymous diary about life under the extremists.\n\nAfter recovering from her near-fatal injuries, she and her family relocated to Birmingham.\n\nIn 2014, she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, at the age of 17. Three years later she accepted a place to study at Oxford.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The house of my dreams would be a penthouse, because I’m not really that into houses. I like to be on the top floor of things so that I can see the cityscape, see the landscape. I’m not very materialistic so it would just have the necessities.\n\nI think I would rent an apartment in the future with multiple people, rather than living by myself in a house because that just seems to be far too expensive. I spend most of my time in my room so I wouldn’t need to have an upstairs and a downstairs.\n\nThe topic of housing never comes up in conversations with my friends. We just all agree that we’d never be able to afford a house of our own, because the houses in London are very expensive. Even the house I live in now, I’ve lived in it since I was born, and the price of it has just gone up even though it’s kind of small… so we’re very pessimistic when it comes to the topic of housing.\n\nRenting with people is easier than deciding who’s paying how much of the mortgage, so I think renting is a better idea, especially long term because you can just break out whenever you need to.", "Anne Giwa-Amu, who is Nigerian and Welsh, won her claim against the government department\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions has been ordered to pay out nearly £400,000 after a Cardiff woman won her claim for race and age discrimination.\n\nAnne Giwa-Amu told the BBC the department was \"promoting a culture of racism\".\n\nThe judge in her tribunal case said she had been a victim of deliberate and intended harassment by DWP staff.\n\nThe department said racism was unacceptable and it took the judgement \"very seriously\".\n\nAnne Giwa-Amu, 59, who is mixed Nigerian and Welsh, joined the DWP branch in Caerphilly as a full-time administrative officer in 2017, after trying without success to start a small business.\n\nShe was the only non-white recruit and only trainee over the age of 50 in her cohort, according to documents from Cardiff Magistrates' Court seen by BBC News.\n\nJudge Howden-Evans said DWP staff had deliberately created a \"hostile environment\" for Ms Giwa-Amu and has ordered the department to pay out more than £386,000 in compensation.\n\nThis includes £42,800 for injury to feelings, which is awarded in the \"most serious\" cases where there has been a lengthy campaign of harassment.\n\n\"It comes as a relief after what has been a harrowing experience for three years,\" Ms Giwa-Amu told the BBC.\n\n\"I've had to experience real financial hardship and the perpetrators were promoted despite how they had treated me.\"\n\nMs Giwa-Amu was based in the branch of the DWP at Caerphilly in south-east Wales\n\nA DWP official had violated her dignity by using racist language such as \"Paki-lover\" in her presence, the court found.\n\nAnother had further humiliated and discriminated against Ms Giwa-Amu by loudly laughing and telling her cohort he had \"touched her bum\".\n\nOfficials had also repeatedly accused Ms Giwa-Amu of stealing ice-cream, sprayed body-spray on themselves while next to her, and breached her confidence after she reported feeling \"bullied\".\n\nMs Giwa-Amu went on sick leave in March 2017 and was unlawfully dismissed in October that year for being unable to return to work, the court found.\n\nShe had been living off £55 a week and later had no money for food after her final pay cheque was withheld.\n\nMs Giwa-Amu told the BBC she has since been living with \"immense stress and anxiety\".\n\n\"Management at the DWP are paying lip service to the equality legislation,\" she said. \"By protecting offenders, they are promoting a culture of racism.\"\n\nThe DWP has been ordered to contact the Equality and Human Rights Commission for diversity awareness training and its permanent secretary, Peter Schofield, must directly review her case.\n\nMs Giwa-Amu's solicitor, Lawrence Davies from Equal Justice, said DWP staff had \"set out to destroy the confidence and wellbeing of a black employee with their appalling conduct\".\n\n\"None of the white DWP staff have been disciplined and some have been promoted,\" he said.\n\n\"Given that the DWP serves a high level of ethnic minority claimants, the presence of prejudice in the state benefits system is of grave concern.\"\n\nIn a statement, the DWP said: \"Racism is totally unacceptable and action will be taken against any staff found to be expressing such views.\n\n\"We take the judgement and the circumstances of this case very seriously.\"", "The leaders of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil held their first sit down discussions since the general election\n\nA left-wing government in the Republic of Ireland led by Sinn Féin is very unlikely, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said.\n\nMr Martin was speaking after he held a meeting with Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar on Tuesday.\n\nIt was the first sit-down discussion between the two party leaders since the Irish general election.\n\nFianna Fáil won the most seats in the Dail (parliament) in January's election with 38, one ahead of Sinn Fein.\n\nHowever, Sinn Fein had the highest number of first preference votes.\n\n\"Very clearly you can see the so-called left wing alliance that was trumpeted over a week hasn't really made any progress in terms of numbers in the Dail,\" Mr Martin said.\n\n\"That remains a very unlikely scenario in terms of any combination on the far left, or Sinn Féin emerging with any credible numbers to form a government.\"\n\nFine Gael, which had relied on a 2016 confidence and supply arrangement with Fianna Fáil to remain in government, finished with 35 seats.\n\nLeo Varadkar tendered his resignation as taoiseach (Irish prime minister), last week,\n\nMr Martin said no-one had ruled out a reverse confidence and supply arrangement between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.\n\nLeo Varadkar tendered his resignation as taoiseach to President Michael D Higgins last Thursday\n\n\"There are two aspects to that,\" he said.\n\n\"Could you achieve a critical mass that could sustain under a confidence-and-supply arrangement, and secondly would the dynamic be such that it would enable that government to take decisions that I think will be needed to make meaningful inroads on the housing crisis and on the health crisis and also climate change?\"\n\nMr Martin said he had also had a constructive meeting with the newly-formed Regional Independent Group made up of nine TDs.\n\n\"The clear message from the independents was that they wanted a stable government that would last five years to deal with the key issues of housing and health and regional economic development,\" he added.\n\n\"They have a strong focus on the imbalance in terms of how the country economically is developing.\"\n\nHe said his party will on Wednesday begin serious engagements with the Green Party on a range of policy issues.\n\nAfter the meeting, Fine Gael issued a statement on behalf of Mr Varadkar.\n\n\"The taoiseach and president of Fine Gael encouraged Fianna Fail to continue engaging with other parties with a view to forming a government.\n\nIt said the two parties had agreed to meet again at some point in the future.\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party had been given a mandate for change.\n\nSinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said Sinn Féin had been given a mandate for change.\n\n\"People have told me that - people told me they voted for Sinn Féin because they wanted a new government,\" she added.\n\n\"They don't want Fianna Fail and Fine Gael back in government, they want a new approach to government, they want the priorities of ordinary working people to be put front and centre.\"\n\nSinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty insisted a left-wing government is still possible, saying: \"For our part, change needs to mean change.\n\n\"We're keeping all options open in relation to forming a government for change - that's the mandate that we have.\"", "Georgia said she had been \"fighting with Carrot back and forth to try and make sure they didn't cancel my policy\"\n\nYoung people are being threatened with having their car insurance cancelled due to faults with an app that aims to make policies more affordable, the BBC has been told.\n\nCarrot Insurance uses phone data to measure journey length, acceleration and braking - but some say it often fails to work or wrongly records data.\n\nTory MP Craig Tracey questioned whether it was \"fit for purpose\".\n\nCarrot said it was \"extremely sorry\" some had had a \"poor experience\".\n\nIt told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme \"for the vast majority\" of young people, the app helps to reduce their premiums and to improve their driving safety.\n\nCarrot Insurance describes its Better Driver app as \"a clever bit of technology which uses 'telematics' to measure acceleration, braking, swerving, and the number and length of journeys that you make\".\n\nUsers can then be rewarded for good driving.\n\nThe premise is to help lower car insurance for younger people - who traditionally pay higher prices, as they are considered more at risk of an accident.\n\nMost telematics services run from a black box, which is a small device fitted to a car, that records data when it is being driven.\n\nBut Carrot Insurance's Better Driver policy relies solely on GPS and Bluetooth - and requires a WiFi or data connection.\n\nMore than 20 young people have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme they have had issues with the app - in some cases causing them to have their insurance cancelled, or end the policy themselves.\n\nSeparate individuals have told the BBC the app had recorded them as driving while they were actually cycling or on the train.\n\nThe person on the train was marked as speeding, which Carrot said \"can occur in some very rare instances when customers pair their phone to an additional Bluetooth device\".\n\nOne woman, 28-year-old Jess, said Carrot cancelled her policy in December 2018 because she was not using the app - which she said was not working properly.\n\n\"In the end I lost two years no claims discount,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I have a new policy now but declaring the cancellation meant it cost me £1,600.\"\n\nCarrot said it had fully compensated \"all those customers\" to which the BBC had alerted them.\n\nLayla said the app stopped working for her after it was updated\n\nOthers have told the BBC their journeys had not been recorded properly by the app.\n\nLayla, 22, said after the app was updated in December, it stopped working.\n\n\"[Carrot] emailed me to say: 'If you do not connect the app to your car, your insurance will be cancelled,'\" she said.\n\n\"Then I was, 'Oh my god', panicking.\"\n\nCarrot said that when the Better Driver App was updated, \"Layla began to record journeys accurately, as expected\".\n\nGeorgia, a 22-year-old barista from Leicester, said she had been \"fighting with Carrot back and forth to try and make sure they didn't cancel my policy\", after the app \"started to play up\".\n\nCarrot said it was \"actively looking to resolve\" the matter with Georgia.\n\nConservative MP Craig Tracey, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Insurance and Financial Services, said it was good that the industry had recognised the challenge young people faced to get affordable insurance.\n\nBut, he said, while some technological advances had been \"really, really positive\", there was a need to ensure that regulation kept up.\n\n\"It seems like the technology [in the case of Carrot Insurance] is not working, is not fit for purpose. So it really needs to be looked at.\n\n\"There's a glitch somewhere along the line,\" he said.\n\nCraig Tracey MP said regulation needed to keep up with advances in technology\n\nHe called on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to investigate.\n\nThe FCA has told the BBC that for the second half of 2018, Carrot Insurance had the most complaints relative to the size of the company.\n\nCarrot Insurance said in a statement when the issue with its app \"became apparent in April 2019 we acted as quickly as possible to put things right and prevent anyone else experiencing similar problems or being disadvantaged in any way.\n\n\"We are continually developing and improving our technology to provide the best possible products and services for our customers.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange tried to phone the White House to warn them unredacted files were about to be published online, a court has heard.\n\nMr Assange is fighting extradition to the US to face trial over the leaking of classified US military documents.\n\nHis lawyer dismissed claims he \"knowingly\" put lives at risk by publishing the names of informants.\n\nHe told Woolwich Crown Court that a book by the Guardian newspaper was to blame for the names being published.\n\nThose suggestions have been rejected by the Guardian.\n\nThe claims came on the second day of the extradition hearing for Mr Assange, 48, who is accused of conspiring to hack into US military databases to acquire sensitive secret information, which was then published on the Wikileaks website.\n\nLawyers for Mr Assange claim the US charges are politically motivated.\n\nMark Summers QC, representing Mr Assange, told the hearing in London that Wikileaks had begun redacting a tranche of 250,000 leaked cables in November 2010, working with media partners around the world as well as the US government.\n\nHe said that in February 2011 the Guardian published a book about Wikileaks which contained a password to the unredacted documents.\n\nHe said it wasn't until months later that it was discovered the password could be used to access the unredacted database, which was revealed by German news outlet Der Freitag on 25 August 2011.\n\nOn that day, Mr Assange called the White House and asked to speak to then secretary of state Hillary Clinton \"as a matter of urgency\" over fears the documents were about to be dumped online by third parties who had gained access, Mr Summers told the court. He was told to ring back in a few hours.\n\nMr Summers said Mr Assange had warned: \"I don't understand why you're not seeing the urgency of this.\n\n\"Unless we do something, then people's lives are put at risk.\"\n\nResponding to the claims made in court, a Guardian spokesman said it was \"entirely wrong\" that its 2011 Wikileaks book led to the publication of unredacted files.\n\nHe said: \"The book contained a password which the authors had been told by Julian Assange was temporary and would expire and be deleted in a matter of hours. The book also contained no details about the whereabouts of the files.\"\n\nHe added that \"no concerns were expressed\" by Mr Assange or Wikileaks about security being compromised when the book was published.\n\nSupporters for Julian Assange demonstrate outside the court for a second day\n\nProsecutors argued on Monday that Mr Assange knowingly put hundreds of sources around the world at risk of torture and death by publishing the unredacted documents containing names or other identifying details.\n\nBut Mr Summers told the court that the US extradition request \"boldly and brazenly\" misrepresented the facts.\n\nHe said the US government, which was involved in the redaction process, knows \"what actually occurred\" which was \"far from being a reckless, unredacted release\".\n\nIn response, James Lewis QC, representing the US government, told the court that Mr Assange \"didn't have to publish the unredacted cables\".\n\n\"He decided to do so on a widely followed and easily searchable website, knowing that it was dangerous to do so,\" he added.\n\nMr Assange has been held in Belmarsh prison since last September ahead of his extradition hearing.\n\nHe was originally jailed for 50 weeks in May 2019 for breaching his bail conditions after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for nearly seven years.\n\nHe sought asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied. That investigation was subsequently dropped.", "Milly and Toby Savill married in 2017 and were described as a \"devoted\" couple\n\nA young British couple killed in a crash on a Greek island were trying to make a U-turn when their hired buggy fell off a cliff, an inquest heard.\n\nTeachers Milly and Toby Savill, both 25, had been driving on Santorini's Profitis Ilias mountain before they plunged 200m (656ft) into a ravine.\n\nMs Savill's father Steve Coulson said it was a comfort to know their \"last minutes were spent having fun.\"\n\nIt was not known who was driving at the time of the crash on on 14 April 2019, Ms Deonarine told the hearing at Southwark Coroner's Court\n\nShe said an eyewitness to the accident had told Greek police the pair had attempted to turn the buggy round before falling off the edge.\n\nRescue teams recovered their bodies and the buggy from the foot of the cliff. The couple, from Vauxhall, south London, were officially declared dead at Fira General Hospital.\n\nMs Deonarine recorded the deaths as the result of a road accident.\n\nIn a statement read out at the inquest, Mr Coulson said the families did not want to know who was driving as they did not want to attribute blame to anyone.\n\n\"We're not interested in how they died, we're just interested in how they lived,\" said Mr Coulson, a vicar at St Mark's church in Kennington, south London.\n\n\"An iPad of theirs that was recovered had 72 photos which were taken a couple of hours before the accident.\n\n\"It's a comfort to know they were having a good time on holiday. They were just two people having fun - just as they lived for 25 years.\n\n\"Their last minutes were spent having fun.\"\n\nProfitis Elias' peak stands at 1,853ft (564m) above sea level and is the highest point on Santorini\n\nMr Savill taught history at Ark Evelyn Grace Academy and joined the Brixton-based school in September 2018 as a newly qualified teacher.\n\nMrs Savill taught at St Anne's Catholic primary school in Vauxhall and was described by head teacher Catherine Davis as a \"much-loved member of staff\".\n\nProfitis Elias' peak stands at 1,853ft (564m) above sea level and is the highest point on the island, which is popular with British holidaymakers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This footage of Salman Abedi outside the arena was shown to jurors\n\nFootage of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi watching music fans arrive for a Take That gig days before his attack has been shown to a jury.\n\nAbedi can be seen looking at box office queues, just yards from the spot where, four days later, on 22 May 2017, he killed himself and 22 others.\n\nHashem Abedi, 22, is on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of helping his brother plan the attack.\n\nHe denies 22 murders, attempted murder, and conspiring to cause explosions.\n\nThe attempted murder charge encompasses the scores of people who survived the attack, which happened at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe jury was shown CCTV footage in which Salman Abedi travels to the Arena venue, spending more than a minute in the City Rooms section where crowds can be seen milling around him.\n\nHe then leaves for the nearby Arndale shopping centre, where he buys four nine-volt batteries and a large blue Kangol suitcase, used to transport his bomb-making equipment to his Manchester city centre flat.\n\nEarlier he was seen leaving the flat in Granby Row at about 18:00 BST.\n\nThe hooded figure, wearing jogging bottoms and white trainers, was seen moving through rush-hour traffic.\n\nHashem Abedi denies being an extremist and insists he had no idea of his brother's suicide bomb plans\n\nAbedi, then aged 22, also swaps his Sim card between phones and takes an untraced international call during the visit, where he walks the perimeter of the Arena venue before going inside to the City Rooms.\n\nJurors heard he took the suitcase to Devell House, a block of flats in Rusholme, south Manchester, the next day.\n\nThe prosecution said that on 14 April, the Abedi brothers left a Nissan Micra outside the flat and that the vehicle had been used to store bomb-making chemicals and equipment until Salman Abedi returned from Libya to carry out the final stage of the plan.\n\nSalman Abedi loads the suitcase and is seen struggling to drag it up the steps at his city centre apartment, where the prosecution allege he assembled his device.\n\nJurors were also shown CCTV footage allegedly showing Salman Abedi taking a taxi to a B&Q store in Cheetham Hill where he spent nearly £200 on items including 4,000 screws, metal nuts, a swing bin, a spade, a saw, glue, tape, a set of drawers and an oak effect door.\n\nFootage from 18 May 2017 shows Salman Abedi in and around Victoria station, close to Manchester Arena\n\nStore worker Steven Dooley told police he woke on 23 May to see the \"devastating events\" of the previous evening on the news.\n\nMr Dooley said that, two days before the Arena bombing, he remembered seeing a young man \"acting suspiciously\".\n\n\"My attention was drawn to him mainly because he had his hoodie over his head and I thought he might be shoplifting,\" he added.\n\nThe jury was also taken through Salman Abedi's phone records from the afternoon of the bombing, which included multiple calls to an unknown Libyan number.\n\nThe identity of the recipient has never been established.\n\nHashem Abedi insists he is not an extremist and had no idea of his older brother's plans.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Diplomats owe more than £116m to Transport for London for unpaid congestion charges, the Foreign Office has revealed.\n\nThe US Embassy owes the largest amount at almost £12.5m, while the Embassy of Japan owes over £8.5m.\n\nThe diplomats also owe over £200,000 in unpaid parking fines, with Nigeria's High Commission owing over £47,000.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the government had held meetings with embassies to \"press for payment\".\n\nBut a US Embassy spokesman claimed the congestion charge was a tax which diplomats do not have to pay.\n\nThe figures for the congestion charge - the fee for most vehicles travelling in central London, which goes towards investment into public transport - dates back to between 2003 and 2018, with a total of £116,868,825 outstanding from embassies.\n\nThe parking fines date from 2018 and total £200,686.\n\nThe congestion charges for the US alone rose by more than £520,000 in one year, whilst Japan's went up by almost £500,000 for the same period.\n\nAs well as topping the list for parking fines - up by £8,000 from the previous year - Nigeria was third on the congestion charge list, owing over £7m.\n\nIn a written statement, Mr Raab said as well as the meetings, the government had written to diplomatic missions and international organisations with debts \"giving them the opportunity to either pay outstanding debts, or appeal against specific fines if they considered that they had been recorded incorrectly\".\n\nHowever, a number of embassies claim that under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, they do not have to pay taxes, which they consider these fees to be.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said they did not believe there were any legal grounds to exempt diplomats from paying the congestion charge, adding: \"The charge is comparable to a parking fee or a toll charge, which diplomatic missions and international organisations are required to pay.\"\n\nAnd when it came to parking fines, he added: \"Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, those entitled to immunity are expected to obey the law and we therefore expect all foreign diplomats to pay their parking fines.\n\n\"As the [foreign secretary's statement] points out, we have made a concerted effort to urge missions to pay their fines.\"\n\nA US Embassy spokesman said staff \"conscientiously pay fines for all traffic violations, such as parking and speeding violations\".\n\n\"Our position on the [congestion charge] tax... is based on the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which expressly prohibits the taxation of diplomatic missions in this manner,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"This is a position shared by many other diplomatic missions in London. Our position is wholly in accordance with the convention, to which both the United States and the United Kingdom are parties.\"\n\nThe BBC has also contacted the Japanese and Nigerian embassies for a response.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia and the US have signed defence, energy and telecoms deals but failed to reach a much-talked about trade accord.\n\nPresident Donald Trump hailed a \"very productive visit\" but said he would keep working with Indian PM Narendra Modi for \"a comprehensive trade deal\".\n\nThe US is one of India's biggest trade partners. The two leaders hope the visit will mend a rift over tariffs.\n\nMr Trump's visit to Delhi has been marred by the deadliest religious unrest in the capital for decades.\n\nAsked about the violence, he told reporters that the incident was \"up to India\" to handle.\n\nHowever, he said he had brought up the issue of religious freedom in the country and was impressed by Mr Modi's response.\n\n\"He [Modi] was incredible, he told me- 'In India we have worked very hard to have religious freedoms',\" Mr Trump said.\n\nTen people, including a policeman, have been killed and about 150 injured in protests against a controversial new citizenship law, which critics say discriminates against Muslims.\n\nMr Modi's Hindu nationalist government denies this, saying the law only seeks to give amnesty to persecuted minorities.\n\nAt least seven people have died in violence in Delhi\n\nCorrespondents say the timing of the unrest is an embarrassment to Mr Modi and the violence has taken the spotlight away from Mr Trump's visit.\n\nAfter talks on Tuesday, the US president and Mr Modi acknowledged they had not been able to sign a trade deal, but announced that negotiations would continue.\n\n\"We also agreed to open negotiations on a big trade deal. At the global level, our relationship is depended on the similar democratic values we share,\" Mr Modi said.\n\nBut deals in other areas were announced.\n\nIndia is to buy attack helicopters and other US military equipment worth $3bn, Mr Trump said.\n\nThey also announced co-operation in fighting radical Islamist terrorism and deepening energy ties, as well as pledging to work together to make 5G technology safer. As part of the deals announced, US firm Exxon Mobil and Indian Oil have signed an agreement to help India import more Liquefied Natural Gas (LPG).\n\nThe two leaders hope their personal chemistry helps mend a rift over tariffs\n\nBilateral trade between the two countries totalled $142.6bn (£110.3bn) in 2018. But in June 2019, the US ended preferential trade status for India.\n\nIndia imposed retaliatory tariffs on 28 US products, causing a diplomatic rift between the two countries.\n\nBut Mr Trump's visit has helped improve relations, and cement what appears to be a strong personal rapport between him and Mr Modi.\n\nMr Trump's two-day India visit has been high on optics. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Ahmedabad city in Gujarat, the home state of Mr Modi, to welcome him on Monday. The leaders later addressed a crowd of more than 100,000 people at the Motera cricket stadium. Mr Trump ended the day with a city to the iconic Taj Mahal.\n\n\"The last two days, especially yesterday at the stadium, it was a great honour for me. People were there maybe more for you [PM Narendra Modi] than for me... Every time I mentioned you, they cheered more. People love you here,\" President Trump said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Jessica Mann said she \"entered into what I thought was going to be a real relationship with him\"\n\nA one-time aspiring actress says Harvey Weinstein subjected her to \"degrading\" abuse, in some of the most graphic testimony shared in his trial so far.\n\nJessica Mann detailed a catalogue of abuse by the Hollywood producer, saying he once trapped her in a hotel bedroom and raped her.\n\nThree of the five charges against Mr Weinstein relate to Ms Mann.\n\nHe denies non-consensual sex and his lawyers say emails prove his and Ms Mann's relationship was consensual.\n\nWARNING: This story contains details some readers may find upsetting\n\nMs Mann's evidence came at the end of the fourth week of the Manhattan trial of the Oscar-winning Hollywood mogul, who produced films including Shakespeare in Love and The English Patient.\n\nThe 34-year-old said she met him in late 2012 or early 2013 at a party, and she told him of her ambition to be an actress. Later, she said, he invited her and a friend to a Los Angeles hotel suite. He then allegedly pulled Ms Mann into a bedroom and performed oral sex on her.\n\nMs Mann then began a relationship with Mr Weinstein. \"I entered into what I thought was going to be a real relationship with him and it was extremely degrading from that point on,\" she said.\n\nShe said he once urinated on her, and in 2013 raped her in a Manhattan hotel room. \"If he heard the word 'no,' it was like a trigger for him,\" she said.\n\nWhen asked why she stayed in the relationship, Ms Mann said in tears that there was \"no short answer\".\n\n\"One of the aspects initially was that I had had a sexual encounter\" with him, she said. \"That wasn't something I could undo. That really confused me and hurt me.\" She stayed with him partly out of fear, she said.\n\nOne of Mr Weinstein's lawyers, Damon Cheronis, said Ms Mann sent \"flattering\" emails to Mr Weinstein during their relationship, one of which said \"Miss you, big guy.\" These prove the relationship was not abusive, the defence alleges.\n\nIn Friday's testimony, Ms Mann also alleged that Mr Weinstein had \"extreme scarring\" on his body and used erectile dysfunction medication. She also believed he was intersex, and it appeared he had a vagina and no testicles.\n\nSince October 2017, more than 80 women have publicly accused Mr Weinstein of sexual misconduct but this criminal case involves only a few of them.\n\nSome consider the trial a watershed moment, where some of Mr Weinstein's alleged victims have had their voices heard in court for the first time.\n\nMr Weinstein is on trial for five offences, including rape and predatory sexual assault. He denies the charges and all allegations of wrongdoing, but if convicted could face life in prison.\n\nHere is what has happened in the trial so far.\n\nMr Weinstein turned up to his first court appearance heavily aided and using a walking frame. Crowds of protesters, including some accusers, gathered outside the courthouse to try and face him down.\n\n\"You thought you could terrorise me and others into silence. You were wrong,\" actress Rose McGowan, who accuses him of rape, said reading from an open letter.\n\nThe same day, on 6 January, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office announced new charges against Mr Weinstein. After the New York trial, he is expected to appear in court in California.\n\nFinding an impartial jury for the New York case was a difficult task, with hundreds summoned as potential jurors. Mr Weinstein's legal team even filed a last-minute motion to move the trial outside Manhattan over the \"carnival-like atmosphere\" surrounding proceedings. They cited the media hype about model Gigi Hadid being among the potential jurors.\n\nThe first week of proceedings ended with a flash-mob of protesters performing an anti-rape chant outside, which could be heard inside the courtroom.\n\nDuring the process, prosecutors accused Mr Weinstein's defence team of \"systematically eliminating\" young white women as jurors. The selection process concluded with five women and seven men on the panel.\n\n\"This trial is not a referendum on the #MeToo movement. It is not a referendum on sexual harassment,\" Judge James Burke told the jury, saying they must only decide if Mr Weinstein \"committed certain acts which constitute a particular crime\".\n\n\"The man seated right there was not just a titan in Hollywood, he was a rapist,\" prosecutor Meghan Hast said in her opening statement on 22 January.\n\nShe accused him of using his celebrity status to manipulate women and explicitly detailed allegations against him. Only two of the accusers' cases, Mimi (Miriam) Haleyi and Jessica Mann, have led to individual criminals charges in New York but the testimony of others is being used as supporting evidence.\n\nMs Hast described how Mr Weinstein allegedly \"lunged at\" Ms Haleyi in 2006 to perform a forced sex act on her. Ms Mann alleges he raped her in a New York hotel in 2013.\n\nOne of Mr Weinstein's lawyers, Damon Cheronis, insists the state's case would \"unravel\" during the trial and urged the jury: \"While the narrative they painted for you is one that may reinforce your preconceived notions, it's not the truth.\"\n\nThe defence aim to present the sexual interactions as consensual. At the opening, Mr Cheronis alleged one accuser had even described Mr Weinstein as \"her casual boyfriend\".\n\nUS actress Annabella Sciorra testified on 23 January that the film producer raped her in the winter of 1993/4. Her allegations, outside New York's statue of limitations, are being used to support the most serious charge of predatory sexual assault.\n\nShe said Mr Weinstein forced his way into her apartment after a dinner with others. \"I was trying to get him off me,\" she told the jury. \"I was punching him, kicking him.\"\n\nThe former Sopranos actress described her body shaking after the alleged assault and said she did not go public with it for years because she was \"afraid for her life\". Ms Sciorra's friend, fellow actress Rosie Perez, testified that she shared some details of the incident with her at the time, but on cross-examination lawyers challenged Ms Sciorra's ability to remember the exact date of the alleged attack.\n\nLawyer Donna Rotunno tried to poke holes in the Sopranos actress' account\n\nA forensic psychiatrist, Dr Barbara Ziv, also testified as an expert witness to explain misconceptions around rape and the behaviour of victims.\n\nProduction assistant Mimi Haleyi told the court that Mr Weinstein assaulted her twice in Manhattan in 2006, after he helped her get a job on a television show he produced.\n\nShe detailed an incident at his apartment where she alleges he performed oral sex on her, without consent, when she was on her period.\n\n\"Every time I tried to get off the bed he would push me back and hold me down,\" Ms Haleyi said during emotional testimony. \"At this point I realised what was happening. I'm being raped.\"\n\nShe told the court he convinced her to meet again weeks later. On that occasion she allegedly \"laid there\" as he had sex with her in an incident that left her feeling \"numb\" and like \"an idiot\". Mr Weinstein has only been charged over first alleged encounter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hired by Weinstein to extract information on celebrities\n\nDuring cross-examination Mr Weinstein's defence focused on her continued contact with him after the alleged incidents and presented email exchanges between the two including one she signed off with \"lots of love\".\n\nThroughout the week further \"prior bad acts\" witnesses continued to testify. Former actress Dawn Dunning alleged Mr Weinstein put her hands up her skirt and touched her genitals at a hotel in Soho in 2004 and later tried to offer her film roles in exchange for sex.\n\nTarale Wulff alleged Mr Weinstein masturbated in front of her in 2005 when she worked as a waitress. She said she was later invited to read scripts by Weinstein Company staff and was taken to his apartment, where he allegedly raped her.", "A man was shot dead by police after he attacked people in Streatham, south London\n\nEmergency legislation to block the automatic release of people convicted of terror offences is set to become law after being approved by the Lords.\n\nThe Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill - which was passed by MPs earlier this month - was drawn up following an attack in south London.\n\nThe attacker, Sudesh Amman, had recently been freed from prison.\n\nThe government had wanted to pass the bill before 28 February when the next terror offender is due for release.\n\nSunderland shopkeeper Mohammed Zahir Khan, 42, had been set to be freed after serving half of his sentence for encouraging terrorism.\n\nThe government's emergency measures, which required backing from Parliament, would postpone his release until the Parole Board has given its approval.\n\nOffenders are told they are being sentenced for a fixed period and will be automatically released at the half-way point, to serve the remainder of their sentence on licence in the community.\n\nSome offenders will have pleaded guilty on the basis that they would be given a sentence with automatic early release at the half-way point.\n\nTheir release is an automatic process and does not involve oversight of the Parole Board.\n\nThe bill would affect about 50 prisoners who were convicted under existing rules, which allow for release halfway through a sentence.\n\nLawyers for some of the inmates are believed to be preparing a legal challenge, but ministers claim they are not extending sentences, merely changing the way they are administered.\n\nThe legislation would apply to England, Scotland and Wales but the government said it intended to make provisions for Northern Ireland in a future piece of legislation, arguing that there was no need for \"immediate measures\" in the region.\n\nThe House of Lords backed the bill unamended in one sitting on Monday evening.\n\nDuring the debate, the government's justice spokesperson Lord Keen of Elie acknowledged that \"applying these measures retrospectively is an unusual step\" - but argued this was due to the \"unprecedented gravity of the situation\".\n\nLabour's shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti said she accepted the need for emergency legislation, but added that it was \"an emergency of the government's own making\".\n\nShe argued the Ministry of Justice had been hit by \"the most savage cuts in Whitehall\".\n\n\"That has a direct bearing on the nature of capacity, regime and intervention in the prison and probation systems.\"", "Supermarket giant Tesco is set to cut more than 1,800 jobs as it makes changes to bakeries in larger stores.\n\nIt said that 1,816 bakery staff were at risk of redundancy, with the changes taking place from May.\n\nThe retailer said it would convert 58 of its bakeries so they will only finish pre-baked products on-site.\n\nJason Tarry, the head of Tesco UK & Ireland, said it needed to \"adapt to changing customer demand\", with fewer people buying traditional loaves.\n\nThe move comes as sales of bagels, wraps and flatbreads is increasing, according to Tesco.\n\nBakeries at 257 sites will remain unchanged, with a further 201 still offering some products baked from scratch.\n\nMr Tarry added: \"We know this will be very difficult for colleagues who are impacted, and our priority is to support them through this process. We hope that many will choose to stay with us in alternative roles.\"\n\nThe firm said it would have thousands of vacancies available across its stores between February and May.\n\nThe main union representing Tesco staff, Usdaw, said the reports of job cuts were \"devastating\" for staff.\n\nPauline Foulkes, its national officer, said many of those at risk were skilled workers.\n\n\"While we will do everything possible to maintain jobs or support impacted staff to redeploy into alternative roles, the reality is the opportunities to find suitable alternative skilled roles may be limited for these workers,\" she said.\n\nTesco is the UK's biggest grocery chain and it employs 450,000 people worldwide.", "A woman who was \"forced\" into a gang has called for police to use stop and search powers more often on girls and young women in order to \"save them\".\n\nLucy Martindale said she was threatened by men wanting her to hold weapons when she was a teenager in Brixton, south London, as she went between estates.\n\nThe 29-year-old believes increased police intervention would allow females to explain they were being groomed.\n\n\"I think stop and search could save them,\" she said.\n\nMs Martindale, who is director of anti-knife crime organisation Operation Shutdown, was nine when she witnessed the murder of her cousin who was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver.\n\nShe said when she was in her teens, she and other girls on her block were told they would be \"knocked out, head-butted and violently attacked\" if they did not help gang members.\n\n\"I went from estate to estate and boys would say to me - if they see a police van patrolling the area - 'here hold this because they are not going to stop you - they will stop us',\" Ms Martindale said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile the use of stop and search has sometimes been controversial, Ms Martindale said she believed if it was \"done right, no-one can complain\".\n\nShe said it would have helped women in situations such as hers.\n\n\"You will get to the bottom of why she was carrying the drugs or weapons and that can hopefully save her from the grooming,\" she said.\n\nMs Martindale believes if stop and search is \"done right, no-one can complain\"\n\nThere is little data on women associated or involved with gangs.\n\nThe most recent copy of the Met Police's Gang Matrix consisted of six girls and women, compared with 2,546 men and boys.\n\nHowever, a report published last week by Vauxhall MP Florence Eshalomi involving Freedom of Information requests sent to all of London's boroughs found there were at least 1,049 women and girls who were at risk of gang association.\n\nMs Eshalomi has called for more research to look into why young women joined gangs along with improved funding to tackle the problem.\n\nSophie Linden, deputy mayor for policing and crime, said it was \"vital that we fully understand the complex causes of violence and its impact on women and girls in London\".\n\nScotland Yard said: \"The involvement of young women in gang-related criminal activity across London is largely hidden and undoubtedly under-reported.\n\n\"The Met is working hard to better engage with young people and we work closely with the Mayor's Office for Police and Crime (MOPAC), local authorities, charities and agencies like Abianda to offer support and divert women away from gang crime.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Lowen was on the ground at the edge of Italy's coronavirus lockdown area\n\nIn an era of online ordering and borderless travel, Tino has had to revert to hand-delivering items across a checkpoint - within his own country.\n\nHe parks beside the police cars blocking a road to Codogno, the epicentre of Italy's coronavirus outbreak. And across the ad hoc barrier, fencing off an invisible threat, he passes a simple object to his sister stuck on the other side: a facemask.\n\nPharmacies in the town of 16,000 people are running low. Queues of anxious customers are forming, as Codogno hits headlines around the world.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 𝓰🏠 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe mayor, Francesco Passerini, tells me by phone that the situation is completely calm and supplies of food and medicine are stable. \"Our town has overcome everything, including the Second World War,\" he says - an attempt at reassurance.\n\nBut in the 11 closed-off towns, in which more than 50,000 people are quarantined, fear is setting in.\n\nAndrea Alloni, a resident in Codogno, says while some are convincing themselves that the outbreak will blow over, others are so worried that they're using sleeping pills.\n\nPolice have been stopping cars trying to get into Codogno\n\nEmergency medical phone-lines are saturated. The elderly are feeling particularly vulnerable.\n\nAnd while a handful of shops are open inside the town, the streets are quiet. Most are staying at home - or if they venture outside, they do so in face masks.\n\nItaly is struggling to understand how it went from six coronavirus cases to more than 200 since last Friday, becoming Europe's worst-affected country and the third worst hit in the world after China and South Korea.\n\nSo far, seven people have died.\n\n\"Patient zero\" - the individual first infected - has still not been identified. It was initially believed to be a 38-year-old man who visited a hospital in Codogno where a woman later died from the virus and whose colleague had been in China in January.\n\nBut when his colleague tested negative, the search for the original infector continued. Finding the source of the outbreak would help authorities understand the spread and potentially stem it.\n\nPrime Minister Giuseppe Conte has defended his government's response, insisting that the high number here is because Italy is testing more people than other European countries. There is a hope that the outbreak has stabilised, with new cases slowing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mark Lowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut the authorities here are worried.\n\nWith the unprecedented containment measures widening, the economic impact could be severe.\n\nPublic spaces have been cordoned off, schools, universities and museums are closed, key events like the Venice Carnival and Milan fashion week have been curbed, even filming of the new Mission Impossible in Venice has been suspended.\n\nPassengers at the main station in Lombardy's capital, Milan, are now wearing face masks because of the rapid spread of the virus\n\nLombardy and Veneto - the two most affected regions - make up 30% of the Italian economy. Italy's growth is already estimated at just 0.1% for 2019 - the lowest in the eurozone. The talk now is that the impact of the virus could tip it into recession.\n\nNeighbouring Croatia and Greece have cancelled all school visits to Italy. Kuwait has stopped flights here. Italy itself was the first European country to halt flights to and from China when the outbreak began: a risk for an economy that depends on some five million Chinese tourists a year.\n\nIn an era of social media, rumours and scaremongering fly fast.\n\nIt's too early to talk of panic here. But some supermarkets are seeing empty shelves, as families stock up.\n\nBars and restaurants are closing this week - the old town of Piacenza was eerily quiet for a weekday evening. The far-right opposition is harnessing the situation to push its call for closed borders.\n\n\"We're confident our public health system can face this if it's a few hundred cases,\" says Andrea Alloni by phone from Codogno. \"But if the number spikes, it won't be able to cope. I pray to God this doesn't happen.\"\n• None On the edge of Italy's coronavirus lockdown. Video, 00:01:08On the edge of Italy's coronavirus lockdown", "Comedian Leigh Francis says fake versions of the charity T-shirt he made following the death of his friend Caroline Flack are being sold online.\n\nThe actor - better known as Keith Lemon - accuses other people of \"ripping off\" his design, which he made to support The Samaritans.\n\nAnd he's urging websites remove the fakes to make sure as much money as possible goes to charity.\n\nSo far, more than 11,000 of his original Be Kind tees have been sold.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by keithlemon This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCaroline took her own life earlier this month and Keith had known her for years.\n\nLaunching his T-shirt, he said he wanted to spread her #BeKind message - and said all the profits would go to charity.\n\nBut fakes have started springing up online.\n\nSome of the fakes Newsbeat found for sale online\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat's found a number of sites selling the fakes - originals can only be purchased through Keith Lemon's own pages.\n\nAnd the comedian's put out a number of messages on Instagram, urging people not to buy the copies.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by keithlemon This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Thanks so much to everyone who's bought a T-shirt for Be Kind. Unfortunately, there's a website called Teespring.com that's ripped off the design and unless they're going to give that money to The Samaritans, then they've stolen my design and taken that money that would've gone to The Samaritans,\" he said.\n\nHe then posted another message to say the company had removed the fakes.\n\nTeespring has since apologised, saying all designs are created by \"independent individuals\". It also says the user's account has been \"disabled\" and that it \"doesn't support this behaviour\".\n\nThe company hasn't said whether it'll be handing over any profits to charity - but fakes are turning up on a number of other sites too.\n\nThe photo of Caroline that Keith used for inspiration was taken by Rachell Smith.\n\n\"Keith is doing a lovely thing here,\" says Rachell.\n\n\"As for any other companies selling a version of this commercially, please respectfully stop.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amanda & Callum Trowsdale💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Steven Dodgson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted several of the sites selling fakes but so far, there has been no comment.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues raised in this article and want help or information you can visit BBC Advice.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "An internal Scotland Yard investigation has found it credible that one of its former undercover officers had a relationship with a teenage animal rights campaigner.\n\nAndy Coles, currently a member of Peterborough City Council, denies he had a sexual relationship with the woman when he posed as an activist in the 1990s.\n\nHe stood down as Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in 2017 following media attention surrounding the allegations.\n\nHe was a member of Metropolitan police unit, the Special Demonstration squad, which infiltrated protest groups.\n\nThe woman, \"Jessica\", is now asking for an apology and compensation from the Metropolitan police.", "The focus of the coronavirus outbreak is shifting – from China to the rest of the world, particularly Europe, where a number of countries are starting to see multiple cases.\n\nOn the face of it, this seems like bad news. More people are being affected in more countries and clusters of deaths in Iran, South Korea and northern Italy are concerning.\n\nBut there are positives too. China appears to be getting on top of the virus with the number of new cases each day reducing.\n\nThis suggests that efforts to contain the virus by telling people to stay at home, stopping large public gatherings and preventing travel are working.\n\nThe message from officials at the World Health Organization is that containment is still possible and a global pandemic is not inevitable.\n\nThis view has been echoed in the UK where the government has warned of the social and economic costs of overreacting in response to the outbreak.\n\nKeeping the public safe is the priority – but so is acting in a balanced and responsible way.\n\nHowever, with several sporting events being cancelled and postponed across Europe, playing down the panic is a challenge.", "Lord Steel (left) is one of those criticised in the report for failing to pass on allegations about ex-MP Cyril Smith\n\nPolitical institutions failed to respond to historical claims of child sexual abuse but there was no evidence of an organised paedophile network at Westminster, an inquiry has found.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said there had been a \"significant problem\" of deference towards people of public prominence.\n\nIts report said political parties and police had turned a \"blind eye\".\n\nLord Steel, one of those it criticised, has now quit the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe inquiry found that institutions \"regularly put their own reputations or political interests before child protection\".\n\nIt cited as an example former Liberal party leader, Lord Steel, who was criticised for not acting on information that the late MP Cyril Smith had abused children.\n\nLord Steel told the inquiry last year how in 1979 he failed to pass on allegations against the then MP for Rochdale - even though he believed them to be true - because it was \"past history\".\n\nHe subsequently recommended Smith for his knighthood.\n\nLord Steel announced on Tuesday he had quit the Liberal Democrats and would be retiring as a member of the House of Lords.\n\nHe said: \"Knowing all I know now, I condemn Cyril Smith's actions towards children.\"\n\nProf Alexis Jay, who chaired the inquiry, said: \"It is clear to see that Westminster institutions have repeatedly failed to deal with allegations of child sexual abuse, from turning a blind eye to actively shielding abusers.\"\n\nHowever, the report found no evidence of a co-ordinated \"paedophile ring\" in Westminster, following claims by fantasist Carl Beech, who was jailed last year for making false allegations.\n\nThe investigation decided at an early stage to ignore allegations by Carl Beech about a string of public figures\n\nIt stated there was also no evidence such a network was covered up by security services or police.\n\nResponding to the inquiry, ex-Conservative MP Harvey Proctor - who was among those to be falsely accused by Beech - said he had always \"made it clear that there was no Westminster VIP paedophile network or ring\".\n\nHe added the report's findings had vindicated his position and that the real victims of historical child sexual abuse had not benefitted from the inquiry.\n\nThe report also highlighted how former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and ex-Conservative party chairman Norman Tebbit were aware in the 1980s of rumours about MP Peter Morrison having \"a penchant for small boys\" but did nothing about it.\n\nThe allegations \"should have rung alarm bells in government\", it said.\n\nIt found there had been a \"consistent culture for years\" in the Tory whips' offices to \"protect the image\" of their party by \"playing down rumours and protecting politicians from gossip or scandal at all costs\".\n\nThe report said that at that time \"nobody seemed to care about the fate of the children involved, with status and political concerns overriding all else\".\n\n\"Even though we did not find evidence of a Westminster network, the lasting effect on those who suffered as children from being sexually abused by individuals linked to Westminster has been just as profound,\" it added.\n\nCritics of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse accuse it of grasping for scapegoats because the allegations, which were swirling when it began, turned out to have no substance.\n\nOfficials say they looked hard for evidence of an establishment paedophile network, but didn't find any. They defend this report as going to the heart of the inquiry's core role - to identify the failure of institutions to protect children.\n\nThe inquiry only found a limited number of examples of powerful political men abusing children, mostly dating back decades and, perhaps as a result, its list of recommendations is relatively short.\n\nThey include removing official honours from abusers, tightening up safeguarding and protecting whistleblowers.\n\nBut the Westminster strand was one of more than a dozen investigations. The inquiry has had more success in identifying considerable failures which allowed abuse in children's homes and religious settings.\n\nIts final report is still more than a year away. One thread runs through all of its work - a failure in the past to take action when abuse came to light.\n\nThe inquiry is likely to recommend making it a legal requirement to act on concerns, for anyone working closely with children.\n\nAfter Lord Steel gave evidence to the inquiry, he was suspended by the Scottish Liberal Democrats. But the party later determined that there were \"no grounds for action\" against the politician, who is also a former MSP and Holyrood presiding officer.\n\nA Liberal Democrats spokeswoman said the party would be \"thoroughly reading\" this latest report, adding that \"Cyril Smith's acts were vile and repugnant\".\n\nA lawyer representing eight of Smith's accusers said Lord Steel's \"inaction\" after being told by Smith himself that he had molested young boys was \"unforgivable\".\n\nRichard Scorer said Lord Steel was not being blamed for Smith's alleged crimes but \"for his own failure to stop Smith when he had the chance\".\n\n\"This must surely now be the catalyst for a mandatory reporting law, compelling those who suspect child abuse to report their concerns,\" he added.\n\nLord Steel says he discussed the allegations with Cyril Smith in 1979\n\nLord Steel said he feared that he had been made a \"proxy\" for Smith, because the inquiry had failed to secure \"a parliamentary scalp\".\n\nAnnouncing he was quitting the Liberal Democrats, he said he wanted to avoid \"turmoil in my party and to prevent further distress to my family\" after some had called for a new investigation.\n\n\"With considerable personal sorrow\", he said, he was retiring from the Lords to \"enjoy a quiet retirement from public life\".\n\nThe report made a number of suggestions, including re-examining the policy on forfeiting honours after the death of the recipient - which would strip knighthoods from the likes of disgraced entertainer Jimmy Savile.\n\nIt also recommended creating widespread and well-understood whistleblowing policies for all Westminster institutions.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales, set up in 2014, has been investigating claims against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions - as well as people in the public eye.\n\nLaunched following the Savile scandal, the inquiry's investigation into Westminster is one of 15 separate investigations, which are expected to be completed later this year.", "Disney boss Bob Iger, who led the media company through several blockbuster acquisitions and the launch of a streaming network, is stepping down as chief executive.\n\nDisney said it had appointed Bob Chapek, who previously ran the company's parks and products division, to replace him.\n\nMr Iger will remain Disney's executive chairman until the end of next year to direct \"creative endeavours\".\n\nThe move came as a surprise.\n\nMr Iger, who is considered by many to be the most powerful man in Hollywood, had served as chief executive since 2005. He has previously announced plans to retire only to push back his departure date.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Mr Iger said it was the \"optimal time\" to begin to hand control of the company to a new leader.\n\nDisney recently completed the acquisition of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox entertainment empire and launched the Disney+ streaming channel late last year.\n\nEarlier, Mr Iger presided over the firm's acquisition of Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm.\n\n\"The company has gotten larger and more complex just in the recent 12 months,\" Mr Iger said on a conference call on Tuesday.\n\n\"I felt that with the asset bases in place and with our strategy deployed I should be spending as much time as possible on the creative side of our business.\"\n\nRemaining as executive chairman would ease the transition, he added.\n\nMr Chapek oversaw the opening of the Shanghai Disney Resort\n\nMr Chapek, who joined Disney in 1993, will be the firm's seventh chief executive since it was formed in the 1920s. In his prior role, among other achievements, he oversaw the opening of Disney's park in Shanghai.\n\n\"His tremendous understanding of the breadth and depth of the Company and appreciation for the special connection between Disney and its consumers makes him the perfect choice,\" said Disney board member Susan Arnold.\n\nShares in the firm fell 2% in after-hours trading after the news was announced.\n\nMr Iger, who recently published a memoir, is much beloved by investors for his record steering the company to steady profits, despite upheaval in the television and movie industries.\n\nDisney claimed seven of the top 10 box office hits globally last year and the new streaming channel has already attracted more than 28 million paying customers.\n\nThe firm's market value has increased five-fold during his tenure, Ms Arnold said. The firm is now worth about $230bn.", "Hosni Mubarak was president of Egypt for 30 years\n\nFormer Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak – ousted by the military in 2011 – has died in Cairo at the age of 91.\n\nMubarak spent three decades in office before a popular uprising swept Egypt.\n\nHe was found guilty of complicity in the killing of protesters during the revolution. That conviction was overturned and was freed in March 2017.\n\nHis death was confirmed by Egyptian state news on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, the Al-Watan website reported that he died at a military hospital.\n\nMubarak underwent surgery in late January and was photographed with his grandson as he recovered.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by omaralaamubarak This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Saturday, however, Mubarak's son Alaa said that the former president remained in intensive care.\n\nBorn in 1928, Mubarak entered the air force as a teenager and went on to play a key role in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.\n\nHe became president less than a decade later, following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat, and played a key role in the Israel-Palestinian peace process.\n\nBut despite the billions of dollars in military aid Egypt received during his time in office, unemployment, poverty and corruption continued to grow.\n\nDiscontent boiled over in January 2011, after similar protests in Tunisia led to the overthrow of the president there. Mubarak was forced to step down 18 days later.\n\nJust over a year after Mubarak's overthrow, Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist politician, won Egypt's first democratic presidential election.\n\nThe new president lasted less than a year in office. Amid mass protests, he was ousted in a military coup led by Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.\n\nGen Sisi went on to win two presidential elections. Morsi died in prison in 2019.\n\nIn 2012, Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment over the deaths of some of the 900 protesters who were killed by security forces during the uprising a year earlier.\n\nBoth he and his two sons were also convicted of corruption.\n\nBut the more serious charges against Mubarak were later overturned and he was released in 2017.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nA memorial service has been held at the Staples Centre for NBA star Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, 13, who were killed in a helicopter crash on January 26.\n\nHis widow Vanessa Bryant spoke candidly to the crowd of 20,000 people about her loss, as did basketball legend Michael Jordan.\n\nBeyonce and Alicia Keys performed and fans, with and without tickets, paid their respects outside of the stadium.\n\nEarlier, Ms Bryant announced she is suing the owner of the helicopter in which her husband, her daughter and seven other people were travelling when it crashed in fog.", "The UK has one of the largest defence budgets in the world\n\nThe UK is to \"overhaul its approach to foreign policy\" as part of a government review, Downing Street has announced.\n\nNo 10 says insights from internal and external experts will challenge \"traditional Whitehall assumptions\".\n\nThe diplomatic service, tackling organised crime, the use of technology and the procurement of military supplies will all be looked at.\n\nThe review will also seek \"innovative ways\" to promote UK interests while committing to spending targets.\n\nThe 2019 Conservative manifesto promised that the UK would continue to spend 0.7% of gross national income on international aid. The party also said it would exceed the Nato target of spending 2% of gross domestic product on defence.\n\nBoris Johnson's new government faces a number of foreign policy challenges including securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian recently predicted the two sides would \"rip each other apart\" during negotiations which are due to begin on Monday.\n\nThe UK is also hoping to secure a trade deal with the US but relations have been strained by the prime minister's decision to use Huawei to build the 5G network in the face of US opposition.\n\nThe government is also keen to strengthen ties with China, but some of the prime minister's own MPs - including Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Tom Tugendhat - have cautioned against allowing Chinese companies' heavy involvement in projects such as the 5G network and HS2.\n\nSetting out details of the Integrated Review - first announced in December's Queen's Speech - Number 10 said Brexit presented \"new opportunities to define and strengthen Britain's place in the world\".\n\nIts remit, as set out by the government, is to:\n\nIn a written statement, the prime minister said a cross-Whitehall team in the Cabinet Secretariat and a \"small taskforce\" in Number 10 will report to him and the National Security Council during the review.\n\n\"The review will be closely aligned with this year's Comprehensive Spending Review but will also look beyond it,\" he said in the statement.\n\nExperts \"beyond Whitehall\" in the UK and \"among our allies\" will be consulted, Mr Johnson said, and Parliament will be kept \"fully informed\".\n\nThe review is expected to conclude later this year.\n\nThe UK is seeking to negotiate a new trade deal with both the US and the EU\n\nThe government says it will \"utilise expertise from both inside and outside government for the review, ensuring the UK's best foreign policy minds are feeding into its conclusions and offering constructive challenge to traditional Whitehall assumptions and thinking\".\n\nThe UK's last full-scale security and defence review was completed in late 2015, before the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nBut Mr Tugendhat suggested it had been more than 20 years since a British government comprehensively reviewed its foreign policy objectives and the \"tools\" needed to achieve them.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today it would premature to speculate on whether any \"rejigging\" of defence and aid priorities would result in cuts to manpower in any of the armed services.\n\n\"We all know that the fundamental decisive factor in battle, whether that is in sea, land or air, is people. It is basically draining the resources of your enemy and undermining their ability to fight,\" he said.\n\n\"That can be done in different ways - sometimes it is done by infantry soldiers... sometimes it is done by ships denying access to areas or protecting convoys and sometimes it is done by RAF pilots flying drones... All of these are different tools.\"\n• None The tough questions facing the UK and US", "Mr Gui has been in and out of Chinese detention for years\n\nA Chinese court has sentenced Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai to 10 years in jail for \"illegally providing intelligence overseas\".\n\nMr Gui, who holds Swedish citizenship, has been in and out of Chinese detention since 2015, when he went missing during a holiday in Thailand.\n\nHe is known to have previously published books on the personal lives of Chinese Communist Party members.\n\nRights groups condemned the \"harsh sentence\" and called for his release.\n\nHe was one of five owners of a small bookstore in Hong Kong who went missing in 2015. It later emerged that they had been taken to China. Four were later freed, but Mr Gui remained in Chinese detention.\n\nIn delivering its verdict, the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court said that his Chinese citizenship had been reinstated in 2018. China does not recognise dual citizenship.\n\nSweden's foreign minister on Tuesday called for Mr Gui's release, referring to him a \"citizen\".\n\n\"We have not had access to the trial,\" said Ann Linde in a tweet. \"[We] demand that Gui be released and that we have access to our citizens to provide consular support.\"\n\nBut according to a Reuters report, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said consular arrangements had been put on hold because of the latest coronavirus outbreak, and would be restored once the health problem was \"resolved\".\n\nZhao Lijian added that Mr Gui's \"rights and interests... [had] been fully guaranteed\".\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday also called for Mr Gui to be released immediately and said the charges were \"completely unsubstantiated\".\n\nMr Gui first made headlines in 2015 when he vanished from Thailand and resurfaced in China.\n\nAfter his disappearance, there were allegations that he had been abducted by Chinese agents. Chinese officials, however, say Mr Gui and the four other men all went to China voluntarily.\n\nThe bookseller ultimately confessed to being involved in a fatal traffic accident more than a decade earlier - a confession supporters say was forced.\n\nHe served two years in prison but he was arrested months after his release while he was travelling to the Chinese capital of Beijing with two Swedish diplomats.\n\nChina later released a video interview featuring Mr Gui. In it, he accused Sweden of \"sensationalising\" his case. It is not uncommon for Chinese criminal suspects to appear in \"confessional\" videos.\n\nEarlier in 2019, Sweden recalled its ambassador to China Anna Lindstedt, who was accused of brokering an unauthorised meeting between Angela Gui - the daughter of Mr Gui - and two Chinese businessmen.\n\nMs Gui - who has been vocal in campaigning for her father's release - said one of the men had pressured her to accept a deal where her father would go to trial and might be sentenced to \"a few years\" in prison, and in return she would stop all publicity around her father's detention.", "As jurors were sworn in for Harvey Weinstein's trial in New York, the judge told them in no uncertain terms that this case was not intended to be a referendum on the #MeToo movement as a whole. But the trial, which ended with him being convicted of rape and sexual assault, at times felt like one.\n\nWeinstein now faces a 23-year sentence which will probably see him spend the rest of his life behind bars. This is the story of the downfall of one of Hollywood's most powerful men.\n\nYou may find some of the details in this article upsetting\n\nIt was a watershed moment. More than two years after allegations started to emerge about the Hollywood producer, some of his victims finally had their chance to be heard in court.\n\nTwelve jurors were tasked with ruling on sex charges, which Weinstein denied, in a trial that saw complex questions about consent and power dynamics on the stand. Jurors heard harrowing testimony from six women who, at times in tears, recounted their alleged assaults by the producer. At one point a woman, who he was later convicted of raping, had to leave court after suffering a panic attack in the witness box.\n\nWeinstein's high-powered defence team tried to flip the narrative and paint his accusers as the manipulators in the situation: women who used Weinstein for his industry prowess and later regretted and mischaracterised their sexual encounters as non-consensual. During weeks of testimony, jurors heard everything from claims about Weinstein's genitals being deformed to nude photographs of the movie mogul himself.\n\nEvery day journalists lined up, often before sunrise, to claim a place on the press benches. Cameras were not allowed inside the Manhattan Supreme Court, but the entrance was always lined with paparazzi scrambling to get daily shots and sound-bites from Weinstein, who had barely been seen in public for two years.\n\nWeinstein was a giant of the movie industry in every sense. Productions in his name became synonymous with success in Hollywood, with hundreds of Oscar nominations and 81 wins across his career. On stage, as he accepted awards, his large frame would often hulk over the stars of his films.\n\nThe image of Weinstein at his trial was a very different one: once reportedly 300lb (136kg), he appeared frail and shuffled in to court most days with his back hunched over a metal walking frame.\n\nWeinstein (seen celebrating 1999 film Shakespeare in Love) used private investigators to probe accusers\n\nWeinstein had been investigated in New York in 2015 over a groping claim, but was not prosecuted\n\nThe term #MeToo preceded Weinstein, but was propelled across the globe as allegations mounted against him in October 2017. Millions of people from all ages, backgrounds and nationalities used the hashtag to detail their experiences of harassment and abuse. Other celebrities were implicated but it was the scale of claims against Weinstein, then arguably the most powerful man in Hollywood, that proved the most shocking.\n\nMore than 100 women came forward with allegations about him - everything from aggressive outbursts to serious sexual assault. Stars at the very top of the industry, like Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie, told of unwanted advances and upsetting interactions. Other women described, often in graphic detail, alleged rapes by the producer. Weinstein has consistently denied all allegations of non-consensual sex and his lawyers have vowed to appeal against his conviction.\n\nDespite dozens of allegations against him, these were the first to make it to trial.\n\nIn that time Weinstein had all but disappeared from public view. His marriage broke up and he is said to have sought treatment for sex addiction. His business partner brother described his behaviour as \"sick and depraved\" and their production company filed for bankruptcy.\n\nWeinstein and his former company reached a tentative $25m settlement with some accusers in December\n\nDuring a rare interview, reportedly given without his lawyer's knowledge in December, Weinstein complained of feeling like a \"forgotten man\" within Hollywood. Speaking just one day after three-hour surgery to ease compression on his spine, he told the New York Post that he deserved a pat on the back for everything he had done for women in film. He posed for photographs in a medical centre wearing jeans and a T-shirt, which he lifted to reveal a bandage on his back from which a tube drained blood into a container fixed to a metal walking aid.\n\nThe walking frame took on a starring role during the trial when an argument broke out when prosecutors labelled it a \"prop\". Weinstein's lawyers even wanted his surgeon to testify to prove he wasn't faking his injury to gain sympathy.\n\nOn the first day, a group of high-profile accusers gathered outside the court to try to face him down. \"You brought this upon yourself by hurting so many,\" actress Rose McGowan said, addressing her alleged rapist through the media. \"You have only yourself to blame.\"\n\nWeinstein's legal team made repeated appeals for the trial to be moved from Manhattan, citing the \"carnival-like atmosphere\" engulfing it. At one point, the defence complained after a flash-mob of protesters chanting lyrics including \"The rapist is you\" could be heard from inside the courtroom. At another, one of the world's best-known supermodels, Gigi Hadid, appeared as a potential juror.\n\nA Chilean anti-rape anthem, Un Violador en tu Camino (\"A Rapist In Your Path\"), was performed outside\n\nAbout 2,000 people were reportedly summoned during the jury selection process and prosecutors accused Weinstein's team of \"systematically eliminating\" young white women, resembling his victims, from serving on the jury. After almost two weeks, the group of 12 was finalised with seven men and five women.\n\nWeinstein denied five felony charges relating to allegations of sexual assault and rape. They related to incidents involving Mimi Haleyi, a former production assistant who he forced oral sex on at his Manhattan apartment in 2006, and Jessica Mann, a one-time aspiring actress who he raped in a New York hotel room in 2013.\n\nAnother alleged victim, Sopranos star Annabella Sciorra, alleged he had forced his way into her New York apartment and raped her some time in the winter of 1993/4. The amount of time passed since the alleged incident meant it fell outside of New York's statute of limitations and could not be charged separately, but the judge ruled her testimony could be used to support the most serious charges on the indictment: for predatory sexual assault.\n\nThree other women were also permitted by the judge to appear as \"prior bad acts\" witnesses to help establish a pattern of behaviour and common motive. All were aspiring actresses in their 20s, hoping to break into the industry, when they described being assaulted by him.\n\nActress Rosanna Arquette, among the accusers, vowed \"we aren't going anywhere\" as the trial opened\n\nThis tactic was notably used to help secure a conviction against US comedian Bill Cosby, who was jailed in 2018. Kristen Gibbons Feden was a prosecutor on both his trials and told the BBC that \"prior bad act\" witnesses' willingness to take the stand, and be open to cross-examination without the hope of direct justice for themselves, can play a \"critical\" role in undermining defence arguments and establishing the motive of repeat offenders.\n\n\"These women who testified, all of the women who testified in Cosby's trial, were willing to put their lives, their public sanctity and character on the line to try and assist the prosecution with putting away a serial rapist - I think that just speaks volumes about the movement,\" she said.\n\nPhysical evidence was never likely to play a part in the trial, given how much time had passed since the alleged incidents took place. The case would therefore rise and fall on the believability of the accusations against Weinstein: a case of he said, she said - or, in this trial, they said. \"Obviously, any time you have a criminal trial, the goal of a defence attorney is to question the credibility of the witnesses - but particularly when the only evidence is eyewitness testimony, which it is in this case,\" Julie Rendelman, a former prosecutor turned criminal defence lawyer, told the BBC.\n\nSciorra was the first accuser to take the stand against Weinstein. She alleged that he forced his way into her 17th-floor Gramercy Park apartment and raped her, shortly after offering to drive her home from a dinner they attended with others, including Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman. \"I felt very overpowered as he was very big,\" she told the court, who had heard he was almost three times her weight of about 110-115lb (50kg) at the time.\n\n\"Then he grabbed me. He led me into the bedroom and he shoved me on the bed. I was punching him, I was kicking him, I was trying to take him away from me. He took my hands and put my hands over my head,\" she said, motioning with her arms.\n\nSciorra said Weinstein, on another occasion, showed up to her Cannes hotel room with baby oil\n\nIn turn the defence called witnesses, including Sciorra's apartment's building manager, to try to contradict her claims. During the trial some defence witnesses appeared only once under subpoena, apparently reluctant to appear and contradict the account of accusers, who in some cases were former friends.\n\nThe defence quizzed Sciorra on her acting ability and success: playing a 1997 clip from a well-known US talk show where she admitted making-up colourful lies about her life in press interviews. They questioned why she didn't raise the alarm about what happened. \"He was someone I knew,\" she told the court. \"I felt at the time that rape was something that happened in a back alleyway in a dark place by someone you didn't know.\"\n\nThey also called Professor Elizabeth Loftus, a false-memory expert, who testified about her research on how recollection can become distorted and contaminated over time.\n\nWith the main accusers, the defence tried to upend the narratives of manipulation presented by the prosecution. They said Haleyi and Mann's ongoing, and often friendly, communication with Weinstein after their assaults was evidence the relationships were consensual. Haleyi tearfully told the court how he lunged and physically overpowered her in 2006, removing a tampon and forcing oral sex on her when she was on her period.\n\n\"I checked out and decided to endure it,\" she told the court. \"That was the safest thing I could do.\"\n\nProsecutors said accusers like Haleyi (pictured) \"sacrificed their dignity, their privacy, and their peace\" to be heard\n\nHis lawyers confronted her with messages she sent to the producer afterwards, including ones signed off \"lots of love\" and \"peace and love\". \"I asked for jobs from many people, including Harvey Weinstein,\" she said about contact over career opportunities. She also said she had felt \"trapped\" by her circumstances, so she decided to \"almost pretend [the assault] didn't happen\".\n\nJessica Mann told the court that she had entered in a \"degrading relationship\" with Weinstein, which included subsequent consensual acts, after her rape.\n\nPsychologist Dr Barbara Ziv was called by the prosecution to try and push back on some of the defence's scrutiny of his victims' behaviour. Dr Ziv, who also testified at Cosby's second trial, spoke about her 20 years of experience with assault survivors and sought to dispel so-called \"rape myths\".\n\n\"A vast majority of sexual assault victims don't report promptly,\" she told the court. \"The time can range from days to months to years to report an assault - to never.\" She also said it was \"extremely common\" for victims to remain in contact with their attacker, sometimes in fear of retribution, and pointed out an overwhelming majority of assaults are committed by someone the victim knows.\n\n\"The trial was set up to raise some complicated issues around consent and what it looks like,\" Deborah Tuerkheimer, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law, told Variety. \"Jessica Mann in particular has really been a complex witness.\"\n\nThe three-day testimony by Mann, whose identity had not been made public before the trial, provided some of its most powerful moments. Journalists inside the court said that at one point, after being pressed to read an email which alluded to abuse earlier in her life, Mann broke down and started sobbing uncontrollably. The New York Times reported that, after being excused from court, she could be heard screaming in another room.\n\nMann (pictured) said she wanted to get away but \"shut down\" during the 2013 rape\n\nWhen quizzed about their ongoing communication, the 34-year-old told lawyers: \"I know the history of my relationship with him... I know it was complicated and difficult but it does not change the fact that he raped me.\"\n\nThe point was seized upon by Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon when she closed the case on Valentine's Day. \"Jessica Mann could have been completely head over heels in love with Harvey Weinstein,\" she said. \"She could have had his name tattooed on her arm. She could have been writing him love notes every single day. She could have been married to him. If all of that was true, it still wouldn't make a difference, he still wouldn't be allowed to rape her.\"\n\nThis argument mirrored an earlier one by the defence who told the jury they could dislike Weinstein, but still not believe his guilt had been proven.\n\n\"You don't have to like Mr. Weinstein. This is not a popularity contest,\" lawyer Donna Rotunno said during almost five hours of closing testimony. \"In this country it's the unpopular people that need juries the most,\" Rotunno said. \"The unpopular person needs you the most.\"\n\nRotunno accused prosecutors of scripting a reality which \"strips adult women of common sense, autonomy and responsibility\". Illuzzi-Orbon maintained Weinstein was a \"predator\" who preyed on women he saw as \"complete disposables\".\n\nWeinstein did not testify at trial, despite a last-minute meeting giving the appearance he wanted to\n\nFrom her glamorous designer outfits, to her towering heels to the gold \"not guilty\" pendant she reportedly wore around her neck to court, Rotunno became the public face of the defence team.\n\nThe lawyer has built her reputation on defending men in high-profile sexual misconduct cases. During the trial Rotunno came under fire for comments made both inside and outside the courtroom. An interview she gave to the New York Times' The Daily podcast drew particular scorn. When asked if she had ever been sexually assaulted herself, Rotunno responded: \"I have not,\" before pausing and adding: \"because I would never put myself in that position\".\n\nShe also suggested men should get written consent before engaging in sex and asserted societal pressure to \"believe all women\" meant there was now \"zero\" risk for accusers to come forward and make claims. Prosecutors repeatedly complained that her interviews violated rules.\n\nProsecutors accused her of trying to influence the jury with one opinion piece\n\nThe defence's arguments were also criticised by survivors and activist groups, who accused them of victim-blaming and perpetuating misconceptions about rape.\n\nIn the end the jury, having earlier signalled they were divided on the predatory assault charges factoring in Sciorra, ruled not guilty on those two counts. They took five days to reach their decision, finding Weinstein guilty of the third-degree rape of Jessica Mann and of a criminal sex act in his assault of Mimi Haleyi.\n\nMore than two years after dozens of women came out against him, turning public opinion, Weinstein was finally found guilty in a court of law.\n\nThe verdict was celebrated as a major victory by alleged victims and women's rights advocates.\n\nLaura Palumbo, communications director for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, told the BBC that while the Weinstein trial was a \"significant moment\" nationally, it was important to remember that it did not reflect the reality of most rape cases in the US justice system.\n\nThe US-based Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) estimates that 995 out of every 1,000 perpetrators of sexual assault, or about 99.5%, will walk free because of low reporting and conviction rates.\n\nWeinstein faced between five and 29 years in prison for the crimes\n\nImmediately after his conviction, Weinstein was taken to hospital and later fitted with a heart stent.\n\nHis lawyers had implored leniency from the judge, arguing Weinstein had already been punished with his \"historic\" fall from grace. They insisted even the five-year minimum term could prove a \"de-facto life sentence\" for him given his age and declining health.\n\nThe judge ignored that plea. There were reportedly gasps around the court as the near-maximum prison term of 23 years was handed down.\n\nAll six women who testified at his trial sat together as his punishment was announced. The Silence Breakers, another group of Weinstein accusers, welcomed the sentence but said no amount of jail time could make up for the damage he had caused to lives and careers.\n\nWeinstein appeared for his sentencing in a wheelchair. Before the judge jailed him, Weinstein spoke in court for the first time to express remorse for the situation but insisted he had \"wonderful times\" and \"friendships\" with his victims. He also admitted feeling \"totally confused\" about what was happening to him.\n\n\"Thousands of men are losing due process. I'm worried about this country,\" he said, in comments seen as critical of #MeToo. Despite his apparent confusion, Weinstein's legal troubles are far from over. The 67-year-old still faces further assault charges in Los Angeles.\n\nVictims and campaigners hope his trial will set a wider precedent where other offenders, no matter how powerful, will also be held to account.\n\n\"This case - and the national reckoning about the pervasiveness of sexual violence it sparked - will have a lasting legacy,\" RAINN president Scott Berkowitz said in a statement. \"We hope that survivors will feel encouraged to come forward, knowing that it can truly make a difference in bringing perpetrators to justice.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool survived a rare night of struggle in this stellar season to overcome West Ham United and close to within four wins of the Premier League title as keeper Lukasz Fabianski suffered an Anfield nightmare.\n\nVictory means Liverpool equal the English top-flight record of 18 successive wins, set by Manchester City from August to December 2017, with Jurgen Klopp's side last dropping points in a 1-1 draw with Manchester United in October.\n\nThe Hammers - whose fans staged protests against the club's owners throughout - threatened to inflict Liverpool's first league defeat this term when they led midway through the second half.\n\nLiverpool took an early lead when Fabianski failed to deal with a routine Georginio Wijnaldum header but David Moyes' side showed great character to hit back through Issa Diop's header, which should also have been kept out by Alisson.\n\nAnd when substitute Pablo Fornals swept West Ham into the lead nine minutes after the break Liverpool were faced with a fight to preserve their unbeaten 27-match league run.\n\nIt had been a poor display by their sky-high standards but their luck was in as Fabianski was the culprit again, inexplicably allowing Mohamed Salah's shot to squirm through his legs in the 68th minute.\n\nThere was a sense of inevitability as Liverpool went for victory and so it proved as Sadio Mane turned in with nine minutes left after Trent Alexander-Arnold lofted the ball over Fabianski.\n\nIt was cruel on West Ham and Moyes, with Liverpool keeper Alisson having to produce a crucial late block from substitute Jarrod Bowen.\n\nLiverpool have restored their 22-point lead at the top and the Hammers are left in the bottom three.\n• None When and where can Liverpool win the title?\n\nLiverpool have produced months of thrilling football but this inevitable title triumph has also been about winning with narrow margins when just short of their best.\n\nThe champions-elect were a long way short of that here and the decisive moment in this match was when Fabianski, who has been a reliable figure for West Ham, compounded his error for Wijnaldum's goal with a horror moment as Salah's shot slipped through his legs and into the net in front of an exultant Kop.\n\nLiverpool missed the driving force and leadership of injured captain Jordan Henderson and it was no surprise when Naby Keita was substituted after a poor performance.\n\nThe great quality of this Liverpool side, and make no mistake they got lucky with Fabianski's howlers, is that they are currently driven by an unshakeable self-belief and the error for Salah's goal tipped the balance firmly in their favour.\n\nIt is a truly remarkable effort to have dropped only two points after 27 games and Liverpool will happily grab moments of good fortune when they can.\n\nLiverpool's celebrations were subdued at the final whistle, perhaps an acknowledgement of an average display - but this will not matter when in due course they are crowned champions for the first time in 30 years.\n\nMoyes must feel Anfield holds him in a curse - he has never won at Anfield in 16 attempts as a manager with Everton, Manchester United, Sunderland or West Ham.\n\nThe Scot's joyous celebrations when Fornals gave West Ham the lead at a time his side were performing with real heart must have had him believing the drought might be over until things took a nasty twist with that Fabianski error.\n\nWest Ham's fans came here to protest against their owners, with black balloons let off and a series of banners unfurled reading \"Karren Brady - You're Fired. \"Sullivan This Charmless Man.\" \"Run Like A Circus Owned By Clowns\" and \"State Of The Art Retractable Promises.\"\n\nIf there was discontent off the field, they will have been pleased with what they saw on it as West Ham ran Liverpool as close as just about anyone at Anfield this season.\n\nMoyes still faces an uphill struggle but he can at least take some encouragement from West Ham's display once the bitter taste of defeat has eased.\n\nA bad record for Moyes - the best of the stats\n• None West Ham manager David Moyes remains without an away win against Liverpool in all competitions, failing in 16 attempts (D7, L9) and losing the last four in a row with Man Utd, Sunderland and West Ham.\n• None Liverpool have won their last 21 home Premier League games, equalling the English top-flight record for consecutive home wins, set by the Reds themselves between January and December 1972 under Bill Shankly.\n• None They have scored 14 headed goals in the Premier League this season, more than any other side.\n• None Only Cesc Fabregas (20y 134d) and Wayne Rooney (21y 63d) have reached 25 Premier League assists at a younger age than Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold (21y 140d).\n• None Since making his debut for West Ham in February 2017, Robert Snodgrass has registered 12 assists in the Premier League for the Hammers, more than any other player.\n• None Mohamed Salah has been directly involved in eight goals in six Premier League appearances against West Ham (6 goals, 2 assists).\n• None Since his Premier League debut in August 2014, Liverpool's Andrew Robertson has registered 27 assists in the competition, more than any other defender in that time.\n• None Sadio Mane has been directly involved in eight goals in his last six Premier League appearances against West Ham (5 goals, 3 assists), scoring in each of his last four against the Hammers.\n\n'I never thought it would be equalled' - what they said\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp speaking to Sky Sports: \"I liked a lot how we started. We scored a wonderful first goal. But then we weren't good in second ball situations. We have to pick them up much more often. We struggled in this situation and that gave West Ham a good feeling.\n\nOn equalling Manchester City's record winning run: \"I never thought it would be broken or equalled. We did it and I cannot believe it happened to be honest. I like a lot tonight that everything positive helps. When we equalised the stadium was rocking and that helps us. Whatever will happen this season is an effort of all of us. I could not be more thankful or appreciate the support we get. So far so good.\"\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We can take a lot of positives. Before the game nobody will have given us a great deal of hope. I thought for large periods of the game we had a chance.\n\n\"I'd hate to think my teams would do anything but put a lot of effort in and I'd be annoyed if anyone else thought otherwise. The disappointing thing is the individual mistakes. I thought tonight we did a really good job. We performed really well as a team but we go away with no points and it's the points we need.\n\nLiverpool travel to Watford on Saturday, 29 February (17:30 GMT kick-off), while West Ham host Southampton on the same day (15:00 GMT kick-off).\n• None Attempt blocked. Mark Noble (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Michail Antonio with a through ball.\n• None GOAL OVERTURNED BY VAR: Sadio Mané (Liverpool) scores but the goal is ruled out after a VAR review.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Trent Alexander-Arnold tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, West Ham United. Jarrod Bowen replaces Robert Snodgrass because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, West Ham United 2. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Gomez (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Mark Noble (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Plácido Domingo has apologised for \"causing hurt\" to several women who have accused him of sexual harassment.\n\nThe opera star resigned as general manager of the Los Angeles Opera after several allegations were made.\n\nA total of 20 women have now accused Domingo of harassment and inappropriate behaviour. He denies all the claims.\n\n\"I respect that these women finally felt comfortable enough to speak out,\" Domingo said in a statement issued to the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"I want them to know that I am truly sorry for the hurt that I caused them,\"\n\nHe added: \"I accept full responsibility for my actions, and I have grown from this experience.\"\n\nHis statement was issued following an investigation into Domingo by a US union which represents opera performers.\n\nThe investigation found Domingo had \"engaged in ​inappropriate activity, ranging from flirtation to sexual advances, in and outside of the workplace\".\n\nThe accusations, which go back as far as the 1980s, were first reported in August by the Associated Press.\n\nIt said Domingo had frequently pressured women into sexual relationships, and sometimes professionally punished those who rejected him.\n\nIn his statement, Domingo said he had \"taken time over the last several months to reflect on the allegations that various colleagues of mine have made against me.\n\n\"I understand now that some women may have feared expressing themselves honestly because of a concern that their careers would be adversely affected if they did so. While that was never my intention, no-one should ever be made to feel that way.\"\n\nMeanwhile, London's Royal Opera House says Domingo will still perform there as scheduled this summer.\n\nHe is starring in Don Carlo from 29 June until 19 July.\n\nDomingo, who is 79, is one of opera's biggest stars, commanding sell-out audiences around the world.\n\nHe has been married to his second wife, the soprano Marta Ornelas, since 1962.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I cleaned up but the flood came all over again'\n\nParts of a town centre are under water amid warnings that flooding in the area could reach its \"highest ever\" level.\n\nSevere flood warnings are in place in Shrewsbury and Ironbridge, meaning there is a danger to life.\n\nAnn DiTella, of Shrewsbury B&B Darwin's Townhouse, said 11 rooms had flooded, less than a week after water \"destroyed everything in its wake\".\n\nPeople in Wharfage, Ironbridge, have been asked to evacuate as the River Severn may go over barriers on Tuesday.\n\nTelford and Wrekin Council leader Shaun Davies said the barrier breach \"isn't likely to cause any tidal wave or any dramatic effect\" but could fill up the road and footpath \"very quickly\".\n\n\"So our message is clear - we are asking residents and businesses on the Wharfage to evacuate,\" he said.\n\nMr Davies said it was for people's own safety and for the emergency services who would \"be putting their lives at risk coming to your aid\".\n\nCouncil crews have been knocking doors to advise people and have set up a helpline and rest centre at Tontine Hotel.\n\nWest Mercia Police said about 40 residents in Ironbridge had been advised to evacuate on Monday night.\n\nWater is expected to go over the barriers at Ironbridge\n\nFirefighters have been coming to the aid of families\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) said rainfall in the Welsh mountains was due to cause problems further down the River Severn.\n\nThere are more than 100 flood warnings and some 200 alerts in England after a third week of downpours that started with Storm Ciara.\n\nDefences went up in Frankwell and Coleham Head in Shrewsbury on Sunday night.\n\nThe EA said the severe flood warning for Ironbridge followed persistent heavy rainfall.\n\nWater levels at the Buildwas river gauge are expected to peak at 6.7m (22ft) to 7m (23ft) on Tuesday evening.\n\nLunts Pharmacy is among the businesses that have been affected\n\nChester Street in Shrewsbury is under water\n\nDebbie Bradbury-Walker, who lives near the English Bridge, said water had filled their 8ft cellar and there were three to four inches on the ground floor.\n\n\"It's the first time it's flooded like this and entered the house in the five years we've lived here,\" she said.\n\n\"The drains are full but luckily we still have electricity at the moment.\n\n\"We have a way to escape from the house if we need. The rear is built up.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Telford & Wrekin Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStephanie Hall said her 10-minute drive to work in Battlefield, Shrewsbury, had taken nearly an hour.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of traffic and the roads in the town centre were closed,\" she said. \"It was solid both ways.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EA said further rainfall was forecast over the next 48 hours and flooding of properties in Shrewsbury was set to continue.\n\nA \"prolonged peak\" is expected at Welsh Bridge of 5.2m (17ft) to 5.5m (18ft) on Tuesday, which would be its highest recorded water level.\n\nCaroline Douglass, director of incident management at the EA, said: \"Flooding has a long-lasting and devastating impact on people's lives.\n\n\"River levels remain high and communities along the river Severn, in particular Shrewsbury, Bewdley and Ironbridge, should be ready for potential flooding.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The flooded garden where swans swim up to the window\n\nBusinesses were evacuated in the Coleham area of Shrewsbury amid rising floodwater.\n\nAimee Goolden took some people through the floodwater in her kayak, including workers at a care home.\n\nIn the last week of October 2000, the Severn rose to its highest level for over 50 years, flooding Shrewsbury, Ironbridge and Bridgnorth.\n\nCarol Calcutt, who lives close to the river, said: \"I'm very worried. Looking out of my window now the water really is coming up in kind of small waves. It is moving very quickly again.\"\n\nColeham in Shrewsbury has been badly hit\n\nPeople have been helped through floodwater in Coleham\n\nLast week homes and businesses were affected by floods in the wake of downpours brought by Storm Dennis.\n\nThe Rivers Wye and Severn reached their highest-ever levels.\n\nStephanie Hall said you could \"only just\" get around on foot when she took her dog Jubei out earlier\n\nHave you been affected by the flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMinisters from the EU have approved their mandate for post-Brexit trade talks with the UK.\n\nThe document - approved by the EU General Affairs Council on Tuesday - will be the basis for the negotiations, to be carried out by Michel Barnier.\n\nIt says that EU standards should serve as \"a reference point\" in any future trade deal.\n\nMeanwhile, UK ministers have agreed the government's mandate for the negotiations, which begin on Monday.\n\nThe final agreement is due to be published online and presented in Parliament on Thursday.\n\nThe EU's mandate - a 46-page document - says that its \"envisaged agreement should uphold common high standards, and corresponding high standards over time with Union standards as a reference point\".\n\nIt says this should apply \"in the areas of state aid, competition, state-owned enterprises, social and employment standards, environmental standards, climate change, relevant tax matters and other regulatory measures and practices in these areas\".\n\nEU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said the EU was \"ready to build a close, ambitious partnership with the UK\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ursula von der Leyen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the bloc would not agree a deal \"at any price\".\n\nHe warned there would be \"complex, demanding negotiations\" over a limited period of time, referring to the transition period that ends on 31 December.\n\nDuring this period, the UK continues to follow EU rules - including freedom of movement - and it is intended to allow time for the UK and EU to agree a post-Brexit trade agreement.\n\nMr Barnier said: \"A short time, as chosen by the British government, not by us.\n\n\"In a very brief period, you can't do everything. We will do as much as we can under pressure of time.\"\n\nReferring to the EU mandate document, BBC Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming said: \"This is the blueprint that Michel Barnier will follow in the negotiations.\n\n\"We've learnt from experience these documents are very important because the EU will only accept a final outcome that is pretty similar to this starting point.\"\n\nIt is \"the roadmap for all the rows we're going to have over the next few months\", our correspondent added.\n\nIt is expected that ministers in the UK will commit to seeking a Canada-style agreement with zero tariffs, a proposal Mr Johnson and his Europe adviser David Frost have set out in speeches in recent weeks.\n\nBut the push for a Canada-style deal could set up a clash with the EU after its chief negotiator Mr Barnier ruled out such an agreement.\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier will lead talks with the UK on future trade relations\n\nMr Barnier has previously said the UK is too close in proximity to be permitted to compete with the other 27 member states on such terms.\n\nAnd Nathalie Loiseau, an MEP for French President Emmanuel Macron's La République En Marche! party, said that \"to my knowledge the UK is not Canada\", adding that the EU-UK relationship is \"very different\" from the one with Canada.\n\nArriving at the meeting of the General Affairs Council in Brussels, Croatia's European Affairs minister Andreja Metelko-Zgombic said the EU would be willing to offer a \"substantial\" and \"ambitious\" partnership in trade talks.\n\nBut Dutch foreign minister Stef Blok warned it will be \"very hard work\" and a \"tough road ahead\".\n\nAnd Irish Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney said the prospect for a UK-EU free trade agreement will be \"damaged significantly\" if Britain did not build the infrastructure required for checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea.\n\nThe offer the EU was making to the UK was \"generous and fair\", he said.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said the EU's proposals \"have been given a decidedly cool response from government sources\", who say the UK's priority is about control.\n\nHe said the \"mood music\" from Number 10 was that the prime minister \"is quite prepared to walk away\" and use World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.\n\nWhen countries do not have free-trade agreements they use these terms. Under the WTO rules, each country sets tariffs - or taxes - on goods entering.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nMr Johnson has chaired the EU Exit Strategy (XS) committee, which includes new Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, senior Cabinet minister Michael Gove and new Attorney General Suella Braverman. All supported the Vote Leave campaign in 2016.\n\nFollowing the meeting, the prime minister's spokesman said that agreeing the UK's negotiating mandate was a \"very smooth process\".\n\n\"The UK's primary objective in the negotiations is to ensure that we restore our economic and political independence on 1 January 2021,\" the spokesman said.\n\nMr Frost and his team will head to Brussels for the first round of negotiations on 2 March.\n\nOne clash expected between the UK and EU is on fishing, with leading member states speaking regularly about wanting continued access to UK waters.\n\nIn a speech in Greenwich, south-east London, earlier this month Mr Johnson announced that, once free of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy, \"British fishing grounds are first and foremost for British boats\".\n\nBut French Europe minister Amelie de Montchalin signalled fishing would be a flash point when the two negotiating teams come together in London and Brussels over the coming months.\n\n\"The fishermen have the right to be protected, they know very well that if we sign a bad deal they will lose enormously,\" she told TV station France 2.\n\nThe document also says that the UK should return \"unlawfully removed cultural objects to their countries of origin\".\n\nThe passage is thought to refer to the Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek sculptures taken to Britain more than 200 years ago and now on display in the British Museum.\n\nDowning Street has insisted the future of the marbles is \"not up for discussion as part of our trade negotiations\".", "The internet touts sold tickets to Ed Sheeran (pictured) gigs and other high profile events\n\nTwo internet ticket touts who re-sold tickets worth millions of pounds for events including Ed Sheeran and Adele concerts have been jailed.\n\nPeter Hunter and David Smith traded as Ticket Wiz and BZZ. Over five years BZZ sold tickets for £9.3m more than it paid for them, Leeds Crown Court heard.\n\nSheeran's manager Stuart Camp gave evidence after £75 seats for a charity gig were spotted on sale for £7,000.\n\nHunter was jailed for four years and Smith for two and a half years.\n\nIt was described by National Trading Standards as a \"landmark case\" which was \"the first successful prosecution against a company fraudulently reselling tickets on a large scale\".\n\nSentencing the pair, Judge Mushtaq Khokhar said: \"This was a case of sustained dishonesty for a number of years.\n\n\"A lot of people in this case paid a lot more than they could have paid.\"\n\nIn one year, Peter Hunter and David Smith, who are married, bought more than 750 tickets for Sheeran events alone.\n\nThey used multiple identities and computer robots to buy tickets, selling them for inflated prices on secondary ticketing websites, including Viagogo, GetMein, StubHub and Seatwave.\n\nHunter told the jury how he started his business when a friend without a credit card asked him to buy tickets to see Madonna and he realised he could re-sell extra purchases at a huge profit.\n\nThe case has provoked calls for a wider criminal investigation of the secondary ticketing market\n\nWhen their home was raided, investigators found 112 different payment cards in 37 names.\n\nThe couple used at least 97 different names, 88 postal addresses and more than 290 email addresses to evade platform restrictions.\n\nHunter, 51, and Smith, 66, of Crossfield Road, north London, claimed they were a trusted and reliable source of tickets.\n\nThe jury found them guilty of three counts of fraudulent trading and one of possessing articles for fraud.\n\nFanFair Alliance, supported by managers of artists including Ed Sheeran, welcomed the result\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four men, from Lancashire and Kent, have been jailed after 29 Vietnamese men, women and children were found in a van, after it was boxed in on the hard shoulder of the M5 motorway.", "Demonstrators are trying to block authorities from building new migrant camps on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios", "There has been an increase in the number of food banks across the UK in recent years\n\nLife expectancy among women living in the poorest communities in England has declined since 2011, says a report warning of growing health inequalities.\n\nOverall, life expectancy growth has stalled over the past decade - for the first time in 100 years.\n\nThe largest decreases were seen in the most deprived areas of north-east England, while the biggest increases were in the richest parts of London.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there was \"still much more to do\".\n\nThe report, by Prof Sir Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities, comes 10 years after he first published data on the growing gap between rich and poor, and between north and south, in England.\n\n\"England has lost a decade,\" Prof Marmot said, calling the damage to the nation's health \"shocking\".\n\n\"If health has stopped improving, that means society has stopped improving.\"\n\nHis follow-up report, after a decade of austerity, finds the picture has got worse.\n\nThe report, from the Institute of Health Equity, maintains the widening health inequalities and deteriorating health which have marked the last decade cannot just be put down to very cold winters, flu, or problems with the NHS or social care.\n\nInstead, it points the finger at \"social and economic conditions, many of which have shown increased inequalities\".\n\nProf Marmot said similar trends can be seen right across the UK, where the slow-down in life expectancy is more obvious than in most European and other high-income countries, apart from the US.\n\nThe government must tackle health inequalities \"as a matter of urgency\" and bring the level of deprived areas in the north up to the level of good health enjoyed by people living in London and the south, the report says.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth described the report as a \"devastating verdict on 10 years of austerity under the Conservatives\" and called for \"urgent action\" by the prime minister.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Hancock said: \"There is still much more to do, and our bold prevention agenda, record £33.9bn a year investment in the NHS, and world-leading plans to improve children's health will help ensure every person can lead a long and healthy life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Satpal Jutla was unemployed following a back injury and now provides job advice at a service in Coventry\n\nIn some cities, like Coventry, projects have been set up to help bring about change, such as a support group for BAME mums and a centre helping people trying to find work by offering advice on CVs and application forms.\n\nFor people like Wayne Martin, a cafe providing a decent meal and a chance for families to sit down together, has been a lifeline in tough times.\n\nThe Real Junk Food Cafe is somewhere to meet others facing similar challenges.\n\n\"It's helped me mentally, I mean, because I suffer from depression,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the reasons I first started coming here was because I didn't want to talk to other people - being on my own with three children was kind of hard.\n\n\"So coming here was opening me up a little bit and actually getting me to mix with the people and talk to them.\"\n\nWayne says he started gained a sense of community and is now volunteering at the cafe.\n\nThe report says some local authorities and communities have been good at tackling health inequalities, and the government now needs to build on these successful examples.\n\n\"The evidence is clear and the solutions are there - what is needed is the will to act,\" said the chief executive of the Health Foundation, Dr Jennifer Dixon.\n\nShe said child poverty, Sure Start Children's centres and in-work poverty, were areas that needed immediate investment.\n\nShirley Cramer CBE, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health, said: \"If the new government wants to show it can walk the talk on 'levelling up' for the regions and groups that have been left behind, it must begin by paying more than mere lip service to the reality of the deep and entrenched health inequalities across the UK.\"", "Miriam Haley, one of two main accusers in Harvey Weinstein's trial says she feels 'huge relief' at his conviction.\n\nHer powerful testimony helped lead to him being found guilty in New York City of third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act.\n\nShe told CBS This Morning: “It feels like we’re making progress.”\n\nHer lawyer Gloria Allred added that the conviction would help other victims as well as people who have committed gender violence to know that there are \"consequences\" to actions.\n\nHis lawyers said sex between the movie executive and the accusers was consensual, and that the accusers used it to advance their careers, adding outside court that they would be appealing the conviction.\n\nMr Weinstein still faces charges in Los Angeles of assaulting two women in 2013.", "Graeme Wharton and his wife Lisa called for better communication from tour operators\n\nTourists stranded in the Canary Islands following a Saharan sandstorm say they have been left \"devastated\".\n\nThe Spanish archipelago's airports reopened on Monday after being closed over the weekend, but many flights have been cancelled or delayed.\n\nGraeme Wharton, of Sunderland, said his family have been stuck at Gran Canaria airport with \"zero information\" from tour operator TUI.\n\nThe firm said it was \"working tirelessly\" to get people home.\n\nMr Wharton, who had been due to fly to Manchester, said his family had been at the airport since early on Monday having also spent more than 10 hours there on both Saturday and Sunday.\n\nPlanes at Tenerife South Reina Sofia Airport were among those to be grounded\n\nThey have had no access to their checked-in luggage and have been \"wearing the same clothes\" for days, he added.\n\n\"TUI brought us to the airport at 10am yesterday and we've been here ever since with zero information.\n\n\"You've got kids lying about on cardboard asleep, there's people in wheelchairs and pensioners who need medication.\n\n\"We're devastated. It's the lack of information from TUI. There's no information with regards a flight to take us home and when it will be here.\"\n\nThe holiday firm has apologised to customers and said it was \"working tirelessly to get everyone to their destination as quickly as possible\".\n\nHundreds of flights were hit when strong winds carried a cloud of sand from the Saharan desert, 500km (300 miles) across the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nHundreds of passengers were stuck at Gran Canaria airport on Sunday\n\nAmanda Leashman, whose parents and sons are stranded at the airport, said they were ringing her back in the UK to access information, as they were not being told what was happening.\n\nThe family, from Wakefield, who were returning from a cruise to mark her father's 70th birthday, were forced to sleep at the airport on Monday night.\n\nMrs Leashman said: \"Dad is diabetic and is running out of medication.\n\n\"There were no blankets or pillows and they didn't have their cases or anything as they'd gone through security.\n\n\"They got a food vouchers, but most of the outlets had run out.\"\n\nShe said they had been told there would be a plane at 14:30 but it developed a technical fault, and a replacement would not be due until the the small hours.\n\nOther stranded Britons include a Bedfordshire swimming team who have been waiting to return via EasyJet from Lanzarote since Saturday.\n\nThirty-four children aged 12 to 17 from the Flitwick Dolphin Swimming Club, along with four adult volunteers, went on a training camp to the island on 17 February.\n\nThey are being put up in a hotel and are due to fly back to the UK between Thursday and Saturday.\n\nA club spokeswoman said it had been \"stressful\" and the organisation was \"working round the clock\" to deal with the situation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Floodwater swamps Severn Stoke in Worcestershire at the weekend\n\nBuilding new homes on flood plains in England should be resisted if at all possible, the head of the Environment Agency Sir James Bevan has said.\n\nHe said where there was no alternative, homes should be made more resilient, for example by using ground floors for garages so people stay safe upstairs.\n\nHe also argued there may be a need to shift some communities out of harm's way when the risks become too great.\n\nIt comes after Storms Ciara and Dennis caused widespread flooding.\n\nIn Shrewsbury, river levels are set to reach their highest-ever level on Tuesday, where a severe flood warning - meaning a danger to life - is in place.\n\nAsked whether vulnerable communities could be evacuated, Sir James told BBC Radio 4's Today programme \"almost all\" residents can remain where they are and their flood defences improved.\n\nHowever, he called for a \"conversation\" about their sustainability and protection in the long term.\n\n\"Most people would accept\" that some homes should not have been built, he added, and insisted this was not about forcing people to move but about discussing realities.\n\nFor years the Environment Agency - which covers England - has raised concerns about building homes on flood plains, and Sir James is set to reinforce that message in a speech later.\n\nSir James will say the \"hard truth\" is that it may be better for some communities to relocate\n\nHe is expected to acknowledge that it is not realistic to ban all development in these areas because they cover so much of the country.\n\nBut he says homes should only be built there if \"there is no real alternative\", and if they are designed to be more resilient to flooding.\n\nExamples of some techniques which could \"flood-proof\" homes include using the ground floor just for garages, planting trees, creating wetland habitats or restoring rivers that have been artificially straightened to their \"natural curves\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir James will also question whether it may be better for communities to move out of harm's way when the risks of flooding - either from rivers or the sea - become too great.\n\nIt's nothing new for the Environment Agency to warn about home building on flood plains - we've heard that for years.\n\nBut by repeating the message now, in the midst of the continuing devastation following Storm Dennis, Sir James Bevan hopes to attract more attention.\n\nLike other senior figures in the agency, he wants to stimulate a national debate about how to prepare not just for the next floods but also for a future with a more hostile climate.\n\nHe raises some profoundly difficult questions such as whether it's feasible to build ever bigger flood defences.\n\nAnd he's stepping into sensitive territory by flagging up what he calls a \"hard truth\" that some places will become too hard to protect from rivers or the sea.\n\nIn those cases, he says, \"it may be better for communities to choose to relocate out of harm's way.\" That's quite a bombshell - and something most politicians would prefer to run a mile from.\n\nSevere flooding has hit parts of England and Wales for weeks, in the wake of two storms which brought heavy rain and strong winds.\n\nThere are 112 flood warnings still in place, including two severe warnings for the River Severn at Shrewsbury and Ironbridge.\n\nMore rain is expected and river levels at Shrewsbury are forecast to peak to 5.5m on Tuesday evening, beating the previous record.\n\nAnn DiTella, of Shrewsbury B&B Darwin's Townhouse, said 11 rooms had flooded, less than a week after water \"destroyed everything in its wake\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I cleaned up but the flood came all over again'\n\nMeanwhile, dozens of people in Wharfage, Ironbridge, have been asked to evacuate as the River Severn may breach the flood barriers.\n\nAt the weekend, parts of Scotland were also hit by heavy flooding with several vehicles becoming stranded in Renfrewshire.\n\nSir James' comments will be made in a speech at the World Water-Tech Innovation Summit in central London.\n\nHe will say: \"First, we must continue to do what we have been doing for some years now: building and maintaining strong defences to reduce the risk of communities being flooded.\n\n\"But in the face of the climate emergency, we now need a second, parallel, track: making our communities more resilient to flooding so that when it does happen it poses much less risk to people, does much less damage, and life can get back to normal much quicker.\n\n\"The best way to defuse the weather bomb is better protection and stronger resilience. We need both.\"\n\nFloating flower pots and a car in floodwater on Coton Hill in Shrewsbury\n\nFire and rescue workers in Hampton Bishop reverse their truck as water becomes too deep\n\nThe EA has said it is spending £2.6bn on new flood defences that will better protect 300,000 properties by 2021, plus £1bn on maintaining existing defences in England.\n\nBecause England has so many rivers, much of the country is a flood plain.\n\nSir James is set to warn that, with a growing population, the number of properties in the flood plain is likely to nearly double over the next 50 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScientists warn that climate change is raising the risk of flooding because winter storms will bring more heavy rainfall in a warming world.\n\nEngland has already received 141% of its average February rainfall this month.\n\nSome areas saw a month's worth of rain in 24 hours, and river levels in the Colne, Ribble, Calder, Aire, Trent, Severn, Wye, Lugg, and Derwent all set new records in recent days", "Salman Abedi in the foyer of the Manchester Arena just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nFootage of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi seconds before he blew himself up has been shown to jurors.\n\nThe CCTV pictures showed him standing amid crowds of men, women and children 19 seconds before the fatal blast on 22 May 2017.\n\nHashem Abedi, 22, is on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of helping his brother plan the attack at the end of the Ariana Grande concert.\n\nHe denies 22 murders, attempted murder, and conspiring to cause explosions.\n\nSalman Abedi detonated a homemade device packed with shrapnel as 359 people milled around the arena foyer at 22:31 BST - one minute after the concert ended.\n\nThe suicide attack left 22 people dead and hundreds more injured, the jury was told.\n\nIn the footage, the bomber was seen wearing a large Karrimor rucksack containing the device.\n\nThe court heard his body was recovered in four parts and was riddled with nuts, wire and metal parts after the blast. He was identified by his DNA and fingerprints taken in 2012 when he was arrested for shoplifting.\n\nForensic investigators later found more than 2,000 nuts at the scene.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard all living casualties were moved out by 23:30 BST and 19 people were confirmed dead at the scene.\n\nThe father of 15-year-old victim Megan Hurley remained with her body until after 01:00 BST, the court heard.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nThe jury was told 28 people suffered life-threatening or life-changing wounds out of the 264 people injured.\n\nDonna Currie, 51, who was waiting in the foyer for her daughter and her friend, suffered multiple fractures to both legs and shrapnel wounds.\n\nShe had previously sustained shrapnel injuries in the 1996 IRA bombing in Manchester and experienced extensive psychological trauma.\n\nThe court heard that a 50-year-old woman, who suffered shrapnel and burn wounds, had also been caught up in the 1993 IRA bombings in Warrington.\n\nShe had been waiting with a friend to collect their daughters when she was hurt at the arena.\n\nSalman Abedi arriving at Manchester Victoria just over an hour before he detonated his bomb\n\nThe court previously heard that Salman Abedi, 22, went to the arena days before the attack and watched music fans arrive for a Take That gig.\n\nHe was seen looking at box office queues, a few yards from the spot where he detonated the bomb.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard that on the day of the blast, he had arranged to send £460 to Libya. Later, he went out with his rucksack and took a Metrolink tram to Victoria Station in Manchester.\n\nWhile waiting for the tram, he made a call lasting just over four minutes to his family in Libya, the court heard. He then waited in the area of the arena for two hours before detonating his device.\n\nJurors have heard that Hashem Abedi insists he is not an extremist and had no idea of his older brother's plans. He said he was in Libya with his family at the time of the attack.\n\nSalman Abedi gets in a lift to take him to the Arena foyer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Global financial markets saw some of the sharpest falls in years on Monday after a rise in coronavirus cases renewed fears about economic slowdown.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones and S&P 500 posted their sharpest daily declines since 2018, with the Dow falling 3.5% or more than 1,000 points.\n\nThe S&P 500 ended the day 3.3% lower, while the Nasdaq sank 3.7%.\n\nThe UK's FTSE 100 share index closed 3.3% lower, the sharpest drop since January 2016.\n\nIn Italy, which has seen Europe's worst outbreak of the virus, Milan's stock market plunged nearly 6%.\n\nIn contrast, the price of gold, which is considered less risky, hit its highest level in seven years at one point.\n\nThe moves came as the outbreak continued to spread outside of China, with Iran, South Korea and Italy reporting a surge in cases.\n\nAbout 77,000 people in China, where the virus emerged last year, have been infected and nearly 2,600 have died.\n\nMore than 1,200 cases have been confirmed in about 30 other countries and there have been more than 20 deaths. Italy reported three more deaths on Monday, raising the total there to six.\n\n\"There has been so much complacency in recent weeks from investors, despite clear signs that China's economy is facing a large hit and that supply chains around the world were being disrupted,\" said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.\n\n\"Markets initially wobbled in January, but had quickly bounced back, implying that investors didn't see the coronavirus as a serious threat to corporate earnings. They may now be reappraising the situation.\"\n\nThe losses on the Dow and S&P 500 in the US wiped out their gains for the year. Firms such as Nike, Apple and Walt Disney, which do major business in China and rely on it to make goods, were some of the hardest hit, with shares down more than 4%.\n\nTravel companies also continued to suffer. In the UK, the biggest faller in the FTSE 100 was EasyJet, which sank 16.7%, while Tui and British Airways owner IAG were both down by more than 9% at the close.\n\nWall Street is spooked. The massive falls on US financial markets shows that pretty clearly.\n\nPart of the answer can be found in the ballooning number of confirmed cases in China and elsewhere. Investors worry this could mean a prolonged economic slowdown around the world.\n\nTech juggernaut Apple has already warned of a shortage of iPhones and other US companies are also starting to break a sweat. If the impact is as serious as some investors suspect, it could derail the longest economic expansion in America's history.\n\nThat means there are political implications too. US President Donald Trump has made a roaring economy a central part of his re-election bid. Any wobbles could make his case for another four years more challenging.\n\nThe market moves come as companies continue to warn about the effect of the coronavirus on their supply chains and overall financial health.\n\nAssociated British Foods, which owns clothing retailer Primark, warned on Monday that there could be shortages of some lines if delays in factory production in China were prolonged because of virus-related shutdowns.\n\nIn China itself, officials have said most small businesses have yet to reopen after the authorities extended the Lunar New Year holiday in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nOnly about three out of 10 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were back to work, while transport problems were preventing workers from travelling and disrupting shipments of raw materials, said industry ministry spokesman Tian Yulong.\n\nSMEs make up about 60% of the Chinese economy.\n\nAnalysts said the gold price - which has risen by more than 10% since the start of the year - could soon breach the $1,700 barrier. On Monday, prices surged more than 2% at one point, before retreating.\n\n\"Gold has finally established some serious momentum,\" said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at online trading platform Oanda.\n\nOil prices fell by about 4% on Monday, as investors worried about a fall in demand following the temporary factory closures due to the virus.\n\nThe price of Brent crude dropped by more than $2 to $55.55 a barrel.\n• None World must prepare for pandemic, says WHO", "Yorkshire Tea has urged social media users to \"try to be kind\" after the popular brand became embroiled in a row involving a leading Tory politician.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak posted a picture on Friday of him appearing to make a huge tea round for his Treasury staff.\n\nThe Twitter image led to calls by some on the left for a boycott of the brand.\n\nThe company said it had been \"pretty shocked\" by the outcry, reminding people that Jeremy Corbyn had also posed with its products in 2017.\n\nOver the last four decades, the firm has evolved from a regional blend found in Yorkshire shops to one of the UK's most successful exports, being sold as far afield as Australia and China.\n\nBut it said it had had a \"rough weekend\" after Mr Sunak posted an image on Friday of him holding a bumper pack of 1,040 tea bags. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, who represents the North Yorkshire seat of Richmond, said he was \"making tea for the team\" as he took a quick break from preparations for his Budget in just over two weeks time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rishi Sunak This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nYorkshire Tea, which is owned by Taylors of Harrogate, was quick to make clear on Friday that it had had nothing to do with the photo and had not been told in advance by the chancellor's team that he would associate himself with their brand.\n\nIn an impassioned thread on Monday, the firm said it had spent \"the last three days answering furious accusations and boycott calls\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Yorkshire Tea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA member of the firm's social media team put the avalanche of criticism it has received into perspective, saying it was \"easier to be on the receiving end of this as a brand than as an individual\". But they urged people to remember that the company had a human as well as a corporate face.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Yorkshire Tea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Sunak is not the first politician to suggest their endeavours would be helped by pausing for a cuppa. During a visit to York in 2017, Mr Corbyn said he would be happy to discuss climate change and other issues over a pot of Yorkshire Tea with Donald Trump if he ever made it to Downing Street.", "Farming leaders have said it would be \"insane\" to sign a trade deal that allows the import of food that would be illegal to produce in the UK, such as chlorinated chicken.\n\nThe National Farmers Union (NFU) president, Minette Batters, said allowing these imports would be \"morally bankrupt\".\n\nThe NFU called for rules on minimum standards for imports to be made law.\n\nDowning Street said food standards would be protected in any trade deal.\n\nAt the NFU's annual conference on Tuesday, Ms Batters said: \"This isn't just about chlorinated chicken. This is about a wider principle.\n\n\"We must not tie the hands of British farmers to the highest rung of the standards ladder while waving through food imports which may not even reach the bottom rung.\"\n\nShe said: \"To sign up to a trade deal which results in opening our ports, shelves and fridges to food which would be illegal to produce here would not only be morally bankrupt, it would be the work of the insane.\"\n\nMs Batters called for rules in the Agriculture Bill, which is currently going through Parliament, to ensure that food that would be illegal to produce here will not be imported.\n\nIn countries such as the US, chicken is sometimes washed in chlorine or other chemicals to remove harmful bacteria.\n\nThis practice was banned in the European Union in 1997 over food safety concerns.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The UK has long been a world leader in food safety and animal welfare and we will continue to uphold our high food safety standards in all future trade deals.\"\n\nThe EU will demand that the UK keeps its ban on chlorinated chicken as a requirement for a trade agreement with Brussels, the Guardian reported, citing documents it has seen.\n\nThe move is to protect European meat exports, but it could prove to be a potential stumbling block in any deal with the US.\n\nLast month, US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said that the US wanted to agree a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK in 2020.\n\nNew environment secretary George Eustice drew criticism on Sunday after refusing to rule out chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef being imported from the US under a new deal.\n\nBut the EU believes that relying on chlorine at the end of the meat production process could be a way of compensating for poor hygiene standards - such as dirty abattoirs.\n\nIn 2020, the UK will be negotiating a trade deal with Brussels for when the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nAccording to reports in the Guardian newspaper, the EU will demand that the UK maintains a ban on chlorinated chicken as the price for a trade agreement with the bloc.\n\nMr Eustice's predecessor, Theresa Villiers, had previously told the BBC that the current European Union ban on chlorine-washed chicken would be carried over into UK legislation after Brexit.", "San Fiorano is one of the Italian towns on lockdown\n\nMajor outbreaks of the new coronavirus have suddenly been detected in both Italy and Iran in the past few days.\n\nMeanwhile, cases in South Korea have surged making it one of the worst-affected countries.\n\nThe new coronavirus is no longer a problem just in China, with a small number of exported cases.\n\nIt has many people asking if the virus is about to become a pandemic and whether containing it is still possible?\n\nA pandemic is a disease that is spreading in multiple countries around the world at the same time.\n\nThis virus \"absolutely\" has pandemic potential, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.\n\nBut he added: \"We are not witnessing uncontained global spread of the virus, using the word pandemic does not fit the facts.\"\n\n\"I think many people would consider the current situation a pandemic, we have ongoing transmission in multiple regions of the world,\" Prof Jimmy Whitworth, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nSome scientists were even arguing two weeks ago that we had already entered the earliest stages of a pandemic.\n\nAll this tells us there is some wiggle-room around the word.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe developments in South Korea, Italy and Iran are the reason why people are drifting closer to calling the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.\n\nSouth Korea is piling on hundreds of new cases, showing how contagious the virus is.\n\nItaly and Iran now have substantial outbreaks. There are almost certainly far more cases in these countries than have been reported - and the connection with China has not yet been established.\n\n\"The virus is spreading around the world and the link with China is becoming less strong,\" says Prof Whitworth.\n\nAnd Prof Devi Sridhar, from the University of Edinburgh, said her perspective \"has definitely changed\" over the past couple of days.\n\n\"This has largely been a Chinese emergency, now we are seeing it progress it South Korea, Japan, Iran and now Italy,\" she says. \"It's a highly infectious virus and spreading very quickly.\"\n\nShe does not think we are in a pandemic yet and is waiting to see long chains of transmission in countries outside of China.\n\n\"We don't have the evidence to say we're in one, but I'm pretty sure we'll have the evidence in next couple of days.\n\n\"If it's in Italy and Iran, then it can be anywhere.\"\n\nResearchers have described the cases in Iran as the most worrying for efforts to contain the global spread of the virus and prevent it becoming a pandemic.\n\nThe number of deaths reported in the country, 12, is far more revealing than the number of reported cases, 61.\n\nDeaths are significant as the virus kills only a small proportion of people who are infected and it takes weeks to go from infection to death.\n\nDr MacDermott said: \"It suggests fairly large numbers of people with minimal symptoms, or who are asymptomatic, that aren't being tested or even being identified.\n\n\"Who knows how long it has been going on?\"\n\nThe country has already been linked to cases in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Canada and Oman.\n\nShe added: \"Iraq and Afghanistan - that's two of the countries you don't want the virus in, healthcare is barely existent after decades of war and it's not safe for healthcare workers to travel there.\n\n\"I think we are teetering on the balance of a pandemic, in the next week or two we're likely to see it pop up in lots places and if it's on several different continents then we'd be approaching a pandemic.\"\n\nOfficials now say the WHO will not formally \"declare\" a pandemic for the new coronavirus, though the term may still be used \"colloquially\".\n\nIn 2009, the organisation was criticised when it declared swine flu a pandemic.\n\nIt based the decision on criteria it no longer uses.\n\nThe virus did spread round the world - but it proved to be relatively mild, leading some to argue the organisation had been too hasty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MSPs have backed the principle of tackling period poverty by making sanitary products available to all free of charge.\n\nAll parties backed a bill put forward by Labour's Monica Lennon in its first test in the Holyrood chamber.\n\nHowever some warned there was a \"huge amount of work to do\" to amend the bill to make it deliverable and affordable.\n\nMinisters had originally opposed the plans but changed their position after coming under pressure from campaigners.\n\nThe government is expected to put forward a raft of amendments to address their \"significant\" concerns about the legislation, including the estimated £24m annual cost of implementing it.\n\nThe Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill would create a legal duty on the Scottish government to ensure that period products are available free of charge \"for anyone who needs them\".\n\nMs Lennon said she was \"thrilled\" to have support \"from right across civic Scotland, from girl guides, trade unions, anti-poverty charities and many individuals who have had their own lived experience of period poverty and know what it is like not to have access to products when they need them\".\n\nShe told MSPs that \"access to period products should be a right and available to all\", and pledged to work with other parties to make sure the proposals are deliverable.\n\nThe legislation has been brought forward by Labour MSP Monica Lennon\n\nCommunities Secretary Aileen Campbell said the proposed costs of the scheme had been dramatically underestimated, saying it would take \"a whole lot of hard work and endeavour to make sure we can get something that is fit for purpose\".\n\nShe added: \"Parliament will now need to pull out all the stops and work hard collectively and collaboratively.\"\n\nThis was echoed by Tory MSP Graham Simpson, who said there was a \"huge amount of work to do\" to knock the bill into shape.\n\nAt present tampons, pads and some reusable products are funded in schools, colleges and universities.\n\nThe Scottish government provided £5.2m funding to support this. Another £4m was made available to councils so the roll-out could be expanded to other other public places, and another £50,000 for free provision in sports clubs.\n\n(Left to right) Caitlin, Xena and Amy are pupils at St Paul's High School in Glasgow.\n\nAt St Paul's High School in Glasgow, there is a scheme where older pupils have been trained to talk to girls in S1 about periods and period poverty.\n\n\"Period poverty means that girls can't afford to buy period products,\" one pupil, Caitlin, told BBC Scotland.\n\nWith average periods lasting about five days, it can cost up to £8 a month for tampons and pads.\n\nXena said the expense meant some girls have to use items like tissues or socks instead.\n\n\"This means that some girls are feart to come to school and don't want to leave the house at all,\" said another pupil, Amy.\n\nLike all schools in Scotland, free period products have been available in the toilets at St Paul's High School since the 2018/19 academic year.\n\nThe move came after a survey of more than 2,000 people by Young Scot found that about one in four respondents at school, college or university in Scotland had struggled to access period products.\n\nMeanwhile about 12% of respondents to research by Plan International said they have had to \"improvise sanitary wear\".\n\n\"It's a right that every woman should have that they should be able to access free sanitary products,\" Amy said.\n\n\"It's not like it is a luxury item or anything. We need them.\"", "Police were called to the property at 14:30 GMT on Saturday\n\nThe prime minister's father has said his family is \"shocked, stunned and saddened\" by the death of his neighbour, who was shot at her cottage.\n\nThe woman, named locally as 56-year-old Debbie Zurick, was shot at the weekend at her Somerset home, which is next to Stanley Johnson's rural estate.\n\nMrs Zurick was found outside the home at Winsford with severe injuries and pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nHer husband, John, is believed to be in hospital with self-inflicted injuries.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police confirmed weapons had been seized earlier in February as part of a separate investigation.\n\n\"We can confirm we previously attended the address where this incident happened to seize licensed firearms as part of a separate investigation,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We're satisfied that no firearms licensed to any of the occupants remained at the premises following this visit.\n\n\"We're unable to go into further details due to the ongoing referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\"\n\nPolice were called to the property at Winsford, near Minehead, on Saturday afternoon.\n\nMrs Zurick was found outside the property with severe injuries and pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nBoris Johnson's father, Stanley, said: \"Both I and my whole family are shocked, stunned and saddened by this tragic incident.\n\n\"We very much regret the passing of Mrs Zurick.\n\n\"She was a neighbour and she was much loved.\"\n\nThe property is next to Stanley Johnson's rural estate in Somerset\n\nA search found a 67-year-old man, who had also suffered serious injuries caused by a shotgun, in an outbuilding, an Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said.\n\nPolice said the man, whose condition is described as critical but stable, was in custody but had been taken to a hospital in Devon for treatment.\n\nThe force has referred itself to the police watchdog due to previous contact with those involved.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some residents in Ironbridge have been advised to leave their homes\n\nRail lines have closed and people have continued to evacuate as river levels continue to rise in Shropshire.\n\nTwo severe \"danger to life\" flood warnings are in place for the River Severn at Shrewsbury and Ironbridge.\n\nNetwork Rail closed all lines at Shrewsbury station from 14:00 GMT, except for services to and from Chester and Crewe.\n\nWater is pouring over flood barriers in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and there are fears for the same in Ironbridge.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned defences at the Wharfage in the Shropshire town could be breached in the early hours of Wednesday, when the River Severn there is predicted to peak.\n\nThe agency's Dave Throup tweeted the breach in Beales Corner, Bewdley, was not at the main demountable defences in Severnside, but urged people to avoid the area.\n\nWest Mercia Police said residents who might be affected had been told and the force added the situation would be monitored overnight by fire crews and agency officials.\n\nWater began pouring over these flood defences in Bewdley on Tuesday evening\n\nWater levels in Ironbridge have now exceeded those seen last week and could reach up to 7m (22.9ft) overnight, the agency warned - making the river nearly 3m (9.8ft) deeper than it was on Sunday.\n\nCh Supt Tom Harding, from West Mercia Police, said: \"We are particularly concerned this evening that those barriers [at the Wharfage] are going to be overtopped.\n\n\"We have spoken to all residents who could be impacted - most of which have evacuated.\"\n\nHe encouraged others who had decided not to evacuate to do so as high water levels were expected to remain for up to 48 hours. The force was prepared for the \"worse case scenario\" with rest centres and lots of staff and resources on the ground, he added.\n\nPeople have been been advised to evacuate along the Wharfage, Ironbridge, where the river is expected to peak overnight\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said hourly inspections were carried out on the Severn Viaduct, which carries the majority of lines in and out of Shrewsbury station.\n\nHe said: \"Flood waters have been very close to the level where we have to close the viaduct for safety reasons.\"\n\nAs the river was expected to rise further, he said the lines would \"remain closed until levels have dropped below the closure mark and underwater inspections have been completed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An ex-Army truck is being used to ferry villagers cut off by floods\n\nEarlier Network Rail tweeted if the station was closed it would be a \"once in a generation situation\".\n\nAt Welsh Bridge in Shrewsbury, the Severn stood at 5.11m at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday, nearly doubling in depth over the past 72 hours.\n\nParts of Shrewsbury are affected by flood water\n\nMr Throup said more rain was on the way, calling it \"relentless\".\n\nSarah Holmes, director of Merrythought Village in Ironbridge, said all the businesses had \"got together, collaborated and moved equipment upstairs or off-site\" ahead of the expected peak.\n\n\"Now it's just a waiting game to see how far the river rises and there will obviously be the big clear-up afterwards,\" she said.\n\n\"Unsettled\" weather over a few days may leave river water levels high in Shrewsbury, says the Environment Agency\n\nSmithfield Road in Shrewsbury is flooded as the River Severn continues to rise\n\nShropshire Council chief executive Clive Wright is to step down as the authority battles to deal with floods.\n\nIt follows a vote at a meeting of the ruling Conservative group on Monday.\n\nBBC Radio Shropshire political reporter Joanne Gallacher has been told Mr Wright's response to the flooding was one of the reasons he was asked to leave.\n\nIn a statement circulated to staff, seen by the BBC, Mr Wright said he was leaving his post \"with immediate effect\" adding it had been \"a great privilege\" to serve the people of Shropshire.\n\nShropshire Fire and Rescue Service said it had rescued residents from a retirement home at Longden Coleham in Shrewsbury on Monday evening as flood waters rose.\n\nThe town's three main shopping centres have been closed \"for the safety of staff and customers\".\n\nA number of schools, colleges and libraries were also closed on Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam Green This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShrewsbury Town's game at home to Tranmere Rovers went ahead.\n\n\"The ground staff have been working very hard on the pitch and despite the recent rainfall it is relatively dry at present and the main surrounding road networks are all reporting no issues, therefore, there are no concerns about the game,\" a club statement said.\n\nMark Davies, who owns Darwin's Townhouse bed and breakfast in the town, said his property had been left \"devastated\" as it flooded for the second time in a week.\n\n\"I spent last week pumping everything out and got that straight on Sunday, flopped down and then found on Monday morning we were back to square one again,\" he said.\n\nRiverside car parks in Worcester have been closed as river levels in the city rose \"rapidly\".\n\nWorcestershire County Council urged people parked in the Cattlemarket, Croft Road, Newport Street, Pitchcroft, or Tybridge Street car parks to move their vehicles or risk being stranded.\n\nWater levels were rising at the English Bridge in Shrewsbury on Tuesday morning\n\nHave you been affected by the flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "One japester described the hole, in Bath Street, as \"an adventure not to be missed\"\n\nInternet jokers have turned a circular hole in a wall outside a bank into a tourist attraction.\n\nSince December 2018, wags have been posting glowing reviews on TripAdvisor for the hole at NatWest in Ilkeston.\n\n\"NatWest hole\" is now ranked fourth out of 16 attractions in the Derbyshire town based on user reviews.\n\nOne reviewer on TripAdvisor offered the spoof advice: \"Can get very busy and you can queue for hours, but it's worth the wait.\"\n\nThe attention has seen the modest hole rise up the rankings\n\nAnother wag wrote: \"The city of Agra has the Taj Mahal, Paris has the Eiffel Tower and Sydney has its Opera House.\n\n\"But they all pale in comparison to the impact on the soul of first laying eyes on Ilkeston's Hole in the Wall.\"\n\nPaul Miller, chairman of the Ilkeston and District History Society, said he was \"gobsmacked\" at the hole's high ranking.\n\nBennerly Viaduct has a lower ranking on TripAdvisor than the NatWest hole\n\n\"It doesn't really say a lot about the area if it's number four,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it looks like a 1970s idea of something to look different. It doesn't really beat the pyramids though does it?\"\n\nA NatWest spokeswoman clarified the hole was introduced during a mid-1990s refurbishment as a safety feature so people using the cash machine could see if anyone was lurking behind the wall.\n\nIt is not the first time tongue-in-cheek reviews have propelled an unlikely attraction up the TripAdvisor rankings. In 2018, a plastic tunnel outside a Bude supermarket became the highest ranked place to visit in the Cornish resort - although TripAdvisor bosses later suspended reviews for the see-through walkway.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The majority of confirmed cases have been in China\n\nCovid-19, the new form of coronavirus which has killed over 2,000 people around the world, has become a notifiable disease in Scotland.\n\nHealth regulations have been updated, requiring doctors to inform health boards about any cases of the disease.\n\nThey must share patient information \"if they have reasonable grounds to suspect a person they are attending has coronavirus\".\n\nNo cases have been found in Scotland so far.\n\nThe Chief Medical Officer has written to NHS Boards, medical practitioners and directors of diagnostic laboratories to make them aware of the changes.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said: \"Although all Scottish tests have so far been negative, we are prepared for the high likelihood that we will also see a positive case in Scotland.\n\n\"These changes keep our public health legislation up to date, ensuring the health service in Scotland can quickly respond, if a suspected case of coronavirus is confirmed.\n\n\"Our NHS is well-equipped to cope with any suspected cases. We are actively working with health boards to ensure this, and have well-rehearsed procedures in place for infections of this kind.\"\n\nIn Scotland, 368 people have been tested for the disease. All tests have been negative.\n\nAccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there were 76,769 confirmed cases of Covid-19 as of Friday.\n\nThe vast majority have been in China.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nFrance remain on course for a first Grand Slam in 10 years after winning in Cardiff for the first time since 2010.\n\nFly-half Romain Ntamack's 17-point haul included a try, while full-back Anthony Bouthier and second-row Paul Willemse also crossed.\n\nDefending champions Wales responded with 18 points from Dan Biggar including a late try.\n\nProp Dillon Lewis also crossed for his first international try.\n\nFrance overcame yellow cards for Gregory Alldritt and Mohamed Haouas while Wales were left to wonder if they should have received a penalty try in the second half for a deliberate knock-on.\n\nThe captivating contest was Wales' second defeat in three matches under new coach Wayne Pivac and hopes of defending their Six Nations title appear to have disappeared.\n\nIt was Wales' first home Six Nations defeat for three years and France's second win in 10 games against their opponents.\n\nThe victory gave Shaun Edwards, who spent 12 years as Wales defence coach under Warren Gatland, a successful return to the Principality Stadium.\n\nPre-match controversy centred around Wales prop Wyn Jones accusing France of illegal tactics at the scrum and visiting coach Fabien Galthie suggesting that showed a lack of respect for the nation.\n\nAs a result, the first scrum was always going to provoke interest but the second minute set-piece went off without incident - although it laid the platform for France to concede a ruck offence and Biggar slotted over the penalty.\n\nFrance responded within seven minutes when a normally reliable Leigh Halfpenny dropped a high Ntamack kick, with Bouthier sprinting away to score. Ntamack converted.\n\nWales lost George North to a head injury assessment after 11 minutes following a heavy challenge by Fickou, with Johnny McNicholl permanently replacing him.\n\nNtamack continued to drive France forward and slotted over a penalty after Lewis was guilty of a ruck transgression.\n\nUnder Edwards' influence, France ferociously counter-rucked to put Wales under constant pressure in possession - and they also pushed the offside line, with one infringement resulting in a Biggar penalty.\n\nFrance appeared to have responded with a brilliant second try for Fickou following a clever Ntamack chip kick but the Bouthier pass to Virimi Vakatawa was deemed forward following television replays.\n\nThat decision only briefly delayed matters as Willemse powered over from a driving line-out as he bumped off an attempted McNicholl tackle. Ntamack converted.\n\nWales responded with a third Biggar penalty and the visitors' constant offending resulted in a warning from English referee Matt Carley. Number eight Alldritt paid the price with a yellow card just before half-time.\n\nWales captain Alun Wyn Jones opted to attempt to score a try rather than kick a fourth penalty - but the gamble backfired as France held out to lead 17-9 at the interval.\n\nThe visitors ran down the rest of Alldritt's absence after half-time as Wales managed no points with their numerical advantage.\n\nPivac's side scored almost immediately when equal numbers were restored though, as prop Lewis dived over for his first international try. Biggar converted to reduce the deficit to one point.\n\nAll the momentum appeared to be with Wales until the classy Ntamack intercepted a Tompkins pass to sprint away and score a converted try that mirrored his father Emile's score against the same opposition 20 years ago.\n\nAn Ntamack penalty extended the deficit to 11 points before Willemse escaped giving away a penalty try after he knocked the ball forward. After watching television replays, Carley stuck with assistant referee Karl Dickson's decision that it was just a knock-on as Ken Owens' attempted try-scoring pass to Josh Adams was knocked down.\n\nAdams was forced off the field with an ankle problem which forced a major backline reshuffle as fly-half Jarrod Evans came on in the centre and Tompkins switched to the wing.\n\nProp Mohamed Haouas was yellow-carded for persistent scrummaging offences before France cleared the danger.\n\nBiggar dived over for a converted try following clever work from new cap Will Rowlands and Aaron Wainwright to reduce the deficit to four points with five minutes remaining to set up an enthralling finale.\n\nA tremendous Tompkins break was snuffed out by a brilliant turnover by France replacement hooker Camille Chat to end Wales' hopes.\n\nTempers flared between the sides at the final whistle after France held on for a rare win in Cardiff.", "The A82 at the scene of the fatal crash was closed for 11 hours to allow for a police investigation\n\nTwo girls aged one and three have died along with their parents in a two-car crash near Fort William.\n\nThe family were in a Mini Cooper involved in the incident on the A82 at Torlundy just after 17:30 on Thursday.\n\nPolice confirmed the dead mother was aged 26 and the father was 25.\n\nThe 56-year-old female driver of a Ford Fiesta freed from the wreckage by firefighters was taken to hospital in Fort William with serious but not life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe A82 around the scene of the crash was closed for 11 hours to allow for a police investigation. Police Scotland has appealed for witnesses.\n\nSupt Simon Bradshaw said the scene faced by police officers, firefighters and ambulance personnel on Thursday was \"extremely challenging\".\n\nHe said: \"I would take this opportunity to thank everyone involved for their efforts in the face of such a distressing incident.\n\n\"Every loss of life on our roads is a tragedy but the impact on families, friends and entire communities after an incident like this cannot be underestimated. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been involved or affected.\"\n\nSupt Bradshaw added: \"An investigation is ongoing to establish the full circumstances leading to this tragedy and it would be wrong for me to speculate on the cause at this time.\n\n\"However, I would ask that anyone who was in the area last night, who may have seen either vehicle involved before the collision or who may have dashcam footage to please contact police 101, quoting incident 2942 of 20 February.\"\n\nFort William and Ardnamurchan councillor Andrew Baxter said the \"thoughts and prayers of everyone in Lochaber\" would be with those affected by the crash.\n\nHe said: \"This is devastating news for the family and friends of those who have been tragically killed in this accident.\n\n\"What I have seen on local social media is great sadness.\"\n\nKate Forbes, SNP MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, tweeted: \"This is extremely sad news. Thinking of the families and friends who are dealing with the shock of all of this.\"", "Daragh Curley wrote the letter to Jurgen Klopp as part of a school project\n\nA football-mad schoolboy will visit Old Trafford for the first time after \"a novel attempt to derail Liverpool's Premier League campaign\".\n\nDaragh Curley wrote to Jurgen Klopp, asking if it would be possible for the team to lose some games so they would not win the league.\n\nThe 10-year-old, from County Donegal, was shocked when he received a personal reply from the Liverpool boss.\n\nManchester United said the club was proud to have fans like Daragh.\n\n\"That's brilliant news. The atmosphere at Old Trafford will be great,\" said Daragh shortly after hearing the news of his visit.\n\n\"My friends are going to be really jealous.\"\n\nIn the letter, Daragh, who counts goalkeeper David de Gea and midfielder Bruno Fernandes as his favourite players, wrote: \"Liverpool are winning too many games.\n\n\"If you win nine more games then you have the best unbeaten run in English football. Being a United fan that is very sad.\n\n\"So the next time Liverpool play, please make them lose.\"\n\nKlopp replied, praising Daragh's passion, but explaining Liverpool could not drop points on his behalf.\n\nLiverpool are on course to win the Premier League and have not lost a league fixture so far this season.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 10-year-old shocked at Liverpool manager's reply to a letter asking him to lose.\n\nThe letter \"caught the eye\" of bosses at Manchester United, who have invited Daragh and his family to Old Trafford.\n\n\"It was a novel attempt to derail Liverpool's Premier League campaign,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We are very proud that we have fans like Daragh supporting us.\"", "Former England striker Ian Wright has tearfully paid tribute to a childhood teacher he remembers as \"the greatest man in the world\".\n\nThe ex-footballer had a hard time keeping the emotion out of his voice as he told Desert Island Discs about being reunited with Sydney Pigden in 2010 (footage of their reunion later went viral).\n\nWhen you were younger, was there a person or a life-changing experience that helped shape who you are today? We'd love to hear your stories. Please email us - haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk", "Wendy Small, pictured with her husband Geoff, has been charged £160 to keep her old BT email address since she switched providers two years ago\n\nOfcom is writing to broadband companies to ask why some people are having to pay to keep old email addresses.\n\nTalkTalk charges £5 a month and BT charges £7.50 a month if customers switch providers but want to keep using their email addresses as before.\n\nVirgin deletes those it gives to customers 90 days after they leave, but Sky lets people keep theirs for free.\n\nOfcom told Radio 4's Money Box it could see no reason for what one customer called \"basically daylight robbery\".\n\nOfcom added: \"We're looking at this to consider whether we need to step in and take action.\"\n\nAs the UK's four big providers, BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin supply 90% of the UK's net-using homes with broadband.\n\nMoney Box spoke to one customer who has paid £260 to keep an old address during the three years since switching from BT.\n\nIt's a similar story for Wendy Small, from Bookham in Surrey, who's been charged £160 since leaving BT for another provider two years ago.\n\n\"It started at £5 per month when we switched in January 2018. They increased that to £7.50 per month in October 2018 and we've been paying that since then.\n\n\"I think it's basically daylight robbery and it doesn't help incentivise people to switch provider.\n\n\"If you're switching to save money, but then you suddenly find that you're going to have to pay to keep your email address so you don't have the inconvenience of changing everything that's linked to your email address and it's going to cost you up to £7.50 per month, then those savings disappear.\n\n\"I think that Ofcom should be taking action and look at the wider practice in the sector. If the sector refuses to change its practices, I think Ofcom should be stepping in to regulate.\"\n\nBT says people can keep their email addresses for free using a basic service that's only accessible via a browser, but that customers who want to maintain their normal email service, they have to pay £7.50 per month.\n\nAn Ofcom spokesperson said: \"We can't see a reason why you should have to pay these amounts to keep your email address. So we're looking at this to consider whether we need to step in and take action.\n\n\"Last year we also secured commitments from companies to treat customers fairly, so we've asked them to explain how this fits with that promise.\"\n\nDave Currie, pictured with with wife Mary, says he'd be put off looking for a better broadband deal and switching because of the hassle of losing his email address\n\nAs well as people having to pay to keep old email addresses, another possible area of concern for Ofcom is the risk that people are being put off switching providers to get better deals, because of the hassle of losing their email addresses.\n\nThe idea of having to change his email address with all the sites he uses is something Dave Currie, from Inverkip, says is just not worth any potential savings.\n\nHe had to switch once before when his supplier \"dumped\" him on to another company: \"I had to change every online account that required an email address as a login and there were over 100 of them.\n\n\"I had to change logins for bank, gas and electric suppliers, car insurance, house insurance, holiday companies, airlines, all the online shops that require that.\n\n\"I also had some problems with auto-renew contracts that sent reminders to my old address, so that caused a lot of problems.\n\n\"Having had to do it once, I would certainly be put off changing service providers, even for a much better deal. It just involved too much time and effort.\"\n\nDan Grabham, editor of technology website Pocket-Lint, says the amount people are being charged is shocking, especially as some providers let their customers keep them for nothing if they decide to switch.\n\n\"If Ofcom is serious about mandating ISPs (internet service providers) to provide access to addresses after you leave your provider, then it will have to institute a system similar to the ability to swap your mobile phone number to another network.\n\n\"If you're thinking about leaving your ISP in future and have an email address with them, it's worth finding out now how much it will cost you and factor that into your decision to switch.\n\n\"It could be that it will still be cheaper for you over the next 12 months to switch even if you are paying for access to your email address.\n\n\"However, my advice would be to prevent this being a problem in future by taking the hit now. Set up a web-based email address from a reputable provider, such as Microsoft's Outlook or Google's Gmail, start using that instead and gradually move your logins for the services you use across to it.\"\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.", "The funeral of former Manchester United and Northern Ireland goalkeeper Harry Gregg has taken place in Coleraine.\n\nGregg, a hero of the 1958 Munich air disaster who made 25 appearances for Northern Ireland between 1954 and 1963, died on Sunday aged 87.\n\nHe bravely rescued team-mates and other passengers following the Munich plane crash in which 23 were killed, including eight United players.\n\nHis funeral service was held in St Patrick's Parish Church in Coleraine.\n\nSir Alex Ferguson and Denis Law arriving at the funeral for Harry Gregg\n\nAfterwards he was buried in Coleraine Cemetery.\n\nAmong the mourners were former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Bobby Charlton and former striker Denis Law.\n\nAlso attending were First Minister Arlene Foster; former Northern Ireland international and manager Sammy McIlroy; members of Coleraine FC, including manager Oran Kearney; and David Healy, Northern Ireland's record goalscorer and Linfield manager.\n\nSir Bobby Charlton is also among the mourners\n\nWelcoming mourners, Rev Ian Ballentine said the large crowds outside the church were a tribute to Harry Gregg, who he described as an \"outstanding professional footballer and a man of exceptional courage\".\n\nIn a eulogy, BBC NI's Stephen Watson said Gregg was a \"great stickler for timekeeping\" so would have been thrilled that everyone had arrived at the church on time.\n\nHe said his idol as a child was Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thompson.\n\nHe added that Gregg had deliberately flunked an exam so he did not have to go to a grammar school which played rugby, rather than football.\n\nRecalling the Munich disaster, he said that Gregg was told by the captain of the plane to run away as it was about to explode, but he \"went back into the carnage\" to rescue several team-mates and a pregnant woman and her daughter.\n\nMr Watson said: \"What happened at Munich was a mental torment for Harry - he had a constant battle against grief and guilt.\n\n\"But as he told me - it was getting back to football that saved his sanity. He used the game to heal his scars.\"\n\nMr Watson said on the 50th anniversary of the Munich crash he met the young Yugoslavian woman he rescued from the plane, as well as the son she was pregnant with at the time.\n\nHowever, he said Gregg's darkest hour was the death of his wife Mavis, the mother of his eldest two children, from breast cancer in her mid-20s.\n\nIn 1965, he remarried to Carolyn and they had four children together.\n\nHe suffered another personal tragedy around the time of the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster when his daughter Karen died from breast cancer.\n\nIt felt as if the whole of Coleraine had turned out as Harry Gregg made his final journey to St Patrick's Church.\n\nHundreds braved the wind and rain to pay their final respects to the hero of Munich.\n\nSome of the biggest names in the history of football - Sir Alex Ferguson, Denis Law and Sir Bobby Charlton - arrived to remember a man who left his mark both on and off the pitch.\n\nEulogies recalled Gregg's strong work ethic, passion for the game and wise words of advice.\n\nThey also paid tribute to the family man - a father of six, grandfather of 10 and great grandfather of five. And there was time for some memories of a man who didn't suffer fools and wasn't averse to the use of some \"industrial\" language.\n\nSixty-two years to the day after his Manchester United team-mate Duncan Edwards died from the injuries he suffered in the Munich disaster, Harry Gregg was laid to rest.\n\nMr Watson said that Gregg's \"notoriety because of the Munich air crash came at a price\" and \"cast a shadow over his life that he found difficult to dispel\".\n\n\"Harry's actions though on the runway that fateful day meant he transcended sporting greatness,\" Mr Watson added.\n\n\"He was called the Hero of Munich, but he always wanted to be remembered simply as a footballer and a coach of some repute.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster arrives at the church\n\n\"He was that figure that gave everyone from a working class walk of life hope. I could always look at him, he was the perfect role model,\" he said.\n\n\"He never courted publicity, that's what I loved about him - all the adulation that people poured on his shoulders he took in his stride.\n\n\"When I saw him most at ease with himself was with the family. That was when he was most content.\"\n\nPeople queued outside St Patrick's Church, where a number of seats were made open for the public\n\nMr Beckett also reflected on Gregg's legacy: \"I was thinking of the legacy he has left, the Harry Gregg foundation, which is something I know he was so proud about - his pride and joy.\n\n\"It is about giving kids a structured platform, structured in such a way that kids could go out and enjoy it.\"\n\nThe congregation also listened to a poem written by Gregg entitled Jumpers for Goalposts and another written by Pablo Doherty, the son of legendary Northern Ireland international Peter Doherty who signed Gregg for Doncaster Rovers at the age of 19 and managed the national side at the 1958 World Cup where Gregg was named best goalkeeper.\n\nIn a tribute, Gregg's son John said: \"Dad as a father was really, really good. The thing with dad was everybody said about his bark, but at the back of that was a real softness you very rarely saw.\n\nCrowds line the streets of Coleraine as the cortege makes its way to the cemetery\n\n\"Dad knew we all loved him, ever single one of us, and towards the end I told him every single day. We all had one of the best dads. I am going to really miss him.\"\n\nHe added that while heaven is supposed to be a quiet and peaceful place, that would change within 30 minutes of his father's arrival.\n\nGregg and his family moved to Coleraine after he was born in Tobermore, County Londonderry, and he excelled as a player for his home town club before moving to England.\n\nWhen he joined United in December 1957 for £23,500, Gregg was the world's most expensive goalkeeper and was voted the best at the following year's World Cup.\n\nThe Irish FA opened a book of condolence in his memory at the National Stadium at Windsor Park.\n\nA book of condolence was also opened in Coleraine Town Hall.", "A young Manchester United fan who made a bid to stop Liverpool winning the title has been left shocked after Jurgen Klopp sent him a personal reply.\n\nDaragh Curley, from County Donegal, wrote to the Liverpool boss for a school assignment.\n\nThe 10-year-old asked if it would be possible for Liverpool to lose some games so they wouldn't win the league.\n\nKlopp said the letter was \"nice\" and \"cheeky\".", "Herefordshire Highways shared a picture of the tractor transport service on Twitter\n\nStaff at a care home have been carried into work on a tractor and trailer, as flooding after Storm Dennis remains.\n\nHampton Bishop in Herefordshire was the last place in England to have a severe flood warning, meaning a danger to life, following the storm.\n\nThe county council has been providing the extra service to transport staff to the village's care home, Hampton House.\n\nEmma Thompson, care home manager, has also stayed on the site since last Sunday to support residents.\n\n\"They are like grandparents to me and I just want to be here to reassure them 24/7,\" she said.\n\n\"But we're very lucky, we have three birthdays this weekend so we're all eating cake.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe severe warnings in Hampton Bishop were lifted at 12:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMs Thompson has praised Herefordshire Council, Herefordshire Fire and Rescue Service, her \"incredible\" staff and relatives who have helped the care home keep going through the flooding.\n\nHerefordshire Fire and Rescue Service workers checked flood levels in Hampton Bishop on Friday\n\nThough Ms Thompson said the village was \"not out of the woods\", she added the situation was starting to improve.\n\n\"One of my staff members lives on Church Lane, and she has now been able to get in wearing wellies, which is fantastic, because she had been turning up at the back door in a kayak,\" she said.\n\nDave Throup, from the Environment Agency, said more rain was expected over the weekend.\n\n\"I think it will push levels back up on the main rivers, but at the moment we have got no suggestion it will take them to where they were earlier in the week,\" he said.\n\nSevere flood warnings for the River Lugg and River Wye in Hampton Bishop have been lifted\n\nElsewhere, Shropshire Council said sections of the Coleham flood barriers in Shrewsbury were being deployed as a precautionary measure due to the expected rainfall.\n\nFrankwell Main Car Park is closed until further notice, it said, and there is no overnight parking at St Julian's Friar's car park as levels are set to rise overnight.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC Sport speaks to boxing fans in Las Vegas at the weigh-in before the eagerly anticipated rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury.\n\nWATCH MORE: Watch the Wilder v Fury II weigh-in on BBC iPlayer", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trevor Weston said just because people are \"old\" they are \"not there for the taking\".\n\nA retired bus driver has told how he fought off a would-be robber at a cash machine.\n\nGrandfather Trevor Weston, 77, got £20 from the machine in Cardiff when the man threatened to stab him.\n\nInstead of handing over the cash, Mr Weston put up his fists and said: \"Do you want some of this, pal?\"\n\nSouth Wales Police is appealing for information about the attack at Sainsbury's in Roath on 5 February, which was caught on CCTV.\n\nMr Weston, from Tremorfa, said he had \"never been in a fight in his life\" before he fought off the attacker, and police cheered when they watched the footage.\n\n\"I got out my £20 and had just put my wallet back in my pocket when this bloke - this thing - came from nowhere, grabbed me and said, 'Give me your money or I'll stab you',\" he said.\n\n\"When he demanded I hand over my money, I replied, 'You what? Do you want some of this, pal?' and I put up my guard.\n\n\"Actually, it's a good job there's no sound on that video because I probably turned the air blue with what I really said.\"\n\nMr Weston said his granddaughter kept wanting to watch the footage\n\nMr Weston said he could only punch left handed after previously suffering a broken shoulder.\n\nHe said: \"He walked up to me and I smacked him in the mouth. He reeled back a bit and then he came toward me again and spun me around.\"\n\nAfter footage of the video emerged Mr Weston said that he had been sent messages from people who said he looked like a prize fighter.\n\nIt was not until later that it emerged the attacker was not armed with a blade, but a pencil.\n\nBut police told Mr Weston he could still have been hurt, as the weapon was placed against his neck at one point.\n\nMr Weston did not phone the police until after he had got back in his car to listen to the news\n\nHis nephews and nieces have praised him for standing up to the thug.\n\n\"My granddaughter keeps insisting that we watch it,\" said Mr Weston, who did not phone the police for hours after the attack.\n\n\"The only thing I was annoyed about was I got in the car to listen to the news it had finished,\" Mr Weston told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"I always listen to the news. Because of him I missed the news.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Saudi officials have called for the arrest of a female rapper who released a music video for her song Mecca Girl that praises women from the holy city as \"powerful and beautiful\".\n\nIn 2018 the crown prince of the conservative country began a programme of reforms.\n\nBut activists say repression has increased and there is a crackdown on freedom of expression.\n\nThe video was released on YouTube last week by a young rapper who identifies herself as Asayel Slay.\n\nShe raps about women in the city of Mecca, which is Islam's holiest site where millions of Muslims go on Hajj or pilgrimage annually.\n\n\"Our respect to other girls but the Mecca girl is sugar candy,\" she sings in the video while men and women dance in a café.\n\nIt was widely shared on social media, and people used hashtag #Mecca_Girl_Represents_Me to praise it.\n\nOn Thursday governor of Mecca Khaled al-Faisal ordered the arrest of the people behind the video, tweeting that it \"insults the customs of Mecca\" and using hashtag \"They're not the girls of Mecca\".\n\nAsayel Slay's account has been suspended and the video is no longer available on YouTube.\n\nOne popular tweet read, \"It's the only rap song that doesn't contain a single obscenity, insult, pornographic scene, nudity, hashish or smoking and the rapper is even wearing the hijab.\n\n\"The girl faces arrest because the song doesn't suit new Saudi Arabia or old.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi Arabia reforms: Are they good news for women?\n\nOther social media users suggested double-standards apply to men and women.\n\nThey drew attention to the case of Moroccan singer Saad Lmjarred who was permitted to perform in Riyadh after facing three charges of rape that he denies.\n\nSocial media users accused authorities of projecting an image of modernisation abroad while cracking down at home.\n\n\"This is so typical of the Saudi government to do - bring western influencers to artwash the regime but attack real Saudi women who try to artistically express their cultural identities,\" tweeted Amani Al-Ahmadi, who identifies herself as a Saudi-American feminist.\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is promoting a more modern image of the country abroad as part of his Vision 2030 programme of reform.\n\nArtists including Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and BTS have been invited to perform in the kingdom.\n\nNicki Minaj pulled out after a backlash, citing her support for the rights of women and the LGBT community.\n\nAt a music festival in December, 120 Saudi men and women were arrested for wearing \"inappropriate clothes.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to stop using their \"SussexRoyal\" brand from spring 2020.\n\nThe couple had been in discussions with aides and senior royals about using the name following their decision this year to step back from royal duties.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the couple said it was agreed the word \"royal\" could not be used due to government rules.\n\nApplications to trademark the SussexRoyal brand have also been withdrawn.\n\nThe couple's popular Instagram account uses the name SussexRoyal, as does their website.\n\nA spokesperson for the Sussexes said they were \"focused\" on plans to establish their new organisation in the spring.\n\nBut they had agreed not to name it the Sussex Royal Foundation.\n\nRoyal author Robert Hardman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the decision on the brand name was a \"setback\" for the couple.\n\n\"They've spent a great deal of money registering the trademarks,\" he said.\n\nHowever, branding expert Rita Clifton told the programme the inability to use SussexRoyal would be an \"inconvenience\" rather than an insurmountable problem.\n\nShe said any brand \"is not just a name and a logo but also what you do\".\n\nThis was not what Harry and Meghan thought it would be.\n\nTheir bombshell statement in early January was full of talk about \"a progressive new role\" in the Royal Family, about \"collaboration\" with other members of the family, about \"continuing to support Her Majesty the Queen\".\n\nThey thought a hybrid role, half-in, half-out, could be possible - some royal duties, some Commonwealth duties, on their terms, with private lives attached.\n\nInstead, there is now nothing royal about them other than their names, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and their private connections with their relatives.\n\nThere will be no public royal role, no military commands, no royal tours and now not even use of the word \"royal\".\n\nThe loss of \"SussexRoyal\" will be a blow. It is their public face, their brand, their hugely popular social media name.\n\nBut \"royal\" could not survive alongside a private existence.\n\nThe couple have had to bow to the logic of their desire for a new and independent life - they will be royal no more.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Sussexes said: \"While the duke and duchess are focused on plans to establish a new non-profit organisation, given the specific UK government rules surrounding use of the word royal, it has been therefore agreed that their non-profit organisation, when it is announced this spring, will not be named Sussex Royal Foundation.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex do not intend to use 'SussexRoyal' in any territory post-spring 2020.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman said trademark applications that were filed as protective measures \"acting on advice from and following the same model for the Royal Foundation\" have been removed.\n\nIn a statement on their website, the couple said: \"While there is not any jurisdiction by the monarchy or Cabinet Office over the use of the word 'Royal' overseas, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex do not intend to use 'Sussex Royal' or any iteration of the word 'Royal' in any territory (either within the UK or otherwise) when the transition occurs spring 2020.\"\n\nIt was announced this week that the couple will formally step down as senior royals from 31 March.\n\nThey will no longer carry out duties on behalf of the Queen but arrangements will be reviewed after 12 months.\n\nA spokesperson for the couple said they intended to split their time between the UK and North America, and would be in the UK \"regularly\".\n\nThey will attend six events in the UK in February and March, including the Commonwealth Day Service on 9 March.\n\nThe couple and their son Archie spent time in Canada over Christmas\n\nHarry is also expected to attend the London Marathon in April in his capacity as patron, while the couple will also attend the Invictus Games in the Netherlands in May.\n\nThe couple have been in Canada with their son Archie for much of this year, after briefly returning to the UK in January following an extended six-week Christmas break on Vancouver Island.\n\nBefore announcing their plans to step back from royal duties in January, they had spoken about how they had struggled under the media spotlight.", "The coaches with the evacuees arrived at the hospital in a convoy of vehicles\n\nBritish nationals evacuated from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan have arrived at a hospital where they will spend the next two weeks in quarantine.\n\nCoaches carrying 30 British and two Irish citizens arrived at Arrowe Park hospital in Wirral on Saturday evening.\n\nThe group had travelled from an airbase in Wiltshire after leaving Tokyo on a flight late on Friday night.\n\nThey have so far tested negative for the virus.\n\nAs the coaches arrived at the hospital just before 18:00, one passenger was pictured making a heart sign with her hands while another gave an OK signal through the coach windows.\n\nArrowe Park Hospital was previously used to quarantine 83 British nationals who were flown back to the UK from Wuhan.\n\nThe chief executive of Wirral Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Janelle Holmes, said Arrowe Park was using that experience as a \"blueprint\" for treating the new group.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the group's arrival, she said: \"The group of people is slightly different.\n\n\"Obviously, they have come from a cruise ship rather than from their own homes over in China, but we are working exactly the same as we did before, with the healthcare professionals and Public Health England to make sure they are safe, well managed and comfortable while they are with us.\"\n\nThe plane landed at Boscombe Down, a MoD base in Wiltshire\n\nThe evacuation flight took off from Tokyo's Haneda Airport late on Friday evening (GMT) and landed at Boscombe Down, a Ministry of Defence base in Wiltshire, about 11:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nIn a statement issued after the plane landed, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the Foreign Office had \"worked hard\" to get the passengers \"back to the UK securely\".\n\n\"Our number one priority has consistently been the health and safety of UK nationals,\" he added.\n\nThe flight had previously been delayed after the British embassy said it was \"logistically complicated\".\n\nThe plane set off from Haneda Airport, Tokyo, late on Friday evening (GMT)\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged the NHS is working on plans to test people for coronavirus in their own homes, if the outbreak begins to spread in the UK.\n\nA pilot scheme has already been launched in London, where tests are being carried out by NHS nurses and paramedics.\n\nThe health service is planning to expand the scheme to other areas outside of the capital in the coming weeks.\n\nProfessor Keith Willett, the NHS strategic incident director for coronavirus, said the aim was to avoid the risk of people spreading the infection by going to their GP or A&E.\n\nElsewhere, Italy has reported its second death from the virus - a woman living in the northern region of Lombardy - a day after a 78-year-old man died.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome 78 Britons were on the Diamond Princess when it was quarantined 16 days ago.\n\nSome of the British passengers on the Diamond Princess had already been evacuated over the last week on flights to Hong Kong, organised by the Chinese authorities there, a government source has told the BBC.\n\nOthers are being treated for the virus in health facilities in Japan.\n\nDavid and Sally Abel, a couple from Northamptonshire who were diagnosed with coronavirus on the cruise ship, have since been told they have pneumonia, their son said.\n\nAppearing alongside wife Roberta, Steve Abel said in a YouTube video late on Friday evening that his father's condition was \"very serious\", while his mother has a more mild form of pneumonia.\n\nHe also said his \"really distressed\" parents - who had been on the cruise for their 50th wedding anniversary - called him to say they were being moved to a different hospital.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMr Abel said: \"They've gone from being told that they're going to have all these wonderful treatments, and 'we're going to wait over the next two or three days just to see how they respond to the treatments', and now all of a sudden they're being told 'we have to move you to a different hospital'.\"\n\nHe said his father is so \"weak\" he has been using a wheelchair, and has been told he could be put on a ventilator.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Abel told BBC Breakfast his father told him \"we can't take any more of this, it's like a prison\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said the welfare of all British nationals is of the highest priority to the UK government.\n\nThey added they are working with the Japanese authorities to ensure those British nationals who are remaining in Japan for health reasons get the best possible care.\n\nAt least four UK nationals have contracted the virus on board the cruise ship, but those flying home have tested negative.\n\nMore than 620 people on board the cruise ship tested positive for the virus - the largest cluster of cases outside China.\n\nIt is understood that some British nationals are members of the ship's crew who could be staying on board the ship.\n\nTwo Japanese passengers - both in their 80s and with underlying health conditions - were confirmed to have died after contracting the virus on the Diamond Princess.\n\nThe cruise liner was carrying 3,700 people when it was quarantined in Yokohama on 5 February, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was found to have the virus.\n\nSouth Korea says the number of new coronavirus cases in the country has more than doubled in one day.\n\nOfficials said on Saturday that 229 new cases had been confirmed since Friday, raising the total to 433.\n\nIn the UK, a total of 5,885 people have been tested for the virus, as of 14:00 GMT on Friday. Nine people have tested positive.\n\nWere you on the flight? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Which candidate will you swipe right on?'\n\nThe race to decide which Democrat will take on Donald Trump in November's presidential election in the US has resumed in Nevada.\n\nModerate ex-mayor Pete Buttigieg and left-wing Bernie Sanders are the front-runners nationwide, but only two states have voted so far. The final candidate won't be known until July.\n\nVery early results from Nevada give Mr Sanders the lead.\n\nJoe Biden, who has struggled up until now, will hope for a better result.\n\nThe Nevada caucuses are a series of party meetings held across the state, that might last a few hours. At the end, those present will vote on which of the eight Democrats they would most like to be the nominee.\n\nCandidates who win at least 15% of the vote on Saturday will be awarded delegates - in Nevada, 36 delegates will be distributed according to how well candidates performed.\n\nAll the candidates are aiming to reach 1,990 delegates nationwide, which would be enough to make them the final nominee. That's a long way off - right now, Pete Buttigieg has 22, Bernie Sanders 21 and Elizabeth Warren has eight.\n\nAs we just mentioned, the Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has the third highest number of delegates right now, but that doesn't give you the full picture. The caucuses in Iowa and primary in New Hampshire earlier this month didn't go as well as her campaign had hoped.\n\nBut this was before her spirited performance in a Democratic debate on Wednesday night, in which she repeatedly skewered emerging rival Michael Bloomberg. Her campaign said this led to its best fundraising day yet.\n\nLast time around, rival Amy Klobuchar came third in New Hampshire after a strong debate performance a few days earlier. Might Ms Warren see a similar bump in Nevada?\n\nIt's also worth keeping an eye on Joe Biden. The former vice-president has performed poorly so far, but is pinning his hopes on the support of Nevada's Latino voters. If that isn't forthcoming, his campaign could soon meet its end.\n\nIn a state like Nevada, with its tourist-heavy cities of Las Vegas and Reno, one organisation holds a lot of sway: the Culinary Union, made up of restaurant, hotel and casino workers.\n\nAn endorsement from this group can help decide who wins Nevada's caucuses: it played a large part in Barack Obama's win there in 2008, for example. But this year, it chose not to endorse a candidate.\n\nUnion members don't support Bernie Sanders' plan for a centralised national healthcare programme, because they're reluctant to give up the insurance plan the union carefully negotiated for them. Last week, union officials said Sanders supporters were sending them abuse over their stance.\n\nBut the lack of an endorsement was more of a blow for Mr Biden, who doesn't support a national healthcare system and whose views seemingly aligned more closely with the union's.\n\nYou may remember that in the last caucuses in Iowa, the results were delayed for days by a glitch caused by an app rolled out by the Democratic Party. Could we see similar problems here?\n\nHopefully not. Officials in Nevada have decided not to use the app to record results and are instead relying on an online form provided by Google, downloaded on to a load of iPads.\n\nI'm a single issue voter. I am bipolar. Right now it's fine because I'm on my parents' health insurance but when I turn 26 I will no longer be.\n\nIt's really important to me to have a substantial healthcare system, and every other civilised nation has it, so I just don't understand why we do not.\n\nI'm planning to caucus for Bernie Sanders because he has a strong platform on healthcare and he has a large following among people of my demographic. Other issues that matter to me are college education and the prison system - I think that needs some reformation - as well as poverty and homelessness.\n\nMy least favourite would probably be Joe Biden - he gives the appearance of not being entirely sure where he is or what's going on. I think he's too moderate for me, personally - I don't think he'll get any major change going.\n\nI've been a big follower of Biden's throughout his entire campaign. I've been to all of his rallies.\n\nI'm a big fan of Obama, so seeing Biden with Obama and being able to follow him through all of his policies, that they both accomplished together, was something that really moved me forward to vote for him.\n\nHe really reaches out to the Hispanic community, the minority community, he's really big on immigration reform, as far as looking after everyone equally. With the LGBT community - I myself am part of the LGBT and Hispanic community - he really targets a lot of the issues that are most concerning for me.\n\nHealthcare is a really big issue here in Nevada, especially with Culinary Union workers, as is immigration reform, with Nevada being a really diverse state. I really do appreciate his stance on immigration.\n\nAre any Republicans standing against Donald Trump? Just the one: former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, but Mr Trump will almost certainly be the nominee. Just the one: former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, but Mr Trump will almost certainly be the nominee. They're votes that are held in private. The candidates who do best in the primaries are awarded delegates. They're votes that are held in private. The candidates who do best in the primaries are awarded delegates. A bit like primaries, except they're more like party meetings, at the end of which you vote for your preferred candidate. A bit like primaries, except they're more like party meetings, at the end of which you vote for your preferred candidate.", "Three adults and a child were rescued when the A470 Dolgellau bypass flooded, but the water has since receded\n\nFirefighters had to rescue four people from flood water when the two cars they were in got stuck.\n\nTwo passengers were given precautionary checks for hypothermia.\n\nPart of the A470 at Dolgellau, Gwynedd was shut after the two cars got stuck at about 04:05 GMT. Several roads remain closed due to flooding, according to Traffic Wales.\n\nThere is a Met Office yellow warning for rain in mid and south Wales on Saturday from 22:00.\n\nIt said the rain could be \"especially persistent\" in areas \"currently saturated and highly sensitive to further rainfall\".\n\nNorth Wales Fire and Rescue Service confirmed three adults and a child were pulled to safety from the trapped cars in Dolgellau.\n\nThe road has now re-opened in the town.\n\nHowever, flooding on the A470 has forced highway officials to close the road further north between Betws-y-Coed and Bodnant in Conwy.\n\nThe flood stranded vehicles have now been recovered and the road has reopened\n\nMeanwhile, communities are continuing the clean-up following damage from Storm Dennis, with about 100 volunteers removing six tonnes of debris at Bute Park in Cardiff on Saturday, according to council leader Huw Thomas in a tweet.\n\nWork is also under way at Clwb y Bont, Pontypridd, which was left underwater when the nearby river burst its banks and flooded main streets.\n\nClean-up work and repairs are still being carried out at Clwb y Bont, Pontypridd\n\nPrince Charles met flood victims and their rescuers during a visit to the town on Friday.\n\nThe storm affected more than 1,000 homes and businesses in Rhondda Cynon Taff alone, and damage to council infrastructure could cost up to £30m, according to council leader Andrew Morgan.\n\nIn Monmouth, Welsh Water said it was continuing to work to restore services at its Mayhill treatment plant.\n\nIt has been using a fleet of 40 tankers to manually top-up fresh drinking water reserves and ensure supplies are maintained.\n\nWelsh Water say they are now back in the Mayhill works following the flooding\n\n\"Some customers in Monmouth have been asking our colleagues in the area if they need to boil their tap water: Our answer is no,\" said a Welsh Water official.\n\n\"We're providing bottled water as a precaution in case supply is interrupted and for a small number of customers without water.\"\n\nBottled water stations have also been set-up at Monmouthshire Comprehensive, Trellech Primary, and at Redbrook Road.\n\nThe yellow weather warning is place from 22:00 GMT\n\nThe weather warning is place from Saturday evening until 11:00 on Sunday.\n\nIt covers 15 of Wales' 22 local authority areas at Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nThe Met Office said between 20 to 40mm was likely to fall, with 50 to 60mm in mountain areas.\n\nThere are currently nine flood warnings in place covering the River Vyrnwy, Severn and the Lower Dee Valley between Llangollen and Wrexham.\n\nThe A487 Dyfi Bridge at Machynlleth remains closed due to flooding", "Safiyya Shaikh told undercover police she wanted to bomb St Paul's Cathedral and a hotel\n\nA supporter of the banned Islamic State terror group has admitted plotting to blow herself up in a bomb attack on St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nMuslim convert Safiyya Shaikh went on a reconnaissance trip to scope out the London landmark and a hotel.\n\nThe 36-year-old, born Michelle Ramsden, was arrested after asking an undercover police officer to supply bombs.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Shaikh, of west London, admitted preparing an act of terrorism and will be sentenced in May.\n\nShe was considered such a threat that MI5 made her the highest-level priority for investigation in the weeks before her arrest, according to Whitehall security sources.\n\nIt meant she was subject to a level of surveillance reserved for only the most dangerous potential attackers.\n\nOver the two months before her arrest in October 2019, Shaikh built up a relationship with two undercover officers who were posing as a husband and wife extremist team.\n\nShe messaged one of them via an encrypted social media app.\n\n\"I want to kill a lot,\" she told the officer. \"I would like to do church... a day like Christmas or Easter good, kill more.\n\n\"I always send threats. But I want to make threats real.\"\n\nShe sent a picture of St Paul's Cathedral to the officer and wrote: \"I would like to do this place for sure.\n\n\"I would like bomb and shoot 'til death... I really would love to destroy that place and the kaffir there.\"\n\nShaikh was caught thanks to a combination of critical pieces of the picture of her extremism that came together over time.\n\nFirst, there was mounting intelligence of her extremist ideology. She stopped going to a mosque because she suspected she would be reported for her views.\n\nSecond, a cyber operation revealed she headed a significant pro-IS social media chat platform that was pumping out propaganda and urging attacks on targets in Europe. Dutch counter-terrorism investigators linked that account to numerous threats in The Netherlands, one of which had led to the evacuation of a church.\n\nIn the first, she was befriended by an \"online role player\" - an officer posing as a fellow extremist to gain more insight into her intentions.\n\nThese operations have become increasingly important in fighting terrorism as officers track extremists in social media and work out which ones will convert their talk into attacks.\n\nOnce Shaikh's intentions were confirmed, a real-world undercover operation had to prove how dangerous she was in the meeting where she explicitly asked for bombs.\n\nJust over a week later Shaikh, of Hayes, visited St Paul's and sent videos to her contact, writing: \"I will to the bomb under the dome.\n\n\"I will also do something in hotel, then church, then kill 'til I'm dead.\"\n\nProsecutors say she gave two bags which she wanted to be fitted with homemade bombs to the female undercover officer.\n\nShaikh worked with Dutch IS supporters who issued a threat against a church in The Netherlands, leading to its evacuation\n\nShaikh converted to Islam in 2007 after being impressed by the kindness of her Muslim neighbours but later became isolated and apparently rejected mainstream Islam.\n\nShe began to court the extremist violent ideology of IS and other jihadist groups and by 2016 Shaikh stopped attending mosques.\n\nShe was also reported to the government's Prevent programme.\n\nIn a police interview Shaikh admitted posting extremist material and plotting a bomb attack, although she said she might not have gone through with it.\n\nIn court she pleaded guilty to the preparation of terrorist acts and dissemination of terrorist publications.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney ordered reports ahead of sentencing on 11 May.\n\nIn November, Neil Basu, head of counter terrorism policing, said the UK's counter terrorism policing team had about 800 live counter-terrorism investigations.\n\nHe said 24 attack plots had been thwarted since the Westminster attack in March 2017.\n\nSafiyya Shaikh planned to bomb \"under the dome\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists have been researching into how water can be extracted from the Moon's surface\n\n\"Moon dust\" could be a vital source of fuel, building material and even drinking water for astronauts, according to the Open University.\n\nResearchers in Milton Keynes are investigating ways humans can \"live off the land\" when they set foot on the moon.\n\nThe team is basing its study on lunar soil collected by Neil Armstrong during the first moon landing in 1969.\n\nPhD student Hannah Sargeant said: \"We have to account for every milligram.\"\n\nMinute samples of moon rock collected during the NASA Apollo 11 mission are held in the Department of Physical Sciences at the Open University (OU) in Milton Keynes.\n\nExperiments, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian scientists, could take place on the Moon's south polar region in five years' time, scientists hope.\n\nTiny fragments of lunar soil collected in 1969 by the Apollo 11 team are held in Milton Keynes\n\nA photo of an astronaut's boot on lunar soil, taken during the 1969 Moon landing\n\nThe concept involves heating the soil so oxygen within it reacts with added hydrogen - to create water.\n\n\"Water is one of the most critical resources we need for space exploration - not just for the life support needs of humans but also to make rocket fuel,\" said Ms Sargeant.\n\nNew techniques developed in Milton Keynes have found much higher concentrations of water in some rocks than were evident in the original investigations.\n\nHannah Sargeant is working on techniques to extract water from moon rocks\n\nDr Mahesh Anand, professor of planetary science and exploration at the OU, has pioneered the search for water on the Moon for 10 years.\n\nHe has also been collaborating with scientists in Cologne, Germany, to \"melt\" moon dust to create lunar bricks for use in future building projects in space.\n\nResearch fellow Dr Simon Sheridan has been developing a \"mass spectrometer\" on a prototype of the Moon rover Luvmi, which is being designed to \"sniff\" gases on the surface in the search for water.\n\nMs Sargeant said: \"The production of water, either from frozen deposits at the lunar poles or generating water from the rocks themselves, will be the first step to enable such long-term space exploration missions.\"\n\nFull report on BBC Inside Out East, BBC1, Monday, 17 February at 19:30 GMT\n• None Why are Moon rocks going missing?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Waitrose has been rated the best UK in-store supermarket in consumer group Which?'s annual satisfaction survey.\n\nThe John Lewis-owned chain scored five stars in almost every category, but was ranked joint worst for value.\n\nIt's the second time it's been voted the top grocery store, despite budget chains Aldi and Lidl being ranked best for value.\n\n\"The quality of fresh products is the most important factor when choosing where to shop in store,\" said Which?.\n\n\"There's clear room for improvement for the 'big four' - Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Asda - as they continue to trail behind Waitrose and Marks & Spencer for experience, and behind Aldi and Lidl on value,\" pointed out Harry Rose, the editor of Which? Magazine.\n\nIn the survey of more than 14,000 Which? members, Asda was rated the worst.\n\nThe consumer group found that shoppers like Asda's range of goods in store, but clearly want more recyclable packaging and products without packaging, as the store gained only one star for this aspect.\n\nCustomers told Which? they wanted to see more recyclable packaging from supermarket chain Asda\n\nThe survey revealed that Asda provides neither the noteworthy store experience of Waitrose or M&S, nor the value of Aldi or Lidl. Asda scored just two stars for the quality of its own-label products.\n\nThe store hit back by pointing out that none of Which?'s members had visited one of its stores recently.\n\nAn Asda spokesman said: \"We're always happy to take feedback - but as 70% of the Which? panel surveyed haven't visited an Asda in the last six months, we don't believe their findings are a true reflection of the experience of our 18 million weekly shoppers, who are looking for a supermarket that provides great value, range and service to customers working to any budget.\n\n\"We are proud that our customers are recognising this, with our online grocery service growing at three times the rate of the market.\n\n\"We're constantly striving to improve our offer to our customers - be that through the efforts of our hardworking colleagues, the 1,272 new products we launched in 2019, the 530 awards we won for quality, the 8,000 tonnes of plastic packaging we removed from our stores or the 22nd annual Grocer Award for being the best-priced supermarket.\"\n\nM&S lived up to its reputation for quality when it comes to food and drink, scoring five stars for both its own-brand and fresh produce.\n\nBut its overall customer score of 73% left it languishing just below Waitrose, not managing to quite match its rival's in-store experience or product range.\n\nAldi and Lidl were rated best for value, both receiving five stars. The budget supermarkets are seen as the best for those wanting more for their money, with rock-bottom prices making customers much more forgiving of their less-impressive traits, such as long queues, or unhelpful or hard-to-find staff.\n\nOne Aldi customer said: \"It's not a pleasant place to shop, but value for money is exceptional.\"\n\nIceland fell short over its fresh produce and lack of recyclable packaging\n\nMorrisons and Sainsbury's came in mid-table, with Tesco sliding in just below and Iceland coming in second-to-bottom.\n\nShoppers told Which? that they like Iceland's value for money, but this was not enough to boost its score overall. The supermarket failed to impress with its fresh produce or product range, and got just one star for availability of recyclable packaging.\n\nThe Which? study also found that when shopping in store, people were most frustrated by waiting for help at self-service checkouts (26%) and by a lack of staffed checkouts (25%).\n\nHere are the supermarkets' overall customer scores, according to Which?. They were rated for store appearance, product range, queues, staff availability and helpfulness, quality of own-label products, availability of recyclable packaging and value for money:", "The victim was stabbed at London Central Mosque near Regent's Park in London\n\nA man has been charged with a stabbing which happened inside London's Central Mosque during afternoon prayers.\n\nDaniel Horton, 29, is accused of attacking Raafat Maglad at the Regent's Park place of worship on Thursday.\n\nMr Maglad, who is 70, sustained stab wounds to his neck that were inflicted with a kitchen knife.\n\nMr Horton, who is homeless, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier accused of causing grievous bodily harm and possession of a bladed article.\n\nProsecutor Tanyia Dogra told the court the victim and defendant were known to each other because Mr Horton had been attending the mosque for a number of years.\n\nThe accused, whom the court heard had been sleeping rough since last year, was remanded into custody.\n\nHe is expected to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 20 March.\n\nThe court was told Mr Maglad had suffered a 1.5cm wound to his neck.\n\nHe was taken to hospital for treatment before returning to the mosque for prayers the next day.\n\nMr Maglad who is a muezzin - someone who calls Muslims to prayer - said it was \"very important\" for him to attend Friday prayers.\n\n\"If I miss it, I just miss something very important,\" Mr Maglad said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A woman is rescued by canoe after her car becomes submerged in Old Kilpatrick\n\nFlooding across Scotland has left cars, roads and fields submerged.\n\nOne woman had to be rescued from her vehicle by canoe after her car became deluged by floodwater in Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nOther vehicles were left stranded on Saturday as they became swamped.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency originally had more than 40 flood warnings in place, with new warnings for snow starting on Monday.\n\nA Met Office yellow snow and ice warning has now expired.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This car was left stranded as it became stuck in floodwater at Milngavie. Video by Stuart Low.\n\nSome flood warnings remain in place across Scotland. This car was caught in floodwater in Cornton Road in the Bridge of Allan\n\nThis road in Linwood was completely flooded on Saturday morning\n\nThe Kelvin Walkway in Glasgow was completely submerged\n\nThis woman was rescued after her car became submerged in floodwater in Old Kilpatrick on Friday night\n\nThe car was still in floodwater on Saturday morning\n\nHeavy rain on Friday led to vehicles becoming stranded in Paisley and Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire and in Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe wet conditions also led to the postponement of Friday's Scottish Premiership match between St Mirren and Hearts at the Simple Digital Arena in Paisley.\n\nElsewhere, ScotRail had to close the line between Stirling and Perth for safety reasons after water levels breached a marker on the Mill O'Keir viaduct.\n\nFlooding on the railway line at Johnstone\n\nScotRail had to close the line between Stirling and Perth after water levels breached a marker on the Mill O'Keir viaduct\n\nOn the roads, flooding forced the closure of the northbound M876 at junction 2 Broomage in central Scotland.\n\nLast weekend road, rail and ferry links were hit and football matches cancelled as Storm Dennis swept across Scotland.\n\nWhile the overall picture has improved during the week, parts of north-west England experienced more than a month's worth of rain between Thursday and Friday.\n\nAn ambulance was stranded after Paisley was hit by floods on Friday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Friends, which first aired in 1994, ended in 2004 after 10 series\n\nThe cast of Friends is to reunite for a one-off special, more than 15 years since the show ended.\n\nThe unscripted episode will air on the HBO Max streaming service, launching in May. A date is yet to be announced.\n\nJennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer will all appear.\n\nPerry posted on Instagram: \"It's happening\" with a photo of the cast from the 1990s. The rest of the cast then started sharing the same post.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mattyperry4 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends aired from 1994 until 2004. The final show was watched by 52.5 million viewers in the US, making it the most watched TV episode of the 2000s.\n\nThe show has since picked up legions of younger fans through Netflix.\n\nIt was the UK's favourite streaming show and Netflix's second most popular show in the US in 2018.\n\nRumours of a reunion intensified after Aniston posted a photo of the cast together on Instagram in October.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by jenniferaniston This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHBO Max has now secured rights to the show's back catalogue for $425m (£339m).\n\n\"Guess you could call this the one where they all got back together - we are reuniting with David, Jennifer, Courteney, Matt, Lisa and Matthew for an HBO Max special that will be programmed alongside the entire Friends Library,\" said Kevin Reilly, chief content officer for the channel.\n\nHe said the reunion special will capture the spirit of a time when \"friends - and audiences - gathered together in real time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurgen Klopp on learning English by watching US sitcom Friends\n\nThe cast will be involved in producing the episode.\n\nAccording to Variety, each actor is expected to receive $2.5m (£1.9m) for taking part in the special, which will be available when HBO Max - a new subscription streaming service - launches.\n\nFans of the show reacted with glee to the announced on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah Jenkins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When Daisy May and Charlie Cooper were in their 20s they were living at home in the Cotswolds with their mum and dad.\n\nCharlie had dropped out of uni and Daisy, after a stint at a prestigious drama school, wasn't finding any work.\n\nTheir dad had just been made redundant and the whole family had been evicted from their old house because they couldn't afford to pay the rent.\n\nThings were so tough that the adult siblings were even sharing a bed.\n\n\"It's really strange because I went to go see the film Parasite the other day,\" Daisy says, \"and our lives were so similar to that family.\n\n\"We were grown-up children living with our parents. None of us were working. It was really the lowest of the low.\n\n\"Charlie and I shared a mattress that was broken in the middle. That's how desperate we were. I know it sounds funny but we were completely desperate. Things couldn't have got any worse.\"\n\nParasite, which won Best Picture at the Oscars, tells the story of a penniless family who are struggling with the massive wealth divide in Korean society.\n\nThe siblings, who finish each other's sentences, remember how they found work as cleaners and, in their free time, began to write about their life: going on really long walks, making fun of the strange people around town and pushing each other in trolleys around the Tesco car park.\n\nThose jokes and storylines would eventually become the BAFTA-winning BBC Three sitcom This Country, about cousins, Kerry and Lee \"Kurtan\" Mucklowe, growing up poor in the Cotswolds countryside.\n\n'We had to go to the library to send emails'\n\n\"There's no opportunities here for young people in the Cotswolds,\" Charlie says. \"There's so much of us in Kerry and Kurtan. We had that feeling of being doomed and being obsessed with the small things just to fill the days.\"\n\nOne of the most difficult things, they recall, is that when they were writing the show, the family didn't have enough money to pay for the internet.\n\n\"We'd have to go down to the library to, like, send out emails,\" Daisy says. \"Even not having the luxury of sending off a script and seeing if you got a response - but instead having to walk all the way to town to go to the library - it's such a... what's the word?\"\n\n\"It's like water, isn't it,\" Charlie replies. \"It's a necessity.\"\n\n\"We didn't even have that,\" Daisy says.\n\nAnd the show, now in its third and final season, deals with things like poverty, the impact of austerity and homelessness in the countryside.\n\n\"It's a shock because it's gotten worse, especially with the food banks,\" says Daisy. \"You'd think that Cirencester - and the Cotswolds - is quite an affluent area but the food banks are constantly being exhausted.\"\n\nAccording to a recent report from the Trussell Trust, Cirencester Foodbank gave 2,597 emergency food parcels to people between April 2019 and September 2019, a 25% increase on the same period in the previous year.\n\n\"There wasn't any food banks here when we were young,\" Charlie adds. \"Now there's three or four, isn't there?\n\n\"We don't know so much about the rest of the country, but in the Cotswolds the divide between the wealthy and poor people is huge and it's getting bigger. And there's not a lot in between.\"\n\nDaisy says she knows a man near where she lives who cycles half an hour to another town so he can collect a food package for his family.\n\n\"He's got a food bank service where he lives but he's too ashamed to go in there.\"\n\nThe pair also agree that more needs to be done to support young working class and rural writers, actors and performers.\n\n\"We were lucky because Daisy went to drama school and managed to find an agent so we had contacts when we started writing,\" says Charlie.\n\n\"There definitely needs to be more schemes for young people,\" adds Daisy. \"Unfortunately, this industry is about who you know.\"\n\nDaisy, who says the siblings were inspired by shows like The Royle Family, adds: \"There are different trends when it comes to class in TV and film. At the minute, it feels like there's a lot of public school films and actors but it does swing back around.\"\n\n\"I think if you're working class and trying to break into this industry,\" Charlie says, \"you need support behind you. If you're working a full time job and then trying to be a writer on the side or be an actor on the side, it's just impossible.\n\n\"We were lucky enough that we lived at home with our parents for years while we were writing the show. Without them it probably would never have happened.\"\n\n'We're still just Daisy and Charlie'\n\nEven through all the hardship, though, Daisy and Charlie - like their characters Kerry and Kurtan - always managed to see the funny glimmer of light in the darkness.\n\n\"Having a laugh was our only form of entertainment and the only thing that ever really kept us together,\" Charlie says.\n\n\"What got us through was people telling us that we were funny,\" Daisy says, \"and then we were like, 'Oh my god! There's hope, then, that we could maybe turn this around and make a success out of ourselves.'\"\n\nAnd that success has come thick and fast, with three BAFTAs and three Royal Television Awards under their belts.\n\n\"It's been an amazing journey,\" Charlie says, reflecting on the past three seasons.\n\nSo do people down the pub treat them differently now that they're BAFTA winners?\n\n\"Not really,\" they both say, laughing.\n\n\"We're just Daisy and Charlie to them,\" Charlie says. \"We don't get special treatment.\"\n\nSaying goodbye to the show was tough though, they both agree.\n\n\"The whole process was emotional,\" Charlie says. \"Obviously because we lost Michael so close to filming and having to try and plough on so close to the start was really hard.\"\n\nThe actor Michael Sleggs, who played the character Michael \"Slugs\" Slugette in This Country, died at the age of 33 last year.\n\n\"But then I think we were all hungover on the last day,\" he says, as they both crack up into laughter again.\n\nIt was recently announced that This Country is following in the footsteps of The Office and getting a US remake from Bridesmaids director Paul Feig and Sex and the City TV writer Jenny Bicks.\n\n\"It's really exciting,\" Daisy says. \"We've seen some of the early drafts of the script and Jenny is just such a funny writer.\"\n\nThe US version is sticking so closely to the original that they're even having a scarecrow festival, Charlie and Daisy say.\n\n\"They know how to make it work for an American audience,\" Daisy says. \"I think I'm happy for them to do what they want with it really.\"\n\nSo what's next? Is this really the end for Kerry and Kurtan?\n\n\"After seeing the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special, we'd love to do something like that in a few years,” Charlie says.\n\nThis Country is available on iPlayer and on BBC One on Mondays at 10.35pm.", "Dr Jeremy Morris is the master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge\n\nThe head of a Cambridge college has stepped back from his duties after allegations he mishandled a series of sexual misconduct complaints.\n\nDr Jeremy Morris, the master of Trinity Hall, has agreed to move aside while an internal review into procedures is under way.\n\nIt comes after both students and staff were accused of misconduct in recent years.\n\nTrinity Hall said the decision was subject to further consultation.\n\nDr Morris has come under pressure since the BBC found an academic who had been accused of sexually harassing 10 students had retained some college privileges because of an internal error.\n\nDr Peter Hutchinson later resigned from Trinity Hall in November 2019 after more than 1,300 staff and students protested that he had been allowed to keep his post.\n\nIt emerged this week that he had published an erotic novel about students the year nearly a dozen complaints of harassment had been made against him.\n\nStaff left their jobs at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, with \"serious\" concerns over the handling of misconduct allegations\n\nThe BBC learned at least three staff had also left the college with \"serious\" concerns over how the situation had been handled.\n\nThis week, Dr Morris was accused of mishandling multiple complaints of sexual assault brought by female students against a male student, who denied the allegations, according to an investigation by the Tortoise news website.\n\nDr Morris is also alleged to have allowed a senior member of academic staff to remain in his job for five months without any restrictions on his role after he was accused of sexual assault by a student.\n\nThe senior academic staff member - who strongly denies the allegations, which were reported to police with no further action - has now agreed to temporarily withdraw from his duties, Trinity Hall said in a statement.\n\nCurrent and former students have expressed scepticism over Dr Morris' decision to step back, with one telling the BBC they have \"no faith\" in the college's current processes.\n\nOver 500 Cambridge students, staff and alumni have signed an open letter calling for Dr Morris to resign.\n\nThe mother of one of the alleged victims has called on Dr Morris to resign entirely for failing to make the \"safeguarding of the young people under [his] care the most important priority,\" in an open letter published by Varsity, Cambridge's student newspaper.\n\nRory Kent, 23, a Trinity Hall alumnus who recently chaired a student meeting at the college, said the community has been \"deeply distressed\" by recent events.", "Joanna Cherry is currently an MP representing Edinburgh South West\n\nJoanna Cherry has confirmed she will step down from Westminster if she is elected to Ruth Davidson's Holyrood seat.\n\nThe SNP's Edinburgh South West MP said on Saturday she would seek support from her party to challenge for the Edinburgh Central constituency.\n\nAngus Robertson has already announced plans to bid for the seat.\n\nMs Cherry confirmed on Sunday she would step down as an MP if she succeeded in being elected to Holyrood.\n\nShe said: \"Edinburgh Central is my home branch, I have been a member there since 2008.\n\n\"I have lived in the constituency since 2002 and since 2015 I have been the MP for Edinburgh South West which covers a significant part of the Central seat, including Gorgie, Dalry Haymarket, Fountainbridge and part of Tollcross/Bruntsfield.\n\n\"I am very grateful to all the people who have approached me and encouraged me to put my hat in the ring when nominations open.\"\n\nShe added in a social media post: \"This will be a contest about ideas and policies not personalities.\"\n\nMr Robertson, the SNP's former Westminster leader, revealed on Tuesday that he would be seeking the SNP's nomination to stand.\n\nThe Tories currently have a 610-vote majority in the constituency.\n\nAngus Robertson was an MP from 2001 until 2017\n\nThe seat was won from the SNP by the former Scottish Conservative leader at the last Scottish Parliament election in 2016 but Ms Davidson has indicated she will be stepping down at the next poll in May 2021.\n\nSince then, she accepted and then turned down a lucrative job with a lobbying firm and has been nominated for a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nMr Robertson lost his Westminster seat to the Conservatives' Douglas Ross at the 2017 general election.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Cherry recently gained recognition for leading the Scottish court case challenging the five-week prorogation of parliament.\n\nIt was ultimately successful in the Supreme Court, resulting in the quashing of the suspension, which had been imposed in September.\n\nAnnouncing his intention to contest the seat, Mr Robertson accused Ms Davidson of putting \"other career interests in London ahead of the people she still represents at Holyrood\" and argued that constituents \"deserve better\".\n\nHe said: \"Edinburgh Central deserves a full-time MSP who will put the interests of their constituents first.\"", "Staffordshire Police have released CCTV footage of a lorry driver making a dangerous manoeuvre on the M6 Toll.\n\nThe footage shows the driver performing a U-turn on a slip road on 21 January.\n\nPolice said the driver received a six-month jail sentence and was disqualified from driving for 15 months.", "It might sound a bit rich coming from someone not noted for his good looks, but beauty isn't getting the respect it deserves.\n\nNot so long ago it was all the rage.\n\nEnlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was pro-beauty. He considered it a form of morality.\n\nEinstein said it enticed the inner child out of us.\n\nAnd wise old Confucius believed everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.\n\nBringing it into plain sight used to be the job of artists, authors and composers wearing billowing white shirts with splendid frou-frou collars last seen on Duran Duran in the 1980s. But pop's New Romantics were no match for the relentless march of modernism with its frigid less-is-more dogma and strict no-frills dress code.\n\nHe was the artist who proposed a urinal as a work of art back in 1917. He chose it precisely because it was, as he said, anti-retinal: an unattractive sight. It was intended as an act of destruction: an enamelled Exocet missile aimed at the heart of a bourgeois art establishment aligned to a political class responsible for a horrific, bloody war.\n\nMarcel Duchamp's urinal wasn't deemed a work of art in 1917 by the Society of Independent Artists, who considered it indecent\n\nIt was no time for beauty, Duchamp argued.\n\nIf art meant anything at all it should speak the truth about what was happening, which was ugly and base. His toilet scored a direct hit, romanticism was dead. Henceforth, beauty was naff and frivolous; cynicism was the new religion for our secular age. Music became dissonant, literature became fragmented, theatre became absurd, and art turned ugly.\n\nCaught up among the collateral damage was classical narrative ballet, the most romantic of art forms.\n\nTutus and fairies had no place in the new order. Ballet was dispatched to the art dog house, to be consumed by the people of Tunbridge Wells, or somewhere equally as uncool, where locals dress in brown tweed and mustard corduroy and consider Country Life a magazine not a brand of butter.\n\nTo see exceptionally talented dancers express emotions and story through graceful movement is a sensuous experience like no other\n\nAnd that is where ballet remains, with some of the most beautiful choreography and music ever created written off as elitist and irrelevant.\n\nTo see exceptionally talented dancers express emotions and story through graceful movement accompanied by a full orchestra is a sensuous experience like no other.\n\nIt isn't posh or difficult or any more expensive than going to a gig or a Premier League football match.\n\nIt isn't stuck in the past either.\n\nThe Cellist has just opened at the Royal Opera House in London. It is a new ballet by Cathy Marston telling the true story of Jacqueline du Pré, the prodigiously gifted post-war cellist whose career and life were cruelly cut short by multiple sclerosis.\n\nChoreographer Cathy Marston behind Marcelino Sambé, shows Lauren Cuthbertson how to hold her cello during rehearsal\n\nThe tragic-romantic tale of love and loss centred around a young woman is classic classical ballet.\n\nThe difference here, though, is the subject of our heroine's affections isn't her lover and husband, the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, but her instrument: the eponymous cello.\n\nBarenboim gets to play the gooseberry, as he watches his wife enthusiastically pluck her instrument, brought vividly to life by the Royal Ballet's newly promoted principal dancer, Marcelino Sambé.\n\nLauren Cuthbertson takes the role of Jacqueline du Pré, and, as you would expect from one of the finest dancers of her generation, gives a wonderfully nuanced and intelligent performance.\n\nThe gifted and celebrated couple, Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim caught the public imagination in the 1960s\n\nMatthew Ball (Daniel Barenboim) looks on as Lauren Cuthbertson (Jacqueline du Pré) is entranced by her instrument, Marcelino Sambé\n\nThe show begins with us meeting a very young Jacqueline (played by a student at White Lodge ballet school) at home with her parents where she is having her first encounter with the instrument that would make her an international superstar by the mid-60s.\n\nEnter Cuthbertson, who stands behind Sambé (her cello) and mimes playing him to the sound of Elgar's Cello Concerto.\n\nLauren Cutherbertson said the ballet required a different way of thinking, because the female dancer was usually positioned in front of the male\n\nHe then lifts her and pirouettes as she maintains a seated playing position, which I must admit, is less beautiful and took my mind back to Duchamp and lavatories. No matter, it is one of very few awkward moments in a piece full of newly found positions, which races through Du Pré's life in 60 minutes.\n\nBarenboim enters the fray, leading to a memorable pas de trois, before dread looms in the form of an inexplicable shake in the cellist's right leg. The transformation from a woman at the very top of her game to one confronting an unknown terror is undertaken with enormous skill and sensitivity by Cuthbertson, whose on-stage chemistry with Sambé transmits her love for him - her cello - with an intensity that makes the hopelessness of her situation profoundly moving.\n\nTo have a talent such as hers is a blessing, to have it snatched away so soon by a silent, malevolent condition seems so cruel, to her and us. It is the tragedy of something truly marvellous being destroyed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Cellist's story of love and loss is expressed movingly by the Royal Ballet's principal dancers\n\nThat is not a romantic condition, it was a fact of life for Jacqueline du Pré, a reminder that beauty should be cherished not banished. It is not uncool or naff, it is an ideal worth believing in and striving for and appreciating.\n\nThat is the message of The Cellist, delivered with aplomb by the dancers and orchestra who accompany them with a score referencing pieces by Elgar, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff and Schubert.\n\nNote: The Cellist can be seen on screen in a live link to selected cinemas on 25 February.\n• None Ballet shows triumph and tragedy of cellist Du Pré Video, 00:02:19Ballet shows triumph and tragedy of cellist Du Pré", "Rhys and Gemma Cousin's family said the couple were devoted to their children Peyton, three, and Heidi, one\n\nA couple who died in a crash in the Highlands along with their two young children have been described as being \"totally devoted\" to their girls.\n\nGemma Cousin, 26, her husband Rhys, 25, and their daughters Peyton, three, and Heidi, one, were killed in a collision with another car on Thursday.\n\nThe crash happened on the A82 at Torlundy, near Fort William, just after 17:30.\n\nA family statement said they \"had so much to look forward to\".\n\nThe statement, released through Police Scotland, said: \"Both families are heartbroken by the tragic loss of Gemma, Rhys, Peyton and Heidi.\n\n\"They were a young family with so much to look forward to. To have their lives cut short so suddenly and in such circumstances is utterly devastating.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"As a young couple, Gemma and Rhys worked really hard to provide a loving, secure and safe home and family life for their girls who they were totally devoted to. They were known by many with both families being extended and their loss will be felt far and wide.\n\n\"Due to the horrific circumstances we would like to thank the emergency services and everyone who was involved on the night. We would also like to thank everyone for the support we continue to receive.\n\n\"As a family, we now respectfully ask that we are given the time and privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the loss of Rhys, Gemma, Peyton and Heidi.\"\n\nThe A82 at the scene of the fatal crash was closed for 11 hours to allow for a police investigation\n\nThe family, who were from the Inverness area, were travelling northbound in a green Mini Cooper when the crash happened.\n\nThe other vehicle involved was a red Ford Fiesta. The 56-year-old woman who was driving had to be cut free and suffered serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information to come forward. They are keen to speak to anyone who saw either vehicle before the collision and anyone with dashcam footage.\n• None Baby and girl, 3, killed with parents in crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of the valley below Settle have been submerged after heavy rain in the area\n\nPeople have had to be rescued from their homes after the Yorkshire Dales was hit by flooding following heavy overnight rain.\n\nFirefighters were called out across the Settle area to rescue people from 10 homes and help drivers stuck in cars.\n\nThe village of Horton in Ribblesdale was surrounded by floodwater on Friday night and left impassable to vehicles.\n\nFlood water has caused disruption on the roads around Yorkshire with a lane closed on part of the A1(M).\n\nIt is the third weekend in a row that parts of Yorkshire have been hit by flooding, following Storms Ciara and Dennis earlier in the month.\n\nThe Environment Agency said \"most of the action\" on Friday night and Saturday morning had been on the River Wharfe and the River Ure but the run-off from the Dales was unlikely to affect downstream areas,\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Skipton Fire Station This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said that about 10 properties had been flooded in Settle and the nearby village of Giggleswick had also been affected.\n\nIn Morton-on-Swale a bridge over an A road was also flooded.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFour people have been rescued from a vehicle in Skipton while fire crews went to the aid of a number of horses and sheep.\n\nThe River Ouse, pictured earlier this week, is not expected to reach the record levels seen during the 2000 floods\n\nThe River Ouse in York is expected to peak at 4.4m above normal on Monday - the same level it reached during Storm Dennis and well within flood defence limits.\n\nA public meeting was held on Friday evening to listen to residents' concerns about plans for new flood defences for the city.\n\nLabour MP for York Central Rachael Maskell promised to take their views to the Environment Secretary next week.\n\nShe said: \"This isn't about talk now but real action to make sure people feel safe when the next flood comes and it will come.\"\n\nFlooding has affected roads in the area between Selby and York\n\nSome villages on the outskirts of York have been affected with flooding on roads around Naburn and Escrick with the Environment Agency pumping water in the area.\n\nWhile the River Nidd in Knaresborough has been described as looking like a \"torrent\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Oliver Harmar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere was also flooding in the Ilkley and Otley areas with the A65 and the A659 affected. Buses were diverted and drivers advised to avoid the area.\n\nBillams Bridge, in Otley, has been closed although Leeds Council said the River Wharfe had peaked and would fall throughout the day.\n\nOfficials are on standby in Hebden Bridge as the Calder Valley gets back on its feet after Storm Ciara\n\nThe Calder Valley is still recovering from Storm Ciara two weeks ago when more than 1,000 homes and businesses were flooded.\n\nThere are currently flood warnings and alerts in place across Yorkshire while a yellow weather warning for wind is in place for much of the north of England.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS in England is hiring 10,000 school leavers given training by the Prince's Trust charity.\n\nThe new staff will go some way towards solving the shortage caused by rising demands on the service and falling EU migration.\n\nThe trust's research suggests there is concern among public-sector employers that jobs are becoming harder to fill.\n\nThe new staff will work in non-clinical jobs although some may train as nurses or doctors eventually.\n\n\"There are lots of young people who struggle to access the kinds of careers and opportunities that we offer and the opportunity of this partnership is to reach out to those young people,\" NHS Employers chief executive Danny Mortimer told BBC News.\n\nIn Birmingham, where the NHS is the city's biggest employer, training of the new staff is well under way, with some already in post.\n\nRoisin Brown, 24, has a new job as a health-care assistant on a cancer ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham's biggest.\n\nShe was referred to the Prince's Trust after struggling to find work once she had re-taken her English GCSE at a further education college.\n\nShe said: \"If you want to go into nursing but don't feel like university is something that you want to do or something that you feel like you could possibly do, then try different avenues.\n\n\"I could work and build up to become a nurse eventually.\"\n\nA YouGov poll of 1,000 managers across all sectors, conducted in September 2019 for the Prince's Trust but not yet been published, found 63% of those in the public sector believed there was currently a skills shortage in their area.\n\nPrince's Trust chief executive Dame Martina Milburn said: \"Some employers use recruitment processes that make it hard for them to fill vacancies as well as making it hard for young people to get their first job.\n\n\"It is vital that employers start thinking about recruitment differently.\"\n\nEmployers need to change their recruitment practices to fill jobs, the Prince's Trust says\n\nThe trust also hopes to train young people for the social-care sector, which employers fear suffers because it doesn't carry the same prestige as the NHS.\n\nThe training organisation Skills for Care estimates there is a shortage of 11,500 staff in adult social care in the West Midlands region alone.\n\nJagdeep Khatkar, director of Oakview care home, in the Birmingham suburb of Quinton, has begun to hire younger staff from his home city.\n\nHe said: \"The sector has had a bit of a PR issue in the past.\n\n\"It's important that we now appeal to the younger people in particular and show that there is a real career path for young people to follow.\"", "BBC broadcaster and former teacher Simon Warr has died from cancer at 65.\n\nHe often appeared on BBC Radio Suffolk and was the headmaster on Channel 4's reality documentary That'll Teach 'Em.\n\nOn Thursday the broadcaster announced on Twitter he had a \"very serious health condition\" and was in a hospice.\n\nWarr, who was wrongly accused of historical child abuse in 2012, said he hoped his legacy would be raising \"awareness of the human costs\" of false allegations and wrongful convictions.\n\nFormer pupils made allegations against Warr but he was cleared of all charges in 2014.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn announcement on Twitter said Warr died from pancreatic and liver cancer while surrounded by his family.\n\nTwo days before his death, he wrote that he was \"unlikely to be on Twitter again\" as he was receiving care in a hospice.\n\nSpeaking after a jury acquitted him in 2014, Warr said the false allegations had led him to lose his job, friends and home.\n\nIn what he said would be his final tweets, he said it was a \"comfort\" to know his book Presumed Guilty had been \"useful for so many\".\n\n\"There is still much work to do, but I'll not be able to be part of it,\" he said.\n\nSimon Warr dressed as a headmaster for an appearance on The One Show in 2008\n\nFellow broadcaster Jeremy Vine said on Twitter he was \"very sad\" to hear of Warr's passing.\n\nWarr often appeared on Vine's BBC Radio 2 show as well as his mid-morning programme on Channel 5.\n\n\"He had incredible zest and a passion for learning and debate,\" Vine said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC Radio Suffolk presenter James Hazell said Warr was diagnosed in January.\n\n\"He was always keen to share his opinions, his forthright views and above all else to entertain,\" Hazell said.\n\n\"He would always say: 'I'm just here to have a bit of fun'.\"\n\nEditor of BBC Radio Suffolk Peter Cook said: \"Simon was a unique talent with a real passion for all that we do.\n\n\"He had the ability to light up a room when he came in, he had a terrific sense of humour and I know that many of us looked forward to seeing him, often on a Friday, to prepare for his Saturday football reporting.\n\n\"We will all miss him greatly.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nGloucester fly-half Danny Cipriani has released an emotional video tribute to ex-girlfriend Caroline Flack, saying \"it's OK to be vulnerable\".\n\nFormer Love Island host Flack, 40, was found dead at her home in London on Saturday after taking her own life.\n\nCipriani said he was speaking out about his own mental health issues in the hope her \"life will not go in vain\".\n\nDuring the 18-minute clip on Instagram , the 32-year-old admits he tried to buy a gun to end his life 10 years ago.\n\n\"I couldn't do it because I had some fight in me,\" a tearful Cipriani said.\n\nThe England international said he had been speaking to Flack over the past \"three or four months\" and she had been dealing with negative media attention \"for 20 years\".\n\nFlack was due to stand trial next month after being charged with assaulting her partner in December.\n\n\"Embarrassment and shame is not something that should make you do this,\" said Cipriani.\n\n\"I've worried my whole life what people say about me. I don't care any more. I know who I am.\"\n\nCipriani, who played in Gloucester's Premiership defeat by Exeter last Friday, said he had shared \"everything\" with the television presenter.\n\nGloucester had already announced their next home match - against Sale Sharks on 28 February - would be used to raise awareness of mental health issues.\n\nFollowing the news of Flack's death, Cipriani said he had missed a phone call from her.\n\n\"I have to see the meaning in why she decided to call me in her last moments, when she was with her two best friends,\" he said in Friday's video.\n\n\"How much love and trust did she have for me because we had been vulnerable and shared together? She felt it was a safe space so I thank her for that because I felt safe with her.\"\n\nHe had also previously posted on Twitter his criticism of sections of the media - accusing them of lying, and saying Flack - who he dated last year - had been \"bullied\".\n\nIn his latest post, he said: \"We can't just blame the media, we can't blame ourselves, but we can change what's happening.\"\n\nHe said Flack's death meant he could \"see clearly now\" and was \"strong enough to share my moments of vulnerability\".\n\n\"I am just asking that we are kind and if you have vulnerable moments, and you have people you care about and close to you, you should share it with them,\" he added.\n\nAt the end of the video, Cipriani thanks people for \"being kind\" to Flack's family and friends.\n\n\"Continue being kind,\" he said. \"Don't make it take for an artist to die before you buy his painting. If it's great, buy it.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by mental health issues, help and support is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline", "Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola praised his players for passing \"an incredible test\" as Gabriel Jesus came off the bench to score a late winner at Leicester and cement themselves in second spot.\n\nJamie Vardy had hit the post for Leicester in the first half, but both sides wasted numerous chances before Jesus slotted home with a cool finish after a surging run from Riyad Mahrez had opened up the home defence.\n\nThe best of those opportunities saw Foxes keeper Kasper Schmeichel deny Sergio Aguero from the spot on the hour mark as the Blues' penalty problems continued.\n\nThe defending champions are now seven points clear of the Foxes having won twice since being banned from European football for two years by Uefa.\n\n\"Don't ask me about the attitude of these guys,\" said Guardiola. \"You still doubt what they have done. These players have won seven titles in the last eight [domestic] competitions.\n\n\"Today, after missing the penalty, see the reaction we had against an incredibly good team, not just for where they are in the table right now but the way they played in general this season. It was an incredible test for us.\"\n\nGuardiola's side have now missed five of their seven Premier League spot-kicks this season, but Leicester will argue they should have been given two of their own before the break.\n\nNothing was given when Kevin de Bruyne had his arms up in the wall and James Maddison's free-kick clearly hit them, and even more mystifying was the decision to give Leicester a corner when Ederson took out Kelechi Iheanacho.\n\nIheanacho had beaten the Brazilian to Maddison's delightful chipped pass and was floored by the goalkeeper's attempt to punch the ball to safety, but referee Paul Tierney and the video assistant referee both felt Ederson had touched the ball.\n\nThe next time VAR got involved, it was to award the visitors a penalty - after Dennis Praet charged down Ilkay Gundogan's effort with his arm.\n\nBut Schmeichel preserved parity when he saved with his legs after Aguero went for power and blasted his spot-kick down the middle, leaving the game in the balance.\n\nThe Foxes keeper denied Aguero again soon after, but he could do nothing to keep out Jesus' strike which brought a jubilant reaction from the away fans, and the Manchester City players joined them in celebration at the final whistle.\n\nIt is almost an irrelevance that the Blues have cut Liverpool's lead at the top to 19 points, but they can head for the Bernabeu for their Champions League last-16 tie with Real Madrid on a high after a difficult week.\n• None Reaction from this match and Saturday's other Premier League games\n• None Premier League predictions: This Country stars take on Lawro\n\nThe strength of Manchester City's team selection was an indication Guardiola was looking to build rhythm rather than rest his players for their crucial clash with Real.\n\nThe only absentee from his squad who could figure on Wednesday night was Raheem Sterling, who is hoping to recover from a hamstring injury in time to feature against the team he talked about joining this week.\n\nThis was a decent warm-up for that tie, and an altogether more demanding test than the midweek stroll over a meek West Ham side.\n\nAymeric Laporte was again used for around an hour as he builds his fitness, and showed his value to the side with quick balls forward as well as calm defending under pressure.\n\nMahrez, booed by his old fans before the game, was again impressive and his running with the ball showed how important he could be against the Spanish giants if Sterling is not fully fit.\n\nManchester City were by no means perfect - their sloppy passing in the first half in particular was worrying.\n\nBut the resolve they found to hold off a spirited Leicester side and find a winner will offer Guardiola much encouragement at the start of a huge week, that ends at Wembley next Sunday when they play Aston Villa in the Carabao Cup final.\n\nLeicester have now lost home and away to the two teams above them in the table this season but they again showed why they occupy such a lofty position, and will feel they deserved more from this game.\n\nThe Foxes may have been forced into an attacking outlook by their lack of available defensive midfielders but boss Brendan Rodgers demonstrated his tactical versatility by switching to a three-man defence and his side looked comfortable, and dangerous, as they carried out his instructions.\n\nConceding so late will hurt but at one point Leicester's fans started singing about how they are \"going on a European tour\" after being called out by the away fans, and it still looks like that excursion will be of the Champions League variety even after this defeat.\n\nTrue, Leicester have now won only two of their seven league games in 2020 but their performance levels have not noticeably dropped and, just as importantly, they still hold a healthy lead over the teams outside the top four.\n\nIf Manchester City's Uefa ban is upheld then fifth place will see the Foxes return to the top table of European football in 2020-21, but more displays like this from Rodgers' side should see them safely in the Champions League places regardless.\n• None Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel's save from Sergio Aguero's penalty was his fourth Premier League penalty save - one more than his father Peter made in his entire Premier League career.\n• None Manchester City have kept successive clean sheets in the Premier League for only the second time this season (also in October 2019).\n• None Manchester City have won six of their last seven league meetings with Leicester City (L1), as many as their previous 21 such clashes.\n• None Leicester City have lost three of their last five home league games (W1 D1); they had only lost one of their first 14 such matches under Brendan Rodgers.\n• None Rodgers has lost all three of his Premier League meetings with Manchester City as Leicester manager, as many such defeats as he suffered in eight games against the Citizens in charge of Swansea and Liverpool (W3 D2 L3).\n• None Gabriel Jesus has scored four goals in his five Premier League appearances against Leicester City; only versus Everton (seven) has he scored more in the competition.\n• None Manchester City have failed to score from each of their last four Premier League penalties, with each being missed by a different player (Aguero, Ilkay Gundogan, Jesus, Raheem Sterling).\n• None Manchester City attempted 18 shots in this match, the most Leicester have faced in a single league game at King Power Stadium since Manchester United had 19 in December 2017.\n\n'VAR interpretation needs sorting' - what they said\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We're obviously very disappointed not to get something from the game. We had big opportunities. Of course you have to defend well, too. You're going to get moved about at times, but I thought we did very well.\"\n\nOn the two handball incidents: \"Manchester City's was a penalty. Kasper makes a fantastic save, but ours is clear too. Everyone bar Kevin's arms are down. I believe this was one of the reasons VAR was introduced.\n\n\"VAR is fine, it's the interpretation of it. That's what needs sorting out.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to BBC Sport: \"Leicester are a top side. It was a good performance. We didn't give up and that's an incredibly good sign for us.\n\n\"We have missed four penalties in a row, but maybe we will score a penalty when we need it to win something. The keepers are good too, but the next one we are going to score.\"\n\nOn Champions League opponents Real Madrid: \"The preparation after 12 days off was good. We have played two good games and it's good to prepare for Real Madrid with these good opponents. We are playing the kings of the competition. We will see, we will try to enjoy it and do our game.\"\n\nLeicester travel to bottom side Norwich on Friday (20:00 GMT) in the Premier League.\n\nManchester City head for the Bernabeu on Wednesday to face Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League tie (20:00), then go to Wembley on Sunday to play Aston Villa in the final of the Carabao Cup (16:30).\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Goal! Leicester City 0, Manchester City 1. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a through ball.Goal confirmed following VAR Review.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rodrigo.\n• None Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Ricardo Pereira (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Çaglar Söyüncü. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A public spending watchdog has raised concerns about the impact of funding shortfalls on Northern Ireland's roads\n\nYears of underinvestment has led to a deterioration of Northern Ireland's roads, the Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon has said.\n\nMs Mallon was reacting to figures which show £1.7m in compensation was paid for vehicles damaged by potholes between 2016 and 2019.\n\nThe figures were obtained by BBC News NI under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.\n\nIn 2019, £500,000 in compensation was paid to drivers.\n\nNichola Mallon said severe winter weather also impacted on the condition of roads\n\nIn 2018, more than £750,000 was paid out by the Department for Infrastructure.\n\nMs Mallon said: \"Like so many people, I am very aware and concerned about the upkeep of our roads.\n\n\"Years of underinvestment as well as the impact of severe winter weather has led to deterioration in the road network and in recent years this has impacted on the level of vehicle damage compensation payments.\"\n\nTop 5 roads in NI for defects in 2019\n\nThe FOI statistics on the number of road defects across Northern Ireland were released to BBC News NI by the Department for Infrastructure.\n\nRoad defects include cracks and potholes recorded on carriageways, hard shoulders and lay-bys.\n\nThe data shows in 2019, there were 102,521 road defects recorded across Northern Ireland, a decrease of 24,000 on the previous year.\n\nIt also confirmed the number of successful vehicle damage claims fell from 3,533 in 2018 to 1,334 in 2019.\n\nThe road with the largest number of defects (118) in 2019 was the Shore Road in Strangford, County Down.\n\nThis was followed by the Browns Bay Road in Islandmagee (115) and the Blackstaff Road in Clough (110).\n\nLast year Northern Ireland's public spending watchdog warned it would cost more than £1bn to deal with structural maintenance.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Audit Office published a report highlighting how a lack of investment was having a deteriorating effect on the overall condition of Northern Ireland's road network.\n\nIt also found a lack of funding had led to a significant reduction in the number of potholes being recorded and approved for repair.\n\nCommenting on the latest figures the minister said while the amount of compensation paid out had reduced within the last year, she acknowledged more investment was needed for a long-term solution.\n\n\"Frustratingly for a number of years now, not enough money has been allocated to my department's budget to maintain all of our roads and repairs are having to operate on a priority basis,\" she said.\n\n\"While I have inherited severe and challenging budget constraints, I am committed to finding solutions that deliver better for our communities and improve lives.\n\n\"I have impressed on the new finance minister the need for additional money to deal with this issue and other critical pressures. Sustainable infrastructure is key to improving lives and connecting communities.\n\n\"I will be looking to the finance minister and Executive colleagues for support and investment in order to get our roads, public transport and vital water service on a sustainable footing\".\n\nMembers of the public can report a pothole on the government's NI Direct website and view a live interactive map of the location of all potholes reported throughout Northern Ireland.", "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has been criticised for saying Muslim men should be profiled at airports.\n\nThe chief executive told the Times that \"males of a Muslim persuasion\" who are single and travelling alone pose the largest terror threat to airlines.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain said Mr O'Leary's comments were \"racist and discriminatory\".\n\nRyanair later said Mr O'Leary was \"only calling for more effective airport security checks\".\n\nIn the wide-ranging interview, Mr O'Leary, 58, said: \"Who are the bombers? They are going to be single males travelling on their own. If you are travelling with a family of kids, on you go; the chances you are going to blow them all up is zero.\n\n\"You can't say stuff, because it's racism, but it will generally be males of a Muslim persuasion. Thirty years ago it was the Irish. If that is where the threat is coming from, deal with the threat.\"\n\nThe MCB described Mr O'Leary's comments as the \"definition of Islamophobia\" and said Muslims face institutional discrimination in many aspects of life.\n\n\"Institutional discrimination against Muslims is well established: whether it is the ability to get a job, buy a flat or even getting car insurance. The challenges of #flyingwhilstMuslim are well documented across the globe,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"It is a shame that such racism is being expressed so openly, and that the CEO of a large airline would so want to discriminate against his customers so brazenly.\"\n\nRyanair said in a statement released on Saturday that \"no call for extra checks on any group or persons was made\" by Mr O'Leary in the Times interview, headlined \"Airline boss wants extra checks on Muslim men\".\n\n\"Michael was only calling for more effective airport security checks which would do away with much of the unnecessary queues at airport security today for all passengers,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"He apologises sincerely for any offence caused to any group by today's inaccurate headline.\"\n\nCivil liberty groups have argued profiling, including on the basis of race, religion or gender, violates people's rights.\n\nOne profiling expert previously told the BBC that the benefit of such profiling only outweighs the cost in exceptional circumstances.\n\nAirlines in the UK have previously said airport security checks should be reduced to improve the experience for passengers.\n\nPeople arriving and leaving the UK are already profiled by border agencies and police through advanced passenger information, including payment details and passport numbers.\n\nMr O'Leary, who has worked for Ryanair for 30 years, also used the interview to lament planning rules requiring the company to provide facilities for disabled staff and referred to obese passengers as \"monsters\" who \"may need to buy two seats\".\n\nAnd on the introduction of its new Boeing 737 Max planes, Mr O'Leary suggested Ryanair may offer discounts to entice passengers to fly on the crisis-hit aeroplane when it eventually re-enters service.\n\nHe said the jet - which has been grounded worldwide since March 2019 following two fatal crashes - \"will be the safest, most checked\" plane.\n\nHe added: \"But we have a customer confidence issue. We will deal with that by hopefully having lower fares onboard the plane while trying it out.\"\n\nMr O'Leary told the Independent last year passengers would not get a refund if they refused to fly on a Ryanair 737 Max.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel holding one of the new blue passports\n\nThe first blue British passports for nearly 30 years will be issued next month, the Home Office has said.\n\nThe current burgundy design is being replaced, following the UK's departure from the European Union.\n\nBlue passports were introduced in 1921 and phased out after 1988 when members of the then European Economic Community agreed to harmonise designs.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the passport will \"once again be entwined with our national identity\".\n\nShe said Brexit had given the UK \"a unique opportunity to... forge a new path in the world\" and enabled a return to \"the iconic blue and gold design\".\n\nThe UK was never formally compelled to change the colour of its passport in the 1980s but did so with other member states.\n\nSecuring a change in the design became a rallying point for Brexit supporters, with the government announcing in December 2017 that the blue passport would return.\n\nThe government estimates that all newly-issued passports will be blue from the summer.\n\nUntil then, they will be issued alongside burgundy passports, which will remain valid for travel until they expire.\n\nThe UK burgundy passports carried the wording European Union on the cover, although the Passport Office last year began to issue them without such a description as older stocks ran out.\n\nThe blue passports will be made by Gemalto, owned by French firm Thales. However, they will be personalised with the holder's details in the UK.\n\nThe back cover will carry an embossment featuring the floral emblems of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.\n\nThe Home Office said the manufacturing carbon footprint of the passports will be reduced to net zero, through projects such as planting trees.\n\nIt added the new passport will carry updated security features, including a \"super-strength\" polycarbonate data page, containing embedded technologies to keep personal data secure, and involve the \"most secure printing and design techniques\" to combat identity theft and forgery.\n\nAccording to the Passport Index, 81 countries have blue passports, including Australia, the United States, Canada, India and Hong Kong.\n\nSeveral Caribbean countries also favour them, including Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines.\n\nIn Europe, people from Iceland, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina carry blue passports, while it is a popular colour in central and south America - including in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela.\n\nOther nations to have blue passports include Israel, Iraq, Syria and North Korea.", "The 12 dogs were later returned to their compound unharmed, West Midlands Safari Park said\n\nSixteen animals were killed at a safari park after a pack of African wild dogs escaped from their enclosure due to damage caused by Storm Ciara.\n\nStaff at West Midland Safari Park in Bewdley, Worcestershire, were left \"extremely saddened\" by the loss of six deer and 10 sheep.\n\nThe 12 wild dogs were able to get into a neighbouring enclosure in the early hours of 9 February.\n\n\"At no point was there a risk to public safety and there was no danger of any animals escaping the park's perimeter fencing,\" a spokeswoman for the safari park said.\n\nThe wild dogs were returned to their compound unharmed, she added.\n\n\"The wild dogs entered the neighbouring compound through a gated entrance which had been damaged in the storm which hit Worcestershire earlier that morning,\" the spokeswoman explained.\n\nShe added: \"Given their personal attachment to our animals, our staff are extremely saddened by the incident.\"\n\nWith amber weather warnings issued as Storm Dennis is set to hit the country on Saturday, the park spokeswoman said it would be monitoring the situation closely and would make decisions \"in the best interests of our animals and public safety\".\n\nAccording to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the African wild dog is \"one of the world's most endangered mammals\", with only about 1,400 left in the wild.\n\nThe largest populations remain in southern Africa and the southern part of East Africa.\n\nThe predator, which gathers in packs, hunts species such as gazelles and can reach speeds of more than 44mph.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool Crown Court heard Thomas Nulty raped the child in the early 1970s\n\nA man who raped a six-year-old girl when he was a teenager has been jailed almost 50 years after the offence.\n\nThomas Nulty, 64, raped the child in the early 1970s in Prescot, Merseyside, Liverpool Crown Court heard.\n\nThe victim revealed her ordeal to police in April 2018.\n\nNulty denied rape but was convicted following a trial, and admitted five offences involving the sexual abuse of two other children. He has been jailed for seven years and six months.\n\nJudge Gary Woodhall said he had taken into account that Nulty had been 16 years old at the time and \"did not have family nurturing to understand boundaries and behaviour\".\n\nNulty, now of Huddersfield Road, Oldham, had been brought up in two care homes where he was abused as a young boy, the court heard.\n\nThe court heard he raped the girl in her own bed while babysitting her. He threatened her not to tell anyone or her mother would die.\n\nJudge Woodhall, who ordered him to sign on the sex offenders register for life, said Nulty \"had shown little empathy or remorse\", adding: \"You admitted having been sexually aroused by the power it gave you.\"\n\nHe said the rape victim spoke of how his behaviour had \"ruined her life\" and she had needed help for mental health issues.\n\nIn an impact statement she told how when she was young she had tried to kill herself and had always felt \"isolated and alone\".\n\nShe described herself as always being in a state of anxiety.\n\nNulty was jailed for five years in 1995 for indecently assaulting a 12-year-old girl and a young woman.\n\nThe judge pointed out that while in jail he had undergone a sex offender's treatment programme and had not re-offended.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2019, ex-prisoner Gareth Evans put his life at risk to protect others from London Bridge attacker Usman Khan.\n\nEvans's friend, Jack Merritt, died that day, along with Saskia Jones. Both were attending a conference on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Some say it with flowers, others with chocolates - but it seems an increasing number of us are showing our affections with rings bought from Poundland.\n\nThe discount retailer told the BBC it had sold almost 40,000 engagement rings ahead of Valentine's Day this year, nearly double last year's tally.\n\nThe £1 \"Bling Rings\" and \"Man Bands\" are meant to be used as \"placeholders\" for proper rings, it said.\n\nBut one analyst described such promotions as \"increasingly desperate\".\n\nSpending on Valentine's Day reached around £853m last year, up 7.8% on 2018 figures, according to the research firm Savvy. And unsurprisingly retailers are looking to cash in again this year.\n\nM&S will be selling 'love cucumbers' this year\n\nPoundland says its Valentine's range is its biggest yet, featuring more than 80 products ranging from fragrances to \"adults only\" gift cards.\n\nAnd M&S has brought back its heart-shaped \"love sausages\" and introduced a new \"love cucumber\", which can be cut into heart-shaped slices.\n\nRetail analyst Kate Hardcastle said events like Valentine's Day are really important for retailers because they drive customers into shops where they will often make impulse purchases.\n\nShe said this year's event would also mark the end of a \"long bleak winter\" for retailers, many of whom have been struggling with a slowdown on the High Street.\n\nRestaurants, florists and gift card companies are particularly set to benefit, as 14 February can be one of their busiest days of the year.\n\nInterflora sees its sales go through the roof on Valentine's Day\n\nInterflora, the flower-ordering service, told the BBC it will deliver 15 times as many bunches of flowers than on a typical day. That is about three bouquets every second.\n\nThen there's online table booking platform Quandoo, which has seen a 160% increase in bookings for Valentine's Day this year, compared to the average Friday. However, it also expects more cancellations than usual.\n\nAnalyst Richard Hyman said retailers had long catered to Valentine's Day, although it is nowhere near as important as events such as Black Friday.\n\nHe also feels firms increasingly overplay events like Valentine's Day with \"desperate gimmicks\" in the hope of attracting consumers' attention.\n\n\"I think as the retail recession takes hold, desperation grows. And the industry is going to be looking for events more and more that they can use as a tool to build a promotion around.\n\n\"The reality is that most retailers these days are on promotion most of the time. And giving a name to that promotion is quite handy.\n\n\"You know Valentine's Day sounds a bit more meaningful than 'here comes spring'.\"\n\nPeople are increasingly buying cards for their pets\n\nDespite the reservations, retailers continue to find new ways of making money out of the day.\n\nCard company Moonpig, for example, told the BBC it had seen an increase in the number of cards bought for favourite pets.\n\nAnd its rival Card Factory said people were increasingly celebrating Valentine's Day with friends and family members, not just significant others.\n\nPoundland meanwhile has been looking to capitalise on consumers' growing reluctance to go out, as evidenced by the slowdown in pub and restaurant sales over the last few years.\n\nIt said it would be selling romantic decorations this year to help couples capture the same mood at home. \"Many Brits prefer cosy, romantic nights in to spending a fortune on dining in over-priced over crowded restaurants on Valentine's day,\" a spokeswoman said.", "Medics in Wuhan have been shaving their heads in a bid to prevent cross-infection of the coronavirus.\n\nTens of thousands of people in China have been diagnosed with Covid-19 and it has spread to several other countries.", "More than 135,000 UK residents have been without online public services for nearly a week, as their council struggles with a cyber-attack.\n\nRedcar and Cleveland Borough Council's website and all computers at the authority were attacked on Saturday.\n\nOne cyber-security expert told the BBC the incident had all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack, in which files are scrambled until a ransom is paid.\n\nBut the council refused to confirm the nature of the hack.\n\nOnline appointment bookings, planning documents, social care advice and council housing complaints systems are just some of the services knocked offline.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said it was supporting the council.\n\nA team of experts from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been on site since the cyber-attack, which took place at 11am on Saturday.\n\nThe NCSC said: \"We are aware of a cyber-incident affecting Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.\n\n\"This is an isolated incident and we are supporting the organisation and working with partners to understand its impact.\"\n\nThe leader of the council, Councillor Mary Lanigan, told the BBC: \"Computers have been taken offline and systems are being rebuilt.\n\n\"We have a massive team here - including cyber-security experts - working around the clock flat out to get it fixed.\n\n\"They have to go through [IT systems] bit by bit to make sure everything is clean. A lot of our staff are not able to work without computers but they are coping quite well here. The main problem is that we have no email systems. so we have extra phone lines for residents.\"\n\nThe website for council tax payments is still open and the council says frontline services are continuing, with staff using pen and paper.\n\nThe council says it is updating taxpayers using Facebook and Twitter.\n\nIts latest update said: \"We are still experiencing issues with our IT systems, which means we are working with a reduced capacity. We are able to receive and answer limited calls and emails and we will be prioritising urgent messages. There may be a slight delay in dealing with non-urgent calls and messages, and the council's website is currently down.\"\n\nLocal resident Claire Louise Corless complained on Facebook: \"Should have really sent a letter out or emailed people, not everyone has Facebook to find out. I'm still waiting for my registration to be done online for weeks now. You would soon come after me if I didn't pay my bill!\"\n\nThe council and the NCA declined to say whether hackers were holding the council to ransom with a so-called ransomware attack.\n\nRansomware attacks are one of the most prolific and costly forms of cyber-attack, in which hackers take control of an organisation's computer system and scramble their information until a ransom is paid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCurrency exchange company Travelex is still dealing with the consequences of a ransomware attack, which took its online services offline for weeks.\n\nThe council said its current assessment indicated no sensitive personal data had been stolen.\n\nIt would not say whether or not data had been encrypted by hackers, or whether negotiations were taking place with cyber-criminals.\n\nSecurity researcher Kevin Beaumont said: \"It seems almost certain they have suffered a severe ransomware incident.\n\n\"The serious nature of the attack and the impact it has had should raise eyebrows with UK authorities about the need to put more resources into tackling cyber-crime groups.\"\n\nHe added: \"They are being open about the cyber-attack occurring, which is welcome, although it is a shame nothing is mentioned on their websites to reassure the public.\n\n\"If they plan not to pay the ransom it would be good to publicly state this, to discourage attacks on councils.\"", "William Barr, right, has been seen as an ally of Donald Trump\n\nUS Attorney General William Barr has said that President Donald Trump \"undercuts\" him by tweeting, making it \"impossible for me to do my job\".\n\nHis criticism of Mr Trump comes amid intense scrutiny of the Justice Department over the handling of a case involving Roger Stone - a convicted former advisor to the president.\n\nThe attorney general had been accused of bowing to presidential pressure.\n\nMr Barr's comments are a rare sign of annoyance with Mr Trump.\n\n\"I think it's time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases,\" Mr Barr told ABC News.\n\n\"I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ABC News Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the president should listen to Mr Barr's advice.\n\n\"If the attorney general says it's getting in the way of doing his job, the president should listen to the attorney general,\" the Republican senator told Fox News.\n\nThere was widespread anger this week when the Justice Department said it planned to reduce the length of the prison sentence it would seek for Stone, a long-time friend of the president.\n\nStone was convicted in November of obstructing an investigation by the House Intelligence Committee into Russian interference in the 2016 election.\n\nFederal prosecutors had initially recommended that Stone should face seven to nine years in jail for trying to thwart the investigation.\n\nAccording to a Netflix documentary about his political career, Roger Stone convinced Donald Trump to run for president\n\nThe president swiftly voiced his opposition, tweeting: \"This is a horrible and very unfair situation.\"\n\nThe Justice Department then overruled the recommendation by its own prosecution team, prompting questions over whether Mr Barr had intervened on behalf of Mr Trump's ally. The four prosecutors then quit.\n\nPresident Trump praised Mr Barr for \"taking charge\" of the case.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Barr insisted the president \"has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case\", but said his tweets about active cases were making it \"impossible for me to do my job\".\n\n\"Do you go forward with what you think is the right decision or do you pull back because of the tweet? And that just sort of illustrates how disruptive these tweets can be,\" he said.\n\nMr Barr added: \"I'm not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody ... whether it's Congress, a newspaper editorial board, or the president.\"\n\nThe attorney general said that he hoped Mr Trump would respect his words.\n\n\"I hope he will react,\" he said.\n\nMr Barr was appointed attorney general in February last year. He has been seen since as a close ally of the president, in contrast to the strained relationship Mr Trump had with Mr Barr's predecessor, Jeff Sessions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Attorney General Barr defends his summary of the Mueller report", "Tracing the links between the different species is a complex scientific quest\n\nA mysterious \"ghost population\" of now-extinct ancient human-like creatures may have interbred with early humans living in West Africa, scientists say.\n\nResearchers suggest DNA from this group makes up between 2% and 19% of modern West Africans' genetic ancestry.\n\nThey believe the interbreeding occurred about 43,000 years ago.\n\nScientists found links to the Mende people of Sierra Leone, Yoruba as well as Esan people in Nigeria, plus other groups in western areas of The Gambia.\n\nThe new study was published in Science Advances this week.\n\nIt suggests that ancestors of modern West Africans interbred with a yet-undiscovered species of archaic human, similar to how ancient Europeans mated with Neanderthals, and Oceanic populations with Denisovans.\n\nThe research sheds more light on how archaic hominins added to the genetic variation of present-day Africans, which has been poorly understood even though it is the most genetically diverse continent.\n\nHundreds of thousands of years ago there were several different groups of humans including modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans.\n\nThe newly-discovered \"ghost population\" of ancient human species seems likely to have diverged from these groups.\n\nSriram Sankararaman - the computational biologist who led the research at the University of California in Los Angeles - told BBC Newsday he believed more such groups would be found in the future.\n\nHis team looked at the genetic make-up of West Africans and found that some of their DNA came from an ancient unexplained source.\n\n\"As we get more data from diverse populations - and better quality data - our ability to sift through that data and excavate these ghost populations is going to get better,\" Mr Sankararaman said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I weep every night for my son in Pakistan\"\n\nParents of a child stuck in an orphanage in Pakistan have said they weep every night after having to leave him behind while they came to the UK.\n\nAmin Rasheed and wife Anila Amin had to leave Ashar, seven, with his grandmother to get help for their seriously ill son Shahryar, five.\n\nBut after falling ill, she put him in an orphanage in December and now the family are desperate to get him a visa.\n\nThe Home Office said it \"did not routinely comment on individual cases\".\n\n\"There's not any night I could sleep without crying, without weeping for him, the same goes for his mother,\" said Mr Rasheed, who lives in Cardiff.\n\n\"Whenever we talk to him he cries a lot. He is unable to understand what is wrong, he says, 'why am I here? why am I not with you?', 'I don't want to live anymore,' and 'it's a very scary place.\"\n\nA family friend advised the family to try and get a visa for two of the children, and they had to leave Ashar (left) behind\n\nThe family, from Lahore, Pakistan, raised thousands of pounds to come to the UK in April 2019, after their youngest son, Shahryar, became seriously ill and doctors back home could not treat him.\n\nWhen a visa application for the whole family was refused, the couple left their eldest child, Ashar, behind with his grandmother in the hope they would return in a matter of weeks.\n\nBut after finding out Shahryar had a life-threatening illness, which has left him paralysed from the neck down, they have been unable to go back home.\n\nAshar was placed in an orphanage after his grandmother got too ill to care for him.\n\nAnila with her son Shahryar, who has a life threatening disorder which can be triggered by protein\n\nMr Rasheed said he was really worried his eldest son could have the same rare genetic condition, which can be triggered by the wrong diet.\n\n\"We are unable to sleep since the time he has been in the orphanage. It's really difficult to explain what exactly we are feeling,\" he said.\n\nThe family are now desperately trying to raise money to get Ashar to Cardiff so they can test him to check if he has the genetic condition.\n\nHis two-year-old sister Zoha has also been diagnosed with the condition, methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), which prevents people's bodies from processing certain fats and proteins, meaning they have to follow a strict diet.\n\nMr Rasheed said there was a 75% chance Ashar could also have the genetic disease, which can cause seizures, strokes or even a coma.\n\nThe family, who are living in Roath, believe Shahryar's illness was triggered by a stomach bug and said they had no choice but to come to the UK after he became a \"skeleton\".\n\nThey have spent all their savings, taken out loans and raised money to pay for his private hospital bills in Pakistan, and are facing a £74,000 bill for his treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nAshar, seven (left) had to be left in Pakistan while the family got help for Shahryar, five, who has a life-threatening medical condition\n\nMr Rasheed said Shahryar's seizures were now under control and he had started to eat and even speak a few words.\n\nBut the family fear if they return to Pakistan, he will not get long-term medical care and they may be attacked or killed after getting threats due to the amount of money they borrowed to pay for his treatment.\n\nThey have applied for asylum, but human rights lawyer Chris Simmonds of Virgo Consultancy Service said it would cost at least £2,000 to get a visa to bring Ashar to the UK to be reunited with his family.\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is planning to ask Home Secretary Priti Patel to ask for the visa fee to be waived and the family are trying to crowd fund the cash themselves.\n\n\"Time is of the essence and I would hope on a humanitarian basis that the Home Office and home secretary will think this is the right thing to do,\" she said.\n\nThe family hope they can all be reunited and live in Wales so that they can continue Shahryar's treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital\n• None 'Change your faith or be killed'", "Photographer Jayne Jackson is challenging the culture of victim blaming for sexual assault victims.\n\nThe Arts University Bournemouth student has created a series of images with models posing for mugshots, holding up a reason to potentially victim blame.\n\nVictim blaming is when the blame for something that has happened is put on the victim, rather than the perpetrator.\n\nMrs Jackson hopes the exhibition, in Poole, Dorset, will encourage people to challenge this idea.", "The Court of Appeal has overturned a decision which found an Islamic marriage ceremony fell within English law\n\nA court has reversed a judgment from two years ago which found that a couple who had an Islamic wedding ceremony could legally divorce.\n\nThe High Court ruled in 2018 that the couple's Islamic \"nikah\" ceremony fell within English marriage law.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal has now said it was an \"invalid\" non-legal ceremony.\n\nJudges said the fact they intended to have a further civil ceremony meant they must have known their Islamic marriage had no legal effect in the UK.\n\nThe Attorney General appealed against the original court decision.\n\nThe case involved the divorce of Nasreen Akhter and Mohammed Shabaz Khan, who have four children.\n\nThe couple had an Islamic wedding ceremony in a west London restaurant in 1998 in the presence of an imam and about 150 guests, but no civil ceremony subsequently took place, despite Mrs Akhter repeatedly raising the issue.\n\nThey separated in 2016 and Mr Khan tried to block his wife's divorce petition two years ago on the basis they had not been legally married in the first place.\n\nMrs Akhter argued their Islamic faith marriage was valid, as was her application for divorce, and that she was entitled to the same legal protection and settlement offered in the UK to legally married couples.\n\nHer application for divorce was analysed during a trial in the Family Division of the High Court and Mr Justice Williams delivered a written judgment in the summer of 2018.\n\nHe ruled that since the couple held themselves out to the world at large as husband and wife, Mrs Akhter was correct and their union should be recognised because their vows had similar expectations to that of a British marriage contract.\n\nHe added the marriage fell within the scope of the 1973 Matrimonial Causes Act, despite Mr Khan arguing the marriage was \"under Sharia law only\".\n\nJustice Williams said Mrs Akhter was therefore entitled to a decree of nullity.\n\nThe Court of Appeal overturned that decision on Friday and said the marriage was \"invalid\" under English marriage law.\n\nIt explained the wedding was \"a non-qualifying ceremony\" because it was not performed in a building registered for weddings, no certificates had been issued and no registrar was present.\n\n\"The parties were not marrying under the provisions of English law\", the appeal judges said.\n\nNeither Mrs Akhter nor Mr Khan played any part in the appeal proceedings.\n\nPragna Patel, director at Southall Black Sisters, a not-for-profit organisation, said: \"Today's judgment will force Muslim and other women to turn to Sharia 'courts' that already cause significant harm to women and children for remedies because they are now locked out of the civil justice system.\"\n\nA government review into Sharia law in 2017 said Muslim couples should be required to take part in civil marriages in addition to Muslim ceremonies to bring Islamic marriage legally into line with Christian and Jewish marriage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A double amputee suffered fatal pressure sores caused by \"gross and obvious failings\" in her hospital treatment.\n\nJanet Prince, from Nottingham, developed the sores after being admitted to Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in July 2017.\n\nEmma Thirlwall (left) acted as carer for Janet Prince for 19 years after her mother had a stroke in 2000\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court had heard Ms Prince was taken to QMC in Nottingham with internal bleeding on 15 July 2017.\n\nThe patient was left on a trolley in the emergency department for nine hours and even though she and daughter Emma Thirlwall said she needed to be given a specialist mattress, she was not given one.\n\n\"No specific measures of any kind were implemented during that period of more than nine hours to reduce the risk of pressure damage, even though it should have been easily apparent to those treating her that [she] needed such measures to be in place,\" Mr Clow said.\n\nMs Prince was later transferred to different wards, but a specialist mattress was only provided for her a few days before she was discharged on 9 August, by which time Mr Clow said her wounds \"had progressed to the most serious form of pressure ulcer (stage four) including a wound with exposed bone\".\n\nMr Clow said there were \"serious failings\" over finding an appropriate mattress and other aspects of her care while at the QMC, including \"a gross failure\" to prevent Ms Prince's open wounds coming into contact with faeces.\n\nOnce she left hospital Ms Prince's wounds \"did not completely heal at any time\", said Mr Clow, who praised Ms Thirlwall for providing her mother with a standard of care \"considered to be much higher than would ordinarily be possible in the community\" by district nurses visiting her.\n\nMs Prince's condition was extensively monitored up to her death, with the \"complex and difficult\" nature of her wounds requiring a number of specialists to work together.\n\n\"It proved hard for Mrs Prince to get a clear treatment plan and both she and some of the clinicians involved felt that she was being passed from pillar to post,\" Mr Clow said.\n\nMs Prince's health declined in December 2018 and she died at home the following month.\n\nThe medical director of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust apologised for failings\n\nMr Clow said the immediate cause of her death was \"severe pressure ulcers\", with bronchopneumonia a contributory factor.\n\nRecording a death by \"natural causes, contributed to be neglect\", he said he was \"troubled by the lack of evidence\" of any changes to wound management at NUH.\n\nNUH medical director Keith Girling apologised for the failings in Ms Prince's care, claiming the trust had \"learnt a number of significant lessons from this very tragic case\".\n\nMs Thirlwall said her mother's death was \"extremely traumatic\", adding she was \"one of a kind\" who never let her injuries stop her from living \"a fun and active life\".\n\n\"It was heartbreaking to see and hear her in agony,\" she said.\n\n\"She was sick, lifeless and her leg stumps had started to turn black.\n\n\"Those images will stick in my mind forever, and that's something no daughter should ever have to deal with.\"\n\nFollow BBC 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Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "William Barr, right, has been seen as an ally of Donald Trump\n\nUS President Donald Trump has tweeted he has \"the legal right\" to intervene in criminal cases after his attorney general complained White House tweets were making his job \"impossible\".\n\nIn his post, Mr Trump also denied he had ever meddled in any cases.\n\nAmerica's top law officer William Barr on Thursday asked Mr Trump to stop his tweets, saying he would not be bullied.\n\nMr Barr spoke out after Mr Trump renewed his attack on the criminal trial of his ex-adviser, Roger Stone.\n\nProsecutors had recommended Stone serve a stiff sentence, but Mr Trump tweeted that was unfair.\n\nOn Friday morning, Mr Trump ignored the attorney general's plea to stop tweeting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is legally ambiguous whether the US president has the authority to order the attorney general to open or shut a case.\n\nThe Department of Justice has been meant to operate without political interference since the Watergate scandal of the 1970s.\n\nMr Trump has previously called for investigations into perceived enemies, such as former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.\n\nOn Friday, Mr McCabe's lawyers announced the justice department had closed its criminal inquiry into whether their client had lied to investigators about leaks to the media.\n\nThe New York Times meanwhile reported Mr Barr had appointed outside prosecutors to review the case against another Trump ally, Michael Flynn.\n\nFlynn, who was Mr Trump's first national security adviser, previously pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in a federal inquiry, but later withdrew co-operation and is in the midst of trying to recant his plea.\n\nMr Barr said on Thursday that Mr Trump \"undercuts\" him by tweeting, making it \"impossible for me to do my job\".\n\n\"I think it's time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases,\" Mr Barr told ABC News.\n\n\"I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe rare show of dissent from a cabinet member widely seen as a Trump loyalist has provoked a degree of scepticism in the US media.\n\nCritics suggested the statement could have been co-ordinated with the White House to shore up the Department of Justice's credibility as an independent agency.\n\nThe attorney general has been an outspoken defender of the president to the extent that Democrats and former justice department officials have accused him of politicising the rule of law.\n\nAfter the interview on Thursday evening, the White House said Mr Trump \"wasn't bothered by the comments at all and he has the right, just like any American citizen, to publicly offer his opinions\".\n\nRepublican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who rarely speaks up against Mr Trump, said the president should listen to Mr Barr's advice.\n\nThere was widespread anger this week when the Department of Justice said it planned to reduce the length of the prison sentence it would seek for Stone, a long-time friend of the president.\n\nStone was convicted in November of obstructing an investigation by the House Intelligence Committee into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.\n\nFederal prosecutors had initially recommended Stone face seven to nine years in jail for trying to thwart the investigation.\n\nAccording to a Netflix documentary about his political career, Roger Stone convinced Donald Trump to run for president\n\nThe president swiftly voiced his opposition, tweeting: \"This is a horrible and very unfair situation.\"\n\nThe justice department then overruled the recommendation by its own prosecution team, prompting questions over whether Mr Barr had intervened on behalf of Mr Trump's ally. The four prosecutors subsequently quit.\n\nPresident Trump praised Mr Barr for \"taking charge\" of the Roger Stone case.\n\nHe also dropped his nomination of former US Attorney Jessie Liu, who oversaw the Stone case, for another government post in the Treasury Department.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Trump said the federal jury that heard the case against Stone had \"significant bias\".\n\nThe forewoman of the jurors reportedly identified herself in a Facebook post. Her social media posts revealed hostility to Mr Trump, it was also reported.\n\nStone is scheduled to be sentenced next week.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City have been banned from European club competition for the next two seasons after being found to have committed \"serious breaches\" of Uefa's club licensing and financial fair play regulations.\n\nThe reigning Premier League champions have also been fined 30m euros (£25m).\n\nThe decision is subject to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nManchester City say they are \"disappointed but not surprised\" by the \"prejudicial\" decision and will appeal.\n\nThe independent Adjudicatory Chamber of the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) said City had broken the rules by \"overstating its sponsorship revenue in its accounts and in the break-even information submitted to Uefa between 2012 and 2016\", adding that the club \"failed to cooperate in the investigation\".\n\nIt has been reported that City could also face a Premier League points deduction because the league's FFP rules are similar - although not exactly the same - as Uefa's.\n\nHowever, the punishment has no implications for City's women's team.\n• None Manchester City will take ban 'in their stride' - Brown\n\nManchester City said in a statement: \"The club has always anticipated the ultimate need to seek out an independent body and process to impartially consider the comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence in support of its position.\n\n\"In December 2018, the Uefa chief investigator publicly previewed the outcome and sanction he intended to be delivered to Manchester City, before any investigation had even begun.\n\n\"The subsequent flawed and consistently leaked Uefa process he oversaw has meant that there was little doubt in the result that he would deliver. The club has formally complained to the Uefa disciplinary body, a complaint which was validated by a CAS ruling.\n\n\"Simply put, this is a case initiated by Uefa, prosecuted by Uefa and judged by Uefa. With this prejudicial process now over, the club will pursue an impartial judgment as quickly as possible and will therefore, in the first instance, commence proceedings with the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the earliest opportunity.\"\n\nCity have been drawn to face Real Madrid in the last 16 of this season's Champions League, with the first leg to be played on 26 February at the Bernabeu.\n\n\"Enforcing the rules of financial fair play and punishing financial doping is essential for the future of football,\" he said.\n\n\"For years we have been calling for severe action against Manchester City and Paris St-Germain, we finally have a good example of action and hope to see more. Better late than never.\"\n\nAnalysis - what could this mean for Guardiola?\n\nThis is massive news. Given the speed of their statement in response, it is fair to assume Manchester City were braced for this decision, but maybe not the severity of it.\n\nCity have said publicly and privately they intend to fight the decision. They are adamant an independent judiciary - they do not think this was - will clear them.\n\nHowever, as it stands, the club are out of the Champions League for two seasons, which raises massive immediate questions.\n\nPep Guardiola has always maintained he would remain at City at least until his contract expires in 2021 but has also said he trusts the club's hierarchy when they tell him they have done nothing wrong.\n\nWhether they win the Champions League this season or not, will Guardiola decide to move on? And if he does, what about the future of the club's star players, many of whom joined because he was the manager.\n\nAnd does this mean an extra place in the Champions League will be available should the Blues miss out?\n\nIt is an absolutely fascinating situation and, clearly, we are far from a definitive final outcome.\n\nWhat are City alleged to have done?\n\nUefa launched an investigation after German newspaper Der Spiegel published leaked documents in November 2018 alleging City had inflated the value of a sponsorship deal, misleading European football's governing body.\n\nReports alleged City - who have always denied wrongdoing - deliberately misled Uefa so they could meet FFP rules requiring clubs to break even.\n\nCity were fined £49m in 2014 for a previous breach of regulations.\n\nWhat are the FFP rules?\n\nFinancial Fair Play was introduced by Uefa to prevent clubs in its competitions from spending beyond their means and stamp out what its then president Michel Platini called \"financial doping\" within football.\n\nUnder the rules, financial losses are limited and clubs are also obliged to meet all their transfer and employee payment commitments at all times.\n\nClubs need to balance football-related expenditure - transfers and wages - with television and ticket income, plus revenues raised by their commercial departments. Money spent on stadiums, training facilities, youth development or community projects is exempt.\n\nThe CFCB, set up by Uefa, has the ultimate sanction of banning clubs from Uefa competitions, with other potential punishments including warnings, fines, withholding prize money, transfer bans, points deductions, a ban on registration of new players and a restriction on the number of players who can be registered for Uefa competitions.", "Tracy Brabin's dress attracted 180 bids before eventually going for £20,200\n\nLabour MP Tracy Brabin raised £20,000 for charity after auctioning an off-the-shoulder dress which caused controversy in the Commons.\n\nShe faced criticism from \"keyboard warriors\" after her dress slipped down her shoulder as she leaned on the despatch box due to a broken ankle.\n\nThe Batley and Spen MP put the black Asos dress up for sale on eBay with proceeds going to Girlguiding.\n\nMs Brabin said young girls' \"lives will be changed because of this money\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Brabin was raising a point of order in the House of Commons earlier this month\n\nMs Brabin had been raising a point of order in the House of Commons about journalists being asked to leave a Downing Street press briefing on the next stage of Brexit talks, when her shoulder was exposed.\n\nThe shadow culture secretary said she had been to a music event earlier in the day and was not expecting to be called to the despatch box.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracy Brabin: 'A woman is always judged more harshly than a man'\n\nMs Brabin later told BBC Breakfast she had been \"startled by the vitriolic nature\" of some comments she had received online.\n\nShe said it was her responsibility to \"call it out\", adding: \"Women around the world... are being demeaned every day because of what they wear.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe garment was listed on eBay as a \"Black dress worn by Tracy Brabin MP in 'shouldergate' as widely covered across the media\".\n\nMs Brabin said the dress had been \"flying off the shelves as a result of the coverage.\"\n\nThe size 12 pencil dress attracted 180 bids with two potential buyers battling it out until the last minute.\n\nIt eventually eventually went for £20,200 as bidding closed on Thursday evening.\n\nMs Brabin said the money would be going to Girlguiding, a charity for girls and young women in the UK, \"in the hope that they grow up to be leaders\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Girlguiding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stephanie Simpson is thought to have gone for a hike in Mount Aspiring National Park\n\nPolice looking for a British woman missing in New Zealand have said they have found her body.\n\nStephanie Simpson, 32, from Essex, is thought to have died in a \"tragic accident\" while on a hike last weekend in Mount Aspiring National Park.\n\nSearchers made the discovery at about 13:40 New Zealand time (00:40 GMT) on Friday in the Pyke Creek area, New Zealand Police said.\n\nShe appeared to have been washed into a canyon after going into water.\n\nMs Simpson, from the Basildon area, was reported missing on Monday, when a search began in the national park in the country's Southern Alps region on its South Island.\n\nAccording to her Facebook account, she had been living in the Wanaka area since November and was working as a landscaper.\n\nA thermal-imaging drone, dog teams, helicopter and search teams failed to find any sign of her on Thursday, and police in New Zealand had said the search was difficult due to the size and terrain of the area.\n\nThe wilderness of Mount Aspiring National Park attracts a range of outdoor enthusiasts\n\nThe search continued on Friday with more teams, who focused on the Pyke area of the park.\n\nHer body was located after aerial searches provided images of the area and her boots and backpack were spotted, police said.\n\nSgt Mark Kirkwood, from West Coast Search and Rescue, told the BBC there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding Ms Simpson's death and it appeared to be a tragic accident.\n\nIt seemed that she had left the hiking track, taken off her boots and gone into a waterfall, he said.\n\nHer body was found in a canyon in the Pyke Creek area, which suggested she had been washed down into it. Her boots were about 900m (2,953 ft) upstream from where her body was discovered and her backpack was nearer to her.\n\n\"It's a very hazardous area. We have no idea why she went into the water,\" Sgt Kirkwood said.\n\nHer body was identified by her mother and other family who were at the search site after travelling to New Zealand from the UK.\n\nStephanie Simpson is thought to have been an experienced hiker\n\nSgt Kirkwood said police wanted to thank all those involved in the search for their \"considerable efforts\".\n\n\"The search was extremely challenging at times, especially in consideration of the terrain, and the work of all involved is to be commended,\" he said.\n\n\"Police extend their condolences to Stephanie's family at this tragic time.\"\n\nThe death will be referred to the coroner.\n\nA crowdfunding page has been set up by a friend to support the LANDSAR rescue team.\n\nSouth Basildon and East Thurrock MP Stephen Metcalfe said on Twitter: \"So sorry to hear that police in New Zealand have found the body of missing British (from Basildon) hiker Stephanie Simpson.\n\n\"I can only imagine the pain the family must feel and send my heartfelt condolences to family and friends.\"\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office said its staff were \"supporting the family of a British woman following her death in New Zealand\".\n\n\"They have our deepest sympathies, and we will continue to do all we can for them,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents of baby born on motorway reunited with 999 call operators who helped them.\n\nA couple whose baby was delivered in roadworks on a motorway have been reunited with the 999 call operators that helped them.\n\nJayne Rowland, 36, was on her way to hospital when she went into the final stages of labour on the M5 in Somerset.\n\nHer partner Joshua Mogg, 29, said \"everything happened very quickly\" after he called 999.\n\nCall handler Jonathan Leaton said \"they both did incredibly well\" and baby Harry was born safely near junction 24.\n\nMum-of-two Ms Rowland had been on the way to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton to be induced on 1 November when she went into labour.\n\nThey had to stop in a lane of traffic because there was no hard shoulder, but their car was shielded by a lorry which put on its hazard lights.\n\nMs Rowland, a teaching assistant, said: \"I'd had discomfort for three weeks, but the pain got worse in the car, so I asked Josh to pull over.\n\n\"It wasn't until afterwards that I realised how much danger we were in because there was nowhere safe to stop in the roadworks.\"\n\nOn the 999 call, Mr Mogg can be heard saying: \"She's about to pop. I'm in the roadworks at 50 miles an hour.\"\n\nMr Leaton talked the couple through the delivery and Harry was born at 07:57 GMT, weighing 7lb 8oz.\n\nHis place of birth was recorded as \"the M5\".\n\n\"Delivering my baby son on a motorway is probably the best thing I've done in my life,\" said Mr Mogg, who works as a tree surgeon.\n\nThe family has since visited Taunton Ambulance Station to personally thank staff.\n\nOperations officer Dan Wilsher, who was first on the scene, said: \"I remember being very aware the car was in a live traffic lane.\n\n\"When I approached the passenger door, I saw a tiny little face wrapped in blankets looking back at me.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Rose: \"My focus is on making sure we're a safe, smart bank for the future\"\n\nRoyal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group has said it plans to change its name later this year, as it reported a near doubling of annual profits.\n\nThe Edinburgh-based bank, which owns RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank, said it would rename itself as NatWest Group.\n\nThe bank reported profits of £3.1bn for 2019, nearly double the £1.6bn seen the year before.\n\nNew RBS chief executive Alison Rose called the results the \"start of a new era\" for the bank.\n\nIt is thought that Ms Rose is hoping a rebrand will help shift the lender's image away from its association with the financial crisis.\n\nThe bank was rescued by the government in 2008 in the aftermath of the financial crisis at a cost of £45bn and it is still 62% state-owned.\n\nMs Rose told the BBC's Today programme that the name change would not alter any services for RBS or NatWest customers.\n\nAbout 80% of the bank's customers are thought to use NatWest. Names of individual NatWest and RBS branches will remain the same.\n\nShe also said that the name change would not result in any job cuts across the group.\n\nThis is Ms Rose's first set of results for the lender. She became the first woman to lead one of the so-called big four largest UK banks when she was appointed last year.\n\nToday's announcement was not just the first set of full-year results unveiled by new chief executive Alison Rose but also the long-awaited unveiling of her strategy.\n\nBut many crucial questions remain unanswered, with Ms Rose failing to address recent press reports that claimed job cuts may be in store.\n\nRBS was the subject of a £45bn state bailout during the financial crisis, and remains 62% taxpayer-owned. A 25-year veteran of the bank, Alison Rose is one of the few senior executives left from the pre-crisis era, when former boss Fred Goodwin's overambitious expansion plans left the bank in a perilous state.\n\nMore than a decade on, it falls to her to complete the clean-up operation. She says the name change for the parent company marks a new era, but the real challenge is to prove she can get the bank back into a state where the remaining stake can be sold without incurring a hefty loss for taxpayers.\n\nRBS also announced it was committed to \"at least halve the climate impact\" of its financing activity by 2030.\n\nIt says it will stop lending to coal companies by the end of the decade.\n\nThe bank also confirmed it would make its own operations \"net carbon zero\" by the end of this year.\n\nThat follows on from a pledge by Lloyds Banking Group to halve the amount of carbon emissions it finances through personal and business loans by 2030.\n\nMs Rose has been at RBS for more than 25 years, mainly in a number of roles in its investment bank.\n\nShe was previously deputy chief executive of NatWest Holdings, and before Ms Rose was appointed chief executive of the RBS group she was head of commercial and private banking.\n\nShe worked her way up after joining the bank as a graduate trainee in 1992.\n\nUnlike her predecessor Ross McEwan, she is based solely in London, although the bank has its headquarters in Edinburgh.\n\nMs Rose is also paid more than her predecessor, with her annual salary set at £1.1m compared with Mr McEwan's £1m.\n\nRBS's share price fell by more than 6% in Friday trading after its results came out.\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst at Markets.com, said markets needed \"some convincing\", despite the jump in profits.\n\nBut he said \"it's clear RBS is putting legacy conduct issues behind it and has got the payment protection insurance (PPI) monkey off its back\".\n\nThe bank took a £900m charge for mis-sold PPI in 2019, which was at the top end of its expectations.\n\nMr Wilson added: \"Now that the PPI deadline has passed, the bank has much greater visibility of future cash generation.\"", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has carried out a reshuffle of ministers in cabinet positions, two months after winning the general election.\n\nThere was speculation ahead of the reshuffle about how diverse the new Cabinet would be, particularly considering women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nWho's in what job? Here's a guide to the people that make up Mr Johnson's cabinet, with the latest new faces and who's changed places.\n\nNote: BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) is a term widely used in the UK to describe people of non-white descent, as defined by the Institute of Race Relations.\n\nThis is the second reshuffle for Mr Johnson, who became prime minister last July after winning a Conservative leadership election.\n\nBig names to have left cabinet on Thursday included Chancellor Sajid Javid, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox and Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom.\n\nThe make-up of the cabinet has also changed. The proportion of women in it has increased - but the actual number has fallen from eight to seven because some positions were closed.\n\nMembers of the cabinet are more than 10 times more likely to have gone to a private school than members of the public.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May, 70% of cabinet had not been privately educated, whereas almost 70% of Mr Johnson's new cabinet have.\n\nAccording to the Sutton Trust social mobility charity, every prime minister since 1937 who attended university was educated at Oxford - except for Gordon Brown. Half of Mr Johnson's cabinet went to Oxford or Cambridge universities.\n\nThis compares with 27% of all Conservative MPs and 18% of Labour MPs.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust, said December's election led to a seismic shift in the political landscape and Conservative MPs now represent a more diverse range of constituencies than before.\n\n\"Yet in terms of educational background, the make-up of Johnson's cabinet is still over 60% from independent schools,\" he said. \"Today's findings underline how unevenly spread the opportunities are to enter the elites and this is something Boris Johnson must address.\"\n\nMichael Gove is by far the most experienced of Mr Johnson's new top team. The ministers who have had 204 days of cabinet experience are new faces appointed by the PM when he took power in July last year.\n\nClick here if you cannot see the Cabinet Guide.", "The temperature was logged on Seymour Island, off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula\n\nAntarctica has exceeded 20C for the first time, after researchers logged a temperature of 20.75C on an island off the coast of the peninsula.\n\nBrazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer told AFP they had \"never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica\".\n\nBut he warned the temperature, logged on 9 February, was just one reading and not part of a long-term data set.\n\nThe continent also hit a record last week, with a temperature reading of 18.3C on the Antarctic Peninsula.\n\nThis latest reading was taken at a monitoring station on Seymour Island, part of a chain of islands off the same peninsula, at the northernmost point of the continent.\n\nAlthough the temperature is a record high, Mr Schaefer emphasized that the reading was not part of a wider study and so, in itself, could not be used to predict a trend.\n\n\"We can't use this to anticipate climatic changes in the future. It's a data point,\" he said. \"It's simply a signal that something different is happening in that area.\"\n\nAccording to the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO), temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula have risen by almost 3C over the past 50 years, and that about 87% of the glaciers along its west coast have \"retreated\" in that time.\n\nOver the past 12 years, the glaciers have shown an \"accelerated retreat\", it adds.\n\nLast month was also Antarctica's warmest January on record.\n\nTemperatures on the peninsula have risen by almost 3C in 50 years\n\nThe previous record for the entire Antarctic region - which includes the continent, islands and ocean that are in the Antarctic climatic zone - was 19.8C, logged in January 1982.\n\nLast July another record temperature of 21C was logged by a base at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJackson Carlaw has been confirmed as the new leader of the Scottish Conservatives after winning a vote of party members.\n\nMr Carlaw had been the party's interim leader since Ruth Davidson quit the role in August.\n\nHe has now won the job full time after defeating fellow MSP Michelle Ballantyne by 4,917 votes to 1,581.\n\nMr Carlaw had been the clear favourite in the contest, and was backed by most of the party's MPs and MSPs.\n\nHe said he was now \"ready to hit the ground running and win\" in next year's Scottish Parliament election by attracting voters from \"middle Scotland\".\n\nThe new leader has already promised a full review of the party's policies and a \"new, reinvigorated\" frontbench team at Holyrood.\n\nWithin hours of his election Mr Carlaw announced that Glasgow MSP Annie Wells would become a joint deputy leader of the party alongside North East MSP Liam Kerr.\n\nRachael Hamilton, the Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire MSP, will become a party chairwoman with existing chairman Rab Forman.\n\nMore changes will be announced next week.\n\nMr Carlaw said: \"This is not about asking the people of Scotland to re-elect us as a strong opposition, this is about offering the people of Scotland a clear alternative to the SNP and then fighting all the way to polling day next year to provide them with an alternative government.\n\n\"I have a bigger share of the vote than Boris Johnson achieved in his leadership election, I have a bigger share of the vote than Ruth Davidson achieved, a bigger share of the vote than David Cameron achieved in any of the previous Conservative Party leadership elections.\n\n\"So I have a clear mandate from the party in Scotland now to make the changes required to lead us into the election next year.\"\n\nOpinion polls suggest that the SNP, led by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, remains on course to win a fourth successive term in government in next year's election - with the Conservatives currently a distant second.\n\nThe new party leader was congratulated by his defeated opponent when the result was announced\n\nThe leadership contest - which was delayed by December's general election - had been bad-tempered at times, with the two candidates trading insults ahead of the result being announced.\n\nMs Ballantyne, who claimed to have strong grassroots support, accused Mr Carlaw of running a general election campaign that \"lacked vision and ambition\", with the party losing seven of its 13 MPs.\n\nMr Carlaw hit back by claiming his opponent was the only member of the Tory frontbench team at Holyrood never to have submitted a \"single policy proposal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives are currently the second biggest party at Holyrood, with Ms Davidson widely credited with turning around its electoral fortunes in her eight years as leader.\n\nBut she quit shortly after returning from maternity leave, saying that \"much had changed\" both politically and personally in recent months.\n\nAs well as the birth of her son, Ms Davidson had been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Boris Johnson - particularly over his approach to Brexit.\n\nThe new leader is a close political ally of his predecessor, Ruth Davidson\n\nJackson Carlaw worked as a car salesman in the west of Scotland for 25 years before being elected as an MSP, but has been involved in politics since joining the Conservatives as teenager in the late 1970s.\n\nHe first stood as a candidate in the 1982 Queen's Park by-election, and after several other unsuccessful attempts was eventually elected as a list MSP for the West of Scotland region in the 2007 and again in 2011 - when he also became Ms Davidson's deputy leader.\n\nMr Carlaw, who is married with two children, was elected as the MSP for Eastwood in 2016, and served as acting leader when Ms Davidson went on maternity leave ahead of the birth of her son in May of last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen Ms Davidson resigned as party leader in August, Mr Carlaw was immediately appointed as interim leader - with some of his supporters hoping he would be given the role on a permanent basis without a leadership contest being required.\n\nThe 60-year-old says he wants the party to appeal to \"middle Scotland\" ahead of next year's Scottish Parliament election, when he says his goal is to \"take down\" Ms Sturgeon and the SNP.\n\nAmong his key policy proposals are increasing the number of teachers in Scotland by 2,000, bringing income taxes into line with the rest of the UK, and scrapping the Scottish government's plan to introduce a so-called parking tax.\n\nMr Carlaw has faced Nicola Sturgeon during the weekly First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament while acting as interim leader\n\nHe told his official campaign launch last month that he stands for \"a decent, generous-spirited, aspirational conservatism that promotes the values and ambitions of middle Scotland\".\n\nMr Carlaw secured public support from the majority of Conservative MSPs and MPs during the leadership contest, as well as all of the party's local council leaders.\n\nHe points to the experience he has built up in his lengthy stint as acting leader - which saw him go head-to-head with Ms Sturgeon during first minister's questions every week.\n\nBut critics say that Mr Carlaw's tenure included last month's general election, when the Scottish Conservatives lost seven of the 13 seats they had won under Ms Davidson in 2017 despite the Tories winning a majority across the UK as a whole.", "Midrar Ali was starved of oxygen due to complications at birth\n\nDoctors can stop providing medical treatment for a brain dead baby, the Court of Appeal has ruled.\n\nThe three appeal judges analysed evidence on four-month-old Midrar Ali after the High Court concluded that treatment could be withdrawn.\n\nMidrar's father had argued his son had been showing \"signs of life\" and said the ruling was \"terrible\".\n\nBut doctors at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester said the baby should be allowed a \"kind and dignified death\".\n\nMrs Justice Lieven, who analysed evidence at a trial in the Family Division of the High Court in Manchester last month, had concluded that Midrar was brain-stem dead.\n\nMidrar's parents, Karwan Ali, 35, and Shokhan Namiq, 28, who live in Manchester, had asked appeal judges to overturn the ruling.\n\nThey said he was still growing and that doctors could not be sure that he will not improve, which meant more tests should be carried out.\n\nKarwan Ali and Shokhan Namiq had asked appeal judges to overturn the High Court ruling\n\nBut appeal judges Sir Andrew McFarlane, Lord Justice Patten and Lady Justice King dismissed their challenge.\n\nThey concluded that Midrar's parents did not have an arguable case and declared that their son died at 20:01 GMT on 1 October, when he would have been 14 days old.\n\nSir Andrew said evidence showed that \"awfully\" Midrar no longer has a \"brain that is recognisable as such\".\n\n\"There is no basis for contemplating that any further tests would result in a different outcome,\" he said.\n\nMidrar was starved of oxygen when the umbilical cord came out ahead of his birth on 18 September, causing complications.\n\nManchester University NHS Foundation Trust, which runs St Mary's Hospital, has previously said that Midrar has always been on a ventilator and has never breathed independently.\n\nMidrar Ali's parents Karwan Ali and Shokhan Namiq wanted his treatment to continue\n\nIt said his organs were deteriorating and continuing to treat Midrar was \"undignified\".\n\nLawyers representing the hospital's trust said three tests had confirmed brain stem death.\n\nSpeaking after the latest legal ruling, Mr Ali said: \"I'm just reading what the appeal judges have said, then we'll discuss it with our lawyers.\n\n\"He's still growing. They can't be 100% sure he is dead. He's still growing. His eyes move. I've seen them move.\"\n\nThe family's solicitor, David Foster, said Midrar's parents were considering an appeal and would like the court to \"give weight to experts from outside the UK\".\n\nThe next step would be to take the case to the Supreme Court.\n\n\"They believe the law in this area should be reviewed and do not consider Midrar's condition is necessarily irreversible,\" Mr Foster.\n\nA spokesperson for the hospital trust said it \"acknowledges the judgement made today and recognises that these are incredibly sad circumstances\".\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with baby Midrar's family at this very difficult time,\" they added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Chancellor Rishi Sunak was all smiles as the new cabinet met for the first time\n\nBoris Johnson has told his new cabinet to focus on delivering Tory election promises following a reshuffle that saw Sajid Javid quit as chancellor.\n\nAddressing his new team in Downing Street, the PM said they must get on with the \"basic work\" of improving lives and spreading opportunity.\n\nMr Javid quit on Thursday after he was told he could keep his job but only if he fired his team of advisers.\n\nHis successor Rishi Sunak has said he has \"lots to get on with\".\n\nOpening Friday's cabinet meeting, the PM congratulated those present on \"achieving or retaining\" their cabinet jobs after a wide-ranging shake-up which saw a host of senior figures sacked.\n\n\"We have to repay the trust of people who voted for us in huge numbers in December and who look forward to us delivering,\" he said.\n\nMr Javid, who had been due to deliver his first Budget in March, said he was left with \"no option\" but to resign because \"no self-respecting minister\" could accept the prime minister's demands.\n\nHis departure from the cabinet follows rumours of tension between Mr Javid and the prime minister's senior adviser, Dominic Cummings.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Javid - who was in his Bromsgrove constituency on Friday opening a Pensioners Fair - said: \"I believe it is important as leaders to have trusted teams that reflect the character and integrity that you would wish to be associated with.\"\n\nDowning Street said there would now be a joint team of economic advisers for both the chancellor and prime minister.\n\nLosing a chancellor is no small event, and it wasn't what Boris Johnson set out to do.\n\nBut yesterday shows that No 10's priority was political control rather than keeping personnel they valued. When Mr Javid refused, they chose instead to see him leave.\n\nThis begs a wider question - is it stronger to share power or hoard it?\n\nBoris Johnson and his team have made the choice to do the latter - to lose a chancellor rather than allow a rival faction offering different political advice to the next door neighbour.\n\nMr Sunak, who was previously Mr Javid's deputy at the Treasury, has addressed staff in the department following his unexpected promotion.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rishi Sunak This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman would not confirm whether or not the Budget scheduled for 11 March would go ahead as planned, saying \"extensive preparations\" had already been carried and they would continue \"at pace\".\n\nAmid reports No 10 was looking at ways of re-writing its fiscal rules to allow for more public expenditure, it said there would continue to be a \"clear framework\" for borrowing levels.\n\nPrior to the cabinet meeting, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said it was \"sensible\" to amalgamate the teams of advisers currently working for the prime minister and the chancellor.\n\n\"It is right that there is a co-ordinated economic function in this country,\" he told Breakfast. \"We need to have a strong team working as one.\"\n\nMr Johnson told his team to work with \"energy and determination\"\n\nAt Friday's meeting, the cabinet agreed the introduction of a new points-based immigration system on 1 January, 2021, when the current post-Brexit transition period with the EU ends.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said it would put an end to the UK's \"reliance on cheap unskilled labour\" from the continent and reduce overall levels of inward migration.\n\nOther ministers to depart in Thursday's shake-up include Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey who, along with Mr Javid, were among those who lost out to Mr Johnson's in last summer Conservative leadership contest.\n\nJulian Smith was also sacked as Northern Ireland Secretary - weeks after he brokered the deal that restored the power-sharing administration in Stormont.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, he said his dismissal was \"not a surprise\" and his wished his successor Brandon Lewis well in dealing with the \"key\" challenges facing Northern Ireland, including historical legacy issues and abortion law reforms.\n\nAsked about his own plans, he said they included \"things like going to the pub\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Leila Nathoo looks at the reshuffle winners and losers\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former adviser to Mr Javid says Downing Street misjudged the reshuffle\n\nNewcomers at the cabinet meeting on Friday included Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who replaces Alok Sharma as international development secretary; Amanda Milling, who is minister without portfolio and chairwoman of the Conservative Party; and Suella Braverman, who takes on the role of attorney general after the prime minister asked Mr Cox to step down.\n\nThere had been rumours that the Department for International Development could be closed, but while it remains open, No 10 appears to have merged its ministerial team with the Foreign Office.\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said there had been two joint ministers ahead of the reshuffle, but by the end of Thursday, there were seven joint posts across the two departments.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Miller: \"This is a watershed moment for liberty\"\n\nThe police response to an ex-officer's allegedly transphobic tweets was unlawful, the High Court has ruled.\n\nHarry Miller was visited by Humberside Police at work in January last year after a complaint about his tweets.\n\nHe was told he had not committed a crime, but it would be recorded as a non-crime \"hate incident\".\n\nThe court found the force's actions were a \"disproportionate interference\" with his right to freedom of expression.\n\nOfficers visited Mr Miller's workplace and then spoke with him on the phone, and he was left with the impression \"that he might be prosecuted if he continued to tweet\", according to a judge.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Mr Miller, from Lincolnshire, said: \"This is a watershed moment for liberty - the police were wrong to visit my workplace, wrong to 'check my thinking'.\"\n\nHis solicitor Paul Conrathe added: \"It is a strong warning to local police forces not to interfere with people's free speech rights on matters of significant controversy.\"\n\nMr Justice Julian Knowles said the effect of police turning up at Mr Miller's place of work \"because of his political opinions must not be underestimated\".\n\nHe added: \"To do so would be to undervalue a cardinal democratic freedom.\n\n\"In this country we have never had a Cheka, a Gestapo or a Stasi. We have never lived in an Orwellian society.\"\n\nResponding to the ruling, Helen Belcher, who co-founded Trans Media Watch, said: \"I think trans people will be worried it could become open season on us because the court didn't really define what the threshold for acceptable speech was.\n\n\"I think it will reinforce an opinion that courts don't understand trans lives and aren't there to protect trans people.\"\n\nMr Miller, 54, also launched a wider challenge against the lawfulness of College of Policing guidelines on hate crimes, which was rejected.\n\nMr Justice Knowles ruled they \"serve legitimate purposes and [are] not disproportionate\".\n\nThe guidelines define a hate incident as \"any non-crime incident which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice against a person who is transgender or perceived to be transgender\".\n\nTrans activist Helen Belcher said the ruling would \"worry\" trans people\n\nMr Miller posted a number of tweets between November 2018 and January 2019 about transgender issues as part of the debate about reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004.\n\nIn one tweet Mr Miller wrote: \"I was assigned mammal at birth, but my orientation is fish. Don't mis-species me.\"\n\nThis tweet was among several others which were reported to Humberside Police as being allegedly transphobic.\n\nMr Miller's barrister, Ian Wise QC, argued the force's response had sought to \"dissuade him from expressing himself on such issues in the future\" and had a \"substantial chilling effect\" on his right to free speech.\n\nMr Justice Knowles said Mr Miller \"strongly denies being prejudiced against transgender people\" and had regarded himself as a participant in a public debate.\n\nHe said only one person, known in court as Mrs B, had complained about the tweets and they had been recorded as a hate incident \"without any critical scrutiny...or any assessment of whether what she was saying was accurate\".\n\nThe judge said: \"The claimants' tweets were lawful and there was not the slightest risk that he would commit a criminal offence by continuing to tweet.\n\n\"I find the combination of the police visiting the claimant's place of work, and their subsequent statements in relation to the possibility of prosecution, were a disproportionate interference with the claimant's right to freedom of expression because of their potential chilling effect.\"\n\nThe police guidance on non-crime hate incidents was developed after the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence in a racist attack in 1993.\n\nIts aim is to deal with hate incidents before they escalate into serious hate crimes.\n\nEach year more than 25,000 such non-crime hate incidents are logged by UK police. The bulk relate to race and disability.\n\nToday's ruling will make the job of policing such incidents increasingly challenging for the police. Where does a comment or statement leave the boundaries of free speech and become a hate incident short of a crime?\n\nThat can be as much a linguistic and ethical judgment as a policing decision.\n\nHumberside Police said it accepted the court's decision, adding: \"The mere recording of the incident by Humberside Police as a hate incident has been ruled as not unlawful and in accordance with the College of Policing (CoP) guidance.\n\n\"Our actions in handling the incident were carried out in good faith but we note the comments of the judge and we will take learning from this incident moving forward.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Bernie O'Reilly, of the College of Policing, said: \"Policing's position is clear - we want everyone to feel able to express opinions as passionately as they wish without breaking the law.\"\n\nHe added: \"Hate incidents can be a precursor to these types of crimes and without recording them the police will begin to lose sight of what is happening in their communities - and potentially lose their confidence.\"\n\nHe said the advice to forces was currently being revised.\n\nTrans Media Watch said: \"Whilst we appreciate that the police must take care not to overreact to incidents, we feel that it is vital to a democratic society that everyone enjoys the same level of police protection.\n\n\"We are sure that it was not the judge's intention to suggest that trans people deserve less protection at present than they did in 2016, before the present media interest in the gender recognition process began.\n\n\"We hope that his words today will not have the result of putting other minority groups which may become the subject of intense media attention in a position where hatred displayed towards them is less likely to be treated seriously.\"\n\nMr Miller has appealed against the ruling about the College of Policing guidance and permission has been granted for the case to go straight to the Supreme Court.\n\nTransgender hate crimes, which are different and more serious than non-crime hate incidents, are rising in England and Wales, according to police records.\n\nIn the 12 months to 31 March 2019, the police recorded 2,333 transgender hate crime incidents. That was 37% higher than the previous year. In percentage terms, transgender hate crimes saw the biggest increase compared with other hate crime categories (race, religion, sexual orientation and disability).\n\nThe Home Office says that some of this rise could be down to improvements in the way the police identify and record transgender hate crimes. However, the Home Office adds that genuine increases cannot be ruled out.\n\nIn total, the police recorded 103,379 hate crimes in 2018-19. The majority were race hate crimes, accounting for around three quarters of the total.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: I had no option but to resign\n\nSajid Javid has shocked Westminster by quitting as chancellor in the middle of Boris Johnson's cabinet reshuffle.\n\nMr Javid rejected the prime minister's order to fire his team of aides, saying \"no self-respecting minister\" could accept such a condition.\n\nHe has been replaced as chancellor by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak - who just seven months ago was a junior housing minister.\n\nMr Javid had been due to deliver his first Budget in four weeks' time.\n\nThe former home secretary was appointed chancellor by Mr Johnson when he became prime minister in July.\n\nHis resignation follows rumours of tensions between Mr Javid and the prime minister's senior adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nMr Javid said his advisers had worked \"incredibly hard\" and he could not agree to them being replaced.\n\n\"I felt I was left with no option but to resign,\" he said, adding that Mr Sunak and the rest of the government retained his \"full support\".\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Javid explained that he could not accept the PM's conditions saying: \"I believe it is important as leaders to have trusted teams that reflect the character and integrity that you would wish to be associated with.\"\n\nDowning Street said there would now be a joint team of economic advisers for both the chancellor and prime minister.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Alok Sharma has been appointed business secretary and minister for the upcoming climate conference COP26, in Glasgow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leila Nathoo looks back at the day in politics, as the PM's reshuffle went further than even he perhaps expected\n\nHe is being replaced at the international development department by Armed Forces minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan.\n\nThere is a return to government for former Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, who becomes paymaster general.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Cleverly is made a joint minister in the Foreign Office and Department for International Development.\n\nCabinet members remaining in place include Home Secretary Priti Patel; Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab; Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove; Health Secretary Matt Hancock; International Trade Secretary Liz Truss; Transport Secretary Grant Shapps; Defence Secretary Ben Wallace; Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg; and Chief Whip Mark Spencer.\n\nThe reshuffle reduces the number of women in the full cabinet from seven to six.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to appoint a new minister to oversee the building of the HS2 rail line, final approval for which was given this week.\n\nMeanwhile, a former adviser to Mr Javid said Downing Street had misjudged the reshuffle and that the Budget could be delayed as a result.\n\nSalma Shah told BBC Newscast she thought No 10 estimated Mr Javid would take up an offer to remain in his post, despite a request to fire his team of aides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former advisor to Mr Javid says Downing Street misjudged the reshuffle.\n\nEarlier Mr Sunak tweeted that he felt \"honoured\" to become chancellor, adding that Mr Javid had done a \"fantastic job\" and been \"a pleasure to work with\".\n\nCommenting on Mr Javid's resignation, Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"This must be a historical record with the government in crisis after just over two months in power.\n\n\"Dominic Cummings has clearly won the battle to take absolute control of the Treasury and install his stooge as chancellor.\"\n\nLosing a chancellor is no small event, and it wasn't what Boris Johnson set out to do. But today shows that No 10's priority was political control rather than keeping personnel they valued.\n\nWhen Mr Javid refused, they chose instead to see him leave.\n\nThis begs a wider question - is it stronger to share power or hoard it?\n\nBoris Johnson and his team have made the choice today to do the latter - to lose a chancellor rather than allow a rival faction offering different political advice to the next door neighbour.\n\nJulian Smith's sacking - weeks after he brokered the deal which restored the power-sharing administration in Stormont - was greeted with shock in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe former minister said on Twitter that doing the job had been \"the biggest privilege\" and he was \"extremely grateful\" to have been given the chance to serve \"this amazing part of our country\".\n\nIreland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called Mr Smith \"one of Britain's finest politicians of our time\".", "A map - claimed to be the oldest accurate chart of Scotland - is to be auctioned off in Edinburgh.\n\nThe historic document, known as The Nicolay Rutter, is said to have been drawn up from the voyage taken by King James V around Scotland in 1540.\n\nIt is acknowledged as being far more accurate than later 17th Century maps.\n\nThe item is expected to fetch between £15,000 and £20,000 because of its importance to map-making and political history.\n\nThe map has attracted interest from bidders from around the world.\n\nThe historic map of Scotland was drawn on a voyage taken by King James in 1540\n\nSimon Vickers, a book specialist at auctioneer Lyon & Turnbull, said: \"The rutter takes its name from the French word routier and is a set of sailing directions.\n\n\"Nicolay's map marks a huge step forward in the accuracy of cartography, not only is the shape of Scotland instantly recognisable, it is much more accurate than the later Gordon Blaeu map of 1654 and the Moll map of 1714.\"\n\nThe true originator of the work was Alexander Lyndsay, although it was a French map maker named Nicolas de Nicolay who copied it.\n\nThe map was copied by a French cartographer, Nicolas de Nicolay\n\nThe rutter was said to have been mysteriously obtained by the English and used by a French fleet to avenge the murder of Cardinal Beaton, the Archbishop of St Andrews.\n\nSt Andrews was the centre of the Church in Scotland and home to Cardinal Beaton. The cardinal was also the leader of the pro-French party and responsible for the execution of protestant preachers.\n\nHenry VIII saw him as a threat to his policy in Scotland. In 1546, a group of assassins talked their way into St Andrews castle and murdered Beaton.\n\nThe voyage of James V named on the title-page is that of 1540, when the King, with several nobles, set out to subdue the unruly Lords of the Western Isles.\n\nThe king visited Orkney, Skye, Lewis, Ross and Kintail and continued by sea to Dumbarton, where he left his fleet and rode back to Edinburgh.\n\nAlexander Lyndsay was the pilot, and Nicolay credits him with having compiled the rutter by command of the king.\n\nThe guide, drawn from Lyndsay's experience - and from material gathered from other sources - starts from Leith as the expedition did, and gives the route that James's fleet followed.\n\nLyndsay's rutter is typical as a guide to coastal waters before detailed charts and sophisticated instruments came into use. It contains nearly 200 items of information and advice about tides, courses and havens, soundings and hazards.\n\nThe map will be auctioned in a sale of rare maps and photographs on Wednesday 19 February.\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "Mary Annie Sowerby, Aliny Godinho, Elize Stevens, Alison Hunt, Asma Begum and Dorothy Bowyer were among the women killed last year\n\nThe number of female homicide victims in England and Wales has risen to the highest level since 2006.\n\nThere were 241 female victims of murder, manslaughter and infanticide in the 12 months to the end of March 2019, up 10% on the previous year.\n\nThe number of separate homicide incidents rose to 662, up from 644 the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nHowever, the overall number of victims fell to 671.\n\nThis was 33, or 5%, fewer than the previous year.\n\nIt represents the first fall since 2015, although this was partly due to those killed in the London and Manchester terror attacks and the Shoreham air crash being included in the 2018 figures.\n\nThe ONS said the year-on-year decline was driven by a fall in male victims - down 11%, from 484 to 429.\n\nThe number of black homicide victims was the highest in 17 years - totalling 97 in 2018/19.\n\nThe majority of homicide victims (64%) were male, while just over a third (36%) were female.\n\nAlmost half (48%) of female victims were killed in a domestic homicide, with the suspect a partner or ex-partner in 38% of cases.\n\nOne of these was Kay Richardson, 49, who was beaten and strangled to death by her estranged husband Alan Martin, 53, in September 2018, just days after he had been arrested for allegedly raping her.\n\nHe had been released under investigation by police, without any restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are haunted by what happened to Kay'\n\nThe number of baby girls and toddlers killed in the period also reached a decade high, with homicide victims including 14 females under the age of one and 13 toddlers aged between one and four.\n\nThese are the highest numbers since the earliest available figures, when six female babies and eight children aged between one and four were killed in the year to March 2009.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips, who has campaigned on domestic violence, said the figures were \"horrendous\" but an \"inevitability\" in light of cuts to public services.\n\nThe \"degradation of police resources\", a \"crumbling criminal justice system\" and cuts to council services which have affected routes out of danger for women trying to escape abusive relationships have all played a factor, she said.\n\nMs Phillips added that the number of suspects being released under investigation with no restrictions on their movements by police, rather than with stricter bail conditions, was of particular concern.\n\nThe Victims' Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird, said the number of women killed by a partner or ex-partner was \"not surprising\" but \"deeply troubling\".\n\n\"In the name of these women we need urgently to take more action on early intervention,\" she said.\n\nCrime Minister Kit Malthouse said the government was recruiting 20,000 new police officers and ensuring violent and sexual offenders spent longer behind bars to help protect the public.\n\nHe said the figures were a \"stark reminder of the devastating impact of domestic abuse\" and the Domestic Abuse Bill, which the government plans to reintroduce to Parliament, would also provide greater protections for victims.\n\nThe bill would place a legal duty on councils to offer secure homes to those fleeing violence, as well as introducing a government definition of domestic abuse, including emotional and financial abuse, and a commissioner to hold government to account.", "At just 42, Rishi Sunak is the youngest prime minister in modern times - taking the record held by his old boss David Cameron, who was 43 when appointed.\n\nHis rise to the top has been fast. He only became MP for Richmond in North Yorkshire in 2015 and joined the Cabinet in 2019.\n\n\"I showed up and people were surprised,\" Mr Sunak said about being selected to represent Richmond, with its overwhelming white population. But his \"Yorkshire values\" of hard work resonated with people and he won them over by showing an interest in what mattered to them, he said. Seven years on and he has made history as the UK's first British Asian prime minister.\n\nMr Sunak joined Boris Johnson's cabinet in 2019 as chief treasury to the secretary working with chancellor Sajid Javid, and his career rocketed from there.\n\nA self-confessed \"huge Star Wars fan\" with a sizeable collection of lightsabers, he tweeted a photo of himself and his \"Jedi Master\" Mr Javid at a screening of The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. A few months later, the apprentice became the master when he replaced Mr Javid as chancellor, and was plunged into pandemic crisis planning and budgeting.\n\nFor quite a few people, Mr Sunak appeared to be a reassuringly steady hand at the tiller as chancellor.\n\nWhen he pledged to do \"whatever it takes\" to help people through the pandemic in the spring of 2020 - and unveiled support worth £350bn - his personal poll ratings went through the roof.\n\nBut the UK continued to be buffeted by stormy economic weather, and Mr Sunak himself had to deal with the fallout of being fined by police for breaking lockdown rules in Downing Street in June 2020.\n\nIn July, he resigned from the cabinet, saying he felt his own approach to the economy was \"fundamentally too different\" to that of the PM, Boris Johnson. The move was instrumental in ousting Mr Johnson, which some of the former PM's allies will not have forgotten.\n\nJust 16 weeks later, he has become leader himself.\n\nHis appointment as PM came on the day millions celebrated Diwali, and as a practising Hindu he has said one of his proudest career moments was lighting ceremonial diyas (oil lamps) outside 11 Downing Street while chancellor. A traditional Hindu red bracelet, meant for good luck and protection, could be seen on his wrist when he posed on the steps of 10 Downing Street for the first time as UK leader.\n\nFamily: Married to businesswoman Akshata Murty with two daughters\n\nThere is no denying that Mr Sunak's wealth is a world away from that of most. Together, he and his wife Akshata Murty have an estimated worth of more than £700m - a sum which supersedes the personal wealth of King Charles III.\n\nCritics of Mr Sunak have raised the question of whether the millionaire can grasp the scale of the cost-of-living squeeze facing struggling households.\n\nIn April, the finances of Mr Sunak and his family came under intense scrutiny, with the tax affairs of his wife - the daughter of Narayana Murthy, Indian billionaire and co-founder of IT services giant Infosys - placed in the spotlight. Headquartered in Bangalore, Infosys reported revenues of more than $11.8bn (£9bn) in 2019, $12.8bn in 2020, and $13.5bn in 2021. The company's latest annual report shows Ms Murty owns a 0.9% stake in Infosys.\n\nShe announced in April she would start paying UK tax on this income to relieve political pressure on her husband.\n\nMr Sunak's appointment as prime minister has made his own wealth and tax affairs a hot topic again. He has been tight-lipped about his personal wealth and maintains that he has never benefited from funds based in tax havens.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether he and his family will split their time between Downing Street and the £4.5m five-bedroom townhouse in South Kensington, London where they currently reside.\n\nThe Sunaks are understood to own a further three properties: a Grade II-listed manor house in the village of Kirby Sigston, near Northallerton, in his Richmond constituency, was bought for £1.5m in 2015. The couple also own a flat in South Kensington and a penthouse apartment with views of the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California.\n\nMr Sunak won the approval of 202 Tory MPs to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt says his colleagues find him \"very personable\", but also someone who is \"very clear and certain in what he thinks\".\n\nFor example, in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum - in which he campaigned to Leave - he was called into Downing Street and asked for his support to remain in the EU but he refused.\n\n\"He said 'No, I think Brexit is the right thing to do' - which is quite a thing for a newly elected MP to say to Downing Street.\"\n\nMr Sunak told the Yorkshire Post he believed leaving the EU would make the UK \"freer, fairer and more prosperous\".\n\nHe said changing immigration rules was another key reason for his Leave vote: \"I believe that appropriate immigration can benefit our country. But we must have control of our borders.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak says that when it comes to helping the most vulnerable \"that's what I did\".\n\nBefore entering politics Mr Sunak was an analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs and then worked for two multibillion dollar hedge funds.\n\nHis supporters hope his eye for statistics and data will be an asset in making the right economic decisions.\n\nMr Sunak's parents came to the UK from east Africa and are both of Indian origin.\n\nHe was born in Southampton in 1980, where his father was a GP, and his mother ran her own pharmacy.\n\n\"In terms of cultural upbringing, I'd be at the temple at the weekend - I'm a Hindu - but I'd also be at [Southampton Football Club] the Saints game as well on a Saturday - you do everything, you do both.\"\n\nIn the interview he said he had been fortunate not to have endured a lot of racism growing up, but that there was one incident that had stayed with him.\n\n\"I was just out with my younger brother and younger sister, and I think, probably pretty young, I was probably a mid-teenager, and we were out at a fast food restaurant and I was just looking after them. There were people sitting nearby, it was the first time I'd experienced it, just saying some very unpleasant things. The 'P' word.\n\n\"And it stung. I still remember it. It seared in my memory. You can be insulted in many different ways.\"\n\nHowever, he said he \"can't conceive of that happening today\" in the UK.\n\nHe attended the exclusive private school Winchester College and worked as a waiter at a Southampton curry house during his summer holidays. He has attracted criticism from Labour for donating more than £100,000 to his former school, to fund bursaries for children who could not afford to attend it.\n\nAfter finishing school he went on to Oxford to study philosophy, politics and economics, before studying for an MBA at Stanford University in California. There he met his wife, and the couple have two daughters.\n\nDuring the previous leadership campaign, he often mentioned his daughters in the context of climate change. Answering a question on climate change during a BBC TV debate, Mr Sunak said he took \"advice from my two young daughters, who are the experts of this in my household\".", "Boris Johnson took a holiday on the island of Mustique with partner Carrie Symonds after Christmas\n\nLabour has called for an investigation into who funded Boris Johnson's Caribbean holiday over the New Year.\n\nThe MPs' register of interests stated the accommodation had a \"value\" of £15,000 and was covered by Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross.\n\nMr Ross initially said he had not paid for the holiday, but in a clarification insisted the register \"is correct\" and he had \"facilitated accommodation\".\n\nDowning Street said the trip had been properly registered.\n\nThe prime minister took the holiday to Mustique, a private island that is part of St Vincent and the Grenadines, with girlfriend Carrie Symonds between Boxing Day 2019 and 5 January 2020.\n\nLabour's Jon Trickett has now asked the parliamentary commissioner for standards to investigate who paid for it.\n\nIn a letter to the watchdog, the shadow Cabinet Office minister said: \"The code of conduct requires members to provide the name of the person or organisation that actually funded a donation.\"\n\nHe said that the \"evidence suggests it was not David Ross\" who funded the donation and that the entry made by the prime minister in the MPs' register of interests \"appears to be incorrect\".\n\nDavid Ross, the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, at a photography exhibition in 2011\n\nMr Trickett said a number of questions needed \"urgently answering\", including \"the true source of the £15,000 donation\" and \"did the PM knowingly make a false entry into the register\".\n\n\"Transparency is crucial to ensuring that the public have confidence that elected Members of this House have not been unduly influence by any donations or gifts that they may receive,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson's entry in the register of interests says Mr Ross donated accommodation \"for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000\".\n\nBut a spokesman for Mr Ross told the Daily Mail: \"Boris wanted some help to find somewhere in Mustique, David called the company who run all the villas and somebody had dropped out.\n\n\"So Boris got the use of a villa that was worth £15,000, but David Ross did not pay any monies whatsoever for this.\"\n\nA later statement from the spokesman added: \"Mr Ross facilitated accommodation for Mr Johnson on Mustique valued at £15,000.\n\n\"Therefore this is a benefit in kind from Mr Ross to Mr Johnson, and Mr Johnson's declaration to the House of Commons is correct.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"All transparency requirements have been followed, as set out in the Register of Members' Financial Interests\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the standards commissioner said the office could not confirm whether an investigation had been opened into the prime minister.\n\nShe explained this was due to a decision by MPs in 2018 to allow colleagues being investigated to remain anonymous.\n\nMr Ross has not provided any further details as to what he means, in this context, by a 'benefit in kind.'\n\nBut sources in Westminster have suggested to me that this could refer to some sort of swap whereby David Ross agreed to give up his own property - at a later date - in order to facilitate the prime minister's stay elsewhere on the island.\n\nAnd, I'm told, that there was no kind of cash donation.\n\nBut until there's total clarity, from Downing Street, the questions will keep coming. Such as, whose villa did Boris Johnson stay at?\n\nAnd opposition parties may not wish to miss the chance of pointing out that the PM didn't pay for at least part of his own holiday.\n\nMr Ross was one of Mr Johnson's aides in City Hall and was appointed to the Olympics organising committee.\n\nBut he resigned from the roles, and his company, over a share scandal in 2008.\n\nIt emerged Mr Ross had used millions of pounds' worth of Carphone Warehouse shares as collateral against personal loans without informing the company's other directors - a potential breach of City rules at the time.\n\nMr Ross has been a long-standing donor to the Conservative Party, pledging £250,000 in the last election campaign.\n\nMr Johnson faced criticism over his holiday for not returning sooner, after the US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani raised tensions in the Middle East.\n\nIn April 2019 Mr Johnson was rebuked by the parliamentary commissioner for standards for failing to register a share of a Somerset property within 28 days of acquiring it.", "Hundreds of people have gathered for the funeral of twin brothers who appeared on the Channel 4 reality TV show My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.\n\nBilly and Joe Smith were found dead in a Kent country lane in December after a relative discovered a suicide note.\n\nA procession was led by two white horse-drawn carriages through their home town of Sevenoaks.\n\nMourners kissed the glass of the carriages, which carried identical coffins to St John's Church.\n\nInside, the UB40 song Many Rivers to Cross was played, as \"requested by the boys,\" according to an order of service.\n\nMourners kissed the glass of the carriages, which carried identical coffins to St John's Church\n\nJoe Smith was married with two children\n\nAmong the floral tributes were those shaped as Rolex watches and a bottle of tequila, along with the words \"daddy\" and \"uncle\".\n\nA tribute by friends, due to be read at the service, said: \"Your love and laughter left footprints on our hearts. When you left you took a piece of all of us with you.\"\n\nA poem by their mother, listed in the order of service, said they would \"live in our hearts forever\".\n\n\"Although, my darling babies, you were with us just a while. You will live in our hearts forever, with your remembered smiles.\"\n\nFriends said the brothers' \"love and laughter left footprints on our hearts\"\n\nMourners followed the two carriages to the cemetery\n\nThe funeral cortege started at the brothers' grandmother's house in the Kent town then made its way down the High Street, where onlookers lined the road.\n\nDrivers were warned by Sevenoaks District Council to expect extra traffic as \"many people are likely to come to the town to pay their respects\".\n\nAfter the funeral, mourners followed the procession on foot towards Greatness Cemetery, just over half a mile away, where the brothers are to be buried.\n\nMourners followed the procession on foot towards Greatness Cemetery\n\nDrivers were told to expect extra traffic during the day\n\nThe twins are to be buried in identical white coffins\n\nThe brothers, who were both tree surgeons, were found next to each other in Dibden Lane, near Sevenoaks, on 28 December.\n\nThe 32-year-olds took part in a 2014 episode of the TV show, which followed them at work and on holiday.\n\nThe funeral cortege started at the home of Phoebe Smith, the twins' grandmother\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman who learned English as a child by watching Jeopardy! has fulfilled her dream by becoming a contestant on the game show.\n\nKristyna Ng, who moved to Canada from China when she was eight, appeared on the game show some 30 years later.\n\nAlthough she came in second place, she said: \"I feel like I won the lottery just by being on the show.\"\n\nShe has watched the programme nearly every day since she was a little girl, and it was one of the things she and her husband initially bonded over.\n\n\"Jeopardy! has been the soundtrack of my life,\" she told the BBC.\n\nMs Ng did well on Tuesday's episode, trailing front-runner Danyelle Long-Hyland by just $600 (£460) before going into the Final Jeopardy, where contestants place bets on whether they get the correct answer.\n\nShe said she began watching the show when she was a child and had just moved to Canada with her family. She did not speak a word of English, and watching Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, which played back-to-back every weekday, helped her figure out some of the language's trickier quirks, like the difference between minute (a measure of time) and minute (very small).\n\nShe said Jeopardy! was especially helpful, because it helped her learn things about a wide variety of subjects, from music to sports.\n\n\"It helps you build a stronger vocabulary, but it also helped me build a lot of cultural contexts and general knowledge to be not only a fully participating Canadian citizen, but also a global citizen,\" she said.\n\nShe has since gone on to earn her Master's degree in public administration, and now works for the city of Calgary.\n\nKristyna Ng taken shortly after she moved to Canada\n\nShe was initially encouraged to try out for the show by a friend she and her husband had made while playing trivia on board a cruise ship.\n\nShe got a little help on this week's episode from her friend's daughter, who bought her a Jeopardy! quiz book for good luck. One of the questions in the book was \"What is a spinnaker?\", and that question popped up during the show.\n\nBut one mispronunciation cost her big. A clue asked for the name of former Polish Prime Minister Lech Walesa. She was close, but confused the consonants in the name, saying \"Lawensa\" instead.\n\nHer answer was initially accepted, but the judges later reversed that decision, which cost her $4,000.\n\nOn the Final Jeopardy, Ms Ng guessed correctly, but her bet was too conservative to overtake the show's winner, Ms Long-Hyland.\n\nThe clue: After statesman and banker Robert Morris turned down a job offer from George Washington, this man took the job.\n\nMs Ng's appearance on the show was especially meaningful because of host Alex Trebek, she said. Mr Trebek, 78, has been hosting the popular game show since 1984, and recently revealed he was battling stage four pancreatic cancer.\n\nIn a statement uploaded to the Jeopardy! YouTube channel, he said that \"normally the prognosis for [his cancer] is not very encouraging\".\n\n\"But I'm going to fight this. And I'm going to keep working, and with the love and support of my family and friends, and with the help of your prayers also, I plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease.\"\n\nMs Ng said he was \"a genuine, humble and courageous\" person. Between takes, he chatted with the audience about everything from his cancer treatment to his leaf-blower.\n\n\"I could not have had a better experience, to be standing on the same stage of the great Alex Trebek,\" she said.", "Broadband, TV and phone customers will be given the chance to avoid hefty price hikes when their contracts end under rules taking effect on Saturday.\n\nUK watchdog Ofcom says users could save £150 a year on broadband alone once they are informed of alternative deals.\n\nAround 20 million customers are out of contract with their suppliers, leaving many paying more than they need to.\n\nThe regulator says people can earn big monthly savings if they are told in advance of discounts on new deals.\n\nMatt Powell, editor at comparison site Broadband Genie, said the requirement for companies to warn when contracts are about to expire would help loyal customers remain on the best plans.\n\n\"Many broadband deals are sold with discounts for the initial contract term, and although these are often good value for the first 12 or 18 months, the cost after the discount ends can be substantially higher,\" he said.\n\n\"Regularly switching will let you take advantage of the latest offers and perhaps get you a faster connection. And if you don't want to switch, you should always negotiate with the provider at the end of your contract term to see if a better deal is available.\"\n\nSome 25,000 broadband customers come out of contract daily, usually leading to an automatic price rise.\n\nOfcom says the new rules, which come into force on 15 February, could help consumers save £150 or more on their annual bills.\n\nService providers will need to text, email or write to their customers between 10 and 40 days before their contracts come to an end, giving details of:", "Boris Johnson promised not so long ago that Sajid Javid would be his chancellor, in front of an audience and the TV cameras.\n\nIn characteristically bombastic style, before he could be completely sure he would be back as PM, he said: \"I'm going to give you an absolutely categorical assurance I will keep Sajid Javid as my chancellor. I think he's a great guy, and I think he is doing a fantastic job.\"\n\nSo what on earth has just then happened?\n\nAs one cabinet minister suggested, it seems Sajid Javid's departure is \"a little bit of accident and a little bit of design\".\n\nTwo weeks ago, if the now former chancellor had been fired it might not have seemed that surprising.\n\nThere were well-known tensions between the two teams, not necessarily between the two men themselves.\n\nAnd there was plenty of briefing around that the relationship was strained between Mr Javid and the prime minister's top adviser, Dominic Cummings.\n\nThere were not profound policy clashes perhaps, but there was certainly some of the traditional friction - No 10 that wants to be able to spend, No 11 that wants to hold the cheque book tightly.\n\nBut in recent days, there had been plenty of warm noises that Mr Javid was safe in government.\n\nEven though No 10 has bold ideas for reform, they had concluded it seemed there wasn't much point ripping up the relationship at the top.\n\nWhat however they were determined to change was the atmosphere and the balance between the wider institutions - the political machine of Downing Street and the wider Treasury team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: I had no option but to resign\n\nFor a deeply motivated group inside No 10, that meant forcing changes on the chancellor as noted by the well plugged-in Conservative blogger Paul Goodman earlier this month.\n\nThe possibility of that had not gone unnoticed by the Treasury team, and I understand that Mr Javid had discussed with friends what to do in that circumstance.\n\nIf he were presented with a fait accompli, he had considered that he might have to quit.\n\nWalking in front of the cameras at Downing Street this morning therefore, he was aware of what might have been about to happen.\n\nI'm told the meeting between the two powerful men started cordially, with Mr Johnson praising Mr Javid's time in the job, before hitting him with the demand that he'd love him to stay, but without his team.\n\nWhispers suggest the chancellor (still in the job at that point) asked the prime minister for what precisely his advisers had actually done wrong, but he was short on evidence.\n\nAfter the pair went \"round in circles\", they took a break, at which point in a series of \"side meetings\" senior figures like the chief whip and Eddie Lister, another senior No 10 adviser, tried to persuade Mr Javid to stay.\n\nHe did not back down though, and then it's said in another one-on-one meeting with the PM, he tendered his resignation.\n\nMr Javid was appointed chancellor by the prime minister last July\n\nIn the coming days, the blow-by-blow accounts of what exactly happened will be the subject of spin in plenty of different directions.\n\nSajid Javid may decide to give a fuller account. But right now, his departure seems not therefore to have been a dastardly, and deliberate plan to force him out.\n\nNo 10 hoped he would go for it, but must have gamed the possibility that he might not accept, just as Mr Javid had gamed the possibility that he might be asked to choose between his job and his team.\n\nLosing a chancellor is no small event, and it wasn't what Boris Johnson set out to do. But today shows that No 10's priority was political control rather than keeping personnel they valued. When Mr Javid refused, they chose instead to see him leave.\n\nThis begs a wider question - is it stronger to share power or hoard it?\n\nBoris Johnson and his team have made the choice today to do the latter - to lose a chancellor rather than allow a rival faction offering different political advice to the next door neighbour.\n\nOf course, any prime minister is entitled to do this. And there is nothing written in scripture that says the occupant of No 11 must be forever considered a near equal competitor to the PM next door.\n\nStalwarts of the department believe it is a vital check on prime ministers who would otherwise simply splash the cash.\n\nBut one former minister, no fan of the current administration, suggested there is a very good case to be made for cutting back the political power of the Treasury, rethinking its role as a rival centre of power to No 10.\n\nAnd Javid is, by nature, unlikely to become a deliberate pain on the backbenches.\n\nMaybe then, as a minister told me tonight, the ultimate effect of this confusing cock-up will be \"benign\".\n\nBut the manner of Sajid Javid's exit may really counts - a symbol of a government that wants, if you are diplomatic, a smooth and complete focus on its agenda at the very top.\n\nPut that less kindly, a group that wants to grab control of everything it sees.\n\nFor now, it may make it easier for Boris Johnson to push through his desires. But centralising power in one building centralises risk too.\n\nIf and when things go well, credit may flow in one direction. If and when things go wrong, there may be only one target for the blame.\n• None Who is in Boris Johnson's new cabinet?", "Alan Bass, the doctor for England's 1966 World Cup-winning team, has died at the age of 90.\n\nThe former Harley Street consultant was seated next to manager Sir Alf Ramsey as England beat West Germany 4-2.\n\nBass was also England's doctor at the 1970 World Cup, and treated Gary Lineker's broken wrist before the striker went on to win the Golden Boot at the 1986 World Cup.\n\nThe doctor led a \"brilliant\" life, said his sister Shirley Livingstone.\n\nPreviously, Bass worked at Arsenal with former Gunners manager and England defender Billy Wright, and also helped famous film stars on set such as Sir Sean Connery.\n\n\"The England players almost treated him like a father,\" Livingstone told BBC Sport. \"He was very good at his job, and Alf had a great regard for Alan and how fit the players were.\"\n\n'Alan Ball nailed his shoes to the floor'\n\nThat bond with Ramsey - the only England manager to win a senior World Cup - was crucial in keeping some of the England players in order, Livingstone said.\n\n\"My brother had a great sense of humour, and he needed it, because they were a terrible bunch,\" she joked before telling a story about former midfielder Alan Ball.\n\n\"This wasn't at the World Cup but Alan was a real prankster. He had a leg injury and they didn't know if he was match-fit for a game against Norway, I think.\n\n\"My brother and the physios decided to check if he was match fit by getting Alan to run up the stadium steps with a sack of sand on his back.\n\n\"He was a bit peeved about this, as you can imagine, but he did it. That night, my brother put his shoes outside to be cleaned as they did in those days, on a beautiful polished wooden floor.\n\n\"Next morning, he heard a clatter and thought it was the staff bringing his shoes back but he went outside and Alan Ball had nailed them to the floor.\"\n\nTreating Lineker and looking after Jules Rimet Trophy\n\nLivingstone also described how Bass was dedicated to his profession and never became star-struck as he treated famous golf and tennis athletes.\n\nThat outlook even applied to the 1966 World Cup celebrations, where he took the chance to offer then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson his opinions on the state of the health service.\n\nThat was why he left for Canada to become a professor, she said. He also became head of Fifa's medical committee, but his benefit to England did not stop there.\n\nBass was on hand to help Lineker when he broke his wrist during a friendly in Vancouver before the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.\n\nThe level of trust between Ramsey and Bass was summed up by another tale he told about the Jules Rimet Trophy - which was then awarded to the world champions - following the success in 1966.\n\nLivingstone said: \"The team had been entertained in Dublin or Belfast, and they put the World Cup on the stands so everybody could see it but when they returned home to Heathrow, there was nobody to meet Alf.\n\n\"Alf said to Alan, who was a big chap, I'm wrapping the trophy up in newspaper and you're going to take it home with you and put it under your bed and we'll call for it tomorrow.\n\n\"I'm not sure if it's a true story, but he had the World Cup under his bed at some point.\n\n\"When he got the job, I just remember Alan wrote to my mother to tell her how proud he had been asked to be the doctor for England.\"", "Andrew Pattison from the WHO travelled to the US to speak with tech firms directly about misinformation on the coronavirus\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) is urging tech companies to take tougher action to battle fake news on the coronavirus.\n\nThe push comes as a representative from the WHO travelled to Silicon Valley to speak directly to tech firms about the spread of false information.\n\nThe WHO has labelled the spread of fake news on the outbreak an \"infodemic\".\n\nOver 1,000 people have died as a result of the outbreak, which began in central China but has spread globally.\n\nAndrew Pattison, digital business solutions manager, for the WHO said false information was \"spreading faster than the virus\".\n\nBogus claims that the virus was spread by eating bat soup or could be cured by garlic have already swept the web.\n\nMr Pattison spoke on Thursday to a meeting of tech companies hosted at Facebook's headquarters in Mountain View California.\n\nOther firms in attendance included Google, Apple, Airbnb, Lyft, Uber and Salesforce.\n\nEarlier in the week, he held talks with Amazon, at the e-commerce giant's headquarters in Seattle.\n\nSince the outbreak of the coronavirus was labelled a public health emergency, books on the disease - which Mr Pattison said were not \"based on science\" - have been popping up for sale on the e-retailer.\n\nThe WHO is also concerned that when users search for the term coronavirus on Amazon, listings for face masks and vitamin C boosters come up. Vitamin C has been listed as one of the fake cures for coronavirus.\n\nSocial media firms have already taken some steps to remove false claims and promote accurate information.\n\nFacebook, Twitter, Youtube and TikTok are already directing users that search for coronavirus on their sites to the WHO or local health organisations.\n\nPeople searching on Google's search engines, meanwhile, are shown news and safety tips. Facebook has said it will use its existing network of third-party fact-checkers to debunk false claims.\n\nMr Pattison said this was an opportunity for these firms to rethink how they addressed misinformation.\n\n\"I think what would be very exciting is to see this emergency changed into a long-term sustainable model, where we can have responsible content on these platforms.\"\n\nThe WHO has faced criticism of its own for the way it has tried to manage the crisis.", "The Kuiper belt object Arrokoth is a pristine remnant of planet formation in action\n\nScientists say they have \"decisively\" overturned the prevailing theory for how planets in our Solar System formed.\n\nThe established view is that material violently crashed together to form ever larger clumps until they became worlds.\n\nNew results suggest the process was less catastrophic - with matter gently clumping together instead.\n\nThe study appears in Science journal and has been presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle.\n\nThe study's lead researcher, Dr Alan Stern, said that the discovery was of \"stupendous magnitude\".\n\nThe moment Alan Stern (L) had confirmation that New Horizons had flown by the Kuiper Belt object\n\n\"There was the prevailing theory from the late 1960s of violent collisions and a more recent emerging theory of gentle accumulation. One is dust and the other is the only one standing. This rarely happens in planetary science, but today we have settled the matter,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe claim arises from detailed study of an object in the outer reaches of the Solar System. Named Arrokoth, the object is more than six billion km from the Sun in a region called the Kuiper belt. It is a pristine remnant of planet formation in action as the Solar System emerged 4.6 billion years ago, with two bodies combining to form a larger one.\n\nScientists obtained high-resolution pictures of Arrokoth when Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft flew close to it just over a year ago. It gave scientists their first opportunity to test which of the two competing theories was correct: did the two components crash together or was there gentle contact?\n\nThe analysis by Dr Stern and his team could find no evidence of violent impact. The researchers found no stress fractures, nor was there any flattening, indicating that the objects were squashed together gently.\n\n\"This is completely decisive,\" said Dr Stern. \"In one fell swoop, the flyby of Arrokoth was able to decide between the two theories.\"\n\nThe newer gentle clumping theory was developed 15 years ago by Prof Anders Johansen\n\nHe is bullish because these so-called Kuiper belt objects have largely remained the same since the formation of the Solar System. They are, in effect, perfectly preserved fossils from this distant time.\n\nThe newer gentle clumping theory was developed 15 years ago by Prof Anders Johansen at Lund Observatory in Sweden. At the time he was a young PhD student. The idea emerged from computer simulations.\n\nAfter speaking to Dr Stern, I broke the news to Prof Johansen that his theory had been confirmed. There was a pause on the line before he replied that he \"felt great\".\n\nHe added: \"It is a special moment. I remember when I was a PhD student and feeling very nervous about these new results because they were very different to the ones before. I was worried that there was an error in my code or that I had made a calculation error.\n\n\"And then when you see these results confirmed from actual observations it is a real relief.\"\n\nAnders Johansen marks the confirmation of his theory with his daughter Laura\n\nProf Johansen commemorated the occasion with a pizza and coke with his family.\n\nEngineer Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who co-presents the BBC's Sky at Night programme, cautioned against toppling a theory based on the observation of one object, but said that Dr Stern's interpretation \"makes a lot of sense\".\n\n\"It is nice to have this evidence because the crashing together theory was a nice theory, but there were some challenges to it. Why did the objects stick together and not bounce apart. There was a lot that didn't add up.\"\n\nWhen Arrokoth was discovered six years ago, it was known only by its designation 2014 MU69. At the time of the New Horizons flyby, it had been given the informal name Ultima Thule. While that name came from a classical and medieval term for a far-off place at the borders of the known world, its use by Nazi occultists as the mythical homeland of the Aryan race caused controversy.\n\nThe official name Arrokoth is a Native American term meaning \"sky\" in the Powhatan/Algonquian language.\n• None Distant object 'like nothing seen before'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Car seen on wrong side of road near Harry Dunn base\n\nA new video has emerged on social media of a car being driven on the wrong side of the road outside the RAF base near where 19-year-old Harry Dunn died.\n\nMr Dunn was killed after a crash by RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire which led to suspect Anne Sacoolas leaving the UK under diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe footage appears to have been recorded on Thursday. Another car was recorded being driven on the wrong side of the road near the base last month.\n\nPolice said they would investigate.\n\nDunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said the emergence of the latest video near RAF Croughton was \"shocking but not a surprise\".\n\nThe crash that killed Mr Dunn happened on 27 August outside the RAF base where Mrs Sacoolas's husband Jonathan worked as a US intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, is to be charged with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nIn January, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rejected the UK's request for her extradition.\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nNorthamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley met the US air base's commander on Thursday to discuss safety.\n\nHe said his meeting with Colonel Bridget McNamara was \"encouraging\".\n\nA joint statement released by the police and the colonel said Ms McNamara \"provided a detailed brief of all the proactive measures that the base continues to do to help those living on the base adjust to UK driving standards\".\n\n\"It was clear from the meeting that the base already had a significant number of measures in place in ensuring driver safety,\" Mr Adderley said.\n\n\"The base and the force have continued to work together.\"\n\n\"Additional provisions\" are to be introduced and both parties \"are doing all that they can to prevent any future harm on the roads in and around the site\", he said.\n\nColonel McNamara said Northamptonshire Police had been a \"steadfast partner of our base\" and she looked forward to its continued relationships.\n\nMr Seiger said the family was \"shocked\" at the news of the meeting, and said Mr Dunn's family \"should have been there\".\n\nHe said Northamptonshire Police and the US Air Force \"fail to acknowledge that there is a problem\".\n\n\"As evidenced by further video today, a further tragedy is inevitable,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leila Nathoo looks back at the day in politics, as the PM's reshuffle went further than even he perhaps expected.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoctors' failure to give antibiotics to a three-month-old boy who died of sepsis \"significantly contributed\" to his death, an inquest has found.\n\nLewys Crawford, from Cardiff, died of meningococcal septicaemia at the University Hospital of Wales in 2019.\n\nThere was a seven-hour delay between his admission to hospital and him being given antibiotics.\n\nThe inquest found there were \"multiple missed opportunities\" in his care and the health board has apologised.\n\nA jury, at the hearing in Pontypridd, found Lewys died as a result of \"natural causes contributed to by neglect\" at the Cardiff hospital and there were \"gross failures\" in his care.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Lewys's parents said the whole process had been \"horrific\" and doctors could have saved their son's life if he had been given antibiotics in time.\n\n\"This process has been about getting justice for Lewys and thankfully measures have been put in place at the health board to ensure what happened to Lewys isn't repeated under any circumstances,\" his father Aidan Crawford said.\n\n\"We want to ensure that lessons have been learnt and that no other family has to go through what we went through with Lewys.\n\n\"Lewys will be forever missed and loved dearly by us and all the family. We will all cherish our memories of the short time we had with him\".\n\nWhen he was admitted in March 2019, nurses immediately suspected Lewys had sepsis but doctors did not, the inquest had heard.\n\nHe should have been given antibiotics within an hour of being seen, but it took about seven hours for him to receive the drugs, after being initially wrongly diagnosed with a viral illness.\n\nAidan Crawford and Kirsty Link lost their son Lewys when he was three months old\n\nLewys was finally diagnosed with sepsis about eight hours after he arrived at hospital just after 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe inquest heard there were several missed opportunities to administer life-saving antibiotics.\n\nExpert witness Prof Parviz Habibi told the jury that, on the balance of probabilities, if Lewys had been given antibiotics within the first three-and-a-half hours of his admission, he would have survived.\n\nOn Thursday, Jennifer Evans, a consultant paediatrician who investigated Lewys' death, apologised to his parents.\n\nThere were 20 patients in paediatric A&E at the time, and two children were \"more unwell\" than him, the hearing had been told.\n\nThe jury spokesman said there was \"a failure to treat Lewys with antibiotics\", and this \"significantly contributed to Lewys' death\".\n\nHe said there was a \"gross failure up to and including 23:30 on 21 March\".\n\nCoroner Graeme Hughes told the inquest there were \"no systemic failures\" at the hospital based on the evidence.\n\nRuth Walker, executive nurse director at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, apologised for the \"failings in the treatment and care we provided to Lewys\".\n\n\"This is an extremely tragic case and everyone at the health board extends their sincere and heartfelt sympathies to his family,\" she said.\n\nMs Walker said action was already being taken to address some of the improvements identified in an internal investigation carried out following Lewys's death.\n\n\"We would like to reassure his family that we will do all we can to make sure that the necessary improvements are undertaken,\" she added.\n\n\"This will help ensure that the right treatment pathways are in place, and followed, for all patients that come into our care that we suspect may have sepsis.\"", "Beneath the unexpected bloodletting of his cabinet reshuffle, Boris Johnson has quietly but radically reformed the way his ministers will handle foreign affairs.\n\nFor the prime minister has decided that every single junior Foreign Office minister will also be a joint minister with the Department for International Development.\n\nOr vice versa, depending on your view down Whitehall.\n\nThere are now seven ministers who hold this hybrid duality: the ministers of state - James Cleverly, Nigel Adams, Lord Ahmad and Lord Goldsmith - and the parliamentary under secretaries of state James Duddrige, Wendy Morton and Lady Sugg.\n\nThis is not the first time there have been ministers with joint roles in different departments. The practice was common in the New Labour years and continued under David Cameron.\n\nAnne-Marie Trevelyan is the new International Development Secretary\n\nFrancis Maude was a minister both at the Foreign Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Lady Warsi was at the Foreign Office and the Department for Communities and Local Government.\n\nBut the practice of having joint FCO/DFID ministers is relatively new.\n\nIt was first used by Theresa May in 2017. She wanted to try to get both departments working more closely. Alistair Burt and Rory Stewart were the first incumbents.\n\nBefore Thursday's reshuffle, their respective roles were held by Andrew Murrison and Andrew Stephenson, both of whom have moved on.\n\nIt is, however, unprecedented for every single junior minister in both departments to have a joint role.\n\nAnd it raises many questions.\n\nHow will their responsibilities be divided up?\n\nTo whom will they be accountable - Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary. or Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the new International Development Secretary?\n\nLord Goldsmith is one of the ministers with a dual role\n\nWill these ministers have one or two private offices? Some FCO sources suggest they will have one, some DFID sources say two.\n\nWill their private secretaries be FCO or DFID? There may be a battle royal as officials divide up the spoils.\n\nThen there is the bigger question: is this just the start of things to come?\n\nIn DFID some folk are breathing a sigh of relief that their department has not been merged into the FCO, as had been predicted.\n\nThey insist they still have an independent department with an independent secretary of state.\n\nBut the prime minister is on record in calling for such a change in the past.\n\nSenior ministers talk of DFID \"running a shadow foreign policy\" and the need to adopt a more joined-up approach.\n\nAnd there is still a strong vein of traditional aid scepticism on the Tory backbenches.\n\nSome folk will wonder if this ministerial merger is merely a taste of things to come.\n\nOne former minister described the changes to me as \"a takeover by stealth\".\n\nSome in government see the reshuffle as a stay of execution for DFID, the start of a period of probation in which the department has a chance to prove it can do joined up foreign policy without the need for full amalgamation with the FCO.\n\nIt is easy to forget that DFID - or its equivalent - has been in and out of the Foreign Office since the Ministry of Overseas Development was first created in the 1960s. It only separated from the FCO in its current form under Tony Blair in 1997.\n\nWhat is clear from my own discussions with senior Whitehall sources is that this administration remains determined to provide UK aid policy with greater political direction, so that the £14bn budget does not just help tackle extreme poverty but it also promotes Britain's national interests.\n\nQuite how they try to do that remains unclear. But a joint ministerial team is a clear step in that direction.\n\nAs Anne-Marie Trevelyan tweeted this morning: \"I want to show the British public we are delivering the best results for their aid, transforming the lives of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people, while promoting Britain's economic and security interests.\"\n\nThe new DFID Secretary of State has in the past been sceptical about UK aid, with comments and retweets indicating she questioned the priorities of spending taxpayers' money helping the poor overseas.\n\nBut in her first statement in the new role she said the government remained committed to spending 0.7% of its income on development: \"I know from my previous role as Armed Forces Minister how UK aid, alongside our world class defence and diplomacy, supports peace and prosperity around the world.\n\n\"As International Development Secretary I will ensure that UK aid promotes girls' education around the world, tackles climate change, works to end preventable deaths and helps countries receiving aid become self-sufficient.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor DFID, this reshuffle marks a continuing period of ministerial instability.\n\nThe department has now had six secretaries of state in the last four years. Justine Greening left in July 2016, followed by Priti Patel (16 months), Penny Mordaunt (19 months), Rory Stewart (3 months), Alok Sharma (6 months) and now Ms Trevelyan.\n\nAnd for the Foreign Office, this is also a time of yet more change.\n\nIt has just lost four ministers: Chris Pincher, Andrew Murrison, Andrew Stephenson and Heather Wheeler, all of whom were appointed only in July last year, along with Dominic Raab.\n\nLord Ahmad is the longest serving minister, appointed in June 2017.\n\nThis means there is a lot of new blood in King Charles Street but little institutional memory. That can mean a power shift to officials but it rarely helps UK foreign policy.\n\nMuch diplomacy is about relationships. Foreign governments are rarely impressed by revolving doors.\n\nLongstanding former Foreign Office ministers like Alistair Burt, David Lidington and Alan Duncan were effective because they were known and trusted by ministers and officials around the world.\n\nThey could engage in the discreet conversations that quietly promote UK national interests in the corridors of power.\n\nAll that is harder with a bunch of newly-appointed ministers trying to work out who their boss is and where the coffee machine is kept.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock narrowly missed out on another stunning victory, drawing 6-6 with Glen Durrant on her Premier League debut appearance in Nottingham.\n\nTwo months after becoming the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship, she was on course to beat the three-time BDO world champion.\n\nShe broke in the seventh leg of the match and had the advantage of throw in the final leg, leading 6-5.\n\nBut Durrant took out a 70 checkout in the final leg to claim a point.\n• None Sherrock 'still in disbelief' at Premier League chance\n\nSherrock, 25, was granted the opportunity to appear as a Premier League \"challenger\" after reaching the last 32 at the Alexandra Palace in December.\n\nNone of the previous 10 \"challengers\" had won their games and Sherrock fell just short of more darting history.\n\nShe told Sky Sports: \"I've loved every minute. I'm so happy to have played again on the big stage. I'm speechless and I'd like to thank everyone here supporting me.\n\n\"Opportunities are opening up for me all the time and I can't wait to see what the rest of 2020 holds for me.\"\n\nDurrant added: \"The crowd were fantastic, it was a really big challenge and all credit to Fallon.\n\n\"She's had the most amazing couple of months. That's the most difficult match I've ever had.\"\n\nA group of nine \"challengers\" play one match each against a player in the main field in the first phase of the Premier League and, while they do not collect league points, they can earn prize money depending on their result.\n\nThe format was introduced in 2019 after Gary Anderson pulled out of the event at short notice with a back injury, and has been continued into the 2020 tournament.\n\nDefending champion Michael van Gerwen is the only player with a 100% winning record after two rounds of fixtures, following a crushing 7-1 win over Daryl Gurney.\n\nFormer PDC world champion Rob Cross was the only other winner on Thursday, defeating in-form Nathan Aspinall 7-5.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rayan was deported to Jamaica after being convicted for burglary\n\nAmid controversy and protests, 17 convicted offenders - many of them living in the UK since childhood - were deported to Jamaica. BBC Newsnight has been following their stories.\n\n\"If somebody commits a crime and they went to prison for it, and they've been rehabilitated, why would you punish them again by deporting them to Jamaica?\" says Rayan Crawford.\n\nMr Crawford had not set foot in Jamaica since he was 12 years old, he says. Now 34, he is living there at the house of his sister Yanique after being deported from the UK.\n\nBack home in Bow, east London, he has a partner of 14 years, Jana, as well as two boys aged three and 12.\n\nHe served 12 months in prison after he was convicted of burglary in 2017. Then, on 27 January, 10 officials detained him at his home.\n\nHe and 16 others were flown out of the UK on Monday, designated as \"serious foreign national offenders\" by the government.\n\nThe Home Office said those detained included people convicted of manslaughter and rape, and all of them had their cases \"fully reviewed\" to ensure there were no legal barriers to their removal.\n\nIt said Mr Crawford was convicted 10 times for a total of 22 offences, including the burglary.\n\n\"We make no apology whatsoever for seeking to remove dangerous foreign criminals,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBut Mr Crawford says his deportation did not make anyone safer. \"I regret what I've done, but I don't think I'm a danger to the public,\" he says.\n\n\"Where am I going to go from here?\" says Mr Crawford, back in Jamaica for the first time in 22 years\n\nMPs and campaigners said the government was risking another Windrush scandal, in which the children of Commonwealth citizens were threatened with deportation despite living in the UK for decades.\n\nA leaked report into the scandal, revealed by Newsnight last week, recommended that the UK stop deporting people who had arrived in the UK as children or reserve deportation for the most serious cases.\n\nUnder both of these tests it would be unlikely that Rayan Crawford would be eligible for deportation.\n\nMr Crawford says he voted for Boris Johnson and thought he was going to be a good prime minister, but believes the law around deportation needs to be re-examined.\n\n\"I feel British,\" he says. \"I've been there from a child. I went to school there, I went to college there. I spent my whole life there.\"\n\nHis belongings are still in the UK, he adds, with a plastic bag containing two pairs of jeans being all he could bring with him.\n\nMr Crawford, who has inflammatory arthritis and the bone disorder Blount's disease, says he was also made to leave without his medication.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rupert Smith, one of 17 convicted offenders deported to Jamaica says he has \"had his life taken away\"\n\nHe says officials told him if he did not have the medication for his arthritis with him when he was detained, they could not give it to him.\n\n\"I thought I was going to have a heart attack, I was panicking so much I started getting pain in my chest. Even on the plane I was crying. My back was killing me so much I was crying.\"\n\nThe Home Office said individuals were assessed to establish they were medically fit to fly.\n\nIt said they travelled on the removal flights with their medical notes and those with pre-existing conditions were brought to the attention of accompanying medical staff.\n\nMr Crawford believes the medication he needs is not available in Jamaica. He adds that he had been told in detention he could not access the medication without doctors' reports.\n\nNow he does not know what the future holds.\n\n\"There's nothing around here to do. There's no work to do or anything. Even finding somewhere to stay - I don't know how long I can stay here. Where am I going to go from here?\"", "Flood defences have been bolstered in the West Yorkshire village of Mytholmroyd, where more than 200 homes were flooded last weekend\n\nThe UK is braced for more disruption, with another storm forecast for the second weekend running.\n\nStorm Dennis \"is likely to bring very heavy rain, flooding and disruption\" in some areas, the Met Office has said.\n\nAmber warnings for rain and yellow warnings for wind are in place for most of the country from Saturday afternoon and into Sunday evening.\n\nIt comes after Storm Ciara left hundreds of homes flooded and more than 500,000 without power.\n\nThe worst hit areas could see between 120-140mm of rainfall and gusts of up to 80mph over the weekend, the Met Office said.\n\nThe predictions are not as severe as last weekend when Ciara brought as much as 184mm of rain and gusts reaching 97mph.\n\nBut the Met Office said the already saturated ground could increase the risk of flooding.\n\nChief meteorologist Steve Willington said: \"With Storm Dennis bringing further heavy and persistent rain over the weekend, there is a risk of significant impacts from flooding, including damage to property and a danger to life from fast-flowing floodwater.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather's Tomasz Schafernaker looks at the areas most likely to see severe impacts from Storm Dennis.\n\nAt 15:00 on Friday there were more than a dozen flood warnings in place across Britain.\n\nUK power operators say they have employed extra engineers and call centre staff to respond to any possible impact of the storm, after widespread power cuts last weekend.\n\nMeanwhile, Network Rail is advising passengers to expect delays and cancellations to services due to flooding and allow more time for their journeys.\n\nHouseholds living near rail lines have been asked to secure any loose gardens items, after several trampolines were blown on to the tracks last weekend.\n\nThe Met Office has amber warnings for rain in pockets of northern and south-west England, and Wales from 12:00 GMT on Saturday until 15:00 on Sunday.\n\nAn amber warning is also in place for most of southern England from 00:15 until 18:00 on Sunday.\n\nFlooding, power cuts and travel disruption are predicted in these areas.\n\nYellow warnings for strong winds and heavy rain also cover all of England, Wales and southern Scotland between 09:00 GMT and midday on Saturday.\n\nFurther yellow warnings for wind are in place for northern parts of the UK from midday on Sunday until midday on Monday - potentially bringing travel disruption to commuters.\n\nAt least 800 homes in the north of England and many other areas are at risk of being flooded over the weekend as Storm Dennis unleashes heavy rainfall.\n\nThat is the assessment of the Environment Agency which is warning that persistent intense rain will fall on ground already saturated.\n\nSnow now lying on higher ground will be melted and will add to the threat.\n\nThe agency's head of flood defence, John Curtin, told a media briefing that 800 homes were flooded last weekend during Storm Ciara and that \"my feeling is that this will be at least as bad, probably more so\".\n\nOver the course of the winter so far, 7% of 400 river gauges have set new records for water height.\n\nMr Curtin said temporary flood defences were being deployed in many places but added it was too early to tell exactly where the most intense rain would fall.\n\nHe said he was most concerned about Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria but parts of Wales, south-west England, the Midlands and south-east England could also be at risk.\n\nBBC Weather forecaster Phil Avery warned that the \"real issue about Storm Dennis is going to be the amount of rainfall\".\n\nHe warned that some areas could see two days of persistent rainfall, in which a month of rain could fall over 48 hours.\n\nNetwork Rail passenger director Jake Kelly said: \"Storm Ciara dumped a month-and-a-half of rain on us last weekend, leaving ground waterlogged and rivers swollen.\n\n\"With Storm Dennis set to bring more high winds and further rainfall this Saturday and Sunday, we're preparing for more of the same.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This Hebden Bridge book shop has a sign which doubles up as a flood barrier\n\nTemporary flood barriers have been installed in Billington, Lancashire, ahead of Storm Dennis\n\nThe Environment Agency said preparations were under way to operate flood defences, flood storage reservoirs and temporary barriers to protect communities.\n\nThis includes the Foss Barrier in York, the Thames Barrier in London and another in Bewdley, Worcestershire, on the River Severn.\n\nFlood duty manager Caroline Douglass said: \"Remember to never drive or walk through floodwater, just 30cm of flowing water is enough to move your car - it's not worth the risk.\"\n\nThe Energy Networks Association - which represents operators - said the UK's networks were \"very resilient and built to withstand strong winds and heavy rain\" but added that flying debris \"can pose a risk to infrastructure\" during a storm.", "Some UK dentists may have to \"down drills\" if the shortage of face masks caused by the coronavirus outbreak continues, according to the British Dental Association.\n\nAll practices are now restricted to ordering 100 masks a day, leaving larger ones with several dentists running out of supplies.\n\nEven small surgeries are using up their allocation completely, the BDA says.\n\nMinisters said central stockpiles of face masks were available.\n\nThe dentists' trade union says it has been inundated with calls from members about the shortage of masks.\n\nCurrent guidance means dentists across the UK must wear disposable face masks when treating patients.\n\nBut China is the world's major manufacturer and prices have tripled since January, when the new coronavirus started circulating in the country.\n\nAnd the BDA says supply problems and panic-buying have taken their toll.\n\nPolice, as well as civilians, have been wearing face masks across China because of the coronavirus outbreak\n\nIts chairman, Mick Armstrong, said dentists had been hit by \"clumsy rationing and naked profiteering\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"Sadly a 'one size fits all' approach from suppliers is leaving many larger practices with few options,\" he said.\n\n\"Our abiding interest is the safety of our patients, who face imminent disruption to their care.\n\n\"Unless we see a rapid increase in supply, dentists without face masks will have little choice but to down drills.\"\n\nA typical NHS surgery with one dentist can get through 250 masks a week - but larger surgeries with more dentists would run out completely under the current restrictions.\n\nThe BDA said it had been contacted by concerned dental practices, some of whom had up to 13 dentists.\n\nIt said dentists would be running out of masks as early as next week.\n\nThe shortage is not just affecting the UK - the BDA says dentists in Australia have also expressed their concern over a lack of face masks.\n\nA spokesman from the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We have central stockpiles of a range of medical products, including face masks, to mitigate supply problems and help ensure the uninterrupted supply to the NHS.\n\nHe added: \"We have well-established procedures to deal with supply problems, regardless of the cause, and work closely with industry, the NHS and others in the supply chain to help prevent shortages and to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It is crucial that we have changes to the laws\"- Allison Morris\n\nAn Irish News journalist has revealed that she was harassed by her former partner for four years.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, Allison Morris called for stalking legislation to be extended to Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes days after Fernando Murphy, of Balholm Drive, in Belfast, was jailed for 10 offences, including harassment and breaching a restraining order.\n\n\"I was full of anxiety, my hair was falling out with stress,\" the security correspondent said about her ordeal.\n\nMurphy, 42, was handed a 14-month sentence at Belfast Magistrates' Court last Thursday. He will spend half his sentence in prison and the other half on licence.\n\nDuring four years of abuse, Ms Morris was subjected to \"humiliating\" behaviour, including Murphy coming to the Irish News and \"shouting and screaming\".\n\nIt was when the harassment began to impact her family that the journalist decided to act.\n\n\"I sort of broke after that,\" she said.\n\n\"I could take the abuse when it was me but when it was my daughter it was different.\n\n\"He knew that saying horrible, sexual, things about me wasn't getting a reaction so he moved on to my family, and the targets became my children and my father, who is very ill, and my work.\"\n\nMs Morris said going to the police was \"a big step\".\n\n\"As someone who is a crime and security correspondent, I deal with the police on a professional basis quite regularly, often quite critically and I hold them to account in a lot of cases, and I just really didn't feel comfortable,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't want people to think that I was weak, I didn't want, in a very Belfast way, for people to know my business.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only region of UK or Ireland without stalking legislation and Ms Morris says she hopes that sharing her experience will change things.\n\n\"It made me angry because I was struggling to navigate it and through my work, I know the legal system.\n\n\"I thought 'what must this be like for someone who doesn't have this knowledge or support or wouldn't know where to go to complain or appeal or to push things along?' It's such an emotionally destroying process that is desperately in need of change.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only region of UK or Ireland without stalking legislation\n\nWriting on Twitter on Monday afternoon, PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said it was \"brave and courageous\" for Ms Morris to \"make her terrible experience public\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe PSNI currently deals with stalking under the Protection from Harassment Order (NI) 1997.\n\nThe Department of Justice held a public consultation last year on the creation of a specific stalking offence.\n\nIts report on the findings said that the majority of respondents strongly supported the introduction of stalking legislation.\n\nThe department said it was \"determined to do everything it can to protect victims and to stop perpetrators at the earliest opportunity\".\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said she was \"acutely aware of the distress that stalking behaviour can cause\".\n\nShe added that bringing forward legislation that offers the best protection for victims was a priority.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReports of illegal teeth-whitening that could leave patients at risk of health problems including burns or lost teeth have increased, the BBC has found.\n\nTeeth-whitening can only be performed legally in the UK by professionals registered with the GDC.\n\nOne beauty school claimed to have provided \"thousands\" of candidates with illegitimate qualifications, an undercover investigation found.\n\nFailure to comply with the requirement to be registered can result in a criminal record and an unlimited fine.\n\nUntrained beauticians using teeth-whitening kits have been known to cause tooth loss, burns and blisters.\n\nTeeth-whitening can be carried out legally only by a trained dental professional\n\nDr Ben Atkins, president of the Oral Health Foundation, said: \"When things go wrong in dentistry, they can really go wrong.\n\n\"I've been that dentist with the full back up service when the patient's had that heart attack.\n\n\"It would be catastrophic for the patient and the person who's been trained and told it's legal to do it.\"\n\nUntrained beauticians using teeth-whitening kits can cause tooth loss, burns and blister\n\nLast year 732 cases of illegal-teeth whitening were reported to the GDC, a 26% increase from 582 in 2018 - though the figure was higher in 2016.\n\nThe dentists' regulatory body relies on reports from customers, so the real number could be much higher.\n\nThe GDC said it had launched 126 prosecutions against illegal teeth whiteners since 2015.\n\nIt lacks the powers to prosecute those performing training, such as those filmed by BBC London.\n\nThe BBC uncovered several companies offering just a few hours of training for fraudulent qualifications.\n\nTwo undercover BBC researchers attended a course with the London School of Nails and Beauty that lasted five hours.\n\nAttendees were told they could earn \"from £80 upwards per session\" after receiving a certificate, which they were told would allow them to set up their own business to treat customers.\n\nSchool principal Cha McDonald said the process was \"legal\" as customers would be asked to carry out parts of the procedure themselves.\n\nShe claimed \"thousands\" of people had undergone training at the school.\n\nCha McDonald, principal of London School of Nails and Beauty, said the procedures taught were \"completely legal\"\n\nA spokesperson for the General Dental Council said: \"Handing an individual a tooth whitening tray and advising them on application, amongst other things, could constitute the giving of 'advice or attendance' and in those circumstances would be a criminal offence.\"\n\nEmergencies were not covered at all during the training attended by the BBC and when asked what to do in an emergency, Ms McDonald advised the BBC researchers posing as students to \"call an ambulance like everybody else\".\n\nThe BBC asked the London School of Nails and Beauty why it was providing training that could open candidates to prosecution but there was no response.\n\nThe British Dental Association (BDA) said \"sham\" schools preyed \"on vulnerabilities of beauticians and others\".\n\nPeople attending these schools were putting themselves at risk of ending up in jail or being fined, according to Dr Len D'Cruz from the BDA.\n\nOne beautician who had undergone similar training said: \"I may as well have burnt the money I spent.\n\n\"I was struggling as a beautician as it was and I nearly went bankrupt.\n\n\"I think as a direct result I lost all my confidence. I went through anxiety and suffered depression. It's disgusting people like me are being misled.\"\n\nThis story will be featured on BBC London TV News and Inside Out on BBC One in London on Monday 10 February at 19:30 GMT and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "HS2 is set to be the \"biggest infrastructure decision since World War Two\", according to one government official.\n\nWhether to go ahead with building the high-speed rail line has become a dilemma for Boris Johnson because the estimated price tag shot up back in the summer.\n\nThe government's official review of the scheme, which has been seen by the BBC, puts the potential cost at as much as £106bn.\n\nHere are some of the reasons why the project is so expensive and why its budget has risen so much.\n\nThe blueprint for HS2 has been designed so the railway can accommodate more trains per hour - 18 - than any other high-speed line in the world.\n\nThe infrastructure - numbers of platforms at stations - and the systems, which means the signalling, have therefore been designed with this in mind.\n\nThe trains will travel at up to 360 km/h (224mph), faster than any other train service in Europe and only slower than those in China.\n\nThe alignment of the track on the first stretch between London and Birmingham means even faster trains could reach 400 km/h on HS2 in the future.\n\nThe track will also sit on concrete \"slab track\" which is durable but more expensive to buy than your more conventional ballast.\n\nWhen you start planning a major infrastructure project such as HS2, experts are supposed to make informed estimates about the amount of time and money needed to complete each phase.\n\nHS2 Ltd has been widely criticised for not factoring-in enough risk and uncertainty into its calculations.\n\nFormer HS2 directors have even accused the company of keeping costs artificially low to make the project more attractive. HS2 Ltd rejects that claim.\n\nOne of the big unknowns, which was underestimated on the first phase, was \"ground conditions\".\n\nNow that surveys underneath the surface along the route from London to Birmingham have been done, the higher costings for that first stretch are regarded as more robust.\n\nBut surveys have not been carried out on the latter and longer phase, Birmingham to Manchester and Birmingham to Leeds.\n\nAnd that's why the price tag for the second phase of HS2 is not certain.\n\nHS2 will wind its way through a crowded landscape. The initial stretch from London Euston to Old Oak Common in west London will be through a giant tunnel underneath central London.\n\nTo build the line, HS2 Ltd has to compulsorily purchase land and property rights along the route, and a block of flats in London doesn't come cheap.\n\nHS2 Ltd's land and property calculations, which it was using as recently as 2015-16, were woefully underestimated.\n\nIn one of the studies commissioned by HS2 Ltd, and seen by the BBC, a large number of properties were not even given a value.\n\nSince then HS2 Ltd has carried out more thorough work to improve its estimates.\n\nItems such as gravestones have had to be moved ahead of work starting on HS2\n\nTry to imagine all of the wiring and piping underneath our crowded cities.\n\nMuch of the work HS2 Ltd has already carried out between London and Birmingham has been diverting those connections away from construction sites.\n\nBut in some places, roads and even rivers need to be moved too.\n\nOn the M42 near Solihull they have been building the foundations for a new bridge over the motorway. A bridge nearby will be demolished and the new bridge moved in.\n\nYou could find multiple examples like that along the 330 mile route.\n\nI've travelled extensively on Spain's high-speed AVE network, which flies through large stretches of desolate, arid countryside. Britain is much more densely populated, so building HS2 is a different ballgame.\n\nYou might be surprised to hear that the view out of the window from an HS2 train from London to Birmingham, most of the time, won't be very exciting.\n\nThat's because a large part of the route will be built in what's known as \"cuttings\".\n\nCuttings mean the track is effectively below ground with banks each side. The cutting reduces the impact of the line on the surrounding countryside.\n\nThere are also 25 miles of tunnels on the first phase of the project. The longest (10 miles) and deepest tunnel (90 metres at the deepest point) will go underneath the Chilterns.\n\nAnd there are 12 miles of viaducts. A two mile viaduct in the Colne Valley in Buckinghamshire will be the longest in the country.\n\nWhen prior estimates of costings on HS2 have been calculated, efficiency savings have been factored in. However, often those efficiencies have not been realised, so costs have gone up.\n\nIn a major infrastructure project such as this, the company in overall charge - HS2 Ltd - contracts out the work to a vast array of other companies.\n\nCompanies contracted by HS2 Ltd in the early part of the project carried the risk associated with the work. That pushed prices up significantly.\n\nAccording to the National Audit Office it added at least £1bn to the overall budget. However, there have been reports that figure was much higher.\n\nNow contractors do not carry the risk. That should help keep prices down.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the torrential rain and howling winds that hit Sydney this weekend\n\nSydney has been hit by its heaviest rain in 30 years, bringing widespread flooding but also putting out two massive bushfires in New South Wales.\n\nAustralia's weather agency said 391.6mm of rain had fallen in the past four days in Sydney, more than three times the average rainfall for February.\n\nAbout 100,000 homes are without power, and officials have warned flash floods could be life-threatening.\n\nBut the rainfall means only 17 fires are still burning across the state.\n\nThe NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) said on Monday afternoon that the rains had extinguished more than 30 fires over the weekend, calling it \"the most positive news we've had in some time\".\n\nThe latest to be declared out is the Gospers Mountain blaze, north-west of Sydney. Since October it has burned 512,000 hectares, and was considered a mega-blaze that was \"too big to put out\".\n\nOn Sunday, the Currowan fire, around the town of Shoalhaven, was also put out. It had burned for 74 days, destroying nearly 500,000 hectares and 312 homes.\n\nHowever, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has warned that fire-hit areas can be particularly prone to flooding, and that fast-moving waters can carry large amounts of debris.\n\nWater levels in the Warragamba Dam, pictured here in December, have almost doubled over the weekend\n\nWater supplies in the region have also been replenished, after years of drought.\n\nThe Warragamba Dam, which supplies most of Sydney's water, is heading towards being 70% full, says WaterNSW.\n\nAt the end of last week it was at only 42% after one of the driest years on record.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NSW RFS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFrom #NSWFires to #NSWFloods... the state has gone from one wave of extreme weather to another.\n\nBut despite the massive disruptions, many people have been celebrating the heavy rainfall, posting videos on social media cheering it on as it thrashed the city.\n\nThis has been a devastating summer for eastern and southern Australia.\n\nWhile I was out reporting the bushfires in recent months, I'd ask firefighters what was needed to tackle the fires. They would tell me about creating containment lines, and the importance of hazard reductions. Then almost all of them would look at the sky and tell me what they really needed was rain. Lots of it.\n\nAnd now, after they've put in so much work on the ground, the weather has given them what they asked for. Thirty out of 60 blazes in NSW have now been put out - a huge reprieve for the volunteer firefighters who have not stopped working for months.\n\nA severe weather warning is now in place for the entire coast of NSW, Australia's most populous state.\n\nIn Sydney alone, at least 200 people were rescued by emergency services over the weekend.\n\nEmergency services have dealt with thousands of calls for assistance\n\n\"Everywhere has been hit, it's hard to pinpoint where it's worst,\" said Matt Kirby, spokesman for the State Emergency Services (SES).\n\nSeveral people have been injured, including four who were inside a car which was crushed by a falling tree in the city centre on Sunday afternoon.\n\nOn Monday morning, emergency services were searching for one man believed to have been swept off a bridge in his car.\n\nRail and ferry services in Sydney were also disrupted, with several platforms at one of Sydney's main stations, Central, left underwater. Dozens of schools have been closed.\n\nDangerous surf conditions are reported at places like Bronte Beach in Sydney\n\nThe state emergency minister David Elliott urged Sydney residents to help rescue services by taking warnings seriously, staying away from flooding and keeping off the roads if possible.\n\nEmergency services had advised people to stay home from work on Monday to avoid the disruption.\n\nThousands of people in low-lying areas of the city have been told to leave or get ready to leave their homes.\n\nThe Northern Beaches area has already seen significant damage, with several metres of beach being washed away in places.\n\nOn Sunday night, people living around the Narrabeen Lagoon, a low-lying area in northern Sydney, were told to evacuate before roads became impassable.\n\nWaves more than 5m high have lashed the coast in areas like Collaroy, just south of Narrabeen, stripping away front gardens facing the sea.\n\nThe winds whipped up sea foam along the coast at Collaroy, northern Sydney, stripping away the beach\n\nWhile it had stopped raining in central Sydney on Monday, more rain is forecast for the week.\n\nGovernment agencies have warned that high tides forecast for the coming days - known as king tides - could further worsen the flooding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The trial of Hashem Abedi (left) was told he and his brother used their mother's bank account\n\nThe Manchester Arena attacker and his brother used their mother's bank account to buy tools and equipment to make a bomb, a court has been told.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard Samia Tabbal's bank card was used to buy a battery and other items before the 2017 attack.\n\nMrs Tabbal had been receiving tax credits, child and housing benefit of about £550 a week, even though she left the UK for Libya in October 2016.\n\nThe jury was told Mrs Tabbal's bank statements showed a series of large cash withdrawals of between £50 and £300 each month in the UK after she left the country.\n\nAs well as items from a B&Q superstore, her bank account was also used to pay for an industrial battery from a specialist shop in Salford, the court heard.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nAnalysis of her documents showed her weekly tax credit and child benefit payments continued until 19 May, the jury was told, three days before the attack which killed 22 people outside an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nHer monthly housing benefit was last paid four days later, on 26 May.\n\nThe financial investigation also revealed Salman Abedi, who had dropped out of a business management degree at the University of Salford on 13 January, received a student loan payment of £1,002.54 four days earlier and a further one of £2,258 at the end of the month.\n\nThe court was told four cash withdrawals of £700, £710, £790 and £800 were taken from his RBS account on 23 January, before Abedi reported his bank card had been lost.\n\nHis Halifax student account card was found in the foyer of the arena after the attack.\n\nAbdalraouf Abdallah was convicted in 2016 of preparing terrorist acts\n\nThe jury also heard from Alharth Forjani, the Abedis' cousin, who said Hashem had asked him to help buy a bomb-making chemical on Amazon.\n\nHe said he had agreed to make the purchase because \"I trusted him\", but he later had \"a bad feeling\" about what he had bought.\n\nMr Forjani said he had then searched for the chemical online, because \"I just thought it might be to make explosives\", adding: \"I think that he believes in terrorism, that's what I thought.\"\n\nEarlier, the trial heard Salman Abedi went to HMP Altcourse in Liverpool with two other men to meet convicted terrorist Abdalraouf Abdallah on 18 January 2017, four months before the attack.\n\nAbdallah, who was left paralysed after being shot during the 2011 Libyan uprising, was convicted of two counts of preparation of terrorist acts by helping two men enter Syria via Turkey and funding terrorism by sending £2,000 to his own brother.\n\nThe jury was told a second meeting was set up for 6 March at the prison, but Salman did not attend.\n\nHashem Abedi denies 22 counts of murder, one of attempted murder and one of conspiring to cause an explosion.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK government is considering taking a stake in troubled airline Flybe.\n\nThe government is in talks with Flybe and the European Commission to ensure any rescue deal does not break state aid rules.\n\nOfficials say support given to Flybe so far, such as a pledge to cut tax on some domestic routes, are industry-wide measures.\n\nHowever, the government is considering extending a loan of up to £100m to the loss-making airline.\n\nGovernment officials insist that any such loan will be on commercial terms but sources at competitors ask how the government can really mean that if the airline finds commercial lenders unavailable.\n\nThere are different ways of answering those potential objections.\n\nFirst, charge an interest rate on a loan that fully reflects the risk that the government is taking with taxpayer money.\n\nThis is the government's preferred option.\n\nBusinesses with a loss-making track record should not be able to borrow at super-low interest rates when the risk of default is perceived as high.\n\nHowever, a loan at high rates of interest could damage the airline's ability to nurse itself back to health because of the hefty repayments required on a high interest loan. You would merely be kicking the can down the road.\n\nAnother solution being floated - and described as \"possible\" by officials - is for the government to extend the loan but reserve the right to purchase shares at a pre arranged (low) price once the airline has returned to health.\n\nThese rights, often described as \"warrants\", was the manner in which legendary investor Warren Buffett pumped money into investment bank Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis and there are few more commercially savvy financial first aid givers than he.\n\nA government loan to Flybe may be similar to a deal Warren Buffett struck with Goldman Sachs\n\nThis approach makes it more likely the airline will be able to pay its debts, which in turn makes it more likely the airline will be worth more in the future, at which point UK taxpayers could reap rewards for the risk taken.\n\nHey presto - a commercial arrangement thath helps the company now and sees the taxpayer share in any future success.\n\nTo be clear, this is still uncomfortable territory for the government.\n\nHowever, it has become increasingly clear that it is prepared to push the envelope of what is possible in order to deliver on election commitments to improve regional connectivity to \"level-up\" Britain. A commitment that might look hollow if Flybe were to collapse.\n\nThe EU has told the BBC it is in discussions with the government to ascertain whether financial assistance to Flybe provided to date or in the future could break EU competition rules.\n\nA spokesperson for the European Commission told the BBC that it is the responsibility of member states to decide whether support needs to be notified as state aid - which the UK insists it does not - unless other parties complain that such support is illegal and the EU can then investigate.\n\nBritish Airways' owner IAG and Ryanair have already done just that in letters to the European Commission over their concerns that the Flybe rescue announced in mid-January amounted to anti-competitive and therefore illegal support.\n\nIAG lodged a Freedom of Information request with the government seeking more detail about the extent of the support package.\n\nThe deadline for the government to respond to that is this Thursday.\n\nBritish Airways-owner IAG has complained to the EC about UK government support for Flybe\n\nIAG boss Willie Walsh has pointed out that Flybe has wealthy owners including BA's arch-rival Virgin Airlines.\n\nVirgin, along with the Stobart haulage group and New York-based hedge fund Cyrus Capital, have agreed to put in £30m to £40m of their own money but that is thought to be insufficient to secure the long-term future of the airline and without a loan to get through the lean winter months, it remains in danger.\n\nOther things that have irritated rivals are Flybe's decision to switch its London-Newquay service from Heathrow to Gatwick - potentially freeing up a Heathrow slot for part owner Virgin Airlines and Flybe's expansion at Southend airport which just so happens to be owned by the Stobart group.\n\nIt is not clear how much of the financial support from Flybe's owners has already been exhausted.\n\nThe company said on Sunday that \"the airline is being supported by its shareholders and leading suppliers, is managing its cash position carefully and currently has strong liquidity\"\n\nThere are many industry sources who insist that Flybe's problems are more deep-seated. Its business model is broken and the government is risking both wasting taxpayers' money AND creating a dangerous precedent for assisting failing businesses.\n\nAs with many things being contemplated - the approval of HS2 despite ballooning costs, a potential mansion tax, prioritising fishing over finance, a raid on pension tax relief - we are dealing with a very different kind of Conservative government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Attorney General William Barr called the hack \"one of the largest data breaches in history\"\n\nThe US has charged four Chinese military officers over the huge cyber-attack on credit rating giant Equifax.\n\nMore than 147 million Americans were affected in 2017 when hackers stole sensitive personal data including names and addresses.\n\nSome UK and Canadian customers were also affected.\n\nChina has denied the allegations and insisted it does not engage in cyber-theft.\n\nAnnouncing the indictments on Monday, Attorney General William Barr called the hack \"one of the largest data breaches in history\".\n\nAccording to court documents, the four - Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke and Liu Lei - are allegedly members of the People's Liberation Army's 54th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military.\n\nThey spent weeks in the company's system, breaking into security networks and stealing personal data, the documents said.\n\nThe nine-count indictment also accuses the group of stealing trade secrets including data compilation and database designs.\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang denied the allegations on Tuesday and said China's government, military and their personnel \"never engage in cyber theft of trade secrets\".\n\nHe said China was itself a victim of cyber-crime, surveillance and monitoring by the US, Reuters reported.\n\nThe whereabouts of the four suspects is unknown and it is highly unlikely that they will stand trial in the US.\n\nFBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said: \"We can't take them into custody, try them in a court of law, and lock them up - not today, anyway.\"\n\nEquifax said hackers accessed the information between mid-May and the end of July 2017 when the company discovered the breach.\n\nThe accused allegedly routed traffic through 34 servers in nearly 20 countries to try to hide their true location.\n\nThe FBI released this wanted picture of the suspects\n\nThe credit rating firm holds data on more than 820 million consumers as well as information on 91 million businesses.\n\nMr Bowdich said there was no evidence so far of the data being used to hijack a person's bank account or credit card.\n\nEquifax CEO Mark Begor said in a statement that the company was grateful for the investigation.\n\n\"It is reassuring that our federal law enforcement agencies treat cybercrime - especially state-sponsored crime - with the seriousness it deserves.\"\n\nCritics have accused the company of failing to take proper steps to guard information and for waiting too long to inform the public about the hack.\n\nRichard Smith, CEO of Equifax at the time of the hacking, resigned a month after the breach. He apologised for the firm's failings, ahead of testifying in Congress.\n\nEquifax was forced to pay a $700m (£541m) settlement to the Federal Trade Commission.\n\nThe US regulator alleged the Atlanta-based firm failed to take reasonable steps to secure its network. At least $300m of the settlement went towards paying for identity theft services and other related expenses run up by the victims.\n\nIn a statement Mr Barr said: \"This was a deliberate and sweeping intrusion into the private information of the American people.\n\n\"Today we hold PLA hackers accountable for their criminal actions, and we remind the Chinese government that we have the capability to remove the internet's cloak of anonymity and find the hackers that nation repeatedly deploys against us.\"\n\nThis is not the first time the US has charged members of the Chinese military with hacking US companies.\n\nThe first indictment came back in 2014 and helped lead to a deal the following year to try to restrain such activity.\n\nBut clearly the US feels that it needs to return to the weapon of public indictments to increase pressure again.\n\nThe US has become increasingly concerned not just at the alleged theft of economic secrets but also the intelligence risks.\n\nEquifax was one of a series of large data breaches linked to China - others include health care providers and, most significantly, the theft of data from the Office of Personnel Management which carried sensitive records for almost all US federal employees.\n\nOne of the concerns for US security officials is how Chinese spies may be able to put together these vast databases about US citizens.\n\nOfficials say the information could be used to create \"targeting packages\", establishing which individuals have access to sensitive information and potential vulnerabilities which would allow them to be approached. They add, though, that so far they have not seen the Equifax information being used for that purpose.", "Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) should not be used to prevent someone from reporting sexual harassment in the workplace, according to new guidance.\n\nArbitration service Acas has published advice for firms and workers about NDAs, including how to avoid misuse.\n\nSeveral high-profile scandals have exposed how NDAs are often used to silence mainly women alleging sexual harassment and misconduct.\n\nAcas said misusing these agreements can be \"very damaging\" to an organisation.\n\nNDAs are contracts or parts of contracts that typically prevent staff and ex-staff making information public.\n\nThey can apply to commercially sensitive details such as inventions and ideas, or anything likely to damage an organisation's reputation, and are sometimes known as \"gagging orders\" or \"hush agreements\".\n\nAcas chief executive Susan Clews, said: \"The news has reported on victims coming forward that have alleged appalling abuse by high-profile figures who have then tried to use NDAs to silence whistleblowers.\n\n\"NDAs can be used legitimately in some situations but they should not be used routinely or to prevent someone from reporting sexual harassment, discrimination or whistleblowing at work.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that there had been an increase in the use of confidentiality clauses to \"cover up wrongdoing\" and \"stop people talking about sexual harassment\".\n\n\"That's really not great for employees,\" she said, adding that it stops businesses from tackling \"the underlying issue\".\n\nIt emerged that NDAs were used by ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and his company to settle allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nHe was fired by The Weinstein Company before it eventually went bust.\n\nHarvey Weinstein and his film business used NDAs to settle claims of sexual misconduct\n\nAs part of the bankruptcy filing, the company said it released anyone \"who suffered or witnessed any form of sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein\" from their NDAs.\n\nMr Weinstein denies that he ever engaged in \"nonconsensual sex\".\n\nAcas said its new advice states that NDAs cannot be used to stop someone from: reporting discrimination or sexual harassment at work or to the police; whistleblowing; or disclosing a future act of discrimination or harassment.\n\nIt also states that employees should be given a reasonable length of time to consider signing a non-disclosure agreement including allowing them to consult a trade union or lawyer.\n\nAdditionally, Acas advises that NDAs should \"never\" be used routinely, stating they \"should not be used to hide a problem or brush it under the carpet\".\n\nMs Clews said: \"Our new advice can help employers and their staff understand what NDAs are, how to prevent their misuse and examples where they will not be needed.\"", "Evacuees from coronavirus-hit city Wuhan have arrived for two weeks quarantine in Milton Keynes\n\nA fourth person has tested positive for coronavirus in the UK, England's chief medical officer has said.\n\nThe new case is a known contact of a previous British patient, and caught the virus in France.\n\nIt comes after around 200 British and foreign nationals evacuated from Wuhan on the UK's final rescue flight arrived at RAF Brize Norton on Sunday.\n\nThere have been more than 37,000 cases of the virus globally, mostly in China, where it originated.\n\nThe death toll for coronavirus has now overtaken that of the Sars epidemic in 2003, according to health officials in China, reaching 813. In 2003, 774 people were killed by Sars.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, Professor Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, said the latest UK patient has been transferred to a specialist NHS centre at the Royal Free hospital in north London.\n\n\"We are now using robust infection control measures to prevent any possible further spread of the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"The NHS is extremely well prepared to manage these cases and treat them, and we are working quickly to identify any further contacts the patient has had.\n\n\"This patient followed NHS advice by self-isolating rather than going to A&E.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a British man has been diagnosed with coronavirus in Majorca after contact with a carrier in France.\n\nThe repatriation flight arrived at RAF Brize Norton at around 07:30 GMT on Sunday, carrying more than 200 British and foreign nationals.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the flight was the second and last flight chartered by the government out of Wuhan, the city where the new coronavirus emerged.\n\nThe passengers comprised 105 Britons and their family members as well as 95 Europeans. A total of 13 staff and medics were also on board the flight.\n\nEvacuees were taken on eight coaches to a Milton Keynes conference centre and hotel for 14 days of quarantine. NHS staff in blue scrubs, gloves and masks met passengers as they disembarked from the coaches at around 10:30 GMT.\n\nPassengers on the repatriation flight included UK and foreign nationals\n\nThe UK's ambassador to Beijing, Dame Barbara Woodward, told the BBC that two British people who wanted to join the flight were not allowed to board after failing temperature checks in China.\n\nElsewhere, the government in the Balearic Islands confirmed on Sunday a British man has tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe was admitted to hospital in Palma on Friday, along with his wife and two daughters. The rest of his family have tested negative for the virus.\n\nThe local health ministry said an investigation into cases that may have had contact with the man has begun.\n\nMore than 100 UK nationals and family members have already been evacuated to Britain on flights chartered by the UK and other countries.\n\nThey are being held in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral.\n\nThe latest returnees will be housed at Kents Hill Park conference centre and hotel, where they will remain in isolation for two weeks - the incubation period of the virus - to ensure they are not infected.\n\nAt the hotel, they will have access to Netflix, magazines, books, baby equipment including highchairs, children's toys and games, mobile phones, and tablets for reading, games, and browsing the internet, the NHS said.\n\nClothing and toiletries have been laid out for their arrival. Passengers on the previous flight said they were only allowed to travel with a 15kg (33lb) cabin bag.\n\nClothing supplies are among the provisions laid out for quarantined passengers\n\nThe flight follows the decision by the Foreign Office on 4 February to advise all Britons to leave China if they can.\n\nBritish Airways and Virgin Atlantic have suspended all flights to and from mainland China, while other carriers continue to operate flights between the UK and China.\n\nChina's National Health Commission said total cases in the country from the virus had reached 37,198 on Sunday morning.\n\nOutside of China, 288 cases have been confirmed in 24 countries, according to the World Health Organization. All the fatal cases have been in China and Hong Kong apart from one in the Philippines.\n\nIn the UK, the Department of Health and Social Care said that 686 people in the UK have been tested for coronavirus as of Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe virus causes severe short-term infection of the airways, and symptoms usually start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. Most people are likely to fully recover - just as they would from the flu.\n\nTwo of the UK coronavirus cases - both Chinese nationals - are being treated at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.\n\nAfter the third case was confirmed, it emerged that the British man had been exposed to the virus in Singapore and stopped at a ski resort in France before returning home.\n\nThere, five more Britons - four adults and a nine-year-old boy - staying at the same chalet in the Alps tested positive for the virus.\n\nA student at Portslade Aldridge Community Academy in Brighton is self-isolating for 14 days following advice from Public Health England.\n\nWere you evacuated? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The short gap between the Baftas and the Oscars this year has barely left Joaquin Phoenix enough time to wash his multi-use tux.\n\nThe Joker star is just one Hollywood actor currently hot-footing it from London to Los Angeles in time for the Academy Awards on Sunday.\n\nThis year's ceremony is being held earlier than usual in an attempt to combat falling ratings. The slew of other awards ceremonies over several months was thought to be damaging interest in the Oscars, which mark the conclusion of awards season.\n\nOscar-ologists have been closely studying the nominations list for trends, patterns, quirks and clues about who might win what.\n\nShe is only the 12th person to receive two acting nominations in the same year.\n\nJohansson is nominated for both best actress and best supporting actress for her performances in Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit respectively.\n\nThe other 11 people who've been nominated twice in acting categories at the same Oscars ceremony include Sigourney Weaver (in 1989), Al Pacino (1993), Emma Thompson (1994), Jamie Foxx (2005) and, most recently, Cate Blanchett (2008).\n\nBut none has ever won in both their categories.\n\n2. It's been 15 years since the winner of best actress and best picture were in sync.\n\nVery rarely does the winner of best actress also star in the winner of best picture - the last one who did was Hilary Swank in 2004's Million Dollar Baby.\n\nThat's unlikely to change this year.\n\nRenée Zellweger is the favourite to win best actress for Judy, which isn't even nominated for best picture.\n\n3. Cynthia Erivo could end up with a massive EGOT.\n\nIn fact, if the Harriet star wins an Oscar to go with her Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards she'll become the youngest EGOT winner in history.\n\nThe 33-year-old would take over from the current record holder Robert Lopez, who completed the quad in 2018 at the age of 39.\n\nErivo has two chances to do this on Oscars night - because she's nominated for both best actress and best original song (she co-wrote Harriet's anthemic original song Stand Up.)\n\n4. If Sam Mendes wins best director, it'll be the biggest gap between two directing wins in Oscars history.\n\nThe newly-knighted Sir Sam first won in 2000 for American Beauty, but could triumph again at the 2020 ceremony with his hugely successful World War One epic 1917.\n\nBefore now, Billy Wilder recorded the biggest gap, winning his two best director trophies 15 years apart for The Lost Weekend (1945) and The Apartment (1960).\n\n5. There's a competing couple in the best picture category.\n\nDirectors Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, who began dating in 2011 and have a child together, are up against each other for the top prize.\n\nGerwig's nomination for Little Women and Baumbach's for Marriage Story make them the first director-couple to go head-to-head for best picture.\n\nLaura Dern (right), stars in Greta Gerwig's Little Women and Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story\n\nThis almost happened in 2009, when James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow both had films nominated - but they had divorced some 18 years earlier.\n\nGerwig and Baumbach are nominated in slightly different categories for writing (best adapted screenplay and original screenplay respectively), so at least that slightly eases the tension over the dishwasher.\n\nCoincidentally, both their films star Laura Dern, who is nominated for best supporting actress.\n\n6. Having said that, Little Women and Marriage Story are both long shots for the top prize.\n\nThat's partly because it's unusual for a film to win best picture without a nomination for best director, which neither Gerwig nor Baumbach have.\n\nIt's not impossible, however.\n\nLast year, Green Book triumphed without a director nod for Peter Farrelly. Prior to that, 2013's Argo was the last to win without a nomination for its director Ben Affleck.\n\n7. Toy Story 4 could better the Oscars record it set with Toy Story 3.\n\nThe prize for best animated feature was introduced in 2001, and since then only one sequel - Toy Story 3 - has won.\n\nSo a victory for Toy Story 4 would make it not just the second sequel to win best animated feature, but the second to win within its own film series.\n\n8. Parasite has already broken a record and it could break another if it wins.\n\nIt's the first Korean film to receive a best picture nomination, and only the sixth film to be nominated for both best picture and international feature film.\n\nThat list of previous double nominees includes last year's Roma, 2012's Amour and 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.\n\n9. Jonathan Pryce brings a dose of reality to best actor.\n\nThe Two Popes star is the only nominee in the category who plays a real-life figure - Pope Francis.\n\nThe others, Leonardo DiCaprio, Antonio Banderas, Adam Driver and Joaquin Phoenix, all portray fictional characters.\n\nThere's more reality in the best actress category - Renée Zellweger plays Judy Garland, Cynthia Erivo portrays anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman and Charlize Theron plays Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.\n\nTwo of this year's awards season hopefuls were based on single magazine articles.\n\nA Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was inspired by a 1998 feature in Esquire magazine by journalist Tom Junod, who wrote a profile interview with the children's entertainer Fred Rogers.\n\nHustlers, meanwhile, was based on a 2015 investigation in New York magazine by Jessica Pressler.\n\nDespite both films being nominated across awards season, including at the Golden Globes, sadly only Beautiful Day registered on the Academy's radar.\n\nJennifer Lopez will have to rely on a future film to score her first Oscar nomination.\n\nJennifer Lopez (who stars in Hustlers) and Tom Hanks (in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)\n\n11. The average age of the supporting actor nominees is 71.\n\nThat's considerably older this year than the average age of all previous winners in this category - which is 49.\n\nThis time around, Brad Pitt is the youngest at 56, nominated alongside Tom Hanks (63), Joe Pesci (76), Al Pacino (79) and Sir Anthony Hopkins (82).\n\nHaving been around a while, it's perhaps unsurprising that all five of these greedy guts already have an Oscar - Pitt's came as a producer on 12 Years A Slave while the others won for acting.\n\n12. Birdman could act as a benchmark for 1917.\n\nOscar pundits keep a close eye on best film editing every year, because there's a strong correlation between being nominated in this category and ultimately winning best picture.\n\nIt's notable, therefore, that 1917's momentum for the top prize comes despite the lack of an editing nomination.\n\nOnly one film since 1980 has won best picture without a best film editing nod, which was 2014's Birdman.\n\nInterestingly, Birdman and 1917 already share something in common - both films appear to have been shot in one continuous take. Neither actually were, which, ironically, shows how skilful the editing must have been.\n\n1917 won two Golden Globes for best drama film and best director for Sam Mendes\n\n13. Ford v Ferrari is the first motor racing film to get a best picture nomination.\n\nThis might not sound particularly interesting, but there's a surprisingly large number of racing films which have missed out in the past - such as Rush, Grand Prix and Days of Thunder.\n\nSenna wouldn't have been eligible for best picture as it would have been in for best documentary, but it wasn't even nominated for that.\n\nFord v Ferrari (which is titled Le Mans '66 in some countries) is nominated but is highly unlikely to win.\n\n\"It faces tough competition,\" acknowledged Christopher Smith of Motor1, \"but beating tough competition is what the movie is all about.\"\n\n14. Netflix have doubled their chances of winning best picture this year.\n\nThe streaming service pinned all its hopes (and money) on Roma in 2019, campaigning hard for the best picture win which eventually went to Green Book.\n\nThey fielded far more films for awards season this year, such as The King, Dolemite Is My Name, The Two Popes and The Laundromat (a film about which the less said the better).\n\nDolemite Is My Name, starring Eddie Murphy, was one of Netflix's big hopes this year\n\nHowever, two of their films in particular, The Irishman and Marriage Story, are nominated for the top prize.\n\nIt may well be that the Academy is still not ready to allow a streaming service to win best picture. But if any Netflix title can win them over, you'd think it'd be a Martin Scorsese gangster film starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.\n\n15. Neither of the two favourites for best picture have nominations in the acting categories.\n\nThis may be down to Parasite being perceived as a film with an ensemble cast, where no performance is easily singled out for a leading actor category.\n\nThe absence of 1917 in the acting categories is perhaps more surprising as George MacKay appears in the entire film.\n\n16. Songwriter Dianne Warren's nod in best original song (for I'm Standing With You from the film Breakthrough) is her 11th Oscar nomination.\n\nHer others include LeAnn Rimes's How Do I Live (from Con Air), Aerosmith's I Don't Want to Miss a Thing (from Armageddon) and Faith Hill's There You'll Be (from Pearl Harbor).\n\nBut, as we said last year, she has still never actually won.\n\nIn fact, she is now the most Oscar-nominated woman without a win in history, which keeps the heat off Glenn Close a little longer.\n\nSir Elton John's nomination in this category comes 25 years after he won it for Can You Feel The Love Tonight? from The Lion King.\n\nRenée Zellweger's portrayal of Judy Garland (pictured right) could win her best actress\n\n17. Judy Garland never won an Oscar. But she was supposed to.\n\nShe was widely expected to win for 1954's A Star is Born, and even had cameras set up around her hospital bed (she had just given birth) to capture her speech.\n\nGrace Kelly won instead for The Country Girl - one of the biggest upsets in Oscars history.\n\nThe cameramen rapidly dismounted the equipment around Garland and left.\n\nSo if Renée Zellweger does win best actress, at least that will indirectly mark some form of (late) Academy recognition for Garland, more than five decades after she died.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Katy King said staff failed to believe she was in labour as she was only 28 weeks pregnant\n\nA BBC News investigation has uncovered more preventable baby deaths at an NHS trust which has already been criticised for its maternity services.\n\nFour families said their babies would have survived had East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust provided better care.\n\nThe NHS's Healthcare Safety Branch is investigating 25 maternity cases at the hospitals in Margate and Ashford.\n\nThe trust has apologised for the care provided in two of the cases and said they were investigating a third.\n\nIt has denied any wrongdoing in the fourth case.\n\nThe government is due to receive the Healthcare Safety Branch's report into the 25 cases later, as well as a Care Quality Commission report from an inspection carried out in January.\n\nLast month, the BBC discovered at least seven preventable deaths may have occurred at the trust since 2016.\n\nFour further families have now spoken out, saying their babies would not have died if medics had provided better care.\n\nIn two of the cases, the mothers said the actions of the trust left them feeling they were to blame for their babies' deaths.\n\n\"It's all like a muddled up dream and not a nice one,\" Kirsty Stead said\n\nHaving previously reported two incidents of reduced movement, Kirsty Stead called midwives at 01:10 on the day before her due date to tell them she was in severe pain and her son was moving excessively.\n\nShe says she was told to take paracetamol and go to sleep. Kirsty called the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (QEQM) in Margate at 16:59 to say she had not felt her son move for hours.\n\nShe was asked to come in, but by 19:00 the hospital said her son had died.\n\nIn a meeting last month, the hospital said they did not have a record of the night-time call and it was possible the person who answered had been in the midst of looking after another patient and had not checked Kirsty's medical notes.\n\nKirsty thinks Reid would have survived if she had been asked to go into hospital that night.\n\n\"Things just went downhill and spiralled out of control so quickly that it's hard to actually think that it's real because it's all like a muddled up dream and not a nice one,\" she said.\n\nEast Kent Hospitals NHS Trust said: \"We have started a thorough investigation into the care that Kirsty and Reid were given.\"\n\nDoctors at the QEQM Hospital were not able to revive Freddie\n\nNicola Grimmett fell pregnant for a second time in 2015 after IVF treatment.\n\nShe found she was carrying twins and her pregnancy was considered \"high risk\" because her first baby was born by emergency Caesarean section.\n\nAt 35 weeks a doctor at the QEQM Hospital discovered the babies had twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a serious condition where one of the foetuses is getting more of the blood supply from the placenta than the other.\n\nNicola did not see a consultant for two days after this was discovered, and it was a further day before she had a Caesarean section.\n\nThe hospital were not able to revive Freddie, and the family feel he would have survived if he had been delivered earlier.\n\nEast Kent Hospitals NHS Trust said: \"We accept that Freddie's death might have been avoided had we acted differently and we wholeheartedly apologise for this.\"\n\nHelen Gittos said she was left for more than an hour before seeing a senior doctor\n\nFollowing a traumatic experience with the birth of her son two years earlier, Helen Gittos and her partner Andy Hudson closely examined the labour facilities in Margate prior to giving birth.\n\nShe was not convinced they were safe, so opted for a home birth near the QEQM Hospital in case of any complications after her request to give birth at its midwife-led unit was turned down due to her first birth being a Caesarean.\n\nHer labour progressed slowly so she was transferred to the hospital, where Helen said she was left for more than an hour before seeing a senior doctor despite being classed as a high-risk patient.\n\nStaff then noticed that her daughter's heart rate was slowing and decided to perform an emergency Caesarean. Harriet was born in a poor condition and died eight days later.\n\nHelen said she was told her baby's death was a consequence of her decision to refuse to have appropriate medical treatment.\n\n\"We at no stage declined any medical intervention whatsoever,\" she claimed.\n\nEast Kent Hospitals NHS Trust said: \"We accept… that we could have done more to respond to [Helen Gittos's] wishes and help her labour in a calm, low-risk environment as much as possible.\"\n\n\"It just has such a horrific effect on everyone,\" Katy King said\n\nKaty King said staff failed to believe she was in labour as she was only 28 weeks pregnant.\n\nHer son Fletcher was born by emergency Caesarean section and, although weak, was breathing on his own by the time he was two days old.\n\nStaff informed Katy and her partner Jason that while their son needed to stay in William Harvey Hospital in Ashford until he put on more weight, he should have been fit to go home in about a month.\n\nHowever, Fletcher became ill at nine days old and died aged 13 days. He had suffered numerous seizures each day and medics believed he had some unspecified genetic condition.\n\nThe family said staff failed to spot he had developed a fungal infection and believe if he had been born at a hospital 40 miles away he would have been given the correct antibiotics from birth.\n\n\"We'll never know if he'd been given the anti-fungal medication, would he ever have got it [the infection]. It just has such a horrific effect on everyone,\" she said.\n\nEast Kent Hospitals NHS Trust said: \"There was no evidence of any omissions in care. The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman is currently investigating the family's complaint.\"\n\nThe new cases come as a coroner has made 19 recommendations for improvements following the \"wholly avoidable\" death of a baby at the QEQM Hospital in 2017.\n\nChristopher Sutton-Mattocks concluded that neglect by the trust had contributed to Harry Richford's death.\n\nHarry's parents Tom and Sarah, who are campaigning for a public inquiry into maternity failures at the trust, said they feared the changes would not be enacted.\n\nMr Richford said: \"In our case, they knew that there were systemic problems going way back. They had two years to address these problems before Harry died. And they didn't.\n\nIn a statement, East Kent Hospitals Trust it had set up a board sub-committee \"to ensure we are complying with national safety standards and ensure we are implementing the coroner's recommendations fully and swiftly\".\n\n\"We are deeply saddened by the stories of families who have suffered the death of a much-loved baby, and we are extremely sorry for their loss,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "The government has pledged £5bn over the next five years to improve bus and cycling services in England.\n\nBoris Johnson said the extra money will provide more frequent services and simpler, more affordable fares.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs that investments in local infrastructure would \"improve quality of life and productivity\".\n\nBut Labour said the PM's plan \"doesn't make up for deep cuts since 2010\" that have led to thousands of route closures.\n\nThe announcement comes as the government gave the go-ahead to the HS2 project.\n\nMr Johnson set out details of the high speed rail link and the new money for cycling and buses in a statement to the Commons.\n\nIn addition to improving frequency and fares, he said the £5bn of funding will go towards new priority routes for buses and 4,000 \"zero-carbon\" buses in England and Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Cornwall teenager with a two hour bus commute\n\nIn September, ministers announced £220m in extra funding to boost the bus network in England. They hope the cash will enable operators to restore recently withdrawn services, to give passengers in rural areas more choice and to increase the use of contactless payments.\n\nFurther details will be announced in a new National Bus Strategy to be published later this year.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs that the government's investment plan \"must be local\" to connect left-behind places to the rest of the country.\n\n\"We can unite and level up across the country with fantastic local improvements. better rail, less congested roads, beautiful British-built buses, cleaner, greener, quicker, safer, more frequent,\" he said.\n\n\"Above all, we can improve the quality of life for people and improve their productivity, make places more attractive to live in and invest in.\"\n\nResponding to the prime minister, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described Mr Johnson's plan as \"piecemeal\" and said the planned investment \"doesn't make up for deep cuts since 2010\" in bus services.\n\n\"Funding for buses has fallen by £645m a year since 2010, 3,300 routes cut or withdrawn and fares have soared,\" he said.\n\n\"It's councils that keep bus routes open. We need long-term funding for the local authorities that have suffered such severe cuts and now face a further £8bn black hole over this Parliament.\"\n\nBritish Chambers of Commerce director general, Adam Marshall, welcomed the funding and said: \"Business communities will want to work with central government, local government and bus operators to ensure that this new funding makes a real difference on the ground.\"\n\nOn cycling, Mr Johnson promised to create \"hundreds of miles\" of new cycle paths and plans to make cycling safer in towns by expanding projects dubbed \"mini Holland\" schemes.\n\nThe aim of creating \"low-traffic neighbourhoods\" outside of London is part of government plans to double rates of cycling by the 2025.\n\nThere are plans for more evening and weekend services\n\nCampaign group the Walking and Cycling Alliance said \"the emphasis on quality infrastructure is to be applauded\" and that it hoped to work with other groups to \"ensure that this investment is the start of a real transformation in how we get around\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"It has never been more important to make it easier to walk and cycle - to tackle climate change, poor air quality, crippling congestion, and the mental and physical health of the nation.\n\n\"The evidence is clear and people want to do it, what has been lacking is the investment and ambition to make it safe and easy for everyone.\"", "Lewys Crawford died a day after he was taken to A&E\n\nA baby who died of sepsis a day after being taken to hospital was not given antibiotics for many hours, an inquest has heard.\n\nThree-month-old Lewys Crawford died of meningococcal septicaemia at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff on 22 March 2019.\n\nThe inquest at Pontypridd Coroner's Court heard a nurse suspected Lewys had sepsis when he was first assessed.\n\nBut a doctor initially said he had a virus.\n\nHe was only diagnosed more than eight hours after he arrived.\n\nLewys, from Llanederyn, Cardiff, had become unwell at about 16:00 GMT on 21 March when he had let out a \"piercing scream\" and had had a temperature of 38.4C, the inquest was told.\n\nHis mother Kirsty Link said in a statement read to court he was \"happy as Larry\" apart from the temperature, and he then went to sleep.\n\nBut when he woke up he \"didn't seem himself\" and his parents took him to the emergency department at the UHW.\n\nRebecca Murphy, a paediatric nurse who was on duty the night Lewys was admitted, told the court it was \"extremely busy\" in the paediatric emergency unit.\n\nLewys's parents Aidan Crawford and Kirsty Link want to know why there were delays in treating him for sepsis\n\nShe explained when she assessed Lewys that she put him in category two, which meant he needed to be seen by a doctor within 10 minutes.\n\nShe said his observations were abnormal and that they triggered a \"pathway\" used by the NHS to diagnosis and treat sepsis.\n\nWhen asked if she mentioned sepsis to the doctor who was on duty, she said: \"Not that I recall,\" but added she told the nurse dealing with admissions to the Noah's Ark Children's Hospital that they had a \"septic baby\" who needed treatment.\n\nThe inquest also heard there was no dedicated paediatric consultant working in the department on the evening Lewys was brought in.\n\nJo Mower, an adult emergency medicine consultant who was on duty, diagnosed Lewys as probably suffering from a viral illness.\n\nShe told the hearing it was \"quite rare in my experience to see someone that young\" with meningococcal septicaemia and \"the children I have seen have been older\".\n\nShe added: \"I was trying to find a source of the infection. So he'd been grizzly, reduced feeding but still having wet nappies.\n\n\"So I was thinking, 'was there a respiratory problem, was there a urinary problem?' That was my thought process at that time on that day. I didn't think of sepsis at that time, at that point.\"\n\nMs Murphy said she was \"not confident in the diagnosis\" but did not raise it with Dr Mower.\n\nWhen asked by the coroner if she would have acted differently in hindsight, Dr Mower said: \"If the same situation arrived today, I would probably demand that the paeds come down and cannulate [put in a line for treatment].\"\n\nThere were delays getting Lewys admitted to a ward and in getting antibiotics when sepsis was finally given as a diagnosis more than eight hours after he first came to hospital.\n\nMs Link's statement said: \"We are concerned about the timeline of the events, the delays between him being admitted and delays in him getting his first dose of antibiotics, and the delay in the time it took to make the diagnosis.\"\n\nBefore the inquest formally began, coroner Graeme Hughes said he felt it was at least arguable that there had been a breach of the state's duty in protecting Lewys's life and that he therefore would look to widen the scope of the inquest to include how and in what circumstances Lewys died.", "Sporting events were cancelled throughout the UK, including in Manchester, which was also hit by floods. Manchester City's Premier League match against West Ham was among the cancellations", "Joker star Joaquin Phoenix used his best actor acceptance speech to cast light on what he described as humanity's plundering of the natural world for resources.\n\nHe also touched upon his own behaviour - admitting that while he had been \"hard to work with\" in the past he was grateful for being given a second chance.\n\nQuote Message: I’ve been selfish, I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with, and I’m grateful that so many of you in this room have given me a second chance. from Joaquin Phoenix Best Actor for The Joker I’ve been selfish, I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with, and I’m grateful that so many of you in this room have given me a second chance.\n\n\"I think that’s when we’re at our best, when we support each other, not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes,\" he added.\n\n\"But when we help each other to grow, when we educate each other, when we guide each other toward redemption. That is the best of humanity.\"", "Morgan Dunn was found seriously hurt in a house in Marigold Square but died at the scene\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry after a man died following reports of a fight at a house in South Ayrshire.\n\nMorgan Dunn, who was 34, was found seriously injured at a property in Marigold Square in Ayr at about 16:00 on Saturday.\n\nDespite efforts by the emergency services to save him, he died at the scene.\n\nPolice said the death followed an \"altercation\" at the property and have appealed for witnesses to come forward.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place to establish how Mr Dunn, from Hawkhill Drive in Stevenston, died.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stevie Wallace said: \"From our inquiries so far, we understand that there was an altercation between Mr Dunn and another person in the house in Marigold Square which resulted in him being fatally injured.\n\n\"We believe the suspect ran from the back of the house into rear gardens and then onto Kincaidston Drive, which is main thoroughfare and would have been quite busy at this time of the day.\"\n\nHe asked for anyone with information, or dashcam footage to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow: \"So obvious that only an extraordinarily clever and sophisticated person could fail to grasp it.\"\n\nFormer Commons Speaker John Bercow has said there is a \"conspiracy\" to keep him out of the House of Lords.\n\nHe named no names, but said it was \"blindingly obvious\" that there was a \"concerted campaign\" to prevent him from being given a peerage.\n\nPrevious Speakers have been ennobled when they retire, entitling them to sit in the House of Lords.\n\nThe ex-Conservative MP has been accused of bullying by former Commons colleagues, but denies the claims.\n\nCabinet minister Robert Jenrick said the claims must be looked into, but there was \"no obligation\" on the Prime Minister to give Mr Bercow a peerage.\n\nThe controversial speaker stood down in October after a decade in the job, during which he faced accusations of bias over Brexit as well as questions over his own behaviour towards colleagues.\n\nDowning Street has refused to put forward Mr Bercow's name for consideration by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. Instead, the Labour opposition has nominated him.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Broadcasting House programme, Mr Bercow said while \"every Speaker for the last couple of hundred years\" had received a peerage, he accepted there was no automatic entitlement to one.\n\nAsked whether he believed his chances of a peerage had disappeared, he replied: \"I didn't say that. You asked me whether there was a concerted campaign, whether there was a conspiracy, whether there was an organised effort and I said it is blindingly obvious that that is so.\"\n\nMr Bercow is facing at least one formal complaint regarding his behaviour during his decade in the Speaker's Chair.\n\nHe has dismissed claims there was a pattern of bullying towards his subordinates, arguing that the \"vast majority\" of his relationships with colleagues both inside and outside Parliament were constructive.\n\nHe told Broadcasting House that while he had had two disagreements with David Leakey, the former army officer who served as Black Rod in the House of Lords, \"neither remotely amounted to bullying\" and there was no \"regular rancour\" between the two.\n\n\"Almost eight or nine years later he is still moaning about the fact that we argued,\" he said. \"He was, from my point of view, a very marginal figure. He was a bit-part player in my day to day existence.\"\n\nAnd while he accepted his relationship with his former private secretary Angus Sinclair had broken down, he believed the two had parted on good terms and it was \"absolutely not true\" that he had thrown his phone at him.\n\n\"On issue after issue after issue, I wanted to do things differently and felt I had a mandate for modernisation and overdue change and he was very resistant to that,\" he said. \"It was a relationship that, despite our best endeavours, did not work.\n\n\"He was not bullied, there was no bullying. There was an honourable difference of opinion and that is the end of it.\"\n\nMr Bercow, who has written a new book, said he himself been a victim of snobbery and anti-Semitism during his time in Parliament.\n\nLabour MP Dawn Butler, who is campaigning to be the party's deputy leader, suggested the reason the government has not nominated Mr Bercow was \"due to Brexit\" and the ex-Speaker's hostility to the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"If John Bercow has been accused of bullying then there needs to be due process. Has he been found guilty or [is it] just an accusation?\" she said.\n\n\"We really do need to ask the Conservatives why is it that you haven't, like everyone else, ensured that the Speaker of the House is given a peerage. Otherwise I think that's a form of bullying too.\"\n\nBut Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said Mr Bercow had regularly defied the rules when he was Speaker and the convention of ex-Speaker going to the Lords was just that - a convention and not a rule.\n\n\"The prime minister chooses individuals who could sit in the House of Lords as Conservative peers,\" he told Sky News. \"There's no obligation on the prime minister to make John Bercow a member of the House of Lords.\"\n\n\"I think what's important here is that there should be a high bar on anybody who ends up in the House of Lords as indeed in the House of Commons. The allegations against John Bercow need now to be investigated.\"", "Storm Ciara has hit the UK, bringing severe gales and flooding in its wake.", "The 2007 set was typically glitzy, but the Oscars doesn't attract as many viewers as it used to\n\nMartin Scorsese's film The Irishman was snubbed at the Oscars on Sunday night, walking away empty-handed despite landing 10 nominations.\n\nBut the veteran director showed he still had a sense of humour when the length of his film - three-and-a-half hours - was the butt of one of Chris Rock's opening jokes.\n\n\"Marty, I got to tell you, I loved the first season of The Irishman,\" Rock told Scorsese, who was seated in the audience, drawing laughs from the man himself and everyone else in the auditorium.\n\nNot to be outdone, the Oscars ceremony itself equalled Scorsese's mob drama with the same running time.\n\nIt also failed to hit its target though, with the US live TV audience falling to an all-time low. of 23.6 million.\n\nThis follows a trend of falling ratings for award ceremonies as more people prefer to discover the highlights online rather than sit through the whole thing.\n\nJames Cameron declared himself \"king of the world\" when his film Titanic won 11 Oscars\n\nLast year's ceremony was minus a host for the first time, resulting in an 11% ratings bumpto 29.6 million viewers. Despite this success, some commentators are now calling for the return of a presenter to steer the ship.\n\nBut that's not the only issue with the televised ceremony.\n\nMatthew Belloni, the Hollywood Reporter's editorial director, thinks it needs a fresh approach.\n\n\"I believe the Oscars telecast would be improved if there was exclusive movie content that viewers had to tune in to see,\" he tells BBC News.\n\n\"For instance, the Hollywood studios could all agree to air an exclusive trailer no one has seen during the telecast. Who wouldn't want to watch for a first look at Top Gun 2 or Fast & Furious 9?\"\n\nBelloni went further on the Media Masters podcast in 2018, saying: \"The fact that the Oscars are so boring is a colossal failure on the Academy's part.\n\nJulia Roberts and Russell Crowe won acting Oscars for Erin Brockovich and Gladiator in 2001\n\n\"First of all there are 24 categories, most of which the average person does not care about. And they are presented with the exact same fanfare and exact same time allotted to each one of them.\n\n\"It's after midnight on the [US] east coast by the time they get to best picture, and they're running through it to get it done because they're already late. It is crazy.\"\n\nHe also thinks the Academy \"has been nominating films that fewer people are seeing\" in recent years.\n\n\"You don't see as many of the Titanic or Gladiator-style movies that win best picture any more. It's smaller films, films with niche audiences.\"\n\nThat means, he says, that \"there's less of an incentive for viewers to tune in, because they don't feel like they have a horse in the race\".\n\nEditor Thelma Schoonmaker thinks the ceremony \"could be shorter\"\n\nThree-time Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker, whose working life is spent deciding how to best present film footage, also had some ideas for the ceremony.\n\n\"Frankly I don't watch it unless one of our people is nominated,\" she told BBC News.\n\nBut the veteran editor - who edited The Irishman (how long was it originally?!) - suggests the ceremony \"could be shorter probably [with] shorter speeches\".\n\n\"There's so many thank yous that everybody does - to their agent, their this, their that. That, I think, is not as meaningful to most of the audience as it is obviously to the people they're thanking.\n\n\"Maybe the speeches could be more about the work - you know, the art of it.\"\n\nOscar winner Mark Bridges won a jet ski for the brevity of his speech in 2018\n\nIn 2018, host Jimmy Kimmel was so keen to cut down the speeches he gave a jet ski to the winner who spoke for the least amount of time.\n\n\"I have a stopwatch,\" he told that year's nominees. \"Why waste precious time thanking your mom when you could be taking her for the ride of her life on a brand new jet ski?\"\n\nPhantom Thread costume designer Mark Bridges ended up with the $18,000 (£13,800) vehicle, which he donated to charity.\n\nSchoonmaker noted that when she attended the recent American Cinema Editors awards, the speeches were top notch.\n\n\"I was very impressed. They were very moving speeches. There was hardly any of the endless, endless list of thanking. The speeches were short and it was a very good ceremony.\"\n\nPerhaps film editors have a thing or two to teach the rest of the movie industry when it comes to speaking succinctly.\n\nJimmy Kimmel wanted to keep the 2018 ceremony short\n\nAnother suggestion came from The Big Picture podcast, which suggested the Academy should count down to the winning film by actually revealing the votes each best film nominee got.\n\nHosts Sean Fennessy and Amanda Dobbins, who'd seen the idea on Twitter, said this would make the ceremony \"much more fun\", adding that a ranking should be revealed \"every 15 or 20 minutes until you get to the final film - you have the elimination chamber of Oscars\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ramin Setoodeh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOf course, the Oscars are not the only TV show facing declining audiences. Traditional TV as a whole is struggling to reach younger viewers.\n\n\"The hottest shows on TV networks - which command the highest ad prices - are attracting older viewers, which is a challenge for brands that want to reach millennials and teens,\" said the New York Times in 2018.\n\n\"As TV ad spending has begun to drop, marketers have been diverting more money to tech giants like Google and Facebook.\"\n\nSo what can be done to stem the exodus of award show viewers?\n\nThis year's Brit Awards are slimming down the number of winners from 12 to nine, compared with the Oscars' 24 categories.\n\nThe Brits are also promising \"more music\", with artists given full creative control of their performances.\n\nCeleste, the BBC's Sound Of 2020, is performing at the Brits as their Rising Star winner\n\nThe Baftas already edit their film awards ceremony down to a two-hour BBC broadcast.\n\nEven with new host Graham Norton, this year's event attracted an average of 3.03m viewers, down from 2019's 3.5m - which in turn was 500,000 fewer than 2018.\n\nOscar watchers may recall that organisers tried to update the ceremony last year.\n\nThey wanted to include a popular films category, have fewer songs performed and to give awards including cinematography and editing during ad breaks.\n\nSpike Lee criticised a proposal to hand out Oscars during ad breaks\n\nThe overall format remained the same - minus a host, after Kevin Hart resigned amid controversy over old homophobic tweets.\n\nSo was former host Johnny Carson right when he famously called the Oscars \"two hours of sparkling entertainment, spread out over a four-hour show\"?\n\nBBC News asked a group of students from the Los Angeles Film School what they thought.\n\nAs potential academy voters, and maybe even future winners, they were able to offer a youthful perspective - and their views were decidedly mixed.\n\nWhile most of them enjoyed the ceremony, they felt it was \"too long\", \"hasn't changed in years\" and \"doesn't captivate younger audiences\".\n\nAttendees at the Governors Ball can enjoy a chocolate Oscar after the ceremony\n\nNone of them said it should be hostless.\n\nThe ditching of the popular film category split opinion. Some said it would simply reward \"the movie that made the most money\" and was \"useless\" because \"the awards must be about quality\".\n\nBut others liked the idea, feeling it \"might attract the attention of younger viewers\" who are currently being courted by many parts of the media.\n\nCaptivating winners' speeches, such as Olivia Colman's last year, make for memorable moments, and some students love it when film-makers speak about their work or politics.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Oscars This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"Movies are meant to move people, and the people making them have powerful voices and should speak for what they believe,\" said one.\n\nBut others believe \"overlong thank yous are the worst\", with one student stating: \"I don't care about Hollywood's opinion on politics.\"\n\nThere also was no consensus about consigning categories like editing to the ad breaks. One student argued these awards represented \"where the real skill is\", but another replied: \"It should be reported afterwards.\"\n\nBradley Cooper and Lady Gaga's Oscars duet went viral last year\n\nBest song performances were a big hit with the students. After all, who could forget last year's steamy performance of Shallow by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper?\n\nOne remarked they \"loved\" the songs as \"they make the show feel more modern\", while another advocated reducing them all to a \"medley\".\n\nBBC News has also contacted Oscars organisers to see if they have any further plans for the ceremony.\n\nAccording to Matt Wolf from the International New York Times, Oscars organisers will \"incur outrage almost no matter what they do with the ceremony\".\n\n\"Even if five new pre-conditions were met, five more would emerge,\" said Wolf, who describes himself as a \"self-confessed Oscars nerd\".\n\nHe also thinks the organisers should televise all the categories, but said of the technical nominees: \"Mr and Mrs Middle America have no idea what they do.\"\n\nHe complained that \"all four acting winners are guessable this year in advance, which takes the suspense out of it.\n\n\"It's not the Oscars' fault, but Renée Zellweger, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt and Laura Dern seem dead certs so the awards seem a bore.\"\n\nSecurity is always tight inside the Dolby Theatre\n\nYet Wolf is sympathetic to the ceremony's organisers.\n\n\"The Oscars have become a very pliable punching bag; people can use it to vent their frustrations from all quarters. If they do A people want B; if they do Q people want Z.\"\n\nThe Oscars, he goes on, need to reflect all aspects of the ceremony. \"You want the garish dress on the red carpet as much as you want someone stunning and stellar. We need the package, warts and all.\n\n\"People love to complain about the Oscars, it's sort of a cultural sport, but the imperfections are what make them so glorious.\"", "People were spotted \"risking their lives\" to take selfies on cliffs near Swansea.\n\nStorm Ciara battered Wales over the weekend with strong winds and flooding.\n\nMumbles Coastguard cliff rescue team tweeted: \"Whilst on patrol this afternoon we saw a few people risking their lives for a photo.\n\n\"This may seem like fun, but it just isn’t a good idea!\n\n\"It’s why we have highly trained Volunteer Coastguard Teams and Lifeboat Crew on call 24/7 ready to risk their lives to come and get you.\"", "Bong Joon-ho won best director and best original screenplay as well as best picture\n\nThe US live TV audience for the Oscars fell to an all-time low on Sunday.\n\nRoughly 23.6 million viewers tuned into the awards ceremony, according to the US broadcaster ABC, citing Nielsen.\n\nThe ratings fell sharply from last year when 29.5 million people watched, amid an industry-wide decline in linear TV viewing.\n\nSouth Korea's Parasite made history, becoming the first non-English language film to win best picture since the awards began 92 years ago.\n\nRenee Zellweger won best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy. Joaquin Phoenix was named best actor for Joker.\n\nDespite the ratings slump, the Oscars, which had no host for the second year running, remains the most-watched awards show.\n\nIn 2019 the ceremony managed to buck a four-year trend in declining viewers and increased its audience by 11% to 26.5 million.\n\nMusicians Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performed a much-celebrated duet, while Queen opened the show.\n\nIt was the first year the ceremony went without a host, which some had pointed to as a reason for its increased popularity.\n\nTimothee Chalamet (right) and Natalie Portman (left) gave Taika Waititi his award\n\nBut the new record low indicates the Oscars was not able to repeat that success in 2020.\n\nSinger and actress Janelle Monae opened the three-and-half hour show, followed by performances by musicians Elton John and Billie Eilish.\n\nThe awards were presented by celebrity duos, including Timothee Chalamet and Natalie Portman, and Steve Martin and Chris Rock.\n\nSouth Korean viewers celebrated when Parasite director Bong Joon-ho spoke partly in South Korean during his acceptance speech.\n\nOther awards ceremonies, including the Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and Grammys, also lost viewers this year.\n\nThe number of people who watched the 2019 Emmy Awards live fell by 32%.\n\nParasite won four awards in total, while Sir Sam Mendes's 1917 took three.\n\nThe World War One epic had been the favourite to win best picture, but its awards all came in the technical categories.\n\nBrad Pitt won the first Oscar of his career for best supporting actor in his role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.\n\nBest actress winner Renee Zellwegger paid tribute to Judy Garland, who was nominated for two Oscars but never won.\n\nJoker actor Joaquin Phoenix used his acceptance speech to cover topics from animal rights, to the environment and racism.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Should the Oscars rip up the ceremony rulebook?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been convicted of planning a terror attack at London tourist hotspots, just over a year after he was cleared of attacking police with a sword outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nMohiussunnath Chowdhury, 28, from Luton, spoke about targeting attractions including Madame Tussauds, the gay Pride parade and a tourist bus.\n\nThe former Uber driver unwittingly revealed his plot to undercover police.\n\nHe also bragged to them that he had deceived the jury at his first trial.\n\nChowdhury was cleared of a terror charge in December 2018 after slashing police with a sword outside the Queen's London residence while shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nAt the time Chowdhury told jurors he only wanted to be killed by police and did not intend to harm anyone.\n\nChowdhury's sister, Sneha Chowdhury, was convicted of one count of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism\n\nUndercover officers, posing as like-minded extremists, had Chowdhury under surveillance during a five-month operation, his trial at Woolwich Crown Court heard.\n\nThe chicken shop worker prepared for his atrocity by lifting weights, practising stabbing and rehearsing beheading techniques, as well as booking shooting range training and trying to acquire a real gun, the court heard.\n\nHe remained emotionless as jurors found him guilty of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, collecting information likely to be useful to someone preparing an act of terrorism, and disseminating terrorist publications.\n\nThe second charge related to a document titled \"guidance for doing just terror operations\" on his phone, which included instructions on how to kill people with knives.\n\nChowdhury was nothing if not prepared for martyrdom.\n\nHe'd collected knives for an attack, looked into firearms training and even made a list of what he was going to do when he got to heaven.\n\nTop of the list wasn't meeting his maker, though. It was a tour of the palace he assumed he would be given.\n\nSecond on the unmarried chicken shop worker's list was to meet and consummate his relationship with 72 wives.\n\nOnly later - seventh on the list - would he find time to meet God; and his 10th task of life in the hereafter was \"choose quests to embark on\".\n\nMohiussunnath - or Musa - Chowdhury was obsessive about quests in which he played the part of a heroic martyr doing God's work on earth.\n\nChowdhury's sister, Sneha Chowdhury, 25, cried as she was convicted of one count of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism and cleared of another count of the same charge.\n\nThe prosecution described his sister as \"loyal, much put-on and long-suffering\" but also as someone who was \"aware of all he was saying to her and what it meant\".\n\nChowdhury's defence barrister had argued the university drop-out was a \"pathetic little man\" and an \"attention-seeker\" who \"talks and talks, but doesn't do\".\n\nChowdhury also dismissed his praise of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby as \"jihadi banter\" and said his weapons training came from a fascination with martial arts and weightlifting.\n\nMohiussunnath Chowdhury had planned attacks on targets including Madame Tussauds, the gay Pride parade and an open-top sightseeing bus\n\nBut prosecutors said he desired to \"unleash death and suffering\" on non-Muslims.\n\nScotland Yard counter terror commander Richard Smith said Chowdhury was an \"extremely dangerous person\" whose intention was \"to kill and harm as many people as possible\".\n\nIn one recording from June last year, Chowdhury told an undercover officer he was free to attack one million unbelievers if he was fighting for \"the pleasure of Allah\".", "The cost of HS2 is reportedly set to soar to more than £100bn\n\nOne thing is certain about HS2: it doesn't generate much in the way of agreement.\n\nThe latest debate around the high-speed rail line, which could be Europe's largest infrastructure project, concerns a revised cost figure of £106 billion, reported earlier this week.\n\nBut experts close to the independent review of HS2 have cast doubt on the significance of that figure to a forthcoming report, led by former chairman of HS2 Doug Oakervee.\n\nAndy Street, the Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands and a member of the review panel, told Newsnight that \"£106 billion was a 'could be' number.\n\nIt was never a base case.\" Others involved in the process said they did not believe the figure had even featured in the version of the report they had seen.\n\nThe review panel's work finished in October, at which point those involved were allowed to read a \"final draft\" of the report before handing it back.\n\n\"The draft I read did not, to my recollection, give an opinion of costs as high as £106 billion,\" said one.\n\nAnother expressed surprise in seeing the figure linked to the report this week.\n\nBut the review had, indeed, identified risks that the costs could rise above the £81-88 billion estimate, they added.\n\nThe panel, they said, had discussed steps that should be taken to help control the projects costs, including beefing up the project's governance with an independent, permanent review body.\n\nIt had also considered whether the approach to contracts should be revised, with the government assuming more of the project risk to bring costs down.\n\nThe Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to make a call within weeks on whether HS2 should proceed.\n\nThe fate of the mammoth infrastructure project is seen as closely linked to the new government's ambitions to boost growth in constituencies in the North and Midlands.\n\nAndrew Sentance, a former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee and one of the Oakervee review panel, this week suggested the leak of the report was government \"spin\" against the project.\n\nHe told Radio 4's PM programme: \"Number 10 are trying to spin the fact that they are sitting on the report and they are trying to condition the public to their own conclusions. Some of the aspects of the reporting....are not, if the report was properly published, the way it would be interpreted\".\n\nAnother person involved in the review told Newsnight: \"It was a yes recommendation\", adding that they shared Mr Sentance's concerns.\n\nOthers questioned whether the report could have changed since the version shared with the panel last year.\n\n\"I stand behind the report and have no reason to think anything has changed,\" said Mr Street. \"I would like to see the report published as soon as possible so that we all know exactly what the facts are\".\n\nA DfT spokesperson said this week: \"A draft of the Oakervee Report was delivered shortly before Christmas.\n\n\"The Transport Secretary, Chancellor and Prime Minister will take a final decision on HS2 shortly.\"\n\nThe FT, which first reported the new details from the Oakervee review, said that £106 billion was the price of the project put forward to the review by Michael Byng, an infrastructure consultant.\n\nA separate report published by Lord Berkeley, the former deputy chair of the Oakervee review, had mentioned a figure of £107 billion as the latest cost of the project.\n\nLord Berkeley published his own report, saying that he disagreed with the conclusions of the draft review and \"was not given an opportunity to amend it.\"\n\nSupporters of HS2 argue that the large price tag reflects the scale of the project, which will be delivered over two decades and has the potential to transform the UK's rail infrastructure.\n\nBut to give the go ahead to HS2, the government will (implicitly at least) be required to show the project's value at the latest expected cost. Whatever that might actually be.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC 2 weekdays 22:30 or on iPlayer. Subscribe to the programme on YouTube or follow them on Twitter.", "Despite the death toll, an increasing number of patients are recovering\n\nThe number of people killed by the new coronavirus rose by 97 on Sunday, the highest number of casualties in a day.\n\nThe total number of deaths in China is now 908 - but the number of newly-infected people per day has stabilised.\n\nAcross China, 40,171 people are infected while 187,518 are under medical observation.\n\nMeanwhile, 60 more people have tested positive on a cruise ship quarantined in Japan - meaning 130 out of 3,700 passengers have caught the virus.\n\nThe Diamond Princess ship is on a two-week quarantine off Yokohama, after a passenger - who earlier disembarked in Hong Kong - tested positive.\n\nThe infected passengers are taken off board and treated in nearby hospitals.\n\nThe new cases mean around a third of all coronavirus patients outside of China were on the Diamond Princess.\n\nAccording to Chinese data, 3,281 patients have been cured and discharged from hospital.\n\nOn Monday, millions of people returned to work after the Lunar New Year break, which was extended from 31 January to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nBut precautionary measures remain in place, including the staggering of working hours, and the selective reopening of workplaces.\n\nChinese president Xi Jinping visited a local hospital in Beijing that offers treatment to coronavirus patients. He also took part in a video chat with medical workers in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak.\n\nImages from state media show Mr Xi wearing a mask and having his temperature checked. The president has largely stayed away from public view during the outbreak.\n\nChina's president has kept a low profile since the outbreak began\n\n\"We must have confidence that we will eventually win this battle against the epidemic,\" he told staff at Ditan hospital in Beijing.\n\nOver the weekend, the number of coronavirus deaths overtook that of the Sars epidemic in 2003 which also originated in China and killed 774 people worldwide.\n\nThe WHO on Saturday said the number of new cases in China was \"stabilising\" - but warned it was too early to say if the virus had peaked.\n\nOn Sunday evening, the organisation sent an international mission to help coordinate a response to the outbreak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe new virus was first reported in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. The city of 11 million has been in lockdown for weeks.\n\nThe outbreak was declared a global emergency by the WHO on 30 January.\n\nIt has spread to at least 27 other countries and territories, but so far there have only been two deaths outside of mainland China, in the Philippines and Hong Kong.\n\nIn the UK, the number of people infected by the coronavirus doubled to eight after four more people tested positive for the virus on Monday.\n\nThe Department of Health has described the coronavirus as a \"serious and imminent threat\" to public health. The government has issued new powers in England to keep people in quarantine to stop the virus spreading. Under these measures, people who have contracted the virus will be forcibly quarantined and not allowed to leave.\n\nThe director-general of the WHO on Sunday warned that the virus being transmitted by people who have not been to China could be the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\n\"There've been some concerning instances of onward 2019nCoV spread from people with no travel history to China,\" Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on Twitter\n\n\"The detection of a small number of cases may indicate more widespread transmission in other countries; in short, we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg.\"\n\nMeanwhile in Hong Kong, police are searching for two people who absconded from quarantine, the South China Morning Post reports. Nearly 1,200 people are in quarantine in the region.\n\nAlso in Hong Kong, passengers on a quarantined cruise ship have been allowed to disembark after tests showed no infection among them or its crew.\n\nThe World Dream had been held in isolation after eight passengers from a previous cruise had caught the virus.\n\nSouth Korea has issued a temporary ban on cruise ships entering its ports due to fears of spreading the virus.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Cancer patients in England are missing out on basic information about their diseases because of staff shortages in the NHS, a charity has warned.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support said at least 120,000 patients a year felt topics including treatments and side effects were not fully explained.\n\nThe charity blamed \"soaring\" staffing pressures, which left people \"in the dark\" about how to prepare.\n\nThe NHS said satisfaction levels with cancer care were at a record high.\n\nAs part of an NHS survey, more than 70,000 people who have undergone cancer treatment in England were asked about their care.\n\nMore than a third (39%) said the longer-term side-effects of treatment were not fully explained - the charity said that equated to about 120,000 a year.\n\nA quarter of people also said they did not have the possible side effects explained prior to the start of treatment.\n\nAnd one in five said there were not always enough nurses on duty to care for them.\n\nMacmillan warned that without this information and support, patients \"may feel uncertain about treatment, feel forced to give up a job or feel unsure about how to prepare for the impact cancer might have on them physically, financially and emotional\".\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said cancer survival rates and patient satisfaction levels with their cancer care were at record highs.\n\nThe \"vast majority of patients were given the name of a clinical nurse specialist to support them through their treatment, which is testament to the hard work and compassion of NHS staff\", he added.", "Laura Dern wore a soft pink dress with a jewelled black bodice. When asked on the carpet what sort of speech she might give if she won best supporting actress for Marriage Story, she said: \"Hopefully you get inspired in the moment and speak from your heart.\"", "Severe warnings have been issued across parts of northern Europe as Storm Ciara sweeps across the continent.\n\nHigh winds and heavy rain continue to batter areas of Ireland, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and Scandinavia.\n\nThe storm led to travel disruptions and the cancellation of several public events over the weekend.\n\nForecasters predict it will continue to move south-eastwards, bringing gusts of over 90mph (145km/h) in some areas.\n\nIn Ireland, around 14,000 homes and businesses were left without power as the country begins counting ballots for its general election.\n\nOrganisers also cancelled an opening ceremony to mark the beginning of Galway's year as the European Capital of Culture, citing public safety.\n\nOver in Denmark, a woman and a child had to be rescued from the North Sea after they were swept into the water while walking along a pier.\n\nHigh winds have also brought severe disruption around the continent\n\nFrance issued amber warnings - its second-highest level - for 42 regions of the country, including Normandy, the Ardennes and Lorraine.\n\nPeople in the country have been warned to stay away from coastal and wooded areas, several cities have closed off parks and seaside promenades.\n\nForecasters in Norway, meanwhile, have issued red warnings - their highest risk level - for some southern and western areas due to concerns about high seas.\n\nSevere weather has disrupted trains and flights in several major European cities\n\nThese same concerns have also led to the suspension of ferry services in the English Channel.\n\nGale force winds grounded hundreds of flights in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Frankfurt, Brussels and Amsterdam Schipol were among the airports affected.\n\nGerman railway firm Deutsche Bahn also warned of severe disruptions in the north of the country.\n\nStorm Ciara is known as Elsa in Norway, and Sabine in Germany and Switzerland\n\nStorm Ciara - known as Elsa in Norway, and Sabine in Germany and Switzerland - is the most severe storm to hit the continent so far this year.\n\nIn recent years, several national forecasters have adopted the practice of naming large storms to help the public monitor severe weather.\n\nBut while Irish, Dutch, French and British have agreed to adopt the same names, Germany and Switzerland have their own separate agreement, as does Norway.\n\nFor the UK, this year's storm names have already been chosen, with Dennis next in line.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Ciara? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Protests against deportation flights have been held outside the Jamaican embassy in London\n\nMore than 170 MPs have urged the PM to halt plans to deport 50 people to Jamaica on Tuesday until a review into the Windrush scandal is published.\n\nTheir call comes after a leaked draft of the report said the government should consider ending the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children.\n\nTuesday's flight is expected to include a man who moved to the UK aged five.\n\nThe PM has said it is right that foreign-born offenders are deported.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs last week: \"I think the whole House will understand that the people of this country will think it right to send back foreign national offenders.\"\n\nThe Home Office has previously said the flight was \"specifically for removing foreign criminals\" and it included \"people convicted of manslaughter, rape, violent crime and dealing Class A drugs\". Number 10 has said all the people on the flight have sentences of 12 months or more.\n\nMeanwhile, Duncan Lewis, a law firm that is representing some of the people on the flight, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that they are launching judicial review proceedings.\n\nThe firm says the flight's passengers include people who are \"potential victims of trafficking, groomed as children by drugs gangs running county lines networks and later pursued in the criminal justice system as serious offenders\".\n\nThe flight from the UK to Kingston is due to leave on 11 February.\n\nThe group of cross-party MPs say in a letter that they have \"grave concerns\" about the Home Office's deportation plan.\n\n\"Not only is there an unacceptable risk of removing anyone with a potential Windrush claim, but there has been a failure by the government to remedy the causes of the Windrush scandal,\" it said.\n\n\"It is, therefore, crucial that all further deportations are cancelled until the long-awaiting Lessons Learned Review is published, and its recommendations implemented.\"\n\nThe Windrush scandal saw many of those who had arrived in Caribbean countries between 1958 and 1971 detained or deported despite having the right to live in the UK for decades.\n\nThe fallout prompted criticism of the government's \"hostile environment\" approach to immigration and led to the resignation of Amber Rudd as home secretary in 2018.\n\nLabour MP Nadia Whittome, who organised the letter, said: \"The fact is that many of the individuals in question have lived in the UK since they were children and at least 41 British children are now at risk of losing their fathers through this charter flight.\n\n\"The government risks repeating the mistakes of the Windrush scandal unless it cancels this flight and others like it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFather-of-five Howard Ormsby is among those who are due to be deported on Tuesday.\n\nHe was jailed for 18 months after he was convicted of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and he was released in December.\n\n\"I came here at the age of 15 with my older sister and I've been here 18 years of my life,\" the 32-year-old said, speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show from a detention centre in Harmondsworth, near London Heathrow.\n\n\"I've never tried to deny the fact I've made a mistake, but everyone has a chance to right their wrongs.\n\n\"I have all my family here - I have no one in Jamaica.\n\n\"It just seems weird that you're trying to send me back to a country I do not know.\"\n\nHe said he believed that if he is sent to Jamaica he would be killed because of gang violence there.\n\nTajay Thompson is also facing deportation to Jamaica. He served half of a 15-month sentence in 2015 after he was convicted of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply at 17.\n\n\"I feel like I was born here. Jamaica is not my country,\" Mr Thompson said, adding that he had no links to the Caribbean nation, which he had only visited twice since coming to the UK aged five.\n\n\"It's not like I'm a rapist or a murderer, I've made a mistake when I was 17 and it's now going to affect my whole life.\"\n\nThe 23-year-old, who is living in south London, added that he was groomed into a gang as a teenager.\n\nHis mother Carline Angus told BBC Newsnight last week: \"My son came here when he was five, so why is he in this category [to be deported]? I think he should be given a chance.\"\n\nLabour shadow immigration minister Bell Ribeiro-Addy said the flight was \"the most brutal and inhumane way to remove people from this country\".\n\nLabour MP David Lammy told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was \"wrong and frankly scandalous to continue in this way given the scandal that we experienced just two years ago\".\n\nBut Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak told Sky News that those being forcibly removed had committed \"very serious offences\" and their deportations were \"reasonable\".\n\nThe Tory MP said he believed the flight was \"right\" and the British public would expect foreign national offenders to be deported.\n\n\"What that plane is about is deporting foreign national criminals. Many of these people have committed crimes such as manslaughter, rape, other very serious offences,\" he said.\n\n\"It's reasonable, it's proportionate, and something the British people would expect us to do for foreign criminals who have committed very serious crimes who should be sent back to their countries where they have a right to reside elsewhere.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Thompson's case, Mr Sunak said he was not familiar with it, but added that \"all due process will have been followed\".\n\nSajid Javid commissioned the Windrush review in July 2018, while home secretary, to avoid any future repeat of the scandal.\n\nA draft of the report, written by Wendy Williams - an inspector of constabulary - in June last year, says: \"Government should review its policy and approach to FNOs [foreign national offenders], if necessary through primary legislation. It should consider ending all deportation of FNOs where they arrived in the UK as children (say, before age of 13).\n\n\"Alternatively, deportation should only be considered in the most severe cases.\"", "WARNING: This film contains disturbing scenes including images of torture\n\nBBC Africa Eye has uncovered shocking video evidence that torture is being used by several branches of the Nigerian police and armed forces.\n\nTorture is illegal in Nigeria. But images from social media show that a particular form of torture - a technique known as ‘tabay' - is widely used in the interrogation and punishment of detainees, including children.\n\nThis investigation looks at the origins of this technique, identifies the worst offenders, and asks why they are not being held to account. It also reveals that in 2014 a senior police officer was involved in the torture of a young man who later died from his injuries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruby showed us a few of her different hairstyles\n\nA pupil who was repeatedly sent home from school because of her afro hair wants to make sure it doesn't happen to any other UK schoolchild.\n\nRuby Williams received £8,500 in an out-of-court settlement after her family took legal action against The Urswick School in east London.\n\nShe was told her hair breached policy, which stated that \"afro style hair must be of reasonable size and length\".\n\nThe school did not accept any liability.\n\nRuby told Radio 1 Newsbeat she wants UK schools to have \"better guidelines on their uniform policy so that people can't be discriminated against when they're walking into school\".\n\n\"I'd also like to hope that this story gives confidence to those who might be staying quiet about a similar situation,\" Ruby added.\n\nRuby's official school photo for years 10 and 11, taken at the end of year nine\n\nKate Williams, Ruby's mum, first spotted the policy on the school's website more than three years ago - after Ruby was first sent home because of her hair.\n\nRuby, now 18, claims the school's head teacher Richard Brown told her that her hair was \"too big\".\n\nShe says the school, based in Hackney, claimed that her hair was distracting to pupils and blocked views of the whiteboard.\n\nThe Urswick School's governing body says the school \"recognises and celebrates diversity at every opportunity\".\n\n\"The governing body is hugely distressed if any child or family feels we have discriminated against them,\" it told Newsbeat in a statement, adding: \"We do not accept that the school has discriminated, even unintentionally, against any individual or group.\"\n\nThe settlement offer was made by the London Diocesan Board for Schools directly to Ruby's family, without any admission of liability from the school.\n\nSince the initial complaints from Ruby's family, the school has removed the hair policy from its website.\n\nRuby's hair the first time she was sent home from school, when she was 14\n\nWe first heard about Ruby's story in 2018.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was using its powers under the Equality Act to fund a race discrimination claim against the school on Ruby's behalf.\n\nShe had spent years 10 and 11 - while preparing for and sitting her GCSEs - being repeatedly sent home from school because of her hair.\n\nIt shocked Ruby at first.\n\n\"Am I really being sent home because my hair is growing out of my head the way it is?\" she told us.\n\nRuby's school used her year seven picture, when her hair was straight, in her year 11 yearbook\n\nRuby developed signs of depression and felt anxious about going to school because of it all.\n\nShe worried she would be singled out by teachers in front of her classmates because of her appearance.\n\n\"I felt like any time I would walk into the school with my hair out, all eyes were on me,\" she said.\n\nThe school was sent letters from Ruby's GP and a clinical psychologist warning that she was suffering because of the policy.\n\nBut it's claimed staff didn't offer her any support.\n\nThe school says it's \"impossible\" to comment further on a former student.\n\nRuby with extensions, graduating with her natural hair pulled back in the second picture, and gelled into a ponytail in the third\n\nRuby tried lots of different hairstyles to comply with the school's rules.\n\nShe tried braids, which can take hours to complete and cost anywhere from between £20 to £100 if done at a hairdressers.\n\nShe also tried putting her hair in different types of ponytails and slicking it back with gel.\n\nBut her family found that whatever they did cost a lot of money, took lots of time, or risked damaging Ruby's hair.\n\nRuby's hair after learning how to do single extensions on YouTube\n\nAfter one incident, when Ruby says a teacher tried to put her own hair bands into Ruby's hair, she'd had enough.\n\n\"I ended up getting frustrated because my hair would keep bouncing out of the bun and in the end I just said 'If it's too big can you just please send me home? Because this is not OK'.\n\n\"Why should I have to cut or change my hair and people can have their hair all the way down to their hips, as long as they want - but because my hair grows out I need to cut it?\"\n\nRuby says it would take half an hour in the morning to get her hair into a style the school found acceptable\n\nRuby hasn't always liked her hair.\n\nShe started straightening it in 2013 when she was in year seven - which took around three hours twice a week.\n\nIt caused her hair to become damaged but Ruby felt like she needed it to look straight.\n\n\"I thought that there was something wrong with it, because why does nobody else have this hair?\" she told us.\n\n\"Everyone I see that has hair like mine has it in a weave or under a wig and nobody actually shows it... so my hair can't be normal and it can't be as nice as other people's hair.\"\n\nRuby aged three, when she was happy with her afro\n\nAfter seeing more people embrace their natural hair, Ruby stopped straightening it towards the end of year eight.\n\nBut in September 2016 she was sent home and told her hair breached the school's uniform policy - leading to the legal action.\n\nAfter years of delays with her case, Ruby and her family decided to settle out of court.\n\nThey now want to make sure that children with afro hair at school in the UK don't experience anything similar - and are calling for schools to mark World Afro Day, which takes place on 15 September, to raise awareness.\n\nRuby, mum Kate and dad Lenny have had support from the Equality and Human Rights Commission\n\nRuby, who's now studying for her A-levels at another college, says she does now feel confident about her hair.\n\n\"I'm definitely proud of my hair. I'm proud of the progress that it's made and the journey that I've been on.\n\n\"I'm proud that my hair is 'too big'.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The walkers were found to have had no winter kit\n\nRescuers said four people helped from Ben Nevis were lucky to be alive.\n\nThey said the tourists who were caught in blizzard conditions had \"no ice axes, no crampons and as far as we are aware, no maps\". Three of them were wearing trainers.\n\nLochaber Mountain Rescue Team found them near the summit of the mountain.\n\nAll four were taken by helicopter from part-way down the mountain to be checked over at Belford Hospital in Fort William.\n\nInverness Coastguard helicopter, Rescue 151, could not be used near the summit because of the severity of the conditions.\n\nMiller Harris, of Lochaber MRT, said the four people who were visiting Scotland from abroad were lucky to have been at a place on the mountain where they could get mobile phone reception.\n\nThey were able to raise the alarm by calling the police and then use an app to give rescuers a location \"within metres\" of where they were.\n\nMr Harris told BBC Scotland: \"If there hadn't been a phone signal, we would have had no idea what was going on.\n\n\"One of them managed to get back to the summit where they met our team and was able to confirm the location where his friends were.\n\n\"They were very, very cold and one was probably hypothermic and was having difficulty walking.\"\n\nMr Harris said the people were on a day trip, rather than being experienced hillwalkers, and had no winter equipment such as ice axes or crampons and did not appear to have a map.\n\nLochaber MRT described the weather as \"horrendous\" with the wind chill of -20C or below.\n\nThe rescue on Britain's highest mountain came in the wake of Storm Ciara and amid Met Office yellow \"be aware\" warnings of high winds and snow.\n\nThe group used the app What3words to give a location \"within metres\" of where rescuers found them.\n\nThe app divides the world into three-metre squares and gives each one a unique three-word address.\n\nTortoises, swarm and announce were the words given for the group of four on Ben Nevis, according to the What3words website.\n\nIn Scotland, it has previously been used in the rescue of an injured walker in Lewis in the Western Isles.\n\nMountaineering groups suggest the app be used in addition to but not instead of map and compass and other winter skills.\n\nMr Harris backed that advice, adding: \"We are not saying that people should not go out on the mountains. People with the right skills and equipment are able to do that safely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 12-year-old boy has been charged in connection with racist chants against Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos.\n\nPolice launched an investigation following allegations of abuse during the Scottish Premiership clash with Celtic on Sunday 29 December.\n\nThe boy cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nSupt Mark Sutherland said that any form of abuse was \"completely unacceptable\" and that the force would continue to investigate any further claims.", "Schofield with Stephanie Lowe at last month's National Television Awards\n\nThe wife of presenter Phillip Schofield has said she supports the \"brave step\" he has taken in revealing he is gay.\n\nStephanie Lowe told the Sun that she loved the TV star \"as much today as I ever have\" and that she would \"still be there, holding his hand\" in the future.\n\nIt follows her husband's announcement last week that he was \"coming to terms with the fact that I am gay\".\n\nHis statement prompted an outpouring of support that continued on Sunday's Dancing on Ice, which he co-presents.\n\n\"You have always been an absolute legend but never, never ever more so than this week my friend,\" said dancer Ashley Banjo, a judge on the ITV programme.\n\n\"I think I speak on behalf of all of us when I say we've got nothing but love and respect for you.\"\n\nIn a statement given to the Sun newspaper, Schofield's wife of 27 years acknowledged her husband's announcement had been \"difficult\" for the family.\n\nShe said they had both been \"awestruck by the strength and love\" of their two daughters, \"even as they've been trying to make sense of it all themselves\".\n\n\"Everyone should be proud to live their own truth,\" Lowe continued in her first public statement since her husband's announcement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phillip Schofield on ITV's This Morning: \"Every person I tell, it gets a little lighter\"\n\nLowe's comments followed an interview Schofield gave to the Sun on Sunday, in which he admitted he did not know what the future held for him and his family.\n\n\"It has taken me a long time to get here [and] I am not rushing to get to any other place,\" the This Morning presenter was quoted as saying.\n\n\"We will always be a family. That is the one definite, constant, absolute positive thing. And where the wind blows us I don't know.\"\n\nThe 57-year-old also revealed he had known he was gay when he married Lowe in 1993 and that he had been \"perhaps a bit naive\".\n\n\"I was confused by what it was. I thought maybe I was bisexual,\" he told the newspaper. \"But over time I realised and started coming to terms with it.\"\n\nSchofield added that his wife had \"known for a while\" that he was gay.\n\nThe star, who started his career as a continuity announcer on the BBC, spoke shortly after his announcement on Friday.\n\nThat was followed by an interview with his This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby, in which he said coming out was \"absolutely [his] decision\".\n\nThe pair were back on Monday - Willoughby's 39th birthday - to present ITV's magazine programme.\n\nInformation and support: If you or someone you know needs support for issues about sexuality, these organisations may be able to help.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is Solar Orbiter and what's it going to do?\n\nEurope's audacious Solar Orbiter probe has lifted off on its quest to study the Sun from close quarters.\n\nThe €1.5bn (£1.3bn) mission is packed with cameras and sensors that should reveal remarkable new insights on the workings of our star.\n\nScientists want to better understand what drives its dynamic behaviour.\n\nThe spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas rocket, which lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 04:03 GMT (23:03 local time Sunday).\n\nThe Sun will occasionally eject billions of tonnes of matter and entangled magnetic fields that can disrupt activity at Earth.\n\nThe worst of these storms will trip the electronics on satellites, interfere with radio communications and even knock over power grids.\n\nResearchers hope the knowledge gained from Solar Orbiter (SolO) will improve the models used to forecast the worst of the outbursts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Sun's surface as viewed by the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope on Hawaii\n\nThe probe is a flagship venture of the European Space Agency (Esa), but with the participation of its US counterpart, Nasa.\n\nAnd it's the Americans who've taken on the responsibility for launching SolO.\n\nSolO will be put on a path that takes it periodically to within 43 million km (27 million miles) of the Sun's surface. That's closer in than the planet Mercury where the temperatures are searing.\n\nTo survive, the probe will have to work from behind a large titanium shield.\n\nPictures will be snapped through peepholes that must be closed after a data-gathering session to prevent internal components from melting.\n\n\"We've had to develop lots of new technologies in order to make sure that the spacecraft can survive temperatures of up to 600C,\" said Dr Michelle Sprake, a systems engineer with European aerospace manufacturer Airbus.\n\n\"One of the coatings that makes sure the spacecraft doesn't get too hot is actually made out of baked animal bones,\" she told BBC News.\n\nSolO has six imagers and four in-situ instruments. The latter will sample the excited gas (plasma) and magnetic fields as they race away from our star and flow over the spacecraft.\n\n\"Solar Orbiter is all about the connection between what happens on the Sun and what happens in space,\" explained Prof Tim Horbury from Imperial College London.\n\n\"We need to go close to the Sun to look at a source region, then measure the particles and fields that come out from it. It's this combination, plus the unique orbit, that makes Solar Orbiter so powerful in studying how the Sun works and affects the Solar System.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Lucie Green: \"You get explosions and eruptions in the atmosphere of our star\"\n\nThat unique orbit will lift SolO out of the plane of the planets to look down on the Sun's poles.\n\n\"We don't yet have a detailed understanding of why the Sun has an 11-year cycle over which activity rises and falls,\" said Prof Lucie Green from University College London.\n\n\"There are missing observations that prevent us from knowing which of our theories are correct, and those missing observations are the ones we've never made of the poles.\"\n\nWhat the researchers will see, they cannot say for sure. But the expectation is that SolO will detect signals of when the Sun's activity is about to change.\n\n\"We believe we will see indications of the next cycle early on in the polar regions,\" speculated Esa project scientist Dr Daniel Müller. \"These are small concentrations of magnetic field.\"\n\nSolO took eight years to build and test\n\nThis decade is expected to be a golden one for advances in solar physics.\n\nSolO's launch follows hot on the heels of the Americans' Parker probe, which shares many of the same scientific goals and even some of the same kinds of instruments.\n\nAnd here on Earth, an astounding new 4m telescope has just opened on Hawaii. Called the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), this facility can resolve details on the Sun's surface that are a mere 30km across.\n\nIts showed boiling cells of plasma in spectacular detail.\n\n\"SolO sits in this family of missions studying the inner Solar System. I regard it as a kind of orchestra. Every instrument plays a different tune but together they play the symphony of the Sun,\" said Prof Günther Hasinger, Esa's director of science.\n\nThe heatshield has peepholes to allow the telescopes to see the Sun\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland secured a 1-1 series draw with South Africa as they beat the hosts by two wickets in the third one-day international in Johannesburg.\n\nRecalled spinners Adil Rashid (3-51) and Moeen Ali (1-42) helped restrict the Proteas to 256-7 despite Quinton de Kock and David Miller both hitting 69.\n\nJason Roy (21) and Jonny Bairstow (43) got England off to a fast start before the tourists stuttered.\n\nJoe Root (49) and Joe Denly (66) played maturely to stabilise the chase.\n\nBut South Africa fought back with four quick wickets in a tense finale before Moeen and Chris Jordan guided England to 257-8 with 40 balls to spare.\n\nWhile the chase should never have been so tight, it was an improved performance from the world champions after they were beaten by seven wickets in the first ODI, with the second match abandoned because of rain.\n\nEngland will next face South Africa in three Twenty20 internationals, with the first match in East London on Wednesday.\n• None Reaction to England's win in third ODI\n\nAfter giving needed experience to all-rounder Sam Curran and leg-spinner Matt Parkison in the first two matches, England recalled Moeen and Rashid, with both spinners demonstrating their ongoing value to this side.\n\nMoeen, making his first international appearance since taking a break after the first Ashes Test in August, showed superb control and bowled Rassie van der Dussen shortly after the South African was controversially able to overturn being given out lbw off Rashid.\n\nRashid offered constant threat, with several batsmen unable to pick his googly, in snaring Temba Bavuma and Andile Phehlukwayo lbw and duping De Kock into a loose shot to bowl the Proteas captain.\n\nThe accuracy of Moeen and Rashid through the middle overs ensured South Africa never got close to an overwhelming total, even when the impressive Miller (69 not out) attacked poor death bowling from Jordan, who conceded 40 off his last three overs.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether England will move on from Moeen and Rashid by the next World Cup in 2023, but there were also promising performances from two young seam bowlers England hope will feature.\n\nSaqib Mahmood, 22, had a fine ODI debut in taking 1-17 off five overs, bowling Reeza Hendricks with a beautiful delivery that just grazed the top of the bail.\n\nAnd 24-year-old Tom Curran, an unused member of the 2019 World Cup-winning squad, troubled the Proteas' top order and gave up just 38 runs from his nine overs.\n\nBairstow showed brutal power and purpose to punish loose bowling by seamer Ngidi, smashing flat sixes over square leg, crashing anything over-pitched through the covers and punching adeptly down the ground.\n\nHe looked on course for a big score only to miscue one off a thick inside edge to mid-wicket before fellow opener Roy, who hit two sixes over long on, was also caught off a misjudged shot.\n\nEngland could have wobbled when captain Eoin Morgan tamely chipped straight back to Beuran Hendricks (3-59) for nine, but Root played the fuss-free innings he excels at to stabilise the chase while keeping on top of the rate.\n\nHe was livid at his dismissal after tapping left-arm wrist-spinner Tabraiz Shamsi to leg slip, where Bavuma took a sublime low catch, but Denly continued the calm accumulation.\n\nAs England closed in on the target, Denly hit Shamsi for back-to-back sixes over mid-wicket to bring up his second consecutive ODI half-century only to loft a drive to Phehlukwayo off Ngidi (3-63).\n\nSouth Africa surged back into the contest by taking three more wickets for just 20 runs, as Banton was caught behind for 32, Curran skied one to cover and Rashid nicked behind, but Moeen kept calm to ensure England avoided a first ODI series defeat since 2017 in India.\n\nMorgan revealed before the game that some players would only be playing here to get match practice before the T20 series - Rashid was one of them.\n\nHe's bowled very little this winter - he's had a shoulder problem - but you wouldn't have known it given how he bowled on Sunday.\n\nHe was a threat throughout his spell. He came on at 80-1 after 18 overs and turned the game decisively England's way. South Africa's right-handers seemed unable to read him and, on another day, he could easily have taken another five-wicket haul.\n\nHe gives England potency in the middle overs - they looked a completely different side from Cape Town when he was rested.\n\nRashid's dropped catch off Chris Morris at the Wanderers four years ago cost them the series. Here, his bowling ensured they didn't lose another one.\n\n'We need to develop ruthlessness' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"We bowled really well - Adil and Moeen came in and showed their value. Adil in particular, his control and variation were outstanding.\n\n\"It was disappointing to limp over the line. Ideally we would have chased it four or five down. We would have liked to win commandingly.\n\n\"Tom Banton showed lot of promise, Joe Denly's two knocks were really good, Saqib came in and bowled beautifully, and likewise Parky [Matt Parkinson] in the first game. We showed a lot of promise but we need to develop our ruthlessness.\"\n\nEngland's Adil Rashid, who took 3-51: \"I felt good. It has been a while since I played and I was eager to get out there. The ball came out nicely - it was nice to play on a spicy wicket with turn and bounce.\"\n\nSouth Africa captain Quinton de Kock: \"We gave ourselves a sniff at the end and it was cool to make it tough for the England guys.\n\n\"Being captain takes a lot of getting used to, but the guys help me a lot on and off the field. The energy of our players stood out for me.\"", "Best supporting actress Laura Dern with best actress Renee Zellweger\n\nThis year's Academy Awards have taken place in Los Angeles. Here's the full list of winners and nominees.\n\nJoaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger and Brad Pitt posed with their trophies\n\nParasite won best picture, best international film, best director and best original screenplay\n\nJeff Reichert, Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar won best documentary feature for American Factory\n\nSir Elton John performed before he and lyricist Bernie Taupin won\n\nRoger Deakins has won his second Oscar in the past three years\n\nBritish costume designer Jacqueline Durran won for her work on Little Women\n\nAnne Morgan, Kazu Hiro and Vivian Baker triumphed for the film Bombshell\n\nElena Andreicheva and Carol Dysinger with their Oscars for Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sony and Amazon are the latest major companies to pull out of one of the world's largest tech shows because of risks posed by coronavirus.\n\nSony said it would no longer take part in Mobile World Congress in Barcelona after \"monitoring the evolving situation\" after the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe organiser has said the event, which attracts 100,000 people, will go ahead.\n\nBut it admitted other companies are considering whether to attend.\n\nSouth Korea's LG Electronics, Ericsson, the Swedish telecoms equipment-maker, and US chip company NVIDIA have all withdrawn from the conference, which runs between 24 and 27 February.\n\nThe GSMA, which organises the show in the Spanish city, said that while it could \"confirm some large exhibitors have decided not to come to the show this year with others still contemplating next steps, we remain more than 2,800 exhibitors strong\".\n\nHowever, it revealed that it had put in place additional measures to \"reassure attendees and exhibitors that their health and safety are our paramount concern\".\n\nMobile World Congress in Barcelona attracts around 100,000 attendees each year\n\nThese include a ban on all travellers from China's Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, while people who have been in China must provide proof they have been outside the country for 14 days.\n\nThe GSMA estimates that between 5,000 and 6,000 people visit Mobile World Congress.\n\nThe GSMA also says it will suggest participants should not shake hands with each other at the show, and microphones used by speakers will be disinfected and changed.\n\nCoronavirus has now killed more than 800 people - the vast majority in mainland China - and infected 34,800 others.\n\nThe Singapore Airshow, which is due to open on Tuesday, has also seen major firms pull out of the event, including US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.\n\nBombardier and Gulfstream Aerospace have also said they will not attend.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hastings lifeboat nearly capsized as it answered an emergency call at the height of Storm Ciara.\n\nA 58-year-old man has died after a tree fell on his car in Hampshire during Storm Ciara on Sunday.\n\nPolice said the man, from Micheldever, was driving on the A33 when the accident happened just before 16:00 GMT. He died at the scene.\n\nIt comes as the UK continues to feel the after-effects of the storm which brought flooding and severe gales.\n\nTrains, flights and motorists face further disruption, while many flood warnings remain in place.\n\nYellow weather warnings for snow, ice and wind are also in force for large swathes of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of England until 12:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nForecasters said some areas could see blizzards and up to 20cm (8in) of snow.\n\nHampshire Police released a statement on Monday saying a 58-year-old man died after a tree fell on the Mercedes he was driving from Winchester to Micheldever.\n\n\"His next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers,\" the statement added.\n\nMore than 500 properties are believed to have been flooded during Storm Ciara, with that number expected to increase as more information is collected, Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers said.\n\nShe added that between 40 and 80cm of rain had fallen within 24 hours across much of northern England.\n\nMs Villiers said the government would provide \"significant financial support\" for the areas affected by flooding.\n\nEarlier, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick activated the government's emergency Bellwin scheme for areas of West Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancashire, which allows for funding to be activated.\n\nElsewhere, wintry conditions have swept across Scotland, with many roads being affected by snow.\n\nFour people had to be rescued near the summit of Ben Nevis, in the Scottish Highlands, after getting caught in blizzards.\n\nForecasters said that the snow and high winds would bring blizzards to many parts of Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nIn north Wales, cars were trapped after roads became impassable because of heavy snow.\n\nConditions on the A4212 between Bala and Trawnsfynydd in Gwynedd caused people to abandon their journeys\n\nNorth Wales Police said snow ploughs and gritters are being deployed and that people leaving their cars were putting their lives at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, homes were evacuated in Brentwood, Essex, in the early hours of Monday after a car fell into a sinkhole on a residential road.\n\nFirefighters were called to this residential street in Essex in the early hours of Monday morning\n\nThe town of Appleby-in-Westmorland, in Cumbria, was one of those severely hit by flooding\n\nThe clean-up operation is also taking place in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire\n\nSome areas experienced a month-and-a-half's worth of rainfall and gusts of 97mph on Sunday, resulting in flooding and power cuts for more than half a million households.\n\nEngineers have managed to restore electricity to the vast majority of homes but more than 20,000 properties across east and south-east England and north Wales spent Sunday night without power.\n\nUK Power Networks said by Monday evening electricity had been restored to 99% of the 353,000 homes and businesses that experienced outages because of the storm.\n\nTrees continue to cause problems for the trains - this blocked the line between Dorking and Horsham on Monday morning\n\nThe River Ouse in York was one of the rivers which burst its banks\n\nA sinkhole opened up in Belfield, Greater Manchester, following the storm\n\nFlooding and debris also caused problems for rail passengers, with disruption expected to continue on Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the West Coast Main Line had no trains running north of Preston because of earlier flooding at Carlisle.\n\nAll lines have since reopened at Carlisle but Avanti West Coast warned some trains may still be cancelled or delayed.\n\nImpact so far of Storm Ciara\n• None 24 hours’ rainfall in parts of UK, equivalent to that of1.5 months\n\nAirlines operating to and from UK airports were also affected, with more than 100 flights cancelled.\n\nFerry services between Dover and Calais have also been hit by delays and cancellations.\n\nThere were difficult driving conditions on the A82 and many other roads across Scotland\n\nParts of the Cambrian rail line in Wales are under water\n\nA stand at Wisbech Town Football Club in Cambridgeshire buckled in the strong winds\n\nForecasters are expecting the unsettled weather to last further into the week.\n\n\"While Storm Ciara is clearing away, that doesn't mean we're entering a quieter period of weather,\" said Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill.\n\n\"We have got colder air coming through the UK and will be feeling a real drop in temperatures, with an increased risk of snow in northern parts of the UK and likely in Scotland.\n\n\"There could be up to 20cm (8in) on Tuesday and with strong winds, blizzards aren't out of the question.\"\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Ciara? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Detectives say it is still unclear why Babacar Diagne was attacked\n\nA 15-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder over the death of a teenage boy.\n\nBabacar Diagne, 15, was found on grassland in Wood End, Coventry, on Wednesday. He had been stabbed multiple times, a post-mortem examination found.\n\nThe girl was arrested just before 10:30 GMT and taken into custody to be questioned, West Midlands Police said.\n\nPolice have been granted court orders giving them more time to question two boys aged 15 on suspicion of murder.\n\nBabacar was found off Petitor Crescent, at about 19:00 GMT and declared dead by emergency crews.\n\nA vigil was held at a community centre on Thursday night\n\n\"The reason behind the attack still remains unclear, but homicide detectives are working on a number of possible motives,\" the force said.\n\nAppealing for witnesses, Det Ch Insp Scott Griffiths, who is leading the investigation, said: \"We've made fantastic progress on the case but my team will continue to work around the clock until we are satisfied we have caught everyone involved in this awful attack.\n\n\"The people responsible do not deserve protection. They have killed a child and we all collectively need to make a stand to show this is not acceptable.\"\n\nSeven other people who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender have been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prominent companies have cut ties with the prince's scheme\n\nPitch@Palace, a Dragons' Den-type mentoring network set up by Prince Andrew, has appeared to further distance itself from its royal founder.\n\nThe company, owned by the prince, had already moved from its Buckingham Palace base into new office space.\n\nNow, the initiative has removed mention of the prince's name from its website.\n\nProminent supporters turned their backs on Pitch@Palace after revelations about the prince's friendship with disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nBarclays, Standard Chartered and KPMG all cut ties after a BBC Newsnight interview about the royal's relationship with the late sex offender.\n\nThe scheme connects start-up firms, often in the technology sector, with potential investors.\n\nUntil recently, its website welcomed visitors with the words: \"The Duke of York founded Pitch@Palace to provide a platform to amplify and accelerate the work of entrepreneurs.\"\n\nBut as first reported in the Telegraph, that message has now been replaced with a note saying that Pitch@Palace is taking the first part of 2020 to \"refresh the brand\".\n\nSome, but not all, pictures of Prince Andrew have also been removed from the website.\n\nThe UK arm of Pitch@Palace is currently being wound up but its global operations remain active. It is not known whether the prince will play an active role in the initiative going forward.\n\nThe prince appears at an event for Pitch@Palace\n\nIn November, the duke announced that he would step back from royal duties because the Epstein scandal had become a \"major disruption\" to the Royal Family.\n\nIt followed an interview with Newsnight in which he said that he did not regret his friendship with Epstein, despite the late financier having been convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution in 2008.\n\nThe prince did, however, say he regretted visiting Epstein at his Florida home in 2010.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, says she was trafficked to London by Epstein in 2001, when she was 17, and forced to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nPrince Andrew emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with her and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting Ms Giuffre, who was previously known as Virginia Roberts.\n\nHe has since been criticised by the US prosecutor in charge of the investigation who said the prince had provided \"zero co-operation\" to the Epstein investigators.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the prince's legal team was dealing with the issue and that it would not be commenting further.", "Experts are hailing a British Airways flight as the fastest subsonic New York to London journey.\n\nThe Boeing 747-436 reached speeds of 825 mph (1,327 km/h) as it rode a jet stream accelerated by Storm Ciara.\n\nThe four hours and 56 minutes flight arrived at Heathrow Airport 80 minutes ahead of schedule on Sunday morning.\n\nAccording to Flightradar24, an online flight tracking service, it beat a previous five hours 13 minutes record held by Norwegian.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify the record as no complete database of flight times was available.\n\nAviation consultant and former BA pilot Alastair Rosenschein said the aeroplane reached a \"phenomenal speed\".\n\n\"The pilot will have sat their aircraft in the core of the jet stream and at this time of year it's quite strong.\n\n\"Turbulence in those jet streams can be quite severe, but you can also find it can be a very smooth journey.\"\n\nThe jet stream reached speeds of 260 mph (418 km/h) on Sunday morning, according to BBC Weather.\n\nDespite travelling faster than the speed of sound the plane would not have broken the sonic barrier as it was helped along by fast-moving air.\n\nRelative to the air, the plane was travelling slower than 801mph.\n\nModern passenger planes usually travel at about 85% the speed of sound, according to Mr Rosenschein.\n\nBritish Airways said: \"We always prioritise safety over speed records.\n\n\"Our highly-trained pilots made the most of the conditions to get customers back to London well ahead of time.\"\n\nThe fastest transatlantic civilian crossing belongs to BA Concorde, which flew from New York to London in two hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds in 1996 - hitting a top speed of 1,350 mph.", "Singer-songwriter Janelle Monae kicked off the ceremony with a performance of A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, the title song from the film of the same name. The film stars Tom Hanks, who was nominated for best supporting actor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency crews were called to the scene in the early hours\n\nA car has fallen into a sinkhole in Essex and six homes have had to be evacuated due to \"unstable ground\".\n\nThe Toyota Prius became trapped in Hatch Road, Pilgrims Hatch, Brentwood, after the collapse early on Monday.\n\nThe fire service said there had been reports a sewer had partially collapsed but the exact cause of the sinkhole is not yet known.\n\nFire crews worked for more than two hours at the scene before handing over to Anglian Water.\n\nGordon Humphrey, who lives next to the sinkhole, said his wife heard a \"bang\" and then they saw the car.\n\n\"You could hear the water bubbling, see the tail lights and there was a smell of gas,\" the 60-year-old said.\n\nAnglian Water said it was working with utilities companies and the police\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed whether the vehicle was moving at the time, or if anyone was inside.\n\nAn Anglian Water spokesman said crews were investigating, adding: \"We are working with other utilities [water and gas] plus the local police to assess if any of our pipes have been damaged.\n\nResident Mr Humphrey said he saw someone, who he did not think was the driver, in the front of the car with water up to the seats \"trying to find something\".\n\n\"He said his mate was in shock,\" Mr Humphrey added.\n\nStephanie Lloyd, who also lives nearby, said she was woken at about 02:00 GMT by flashing lights from the emergency vehicles.\n\nShe said at first \"all we could see was the back of that car so it look like it had been cut in half\" before being told by a firefighter it was a sinkhole.\n\nA number of homes have also been evacuated following the collapse\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"The problem really in the east of England is loss of power.\n\n\"UK Power Networks says yesterday, across the south east and east of England, 324,000 homes and businesses lost power during the peak of the storm.\n\n\"Ninety-one percent of those have since been reconnected.\n\n\"I am looking over a water meadow at the moment as staff in a cherry picker from UK Power Networks try to reconnect the village of Grundisburgh [in Suffolk], where about 120 properties are affected.\n\n\"At the peak of the storm in Suffolk, 20,000 people were left without power. That's now down to about 3,200 in Norfolk, about 3,500 homes (in the region) still without power.\n\n\"A number of schools in Suffolk have had to shut this morning.\n\n\"I visited an old peoples' home near Sudbury this morning, where they have been without power for about 24 hours.\n\n\"They had to bring residents into one room and keep them warm under blankets and keep them fed with takeaway food.\n\n\"So it's an ongoing project here to get people reconnected and they hope to have most people back on hopefully by this evening.\"", "The win has been hailed as a \"historic moment\" by the South Korean community\n\nThrilled South Koreans are celebrating the best picture win for Parasite at this year's Oscars.\n\nThe comedy-thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho is the first non-English language film to win best picture.\n\n\"Can't believe I am hearing Korean language at the Oscars,\" said a user on the South Korean web platform Naver.\n\nThe film, a vicious social satire about two families from very different classes, also won three other awards - including best international feature.\n\nMany of the comments online focused on the director.\n\nOn Naver, the most searched term was \"Bong Joon-ho\", as more and more South Koreans celebrated the \"historic victory\".\n\n\"Congratulations Mr Bong, you are South Korea's pride,\" said one user. Another observed that \"Korean films, dramas and music have taken over the globe\".\n\nSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in was also quick to join in, tweeting that he was thankful to Bong for giving \"pride and courage\" to the country's people.\n\nParasite is a vicious social satire about two families from very different classes\n\n\"An amusing yet sad movie, Parasite also conveys social messages in a novel, outstanding and successful way,\" President Moon said. \"It reminds us of how touching and powerful a movie can be.\"\n\nHe also promised that the government \"will stand with those in the film industry so that they can stretch their imagination to the fullest\".\n\nMeanwhile, Bong paid tribute to his country in his speech saying: \"We never write to represent our country, but this is very personal to South Korea.\"\n\nHe added that he was \"very ready to drink tonight until next morning\".\n\nJeongmin Kim, Seoul correspondent for NK News, responded with: \"Okay we should all really break out all the soju and makgeolli [Korean alcoholic drinks] to celebrate with Bong.\"\n\nKorean pride was also in full flow, even spilling on to Twitter, which is more commonly used by South Koreans overseas.\n\n\"I am proud to be Korean,\" said one comment - while another user said they \"screamed so hard my throat hurts\".\n\nOne person said hearing so much Korean on stage had turned them into \"mess\". And the actress Sandra Oh - star of Grey's Anatomy and Killing Eve - said she was \"so so proud to be Korean\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sandra Oh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Sandra Oh\n\nMany people also pointed out how significant it was that an Asian movie became a major success at the Academy Awards.\n\n\"Watching Bong Joon-ho winning the #Oscars with a non-English film is an incredibly empowering experience for Asians, esp. those who work in creative fields,\" Jun Michael Park wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"Not only do we have to work extra hard for representation, but we also have to fight with our families to pursue our paths.\"\n\nThe government in the South Korean capital Seoul was also quick to react, sending a tweet advertising the filming locations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Seoul Government This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany cinemas across South Korea have decided to screen the 2019 film again, starting Monday evening.\n\nParasite has already won a string of awards including the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film festival and at the Bafta.\n\nBong's previous films include Snowpiercer and Okja, a film about a girl who raises a genetically modified superpig.", "When 59-year-old Ashley was in hospital with appendicitis, neither Ashley nor the doctors considered HIV.\n\n\"They said there's nothing wrong with you, you've had a virus - not knowing that I'd still got the biggest virus you could possibly get,\" Ashley recalls.\n\nAshley was diagnosed with HIV three years ago, after having unprotected sex.\n\nBut the late diagnosis meant the virus had already started to damage Ashley's immune system.\n\n\"It was pretty much touch and go.\"\n\nAshley's experience isn't unusual - six out of 10 over-50s with HIV received a late diagnosis in 2018, according to figures from Public Health England (PHE).\n\nHealth professionals and charities say both the stigma and misconception that older people are not sexually active means symptoms are not always picked up.\n\n\"Over-50s, people who've come out of divorce, or marriage, they think they're safe,\" Ashley says.\n\n\"Because nobody can get pregnant anymore, 'there's no danger'.\n\n\"Because 'those illnesses are for young people'. But they're not, they're for everybody.\"\n\nFigures obtained by the Victoria Derbyshire programme from PHE show rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the over-45s have increased by about a third in the past five years.\n\nNorah O'Brien, a sexual health expert from PHE, says older people themselves often don't perceive themselves to be at risk.\n\nIt is a view echoed by 63-year-old Karen Norton, who contracted HIV a number of years ago in Africa.\n\n\"The majority of us all believe we're invincible and it'll never happen to us,\" she says.\n\n\"Professionals sort of assume that an over 50-year-old wouldn't have this illness.\n\n\"It's an assumption that I think is generally something we all make about over 50-year-olds.\n\n\"You don't really like to think of your mother or father having this - but it's so possible.\"\n\nKaren took a long time to open up about her diagnosis, fearing she would be judged.\n\n\"You feel as if you're carrying a dirty secret that you have to hide,\" she says.\n\n\"If you have unprotected sex then it can happen to you. I'm a living example.\"\n\nLast month, figures showed the number of people diagnosed with HIV in the UK had dropped substantially since 2012 - particularly among gay and bisexual men.\n\nIn response, the Terrence Higgins Trust said a focus was now needed beyond communities stereotypically associated with HIV.\n\nAled Osborne, from Brigstowe, which is a Bristol-based charity supporting people affected by HIV, says those in the over-50s bracket may wrongly believe HIV is a \"gay disease\".\n\nOlder people still remember the HIV/Aids campaigns of the 80s and 90s, he says, and they haven't necessarily received correct information since.\n\n\"Living with HIV now is not the death sentence it was in the 80s and 90s. We have effective treatment,\" he said.\n\n\"People living with HIV who are on effective treatment cannot pass the virus on.\"\n\nThe life expectancy of those prescribed anti-retroviral drugs at an early stage is in line with that of the general population.\n\nBut late-stage infections have more than a tenfold increased risk of death in the year following diagnosis compared with those who are diagnosed early and begin treatment immediately.\n\nAshley has struggled with the late diagnosis.\n\n\"I didn't mind being HIV positive. I don't mind it at all. But it was just that delay - that they didn't find it,\" Ashley says.\n\n\"It was so long… and the damage done to my body - I'm a little bit bitter about.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Debbie Douglas - who was instrumental in getting the independent inquiry into disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson established - said the report’s recommendations “must be implemented”.\n\nShe said: \"This was important for the people that have died to be heard because without any exaggeration there are so many unnecessary deaths.\"\n\nThe inquiry into Paterson's malpractice has recommended the recall of his 11,000 patients for their surgery to be assessed.\n\nPaterson is serving a 20-year jail term for 17 counts of wounding with intent.\n\nOne of Paterson's colleagues has been referred to police and five more to health watchdogs by the inquiry.", "Micheál Martin jumps in first and said the mistake is that he must stand out against the herd.\n\nMary Lou McDonald said she has a list of mistakes, including the party's last electoral performance.\n\nLeo Varadkar said he makes mistakes all the time. He said he can be too blunt.", "Paterson is serving a 20-year sentence for wounding patients he treated in the West Midlands\n\nThe deaths of 23 breast cancer patients who had been treated by a disgraced surgeon are being reviewed.\n\nWest Midlands Police has asked Birmingham and Solihull coroner Louise Hunt to look at a \"random selection\" of cases involving Ian Paterson.\n\nIn 2017, he was jailed for 20 years for carrying out unnecessary cancer operations at Spire hospitals.\n\nThe review is looking at whether any patients died of unnatural causes due to \"potentially substandard treatment\".\n\nPaterson, from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, treated hundreds of patients in the private sector at Little Aston and Parkway Hospitals in the West Midlands, run by Spire Healthcare.\n\nHe was jailed after being found guilty of 17 counts of wounding with intent.\n\nIn December, victims said a delay into the findings of an independent inquiry into the breast surgeon were \"disappointing and difficult\".\n\nThe coroner said 23 cases had been \"selected at random to investigate in more detail to try to understand whether the required legal threshold will be met\".\n\n\"The preliminary investigation is to identify whether there is any evidence that gives reason to suspect that any of the former patients of Mr Paterson have died an unnatural death as a result of his potentially substandard treatment,\" a statement said.\n\nIt said the preliminary investigations \"will take some time due to the volume of patients and complexity of the cases\".\n\nThe coroner and police are trying to locate the families of those selected.\n\n\"We understand that this will cause anxiety for a lot of families and we would ask at this stage that families do not contact us,\" the statement said.", "A man has been shot by armed officers in a \"terrorist-related\" incident in Streatham High Road, south London, according to the Met Police.\n\nIt is believed that two other people were injured in the incident at Streatham High Road, police said.\n\nThis footage was filmed by a witness in the moments after armed police shot the man.", "Rush Limbaugh said he would not present his show while he receives treatment\n\nProminent conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has revealed he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.\n\nThe 69 year old, an influential political commentator in the US, made the surprise announcement during his radio show on Monday.\n\nMr Limbaugh said the diagnosis was confirmed on 20 January after he had suffered from shortness of breath.\n\nThe veteran broadcaster said he would not present his show while he receives treatment.\n\nMr Limbaugh told his audience he hoped to be back hosting his long-time programme, The Rush Limbaugh Show, later in the week.\n\n\"I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn't have to tell you,\" Mr Limbaugh told his listeners at the end of the show.\n\n\"It's a struggle for me because I had to inform my staff earlier today. I can't help but feel that I'm letting everybody down with this. The upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.\"\n\nThe radio personality's producer commented on the announcement in an emotional tweet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bo Snerdley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Limbaugh's show, which first aired 31 years ago, attracts around 27 million listeners each week. A self-described conservative, Mr Limbaugh has drawn support from US President Donald Trump and other Republican Party figures.\n\nOn his show, he has been known to lambast Democrats and strongly opposed Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election.\n\nLast month, the host had signed a new long-term contract with Premiere Radio Networks, the company that syndicates his show.\n\n\"Rush is both a colleague and a dear friend, and I know he will handle the situation with courage and grace,\" said Rich Bressler, the president of Premiere's parent company, iHeartMedia. \"I know millions of people nationwide join me and all of iHeart in wishing him a full recovery.\"\n\nMr Limbaugh has been consistently supportive of Donald Trump\n\nPresident Trump announced Mr Limbaugh's new deal with Premier at a rally in Miami.\n\n\"We have great people. Rush just signed another four-year contract,\" Mr Trump said. \"He just wants four more years, OK?\"", "At least 20 former Jehovah's Witnesses are suing the group over historical sexual abuse they say they suffered.\n\nThe group has a policy of not punishing alleged child sex abuse unless a second person, alongside the accuser, has witnessed it - or an abuser confesses.\n\nIt says its elders \"comply with child-abuse reporting laws even if there is only one witness\", though, and always tell police if a child is in danger.\n\nBut one former elder said it had been failing to involve the authorities.\n\nJohn Viney said his abuser had gone on to abuse other children\n\nJohn Viney, who says he was abused between the ages of nine and 13, by \"a distant family member who was an active Jehovah's Witness\", added children were still being abused and the religious organisation was \"inadvertently\" protecting their abusers.\n\n\"The way that Jehovah's Witnesses handle matters within the congregation, it's a closed shop,\" he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"I know for a fact now that there are parents that haven't done anything about the abuse of their children by others because they don't want to bring reproach on Jehovah's name.\"\n\nMr Viney's own daughter, Karen, was abused as a child - and has since spoken out about it publicly.\n\nBut when she left the organisation, Mr Viney disowned her - something he has regretted ever since.\n\n\"When I was an elder and a dad, I put being an elder absolutely first,\" he said. \"And that was a mistake.\"\n\nMr Viney said he had eventually reported his own abuser to the police, in 2019, after years of being too \"ashamed\", only to be told the man had gone on to abuse other children and died in prison.\n\n\"What would have happened if I had had the courage and common sense to come forward [at the time]?\" he said.\n\nThomas Beale, a solicitor representing some of the former members, said they had decided to seek compensation after asking the group for an apology only to find it \"denying what has happened or refusing to engage\".\n\nThose taking the legal action say the organisation is \"vicariously liable\" for the abuse they say they suffered. Some claim it was negligent.\n\nIf you have had a similar experience, and would like to share your story, contact the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme by emailing victoria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nInformation and support for those affected by sexual abuse can be found on the BBC's Action Line page.\n\nOne woman, Emma - not her real name - said after she had been abused she had been visited by elders who had repeated scripture \"about why we should keep it in-house, not follow the laws of the land\".\n\nAnd she had been asked to recount explicit details, with the elders \"glaring at me\".\n\nSeveral former members have also told BBC News they were made to discuss their allegations with elders at a \"judicial committee\", while their alleged abuser sat next to them.\n\nEmma's abuser was jailed for two years.\n\nBut, she said, following his release, he had been welcomed back into the organisation.\n\nLabour MP Sarah Champion said elders in the Jehovah's Witnesses felt child abuse should be dealt with \"internally\" within the group\n\nLabour's Sarah Champion, the chair of a cross-party group of MPs looking at adults who experienced child sexual abuse, said she had \"very serious concerns\" about a convicted child abuser being allowed \"back into a community where they have access to vulnerable people\".\n\nShe said she had met elders who \"believe that there is more than enough safeguarding in place... [but] couldn't think of an example when they would go to the police about their concerns\".\n\nAnd the group saw child abuse as \"a sin that they need to deal with internally\".\n\n\"That's really concerning to me,\" she added.\n\nThe Charity Commission has been investigating the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation since 2013.\n\nA spokeswoman said the inquiry remained ongoing, but would not comment further.\n\nA Jehovah's Witnesses spokesman said: \"The only way that a child abuser can gain access to children in a religious organisation like ours, which does not have any programmes that separate children from their parents, is through parents themselves.\"\n\nHe said that for \"decades\", the organisation had educated parents \"about the dangers of child abuse and how they can protect their children\" and parents and victims were informed they had the right to report the matter to the authorities.\n\n\"If a congregant has been guilty of child sexual abuse, our elders inform parents with minors so that they can take measures to protect their children,\" he added.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rosa (not her real name) was the first person Sudesh Amman attacked – this is her story\n\nA woman has told how the Streatham attacker tried to stab her but failed because he \"didn't realise the knife still had plastic packaging on\".\n\nRosa, not her real name, was in a shop in Streatham High Road on Sunday when Sudesh Amman, 20, launched his attack.\n\nAfter running from the shop, Amman went on to stab two others on the south London street in scenes she described as \"like a movie\".\n\nHe was shot dead one minute later, by police who had been watching him.\n\nRosa said the experience was \"horrific\", adding: \"Someone could have killed me when I was just going out to the shop.\"\n\nSpeaking in Spanish in an interview translated by BBC News, Rosa, who is originally from the Dominican Republic, said she had been in a corner shop for about five minutes when \"the man came in... who hurt the other people\".\n\nShe told the BBC's Lucy Manning: \"He came in and took a knife and he looked like he was leaving the shop. The owner thought he was going to stop by the cashier to pay.\n\n\"But... he pushed me, he tried to open and remove the plastic packaging from the knife but he didn't manage.\n\n\"He pushed and he stabbed me but the knife was still covered with plastic.\"\n\nAmman, who had previously been convicted of terror offences, was seen entering a shop in Streatham High Road shortly before 14:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nOnce outside the shop he attacked two people before he was fatally shot by police - who had had him under surveillance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRosa, 36, told how Amman ran from the shop after attacking her.\n\n\"There was a woman just there removing the lock from her bike. He stabbed her in the back on the right-hand side,\" she said.\n\nShe went on to describe how Amman \"went up the road shouting\" before stabbing a man further up the road.\n\n\"I spent 15 to 20 minutes in hell,\" she said, adding that the attack was \"very quick, like in a movie\".\n\nAmman wore an imitation suicide belt during the incident. He had been released from prison about a week ago after serving half of a sentence for terror offences, and was under police surveillance.\n\nRosa said she has not been able to sleep since Sunday. \"It's hard even to think about it,\" she said.\n\n\"It's really scary that you can die from one day to the next.\n\n\"I have to go to work and walk around the streets... this is something that stays with you. It's a really bad trauma.\n\n\"You don't have any enemies and suddenly someone tries to kill you just like that, just because it satisfies them. It's horrific.\"\n\nWhen the attack was over Rosa said she returned to her flat nearby, and \"gave my mum a hug, my daughter and my granddaughter. It is God's miracle that I am alive\".\n\nSunday's attack was the second by men convicted of terror offences in recent months.\n\nIn November, two people were killed near London Bridge by Usman Khan, who was out on licence from prison.\n\nOn Monday, the government said it would introduce emergency legislation to end the automatic early release from prison of terror offenders.\n\nThree people were taken to hospital following the attack in Streatham.\n\nOne of the victims has been named as 51-year-old nursery school teacher Monika Luftner.\n\nNursery school teacher Monika Luftner is recovering after being stabbed by Sudesh Amman\n\nMrs Luftner, a teacher at St Bede's Catholic Infant and Nursery School in Balham, is recovering at home with her partner.\n\nIn a statement, the school said she was making \"a good recovery\" and asked that her privacy be respected.\n\nPolice said the condition of the second stabbing victim - a man in his 40s - was initially considered life-threatening, but he is now in a serious but stable condition.\n\nA woman in her 20s received minor injuries - believed to have been caused by glass following the police shooting - and has been discharged from hospital.\n\nThere are 224 people convicted of terrorism offences in prison in Great Britain, most of whom must be released at the end of their custodial sentence.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the government planned to change the law so terror offenders would be considered for release only once they had served two-thirds of their sentence and with the approval of the Parole Board - rather than half-way through, automatically.\n\nThe law change would apply to both current and future offenders, he said.\n\nThe government has also said it will consider making new legislation to ensure extremists are more closely monitored on release and review whether the current maximum sentences for terrorist offences are sufficient.\n\nThe Streatham attack comes after convicted terrorist Khan fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge on 29 November last year.\n\nKhan had been released from jail on licence in 2018, half-way through a 16-year sentence for terrorism offences.\n\nThis prompted a raft of measures to be proposed by the Home Office in January.", "Two cancers which are among the hardest to treat and have very low survival rates are to be the focus of pioneering research at Queen's University Belfast.\n\nThe five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer in Northern Ireland is 4.9% and for oesophageal cancer is 18.6%.\n\nIn England, the statistics are 6.9% and approximately 15%.\n\nCancer survivor Paul Fox said only research will help us beat cancer, or at least learn to live with it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cancer survivor Paul Fox says he is \"living beyond cancer\"\n\nThe 47-year-old, from County Down, was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in July 2018.\n\nIt was detected early and having received treatment, three cycles of chemotherapy, he told BBC News NI that he is well on the road to recovery.\n\n\"I am very much living beyond cancer. I urge people particularly men to respond to symptoms, to seek help. It is actually being man enough,\" he said.\n\nOn this World Cancer Day, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland announced a £300,000 investment in pioneering research at Queen's University Belfast.\n\nThe new project will study pancreatic and oesophageal cancers.\n\nRoisin Foster, chief executive of Cancer Focus NI, said: \"We know that as people live longer, the incidence of cancer is rising and one in two of us can expect to get a diagnosis in our lifetime.\"\n\nDr Richard Turkington, oncologist and cancer researcher at Queen's, who is leading the research, said the \"pioneering\" new project aims to determine how immunotherapy can successfully treat pancreatic and oesophageal cancers.\n\n\"[These] are two cancers which at present are hard to treat and have very low survival rates,\" he said.\n\nImmunotherapy works by overcoming cancer cells' ability to hide from the body's immune system. It allows a patient's immune defences to identify and destroy cancer cells, but does not always work for everyone.\n\nDr Turkington explained: \"The outlook for these patients has remained unchanged for decades partly due to lack of research and investment.\n\n\"Our researchers will work to understand why most pancreatic and oesophageal types of cancers are resistant to immunotherapy and identify which drugs can be used to help overcome this resistance so patients will respond positively to the treatment.\n\n\"Immunotherapy has transformed the outlook for specific cancers, such as lung cancer and malignant melanoma, previously thought to be relatively untreatable.\n\n\"We believe the same revolution can occur for oesophageal and pancreatic cancers.\n\n\"This new work will enable us to drive forward a new era of treatment. If successful it has the potential to save lives both here and across the world.\"", "Ian Paterson is serving a 20-year jail term for 17 counts of wounding with intent\n\nShipman, Mid Staffordshire, Morecambe Bay, and now Ian Paterson, the breast surgeon that performed botched and unnecessary operations on hundreds of women.\n\nThe list of NHS-related scandals has got longer. It's tempting to say the health service has not learned lessons even after a string of revelations and reviews. But is that fair?\n\nThe important point to make about Paterson, the rogue surgeon and the scandal which could have harmed more than 1,000 patients, is that it involved the private sector even more than the NHS.\n\nThe inquiry, chaired by Bishop Graham James, makes clear there were failings at every level of a dysfunctional health system when it came to patient safety.\n\nThe public and private health systems did not compare notes about suspicious behaviour by a consultant.\n\nStaff working with Paterson thought that his surgical methods were unusual but, perhaps cowed by being ignored after raising concerns, kept their heads down.\n\nAdd to that the power and status of a surgeon in the medical world and, in the words of the report, Paterson was \"hiding in plain sight\".\n\nSo could it happen again?\n\nThe bishop says it's clearly impossible to eliminate the activities of determined criminals in any profession.\n\nHe acknowledges that some improvements have been made on policing.\n\nBut he says that a decade on from the Paterson scandal, he is not convinced that medical regulators, with a combined budget of half a billion pounds a year, are doing enough collectively or collaboratively to make the system safe for patients.\n\nAnd that is the case, he believes, even after the former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt pledged to prioritise patient safety in England and set up a specialist health investigations unit to probe major safety breaches.\n\nThe General Medical Council (GMC), which regulates doctors, offered an apology to patients who were let down and said a system-wide approach was needed to build on safeguards set up after the Paterson scandal.\n\nThere was an acknowledgment that more had to be done and regulators needed to work more closely together to protect patients.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission, the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care are other watchdogs mentioned in the report.\n\nThe review chair notes tellingly that while regulators spoke of major improvements which should identify another Paterson, some doctors and nurses had told the inquiry that it was \"entirely possible that something similar could happen now\".\n\nIt's worth remembering that the NHS was ranked top in a comparison of 11 countries by the US think tank the Commonwealth Fund in 2017.\n\nThe report praised the UK health service for the safety of its care and systems to prevent ill health.\n\nNearly 17 million patients per year are admitted to hospitals in England for some sort of procedure or operation. Much of NHS care is first rate.\n\nThe fact that the NHS and the private sector are jointly held responsible for failings over Paterson is a reminder that the health service is not intrinsically less safe than independent providers. Far from it.\n\nThe review goes as far as to suggest that if private hospitals lag behind the NHS in implementing the report's recommendations there should be no more state funding of treatment in the independent sector.\n\nThis is ultimately a question of trust in health professionals wherever they work.", "The horror writer is a big user of social media\n\nNovelist Stephen King has quit Facebook, saying he was uncomfortable with the \"flood of false information allowed in its political advertising\".\n\nHe also said he was not confident the social network was protecting \"users' privacy\".\n\nHe made the announcement on Twitter, where he has 5.6 million followers.\n\nOther high-profile users to quit include Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, comedian Will Ferrell, musician Cher and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak\n\nMr King's tweet, which had been liked more than 250,000 times at the time of writing, added that users could continue to follow him and his dog Molly on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Jim Carrey, who left in 2018, also sold his Facebook stock, citing the fact that the firm had profited from Russian interference in the 2016 US election.\n\nFacebook's decision not to change the way it fact-checked political adverts has proved controversial with many.\n\nIt has argued that it is not right for private companies to censor politicians and called for government regulation to deal with the issue.\n\nBy contrast, Twitter announced in October that it would ban all political advertising, with founder Jack Dorsey saying that it was not possible to be working to stop the spread of information while at the same time allowing someone who had paid the platform to \"say whatever they want\".\n\nIt is estimated that US political parties will spend about $6bn (£4.6bn) on advertising in the run-up to the 2020 elections. According to research firm Kantar about 20% of this will be digital.\n\nFacebook has said that political adverts are not a major revenue stream for it - less than 0.5% according to founder Mark Zuckerberg.\n\nHowever, the firm has faced pressure to change its mind - Hillary Clinton was among politicians to praise Twitter's decision and ask Facebook why it was not doing the same.\n\nAfter the UK's recent general election, the Coalition for Reform in Political Advertising said that there had been a flood of fake news and disinformation.", "The RHI scheme brought Stormont's institutions to collapse in January 2017\n\nThe report into the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (RHI), which led to the collapse of devolution in 2017, will be published on Friday 13 March.\n\nThe inquiry chairman, Sir Patrick Coghlin, will make a statement in the Long Gallery, Parliament Buildings in Belfast.\n\nThe scheme was set up to encourage the use of renewable energy sources, but it closed in 2016 after concerns were raised about cost controls.\n\nThe inquiry was established in 2017.\n\nMajor flaws in the set-up and implementation of the scheme meant it effectively encouraged individuals and businesses to burn more fuel to earn more money.\n\nIt became known as the \"cash-for-ash\" scandal and the scheme risked going vastly over budget, with fears the overspend could reach as much as £700m over 20 years.\n\nThe inquiry panel is made of up of Sir Patrick Coghlin (centre), Dame Una O'Brien and Dr Keith MacLean\n\nThe scheme was shut in 2016 and deep cuts in subsidies introduced in 2017 and 2019 brought it within budget.\n\nA top civil servant has since told MPs that the overspend figure had actually been just over £33m before the measures to curb spending were introduced.\n\nSince the scheme was closed to new entrants, available cash has been handed back to the treasury. The sum was £25m this year and if no replacement scheme is established, almost £400m would be returned over the remaining lifetime of the scheme.\n\nThree years after it was established the Renewable Heat Inquiry will issue its report next month.\n\nThe Chairman Sir Patrick Coghlin, has chosen Stormont, where the political institutions collapsed in the wake of the scandal.\n\nIt will address several important questions:\n\nThe contents will be eagerly anticipated and pored over to see whether three years on, they have any political ramifications.\n\nThe scheme ultimately led to the collapse of power sharing at Stormont in January 2017 when Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy first minister in protest at the DUP's handling of the scandal.\n\nThe scheme was run by Stormont's Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti), which later became the Department for the Economy (DfE).\n\nThe ministers in office during the creation and implementation of the scheme were the DUP's Arlene Foster and Jonathan Bell.", "The new coronavirus \"will be with us for at least some months to come\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told the House of Commons that the number of new cases worldwide was \"doubling every five days\" and dealing with it was \"a marathon, not a sprint\".\n\nA second evacuation flight for British nationals arrived back in the UK on Sunday from Wuhan in China.\n\nOne of the 11 passengers was taken to hospital for tests after feeling unwell, but later said he felt \"fine\".\n\nThere have so far been more than 17,000 confirmed cases of the virus in China. Some 361 people have died there.\n\nOutside China, there are more than 150 confirmed cases of the virus - and one death, in the Philippines.\n\nThere have been two confirmed cases of the virus in the UK, where two Chinese nationals - a University of York student and one of their relatives - are being treated in the specialist infectious diseases unit at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary.\n\nThe UK authorities have so far overseen two evacuation flights of UK nationals from China.\n\nThe first group arrived in the UK on Friday and are spending two weeks in quarantine in two apartment blocks normally used to house nurses.\n\nThe second group landed at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, on Sunday evening, after returning from Wuhan - the centre of the outbreak - via Marseille, in France.\n\nPassenger Anthony May-Smith, who was on the second flight, told Sky News he was put into isolation after landing because of a cough and sore throat and was waiting for test results to come back on Tuesday.\n\nHe added: \"I feel fine now, I think it's probably the stress of getting back and being run down more than anything.\"\n\nMr May-Smith is being looked after in Oxford, while the other 10 passengers were taken to Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, joining 83 other people evacuated last week.\n\nA Wirral Council statement said: \"None of the other new arrivals have shown any symptoms, but as a precautionary measure they were allocated rooms in a separate area of the facility, isolated from those already there.\"\n\nThe virus can cause severe acute respiratory infection and symptoms seem to start with a fever, followed by a dry cough.\n\nA British man living in Wuhan has told how he recovered from the virus and plans to stay in the Chinese city.\n\nTeacher Connor Reed, 25, from Llandudno in north Wales, contracted the virus last December but initially thought it was a cold.\n\n\"It sounded like I was breathing through a paper bag. And it was at that point that I thought, OK this is serious,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\n\"I went to the hospital and they did a whole manner of tests over the course of two days.\n\n\"Once the results came back they said, 'yes you've got an infection and you should go home and rest'. And they gave me a Ventolin inhaler which worked really, really well.\"\n\nMr Reed said he planned to stay in Wuhan despite agreeing that it looked like a ghost town\n\n\"I consciously decided to stay just because I think it's the right thing to do,\" he added.\n\nMr Hancock told the Commons that analysis from Public Health England of the two cases in the UK suggested the virus had not evolved in the last month.\n\nHe said that if the situation in the UK was to get \"much more serious\", there were 50 \"highly specialist beds\" available and a further 500 beds available for isolation.\n\nThe Department of Health said that as of Monday afternoon a total of 324 people had tested negative from 326 tests in the UK.\n\nThe British embassy in Beijing tweeted on Monday that it was working hard to get seats for British nationals on a number of new flights this week out of Hubei province, where the virus originated.\n\nThe statement said they \"may be the last flights for foreign nationals out of Hubei\" and urged any British nationals to get in touch if they wanted to travel.\n\nMr Hancock said there were no plans to evacuate all remaining UK nationals in China.\n\n\"There's an estimated 30,000 UK nationals in China, and the proportion of the population who have the virus outside of Wuhan is much lower than in Wuhan itself.\"\n\nHe added that the government had launched a public information campaign setting out how members of the public can help by \"taking simple steps to minimise the risk to themselves and their families\".\n\n\"Washing hands, using tissues when you sneeze, just as you would with flu.\"\n\nAnd, asked if face masks work, Mr Hancock said: \"There are circumstances in which they work, but we are not recommending them for people generally to wear.\n\n\"But, of course, it's a free country.\"\n\nLast week, the risk level to the UK was raised from low to moderate as the World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency.\n\nBut health professionals say the risk to individuals getting the illness in the UK remains \"low\".\n\nThe UK government has donated £20m towards a plan to produce a vaccine to combat the virus.\n\nThe money will go to CEPI - the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations - a global body aiming to fast-track a vaccine within six to eight months.\n\nMeanwhile, China's top leadership has admitted \"shortcomings and deficiencies\" in the country's response to the deadly outbreak.", "The Old Bailey heard the case concerns Hashem Abedi's \"role in perpetrating\" the attack\n\nThe brother of the Manchester Arena bomber was \"just as guilty\" of the murder of the 22 people who died in the attack, his trial has heard.\n\nSalman Abedi detonated a \"large home-made improvised explosive device\" outside an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nHis brother Hashem Abedi is standing trial at the Old Bailey over his \"role in perpetrating these terrible events\".\n\nHe denies the murder of 22 people and the attempted murder of others.\n\nHe also denies conspiring with his brother to cause an explosion.\n\nProsecutor Duncan Penny QC said the siblings spent \"months\" planning the attack, which had been \"both sudden and lethal\" and had had \"nearly 1,000 victims\".\n\nHe said in addition to the 22 people - men, women, teenagers and a child - who died, a total of 264 \"were physically injured\" while 670 more had since \"reported psychological trauma as a result of these events\".\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nMr Penny said the explosion was the \"culmination of months of planning and preparation\" by the brothers, who had worked together to source chemicals and buy screws and nails to use as \"anti-personnel shrapnel\" in experimental improvised bombs.\n\nHe said they had also obtained an address in Blackley, north Manchester where they could work on the device and bought a Nissan Micra car to use as a \"de-facto storage facility\".\n\nThe court heard the flat was \"not an area the two were used to frequenting\" and had been used as a \"safe address from which to operate without unwanted or uninvited interruption\".\n\nThe resulting bomb was \"detonated in the middle of a crowd in a very public area… to kill and to inflict maximum damage\", Mr Penny said.\n\nThe court heard the Manchester-born brothers had lived alone in the family home in Fallowfield, about four miles south of the city centre, since 2016 when their parents returned to Libya.\n\nMr Penny said they had shown \"some signs of radicalisation\" in the years before the bombing - \"Salman more so than Hashem\".\n\nJurors were told Hashem had worked in a takeaway at the time and had asked if he could take home used vegetable oil cans to sell for scrap, which Mr Penny described as a \"cover story\".\n\nA part of one of the cans was found at the scene of the attack.\n\nMr Penny said it was not suggested the brothers had a specific target and the final destination may have been chosen by Salman Abedi alone, but they had a \"shared goal [to] kill, maim and injure as many people as possible\".\n\n\"The law is that Hashem Abedi is just as responsible for this atrocity… as surely as if he had selected the target and detonated the bomb himself,\" he added.\n\nSalman Abedi and his brother lived in Fallowfield, four miles south of Manchester city centre\n\nJurors were shown a map of the city with locations such as Manchester Arena, the Arndale Centre and Victoria Station identified.\n\nMr Penny said the arena was \"one of the busiest and one of the largest\" in Europe and had been filled with the American singer's \"large and diverse fan base\" on the night of the attack.\n\nHe said the foyer outside it was \"busy and heavily congested with people\" as the crowd left the venue at about 22:30 BST, and in their \"midst… carrying a heavy rucksack that contained a homemade bomb… was Salman Abedi\".\n\nHe added that such was the \"ferocity of the explosion\" that it \"dismembered\" the bomber and left a scene \"of destruction and chaos\".\n\nMr Penny said \"significant exhibits from two separate locations\" linked Hashem to the attack.\n\nHe said his hand and finger marks were found on parts which had been cut from the vegetable oil cans at the brothers' Fallowfield home.\n\nSix thumbprints were also discovered on a piece of metal that had been discarded in a bag of rubbish behind a flat in Manchester city centre where Salman Abedi had \"ultimately assembled\" the bomb, he added.\n\nThe court heard the pieces found at the flat and the home came from the same oil can as the one found in the arena foyer and \"played a pivotal role in the development of this story\".\n\nHashem Abedi denies the murder of 22 people and the attempted murder of others\n\nMr Penny said the bomb was made from three chemicals, two of which the defendant had made various attempts to buy using false online accounts or via other people, some of whom had been \"sufficiently gullible to avail him of their internet accounts\".\n\nHe said Hashem Abedi had asked a relative if he could use an Amazon account to buy one chemical, but said the third chemical was easily purchased in chemists and police had not traced any acquisition of it by either brother.\n\nJurors heard the brothers had a \"high turnover\" of telephone numbers, some of which were only used for a few days \"to avoid detection\".\n\nRecords showed Hashem had five mobile numbers between June 2016 and May 2017, Salman had four, and they had shared a further two.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Brabin was raising a point of order in the House of Commons on Monday\n\nA Labour MP whose bared shoulder prompted criticism on social media has said she is not \"a tart\".\n\nThe tongue-in-cheek reply from Tracy Brabin, the shadow culture secretary, came after online abuse of her appearance in Parliament on Monday.\n\nAn initial tweet questioned if her outfit was \"appropriate attire\" for Parliament.\n\nMs Brabin said she was surprised people \"could get so emotional over a shoulder\".\n\nThe Batley and Spen MP had been raising a point of order in the House of Commons, about journalists being asked to leave a Downing Street press briefing on the next stage of Brexit talks, when her shoulder appeared.\n\nMs Brabin told the BBC the response was \"sadly\" routine and \"another example of the every day sexism women face\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said she always tried to look smart but her slightly off-the-shoulder dress had slipped a little as she had leant forward to speak.\n\nOn the online comments, she said: \"They were playing top trumps on how rude they could be.\n\n\"They are idiots and they are rude but I am not going to lose much sleep over them.\"\n\nMs Brabin, who was elected to replace the murdered MP Jo Cox in 2016, said it was important to speak out about issues like this for other women who did not have a voice to protest when they were denigrated for their appearance.\n\n\"It's important I don't let other women down,\" she said.\n\nMPs do not have an official dress code, although they are advised to wear \"usual\" business dress.\n\nMale MPs were told in 2017 they did not need to wear ties in the chamber by the then Speaker, John Bercow.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google's parent company has published details of its YouTube and cloud business for the first time, as the firm's advertising business continues to slow.\n\nYouTube's ad sales in the last three months of 2019 rose 31% year-on-year to $4.7bn (£3.62bn), Alphabet said.\n\nOverall Alphabet revenue increased by 17% year-on-year to $46bn - the slowest rate in more than two years.\n\nFor years the business did not publish revenue figures for its various divisions, to the concern of investors and regulators.\n\nWhen Sundar Pichai took over as Alphabet chief executive last year the policy changed, although it is still not releasing profit figures for individual units.\n\nAlphabet said it earned $2.6bn in cloud revenue for the most recent quarter - compared to almost $10bn at Amazon. However it is fast-growing, rising more than 50% year-on-year.\n\nAlphabet and others make money in cloud computing by charging companies to host their data remotely, rather than firms maintaining their own servers.\n\nAlphabet shares fell more than 4% in after-hours trade.\n\nAlthough growth missed analyst forecasts, Alphabet's business remains strong, said Nicholas Hyett, equity analyst at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"It's always important to put these sorts of misses into perspective,\" he said. \"The core businesses, like Search and YouTube, continue to generate prodigious quantities of cash.\"\n\nAlphabet reported quarterly profits of almost $10.7bn, up 19% year-on-year, while costs rose 18% to $36.8bn, as the firm invested in data centres and hired new staff.\n\nYouTube now counts about two million paid subscribers, Mr Pichai said.\n\nAt more than $15bn for 2019, YouTube's ad business accounted for almost 10% of Alphabet's overall revenues last year - but the firm also said it shares a large portion of YouTube ad revenue with people posting videos.\n\nMr Pichai said the firm sees opportunity to make even more money off its YouTube adverts, including by targeting them more precisely.\n\n\"We see that as a big opportunity and are investing for it,\" he said.", "Champion skater Sarah Abitbol said she was first raped by coach Gilles Beyer when she was 15\n\nProsecutors in France have opened an investigation after a champion figure skater accused her former coach of raping her as a teenager.\n\nIn an autobiography released last week, Sarah Abitbol alleges that Gilles Beyer first abused her when she was aged 15.\n\nMr Beyer has admitted to \"intimate\" and \"inappropriate\" relations with her, and said he was \"sincerely sorry\".\n\nAs part of their investigation, prosecutors said they would try to establish if anyone else was abused.\n\nThree other skaters have accused Mr Beyer and two more coaches - who are all from the official French Ice-Skating Federation (FFSG) - of abusing and raping them when they were minors.\n\nJean-Roland Racle denies the accusations and Michel Lotz has not commented.\n\nMs Abitbol and her skating partner, Stéphane Bernadis, are 10-time French national champions, and have won seven European medals. At the 2000 World Championships, the two became the first French pair to win a world medal in nearly 70 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut in her book, Such a Long Silence, Ms Abitbol alleged that she was raped by Mr Beyer between 1990 and 1992.\n\n\"He started to do horrible things leading to sexual abuse,\" she told L'Obs magazine. \"It was the first time a man touched me.\"\n\nThe former skater, who is now 44, rejected Mr Beyer's apology and said that she wanted accountability for \"all those who covered up [the crimes¨] both in the club and the federation\".\n\nMr Beyer, after coaching Ms Abitbol, went on to direct France's national skating teams. In the early 2000s he was the subject of two investigations into misconduct.\n\nThe second investigation, conducted by France's sports ministry, found repeated \"serious acts\" against young skaters. His contract as a technical adviser was terminated in 2001.\n\nSports Minister Roxana Maracineanu has called for the resignation of Didier Gailhaguet, head of France's skating federation\n\nBut despite his dismissal, Mr Beyer continued to work with hockey club Les Francais Volants and, until 2018, served several terms with the FFSG.\n\nOn Monday, French Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu called for the resignation of Didier Gailhaguet, who has been president of the FFSG almost continuously since 1998.\n\nMrs Maracineanu said that a \"general dysfunction\" existed within the federation, and Mr Gailhaguet had a \"moral and personal responsibility\" to step down.\n\nWhile unable to sack him, Mrs Maracineanu said the federation would face sanctions if he remained.\n\nMr Gailhaguet said he would \"think about\" a resignation, and is expected to hold a press conference on Wednesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cynthia Erivo: \"I want to make sure it doesn't look like this every single time\"\n\nHarriet star Cynthia Erivo says it feels \"bittersweet\" to be the only person of colour to be nominated for an Oscar in this year's acting categories.\n\nErivo is up for a best actress Academy Award for her portrayal of slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman.\n\nBut overall, the lack of diversity in this year's Oscar nominations has sparked widespread criticism.\n\nErivo told BBC Breakfast she wanted it to \"serve as an example of how we need to judge these films\".\n\n\"I want to make sure it doesn't look like this every single time,\" she added.\n\nErivo's category rivals include Little Women's Saoirse Ronan, Bombshell star Charlize Theron and Renee Zellweger for Judy.\n\nThe British actress said it was time for the film industry to take stock and \"figure out how this happens\".\n\n\"There are people who also deserve to be a part of this,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully this year will be a turning point for everyone because we're talking about it out loud and now it can start to make some changes.\n\n\"We can't keep doing this and doing nothing about it so maybe now we start doing something.\"\n\nErivo is also nominated for best original song, for Harriet's Stand-Up.\n\nShe said she was drawn to Harriet by her \"humanity and the love that she had\".\n\n\"I wanted her legacy to continue,\" she added.\n\nThere's also been criticism of the lack of female representation in many of the Oscar nominee categories this year.\n\nThere were no female best director nominees, with Little Women's Greta Gerwig missing out, meaning her nomination for Lady Bird in 2018 was the only one for a female director in the last 10 years.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt was back in 2015 and 2016 that the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag began, when there were no nominees of colour in the acting categories for two years in a row.\n\nThe Academy said then it had taken steps to have a more diverse membership but many users have been tweeting the hashtag again following the announcement of the 2020 nominees.\n\nHowever, it's not isolated to the Academy Awards as both the Golden Globes and the Baftas have also been publically criticised, mostly recently by Joaquin Phoenix.\n\nAt this year's Baftas, there was no ethnic minority representation in any of the acting categories, with no room even for homegrown talent Erivo.\n\nShe went on to turn down an invitation to perform at the ceremony, saying she felt it didn't \"represent people of colour in the right light\".\n\n\"It felt like it was calling on me as an entertainer as opposed to a person who was a part of the world of film,\" she told US website Extra.\n\nHowever, Erivo will be one of the performers during the Oscars ceremony on Sunday, where she is due to sing Stand Up.\n\nShe said it felt \"crazy\" to find herself in such a position.\n\n\"To be experiencing a dream come true in a real time - that's crazy.\n\n\"You couldn't have told me when I was at drama school that this was going to happen 10 years from now.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Michelle O'Neill and Deirdre Hargey announced the proposals at Stormont on Monday\n\nPlans for an extension of welfare mitigations to the so-called bedroom tax have been announced by the minister for communities.\n\nThe scheme currently provides financial support to people who would otherwise have faced welfare cuts.\n\nBut it was due to run out on 31 March.\n\nAbout 38,000 households in Northern Ireland are in receipt of supplementary payments, which protect them from the tax, the Department for Communities said.\n\nThe minister Deirdre Hargey said the proposal would cost £23m per annum.\n\n\"We have a responsibility to protect the poorest and most vulnerable in society,\" said Ms Hargey.\n\nShe said the executive agreed her recommendation on Monday.\n\nIt was first outlined in New Decade, New Approach - the deal that restored devolution after three years of political deadlock in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"A society is judged on how we protect the most disadvantaged,\" she added.\n\n\"I am a minister who will fight to protect those families living in poverty; low-income families, single-parent families, those with disabilities and children and young people. I am working hard to target resources towards those most in need.\"\n\nShe said there were other mitigations \"which need to be looked at\" and she will be working with stakeholders \"in moving forward with that important piece of work\".\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Streatham attacker Sudesh Amman was aged 18 when he was jailed for terror offences in 2018\n\nSudesh Amman, the 20-year-old responsible for the attack in Streatham, south London, on Sunday, pleaded guilty in November 2018 to six charges of possessing documents containing terrorist information and seven of disseminating terrorist publications.\n\nThree of the terrorist manuals Amman admitted owning were about knife fighting.\n\nIn fact, much of Amman's fascination with conducting an attack was said to be focused on using a knife.\n\nHe was jailed at the Old Bailey the following month for three years and four months.\n\nI was there and recall Amman smiling as he was sentenced.\n\nHe was automatically released from HMP Belmarsh on 23 January 2020 after serving half of his sentence in custody.\n\nIt is understood that he had since been living at a bail hostel in south London.\n\nHe was under a curfew and had to wear a GPS tag, coupled with exclusion zones such as ports and airports. He had to surrender his passport and had limited access to electronic devices and restrictions on his internet use\n\nAmman was first arrested in north London in May 2018 by armed officers on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, although he was not ultimately charged with doing so. Scotland Yard said that, following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, \"we did not charge with this offence.\"\n\nThe prosecution of Amman related instead to his ownership and distribution of terrorist propaganda and instructional manuals.\n\nForensic specialists recovered in more than 349,000 media files from Amman's devices\n\nAt the time, he was living in Harrow and studying science and maths at the nearby North West London College. Prior to that, Amman had studied at Park High School between 2011 and 2016.\n\nHe came to the attention of counter-terrorism police in April 2018 when a Dutch blogger made officers aware of postings on the Telegram messaging app.\n\nThe posts included a photo showing an image of a knife along with two firearms on a Shahada flag along with Arabic words meaning: \"Armed and ready April 3\".\n\nOne of the Telegram posts that led to Amman being identified by police in 2018\n\nThe blogger also said the same person had linked to a YouTube video of a pro-gay rights speaker who frequented Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park.\n\nThe post called on others to \"all unite together to attack one another. He will be there this Sunday at Hyde Park\".\n\nPolice enquiries showed the user of the relevant Telegram account was Amman and a decision was taken to arrest him.\n\nThe Dutch blogger, named Azazel van den Berg, told the BBC he was \"shocked\" to have heard that Amman was responsible for the attack.\n\nHe said: \"I had heard of the attack on Dutch television. When I sat down at my computer I saw that message with his photo late last night.\"\n\nHe added: \"I did everything that was possible, I also did not know that man was already free. I think that jihadists like him should be punished harder with prison sentences and not conditionally free with a single bond.\n\n\"If he had just served his whole sentence, what happened now would never have happened. But English law must be applied to that, which is a task for the politicians in your country.\"\n\nAmman had elsewhere written of how he was thinking of conducting a terror attack in north London and that he had conducted reconnaissance.\n\nDetectives discovered that the student was using a WhatsApp group to expose young members of his family to violent terrorist material.\n\nHe used it to share an al-Qaeda magazine and exclaimed \"the Islamic State is here to stay\".\n\nA BB gun was recovered when the Met Police searched his home in Harrow\n\nThe WhatsApp group - entitled La Familia - included images of Amman's younger siblings in poses reminiscent of IS supporters.\n\nIn messages with one family member Amman claimed that, as Yazidi women were slaves, the Koran made it permissible to rape them.\n\nHe sent beheadings videos to his girlfriend - whom he said should kill her \"kuffar\" parents - and told her: \"If you can't make a bomb because family, friends or spies are watching or suspecting you, take a knife, molotov, sound bombs or a car at night and attack the tourists (crusaders), police and soldiers of taghut, or Western embassies in every country you are in this planet.\"\n\nIn messages to her, Amman said he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and wished to carry out acid attacks.\n\nElsewhere, he asked if he could have a knife delivered to her address and told her he considered Isis to be the best thing to happen to Islam.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe wrote that he preferred the idea of a knife attack over the use of bombs and discussed whether he would stand his ground if police came to arrest him.\n\nIn a notebook - in which he had written about explosives and detonators - he had listed his \"goals in life\". These included: \"Die as a shuhada\" (martyr) and go to '\"jannah\" (paradise).\n\nBefore he was jailed Amman had previous convictions for possession of an offensive weapon - a broken bottle - and cannabis.", "The UK aviation industry is promising to reduce its net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Image caption: The UK aviation industry is promising to reduce its net carbon emissions to zero by 2050.\n\nThe government has pledged to reduce the UK's carbon emissions to \"net zero\" by 2050.\n\nThis means emissions from areas like transport, farming and industry will have to be avoided completely or offset by sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, for example by planting trees.\n\nBoris Johnson has inherited the pledge from former prime minister Theresa May, who put the commitment into law in June last year.\n\nThe target was the subject of debate at December's election, with several opposition parties calling for the date to be brought forward.\n\nThe Lib Dems said the date should be brought forward to 2045, whilst Labour said the UK should be put \"on track\" to achieve net zero \"within the 2030s\".\n\nThe Green Party went even further, calling for net zero to be achieved by 2030.", "Louis Tomlinson is currently promoting Walls, his first solo album\n\nLouis Tomlinson has said he will not appear on BBC Breakfast again, after being asked questions about the deaths of his mother and sister.\n\nHosts Dan Walker and Louise Minchin asked the singer about the grief he felt over their loss.\n\n\"Defo wont be going on there again,\" he tweeted after Monday's show.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We wanted to cover all aspects of Louis's life that have influenced his new album and feel the questioning was fair.\"\n\nTomlinson's mother died from cancer in 2016, and his sister Felicite died of an accidental drug overdose last year.\n\nThe former One Direction singer was also quizzed about his time with the band - who went on hiatus in 2016 - and his reported feud with former band member Zayn Malik.\n\nThe 28-year-old accused the hosts of \"proper going in\" on him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Louis Tomlinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReplying to Tomlinson directly on Twitter, Walker wrote: \"Sorry you feel like that. It was nice to speak to you on #BBCBreakfast this morning. Can I ask what you are upset about?\"\n\nTomlinson responded: \"I was upset that you continued to ask me about my grief.\n\n\"It goes without saying how hard it is to lose both people so close to me. The least I ask is that you respect my decision of not wanting to be asked in interviews about something so painfull [sic].\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm lucky enough to have a creative outlet for me to talk about grief this doesn't however give you the right to talk about it for gossip purposes.\"\n\nWalker replied: \"Hi Louis. We were asking you about the song on your new album about your mum.\n\n\"We know it's painful which is why we didn't dwell on it. No intention to upset you or be 'gossipy' about it at all. That's not our style on #BBCBreakfast.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Breakfast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen asked about Malik on the BBC Breakfast sofa, Tomlinson said he was \"just not ready to have that conversation yet\".\n\nThe singer said it was \"inevitable\" the band would get back together one day and that they would be \"stupid\" not to.\n\n\"You've ticked them all off now,\" he said when asked about a possible reunion. \"You've gone trauma, Zayn, and now we are finally on this one, I like it.\"\n\nTomlinson is currently promoting Walls, his first solo album, and will perform in his home town of Doncaster later.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ikea has announced that it will shut down its Coventry city centre store this summer, in its first big closure of a UK outlet.\n\nThe Swedish flat-pack furniture giant said the store had made \"consistent losses\" since it opened in 2007, with fewer people visiting it than expected.\n\nIt said it would be consulting the 352 workers affected and would try to find them jobs at other stores.\n\nThe Usdaw union said it was \"devastating news\" for staff.\n\nIkea, which has 22 stores in the UK, said that it remained committed to growth in the UK.\n\nIt said the Coventry site, which cost it £35m, had been built in the city centre as one of its earliest examples of testing a new format to meet customers' changing needs.\n\n\"However, given its location and the size of the land available at the time, the store was built over seven levels, which resulted in a significant impact on the operating costs of the store and the shopping experience for customers,\" the firm added.\n\n\"In addition, the changing behaviour of customers in the area who prefer to shop in retail parks and online has resulted in visitor numbers being substantially lower than expected and continuing to decrease over time.\"\n\nAfter the closure, customers will have to journey to Birmingham, Nottingham or Milton Keynes to find their nearest Ikea branch.\n\nLocal people have been reacting to the move on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDave Gill, national officer for the Usdaw union, said: \"Our priorities are to seek redeployment opportunities, minimise compulsory redundancies and secure the best deal we can for our members.\"\n\nIkea stores are generally in out-of-town locations and the firm has made various attempts to bring its outlets to city centres.\n\nIn 2018, it closed three smaller inner-city collection-point stores in Norway, which had been a test for a new format that it hoped to roll out worldwide.\n\nOther retailers have been harder hit by the rise of online shopping, resulting in the disappearance of a number of well-known UK High Street brands.\n\nAlready this year, department store chain Beales has fallen into administration, while John Lewis has warned that its staff bonus may be in doubt after it reported lower Christmas sales at its stores.\n\nIkea is trying to respond to changing customer tastes, says Patrick O'Brien, GlobalData's retail research director.\n\n\"When the Coventry Ikea was opened, it was still very much about imposing the 'Ikea way' on customers; you walk this way round the maze, you pick it up yourself, you put it together yourself.\n\n\"Things have moved on in UK retail now, it's all about how best to serve the customer, and Ikea has had to adapt and change their model.\n\n\"This is about Ikea adapting how it uses physical spaces rather than a beginning of a retreat.\"", "Kelly-Anne Case was found dead at her home by firefighters on 30 July\n\nA killer who tried to blame the death of a mother-of-three on a mystery man has been found guilty of her murder.\n\nBrendan Rowan-Davies tortured Kelly-Anne Case before cutting her throat and setting her house on fire on 30 July.\n\nHe attempted to film the 27-year-old victim having sex with his friend the night before her body was found bound with cable ties at her home in Gosport.\n\nThe 29-year-old was also convicted of arson. He was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years.\n\nRowan-Davies, who has learning difficulties and was assisted by an intermediary throughout the trial at Winchester Crown Court, had claimed he interrupted the \"real killer\".\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Garnham, described Rowan-Davies' attack on Ms Case as \"sadistic\" and \"a truly dreadful crime\".\n\nBrendan Rowan-Davies shook his head as the verdicts were read out\n\nThe court heard the defendant had known Ms Case for some time and told her he \"fancied\" her while they were drinking vodka and taking cocaine on the night before her death.\n\nShe laughed off his advances and had sex with his friend that same evening, with Rowan-Davies telling jurors he used his phone to try and film the pair through a gap in the bedroom door.\n\nHe told the court he left the house but later returned to retrieve some tobacco the following morning and was confronted by a knifeman who had already killed Ms Case.\n\nRowan-Davies was filmed heading towards the victim's house on a bus before the murder\n\nRowan-Davies, of Haslar Road, Gosport, said he managed to escape the man and run downstairs, before collecting his tobacco and leaving the house.\n\nHowever, prosecutors said evidence from CCTV and witnesses suggested he must have been in the house at the time of the killing and no-one else was seen or heard leaving the property.\n\nMs Case's naked body was found by firefighters on a bed, with her wrists bound with cable ties bearing the defendant's DNA.\n\nProsecutor William Mousley QC said the attack was sexually motivated and at least eight shallow neck wounds were inflicted before the murder in order to \"control, coerce or terrify Kelly-Anne\".\n\nThe court heard Ms Case was \"alone and vulnerable\" after her three daughters were placed in the care of others with the assistance of social services.\n\nMs Case's body was found in an upstairs bedroom at the house in Grange Crescent, Gosport\n\nMs Case's mother, Caroline Tebb, said her daughter had been \"brutally, savagely and sadistically\" taken from her by a \"sick, vile excuse for a human being\".\n\nThe judge said the defendant had not immediately killed Ms Case, but instead used the knife to inflict \"extremely painful\" injuries before cutting her throat.\n\nHe told Rowan-Davies: \"You found Ms Case asleep. She was vulnerable and defenceless.\n\n\"You attacked her, tying her arms together with cable ties. She was at your mercy and you showed her none.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The \"immense\" rise in sales of high-emission sports utility vehicles means they now outsell electric cars in the UK by 37 to one, research has found.\n\nAs a result, overall exhaust emissions from new cars have been increasing, not declining, for the past three years, says the UK Energy Research Centre.\n\nSUV sales are jeopardising the UK transport sector's ability to meet EU emissions targets, it said.\n\nProf Jillian Anable of the UKERC said this made \"a mockery\" of UK policy.\n\n\"Effectively, we have been sleepwalking into the issue,\" she said.\n\n\"The decarbonisation of the passenger car market can no longer rely on a distant target to stop the sales of conventional engines. We must start to phase out the most polluting vehicles immediately.\n\n\"It is time to enact a strong set of regulations to transform the entire car market towards ultra-low carbon, rather than focusing solely on the uptake of electric vehicles.\"\n\nUKERC was founded in 2004 and is funded by UK Research and Innovation, the UK government's research and innovation funding agency.\n\nIt carries out research into sustainable future energy systems.\n\nOver the past four years, there have been 1.8 million SUV sales, compared to a total of 47,000 for battery electric vehicles (BEV).\n\nIn 2018, SUVs accounted for 21.2% of new car sales, up from 13.5% three years earlier.\n\nHowever, BEV sales are coming from a low base, as the technology is still relatively new.\n\n\"SUVs are larger and heavier than a standard car, emitting about a quarter more CO2 than a medium-size car and nearly four times more than a medium-sized battery electric vehicle,\" said the UKERC.\n\n\"Assuming the majority of these SUVs will be on UK roads for at least a decade, it is estimated the extra cumulative emissions to total around 8.2 million tons of CO2.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UKERC said the \"extraordinary leap\" in SUV sales over the past four years seemed to be due to \"attractive car financing packages which divert attention from running costs\".\n\nAlthough vehicle excise duty is higher for gas-guzzlers, more than 90% of new cars in the UK are now sold by way of deals that wrap the excise duty into the monthly cost, \"rendering the only clear policy signal to discourage high-carbon vehicles somewhat useless,\" it said.\n\nAll-electric vehicles still represent only a fraction of total car sales. The UKERC said they remained at less than 1% of new car sales in 2019.\n\nThere are also challenges to uptake, including a lack of charging points on roads and too few low-cost models.\n\nThe UKERC warned against abandoning the EU's emissions targets after Brexit, although no political party is currently advocating this.\n\nIt said EU regulations had been structured to allow makers of larger, heavier cars to have higher levels of emissions per km.\n\n\"Yet, despite its flaws, there are dangers of Britain choosing not to align with the EU vehicle regulations post-Brexit,\" it added.\n\nRAC spokesman Simon Williams said: \"It's important to remember that the SUV trend has been developing for around two decades, arguably really taking off in the mid-2000s, whereas the electric vehicle (EV) market is only just beginning to accelerate as battery technology improves, along with the availability of public charge points.\n\n\"As a result, there are some very strong EV sports utility vehicles on sale now.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said: \"Manufacturers respond to consumer demand and dual-purpose cars are an increasingly popular choice, available in a range of sizes, and valued for their style, practicality, higher ride and commanding view of the road.\n\n\"Thanks to ongoing investment, like all vehicles, they're also ever more efficient, with average CO2 emissions from new dual-purpose cars having fallen more than 43% on 2000 levels.\"\n\nThey're tall, spacious, and styled to look as though they belong halfway up a mountain, even though most will never ever venture more than a few metres off-road.\n\nSUVs are undoubtedly popular with drivers. But they're also big and heavy - and that means they emit more CO2 than smaller cars.\n\nBut it would be wrong to see these figures as a sign that the market doesn't want more environmentally friendly vehicles.\n\nTo put it simply, most people still drive petrol or diesel cars, and if they want a bigger car, right now they'll probably choose a petrol or diesel SUV, because they're familiar and widely available.\n\nBut just take a look at the tiny, yet rapidly growing market for electric cars. Among the models now on the market are the Kia e-Niro, Hyundai's Kona Electric, the Jaguar I-Pace, the Audi E-tron and the Mercedes EQ.\n\nAll of them are SUVs. The manufacturers think they can surf the wave of enthusiasm for big cars - and use it to sell more electric vehicles.\n\nThe two are certainly not mutually exclusive.", "Children abused in the home are often \"unseen and unheard\", despite making up two-thirds of sex abuse cases, a report from four official watchdogs says.\n\n\"There remains a disbelief and denial about familial sexual abuses,\" the inspectorates for police, health, probation and children's services say.\n\nIt means abusers \"too often evade justice\", their joint report says.\n\nThe government says it is taking urgent action that will see serious sexual offenders spending longer behind bars.\n\nThe inspectors examined how child abuse within families was handled in six areas of England between September 2018 and May 2019 - and found local agencies \"woefully ill equipped\" to deal with it.\n\nDespite some pockets of good practice, they found local and national strategies to tackle the problem virtually non-existent.\n\nIn the worst cases, criminal investigations would ignore the needs of the child, with children left without medical treatment or mental-health support.\n\nAnd sometimes, delays to police investigations left children \"in limbo or even unsafe\", with weak bail conditions leaving abusers free to contact or even live with children they may be abusing.\n\nThe inspections, in Bracknell Forest, Berkshire, Cornwall, Derby, Islington, north London, Shropshire and York, found, overall, professionals lacked training, focus and knowledge about child sex abuse by family members or friends so were unable to identify abusers and how to stop them.\n\nThere needs to be a greater emphasis on prevention work, which is currently either \"absent or focused on known offenders\", the report says.\n\nSamantha, seven, lived with her mother, whose new partner, a registered sex offender with convictions for child abuse, had just been released from prison.\n\nHe was released without a risk assessment or sexual offending assessment and an assessment by the probation service was late and did not take full account of his risk to children or refer the family to children's social services.\n\n\"No referral for assessment was made and Samantha was left at risk of significant harm,\" the report finds.\n\nHannah told her teacher she had been sexually abused by her adult brother.\n\nThe school immediately informed social workers and Hannah was visited at school by a police officer and social worker the same day, who spoke to her with support from her teacher.\n\nThe alleged abuser was immediately removed from the home.\n\nHannah received very good emotional support from her teachers, school nurse and social worker and an intermediary helped her provide evidence for ensuing court proceedings.\n\nToo often professionals rely on children to verbally disclose abuse - but children are unlikely to tell someone they are being sexually abused, particularly when the abuser is close to them, the authors say.\n\n\"Everyone in society needs to know how to recognise the signs of abuse of a child and how best to respond,\" the report says.\n\nIt says important lessons from child sexual exploitation are not being applied to abuse in families, which should be just as much of a priority.\n\n\"We can no longer stay silent on this issue - we have to talk about it and act,\" the report says.\n\nIn a statement, the government said it would \"soon be publishing a first-of-its-kind national strategy to tackle child sexual abuse, better support victims and improve collaboration between the government, agencies and law enforcement\".\n\n\"Alongside work to better safeguard children, new sentencing laws will see serious sexual offenders spending longer behind bars and we are recruiting 20,000 extra police officers to bring more abusers to justice.\"\n\nUrsula Gallagher, deputy chief inspector of general practice and children's health at the Care Quality Commission, said the report highlighted \"too many missed opportunities\" to protect children from harm.\n\n\"It is vital that people in healthcare and across other agencies work together, think about the wider social situation a child might be living in, share information to protect children from abuse and create support around those who are at risk.\"\n\nAmanda Spielman, Ofsted's chief inspector, said: \"If we are to deal with incest or other abuse involving families or family friends, we must talk openly and honestly about the signs and symptoms - to protect children and to stop abusers in their tracks.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David Attenborough: \"Now is the moment\"\n\nA ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars in the UK will be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 at the latest, under government plans.\n\nThe change comes after experts said 2040 would be too late if the UK wants to achieve its target of emitting virtually zero carbon by 2050.\n\nBoris Johnson unveiled the policy as part of a launch event for a United Nations climate summit in November.\n\nHe said 2020 would be a \"defining year of climate action\" for the planet.\n\nThe summit, known as COP26, is being hosted in Glasgow. It is an annual UN-led gathering set up to assess progress on tackling climate change.\n\nSir David Attenborough said at the launch event at London's Science Museum that he was looking forward to COP26 and found it \"encouraging\" that the UK government was launching a \"year of climate action\".\n\n\"The longer we leave it... the worse it is going to get,\" he said.\n\n\"So now is the moment. It is up to us to organise the nations of the world to do something about it.\"\n\nCampaign group Extinction Rebellion held a protest outside London's Science Museum to coincide with the event\n\nIn a statement made ahead of the launch, Mr Johnson said the ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars would come even earlier than 2035, if possible.\n\nHybrid vehicles are also now being included in the proposals, which were originally announced in July 2017.\n\nPeople will only be able to buy electric or hydrogen cars and vans, once the ban comes into effect.\n\nThe change in plans, which will be subject to a consultation, comes after experts warned the previous target date of 2040 would still leave old conventional cars on the roads following the clean-up date of 2050.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson: \"This phenomenon of global warming is taking its toll\"\n\nThe Scottish government does not have the power to ban new petrol and diesel cars but has already pledged to \"phase out the need\" for them by 2032 with measures such as an expansion of the charging network for electric cars.\n\nMr Johnson said the 2050 pledge was necessary because the UK's \"historic emissions\" meant \"we have a responsibility to our planet to lead in this way\".\n\nThe announcement comes as COP26's former president Claire O’Neill, who was sacked on Friday, wrote a bitter letter accusing Mr Johnson of failing to support her work.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesperson said Downing Street had \"no comment\" to make on the letter, but thanked Mrs O'Neill for her work towards the conference.\n\nHe said her replacement would be a \"ministerial post\" with details set out \"in due course.\"\n\nMr Johnson did not answer the BBC's David Shukman's questions about the row.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson said: “Hosting COP26 is an important opportunity for the UK and nations across the globe to step up in the fight against climate change.\n\n“As we set out our plans to hit our ambitious 2050 net zero target across this year, so we shall urge others to join us in pledging net zero emissions.\n\n“There can be no greater responsibility than protecting our planet, and no mission that a global Britain is prouder to serve.\"\n\nAt the Science Museum the prime minister added that a \"catastrophic period of global addiction\" to hydrocarbons had led to the planet being \"swaddled in a tea cosy\" of carbon dioxide.\n\nBut Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said on Twitter: \"Carbon emissions are not 'swaddling the planet like a tea cosy'. They are behind wildfires in Australia, soaring temperature records and the broken lives of those least responsible. The PM needs to understand that - and act.\"\n\nFriends of the Earth's Mike Childs said the government was \"right\" to bring forward the ban, but that 2030 would be better than 2035.\n\n“A new 2035 target will still leave the UK in the slow-lane of the electric car revolution and meantime allow more greenhouse gases to spew into the atmosphere,\" he said.\n\nHe said the government could show \"real leadership\" ahead of COP26 by reversing plans to develop \"climate-wrecking roads and runways\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAA president Edmund King said: \"Drivers support measures to clean up air quality and reduce CO2 emissions but these stretched targets are incredibly challenging.\"\n\nThe chief executive of the society of motor manufacturers and traders (SMMT) accused the government of \"moving the goalposts\".\n\n\"With current demand for this still expensive technology still just a fraction of sales, it's clear that accelerating an already very challenging ambition will take more than industry investment,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nHe said the government's plans must safeguard industry and jobs, as well as ensuring current sales of low emission vehicles were not undermined.\n\nMeanwhile Mrs O’Neill accused Mr Johnson of promising money and people to support her work, but failing to deliver either.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove said Mrs O'Neill was a \"close friend\" but that he disagreed with her comments.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live Mr Johnson described his own political outlook as \"that of a green Tory\".\n\nMrs O'Neill said her \"absolute desire for action has not been comfortable for some\", adding that this was \"not about me\" or Mr Johnson - but about working towards \"rapid decarbonisation\".\n\nShe said at COP26 the UK must \"absolutely double down on taking our great leadership and ambitions in this space, and really energising the world as to why this is a huge opportunity\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about a ban on the sale of petrol, diesel or hybrid cars and the COP26 conference in Glasgow?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "UK lorry drivers who regularly travel to mainland Europe have been describing the rigorous steps they take to avoid migrants climbing on board during the journey home.\n\nGareth Jones, Steve Carr and Bob Threadgold say they have been forced to park their vehicles in a secret location up to five hours from Calais, France, due to safety risks nearer the port.\n\nThey also check their vehicles about eight times on the way to Northampton, via Dover.\n\nThe men, who have experienced migrants breaking into their lorries and attacking vehicles on the road, described themselves as \"lorry drivers by day, security guards by night\".\n\nCompanies can be fined up to £2,000 for having a stowaway on board.\n\n\"You would feel sympathy as to why they [migrants] would leave the country that they've come from, but the minute that they put our livelihoods in jeopardy... any sympathy completely goes out the window,\" said Mr Jones.", "Ms O'Neill has claimed that plans for the conference have been hampered by a \"stand-off\" between the UK and Scottish governments\n\nBoris Johnson refused to give Nicola Sturgeon an official role in the Glasgow COP26 climate summit, according to the event's former co-ordinator.\n\nClaire O'Neill said she had made the suggestion in a bid to end the \"stand-off\" between the UK and Scottish governments over the global conference.\n\nShe said Mr Johnson had \"heartily and saltily\" rejected the proposal.\n\nMs O'Neill also accused the Scottish government of behaving \"disgracefully\" ahead of the conference.\n\nThe key UN-led summit is due to be held in November at the Scottish Events Campus, which includes the Armadillo and the SSE Hydro.\n\nMs O'Neill claimed the Scottish government had been contracting buildings from the site which should instead be used by the climate change conference.\n\nThe Scottish government later confirmed it had booked the Glasgow Science Centre, which sits opposite the events campus, for the duration of the summit - but said that this had been done after the COP26 organisers had booked what they needed.\n\nA spokesman said it was not surprising or unreasonable for the government to have a base of its own when the event is happening in Scotland, and pointed out that Ms Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, had been invited to and attended the previous three COP summits.\n\nBoris Johnson launched a \"year of climate action\" at event in London alongside Sir David Attenborough\n\nMs O'Neill is a former Conservative minister for energy and clean growth who stood down as an MP ahead of the last general election.\n\nShe had been co-ordinating plans for the COP26 summit, but was stripped of her role as president last week - and will be replaced by a serving government minister.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, she claimed that the prime minister had admitted to her that he \"doesn't really get\" climate change.\n\nAnd she said there was \"huge lack of leadership and engagement\" on the issue from the UK government, adding: \"The prime minister has made incredibly warm statements about this over the years.\n\n\"He's also admitted to me that he doesn't really understand it. He 'doesn't really get it', I think is what he said.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said it was the prime minister himself who chose Glasgow as the location for the summit, but she had been told by people involved that the original analysis for the cost of the event was \"hundreds of millions of pounds off track\".\n\nShe also said she had been told that \"the Scottish government has absolutely behaved disgracefully and has been contracting buildings from the COP site, for example, that should absolutely be made available to the conference\".\n\nShe went on to allege that there was a \"complete stand-off between the two governments, and that her suggestion had been that we \"need everybody in\" and that the \"playground politics, the yah-boo of this, has got to stop\".\n\nAnd she said Scotland had a \"great track record\" on the environment, adding: \"I did suggest that we give Nicola Sturgeon a job and she was involved in this, which the PM heartily and saltily rebutted.\"\n\nMr Johnson was reported to have told a fringe event at the Scottish Conservative conference in September that he did not want to see Ms Sturgeon \"anywhere near\" the climate summit as it was the UK government that had brought it to Glasgow rather than the SNP.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs O'Neill was speaking ahead of the prime minister pledging that 2020 will be a \"defining year of climate action\" as he announced that a ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars in the UK will be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 at the latest.\n\nMr Johnson unveiled the policy as part of a launch event for the climate summit alongside Sir David Attenborough, but did not answer questions from the BBC's David Shukman about the row.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, which has been published by the FT newspaper, Ms O'Neill said she had been told he was considering moving the summit from Glasgow to an English venue - an allegation which Downing Street has dismissed.\n\nThe Scottish government said there had been a \"significant increase in engagement\" in recent weeks from the UK government, which has insisted that Mr Johnson is fully committed to tackling climate change.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon tweeted: \"It's not about Boris Johnson or me - it is about tackling the climate crisis. My commitment is that political differences will not stop me and my government working to make it a success.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has also requested that the Scottish government's environment secretary, Roseanna Cunningham, be allowed to attend UK Cabinet and sub-committee meetings on climate Change and COP26, which the prime minister has said he will chair.\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow, which is hosting COP26, includes the Armadillo and the SSE Hydro buildings\n\nThe UN summit, known as the 26th Conference of the Parties, will be held in Glasgow in November and see participating countries assess progress on tackling climate change.\n\nIt will be attended by countries that have ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a treaty which came into force in 1994.\n\nAbout 200 world leaders will seek to agree a new, long term deal on rising temperatures.\n\nThe COP meeting in Madrid last year saw a compromise deal struck on curbing carbon pledges but left a raft of complex issues unresolved.\n\nWhat questions do you have about a ban on the sale of petrol, diesel or hybrid cars and the COP26 conference in Glasgow?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Michael Kinane has been jailed for seven years and eight months\n\nA man has been jailed after he admitted conspiring to money launder nearly £6m.\n\nMichael Kinane, 41, of Porthmadog, Gwynedd, was caught following a joint FBI and British police inquiry, Operation Blue Coastal.\n\nThe email systems of London-based pharmaceutical investment company Avillion were infiltrated, with requests for payments to be made.\n\nAt Caernarfon Crown Court, Kinane was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison.\n\nHe had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to money launder and three counts of fraud.\n\nThe targeted company was working with a US investor when fake emails were sent to staff, requesting money for legitimate work, to be paid into new accounts - one of which was Kinane's.\n\nOn 2 November 2018, the company deposited $7.8 million into his NatWest account.\n\nKinane, a British citizen born in Sri Lanka, had set up two foreign currency accounts.\n\nBetween 2 November and 5 November 2018, funds arriving in Kinane's accounts were separated between his associates to accounts in Poland, Germany, Hong Kong, China and Malaysia.\n\nJudge Nicola Jones said she accepted he had not orchestrated the scheme, but was motivated by \"greed\".\n\n\"You played a key role in laundering this money, took great care to ensure the optimum amount could be moved between bank accounts.\n\n\"This was motivated by greed and I'm not sure you showed genuine remorse.\"\n\nKinane pictured after his arrest at London Gatwick airport in August 2019\n\nFunds were also transferred to separate accounts belonging to Kinane which were linked to a business he was the sole director of.\n\nIdentified as Magic Lily Ltd, it was alleged to have operated from his home address in Porthmadog.\n\nPolice inquiries identified that the company existed, but did not have any stock, did not trade and did not file accounts or pay corporation tax.\n\nKinane was arrested on 8 August 2019 as he got off a plane from Turkey at London Gatwick Airport.\n\nAt the time of his arrest, police said he was wearing a Tag Heuer watch valued at £4,550.\n\nHe was also in possession of documents identifying he had recently invested the equivalent of £30,000 into a Dubai-based company.\n\nNorth Wales Police have obtained banking documents for 32 accounts attributable to Kinane so far.\n\nThe 13-month investigation has resulted in the recovery and return of £1.2m ($1.6m) to the victim.\n\nAvillion said it was \"pleased justice has been done\" and was in the process of recovering the money, adding it had consulted with experts to improve its cyber security.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"This case has been solved because of the support we have received from the companies concerned, the work of the FBI in their parallel investigation and the excellent support we have received from the specialist fraud division of the Crown Prosecution Service in Merseyside.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree men have been found guilty of chasing a teenager and stabbing him to death on a Cardiff street.\n\nFahad Mohamed Nur, 18, was found with 21 knife wounds near Cathays railway station last June.\n\nShafique Shaddad, 25, from Butetown, and brothers Mustafa Aldobhani, 22 and Abdulgalil Aldobhani, 23, from Cathays, were found guilty of murder by a jury.\n\nA fourth defendant, Aseel Arar, 35, from Birmingham, was found guilty of assisting an offender.\n\nThe three killers all denied murder but were found guilty at Cardiff Crown Court after more than 27 hours of deliberating by the jury.\n\nThe court heard Abdulgalil Aldobhani had been out on licence from prison when the men committed the attack.\n\nProsecutors described the three men trying to \"hunt down\" Mr Nur, after spotting him riding a bike.\n\nDuring the trial, the jury heard how at shortly after midnight on 2 June, the three men chased the teenager to a lane behind a Cardiff University building.\n\nHe was attacked and left in the street with numerous knife wounds, including a fatal injury through the heart.\n\nMr Nur later died at the University Hospital of Wales.\n\nLawyers defending each of the defendants told the court Shaddad had been attempting to break up a fight between Mr Nur and Abdulgalil Aldobhani, in which Mr Nur had been the \"aggressor\".\n\nFahad Mohamed Nur had 21 knife wounds, including a fatal injury through the heart\n\nMr Nur's had almost £1,000 in cash and a large quantity of Class A drugs on him when he was killed.\n\nA barrister defending one of his killers described Nur as a \"drug dealer, apparently on active duty\".\n\nDuring the trial, Narita Bahra, defending Abdulgalil Aldobhani, told the court Mr Nur had a history of violence.\n\nShe said Mr Nur had previously been stopped by police carrying two concealed knives and had 43 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin hidden in his underwear on the night of his death.\n\nTwo weeks after his death, children found a meat cleaver and a kitchen knife were found by the toilet block near Cardiff University.\n\nTwo weeks after the attack a meat cleaver and a kitchen knife were found hidden in the hollow of a tree\n\nA victim impact statement from Mr Nur's sister, which was read to the court, said the murder \"shocked the whole of Cardiff's Somali community\".\n\nIt added: \"He was ambushed and stabbed to death in such a cowardly and vicious attack when he was clearly running away.\n\n\"He was a young educated boy who had ambitions and dreams. He was loved by so many people. It was a senseless and horrific act of evil.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark O'Shea from South Wales Police said: \"Fahad Nur had turned 18 just two weeks before he was stabbed to death in a cowardly attack by Mustafa Aldobhani, his brother Abdulgalil and Shafique Shaddad.\n\n\"Fahad was alone unarmed and deliberately targeted following a trivial dispute. The level of violence and ferocity was unjustified and unprovoked.\"\n\nHe also paid tribute to Mr Nur's family and the people who tried to save his life after he was stabbed.\n\nThe three killers will be sentenced on Friday, while Arar will be sentenced at the end of the month.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League has to \"try and make the video assistant referee better\", says chief executive Richard Masters.\n\nMore than two-thirds of Premier League fans questioned believe VAR has made the game less enjoyable, a YouGov survey has found.\n\nThere have been several controversial decisions involving VAR since it was introduced to the league this season.\n\n\"I don't think VAR has been damaging but I accept it needs improvement,\" Masters told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Scrapping it is not an option - what we have to do is try and make VAR better.\"\n\nVAR has been brought in to the Premier League to decide on goals, penalties, red cards and offside decisions.\n\nMasters, who was appointed on a permanent basis in December after being in temporary charge for more than a year, said the Premier League would discuss changes to VAR with the clubs in April.\n\n\"We are going to have a debate about what sort of VAR they would like next season and what improvements can be made to the system,\" he said.\n\n\"It's going to be a work in progress this season and next as we try to rebalance it so you get the positives of better decision-making and fewer of the perceived negatives about delay and sometimes confusion.\"\n\nThe Premier League has previously promised to improve VAR's consistency and speed and increase communication with fans.\n\nSix out of 10 of those fans surveyed by YouGov felt the system was working badly.\n\nMasters said that VAR is delivering on the \"principal reason\" for its introduction in improving the accuracy of decision-making.\n\n\"In key match incidents we are up to 94% accuracy with officials, 97% with their assistants, so we are seeing an impact on results and a positive impact on the league table,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously there are issues with consistency of decision-making and delays, which people don't like.\n\n\"But I don't think VAR is harming the product - attendances are up, TV audiences are up, the health of the Premier League is very good.\"\n\n'More to be done' on racism\n\nStatistics compiled by anti-discrimination campaigners Kick It Out suggested there had been a 43% increase in reports of racist abuse in English football in 2018-19 from the previous season.\n\nIn December, the government said it would not rule out taking \"further steps\" if football authorities fail to deal with racism following several high-profile cases this season.\n\nMasters said there is \"always more to be done\" by the Premier League in helping to combat racism in football.\n\n\"Football has a big role to play - we are part of society and can play a role in promoting all the right messages and will continue to do that,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, a fan who shouted racial abuse at players during Brighton's home Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur in October was jailed.\n\n\"One incident of racism is unacceptable and one too many,\" added Masters.\n\n\"Ultimately we can't stop individuals harbouring racist or homophobic thoughts coming into our grounds or sharing them with people around them.\n\n\"It's our responsibility to make sure people who do that know there are consequences and also to put proper systems in place to deal with it when it happens.\n\n\"We need to make sure there are proper reporting mechanisms, trained stewards in place, and police if necessary, and that when perpetrators are caught they are banned from football, which we are now seeing more regularly, as well as possible criminal proceedings.\"\n\nSports minister Nigel Adams MP told BBC Sport last month that football has \"far too much dependency\" on sponsorship from gambling companies.\n\nHalf of Premier League clubs are sponsored by bookmakers and there are concerns about the potential impact on young fans and vulnerable people.\n\nThe Betting and Gaming Council chair, Brigid Simmonds, told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that bookmakers are \"considering\" a voluntary ban on football shirt sponsorship and pitchside advertising, expanding on the whistle-to-whistle ban on television gambling adverts introduced last year.\n\nMasters said the Premier League \"welcomes\" the government's upcoming review of the 2005 Gambling Act and that the league will be \"willing and active participants\" in it.\n\n\"Betting is a legitimate pastime - sport and betting have a long history,\" he added.\n\n\"The Premier League don't have any betting partnerships and ultimately it is the clubs' decision.\n\n\"I don't think if you are looking at solving the issue of vulnerable people and betting that the answer should be that the clubs can't have betting partnerships anymore - I don't think one follows the other.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Thank you for finding my baby'\n\nFamilies that lost babies more than 40 years ago should be told where their remains are, a cross-party group of MPs has said ahead of a Commons debate.\n\nBefore the 1980s, when a woman had a miscarriage or gave birth to a stillborn child, medical staff took the baby away quickly.\n\nThey were rarely given time to grieve or hold their child, which was buried or cremated in an undisclosed place.\n\n\"We owe these mums an apology,\" Labour MP Carolyn Harris said.\n\n\"The place to start is with the government - the system was wrong and we now have an opportunity to make sure that we make amends for the damage we caused.\"\n\nThe MP for Swansea East's mother gave birth to a stillborn girl in 1958. And her baby was taken away before she could say goodbye.\n\nHer family believes the baby was buried with someone else but they were never told where.\n\nAfter tracing a baby for a friend, Paula Jackson set up a website offering to help other families.\n\nIn the past 15 years, she has helped to trace nearly 800 babies through her charity Brief Lives Remembered.\n\nYvonne, one of the women Paula has helped, gave birth to a stillborn son 40 years ago.\n\nWith help from Paula, Yvonne has now found her son's grave\n\n\"Why didn't I hold him? Why didn't I look at him? It was too late, he'd gone,\" Yvonne said.\n\n\"All I had was a priest come to see me and to say that he will have a proper burial. Next morning - ready to go home, that was it.\"\n\nPaula said families were effectively asked to carry on as though nothing had happened.\n\n\"Fathers were often advised to hide any baby products at home to help with the healing process,\" she said.\n\n\"In some cases, men were also asked for money for the burial - some dads kept their receipt as their only memento.\n\n\"The bodies of babies were either cremated, buried in a communal plot or placed in the coffin of a woman who had recently passed away.\n\n\"This information was not always shared with either family.\"\n\nPaula has helped to trace hundreds of babies\n\nPaula said the women were kept in maternity wards, surrounded by mothers and their new babies, and in some instances were asked to breastfeed when others needed help.\n\nIn some military cemeteries, each baby was given their own burial plot.\n\nAnd in Aldershot Military Cemetery - where Paula traced the first \"lost\" baby - each plot was identifiable by a green marker.\n\nSome families have now traced their babies and left gravestones. Others are left nameless.\n\n\"When you look and you hear accounts of what happened in the past, it feels very cold, clinical and very disconnected,\" Melissa Whitten, a consultant obstetrician at University College London Hospitals, said.\n\nNowadays, families are taken to a separate room to grieve and spend time with their child.\n\nMemory boxes are also provided, which include photos and hand prints.\n\nMemory boxes with photos and hand prints are encouraged nowadays\n\n\"My mother was the most wonderful woman but she put a wall up after she lost my sister,\" she said.\n\n\"She was afraid that if she showed too much emotion, something bad would happen.\"\n\nThe MP's own son, Martin, died at the age of eight.\n\n\"I went to the grave site and I sat there and I talked to him for days,\" she said.\n\n\"There's the guilt, there's the anger, there's the regret. You need to talk it out.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Politicians and representatives of civic society attended the launch event\n\nThe chief constable said the attendance of deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill at the launch of the PSNI recruitment campaign got it off to \"the best possible start\".\n\nSimon Byrne launched the campaign on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes amid continued concerns over the PSNI's ability to increase numbers of Catholic officers.\n\nMs O'Neill is deputy leader of Sinn Féin - its support is seen as important in encouraging more Catholic recruits.\n\nShe was one of a number of politicians at the event - including First Minister Arlene Foster - as well as representatives of churches and sporting bodies, such as the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).\n\nMr Byrne said: \"We don't underestimate the significant step forward Sinn Féin has taken in endorsing this campaign merely by being here and beginning a conversation about how we can work differently to improve policing right across the country.\n\nSinn Féin has historically been critical of the role of the police in Northern Ireland, both the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), which replaced it in 2001.\n\nIn 2007 the party gave its support to the PSNI, but its representatives have not attended passing out parades for new recruits.\n\nIn the lead-up to the new campaign, the first since October 2018, there has been debate about whether a return to 50-50 recruitment is required.\n\nA 50-50 recruitment policy ran for the first 10 years of the PSNI until 2011.\n\nThis meant that 50% of all recruits had to be from a Catholic background, and 50% from a Protestant or other background.\n\nThe policy saw numbers of Catholic police officers rise from 8% to 32%, but things have stalled years after it ended.\n\nAnne Connolly, chair of the Policing Board, told the BBC News NI Evening Extra programme said Sinn Féin's attendance at the launch was \"a wonderful thing\".\n\n\"It provides hope for future work,\" she said.\n\nFormer chief constable Sir George Hamilton warned last year that numbers were \"going to start to dip if nothing changes\".\n\nSinn Féin, the SDLP and senior Catholic clergymen favour its reintroduction, which would be a political decision, but unionists oppose it.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said her attendance at the recruitment campaign launch \"speaks volumes\".\n\n\"We need a PSNI that is reflective in terms of the community in which it serves,\" she said.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster welcomed the recruitment drive, describing it as \"significant\".\n\n\"It is important because there's been a lot of conversations about the fact we need to have a police service that reflects Northern Ireland's society,\" she said.\n\nApplications are open for about three weeks, with the first part of the process handled by professional services firm Deloitte.\n\nLater stages of selection, conducted by the PSNI, involve criminal background checks and physical tests.\n\nThe PSNI is also aiming to attract more women and people of ethnic backgrounds.\n\nMichelle O'Neill attending the launch of the new recruitment drive felt like a big step.\n\nOne long-serving PSNI commander even wondered if it was the policing equivalent of the Queen visiting Dublin.\n\nSinn Féin endorsing Northern Ireland policing in 2007 was of course more notable.\n\nSo, arguably, was the late Martin McGuinness's very strong condemnation of dissident murders of PSNI officers.\n\nMrs O'Neill stopped short of urging young Catholics to join in her comments to the media.\n\nCynics also point out there is an election in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut for a party that has not attended passing out parades for new recruits, this was a significant moment in the party's relationship with the PSNI.\n\nIt is not the only challenge facing the PSNI, as it strives to better reflect the composition of Northern Ireland society.\n\nIt has 6,900 officers and publishes data on their backgrounds.\n\nSixty-seven percent are \"perceived\" as being Protestant, 32% Catholic and 1% are from an ethnic minority.\n\nSeven in every 10 officers are male.\n\nThe PSNI is also conscious of needing to improve interest from working class Protestants and members of the LGBT community.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as the first P-8A Poseidon touches down at Kinloss Barracks\n\nThe first of nine new maritime patrol aircraft for the RAF has arrived at a military base in Scotland after being flown from the United States.\n\nThe £3bn fleet of P-8A Poseidons are to be stationed at RAF Lossiemouth on the Moray coast.\n\nThe first of the completed planes will operate from nearby Kinloss Barracks, a former RAF station, while new facilities are built at Lossiemouth.\n\nIt is almost 10 years since the RAF's last patrol aircraft were scrapped.\n\nThe last of those jet aircraft, called Nimrods, flew out of RAF Kinloss in 2010. New Nimrods were dismantled for scrap as part of defence cuts, but not replaced by another type of plane.\n\nThe plane was escorted by RAF Typhoons\n\nA review in 2015 led to the Ministry of Defence ordering the P-8A Poseidons from US aircraft manufacturer Boeing. The first of these aircraft landed at Kinloss at about 13:30.\n\nThe RAF crews will operate alongside the Royal Navy in a submarine hunter role, and in work identifying and tracking surface vessels.\n\nAbout 470 jobs, a mix of military and civilian posts, will be created at RAF Lossiemouth to fly and service the fleet.\n\nRAF crews have been training on the new aircraft in the US\n\nA new facility is being built at RAF Lossiemouth for the Poseidons\n\nThe first of the completed Poseidons has been named the Pride of Moray. It is expected to move from Kinloss to Lossiemouth by the end of this year.\n\nSqn Ldr Dave Higgins was among the crew board Tuesday's flight to Kinloss following training in the US.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland: \"It is a huge honour to be on that historic flight.\n\n\"For some of us there is much excitement because myself and my colleagues know how capable this aircraft is going to be.\n\n\"They are multi-mission aircraft with a variety of sensors that can fuse together so the crew can see lots of different types of information.\"\n\nJoe Kennedy, who flew on Nimrods for more than 30 years, said the decision to scrap the planes and not immediately replace them with new maritime patrol aircraft still felt shocking almost 10 years later.\n\nHe said: \"We all felt incredibly sad this fantastic aeroplane was coming to an end of its life.\n\n\"In my personal opinion I think it was a great loss and I think a lot of us thought it inconceivable that we lose the maritime patrol capability with nothing to replace it.\"\n\nJoe Kennedy said it seemed 'inconceivable' not to have replaced Nimrods after scrapping the aircraft\n\nMr Kennedy, who co-authored a book about Nimrods, said he was \"delighted\" the RAF would soon have a fleet of Poseidons.\n\nMoray councillor James Allan said the arrival of the new personnel would bring benefits to the local community.\n\nHe said: \"It's great for Lossiemouth, which is a small place.\n\n\"We have a new school being built just now and a new community centre and swimming pool. It will also be great for our economy.\"\n\nDefence Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said RAF Lossiemouth's strategic northerly location made it \"one of the most important air stations in the UK\".\n\nRichard Lochhead SNP MSP for Moray said the fleet would bring new employment opportunities to the local area.\n\nHe said: \"The arrival of the very first P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft is a big day for RAF Lossiemouth and Moray and also plugs a gap in the UK's defence capability by restoring marine surveillance.\"\n\nDouglas Ross, Conservative MP for Moray and UK government minister for Scotland, said the Poseidon's new facilities formed part of £470m of investment in RAF Lossiemouth.", "The media keeps mistaking black women MPs for each other because it does not respect them as much as their white counterparts, a Labour MP has said.\n\nThe Evening Standard used a picture of Bell Ribeiro-Addy in a story about fellow Labour MP Marsha de Cordova.\n\nThe story was about BBC Parliament captioning Ms de Cordova as Labour deputy leadership hopeful Dawn Butler.\n\nMs Ribeiro-Addy told BBC News: \"We are not given the same respect as our white counterparts and that's not right.\"\n\nThe MP, who has represented Streatham, in south London, since last year's general election, said she accepted that \"everybody makes mistakes,\" but added: \"It happens all the time with us.\n\n\"It is hard enough for us to get elected here but when we do get here we are not treated as individuals.\"\n\nShe said she used to get mistaken for Dawn Butler when she worked as the chief of staff to shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, \"because I must be the other one\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Parliament This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC Parliament channel's mistake came during a Commons debate on the Agriculture Bill on Monday.\n\nTweeting a photo of the incorrect caption, Ms Butler said: \"I love my sister @MarshadeCordova but we are two different people.\n\n\"Marsha is amazing and deserves to be called by her own name. Diversity in the workplace matters and it also helps to avoid making simple mistakes like this.\"\n\nMs de Cordova, who is Labour's shadow minister for disabled people, said the BBC's mistake was \"not OK at all\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Lammy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPart of the problem was the lack of diversity in most newsrooms, Ms Ribeiro-Addy said, and the tendency of journalists to treat Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) MPs as part of a homogenous group.\n\n\"Why do so many MPs get to be individuals and we just get to be part of a group that gets confused with each other?\"\n\nThe BBC \"sincerely apologised\" to Ms Butler and Ms de Cordova for the mistake.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Sometimes we incorrectly identify MPs at the moment when they stand to speak. This error was immediately corrected on screen.\"\n\nThe Standard blamed picture agency Getty Images, which also supplies images to the BBC, for incorrectly captioning an image of Ms Ribeiro-Addy as Ms de Cordova.\n\nGetty Images \"sincerely apologised\" for incorrectly captioning the image of Ms Ribeiro-Addy and issued an \"unreserved apology\" to the two MPs \"for any offence this may have caused\".\n\nA Getty spokeswoman said: \"As soon as we were made aware of the error by the Evening Standard, we corrected the caption information on our website and in a notice sent to customers.\n\n\"Getty Images holds itself to a high standard of editorial integrity and has robust measures in place to ensure our content ingestion process reflects these standards.\n\n\"Although these errors are relatively rare, we, like all news agencies, regret when these measures fail to capture inaccuracies.\"\n\nTottenham MP David Lammy, one of the longest-serving black MPs, tweeted: \"This cannot go on. Black people are not all the same. We need more diversity in our newsrooms.\"", "Greek police have used tear gas to break up protests by migrants over living conditions on the Greek island of Lesbos.\n\nHundreds of people, including women and children, attempted to march to the town of Mytilene.\n\nIt comes after the Greek government invited proposals for a floating barrier to block migrants from arriving by sea.\n\nMigrants trying to reach Europe often travel through Turkey to Greece. Arrivals have proved hard to manage.\n\nMany are fleeing violence and persecution. The majority are from Afghanistan and Syria, according to the United Nations.", "President Trump said that, for the first time in 51 years, \"the cost of prescription drugs actually went down\".\n\nIn the year to May 2019, the average monthly cost of prescription drugs fell by 0.2% according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics' Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures the increase in the cost of household items in the US .\n\nThis is the first price decrease over a 12-month period since 1973, some 47 years ago.\n\nBut this may not be the most reliable way to measure drug prices according to Inma Hernandez, a pharmacy lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh.\n\n\"The CPI is based on a basket of drugs which is representative of popular drugs. So it tends to include widely-used drugs, which are usually cheaper,\" she says.\n\n\"However, it is less likely to include newer or less-prescribed drugs, which are more expensive and have higher price increases.\"\n\nThe lack of transparency around drug pricing makes it very difficult to know exactly what's happening to the cost of prescription medication.", "The move follows a knife attack in Streatham, south London, by Sudesh Amman\n\nEmergency legislation will be introduced to end the automatic early release from prison of terror offenders, the government has said.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland told MPs the change would apply to both current and future offenders.\n\nTerror offenders will only be considered for release once they have served two-thirds of their sentence and with the approval of the Parole Board.\n\nIt follows two attacks by men convicted of terror offences in recent months.\n\nOn Sunday, Sudesh Amman, 20, was shot dead by police in Streatham, south London, after stabbing two people. And in November two people were killed near London Bridge by Usman Khan.\n\nAmman was released from prison towards the end of January, while Khan was out on licence from prison when he launched his attack in central London.\n\nMr Buckland said the latest attack made the case \"for immediate action\".\n\n\"We cannot have the situation, as we saw tragically in yesterday's case, where an offender - a known risk to innocent members of the public - is released early by automatic process of law without any oversight by the Parole Board,\" he said.\n\nHe said the new legislation would mean people convicted of terrorism offences will no longer be released automatically after they have served half of their sentence.\n\nBecause we face \"an unprecedented situation of severe gravity\", the legislation will also apply to serving prisoners, Mr Buckland said.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the legislation would be introduced \"when parliamentary time allows\".\n\nThe government will also consider making new legislation to ensure that extremists are more closely monitored on release and will review whether the current maximum sentences for terrorist offences are sufficient.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland: \"We face an unprecedented situation of severe gravity\"\n\nThe Parole Board for England and Wales has welcomed the plans.\n\nIn a statement, it said it would not \"direct the release of an offender unless [it is] satisfied, taking account of all the evidence, that detention is no longer necessary for the protection of the public\".\n\n\"The board's focus is rightly on those who have committed the most serious criminal offences and it is vital that the most serious offenders are subject to a proper assessment before their release,\" it added.\n\nHowever, human rights group Liberty described the government's actions after recent terror attacks as a \"cause of increasing concern for our civil liberties\".\n\nClare Collier, an advocacy director for the campaign group, said: \"From last month's knee-jerk lie detector proposal, to today's threat to break the law by changing people's sentences retrospectively, continuing to introduce measures without review or evidence is dangerous and will create more problems than it solves.\n\n\"It's clear the UK's counter-terror system is in chaos and desperately needs proper scrutiny and review.\"\n\nResponding to the government announcement in the Commons, shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon said the justice system was in \"crisis\" due to funding cuts.\n\n\"The government cannot use sentencing as a way of distracting from their record of bringing the criminal justice system to breaking point,\" he said.\n\nFormer government counter-terrorism adviser Professor Ian Acheson argued that there might be instances where offenders should stay in prison.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"There will be some people for whom their ideology is bulletproof and there is no way we can get inside that.\n\n\"If there are people who are absolutely determined not to accept any intervention that will change that toxic mind-set, yes they should be in prison and if necessary, indefinitely.\"\n\nAlthough plans for the Parole Board to decide if people convicted of terrorism offences should be released after serving two thirds of their sentence were in the Queen's Speech, there were no proposals at that stage for the measures to apply retrospectively.\n\nAll that changed after the Streatham attack - the third incident involving convicted Islamist extremists in two months.\n\nMinisters are clearly concerned about the risks posed by other prisoners serving sentences for terrorism who are due to be let out: there's about one release, on average, every week.\n\nBut the measures, if approved by Parliament, will almost certainly be the subject of a challenge in the courts. Is it fair that a prisoner who's been convicted and sentenced under one set of rules suddenly finds themselves locked up for longer under a different set of rules?\n\nThe government is likely to justify its approach on the grounds of national security, so prepare for an epic legal battle that may well end up at the Supreme Court.\n\nAmman was shot dead on Streatham High Road on Sunday afternoon after stabbing two people in what police called an Islamist-related terrorist incident. He wore an imitation suicide belt.\n\nHe had been released from prison about a week ago after serving half of a sentence for terror offences, and was under police surveillance.\n\nArmed officers were following Amman on foot as part of a \"proactive counter-terrorism surveillance operation\", Scotland Yard said.\n\nHe was seen entering a shop in Streatham High Road shortly before 14:00 GMT, where he is believed to have stolen a knife. Once outside the shop he attacked two people.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the Metropolitan Police said its officers responded within 60 seconds of Amman's attack, fatally shooting him.\n\nThe force did not reveal more details about its surveillance operation on the terror convict.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dave Chawner said he \"used a blanket to stem the bleeding\" of one of the victims\n\nThree people were taken to hospitals, including the two stabbing victims.\n\nOne victim, a man in his 40s, is now said to be recovering after sustaining injuries that were initially thought to be life-threatening. Another, a woman in her 50s, has been discharged from hospital.\n\nA third woman in her 20s suffered minor injuries, thought to have been caused by broken glass from the gunfire.\n\nThe attack comes after convicted terrorist Khan fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge on 29 November last year.\n\nKhan had been released from jail on licence in 2018, half-way through a 16-year sentence for terrorism offences.\n\nThis prompted a raft of measures to be proposed by the Home Office in January.\n\nThe so-called Counter-Terrorism Bill would also ensure people convicted of serious offences, such as preparing acts of terrorism or directing a terrorist organisation, spend a minimum of 14 years in prison.\n\nThere are currently at least 74 people who were jailed for terror offences and subsequently freed on licence.\n\nThere are also 224 people convicted of terrorism offences in prison in Great Britain, most of whom must be released at the end of their custodial sentence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The nursery school teacher is recovering at home after being stabbed by attacker Sudesh Amman.\n\nOne of the two people stabbed in the Streatham attack has been named as 51-year-old Monika Luftner.\n\nThe nursery school teacher was stabbed by Sudesh Amman, 20, on Streatham High Road on Sunday afternoon.\n\nAmman had previously been convicted of terror offences and was shot dead by police who were monitoring him.\n\nMrs Luftner, a teacher at St Bede's Catholic Infant and Nursery School in Balham, is recovering at home with her partner.\n\nIn a statement, the school said Mrs Luftner was making \"a good recovery\" and asked that her privacy be respected.\n\nAmman stabbed two people on busy Streatham High Road, in south London, before being shot dead by police just after 14:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nHe is reported to have been \"under active police surveillance\" at the time of the attack, and was later found wearing a \"hoax\" suicide device.\n\nIt emerged that Amman had recently been released from prison after serving half of his three year sentence for terror-related offences.\n\nOfficers said the condition of the second stabbing victim - a man in his 40s - was initially considered life-threatening, but he is now in a serious but stable condition.\n\nA woman in her 20s received minor injuries - believed to have been caused by glass following the discharge of a police firearm - and has been discharged from hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Thomas Thabane (centre) at his inauguration in 2017 with Maesaiah Thabane, while King Letsie III (right) looks on\n\nThe wife of the prime minister of Lesotho is to be formally charged in court with murdering his previous wife.\n\nFirst Lady Maesaiah Thabane handed herself in to be questioned by police in the southern African mountain kingdom.\n\nPrime Minister Thomas Thabane has also been questioned about the killing.\n\nHis estranged wife, Lipolelo Thabane, was shot dead outside her home in the capital Maseru two days before his inauguration in 2017.\n\nThe couple were involved in bitter divorce proceedings at the time.\n\nThe attack was originally blamed on unknown armed men, but recent court papers filed by the country's police commissioner, Holomo Molibeli, have raised further questions.\n\nAn arrest warrant was issued for 42-year-old Maesaiah Thabane on 10 January after she disappeared.\n\nShe was \"picked from the border\" with South Africa on Tuesday after an arrangement between her lawyers and police, police spokesman Mpiti Mopeli told AFP news agency.\n\nPolice Commissioner Holomo Molibeli told the BBC that she was being held in custody and would be formally charged in court on Wednesday.\n\nPrime Minister Thomas Thabane has been questioned in connection with the killing of his previous wife\n\nIt is not clear if Maesaiah Thabane will apply for bail at the court appearance. Mr Molibeli said police will oppose her bid if she does, as she is believed to be a flight risk.\n\nMaesaiah Thabane's lawyer, Rethabile Setlojoane, told the BBC he could not comment on the case.\n\nEight others in Lesotho and South Africa are also reportedly facing charges over the murder.\n\nLast month, Mr Thabane agreed to be questioned by the police. On the day he was questioned, hundreds of opposition supporters marched through the streets of the capital, Maseru, demanding his immediate resignation.\n\nHundreds of protesters took to the streets in January to demand the resignation of Mr Thabane\n\nAs pressure over the case mounted, Mr Thabane announced his intention to resign on 16 January, but did not specify a date when he would do so.\n\nMr Thabane framed the decision to step down as retirement, making no reference to the allegations against him and his wife.\n\nThe governing party and the opposition have accused the leader of hindering the investigation into his previous wife's murder.\n\nMr Thabane and his current wife have not yet commented on the case.\n\nLipolelo Thabane was killed just two days before Mr Thabane was sworn in as prime minister in June 2017. The 58-year-old had been living apart from her husband since 2012.\n\nOne evening while returning home, she was ambushed, shot several times at close range and died on the side of a road.\n\nThe murder shocked the nation. Mr Thabane described it as a \"senseless killing\" in his inauguration speech.\n\nThe prime minister announced that he would step down but has given no date for his departure\n\nInitially, unknown armed men were blamed for the murder, but new evidence filed in court papers surfaced in early January.\n\nThe evidence, seen by AFP news agency, included a copy of a letter that the police chief wrote to Mr Thabane.\n\nThe letter, dated 23 December 2019, read: \"The investigations reveal that there was a telephonic communication at the scene of the crime in question... with another cell phone. The cell phone number belongs to you.\"", "Stories like Paula's, whose first universal credit payment wasn't enough to live on, are thought to have \"scared people\"\n\nFull rollout of universal credit, the government's flagship welfare reform, is being delayed again, adding £500m to its overall cost, the BBC has learned.\n\nOfficials say not enough people are moving to the benefit as they are \"scared\" to move to universal credit.\n\nThe system was meant to be fully live by April 2017, but the new delay will push it back to September 2024.\n\nThe welfare delivery minister, Will Quince, said claimants would not lose money as a result of the change.\n\nThe backroom discussions leading to the latest delay were recorded by a BBC team whose series, Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State, starts on Tuesday.\n\nThe new benefit, which replaces six existing payments, has been beset by problems, with claimants having to wait at least five weeks for the payments to start and many reports of people falling into debt, and having to resort to food banks as a consequence.\n\nPeople transferring to universal credit have to wait five weeks for the first payment\n\nOn top of that, advance payments of the benefit, introduced to help people through the five weeks with no money coming in, have been blamed for putting claimants into debt. That's because once the benefit finally comes through, payments are reduced to pay off the advance.\n\nClaimants are meant to transfer onto universal credit when they have a change of circumstances, such as moving in with a new partner.\n\nThe film-makers were allowed access to meetings inside the Department for Work and Pensions, and officials are seen pondering what to do when they realise fewer people are reporting changes of circumstances and therefore being transferred to the new benefit, than expected.\n\nOne programme shows Bolton mum Paula struggling to feed her family when her first universal credit payment comes in at just over £500 for a month, because of deductions to pay off the advance she took during the five-week wait.\n\nShe ends up resorting to a food bank. \"I have just got myself into one big mess and I have lost control over everything,\" Paula tells a debt counsellor.\n\n\"I am in debt up to my eyeballs and it's not going to go away.\"\n\nThe counsellor tells her: \"Any customer on universal credit, we already know that you're standing on the back foot.\n\n\"If you don't have money saved up already or you don't have backup of family who can support you, you will fall into taking an advance payment.\"\n\nShe added that benefit deductions to pay off the advance, leave people \"constantly trying to catch up\".\n\nNeil Couling, the senior civil servant in charge of the rollout for the past five years, is filmed telling a Whitehall meeting: \"We've got a lot of anecdotal evidence of people being scared to come to universal credit.\n\n\"It's a potentially serious issue for us, in terms of completing the project by December 2023, but I'm urging people not to panic.\"\n\n\"I'll take the beating\": senior civil servant Neil Couling decides to delay full rollout by another nine months\n\nBut a few weeks later, in September 2019, he decides to delay full rollout to September 2024, putting £500m on the bill.\n\n\"Three, six or nine months, it doesn't matter - the headline will be: 'Delay, disaster',\" he says\n\n\"I would say, 'Go safe, put the claimants first, and I'll take the beating.'\"\n\nDespite the problems, Mr Couling says he believes that once universal credit is fully implemented, it will be successful and regarded as \"the right thing to do\".\n\n\"This is the system that will form the bedrock of social security for the next 30 years.\"\n\nHe expects universal credit to continue to grow, with 2.6 million people already on it by September last year: \"Right now there's no way I can put the brakes on and stop.\n\n\"I have to keep going to the destination or you have to set me a different destination, because there's 2.6 million people, and if we get something wrong we could disrupt their lives and they've got no alternative. There's no alternative bank they can go to get help. We are the payer of last resort.\"\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary, Margaret Greenwood, called the news \"hugely embarrassing\" for the government and called for universal credit to be scrapped.\n\n\"Universal credit was supposed to be its flagship social security programme.\n\n\"Instead we now find that it is being forced to delay the full rollout because the public have so very little faith in it and many are actually afraid of it,\" said Ms Greenwood.\n\nThe government says universal credit was always intended to be introduced slowly.\n\nIt is \"the biggest change to the welfare system in a generation, bringing together six overlapping benefits into one monthly payment and offering support to some of the most vulnerable people in society\", said Mr Quince.\n\n\"It is right that we revisit our forecasts and plan, and re-plan accordingly, ensuring that the process is working well for people on benefits.\"", "Fifty per cent of the UK's 10-year-olds owned a smartphone in 2019, according to a report by media regulator Ofcom.\n\nThe amount of young phone owners doubled between the ages of nine and 10, which Ofcom dubbed \"the age of digital independence\".\n\nIn addition, 24% of 3 and 4-year-olds had their own tablet, and 15% of them were allowed to take it to bed.\n\nOfcom's annual report looks at the media habits of children, and the types of devices they are using.\n\nThe 2019 study was based on more than 3,200 interviews with children and parents around the UK.\n\n\"The mobile phone is the device of choice for children,\" said Yih-Choung Teh, strategy and research group director at Ofcom.\n\n\"I'm conscious that for these children who have never known a world without the internet, in many respects their online and offline worlds are indistinguishable.\"\n\nThe report also found that more older children were using social media to express their support for social causes and organisations, with 18% having shared or commented on a post, and one in ten having signed an online petition.\n\nOfcom dubbed this \"the Greta effect\" after the 17-year-old environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg.\n\nThe \"Greta effect\" has led to more older children supporting causes online.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students in Milton Keynes on their favourite smartphone apps\n\nOfcom also interviewed parents about their concerns. It found that 45% of parents thought the benefits of children using the internet outweighed the risks, but there was an overall increase in parental concern about young people seeing content that might lead them to self-harm.\n\nJust under half (47%) of the parents spoken to were worried about pressure to spend money within games, especially on loot boxes, where the reward is not clear before purchase.\n\nOf those parents with children aged between 5 and 15, 87% had sought advice about how to keep them safe online.\n\n\"We are seeing around half of 12-15 year olds saying they have seen hateful content online, and an increase in parents who are concerned about it,\" said Yih-Choung Teh.\n\n\"The good news is, more conversations about staying safe online are also happening across the country.\"\n\nFollowing the report, children's charity the NSPCC called for independent regulators to force social media platforms to protect their users from viewing harmful material.\n\n\"While it's encouraging that parents are talking to their children about their media use, we must look to tech giants to protect their users and ensure they are a force for good not bad,\" said Andy Burrows, head of child safety online policy.", "Torrential rain and flash flooding in the south of New Zealand has left many tourists stranded.\n\nMany hikers were evacuated from Fiordland by helicopter on Tuesday, but heavy rain meant rescue efforts for those trapped in Milford Sound was put on hold.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prime minister admitted he \"doesn't really get\" climate change, the former head of this year's key summit on the issue has said.\n\nThe UK is hosting COP26 in Glasgow in November - but Boris Johnson sacked president Claire O’Neill on Friday.\n\nMrs O'Neill told the BBC there was a \"huge lack of leadership and engagement\" from the government.\n\nBut senior cabinet minister Michael Gove said Mr Johnson was dedicated to environmental issues.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 5 Live that the prime minister described his political outlook as that of a \"green Tory\" when they first met 30 years ago.\n\n\"Ever since then I've seen his dedication to ensuring that we fight to ensure that our Earth is handed on in a better state to the next generation,\" he said.\n\nBut Ms O'Neill, the former Conservative minister for energy and clean growth, said people should be wary of the prime minister's promises.\n\n\"My advice to anybody to whom Boris is making promises - whether it is voters, world leaders, ministers, employees, or indeed family members - is to get it in writing, get a lawyer to look at it and make sure the money's in the bank,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"The prime minister has made incredibly warm statements about this over the years. He's also admitted to me that he doesn't really understand it. He 'doesn't really get it', I think is what he said.\"\n\nShe said the UK's climate efforts were at \"Oxford United levels when we need to be Liverpool if we are going to do what the world actually needs us to do\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Johnson after she was sacked, Mrs O'Neill accused him of promising money and people, but failing to deliver either.\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow, which is hosting COP26, includes the Armadillo and the SSE Hydro buildings\n\nMrs O'Neill wrote: \"The cabinet sub-committee on climate that you promised to chair, and which I was to attend, has not met once.\n\n\"In the absence of your promised leadership… departments have fought internal Whitehall battles over who is responsible and accountable for (the conference)\".\n\nShe said at this stage, the UK should have clear actions to communicate to the diplomatic network, an agreed plan of ministerial international engagements led by the prime minister and a roadmap for the proposed \"year of action\".\n\n\"As of last Friday, we did not,\" she said.\n\nDowning Street declined to respond to the claims, with a spokesman saying only that the prime minister is \"grateful to Claire for her work preparing for what will be a very successful, ambitious climate change summit in Glasgow in November.\"\n\nThe timing of the letter could not be worse as Mr Johnson is launching his strategy for the conference on Tuesday with the help of Sir David Attenborough.\n\nIt includes a plan to make 2035 the date for ending the sales in the UK of conventional petrol and diesel cars.\n\nMrs O’Neill's letter focused not on UK policy, but on the state of international negotiations and of Mr Johnson's role.\n\nShe warns: \"We are almost out of time to win the battle against climate change and start the process of climate recovery.\"\n\n\"It became clear to me that the current format of the global talks needed to be re-energised and focused.\n\n\"The annual UN talks are dogged by endless rows over agendas, ongoing unresolved splits over who should pay and insufficient attention and funding for adaptation (to inevitable climate changes).\n\n\"It was particularly awful at the last conference in Madrid. While half a million climate action protesters gathered in the streets, I sat in plenary sessions where global negotiators debated whether our meeting should be classified as 'informal' or 'informal-informal'.\"\n\nShe added: \"There is a yawning gap between what the world expects from us and where we are. It's a systemic failure of global vision and leadership.\"\n\nHer comments are not just aimed at the government.\n\nShe criticised some climate negotiators, too, for refusing to accept that the annual parade of climate conferences will not deliver the cuts needed for a stable climate.\n\nShe said: \"For some it is hard to give up on incrementalism even when it is demonstrably failing.\n\n\"In my judgement, this isn’t a pretty place for us to be to be and we owe the world a lot better.\"\n\nHer words are likely to resonate round the world, although she is not the first climate diplomat to express this sort of frustration - and she’s unlikely to be the last.", "Jessica Breeze said she could not remember stabbing her father\n\nA woman who stabbed her \"controlling\" father after suffering years of abuse has been found not guilty of his murder and manslaughter.\n\nJessica Breeze, 20, denied murdering Colin Brady, 49, at the family home in Keith Road, Middlesbrough, in June.\n\nMiss Breeze told Teesside Crown Court her father had frequently injured her in regular bouts of violence.\n\nHe had punched and threatened to kill Miss Breeze and her mother before he was stabbed in the back, jurors heard.\n\nThe prosecution alleged Miss Breeze had stabbed her father as he was leaving the house.\n\nIn evidence, the nursery worker recalled how her father would \"kick off\" and \"smash the place up\" if she returned home late.\n\nAsked by her barrister, Simon Russell Flint QC, if she ever reported her father's violent outbursts, she replied: \"No. I was scared. I thought it was pointless.\"\n\nMr Brady had previous convictions for violence, including causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nHe had attacked Miss Breeze's mother, Kelly Breeze, in an assault a police constable said was the worst he had seen.\n\nColin Brady was stabbed during a violent row at the family's home in Middlesbrough last summer\n\nThe trial had heard that an argument broke out after Miss Breeze's parents discovered she had been secretly seeing her boyfriend when she said she had been at work.\n\nDuring the row, Mr Brady slapped or punched his then 19-year-old daughter several times, before her mother intervened, the court heard.\n\n\"He was punching me in the face with his fists,\" Miss Breeze told the jury. \"He said he was going to kill us.\"\n\nShe was one digit away from dialling 999 when he demanded she hand over her phone, the court heard.\n\nThe court was told she had \"no memory of picking up the knife\".\n\nHe was taken to hospital with an 18cm-deep wound to his left lung, but could not be saved.\n\nJessica Breeze and her lawyer Sean Grainger spoke outside the court\n\nOutside court, Miss Breeze's solicitor, Sean Grainger, said in a statement: \"The jury accepted she was acting in lawful self-defence of herself and her mother when under a sustained and violent attack by her father.\n\n\"Further, whilst Jessica was brought up in a highly toxic home environment where she and her mother were regularly subject to extreme physical and emotional abuse by her father, Jessica wishes to make it clear she loved her father, she still does and wishes he was still here.\n\n\"She now wishes to rebuild her life, get back to work and move on from the seven-month ordeal she has endured since her arrest.\"\n\nFollowing the acquittal, a CPS spokesperson said: \"While there was evidence of a sometimes violent relationship between the victim, Colin Brady, and the defendant, Jessica Breeze, the circumstances of his death made a charge of murder wholly appropriate in this case.\n\n\"Regardless of the alleged provocation for the attack, the victim was attacked in the back as he walked away from the defendant.\n\n\"He was stabbed with such force that it passed from his back through his entire left lung and into his chest. Despite claims of self-defence by the defendant, the evidence was such that there was a case to answer.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Templefields House in Harlow was described as a \"human warehouse\" by one tenant\n\nA cleaner at a troubled former office block used to house the homeless has revealed she and other staff discovered a \"weeks-old corpse\" in a room.\n\nTania resigned from her job after being asked to clean the room where the man's body was discovered in June 2019.\n\nAn investigation by BBC East and Panorama found evidence security staff had \"lost control\" at Templefields House in Harlow, Essex.\n\nProperty owner Caridon said \"management followed appropriate procedures\".\n\nThe BBC found hundreds of families were being rehoused by London boroughs in office blocks and industrial estates in Harlow, often living next to drug addicts and ex-prisoners.\n\nRobert Halfon, MP for Harlow, described the practice as \"social cleansing\".\n\nEssex Police confirmed the death, which is not being treated as suspicious. The identity of the dead man was not disclosed.\n\nResidents have complained of being isolated and surrounded by warehousing and business centres\n\nTania, who did not want her surname used, became an employee of the landlord Caridon, with her partner Matt who became head of security at Templefields, after they had lived at the block as tenants.\n\n\"It was the smell hit you before you even opened the door. And there were flies everywhere. It was just awful,\" she said.\n\n\"He'd been there for five or six weeks. It was decomposed.\"\n\nThe couple said a number of people had taken their own lives during the time they lived and worked there.\n\nCurrent staff also told an undercover BBC reporter about other tenants who had died.\n\nThe reporter was told \"we've cleaned a dead man's room\" and \"we found him hanging\", \"had to wait for the body bag. Had to stand in the hallway to make sure no-one come in or while he was cleared\".\n\nManagement at the building were concerned with getting the room cleaned and letting it out to a new tenant, Tania said.\n\n\"I was just in shock, complete shock, but it was more of a concern to get another room that was needed to be cleaned that day,\" she told the BBC.\n\nTerminus House in Harlow, another former office block housing vulnerable people\n\nA spokesman for Caridon told the BBC the company was \"aware of the tragic events\".\n\n\"Following discovery by a member of staff, our management followed appropriate procedures and contacted the relevant authorities.\n\n\"As a supplier of accommodation to tenants referred by the local authorities, we are not mandated to provide support for vulnerable tenants with health issues.\"\n\nHe added: \"We do however perform welfare checks on individual tenants when instructed to do so by the relevant authorities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eyewitnesses have described scenes of distress and panic when a man was shot dead by police after stabbing people in Streatham, London.\n\nThey told the BBC how they fled at the sound of gunshots on Streatham High Road just after 14:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThree people were injured in the attack - carried out by Sudesh Amman, 20 - but none is in a critical condition.\n\nOne man said he gave people looking after one of the victims a blanket to \"help stem the bleeding\".\n\nDave Chawner, who had been on the way to the cinema, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I heard what I thought at that time was a car backfiring.\n\n\"I turned back and turned round and saw a small group of people around a man who was on the floor who was incredibly distressed, he was holding his lower right quadrant and there was blood everywhere.\n\n\"I happened to have a blanket in my bag and I gave it to them to help stem the bleeding and I ran to the nearest crossroads to wave down the ambulance.\"\n\nMr Chawner said the ambulance \"took well over half an hour to arrive\", which was \"incredibly frustrating and distressing\".\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said its medics were at the scene in four minutes, but were sent to a rendezvous point until police told them it was safe to treat patients.\n\nPeople gathered near the scene in Streatham\n\nAdam Blake, who was walking along Streatham Common, described how he saw two or three cars crash into each other, including an unmarked police car, as the incident unfolded.\n\n\"Another police car carried on towards the hill pursuing someone,\" he told the BBC.\n\nA police officer was seen pointing a gun at a man, who was seen on the floor outside Boots\n\nGjon Kathegjolli said he was in a barber shop when he heard a woman, who was with a baby in a push chair and two young boys, scream and saw her being stabbed.\n\nA man then walked past carrying a knife the size of his forearm, he said.\n\nDaniel Gough said he was out for a run when he heard shots and everyone ran.\n\n\"There was panic, people were yelling,\" he said. \"A young girl running alongside me kept asking 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' - she was very distressed.\n\n\"I saw a policeman and he yelled, telling everyone to get back. His gun was pointing in the direction of a man on the floor.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClare Henson-Bowen, who was walking past a pub with her husband and children, initially thought there had been a shoplifting incident.\n\n\"It happened really quickly. Lots of people were running. A lady on a bike looked like she was pushed…. another guy was wrapping a shirt around his arm, and the guy who had stolen something ran, thankfully, in the other direction,\" she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"I don't think it's really sunk in,\" she said, adding that residents had \"come together\" in the aftermath.\n\nLee Ford, a local electrician, said: \"To see this happen on my doorstep - our doorstep - it's very shocking.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's something you see on the news, not necessarily what you see on your on your doorstep.\"\n\nDo you have any information to share? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ian Paterson carried out hundreds of botched and needless operations\n\nA culture of \"avoidance and denial\" allowed a breast surgeon to perform botched and unnecessary operations on hundreds of women, a report has found.\n\nAn independent inquiry into Ian Paterson's malpractice has recommended the recall of his 11,000 patients for their treatment to be assessed.\n\nPaterson is serving a 20-year jail term for 17 counts of wounding with intent.\n\nOne of Paterson's colleagues has been referred to police and five more to health watchdogs by the inquiry.\n\nDebbie Douglas, who underwent \"needless\" surgery while in Paterson's care, said all of the report's 15 recommendations must be implemented.\n\nThe disgraced breast surgeon worked with cancer patients at NHS and private hospitals in the West Midlands over 14 years.\n\nHis unregulated \"cleavage-sparing\" mastectomies, in which breast tissue was left behind, meant the disease returned in many of his patients.\n\nOthers had surgery they did not need - some even finding out years later they did not have cancer.\n\nPatients were let down by the healthcare system \"at every level\" said the inquiry chair, retired Bishop of Norwich the Rt Revd Graham James, who identified \"multiple individual and organisational failures\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victim Debbie Douglas called for changes to the law following the report's publication\n\nAnother of Paterson's victims, Tracey Smith, welcomed the recommendations for the health service made by the inquiry.\n\n\"Paterson was claiming that there was some sort of cancer hotspot in Solihull. The only problem in Solihull was Ian Paterson,\" she said.\n\n\"Now we will continue to fight so that the recommendations are put in place to stop this from ever happening in the NHS or the Spire or any private hospital in the country.\"\n\nAmong the report's recommendations were:\n\nIn his report, Bishop James said: \"The suffering described; the callousness; the wickedness; the failures on the part of individuals and institutions as well as Paterson himself - these are vividly described in what patients told us.\n\n\"The scale of what happened, the length of time this malpractice went on; the terrible legacy for so many families; it is difficult to exaggerate the damage done, including to trust in medical organisations.\"\n\nThe coroner and West Midlands Police are looking into the deaths of 23 of Paterson's patients.\n\nRelatives of some of Paterson's patients who died have called for him to face manslaughter charges.\n\nThe opening words of the Paterson inquiry are striking. The chair, Rt Revd Graham James, says this was \"far worse\" than simply a story about a rogue surgeon though that itself was tragic.\n\nHe says the healthcare system was dysfunctional at every level when it came to keeping patients safe. And this was less than a decade ago.\n\nHe suggests there are currently more than enough regulators with sufficient budgets, but they still aren't doing enough collectively to keep patients safe.\n\nChillingly he says that based on evidence from clinicians as opposed to regulators something similar could happen now.\n\nPaterson began working at Spire private hospital in Solihull in 1997 and was appointed at Solihull Hospital, part of the Heart of England NHS Trust, a year later.\n\nBetween then and 2011, he had 11,000 patients across the two sites. He was suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC) in 2012 while his practices were being investigated.\n\nAn independent report by lawyer Sir Ian Kennedy found concerns about Paterson had been raised as early as 2003, but hospital management missed several opportunities to stop him.\n\nFollowing a trial at Nottingham Crown Court, Paterson, of Altrincham in Greater Manchester, who grew up in County Down, Northern Ireland, was jailed for 15 years in May 2017 after being found guilty of wounding with intent nine women and one man.\n\nHis sentence was later increased to 20 years.\n\nPaterson worked at Spire Hospital, in Solihull, from 1997 to 2011\n\nLater that year, minister of state for health Philip Dunne established the independent inquiry.\n\n\"There was a culture of avoidance and denial, an alarming loss of corporate memory and an offloading of responsibility at every level,\" Bishop James said in his conclusions.\n\n\"This capacity for wilful blindness is illustrated by the way in which Paterson's behaviour and aberrant clinical practice was excused or even favoured.\n\n\"Many simply avoided or worked round him. Some could have known, while others should have known, and a few must have known.\"\n\nThose referred to the health watchdog and the police were not named in the report.\n\nJacqui Smith, chair of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust which now runs Solihull Hospital, said it \"wholly condemns\" Paterson's practices and acknowledged \"many of Paterson's patients received appalling treatment whilst under the care of the NHS\".\n\nSpire Healthcare's chief executive, Justin Ash, apologised for the \"significant distress\" suffered by patients and accepted \"missed opportunities to challenge Ian Paterson's criminal behaviour\".\n\n\"We should have caught him sooner,\" he said. \"We have changed - Spire has changed. We have got much better regulation of consultants today.\"\n\nTwo of Paterson's patients, Tracey Smith and Debbie Douglas, were in Birmingham to read the inquiry report\n\nMrs Douglas, who spearheaded the campaign for the inquiry, said: \"The fight goes on until the legislation has changed.\n\n\"We don't want somebody from the government giving us lip service and saying that lessons will be learned. It sickens me.\n\nBishop James described the \"wickedness\" and \"callousness\" faced by Paterson's victims\n\nOther recommendations made by the inquiry are the suspension of healthcare professionals who are under investigation over patient safety, and that gaps in responsibility and liability between the NHS and the private sector are improved by the government.\n\nHealth Minister Nadine Dorries said: \"I deeply regret the failures of the NHS and the independent sector to protect patients from the devastating impact of Paterson's malpractice.\n\n\"It is essential we all respond quickly and effectively to the lessons of this inquiry, giving every patient the confidence that the care they receive is safe and meets the highest standards.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grammy award-winning singer Duffy has revealed she was drugged and raped after being held captive by an attacker.\n\nThe 35-year-old Welsh star posted on her verified Instagram account that her \"recovery took time\".\n\nThe performer, who had a UK number one single Mercy in 2008, wrote to her 33,000 followers: \"The truth is, and please trust me I am OK and safe now.\"\n\n\"I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days,\" she wrote.\n\nDuffy, whose debut album Rockferry went seven times platinum as it went to number one in six countries, won three Brit Awards and a Grammy following her breakthrough.\n\nAt the Brits, she won British Breakthrough, Best British Female and Best British Album awards.\n\n\"You can only imagine the amount of times I thought about writing this,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"Well, not entirely sure why now is the right time, and what it is that feels exciting and liberating for me to talk.\n\n\"I cannot explain it. Many of you wonder what happened to me, where did I disappear to and why. A journalist contacted me, he found a way to reach me and I told him everything this past summer. He was kind and it felt so amazing to finally speak.\n\nDuffy wrote about her ordeal to her 33,000 Instagram followers\n\n\"The truth is, and please trust me I am OK and safe now, I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days. Of course I survived. The recovery took time. There's no light way to say it. But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine.\"\n\nDuffy - whose real name is Aimee Anne Duffy - went to number one in 12 countries with Mercy, which was the UK's third-best-selling single of 2008 with sales of more than 500,000 copies.\n\nThe singer, from Nefyn in Gwynedd, then enjoyed success with her first album Rockferry as it became the UK's biggest selling album of 2008.\n\n\"You wonder why I did not choose to use my voice to express my pain? I did not want to show the world the sadness in my eyes,\" she added.\n\n\"I asked myself, how can I sing from the heart if it is broken?\n\nDuffy went to number one in 12 countries with her single Mercy\n\n\"And slowly it unbroke. In the following weeks I will be posting a spoken interview.\n\n\"If you have any questions I would like to answer them, in the spoken interview, if I can. I have a sacred love and sincere appreciation for your kindness over the years. You have been friends. I want to thank you for that. x Duffy.\n\n\"Please respect this is a gentle move for me to make, for myself, and I do not want any intrusion to my family. Please support me to make this a positive experience.\"\n\nEleri Butler, chief executive of Welsh Women's Aid, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers the singer's choice to speak out was a \"strong, courageous and powerful statement\".\n\n\"It's really difficult to speak out… for some women it's the right time to talk many years after the experience, and for some it's never the right time,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC attempted to contact Duffy to confirm the details of her post.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Helicopter footage shows the scale of flooding in Ironbridge\n\nAn emergency evacuation took place as rising waters on the River Severn \"overwhelmed\" a town's flood defences.\n\nBuckled barriers at Ironbridge, Shropshire, meant water seeped underneath, resulting in police evacuating part of the town.\n\nWest Mercia Police, which oversaw the evacuation, said \"virtually everyone\" in the Wharfage area had agreed to leave.\n\nResidents were earlier evacuated from their homes in Bewdley, Worcestershire.\n\nThere, water came over the top of some of the town's flood defences.\n\nThe barriers in both areas have been trying to keep a swollen River Severn from residents' doors.\n\nA risk-to-life flood warning remains for the Severn in Ironbridge following days of heavy rain, although the same severe warning for neighbouring Shrewsbury has been downgraded as river levels fall in the town.\n\nElsewhere, flooding has also seen:\n\nDeputy chief constable Julian Moss, from the West Merica force, said on Wednesday evening that \"virtually all\" residents who had previously chosen to stay in their properties in Ironbridge had now left.\n\nAbout 35 homes are believed to have been evacuated in the Wharfage.\n\nThe force said it would ensure displaced residents were \"put up\" and officers would remain in the area throughout the night and over the coming days.\n\nEarlier, Chris Bainger from the Environment Agency (EA) said barriers had become \"ineffective\", with water \"getting underneath\".\n\nStructural engineers were onsite, police said, but in the meantime the force had taken \"the practical worst case scenario\" in ordering an emergency evacuation.\n\nA drone has been used to survey a 500m section of the temporary flood defence after residents reported hearing a loud bang when a barrier was shunted by the fast-flowing Severn.\n\nMark Sitton-Kent, director of operations for the EA, said: \"That movement of it backwards caused it to clatter against the kerbstones behind, with a loud bang that I think everybody heard.\n\nHe added: \"Over the next 24/48 hours as the river level here drops, we will move in and do some work to shore up the area and make sure [the barrier] stays put.\"\n\nThe Museum of The Gorge can be seen amid flood water\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, leader of Telford and Wrekin Council, said people should leave their homes and \"stay away\" from Ironbridge.\n\n\"This is a developing situation but it has significantly developed and increased in terms of its dangerousness with regards to the barriers collapsing.\"\n\nIronbridge Gorge was one of the first UK locations to be given World Heritage status in 1986, which recognised its importance as a pioneering part of the Industrial Revolution.\n\nThe force of the river caused defences in Ironbridge to buckle\n\nThe main flood defences in Bewdley had been holding firm but just before midnight on Tuesday, 38 properties in the Beales Corner area of town were either flooded or at risk as water came over the top of barriers.\n\nMany people have been rescued, but about 12 people remain in their homes.\n\nSally Yardley, 64, left her ground floor flat which overlooks the river.\n\n\"The water was rising really quickly... I don't think we ever predicted it would be this bad,\" she said.\n\nAnother Bewdley resident, Adrian Guest, said it had been an \"anxious\" day.\n\n\"There have been bizarre sightings of sofas and fridges floating by,\" the 53-year-old said. \"People gathered in groups worried about the situation upriver at Ironbridge where the stress loads on their barriers could see them collapse at any moment.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shrewsbury home floods for the second time in eight days\n\nDave Throup, EA manager for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, said: \"The river levels are exceptionally high here at Bewdley and they haven't stopped yet.\n\n\"The river is still rising at a much slower rate and we're expecting a peak here probably this afternoon and then that's working its way down the catchment to Worcester.\"\n\nIn Worcester, some homes have been flooded for 10 days in the wake of Storm Dennis.\n\nHereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service has been going house-to-house in Bewdley with a dinghy to help people from their homes.\n\nAmong them was Justin Leitch who has lived at his property since August.\n\n\"It's unprecedented what's happened over the last week, 10 days, what can you do? People are trying their best,\" he said.\n\nJustin Leitch said the water at his home, in Bewdley, is over knee height\n\nSarah, a mum-of-four who also lives in Beales Corner, said her family would be staying put despite a foot of water in her cellar.\n\n\"If I thought there was any real danger we would go.\"\n\nResidents in Bewdley started leaving their homes around midnight\n\nBBC Hereford and Worcester's James Pearson said overtopping at Bewdley started as a trickle then turning into a torrent.\n\nHe said the flood water was about the same level as the river and it had not flooded while the temporary barriers were there.\n\nThe levels were 14cm off the all-time high from 2000 and they were expected to keep rising steadily throughout the day, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flood water pours over the top of Bewdley's barriers\n\nRiver Severn levels are expected to remain high over the next few days due to \"unsettled\" weather, the EA said, adding it was \"closely monitoring the situation\".\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Boris Johnson was criticised for not visiting the flood-hit areas.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the government \"refuses to acknowledge the scale of the problem\" accusing Mr Johnson of being a \"part time prime minister\" who is only \"keen to pose for cameras during an election\".\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"very proud of the response the Government has mounted\" to the floods.", "Three Scottish Soldiers Campaign For Justice The soldiers who died were, from left, Fusilier Dougald McCaughey, Fusilier John McCaig and Fusilier Joseph McCaig\n\nA former member of the Parachute Regiment was centrally involved in the killings of three off-duty soldiers almost 50 years ago, a BBC Spotlight investigation has established.\n\nThe Scottish soldiers were John McCaig, 17; his brother, Joseph, 18, and Dougald McCaughey, 23.\n\nThey were found shot dead in Ligoniel, north Belfast, on 10 March 1971.\n\nThe Royal Highland Fusiliers had been drinking in a city centre pub when they were lured to their deaths by the IRA.\n\nThe Spotlight investigation reveals that Paddy O'Kane, who had served seven years in the Parachute Regiment, shared a drink with the three Scots before taking them away to their deaths.\n\nMembers of O'Kane's family and a former member of the IRA confirmed to Spotlight that O'Kane said he was involved in the killings.\n\nO'Kane, from north Belfast, joined the Parachute Regiment in 1957 and served in Cyprus and Jordan.\n\nA memorial stone marks the spot where the three soldiers were found on the outskirts of Belfast\n\nHe was a member of the boxing team for 2 Para. When he left the Army in 1964, his duty was officially recorded as \"very good\".\n\nHe is believed to have joined the Provisional IRA in 1969.\n\nPolice identified him as a prime suspect almost immediately after the killings.\n\nThe funeral for John and Joseph McCaig took place in Ayr\n\nHe was seen drinking with the soldiers in a city centre pub by a work colleague.\n\nBut O'Kane evaded arrest and went on the run in the Republic of Ireland where he remained very active in the IRA for at least another five years.\n\nFormer IRA intelligence chief Kieran Conway knew O'Kane. He told Spotlight that O'Kane spoke openly about his role in the killings.\n\nConway described the former Para as \"a psychopath\".\n\n\"I believe any man that could execute three young Scottish soldiers in that manner must have been a psychopath,\" he said.\n\nSeparately, multiple sources confirmed to Spotlight that Paddy O'Kane was also a lead suspect for the Kingsmills massacre of January 1976, when 10 Protestant workmen were ordered off a minibus and shot dead by the IRA.\n\nO'Kane was listed as wanted for questioning about the Kingsmills killings for many years afterwards.\n\nHe was first refused an \"On-the-Run\" (OTR) letter in 2003, but in 2007 an OTR letter was approved, giving him confirmation that he was not wanted by any police force in the UK.\n\nO'Kane died two years later, in Shannon, County Clare, where he had lived since 1976.\n\nPaddy O'Kane was also wanted for questioning about the Kingsmills killings\n\nThe bodies of the soldiers were discovered by a teenage girl.\n\nThree years ago, Brenda Kielty made her only recorded interview about that evening.\n\n\"They were just shot and dumped on top of each other. I didn't know whether it was three Protestants or three Catholics, but I never dreamt it was three soldiers,\" she said.\n\n\"There was nothing to indicate that it was three soldiers.\"\n\nMs Kielty, who died shortly after the interview, was then 14 years old, a little younger than the youngest of the victims, John McCaig.\n\n\"The wee boy had loads of freckles on his face. I actually put my hand on the wee boy's face and he was warm. He definitely wasn't cold like, he was warm,\" she said.\n\nThe Spotlight investigation retraces the soldiers' last day.\n\nIt scrutinises a longstanding rumour that women were used to lure the soldiers to their death in what was known as a \"honey trap\".\n\nIt identifies three other men whom the police also suspected of involvement in the killings.\n\nOne of those men told Spotlight that he \"vehemently denies any involvement\".\n\nAs more emerges about the killings, there have been calls for a fresh inquest and a new investigation but police said that the clearest evidence has always been against O'Kane, who is now dead.\n\nSpotlight, The Killings of the Three Scottish Soldiers, is on Tuesday at 22:35 GMT on BBC 1 Northern Ireland.", "Now Environment Secretary George Eustice is opening the debate on the second reading of the Environment Bill.\n\nThis bill aims to improve air and water quality, tackle plastic pollution, restore wildlife, and protect the climate.\n\nYou can read more about the bill from our environment analyst Roger Harrabin here.\n\nThe SNP's Chris Stephen's has just proposed a ten minute rule bill - the Workers (Definition and Rights) Bill.\n\nHe aims to establish a legal definition of employment, which will cover zero-hours contracts and agency workers, and help prevent abuses.\n\n\"It is now time to refine the definition of worker... and provide greater protection from day one of employment,\" he tells the Commons.", "Greta Thunberg has met Malala Yousafzai during a visit to Oxford University.\n\nThe climate change campaigner, 17, made the trip to Lady Margaret Hall where she met the human rights campaigner, 22, on Tuesday.\n\nMs Thunberg is set to join a school strike in Bristol. Ms Yousafzai is studying politics, philosophy, and economics at the university.\n\nThe student posted a picture of the two young activists on Instagram, saying simply: \"Thank you @gretathunberg\".\n\n\"She's the only friend I'd skip school for,\" she added on Twitter.\n\nAlso posting on social media, Ms Thunberg said: \"So...today I met my role model. What else can I say?\"\n\nIt is not known what the pair discussed, though according to Alan Rusbridger, the principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Ms Thunberg spoke to students about \"science, voting, the limits of protest, divestment, real zero v net zero, and much more\" during her visit.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by arusbridger This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReplying to the young women's posts, others have declared them \"legends\" and described the meeting as \"awesome\".\n\nPosting on Twitter, one fan, Stefan Reichwein, said: \"Pure inspiration and hope - the world needs women like you.\"\n\nWhile Ida Skibenes said: \"Thanks for being the sheroes we need and for giving us hope.\"\n\nJennifer Cassidy, a lecturer in politics at the University of Oxford, wrote: \"I walk out my door, up one street and see @Malala and @GretaThunberg talking outside.\n\n\"Two powerful young women standing for justice, truth and equality for all.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr. Jennifer Cassidy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGood Morning Britain host Piers Morgan said: \"What a photo... the two most influential young women of my lifetime meet in Oxford.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers were less complimentary, describing the pair as \"overrated\".\n\nTwitter user Luis Hulyer said: \"One risked her life to go to school, the other plays truant.\"\n\nTwo years ago, Ms Thunberg started missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building, in what turned out to be the beginning of a huge environmental movement.\n\nShe has become a leading voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world.\n\nIn 2012, Ms Yousafzai was shot in the head, neck and shoulder by a Taliban fighter while travelling home from school after writing an anonymous diary about life under the extremists.\n\nAfter recovering from her near-fatal injuries, she and her family relocated to Birmingham.\n\nIn 2014, she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, at the age of 17. Three years later she accepted a place to study at Oxford.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The leaders of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil held their first sit down discussions since the general election\n\nA left-wing government in the Republic of Ireland led by Sinn Féin is very unlikely, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said.\n\nMr Martin was speaking after he held a meeting with Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar on Tuesday.\n\nIt was the first sit-down discussion between the two party leaders since the Irish general election.\n\nFianna Fáil won the most seats in the Dail (parliament) in January's election with 38, one ahead of Sinn Fein.\n\nHowever, Sinn Fein had the highest number of first preference votes.\n\n\"Very clearly you can see the so-called left wing alliance that was trumpeted over a week hasn't really made any progress in terms of numbers in the Dail,\" Mr Martin said.\n\n\"That remains a very unlikely scenario in terms of any combination on the far left, or Sinn Féin emerging with any credible numbers to form a government.\"\n\nFine Gael, which had relied on a 2016 confidence and supply arrangement with Fianna Fáil to remain in government, finished with 35 seats.\n\nLeo Varadkar tendered his resignation as taoiseach (Irish prime minister), last week,\n\nMr Martin said no-one had ruled out a reverse confidence and supply arrangement between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.\n\nLeo Varadkar tendered his resignation as taoiseach to President Michael D Higgins last Thursday\n\n\"There are two aspects to that,\" he said.\n\n\"Could you achieve a critical mass that could sustain under a confidence-and-supply arrangement, and secondly would the dynamic be such that it would enable that government to take decisions that I think will be needed to make meaningful inroads on the housing crisis and on the health crisis and also climate change?\"\n\nMr Martin said he had also had a constructive meeting with the newly-formed Regional Independent Group made up of nine TDs.\n\n\"The clear message from the independents was that they wanted a stable government that would last five years to deal with the key issues of housing and health and regional economic development,\" he added.\n\n\"They have a strong focus on the imbalance in terms of how the country economically is developing.\"\n\nHe said his party will on Wednesday begin serious engagements with the Green Party on a range of policy issues.\n\nAfter the meeting, Fine Gael issued a statement on behalf of Mr Varadkar.\n\n\"The taoiseach and president of Fine Gael encouraged Fianna Fail to continue engaging with other parties with a view to forming a government.\n\nIt said the two parties had agreed to meet again at some point in the future.\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party had been given a mandate for change.\n\nSinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said Sinn Féin had been given a mandate for change.\n\n\"People have told me that - people told me they voted for Sinn Féin because they wanted a new government,\" she added.\n\n\"They don't want Fianna Fail and Fine Gael back in government, they want a new approach to government, they want the priorities of ordinary working people to be put front and centre.\"\n\nSinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty insisted a left-wing government is still possible, saying: \"For our part, change needs to mean change.\n\n\"We're keeping all options open in relation to forming a government for change - that's the mandate that we have.\"", "Lahore Safari, Pakistan's largest zoo, has nearly 40 lions in captivity\n\nThe remains of a teenage boy have been found in the lion enclosure of a Lahore zoo, a day after he went missing.\n\nOfficials said they are investigating how Muhammad Bilal, 17, made it over the fence and what caused his death.\n\nBut locals have blamed Mr Bilal's demise on staff incompetence, and earlier this week the zoo's offices were ransacked.\n\nThe state-back Lahore Safari, established in 1982, is Pakistan's largest and oldest animal park.\n\nChaudhry Shafqat, a director at the zoo, told the BBC that people from a nearby village visited the site on Tuesday night asking for help to look for the boy.\n\nMuhammad Bilal's relatives said he left home to search for cattle fodder\n\n\"We told them it was too late and could be dangerous to launch a search in the dark,\" said Mr Shafqat.\n\nDuring a search on Wednesday morning, zoo employees found a blood-soaked skull, some bones and pieces of torn cloth which the relatives recognised as the missing boy's clothing.\n\nOfficials said relatives told them the boy had left home on Tuesday afternoon to cut grass, which was intended to be used for cattle fodder.\n\nMr Bilal's remains have been sent for tests to confirm the cause of death.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSajid Javid has said his resignation as Chancellor was necessary to uphold the \"national interest\" and sensible \"checks and balances\" in government.\n\nHe quit the cabinet in the prime minister's reshuffle after a row over merging his team with No 10's advisers.\n\nIn a personal statement in the Commons explaining his decision, he defended the Treasury's independence and said it must be able to \"speak truth to power\".\n\nNo 10 said having joint advisers would help government work \"effectively\".\n\nDuring his speech, Mr Javid warned the government not to abandon its fiscal discipline.\n\nHe offered his full support to Boris Johnson and his successor as chancellor, Rishi Sunak, who watched on as Mr Javid delivered a rare personal statement setting out the reasons for his surprise exit last month.\n\nBut in a warning to the PM, he said Mr Sunak - who will deliver the Budget in two weeks' time - should be given the \"space to do his job without fear or favour\".\n\nMr Javid stood down after just over six months in the Treasury.\n\nHe had been told by the PM that he would have to share his team of personal advisers with No 10 and that some of his existing staff would be let go as part of plans to create single unit.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, he said it has \"always been the case\" that ministers appointed their own advisers, and he saw no reason why the Treasury \"should be the exception to that\".\n\nThe convention that \"advisers advise, ministers decide and ministers decide on their advisers\" remained a sound one, he told MPs.\n\nMPs listening to Sajid Javid's reflections from the backbenches would have been in no doubt about who he held responsible for his resignation.\n\nDominic Cummings was mentioned by name only in passing and in jest, but he was the central character in the statement.\n\nWhile not as explosive as it could have been, Mr Javid's speech pulled no punches when it came to the verdict on the new relationship between Downing Street and the Treasury: not in the national interest.\n\nThe Treasury, he said, must continue to be a strong and credible institution - 'don't undermine it' was his message.\n\nAnd while he was full of praise for his former boss and his successor, he urged them to stick with his fiscal rules and resist the temptation to splash the cash and cut taxes.\n\nThe Budget - that Mr Javid was meant to deliver in a fortnight - will reveal whether they take heed of his advice.\n\nHe said he felt the order to fire his aides would \"significantly inhibit\" the flow of good advice and would not have been in the national interest as \"no particular person\" has a \"monopoly of the best ideas\".\n\nHe said mutual trust and creative tension between institutions were vital to the proper functioning of government.\n\n\"It is through these checks and balances of credible institutions, be it the Treasury, the Bank of England, the Office for Budget Responsibility and this House, that we arrive in sensible decisions that are in the national interest,\" he said.\n\nThe PM and his new chancellor were in the chamber to listen to Mr Javid's statement\n\n\"A chancellor, like all cabinet ministers, has to be able to give candid advice to a prime minister so he is speaking truth to power. I believe that the arrangement proposed would significantly inhibit that and it would not have been in the national interest.\"\n\nHe also made a joke at the expense of the PM's chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, who was widely seen as behind the plan to clip the Treasury's wings. He told MPs he did not want to go into the \"Cummings and goings\" of the row that led to his departure.\n\nWhile the \"tenacious and energetic\" prime minister had a once in a generation opportunity to renew and transform the country, he said the government must live within its means.\n\nAs a \"low-tax Conservative\", he said he was worried that the overall tax burden was already at its highest in many years.\n\nAmid warnings from a leading economic think tank, the IFS, that the new chancellor must raise taxes in his first Budget or break the government's rules on borrowing, he said \"not everyone at the centre of government\" feels the same pressure to balance the books and the Treasury had a responsibility to keep spending and the national debt \"under control\".\n\n\"Trade-offs need to be made somewhere. When we need to do much more to level up across generations, it would not be right to pass the bill for our day-to-day consumption to our children and grandchildren.\n\nFormer PM Theresa May reacts as Sajid Javid delivers his personal statement\n\nResponding immediately to Mr Javid's comments, the PM praised Mr Javid's \"immense service\" to the country and said he had \"friends and admirers\" across the House.\n\nLater, a Downing Street spokesman defended the decision to merge advisors, saying: \"The new unit will ensure that the government works more effectively to deliver the prime minister and chancellor's shared ambition to level up the economy across the UK.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman would not confirm whether the government would stick to Mr Javid's fiscal rules, adding: \"As set out in the [Conservative election] manifesto, we will continue to have a clear fiscal framework.\"\n\n\"The detail of that is for the chancellor to confirm at the budget.\"", "Trading in global financial markets paused for breath on Wednesday, after days of sharp losses spurred by fears about the coronavirus.\n\nThe main US indexes were mixed, rising from Tuesday's losses in early trade, before retreating later in the day.\n\nThe Dow ended down almost 0.5%, while the S&P 500 dropped about 0.4% and the Nasdaq gained about 0.2%.\n\nIn Europe, London's FTSE 100 index and other major bourses pared their losses and were mostly flat.\n\nEarlier, Japan's Nikkei 225 index and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong closed 0.8% and 0.7% lower respectively.\n\nThe mixed performance come amid ongoing warnings from firms that supply chains are being disrupted by measures to contain the new virus, which has spread to more than 30 countries.\n\nFactory production continues to lag, travel restrictions remain in place and consumers in some countries are staying at home.\n\nThe virus is likely to reduce global growth in the first three months of this year by almost 1%, Moody's Analytics estimates.\n\nHowever, it warned that if the outbreak was not contained as expected, it could trigger recessions in the US and elsewhere.\n\n\"The coronavirus has been a body blow to the Chinese economy, which now threatens to take out the entire global economy,\" chief economist Mark Zandi said.\n\nShare markets have faced days of turmoil, with the FTSE 100 hitting a 12-month low on Tuesday and the main US indexes losing more than 3% overnight.\n\nOn Wednesday, drinks giant Diageo, which owns Guinness and Johnnie Walker whisky, said the coronavirus could cost it £200m in lost earnings this year. Its shares fell 1.8% in London.\n\nMiner Rio Tinto also lost 1.8% after it warned the disease could hit its operations in the next six months.\n\nMicrosoft also warned it would not hit its sales targets for the quarter, despite strong demand, because its \"supply chain is returning to normal operations at a slower pace than anticipated\".\n\n\"I think we should anticipate that this environment of heightened volatility and concern continues,\" Rebecca McVittie, investment director at Fidelity International, told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nShe said that countries that supplied parts for complex products - such as cars and computers - were increasingly being affected by the outbreak.\n\n\"We've now seen more cases of coronavirus in South Korea. That's a country that plays a very important role, for example, in tech supply chains,\" she said.\n\n\"I think we should anticipate that markets will probably move down.\"\n\nThe moves came as the outbreak continued to spread outside China, with Iran, South Korea and Italy reporting a surge in cases.\n\nAbout 77,000 people in China, where the virus emerged last year, have been infected and nearly 2,600 have died. Outside China, more than 1,200 cases have been confirmed in about 30 countries and there have been more than 20 deaths.\n\nThe International Chamber of Shipping estimates that the industry is losing around $350m a week because of the coronavirus, with empty containers waiting in ports in China and shortages in the US.\n\nHowever, work in China is slowly starting to resume in many provinces.\n\nGuy Platten, secretary general of the organisation, said he is hopeful that trade will start to rebalance.\n\n\"There's a big backlog which will have to be addressed in the coming months, but at least now we hear that the factories are starting to get back to work again,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City produced a stunning late fightback as goals from Gabriel Jesus and Kevin de Bruyne secured a memorable 2-1 win at Real Madrid to take control of their Champions League last-16 tie.\n\nAfter a cagey first half, the hosts capitalised on a defensive mix-up between Rodri and Nicolas Otamendi to take the lead as the impressive Vinicius Junior raced towards goal before neatly squaring for Isco to slot home.\n\nSergio Ramos shot over as Real Madrid looked to double their advantage but City equalised 12 minutes before time when Jesus nodded in from close range.\n\nIt was the least City deserved for what had been an impressive away performance by Pep Guardiola's side and things got even better seven minutes from time when substitute Raheem Sterling was brought down inside the box and De Bruyne stepped home to confidently convert from the spot.\n\nIt got even worse for Real Madrid when they were reduced to 10 men with five minutes remaining. Ramos brought down Jesus as he ran through on goal and the defender was shown a red card.\n\nIt was the first time City had beaten Real Madrid in the Champions League and means they are in the driving seat before the second leg at the Etihad on Tuesday, 17 March.\n\nThe win will have been all the more welcome for City fans after their side were earlier this month banned from European club competitions for the next two years.\n\nThe club's appeal against the decision has been registered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and the issue will continue to overshadow their immediate future, but this display in Madrid will give them hope of progressing far in the current campaign.\n• None We're not used to doing these things - Guardiola on City's win\n\nThis was a hugely impressive result for Manchester City and one for which Guardiola deserved a large amount of credit after he sprung a surprise with his team selection.\n\nThe former Barcelona boss left Sterling, Sergio Aguero, David Silva and Fernandinho all on the bench and instead utilised Bernardo Silva and De Bruyne as alternating false nines in what appeared to be a very cautious City formation.\n\nBut it was a tactic that successfully nullified a Real Madrid side that has historically been so strong in the knockout stages of the Champions League and had not lost their 12 previous knockout games under Zinedine Zidane.\n\nThe hosts were limited to one decent chance in the first half - when Ederson saved superbly from Karim Benzema's header - while City's threat on the counter increased as the half went on.\n\nCity looked like the most likely to score as the game wore on but all their good work threatened to be undone when Real pounced on a rare defensive error from City.\n\nBut, to the visitors' credit, they fought back strongly despite that setback and the introduction of Sterling proved pivotal as the forward provided a different outlet for City as they turned the game around.\n\nIn the end they could have perhaps won by more - with Ramos preventing Jesus from getting his second - but two away goals puts Guardiola's side in a strong position to reach the quarter-finals and keep them on track to end their wait for Champions League success.\n\nReal Madrid are the Champions League's most successful club with 13 titles and they have been particularly strong under Zidane.\n\nThe former France international guided Los Blancos to three consecutive titles in his first spell in charge of the club between 2016 and 2018, while he had won all 12 previous knockout ties he had overseen as a manager.\n\nTheir form heading into this match had been patchy with just one win in their previous four games in all competitions, while they were beaten 1-0 by Levante at the weekend.\n\nBut despite taking the lead against City, they were never truly in control of the game at any period as they first struggled to break down their opponents before falling apart when the visitors took the game to them.\n\nThis was the first time Guardiola and Zidane - rivals in their playing days for Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively - had gone to head-to-head as managers and it was the former who came out on top.\n\nThe one sour point on the night for City was the loss of defender Aymeric Laporte to injury in the first half.\n\nThe defender was making only his fourth appearance since recovering from a serious knee injury that had kept him out for much of the season but pulled up with just over half an hour gone and was replaced by Fernandinho.\n\nLaporte was able to make his own way off the pitch, giving City reason to be optimistic that his absence will not be a long one.\n\n\"After five months injured in this scenario it's so demanding,\" Guardiola said.\n\n\"Fernandinho came in and did incredibly well. I'm so proud.\"\n\n'This is just the first part' - what they said\n\nReal Madrid midfielder Casemiro: \"The tie isn't finished with this result. We played 75 spectacular minutes against a great team.\n\n\"Then in just 15 minutes we didn't do any of what he should have done. That's why they fought back and cancelled out our lead. We've got a lot of work ahead of us now.\n\n\"If there's any team capable of overcoming this deficit in the second leg it's Real Madrid.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola to BT Sport: \"We tried to come here to win the game and we did. This is just the first part. If one team can overcome this situation, it's this club.\n\n\"When we were better, we conceded a goal. When they were better, we scored a goal. That's football. I remember the quarter-final [against Liverpool] a few seasons ago at Anfield when we played incredibly well and they scored all their shots on target.\"\n\nPep joins a club of two - the stats\n• None Manchester City have beaten Real Madrid for the first time in their history.\n• None Real Madrid have lost a Champions League home match despite scoring the opening goal for just the second time, also losing in this manner against AC Milan in October 2009.\n• None Kevin de Bruyne scored his 50th goal in all competitions for Manchester City. This was the first time he has both scored and assisted in a Champions League match.\n• None City boss Guardiola is only the second manager to win two Champions League away games against Real Madrid, after Ottmar Hitzfeld. He is the first to do so with two different clubs.\n• None Real Madrid's Isco scored his first goal in the knockout stages of the Champions League since netting against Atletico Madrid in the semi-final second leg in May 2017.\n• None Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos received his fourth Champions League red card - only Edgar Davids and Zlatan Ibrahimovic have as many (both four).\n• None Guardiola has now won more Champions League knockout-stage matches than any other manager in the history of the competition (28).\n• None Karim Benzema became the sixth player to make 100 appearances for Real Madrid in the Champions League, after Iker Casillas (150), Raul (130), Sergio Ramos (124), Roberto Carlos (107) and Cristiano Ronaldo (101).\n\nManchester City will now switch their attention to the Carabao Cup final as they take on Aston Villa at Wembley on Sunday, 1 March (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Ferland Mendy (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 1, Manchester City 2. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ferland Mendy with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 1, Manchester City 1. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Priti Patel told a crime conference she would be \"unapologetic\" about holding police to account\n\nThere must be \"no excuses\" for not cutting crime, Home Secretary Priti Patel has told senior police officers.\n\nSpeaking at a conference in central London, Ms Patel signalled the return of national targets, saying \"outcomes\" in key areas would be measured.\n\nThe home secretary added she would be \"unapologetic\" about holding police to account.\n\nIt came as ministers continued to dismiss allegations of bullying in the Home Office.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to recruit 20,000 new police officers in England and Wales within three years - almost reversing the reduction in numbers since the Conservatives came to power in 2010.\n\nSpeaking at the the National Police Chiefs' Council and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners summit in Westminster, Ms Patel said she expected people to be able to see a difference when the new officers were in post, such as less crime and safer streets.\n\nShe said success would be measured against a set of national policing outcomes, with priorities including reducing murders, serious violence and neighbourhood crime.\n\nMs Patel said she was \"unequivocal\" in her support for officers, but added: \"We need to pull out all the stops to deliver the decline in crime that people want to see. There must be no weak spots.\n\n\"These outcomes will be non-negotiable and I will be unapologetic about holding you to account.\"\n\nPriti Patel's message to the police was blunt: we're investing in you, now you must deliver.\n\nThis will have come as little surprise to the chief constables gathered at the conference - a government which has made law and order a priority expects results.\n\nBut the means by which ministers will gauge success - national \"outcomes\", or targets in all but name - are likely to cause concern.\n\nThe last time national crime indicators were brought in, under Tony Blair's Labour administration, they had a series of unintended consequences, as certain serious offences, which were not being measured, weren't given the attention they should have been.\n\nThe three-year deadline for reductions in crime set by the home secretary is also hugely ambitious.\n\nBut the clear goal she has set is likely to be welcomed by the public, which, as she acknowledged in her speech, has lost confidence in the criminal justice system.\n\nMs Patel's speech came as ministers continued to dismiss allegations of bullying in the Home Office after claims she clashed with senior officials, belittled colleagues and is distrusted by intelligence chiefs.\n\nMs Patel and permanent secretary Sir Philip Rutnam released a joint statement denying reports of a deep rift at the top of the department, while allies described her as a \"demanding\" boss but not a bully.\n\nEarlier, police minister Kit Malthouse insisted there was \"glutinous harmony\" in the department and he had not witnessed bullying by his boss.\n\nThe reports of feuding prompted the head of the Civil Service, Sir Mark Sedwill, to order an end to media leaks in a missive to government staff.\n\nMinisters have continued to dismiss allegations Ms Patel bullied her staff\n\nAlso in her speech, Ms Patel announced £41.5m of funding for forces in 18 areas worst affected by serious violence, and launched an eight-week consultation on plans to enshrine a police covenant in law.\n\nThe plan, first mooted in the Conservative Party's general election manifesto, pledges to back the rights of serving or ex-police officers, staff and their families, recognise the responsibility and risks officers take, and introduce a code of ethics.\n\nThe Police Federation of England and Wales welcomed the plans.\n\nNational chairman John Apter said: \"Policing is a dangerous and unpredictable job and it's essential that there is something in place that ensures that police officers, staff, retired colleagues and their families receive the support they deserve.\n\n\"This consultation is an opportunity to help shape what a police covenant will look like. This is something I feel extremely passionate about and it's great to see this taking a step closer to becoming a reality.\"", "The Scottish government is to set up a free bus travel scheme for under-19s as part of an SNP-Green budget deal.\n\nThe agreement between the two parties will also see extra funding going to local government and the police.\n\nFinance Secretary Kate Forbes said free bus travel would be a \"step change\" in supporting young people and helping tackle climate change.\n\nMSPs will vote on the budget for the first time on Thursday, with the tax and spending plans now certain to pass.\n\nMs Forbes stepped in to deliver the budget the day after Derek Mackay resigned as finance secretary, and was subsequently appointed to replace him.\n\nThe budget does not contain any changes to income tax rates, with extra money being spent on health, education and investment aimed at tackling the \"climate emergency\".\n\nThe commitment to set up a free public transport scheme for young people comes on the same day as figures showed fewer people were using buses.\n\nMinisters aim to have \"national concessionary travel\" system up and running by January 2021, with people aged 18 and under joining the over-60s in being eligible for free bus trips.\n\nThe deal with the Greens will also see an extra £95m going to local authorities, as well as £18m to police services and £45m to low carbon projects, including energy efficiency projects and active travel.\n\nThe changes will be paid for using underspends, longer term income from non-domestic rates and the fossil fuel levy.\n\nThe government has also agreed to review plans to upgrade the Sheriffhall roundabout on the Edinburgh bypass, although ministers have rejected calls from the Greens to scrap works on the A9 and A96.\n\nMSPs will vote on the initial proposals on Thursday, with the terms of the deal with the Greens to be added in the following week when the budget is examined by a committee of MSPs.\n\nThe tax rates are expected to be signed off on Wednesday 4 March, with the final vote on the budget bill the following day.\n\nMs Forbes stepped in to deliver the budget after the resignation of Derek Mackay\n\nMs Forbes said she was \"pleased to have reached an agreement\", particularly given the \"uncertainty\" of the UK government not yet having set its budget.\n\nShe said the budget included \"record investment\" in health services and \"significant investments to tackle the climate crisis\".\n\nShe said: \"I want to thank all parties for the constructive way in which they have approached this year's discussions.\n\n\"While it is not possible to meet every party's demands in full, I believe in reaching formal agreement with the Green Party I am also delivering on key asks from every party and I encourage all MSPs to consider giving their support to Scotland's budget.\"\n\nGreen co-leader Patrick Harvie said free bus travel would be a \"transformational step towards tackling the climate emergency\".\n\nHe added: \"Clearly, a Green budget would do even more to tackle the climate emergency, but securing this important free bus travel deal for the next generation builds on the powers we won for local councils to take control of local bus services.\"\n\nThe other opposition parties had also been involved in talks with Ms Forbes, but hit out at the deal.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the plan announced on Wednesday \"still falls well short of what our economy and public services need\", with finance spokesman Donald Cameron saying Tory MSPs would not back the budget unless extra cash was added for drug rehabilitation services.\n\nScottish Labour, which had called for a wider free bus travel system, said it was \"deeply disappointing to see the Scottish Green Party yet again sell our local councils, our environment and indeed themselves short yet again\".\n\nThe Scottish Lib Dems meanwhile said they would vote against the budget as long as the SNP continued to push for an independence referendum in 2020, with leader Willie Rennie saying this was \"stopping an awful lot else being agreed\".", "The new chancellor must raise taxes in his first Budget or break the government's rules on borrowing, a leading economic think tank has warned.\n\nRishi Sunak is under pressure to increase spending on the NHS, social care and schools.\n\nHe has also inherited a fiscal target from his predecessor Sajid Javid to bring spending in to balance by 2022.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has suggested this will not be possible without increasing taxes.\n\nIt said that loosening or abandoning the rules, set out in last year's Conservative election manifesto, would undermine the credibility of any fiscal targets the government set.\n\nHowever, the Conservative election manifesto said the government would not put up income tax, national insurance or VAT.\n\nMr Sunak, who was appointed chancellor after Mr Javid's dramatic resignation in the cabinet reshuffle, will deliver the statement on 11 March.\n\nThe Budget is the government's yearly announcement of its plans for tax and spending for the coming financial year, which starts in April.\n\nThe chancellor is understood to be facing pressure from Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his chief advisor Dominic Cummings to loosen spending constraints.\n\nThe IFS said that even on current policy, borrowing next year could be £63bn, £23bn more than the most recent official forecast, putting Mr Javid's fiscal target in doubt.\n\nTaking into account the government's commitment to increasing investment spending, it added that even getting the current budget into balance would not be enough to bring down underlying debt over the course of the Parliament.\n\nLoosening or abandoning the current fiscal rule now would put debt on a clearly rising path, according to the IFS analysis.\n\n\"That would not be sustainable in the long-term,\" it said.\n\nThe IFS has suggested alternative ways for raising revenue, including lifting the freeze on fuel duty to give the government £4bn more in revenue throughout Parliament.\n\nIt also said abolishing entrepreneurs' relief in capital gains tax and increasing council tax for those living in more expensive properties could form part of a \"desirable package\" of reforms.\n\nTory MPs have warned the chancellor against asking motorists to pay more in tax\n\nBut such schemes could prove politically difficult. Some 18 Conservative MPs - including those from seats won last year for the first time since the war - have written to the chancellor warning him that raising fuel duty would \"clobber blue collar communities\".\n\nThe Harlow MP Robert Halfon told the Conservative Home website that fuel duty was a \"totemic tax\" for many people and levels were already among the highest in Europe.\n\n\"If the Treasury really wants to flash multiple V-signs at the millions of blue-collar voters who lent us their vote, then putting up fuel duty would be a sure way of going about it,\" he wrote.\n\nIFS director Paul Johnson said Mr Sunak was \"hemmed in\" by a rising deficit and fiscal targets set out in the Conservative manifesto but he should \"recognise that more spending must require more tax\".\n\nHe added: \"They will allow him to increase investment spending, which will be welcome if well targeted. But they will not allow substantial increases in current spending, or tax cuts, to be funded by more borrowing.\n\n\"We have already had 16 fiscal targets in a decade, and fiscal targets should not just be for Christmas.\n\n\"Mr Sunak should resist the temptation to announce another and instead recognise that more spending must require more tax.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said 10 years of \"chaotic and erratic\" government under the Conservatives had seen 16 fiscal targets \"proposed and ripped up\".\n\nHe added that the IFS report showed the \"damage done by a decade of decline\".\n\n\"Despite all the hype about this budget turning a page, it risks setting in train five years of disappointment.\"", "Cases have emerged for the first time in countries such as Austria following the Italian outbreak\n\nSeveral European countries have announced their first coronavirus cases, all apparently linked to the growing outbreak in Italy.\n\nAustria, Croatia, Greece and Switzerland said the cases involved people who had been to Italy, as did Algeria in Africa.\n\nThe first positive virus test has been recorded in Latin America - a Brazilian resident just returned from Italy.\n\nItaly has in recent days become Europe's worst-affected country.\n\nAuthorities have confirmed more than 300 cases and 12 deaths there, the most recent a 70-year-old resident of Lombardy who died after being taken to intensive care in Parma. The country has also seen four children infected.\n\nIts neighbours, however, have decided closing borders would be \"disproportionate\".\n\nHealth ministers from France, Germany, Italy and the EU Commission committed to keeping frontiers open at a meeting on Tuesday as new cases of the virus emerged throughout Europe and in central and southern Italy.\n\n\"We're talking about a virus that doesn't respect borders,\" said Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza.\n\nHis German counterpart, Jens Spahn, said the neighbours were taking the situation \"very, very seriously\" but acknowledged \"it could get worse before it gets better\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Lowen was on the ground at the edge of Italy's coronavirus lockdown area\n\nIn the UK, schoolchildren returning from holidays in northern Italy have been sent home, with the government issuing new guidance to travellers.\n\nBut Health Secretary Matt Hancock said there were no plans to stop flights from Italy, which attracts about three million British visitors each year.\n\n\"If you look at Italy, they stopped all flights from China and they're now the worst-affected country in Europe,\" he said.\n\nAs of Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that 80,980 people had been infected with the coronavirus, which originated in China.\n\nOfficials in Iran said 19 people had died, while 139 had been infected.\n\nIt is widely believed that the scale of infection in Iran is far greater than official figures suggest. The infection of the country's deputy health minister has deepened fears that the virus has already spread widely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iran's deputy health minister appeared unwell at a news conference before testing positive for the coronavirus\n\nPresident Hassan Rouhani said there were no plans to impose quarantine rules on any cities or regions, but that \"if an individual has early symptoms, that person must be quarantined\".\n\nSouth Korea on Wednesday reported 115 new cases, bringing the number of infections there to 1,261, according to local media reports. Eleven people have died in the country, which has the most infections outside China.\n\nThe US military confirmed that one of its soldiers based in South Korea had tested positive, marking the first infection of a US service member. It said the 23-year-old soldier - who had been based near the city of Daegu - was in self-quarantine.\n\nSome 28,500 US troops are stationed in South Korea as a deterrent against potential aggression from North Korea.\n\nMany of the cases in South Korea are linked to a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu. All the church's more than 215,000 members are now being tested, according to reports.\n\nIn Brazil, local media reported on Tuesday that an initial test on a 61-year-old man from São Paulo who had recently been to northern Italy had come out positive. The individual arrived back in Brazil at the height of carnival festivities, when millions of people travel around the country.\n\nIn Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on organisers of big sports and cultural events to cancel or postpone them for two weeks amid concerns that the coronavirus could threaten the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.\n\nMost cases remain in China. According to the latest figures published on Wednesday, 78,064 people have been infected since the outbreak began.\n\nHealth officials also reported 52 more deaths on Tuesday, the lowest daily total in more than three weeks. The overall death toll in mainland China is now 2,715.\n\nNumbers of new infections have been declining there. Several regions have downgraded their emergency response levels after assessing that health risks have receded.\n\nMuch attention has now turned to clusters of cases abroad and transmission between countries.\n\nWHO's director general has said the sudden increase in cases in countries outside China is \"deeply concerning\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the virus could bring \"severe\" disruption to the US, with one official saying it was not a question of if but when the virus would become a global pandemic.\n\nSecretary of State Mike Pompeo urged all nations to \"tell the truth about the coronavirus\", saying that Washington was concerned that Iran may have concealed \"vital details\".\n\nThere are fears that the many Muslim Shia pilgrims and migrant workers who will have travelled between Iran and other parts of the region in recent weeks could have already spread the virus.\n\nIran is believed to have been the source of the first cases reported by neighbouring Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait and Oman, which have now imposed restrictions on travel to and from the Islamic republic.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nIreland's men's and women's Six Nations games against Italy in Dublin on 7 and 8 March have been postponed because of coronavirus.\n\nIrish Health Minister Simon Harris said on Tuesday the men's game should be postponed and met with the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) on Wednesday.\n\nEleven towns in northern Italy are in lockdown after an outbreak.\n\nAn IRFU statement said it was \"working with the Six Nations to try to reschedule all three fixtures\".\n\nUK Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston is in talks with a host of sports governing bodies as well as the Premier League and EFL about the ramifications of coronavirus.\n\nAmong the items being discussed are the Six Nations matches against Italy in Rome on the weekend of 13-15 March for the England men's, women's and under-20s teams. Talks with the Football Association focus on Gareth Southgate's England side, who host Italy at Wembley on 27 March.\n• None What next for coronavirus and sport?\n\nIreland's men were scheduled to face Italy in the Six Nations at the Aviva Stadium on 7 March before the women's game the following day at Energia Park.\n\nThe under-20s game between the countries on 6 March has also been postponed.\n\nItaly women's game against Scotland was also postponed on Sunday and is yet to be rescheduled, while England's men's and women's teams are due to play in Italy in the final round of the Six Nations on 14 and 15 March.\n\nA Six Nations statement said organisers were \"fully supportive\" of the postponement and that all other matches are currently scheduled to go ahead as normal, but added: \"We will continue to monitor the situation very closely with all unions and the respective government authorities and health organisations.\"\n\nTournament organisers will hold discussions with unions of all six teams about rescheduling options.\n\nFollowing Harris' comments on Tuesday evening, the IRFU called for the minister to explain the \"specific reasoning\"' behind his words.\n\nBut an IRFU statement after Wednesday's meeting read: \"At the outset we made it clear that the IRFU was supportive of the government's need to protect public health in relation to the coronavirus.\n\n\"We were then advised, formally, that the National Public Health Emergency team has determined that the series of matches should not proceed, in the interests of Public Health. The IRFU is happy to comply with this instruction.\n\n\"Ticket holders are asked to retain their tickets for now. The IRFU will be providing ticket holders with tickets for the rescheduled games or a refund, if they wish to receive one. Information on both these options will be released as soon as possible.\"\n\nIreland's chief medical officer said on Wednesday the decision to call for the postponement of the match in Dublin was \"not made lightly\".\n\nIreland's Grand Slam hopes were ended by England on Sunday and they are yet to face Italy and unbeaten France in the tournament.\n\nSeveral other sports events have been cancelled because of coronavirus, with skating, table tennis and football's Serie A the latest to be affected.\n\nIn 2001, Ireland's three Six Nations fixtures against the home nations were postponed until September and October because of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.\n\nAnalysis - 'Six Nations is in a state of limbo'\n\nThis all escalated last night when the Irish health minister said he was advising Irish rugby authorities the game could not go ahead.\n\nOnce the health minister said that, Irish rugby authorities were not really able to go against that.\n\nHopefully the games will be rearranged but it is not definitely going to happen so the Six Nations is in a state of limbo at the moment.\n\nIreland had to play three of their Six Nations games in 2001 in the autumn. I do not know how easy that will be to arrange these days. The calendar is so congested.\n\nEverything is up in the air. Apart from the Ireland against Italy games, you look at England's fixtures in Italy on the final weekend.\n\nAt the time of speaking I think it looks very unlikely those games will go ahead as well.\n• None Vietnam Grand Prix set to go ahead despite coronavirus concerns", "Police smash down a door during a morning raid in Lancaster\n\nPolice have arrested 46 people in a crackdown on county lines drug gangs in England and Scotland.\n\nThere were 11 raids on Tuesday against gangs who transport drugs.\n\nMerseyside Police arrested 36 people during raids in Stockbridge Village, Old Swan, Netherton and Toxteth.\n\nThere were also raids in Lancashire, Perth in Tayside and Workington, Cumbria. British Transport Police (BTP) also arrested three people on the rail network.\n\nThe 46 were arrested on suspicion of various drug offences.\n\nMerseyside Police use an electric saw to cut through a door before knocking it down\n\nLancashire Police arrested five people in raids in Blackpool, Lancaster, Morecambe and Preston. There were also two arrests in Cumbria.\n\nOfficers seized \"significant\" quantities of Class A drugs, £20,000 at an address in Liverpool and an imitation firearm in Lancashire.\n\nPolice were also deployed at Aberdeen Airport and main railway stations in Wigan, Preston and Liverpool.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Ian Critchley of Merseyside Police said five \"vulnerable\" young people had been discovered.\n\nHe said: \"Those responsible for these county lines bring misery to our local communities through their drug dealing and they also target and coerce young and vulnerable people into doing their dirty work.\"", "Sakine Cihan was crossing Kingsland High Street in Dalston when she was struck\n\nA cyclist accused of killing a pedestrian while riding a modified e-bike was travelling more than 10mph over the speed limit, a jury heard.\n\nThomas Hanlon, 32, was \"going way too quickly\" when he hit Sakine Cihan in Kingsland High Street in Dalston, east London, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMrs Cihan, 56, suffered a \"catastrophic\" head injury and died the next day, jurors heard.\n\nUnder the law, e-bikes which are fitted with an electric motor can only be driven without a licence or insurance if their power is limited and if the motor automatically switches off at speeds above 15.5 mph.\n\nThe court heard Mr Hanlon's bike was capable of going double that speed and as such should have been categorised as a motorbike.\n\nProsecutor Nathan Rasiah read out a statement by cyclist Raymond Murphy, a witness to the 28 August crash, who said he was \"struck\" that Mr Hanlon's bike was \"going way too quickly for a normal electric bicycle\".\n\n\"He described riding along approaching the station and becoming aware of a bike travelling very quickly past him, but heading in the same direction as him.\n\nA few moments later, Mr Murphy \"suddenly saw arms and legs everywhere, flying in the air\", the court heard.\n\nMr Rasiah quoted a second witness, Joshua Stubbs, as saying: \"It looked like their heads made contact then the cyclist fell to the ground.\n\n\"After a few seconds the cyclist got up and looked dazed and confused, the lady lay motionless on the road.\"\n\nThe court was told Mr Hanlon left the scene despite a passer-by trying to stop him\n\nJurors were shown CCTV footage of Mrs Cihan stepping off the pavement and running in front of Mr Hanlon, of Queen's Drive, Leyton, east London.\n\nThe court was told Mr Hanlon left the scene despite a passer-by trying to stop him.\n\nThe jury heard that, when interviewed by the police, Mr Hanlon admitted leaving the scene but said he had no time to swerve as Mrs Cihan had crossed the road unexpectedly.\n\nQuoting from the police interview, Mr Rasiah said: \"She rushed out in front of me to cross and she didn't even look at me.\"\n\nMr Rasiah told jurors the lights at the crossing were green for traffic but he said Mr Hanlon's speed amounted to driving without due care and attention.\n\nBoth the prosecution and defence agree that Mr Hanlon did not have a licence or insurance for a motorbike.\n\nBut he denies further charges of causing death while uninsured and causing death while unlicensed.\n\nThe court heard he is contesting these because they require a fault in the driving which contributed to Ms Cihan's death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anything said by witnesses to the Grenfell Tower inquiry will not be used to prosecute them over the fire, the attorney general has said.\n\nThe second phase of the inquiry has been on hold for several weeks, as many witnesses threatened to stay silent without a guarantee.\n\nThe request came from lawyers for those involved in refurbishing the block.\n\nIt only applies to oral evidence from individuals and not documents and oral evidence from corporations.\n\nThe chairman of the inquiry backed the request earlier this month but had needed approval from the attorney general.\n\nSuella Braverman's office said she had concluded the guarantee was needed to \"enable the inquiry to continue to hear vital evidence about the circumstances and causes of the fire\".\n\nWithout it, she concluded that some witnesses would be likely to decline to give evidence, her office added, by claiming the legal right of privilege against self-incrimination.\n\nSurvivors' group Grenfell United said it was a \"sad day\".\n\nThe second phase of the inquiry, which began in January, is looking at how the building came to be covered in flammable cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Braverman said: \"The undertaking I am providing to the inquiry means it can continue to take evidence from witnesses who otherwise would likely refuse to answer questions.\n\n\"These questions are important to finding out the truth about the circumstances of the fire. The undertaking will not jeopardise the police investigation or prospects of a future criminal prosecution.\"\n\nInquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said he sought the pledge to allow individual witnesses to provide the public hearings with a truthful account without fear for the future, allowing him to make recommendations based on the fullest body of evidence possible.\n\nThe proposed undertaking will cover oral evidence from individual witnesses only.\n\nSir Martin said the Metropolitan Police Service did not suggest that granting the undertaking would \"hamper\" their concurrent investigations.\n\nScotland Yard is carrying out its own investigation into possible crimes ranging from gross negligence manslaughter and corporate manslaughter to health and safety offences over the 2017 fire which killed 72 people.\n\nThe application for protections related to witnesses from firms including external wall subcontractor Harley Facades, main contractor Rydon, architects Studio E, and window and cladding fitters Osborne Berry.\n\nGrenfell United said the need to establish what happened \"must not come at the expense of justice and prosecutions\".\n\n\"The inquiry is about getting to the truth so that lessons are learnt and the government can make changes,\" the group said in a statement.\n\n\"We take part to make sure there will never be another Grenfell and people are safe in their homes.\n\n\"For our continued participation, the government must make sure the inquiry process does not undermine prosecutions.\n\n\"We expect criminal prosecutions at the end of this and will not settle for anything less.\n\n\"If prosecutions are affected by this decision we will hold the government accountable.\n\n\"Grenfell was a tragedy but it was not an accident.\"\n\nFire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack said he thought firefighters who gave evidence in the inquiry would be \"appalled\" that the undertaking had been provided.\n\nMr Wrack said in a statement: \"The truth must now come out - and those responsible must be finally held to account.\"\n\nThe second stage of the inquiry previously heard that the main designers and contractors involved in the refurbishment appeared to predict that the cladding system would fail in a fire, up to two years before the disaster.\n\nThe inquiry's first phase found the cladding was the principal reason for the rapid and \"profoundly shocking\" spread of the fire at the 25-storey building.", "The focus of the coronavirus outbreak is shifting – from China to the rest of the world, particularly Europe, where a number of countries are starting to see multiple cases.\n\nOn the face of it, this seems like bad news. More people are being affected in more countries and clusters of deaths in Iran, South Korea and northern Italy are concerning.\n\nBut there are positives too. China appears to be getting on top of the virus with the number of new cases each day reducing.\n\nThis suggests that efforts to contain the virus by telling people to stay at home, stopping large public gatherings and preventing travel are working.\n\nThe message from officials at the World Health Organization is that containment is still possible and a global pandemic is not inevitable.\n\nThis view has been echoed in the UK where the government has warned of the social and economic costs of overreacting in response to the outbreak.\n\nKeeping the public safe is the priority – but so is acting in a balanced and responsible way.\n\nHowever, with several sporting events being cancelled and postponed across Europe, playing down the panic is a challenge.", "Police bodycam footage released on 25 February has captured the moment a visibly distressed child was arrested at her school in Orlando, Florida in September 2019.\n\nThe six-year-old girl was restrained with zip ties and escorted to a waiting police car after misbehaving in class.\n\nLawyers for her family at Smith and Eulo Law Firm told the BBC that the family chose to release the footage because they wanted to show how the arrest unfolded.\n\nThe person whose bodycam captured the ordeal was fired after an internal investigation by the Orlando Police Department. Officer Dennis Turner had not followed the correct protocol, which states that a police officer must have their supervisor's approval to arrest any child under the age of 12.", "Disney boss Bob Iger, who led the media company through several blockbuster acquisitions and the launch of a streaming network, is stepping down as chief executive.\n\nDisney said it had appointed Bob Chapek, who previously ran the company's parks and products division, to replace him.\n\nMr Iger will remain Disney's executive chairman until the end of next year to direct \"creative endeavours\".\n\nThe move came as a surprise.\n\nMr Iger, who is considered by many to be the most powerful man in Hollywood, had served as chief executive since 2005. He has previously announced plans to retire only to push back his departure date.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Mr Iger said it was the \"optimal time\" to begin to hand control of the company to a new leader.\n\nDisney recently completed the acquisition of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox entertainment empire and launched the Disney+ streaming channel late last year.\n\nEarlier, Mr Iger presided over the firm's acquisition of Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm.\n\n\"The company has gotten larger and more complex just in the recent 12 months,\" Mr Iger said on a conference call on Tuesday.\n\n\"I felt that with the asset bases in place and with our strategy deployed I should be spending as much time as possible on the creative side of our business.\"\n\nRemaining as executive chairman would ease the transition, he added.\n\nMr Chapek oversaw the opening of the Shanghai Disney Resort\n\nMr Chapek, who joined Disney in 1993, will be the firm's seventh chief executive since it was formed in the 1920s. In his prior role, among other achievements, he oversaw the opening of Disney's park in Shanghai.\n\n\"His tremendous understanding of the breadth and depth of the Company and appreciation for the special connection between Disney and its consumers makes him the perfect choice,\" said Disney board member Susan Arnold.\n\nShares in the firm fell 2% in after-hours trading after the news was announced.\n\nMr Iger, who recently published a memoir, is much beloved by investors for his record steering the company to steady profits, despite upheaval in the television and movie industries.\n\nDisney claimed seven of the top 10 box office hits globally last year and the new streaming channel has already attracted more than 28 million paying customers.\n\nThe firm's market value has increased five-fold during his tenure, Ms Arnold said. The firm is now worth about $230bn.", "Lord Steel (left) is one of those criticised in the report for failing to pass on allegations about ex-MP Cyril Smith\n\nPolitical institutions failed to respond to historical claims of child sexual abuse but there was no evidence of an organised paedophile network at Westminster, an inquiry has found.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said there had been a \"significant problem\" of deference towards people of public prominence.\n\nIts report said political parties and police had turned a \"blind eye\".\n\nLord Steel, one of those it criticised, has now quit the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe inquiry found that institutions \"regularly put their own reputations or political interests before child protection\".\n\nIt cited as an example former Liberal party leader, Lord Steel, who was criticised for not acting on information that the late MP Cyril Smith had abused children.\n\nLord Steel told the inquiry last year how in 1979 he failed to pass on allegations against the then MP for Rochdale - even though he believed them to be true - because it was \"past history\".\n\nHe subsequently recommended Smith for his knighthood.\n\nLord Steel announced on Tuesday he had quit the Liberal Democrats and would be retiring as a member of the House of Lords.\n\nHe said: \"Knowing all I know now, I condemn Cyril Smith's actions towards children.\"\n\nProf Alexis Jay, who chaired the inquiry, said: \"It is clear to see that Westminster institutions have repeatedly failed to deal with allegations of child sexual abuse, from turning a blind eye to actively shielding abusers.\"\n\nHowever, the report found no evidence of a co-ordinated \"paedophile ring\" in Westminster, following claims by fantasist Carl Beech, who was jailed last year for making false allegations.\n\nThe investigation decided at an early stage to ignore allegations by Carl Beech about a string of public figures\n\nIt stated there was also no evidence such a network was covered up by security services or police.\n\nResponding to the inquiry, ex-Conservative MP Harvey Proctor - who was among those to be falsely accused by Beech - said he had always \"made it clear that there was no Westminster VIP paedophile network or ring\".\n\nHe added the report's findings had vindicated his position and that the real victims of historical child sexual abuse had not benefitted from the inquiry.\n\nThe report also highlighted how former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and ex-Conservative party chairman Norman Tebbit were aware in the 1980s of rumours about MP Peter Morrison having \"a penchant for small boys\" but did nothing about it.\n\nThe allegations \"should have rung alarm bells in government\", it said.\n\nIt found there had been a \"consistent culture for years\" in the Tory whips' offices to \"protect the image\" of their party by \"playing down rumours and protecting politicians from gossip or scandal at all costs\".\n\nThe report said that at that time \"nobody seemed to care about the fate of the children involved, with status and political concerns overriding all else\".\n\n\"Even though we did not find evidence of a Westminster network, the lasting effect on those who suffered as children from being sexually abused by individuals linked to Westminster has been just as profound,\" it added.\n\nCritics of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse accuse it of grasping for scapegoats because the allegations, which were swirling when it began, turned out to have no substance.\n\nOfficials say they looked hard for evidence of an establishment paedophile network, but didn't find any. They defend this report as going to the heart of the inquiry's core role - to identify the failure of institutions to protect children.\n\nThe inquiry only found a limited number of examples of powerful political men abusing children, mostly dating back decades and, perhaps as a result, its list of recommendations is relatively short.\n\nThey include removing official honours from abusers, tightening up safeguarding and protecting whistleblowers.\n\nBut the Westminster strand was one of more than a dozen investigations. The inquiry has had more success in identifying considerable failures which allowed abuse in children's homes and religious settings.\n\nIts final report is still more than a year away. One thread runs through all of its work - a failure in the past to take action when abuse came to light.\n\nThe inquiry is likely to recommend making it a legal requirement to act on concerns, for anyone working closely with children.\n\nAfter Lord Steel gave evidence to the inquiry, he was suspended by the Scottish Liberal Democrats. But the party later determined that there were \"no grounds for action\" against the politician, who is also a former MSP and Holyrood presiding officer.\n\nA Liberal Democrats spokeswoman said the party would be \"thoroughly reading\" this latest report, adding that \"Cyril Smith's acts were vile and repugnant\".\n\nA lawyer representing eight of Smith's accusers said Lord Steel's \"inaction\" after being told by Smith himself that he had molested young boys was \"unforgivable\".\n\nRichard Scorer said Lord Steel was not being blamed for Smith's alleged crimes but \"for his own failure to stop Smith when he had the chance\".\n\n\"This must surely now be the catalyst for a mandatory reporting law, compelling those who suspect child abuse to report their concerns,\" he added.\n\nLord Steel says he discussed the allegations with Cyril Smith in 1979\n\nLord Steel said he feared that he had been made a \"proxy\" for Smith, because the inquiry had failed to secure \"a parliamentary scalp\".\n\nAnnouncing he was quitting the Liberal Democrats, he said he wanted to avoid \"turmoil in my party and to prevent further distress to my family\" after some had called for a new investigation.\n\n\"With considerable personal sorrow\", he said, he was retiring from the Lords to \"enjoy a quiet retirement from public life\".\n\nThe report made a number of suggestions, including re-examining the policy on forfeiting honours after the death of the recipient - which would strip knighthoods from the likes of disgraced entertainer Jimmy Savile.\n\nIt also recommended creating widespread and well-understood whistleblowing policies for all Westminster institutions.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales, set up in 2014, has been investigating claims against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions - as well as people in the public eye.\n\nLaunched following the Savile scandal, the inquiry's investigation into Westminster is one of 15 separate investigations, which are expected to be completed later this year.", "The UK has one of the largest defence budgets in the world\n\nThe UK is to \"overhaul its approach to foreign policy\" as part of a government review, Downing Street has announced.\n\nNo 10 says insights from internal and external experts will challenge \"traditional Whitehall assumptions\".\n\nThe diplomatic service, tackling organised crime, the use of technology and the procurement of military supplies will all be looked at.\n\nThe review will also seek \"innovative ways\" to promote UK interests while committing to spending targets.\n\nThe 2019 Conservative manifesto promised that the UK would continue to spend 0.7% of gross national income on international aid. The party also said it would exceed the Nato target of spending 2% of gross domestic product on defence.\n\nBoris Johnson's new government faces a number of foreign policy challenges including securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian recently predicted the two sides would \"rip each other apart\" during negotiations which are due to begin on Monday.\n\nThe UK is also hoping to secure a trade deal with the US but relations have been strained by the prime minister's decision to use Huawei to build the 5G network in the face of US opposition.\n\nThe government is also keen to strengthen ties with China, but some of the prime minister's own MPs - including Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Tom Tugendhat - have cautioned against allowing Chinese companies' heavy involvement in projects such as the 5G network and HS2.\n\nSetting out details of the Integrated Review - first announced in December's Queen's Speech - Number 10 said Brexit presented \"new opportunities to define and strengthen Britain's place in the world\".\n\nIts remit, as set out by the government, is to:\n\nIn a written statement, the prime minister said a cross-Whitehall team in the Cabinet Secretariat and a \"small taskforce\" in Number 10 will report to him and the National Security Council during the review.\n\n\"The review will be closely aligned with this year's Comprehensive Spending Review but will also look beyond it,\" he said in the statement.\n\nExperts \"beyond Whitehall\" in the UK and \"among our allies\" will be consulted, Mr Johnson said, and Parliament will be kept \"fully informed\".\n\nThe review is expected to conclude later this year.\n\nThe UK is seeking to negotiate a new trade deal with both the US and the EU\n\nThe government says it will \"utilise expertise from both inside and outside government for the review, ensuring the UK's best foreign policy minds are feeding into its conclusions and offering constructive challenge to traditional Whitehall assumptions and thinking\".\n\nThe UK's last full-scale security and defence review was completed in late 2015, before the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nBut Mr Tugendhat suggested it had been more than 20 years since a British government comprehensively reviewed its foreign policy objectives and the \"tools\" needed to achieve them.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today it would premature to speculate on whether any \"rejigging\" of defence and aid priorities would result in cuts to manpower in any of the armed services.\n\n\"We all know that the fundamental decisive factor in battle, whether that is in sea, land or air, is people. It is basically draining the resources of your enemy and undermining their ability to fight,\" he said.\n\n\"That can be done in different ways - sometimes it is done by infantry soldiers... sometimes it is done by ships denying access to areas or protecting convoys and sometimes it is done by RAF pilots flying drones... All of these are different tools.\"\n• None The tough questions facing the UK and US", "The number of people travelling by bus in Scotland has dropped by 10% in five years, according to new figures.\n\nData released by the Scottish government also showed that car travel increased, with a record three million cars now registered in Scotland.\n\nOverall, the number of journeys made by public transport in Scotland fell by eight million - from 525m to 517m - over the past year.\n\nBus journeys accounted for 73% of all those taken by public transport.\n\nDespite the drop in bus travel, ScotRail saw 13% more passenger journeys compared with five years ago.\n• None 3 millioncars now registered in Scotland - an all-time high\n• None 27%increase in air journeys in five years\n• None 10%decline in bus journeys in five years\n\nOver the same period, Scottish airports also saw passenger numbers increase, with a 27% rise to 29.4m. That included a 2% rise in the past year.\n\nCycling has also increased in popularity, with an 8% increase since 2017 in the distance cycled on the road network.\n\nThere were 10.3m ferry passengers in 2018 - with 8.5m on routes entirely within Scotland. Over five years, passenger numbers were up 6%.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said the decline in bus journeys had been happening across the UK since the 1960s.\n\nHe added that the future of bus travel in Scotland had \"never been brighter\", adding that nearly three quarters of public transport journeys were made by bus.\n\nMr Matheson said: \"We have committed to bringing forward transformational funding of more than half a billion pounds to create a Bus Partnership Fund for local authorities, and to roll out infrastructure for the trunk road network, to prioritise buses in congested areas.\n\n\"This is intended to improve punctuality and reliability and, importantly, to leverage further action and investment from local authorities and bus operators to encourage more people to take the bus every day.\n\n\"This is in addition to over £260m we spend every year to keep fares at affordable levels and providing free bus travel to older and disabled passengers.\"\n\nGina Hanrahan, of WWF Scotland said transport is Scotland's biggest source of emissions. She said the figures are \"continuing to go in the wrong direction\".\n\nShe added: \"In order to get people out of their cars, and encourage them to use other modes of transport, we need greater investment in cleaner forms of transport to tackle climate change, clean up our dirty air and enhance public health.\n\n\"We need to see really clear shifts in the final budget and the infrastructure investment plan to support this.\"\n\nThere's been a long-term fall in bus travel in Scotland.\n\nJourneys almost halved between 1960 and 1975, and they've roughly halved again since then.\n\nSome blame Margaret Thatcher's deregulation of the bus network in the mid-eighties.\n\nThat allows bus companies to cherry pick the routes they want to serve - and which they don't.\n\nEdinburgh's not seen a slump in bus travel.\n\nIt helps that fares in the capital are cheaper than in Glasgow, and that Lothian Buses operates on a dense network of routes.\n\nWhile passenger numbers fell by 10% in five years across Scotland, Edinburgh has seen a different pattern. Bus use has remained rock-steady since 2014.\n\nIn Edinburgh buses are a municipal service. Lothian Buses is council-owned.\n\nAnd if there's a lesson from Edinburgh, when fares are competitive, and the bus network is extensive, people will still take the bus.\n\nLast year, the Scottish government brought in changes to try to reinvigorate Scotland's bus network and boost bus passenger numbers.\n\nIf today's figures are anything to go by - they have their work cut out.", "A military funeral has been held in Egypt for former President Hosni Mubarak, who died on Tuesday aged 91.\n\nThe current President, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, walked alongside Mubarak's sons, Alaa and Gamal, in a procession behind his coffin as it was taken to the Field Marshal Tantawi mosque in Cairo.\n\nThe government has declared three days of national mourning.\n\nMubarak was forced out of office by an Arab Spring popular uprising in 2011, after 30 years in power.\n\nHe spent the next six years in prison or military hospitals while standing trial on various charges.\n\nIn 2012, Mubarak was sentenced to life after being convicted of complicity in the murder of protesters during the uprising. But he was eventually cleared on appeal.\n\nHe was also given a three-year jail sentence for embezzling public funds.\n\nState media reported that he died at a Cairo hospital after undergoing surgery.\n\nDozens of Hosni Mubarak's supporters, many dressed in black, gathered outside the mosque where the funeral was held. They held signs expressing gratitude for Egypt's \"greatest leader\".\n\n\"He was a wise man who kept this country stable for 30 years,\" a middle-aged man told me.\n\nStability was Mubarak's watchword. He took pride in keeping everything under control during his long autocratic rule. But this came at a massive price, according to his critics.\n\nSupporters of Hosni Mubarak gathered outside the Tantawi mosque\n\nEgyptians who took part in the 2011 revolution say he was a corrupt dictator. They hold him responsible for the problems Egypt is suffering at the moment.\n\n\"It's all part of his terrible legacy,\" one young man said.\n\nSome people on social media asked why Mubarak was given such a funeral when he had been convicted of corruption. They also compared his treatment to that of his ousted successor, Mohammed Morsi, who died last year while in court and was buried overnight with only a few members of his family in attendance.\n\nMorsi was an Islamist, however, while Mubarak belonged to the military - an institution that has dominated Egypt's political scene for more than six decades.\n\nWhile some Egyptians consider Mubarak a figure from the past, a considerable number believe the time when he was in power was better than it is now. They say he left a small space for freedom of expression, unlike the current president.\n\nA statement paid tribute to his military service during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. But it did not mention his time as president.\n\n\"[He was] one of the heroes of the glorious October war, when he led the air force during the war that restored dignity and pride to the Arab nation,\" it said.\n\nPresident Abdul Fattah al-Sisi (C) and other senior figures\n\nMr Sisi served as Mubarak's military intelligence chief and led the military's overthrow of his democratically elected successor, Mohammed Morsi, in 2013.\n\nSince then, he has overseen an unprecedented crackdown on dissent, in which tens of thousands of people have reportedly been detained, hundreds have been handed preliminary deaths sentences, and hundreds more have gone missing.", "Joshua Molnar was referred to as Boy A during the trial at Manchester Crown Court\n\nThe early release of a teenager who stabbed his friend in the heart has been described as \"crushing\" by the dead boy's family.\n\nJoshua Molnar, now 18, was cleared of murder and manslaughter following the death of Yousef Makki, 17, but was detained for possessing a knife.\n\nHis release comes six days before the first anniversary of the incident in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said its \"thoughts were with Yousef's family\".\n\nA trial heard Molnar acted in self-defence when Yousef pulled out a knife in a row over an attempt to rob a drug dealer on 2 March 2019.\n\nYousef Makki, 17, was stabbed in the heart with a flick knife\n\nHowever, Molnar falsely suggested Yousef had been stabbed by someone who drove off in a grey VW Polo, information which was circulated on the police network.\n\nMolnar was sentenced to be detained for eight months and given a training order, after he admitted perverting the course of justice and possession of a knife.\n\nAt the time, Yousef's family described the sentence as \"disappointing\".\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, they wrote: \"To receive the news some six days before such a pivotal date in the lives of Yousef's many friends and family members, is simply crushing.\n\n\"There is no other word for it.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it understands the \"distress\" the release of an offender can cause.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Anyone released from prison faces strict conditions while on licence, such as curfews and exclusion zones, and can be returned to custody if they breach them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova is \"saying goodbye\" to tennis at the age of 32.\n\nIn an article written for Vogue and Vanity Fair , Sharapova said her body \"had become a distraction\" after a struggle with shoulder injuries.\n\nThe Russian won her first Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2004 aged 17 and completed the career slam - all four major titles - by winning the French Open in 2012.\n\nIn 2016, she served a 15-month ban after testing positive for meldonium.\n\nAfter returning from her ban in 2017, Sharapova struggled to recapture her best form and suffered from a number of injuries.\n\nShe has dropped to 373 in the world, her lowest ranking since August 2002, and has lost in the first round of her past three Grand Slam tournaments.\n\nIn announcing her retirement, she said: \"I'm new to this, so please forgive me. Tennis - I'm saying goodbye.\n\n\"Looking back now, I realize that tennis has been my mountain. My path has been filled with valleys and detours, but the views from its peak were incredible.\n\n\"After 28 years and five Grand Slam titles, though, I'm ready to scale another mountain - to compete on a different type of terrain.\n\n\"That relentless chase for victories, though? That won't ever diminish. No matter what lies ahead, I will apply the same focus, the same work ethic, and all of the lessons I've learned along the way.\n\n\"In the meantime, there are a few simple things I'm really looking forward to: A sense of stillness with my family. Lingering over a morning cup of coffee. Unexpected weekend getaways. Workouts of my choice (hello, dance class!)\"\n\nSharapova said her 6-1 6-1 first-round defeat by Serena Williams at last year's US Open was the \"final signal\".\n\n\"Behind closed doors, 30 minutes before taking the court, I had a procedure to numb my shoulder to get through the match,\" she said,\n\n\"Shoulder injuries are nothing new for me - over time my tendons have frayed like a string. I've had multiple surgeries - once in 2008, another procedure last year - and spent countless months in physical therapy.\n\n\"Just stepping on to the court that day felt like a final victory, when of course it should have been merely the first step toward victory.\"\n\nSharapova did not play again in 2019 after that defeat at Flushing Meadows and has played just twice this year, including a straight sets loss to Croat Donna Vekic in the Australian Open first round, her last competitive appearance..\n\nSharapova shot to stardom in 2004 aged just 17 when victory over Serena Williams saw her become the third-youngest woman to win the Wimbledon singles title.\n\nShe would go on to become one of the most high-profile names in women's sport, winning 36 singles titles and earning more than $38m (£29m) in prize money.\n\nIn 2005 she became the first Russian woman to become world number one, and won her second Grand Slam singles title at the US Open the following year.\n\nBut 2007 saw the first of Sharapova's struggles with injury, as she missed most of the clay court season with a shoulder problem.\n\nShe would return to form and fitness to win the Australian Open at the start of 2008, but a second shoulder injury kept her off tour for the second half of the season, meaning she missed the US Open and Beijing Olympics.\n\nIn 2012, Sharapova captured the French Open at Roland Garros to become the 10th woman to complete the career Grand Slam, before winning Olympic silver in London.\n\nYet another shoulder injury saw her miss the second half of the 2013 season, although she returned the following year to win her second French Open, and fifth and final Grand Slam.\n\nIn March 2016, Sharapova told a news conference she had tested positive for meldonium at the Australian Open.\n\nSharapova said she had been taking the drug since 2006 for health problems and was unaware it had been added to the banned list, insisting she had \"not tried to use a performance-enhancing substance\".\n\nShe was banned for two years, later reduced to 15 months following an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nShe returned to tennis in April 2017, winning what would be her final career singles title at the Tianjin Open in October that year.\n\nSharapova reached the quarter-finals at the 2018 French Open and the last 16 of the Australian Open at the start of 2019, but injuries and loss of form began to take its toll.\n\n'It was a pleasure to share the court with you' - reaction\n\nFollowing Sharapova's announcement, hercoach Riccardo Piatti tweeted: \"It's been an honour to have worked with such an amazing athlete and person. I'll miss her on court and outside. I'm sorry we couldn't work together for longer. But I know our paths will cross again and I can't wait for it. In the meantime, good luck with everything.\"\n\nTwo-time Grand Slam champion Petra Kvitova said it had been \"a pleasure\" to share a court with Sharapova.\n\nThe Czech added: \"We always had great battles when we played and I have so much respect for your hard work and the way you always fight for everything. You have achieved a lot in your life and I know this is just the start.\"\n\nMeanwhile, tennis legend Billie Jean King added: \"From the day Maria Sharapova won her first Wimbledon title at age 17, she has been a great champion. A five-time major champion and a former world number one, her business success is just as impressive as her tennis achievements. Maria, the best is yet to come for you!\"\n\nReacting after his victory over Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Dubai Open on Wednesday, world number one men's player Novak Djokovic asked the crowd to offer a round of applause for Sharapova.\n\n\"She is a great fighter, as dedicated as someone can really be in our sport,\" the Serbian 17-time Grand Slam champion said. \"The will power and willingness to overcome the obstacle she had, with her injuries and surgeries and trying to fight to come back to the court and play at her desired level - it's truly inspirational to see what a mind of a champion she has. At the end of a fantastic career she can be proud of herself.\"", "Greta Thunberg tweeted over the weekend that she would be taking part in the city's youth protest\n\nPolice are warning parents a Bristol protest Greta Thunberg is due to join has \"grown so large\" it is unlikely usual safety measures will be adequate.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police say they expect thousands of people at the Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate on College Green on Friday to hear the 17-year-old climate activist speak.\n\nThe force said there was \"potential for trips, slips, falls and crushing\".\n\nParents and carers were advised to make their own safety arrangements.\n\nThe Swedish climate change campaigner tweeted over the weekend that she would be taking part in the city's youth protest.\n\nBut in a letter addressed to parents of school-age children, Supt Andy Bennett said the force was \"unable to accurately predict how large this event will be\".\n\n\"Social media has gone viral with interest which leads me to believe it will be thousands of people,\" he wrote.\n\n\"We have confirmation of people travelling from across the UK by car, bus, coach and train.\n\n\"I am told in Hamburg approximately 60,000 came to see Greta speak. Whilst I am not suggesting it will be this big, you can see the scale of the potential attendance.\"\n\nThe first school strike in Bristol took place in February last year\n\nHe said the event had been advertised promising areas suitable for both primary school children and disabled people but as a \"large-scale organic\" event, he said that would \"probably be unachievable\".\n\n\"In terms of big crowds, they are dynamic in nature and there is the potential for trips, slips, falls and crushing,\" he warned parents.\n\n\"The event has grown so large that the usual controls, stewarding and safety measures that are routinely put in place are unlikely to be scaled up adequately.\"\n\nHe added Park Street and the city centre would also be closed to \"try and mitigate the risks associated with a crowd too large for the College Green open space\".\n\nAccording to one of the protest's organisers, Greta had originally planned to visit London, but as the area planned for the protest in the capital was too small organisers had recommended Bristol instead.\n\nArtist Jody Thomas painted a mural of Ms Thunberg in Bristol last year\n\nTwo years ago, the teenage activist started missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building, in what turned out to be the beginning of a huge environmental movement.\n\nShe has become a leading voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The shooting took place at Molson Coors headquarters\n\nFive people have been killed in a shooting at the Molson Coors Brewing Company campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin state, local officials say.\n\nThey say the gunman died from \"self-inflicted wounds\". The man - a 51-year-old Milwaukee resident - worked for the company. His motives were unclear.\n\nThe shooting occurred in the early afternoon while hundreds of employees were still at work.\n\nMilwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said it was a \"tragic day for the city\".\n\nSpeaking at a news briefing shortly after Wednesday's shooting, he described it as a \"horrific act\".\n\nMeanwhile, Milwaukee police chief Alfonso Morales said that the five victims were all employees of the brewing company.\n\nHe praised the way the city's police, FBI officers and firefighters responded to the attack.\n\nAs the incident unfolded, nearby schools and businesses were locked down, local media report.\n\nSpeaking at the White House in Washington, President Donald Trump offered his \"deepest condolences to the victims and families in Milwaukee\".\n\nHe described the gunman as a \"wicked murderer\".\n\nWisconsin congressman Mike Gallagher condemned the attack on Twitter, saying: \"There's no place for these kinds of hateful and disgusting acts in our society.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Mike Gallagher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe company's CEO said they were devastated. \"The most important thing is that we support and care for each other,\" Gavin Hattersley said in a statement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some residents in Ironbridge have been advised to leave their homes\n\nRail lines have closed and people have continued to evacuate as river levels continue to rise in Shropshire.\n\nTwo severe \"danger to life\" flood warnings are in place for the River Severn at Shrewsbury and Ironbridge.\n\nNetwork Rail closed all lines at Shrewsbury station from 14:00 GMT, except for services to and from Chester and Crewe.\n\nWater is pouring over flood barriers in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and there are fears for the same in Ironbridge.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned defences at the Wharfage in the Shropshire town could be breached in the early hours of Wednesday, when the River Severn there is predicted to peak.\n\nThe agency's Dave Throup tweeted the breach in Beales Corner, Bewdley, was not at the main demountable defences in Severnside, but urged people to avoid the area.\n\nWest Mercia Police said residents who might be affected had been told and the force added the situation would be monitored overnight by fire crews and agency officials.\n\nWater began pouring over these flood defences in Bewdley on Tuesday evening\n\nWater levels in Ironbridge have now exceeded those seen last week and could reach up to 7m (22.9ft) overnight, the agency warned - making the river nearly 3m (9.8ft) deeper than it was on Sunday.\n\nCh Supt Tom Harding, from West Mercia Police, said: \"We are particularly concerned this evening that those barriers [at the Wharfage] are going to be overtopped.\n\n\"We have spoken to all residents who could be impacted - most of which have evacuated.\"\n\nHe encouraged others who had decided not to evacuate to do so as high water levels were expected to remain for up to 48 hours. The force was prepared for the \"worse case scenario\" with rest centres and lots of staff and resources on the ground, he added.\n\nPeople have been been advised to evacuate along the Wharfage, Ironbridge, where the river is expected to peak overnight\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said hourly inspections were carried out on the Severn Viaduct, which carries the majority of lines in and out of Shrewsbury station.\n\nHe said: \"Flood waters have been very close to the level where we have to close the viaduct for safety reasons.\"\n\nAs the river was expected to rise further, he said the lines would \"remain closed until levels have dropped below the closure mark and underwater inspections have been completed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An ex-Army truck is being used to ferry villagers cut off by floods\n\nEarlier Network Rail tweeted if the station was closed it would be a \"once in a generation situation\".\n\nAt Welsh Bridge in Shrewsbury, the Severn stood at 5.11m at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday, nearly doubling in depth over the past 72 hours.\n\nParts of Shrewsbury are affected by flood water\n\nMr Throup said more rain was on the way, calling it \"relentless\".\n\nSarah Holmes, director of Merrythought Village in Ironbridge, said all the businesses had \"got together, collaborated and moved equipment upstairs or off-site\" ahead of the expected peak.\n\n\"Now it's just a waiting game to see how far the river rises and there will obviously be the big clear-up afterwards,\" she said.\n\n\"Unsettled\" weather over a few days may leave river water levels high in Shrewsbury, says the Environment Agency\n\nSmithfield Road in Shrewsbury is flooded as the River Severn continues to rise\n\nShropshire Council chief executive Clive Wright is to step down as the authority battles to deal with floods.\n\nIt follows a vote at a meeting of the ruling Conservative group on Monday.\n\nBBC Radio Shropshire political reporter Joanne Gallacher has been told Mr Wright's response to the flooding was one of the reasons he was asked to leave.\n\nIn a statement circulated to staff, seen by the BBC, Mr Wright said he was leaving his post \"with immediate effect\" adding it had been \"a great privilege\" to serve the people of Shropshire.\n\nShropshire Fire and Rescue Service said it had rescued residents from a retirement home at Longden Coleham in Shrewsbury on Monday evening as flood waters rose.\n\nThe town's three main shopping centres have been closed \"for the safety of staff and customers\".\n\nA number of schools, colleges and libraries were also closed on Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShrewsbury Town's game at home to Tranmere Rovers went ahead.\n\n\"The ground staff have been working very hard on the pitch and despite the recent rainfall it is relatively dry at present and the main surrounding road networks are all reporting no issues, therefore, there are no concerns about the game,\" a club statement said.\n\nMark Davies, who owns Darwin's Townhouse bed and breakfast in the town, said his property had been left \"devastated\" as it flooded for the second time in a week.\n\n\"I spent last week pumping everything out and got that straight on Sunday, flopped down and then found on Monday morning we were back to square one again,\" he said.\n\nRiverside car parks in Worcester have been closed as river levels in the city rose \"rapidly\".\n\nWorcestershire County Council urged people parked in the Cattlemarket, Croft Road, Newport Street, Pitchcroft, or Tybridge Street car parks to move their vehicles or risk being stranded.\n\nWater levels were rising at the English Bridge in Shrewsbury on Tuesday morning\n\nHave you been affected by the flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Virgin Galactic has said it will release more tickets for flights into space amid surging demand.\n\nSir Richard Branson's firm, which completed its first sub-orbital test flight in 2018, said it had received almost 8,000 registrations of interest for future commercial flights.\n\nThat is more than double the amount it recorded at the end of September 2019.\n\nThe firm has so far sold 600 tickets for its inaugural flights, scheduled for later this year.\n\nThe news comes as Virgin Galactic's latest company results show a net loss of $73m (£55.6m) for the last quarter.\n\nOn Wednesday, the California-based company said it would begin taking $1,000 refundable deposits as it prepares to release the next batch of tickets to the general public.\n\nThat will put them on a waiting list for when seats become available. However, Virgin Galactic said prices and timing for its next flight were not available yet.\n\nTickets for its inaugural flights retailed at $250,000 apiece.\n\nThose to have already purchased tickets include celebrities Justin Bieber and Leonardo DiCaprio. Sir Richard Branson has said he will be on the first trip.\n\n\"We have been greatly encouraged by the ongoing and increasing demand seen from around the world for personal spaceflight,\" said Stephen Attenborough, Virgin Galactic's commercial director. Virgin Galactic saw its losses widen in the three months to December, compared with a $46m loss in the same period in 2018.\n\nVirgin Galactic is the only publicly-listed space tourism group, having floated on the New York stock exchange last October.\n\nThe company, along with Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, have all been in a race to send tourists into space.", "A report has found parents in England, Scotland and Wales are paying 5% more on childcare for under-twos than a year ago - and 4% more for two-year-olds.\n\nChildcare now costs on average more than £130 per week for a part-time nursery place for a child under two, according to children's charity Coram.\n\nIt has called for reform and simplification of childcare system.\n\nThe government said it was increasing the rate it paid for free childcare provision, and creating more places.\n\nThe findings of Coram Family and Childcare's survey suggest that childcare costs are rising faster than price increases generally, with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation standing at 1.8% in January.\n\nThe charity said its survey revealed the average weekly price of a part-time nursery place for a child under the age of two had risen to an average of £131.61, or more than £6,800 per year.\n\nThe annual survey is based on data from 175 local authorities gathered between November 2019 and January 2020.\n\nThe report also found that childcare prices and availability vary significantly depending on where people live.\n\nResearch showed the most expensive regions were London and the South East, where the cost of 25 hours of nursery care for a child under two is £165.47 and £144.90 per week respectively.\n\nIn inner London, the average cost is £182.56.\n\nThe cheapest areas were in Scotland and Yorkshire and the Humber at £111.26 and £113.76 respectively.\n\nMeanwhile, the findings also reveal gaps in availability, with just over half (56%) of local authorities in England having enough childcare for parents working full-time. This is compared to 57% in 2019.\n\nThere may also be gaps if parents are working outside regular office hours, if children have disabilities and if children are older - aged between 12 to 14, according to the report.\n\nThe average weekly price for families using an after school club five days a week across Britain was found to be £60.99.\n\nCoram's report argued that while support, subsidies and free entitlements are available to many families, the system is too complicated - which can leave parents at risk of missing out on help they are entitled to.\n\nIt has made several suggestions for reforms, including increasing the maximum amount of childcare costs paid under Universal Credit and moving to up-front payments for childcare.\n\nGovernment spending on childcare should be reformed and simplified \"so every parent is better off working after paying for childcare, and every child has access to childcare which supports their learning and development,\" said Claire Harding, head of Coram Family and Childcare.\n\nShe added: \"Investing in childcare support is good for us all because it helps parents to work now, and boosts children's learning and skills for our future.\"\n\nThe government said investment in childcare and early years education will reach £3.6bn in 2020-21 to \"give families the flexibility they need to be able to balance their work and family lives\".\n\nIn October, the Department for Education said councils across England would receive extra funding to deliver free childcare places, with investment going towards increasing rates.\n\nThere are different funded childcare schemes across the UK.\n\nSince 2017, working parents of three and four-year-olds in England have been entitled to 30 hours' free childcare a week - up from 15 hours.\n\nIn Wales, working parents of three and four-year-olds are entitled to 30 hours of free childcare a week for up to 48 weeks of the year.\n\nParents of three and four-year-olds in Scotland are entitled to around 16 hours of free childcare a week during term time.", "Radio 1 presenter Nick Grimshaw is set to climb the tallest dunes in the world for Sport Relief, after taking a day off with heat exhaustion.\n\nNick sat out of Tuesday's The Heat Is On challenge after advice from medics, and told Radio 1 he was feeling \"fighting fit\".\n\nIn an Instagram video he says his body temperature had reached 40 degrees at the end of Monday's event.\n\nNick said: \"It was really scary. It was horrible.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sportrelief This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe's travelling across the Namib desert in Namibia, alongside other celebrities like Frankie Bridge and Rob Rinder to raise money for mental health services.\n\nThe challenge, which started on Monday, will see them cross the desert by walking, cycling and skiing.\n\nBBC Breakfast presenter Louise Minchin and Radio 1 presenter Nick Grimshaw cycling through the Namib desert\n\nNick says he \"felt great\" when they set off, but as soon as he was stopped by a medic for a temperature check just two kilometres before the finish line, he felt \"really, really bad\".\n\n\"It was horrible, I've never experienced that before.\"\n\nThe presenter was told he couldn't finish the day's challenge, and had to take time out to recover.\n\nHe saw doctors and received treatment for heat exhaustion, but said not being able to participate was \"really hard to deal with\".\n\nThe challenge lasts over four days, and ends at a shipwreck on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia.\n\nIt was originally supposed to be in the freezing temperatures of Mongolia, but was moved to Namibia because of Coronavirus fears.\n\nNick says he hopes he will be on \"top form, ready to continue\" to the next stage.\n\nThe celebrities are set to climb the \"highest sand dunes in the world\" which Nick says he doesn't want to miss.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The report found a \"debilitating lack of capacity and resilience\" at Merthyr Tydfil council\n\nPolitical dramas on Facebook are consuming enormous energy at a local authority at the expense of other matters, a review has found.\n\nSenior officers at Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council are being asked to be \"referees\" rather than advisors.\n\nThe council is only just \"keeping its nostrils above the waterline\" and has a projected deficit of £15m to 2022-23.\n\nCouncil leader Kevin O'Neill said a decade of austerity had put the council under pressure.\n\nLast year the Welsh Government sent in former Swindon council chief executive John Gilbert to advise the authority after council leader Kevin O'Neill asked for help.\n\nA subsequent review by an improvement board chaired by former Welsh Local Government Association chief executive Steve Thomas found a \"debilitating lack of capacity and resilience\" throughout the council, with the organisation functioning \"by keeping its nostrils above the waterline\".\n\nIt said there was an \"urgent need\" to address \"poor attainment levels\" in schools, and a \"complete breakdown of trust\" between the council and the trust which runs some leisure services.\n\nCouncil leader Kevin O'Neill asked for help for the authority last year\n\nThe report says that across the council \"there are political 'hotspots' and 'dramas\" associated \"with a variety of issues\".\n\n\"Much of this plays out on social media sites especially Facebook,\" it said.\n\n\"The team fully accepts that this is part of the cut and thrust of local politics.\n\n\"But in the case of Merthyr Tydfil this can consume enormous organisational energy often at the expense of more important matters.\"\n\n\"With the debilitating lack of capacity highlighted in this report the council can ill afford to be subsumed by this.\n\n\"Senior officers are all too often being asked to play the role of \"referees\" as opposed to professional advisors. This must be addressed with a clearly signalled shift in thinking from antagonistic to strategic.\"\n\nBBC Wales has been told the concerns mainly relate to problems caused by councillors getting involved in rows on a private Facebook page called Merthyr Council Truths.\n\nThe council's current financial plan shows projected budget deficits totalling £15m over the next three financial years.\n\nOther problems included \"significant concerns\" about the ability of the council to deal with \"practical ongoing issues\".\n\n\"For example, the council's monitoring officer is also its sole qualified childcare lawyer providing advice, running cases and advocacy on behalf of social services,\" the report said.\n\n\"She also is responsible for HR, legal and a range of other services.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government is appointing extra advisers to help with education, social services, corporate governance and leader, cabinet and member development.\n\nLocal government minister Julie James said there needed to be \"widespread commitment from all members and officers to achieve a sustainable future for the council and to deliver good quality services to the people of Merthyr Tydfil\".\n\nMr O'Neill called for more cash for his council, saying a \"decade of austerity\" had put significant pressure on the council.\n\nIn a statement he said said: \"The way forward now for this organisation is to build a model that suits our capacity and our resources.\"\n\n\"My cabinet and senior managers are working closely together to ensure that the right systems and structures are in place to review and resource the high level of service delivery that our residents deserve,\" he said.\n\n\"The improvement and Assurance Board will continue to monitor progress,\" the leader added, saying it will report at the end of May.", "The government has pledged an extra £236m to tackle rough sleeping, alongside an urgent review into the issue by a former homelessness tsar.\n\nThe new funding will go towards accommodation for up to 6,000 rough sleepers, and helping those at immediate risk of being on the streets.\n\nIt comes after BBC research revealed rough sleeping was five times higher than the official figures suggested.\n\nLabour said the government was \"in denial about the scale\" of the problem.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said he was \"absolutely determined to end rough sleeping once and for all\".\n\nThe announcement comes ahead of new homelessness figures, set to be published on Thursday.\n\nOn Wednesday, the BBC revealed more than 28,000 people in the UK were recorded sleeping rough in 12 months, with five times as many rough sleepers in England than the government's published statistics.\n\nThe government said it had already committed £437m to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in 2020/21, but No 10 said the £236m was additional money to help it meet its manifesto pledge to end homelessness within the parliamentary term.\n\nThe funding will be used to buy new accommodation, refurbish existing units, and to lease private rented sector properties for those already rough sleeping or those at risk.\n\n\"It is simply unacceptable that we still have so many people sleeping on the streets,\" said Mr Johnson\n\n\"We must tackle the scourge of rough sleeping urgently, and I will not stop until the thousands of people in this situation are helped off the streets and their lives have been rebuilt.\"\n\nDame Louise Casey will lead the review into the issue to provide advice to both the PM and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick on what other action should be taken.\n\nHer work will look into the link between 24-hour street activity and rough sleeping, as well as look into the effects on people struggling with drug and alcohol misuse, and with physical and mental health issues.\n\nDame Louise said: \"Homelessness, and within that rough sleeping, is something that's causes misery, so I hope that I will be able to help the government and the country expedite action on this issue.\"\n\nA new minister dedicated to rough sleeping has also been confirmed as Adam Holloway, who will serve as Mr Jenrick's parliamentary private secretary in his department.\n\nLabour's shadow housing secretary, John Healey, said the BBC's research showed the government was not doing enough.\n\n\"The Conservatives are in denial about the scale of street homelessness, with new figures showing that the government's own statistics are seriously misleading the public about the number of people sleeping rough.\n\n\"After 10 years of failure, the Conservatives should adopt Labour's plan to end rough sleeping for good.\"\n\nThe chief executive of homelessness charity Shelter, Polly Neate, said said it was right for the PM to take on the problem, but said there was \"no great secret about what is causing this emergency\".\n\n\"As we see in our services day in and day out, most people are tipped into homelessness simply because there are not enough affordable, safe, and secure homes in this country,\" she said.\n\n\"The bottom line is people can't afford to live anywhere - a problem made infinitely worse by a dire lack of social homes and cuts to housing benefit.\"\n\nMs Neate added: \"Emergency measures to get people off the streets quickly and housing first pilots can only go so far, if you don't have the stable homes to back them up.\"", "Demonstrators are trying to block authorities from building new migrant camps on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios", "Miriam Haley, one of two main accusers in Harvey Weinstein's trial says she feels 'huge relief' at his conviction.\n\nHer powerful testimony helped lead to him being found guilty in New York City of third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act.\n\nShe told CBS This Morning: “It feels like we’re making progress.”\n\nHer lawyer Gloria Allred added that the conviction would help other victims as well as people who have committed gender violence to know that there are \"consequences\" to actions.\n\nHis lawyers said sex between the movie executive and the accusers was consensual, and that the accusers used it to advance their careers, adding outside court that they would be appealing the conviction.\n\nMr Weinstein still faces charges in Los Angeles of assaulting two women in 2013.", "John Manley said his employers had failed to pay him over Christmas\n\nA digger driver who smashed up the entrance of a new hotel because he was owed £600 in wages has been jailed.\n\nJohn Manley, of Netherton, Merseyside, left a \"trail of destruction\" at the Travelodge in Liverpool on the day work was due to finish.\n\nHe caused more than £443,000 worth of damage to the front door, reception desk and windows during the rampage in January 2019 which went viral.\n\nAt Liverpool Crown Court, he was jailed for five years and four months.\n\nManley, 36, of St Aidan's Way, previously admitted damaging property and being reckless as to whether life was endangered.\n\nVideos of the destruction showed colleagues asking Manley to stop as he shouted: \"All you had to do was pay me.\"\n\nSentencing, Judge David Aubrey QC said Manley was \"intent on maximum damage and intended to leave a trail of destruction\".\n\nHe said Manley had caused \"destruction in the extreme\" and put the safety of those inside and outside the building at risk.\n\nThe judge accepted Manley, who was reported to have \"social problems\", had a number of issues in his life.\n\n\"This grievance, or perceived grievance, in consequence of the fact you had not been paid your wages, may well have been the catalyst which led you on this day to erupt like a volcano.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe court previously heard Manley had \"intended to cause the damage\" as he had not been paid over the Christmas period.\n\nThe site was run by Remstone Property Management but Manley was employed by contractor MF Groundworks - which received payment for work carried out on 17 January.\n\nSite manager Peter Robinson said he saw Manley twice in the days before the rampage and he had threatened to barricade himself in a hut and damage the building if he was not paid.\n\nTrevor Parry-Jones, prosecuting, said: \"[Mr Robinson] believed this was a threat that would not be carried out, made him a cup of tea and bought him a sandwich.\"\n\nBut two hours after a meeting on 21 January, Manley got into the digger and effectively destroyed the ceiling, wiring and structure of the building after ploughing through the front doors.\n\nMark Sharman, defending, said father-of-two Manley could not afford electricity or to buy food because he had not been paid, and so he could not have his children over to stay.\n\nThe destruction was filmed by several witnesses on mobile phones\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The New York Subway map which was first used in 1979\n\nMichael Hertz, the man who designed the map of the New York City subway system, has died aged 87.\n\nIn the 1970s his firm, Michael Hertz Associates, was hired by city transport officials to redesign the old map.\n\nAt the time, crime was on the rise and subway ridership was at its lowest level since the late 1910s. Few tourists rode trains to see sights.\n\nHis team added streets, reshaped parks, distorted boroughs and re-formed and gave curves to the snaking train lines.\n\nA native of New York's Brooklyn borough, Mr Hertz previously helped create transit maps for Houston and Washington DC before undertaking the New York project for the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).\n\nIn an effort to remove some of the straight lines that were disliked by riders, Mr Hertz hired a Japanese designer who rode every subway line with his eyes closed so that he could better depict the curves in the railways.\n\nThe map that Mr Hertz produced in 1979 was tweaked by his firm several times, but the basic design remains.\n\nIn 2004, he told the New York Times that he appreciated every time he saw tourists using the map for the first time.\n\n\"I still get a pleasure in a subway station when I see somebody in lederhosen looking at the map,\" he said.\n• None Can this Brit fix New York's subway?", "Salman Abedi in the foyer of the Manchester Arena just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nFootage of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi seconds before he blew himself up has been shown to jurors.\n\nThe CCTV pictures showed him standing amid crowds of men, women and children 19 seconds before the fatal blast on 22 May 2017.\n\nHashem Abedi, 22, is on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of helping his brother plan the attack at the end of the Ariana Grande concert.\n\nHe denies 22 murders, attempted murder, and conspiring to cause explosions.\n\nSalman Abedi detonated a homemade device packed with shrapnel as 359 people milled around the arena foyer at 22:31 BST - one minute after the concert ended.\n\nThe suicide attack left 22 people dead and hundreds more injured, the jury was told.\n\nIn the footage, the bomber was seen wearing a large Karrimor rucksack containing the device.\n\nThe court heard his body was recovered in four parts and was riddled with nuts, wire and metal parts after the blast. He was identified by his DNA and fingerprints taken in 2012 when he was arrested for shoplifting.\n\nForensic investigators later found more than 2,000 nuts at the scene.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard all living casualties were moved out by 23:30 BST and 19 people were confirmed dead at the scene.\n\nThe father of 15-year-old victim Megan Hurley remained with her body until after 01:00 BST, the court heard.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nThe jury was told 28 people suffered life-threatening or life-changing wounds out of the 264 people injured.\n\nDonna Currie, 51, who was waiting in the foyer for her daughter and her friend, suffered multiple fractures to both legs and shrapnel wounds.\n\nShe had previously sustained shrapnel injuries in the 1996 IRA bombing in Manchester and experienced extensive psychological trauma.\n\nThe court heard that a 50-year-old woman, who suffered shrapnel and burn wounds, had also been caught up in the 1993 IRA bombings in Warrington.\n\nShe had been waiting with a friend to collect their daughters when she was hurt at the arena.\n\nSalman Abedi arriving at Manchester Victoria just over an hour before he detonated his bomb\n\nThe court previously heard that Salman Abedi, 22, went to the arena days before the attack and watched music fans arrive for a Take That gig.\n\nHe was seen looking at box office queues, a few yards from the spot where he detonated the bomb.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard that on the day of the blast, he had arranged to send £460 to Libya. Later, he went out with his rucksack and took a Metrolink tram to Victoria Station in Manchester.\n\nWhile waiting for the tram, he made a call lasting just over four minutes to his family in Libya, the court heard. He then waited in the area of the arena for two hours before detonating his device.\n\nJurors have heard that Hashem Abedi insists he is not an extremist and had no idea of his older brother's plans. He said he was in Libya with his family at the time of the attack.\n\nSalman Abedi gets in a lift to take him to the Arena foyer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A native predator of the red squirrel appears to be an unlikely ally in its battle with the grey squirrel.\n\nScientists from Queen's University Belfast discovered that, while the pine marten preys on both species, the greys are much more vulnerable to attack.\n\nThe key seems to be in the reds' innate ability to \"sniff out\" the danger posed by the pine marten.\n\nWide-eyed and cute as they may appear, pine martens are sharp-clawed predators. Their agility and tree-climbing skills make them the enemy of any squirrel.\n\nPrevious research has shown that pine martens had a beneficial impact on red squirrel numbers and caused declines in the greys, but the reasons were not fully understood.\n\nPine martens are members of the weasel family\n\nSo Joshua Twining from Queen's University Belfast used pine marten scent to investigate.\n\nWhen the researchers applied the scent to squirrel feeding stations across Northern Ireland, they found that only the red squirrels responded - showing much more vigilance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There are an estimated 140,000 red squirrels in the UK, compared with more than two million greys\n\nGrey squirrels, on the other hand, seemed to ignore the scent and carry on regardless.\n\nThis lack of a behavioural response, researchers say, means greys are much more vulnerable. And with more than two million grey squirrels in the UK and just 150 thousand native reds, they certainly need the help to compete.", "Drinks giant Diageo has warned its profits will fall this year, as bars and restaurants in China are forced to close due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Guinness-owner said operating profits could be £140m-£200m lower than expected due to disruption across Asia.\n\nIt joins companies such as Apple and Danone in warning about the impact of the deadly virus.\n\nFinancial markets have also fallen sharply this week as fears of a pandemic grow.\n\nThe company - whose brands include Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Tanqueray and Gordon's gin - also warned on Wednesday that sales could be £225m-£325m lower than expected, depending on how long it took for the outbreak to end.\n\nIt said that bars and restaurants in China \"have largely been closed and there has been a substantial reduction in banqueting... We have seen significant disruption since the end of January which we expect to last at least into March.\n\n\"Thereafter, we expect a gradual improvement with consumption returning to normal levels towards the end of fiscal 2020.\"\n\nEvents being postponed in several other Asian countries, especially South Korea, Japan and Thailand, as well as a reduction in conferences and banquets and a drop in tourism have all had an impact on people buying its products.\n\nIt added that the coronavirus outbreak had caused a \"significant reduction\" in people using airports, especially in Asia, hitting travel retail.\n\nChina is a very important market for Diageo. In the six months to 31 December, net sales in Greater China, which includes Taiwan, increased 24%.\n\nThere was double-digit growth in both Chinese white spirits and Scotch.\n\nInvestors are clearly nervous about the effects of the coronavirus - UK and US markets have in the last two days lost all the gains they have made so far this year - but have struggled to quantify exactly how big the problem will be, and how different sectors will be affected.\n\nIn the absence of information, they have sold the obvious shares - airlines, holiday operators and luxury goods companies.\n\nDiageo's market update, which says its annual profit could be hit by £200m, will give them pause for thought about the wider implications.\n\nThe drinks company spells out what should be obvious - bars and restaurants across China, one of its biggest markets, have been closed.\n\nBig events, another money-spinner for Diageo, have been cancelled across Asia.\n\nIt is a sobering - no pun intended - assessment of how corporate earnings will be affected.\n\nLast year's giant stock market gains were a reflection of investors' assumptions that profits would stay high. That assumption now looks in grave doubt.\n\nMost infections are in China, the original source of coronavirus, where more than 77,000 people have the disease and over 2,600 have died.\n\nMore than 1,200 cases have been confirmed in about 30 other countries and there have been more than 20 deaths. Italy reported four more deaths on Monday, raising the total there to seven.\n\nThere are 53 confirmed cases in the US, and officials are calling on Congress to approve billions of dollars to fund the response effort.", "Vegan sausage rolls weren't on the menu when Grace Firth dropped a Greggs bag in 2009\n\nMore than 10 years ago, Grace Firth tucked into a snack from Greggs.\n\nSomehow, the paper bag ended up on the ground rather than in the bin.\n\nNow the 32-year-old student from Stockport has found herself in court, accused of littering.\n\nMagistrates even questioned whether the date of the offence was a mistake because of how long ago it happened.\n\nIt took so long to be resolved because Grace said she knew nothing about the original prosecution.\n\nShe had been convicted in her absence in August 2009, fined £175 and ordered to pay £180 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.\n\nBut Grace told Stockport Magistrates' Court the first she'd heard about the whole thing was when she got a letter on 8 December 2019 regarding an \"historical debt\".\n\nShe said she had never received any letters before then, since they had been sent to her mum's house.\n\n\"Any mail for me was returned to sender or thrown away,\" she told the court.\n\nOn Tuesday, magistrates accepted her explanation and decided to cancel the original £180 costs order.\n\nChairman Edward Tasker told her: \"You've been very fair and very honest,\" before also reducing her fine to £40 plus the £15 victim surcharge.\n\n\"Thank you for being so honest and for turning up,\" he added.", "San Fiorano is one of the Italian towns on lockdown\n\nMajor outbreaks of the new coronavirus have suddenly been detected in both Italy and Iran in the past few days.\n\nMeanwhile, cases in South Korea have surged making it one of the worst-affected countries.\n\nThe new coronavirus is no longer a problem just in China, with a small number of exported cases.\n\nIt has many people asking if the virus is about to become a pandemic and whether containing it is still possible?\n\nA pandemic is a disease that is spreading in multiple countries around the world at the same time.\n\nThis virus \"absolutely\" has pandemic potential, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.\n\nBut he added: \"We are not witnessing uncontained global spread of the virus, using the word pandemic does not fit the facts.\"\n\n\"I think many people would consider the current situation a pandemic, we have ongoing transmission in multiple regions of the world,\" Prof Jimmy Whitworth, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nSome scientists were even arguing two weeks ago that we had already entered the earliest stages of a pandemic.\n\nAll this tells us there is some wiggle-room around the word.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe developments in South Korea, Italy and Iran are the reason why people are drifting closer to calling the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.\n\nSouth Korea is piling on hundreds of new cases, showing how contagious the virus is.\n\nItaly and Iran now have substantial outbreaks. There are almost certainly far more cases in these countries than have been reported - and the connection with China has not yet been established.\n\n\"The virus is spreading around the world and the link with China is becoming less strong,\" says Prof Whitworth.\n\nAnd Prof Devi Sridhar, from the University of Edinburgh, said her perspective \"has definitely changed\" over the past couple of days.\n\n\"This has largely been a Chinese emergency, now we are seeing it progress it South Korea, Japan, Iran and now Italy,\" she says. \"It's a highly infectious virus and spreading very quickly.\"\n\nShe does not think we are in a pandemic yet and is waiting to see long chains of transmission in countries outside of China.\n\n\"We don't have the evidence to say we're in one, but I'm pretty sure we'll have the evidence in next couple of days.\n\n\"If it's in Italy and Iran, then it can be anywhere.\"\n\nResearchers have described the cases in Iran as the most worrying for efforts to contain the global spread of the virus and prevent it becoming a pandemic.\n\nThe number of deaths reported in the country, 12, is far more revealing than the number of reported cases, 61.\n\nDeaths are significant as the virus kills only a small proportion of people who are infected and it takes weeks to go from infection to death.\n\nDr MacDermott said: \"It suggests fairly large numbers of people with minimal symptoms, or who are asymptomatic, that aren't being tested or even being identified.\n\n\"Who knows how long it has been going on?\"\n\nThe country has already been linked to cases in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Canada and Oman.\n\nShe added: \"Iraq and Afghanistan - that's two of the countries you don't want the virus in, healthcare is barely existent after decades of war and it's not safe for healthcare workers to travel there.\n\n\"I think we are teetering on the balance of a pandemic, in the next week or two we're likely to see it pop up in lots places and if it's on several different continents then we'd be approaching a pandemic.\"\n\nOfficials now say the WHO will not formally \"declare\" a pandemic for the new coronavirus, though the term may still be used \"colloquially\".\n\nIn 2009, the organisation was criticised when it declared swine flu a pandemic.\n\nIt based the decision on criteria it no longer uses.\n\nThe virus did spread round the world - but it proved to be relatively mild, leading some to argue the organisation had been too hasty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Travellers are being warned to expect disruption as snow and ice is forecast across large parts of the UK on Wednesday night and Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said wintry conditions, freezing showers and icy patches could lengthen journey times and cause falls.\n\nThe first snow and ice warning from 22:00 GMT covers western parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, north Wales and northern England.\n\nThursday's snow warning extends through the Midlands and towards London.\n\nSome roads and railways are likely to be impacted by snow and ice overnight in northern parts of England, western Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Met Office said.\n\nIt said there would be less disruption in southern parts than elsewhere on Thursday, but still predicted sleet and snow could cause some travel disruption.\n\nCouncils across England have placed highways teams on standby with an estimated 1.5 million tonnes of salt on hand to cope with any icy conditions.\n\nThe Local Government Association said local authorities were reminding residents to check on elderly neighbours and relatives.\n\nThe Met Office has issued two weather warnings from 22:00 GMT on Wednesday (left) and from 00:00 on Thursday\n\nBBC Weather presenter Matt Taylor said parts of the Midlands and southern England could see their first snowfall of winter on Thursday.\n\nHe said any fall of rain or snow was going to be unwelcome for those communities suffering from flooding.\n\n\"Every single drop we do not need,\" he said. \"There is the potential for river levels to rise again.\"\n\nIt came as people evacuated homes and businesses after flood waters rose above defensive barriers in Worcestershire.\n\nThere are also two severe flood warnings in place in Shropshire, with the River Severn at risk of breaching its defences in Ironbridge.", "A woman has told how she truly believes her pet horse was trying to tell her she had cancer.\n\nKelly Ann Alexander, from Blackburn in West Lothian, said she was puzzled why Aliyana paid so much attention to the right-hand side of her head.\n\nFollowing several seizures, the 43-year-old was eventually diagnosed with two brain tumours in 2015.\n\nShe has since recovered after having had an operation, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.\n\nMrs Alexander, who still has a weak left side, said she would never give up her horse, which was a wedding present.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's Mornings with Kaye Adams programme: \"I couldn't work out why she was trying to sniff my head.\n\n\"I was trying to think did I have different shampoo? But I always had the same shampoo and she kept sniffing the right hand side of my head.\n\n\"I've got a special bond with Aliyana and I will never give her up as she is part of the family now.\"\n\nMrs Alexander said she had previously suffered seizures but her brain tumour was not diagnosed until later.\n\nShe said: \"When I was taken to hospital after collapsing with a seizure the doctors more or less said it was an alcohol problem and they told me to go to my GP when I had sobered up.\n\n\"I had never had a drink for weeks though.\n\n\"At worst I thought I had epilepsy, never did I think I had two brain tumours.\"\n\nHugh Adams, Brain Tumour Research's charity spokesman, said he had heard of similar stories where animals appear to detect cancers.\n\nHe added: \"What was really interesting with what Kelly Ann has been saying was the problems of her own route to diagnosis through her doctors.\n\n\"That is truly shocking to be told to go home and sober up.\n\n\"It is something we hear about all too frequently because brain tumours are comparatively rare and the route to diagnosis can be problematic because GPs don't know enough about the symptoms.\"\n\nSymptoms of brain tumours include headaches, vision problems, nausea, seizures, personality changes or changes to the senses.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool's defence of their Champions League title hangs in the balance after Saul Niguez's early strike gave Atletico Madrid an aggregate lead going into the second leg of their last-16 tie at Anfield.\n\nThe Reds were given a dose of their own medicine as Atletico harried and hassled throughout, limiting them to just two clear chances and no shots on target.\n\nThose opportunities fell to Mohamed Salah, who headed wide, and Jordan Henderson, whose hooked shot just missed Jan Oblak's far post.\n\nKlopp replaced Sadio Mane and Salah with Divock Origi and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain but neither made an impact.\n\nTwo-time finalists Atletico, who have been on a poor run of form, held on to a fourth-minute lead given to them by Saul. The Spanish midfielder turned sharply to fire home after a corner came off the boot of Fabinho.\n\nThe return leg is on Wednesday, 11 March.\n• None Why 'exquisite' Atletico were so hard for Liverpool to break down - Warnock analysis\n• None What to look out for as Champions League returns\n\nMinutes before kick-off Klopp referred to Atletico having a similar \"intense DNA\" to his own side - and unfortunately for him they were at their intense best.\n\nWhat faced the Reds was almost a mirror image - a team that relentlessly pressed and got numbers forward on the counter.\n\nThe Reds had large spells of possession in the opposition half, but Diego Simeone's Atletico side are past masters at dealing with teams of that type. They forced Liverpool into several errors when they had possession, and limited them to only two clear chances on goal.\n\nIn fact, Liverpool had to wait until the 53rd minute for their first opening - Salah's stooping header drifting comfortably wide.\n\nThe German coach, obviously not happy with his attacking threat in the first half, had twisted at half-time when he brought on Origi for the under-par Mane.\n\nHowever, the Belgium striker - the hero of last year's final - was easily marshalled, bar one moment of quality when he hooked in a cross for captain Henderson, who fired wide.\n\nKlopp's skipper came off injured in the 80th minute to cap a forgettable night.\n\nLiverpool have it in them to turn this tie around at Anfield, but unlike Barcelona in last year's semi-final, Simeone's Atletico will be a tougher nut to crack. Klopp men's will have to be at their very best in three weeks.\n\nLos Rojiblancos - the Red and Whites - needed this performance.\n\nThis competition remains, realistically, their only hope of silverware this season following a recent rotten period which saw their two other chances - La Liga and Copa del Rey - effectively extinguished.\n\nAgainst the Reds, they produced the sort of display spectators have become accustomed to from a Simeone side - tenacious and disciplined.\n\nThe Argentine boss is still in the process of restructuring his defence after revered stalwarts Juanfran, Diego Godin and Filipe Luis ended their time at the club last season. But the display of the back four on Tuesday will have made his task simpler.\n\nFull-backs Sime Vrsaljko and Renan Lodi stayed focused as they quelled the threat of their Liverpool counterparts, while the more experienced Stefan Savic and Felipe were immovable barriers as they dealt with Roberto Firmino, Salah and Mane.\n\nMidfielder Thomas Partey added vital support to the home backline in what was an exceptional defensive display.\n\nAt the other end, had Diego Costa been on the pitch to meet a cross rather than Alvaro Morata, then perhaps the Spanish side would have taken the lead inside the first three minutes.\n\nHowever, they made the most of their early sorties when Saul turned in thanks to Fabinho's misfortune.\n\nSimeone, dressed again in all black, was his fidgety and animated self on the touchline - barking orders and occasionally rousing the home crowd inside the Wanda Metropolitano.\n\nAtletico will need his influence, and more of the same from the team at Anfield, if they are to record one of their best results in recent years.\n\n'Emotions were on the side of Atletico' - reaction\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"I had no problem with the result. I saw so many happy faces from Atletico tonight, I get that because it's a big win, but it's not over yet. That's the only thing I feel.\n\n\"The crowd wanted to help their team tonight. That makes it a very emotional game.\n\n\"Emotions are important. Tonight they were obviously completely on the side of Atletico but I am really looking forward to the second leg.\"\n\nAtletico boss Diego Simeone: \"The best side in the world came here and we beat them.\n\n\"But it's only one game down, one to go. Liverpool had their chances. They were dangerous, they've got good players all over the pitch.\"\n• None Since the start of last season, Liverpool have lost six of their 10 away games in the Champions League (W4); no side has lost more away from home in the competition in this time (level with Red Star Belgrade).\n• None Klopp has failed to win all seven of his away games against Spanish clubs in the Champions League (D3 L4), including three with Liverpool (D1 L2).\n• None Atletico have won 12 of their last 13 home matches in all major European competitions (D1), also keeping 11 clean sheets in this run.\n• None Two of Liverpool's three defeats in all competitions this season have come in the Champions League, also losing 2-0 at Napoli in September 2019 (the third defeat being their 5-0 loss to Aston Villa in the EFL Cup in December 2019).\n• None Saul's opener for Atletico (03:46) was the earliest Liverpool have conceded in the Champions League since Gabriel Jesus scored past them in the second minute for Manchester City in April 2018; nine of Saul's 10 Champions League goals have come in the first half.\n• None Saul became only the second player to score 10 Champions League goals for Atletico, after Antoine Griezmann (21).\n• None Since the start of the 2013-14 season, Atletico's Jan Oblak has kept 26 clean sheets in 49 Champions League games; no other goalkeeper has more in the competition in this time (level with Marc-Andre ter Stegen, 26 in 57 games).\n• None Attempt missed. Thomas Partey (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Thomas Partey following a fast break.\n• None Offside, Atlético de Madrid. Thomas Partey tries a through ball, but Renan Lodi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Severe flood warnings remain in place in the wake of Storm Dennis, with more rain expected to fall later this week. Among the worst affected areas are South Wales, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.", "Doctors working on a clinical trial for treatment of heart disease held back key data, Newsnight has been told.\n\nThe Excel trial tested whether stents were as effective as open heart surgery at treating patients with a heart problem called left main disease.\n\nThe data suggested more people fitted with stents were dying after three years.\n\nIt was eventually published - but only after treatment guidelines that partly relied on the trial had been written.\n\nThese guidelines recommend both stents and heart surgery for certain patients with left main disease.\n\nThe authors of the trial said it was carried out rigorously and to accepted academic standards.\n\nIn the trial, sponsored by US stent manufacturer Abbott, half the patients were given stents, the other half had open heart surgery.\n\nNot all the patients were recruited at the same time. Some were recruited in 2011, others over the years that followed.\n\nSo, when the first results were published in 2016, the doctors doing the trial knew there was data about what had happened to some of the patients five years after their stent or heart surgery procedure.\n\nBut they chose to look only at what happened up to three years after the patients' procedures and publish that data.\n\nA spokesman for Abbott said: \"The study's execution, data collection, analysis and interpretation were entirely performed by independent research organisations. The publication of three-year Excel data reflects the original follow-up period and endpoints the study was powered to assess.\"\n\nProf Nick Freemantle, a biostatistician at University College London, said: \"If somebody had died three years and one day into the trial, that death wouldn't have been counted in the results.\n\n\"I'm absolutely appalled that they've done this,\" he said.\n\n\"I've taken a straw poll of my professional colleagues and it draws disbelief that people would do this,\" he said\n\nThe researchers said the outcomes of the study were analysed and reported according to the protocol.\n\nNewsnight has seen information shared between people involved with the safety of the trial that suggested things were starting to look worse for people with stents after three years. More people were dying than those who had had surgery.\n\nEmails from the the trial's safety committee warned that all the data about deaths should be viewed by the researchers and published.\n\n\"It might be very concerning if in the future, suspicions were raised that already available information on mortality was withheld from the cardiology and thoracic surgery community,\" Dr Lars Wallentin, the head of the safety committee, wrote to the researchers in 2017.\n\nHe was worried that major European clinical guidelines were being drawn up by heart doctors about how people with left main disease should be treated and the trial results would be used as part of their work.\n\nBut the doctors on the trial chose not to publish the data when the safety committee asked, despite the warning. They published further data after the guidelines were completed.\n\nEven without this additional data, there was disagreement among those writing the guidelines about whether stents or surgery was the better treatment for patients.\n\nAn external reviewer was brought in by the European Society of Cardiology to look at a number of trials and resolve the debate.\n\nNewsnight has seen the review. It said that the evidence suggested stents were worse than surgery for those with left main disease.\n\n\"I think most patients would find these differences to be clinically meaningful, I do not believe that both these procedures should receive the same class of recommendation,\" it said.\n\nBut the review was not shared with everyone who believed they should have seen it. One of those people was Prof Freemantle, who was involved in the European guidelines.\n\nHe claims that this calls into question the neutrality of the whole process.\n\nStents are a less invasive option than open heart surgery\n\nNewsnight has previously reported that the same trial failed to publish certain heart attack data that cast stents in a bad light.\n\nThe researchers said our leak data was fake and their methodology was the right one.\n\nFollowing Newsnight's previous report, a number of major surgical organisations have called for a review of the trial.\n\nThe researchers carrying out the trial have agreed to an \"independent\" review of the raw data.\n\nVarious names have been put forward by the researchers and the European Society of Cardiology about who is doing the analysis. All have ties to the researchers, guidelines process or medical device industry.\n\nWhen approached by the BBC they have all said they are not doing it.\n\nProf John Ioannadis, from Stanford University, an expert on medical research design, said the analysis must be completely independent.\n\n\"I think that if you have the same network, the same closed club passing the data from one member to another, that's not really very helpful,\" he said.\n\nHe believes the trial and guidelines process raise concerns which are indicative of a wider systemic problem with the way medical research is done.\n\nAll the main doctors working on the trial, and the lead doctor writing the guidelines for left main disease, have declared financial contributions to either themselves or their institutions from companies that manufacture stents.\n\n\"You have the same people who run the show at all levels. They design the trials. They set the agenda, they choose what to present.\n\n\"They are involved in disseminating the information and running the large conferences that are attended by tens of thousands of people, specialists in the field. And then they also populate the guideline panels that reach the recommendations,\" he said.\n\nThe organisations involved and researchers have declared the conflicts of interest, and say that they are effective in managing them. The conflict-of-interest declarations are intended to mitigate against conscious or unconscious bias - or the appearance of it.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nWest Ham United co-chairman David Gold has apologised and promised to make a donation to a mental health charity after liking a social media post that described the late TV presenter Caroline Flack as \"weak\".\n\nFlack, 40, was found dead in her north London home on Saturday.\n\nGold had liked a tweet that said something positive about the Premier League club, but also referenced the death of former Love Island presenter Flack.\n\nHe said it was \"never his intention\" to condone that part of the tweet and quickly removed the like.\n\nIn a statement released via the club, Gold said: \"I apologise unreservedly for liking a tweet last night that I shouldn't have.\n\n\"It was never my intention to condone the sentiment expressed in the second half of it. I hastily pressed 'like' and very much regret doing so.\n\n\"I will be making a donation to Heads Together to recognise their important work.\"\n\nEarlier this week a lawyer for Flack's family said the star had taken her own life.\n\nAs well as presenting ITV's Love Island, she had co-hosted The X Factor and won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.\n\nShe stood down from Love Island after she was charged with assaulting her partner in December and was due to stand trial next month.\n\nHer management company said she been \"under huge pressure\" since being accused of assaulting Lewis Burton, who did not support the ongoing case against Flack.\n\nA petition on the online site 38 Degrees, dubbed \"Caroline's Law\", which calls for new laws around media regulation in the wake of the presenter's death, has attracted more than 110,000 signatures.\n\nFlack's friend Laura Whitmore, who replaced her on Love Island, appealed to listeners on her BBC Radio 5 Live show to \"be kind\" to others, and added: \"To paparazzi and tabloids looking for a cheap sell, to trolls hiding behind a keyboard - enough.\"", "A document that appears to give the most powerful insight yet into how China determined the fate of hundreds of thousands of Muslims held in a network of internment camps has been seen by the BBC.\n\nListing the personal details of more than 3,000 individuals from the far western region of Xinjiang, it sets out in intricate detail the most intimate aspects of their daily lives.\n\nThe painstaking records - made up of 137 pages of columns and rows - include how often people pray, how they dress, whom they contact and how their family members behave.\n\nChina denies any wrongdoing, saying it is combating terrorism and religious extremism.\n\nThe document is said to have come, at considerable personal risk, from the same source inside Xinjiang that leaked a batch of highly sensitive material published last year.\n\nOne of the world's leading experts on China's policies in Xinjiang, Dr Adrian Zenz, a senior fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, believes the latest leak is genuine.\n\n\"This remarkable document presents the strongest evidence I've seen to date that Beijing is actively persecuting and punishing normal practices of traditional religious beliefs,\" he says.\n\nOne of the camps mentioned in it, the \"Number Four Training Centre\" has been identified by Dr Zenz as among those visited by the BBC as part of a tour organised by the Chinese authorities in May last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC previously visited one of the camps identified by scholars using the Karakax List\n\nMuch of the evidence uncovered by the BBC team appears to be corroborated by the new document, redacted for publication to protect the privacy of those included in it.\n\nIt contains details of the investigations into 311 main individuals, listing their backgrounds, religious habits, and relationships with many hundreds of relatives, neighbours and friends.\n\nVerdicts written in a final column decide whether those already in internment should remain or be released, and whether some of those previously released need to return.\n\nIt is evidence that appears to directly contradict China's claim that the camps are merely schools.\n\nIn an article analysing and verifying the document, Dr Zenz argues that it also offers a far deeper understanding of the real purpose of the system.\n\nIt allows a glimpse inside the minds of those making the decisions, he says, laying bare the \"ideological and administrative micromechanics\" of the camps.\n\nRow 598 contains the case of a 38-year-old woman with the first name Helchem, sent to a re-education camp for one main reason: she was known to have worn a veil some years ago.\n\nIt is just one of a number of cases of arbitrary, retrospective punishment.\n\nOthers were interned simply for applying for a passport - proof that even the intention to travel abroad is now seen as a sign of radicalisation in Xinjiang.\n\nIn row 66, a 34-year-old man with the first name Memettohti was interned for precisely this reason, despite being described as posing \"no practical risk\".\n\nAnd then there's the 28-year-old man Nurmemet in row 239, put into re-education for \"clicking on a web-link and unintentionally landing on a foreign website\".\n\nAgain, his case notes describe no other issues with his behaviour.\n\nThe 311 main individuals listed are all from Karakax County, close to the city of Hotan in southern Xinjiang, an area where more than 90% of the population is Uighur.\n\nPredominantly Muslim, the Uighurs are closer in appearance, language and culture to the peoples of Central Asia than to China's majority ethnicity, the Han Chinese.\n\nIn recent decades the influx of millions of Han settlers into Xinjiang has led to rising ethnic tensions and a growing sense of economic exclusion among Uighurs.\n\nThose grievances have sometimes found expression in sporadic outbreaks of violence, fuelling a cycle of increasingly harsh security responses from Beijing.\n\nIt is for this reason that the Uighurs have become the target - along with Xinjiang's other Muslim minorities, like the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz - of the campaign of internment.\n\nThe \"Karakax List\", as Dr Zenz calls the document, encapsulates the way the Chinese state now views almost any expression of religious belief as a signal of disloyalty.\n\nTo root out that perceived disloyalty, he says, the state has had to find ways to penetrate deep into Uighur homes and hearts.\n\nIn early 2017, when the internment campaign began in earnest, groups of loyal Communist Party workers, known as \"village-based work teams\", began to rake through Uighur society with a massive dragnet.\n\nWith each member assigned a number of households, they visited, befriended and took detailed notes about the \"religious atmosphere\" in the homes; for example, how many Korans they had or whether religious rites were observed.\n\nThe Karakax List appears to be the most substantial evidence of the way this detailed information gathering has been used to sweep people into the camps.\n\nIt reveals, for example, how China has used the concept of \"guilt by association\" to incriminate and detain whole extended family networks in Xinjiang.\n\nFor every main individual, the 11th column of the spreadsheet is used to record their family relationships and their social circle.\n\nAlongside each relative or friend listed is a note of their own background; how often they pray, whether they've been interned, whether they've been abroad.\n\nIn fact, the title of the document makes clear that the main individuals listed all have a relative currently living overseas - a category long seen as a key indicator of potential disloyalty, leading to almost certain internment.\n\nRows 179, 315 and 345 contain a series of assessments for a 65-year-old man, Yusup.\n\nHis record shows two daughters who \"wore veils and burkas in 2014 and 2015\", a son with Islamic political leanings and a family that displays \"obvious anti-Han sentiment\".\n\nHis verdict is \"continued training\" - one of a number of examples of someone interned not just for their own actions and beliefs, but for those of their family.\n\nThe information collected by the village teams is also fed into Xinjiang's big data system, called the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP).\n\nThe IJOP contains the region's surveillance and policing records, culled from a vast network of cameras and the intrusive mobile spyware every citizen is forced to download.\n\nThe IJOP, Dr Zenz suggests, can in turn use its AI brain to cross-reference these layers of data and send \"push notifications\" to the village teams to investigate a particular individual.\n\nThe man found \"unintentionally landing on a foreign website\" may well have been interned thanks to the IJOP.\n\nIn many cases though, there is little need for advanced technology, with the vast and vague catch-all term \"untrustworthy\" appearing multiple times in the document.\n\nIt is listed as the sole reason for the internment of a total of 88 individuals.\n\nThe concept, Dr Zenz argues, is proof that the system is designed not for those who have committed a crime, but for an entire demographic viewed as potentially suspicious.\n\nChina says Xinjiang has policies that \"respect and ensure people's freedom of religious belief\". It also insists that what it calls a \"vocational training programme in Xinjiang\" is \"for the purposes of combating terrorism and religious extremism\", adding only people who have been convicted of crimes involving terrorism or religious extremism are being \"educated\" in these centres.\n\nHowever, many of the cases in the Karakax List give multiple reasons for internment; various combinations of religion, passport, family, contacts overseas or simply being untrustworthy.\n\nThe most frequently listed is for violating China's strict family planning laws.\n\nIn the eyes of the Chinese authorities it seems, having too many children is the clearest sign that Uighurs put their loyalty to culture and tradition above obedience to the secular state.\n\nChina has long defended its actions in Xinjiang as part of an urgent response to the threat of extremism and terrorism.\n\nThe Karakax List does contain some references to those kinds of crimes, with at least six entries for preparing, practicing or instigating terrorism and two cases of watching illegal videos.\n\nBut the broader focus of those compiling the document appears to be faith itself, with more than 100 entries describing the \"religious atmosphere\" at home.\n\nThe Karakax List has no stamps or other authenticating marks so, at face value, it is difficult to verify.\n\nIt is thought to have been passed out of Xinjiang sometime before late June last year, along with a number of other sensitive papers.\n\nThey ended up in the hands of an anonymous Uighur exile who passed all of them on, except for this one document.\n\nOnly after the first batch was published last year was the Karakax List then forwarded to his conduit, another Uighur living in Amsterdam, Asiye Abdulaheb.\n\nShe told the BBC that she is certain it is genuine.\n\nAsiye Abdulaheb decided to speak out, despite the danger\n\n\"Regardless of whether there are official stamps on the document or not, this is information about real, live people,\" she says. \"It is private information about people that wouldn't be made public. So there is no way for the Chinese government to claim it is fake.\"\n\nLike all Uighurs living overseas, Ms Abdulaheb lost contact with her family in Xinjiang when the internment campaign began, and she's been unable to contact them since.\n\nBut she says she had no choice but to release the document, passing it to a group of international media organisations, including the BBC.\n\n\"Of course I am worried about the safety of my relatives and friends,\" she says. \"But if everyone keeps silent because they want to protect themselves and their families, then we will never prevent these crimes being committed.\"\n\nAt the end of last year China announced that everyone in its \"vocational training centres\" had now \"graduated\". However, it also suggested some may stay open for new students on the basis of their \"free will\".\n\nAlmost 90% of the 311 main individuals in the Karakax List are shown as having already been released or as being due for release on completion of a full year in the camps.\n\nBut Dr Zenz points out that the re-education camps are just one part of a bigger system of internment, much of which remains hidden from the outside world.\n\nThe outside of one of the camps in Xinjiang\n\nMore than two dozen individuals are listed as \"recommended\" for release into \"industrial park employment\" - career \"advice\" that they may have little choice but to obey. There are well documented concerns that China is now building a system of coerced labour as the next phase of its plan to align Uighur life with its own vision of a modern society.\n\nIn two cases, the re-education ends in the detainees being sent to \"strike hard detention\", a reminder that the formal prison system has been cranked into overdrive in recent years.\n\nMany of the family relationships listed in the document show long prison terms for parents or siblings, sometimes for entirely normal religious observances and practices.\n\nOne man's father is shown to have been sentenced to five years for \"having a double-coloured thick beard and organising a religious studies group\".\n\nA neighbour is reported to have been given 15 years for \"online contact with people overseas\", and another man's younger brother given 10 years for \"storing treasonable pictures on his phone\".\n\nWhether or not China has closed its re-education camps in Xinjiang, Dr Zenz says the Karakax List tells us something important about the psychology of a system that prevails.\n\n\"It reveals the witch-hunt-like mindset that has been and continues to dominate social life in the region,\" he said.", "Donalda MacKinnon, who turns 60 later this year, said the BBC was an organisation she loved\n\nDonalda MacKinnon is to stand down as the Director of BBC Scotland in the autumn.\n\nMs MacKinnon, who has held the post since 2016, told staff it was the \"right time\" for her to go.\n\nThe former BBC Scotland Head of Programmes and Services oversaw the launch of the nation's new TV channel.\n\nShe told staff: \"It has not been an easy decision for me to leave this job, a team and the best colleagues and friends I could have wished to have.\"\n\nMs MacKinnon, the first woman to occupy the role, added: \"This is an organisation that I love. And about which I care deeply.\"\n\nShe is the most senior figure within BBC Scotland with responsibility for content across radio, television and online.\n\nThe announcement comes a month after Tony Hall confirmed he was to step down as director general of the BBC in the summer.\n\nIn 2017 Ms MacKinnon shared a platform with Lord Hall as they announced the largest single investment in BBC services in Scotland.\n\nShe told staff: \"Since then, we have all worked hard to deliver on our commitment to audiences in Scotland, and we have succeeded.\n\n\"It has involved a huge amount of hard work, passion and commitment from each of us and I am enormously proud of all that we have achieved.\"\n\nMs MacKinnon, who has been with the BBC for 33 years, also said she was privileged to lead a piece of work which resulted in a report on career progression for women.\n\nShe added: \"I am pleased to see real progress being made on its recommendations and hope that it will lead to lasting change for women at the BBC in the years to come.\"\n\nThe BBC Scotland chief acknowledged the corporation faced \"some real challenges\" but remained in \"very strong shape\" for the future.\n\nMs MacKinnon, who succeeded Ken MacQuarrie and is on an annual salary of about £180,000, said she always intended to leave the corporation this year.\n\nThe mother-of-three added: \"I will be 60 at the end of 2020 and I'm keen now, for family and personal reasons, to get some time back.\"\n\nMs MacKinnon thanked her colleagues and concluded: \"I couldn't be more proud of all that you have done and continue to do every day to serve audiences here in Scotland and across the UK.\"", "Dave's album Psychodrama won the album of the year prize\n\nLondon rapper Dave won album of the year at the Brits, moments after calling the prime minister a \"racist\".\n\nThe star took home the night's main award for his provocative, personal album Psychodrama, which also won last year's Mercury Prize.\n\nBut it was his fiery performance of the single Black that stole the show.\n\nIn a newly-written verse, he called out the government response to the Grenfell Tower fire and said: \"The truth is our prime minister is a real racist.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told BBC Breakfast: \"I don't know how much [Dave] knows about the prime minister and whether he actually has met the prime minister or knows the prime minister.\n\n\"I work with the prime minister, I know Boris Johnson very well, no way is he a racist, so I think that is a completely wrong comment and it's the wrong assertion to make against our prime minister.\"\n\nDowning Street said it wouldn't comment on Dave's remarks.\n\nThe rapper also attacked tabloid coverage of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and paid tribute to London Bridge terror attack victim Jack Merritt.\n\nTwo years after Stormzy demanded \"where's the money for Grenfell?\" on the Brits stage, Dave updated the lyric, saying: \"Grenfell victims still need accommodation.\"\n\nHe added: \"And we still need support for the Windrush generation/Reparations for the time our people spent on plantations.\"\n\nThe lyrics were added as a final verse to Black, which talks about perceptions and experiences of black people in the UK.\n\nThe 21-year-old rapper is now only the second act to win best album at the Brits and the Mercury Prize for the same record.\n\nThe first was the Arctic Monkeys for their debut, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nThis year's ceremony attracted an average of 3.8 million viewers to ITV - the lowest ever for the Brit Awards.\n\nHowever, several of the performances have been watched widely online, with Billie Eilish's first live performance of the James Bond theme clocking 1.8 million views on YouTube alone by Wednesday lunchtime.\n\nEilish performed No Time To Die backed by a 22-piece orchestra, Smiths legend Johnny Marr and composer Hans Zimmer.\n\nLewis Capaldi was the main winner, taking home two prizes - best new artist and best single, for his breakout hit Someone You Loved.\n\n\"Contrary to popular belief, people think this song is about my ex girlfriend, who you can now see every night on Love Island,\" said the star. \"But it's actually about my grandmother who sadly passed away a few years ago.\n\n\"I hope to God ITV don't contact her to be on a reality dating show.\"\n\nBillie Eilish won best international female and premiered her new Bond theme song\n\nMabel won best female artist and was congratulated by her mother, Neneh Cherry, who took home two Brits exactly 30 years ago.\n\nEilish choked back tears as she accepted the award for best international female, having been overwhelmed by the audience's response to her performance minutes earlier.\n\n\"I felt very hated recently,\" said the 18-year-old, who had earlier told the BBC she had stopped reading comments on social media.\n\n\"And when so was on the stage and I saw all you guys smiling at me… It genuinely made me want to cry. And I want to cry right now, so thank you.\"\n\nStormzy won best male artist and then performed a mega medley\n\nBest male artist went to Stormzy, who performed a stunning medley of songs from his second album, Heavy Is The Head, accompanied by more than 100 performers, including a gospel choir, a saxophonist and Nigerian artist Burna Boy.\n\nThe night opened with a brief tribute to Love Island host Caroline Flack, formerly a backstage presenter at the Brits, following her death on Saturday.\n\n\"She was a kind and vibrant person with an infectious sense of fun,\" ceremony host Jack Whitehall said.\n\n\"I'm sure I speak for everyone here when I say our thoughts are with her friends and family.\"\n\nEarlier, Harry Styles, who briefly dated Flack while he was in One Direction, appeared to pay tribute by wearing a black ribbon on his jacket on the red carpet.\n\nThe star performed the delicate ballad Falling during the show, but made no further reference to Flack's death.\n\nOther performances on the night came from Lizzo, whose irrepressible energy lit up the O2 as she roamed through the crowd performing the hits Cuz I Love You, Truth Hurts, Good As Hell and Juice.\n\nMabel opened the show with an athletic version of Don't Call Me Up, set in a call centre and featuring two dance breaks. And Sir Rod Stewart brought proceedings to an end two hours later, reuniting with The Faces to play Stay With Me.\n\nMabel answered the call to open the show and then won best British female\n\nThere were several references to the lack of female nominees at the ceremony, with Paloma Faith and Foals saying they hoped for better representation at next year's awards.\n\nWhitehall also acknowledged the imbalance as he introduced the award for best female, saying: \"Environmental issues have been a big theme of awards show this year. And in the spirit of sustainability the Brits has been recycling all the same excuses for why so few women were nominated.\"\n\nDave wasn't the only artist to make a political statement, with US artist Tyler, The Creator referencing the fact he had been banned from entering the UK in 2015 because of some of his lyrics.\n\n\"A special thank you to someone who made it impossible for me to come to this country five years ago,\" said the rapper as he picked up best international male.\n\n\"I know she's at home [peed] off - thank you Theresa May.\"\n\nDave is only the second artist to win album of the year at the Brits and the Mercury Prize with the same record\n\nDave capped the night off by winning best album - a prize many had expected to go to Lewis Capaldi, whose debut album was the UK's best-selling record last year.\n\nBut voters responded instead to the rapper's candid, soul-baring reflections on his upbringing in London and what it means to be a young black Briton.\n\nHe dedicated his trophy to anyone hoping to follow in his footsteps, saying: \"All my young kings and queens that are chasing their dreams, I am no different from you. You can do anything you put your mind to.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Researchers have described the first \"articulated\" remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade.\n\nAn articulated skeleton is one where the bones are still arranged in their original positions.\n\nThe new specimen was uncovered at Shanidar Cave in Iraq and consists of the upper torso and crushed skull of a middle-aged to older adult.\n\nExcavations at Shanidar in the 1950s and 60s unearthed partial remains of 10 Neanderthal men, women and children.\n\nDuring these earlier excavations, archaeologists found that some of the burials were clustered together, with clumps of pollen surrounding one of the skeletons.\n\nThe researcher who led those original investigations, Ralph Solecki from Columbia University in New York, claimed it was evidence that Neanderthals had buried their dead with flowers.\n\nThis \"flower burial\" captured the imagination of the public and kicked off a decades-long controversy. The floral interpretation suggested our evolutionary relatives were capable of cultural sophistication, challenging the view - prevalent at the time - that Neanderthals were unintelligent and animalistic.\n\nThe skull of Shanidar Z was found to have been crushed\n\nBefore the most recent specimen uncovered in Iraq, the last articulated Neanderthal remains were unearthed at Sima de las Palomas in 2006-7 and at Cova Forada in 2010 [Link in Spanish]. Both sites are located in south-east Spain.\n\nBut Dr Emma Pomeroy, from the University of Cambridge, said the new skeleton - dubbed Shanidar Z - is more substantial and more completely articulated than those previous finds.\n\nDr Pomeroy is the lead author of a paper in Antiquity journal describing the find and was part of the excavation team working at the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.\n\n\"So much research on how Neanderthals treated their dead has to involve returning to finds from 60 or even a hundred years ago, when archaeological techniques were more limited, and that only ever gets you so far,\" said Dr Pomeroy.\n\n\"To have primary evidence of such quality from this famous Neanderthal site will allow us to use modern technologies to explore everything from ancient DNA to long-held questions about Neanderthal ways of death, and whether they were similar to our own.\"\n\nRalph Solecki died last year aged 101, having never managed to conduct further excavations at his most famous site, despite several attempts.\n\nIn 2011, the Kurdish Regional Government approached Prof Graeme Barker from Cambridge's McDonald Institute of Archaeology about revisiting Shanidar Cave.\n\nWith Solecki's support, initial digging began in 2014, but had to be stopped after two days when Islamic State got too close. It resumed the following year.\n\n\"We thought with luck we'd be able to find the locations where they had found Neanderthals in the 1950s, to see if we could date the surrounding sediments,\" said Prof Barker. \"We didn't expect to find any Neanderthal bones.\"\n\nIn 2016, in one of the deepest parts of the trench, the researchers identified a rib, followed by a lumbar vertebra - part of the spine. Then, they uncovered the bones of a clenched right hand. However, metres of sediment needed carefully digging out before the team could excavate the skeleton.\n\nDuring the 2018-19 excavation, team members went on to uncover a complete skull, flattened by thousands of years of sediment, and upper body bones almost to the waist - with the left hand curled under the head like a small cushion.\n\nEarly analysis suggests the specimen is more than 70,000 years old. While the sex has yet to be determined, the discovery has relatively worn teeth, suggesting the individual was a \"middle- to older-aged adult\".\n\nHowever, the lower part of the skeleton appears to be missing. \"The ribcage and spine are almost complete, but [Shanidar Z] was cut off at about waist level by the removal of the block of sediment containing Shanidar 4 (another Neanderthal specimen from the site) in 1960,\" Dr Pomeroy told BBC News.\n\nShanidar Z's body lay right below Shanidar 4's upper body. \"Observations by T Dale Stewart (the physical anthropologist on the 1960 project) and Ralph Solecki suggest there were a pair of legs just below Shanidar 4's head and upper body, and based on the limited information we have about the original position of the legs, they are very consistent with belonging to Shanidar Z,\" Dr Pomeroy explained.\n\nIt's possible that the lower legs and feet of Shanidar Z were misattributed to another of the Neanderthals from the cave, Shanidar 6. Unfortunately, many of the Shanidar remains are thought to have been lost during the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.\n\nA prominent rock next to the head of Shanidar Z may have been used as a marker for Neanderthals repeatedly depositing their dead, said Dr Pomeroy.\n\nDiagram showing the burial position of the Neanderthal, a stone sits behind the head\n\nBut whether the time between deaths was weeks, decades or even centuries will be difficult to determine. Relationships between Shanidar Z and the other skeletons could potentially be resolved by analysing DNA.\n\nBut genetic material is difficult to obtain from hot regions of the world, and even if scientists can retrieve DNA from the new specimen, there may be little to compare it to, as many of the other remains are missing.\n\n\"The new excavation suggests that some of these bodies were laid in a channel in the cave floor created by water, which had then been intentionally dug to make it deeper,\" said Prof Graeme Barker. \"There is strong early evidence that Shanidar Z was deliberately buried.\"\n\nShanidar Z has been brought on loan to the archaeological labs at Cambridge University, where it is being conserved and scanned to help build a digital reconstruction, as more layers of silt are removed.", "The new James Bond theme No Time to Die only took three days to write, Billie Eilish and her producer and brother Finneas O'Connell have said.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with BBC Breakfast, they spoke about the song and their experiences with social media.", "The number of health and safety incidents reported at Amazon warehouses is on the rise\n\nHundreds of workers have been seriously injured or narrowly escaped an accident at Amazon's UK warehouses over the last three years, new figures claim.\n\nGMB union numbers show 240 reports of serious injury or near misses were sent to the Health and Safety Executive last year, and 622 over three years.\n\nAmazon is currently running a TV advertising campaign highlighting contented staff.\n\nIt said critics were determined to present a \"false picture\".\n\nThe GMB obtained the figures via Freedom of Information requests.\n\nFor injuries to be included in the figures they need to be serious enough to stop a worker performing their normal duties for at least seven days, or be on a list including fractures, amputation, crushing, scalping or burning.\n\nIn one London warehouse a worker lost consciousness and appeared to stop breathing after injuring their head, the GMB said. In Manchester, one worker got caught in a gate and fractured their hand.\n\nThe data shows the number of reports to the HSE has increased every year, from 152 in the 2017 financial year to 240 in 2019. However the figures deal with a period during which the number of warehouses run by Amazon more than doubled from 10 in 2015 to 22 today.\n\nMick Rix, GMB national officer, said: \"Amazon are spending millions on PR campaigns trying to persuade people its warehouses are great places to work. But the facts are there for all to see - things are getting worse.\n\n\"Hundreds of stricken Amazon workers are needing urgent medical attention. Conditions are hellish. We've tried over and over again to get Amazon to talk to us to try and improve safety for workers. But enough is enough - it's now time for a full parliamentary inquiry.\"\n\nIn December, GMB and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) were joined by members of the shadow cabinet for a demonstration outside Amazon's London offices. The unions and politicians said that Amazon should be paying millions more in taxes, claims denied by the online giant.\n\nA spokesman for Amazon said: \"Amazon is a safe place to work. Yet again, our critics seem determined to paint a false picture of what it's like to work for Amazon. They repeat the same sensationalised allegations time and time again.\n\n\"Our doors are open to the public, to politicians, and indeed to anyone who truly wants to see the modern, innovate and, most importantly, safe environment we provide to our people.\" Amazon has been running television commercials using warehouse staff to highlight a happy working environment.", "Michael Allarton and his husband Dan-Jay's home in Bewdley has been badly flooded\n\nHundreds of homes have flooded across the West Midlands amid rising river levels caused by Storm Dennis. But what is the human impact of losing everything overnight?\n\nThe first thing Michael Allarton and his husband Dan-Jay knew about the flooding was when they woke up at 05:30 GMT to water beneath their feet.\n\nThe River Severn had broken its banks and floodwater had seeped through their ground-floor flat in Bewdley, Worcestershire.\n\n\"There was water all over the floor up to our ankles,\" Michael Allarton said.\n\n\"We had raw sewage coming up in a fountain from the toilet.\n\n\"We've lost everything - sofas, rugs, clothes - and the whole place is going to have to be gutted, it's devastating.\n\n\"We named our flat our 'old girl' as it's called Victoria House, it dates from the 1730s and was beautiful.\n\n\"I can't believe she's gone. You go to bed one day and the next day you have nothing.\"\n\nMichael Allarton said the whole flat \"was going to have to be gutted\"\n\nThe pair managed to get out of their property and find a place to stay in an unaffected area.\n\n\"The wheelie bins were floating along the street,\" Mr Allarton said.\n\n\"Then reality hit the next morning.\"\n\nThe couple visited their home earlier to assess the damage.\n\n\"We're going to have to start again completely from scratch,\" he added.\n\n\"Then reality hit the next morning,\" Mr Allarton said\n\nMany across the region having to come to terms with a similar situation, with about 270 homes flooded in the West Midlands and some areas still at risk.\n\nThe River Wye in Hereford reached its highest ever recorded level - 6.3m (20.7ft) - prompting emergency evacuations.\n\nBBC Hereford and Worcester reporter Nicola Goodwin is stranded in her home which is close to the river.\n\nShe said: \"It's above our wellies downstairs. The garden and the river have become one.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Goodwin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSporting venues have also been ruined in the rising water too.\n\nSpencer Goodall, of Hereford Rugby Club, said the damage was \"soul destroying\" when he visited the site earlier.\n\nHe said: \"It's crushing really. You see [the flooding] and it's so disappointing after all the hard work volunteers put in for us.\n\nGreyfriars Avenue in Hereford was under several feet of water in the early hours, though flooding has since receded.\n\nLyndon Gore had decided not to leave his home.\n\nHe said: \"We couldn't move out, we've got too many animals in the house so we had to stay put.\n\n\"I've got chickens in the bathroom, cats on the bed, dogs all other places, so we couldn't leave them.\"\n\nLyndon Gore had decided not to leave his property due to the many pets he and his family have\n\nAlly Hunter Blair, a farmer in Ross-on-Wye, has seen water overcome 60 acres of his land and said the impact was \"catastrophic\".\n\n\"The mess we are going to have to clean up is phenomenal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're going to feel the impact of this flood for the next couple of years.\"\n\nDebbie McNally, who runs the Hope and Anchor pub and coffee shop in Ross-on-Wye, said she battled to try and save her premises.\n\nShe told the Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"The cellar is totally under water.\n\n\"We fought from 05:00 to about 11:00 to protect it, but it's gone.\n\n\"The bar needs to be replaced and the coffee shop is under 4ft of water.\"\n\nBen Willcock, who runs Mr Ben's Barbers in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, was more upbeat.\n\nHe said: \"You can see the 'chin-up Charlie' spirit coming through.\n\n\"I was most concerned about the people sticking their heads through the door asking when we'd next be open for a hair cut.\"\n\nChris Wreghitt was in Cornwall when he received a call urging him to come home\n\nChris Wreghitt, from Powick in Worcestershire, was in Cornwall on Sunday when he received a call from neighbours advising him to return.\n\nWhen he got back, the floodwater was up to his ankles. By Monday, it was up to his chest.\n\nHis property had been flooded previously in 2007.\n\n\"I really thought we'd be safe,\" he said.\n\n\"We'd had a couple of near misses in the last few years but we were confident 2007 was a one-off and that water wouldn't go past the flood barriers when they were installed.\"\n\nAs the clean up begins for some, for others more flooding could be imminent.\n\nThe latest severe weather warning has been issued for Telford in Shropshire, with Telford and Wrekin Council deciding to evacuate 30 buildings near to the banks of the River Severn in Ironbridge at about 08:00.\n\nChief executive David Sidaway said residents should be braced for water levels to peak in the evening, according to the Environment Agency, and more heavy rain expected later this week.", "Milly Main died after contracting an infection at the Royal Hospital for Children\n\nThe death of a child who contracted an infection at Glasgow's super-hospital has been referred to prosecutors.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) confirmed it had passed details of its investigation into the death of Milly Main to the procurator fiscal.\n\nThe 10-year-old died in August 2017 after treatment for leukaemia at the Royal Hospital for Children (RHC).\n\nNHSGGC said it was \"appropriate\" to refer the case due to concerns from her family and public interest in her case.\n\nHowever, Labour MSP Anas Sarwar has described it as \"a cynical attempt\" by the health board to look like it is being proactive.\n\nMilly Main had a successful stem cell transplant in July 2017 while she was in remission from leukaemia.\n\nShe was making a good recovery when the following month her Hickman line, a catheter used to administer drugs, became infected.\n\nMilly went into toxic shock and died days later.\n\nHer death certificate lists a Stenotrophomonas infection of the Hickman line among the possible causes of death.\n\nMilly's mother, Kimberly Darroch, has said the family were kept in the dark about a potential link to contaminated water problems at the hospital.\n\nNHSGCC maintains that there has been no link established between the water in the hospital and the patient's death.\n\nMr Sarwar has been supporting the Lanark family since late last year when a whistleblower came forward to reveal the scale of infections linked to the water supply, and it emerged that Milly was one of the patients involved.\n\nMs Darroch and Milly's father Neil Main recently instructed solicitors to send a letter to the Lord Advocate following the revelations about infections linked to the water supply at the hospitals.\n\nAnas Sarwar with Milly Main's mother Kimberly Darroch who have called for a fatal accident inquiry\n\nAccording to Mr Sarwar, that letter, which called for a fatal accident inquiry, also acted as a referral of the death to the procurator fiscal, as it was not reported by the health board at the time.\n\nNHSGGC has now separately written to Milly's parents, stating that it has since referred the death, citing the public interest.\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal service confirmed that it had received a final report from NHSGGC within the last week.\n\nMr Sarwar said: \"Milly's death should have been reported to the procurator fiscal at the time.\n\n\"The way her family has been treated is disgraceful. They were kept in the dark for years and shown no respect by the health board when a brave whistleblower shone a light on the QEUH infection scandal.\n\n\"At all times, the health board's priority has been about saving its own skin, not doing what was right by Milly's parents.\"\n\nThe Royal Hospital for Children is next door to the QEUH\n\nHe added: \"The health board has now decided to refer the case to the procurator fiscal in the knowledge that Milly's parents did so weeks ago. It is a cynical attempt to look like it is being proactive when it has been deliberately evasive up until now.\"\n\nMr Sarwar said he believed the Lord Advocate would listen to Milly's parents' demand for a fatal accident inquiry.\n\nHe said: \"This is a painful experience for Milly's family. It is forcing them to relive her death all over again, nearly three years after her tragic death.\n\n\"I will not stop until there is justice for Milly's parents, and they receive the answers they deserve.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for NHSGCC told the BBC that the board was in contact with the procurator fiscal from as early as 19 November last year to discuss the case, following media reporting.\n\nShe said: \"The death of any child is a tragedy and we continue to offer our sympathies to Milly's family for their loss.\n\n\"Following recent concerns from Milly's family, the public interest in her death, and discussions with the Cabinet Secretary for Health, we sought advice from the Procurator Fiscal. Following this advice it was deemed appropriate to refer Milly's case to the Procurator Fiscal which we have now done.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman said that Milly's case was also being considered as part of the review of patient episodes that Professor Marion Bain, director of infection prevention and control, would be overseeing, with the involvement of Milly's family \"in whatever way they wish\".", "Capt Rosie Wild was given the coveted maroon beret for passing the course\n\nA British Army officer has become the first woman to pass a gruelling Parachute Regiment entry test.\n\nCapt Rosie Wild, 28, was described as a \"trailblazer\" after passing the P Company course - which many men fail.\n\nSeveral women have attempted P Company, also known as the All Arms Pre-Parachute Selection (AAPPS), since they were first able to apply in the 1990s.\n\nPhysical challenges across the five days include a timed 20-mile endurance march and an aerial assault course.\n\nCapt Wild was awarded the coveted maroon beret of the Parachute Regiment, or the Paras, on Tuesday - though she will not join the regiment.\n\nShe will serve in 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery which is attached to 16 Air Assault Brigade, the Army's rapid reaction force.\n\nBrig John Clark, commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, said he hoped Capt Wild's achievement \"will encourage other women to have a go\".\n\n\"A more representative force will only make us stronger,\" he added.\n\nCapt Wild was presented with the sword of honour as a top new recruit at Sandhurst in 2017\n\nThe eight tests in the P Company course involve:\n\nCapt Wild, who is also a competitive triathlete, joined the Army three years ago.\n\nIn 2017 she was presented with the sword of honour at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, given to the best cadet of the intake.", "A couple who run a restaurant in Bridgnorth badly damaged in floods say it could take until the summer before it reopens.\n\nThe River Severn peaked in the town on Tuesday, leaving a number of homes and businesses flooded. Levels are dropping, but a flood warning remains in force.\n\nJoanna Pokorska-Zare and Hamid Zare (pictured), run the Boatyard restaurant and said they hoped this week's floods would soon be nothing but a \"bad memory\".\n\n\"At this point we've just got to pick up the pieces and just keep going,\" Joanna said.\n\n\"We love the place, we love Bridgnorth, we've got a fantastic community around here so we've had a great response from people willing to help.\n\n\"That makes you think 'we've got to make things right'.\"", "A woman looks out of her window as ducks swim past in floodwater after the River Severn burst its banks in Bewdley, west of Birmingham", "Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has pledged $10bn (£7.7bn) to help fight climate change.\n\nThe world's richest man said the money would finance work by scientists, activists and other groups.\n\nHe said: \"I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change.\"\n\nWriting on his Instagram account, Mr Bezos said the fund would begin distributing money this summer.\n\nMr Bezos has an estimated net worth of more than $130bn, so the pledge represents almost 8% of his fortune.\n\nSome Amazon employees have urged him to do more to fight climate change. There have been walkouts and some staff have spoken publicly. Also, Mr Bezos is financing the Blue Origin space programme.\n\nCompared to some multi-billionaires, Mr Bezos had done only limited philanthropy. His biggest donation before Monday's pledge is thought to have been $2bn in September 2018 to help homeless families and fund schools.\n\nHe has also been criticised for not signing the Giving Pledge, under which the super-rich promise to give away half of their wealth during their lifetimes.\n\nThe Seattle-based company is a neighbour of Microsoft, which in January unveiled a plan to become carbon negative by 2030.\n\nMr Bezos's full Instagram post read: \"Today, I'm thrilled to announce I am launching the Bezos Earth Fund.⁣⁣⁣\n\n⁣⁣⁣\"Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share. This global initiative will fund scientists, activists, NGOs - any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world.\n\n\"We can save Earth. It's going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation states, global organisations, and individuals. ⁣⁣⁣\n\n⁣⁣⁣\"I'm committing $10bn to start and will begin issuing grants this summer. Earth is the one thing we all have in common - let's protect it, together.\"⁣⁣⁣", "Rocco Wright died in the David Lloyd Leisure pool in Leeds in April 2018\n\nA leisure group is facing prosecution after a three-year-old boy drowned in one of its swimming pools.\n\nRocco Wright died after being found in the pool at the David Lloyd Leisure centre in Moortown, Leeds, in 2018.\n\nEarlier on Monday a jury inquest at Wakefield Coroner's Court ruled his death was accidental.\n\nAfter the inquest Leeds City Council said it believed the group had breached health and safety laws and intended to \"prosecute in the near future\".\n\nIn a statement, the council said: \"The death of a child in any circumstances is tragic, and we continue to offer the Wright family our sincerest sympathy.\n\n\"We will keep in regular contact with the family and ensure they are informed and supported throughout this next stage.\"\n\nThe inquest previously heard how Rocco had to be pulled from the water by his father Steven Wright in April 2018.\n\nMr Wright described how his panic grew as he searched for Rocco before he spotted him at the bottom of the main pool.\n\nHe said his son had never got into the pool by himself and the inquest heard there were no witnesses or CCTV evidence that could explain how Rocco ended up in the water.\n\nThe jury found that the youngster had probably been under the 1.2m (4ft) deep water for more than two minutes.\n\nPolice said there were no witnesses or CCTV to help determine how Rocco got into the pool\n\nJurors were told that at the time of the drowning, there had only been one 17-year-old lifeguard on duty.\n\nDavid Lloyd Leisure's operations director Stephen Brown denied in the inquest there had been cuts to the lifeguard budget at the pool.\n\nHe told the hearing the company's policy was that a maximum of 50 people in a pool could be supervised by a single lifeguard.\n\nMr Brown also denied David Lloyd Leisure had a policy of employing young lifeguards because they were cheaper and added lifeguard staffing levels were for local managers to decide.\n\nOutside the coroner's court, Natalie Marrison - representing Catharine and Steven Wright - said Rocco's parents supported Leeds City Council's investigation and planned prosecution.\n\nMs Marrison said: \"At the heart of this is a three-year-old boy who has lost his life.\n\n\"The family remain devastated by the loss.\"\n\nMr Wright said that the family had \"lost the fun from our lives\" following Rocco's death.\n\n\"We're definitely going to fight for further law and guidelines in this field, just to make sure it can't happen to anyone else,\" he said.\n\n\"No-one should lose a child at a family swim session.\"\n\nIn a statement after the inquest, David Lloyd Leisure said it wanted \"to express our deepest sympathies to Rocco's family\".\n\n\"David Lloyd Leisure never places profit above safety,\" the company said.\n\n\"Subsequent evidence given by David Lloyd Leisure at the inquest showed no evidence of budget cuts to lifeguarding at the Leeds Club at the time of the accident, on the contrary lifeguarding had in fact received increased investment.\"\n\nThe firm added that safety was its \"number one priority\" and it was \"unaware on what basis Leeds City Council intend to prosecute\".\n\nThe jury returned its conclusion after coroner Jonathan Leach told jurors that accident was the only one available to them.\n\nCorrection 17 February: This story has been amended to make it clear it is David Lloyd Leisure that is facing prosecution.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This is the moment a 77-year-old man fought off a would-be mugger who demanded cash and his bank card.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the targeted man \"showed great bravery\" but had been \"left shaken\".\n\nThe incident outside Sainsbury's on Colchester Avenue, Cardiff, on 5 February was captured on CCTV.\n\nAnyone who recognises the suspect, a white man wearing a high-vis vest and carrying a black rucksack, has been asked to contact police.", "Three men have been jailed after staging a violent raid on a house in Glasgow to steal eight puppies.\n\nLiam Kinsella, 27, Samuel Durnion, 21 and Ben Murphy, 19,smashed into the home of Leanne Hodge in Castlemilk last August.\n\nThey held a machete against the throat of a 10-year-old girl inside the property before stealing eight three-week old Bull Mastiff puppies.\n\nIt is not known how many of the dogs, valued at £8,000, were returned.\n\nThe three men were sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow after admitting acting with others in the assault and robbery.\n\nKinsella was jailed for five years and three months while Durnion received a four year prison term. Murphy was sentenced to 30 months\n\nLord Beckett described the raid as \"pre-meditated\" and said it has had a \"profound\" effect on Ms Hodge and others involved.\n\nAddressing Kinsella - who also admitted to a similar crime on an ex-boss - the judge said: \"It seems these attacks were carried out on your agenda against others you felt had harmed you and your family.\"\n\nDurnion will also be supervised for a further two years on his release.\n\nThe raid on Ms Hodge's home happened on 21 August last year while she was at home with her partner. Three children were also there.\n\nThe Castlemilk robbery took place in Barlia Drive\n\nThe robbers stormed in armed with machetes and hammers as a 10-year-old girl made her way downstairs.\n\nOne of the armed men grabbed the girl and screamed at her, asking where her father was.\n\nAs the family hid for their safety, the gang took the puppies.\n\nA high-profile appeal was later launched to try to find the robbers and the three-week-old pets.\n\nWhen police arrived they found keys belonging to a Volkswagen Polo the gang had driven there. They also recovered a number of items including a letter in the name of Murphy, and his passport.\n\nKinsella was involved in an armed robbery five days earlier at the home of his former boss George Murray in Wishaw.\n\nDavid Nicolson, defending Murphy, said: \"He is a young man who was seduced by the excitement of being involved.\"\n\nDurnion's advocate Louise Arrol said he was not the person who held the machete at the girl.\n\nProsecutors told the hearing that the Crown \"does not appear to know the perpetrator of that particular act\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Homes on the banks of the River Severn have been evacuated as officials fear the Ironbridge barrier could be breached by flooding\n\nHomes along the River Severn in Shropshire have been evacuated, amid fears that flood barriers could be breached in the coming hours.\n\nHouses and a pub near Ironbridge have been submerged by rising waters and the pressure has cracked road surfaces.\n\nAround the UK, more than 150 flood warnings remain in place, including six severe - or \"danger to life\" - warnings.\n\nThe River Wye at Monmouth, in Wales, has reached its highest recorded level.\n\nAmong the worst affected areas are south Wales, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire, where major incidents have been declared.\n\nWest Mercia Police said an estimated 384 properties have been \"significantly impacted\" by flooding in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.\n\nWater levels are expected to rise in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and there are concerns it could flow around one of the local flood barriers at Beales Corner.\n\nCurrently, there are six severe flood warnings in England, covering the rivers Lugg, Severn, and Wye.\n\nMore rain is expected in parts of the UK later this week, with three yellow Met Office weather warnings issued for north and south Wales and north-west England for Wednesday evening.\n\nThe latest severe flood warning - for the River Severn in Telford, Shropshire - prompted the evacuation of homes in Ironbridge on Tuesday morning.\n\nRiver levels are peaking late on Tuesday, according to the latest update from Telford and Wrekin Council.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLocal resident Carol Calcutt told BBC Radio Shropshire the Boat Inn pub by the river front in nearby Jackfield was now submerged in water.\n\n\"Practically just the roof showing there now,\" she said.\n\nA care home and surrounding properties in Whitchurch, Herefordshire, were also evacuated after they were overcome by floods, local fire services said.\n\nA woman was lifted to safety by rescue workers as floodwater surrounded the village of Whitchurch in Herefordshire.\n\nVehicles were stranded in Hampton Bishop near Hereford after the River Lugg burst its banks\n\nA clean-up operation is under way in areas such as Ross-on-Wye amid the ongoing flood warnings\n\nMeanwhile, Welsh Water has warned drinking water is running out in Monmouth and surrounding areas after \"unprecedented flooding\" at its treatment works in Mayhill.\n\nThere was some relief in Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire, on Monday as defences appeared not to have been breached overnight, but severe flood warnings for the area now predict river levels will peak by Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChris Wreghitt, who lives in the village of Powick, in Worcestershire, says he has has been flooded before but not this badly and not since flood defences were built.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"We were told when they built that flood defence that if it had been there before 2007, we wouldn't have been flooded.\n\n\"Although there have been a couple of near misses over the past few years, we were still confident that we wouldn't get flooded again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResidents of the Wharfage on the River Severn have been evacuated to a restaurant on the High Street in Ironbridge, Telford and Wrekin Council said.\n\nThe council added that the river's flood peak was moving towards the Ironbridge Gorge and was expected to arrive there later on Tuesday, while the Environment Agency warned flooding in the Wharfage is \"potentially imminent\".\n\nRescue teams were deployed in Monmouth, south Wales, amid the floods\n\nIt comes as the River Wye at Monmouth, south Wales, peaked at 7.15m high on Tuesday, breaking the previous record high of 6.48m in 2002.\n\nThere are two severe warnings in place on the River Wye at Monmouth, according to Natural Resources Wales.\n\nResidents in Monmouth were seen using canoes to travel on Tuesday\n\nAround 800 homes in Wales have been directly affected by flooding, First Minister Mark Drakeford told the BBC.\n\nThe Welsh government has put aside between £5m and £10m to help those residents affected.\n\nMeanwhile, the key developments in England are:\n\nPeople in flood-hit households can apply for financial hardship payments of up to £500 for short-term relief, the government announced on Tuesday.\n\nLocal Government Secretary Robert Jenrick said the funding would \"help people in the worst-hit areas to recover and get back on their feet\".\n\nThe government support fund also includes up to £5,000 for affected residents and business owners to help make their properties more resilient to future floods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 4x4 driver almost needs rescuing himself when he attempts to help flood victims in Herefordshire.\n\nFor more information, check the BBC Weather website and your BBC Local Radio station for regular updates.\n\nHow have you been affected by Storm Dennis? Tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "People who steal, bully and lie throughout their lives may have smaller brains, researchers say.\n\nMRI scans suggested 45-year-olds who had shown antisocial behaviour from childhood had reduced surface area and a thinner cortex in parts of the brain previously linked to such behaviour.\n\nBut it is unclear if this was inherited or due to factors such as substance abuse, low IQ or poor mental health.\n\nThe researchers scanned nearly 700 volunteers they had studied from birth.\n\nThey were divided into three groups, those who:\n\nThey found the 80 people in the last group, which included people who had committed violent crimes, had significant structural differences in their brains.\n\nThe authors said their findings - published in Lancet Psychiatry - provided the first robust evidence to suggest people who offended throughout their lives had underlying neuropsychological differences.\n\nAdolescents showing antisocial behaviour that began in childhood, who were at an increased risk of incarceration and poor physical and mental health later in life, may be dealing with \"some level of disability\".\n\nAnd they could benefit from more support throughout their lives.\n\nLead author Dr Christina Carlisi, from University College London, said: \"There may be differences in their brain structure that make it difficult for them to develop social skills that prevent them from engaging in antisocial behaviour.\"\n\nAnd co-author Prof Essi Viding said it was important this group was not \"demonised\" but seen as people who \"need help and compassion\" to stop their behaviour becoming entrenched.\n\nDr Graeme Fairchild, from the University of Bath, said the research was an \"important contribution\".\n\nBut it was not possible to tell whether the differences in brain structure had been present in early life and led to lifelong patterns of antisocial behaviour or reflected \"lifestyle differences like drug or alcohol use, smoking and poor diet\".", "Yvonne Booth pictured with her late husband and her son\n\nA body has been found in the search for a woman who went missing in floods after her car got stuck in water.\n\nPolice said Yvonne Booth, 55, was swept into floodwater near a bridge which crosses the River Teme, near Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, on Sunday.\n\nHer family said they were \"devastated\" and \"appreciate the continued support from the emergency services\".\n\nHundreds of flood warnings remain in place, including several severe warnings meaning a danger to life.\n\nCh Supt Tom Harding said the body of Ms Booth, from Great Barr near Birmingham, was found during a search and rescue operation in Tenbury.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to reports of two people being swept into the water near Eastham Bridge.\n\nA man who was rescued close to where Ms Booth disappeared was airlifted to hospital and remains in a stable condition.\n\nWest Mercia Police Assistant Chief Constable Geoff Wessell said the man and woman \"stopped and got out of the car because of the water and then got caught up into more of a stream of water that took them away\".\n\nRescue teams were searching the area around Tenbury Wells for Ms Booth\n\nStorm Dennis has left more than 400 properties flooded, with about 270 of those in the West Midlands, the Environment Agency (EA) said.\n\nAmong the worst affected areas are Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire, where major incidents were declared.\n\nWorcestershire has borne the brunt of the flooding with about 200 homes affected, according to figures from the agency's John Curtin.\n\nWest Mercia Police said residents in Upton upon Severn and Uckinghall in Worcestershire were being advised to evacuate, with water levels expected to rise on Monday evening.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Dennis flooding as seen from the air in Hereford\n\nRescuers used boats to ferry residents to safety in Hereford\n\nEmergency evacuations were also under way in Hereford, where the River Wye reached its highest level on record.\n\nHerefordshire Police tweeted that officers were carrying out emergency evacuations to a leisure centre.\n\nFamilies rescued from flooded properties could be seen disembarking from evacuation dinghies with their pets and belongings.\n\nIn Shropshire, 16 roads have been closed due to flooding.\n\nTelford and Wrekin Council said it had handed out 2,000 sandbags to residents in the Ironbridge Gorge.\n\nStaff are \"working hard to repair the damage caused\" by flooding at Drayton Manor Theme Park, it said\n\nAfter a severe flood warning was put in place for Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire residents were advised to have a bag ready with vital items like medicines and insurance documents and call 999 if in immediate danger.\n\nThe A38 in Branston, near Burton, was closed in both directions on Monday night due to flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElsewhere in the county, Drayton Manor Theme Park, near Tamworth, is set to be closed until at least Thursday due to flooding.\n\nFlood barriers are up in Ironbridge\n\nThousands of sandbags were distributed in York where the River Ouse continued to rise, although the EA said the situation in the city was an \"improving one\".\n\nElsewhere, about 60 homes flooded in Lowdham in Nottinghamshire.\n\nResidents of park homes on the River Stour near Christchurch, Dorset, were also told to leave as water levels continue to rise.\n\nA record number of flood warnings and alerts - more than 600 - were issued by the EA across England on Sunday, falling to below 500 on Monday afternoon.\n\nAbout 130 homes in Tenbury were evacuated overnight on Sunday", "Helen Gittos lost her baby Harriet in August 2014 when she was eight days old, and she believes her daughter's death was preventable.\n\nA BBC News investigation has uncovered more preventable baby deaths at an East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust which has already been criticised for its maternity services.\n\nHelen spoke to the BBC's Michael Buchanan, and said she was told her baby's death was due to her decision to refuse to have appropriate medical treatment - which she and her husband deny.\n\nEast Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust said: \"We accept… that we could have done more to respond to [Helen Gittos's] wishes and help her labour in a calm, low-risk environment as much as possible.\"", "Kara said she \"couldn't deal with the thought of further masculisation\"\n\nTransgender patients are choosing to self-medicate with hormones bought online from unregulated sources due to waiting times to see NHS specialists, the BBC has learned.\n\nIn many areas, some patients wait over two years to be seen, new figures show. England's target time is 18 weeks.\n\nOne woman said she was so low it felt like a choice between self-medicating or suicide.\n\nNHS England said it had increased investment to respond to rising demand.\n\nLaw student Kara told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she began buying oestrogen - the hormone prescribed to trans women - last summer online, to begin her transition.\n\nShe has been on an NHS gender identity clinic waiting list now for two years.\n\nShe admitted she was \"absolutely petrified\" of the effects it could have on her.\n\nMany of the websites selling hormones are not based in the UK - and often ask users to pay by Bitcoin or bank transfer.\n\n\"I don't know anything about the tablets [that I buy] specifically, if they are what they say they are,\" she said. \"So it's kind of a guessing game with your life.\"\n\nShe told the BBC she felt the waiting times had \"forced\" her to make the choice to buy hormones online.\n\n\"I was so low before, it basically felt like a choice between suicide or self-medicating, because I couldn't deal with the thought of further masculisation,\" she added.\n\nDr Grainne Coakley said those who were self-medicating, were putting themselves at risk\n\nOne expert, Dr Grainne Coakley, from Sheffield's Gender Identity Clinic, said - with both testosterone and oestrogen tablets - there was an added risk of the clotting of the blood, and also a risk of liver problems.\n\n\"If that's not being monitored by a GP, somebody not having regular blood tests, then they are putting themselves at risk.\"\n\nNew figures, from a Freedom of Information request by the Victoria Derbyshire programme, show that in many areas some individuals are waiting over two years to be seen by a specialist, from referral.\n\nGender identity clinics in Belfast (166 weeks), Nottinghamshire (145 weeks) and Northumberland (127 weeks) have the longest maximum wait times, data suggests.\n\nLondon's Tavistock clinic was not able to provide accurate figures, but anecdotal evidence points to patients waiting up to two years to be seen.\n\nMore than 13,500 transgender and non-binary adults are on waiting lists for NHS gender identity clinics in England, previous BBC research has found.\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme bought four testosterone and oestrogen products online, to send to a laboratory for testing.\n\nOnly three arrived. One, a testosterone sample, was supposed to be made up of four different types of the drug - but this was not the case, indicating it was a counterfeit product from an unknown source.\n\nSupplying or selling testosterone, a class C drug, is punishable by an unlimited fine or up to 14 years in jail.\n\nBut it is not illegal to buy or possess it for personal use, provided it is not brought into the country via the postal system.\n\nOestrogen is a prescription-only product, but if it is for personal use it can be legally imported without a prescription.\n\nIn both cases experts stress it is only safe to use prescribed drugs, under the ongoing supervision of a medical expert.\n\nLucas, who began transitioning six years ago aged 29, decided to use testosterone bought online after being told he would face a two-and-a-half year wait for a gender identity clinic appointment.\n\nHe said he knows of at least one person who has taken their own life due to the \"distressing and dehumanising\" wait to be seen.\n\nLucas described self-medicating as \"scary and unpleasant\", and believes the quality of the products was notably lower than those he is now prescribed.\n\n\"I suspect a few of the doses were effectively nothing,\n\n\"For example, I didn't actually start growing any facial hair at all until I moved onto prescribed testosterone.\"\n\nNHS England told the BBC in a statement: \"As more people feel able to seek support and treatment, the demand for gender identity services has greatly increased, and in recent years we've increased investment to respond to the rising demand, with staff working hard to support patients to get the right care as quickly as possible.\n\n\"From the spring a new service will be piloted in London that will increase capacity in gender identity services.\"\n\nIt is understood that a lack of medical professionals wanting to specialise in trans healthcare had also added to wait times, for which a new Royal College of Physicians pathway had been established.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said long waiting times for patients were \"unacceptable\", but that health professionals were working hard to reduce them.\n\nHe added: \"Gender identity clinics are a very specialised resource, and while people are waiting to be assessed they still have access to a full range of community mental health and well-being services appropriate to their situation and needs.\"\n\nNHS Wales and Belfast NHS Trust have not yet responded to requests for comment.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "The father of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has told the BBC his son would face what is effectively a \"death sentence\" were he sent to the United States to face trial.\n\nIn an interview with Victoria Derbyshire, John Shipton raised concerns over his son's health ahead of a controversial extradition hearing starting next week, saying Assange had felt \"ceaseless anxiety\".\n\nThe US wants the founder of the Wikileaks website to face 18 charges of attempted hacking and breaches of the Espionage Act.\n\nWhile it is not thought he could face the death penalty, the charges could - in theory - result in a 170-year prison sentence.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Nicky Butt was accused of beating his estranged wife, Shelley Barlow\n\nProsecutors have dropped an assault charge against ex-Manchester United footballer Nicky Butt.\n\nThe 45-year-old was accused of beating his estranged wife Shelley Barlow in Hale, Greater Manchester, on 16 April.\n\nHe was due to face trial next week but the case has been discontinued after the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence. He has accepted a caution.\n\nMs Barlow did not want to give evidence against her husband, the Press Association reported.\n\nAn investigation was launched after police were called to an address where they found a woman who had suffered a small cut to her hand.\n\nMr Butt, who is head of coaching at the Manchester United youth academy, had previously pleaded not guilty to common assault and causing £800 of criminal damage to Ms Barlow's mobile phone.\n\n\"We have a duty to keep all cases under review and following the receipt of new material have decided to discontinue this prosecution,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Mr Butt has agreed to accept a caution for criminal damage.\"\n\nAt a previous hearing, Lisa Roberts QC, said it would be her client Mr Butt's case that he did not know how the complainant came about any injury.\n\nA preliminary hearing was due to take place on Wednesday in which his legal team was expected to argue the case should be thrown out as an abuse of process - partly questioning the proportionality of continuing with the prosecution.\n\nMr Butt, from Bowdon, Altrincham, won a string of Premier League titles in his playing career at Old Trafford and also played in the club's dramatic last-gasp 2-1 victory over Bayern Munich in the 1999 Uefa Champions League final.\n\nHe later went on to play for Newcastle United, Birmingham City and South China.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Most clubs in the top two tiers of English football are sponsored by gambling companies\n\nFormer FA chief executive Mark Palios says football needs to \"wean\" itself off gambling sponsorship.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme football's links with the betting industry had gone \"too far\".\n\nMr Palios, who chairs Tranmere Rovers FC, said he would not accept gambling sponsorship and had rejected an offer from a major betting company last year.\n\nThe English Football League said football and the gambling industry worked together responsibly.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The EFL itself continues to have a successful relationship with Sky Bet who, as a responsible, properly regulated bookmaker, recognise the importance of having the right safeguards in place. \"\n\nAny marketing of the partnership promoted best practice and protected minors and the vulnerable, he added.\n\nThe Premier League said it did not have a central gambling partner and sponsorship deals were up to individual clubs.\n\nIn the top two tiers of English football, nearly 60% of clubs are signed up to sponsorship agreements with gambling companies.\n\nMr Palios has helped a number of players with gambling problems\n\nMr Palios said the offer he had rejected had included a plan to place betting terminals inside the ground.\n\n\"This is a family club that's firmly rooted in the community and from our perspective it's the wrong thing to do to get associated with the gambling industry,\" he said.\n\n\"We can't change the bigger picture in terms of the football industry being involved to the extent it is but from a personal perspective that's what we do.\n\n\"Football has to wean itself off the position it is in at the moment - and that's the best verb I can use.\n\n\"It's certainly gone too far.\"\n\nMr Palios played as a midfielder for Tranmere Rovers for nine years and Crewe Alexandra for three years.\n\nHe was made chief executive of the Football Association in July 2003.\n\nBut he resigned in August 2004, following newspaper allegations concerning the then England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson's affair with former FA secretary Faria Alam.\n\nTen years later, he took a controlling interest in Tranmere Rovers and became chief executive.\n\nMr Palios also revealed an employee had stolen from the club to feed their gambling addiction and he had helped a number of players there with gambling problems.\n\nHe said the demographic of a football club was \"particularly appealing\" to gambling operators.\n\nMr Palios also highlighted a report suggesting most of the betting shops in Wirral - where EFL League One team Tranmere are based - were in the poorest areas, where people spent more than twice as much on gambling as those in the richest areas.\n\n\"I see gambling as something that is pernicious. People get hooked into it and it is a hidden addiction,\" he said.\n\n\"You see people stealing from their employers as we've seen and it destroys relationships and fundamentally damages family units and family units are a massive part of the community.\"\n\nThe Betting and Gaming Council, which represents most bookmakers in the UK, said it was \"considering\" a voluntary ban on football shirt sponsorship and pitch-side advertising.\n\nAnd last month, the Gambling Commission, the industry regulator, said it was investigating a deal in which FA Cup matches had been shown live via seven betting sites if potential customers had signed up for an account.\n\nThe FA said: \"We made a clear decision on the FA's relationship with gambling companies, in June 2017, when we ended our partnership with Ladbrokes.\n\n\"The leagues and clubs govern their own relationships with gambling companies.\"\n\nFile on 4's Fair Game?: The Secrets of Football Betting is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 18 February at 20:00 and available afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "Average weekly wages in the UK have reached their highest levels since before the financial crisis.\n\nWeekly pay reached £512 in the three months to December, which - adjusting for inflation - is the highest since March 2008.\n\nExcluding bonuses, earnings grew at an annual rate of 3.2% in the three-month period, official figures show.\n\nEmployment rose by 180,000 to another record high of 32.93 million, while unemployment stayed at 1.29 million.\n\nThe figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed the number of women in employment increased again - this time by 150,000 in the three months to December to a record high of 15.61 million.\n\nMyrto Miltiadou, of the ONS, said: \"In real terms, regular earnings have finally risen above the level seen in early 2008, but pay including bonuses is still below its pre-downturn peak.\n\n\"Employment has continued its upward trend, with the rate nudging up to another record high. In particular, the number of women working full-time grew strongly over the past year.\"\n\nEmployment Minister Mims Davies said: \"As we embark on a new chapter as an independent nation outside the EU, we do so with a record-breaking jobs market and business confidence on the rise.\n\n\"With wages still outpacing inflation, UK workers can expect their money to go further as we look ahead to a decade of renewal.\"\n\nIt's always good to have some cheerful news to report, such as the news that wages, after stripping out the effect of inflation, have finally squeaked above their level in March 2008. In other words, your wage can finally buy a little bit more than it could before the banking crisis. So let's celebrate. Hooray.\n\nNow let's home in on the amounts. The average wage excluding bonuses is now £511.61. In March 2008, the average wage would have bought you £510.96 (in 2019 prices). In other words you are 65p better off than you were - 12 years ago.\n\nThere's always a half-full or a half-empty angle on wage increases. But to many workers, this minor economic landmark will serve less as a cause for celebration and more as a reminder that the past decade has been the worst for improvements in living standards in more than 200 years.\n\nThe 2008 crisis, caused in part by reckless mismanagement of the banks, is one reason (not the only one) that the average pay packet has failed to do what we used to take for granted - i.e. increase by more than inflation.\n\nIt used to happen every year. Low-pay think tank the Resolution Foundation points out that if pre-crisis trends for increases in pay in real terms had continued, the average wage would now be £141 a week higher.\n\nThomas Pugh, at Capital Economics, said the employment figures proved the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was right to leave interest rates unchanged last month.\n\n\"The most recent surveys are suggesting that employment growth will continue to pick-up in Q1, which we think will contribute to the MPC keeping rates on hold at its next meeting on 26 March as well,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the Institute of Directors warned: \"The UK jobs market ended last year in fine form, but 2020 may be more challenging for employers.\n\n\"As more and more workers enter employment, it becomes harder for firms to recruit the employees they need, with a particular dearth in certain skill sets.\"\n\nAnd Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. said: \"The upside surprise to employment growth distracts from an otherwise slightly disappointing report.\n\n\"Despite the recovery in business confidence since the general election, the single-month measure of job vacancies was 49,000, or 6%, lower in January than a year earlier, showing no improvement from its recent trend.\"", "Trinity College did not want to make a report about the action, police said\n\nClimate activists have dug up a lawn outside a Cambridge University college over its role in a major development in the Suffolk countryside.\n\nExtinction Rebellion members said the action at Trinity College was taken against the \"destruction of nature\".\n\nActivists then took dug-up mud to a local Barclays Bank branch.\n\nInnocence Farm in Trimley St Martin has been part of plans, involving Trinity, for a lorry park. The college said it supported work to fight climate change.\n\nA Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman said the force was liaising with the college and that \"a crime has been recorded for criminal damage\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Barclays Bank confirmed activists carrying wheelbarrows full of mud had spread it across the banking hall of its St Andrew's Street branch.\n\nShe added the branch had been kept open and staff ensured customers were safe.\n\nActivists, who also chained themselves to an apple tree on the college's front lawn, said they \"were careful to ensure that the digging took place a safe distance from the tree so as not to cause any damage to it\".\n\nThe local group also claimed on Twitter the college invested more money in oil and gas companies than any other Oxbridge college.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerek Langley, a member of Extinction Rebellion Cambridge, said: \"The idea that a rich institution like Trinity College, which tells the world it is serious about tackling this crisis, is looking for profit from environmental destruction is quite simply astonishing.\"\n\nLocal businessman Dr Tim Norman described the action as \"counter-productive vandalism\".\n\nHe said: \"[It] seemed to confuse the tourists too, as it wasn't clear what they were doing it for.\"\n\nTrinity College, which was founded in the mid-16th Century, has produced several British prime ministers\n\nA Trinity spokeswoman said the college \"respects the right to freedom of speech and non-violent protest but draws the line at criminal damage and asked the protesters to leave\".\n\nShe added: \"Academics at Trinity are actively engaged in research to understand and develop solutions to climate change, and taking practical steps forward.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added the college supported the university's Cambridge Zero project, which was launched in November and led by Dr Emily Shuckburgh, one of the UK's leading climate scientists.\n\nA Barclays spokeswoman said: \"We recognise that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today, and are determined to do all we can to support the transition to a low-carbon economy, while also ensuring that global energy needs continue to be met.\"\n\nMembers of the group have also been taking part in a week-long road blockade in the city - prompting police to use emergency powers to shut off roads.\n\nLast week a meeting had to be abandoned when a protester abseiled into the council chamber.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician found fame as an acid house DJ and forged a stellar career as a producer\n\nAndrew Weatherall, one of the UK's most respected DJs and record producers, has died aged 56.\n\nThe musician, who was born in Windsor, rose to fame during the acid house era, and worked with the likes of New Order and Happy Mondays.\n\nHis production and remix work on Primal Scream's Screamadelica turned it into an era-defining album, and earned the band the first Mercury Prize in 1992.\n\nWeatherall died in hospital on Monday morning, his spokesman confirmed.\n\nThe cause of death was a pulmonary embolism.\n\n\"He was being treated in hospital but unfortunately the blood clot reached his heart. His death was swift and peaceful,\" said a statement.\n\n\"His family and friends are profoundly saddened by his death and are taking time to gather their thoughts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt reads tributes to Andrew Weatherall and celebrates the life of a music icon\n\nThe musician started his career singing with post-punk bands at his local arts centre - but found his feet as a DJ in the late 1980s.\n\n\"I saved up all my money and went to London at the weekend to buy records,\" he told the BBC in 2014. \"I just got a really good record collection together to the point where people started to say 'Why don't you play this at our party?', 'Why don't you play this at our club?'\"\n\nWhen the acid house scene started to develop around the Roundshaw Estate in Sutton, he discovered that club nights were playing a lot of the music he already owned.\n\n\"I knew I had records as good as that, or even better, that they might not know,\" he later explained, adding: \"I was kind of in the right place at the right time\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs the scene exploded, Weatherall was invited to play at the London nightclub Shoom by DJ Danny Rampling, and helped document rave culture with the fanzine Boys Own - a name he later gave to his own record label.\n\nHis DJ career led to Weatherall remixing New Order's Worlds in Motion and, along with Paul Oakenfold, the Happy Mondays' Hallelujah.\n\nAs a result, he was sought out by Primal Scream, who asked him to remix their single I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have for the meagre sum of £500.\n\nAfter an initial attempt on which he \"basically slung a kick drum under the original\", Weatherall decided to try a much more radical approach.\n\nThe result was Loaded, which retained about seven seconds of Primal Scream's song - the bass line and a slide guitar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graeme Park pays tribute to DJ and producer Andrew Wetherall who has died aged 56.\n\nWeatherall added vocal samples from the US soul group The Emotions, a drum loop from an Italian bootleg of Edie Brickell's song What I Am, alongside snatches of other Primal Scream songs, and frontman Bobby Gillespie singing a line from Robert Johnson's Terraplane Blues.\n\nGillespie saw Loaded as being part of the Jamaican tradition of dub records, where songs are deconstructed at the mixing desk, adding new elements and desecrating existing ones.\n\nIt propelled the rock band onto the dance floor, and kick-started their career.\n\n\"I think it's time to stop saying 'this is a dance record' and 'this is a rock record,'\" said Gillespie at the time. \"If you can play music, you can do whatever you want. Just use your imagination.\"\n\nThe success of Loaded led to Weatherall being recruited for the whole of Screamadelica, establishing him as one of the UK's most in-demand producers.\n\nWhile remixing acts like St Etienne, Beth Orton and My Bloody Valentine, he also held down a DJ slot on London's Kiss FM and ran two club nights in London.\n\nHowever, he never became a household name like his contemporaries Paul Oakenfold and Fatboy Slim - a career move that was entirely deliberate.\n\n\"That sort of carry-on was never for me,\" he told the Independent in 2016. \"It's a lot of work, once you go up that slippery showbiz pole, and it would keep me away from what I like, which is making things.\"\n\nInstead, he carved out a career on the cutting edge of techno, with projects including Sabres of Paradise and Two Lone Swordsmen.\n\nIn 2017, he explained the lure of the dancefloor in an interview with Uncut magazine.\n\n\"It's the enduring appeal of transcendent experience, which has been with us for 200,000 years. A room, coloured lights, smoke and music? Over to you, Roman Catholics. There are ancient Greek rituals involving herbal drugs to achieve transcendence.\n\n\"People were having transcendent experiences in 1940s dancehalls, dancing to a big band; now we do it with drum machines and electronic technology - it's the same concept. Humanity hasn't changed for 100,000 years, but our technology has.\"\n\nMusicians paying tribute to Weatherall included Ride guitarist and former Oasis bassist Andy Bell, who described him as \"absolute titan of music\".\n\nBBC 6 Music DJ Gilles Peterson said it was \"hard to put into words\" the \"influence and impact he has had has had on UK culture.\"\n\nHacienda DJ and author Dave Haslam tweeted he was \"one of the greatest, sweetest, funniest guys I've ever met\".\n\nAnd Tim Burgess from The Charlatans wrote he was \"shocked and saddened to hear that cosmic traveller Andrew Weatherall has left the building\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andy Bell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gilles Peterson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Tim Burgess This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTrainspotting author Irvine Welsh, who was once described as the \"poet laureate of the chemical generation\", said he was \"absolutely distraught\" by the news.\n\n\"Andrew was a longtime friend, collaborator and one of most talented persons I've known. Also one of the nicest. Genius is an overworked term but I'm struggling to think of anything else that defines him.\"\n\nWeatherall's family released a statement on Tuesday, thanking fans and friends for their messages.\n\n\"Lizzie, Bob and Ian would like to thank everybody quite literally everywhere for their lovely messages and tributes to Andrew,\" read the statement.\n\n\"We know what a special person he was and are overwhelmed at the number of people who knew this too… and to hear their stories and how he influenced them is a real joy at such a raw and dreadful time.\n\n\"Please do what he would have wanted… creating, listening, dancing, but above all pushing boundaries.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Megan Newton's grandmother said her death had \"wiped out that spark in our lives\"\n\nA man who raped and murdered a youth football coach who had given him a place to sleep has been jailed.\n\nMegan Newton, 18, was found dead in her bedsit in Fletcher Road, Stoke-on-Trent, on 20 April.\n\nJoseph Trevor, of Trentham, pleaded guilty to her murder and two additional charges of rape on what was to be the first day of his trial.\n\nThe 19-year-old was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 21 years and 65 days.\n\nHe was also placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers QC said Trevor, the son of a retired Staffordshire Police officer, carried out a \"brutal and sustained attack, conducted in a most callous way in her own home\".\n\nWhen Trevor learned Miss Newton's body had been discovered by a neighbour, he confided to his family that he had \"done something bad\" and was later arrested, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nJoseph Trevor, formerly of Danebower Road, admitted murder and two charges of rape\n\nStafford Crown Court heard that Miss Newton, who knew Trevor from school, had, as an \"act of kindness\", given him a place to sleep.\n\nProsecutor Adrian Keeling QC said she had invited him back \"because he got so drunk on drink and drugs he could not face going home to his parents\".\n\n\"He raped her, strangled her unconscious and then stabbed her in the back eight times,\" he said.\n\nYouth football coach and self-described \"sports fanatic\" Miss Newton was applying to become the first of her family to go to university.\n\nShe intended to pursue a career in physiotherapy or sports therapy and had been working towards her level one Football Association coaching badge.\n\nMiss Newton had also spent time volunteering with Norton Wanderers FC in Stoke and been instrumental in fundraising for training and match kits.\n\nFloral tributes were left outside Miss Newton's flat in Fletcher Road\n\nIn a tribute read in court on behalf of the family, Miss Newton's grandmother Beryl Smith said: \"Megan's death has wiped out that spark in our lives.\n\n\"We're heartbroken and always will remain so.\"\n\nShe said Miss Newton's mother Sarah felt she had a \"best friend\" in her daughter but had lost the promise of her life and future grandchildren.\n\nMiss Newton's father Michael Baggaley said: \"The thought of never seeing her beautiful smile or hearing her voice again breaks my heart.\n\n\"How could this happen to such an amazing, caring, kind, loving, funny young lady. This is something I will never understand and get over.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jake Paul has been heavily criticised after telling Twitter followers to \"remember anxiety is created by you\".\n\nHis comments provoked a strong reaction online, where people suffering from anxiety condemned the \"dangerous\" advice.\n\nOthers sarcastically thanked him for his suggestions.\n\nThe YouTuber, who has close to 20 million subscribers on the video-sharing platform, subsequently deleted his tweet.\n\n\"Remember anxiety is created by you,\" Paul wrote.\n\n\"Sometimes you gotta let life play out and remind yourself to be happy and that the answers will come.\n\n\"Chill your mind out. Go for a walk. Talk to a friend.\"\n\nThe remarks triggered an immediate response. Thousands of social media users propelled Jake Paul, who has recently started selling subscriptions to a \"financial freedom movement\", into the top trending terms on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by taylor nicole dean This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany shared experiences of their own mental health conditions being dismissed.\n\nNatalie Tran, an Australian YouTuber who has spoken publicly about her own mental health struggles, recalled an incident in which her obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) had been brushed off.\n\n\"I tried to talk to someone... about my OCD and he told me that he didn't want to listen because what had happened, according to him, was that the people in my life had spoiled me,\" she tweeted.\n\n\"That's what my OCD was.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colleen Ballinger🎗 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis was what made \"flippant\" comments about anxiety so damaging, mental health campaigner and writer Lucy Nichol, who herself has an anxiety disorder, told BBC News.\n\n\"Because we can relate some day-to-day things to mental health conditions like anxiety, it's quite easy to be dismissive,\" she said.\n\n\"I've had years and years of therapy. I've been taking anti-depressants. I've had to take beta blockers when it's been really bad.\n\n\"One of my worst ever panic attacks occurred when I woke up at 03:00. Within about 30 seconds, I had a very bad panic attack.\n\n\"I thought I was going to die. It took about one and a half to two hours. It doesn't help to be told to chill out.\"\n\n\"It's one of the stereotypes about anxiety that I detest.\n\n\"If someone experiences very severe anxiety and sees those sorts of comments, they might not seek help.\"\n\nAnxiety can cause many different symptoms. It might affect how you feel physically, mentally and how you behave.\n\nAnd it is not always easy to recognise when anxiety is the reason you are feeling or acting differently.\n\nAccording to Anxiety UK, anxiety is one of the most prevalent mental health conditions in the UK - one in five people will experience an anxiety condition.\n\n\"Everyone regularly experiences anxiety to some degree,\" a representative said.\n\n\"When anxiety symptoms become too strong, however, a normal, natural response can develop into an anxiety condition or disorder.\n\n\"It is important not to generalise about support as there are many different avenues of support when it comes to anxiety, from self-help techniques and peer support to more professional services that can be accessed both through your GP and privately.\"\n\nIn a later tweet, Paul said he had also suffered from anxiety and had been \"spreading more awareness\".\n\n\"Everyone [is] clowning my tweet,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I didn't even know [anxiety] was a thing until I was 18 but [I have] had it my whole life and never knew how to deal with it.\"\n\nJake Paul and his brother Logan Paul have both built huge online followings.\n\nIn 2018, Logan apologised after posting a video showing the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan.", "The European Union has added the Cayman Islands, a UK overseas territory, to its tax havens blacklist.\n\nIt joins Oman, Fiji and Vanuatu, which have also been accused of failing to crack down on tax abuse.\n\nOxfam, which lobbies for tax reform, said the EU's move was \"encouraging\" but many more places should be blacklisted.\n\nAs well as the Cayman Islands, additions this year include Panama, Palau and the Seychelles.\n\nThe EU said the Cayman Islands, which has no income tax, capital gains tax or corporation tax, does not have \"appropriate measures\" in place to prevent tax abuse, allowing firms to register there despite having minimal presence in the territory.\n\nThe jurisdiction was previously on a ''grey list'' that gave it time to introduce new laws to tackle tax deficiencies. But it did not implement the \"economic substance\" reforms by the deadline as promised, the EU said.\n\nCayman Islands' Premier, Alden McLaughlin, said the government has approved many reforms sought by the EU and has already contacted the EU about the process of being removed from the blacklist.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hon. Alden McLaughlin, MBE, JP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA lobby group for the Cayman financial services industry said it is hopeful a reversal will happen in the \"not too distant future\".\n\nThe Cayman Islands is the first UK territory to be added to the EU blacklist.\n\nBlacklisted countries face difficulties accessing EU funding programmes, while European companies doing business in those jurisdictions have to take additional compliance measures.\n\nThe list, which the EU started in 2017 to put pressure on countries to crack down on tax havens and unfair competition, included 15 countries in 2018 but has shrunk.\n\nOfficials said that Turkey, which is currently on the \"grey\" list, would not be moved to the blacklist despite concerns about its information sharing with some EU member states.\n\nOxfam, which has campaigned on tax, said other British territories, such as the British Virgin Islands, deserve to be added to the list, as do some places within the EU.\n\n\"While it is encouraging that the Cayman Islands has finally been added to the blacklist, the list itself still proves wholly inadequate,\" the organisation said.\n\n\"The EU needs to strengthen its blacklisting criteria, put its own house in order and push for an ambitious and effective minimum tax rate at global level.\"", "An average swarm can destroy crops sufficient to feed 2,500 people for a year, according to the FAO\n\nSwarms of desert locusts that have been devouring crops and pasture in the East Africa region have spread to South Sudan, the UN food agency says.\n\nSeveral million South Sudanese are already facing hunger as the country struggles to emerge from a civil war.\n\nThe UN has warned that a food crisis could be looming in East Africa if the outbreak is not brought under control.\n\nThe US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has pledged $8m (£6m) to help fight the invasion on his visit to Africa.\n\nMr Pompeo was speaking after talks with Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, which along with Somalia, Kenya and Uganda, has been hit by the pests.\n\nThe invasion is the worst infestation in Kenya for 70 years and the worst in Somalia and Ethiopia for 25 years.\n\nEfforts to control the locust infestation have so far not been effective. Aerial spraying of pesticides is the most effective way of fighting the swarms but countries in the region do not have the right resources.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are now fears that the locusts - already in the hundreds of billions - will multiply further.\n\nThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said about 2,000 adult insects had entered South Sudan via Uganda into the southern county of Magwi.\n\n\"These are deep yellow, which means that they will be here mostly looking at areas in which they will lay eggs,\" the AFP news agency quotes FAO South Sudan representative Meshack Malo as saying.\n\nAgriculture Minister Onyoti Adigo Nyikuac said the government was training people to spray.\n\n\"Also we need chemicals for spraying and also sprayers. You will also need cars to move while spraying and then later if it becomes worse, we will need aircraft,\" he said, AFP reports.\n\nAbout 60% of South Sudan's population is facing food insecurity - and destruction of harvests by locusts could lead to a drop in nutrition levels in children, rights group Save the Children warns.\n\nEven without the locusts, the charity expects that more than 1.3 million children aged under five will suffer from acute malnutrition this year.\n\nThe FAO says the insects, which eat their own body weight in food every day, are breeding so fast that numbers could grow 500 times by June.\n\nThe UN body last week called on the international community to provide nearly $76m (£58m) to fund the spraying of the affected areas with insecticide.\n\nSomalia has declared a national emergency in response to the crisis.\n\nThe Ethiopian government has called for \"immediate action\" to deal with the problem affecting four of the country's nine states.\n\nKenya has deployed aircrafts to spray pesticides in several regions and its Agriculture Minister Peter Munya said on Monday that the invasion was \"under control\".\n\nMeanwhile, Uganda has deployed soldiers to the northern regions to spray pesticides in the affected areas.\n\nThe locust swarms entered Africa from Yemen three months ago.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keith Farquharson claimed his wife's death was an accident\n\nA former police inspector has been found guilty of murdering his wife in Aberdeen.\n\nKeith Farquharson, 60, claimed his 56-year-old wife Alice died by accident, following a struggle in bed in August last year.\n\nThe former traffic officer, who retired from the police in 2010, told the High Court in Glasgow he had put his hand over her mouth to stop her screaming.\n\nHowever, the jury found him guilty of murder. Sentence was deferred.\n\nFarquharson had admitted having affairs with three women and said his wife of 33 years - a pupil support assistant at Hazlehead Primary School - did not trust him.\n\nAfter her death he initially claimed he heard a noise while in the shower that morning, then found his wife lying in the room. But he later admitted the claim was not true.\n\nEmergency services were called to Angusfield Avenue last August\n\nFarquharson told the trial that he had continued with the lie because he was \"in a state of shock\".\n\nHe said: \"I felt guilty and did not want my family to know.\"\n\nDetectives initially treated Alice's death as \"non-suspicious\", but one officer pushed for further inquiries.\n\nThe findings of a post-mortem examination eventually led to the death being treated as murder.\n\nIn 1998, Farquharson had been fined £500 for breach of the peace after admitting sending an obscene poem to a young female constable. He was demoted from inspector to constable after the case.\n\nIn a statement following the verdict, Alice's family said: \"She was an incredibly kind and caring person, with a great love for life and the people in it.\n\n\"She was always thinking of others and put everyone else before herself.\n\n\"Our family will never be the same again and we cannot begin to describe the devastating impact this tragedy has had on us.\"\n\nAlice Farquharson was described as a \"kind and caring person\"\n\nDet Insp Gary Winter said Keith Farquharson had deceived paramedics, police officers, his friends and his own family on the day of Alice's death.\n\n\"Alice's children have had to sit through days of harrowing evidence in court over the last week, as well as having to give evidence themselves,\" he added.\n\n\"I can't begin to imagine how difficult this has been, in addition to dealing with the devastating impact this incident has had on their family.\n\n\"Although today's verdict can't change what happened, I hope the outcome gives them some sense of justice for their mum.\"\n\nFarquharson will be sentenced on 23 March.", "The Scottish Police Authority said the deficit of £49m will create huge challenges for the force\n\nPolice Scotland is facing an \"unsustainable\" financial deficit, despite receiving more money than expected in this month's budget.\n\nThe Scottish budget allocated an extra £37m to the force, almost double what it had expected.\n\nBut the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) said that still leaves an unsustainable deficit of £49m.\n\nThe concerns are detailed in a paper, which will be discussed at an SPA meeting in Stirling on Wednesday.\n\nReducing police officer numbers, which has been discussed, might help cut costs.\n\nBut vice-chairman David Crichton said the cash allocated for capital programmes - IT, vehicles and buildings - is not enough to provide investment to achieve efficiencies.\n\nHe calls for new approaches to non-police work, such as officers helping people in mental health distress, to help maintain core services.\n\nMr Crichton paper's, published ahead of the meeting, states: \"Having focused on the budget challenge at our last authority meeting, I do want to acknowledge a settlement that is better than might have been expected.\n\n\"However, we still have a responsibility to report that the policing budget remains in deficit and that this is unsustainable going forward.\n\n\"Neither the reduction in officer numbers nor the increased funding required to eliminate the deficit will be acceptable or practicable in the short to medium-term.\n\n\"The authority will therefore continue to pursue and advocate for changes that enable the deficit to be reduced.\"\n\nThe report states the service needs to see \"faster and more effective transformational change, more robust demand and productivity analysis and detailed workforce planning\".\n\nMr Crichton acknowledged the force has already achieved a great deal in delivering savings and efficiencies but stressed it will be a \"constant process\".\n\nHe added: \"The anticipated capital allocation, while welcome, will not support the full scope of new investment required to achieve greater efficiencies and improved services.\n\n\"And across the wider public service system the level of failure demand which ultimately falls on police officers to resolve, for example in supporting individuals in mental health distress, will continue to draw on resources unless more creative approaches to funding and partnership working across all services are developed.\n\n\"These challenges will continue to drive much of the authority's priorities.\"\n\nLast month, Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Conservatives leader Jackson Carlaw clashed over police funding at First Minister's Questions.\n\nThe meeting will also discuss the cost of policing the UN climate change conference in Glasgow in November, which has now been estimated at £250m.", "People were rescued by boat from their flooded homes in Hereford on Monday\n\nMore floods have hit towns as extreme weather brought by Storm Dennis continues to cause widespread damage.\n\nResidents have been advised to leave their homes in parts of Worcestershire as the River Severn burst its banks.\n\nMore than 200 flood warnings are in place across England, Wales and Scotland, including nine severe - or \"danger to life\" - warnings for the rivers Lugg, Severn, Wye and Trent.\n\nA body has been found after a woman was swept away in Worcestershire.\n\nYvonne Booth, 55, was swept into floodwater after her car became stuck near Tenbury Wells, West Mercia Police said.\n\nHer family said in a statement: \"Yvonne is a very much loved member of our family and we are all devastated by this news.\"\n\nYvonne Booth pictured with her late husband and her son\n\nEmergency service workers in boats had to rescue residents in Hereford as the River Wye rose to its highest level on record.\n\nPeople also had to be rescued in Shrewsbury after the River Severn burst its banks.\n\nBBC correspondent Phil Mackie, who was in Upton upon Severn, said it is believed defences built after the 2007 floods could be breached overnight.\n\nTwo of the seven severe warnings in England on Monday evening were for Uckinghall and Upton upon Severn - where residents were advised to evacuate their homes.\n\nThere were two severe warnings in Wales for the River Wye at Monmouth - where homes have been evacuated - and no severe warnings in Scotland, as of 21:00 GMT.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC the government \"can't protect every home\" and defended its response to the storm.\n\nYvonne Booth was swept into floodwater near Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire\n\nTravel continues to be disrupted across the UK, with some A-roads closed and train lines disrupted.\n\nThe Environment Agency said more than 480 properties had been flooded after the storm brought torrential rain and strong winds.\n\nJohn Curtin, the Environment Agency's head of floods and coastal management, said on Twitter that number was \"likely to rise\" - but indicated figures were lower than those for Storm Ciara earlier this month.\n\nFurther heavy rain is forecast later in the week.\n\nRachel Cox's home is one of more than 100 flooded homes in Nantgarw, near Cardiff\n\nSeveral schools have been closed and roads remain blocked by floods and landslips.\n\nThe South Wales valleys saw the highest water levels for more than 40 years over the weekend - an \"unprecedented\" scale of flooding, according to Natural Resources Wales.\n\nJeanette Cox said the only surviving object on the bottom floor of her home the village of Nantgarw, near Cardiff, was a wedding photograph of her and her late husband.\n\nMrs Cox, 68, said it was \"terrifying\" to discover water at the bottom of the stairs in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nShe and her daughter Rachel were evacuated from their home but returned on Monday to assess the scale of the damage.\n\n\"The water has moved things I didn't think could move. I think there are just two cupboards standing - the rest is gone,\" Mrs Cox said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents were rescued from their homes by boat in Hereford on Monday\n\nA relief centre for displaced residents has been set up at the high school in the town, where around 130 properties were evacuated on Sunday.\n\nResponse teams worked into the early hours of Monday to rescue stranded residents from their homes by boat.\n\nThe county council has warned more evacuations could be necessary.\n\nA rescue boat takes residents to safety in Nantgarw, near Cardiff\n\nIn Staffordshire, serious flooding cause a youth climate strike conference to be called off.\n\nThe first ever national conference was due to start on Sunday afternoon, with delegates travelling from across the UK.\n\nBut police advised the event should be cancelled after heavy rain made roads around the venue impassable, the UK Student Climate Network said.\n\nSophia Coningham, 15, from London, said there was a \"bleak irony\" in their efforts to highlight climate change being hindered by this week's dramatic weather.\n\nA car park was flooded in York after the River Ouse burst its banks\n\nIn York, the River Ouse reached 4.41m above its normal level.\n\nThousands of sandbags have been placed around vulnerable properties nearby, but the Environment Agency has said the situation in the city is \"improving\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Eustice said about £2.5bn has been spent on tackling extreme weather conditions since 2015 and £4bn has been allocated for the next five years.\n\nHe added that convening Cobra, the government's emergency committee, was not needed \"at this point\". A Cobra meeting was held when parts of the UK saw flooding in the run-up to the 2019 general election.\n\nDowning Street said Prime Minister Boris Johnson will receive \"regular updates\" on the flooding, which it described as \"terrible\".\n\nLuke Pollard, shadow environment secretary, said it was a \"disgrace\" that Mr Johnson had not visited affected communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Welsh residents are trying to clean up the substantial damage left in the wake of the storm\n\nThe government has activated an emergency funding scheme for areas affected by the flooding, which include parts of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Worcestershire and Herefordshire.\n\nUnder the Bellwin scheme, local authorities can apply for the government to reimburse non-insurable costs above a certain threshold, which has not been specified.\n\nBedford Road car park in Guildford, Surrey, was also flooded\n\nA record number of flood warnings and alerts were issued for England on Sunday, according to the Environment Agency's Mr Curtin.\n\nHe said \"the saturated ground conditions\" left by Storm Ciara earlier in the month had contributed to the severe floods caused by Storm Dennis.\n\nMajor incidents were declared in south Wales and parts of England, as parts of the UK were buffeted by gusts of more than 90mph.\n\nMore than a month's worth of rain fell in 48 hours in places.\n\nFlights and train services were cancelled and roads closed, while emergency centres were set up for those who had to leave their homes.\n\nFor more information, check the BBC Weather website and your BBC Local Radio station for regular updates.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Dennis? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "'Vicky' discovered allegations of her conception by rape from social workers\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of rape and released on bail, in the case of a woman who claims her own birth is proof her father was a rapist.\n\n\"Vicky\" alleges her birth mother was a 13-year-old when she was raped by a family friend who was in his 30s.\n\nShe believes DNA testing would enable police to formally identify him.\n\nThe police force investigating told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme it would now seek the advice of the CPS.\n\nVicky said it was \"positive that things have progressed\".\n\nVicky - not her real name - was adopted in the 1970s, at seven months old.\n\nAt the age of 18, she began searching for her birth mother and discovered from a social worker and her social services records, that her conception was alleged to be a result of rape.\n\n\"It made me feel angry, devastated for my birth mum. For me,\" she said.\n\nVicky managed to reunite with her birth mother and, years later, as historical sex abuse cases began to be covered by news outlets in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, decided to act.\n\nVicky had argued police could use DNA evidence and the social services files that contain the allegations to pursue a prosecution.\n\nBut she said she was told by police that she was \"not the alleged victim\", and so no case could be brought.\n\n\"I wanted justice for my mum, I wanted justice for me,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she welcomed the recent arrest, and wants the definition of a victim to be reviewed to potentially include people conceived by rape.\n\n\"I'm still determined to get things changed, so that others don't go through what I've been through,\" she said.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None 'I am DNA proof my father is a rapist'", "Michel Barnier is the EU's chief negotiator for Brexit\n\nThe UK cannot have the same trade deal with the EU as Canada, according to the bloc's chief negotiator.\n\nMichel Barnier said the EU was ready to offer an \"ambitious partnership\" with the UK post-Brexit, but its \"particular proximity\" meant it would be different.\n\nIt comes after the UK's chief negotiator, David Frost, made a speech in Brussels calling for a \"Canada-Free Trade Agreement-type relationship\".\n\nThe two sides are due to start negotiations next month.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January and is now in a transition period - following the majority of the bloc's rules - while a post-Brexit trade deal is hammered out.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has put a deadline of 31 December on agreeing a plan, saying he will not extend the transition period beyond then.\n\nOn his first speech about the trade deal since his general election win, Mr Johnson said he wanted to pursue a model similar to that of Canada's, which took seven years to negotiate.\n\nUnder the agreement, import tariffs on most goods have been eliminated between the two countries, though there are still customs and VAT checks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: We want a Canada-style deal with the EU\n\nBut speaking to reporters as he arrived at the European Parliament, Mr Barnier cast doubt on the possibility.\n\n\"We remain ready to offer the UK an ambitious partnership,\" he said.\n\n\"A trade agreement that includes in particular fishing and includes a level playing field, with a country that has a very particular proximity - a unique territorial and economic closeness - which is why it can't be compared to Canada or South Korea or Japan.\"\n\nMr Barnier said the EU remained \"ready to work very quickly with the UK\" on the basis of the agreement with Mr Johnson ahead of Brexit, adding: \"We remain ready to propose this partnership if the UK wants it.\"\n\nThis is all about what's known as the level playing field.\n\nThe UK and the EU will become economic competitors, as well as partners, and level playing field rules are about how fair that competition is going to be.\n\nAlmost all trade agreements include them to some degree, but the EU is demanding particularly strict rules because the UK is a major economy right on its doorstep - therefore a bigger potential competitor than a country like Canada.\n\nThe EU wants a common set of rules on things like workers' rights, the environmental regulations that businesses have to follow, and, in particular, state aid (or support, including subsidies) for business.\n\nIt says it will refuse to give British companies tariff-free access to its single market if those companies also have the ability to undercut their rivals based in the EU.\n\nBut the British response, as articulated by David Frost on Thursday, is that the freedom to diverge from EU rules is the whole point of Brexit.\n\nWe're going to have high standards, the UK insists, but they won't be your standards.\n\nThe EU says a promise isn't good enough, and that's the argument we're going to see playing out over the coming months.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels on Thursday, Mr Frost said the UK \"must have the ability to set laws that suit us\" and not be subject to rulings from European courts.\n\nHe reiterated Mr Johnson's desire for a Canada-type agreement and said if it could not be agreed, the UK would trade on the basic international terms it currently follows with Australia.\n\nMr Frost said the UK will set out more details of its vision for the future relationship with the EU next week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Kenyan and Libby Jackson describe the importance of the antenna\n\nThe UK's first industrial contribution to the International Space Station (ISS) was delivered on Tuesday.\n\nThe communications antenna is part of a consignment of supplies that arrived on a Cygnus freighter.\n\nMade by MDA UK, the Columbus Ka-band (COLKa) Terminal will enable astronauts to connect with scientists and family on Earth at home broadband speeds.\n\nThe equipment will be fixed to the exterior of Europe's ISS science module in a few weeks' time.\n\nThis should improve substantially on current arrangements for radio links.\n\n\"At the moment, the communications from Columbus go through the American data relay satellites, but those satellites are prioritised for US use. This gives Europe some independence,\" David Kenyon, the managing director of Oxfordshire-based MDA UK, told BBC News.\n\nThe Columbus lab is currently going through an upgrade programme\n\nAlthough Britain was an original signatory to the 1998 treaty that brought the International Space Station into being, the country never got involved in building the platform.\n\nIndeed, it pretty much walked away from the project right at the outset, preferring to spend its civil space budget in other areas of space exploration.\n\nIt wasn't until 2012 that the UK signalled a reversal in policy by lodging new funds that year at the European Space Agency's (Esa) Ministerial Council meeting in Naples.\n\nThis money not only paved the way for British astronaut Tim Peake to visit the ISS in 2015/16 but it set in motion the industrial opportunity that's ultimately resulted in the COLKa contribution.\n\nThe new fridge-sized terminal will route video, voice and data to the ground through satellites that are actually higher in the sky than the ISS.\n\nThe astronauts will video call scientists to discuss Columbus-run experiments\n\nOn occasions, these will continue to be the nodes in the American Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), but the capacity is now there to go through a European alternative as well.\n\nThe European Data Relay System (EDRS) only has one satellite operating at the moment but will soon have a second.\n\nThis will afford the possibility of tens of minutes of dedicated, high-bandwidth connectivity for the Columbus lab on every 90-minute orbit of the Earth made by the station.\n\nAstronauts are expected to use COLKa to video-call scientists who have experiments running on the ISS, and to make \"welfare\" connections with family and friends on Earth.\n\nLibby Jackson, the human exploration programme manager at the UK Space Agency, said scientists in particular would be delighted with the new connection.\n\n\"The amount of science data that's been able to come down has been quite limited,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Scientists have been having to wait months for all their images, all of the science data to arrive on hard disks - never mind 'dial up speeds'. It's sort of like waiting for the old floppy disks to arrive in the post. This is going to really allow those scientists to get the data in real time.\"\n\nMDA UK assembled the terminal at its facility on the Harwell space campus using components from Italy, Canada, Norway, Belgium, France, and Germany.\n\nBritain lodged further funds at the most recent Esa Ministerial Council in Seville, Spain, so that its home industry could be involved in the construction of the forthcoming lunar space station.\n\nKnown as the Gateway, this American-led platform will support astronauts on the Moon's surface. The UK is once again seeking a communications role for its companies.\n\nAn ISS robotic arm captured the Cygnus freighter at 09:05 GMT, prior to the manoeuvre that would pull the vehicle into a berthing position. COLKa will be stored aboard the platform for a few weeks before being bolted to the exterior of Columbus in a spacewalk.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Lewis Capaldi is expected to take top honours at the Brit Awards on Tuesday, with wins predicted in major categories including best male and best single.\n\nThe Scottish star will also perform at the ceremony, after a year in which he scored the best-selling single and album in the UK.\n\nHis main competition comes from London-born rapper Dave, whose frank and confessional debut album Psychodrama won last year's Mercury Prize.\n\nBoth artists are up for four awards.\n\nBut most pundits agree Capaldi will be rewarded for the success of his breakout song, Someone You Loved, and the multi-platinum sales of his debut album, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent.\n\n\"I'm just going to turn up, watch Lewis Capaldi win everything and then go home,\" joked Sam Fender, who's nominated against Capaldi in the best new artist category.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, Fender acknowledged he'd beaten Capaldi in the Critics' Choice category last year, but said he didn't expect a repeat performance.\n\n\"I think they gave me that award last year because they could see 2020 coming,\" he said. \"They were like 'Oh Lewis Capaldi's going to win everything next year.'\n\nCapaldi does face stiff competition in almost every category, though.\n\nTwo-time Brit Award-winner Stormzy arrives at the Brits after a triumphant 2019 which saw him headline Glastonbury and enter the charts at number two with his second album, Heavy Is The Head.\n\nNotably, his record was released in the same week as the Brits' academy cast their votes, meaning his music will have been prominent in critics' minds as they selected this year's winners.\n\nHarry Styles' second album, Fine Line, was also released to coincide with the voting window and also makes it into the best album shortlist - making him the first member of One Direction to receive that accolade.\n\nBut Capaldi's biggest challenger is Dave - whose thought-provoking record Psychodrama was hailed as \"the boldest and best British rap album in a generation\" by The Guardian.\n\nDave's album Psychodrama has already won the Mercury Music Prize\n\nIf he wins album of the year, the 21-year-old, from Brixton, will become only the second artist to win both a Brit and Mercury Prize for the same record. Arctic Monkeys previously did the double with Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.\n\nIn the international categories, Billie Eilish could easily repeat her victory at the Grammys by taking home the best female prize.\n\nThe star is also set to give the first performance of her James Bond theme, No Time To Die, accompanied by ex-Smiths' guitarist Johnny Marr and a 22-piece orchestra.\n\n\"I'm so scared, because we've never performed it, ever,\" she told BBC Breakfast. \"I'm hitting a note I've never hit before. I'm scared.\"\n\nOther performances on the night will come from Harry Styles, Lizzo, Stormzy, Mabel and Rod Stewart - who's reuniting with the surviving members of The Faces to close the show.\n\nSoul newcomer Celeste, who won the Brits' rising star award, will also give her first live TV performance, playing the heart-rending ballad Strange - a moment that could rival Adele's career-changing performance of Someone Like You in 2011.\n\nThe ceremony takes place at London's O2 Arena, with comedian Jack Whitehall hosting for the third year running. It will be broadcast live on ITV from 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe awards have been criticised for a lack of diversity, with only four women nominated across the four categories open to both male and female artists - best group, best new artist, best song and album of the year.\n\nTwo of those nominations go to the same person, pop singer Mabel, while the remaining two, for Miley Cyrus and Normani, are guest vocalists on songs by Mark Ronson and Sam Smith.\n\nGeoff Taylor, chief executive of the Brits, defended the choice of nominees, saying there had been \"a lot of success for male acts in 2019\", particularly in the male-dominated grime and hip-hop genres.\n\n\"That is different to 2018. We had a really strong showing from female [nominees] last year with the same [gender] balance in the academy. So last year it was all about Dua Lipa, Anne-Marie, Jorja Smith, Florence [+ The Machine] and Jess Glynne,\" he told Music Week magazine.\n\n\"This year we've got a strong set of releases from male artists. When you look at the album of the year nominees, they all released absolutely fantastic records.\n\n\"We have an academy that's made up equally of men and women, and that academy decided that these were the best releases of this particular year.\n\n\"We need to respect that. They have decided that, creatively, these were the best records. We have to respect the views of a 50-50 academy, and we have to reflect what's going on in music.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The 40th Brit Awards is taking place at London's O2 Arena on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe best of Britain's musical talent and some top international stars have dressed up for the occasion, as ever.\n\nA few of them no doubt are acting up too, if recent history is anything to go by.\n\nBefore the prizes were dished out, here's how they were looking on arrival.\n\nLewis Capaldi was the main man to watch, as he was up for four awards, including best male and best single.\n\nThe Scottish star also performed at the ceremony.\n\nHe made some peace signs at photographers as he strolled down the red carpet this evening in a bright blue shirt jacket.\n\nHis main competition, in both the fashion and music prize stakes, came from London rapper Dave, whose debut album Psychodrama won last year's Mercury Prize.\n\nFun fact: winning album of the year would make the 21-year-old only the second artist, after the Arctic Monkeys, to win both a Brit and Mercury Prize for the same record.\n\nLike Lewis, Dave was up for four awards. He was looking like a real sharp-shooter in that suit jacket.\n\nBillie Eilish was set to perform her new James Bond theme, No Time to Die, for the first time live at the Brits.\n\nShe went almost full Burberry for her arrival and gave the cameras a thousand yard stare that any Bond villain would be proud of.\n\nThe 18-year-old was also nominated for best international female, alongside another US pop sensation...\n\n...And that's Lizzo, sporting a triple bun hairstyle and a chocolate-wrapper dress.\n\nLizzo and Billie were up against Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello and Lana Del Rey in a crowded field of superstars.\n\nIt's unlikely to faze either of them though, we reckon.\n\nThe Brits have been criticised for a lack of diversity this year, with only four women nominated across the four categories open to both male and female artists - best group, best new artist, best song and album of the year.\n\nStormzy had his cricket whites on tonight, in case an impromptu game breaks out.\n\nHe's won Brit awards before and delivered a moment to remember in 2018, with his rain-drenched bare-chested attack on the government over their response to the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nThe grime MC told Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw it's still \"weird\" having his picture taken by loads of photographers.\n\n\"You feel like you're getting attacked with flashing lights and cameras,\" he said.\n\n\"If you see me on the red carpet, it's not elegant.\"\n\nNewsbeat reporter Sinead Garvin begged to differ, saying Stormzy - up for three awards, including best album - looked and smelled \"delightful\". We can't confirm or deny that.\n\nTom Walker arrived in his signature hipster woolly hat rolled up above the ears and his shirt and tie.\n\nHe also had his shirt un-tucked so let's hope the hallway monitors weren't lurking around or he wouldn't have been let in.\n\nWhich would be a shame as his track Just You And I was up for best song.\n\nShe made the headlines herself recently when she took over Love Island presenting duties from Caroline Flack, and this week paid tribute to her late friend live on her BBC Radio 5 live show.\n\nBBC Sound of 2020 winner Celeste was channelling her inner Elizabeth Taylor and told BBC Radio 5 Live's Colin Paterson she was feeling \"incredible\".\n\nShe was in the comfortable position of knowing she's got the rising star award already in the bag, but was slightly nervier about the prospect of performing her breakthrough track, Strange.\n\n\"This will be the first time ever that I've performed in front of this many people,\" she said.\n\nWe doubt it'll be the last.\n\nCeleste succeeds Sam Fender, who was named as the one to look out for last year.\n\nThis year he was up against the likes of his mate Lewis Capaldi in the best new act category.\n\nHe joked he was \"just going to turn up, watch Lewis Capaldi win everything and then go home\".\n\nThe Geordie rocker could well be right but at least he looked good in the pictures in that suit.\n\nIt has to be a loose fit, as The Happy Mondays once sang.\n\nBastille looked like they were in four different bands but somehow strangely pulled it off.\n\nThey were up for best British group, against Coldplay, Foals. Bring Me The Horizon and D-Block Europe.\n\nNewly-bleached blonde singer Dan Smith said they were ready to \"put on our best loser faces\".\n\nCome on lads, you'll never win anything with that attitude.\n\nBillie Eilish might be singing about Bond but Aitch could make a passable 007 himself in this get-up. Don't you think?\n\nThe north Manchester rapper was up for best new act, which he said he was excited about, despite the fact \"nothing much excites me\".\n\nHe did promise to bring some \"mad bars\" [lyrics] to our ears in 2020 though.\n\nHere are some more of the big names on the red carpet, so you have something to hand to your fashion adviser in the morning.\n\nHarry Styles paid tribute to the late Caroline Flack by wearing a black ribbon on his jacket on the red carpet.\n\nJoy Crookes, who was nominated for the rising star award, was dressed in a traditional south Asian dress so \"young girls can see someone who looks like their mum, their auntie, their gran on the red carpet at the Brits\".\n\nThe Brit Awards are on ITV from 20:00 GMT.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Private jet operators have seen a big spike in requests from passengers wanting to charter their own planes during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nWith airlines scaling back flights in and out of China, some travellers are stuck inside or outside the country.\n\nThe wealthy ones are turning to private jet operators to ask them to arrange flights, despite the huge costs.\n\nBut the companies are having to turn them away due to travel bans and a lack of available planes and crews.\n\nAustralia-based Darin Voyles, of Paramount Business Jets, said the firm had seen a ''considerable uptick'' in requests, but the majority can't be filled as they can't get the crew or planes.\n\n\"Many simply do not want to send their aircraft and crews into mainland China. Aside from the risk of exposure for the crews, the operational and business concern is that when they return from mainland China they will essentially be unable to work for two weeks as they will have to go into quarantine immediately.''\n\nSingapore-based MyJet Asia said it has seen an increase of 80%-90% in the last month. \"A lot of people went away for Chinese New Year and are now struggling to get back to China,\" said Logan Ravishkansar, chief executive of MyJet Asia. Many have asked to be flown back to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appearing to show people held in quarantine in a makeshift facility in Wuhan, has been shared across social media\n\n\"But we are massively restricted on where we can fly to, while the airlines are not letting us charter their planes despite the money,\" he added.\n\nOther travellers are desperate to get out of China. A government client from South America asked PrivateFly, a global booking service for charter flights, ''to set up four flights out of Wuhan for hundreds of passengers,'' according to its chief executive Adam Twidell.\n\nThe UK-based firm said it has had plenty of other enquiries from private individuals and groups.\n\nA ''very light jet'' can take between two and four passengers, and costs up to $2,400 (£1,850) per hour according to Paramount Business Jets. A \"super midsize\" jet can seat between eight and 10 people and costs $6,000 an hour.\n\nGlobal private jet firm VistaJet said it has seen double digit growth in enquiries over the past month even though it has stopped operations to and from China.\n\n\"While a large portion of the increase can be related to Chinese New Year travel, we also attribute the growth to customers preferring a private flight rather than a commercial option during a delicate time affected by the coronavirus outbreak,\" said Ian Moore, chief commercial officer of VistaJet.\n\nMr Ravishkansar said it was much more straightforward to charter planes during the SARS outbreak of 2003: \"We also saw huge demand back then but it was a lot easier to fly in and out of countries. This time around, governments have put on more controls.\"\n• None How can I tell if I've got Covid?", "Angus Robertson was an MP from 2001 until 2017\n\nThe SNP's former leader at Westminster, Angus Robertson, has announced plans to contest the Holyrood seat held by Ruth Davidson.\n\nMr Robertson will seek the party's nomination to stand in Edinburgh Central at the 2021 election when Ms Davidson is expected to step down.\n\nThe ex-Moray MP told the Edinburgh Evening News he intends to overturn the Tories' 610-vote majority.\n\nMs Davidson took the seat from the SNP at the last Scottish election in 2016.\n\nBut in October she announced she was unlikely to seek re-election, two months after she quit as Scottish Conservative leader.\n\nSince then she accepted and then turned down a lucrative job with a lobbying firm and has been nominated for a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nRuth Davidson led the Scottish Conservatives from 2011 to 2019\n\nAnnouncing his intention to contest the seat, Mr Robertson accused Ms Davidson of putting \"other career interests in London ahead of the people she still represents at Holyrood\" and argued that constituents \"deserve better\".\n\nMr Robertson also highlighted his links to the capital, having grown up in Stockbridge.\n\nHe said: \"Edinburgh Central deserves a full-time MSP who will put the interests of their constituents first.\n\n\"At present, the heart of Scotland's capital city is represented by somebody who would prefer to be in the House of Lords and pursuing a career in public relations.\n\n\"Edinburgh Central needs an MSP that has a full-time commitment to their constituents and constituency, and the SNP needs a full-time candidate to win this important seat. I believe I am best placed to be that candidate.\n\n\"I will not pretend to constituents that I can be in two places at the same time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Angus Robertson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore becoming an MP in 2001, Mr Robertson worked as a journalist, including for the BBC World Service as a foreign correspondent.\n\nHe was elected MP for Moray in 2001 and was appointed as the SNP's defence and foreign affairs spokesman, a post he held for 14 years.\n\nMr Robertson led the party in the House of Commons from 2007 until he lost his Westminster seat to the Conservatives' Douglas Ross at the 2017 general election.\n\nHe has since worked as managing director of pro-independence think-tank and polling organisation Progress Scotland.\n\nBut Mr Robertson has long been linked with a return to frontline politics and has been tipped as a future SNP leader.", "The Boy Scouts of America has more than two million members\n\nThe Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has filed for bankruptcy protection in a move that the group says will allow it to build a compensation fund for sex abuse victims.\n\nThe move follows a number of lawsuits filed against the organisation over claims of sexual abuse, alleging it failed to prevent hundreds of cases.\n\nAs a result of the move, all civil lawsuits against it are put on hold.\n\nThe group is struggling with declining membership as well as abuse claims.\n\n\"The BSA cares deeply about all victims of abuse and sincerely apologises to anyone who was harmed during their time in scouting. We are outraged that there have been times when individuals took advantage of our programs to harm innocent children,\" chief executive Roger Mosby said in a statement.\n\nCourt papers filed in Delaware listed liabilities of up to $1bn (£768m) and assets of as much as $10bn, reports say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boy Scouts of America: Why is it filing for bankruptcy?\n\nThe filing was made under Chapter 11 of the US bankruptcy code which allows the group to keep operating and pay its creditors over time.\n\nThe bankruptcy allows the organisation to bring all of the lawsuits into one court and try to negotiate a settlement, rather than using its funds to fight each case in court.\n\nThe group said it was setting up a trust fund to compensate victims.\n\n\"While we know nothing can undo the tragic abuse that victims suffered, we believe the Chapter 11 process - with the proposed trust structure - will provide equitable compensation to all victims while maintaining the BSA's important mission,\" Mr Mosby said in a statement.\n\nThe BSA has 261 councils which operate local troops and own assets including land in many states, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. Tuesday's bankruptcy move is designed to protect those councils, which hold about 70% of all BSA assets, according to the WSJ.\n\nIn its statement, the BSA said the councils, which are legally separate and financially independent of the national organisation, had not filed for bankruptcy.\n\nOne of the largest non-profit youth organisations in the US, the BSA was founded 110 years ago\n\nEx-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is a former president of the BSA\n\nOther non-profit organisations facing multiple sexual abuse claims, including the Catholic Church and USA Gymnastics, have also sought bankruptcy protection in recent years in the face of sexual abuse lawsuits.\n\nThe BSA is facing hundreds of claims over sex abuse in several states.\n\nLast year, the Abused in Scouting group began advertising around the country and has since found nearly 2,000 people with complaints, including one in every state, the New York Times reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why it can take sexual assault allegations years to come out", "Khawaja Anwar was admitted to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital after a fall\n\nA hospital has apologised to the family of a dementia patient who was \"left for hours in his own urine and faeces\".\n\nKhawaja Anwar, 82, was admitted to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital on 3 February after a fall in which he broke two bones in his pelvis.\n\nHis family complained over Mr Anwar's \"unacceptable\" lack of care and said he was \"humiliated\" by some carers.\n\nThe hospital said \"patient care is our top priority\" and is investigating.\n\nMr Anwar's wife Nargis made a formal complaint to the hospital after she noticed the conditions her husband had to sleep in.\n\nShe said: \"The physio came and started to help him to move him so he could sit on the edge of the before standing him up.\n\nAamer Anwar, pictured with his family, and father in the foreground\n\n\"I saw dry excrement on his gown and it was clear it had been there for some time. I told the nurse that he is wet and dirty and needs cleaning.\"\n\nMr Anwar's son, Aamer, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that the standard of care given to his father was \"simply unacceptable\".\n\n\"There was another occasion where my father vomited and the auxiliary nurse just sat and watched and did nothing to help my mother clean him up.\n\n\"Just because somebody gets old and lies in a bed and might get dementia doesn't mean that they don't know how people are dealing with them.\"\n\nHe added: \"The NHS is under real pressure, people do very difficult jobs in difficult circumstances, but what these individual members of staff failed to do was a betrayal to the NHS and the values it's supposed to represent.\"\n\nColin Hont, deputy chief nurse, said: \"I have personally spoken to Mr Anwar's family about the concerns they have raised and given them our sincere apologies.\n\n\"Patient care is our top priority. We have taken steps to address the family's areas of concern and have put in place a detailed care plan for Mr Anwar.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United closed in on the Champions League places with victory over Chelsea as Frank Lampard's side were left with a sense of injustice after contentious video assistant referee decisions went against them.\n\nUnited closed to within three points of Chelsea in fourth place with headed goals either side of the interval from Anthony Martial and Harry Maguire at Stamford Bridge.\n\nMartial glanced in Aaron Wan-Bissaka's cross on the stroke of half-time before Manchester United captain Maguire powered in a header from Bruno Fernandes' corner after 66 minutes.\n\nChelsea felt aggrieved as Maguire was fortunate to escape a red card for kicking Michy Batshuayi in the groin in the first half as they tangled on the touchline, despite the incident being examined by VAR.\n\nAnd the review system denied them again when Chelsea thought substitute Kurt Zouma had made it 1-1. The goal was ruled out for a push by Cesar Azpilicueta on Brandon Williams, although replays showed United's Fred put a hand on the back of Chelsea's captain.\n\nChelsea's frustration was complete when Olivier Giroud's 76th-minute header was ruled out because his foot was in an offside position as he moved to meet Mason Mount's free-kick.\n\nBeing on the right side of the decisions helped Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's organised and diligent United side to complete their first league double over Chelsea since 1987-88.\n• None 'Man Utd right in race for top four - somehow'\n• None How you rated the players at Stamford Bridge\n\nThis was not a glittering performance by any means from Manchester United but it can be satisfactorily filed under 'job done'.\n\nVAR was United's friend in two pivotal moments, with Maguire's goal adding insult to injury as Chelsea felt - with understandable conviction - he should have been given a red card for kicking out at Batshuayi.\n\nWhere United had the decisive advantage over Chelsea was in front of goal, where they made the most of their rare opportunities with a clinical edge that was notably lacking in their opponents.\n\nMartial was on the margins for most of the first half but showed his quality with an angled header beyond the grasp of Chelsea keeper Willy Caballero.\n\nUnited sealed an important win that gives them hope of a top-four finish when Maguire escaped the attentions of Antonio Rudiger to head home.\n\nNew boy Fernandes will have added to Solskjaer's pleasure with some nice touches, including a free-kick against the post as well as creating Maguire's goal before he was substituted to a loud ovation from the away end in the closing moments.\n\nIt puts them firmly back in contention for the top four, with only five points separating Everton in ninth place from Chelsea in fourth.\n• None Football Daily podcast: A Bridge too VAR for Chelsea and Lampard\n\nChelsea manager Lampard's constant gripe this season has been a lack of cutting edge to accompany some neat approach play and plentiful possession - and so it proved again here.\n\nAs they continued a slump that has brought only one win in six league games, Chelsea again paid a heavy price for once more failing to make the most of the opportunities that presented themselves.\n\nWith Tammy Abraham sidelined through injury, responsibility fell on Batshuayi - but the Belgium striker looked short of confidence and drew Stamford Bridge's wrath when he missed two first-half chances.\n\nThe experienced Giroud looked more threatening when he came on but it was too late for Chelsea, who came up short again.\n\nThese are difficult times for Lampard as he must find a way to drag Chelsea out of their current form, get his strikers scoring and deal with a dilemma over his goalkeeper - with £71m keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga clearly behind 38-year-old Caballero.\n\nIt means the stakes are high in the battle for top-four places when Jose Mourinho's Spurs visit Stamford Bridge on Saturday lunchtime.\n\nChelsea host Tottenham in the Premier League on Saturday (kick-off 12:30 GMT) while Manchester United travel to Club Bruges in the Europa League on Thursday, followed by a Premier League game against Watford on Sunday (14:00 GMT).\n\nSolskjaer's away joy against top sides - the stats\n• None This is the first time Manchester United have completed a league double over Chelsea without conceding a goal since 1964-65.\n• None Chelsea have lost seven home games in all competitions this season, their most in a single campaign since 1994-95 (also seven).\n• None Chelsea have lost all five of their home league games when conceding the first goal this season; only two other sides have failed to recover a single point at home when conceding first in the Premier League this season (Norwich and West Ham).\n• None Manchester United scored with both of their first two attempts on target in this match and scored two headed goals in a Premier League game for the first time since November 2017 against Newcastle.\n• None Chelsea became the second side to have two goals awarded and then overturned by VAR in a Premier League match this season, following Sheffield United against Brighton in December.\n• None Anthony Martial has scored four Premier League goals against Chelsea; he hasn't scored more goals against any other side. Those four strikes have come in his last three appearances against the Blues.\n• None Martial became the first Manchester United player to score in three consecutive Premier League appearances against Chelsea, and the third to score home and away Premier League goals against the Blues in the same season (Wayne Rooney 2011-12 and Eric Cantona 1992-93).\n• None Harry Maguire scored his first Premier League goal for Manchester United; each of his last four strikes in the competition have been away from home, with his first since January 2019 at Liverpool.\n• None Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has won all five of his away games as Man Utd manager against Chelsea and Man City in all competitions - more than the Red Devils had won in their previous 19 such games under Alex Ferguson, David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho combined.\n• None Odion Ighalo became the 200th player to make an appearance for Man Utd in the Premier League, and the first Nigerian to do so.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Attempt saved. Odion Ighalo (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fred.\n• None Mason Mount (Chelsea) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Reece James.\n• None Attempt blocked. Reece James (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Two Britons on the ship, Sally and David Abel, have told their son they have tested positive for the virus\n\nDoubts have been raised over whether a British couple on a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for coronavirus as earlier believed.\n\nThe son of Sally and David Abel, from Northamptonshire, told the BBC his parents said they had both tested positive and were going to hospital.\n\nHowever, hours later David Abel suggested on Facebook there had been a \"massive communication error\".\n\nThe couple are among 74 British nationals on the Diamond Princess ship.\n\nThe ship, which was quarantined on 3 February, is in the port of Yokohama.\n\nOn Tuesday, Japanese officials said there were 88 new cases of infection on board the ship, bringing the total to 542 confirmed cases. It is the largest cluster of cases outside China.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"working to organise a flight back to the UK\" for British nationals and an evacuation is expected to take place within the next two to three days.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign Office said it had \"the utmost concern\" for the British people on the ship and was \"ensuring those who have been diagnosed with coronavirus receive the best possible care in Japan\".\n\nMr and Mrs Abel's son Steve told BBC Breakfast that his father had emailed him on Tuesday morning to tell him they had both tested positive.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday evening, a Facebook post from Mr Abel's account explained the confusion over the positive test, saying the Japanese quarantine officials did not speak any English.\n\nHe added: \"The consulate in Tokyo are being very good with me. I am being listened to and Sally & I feel really well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Abel, the son of a British couple on board the Diamond Princess, says they are \"in the dark\"\n\nEarlier, Steve said he could hear his father vomiting in the bathroom while on the phone to his mother earlier but he believed it was due to \"shock\" rather than a symptom of the disease.\n\nThe conditions on the ship had made it difficult for his father to manage his type-2 diabetes, he said, adding that he would prefer his parents to be quarantined in the UK \"where the food is more suitable for my dad\".\n\n\"I'm not actually that worried about the virus - looking at the recovery stats. It is more about the stress, the diet,\" Steve said.\n\nSteve said the UK government's treatment of his parents had been \"appalling\", adding: \"They haven't got back to us on anything and we have been calling them every day for four or five days.\"\n\n\"They are very high-spirited people,\" he said. \"But in the last two days I've seen the cracks in the armour and they are getting down.\"\n\nAbout 3,700 people are quarantined on board the Diamond Princess\n\nAnother British passenger on board the ship, Elaine Spencer, said she had been \"very disappointed\" with the UK government's initial response and they should have organised a rescue flight sooner.\n\nShe told Radio 4's Today programme that British passengers who wanted to get on the rescue flight had to sign an agreement that they would go into quarantine for 14 days on their return to the UK.\n\nShe said they had received a note from the Foreign Office which told them that if they didn't get on the flight, it was unlikely they would be allowed out of Japan.\n\n\"I need to go home, I want to see my family but obviously it's going to be another 14 days (after the flight). I wish that they'd decided to do this last week.\"\n\nThe US chartered two planes to bring back its citizens from the cruise ship\n\nThe president of Princess Cruises, Jan Swartz, said the company has sent more doctors and nurses on to the ship.\n\nThere is still uncertainty over whether passengers will be allowed to leave the ship at the end of the 14-day quarantine period on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to official figures on Monday, four Britons with confirmed coronavirus are currently in hospital in Japan.\n\nIrish foreign minister Simon Coveney confirmed two out of six Irish passengers on the Princess Diamond tested positive for the virus and are being treated in hospital in Japan.\n\nMr Coveney said the passengers have dual citizenship with another EU member state and did not normally live in Ireland - but that the Irish embassy in Tokyo was in contact with them.\n\nOn Tuesday South Korea joined the list of the countries and territories also planning to get their residents off the ship - a list which already includes Canada, Australia, the UK, Israel and Hong Kong.\n\nThe US has already repatriated more than 300 of its citizens from the ship.\n\nIn a statement in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Foreign Office said its staff had been making \"necessary arrangements\" with British nationals onboard the ship to organise a flight back to the UK.\n\n\"We urge all those who have not yet responded to get in touch immediately,\" it added.\n\nAffected British nationals should call the British embassy in Tokyo on +81 3 5211 1100.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The MS Westerdam docked in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, after being turned away from five ports\n\nMeanwhile, a search continues for passengers who disembarked the MS Westerdam cruise ship in Cambodia, after a woman who had been onboard the ship tested positive for the virus.\n\nEarly fears of the ship being affected by the virus meant it was turned away from five ports in Asia. Passengers were allowed off the ship on Friday after no cases were found among the 2,257 people onboard, cruise line firm Holland America said.\n\nThe 83-year-old American woman tested positive after disembarking from the ship and then travelling to Malaysia.\n\nAn undisclosed number of Britons who were on the Westerdam are being tested for coronavirus in Cambodia, the Foreign Office said.\n\nAs of Tuesday at 14:00 GMT, in the UK a total of 4,916 people had been tested for coronavirus. Only nine people have tested positive and the rest have been confirmed negative.\n\nIn a phone call, President Xi of China thanked Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the UK's donation of \"vital medical equipment\" to help China cope with the virus outbreak, a Downing Street spokeswoman said.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happening on the Diamond Princess cruise ship? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The Earl and Countess of Snowdon were pictured together at a premiere in October 2017\n\nThe Queen's nephew the Earl of Snowdon and his wife the Countess of Snowdon have \"amicably agreed\" to divorce, a spokesman for the couple has said.\n\nThe earl, David Armstrong-Jones, is the son of the late Princess Margaret and photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones.\n\nHe has been married to wife Serena for 26 years. They have two children.\n\nThe announcement comes less than a week after the Queen's grandson Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn also revealed they are to split.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, a spokesman for the Snowdons said: \"The Earl and Countess of Snowdon have amicably agreed that their marriage has come to an end and that they shall be divorced.\n\n\"They ask that the press respect their privacy and that of their family.\"\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Snowdon and their daughter Margarita with the Queen in 2017\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Snowdon were married in Westminster in October 1993\n\nThe couple married in October 1993 and have two children - Viscount Linley, Charles Armstrong-Jones and Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones.\n\nThe earl's mother, Princess Margaret - the Queen's sister - died in 2002 and his father, celebrity photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, died in 2017.\n\nPrincess Margaret and husband Lord Snowdon with a young David in 1964\n\nAntony Armstrong-Jones was given a title, becoming the 1st Earl of Snowdon, after marrying the princess\n\nDavid Armstrong-Jones - who is 21st in line to the throne - founded his own company making bespoke furniture under his professional name, David Linley, in 1985.\n\nHe has written books about furniture and styling the home.\n\nLast week, Mr and Mrs Phillips confirmed in a statement that they had separated and will share custody of their children Savannah, nine, and Isla, seven.\n\nThe couple told the Queen and other Royal Family members about their decision last year.", "Protesters destroyed the lawn in front of the college on Monday\n\nThree people have been arrested after climate activists dug up a lawn outside a Cambridge University college.\n\nExtinction Rebellion members destroyed part of the lawn at Trinity College on Monday in a protest over its role in a major development in the countryside.\n\nFour other people were held following further acts of criminal damage in the city on Tuesday, police said.\n\nThe five women and two men are in custody and investigations are continuing.\n\nTwo of those arrested are also suspected of obstructing a police officer.\n\nActivists involved in digging up the lawn said the action was taken against \"the destruction of nature\".\n\nTrinity owns Innocence Farm in Trimley St Martin, Suffolk, where plans were submitted for a lorry park. The scheme was rejected.\n\nPolice said Trinity College was assisting with the investigation.\n\nOn Sunday, Extinction Rebellion members set up a week-long road blockade in Cambridge and last week a meeting had to be abandoned when a protester abseiled into the city council chamber.\n\nOn the third day of action, about 40 protesters gathered outside a research centre run by global oilfield services firm Schlumberger, to the west of the city.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Peter Hutchinson stopped teaching after an internal investigation in 2015\n\nA Cambridge University academic who was accused of sexual harassment published erotic fiction about students the year complaints were made against him.\n\nDr Peter Hutchinson quit teaching at Trinity Hall in 2015 following an internal investigation into his conduct.\n\nIt has now emerged he self-published a raunchy book centred around a university in the same year.\n\nThe don said the book offered a \"progressive\" view of women.\n\nDr Hutchinson, a former lecturer in modern and medieval languages, had agreed to stop teaching and attending social events in 2015 after facing complaints of \"inappropriate\" comments from 10 students.\n\nBut last year the BBC discovered he had retained some college privileges.\n\nHe then resigned in November after more than 1,300 students and alumni signed an open letter protesting that he had been allowed to keep his post.\n\nNow, following an investigation by Tortoise, it has emerged that he published an erotic novel under a pseudonym at the time of the 2015 complaints.\n\nDr Hutchinson has confirmed he is the author of \"First Time: Ooo-la-la!\", which was published under the name \"Barry Able\".\n\nThe books tells the story of an \"innocent\" first year student called Peter at a fictitious Oxford college who is found guilty of alleged sexual impropriety after a \"series of erotic adventures\".\n\nMost of the women students in the book are members of a college sex club called \"The Virgins\" and must sleep with a man - or senior academic - each week to remain in the group.\n\nIn the opening of the text, a female student is called a \"brazen hussy\" and others are described as being \"well endowed\" in lingerie, suspenders and garter-belts.\n\nIt also contains references to bondage, voyeurism and public humiliation.\n\nThe front-cover features an image of a woman's leg in stockings, which Dr Hutchinson confirmed belonged to a former Trinity Hall student.\n\nDr Hutchinson said that he did not \"see a problem using an unidentifiable photo\" of a student, adding he was not present when it was taken.\n\nSophie Newbery, 23, who graduated in German and Russian from Trinity Hall in 2018, said she was \"disgusted\" and \"uncomfortable\" by its contents.\n\nSophie Newbery - one of Dr Hutchinson's former students - says she was \"disgusted\" by his book\n\nIn 2015, she was one of 10 students who complained that Dr Hutchinson had asked them during a seminar if they had \"ever had any love bites\" and, while discussing the subject of a dominatrix in a book, asked a female student: \"Does that turn you on?\".\n\nDr Hutchinson said his book had a \"progressive view of women\" who were \"totally liberated\".\n\nDr Peter Hutchinson was cleared of criminal charges of sexual assault in 2006 after a complaint brought by an ex-student.\n\nThe book echoes parts of the court case and gives a fictionalised account of the encounter.\n\nEllie Pyemont, now 38, who brought the case, told the BBC she \"recognised\" herself in the pages.\n\n\"It is pathetic that he wrote and self-published this misogynistic, crass and deluded story,\" she said.\n\n\"The significant point is that the person behind this derisory book was in a position of power over young people at Trinity Hall for decades.\"\n\nEllie Pyemont says the erotica was \"misogynistic, crass and deluded\"\n\nDr Hutchinson said it was unlikely Trinity Hall was aware of the book and that its publication had nothing to do with the college.\n\nHe said the \"recasting is so broad that it bears no relation to real life\".\n\n\"It needs to be emphasised that an author rarely thinks the same way as his main character,\" he said.", "Dame Judi Dench was nominated for worst supporting actress for her role in Cats\n\nIt may just a day until the Oscars, but nominees for a rather different award have been announced: the Razzies.\n\nThe Golden Raspberry Awards celebrate the worst films in Hollywood, and Cats is among this year's nominations.\n\nThe musical is up for eight awards, with nominations for its four stars, including Dame Judi Dench and James Corden.\n\nThe latest film in the Rambo franchise and comedy A Madea Family Funeral also received eight nominations each.\n\nAll three films are up for worst film.\n\nThe Razzies describe themselves as \"Tinseltown's least coveted $4.97 statuette\" and are voted for by more than 1,000 Golden Raspberry Foundation members based in the US and abroad.\n\nThe star-studded Cats, which is based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical, was lambasted by the Razzies as a \"widely derided feline flop\".\n\nRambo: Last Blood fared no better, with Sylvester Stallone's fifth film in the series up for worst sequel.\n\nMeanwhile, actor and comedian Tyler Perry received worst actor nominations for three of the four characters he played in A Madea Family Funeral.\n\nEven Oscar nominees have not been spared.\n\nJoker, which is up for 11 Academy Awards on Sunday night, was one of five films nominated for a new category in the Razzies - the worst reckless disregard for human life and public property.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Officials working on Boris Johnson's pledge to recruit 20,000 new police officers in England and Wales within three years say more than 50,000 will actually be needed.\n\nHome Office and police officials say the target is not high enough because so many are set to leave the service.\n\nIt comes as campaigners say officers need a starting salary of £24,000 or more for the original target to be met.\n\nThe Home Office said forces had been recruiting \"at pace\".\n\nReversing cuts to police officer numbers was one of Mr Johnson's first policy pledges when he became prime minister in July last year.\n\nBut those leading the recruitment drive now say the total needed is much bigger because they have to factor in police officers who will be resigning or retiring from the service.\n\nCurrent figures show that only one in 10 candidates who applies to join the police is successful - meaning half a million would have to apply to reach the 53,000 goal.\n\nThe figure has been reached by the Uplift team responsible for recruitment. It includes Home Office officials alongside representatives from the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs' Council.\n\nForces in England and Wales lost 20,564 officers between March 2010 and March 2019, Home Office figures show.\n\nThe Police Federation and the Superintendents Association say starting salaries, which can be as low as £18,400, have to be raised to encourage applications.\n\nIn a submission to the Police Remuneration Review Body (PRRB), they said: \"The starting salary, and early progression pay, are key.\n\n\"Without addressing these we believe there is no hope that the recruitment targets will be achieved. We believe the minimum starting salary must be set at £24,177.\"\n\nThey called for wages to be made the \"top priority\" this year and said there should be a 5% pay rise across all ranks. The bodies also warned of a potential \"catastrophic failure\" in policing if resources are not made available.\n\nIf pay is not increased, new recruits could be earning 15p an hour above the national living wage.\n\nPolice Federation national chairman John Apter said: \"While we are starting to see some positive moves from the government, they need to show they are serious about their commitment to policing, by paying police officers fairly for the uniquely challenging and often dangerous job they do.\n\n\"Politicians must now put their money where their mouths are and pay police officers fairly. This is only what they deserve.\"\n\nNever before in the UK have so many police officers been recruited in such a short space of time - so can it be done?\n\nPolicing is an attractive career - offering relatively secure employment, and serving the public, in a potentially wide variety of roles.\n\nMany forces have had little trouble turning the recruitment tap on after years when it slowed to a trickle.\n\nBut the flow will be hard to maintain with competition from other public services, such as probation, prisons and schools. The starting salary for police officers, particularly for apprenticeship joiners, is clearly one issue; another is the new requirement for them to have a degree or study for one while on the job.\n\nOfficials leading the recruitment surge say they won't \"lower the bar\" for applicants, by relaxing the criteria and standards, but they may \"widen the gate\" by being less selective.\n\nIn recent years, some forces were able to choose the creme de la creme of candidates, because there were so few training places. If they want to hit Boris Johnson's target they can't afford to be as picky in future.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Last year we gave forces the largest pay award since 2010 - accepting the recommendations of the Police Remuneration Review Board of a 2.5% pay rise in full.\n\n\"This gives forces the flexibility to offer constables who do not join through an apprenticeship route a starting salary of £24,177.\n\n\"There is no doubt that policing is a desirable career - the numbers of people joining the police has reached a 10-year high and forces have been recruiting at pace to put 20,000 more officers on our streets.\"", "Carl is a survivor of domestic violence who writes about the beatings he suffered at the hands of his father when he was a child.\n\nHe is now an advocate for Operation Encompass, a charity that supports children at schools affected by domestic abuse.\n\nNow specialists can treat children who have experienced abuse, but these services are in short supply.\n\nIt's estimated that one in six children witness or experience some form of domestic abuse or violence.\n\nIf you're affected by any issues in this video, there is information and support at www.bbc.co.uk/actionline", "England won back the Calcutta Cup and kept their Six Nations title hopes alive with a turgid victory over Scotland in awful weather conditions.\n\nEllis Genge barrelled home for the only try with 10 minutes remaining as driving rain and strong gusts made for a disrupted, error-ridden contest at Murrayfield.\n\nThe result meant Scotland fell short of a third-straight Calcutta Cup, but England climb level on points with second-placed Wales, four adrift of unbeaten leaders Ireland.\n\nCaptain Owen Farrell struck a penalty in either half, missing three more attempts from the tee as the weather contributed to a low-scoring affair.\n\nAdam Hastings replied twice for Scotland, his 78th-minute kick ensuring Gregor Townsend's men pick up a second losing bonus point in as many weekends.\n• None 'A game that could crack mirrors - but England won't care'\n\nThis was a much-needed victory for England after a bruising loss in Paris. Eddie Jones' men just about deserved it, but the contest was wretched, a million miles from the epic 38-38 draw of last season.\n\nA losing bonus point will come as small comfort to Townsend. The Scots found it ferociously difficult to live with Sam Underhill and Tom Curry at the breakdown and impossible to catch their own ball in the line-out. The key moment was a dreadful mistake by Stuart Hogg, for the second week running.\n\nStorm Ciara was due to blow into town in time for the kick-off and, sure enough, an hour or so before it all began, she fetched up with her rain and her gales bringing any notion of an attacking spectacle to its knees.\n\nIt was brutal out there. Scotland lost five line-outs, and precious momentum, in the opening 40 minutes - some down to crass errors, most of them due to the foul conditions. England, who couldn't have been playing more conservatively had they all taken the field with Tory party rosettes on their jerseys, lost two.\n\nPlaying against the wind, they kicked ball after ball, forcing errors from Scotland and taking the lead when the home side were done on the floor. Farrell missed his first penalty earlier, banged over his second and missed his third.\n\nThis was rugby from another dimension. Had a woolly mammoth, extinct for an age, wandered across the pitch you wouldn't have missed a beat. Had a try been scored it would have been a moment of genuine shock and awe.\n\nScotland wasted great field position last week in Dublin and they let a few opportunities slip here as well. England were dominant at the breakdown, but error-strewn in so many departments. Everything was understandably, but maddeningly, stop-start.\n\nThe hosts had a bit more about them in the second half, beginning with a thunder that was sparked by big Rory Sutherland, the renaissance prop who came steaming back into Test rugby in Dublin. Sutherland's big bust of the English defence was the catalyst for Scotland drawing level.\n\nEngland survived a battering, their defence holding out against Scotland surges. That home pressure didn't bring them a try - on a day when a try was always going to be good enough to get the win - but they left with three points from Hastings after Underhill was penalised for not releasing.\n\nThey came again when George Ford and Jonny May fluffed their lines in defence and more heat was piled on through hard carries from Sutherland and Zander Fagerson and their hard-running chums. England held out, perhaps a little luckily. Kyle Sinckler lifted the siege with a rip from Jonny Gray but did it while he was on the floor.\n\nThe blunder count rose high, towering over the top of the stadium. Scotland lost a seventh, and later an eighth line-out, and Farrell missed a third shot at goal. Onwards we went, ever deeper into mistake-land.\n\nThe absolute howitzer mess-up came from Hogg, a week after his spectacular spill over the Irish tryline. This was the game. The Scotland captain retreated to deal with a ball under his posts, but made a desperate hash of it. Initially, it looked like he'd spilled it to Farrell, who immediately touched down.\n\nThe TMO advised that Hogg had carried it over his line but had, indeed, grounded the ball. So, scrum England. And try England. They went through a couple of phases, got it to Genge and then launched Maro Itoje, Curry and Ben Earl in behind him to power over. Farrell converted for a 10-3 lead. Scotland were distraught.\n\nFarrell then put over another penalty to stretch the gap to 10, Hastings rescuing a losing bonus soon after. Seventy-eight minutes had been played at that stage. Frankly, it felt like 78 hours.", "East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust alerted police over the alleged assault of a man in December\n\nSeveral hospital staff have been suspended and a police investigation is under way into the alleged assault of a patient.\n\nBoth East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust and Kent Police are probing the alleged assault on 15 December at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.\n\nThe trust also runs the QEQM Hospital in Margate which has been criticised over a seven-day-old baby's death.\n\nThe trust said it had alerted police over the alleged assault of a man in December.\n\nA spokesman said it began an \"investigation into an incident involving the care of a patient\" following a concern raised by a member of staff.\n\n\"We are treating this incident with the utmost seriousness and reported it to the police,\" he added.\n\n\"We also reported it to our regulators and are keeping the patient's family informed of our investigation.\n\n\"We suspended a number of staff in order to facilitate the investigation which is currently ongoing.\"\n\nKent Police said it was investigating \"an alleged assault of a man which is reported to have taken place at William Harvey Hospital\".\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said current devolution rules were \"weak\"\n\nEnglish votes for English laws makes Welsh MPs feel like \"second-class\" politicians, a former Welsh Secretary has said.\n\nStephen Crabb said excluding MPs from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from certain votes had not \"done anything\" to strengthen the UK.\n\nPlaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party protested after they were blocked from voting on an \"English-only\" NHS bill.\n\nMr Crabb said the rule was \"bizarre\".\n\nThe English votes for English laws convention was introduced in Parliament following the Scottish independence referendum in 2014.\n\nIt means politicians from devolved nations, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, are not allowed to vote on proposed legislation thought to apply only to constituencies in England.\n\nOn Tuesday, Plaid Cymru MPs and SNP MEPs were accused of a parliamentary \"stunt\" after they were blocked from voting on an \"English-only\" bill about the NHS.\n\nPlaid and SNP politicians staged a protest inside the House of Commons after not being allowed to vote\n\nThey protested as they argued that due to funding formulas, any decision on the health service in England would ultimately have financial implications for the devolved nations.\n\nWhile health is devolved in Wales, any cuts or increases for the English NHS, will lead to more or less money being allocated to the Welsh Government to be spent here under the Barnett Formula.\n\nConservative MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire Mr Crabb said that the whole convention was damaging to the United Kingdom.\n\nMr Crabb, who was Welsh Secretary until 2016, said it was \"bizarre\", and one of the \"least useful constitutional things that's happened\".\n\n\"It makes Welsh, Northern Irish and Scottish MPs feel at times like they are almost second-class MPs,\" he told the BBC's Politics Wales programme.\n\n\"It hasn't really strengthened the glue that holds the United Kingdom together.\"\n\n\"It was a constitutional and parliamentary innovation that, in my view, has done very little,\" he added.\n\nEnglish votes for English laws was first used in 2016 for the Housing and Planning Bill\n\nFollowing the Scottish independence vote, the Conservative UK government, passed a law in 2017 that changed the powers of the Welsh Assembly.\n\nBut Mr Crabb said he now thought that devolution arrangements were \"pretty weak, and unsatisfactory\".\n\n\"What is the answer? Nobody can quite put their finger on that just yet. So the danger is that we just muddle along, because there isn't a clear solution,\" he added.\n\nA YouGov opinion poll for Cardiff University and ITV Wales published earlier in the week suggested relatively similar levels of support for abolishing the Welsh Assembly and independence for Wales.\n\nMr Crabb said that it suggested there was \"discontent at the current state of affairs, constitutionally and economically as well\".\n\n\"When the numbers go up for full abolition of devolution, it doesn't quite get the political attention, and if I were a decision maker in the Senedd, if I was part of Welsh Government, I'd be very nervous about those figures because that's a dangerous signal for devolution,\" he added.", "Northern Ireland will not hit ambitious climate change targets unless it acts now to boost sales of electric vehicles, an industry body has warned.\n\nIn 2019, only 427 Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) were sold here, up just 165 on 2015.\n\nThis is despite the fact that they will be the only type of new cars on sale in 15 years.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said the government must quickly spell out its plans.\n\n\"Ambitious targets must be matched by ambitious initiatives,\" said its chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\n\"This includes a long-term government commitment to purchase incentives and substantial investment in infrastructure.\"\n\nHowever, the BBC can also reveal that despite a commitment made in January 2014 to bring the total number of public charge points across Northern Ireland to 500, six years on there are only 337 such points.\n\nA Department for Infrastructure spokesman said \"funding constraints across the public sector\" were to blame for the missed target, but added that 54 charge points had been installed at hospitals, health trusts, government department offices and local council offices.\n\n\"Depending on their location some of these charge points are available to staff and the public, however, they were not designed to form part of the public network,\" added the spokesman.\n\n\"Should public funding become available for the installation of additional charge point infrastructure, departmental officials will liaise closely with commercial providers and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles to ensure the charging infrastructure continues to remain fit for purpose.\"\n\nAt the time of the 2014 announcement, then Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said: \"There has never been a better time for drivers to consider switching to these cars of the future.\"\n\nBut one Northern Ireland dealership insisted Stormont is falling far short when it comes to the issue.\n\nCaroline Willis, finance director of Shelbourne Motors, said: \"We need the government to push harder to have sufficient charging points to cope with demand.\n\n\"Local government needs to add as many charging points and incentivise people to move from diesel to electric, perhaps with a swappage grant.\"\n\nAsked if the government's 2035 target for BEV-only sales was still realistic, she added: \"It is achievable but needs action now.\n\n\"It comes down to cost and infrastructure but mainly the latter, we need the government to push harder to have sufficient charging points to cope with demand.\"\n\nMrs Willis pointed to the huge rise in sales of self-charging Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) as proof of changing customer attitudes, adding: \"More charging points could encourage the move to fully electric.\n\nLast month, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that funding for on-street charge points would be doubled to £10m \"to make electric cars the new normal\".\n\nThe Department of Transport stated that the money could pay for up to 3,600 additional charging points for motorists, who do not have an off-street parking space.\n\nHowever, the Department for Infrastructure could not confirm how much of the funding would be spent in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is hoped that this will impact positively in relation to the Residential Charge Point Scheme,\" the department said.\n\nOne of those who made the leap from petrol to battery power is Colm Heaney, a father of two who lives in Belfast's Four Winds.\n\n\"I bought a used Nissan Leaf in April 2017 and received a grant for installation of a charger at my house,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the existing infrastructure isn't great. There have been no public chargers added, at least around where I live, since I've owned the Leaf.\n\n\"I had hoped that private companies would pick up the slack, but with a few notable exceptions (CastleCourt and Lidl come to mind), Northern Ireland does really lag behind other places.\"\n\nSMMT chief Mike Hawes said that while the industry is committed to change, \"blanket bans do not help short-term consumer confidence\".\n\n\"Manufacturers are fully invested in a zero emissions future, with some 60 plug-in models now on the market and 34 more coming in 2020,\" he said.\n\n\"However, with current demand for this still expensive technology still just a fraction of sales, it's clear that accelerating an already very challenging ambition will take more than industry investment.\"", "Ed Woodward was not at home when his home came under attack\n\nManchester United have accused the Sun newspaper of receiving advanced notice of an intended attack on the house of executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.\n\nThe club has filed a complaint to the press regulator regarding the Sun's coverage of the attack on 28 January.\n\nThe newspaper confirmed a reporter attended \"following a tip-off that there was to be a protest\".\n\nBut it added it was not made aware of \"what was to take place nor incited it or encouraged any criminal activity\".\n\nIn a statement, Manchester United said: \"The Club believes that the Sun newspaper had received advance notice of the intended attack, which included criminal damage and intent to intimidate, and that the journalist was present as it happened.\n\n\"The quality of the images accompanying the story indicate that a photographer was also present.\n\n\"Not only did the journalist fail to discharge the basic duty of a responsible member of society to report an impending crime and avert potential danger and criminal damage, his presence both encouraged and rewarded the perpetrators.\"\n\nIn response, the Sun said it \"condemns fully\" the attack on Mr Woodward's home and that it was \"happy to cooperate fully with any police inquiry\".\n\nIt added that it \"vigorously\" defended its right to report and that the article \"made it clear that the behaviour was criminal and unacceptable\".\n\nThe attack on Mr Woodward's house in Cheshire saw a flare thrown and a group chanting that he was \"going to die\".\n\nMr Woodward and his family were not at home at the time.\n\nThe newspaper said it \"accurately reported the events that unfolded\" and that it \"supports wholeheartedly the Editors' Code Of Conduct and will defend the complaint to IPSO\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Department store chain Beales is to close 12 of its shops in a bid to sell the rest.\n\nEfforts to sell all 23 outlets together have failed, the administrators KPMG said.\n\nThe dozen being closed will trade for a few weeks to sell remaining stock, and staff will keep their jobs until then.\n\nThe department store began trading in 1881 in Bournemouth, which is one of the stores that will close, the administrators confirmed.\n\nBeales had tried to secure rent reductions with landlords and was in negotiations with potential investors and buyers.\n\n\"There is currently no intention to implement closure plans for the remaining 11 stores, which will all continue to operate as usual until an outcome with regards to a sale of the business is clarified,\" said KPMG.\n\nBeales' Bournemouth flagship store is among those to close\n\nBut the stores have been racking up losses, with the firm reporting a £3.1m deficit for its last financial year.\n\nThe following stores will close:\n\nThe company's decision to appoint administrators comes at a difficult time for UK retailers.\n\nRecent data from the British Retail Consortium revealed that retail sales fell for the first time in a quarter of a century last year.", "Enjoying the luxury of business class seats on an 11-hour flight back to Auckland was meant to be a treat for Renell and Tere after undergoing weight-loss surgery in the city of Bangkok.\n\nInstead, the sisters and their mother, Huhana, were left ''traumatised'' by Thai Airways staff who came at them with tape measures telling them they were ''too big'' for their business class seats.\n\nSix months on from that ''disgusting'' experience and Huhana, 59, is still bitter about the experience.\n\n''The staff were shouting 'too big, too big' at us repeatedly. Rows of people watched as they measured us at the check-in. It was so humiliating the way we were treated that I just broke down in tears,'' said Huhana.\n\nThe language barrier didn't help as staff refused to let them enter the business class section and made them sit in economy class.\n\nHuhana, a social worker, says she won't fly again until she loses weight, to avoid the sort of traumatic experience Thai Airways put her and her daughters through.\n\n\"We were really looking forward to flying on business class and instead we were left traumatised,'' she added.\n\nMost airlines can provide seatbelt extensions for larger passengers.\n\nBut Thai Airways said its business class seatbelts are fitted with built-in air bags which means they can't be extended. The family are still confused by this explanation.\n\nSince their traumatic experience last summer, Huhana and her daughters have been trying to get a refund from Thai Airways. But the airline has only offered to recompense the family based on the difference between business and economy fares.\n\nShe approached the travel agent she booked the flights with, Flight Centre, who said it would provide a full refund, although the family had to wait more than six months for it.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, a spokesman for Thai Airways said it now has better warnings in place on its reservations system so agents are made aware of such issues.\n\nThe family were on a tour organised by Destination Beauty, which specialises in sending clients to Thailand for weight-loss and plastic surgery.\n\nMartin Olsen, chief executive of Destination Beauty, said he was ''very saddened and surprised'' at the way the airline handled the situation.\n\nHe was also confused by the actions of Thai Airways staff as ''many obese people book business class as they are unable to fit comfortably into economy class''.\n\nWhen it comes to oversized passengers, it's up to the discretion of each airline how to manage the situation, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said.\n\nAirlines do calculate the take-off weight for a plane, but this takes into account the estimated weight of passengers, their luggage and fuel. ''In most cases the average passenger is well under the weight limit as the allowance tends to be fairly generous,'' he said.\n\nMost airlines recommend that if you think you will be too big for your seat, you should buy a second seat at the time you make your booking. But few airlines have specific guidelines when it comes the definition of ''oversized''.\n\nHowever, American Airlines does state '''if a customer's body extends more than one inch beyond the outermost edge of the armrest and a seatbelt extension is needed, another seat is required''.\n• None Child obesity: Will we see radical action?", "Parents will no longer be able to withdraw their children from religious and sex education lessons\n\nMaking all pupils take part in religious education classes could see the Welsh Government taken to court for breaching human rights, a legal expert has warned.\n\nParents' right to withdraw their children from religion lessons will be removed under Wales' new curriculum.\n\nBut Sir Malcolm Evans said this could lead to parents taking legal action.\n\nThe Welsh Government insisted the curriculum would not breach human rights.\n\nCurrently parents are able to request their children do not take part in sex and religious education, under an opt-out arrangement.\n\nBut under the new curriculum, set to be rolled out in schools from September 2022, the lessons will be compulsory, regardless of parental objections.\n\nUnder the changes, Wales will become the first part of the UK to remove the opt-out for religious education.\n\nMinisters have argued making the subjects mandatory ensures all children have access to important information and that it is consistent with the status of other subjects.\n\nSir Malcolm Evans said parents in other countries had challenged their children being made to take religion classes\n\nBut Sir Malcolm, a member of the Commission on Religious Education and Professor of Law at Bristol University, said removing the opt-out option for religious classes could breach human rights.\n\nUnder the European Convention on Human Rights parents have a right to have their children educated in accordance with their religious or philosophical convictions, which also includes non-religious belief.\n\nSir Malcolm said unless the Welsh Government could be \"absolutely sure\" the lessons were \"sufficiently inclusive, plural, critical and objective\" they would be open to legal challenges.\n\nHe said he agreed with the principle of delivering a broad education about different religious and faith traditions and non-faith traditions too, but problems were likely in practice.\n\n\"In my view having an opt-out is very much a safety valve,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a useful and important safety valve to ensure those parents and children who genuinely find it impossible to reconcile their beliefs with the content of an education of that nature still have the right to be able to exempt themselves from those classes.\n\n\"For that is, in my view, what human rights law says they are entitled to.\"\n\nHumanists UK are also opposed to scrapping the opt-out because they fear faith schools will not provide a sufficiently broad approach to religious education.\n\n\"We are extremely concerned that, in state-funded faith schools, where teachers may instruct children from a certain religious perspective, this will be practically impossible,\" Wales Humanists co-ordinator Kathy Riddick said.\n\n\"The proposed new law seriously risks exposing pupils to unlawful indoctrination.\"\n\nShe urged the Welsh Government to \"seriously reconsider the decision\" to remove the parental right to withdraw pupils from religious education.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The new curriculum has five mandatory subjects, including RE and SRE\n\nUnder the new curriculum Religious Education will be renamed Religion, Values and Ethics.\n\nIn response to the concerns, the Welsh Government said the proposed legislative framework and guidance would be compatible with the rights protected by the Human Rights Act 1998.\n\n\"The Welsh Government has been clear that its policy in this area will require careful and sensitive handling prior to its implementation in September 2022,\" a spokeswoman said.", "The Scout Association is \"putting lives of young people at risk\" following the death of a 16-year-old boy on a trip to north Wales, a report has said.\n\nBen Leonard, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, died after falling from the Great Orme, Conwy, in August 2018.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, coroner David Pojur said none of the scout leaders on the trip knew where Ben was when he fell and died.\n\nThe Scout Association said it had since strengthened its policies.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pojur, assistant coroner for North Wales East and Central, said: \"The lives of young people are being put at risk by the Scout Association's failure to recognise the inadequacies of their operational practice and the part this has played in the death of Ben.\"\n\nBen was walking on the Great Orme when he fell to his death\n\nHe added that the Reddish Explorer Scouts trip did not adhere to the Scout Association's own policies.\n\nThe coroner said there was no list of participants on the trip, no risk assessment had been carried out and there was no full understanding of what a risk assessment was.\n\nHe added that each of the three leaders on the trip - Sean Glaister, Gareth Williams and Mary Carr - assumed Ben and his friends were with another leader when the incident happened.\n\nThe inquest jury at Ruthin County Court was discharged on Friday after new evidence was revealed.\n\nMr Pojur was critical that the Scout Association failed to tell the inquest that the leaders had been placed on restricted duties after the death.\n\nHe told the jury they had been \"misled\" by not being presented with the information about the leaders.\n\nBen had camped at Betws-y-Coed the night before his death and the group had been due to climb Snowdon, but went to Llandudno instead because of the weather conditions.\n\nA statement from the Scout Association said: \"We were truly saddened by Ben's tragic death. This was a terrible event, and our deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends.\n\n\"We take this matter very seriously. We will be carefully considering the coroner's concerns and will respond in detail.\n\n\"The safety of young people is our number one priority. Following this tragic event, we have strengthened our policies and procedures to ensure young people can enjoy activities safely.\"\n\nHis mother, Jackie Leonard, told the inquest the teenager had received his GCSE results three days before his death and had enrolled to study film and television at a college in Media City, Salford.\n\nShe said: \"He was a wonderful boy and a fantastic son and brother.\"\n\nA second inquest, where the chief executive of the Scout Association is expected be called to give evidence, is due to take place on 13 July.", "Dr Li posted this picture of himself from a hospital bed on 31 January - a day before he was diagnosed with coronavirus\n\nDr Li Wenliang, who was hailed a hero for raising the alarm about the coronavirus in the early days of the outbreak, has died of the infection.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the Wuhan hospital where he worked and was being treated, following conflicting reports about his condition on state media.\n\nDr Li, 34, tried to send a message to fellow medics about the outbreak at the end of December. Three days later police paid him a visit and told him to stop. He returned to work and caught the virus from a patient. He had been in hospital for at least three weeks.\n\nHe posted his story from his hospital bed last month on social media site Weibo.\n\n\"Hello everyone, this is Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital,\" the post begins.\n\nIt was a stunning insight into the botched response by local authorities in Wuhan in the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nDr Li was working at the centre of the outbreak in December when he noticed seven cases of a virus that he thought looked like Sars - the virus that led to a global epidemic in 2003. The cases were thought to come from the Huanan Seafood market in Wuhan and the patients were in quarantine in his hospital.\n\nOn 30 December he sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning them about the outbreak and advising they wear protective clothing to avoid infection.\n\nWhat Dr Li didn't know then was that the disease that had been discovered was an entirely new coronavirus.\n\nAfter falling sick, Dr Li said on Weibo that he wondered why authorities were still saying no medical staff had been infected\n\nFour days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he was told to sign a letter. In the letter he was accused of \"making false comments\" that had \"severely disturbed the social order\".\n\n\"We solemnly warn you: If you keep being stubborn, with such impertinence, and continue this illegal activity, you will be brought to justice - is that understood?\" Underneath in Dr Li's handwriting is written: \"Yes, I do.\"\n\nHe was one of eight people who police said were being investigated for \"spreading rumours\".\n\nAt the end of January, Dr Li published a copy of the letter on Weibo and explained what had happened. In the meantime, local authorities had apologised to him but that apology came too late.\n\nFor the first few weeks of January officials in Wuhan were insisting that only those who came into contact with infected animals could catch the virus. No guidance was issued to protect doctors.\n\nBut just a week after his visit from the police, Dr Li was treating a woman with glaucoma. He didn't know that she had been infected with the new coronavirus.\n\n\"We hope you can calm down and reflect on your behaviour,\" the letter police told him to sign says\n\nIn his Weibo post he describes how on 10 January he started coughing, the next day he had a fever and two days later he was in hospital. His parents also fell ill and were taken to hospital.\n\nIt was 10 days later - on 20 January - that China declared the outbreak an emergency.\n\nDr Li says he was tested several times for coronavirus, all of them came back negative.\n\nOn 30 January he posted again: \"Today nucleic acid testing came back with a positive result, the dust has settled, finally diagnosed.\"\n\nHe punctuated the short post with an emoji of a dog with its eyes rolled back, tongue hanging out.\n\nNot surprisingly the post received thousands of comments and words of support.\n\n\"Dr Li Wenliang is a hero,\" one user said, worrying about what his story says about their country. \"In the future, doctors will be more afraid to issue early warnings when they find signs of infectious diseases.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Antarctic Peninsula is among the fastest-warming regions on earth\n\nA record high temperature of 18.3C (64.9F) has been logged on the continent of Antarctica.\n\nThe reading, taken on Thursday by Argentine research base Esperanza, is 0.8C hotter than the previous peak temperature of 17.5C, in March 2015.\n\nThe temperature was recorded in the Antarctic Peninsula, on the continent's north-west tip - one of the fastest-warming regions on earth.\n\nIt is being verified by the UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).\n\n\"[This] is not a figure you would normally associate with Antarctica, even in the summertime,\" WMO spokeswoman Clare Nullis told reporters in Geneva.\n\nTemperatures on the Antarctic continent have risen by almost 3C over the past 50 years, the organisation said, and about 87% of the glaciers along its west coast have \"retreated\" in that time.\n\nThe glaciers have shown an \"accelerated retreat\" in the past 12 years, the WMO added, due to global warming.\n\nIce loss, seen in this Nasa image from 2017, threatens Antarctica\n\nScientists warn that global warming is causing so much melting at the South Pole, it will eventually disintegrate - causing the global sea level to rise by at least three metres (10ft) over centuries.\n\nMs Nullis added: \"The amount of ice lost annually from the Antarctic ice sheet increased at least six-fold between 1979 and 2017.\n\n\"The melting from these glaciers, you know, means we are in big trouble when it comes to sea level rise.\"\n\nWhile 18.3C is a record for the Antarctic continent, the record in the wider Antarctic region - which includes the continent, islands and ocean that are in the Antarctic climatic zone - is 19.8C, logged in January 1982.\n\nLast July, the Arctic region hit its own record temperature of 21C, logged by a base at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Justin Rowlatt experiences some of the challenges of filming in the Antarctic", "The US decision to ban its companies from using foreign telecoms providers regarded as a security risk is the latest salvo apparently directed against Chinese tech giant Huawei.\n\nThe US has been at the forefront of an effort to restrict the use of Huawei equipment in 5G mobile networks, citing serious security issues.\n\nHuawei is now facing resistance from other governments over the risk that its technology could be used for espionage.\n\nSo which other countries are blocking Huawei's 5G technology, and which are allowing it to operate?\n\nThis is new technology, in its very early stages of implementation, and many countries are still deciding what role - if any - Huawei should play.\n\nBut Huawei says it has now signed more than 40 commercial 5G contracts around the world, including in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.\n\nAustralia effectively banned Huawei and another Chinese telecom firm, ZTE, last year when it applied national security rules to companies supplying equipment to telecoms firms.\n\nNew Zealand has blocked Huawei from supplying one mobile network with 5G equipment, but has not yet ruled out all Huawei 5G contracts completely.\n\nThese two countries, along with the UK and Canada, make up the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network with the US.\n\nThe UK is still reviewing its 5G telecoms policy and may allow Huawei to supply \"non-core\" 5G components, such as antenna masts.\n\nCanada is still weighing up its decision over Huawei.\n\nThe United States has effectively blocked all Huawei involvement in its 5G networks.\n\nSo far, no European country has formally blocked Huawei, and the majority of the company's current global 5G contracts are with companies operating within Europe.\n\nThe EU in March issued recommendations about 5G security, asking member states to review their networks by the end of June and report their findings to the EU Commission.\n\nDespite pressure from the United States, Germany has resisted a ban, and France has not indicated it plans to follow a tough line against the Chinese company.\n\nThe Netherlands' largest telecom firm, KPN, has already made clear that it would not allow Huawei to build its \"core\" 5G infrastructure, but it could supply other equipment considered less sensitive.\n\nThe Dutch government is expected to make a decision on using Huawei equipment by the end of June.\n\nA telecoms firm in Russia signed a deal with Huawei on 5G technology during a visit to the country in June by the Chinese president.\n\nSouth Korea launched commercial 5G services last month, and one of its three carriers has used 5G equipment supplied by Huawei.\n\n5G trials are due to be carried out in India later this year with Huawei one of the companies invited to take part.\n\nHowever, there are reports that India may limit Huawei's involvement in developing its 5G infrastructure.\n\nMalaysia has already made clear that Huawei can be involved in developing its 5G networks, with the prime minister visiting the company's office in Beijing in April.\n\nIn Indonesia, the country's telecoms minister said earlier this year that it could not afford to be \"paranoid\" over using Huawei technology.\n\nIn Thailand, Huawei has already launched a 5G test project.\n\nVietnam, which is developing a 5G network, has not officially banned Huawei, although one of the largest largest telecoms carriers is currently using Ericsson technology.\n\nJapan has blocked the use of Huawei equipment for 5G over security fears, although as in other countries, Huawei kit is part of the existing 4G network.\n\nThe growth of 5G is likely to lead to other opportunities for Huawei around the world.\n\nThe company says it already has 10 confirmed 5G contracts in the Middle East.\n\nThe African continent has not been in the forefront of early 5G adoption, but its more advanced economies provide potentially fertile markets.\n\nIn South Africa, for example, Huawei has already announced its involvement in a commercial 5G network in Johannesburg with the mobile data provider, Rain.\n\nAccording to one industry-wide body, there were more than 200 operators in 85 countries investing in 5G networks in some form or another by March this year.", "Irish President Michael D Higgins cast his vote at St Mary's Hospital in Dublin on Saturday morning\n\nVoters are going to the polls in the Republic of Ireland's general election.\n\nPolls opened at 07:00 local time and will close at 22:00.\n\nCounting will begin on Sunday in all 39 constituencies. Newly elected TDs will gather on 20 February for the 33rd Dáil (Irish parliament).\n\nA total of 160 representatives will be returned to the Dáil. The ceann comhairle, or speaker, is automatically re-elected.\n\nIn most situations, the speaker does not vote, so a government will need 80 TDs to hold a majority.\n\nIt is unlikely that any party will reach that number, so another coalition government is probable.\n\nThe election uses proportional representation with a single transferrable vote.\n\nVoters write \"1\" opposite their first choice candidate, \"2\" opposite their second choice, \"3\" opposite their third choice and so on.\n\nPeople living on 12 islands off the coasts of counties Galway, Mayo and Donegal voted on Friday.\n\nLegislation to allow islanders to vote on the same day as other voters had not been passed by the time the general election was called.\n\nFianna Fáil leader Michéal Martin and family at the St Anthony's boys' school polling station in Ballinlough, County Cork\n\nTraditionally, islanders have voted ahead of the rest of the country to ensure that bad weather does not hamper the return of ballot boxes to the mainland in time for the count, which will start on Sunday.\n\nAbout 2,100 island residents were eligible to vote.\n\nIt is the first time that a general election in the Republic of Ireland has been held on a Saturday.\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald casts her vote at St Joseph's School in Dublin\n\nAt 22:00 local time on Saturday, an Ipsos MRBI exit poll commissioned by RTÉ, The Irish Times, TG4 and University College Dublin will be published.", "Christian Hirte congratulated Thomas Kemmerich on his win in Thuringia\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has dismissed a minister for praising the election of a liberal candidate who was supported by the far right.\n\nThe candidate, Thomas Kemmerich, won an election in the state of Thuringia with the backing of the far-right AfD party.\n\nChristian Hirte, who belongs to Mrs Merkel's CDU party, tweeted his congratulations afterwards.\n\nMr Kemmerich's victory with AfD support was seen as a political earthquake. Mrs Merkel said it was \"unforgiveable\".\n\nWednesday's election broke a taboo in German politics that mainstream parties do not work with the far right, and led to outrage among Ms Merkel's centre-left coalition partners in the national government, the Social Democrats (SPD).\n\nAs the vote sent shockwaves through Germany, Mr Hirte tweeted to FDP politician Mr Kemmerich: \"Your election as a candidate of the middle shows once again that the Thuringian [left-wing] red-green alliance has been voted out for good.\"\n\nThe tweet was widely condemned, and Sven Kindler, Green Party member of the German parliament - the Bundestag - replied: \"Forming pacts with Nazis and also giving your congratulations, what a shame.\"\n\nMr Hirte was a minister for former East German states and secretary of state for the economy and energy. In a brief statement, Mrs Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said: \"The chancellor has today proposed to the federal president the dismissal of Secretary of State Christian Hirte.\"\n\nThe vote sparked protests, including this one outside the chancellery in Berlin on Saturday\n\nIn a follow-up tweet sent on Saturday, Mr Hirte confirmed that he had been fired.\n\n\"Chancellor Merkel has told me... that I can no longer be the Federal Government Commissioner for the new states,\" he wrote. \"Therefore, following her suggestion, I have asked for my discharge.\"\n\nThis was the first time in post-war Germany that a leader has been helped into office by the far right. Mainstream parties officially oppose any deals with the AfD, which has grown to become the main opposition party in the Bundestag.\n\nFaced with a major backlash to his election win, Mr Kemmerich announced on Thursday that he would resign - just 25 hours after he was elected - and called for a snap election.\n\nThe following day he said his lawyers had advised him to stay on temporarily, but reversed this on Saturday, announced he was standing down \"with immediate effect\".\n\nHe has said he would turn down a pay package of €93,000 (£79,000; $102,000), which he was legally entitled to under Thuringia law even though he only served one day in office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSenior MPs in Thuringia's parliament plan to meet on 18 February to decide on a constitutional way to re-run the election for state premier.\n\nNo replacement has been chosen yet for Mr Kemmerich. There are calls for the public to vote in fresh regional elections in Thuringia, but Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) are resisting that option.\n\nThe CDU and the SPD were holding crisis talks on Saturday.", "Harry arrived in Canada to join his wife Meghan last month\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended a JP Morgan event in Miami on Thursday, a palace source has said.\n\nPrince Harry spoke at the event but it is unclear whether he was paid to appear.\n\nIt comes after the couple said they would step back as \"senior royals\" and work to become financially independent.\n\nThey intend to split their time between the UK and North America and, from the spring, will no longer be full-time working royals.\n\nThey will stop using their HRH titles, no longer carry out royal duties or military appointments and no longer formally represent the Queen.\n\nThe New York Post's Page Six, which first reported the story, said the Sussexes were \"keynote speakers\" as they made their first appearance together since the Queen granted their wish to step back as full-time royals.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond says the \"presumption has to be that they weren't paid\" for the event because, for now, they are still working members of the Royal Family.\n\nCBS News host Gayle King introduced Meghan, who spoke of her love for her husband, before introducing him at 1 Hotel in Miami's South Beach, Page Six reported.\n\nHe is said to have talked about his mental health, something he has spoken about many times in the past.\n\nIn 2017, the duke revealed he sought counselling after \"shutting down\" his emotions for almost 20 years following the death of his mother.\n\nIn an ITV documentary last year, Prince Harry described his mental health and the way he deals with the pressures of his life as a matter of \"constant management\".\n\nPrince Harry arrived in Vancouver Island last month, where his wife Meghan had been staying with their nine-month-old son Archie.\n\nThe couple briefly returned to the UK in January following an extended six-week Christmas break there.\n\nSince the couple announced their desire to become financially independent there has been speculation about how they might make money.\n\nPublic speaking, TV production and book deals have been touted as possible income sources for the couple. They also plan to launch a charitable foundation.\n\nCurrently, 95% of the couple's income comes from Prince Charles's income from the Duchy of Cornwall, a vast portfolio of property and financial investments, which brought in £21.6m last year.\n\nIt is believed the couple will continue to receive money from Prince Harry's father under the new agreement, although it is unclear whether this will come from the Duchy, his personal wealth, or a combination of the two.\n\nHowever, the Sussexes will stop receiving money from the taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant, which makes up the other 5% of their income.", "Jonathan Ashworth: 'I was correct - that was the irony of the phone call'\n\nLabour's \"devastating\" general election defeat could spell the end of the party, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has warned.\n\nThe Labour MP told a BBC Radio 4 documentary the party had to change or face up to 15 years out of power.\n\n\"Unless we do something quick this could be the end of the Labour Party in this country\", he said.\n\nSenior Labour and Tory figures give frank assessments of the 2019 campaign in the programme to be aired on Sunday.\n\nLabour went down to its worst defeat, in terms of seats, since 1935, although its vote share was slightly higher than when it lost in 2010 and 2015.\n\nMr Ashworth had to apologise to his party two days before the election, after saying he did not believe it could win, blaming \"the combination of Corbyn and Brexit\".\n\nHe said he was \"set up\" by a Tory friend, who secretly recorded his comments and released them to the media.\n\n\"I obviously regret that and I still think about it all time,\" he told The Inside Story of Election 19 documentary.\n\nBut he added: \"I was correct - that was the irony of the phone call.\"\n\nThe Leicester South MP is critical of Labour's decision to focus on claims the Conservatives were plotting to put the NHS on the table in trade talks with America.\n\n\"It was a legitimate point to make, but I think, politically, voters didn't buy it,\" he said, because it did not directly affect their lives.\n\nMichael Gove: 'Boris would have done brilliantly'\n\nHe also claims there was a lack of communication and planning at the heart of Labour's campaign.\n\nHe said he was told about the party's free broadband pledge by a BBC Newsnight producer while he was waiting to go on air to talk about Labour's NHS policies.\n\n\"I knew nothing about it,\" he said, adding that it \"was a week when we were trying to focus on the NHS and we were suddenly going off in another direction\".\n\nHe added that he did not think Labour should assume it would automatically return to power - and it needed to change.\n\n\"We could be out for another five to 10, 15 years,\" he said.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's former director of communications, James Schneider, also highlights a lack of trust between the key players in the campaign.\n\n\"John (McDonnell) and his shadow Treasury team did guard quite closely their big announcements,\" he told presenter Anne McElvoy.\n\n\"Over the course of 2019, and the disagreements on Brexit, the levels of trust within the operation had reduced very much and there was some operational scratchiness.\"\n\nHe said Labour's campaign slogan \"it's time for real change\" never \"took off\", adding \"we never filled it in with content or with other meaning\", giving the impression that the party was \"throwing things at the wall\".\n\nThe Conservatives honed their social media messages during the campaign before unleashing a barrage of \"negative, nasty messages about Jeremy\" in the final days, says Mr Schneider.\n\nIsaac Levido, the Australian strategist who ran the Conservative campaign, said he had no regrets about any of the party's messages.\n\nHe describes a much-criticised social media video, edited to show Sir Keir Starmer apparently unable to answer a question on Labour's Brexit position, as \"a little bit of fun\".\n\n\"From time to time you need to do things that cut through,\" he added.\n\nHe also revealed that he had tried to maintain morale at Tory HQ by playing music, including One Day More, from the musical Les Miserables, on the eve of polling day.\n\n\"I think there was a bit of a sing-a-long. People were quite delirious by that point,\" he added.\n\nCabinet Minister Michael Gove is asked if it was a mistake for Boris Johnson not to be interviewed by the BBC's Andrew Neil.\n\n\"No, because we won,\" he replied.\n\n\"I'm sure Boris would have done brilliantly, but with the best will in the world and I am huge fan of Andrew Neil, the purpose of running an election campaign is to win so that you can govern the country well, not to agree to every broadcast bid.\"\n\nLib Dem leadership contender Layla Moran said her party failed to properly explain its policy of cancelling Brexit if it won the election.\n\n\"It made us look arrogant, and it made us look stupid,\" she says.\n\nThe Inside Story of Election 19 is on BBC Radio 4 at 1330 GMT, presented by Anne McElvoy and produced by Peter Snowdon.", "Health worker Yao (not pictured) said hospital staff are not allowed to eat, rest or use the toilet during their 10-hour shifts\n\nMore than 600 people have been killed by a new strain of coronavirus since its outbreak began in China at the end of last year.\n\nBut while infection numbers rise, information about conditions on the ground in China is limited.\n\nInitially, news organisations in the country were able to report on the epidemic in detail.\n\nIn recent days, however, internet platforms have taken down several articles criticising the government's efforts to curb the virus.\n\nOfficials have also sought to crack down on the warnings shared by a doctor when the coronavirus began to spread.\n\nIn a rare occurrence, the BBC spoke with a health worker in Hubei, the province at the outbreak's epicentre.\n\nTo protect her identity, she asked to be referred by her family name, Yao.\n\nYao is based at a hospital in Hubei's second-largest city, Xiangyang. She works in what she describes as a \"fever clinic,\" where she analyses blood samples taken to diagnose anyone suspected of having coronavirus.\n\nBefore the outbreak, Yao had planned to travel to Guangzhou to spend Chinese New Year with her family.\n\nHer child and mother travelled ahead of her, but when the epidemic broke out, Yao decided to volunteer in Xiangyang instead.\n\n\"It's true that we all live one life, but there was just this strong voice inside me saying 'you must go,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nAt first she had to overcome her doubts about the decision.\n\n\"I told myself: be prepared and protect yourself well,\" Yao said. \"Even if there was no protective suit, I could always wear a raincoat. If there was no mask, I could ask friends all over China to send one to me. There is always a way.\"\n\nYao says she found that the hospital is better supplied than she expected. The government has delivered resources and private companies have donated equipment to help.\n\nThere is still a shortage of protective masks and suits, however, and not every member of staff is properly protected.\n\n\"It's a difficult job, it's very sad and heart-breaking, and most of the time we just don't have time to think about our own safety,\" said Yao.\n\n\"We also have to treat the patients with tender care, because many people came to us with great fear, some of them were on the verge of a nervous breakdown\".\n\nTo deal with the high number of incoming patients, staff at the hospital work in 10-hour shifts. Yao said that during these shifts no-one can eat, drink, take a break, or use the toilets.\n\n\"At the end of the shift, when we take off the suits, we'll find our clothes are completely wet with sweat,\" said Yao. \"Our forehead, nose, neck and face are left with deep marks by the tight masks and sometimes even cuts.\n\n\"Many of my colleagues just sleep on chairs after the shifts, because they're too tired to walk,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's online health editor on what we know about the virus\n\nBut despite the hardship, Yao says none of the hospital's medical staff have been infected.\n\nShe and her colleagues have also been boosted by warm messages from members of the public. Some people have even sent food and other daily necessities.\n\n\"I feel that even though they are quarantined at home, the virus brings our hearts together,\" said Yao.\n\nIn all, she said China's government's response to the coronavirus outbreak has been \"fairly quick,\" and no other country could have given a better response.\n\n\"In the West, you talk more about freedom or human rights, but right now in China, we're talking about the matter of life or death,\" said Yao.\n\n\"We're talking about whether you might see the sunrise tomorrow. So all people can do is to cooperate with the government and support the medical staff\".", "Derek Mackay resigned on Wednesday hours before he was due to present the Scottish budget\n\nPolice have spoken to a 16-year-old schoolboy sent hundreds of social media messages by Scotland's former finance secretary Derek Mackay.\n\nPolice Scotland said that while it had not \"received any complaint of criminality\", it was \"assessing available information\".\n\nMr Mackay resigned as finance secretary hours before he was due to present the Scottish budget.\n\nPolice have appealed to others with information to come forward.\n\nIt followed claims, first published in The Scottish Sun, that Mr Mackay sent 270 messages to the boy over a six-month period on Instagram and Facebook.\n\nThe youngster has since told the paper: \"I was happy to speak to the police and will tell them everything that happened.\n\n\"I didn't think what he was doing was a crime, but I knew it was wrong and should be highlighted.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We have not received any complaint of criminality, however we are currently assessing available information.\n\n\"We would encourage anyone with information to please come forward.\n\n\"Police Scotland will always listen to anyone who wishes to seek advice or formally report a matter to us.\"\n\nSince the scandal broke Mr McKay has deleted or restricted access to his social media accounts.\n\nMr Mackay's social media accounts have been restricted or deleted\n\nMr Mackay - who has also been suspended from the SNP pending investigation - is reported to have called the youngster \"cute\" as well as offering to take him to a rugby game and out to dinner.\n\nOpposition politicians have condemned what they described as \"predatory\" behaviour from Mr Mackay - who had been tipped as a future successor to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - saying the messages amounted to \"grooming\".\n\nMr Mackay, a father-of-two who came out as gay in 2013, has not been seen in public since the story broke on Wednesday night.\n\nIt was later reported that the Renfrewshire North and West MSP had also sent dozens of unwanted messages to an SNP activist over a period of four years.\n\nShaun Cameron, 25, told the Daily Record on Friday that the MSP contacted him on Facebook after meeting him at an SNP event when he was 21. He said some of the messages were \"quite suggestive\" - alleging the then finance secretary had asked him in September 2017: \"Got any naughty pics?\"\n\nMs Sturgeon confirmed to MSPs at Holyrood on Thursday that she had accepted Mr Mackay's resignation from government - saying his behaviour had fallen \"seriously below the standard required of a minister\".\n\nIn his resignation statement, Mr Mackay accepted he had \"behaved foolishly\" and he apologised unreservedly to the teenage boy and his family.\n\nHe said at the time: \"I take full responsibility for my actions. I have behaved foolishly and I am truly sorry.\"\n\nHe remains an MSP but is facing mounting calls to resign.", "There are just over 1,000 mountain gorillas in existence\n\nFour rare mountain gorillas, including a pregnant female, have died in Uganda after being hit by lightning, a conservation group says.\n\nThe three adult females and a male infant were found in Uganda's Mgahinga National Park with \"gross lesions\" on their bodies indicating electrocution.\n\nThe Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC) called this a \"big loss for the species\".\n\nThere are just over 1,000 mountain gorillas in existence.\n\nThe species is restricted to protected areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.\n\nThe four that died were part of a 17-member group, which has been called the Hirwa family by the authorities.\n\nMembers of the Hirwa group were photographed in 2012\n\nThe Hirwa group had crossed the border from Rwanda into Uganda last year and had been living in Uganda's Mgahinga National Park.\n\nMgahinga is in the Virunga Massif range of mountains which straddle the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo.\n\n\"This was extremely sad,\" Andrew Seguya, executive secretary of the GVTC, told the BBC.\n\n\"The potential of the three females for their contribution to the population was immense,\" Dr Seguya said.\n\nHe added that the 13 surviving members of the Hirwa family have been found and are feeding well.\n\nSamples from the post-mortem are currently being tested and confirmation of the cause of death is expected within the next three weeks, GVTC said.\n\nIn 2018, the mountain gorilla was removed from the list of critically endangered species, after intensive conservation efforts, including anti-poaching patrols, paid off.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly 100 Britons have already been flown out of Wuhan on flights arranged by the UK government\n\nAround 150 Britons on the next UK government flight back from Wuhan will be taken to a conference centre in Milton Keynes for a 14-day quarantine.\n\nUK citizens on two earlier repatriation flights from the Chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak are at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral.\n\nThere have been three cases of coronavirus in the UK so far.\n\nThe third patient caught the virus at a business conference in Singapore, the BBC's Hugh Pym says.\n\nSingaporean authorities contacted the man, who is British, to warn him there had been a confirmed case.\n\nHe is thought to have tested positive for the virus in Brighton and called NHS 111 from home for advice before going by arrangement to an isolation facility at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.\n\nHe was tested and then went home, isolating himself while he waited for the results. The man was then transported by the NHS to St Thomas's Hospital in London, where he is being treated.\n\nThe latest British nationals to be flown out of Wuhan on Sunday will be taken to Kents Hill Park, a training and conference venue on the outskirts of Milton Keynes.\n\nMilton Keynes University Hospitals NHS Trust said there was no risk to local people as anyone showing symptoms would not be allowed to board the plane.\n\nAfter they arrive, passengers will continue to be monitored and anyone who shows symptoms during their two-week stay will be tested for the virus, the trust said in a statement.\n\nAnyone who tests positive will be isolated and given specialist NHS care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sea urchins and Swiss rolls: Quarantine around the world\n\nThe two other UK cases - both Chinese nationals - are being treated at the Royal Victoria Infirmary infectious diseases centre in Newcastle.\n\nThe patients - a University of York student and one of their relatives - tested positive for the virus after falling ill at a hotel in York.\n\nThere have been more than 31,000 cases worldwide, mostly in China.\n\nMore than 600 people have died but only two of these were outside mainland China - one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.\n\nMeanwhile, 61 people - including one British national - have tested positive for the virus on a cruise ship off the coast of Japan.\n\nBriton Alan Steele, from Wolverhampton, who was on his honeymoon with his wife Wendy, is among those to be taken off the ship for hospital treatment.\n\nHe posted on Facebook on Friday that his new wife had remained on board.\n\nHe told friends: \"Would also like to say that at the moment I am not showing any symptoms so just possibly a carrier. Will let you know how I am going on when possible.\"\n\nSome 3,700 people are on board the Diamond Princess, which is quarantined in Yokohama for at least two weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Diamond Princess passenger David Abel: \"In addition to the face masks, we've now been given gloves\"\n\nNearly 100 Britons have been flown out of Wuhan on flights arranged by the UK government.\n\nAll are now in quarantine on the Wirral for 14 days - the incubation period of the virus - to ensure they are not carrying the infection.\n\nA final chartered flight for Britons is due to leave the city on Sunday, the Foreign Office said.\n\nOn Thursday, the government updated its advice for people arriving in the UK from nine Asian countries and territories.\n\nAnyone returning from the specified countries in the past fortnight who has symptoms including a cough, fever or shortness of breath is advised to stay indoors and call the NHS 111 service.\n\nPreviously this advice had only applied to travellers arriving from mainland China.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also advised Britons in China to leave the country if they can to minimise the risk of exposure to the virus.\n\nThe coronavirus causes severe acute respiratory infection and symptoms usually start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. Most people infected are likely to fully recover - just as they would from a flu.\n\nThe World Health Organization said data from 17,000 patients suggested 82% have mild disease, 15% severe and 3% critical.", "Jakraphanth Thomma, a Thai soldier, went on a shooting rampage in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima\n\nOn Saturday 8 February, Thai soldier Jakraphanth Thomma killed his commanding officer, stole weapons from a military base, and went on to launch a devastating attack on civilians in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima.\n\nSo far 26 people have been confirmed dead with 57 injured, but those numbers could rise.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the security forces shot Jakraphanth dead, after he had been holed up all night in a shopping centre.\n\nHere's how it all unfolded (all times local, GMT +7 hours)\n\nThe attack begins. Jakraphanth, 32, kills his commanding officer, Col Anantharot Krasae, 48, and Col Anantharot's 63-year-old mother-in-law, Anong Mitchan.\n\nJakraphanth steals weapons - an HK33 assault rifle, BBC Thai reports - and ammunition, before fleeing the camp in a Humvee-type vehicle.\n\nFootage appears to show Jakraphanth arriving at the Terminal 21 shopping centre in Korat.\n\nHe goes on to indiscriminately shoot at people inside the mall, killing and injuring dozens of people.\n\nHe posts updates on Facebook during the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gunshots can be heard and people can be seen running through the shopping centre\n\nOfficials confirm that Jakraphanth is on the fourth floor of the shopping centre. Reports say he is holding hostages inside.\n\nHe posts a video of himself holding a rifle on Facebook, and says: \"Tired, I can barely move my fingers.\"\n\nPeople trapped inside the shopping centre hide in bathroom cubicles and under tables, they later tell BBC Thai.\n\nFacebook takes down the post and profile soon afterwards.\n\nFacebook says in a statement: \"Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and the community affected by this tragedy in Thailand.\n\n\"There is no place on Facebook for people who commit this kind of atrocity, nor do we allow people to praise or support this attack.\"\n\nColonel Krishna Phatthanacharoen, deputy spokesman for the Royal Thai Police, confirms that more than 10 people have died.\n\nA number of police officers surround the shopping centre, while others enter the building to try and help people inside to escape.\n\nA radius of 2km around the shopping centre is cordoned off.\n\nPolice officers meet Jakraphanth's mother, and bring her to the shopping centre so she can attempt to persuade him to surrender.\n\nThe official death toll rises to 16.\n\nAnother round of gunfire is heard from within the shopping centre, before calming down again.\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Defence says that the military will assist the police in protecting the shopping centre, and helping people trapped inside to escape.\n\nOfficers confirm that they have managed to clear the ground floor of the shopping centre, as well as floors one, two and three. Images show people fleeing.\n\nArmy officials ask news outlets to stop live coverage of the attack, to avoid giving the suspect information about their operations.\n\nAs ambulances arrived at the shopping centre, there were reports of further gunfire\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnverakul confirms that the death toll has risen to 20. He says 16 people died at the scene, while another four died in hospital.\n\nHe adds that two police officers have been shot in the back and the leg, and are currently undergoing surgery.\n\nThere are reports of sporadic rounds of gunfire within the building. Special Operations officers enter the building.\n\nAt the same time, about five ambulances arrive at the shopping centre to take injured people to hospital.\n\nA member of the security forces dies in the operation.\n\nThe security forces announce that they have shot dead the gunman.\n\nPublic Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul posts on his Facebook page, thanking the police and the military officers who carried out the operation.\n\n\"It is unprecedented in Thailand, and I want this to be the last time this crisis happens,\" said Prayuth Chan-ocha outside a hospital in Nakhon Ratchasima.\n\nHe announced a revised death toll of 26, plus the gunman, with 57 people wounded.\n\nHe said that a property deal appeared to have given Jakraphanth a sense of grievance which led to his rampage.", "Thailand is the only country in South East Asia to have escaped colonial rule. Buddhist religion, the monarchy and the military have helped to shape its society and politics.\n\nThe military has ruled for most of the period since 1947, with a few interludes in which the country had a democratically elected government.\n\nSince 2001, Thai politics have been dominated by the deep split between supporters and detractors of Thaksin Shinawatra, who served as prime minister until he was ousted by the military in 2006.\n\nIn 2023, Thailand's opposition parties secured by far the largest number of votes in national elections, as voters delivered a significant rebuke to the military-backed government that had ruled since the 2014 coup.\n\nThailand is a constitutional monarchy. Maha Vajiralongkorn, the 10th Thai monarch of the Chakri dynasty, was proclaimed king in December 2016.\n\nHe succeeded his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest reigning monarch at the time, who died in October that year.\n\nSrettha Thavisin of the populist Pheu Thai party won the backing of parliament to become Thailand's next prime minister in August 2023, paving the way for a new coalition government and putting an end to the political impasse that followed the country's May elections.\n\nThe vote came hours after the Pheu Thai party's billionaire figurehead Thaksin Shinawatra made an historic homecoming after years as a fugitive in self-imposed exile.\n\nThe progressive Move Forward Party, which won the most votes, was blocked from taking power by conservative senators - all of whom were appointed by the army following its 2014 coup. Thavisin's appointment as prime minister cements his party's coalition with its former military rivals.\n\nUnder Thailand's constitution drafted under military rule after the coup, both houses of parliament must vote to select a new prime minister.\n\nThailand's military has a seized power 12 times since the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932.\n\nThe government and military control nearly all the national terrestrial television networks, and operate many of Thailand's radio networks.\n\nThe media are free to criticise government policies, and cover instances of corruption and human rights abuses.\n\nHowever, a strict lese majeste law prohibits media in Thailand from reporting anything that could be deemed critical of the royal family, and journalists tend to exercise self-censorship regarding the military, the judiciary and other sensitive issues.\n\n20,000BC - Evidence of continuous human habitation in present-day Thailand from this date onwards.\n\nc. 1250-1000BC - Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand, currently the earliest known centre of copper and bronze production in South East Asia\n\n68-550AD - Funan Kingdom, centred on the Mekong Delta, becomes the area's first known regional power.\n\n802-1431 - Khmer Empire, centred on Angkor Wat in Cambodia, encompasses much of modern Thailand.\n\n1238-1438 - Sukhothai Kingdom. Pho Khun Bang Klang Hao, a local Tai ruler, becomes the first ruler of the kingdom, based around Sukhothai in north-central Thailand, having rallied resistance to Khmer rule. In 1438 it falls under the influence of the neighbouring Ayutthaya.\n\n1351-1767 - Ayutthaya Kingdom, centred on the southern city of Ayutthaya, becomes on great powers of Asia, and is considered the precursor of modern Thailand.\n\nAyutthaya reached its peak under the reign of King Narai the Great\n\n1656-1688 - Under Narai the Great, Ayutthaya makes commercial and diplomatic links with countries in the Middle East and West. It develops close diplomatic relations with Louis XIV in France. The kingdom sees intense rivalry between the competing Dutch, French and English trading companies.\n\n1767 - Ayutthaya is captured by Burmese forces and destroyed.\n\n1767-1782 - Thonburi Kingdom. Seat of power is moved south to Thonburi, now a district in present-day Bangkok. Founded by Taksin the Great, who reunites the country following the collapse of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.\n\n1782 - Rattanakosin Kingdom founded. Army commander Phra Phutthayotfa Chulalok Maharaj overthrows Taksin and as Rama I becomes the first monarch of the reigning Chakri dynasty of Siam, now Thailand. Rattanakosin, now Bangkok, becomes the new capital of the reunited kingdom.\n\n1896 - Rival colonial powers Britain and France agree to make Thailand's central Chao Phraya valley a buffer state between their territories in India and Burma (now Myanmar) and France's occupation of Indochina.\n\n1932 - Absolute monarchy gives way to constitutional monarchy with parliamentary government.\n\n1939 - Decree changes the name of the country from \"Siam\" to \"Thailand\".\n\n1940-41 - Following the fall of France in World War Two, Thailand fights a brief conflict with colonial Vichy France resulting in Thailand gaining some Lao and Cambodian territories.\n\n1941 - Japan attacks US fleet at Pearl Harbor and invades Dutch East Indies. Japanese armies cross Thailand to invade Malaya and Burma. Thailand allies with Japan.\n\n1947 - First post-1945 military coup. The military retains power continuously until 1973.\n\n1954 - Thailand joins the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (Seato) to become an active US ally.\n\n1961 - Following the United States' increasing involvement in the Vietnam War, the US secretly agrees to protect Thailand. From the mid-60s onwards, The US uses Thai air bases to bomb North Vietnam.\n\n1965-83 - Communist insurgency: Fought mainly between the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) and Thai government forces, the fighting winds down after 1980 following the announcement of an amnesty. More than 7,000 soldiers, government officials, insurgent and civilians are killed in the fighting.\n\n1975 - End of the Vietnam war: South Vietnam collapses following the US withdrawal of military support, North Vietnamese forces sweep south and occupy Saigon.\n\n2001 - Populist Thaksin Shinawatra becomes prime minister for first time.\n\n2011 - Pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai party wins a landslide victory in elections and his younger sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, becomes prime minister.\n\n2014 - Military junta led by General Prayuth Chan-ocha seize power. The junta binds future governments to a 20-year national strategy 'road map' it laid down, effectively locking the country into military-guided democracy.\n\n2016 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej dies after 70 years on the throne, and is succeeded by his son, Maha Vajiralongkorn.\n\n2023 - Thailand's charismaic former PM Thaksin Shinawatra is jailed on returning to the country after 15 years in self-imposed exile, though many believe he has done a deal meaning he will only serve a short period in prison.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charles Dickens gives advice to a fan about her \"state of mind\"\n\nLetters by Charles Dickens, revealing his state of mind while working on novels including A Christmas Carol, are to go on display for the first time.\n\nIn one, he discloses: \"I have been writing my head off since ten o'clock...\" despite being on holiday.\n\nThe 25 unpublished letters are part of a huge collection of manuscripts, books from his library and personal items.\n\nThey have been acquired by the Charles Dickens Museum in London and will go on display later in the year.\n\nThe acquisition is being announced to mark the writer's birthday on Friday.\n\nWhile he was writing A Christmas Carol, Dickens sent a letter dated 9 November 1843 to a close friend.\n\n\"I have half done the Christmas Book, and am resting for two days before going to Chuzzlewit [Martin Chuzzlewit, his sixth novel] - that is, if I can call anything rest, with that before me.\n\nAn envelope from Dickens' letters talking about the progress of A Christmas Carol\n\n\"Yesterday I walked a great deal. Today I am going out on horseback, for a thirty mile ride.\"\n\nCindy Sughrue, director of the Charles Dickens Museum, says the letters shed light on Dickens' \"creative process\" and help answer the question \"what did he do to enable himself to write?\"\n\nExercise was clearly important. Another letter was written in 1846 when Dickens and his family went to stay in Switzerland for several months. At the time he was starting work on Dombey and Son.\n\n\"It is a tough day, but it is a great thing to get rid of the heat... I may perhaps take a boat for exercise, this evening after dinner…\" Dickens wrote.\n\nSughrue finds fascinating Dickens' ability to keep on working, no matter what his circumstances.\n\n\"It's this mixture of being on holiday… enjoying a completely different culture and still 'writing his head off' and meeting those publication deadlines throughout,\" she says.\n\nDickens tells his friend about his \"touch of the fidgets\"\n\n\"He worked hard and he played hard.\"\n\nOther unpublished letters reveal Dickens' strained relationship with his father John.\n\nAnd while Dickens destroyed most of the letters sent to him, there is also the only complete exchange of letters that has survived - between Dickens and one of his fans, a young Danish woman.\n\nIn one he offers her advice, writing: \"The state of mind which you describe is not a wholesome one… the remedy for it, however, is easy… action, usefulness.\n\n\"Let me have the great gratification of believing, one day, that the correspondence you have opened with me, had done some good, and made a lighter and more cheerful heart than it found in you.\"\n\nThe Charles Dickens Museum acquired the collection from an American who had spent more than 40 years putting it together.\n\nThe museum raised the £1.8m to buy it with the help of grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Friends of the National Libraries and the Dickens Fellowship.\n\nMark Dickens, the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, said: \"This quite staggering material brings us even closer to the man himself, his character, feelings, family and friends.\"\n\nThe collection will now be catalogued and conserved - and put online, as well as on display at the museum.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Brett Kinloch, pictured with daughters Freya (left) and Ella (right), died on the same day Ariya was born\n\nThe wife of a man who met his newborn baby daughter just hours before he died has spent the year fulfilling his unfinished bucket list.\n\nBrett Kinloch, 31, died of a brain tumour in February last year at Milton Keynes Hospital.\n\nHis wife rushed from another hospital 50 minutes after giving birth so she could place Ariya in his arms.\n\nNicola Kinloch said her husband was \"still guiding\" the family to add new experiences to their lives.\n\nNicola Kinloch said Australia was somewhere she had always planned to go to with Brett\n\nMrs Kinloch's parents also joined them to tick off dreams on the bucket list\n\nMrs Kinloch said since her husband died on 11 February, she had visited Australia - a place they had always wanted to travel to together - and jumped out of a plane.\n\nThe 32-year-old is also planning to run the London Marathon next year.\n\nThey were all experiences her husband had written down as life goals when he was 21.\n\nMrs Kinloch, from Linslade in Bedfordshire, said: \"Brett had already done some of the things on his own and we ticked off a lot together as a couple.\n\n\"I knew it [the bucket list] was on the laptop so I dug it out and updated it after Brett died.\"\n\nFrom left to right: Freya, Ariya and Ella Kinloch\n\nMrs Kinloch said the list had taken the family - their three daughters Freya, five, Ella, two, and Ariya, plus her parents - to see Ayers Rock and the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nShe also ticked off doing a skydive while in Australia.\n\n\"Australia was somewhere we had always talked about going together and although doing a skydive wasn't on top of my own priority list, I'm so glad I did it, it was such an amazing experience,\" she said.\n\nThe PE teacher added: \"Brett is still guiding us, inspiring us and motivating us to add new experiences.\"\n\nMrs Kinloch said doing a skydive was an \"amazing experience\"\n\nMr Kinloch was diagnosed with the aggressive tumour in 2015.\n\nHis wife, who has raised awareness of the Stand Up to Cancer campaign, said he remained positive and \"never lost hope\" during his illness.\n\nOn the day of his death, Mrs Kinloch gave birth to Ariya at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, about 20 miles away from Milton Keynes Hospital.\n\nShe was born three hours before her father died.\n\nNicola Kinloch said her husband \"never lost hope\" during his illness\n\nAriya was born three hours before Mr Kinloch died on 11 February 2019\n\nMrs Kinloch said 11 February - this Tuesday - would be bittersweet as it was Ariya's birthday as well as the day their \"daddy died\".\n\n\"But I want the girls to be aware that it falls on the same day,\" she said.\n\nThey plan to mark the occasion with a party for Ariya at the weekend and creating stone paintings to take to the cemetery on Tuesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook's social media accounts were temporarily taken over by a group of hackers on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe hacking group OurMine posted on the Twitter and Instagram accounts for Facebook and Messenger, writing \"even Facebook is hackable\".\n\nThe accounts have now been restored.\n\nOurMine claims its attacks are an attempt to show cyber vulnerabilities. In January it hijacked over a dozen accounts for teams in the US National Football League.\n\nThe group posted a statement on Facebook's Twitter account. \"Hi, we are OurMine. Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security is better then Twitter.\"\n\nIt also hijacked the Facebook and Messenger accounts on Instagram to post a photo of OurMine's logo.\n\nFacebook's own website was not hacked.\n\nTwitter confirmed that the hacking occurred via a third-party and that accounts were locked once it was alerted to the issue.\n\n\"As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we locked the compromised accounts and are working closely with our partners at Facebook to restore them,\" Twitter said in a statement.\n\nThe attack on Facebook seems to have followed a similar hack on teams in the National Football League. The accounts appear to have been accessed via the third-party platform Khoros.\n\nKhoros is a marketing platform that businesses can use to manage their social media communications. Typically these platforms manage or have access to the passwords and login details of their customers.\n\nKhoros did not respond to a BBC request for comment.\n\nOurMine is a Dubai-based hacking group that attacked the accounts of corporations and high-profile individuals in the past. In the past, it has temporality infiltrated the social media account of Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey, Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai, and the corporate accounts of Netflix and ESPN\n\nThe group claims its attacks are designed to show a lack of security. But it also instructs victims to use its services to improve safeguards.", "Body Coach star Joe Wicks is to read the CBeebies bedtime story on Valentine's Day, it has been announced.\n\nThe fitness coach and father-of-two will read Love Monster and the Perfect Present, by Rachel Bright.\n\nHe said he was excited to share the experience with daughter Indie, one, newborn son Marley and his nephews.\n\nWicks is the latest in a long list of stars, including Dolly Parton, Orlando Bloom, Alesha Dixon and Sir Elton John, to have read a story on the channel.\n\nThe 33-year-old said: \"One of my favourite things in the world is sitting down before bed and reading a new story with Indie. I love seeing her eyes light up and learn every day.\n\n\"I'm amazed by how much babies absorb language through books. I'm so excited to show Indie, Marley and my nephews my Bedtime Stories. I had so much fun reading them.\"\n\nActors Tom Hardy and Luke Evans have previously been chosen for the Valentine's Day show.\n\nWicks's reading will be broadcast on 14 February at 18:50 GMT.\n\nThe book is part of a series about Love Monster, the only monster in Cutesville. It is written and illustrated by Bright and has also been made into a CBeebies series.", "A soldier has gone on a shooting spree in the Thai city of Nakhon Ratchasima.\n\nReports say at least 20 people have been killed and many others injured.\n\nThe gunman is still on the loose.", "Thousands outside of China have been put under quarantine, as they remain under observation for signs of coronavirus.\n\nThey have either been evacuated from China to their home countries or have been in contact with infected people, and now have to stay in isolation for at least 14 days.\n\nWhile some of those quarantined within China, particularly in Hubei province, have reported poor living conditions, many of those in lockdown in the rest of the world have been put up in comfortable converted military camps and government facilities.\n\nSome are also on cruise ships - or being housed in seaside holiday resorts.", "Severe weather and flash flood warnings have been issued to citizens living in New South Wales after heavy rainfall caused some of the heaviest floods in almost 20 years.\n\nNew South Wales Minister for Police and Emergency, David Elliot, has told those in the area to take the flooding seriously.", "The three main political parties have tied in first preference votes, according to an exit poll for the Republic of Ireland's general election.\n\nThe earliest indications from the poll suggest there is little difference between Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil.\n\nPolling closed in the general election at 22:00 GMT.\n\nCounting to elect the 33rd Dáil (Irish parliament) will begin on Sunday in all 39 constituencies.\n\nThere will be coverage of the election results on the BBC News NI website from 12:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThe poll was commissioned jointly by RTÉ, The Irish Times, TG4 and UCD and included sampling of 5,000 respondents at 250 polling stations.\n\nRTÉ says voting appears to have been \"solid\".\n\nHowever, there is no expectation of a spike in voting compared to 2016 despite it being the first ever Saturday general election vote.\n\nFactors that may have affected turnout include the poor weather and international rugby.\n\nThe exit poll indicates that Fine Gael secured 22.4% of first preference votes, closely followed by Sinn Féin (22.3%) and Fianna Fáil (22.2%).\n\nIt also suggests the Green Party secured 7.9% of first preference votes, followed by Labour (4.6%), Social Democrats (3.4%), Solidarity People Before Profit (2.8%).\n\nIndications are that Independents took 11.2% of first preference votes.\n\nThe poll suggests a move toward Sinn Féin among younger voters, with the party receiving the largest number of first preference votes among 18-24 years olds (31.8%).\n\nThe majority of voters over the age of 65 appear to have given their first preference to Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil\n\nThere is a margin of error of 1.3% in either direction in the exit poll.\n\nA total of 160 representatives will be returned to the Dáil and newly elected TDs will gather on 20 February .\n\nThe ceann comhairle, or speaker, is automatically re-elected.\n\nIn most situations, the speaker does not vote, so a government will need 80 TDs to hold a majority.\n\nIt is unlikely that any party will reach that number, so another coalition government is probable.\n\nThe election uses proportional representation with a single transferrable vote.\n\nVoters wrote \"1\" opposite their first choice candidate, \"2\" opposite their second choice, \"3\" opposite their third choice and so on.\n\nFianna Fáil leader Michéal Martin and family at the St Anthony's boys' school polling station in Ballinlough, County Cork\n\nPeople living on 12 islands off the coasts of counties Galway, Mayo and Donegal voted on Friday.\n\nLegislation to allow islanders to vote on the same day as other voters had not been passed by the time the general election was called.\n\nTraditionally, islanders have voted ahead of the rest of the country to ensure that bad weather does not hamper the return of ballot boxes to the mainland in time for the count, which will start on Sunday.\n\nAbout 2,100 island residents were eligible to vote.\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald casts her vote at St Joseph's School in Dublin", "Mike Pompeo urged the UK to prioritise its security interests when dealing with Chinese firm Huawei on his visit to the UK in May last year\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged the UK to reconsider allowing Huawei to have a role in its 5G system, ahead of talks with Boris Johnson.\n\nHe told reporters the UK had a chance to \"relook\" at the decision, stressing the US needed to be sure its allies had \"trusted\" information networks.\n\nThe US believes the Chinese firm's equipment poses a spying risk.\n\nBut Culture Secretary Baroness Morgan said it \"in no way\" affects the ability of the UK to share classified data.\n\nAhead of his meeting with the PM, Mr Pompeo held talks with his UK counterpart, Dominic Raab, on Wednesday evening.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Mr Raab reiterated his \"disappointment\" at the US decision to reject an extradition request for Anne Sacoolas - the diplomat's wide suspected of causing the death of Harry Dunn by dangerous driving.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire in August, which led to suspect Ms Sacoolas leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.\n\nDominic Raab \"emphasised the importance of delivering justice for Harry Dunn and his family\" to Mike Pompeo, the Foreign Office said\n\nThe US had repeatedly warned that giving Huawei a role in 5G could allow the Chinese government a \"back door\" into the telecoms network through which they could carry out espionage or cyber attacks.\n\nAhead of his arrival in London, Mr Pompeo told reporters the US wanted to \"work with\" the UK following the National Security Council's decision to give Huawei a role in spite of those warnings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baroness Morgan: UK has \"got the expertise\" in Huawei\n\n\"We were urging them (the UK) to make a decision that was different than the one they made and we'll have a conversation about how to proceed,\" he said.\n\n\"There is also a chance for the UK to relook at this as implementation moves forward, and then it's important for everyone to know there is also real work being done by lots of private companies inside the US and in Europe to make sure that there are true competitors to Huawei.\"\n\nHe added: \"We will make sure that when American information passes across a network we are confident that that network is a trusted one.\"\n\nThe UK has insisted the firm will be barred from sensitive locations, such as nuclear sites and military bases and its share of the market will be capped at 35%.\n\nBaroness Morgan also told BBC Breakfast the UK had expertise is mitigating risks when using Huawei's technology, as it was already part of existing 4G networks - unlike in the US.\n\nShe said: \"We want to see the roll-out of 5G... for the growth of our economy and productivity, but in making this decision, we have been very clear we will not compromise on national security.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How will the Huawei 5G deal affect me?\n\n\"We obviously had a number of conversations with the US [who] have made their views clear. But we have got that expertise, we have had that oversight of Huawei... which gives our agencies the ability to give the assurance that having them involved in the periphery of the network does not present the security challenge I think others have worried about.\"\n\nThe UK's decision also faced a criticism from some senior Conservative MPs after Mr Raab made a statement about it in the Commons.\n\nTom Tugendhat, former chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, tweeted that the government's \"statement leaves many concerns and does not close the UK's networks to a frequently malign international actor\".\n\nBut Defence Secretary Ben Wallace downplayed such concerns, telling the BBC the UK should not be \"paranoid\" that the decision would lead to \"Big Brother from China watching us\".\n\nAsked about how the US might react Mr Wallace said: \"I don't know how they'll react... they've made their concerns clear.\n\n\"We understand that - we respect that, we've given them lots of assurances that the intelligence they share and how they share it.\"\n\nA series of US congressional figures called on the UK to reconsider, saying the decision could be an obstacle to a post-Brexit trade deal between the US and UK, as well as raising questions over security co-operation.\n\nSenator Tom Cotton, a Republican member of the Senate intelligence committee, called for a \"thorough review\" of intelligence sharing with the UK.\n\n\"I fear London has freed itself from Brussels only to cede sovereignty to Beijing,\" he said.\n\nThe decision gave China a foothold to carry out \"pervasive espionage\" on the UK and gave it \"increased economic and political leverage\", he said.\n\nSenator Lindsey Graham, a Republican who is one of the president's most committed defenders, said he was \"very concerned\" and urged the UK to think again.\n\n\"This decision has the potential to jeopardise US-UK intelligence sharing agreements and could greatly complicate a US-UK free trade agreement,\" he tweeted.\n• None Huawei 5G verdict is decision 'with few good options'", "Hundreds of thousands of bats have invaded the town of Ingham in Queensland, Australia, and residents are fed up.\n\nThe bats now outnumber the residents in the town and upset locals have asked their council to do something about it.\n\nThe animals have caused chaos, with residents complaining about the smell, the dirt and the noise.\n\nHowever, the bats are protected by law and cannot be culled. Local authorities now say they are trying to \"persuade\" the bats to move back to their habitat.", "Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith wants the UK to rethink its decision\n\nSenior Conservatives have written to Tory MPs to raise concerns about the government's decision to allow Huawei to play a role in the UK's 5G network.\n\nIn a letter, the group - which includes four ex-cabinet ministers - said there were alternatives to the Chinese firm.\n\nThey want \"high-risk\" vendors to be ruled out now, or phased out over time.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the decision followed a \"rigorous\" review by security experts and that Huawei's involvement would be restricted.\n\nThe letter comes as US vice-president Mike Pence said the US was \"profoundly disappointed\" with the UK's decision.\n\nThe letter from Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Owen Paterson, David Davis, Damian Green, Tobias Ellwood and Bob Seely, which has been seen by the BBC, says some MPs were \"working to find a better solution\".\n\n\"We are seeking to identify a means by which we ensure that only trusted vendors are allowed as primary contractors into our critical national infrastructure,\" it says.\n\n\"Trusted vendors would be companies from countries that have fair market competition, rule of law, respect human rights, data privacy and non-coercive government agencies.\"\n\nThe men say they want the government to \"rule out hi-tech from untrusted, high-risk vendors\" in the UK's infrastructure, or to ensure future legislation includes \"sunset clauses\" to limit the length of time such companies can be used.\n\nThe UK government has said restrictions would be in place on Huawei's role in the 5G network.\n\nThese include: banning Huawei from supplying kit to \"sensitive parts\" of the network, only allowing it to account for 35% of the kit in a network's periphery, and excluding the firm's equipment from areas near military bases and nuclear sites.\n\nBut Sir Iain told the BBC giving Huawei any stake at all was too much of a risk.\n\nHe said: \"You have an organisation from a country that is an aggressor in terms of cyber warfare and a company that is clearly totally and utterly in the hands of the Chinese government who demand absolute obedience on these matters.\"\n\nHe added it is \"simply not manageable to have an organisation like that inside your important network\" and Huawei's involvement should therefore be \"zero\".\n\nSir Iain and the other men behind the letter have also cited examples of other countries which they said had already rejected using Huawei in their 5G networks at all, including Australia, the US and Japan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How will the Huawei 5G deal affect me?\n\nMr Pence told CNBC that the US did not believe that using Huawei's technology was \"consistent with the security or privacy interests of the UK, of the United States and it remains a real issue between our two countries\".\n\nHe said he had told Prime Minister Boris Johnson in September that they were willing to begin to negotiate a free trade arrangement after Brexit but, when asked if the Huawei decision could be a problem, he replied: \"We'll see. We'll see if it is.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're anxious to build our economic ties, but we have made it clear to Prime Minister Johnson and to officials in the UK, that as we expand opportunities to build out 5G across this country... we want to see our companies meet the needs in the United States and UK and among all our allies without the compromise of privacy and the compromise of security that necessarily comes with Huawei and control by the Chinese Communist Party.\"\n\nAnd speaking at an event in London last week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his country considered that using the Huawei's technology was \"very difficult to mitigate\".\n\nHuawei has always denied that it would help the Chinese government attack one of its clients. The firm's founder has said he would \"shut the company down\" rather than aid \"any spying activities\".\n\nThese are not the first MPs to raise worries about Huawei's involvement in the 5G network.\n\nAnd the arguments they make were well-aired before the government decided to give the Chinese company up to a 35% share of the infrastructure project.\n\nBut the fact the six politicians - including four former cabinet ministers and the chair of the Commons defence committee - are continuing to battle against the plan, underscores that this remains a live issue.\n\nSo does the comment from the US vice president, Mike Pence, who told a US broadcaster he is \"profoundly\" disappointed with the decision to proceed with Huawei.\n\nHis \"we'll see\" answer to questioning on whether a UK-US trade deal will be jeopardised will also not go unnoticed by British officials.\n\nBut Downing Street doesn't wish to respond to the letter, save only to remind that Boris Johnson said on Wednesday he does want to reduce Huawei's involvement.\n\nHe didn't say by how much - and the government looks somewhat hamstrung by what it says is a lack of other companies able to step in to the breach.\n\nThe letter-writing MPs think other firms could be brought in and, in part, that's why they've written this letter, to get other parliamentarians on board and coming up with ideas on how to proceed.", "Champion skater Sarah Abitbol said she was first raped by her former coach when she was 15\n\nThe long-time head of France's ice sports federation has resigned amid a sexual abuse scandal in figure skating.\n\nDidier Gailhaguet said he was leaving with his head held high and without bitterness at the \"injustice\" of being forced out by the sports minister.\n\nSeveral former skating champions have come forward to accuse three trainers of sexually abusing them as teenagers.\n\nMr Gailhaguet is not personally implicated. The alleged abuse happened from the end of the 1970s to the 1990s.\n\nSpeaking after a meeting of the French Ice Sports Federation (FFSG) council in Paris, Mr Gailhaguet, 66, said: \"I have taken the wise decision to resign from my post... I have taken this decision with composure, with dignity, but without any bitterness before this injustice.\"\n\nHe led the federation almost continuously since 1998 - there was a hiatus between 2004 and 2007 after the International Skating Union suspended him over the judging scandal at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.\n\nIn an autobiography released last week, champion figure skater Sarah Abitbol alleged her former coach Gilles Beyer abused her when she was a teenager. Ms Abitbol, who is now 44, said she was aged 15 when it first happened.\n\nMr Beyer has admitted to \"intimate\" and \"inappropriate\" relations with her, and said he was \"sincerely sorry\".\n\nFrench prosecutors said on Tuesday they would investigate the allegations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree other skaters have accused Mr Beyer and two other coaches - who are all from the FFSG - of abusing and raping them when they were minors. Jean-Roland Racle denies the accusations and Michel Lotz has not commented.\n\nMs Abitbol and her skating partner, Stéphane Bernadis, are 10-time French national champions, and have won seven European medals. At the 2000 World Championships, the two became the first French pair to win a world medal in nearly 70 years.\n\nBut in her book, Such a Long Silence, Ms Abitbol alleged that she was raped by Mr Beyer between 1990 and 1992. \"He started to do horrible things leading to sexual abuse,\" she told L'Obs magazine. \"It was the first time a man touched me.\"\n\nSarah Abitbol and Stéphane Bernadis performing at the 2002 European Figure Skating Championships\n\nThe former skater rejected Mr Beyer's apology and said that she wanted accountability for \"all those who covered up [the crimes] both in the club and the federation\".\n\nMr Beyer, after coaching Ms Abitbol, went on to direct France's national skating teams. In the early 2000s, he was the subject of two investigations into misconduct.\n\nThe second investigation, conducted by France's sports ministry, found repeated \"serious acts\" against young skaters. His contract as a technical adviser was terminated in 2001.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phillip Schofield on ITV's This Morning: \"Every person I tell, it gets a little lighter\"\n\nTV presenter Phillip Schofield has received an outpouring of support after revealing he is gay.\n\nThe 57-year-old, who has two daughters with wife Stephanie Lowe, made the announcement via a statement on Instagram.\n\n\"Huge respect and admiration for our friend Schofe,\" tweeted fellow ITV presenters Ant and Dec. \"Sending love to you P, and your 3 lovely girls ❤️.\"\n\n\"Takes a lot of guts to do this, not least when you're a very public figure and know it will all be dissected in a very public way,\" said Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan. \"Sending my very best to Schofe and his family.\"\n\nSchofield, who has been married to Lowe for 27 years, said in his statement: \"Today, quite rightly, being gay is a reason to celebrate and be proud.\n\n\"Yes, I am feeling pain and confusion, but that comes only from the hurt that I am causing to my family.\"\n\nHe later thanked fans for their support and urged others to reach out for help in a post on Instagram.\n\n\"Please please, no matter your age or your thoughts, TALK to someone, don't let your head beat you and hopefully you'll find out that your friends & family have a remarkable ability to surprise you with their love and understanding,\" he wrote.\n\nSchofield presents Dancing on Ice and This Morning with Willoughby\n\nSchofield presents ITV programmes including Dancing On Ice and This Morning, which won a National Television Award last week.\n\nThe presenter was interviewed by his co-host Holly Willoughby on Friday's edition of This Morning.\n\n\"You know this has been bothering me for a very long time,\" he said. \"Everybody does this at their own speed when the time is right.\"\n\nThe presenter added his sexuality has recently \"become an issue in my head\".\n\n\"All you can be in your life is honest with yourself and I was getting to the point where I knew I wasn't honest with myself. I was getting to the point where I didn't like myself very much because I wasn't being honest with myself.\n\n\"[Coming out] is my decision. This is absolutely my decision. It was something I knew that I had to do. I don't know what the world will be like now. I don't know how this will be taken or what people will think.\"\n\nBut Schofield said he is not ready yet for a relationship with a man.\n\n\"You never know what's going on in someone's seemingly perfect life, what issues they are struggling with, or the state of their wellbeing - and so you won't know what has been consuming me for the last few years. With the strength and support of my wife and my daughters, I have been coming to terms with the fact that I am gay.\n\n\"This is something that has caused many heart-breaking conversations at home. I have been married to Steph for nearly 27 years, and we have two beautiful grown-up daughters, Molly and Ruby. My family have held me so close - they have tried to cheer me up, to smother me with kindness and love, despite their own confusion. Yet still I can't sleep and there have been some very dark moments.\n\n\"My inner conflict contrasts with an outside world that has changed so very much for the better. Today, quite rightly, being gay is a reason to celebrate and be proud. Yes, I am feeling pain and confusion, but that comes only from the hurt that I am causing to my family.\n\n\"Steph has been incredible - I love her so very much. She is the kindest soul I have ever met. My girls have been astonishing in their love, hugs and encouraging words of comfort. Both my and Steph's entire families have stunned me with their love, instant acceptance and support.\n\n\"Of course they are worried about Steph, but I know they will scoop us both up. My friends are the best, especially Holly, who has been so kind and wise - and who has hugged me as I sobbed on her shoulder. At ITV, I couldn't hope to work with more wonderful, supportive teams.\n\n\"Every day on This Morning, I sit in awe of those we meet who have been brave and open in confronting their truth - so now it's my turn to share mine. This will probably all come as something of a surprise and I understand, but only by facing this, by being honest, can I hope to find peace in my mind and a way forward.\n\n\"Please be kind, especially to my family.\"\n\nSocial media was filled with support for Schofield after his announcement on Friday morning.\n\nThe BBC's Victoria Derbyshire added: \"So much love for Schofe for his open, honest, dignified statement.\"\n\nDancing on Ice star Ian H Watkins, who recently made history by dancing with his same-sex partner on the show, welcomed Schofield to \"our beautiful rainbow family!\"\n\nRichard Osman of BBC One's Pointless said: \"When you create a new entertainment show and start discussing who should host, the first name on the list is always Phillip Schofield. That's a fact.\n\n\"He's just the very best at what he does, and the public adore him. Looking forward to many more years of his charm and brilliance.\"\n\nSchofield found fame on children's TV in the 1980s alongside Gordon the Gopher in the BBC's Broom Cupboard, and on Saturday morning show Going Live!\n\nHe has starred in the West End in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Doctor Dolittle, and fronted TV game shows like Talking Telephone Numbers and Schofield's Quest before joining This Morning in 2002.\n\nThe programme has won at the National Television Awards for 10 years in a row, including the prize for best live magazine show at last month's ceremony.\n\nSarah Greene and Phillip Schofield presenting Going Live! in 1987\n\nSchofield also presents a programme with his wife every December where they review Christmas gifts.\n\nEntertainment reporter Caroline Frost told BBC Radio 5 Live that stars from the previous generation were likely to have been told in the past that coming out as gay could damage their careers.\n\n\"You see all these young stars coming through and they don't have to think about it,\" she said. \"They're fluid. They just define their own terms.\n\n\"But a lot of those older entertainers are having to play catch-up. They branded themselves and were probably advised 'Don't come out because it will ruin your following'.\n\n\"So they are having to catch-up and climb back up the hill of enjoying the same privileges that have come very naturally to that new generation.\"\n\n\"Coming out\" is a moment which unites all LGBT people, whether they are eventually able to do it, or not. Some never will.\n\nSocial media reactions show that this is being seen as an incredibly brave decision for Philip Schofield to make. Whilst Schofield is seen as a national treasure, and someone trusted with hearing deep and personal experiences on a daily basis, for him to become the story is wholly different.\n\nWhen someone with such a massive public platform comes out as LGBT, their entire life in the public eye is suddenly questioned, with some on-lookers inevitably claiming they \"knew all along\". In many cases, the person coming out may not have even known, let alone their family and friends.\n\nLGBT acceptance in the UK has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Whilst there are still issues, on the whole, people are much more free to be themselves than ever before. As a result, national LGBT charities such as the LGBT Foundation now offer tailored 'coming out' guidance to the growing numbers of LGBT people who are choosing to come out later in life, helping them navigate any barriers they may face.\n\nThis huge moment for Phillip Schofield may just be the green light that others need to come out themselves.\n\nInformation and support: If you or someone you know needs support for issues about sexuality, these organisations may be able to help.", "A woman has described the moment she was attacked by convicted terror offender, Sudesh Amman.\n\nRosa – not her real name – then witnessed the Metropolitan Police shoot Amman dead.\n\nRead more: 'Streatham attacker tried to stab me'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt \"would be a scandal that Parliament would struggle to live down\" if ex-Commons Speaker John Bercow got a peerage, an ex-Parliament official has said.\n\nDavid Leakey who served in Parliament as Black Rod accused Mr Bercow of \"intolerable behaviour\".\n\nBut Mr Bercow dismissed his claims as \"total and utter rubbish\".\n\nMeanwhile Diane Abbott has been criticised for saying it was \"unlikely\" ex-soldier Mr Leakey was bullied.\n\nThe shadow home secretary tweeted that Mr Leakey had \"served in Germany, Northern Ireland and Bosnia. But claims he was bullied (i.e. intimidated and coerced) by John Bercow. Unlikely.\"\n\nShe has since deleted her tweet.\n\nResponding to her comment, David Penman - general secretary of the FDA Union which represents civil servant - said: \"What a ridiculous comment from an experienced MP, demonstrating blind political partisanship and a complete failure to understand how power is abused in the workplace.\"\n\nAnd Labour MP Dan Jarvis - who served as an army officer - said \"having a distinguished service record does not preclude you from being a victim of workplace bullying\".\n\n\"All of us in the Labour/trade union movement have a responsibility to create a climate where people can voice their concerns and not have their experiences dismissed out of hand.\"\n\nMr Bercow has confirmed that he had been proposed for a peerage by outgoing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nGetting a peerage would enable Mr Bercow to sit in the House of Lords - but he has suggested Downing Street is seeking to block his appointment to the upper chamber.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Leakey argued Mr Bercow should not be given a peerage on the grounds of his behaviour as Speaker.\n\n\"He would fly into a rage, the red mist would descend, and he would be jumping up and down and balling out, and shouting insults,\" he said.\n\n\"He called me an anti-Semite once after being rather rude and insulting about my background, education and military career.\"\n\nDavid Leakey reached the rank of Lieutenant General in the army\n\nIn 2018 Mr Leakey accused the ex-Speaker of creating a climate of \"fear and intimidation\" and more recently has said he would submit a dossier to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards detailing his complaints.\n\nLord Lisvane, who served as Clerk of the House between 2011 and 2014, has confirmed to the BBC he has submitted a formal complaint, which was understood to be centred around bullying.\n\nHitting back at the accusations, Mr Bercow told Sky News the claims were \"total and utter rubbish\".\n\nHe said Mr Leakey was \"not employed by me, he wasn't an employee of the House of Commons\".\n\n\"He is in absolutely no position whatsoever to comment on my relations with my parliamentary colleagues, of which he is completely and utterly ignorant.\n\n\"What we have got here is somebody who left the House, who is thrashing about, desperate to remain relevant, popping up at every turn, trying to make himself seem very important, very centre-stage, very at the heart of things in the way that I went about my work.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Leakey said Mr Bercow \"either doesn't understand or can't remember how the role of Black Rod operates\" adding that \"30% of my work was within or for the House of Commons\".\n\nMr Bercow stepped down as Speaker in October after 10 years in the role and was replaced by Sir Lindsay Hoyle.", "David Abel is one of 3,700 people in quarantine aboard a cruise ship docked near Yokohama, Japan.\n\nTen people who tested have positive for coronavirus have been taken off the ship and to hospital, but everyone else must remain on board the Diamond Princess.", "David Cameron was reportedly flying home from New York with his wife Samantha (pictured on a plane in 2010) when the gun was found\n\nA bodyguard for David Cameron is being investigated after he reportedly left his gun in a toilet on a transatlantic jet.\n\nA \"terrified passenger\" found the gun and gave it to staff on a British Airways flight from New York to London on Monday, according to the Daily Mail.\n\nAs a former prime minister, Mr Cameron is entitled to continued security provided by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe Met said the officer involved has been removed from operational duties.\n\nMr Cameron's team said it could not comment on security matters.\n\nThe gun, believed to be a 9mm Glock 17 pistol, is said to have been left by a close-protection officer from the Met's Specialist Protection unit, who took off his holster while in the toilet.\n\nMr Cameron's passport - and that of the officer - were found with the weapon, according to the Sun.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: \"We are aware of the incident on a flight into the UK on 3 February and the officer involved has since been removed from operational duties.\n\n\"We are taking this matter extremely seriously and an internal investigation is taking place.\"\n\nBritish Airways said it had adhered to Civil Aviation Authority rules allowing UK police \"to carry firearms on board in specific, controlled circumstances\".\n\n\"Our crew dealt with the issue quickly before departure and the flight continued as normal,\" the airline added in a statement.\n\nMr Cameron was the UK prime minister for six years until July 2016, when he stepped down following the result of the EU referendum.\n\nWere you on the flight? If you have any information email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is hurtling towards its conclusion as senators prepare to cast their final vote on Wednesday, with acquittal almost certain.\n\nDemocratic hopes were dealt a blow last Friday when senators voted against introducing new witnesses to the trial.\n\nAs prosecutors in the trial, Democrats had laid out meticulous evidence over three days that they said proved Mr Trump had abused his power and obstructed Congress.\n\nThey alleged that he pressured Ukraine to dig up political dirt on Joe Biden, a domestic rival, and that he sought to hide the evidence from Congress, another impeachable offence.\n\nThe White House lawyers, on the other hand, argued Mr Trump had done \"nothing wrong\" and that the president has not committed offences that would warrant his removal.\n\nPresident Trump and senior Republicans claim Mr Biden and his son Hunter were involved in a corrupt business scheme in Ukraine.\n\nHere's a look back at what happened over the course of two weeks.\n\nProceedings began on 21 January with a tussle between Democrats and Republicans over the rules of the trial.\n\nRepublican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed a tight two-day limit for opening arguments by both sides, before extending it to three after protests from Democrats.\n\nMr McConnell delayed debate over motions from Democrats to allow new witnesses to be called and fresh evidence submitted.\n\nDemocratic congressman Adam Schiff, the head of seven impeachment managers who serve as prosecutors, opened oral arguments to a packed Senate chamber on 22 January.\n\nMr Schiff said the president's actions were exactly what the Founding Fathers feared when they came up with impeachment - \"a remedy as powerful as the evil it was meant to combat\", Mr Schiff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe impeachment managers walked the senators through testimony gathered during depositions and committee hearings last year that they say points to a scheme by Mr Trump and his advisers to lean on Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.\n\nThe managers interspersed their oral arguments with audio and video tape, using the president's own words - including a now-infamous call with the president of Ukraine - in their effort to portray him as guilty.\n\nThey directly addressed the claims against the Bidens - a purposeful attempt to get on the front foot ahead of the president's defence.\n\nThe managers then tackled the obstruction of Congress charge.\n\nThe managers argued that Mr Trump's refusal to allow certain members of his administration to answer questions from the House of Representatives was akin to hiding information from a grand jury investigation.\n\nDuring opening arguments, Mr Trump's team took barely two hours to argue that the president had done nothing wrong.\n\nHis team insisted that Mr Trump had acted in the national interests in his phone call with the Ukrainian president, with Deputy White House Counsel Mike Purpura pinpointing a line from the transcript in which Mr Trump asked Volodymyr Zelensky to \"do us a favour\", rather than \"me\".\n\nMr Purpura also insisted there was no quid pro quo, saying Mr Zelensky \"says he felt no pressure\".\n\nThe defence accused the Democrats of trying to remove Mr Trump from the ballot this year, and said the American electorate should be allowed to decide for themselves.\n\nResuming arguments on 27 January, attorney Kenneth Starr warned senators that impeachment could become \"normalised\" and used as a weapon against future administrations.\n\nMr Starr came to prominence in 1998, when he led an investigation into Democratic President Bill Clinton that laid the foundation for his impeachment.\n\n\"Like war, impeachment is hell,\" Mr Starr said on Monday. \"It's filled with acrimony and divides the country like nothing else. Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment understand that in a deep and personal way.\"\n\nFollowing Mr Starr, Trump defence lawyer Jane Raskin addressed Rudy Giuliani - Mr Trump's personal attorney and a central character in the impeachment case.\n\n\"Mr Giuliani was not on a political errand,\" she said, referring to his investigations in Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sondland was involved in a \"domestic political errand\" for Trump\n\n\"Rudy Giuliani is the House managers' colourful distraction,\" Ms Raskin said - a way for the Democratic impeachment managers, who act as prosecutors, to divert attention from weaknesses in their case.\n\nOn 29 January, senators began a period of questioning after opening arguments concluded.\n\nOver two days and 16 hours on the floor, they submitted over 100 queries written on cards to Chief Justice John Roberts, who read them to the House managers and defence.\n\nThe justice was firm about keeping time, limiting answers to five minutes.\n\nQuestions alternated between Republicans and Democrats as lawmakers had their first chance to push back against claims made by both sides. A few queries were bipartisan.\n\nSenators were not, however, allowed to address each other in their questioning.\n\nThe queries came amid a contentious debate over whether or not witnesses should be allowed in the trial - a matter that comes to a vote on Friday.\n\nOne submission was blocked by the Chief Justice: Republican Rand Paul's question that included the name of a person believed to be the whistleblower that sparked the entire impeachment inquiry was rejected.\n\nOther questions, including when the president ordered the aid hold on Ukraine and whether Mr Trump ever mentioned the Bidens prior to Joe Biden entering the 2020 race, were not fully answered.\n\nOn Friday, the trial moves into four hours of debate over whether new witnesses and documents should be permitted.", "After an impeachment trial that lasted just over two weeks, US President Donald Trump has been cleared and he can now concentrate on running for re-election.\n\nIt was always the likely outcome, but the path of how we got to this conclusion was what made this trial interesting.\n\nHere are four numbers that explain the story - and what happens now.\n\nTrump's popularity in his own party\n• None 94%More Republicans than ever back their president\n\nMr Trump's acquittal in the Senate is a reflection of his popularity among Republicans. If it wasn't clear before the trial that he had the support of the rank and file of his party, then it certainly is clear now.\n\nHe has never been more popular with Republicans (or more unpopular with Democrats). According to a poll by Gallup this week, 94% of Republicans approve of Mr Trump's performance in office. This figure has kept on rising despite his impeachment trial.\n\nGallup also reported that 89% of Republicans approved of Mr Trump during his third year in office - this made him the second most popular president of all time among his own party members.\n\nIt wasn't always like this. Rewind four years and senior Republicans were lining up to condemn Mr Trump, the man who would unexpectedly end up becoming their party's nominee for president.\n\nIn 2016, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowksi vowed not to vote for him. \"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed,\" South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham said in 2016, \"and we will deserve it.\"\n\nMr Trump became the nominee, then the president, and both Ms Murkowski and Mr Graham were there on the Senate floor during his trial to stand by their man. As proven during the 2018 mid-term elections, when several Republican members of Congress who did not fully support Mr Trump lost their races, Republican voters may not forgive anyone who is not loyal to the president.\n\nThe president's popularity doesn't mean his supporters believe he is blameless in the impeachment saga. In a poll conducted by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research last week, only 54% of Republicans believed he had done nothing wrong.\n\nRepublicans in the Senate have a majority of 53 to 47, meaning they control the chamber and were able to direct the terms of the trial.\n\nThat small majority mattered. During the trial, senators had to vote on whether to admit witnesses, and the majority opted not to. Had only four Republicans gone the other way, witnesses may have been allowed - not least former national security adviser John Bolton, whose evidence may well have undermined Mr Trump's case.\n\nFour Republican senators did indeed waver, Utah senator Mitt Romney among them. At one point it looked like they might all vote alongside Democrats and independent senators and agree to allow witnesses. But in the end, all Republicans but Mr Romney and Ms Collins voted with their party, no witnesses were called and the trial wrapped after only 15 days.\n\nThis is the number that ensured Mr Trump was always going to get off. A conviction would have happened only had two-thirds of senators - 67 - supported it.\n\nThis would have required 20 Republican senators to vote for their president's conviction. In the end, only one - Mitt Romney - did.\n\nThis is the amount of money the Trump campaign said it raised in the last quarter of 2019, a huge figure it said was down largely to Trump supporters reacting to the impeachment proceedings.\n\n\"The President's war chest and grassroots army make his re-election campaign an unstoppable juggernaut,\" his campaign manager Brad Parscale said.\n\nWith the trial behind him, Mr Trump is now free to concentrate on his campaign for re-election (although in truth, he never let it interrupt his campaign in the first place).\n\nWill the impeachment have galvanised his supporters even more? Or will it have tainted the president's image, despite his acquittal?\n\nWe'll find out on 3 November.", "One of the last remaining great \"tusker\" elephants in Kenya has died aged 50.\n\nTim died in Amboseli National Park on Tuesday, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). He died of natural causes.\n\nThe animal's body will be sent to a taxidermist in Nairobi so that it can go on display, KWS said in a statement.\n\nAfrican elephants are referred as \"tuskers\" when their tusks grow so long that they reach the ground.\n\nKWS said Tim was \"well known and loved throughout the country\".\n\nTim's tusks were said to weigh more than 45kg (100lbs) each.\n\nHe was well-known in the area due to his crop-raiding habits. During his lifetime, he was speared three times.\n\nIn an effort to keep him safe and protect locals' crops, a team comprised of animal protection groups and KWS placed a collar on him. They were able to monitor him more closely and send a team to try and stop his crop raiding habit.\n\nOnce the team knew he was approaching crops, they would attempt to intercept him, although he quickly learnt to bypass them.\n\nDuring the first year, he made 183 attempts to enter farmlands and raid crops.\n\nThe monitoring team were able to stop around 50% of these from going any further, Save the Elephants said.\n\nIn February last year, Tim nearly died after he became trapped in a muddy swamp. However was later rescued by KWS and animal protection groups.\n\nFormer Save the Elephants field assistant Ryan Wilkie said: \"Tim was a special elephant - not just to me but to hundreds, thousands of people who would flock to Amboseli just for the chance to see him.\n\n\"He was so incredibly intelligent, mischievous, yes, but also a truly gentle giant and in that way a real ambassador for his species.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League has to \"try and make the video assistant referee better\", says chief executive Richard Masters.\n\nMore than two-thirds of Premier League fans questioned believe VAR has made the game less enjoyable, a YouGov survey has found.\n\nThere have been several controversial decisions involving VAR since it was introduced to the league this season.\n\n\"I don't think VAR has been damaging but I accept it needs improvement,\" Masters told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Scrapping it is not an option - what we have to do is try and make VAR better.\"\n\nVAR has been brought in to the Premier League to decide on goals, penalties, red cards and offside decisions.\n\nMasters, who was appointed on a permanent basis in December after being in temporary charge for more than a year, said the Premier League would discuss changes to VAR with the clubs in April.\n\n\"We are going to have a debate about what sort of VAR they would like next season and what improvements can be made to the system,\" he said.\n\n\"It's going to be a work in progress this season and next as we try to rebalance it so you get the positives of better decision-making and fewer of the perceived negatives about delay and sometimes confusion.\"\n\nThe Premier League has previously promised to improve VAR's consistency and speed and increase communication with fans.\n\nSix out of 10 of those fans surveyed by YouGov felt the system was working badly.\n\nMasters said that VAR is delivering on the \"principal reason\" for its introduction in improving the accuracy of decision-making.\n\n\"In key match incidents we are up to 94% accuracy with officials, 97% with their assistants, so we are seeing an impact on results and a positive impact on the league table,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously there are issues with consistency of decision-making and delays, which people don't like.\n\n\"But I don't think VAR is harming the product - attendances are up, TV audiences are up, the health of the Premier League is very good.\"\n\n'More to be done' on racism\n\nStatistics compiled by anti-discrimination campaigners Kick It Out suggested there had been a 43% increase in reports of racist abuse in English football in 2018-19 from the previous season.\n\nIn December, the government said it would not rule out taking \"further steps\" if football authorities fail to deal with racism following several high-profile cases this season.\n\nMasters said there is \"always more to be done\" by the Premier League in helping to combat racism in football.\n\n\"Football has a big role to play - we are part of society and can play a role in promoting all the right messages and will continue to do that,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, a fan who shouted racial abuse at players during Brighton's home Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur in October was jailed.\n\n\"One incident of racism is unacceptable and one too many,\" added Masters.\n\n\"Ultimately we can't stop individuals harbouring racist or homophobic thoughts coming into our grounds or sharing them with people around them.\n\n\"It's our responsibility to make sure people who do that know there are consequences and also to put proper systems in place to deal with it when it happens.\n\n\"We need to make sure there are proper reporting mechanisms, trained stewards in place, and police if necessary, and that when perpetrators are caught they are banned from football, which we are now seeing more regularly, as well as possible criminal proceedings.\"\n\nSports minister Nigel Adams MP told BBC Sport last month that football has \"far too much dependency\" on sponsorship from gambling companies.\n\nHalf of Premier League clubs are sponsored by bookmakers and there are concerns about the potential impact on young fans and vulnerable people.\n\nThe Betting and Gaming Council chair, Brigid Simmonds, told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that bookmakers are \"considering\" a voluntary ban on football shirt sponsorship and pitchside advertising, expanding on the whistle-to-whistle ban on television gambling adverts introduced last year.\n\nMasters said the Premier League \"welcomes\" the government's upcoming review of the 2005 Gambling Act and that the league will be \"willing and active participants\" in it.\n\n\"Betting is a legitimate pastime - sport and betting have a long history,\" he added.\n\n\"The Premier League don't have any betting partnerships and ultimately it is the clubs' decision.\n\n\"I don't think if you are looking at solving the issue of vulnerable people and betting that the answer should be that the clubs can't have betting partnerships anymore - I don't think one follows the other.\"", "Dozens of Britons flown home from the centre of the outbreak last week have been taken into quarantine\n\nThe UK government is chartering a final flight to bring British nationals back from the Chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe plane will leave in the early hours of Sunday morning and land at RAF Brize Norton, the Foreign Office said.\n\nIt comes as Britons in mainland China have been urged to leave the country after the outbreak claimed more lives.\n\nMore than 100 UK nationals and family members have already been evacuated to Britain from Wuhan.\n\nBetween 150 and 200 Britons and their dependents remain in Hubei province, where the outbreak began, and about 100 have asked for help to leave, the Foreign Office said.\n\nAt least 427 people have died after contracting the virus and there have been more than 20,000 confirmed cases, most of them in China.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"We have been working round the clock to help British nationals leave Hubei province, on UK, French and New Zealand flights.\n\n\"The Foreign Office is chartering a second and final UK flight with space to help all British nationals and their dependants remaining in Hubei to leave.\n\n\"I encourage all British nationals in Hubei to register with our teams if they want to leave on this flight.\"\n\nBritish nationals in Hubei can contact the Foreign Office on two 24-hour telephone numbers: +86 (0) 1085296600 and +44 (0) 2070081500.\n\nOn Friday, 83 UK citizens were repatriated on a flight out of Wuhan arranged by the UK government. Another 11 Britons joined them on Sunday on a French flight.\n\nA further eight UK nationals and six of their family members left on a flight to New Zealand on Tuesday.\n\nIt has since emerged that a Belgian woman who was on Sunday's flight tested positive for the virus.\n\nAll of the Britons are now in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral for 14 days - the incubation period of the virus - to ensure they are not infected.\n\nOne British passenger, Anthony May-Smith, who arrived in the UK on Sunday, was taken to hospital in Oxford to be tested for potential coronavirus.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Breakfast the test came back negative but that Mr May-Smith has returned to quarantine at Arrowe Park \"because the test… doesn't work until the coronavirus symptoms come through\".\n\nMr Hancock advised anyone who thought they might have symptoms to not leave home and to call 111.\n\nMr Hancock said it was \"low\" risk that an infected person who was not yet showing symptoms could pass on the virus.\n\nThere have been two confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK - a student at the University of York and one of their relatives. They are being treated at the specialist infectious diseases unit at Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary.\n\nMeanwhile, one British man in China, who fears he contracted the virus in November, has been told he can return to the UK after the Chinese authorities gave him his passport back.\n\nJamie Morris, 23, from New Tredegar in South Wales had said he did not know when he might be able to return from Wuhan because he had submitted his passport in order to extend his residency permit.\n\nHe will now be able to join other British nationals on the final flight home.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Foreign Office advised Britons to leave China to minimise the risk of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nThe UK is also moving non-essential staff out from its embassy and consulates in the country.\n\nThe only two UK airlines serving China - British Airways and Virgin Atlantic - have suspended their flights between the countries because of fears about the spread of the virus.\n\nBut other commercial flights to the UK remain available in some parts of China.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Abel, one of 3,700 people in quarantine aboard the Diamond Princess, speaking soon after the quarantine began\n\nMeanwhile, at least 10 people on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in the Japanese port of Yokohoma have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nPassengers and crew on the ship will now be quarantined for 14 days. British tourist David Abel is among the 3,700 people on board the ship.\n\nHe told the BBC he was supposed to return to the UK on Tuesday.\n\n\"We had a flight booked with BA on Tuesday morning and that has had to be cancelled. We've got no idea when we are going to be allowed off the ship,\" he said.\n\n\"All we have been informed [sic] is 14 days quarantine on the ship. That means we've got no interaction with other passengers, food is brought to the room. It's really basic food, nothing like we've enjoyed on the cruise at all.\"\n\nThe virus has now spread to more than two dozen nations.\n\nHowever, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it does not yet qualify as a \"pandemic\".\n\nAre you a British citizen in China? Will you leave the country? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "An advert for fashion retailer Pretty Little Thing which featured women wearing exposing lingerie has been banned for being \"offensive\".\n\nThe YouTube ad presented the firm's products in an \"overly-sexualised way\" and depicted women as sex objects, the Advertising Standards Authority said.\n\nThe retailer is one of several online fast fashion companies to have been rapped for their racy marketing.\n\nPretty Little Thing said it \"in no way meant to cause any offence\".\n\nThe advert began with a woman looking over her shoulder in a seductive manner wearing black vinyl, high-waisted chaps-style knickers.\n\nIt then showed other scantily clad women in seductive or \"highly sexualised\" poses, including one wearing a transparent mesh bodysuit.\n\nA viewer complained and the regulator agreed, saying the ad was \"irresponsible\" and likely to cause offence.\n\nPretty Little Thing said it \"celebrates all women\" and promotes body diversity. But the ad, which aired in October last year, must not be shown again.\n\nA previous Pretty Little Thing advert was banned in 2017 for portraying a model who appeared to be under 16 in a \"sexually suggestive\" manner.\n\nThe regulator also recently banned an ad for rival Missguided that featured \"highly sexualised\" images that objectified women.\n\nAnother online fashion retailer, Boohoo - which owns Pretty Little Thing - had its email advert banned for using the phrase \"send nudes\", which a viewer complained made light of a potentially harmful social trend.\n\nIt may seem surprising for an advert targeted at women to be banned for objectifying women, but the defence used by Pretty Little Thing in this case touches on an increasingly contested grey area.\n\nThe company says the advert promoted diversity through \"bold and distinctive fashion of all shapes and sizes\", and that they worked hard to promote \"a healthy body image that was inclusive and empowered women\".\n\nBut the line between empowerment and objectification of women is a subjective one.\n\nFast-fashion retailers are more likely to push those boundaries. Research we conducted last year found that online-only brands were twice as likely to use more overtly sexualised pictures when selling their clothes than High Street retailers' websites.\n\nIt also seems that there's also a growing generational divide. While talking to young people, who these adverts are targeted at, it seemed they were more likely to see them as positive images of women being body-confident whatever their shape. Many in older generations view the same images very differently.\n\nAre you a Pretty Little Thing customer? What do you think of the advert? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The investigation was originally ordered into Dundee's Carseview Centre but later expanded\n\nTayside mental health staff have been left \"demoralised\" by a \"culture of fear and blame\", a report has found.\n\nThe independent inquiry into mental health services in the region took evidence from more than 1,500 people.\n\nIt said there was a danger that NHS Tayside could be perceived to be \"more interested in protecting its reputation than looking after the interests of its patients\".\n\nNHS Tayside said it welcomed the report which it \"knew would be challenging\".\n\nThe report, which made more than 50 recommendations, said: \"A breakdown in trust and a loss of respect has undoubtedly led to poor service, treatment, patient care and outcomes.\n\n\"The breakdown in trust and respect is caused by the lack of effective, engaged strategic leadership and planning.\"\n\nIt added that a \"radical\" approach to restoring trust was urgently needed.\n\nAn interim report last year highlighted concerns over illegal drugs in wards and patient restraints, saying some patients were frightened of staff members.\n\nThe final 136-page report said it was clear there had been a breakdown of trust in \"many aspects\" of the provision of mental health services in Tayside.\n\nReport author David Strang said many patients felt they had \"not been cared for properly\"\n\nThe report said: \"Frontline staff feel that the organisation is more interested in identifying who is to blame and attributing fault than genuinely learning in a supportive environment.\"\n\nIt said the \"most striking failure of governance\" was the lack of a mental health strategy for Tayside.\n\nServices were said to be currently operating to a \"short-term vision\", with an emphasis on \"reacting to increases in service demand\".\n\nThe report, entitled \"Trust and Respect\", makes 51 recommendations, including conducting an \"urgent whole-system review\" of mental health and wellbeing provision across Tayside.\n\nThe report's author David Strang said rebuilding trust in Tayside's mental health services was a \"big challenge but absolutely achievable\".\n\nHe said: \"Many patients have felt that they've not been listened to and cared for properly.\n\n\"They've felt judged and they've felt isolated, and many of them are already feeling broken and vulnerable.\n\n\"The culture in Tayside needs to change so that lessons are learned from things that have gone wrong in the past and long-term plans are put in place to improve services.\"\n\nNHS Tayside chief executive Grant Archibald said the findings posed \"major challenges for the organisation\"\n\nMr Strang said many staff had also told the inquiry team that they felt \"undervalued and that their voice isn't heard\".\n\nHe added: \"It's really important that people are put at the centre of healthcare and that they're listened to and valued.\"\n\nLast week the Scottish government announced extra support for NHS Tayside to help the struggling health board make \"significant improvements\" in mental health care.\n\nNHS Tayside chief executive Grant Archibald said the report's findings posed \"major challenges for the organisation\" but that the board was \"fit to rise to meet those\".\n\nHe apologised to anyone who had been \"let down by experience of our service.\"\n\nMr Archibald said: \"Our commitment is always to put the patient at the heart of our service, to give them the care they should expect, to make them feel cared for and professionally managed.\"\n\nMental Health Minister Clare Haughey said: \"It is absolutely vital that people using mental health services, as well as those delivering these services, feel safe and know they will receive the right help, in the right place when they need it.\"\n\nShe said she had received assurances immediate action would take place as a result of the report and there would be a progress update in February 2021 to ensure required improvements had been made.\n\nShe added that the Scottish government had provided further support to NHS Tayside, addressing service provision, clinical practice, organisational development and community-led services, and would monitor its progress.\n\nCosla's health and social care spokesman, councillor Stuart Currie, said: \"Cosla will work alongside Scottish government, NHS boards, local authorities and integration joint boards to allow for learning from the Strang report to be implemented across Scotland.\"\n\nHe said there would be a continued focus on working together, and collaborating with those who used the services and their families.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Debbie Douglas - who was instrumental in getting the independent inquiry into disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson established - said the report’s recommendations “must be implemented”.\n\nShe said: \"This was important for the people that have died to be heard because without any exaggeration there are so many unnecessary deaths.\"\n\nThe inquiry into Paterson's malpractice has recommended the recall of his 11,000 patients for their surgery to be assessed.\n\nPaterson is serving a 20-year jail term for 17 counts of wounding with intent.\n\nOne of Paterson's colleagues has been referred to police and five more to health watchdogs by the inquiry.", "President Donald Trump is due to give the annual State of the Union address in the same chamber where he was impeached less than three months ago.\n\nThe speech to Congress Tuesday night, with the theme \"the great American comeback\", will highlight key election year accomplishments.\n\nMr Trump will tout US economic and military strength, US media report.\n\nThe speech comes as Mr Trump is expected to be acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial on Wednesday.\n\nThe address - Mr Trump's third and possibly last, if he loses his re-election bid in November - is due to begin at 21:00, local time.\n\nHe is expected to use the address to make his pitch to voters by emphasising optimistic economic figures and criticising rivals.\n\nHe is also expected to offer his own plans for healthcare, immigration and economic growth, US media say, contrasting his approach with that of the Democrats he accuses of \"socialism\".\n\nDuring Mr Trump's time in office, unemployment has dropped to 3.5%, the lowest in half a century - an accomplishment the president has often pointed to as a reason to re-elect him.\n\nHowever, economic growth and investment has slowed in the past three years.\n\nThe president has invited eight special guests to the address - among them are two military veterans, a former Venezuelan police chief, and the brother of a man killed by an undocumented immigrant.\n\nFollowing the address, Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will give a rebuttal and congresswoman Veronica Escobar of Texas will follow in Spanish.\n\nAt least seven Democratic lawmakers, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley, have announced their intention boycott the State of the Union.\n\n\"[Mr Trump] does not embody the principles, the responsibility, the grace, nor the integrity that is required of the president,\" Ms Pressley said in a statement.\n\nThe presidential address is due to begin hours after senators conclude their speeches in the weeks-long impeachment trial to determine whether Mr Trump should be removed from office.\n\nThe president was impeached by the House of Representatives in December on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The first charge centres on the allegation that he pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden.\n\nThe second charge accuses him of purposefully obstructing the Congressional impeachment investigation.\n\nMr Trump has denied any wrongdoing. The Republican-led Senate is expected to acquit him, with Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, urging his colleagues to \"reject the House abuse of power\" with their vote on Wednesday.\n\n\"Vote to protect our institutions, vote to reject new precedence that would reduce the [Constitution] framer's design to rubble,\" he said. \"Vote to acquit the president of these charges.\"\n\nWest Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate who has voted with Republicans in the past, then called for legislation to censure Mr Trump over the Ukraine matter.\n\n\"Censure would allow this body to unite across party lines,\" Mr Manchin said. \"[Trump's] behaviour cannot go unchecked by the Senate and censure would allow a bipartisan statement condemning his unacceptable behaviour in the strongest terms.\"\n\nA Gallup poll released on Tuesday found Mr Trump's approval ratings reach a personal best of 49% ahead of the address.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Breast surgeon Ian Paterson carried out hundreds of botched and needless operations\n\nAn MP who was operated on by disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson says she has been left with \"doubts about her health\".\n\nRedditch MP Rachel Maclean had a lump removed over 10 years ago but now questions if it was necessary.\n\nOn Tuesday, an independent inquiry into Paterson's malpractice recommended the recall of his 11,000 patients for their treatment to be assessed.\n\nConservative Ms Maclean revealed in a tweet that she had been a patient of Paterson.\n\nShe said: \"The extent of the malpractice he carried out is shocking, and the response from authorities was woefully lacking.\"\n\nMs Maclean said she had found a lump and was advised by Paterson it needed to be removed\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Maclean said she wanted to encourage other people who may have been affected to \"seek help if they are worried\".\n\n\"I had the lump removed and subsequently received the all-clear from Paterson but, obviously, the doubt is in my mind that I even needed to have that procedure [and] whether he really knew what he was doing,\" she said.\n\n\"I think the key now is that people who haven't had any contact get help if they need it, even if it is just to set their mind at rest.\"\n\nShe said she had responses from people from all over the Midlands - where Paterson practiced - after tweeting about her experience, .\n\nThe MP's disclosure comes after the inquiry concluded that a culture of \"avoidance and denial\" allowed Paterson to perform botched and unnecessary operations on hundreds of patients.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt also revealed five health professionals have been referred to either the General Medical Council or Nursing and Midwifery Council and one case has been sent to police.\n\nStaffordshire Police has since said the police referral was in relation to Paterson himself.\n\n\"A report of a sexual assault against Ian Paterson was referred to the force by West Midlands Police in May 2018,\" it said.\n\n\"The complainant was visited by detectives in June 2018 and after speaking to her she did not wish to pursue a complaint. There were no further safeguarding issues as Ian Paterson was in prison.\"\n\nPaterson, of Altrincham in Greater Manchester, who grew up in County Down, Northern Ireland, is serving a 20-year jail term for 17 counts of wounding with intent.\n\nHe worked with cancer patients at NHS and private hospitals in the West Midlands over 14 years.\n\nPaterson worked at Spire Hospital, in Solihull, from 1997 to 2011\n\nHis unregulated \"cleavage-sparing\" mastectomies, in which breast tissue was left behind, meant the disease returned in many of his patients.\n\nOthers had surgery they did not need - some even finding out years later they did not have cancer.\n\nJudy Conduit had 23 unnecessary operations and said she almost died due to complications during surgery.\n\n\"He [Paterson] told me I would have to have a bilateral mastectomy,\" she said.\n\n\"Because I had so many surgeries already I agreed, reluctantly in a way, because I didn't really want it done but I knew I couldn't keep putting my body through all these general anaesthetics.\n\n\"Unfortunately I developed complications, I was told I had blood clot in the artery next to the heart.\"\n\nThe inquiry made 15 recommendations, and Mr Hancock has vowed to introduce improvements.\n\n\"There's a whole series of recommendations but the central one is about information-sharing because the authorities that inspect different parts of the health system, the information wasn't being shared properly,\" he told BBC Breakfast on Wednesday.\n\n\"That absolutely can be fixed, it will be fixed.\"\n\nJeremy Hunt MP, former Health Secretary and current chairman of the Commons Health Select Committee, has also pledged it will look at how to change NHS culture following the inquiry.\n\n\"What we will look at is how we change the culture so that doctors who see something going wrong, maybe a mistake they themselves make, how we make it so that it is easy for them to talk about it openly so that mistake isn't repeated,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The length of time suspects could be bailed for is set to be trebled under government plans.\n\nUnder the proposals, officers will be told to impose bail conditions on suspects if there could be risks to victims, witnesses and the public.\n\nTime limits to keep suspects under such a restriction could be raised from 28 days to 90.\n\nThe plans would reverse changes which restricted the use of police, or pre-charge, bail in England and Wales.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has set out the proposals, which would also strengthen \"release under investigation\" measures to ensure suspects who are not bailed by police have their cases reviewed.\n\nThe rules on pre-charge bail were changed under Theresa May's premiership less than three years ago after concerns from some suspects - including those arrested in Operation Yewtree into historical sexual abuse - that they were being placed under bail conditions for too long.\n\nThe change prompted concerns at the number of suspects being released under investigation (RUI) without any conditions.\n\nThe Home Office said it had opened a public consultation on the latest proposals on Wednesday, in \"recognition that more needs to be done to ensure cases are dealt with effectively\".\n\nRUI was introduced by the Conservatives in April 2017 in a bid to limit the time someone spends on bail to 28 days - to try to cut the number of people facing restrictions for long periods of time without being charged.\n\nIt allows suspects to leave custody after an arrest without any restrictions for an unlimited period of time while inquiries continue, rather than having to comply with bail conditions including living at a certain address, not contacting particular people, or having to regularly visit a police station.\n\nSome 322,250 cases involved suspects being released under investigation between April 2017 and October, according to figures obtained by BBC Newsnight.\n\nNearly 100,000 of those cases involved suspected violent criminals and sex offenders, including people suspected of offences such as rape and murder, the figures suggested.\n\nIn April, the Centre for Women's Justice made a super complaint to the police watchdog, accusing forces of failing to use protective measures in cases of violence against women.\n\nIn November, the Home Secretary announced a review of the regulations. Ms Patel said on Wednesday that the public consultation \"forms a central part of this review, which will help (to) ensure the needs of victims are put first and the police can investigate crimes effectively and swiftly\".\n\nThe government said it would also give \"serious consideration\" to the findings of a police watchdog report on the use of bail by forces, which is expected to be published in the summer.\n\nThe 28-day limit came into force after a number of high-profile cases where suspects were kept waiting for long periods of time before being told whether they would be charged.\n\nIn 2015, broadcaster Paul Gambaccini - who was once held on police bail for a year - backed the 28-day limit.\n\nIn 2013, Mr Gambaccini was arrested on suspicion of historical sexual abuse but the case against him was dropped.", "The RHI scheme brought Stormont's institutions to collapse in January 2017\n\nThe report into the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (RHI), which led to the collapse of devolution in 2017, will be published on Friday 13 March.\n\nThe inquiry chairman, Sir Patrick Coghlin, will make a statement in the Long Gallery, Parliament Buildings in Belfast.\n\nThe scheme was set up to encourage the use of renewable energy sources, but it closed in 2016 after concerns were raised about cost controls.\n\nThe inquiry was established in 2017.\n\nMajor flaws in the set-up and implementation of the scheme meant it effectively encouraged individuals and businesses to burn more fuel to earn more money.\n\nIt became known as the \"cash-for-ash\" scandal and the scheme risked going vastly over budget, with fears the overspend could reach as much as £700m over 20 years.\n\nThe inquiry panel is made of up of Sir Patrick Coghlin (centre), Dame Una O'Brien and Dr Keith MacLean\n\nThe scheme was shut in 2016 and deep cuts in subsidies introduced in 2017 and 2019 brought it within budget.\n\nA top civil servant has since told MPs that the overspend figure had actually been just over £33m before the measures to curb spending were introduced.\n\nSince the scheme was closed to new entrants, available cash has been handed back to the treasury. The sum was £25m this year and if no replacement scheme is established, almost £400m would be returned over the remaining lifetime of the scheme.\n\nThree years after it was established the Renewable Heat Inquiry will issue its report next month.\n\nThe Chairman Sir Patrick Coghlin, has chosen Stormont, where the political institutions collapsed in the wake of the scandal.\n\nIt will address several important questions:\n\nThe contents will be eagerly anticipated and pored over to see whether three years on, they have any political ramifications.\n\nThe scheme ultimately led to the collapse of power sharing at Stormont in January 2017 when Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy first minister in protest at the DUP's handling of the scandal.\n\nThe scheme was run by Stormont's Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti), which later became the Department for the Economy (DfE).\n\nThe ministers in office during the creation and implementation of the scheme were the DUP's Arlene Foster and Jonathan Bell.", "Princess Anne's car had been blocked and Ian Ball had fired shots, wounding four people\n\nA medal awarded to a boxer who helped save the Princess Royal from an attempted armed kidnap is to be sold.\n\nFormer heavyweight Ronnie Russell, 72, punched Ian Ball in the head as he tried to abduct the princess at gunpoint in London in 1974.\n\nMr Russell was awarded the George Medal for bravery by the Queen, who told him: \"The medal is from the Queen, but I want to thank you as Anne's mother.\"\n\nIt is expected to fetch between £15,000 and £20,000 at auction next month.\n\nMr Russell, who now lives in Bristol, said he was selling due to ill health and wanted to provide for his future.\n\n\"It was something I said I would never, ever do,\" he said.\n\n\"What I would like is whoever does eventually buy the medal, I would hope they might invite me somewhere to tell them about what happened on the night.\"\n\nMr Russell said he \"still considered it was well worth my while getting shot as opposed to Princess Anne\"\n\nMr Russell was heading home to Kent when he thwarted the late-night ambush.\n\nIan Ball had blocked the princess's car on The Mall in central London and had fired shots, wounding four people.\n\n\"It was very fast moving,\" Mr Russell said.\n\nHe said Ball was trying to drag Princess Anne from her car while her then husband, Captain Mark Phillips, was pulling her back.\n\n\"She was very, very together, telling him: 'Just go away and don't be such a silly man',\" he said.\n\n\"He stood there glaring at me with the gun and I hit him. I hit him as hard as I could and he was flat on the floor face down.\"\n\nThe medal is estimated to sell for between £15,000 and £20,000\n\nBall was later sent to a psychiatric hospital by an Old Bailey judge.\n\nThe medal will be sold along with a letter from 10 Downing Street informing Mr Russell of the award and a telegram from Princess Anne.\n\nAuctioneer Oliver Pepys, from Dix Noonan Webb, said it has sold several George Medals in the past but most had been linked to World War Two.\"To be offering this peacetime medal, with such a cracking story, is a huge honour,\" he said.", "Ms Brabin was raising a point of order in the House of Commons on Monday\n\nA Labour MP whose bared shoulder prompted criticism on social media has said she is not \"a tart\".\n\nThe tongue-in-cheek reply from Tracy Brabin, the shadow culture secretary, came after online abuse of her appearance in Parliament on Monday.\n\nAn initial tweet questioned if her outfit was \"appropriate attire\" for Parliament.\n\nMs Brabin said she was surprised people \"could get so emotional over a shoulder\".\n\nThe Batley and Spen MP had been raising a point of order in the House of Commons, about journalists being asked to leave a Downing Street press briefing on the next stage of Brexit talks, when her shoulder appeared.\n\nMs Brabin told the BBC the response was \"sadly\" routine and \"another example of the every day sexism women face\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said she always tried to look smart but her slightly off-the-shoulder dress had slipped a little as she had leant forward to speak.\n\nOn the online comments, she said: \"They were playing top trumps on how rude they could be.\n\n\"They are idiots and they are rude but I am not going to lose much sleep over them.\"\n\nMs Brabin, who was elected to replace the murdered MP Jo Cox in 2016, said it was important to speak out about issues like this for other women who did not have a voice to protest when they were denigrated for their appearance.\n\n\"It's important I don't let other women down,\" she said.\n\nMPs do not have an official dress code, although they are advised to wear \"usual\" business dress.\n\nMale MPs were told in 2017 they did not need to wear ties in the chamber by the then Speaker, John Bercow.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Lawyer and diversity campaigner Funke Abimbola says she suffered \"bias\" when she tried to get into the profession.\n\nAbout a third of FTSE 100 companies have no ethnic minority representation on their boards, a report has revealed.\n\nThe Parker Review Committee found 31 of the 83 firms which provided relevant information fell into this category.\n\nMs Abimbola said: \"I found a number of barriers to entering the profession because I had an African name and am a black woman, without any doubt.\"\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I had to make over 100 phone calls to get a foot in the door.\n\n\"I have experienced bias and situations where, being a black woman, I was judged more harshly over other colleagues. You are more likely to be noticed and are far more likely to have negative judgements made about you if you are part of an ethnic minority.\"\n\nThe Parker report also found even lower representation at board level across FTSE 250 companies, where 119 out of 173 (69%) had no ethnic diversity.\n• None 150 of 256firms have no directors of colour\n• None 8companies have nearly 25% of the directors of colour\n• None 172directors of colour across the firms\n• None 15directors of colour who are a chair or CEO\n\nMs Abimbola said: \"The report doesn't surprise me. There are so many barriers to senior roles for minority ethnic clients to be considered.\"\n\nThe Parker committee, formed to consult on the ethnic diversity of company boards, published its first report into the subject in 2017.\n\nAt the time, 51 of the FTSE 100 companies had no ethnic representation on their boards, in comparison with about 33% today. Data was not collected from the FTSE 250 firms.\n\nThat report recommended that each FTSE 100 company should have at least one director of colour by 2021, and that each FTSE 250 board should do the same by 2024.\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Today programme, committee chairman Sir John Parker admitted that with two years still to go, achieving the target \"still looks a pretty tall climb\".\n\n\"On the other hand I recall well when I was on the Davies Committee on women on boards, about the halfway stage we had a not dissimilar situation and we met the 25% [target] in that case by the end of the five-year period.\n\n\"There are some leaders who want to wait and see and let others take the lead and thankfully there are those who take the lead and I think there will be a few who will wait till the bitter end because they're not totally convinced that it's the right thing to do, but they will move as they did on women on boards when they see widespread adoption,\" he added.\n\nTo help speed up the process, the new report has recommended that companies should:\n\nMs Abimbola believes that introducing an action plan to help with targets of ethnic minority representation is the key.\n\n\"There are a few agencies in the UK who specifically recruit diverse talent. They set up power lists every year across many talents, so if you want to look for BAME candidates, you need to work your way through these lists.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the report showed \"firms have much more to do\" to attract employees from black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) backgrounds.\n\nMs Leadsom said: \"I want the UK to be the best place in the world to work and to grow a business. Research consistently shows that diversity in businesses is not only essential for good working practice but makes them more successful.\n\n\"This government backs business and wants it to succeed in becoming more diverse.\"\n\nArun Batra, a partner at Ernst and Young and an adviser to the review said: \"We recognise that meaningful change takes time, but the data tells us that the current pace of change is not quick enough to meet the targets set by the review.\n\n\"Businesses need to continue to challenge traditional ways of working and legacy issues, and really investigate the talent that they have available in their business.\"\n\nDr Jill Miller, from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), said: \"The lack of ethnic diversity at the top of organisations is unacceptable in 2020 and although we are seeing movement in the right direction, the speed of progress reported today is disappointing.\n\n\"Systemic change is needed to ensure businesses are building diverse talent pipelines all the way through their organisation to support long-term change. Action is long overdue and must be a business priority.\"", "L-R: Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing, Radio 1's Clara Amfo and Phoebe Waller-Bridge of BBC Three's Fleabag\n\nCulture Secretary Nicky Morgan has launched a public consultation on whether non-payment of the TV licence fee should remain a criminal offence.\n\nCurrently, anyone who watches or records live TV or uses iPlayer without a TV licence is guilty of a criminal offence and could go to prison.\n\nBaroness Morgan said it was time to think about keeping the fee \"relevant\" in a \"changing media landscape\".\n\nThe BBC said a 2015 review found the current system to be the fairest.\n\nThe consultation, which will last eight weeks with the government publishing its response this summer, will also look at the viability of an alternative enforcement scheme.\n\nDecriminalisation would not mean payment would become voluntary. It could instead mean it would become a civil offence similar to non-payment of council tax or an electricity bill.\n\nIn a speech on Wednesday, Baroness Morgan said many people thought it wrong that \"you can be imprisoned for not paying the TV licence and its enforcement punishes the vulnerable\".\n\n\"We are launching a public consultation to make sure we have a fair and proportionate approach to licence fee penalties and payments, that protects those most in need in society,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baroness Morgan said it was time to think about keeping the fee \"relevant\" in a \"changing media landscape\"\n\nThe culture secretary also announced a new flexible payment scheme, called the Simple Payment Plan, to help those struggling to pay, including the over-75s.\n\nIt will allow people to spread the fee out into a number of manageable instalments.\n\n\"This will help prepare the BBC and public service broadcasting for the future and make sure it continues to work for our society, our economy, and the public which funds it,\" said Baroness Morgan.\n\nLast year, Treasury minister Rishi Sunak said the Prime Minister Boris Johnson had ordered a review of the sanction for non-payment of the £154.50 charge, which funds the BBC.\n\nConfirmation of the consultation comes two days after it was announced the fee is to increase by £3, from £154.50 to £157.50, from 1 April 2020.\n\nIt also follows the controversy last year over the decision to scrap free licences for some over-75s, a decision which saw a number of celebrities joining the call for the decision to be overturned.\n\nFrom June, only over-75s who are claiming pension credit will be eligible for a free TV licence.\n\nFormer BBC chairman Lord Grade's urged the government not to \"impoverish and weaken\" the corporation, which he described as the \"corner stone\" of the creative industries in the UK.\n\nHe said the BBC had \"huge success in promoting the brand of Great Britain around the world\", adding that any plan to decriminalise non-payment of the licence fee \"feels like another attempt to impoverish the BBC and weaken it\" and should be \"abandoned immediately\".\n\nBaroness Morgan said her plans should not be seen as \"any kind of attack on the BBC\".\n\nThe broadcaster is an \"incredibly important organisation in the UK and around the world\", she said, but added it was the government's \"duty\" to look into the issue of funding.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said \"a detailed government-commissioned review (in 2015) found the current system to be the fairest and most effective\".\n\n\"It did not recommend change - in part because the current system is effective in ensuring payment with very few people ever going to prison.\n\n\"If there are changes, they must be fair to law abiding licence fee payers and delivered in a way that doesn't fundamentally undermine the BBC's ability to deliver the services they love.\"\n\nIn 2018, more than 121,000 people were convicted and sentenced for evasion and issued with an average fine of £176.\n\nThere were around 26 million TV licences being used in the UK last year, generating £3.69bn in income for the BBC.\n\nIf decriminalisation of the TV licence fee were to go through, it would have a considerable impact on BBC funding.\n\nThe DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) said the government would take into account the impact on the corporation in the context of the overall licence fee settlement, for which negotiations begin later this year.\n\nA previous government review in 2015 looked into whether a fine for non-payment could be issued under civil law instead, similar to the fees for breaking parking, bus lane and congestion charge rules.\n\nThe review also examined whether unpaid TV licence fees should be considered a civil debt in the same way as unpaid utility bills or council tax.\n\nHowever, it recommended against changing the criminal sanctions regime, saying decriminalisation could bring with it an increased risk of evasion.\n\nA consultation is a process used by public bodies that invites the public to provide their views and feedback on a particular proposal.\n\nThe members of the public who are asked are individuals and organisations that would be affected directly or indirectly by a project or a decision.\n\nThey include those who have the ability to influence the decision, both positively and negatively. They can also be people who simply have an interest in the project.\n\nThere is no maximum or minimum number of respondents; It's open to anyone over 16.\n\nConsultations last for a proportionate amount of time and consist of a limited number of clear, concise questions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDemocrats have intensified their calls for former US National Security Adviser John Bolton to testify in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.\n\nThe pressure has grown following the report of a potentially explosive claim Bolton is said to make in a new book.\n\nThe New York Times cited a leaked Bolton manuscript as saying that Trump told him he wanted to freeze aid to Ukraine until Kyiv helped with investigations against the Democrats, including former Vice-President Joe Biden.\n\nThe US president rejected the report, which could undercut his denials that he had corrupt motives in asking Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky in a phone call last July to investigate Biden, who is Trump's potential White House rival.\n\nBolton, a Republican, is an unlikely hero for Democrats. Still, they believe he will act as a star witness, one who will provide irrefutable evidence of wrongdoing by Trump and help bolster the case for his removal from office.\n\nDemocrats once invested similar hopes in another Washington figure, Robert Mueller, the former special counsel.\n\nBut Mueller looked miserable while testifying in May about his Russian investigation, and did not change many people's minds about the president.\n\nBolton could be different - or so Democrats hope.\n\nHe was \"personally involved\" in the president's dealings with the Ukrainian officials, according to Bolton's lawyer.\n\nThe former national security adviser was \"at the nerve centre for all important decisions\", says Matthew Spence, a former deputy assistant secretary of defence.\n\nIf Bolton were to testify, he would be able to provide the most detailed account to date of the president's alleged political pressure on President Zelensky and the decision to freeze nearly $400m (£306m) in security aid.\n\nOther witnesses have alleged that Trump administration officials used the aid as a bargaining chip to prod the Ukrainians into investigating the Bidens.\n\nBut they have not linked Trump explicitly to the withholding of aid in exchange for an investigation, or shown that Trump personally directed the operations.\n\nDemocrats believe the former national security adviser could provide the smoking gun.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sondland was involved in a \"domestic political errand\" for Trump\n\n\"Bolton was present during the crime,\" says Evelyn Farkas, who served as top Russia official during the Obama administration and is now running as a Democrat for a congressional seat in New York.\n\n\"And he knew that it was a crime at the time.\"\n\nAccording to reports, Bolton opposed the withholding of security aid to Ukraine, and tried unsuccessfully to convince the president to release the military aid during an Oval Office meeting.\n\n\"This is in America's interest,\" the former national security adviser told the president, according to the New York Times, as he argued the aid should be provided to Ukraine.\n\nThe aid was eventually released - a day after Bolton acrimoniously left the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTrump has repeatedly said that he did nothing wrong and that the impeachment proceedings are a \"scam\".\n\nWhite House lawyers have already turned down requests from Democratic lawmakers for Bolton and other witnesses to testify.\n\nTrump's lawyers say their testimony would violate the president's right to confidentiality.\n\nBolton has said publicly he would testify if he gets a legal summons, however, ignoring the wishes of the White House lawyers who want him to lay low.\n\nSenators will vote on the matter of witnesses in the coming days.\n\nWhenever I saw him, whether in meetings overseas or in the West Wing, he always had a notebook.\n\nA long-time commentator on Fox News, he jotted down his thoughts on paper while he was working in the White House.\n\nPresumably the notes came in handy for his reported multi-million dollar book deal with Simon & Schuster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Bolton will be a powerful witness for Democrats,\" says Jeremy Shapiro, who served for years as a career diplomat in the US state department.\n\n\"He's an assiduous note taker and was always keen to write things down. He's going to have the extra credibility that comes from that.\"\n\nBut some observers of the White House wonder if Bolton knows as much as he appears to, or if his willingness to testify is just a ploy to sell his book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, which is out next month.\n\nBolton championed hardline policies towards North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran, and the president did not always agree with him.\n\nAt times Bolton was sidelined. Democrats also question whether the testimony from Bolton, regardless of its firepower, will make a difference.\n\nBolton is likely to be a more compelling speaker than Mueller, who suffered visibly during his presentation.\n\nIn contrast, Bolton loves the spotlight: he used to bounce on the balls of his feet when he stood at a podium in the West Wing. \"He's going to be better television than Mueller,\" says Shapiro.\n\nBut Shapiro and others wonder whether Bolton will have much of an impact. \"It's abundantly clear that the president is guilty as charged, and it's hard to improve on a slam dunk,\" he says. \"It's also abundantly clear that the Republican senators don't care.\"\n\nThey would never convict this guy of anything, he adds.\n\nThe trial so far has largely followed Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell's script.\n\nBut while it appears to be heading towards an acquittal of the president, Democrats will hope the Bolton book serves up a plot twist.", "The three leaders faced scrutiny of their parties' policies on healthcare, housing and the economy\n\nThe leaders of the Republic of Ireland's three largest parties have clashed in the final TV debate of the general election campaign.\n\nVoters go to the polls on Saturday to decide who should lead the government in Dublin.\n\nOn RTÉ's Prime Time, Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar said it was a \"change election\" but warned voters not to back Fianna Fáil or Sinn Féin.\n\nThe leaders of both those parties rejected Mr Varadkar's criticism.\n\nFollowing the last general election in 2016, no party won enough seats to form a government on its own so Fine Gael formed a minority government with Fianna Fáil.\n\nMr Varadkar said if his party failed to win the election outright this time, he would work with parties like Labour, Independents, Greens and Social Democrats - but that as a \"last resort\", rather than have no government or a second election, he would be willing to work with Fianna Fáil.\n\n\"What I won't do is negotiate a coalition with Sinn Féin. I'm concerned about their past, but I'm much more concerned about the present and the future,\" he said.\n\nSinn Féin's president Mary Lou McDonald was a last-minute addition to the debate line-up.\n\nWith days to go to the general election in the Republic of Ireland, a Sunday Business Post/Red C poll put Sinn Féin joint top, level with Fianna Fáil.\n\nRTÉ said given the change in polling, the debate would be widened to allow Mrs McDonald to take part.\n\nShe argued that the electorate saw Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil as almost identical parties who have had it their own way \"for a century\" and that people were now recognising Sinn Féin as the alternative.\n\n\"The worst outcome is Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil together again for the next four or five years. My objective is to sort out housing, to ensure that workers and families have a break,\" she added.\n\nMicheál Martin, Leo Varadkar and Mary Lou McDonald faced off against each other in Tuesday night's election debate\n\nFianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said he believed that the election would lead to \"a real alternative government to a Fine Gael-led government\".\n\nHe also described housing as the \"burning issue\" of the election campaign.\n\n\"We have to build more affordable homes directly... on state land, and we have to build council houses as well on state land and more of them,\" he said.\n\nHousing is a big issue in the Republic of Ireland, with the number of homes needed in major towns and cities well below the level required to house the demand.\n\nMr Varadkar also faced criticism for his party's record on housing, and particularly dealing with rising levels of homelessness in Ireland.\n\nHe acknowledged that more needed to be done but said Fine Gael was working to improve social housing.\n\nThe three leaders also took each other to task over their pledges and commitments about healthcare.\n\nWaiting lists and overcrowding remains an outstanding issue in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMore than 553,000 people were waiting for an outpatient appointment in December, according to the monthly figures published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). That was an increase of 37,000 on the previous year.\n\nMr Varadkar said his party would invest more money in healthcare - but Mrs McDonald said the problem was \"capacity\" and pressed for more hospital beds to be opened across the hospital system.\n\nMr Martin denied that Fianna Fáil's pledge to aim for a four-hour target wait for Emergency Departments was a \"short-term fix\".\n\nThe general election will take place on Saturday 8 February, with counting beginning on Sunday.\n\nVoters will elect 160 members of the Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament), but a political party would need to win at least 80 seats in order to form a majority government.", "Claims made by Ryanair about its carbon emissions have been banned by the UK's advertising watchdog.\n\nEurope's biggest airline by passenger numbers had billed itself as the region's \"lowest emissions airline\" and a \"low C02 emissions airline\".\n\nBut the Advertising Standards Authority ruled Ryanair's claims in press, TV and radio adverts could not be backed up.\n\nRyanair hit back in a statement saying consumers could halve their carbon footprint if they switched to it.\n\nIn adverts last year, the Dublin-based operator claimed to have \"the lowest carbon emissions of any major airline\" and to be a \"low fares, low CO2 emissions\" carrier \"based on the top 27 European airlines\".\n\nComplainants to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the adverts were misleading and could not be substantiated. By their nature, airlines do not have low emissions, critics said.\n\nIn evidence to the ASA, Ryanair argued its green credentials were based on it having the youngest aircraft fleet using the newest most fuel-efficient engines, and flying 97% full on average.\n\nRyanair said its claims were supported using data from the European aviation organisation Eurocontrol and airline efficiency rankings published by Brighter Plant, a provider of carbon and energy calculations.\n\nClearcast and Radiocentre, used by companies to review adverts before they go public, both gave their backing.\n\nHowever, the ASA took issue with some of the figures and the definition of \"a major airline\" for the purposes of assessing emissions comparisons.\n\nAn airline efficiency ranking used by Ryanair was dated 2011, \"and was therefore of little value as substantiation for a comparison made in 2019,\" the ASA said.\n\n\"Consequently, we concluded that the claims 'Europe's… Lowest Emissions Airline' and 'low CO2 emissions' were misleading,\" the regulator said.\n\nThe adverts must not be repeated \"in their current form,\" the ASA ruled, adding: \"We told Ryanair to ensure that when making environmental claims, they held adequate evidence to substantiate them and to ensure that the basis of those claims were made clear.\"\n\nRyanair said it would comply with the ruling, but in a statement underlined its claim that emissions per passenger are 25% lower \"than other major airlines\".\n\nAirlines are increasingly having to defend themselves as protests increase\n\nThe airline said: \"Ryanair is delighted with its latest environmental advertising campaign, which communicates a hugely important message for our customers.\n\n\"The single most important thing any customer can do to halve their carbon footprint is switch to Ryanair.\"\n\nThe airline also said it would be making changes to claims on its website, which is not regulated in the UK but by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI).\n\nThe ASAI said in a statement it \"is assessing the advertising in question. In line with due process, we will not be commenting further at this stage.\"\n\nAviation has become a target of environmental activists, and there are signs so-called \"flight shaming\" is starting to have an impact on travel habits.\n\nAgainst this backdrop, the industry has become more proactive about what it is doing to cut its carbon footprint.\n\nOn Monday, a group called Sustainable Aviation, whose members include Heathrow Airport, British Airways, EasyJet, Rolls Royce, Airbus and air traffic controller Nats, promised to cut its net carbon emissions to zero by 2050.\n\nIn 2018, Ryanair launched a voluntary carbon offset scheme, which has so far raised €2.5m (£2.1m) according to the airline's website. The money is invested in environmental projects in Ireland and abroad.\n\nBut last April, Ryanair was named as the only airline included in a list of Europe's top 10 polluters, according to data from the EU's Transport & Environment group.", "Ian Paterson carried out hundreds of botched and needless operations\n\nA culture of \"avoidance and denial\" allowed a breast surgeon to perform botched and unnecessary operations on hundreds of women, a report has found.\n\nAn independent inquiry into Ian Paterson's malpractice has recommended the recall of his 11,000 patients for their treatment to be assessed.\n\nPaterson is serving a 20-year jail term for 17 counts of wounding with intent.\n\nOne of Paterson's colleagues has been referred to police and five more to health watchdogs by the inquiry.\n\nDebbie Douglas, who underwent \"needless\" surgery while in Paterson's care, said all of the report's 15 recommendations must be implemented.\n\nThe disgraced breast surgeon worked with cancer patients at NHS and private hospitals in the West Midlands over 14 years.\n\nHis unregulated \"cleavage-sparing\" mastectomies, in which breast tissue was left behind, meant the disease returned in many of his patients.\n\nOthers had surgery they did not need - some even finding out years later they did not have cancer.\n\nPatients were let down by the healthcare system \"at every level\" said the inquiry chair, retired Bishop of Norwich the Rt Revd Graham James, who identified \"multiple individual and organisational failures\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victim Debbie Douglas called for changes to the law following the report's publication\n\nAnother of Paterson's victims, Tracey Smith, welcomed the recommendations for the health service made by the inquiry.\n\n\"Paterson was claiming that there was some sort of cancer hotspot in Solihull. The only problem in Solihull was Ian Paterson,\" she said.\n\n\"Now we will continue to fight so that the recommendations are put in place to stop this from ever happening in the NHS or the Spire or any private hospital in the country.\"\n\nAmong the report's recommendations were:\n\nIn his report, Bishop James said: \"The suffering described; the callousness; the wickedness; the failures on the part of individuals and institutions as well as Paterson himself - these are vividly described in what patients told us.\n\n\"The scale of what happened, the length of time this malpractice went on; the terrible legacy for so many families; it is difficult to exaggerate the damage done, including to trust in medical organisations.\"\n\nThe coroner and West Midlands Police are looking into the deaths of 23 of Paterson's patients.\n\nRelatives of some of Paterson's patients who died have called for him to face manslaughter charges.\n\nThe opening words of the Paterson inquiry are striking. The chair, Rt Revd Graham James, says this was \"far worse\" than simply a story about a rogue surgeon though that itself was tragic.\n\nHe says the healthcare system was dysfunctional at every level when it came to keeping patients safe. And this was less than a decade ago.\n\nHe suggests there are currently more than enough regulators with sufficient budgets, but they still aren't doing enough collectively to keep patients safe.\n\nChillingly he says that based on evidence from clinicians as opposed to regulators something similar could happen now.\n\nPaterson began working at Spire private hospital in Solihull in 1997 and was appointed at Solihull Hospital, part of the Heart of England NHS Trust, a year later.\n\nBetween then and 2011, he had 11,000 patients across the two sites. He was suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC) in 2012 while his practices were being investigated.\n\nAn independent report by lawyer Sir Ian Kennedy found concerns about Paterson had been raised as early as 2003, but hospital management missed several opportunities to stop him.\n\nFollowing a trial at Nottingham Crown Court, Paterson, of Altrincham in Greater Manchester, who grew up in County Down, Northern Ireland, was jailed for 15 years in May 2017 after being found guilty of wounding with intent nine women and one man.\n\nHis sentence was later increased to 20 years.\n\nPaterson worked at Spire Hospital, in Solihull, from 1997 to 2011\n\nLater that year, minister of state for health Philip Dunne established the independent inquiry.\n\n\"There was a culture of avoidance and denial, an alarming loss of corporate memory and an offloading of responsibility at every level,\" Bishop James said in his conclusions.\n\n\"This capacity for wilful blindness is illustrated by the way in which Paterson's behaviour and aberrant clinical practice was excused or even favoured.\n\n\"Many simply avoided or worked round him. Some could have known, while others should have known, and a few must have known.\"\n\nThose referred to the health watchdog and the police were not named in the report.\n\nJacqui Smith, chair of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust which now runs Solihull Hospital, said it \"wholly condemns\" Paterson's practices and acknowledged \"many of Paterson's patients received appalling treatment whilst under the care of the NHS\".\n\nSpire Healthcare's chief executive, Justin Ash, apologised for the \"significant distress\" suffered by patients and accepted \"missed opportunities to challenge Ian Paterson's criminal behaviour\".\n\n\"We should have caught him sooner,\" he said. \"We have changed - Spire has changed. We have got much better regulation of consultants today.\"\n\nTwo of Paterson's patients, Tracey Smith and Debbie Douglas, were in Birmingham to read the inquiry report\n\nMrs Douglas, who spearheaded the campaign for the inquiry, said: \"The fight goes on until the legislation has changed.\n\n\"We don't want somebody from the government giving us lip service and saying that lessons will be learned. It sickens me.\n\nBishop James described the \"wickedness\" and \"callousness\" faced by Paterson's victims\n\nOther recommendations made by the inquiry are the suspension of healthcare professionals who are under investigation over patient safety, and that gaps in responsibility and liability between the NHS and the private sector are improved by the government.\n\nHealth Minister Nadine Dorries said: \"I deeply regret the failures of the NHS and the independent sector to protect patients from the devastating impact of Paterson's malpractice.\n\n\"It is essential we all respond quickly and effectively to the lessons of this inquiry, giving every patient the confidence that the care they receive is safe and meets the highest standards.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils say they struggled in their old classrooms\n\nSchools are failing to spot ADHD and autism, which could be contributing to a rise in exclusions, an alternative education provider has said.\n\nKelly Rowlands, who runs schools for excluded children, said seven out of nine of her pupils arrived with undiagnosed neurodiversity issues.\n\nThe rate of permanent exclusions in Wales almost doubled between 2014 and 2017 to four in every 10,000 pupils.\n\nThe Welsh Government said permanent exclusion was a last resort.\n\n\"The decision to exclude a child is a last resort and never taken lightly,\" said Eithne Hughes, director of the Association of School and College Leaders Cymru.\n\nChildren who have been excluded playing football at an ACT school\n\nThe assembly's education committee said in January 2019 there were 2,286 pupils in Wales were receiving education other than at school (EOTAS), many of whom had either been excluded from mainstream education or were at risk of exclusion.\n\nThe latest figures available show in 2016-17 there was a significant increase in the number of permanent exclusions compared with the previous year, up from 109 to 165.\n\nMs Rowlands, senior schools manager for ACT, which runs schools and training for excluded children in Cardiff and Caerphilly, said too few resources were being used to understand why a child might be behaving badly before the \"exclusion cycle\" begins.\n\nShe said the overall number of pupils her service had been asked to take on had tripled in three years.\n\n\"I think schools are being put under much more pressure in terms of their outcomes and their achievement data,\" she said.\n\n\"If they do have a disruptive learner in the classroom it's much easier to remove them and deal with the masses than it is to focus the time on that one person.\"\n\nShe called for a \"stricter screening\" of children before they start secondary school to try to identify any additional needs that may have been missed.\n\nKelly Rowlands said schools were too focused on achievement data\n\nRiley, 15, was excluded following an assault after starting secondary school.\n\n\"I was always being naughty, I punched my head teacher, chucked a chair at him,\" he said.\n\n\"I was getting angry all the time - with the students, with the teachers. I just didn't like the school.\"\n\nAmanda Kirby from the University of South Wales is conducting research on a link between school exclusion and additional learning needs.\n\nAmanda Kirby said exclusions were on the increase\n\nShe said children with special educational needs were \"seven times more likely\" to be excluded than those without.\n\n\"What we've seen in Wales is that exclusions have been on the increase,\" she said.\n\n\"I think that even though they're relatively rare, if you look at the total population, we are still recognising that in both Wales and England we're seeing a general increase. That's something we need to be alerted to...\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our guidance makes clear that permanent exclusion should be a last resort and should only be used where all other strategies for supporting the pupil have been exhausted.\"\n\nHe added legislation had been introduced to ensure behavioural issues were dealt with earlier and more effectively.\n\nMs Hughes said support for children with behavioural problems had been \"hampered by severe funding pressures\".\n\n\"Despite their best efforts, it is occasionally necessary to exclude a pupil to ensure that other pupils are able to learn in a safe and orderly environment, and also because the pupil in question needs more support than a mainstream school can provide.\n\n\"These are difficult and complex decisions over which schools, governing bodies and local authorities follow detailed and extensive guidance,\" she said.\n\nWatch more on Wales Live, at 22:30 GMT on Wednesday on BBC One Wales, and on the BBC iPlayer.", "A68 barely moved after calving, but this year has suddenly raced northwards\n\nThe world's biggest iceberg is about to enter the open ocean.\n\nA68, a colossus that broke free from the Antarctic in 2017, has pushed so far north it is now at the limit of the continent's perennial sea-ice.\n\nWhen it calved, the berg had an area close to 6,000 sq km (2,300 sq mi) and has lost very little of its bulk over the past two and a half years.\n\nBut scientists say A68 will struggle to maintain its integrity when it reaches the Southern Ocean's rougher waters.\n\n\"With a thickness to length ratio akin to five sheets of A4, I am astonished that the ocean waves haven't already made ice cubes out of A68,\" said Prof Adrian Luckman from Swansea University, UK.\n\n\"If it survives for long as one piece when it moves beyond the edge of the sea-ice, I will be very surprised,\" he told BBC News.\n\nEurope's Sentinel-3 satellite shows A68 against the edge of the perennial sea-ice (orange line)\n\nA68 split from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017. For a year, it hardly moved, its keel apparently grounded on the seafloor.\n\nBut the prevailing winds and currents eventually began to push it northwards along the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, and during this summer season the drift has undergone a rapid acceleration.\n\nThe iceberg, currently at 63 degrees South latitude, is following a very predictable course.\n\nA68 is about 150km long but only 200m or so thick. It has the profile akin to a few sheets of A4 paper stacked on top of each other. Rough seas should break it apart\n\nWhen it pops above the tip of the peninsula, the massive block should be swept northwards towards the Atlantic - a path researchers refer to as \"Iceberg Alley\".\n\nMany of Antarctica's greatest bergs even make it as far - and beyond - the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia at roughly 54 degrees South.\n\nThe biggest ever recorded iceberg in the modern era was the 11,000-sq-km block called B15, which calved from the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000.\n\nOne of its last remnants, now measuring \"just\" 200 sq km, is halfway to the South Sandwich Islands, east of South Georgia.\n\nObjects this big have to be constantly monitored because they pose a risk to shipping. Satellite images, like the ones shown on this page, are the obvious way to do this.\n\nPine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is about to release a big iceberg (white shading)\n\nWhile they keep an eye on A68, scientists are also watching for two other, soon-to-birth bergs.\n\nOne is about to come off the front of Pine Island Glacier in the West Antarctic. This will be a little over 300 sq km when it calves. The block is already riven with many cracks.\n\n\"I expect that the new iceberg will break into many pieces soon after it calves,\" said Prof Luckman.\n\nThe other imminent large berg is forming in eastern Antarctica, on the edge of the Brunt Ice Shelf.\n\nThis should be about 1,500 sq km - roughly the area of Greater London.\n\nThe putative berg has garnered a lot of attention because Britain's Halley research station had to be moved to make sure it wasn't in harm's way.\n\nThe berg will calve when a big rift, dubbed Chasm 1, finally slices through a section of ice measuring less than 10km in length.\n\nPrecisely when, no-one can say. \"The rift is widening, but only at a steady rate, and the rift tip is hardly advancing,\" Prof Luckman told BBC News.\n\nThe Brunt berg will be about the size of Greater London when Chasm 1 breaks through\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The mobile operators will meet on Wednesday to try to agree on sharing the costs of masts and other equipment\n\nAn agreement to share network equipment in order to improve phone coverage in rural areas has hit a stumbling block over costs.\n\nRival operators are unhappy at the price BT-owned EE is asking them to pay to share its equipment.\n\nO2's chief said the fees being sought by its rival \"may undermine the viability of the project\".\n\nBT said the costs were based on the value of the masts and other investments it had made over the years.\n\nA key meeting is due to take place on Wednesday to hammer out the details, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) agreement was announced in October and aims to get the mobile operators working together to extend the geographic coverage of 4G to 95% of the UK by 2025.\n\nMany rural areas have only patchy service, and some have none at all.\n\nThe government is contributing £500m towards the costs, with the other half of the bill being footed by the mobile operators.\n\nThe Conservatives want the deal done as soon as possible - ideally in time for the Budget on 11 March - and has threatened to intervene if the operators cannot reach agreement.\n\nThe BBC understands that if the mobile operators do fail to agree, the government will consider other ways of achieving its 95% coverage goal.\n\nIt will, said one industry insider, make delays to improving rural mobile coverage inevitable.\n\nWould a supermarket agree to share its shelves with rivals, asked BT's chief executive\n\nThe Financial Times reported that BT wants to include 320 yet-to-be-built masts in the agreement and to charge 250% more than the existing commercial rate for rivals to access them.\n\nOne insider told the BBC it would be cheaper for operators to build their own masts.\n\nBT has not revealed the commercial agreements it is hoping to sign with other operators but it is believed it will offer rivals a cheaper rate for masts on its emergency service network, which was partially funded by the government. There are several hundreds of these in rural locations.\n\nPreviously BT's chief executive Marc Allera has said the costs of sharing equipment needed to reflect the fact that EE has 4G coverage in \"significantly more places than any other network\".\n\n\"Finding an analogy here is tricky because this is complex, but I sometimes think of it like Sainsbury's building a new superstore in a rural area and being made to give away shelf space to Tesco, Lidl and Asda,\" he said in a blog.\n\nOf the meeting this week BT told the BBC that it was \"ready to go\".\n\n\"We've proposed a far simpler and more pragmatic way for SRN to succeed, plus a way to reduce any taxpayer money by also including new sites that are being built by us in the future.\n\n\"It's now down to the industry to finalise the deal to get it done.\"\n\nAll the operators said they were committed to getting an agreement.\n\nIn a blog, O2 chief executive Mark Evans said: \"The SRN requires all four mobile network operators to deliver additional investment and an unprecedented level of infrastructure-sharing; it requires the government to deliver planning policy reform and a modest level of funding.\"\n\nDave Dyson, chief executive of Three, said: \"Enhancing mobile connectivity for the 9.3 million living in the UK's countryside requires a joined-up approach between the industry and government.\n\n\"A Shared Rural Network is the best way to do that, bringing mobile coverage to more places in the UK and giving people in rural areas a similar choice to those living in towns and cities.\"\n\nAnd Vodafone told the BBC: \"We remain committed to the Shared Rural Network scheme and are working towards reaching a final agreement.\"", "Sudesh Amman was under covert surveillance when he stabbed two people in south London on Sunday\n\nThe threat from terrorism is \"not diminishing\", the head of UK counter-terror policing has warned, as he praised covert officers' response to the Streatham attack.\n\nOfficers \"calmly ran forward\" and prevented more people being injured, Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.\n\nSudesh Amman, 20, was shot dead by police after stabbing two people in south London on Sunday.\n\n\"But with 3,000 or so subjects of interest currently on our radar and many convicted terrorists soon due to be released from prison, we simply cannot watch all of them, all the time,\" the Metropolitan Police's assistant commissioner said.\n\nHe welcomed government plans to \"to keep the most dangerous terrorists locked up for longer\".\n\nAmman had been released from prison on 23 January after serving half of his sentence for terror offences.\n\nHe was under active surveillance at the time of the attack - which police believe to have be an Islamist-related terrorist incident - and had a hoax device strapped to his body.\n\nMr Basu praised the \"quick reactions\" of surveillance officers for preventing more injuries.\n\n\"They exemplified the courage and sense of duty that our officers have shown time and time again in their efforts to protect the public from the terrorist threat,\" he added.\n\nMr Basu said the attack was the third in as many months, following recent incidents at London Bridge and Whitemoor prison, and said the threat was \"not diminishing\", despite best efforts.\n\nThe UK's terror threat level is currently set at \"substantial\", meaning an attack is likely.\n\nIt was downgraded from \"severe\", the second highest rating, in November, shortly before the London Bridge attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick said it was \"clearly not possible\" to stop every attack and Amman was able to stab people despite being under surveillance because such operations are not \"man-to-man marking\".\n\nIn response to the attack, ministers want to introduce emergency legislation to make terror offenders serve more time in prison - but a former government adviser has warned those plans could lead to a legal battle.\n\nA target of 27 February has been set to get the legislation through Parliament to prevent the early release of any more offenders, according to a Whitehall official.\n\nThe official said no terrorist offenders are due to receive automatic release before that date.\n\nThe government plans to introduce the legislation in the Commons on Tuesday, with the aim of clearing the House by the time it rises for recess the following Thursday.", "Live coverage from Washington DC, as President Donald Trump's impeachment trial continues in the Senate.\n\nThe impeachment is in its final stages as senators prepare to cast their final vote on Wednesday, with acquittal almost certain.", "Ian Paterson is serving a 20-year jail term for 17 counts of wounding with intent\n\nShipman, Mid Staffordshire, Morecambe Bay, and now Ian Paterson, the breast surgeon that performed botched and unnecessary operations on hundreds of women.\n\nThe list of NHS-related scandals has got longer. It's tempting to say the health service has not learned lessons even after a string of revelations and reviews. But is that fair?\n\nThe important point to make about Paterson, the rogue surgeon and the scandal which could have harmed more than 1,000 patients, is that it involved the private sector even more than the NHS.\n\nThe inquiry, chaired by Bishop Graham James, makes clear there were failings at every level of a dysfunctional health system when it came to patient safety.\n\nThe public and private health systems did not compare notes about suspicious behaviour by a consultant.\n\nStaff working with Paterson thought that his surgical methods were unusual but, perhaps cowed by being ignored after raising concerns, kept their heads down.\n\nAdd to that the power and status of a surgeon in the medical world and, in the words of the report, Paterson was \"hiding in plain sight\".\n\nSo could it happen again?\n\nThe bishop says it's clearly impossible to eliminate the activities of determined criminals in any profession.\n\nHe acknowledges that some improvements have been made on policing.\n\nBut he says that a decade on from the Paterson scandal, he is not convinced that medical regulators, with a combined budget of half a billion pounds a year, are doing enough collectively or collaboratively to make the system safe for patients.\n\nAnd that is the case, he believes, even after the former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt pledged to prioritise patient safety in England and set up a specialist health investigations unit to probe major safety breaches.\n\nThe General Medical Council (GMC), which regulates doctors, offered an apology to patients who were let down and said a system-wide approach was needed to build on safeguards set up after the Paterson scandal.\n\nThere was an acknowledgment that more had to be done and regulators needed to work more closely together to protect patients.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission, the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care are other watchdogs mentioned in the report.\n\nThe review chair notes tellingly that while regulators spoke of major improvements which should identify another Paterson, some doctors and nurses had told the inquiry that it was \"entirely possible that something similar could happen now\".\n\nIt's worth remembering that the NHS was ranked top in a comparison of 11 countries by the US think tank the Commonwealth Fund in 2017.\n\nThe report praised the UK health service for the safety of its care and systems to prevent ill health.\n\nNearly 17 million patients per year are admitted to hospitals in England for some sort of procedure or operation. Much of NHS care is first rate.\n\nThe fact that the NHS and the private sector are jointly held responsible for failings over Paterson is a reminder that the health service is not intrinsically less safe than independent providers. Far from it.\n\nThe review goes as far as to suggest that if private hospitals lag behind the NHS in implementing the report's recommendations there should be no more state funding of treatment in the independent sector.\n\nThis is ultimately a question of trust in health professionals wherever they work.", "More than a thousand scientists have built the most detailed picture of cancer ever in a landmark study.\n\nThey said cancer was like a 100,000-piece jigsaw, and that until today, 99% of the pieces were missing.\n\nTheir studies, published in the journal Nature, provide an almost complete picture of all cancers.\n\nThey could allow treatment to be tailored to each patient's unique tumour, or develop ways of finding cancer earlier.\n\nThe Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium analysed the whole genetic code of 2,658 cancers.\n\nA cancer is a corrupted version of our own healthy cells - mutations to our DNA change our cells until eventually they grow and divide uncontrollably.\n\nMost of our understanding of this process comes from the sets of genetic instructions for building the body's proteins.\n\n\"That's a mere 1% of the whole genome,\" said Dr Lincoln Stein from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.\n\nHe said doctors would be \"in the dark\" when treating around a third of patients, as it was impossible to tell why their cells had become cancerous.\n\nIt has taken teams in 37 countries more than a decade to figure out what the 99% were doing.\n\nThe work, which took 22 scientific journal papers to describe, shows that cancer is massively complex, with thousands of different combinations of mutations able to cause cancer.\n\nThe project found people's cancers contain, on average, between four and five fundamental mutations that drive a cancer's growth.\n\nThese are potential weak-spots that can be exploited with treatments that attack these \"driver mutations\".\n\n\"Ultimately, what we want to do is to use these technologies to identify treatments that are tailored to each individual patient,\" said Dr Peter Campbell, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute.\n\nHowever, 5% of cancers appear to have no driver mutations at all, showing there is still more work to do.\n\nScientists also developed a way of \"carbon dating\" mutations. They showed that more than a fifth of them occurred years or even decades before a cancer is found.\n\n\"We've developed the first timelines of genetic mutations across the spectrum of cancer types,\" said Dr Peter Van Loo from the Francis Crick Institute.\n\nHe added: \"Unlocking these patterns means it should now be possible to develop new diagnostic tests, that pick up signs of cancer much earlier.\"\n\nThe challenge will be knowing which of these mutations will go on to become cancer and which can be safely ignored.", "The Old Bailey heard the case concerns Hashem Abedi's \"role in perpetrating\" the attack\n\nThe brother of the Manchester Arena bomber was \"just as guilty\" of the murder of the 22 people who died in the attack, his trial has heard.\n\nSalman Abedi detonated a \"large home-made improvised explosive device\" outside an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nHis brother Hashem Abedi is standing trial at the Old Bailey over his \"role in perpetrating these terrible events\".\n\nHe denies the murder of 22 people and the attempted murder of others.\n\nHe also denies conspiring with his brother to cause an explosion.\n\nProsecutor Duncan Penny QC said the siblings spent \"months\" planning the attack, which had been \"both sudden and lethal\" and had had \"nearly 1,000 victims\".\n\nHe said in addition to the 22 people - men, women, teenagers and a child - who died, a total of 264 \"were physically injured\" while 670 more had since \"reported psychological trauma as a result of these events\".\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nMr Penny said the explosion was the \"culmination of months of planning and preparation\" by the brothers, who had worked together to source chemicals and buy screws and nails to use as \"anti-personnel shrapnel\" in experimental improvised bombs.\n\nHe said they had also obtained an address in Blackley, north Manchester where they could work on the device and bought a Nissan Micra car to use as a \"de-facto storage facility\".\n\nThe court heard the flat was \"not an area the two were used to frequenting\" and had been used as a \"safe address from which to operate without unwanted or uninvited interruption\".\n\nThe resulting bomb was \"detonated in the middle of a crowd in a very public area… to kill and to inflict maximum damage\", Mr Penny said.\n\nThe court heard the Manchester-born brothers had lived alone in the family home in Fallowfield, about four miles south of the city centre, since 2016 when their parents returned to Libya.\n\nMr Penny said they had shown \"some signs of radicalisation\" in the years before the bombing - \"Salman more so than Hashem\".\n\nJurors were told Hashem had worked in a takeaway at the time and had asked if he could take home used vegetable oil cans to sell for scrap, which Mr Penny described as a \"cover story\".\n\nA part of one of the cans was found at the scene of the attack.\n\nMr Penny said it was not suggested the brothers had a specific target and the final destination may have been chosen by Salman Abedi alone, but they had a \"shared goal [to] kill, maim and injure as many people as possible\".\n\n\"The law is that Hashem Abedi is just as responsible for this atrocity… as surely as if he had selected the target and detonated the bomb himself,\" he added.\n\nSalman Abedi and his brother lived in Fallowfield, four miles south of Manchester city centre\n\nJurors were shown a map of the city with locations such as Manchester Arena, the Arndale Centre and Victoria Station identified.\n\nMr Penny said the arena was \"one of the busiest and one of the largest\" in Europe and had been filled with the American singer's \"large and diverse fan base\" on the night of the attack.\n\nHe said the foyer outside it was \"busy and heavily congested with people\" as the crowd left the venue at about 22:30 BST, and in their \"midst… carrying a heavy rucksack that contained a homemade bomb… was Salman Abedi\".\n\nHe added that such was the \"ferocity of the explosion\" that it \"dismembered\" the bomber and left a scene \"of destruction and chaos\".\n\nMr Penny said \"significant exhibits from two separate locations\" linked Hashem to the attack.\n\nHe said his hand and finger marks were found on parts which had been cut from the vegetable oil cans at the brothers' Fallowfield home.\n\nSix thumbprints were also discovered on a piece of metal that had been discarded in a bag of rubbish behind a flat in Manchester city centre where Salman Abedi had \"ultimately assembled\" the bomb, he added.\n\nThe court heard the pieces found at the flat and the home came from the same oil can as the one found in the arena foyer and \"played a pivotal role in the development of this story\".\n\nHashem Abedi denies the murder of 22 people and the attempted murder of others\n\nMr Penny said the bomb was made from three chemicals, two of which the defendant had made various attempts to buy using false online accounts or via other people, some of whom had been \"sufficiently gullible to avail him of their internet accounts\".\n\nHe said Hashem Abedi had asked a relative if he could use an Amazon account to buy one chemical, but said the third chemical was easily purchased in chemists and police had not traced any acquisition of it by either brother.\n\nJurors heard the brothers had a \"high turnover\" of telephone numbers, some of which were only used for a few days \"to avoid detection\".\n\nRecords showed Hashem had five mobile numbers between June 2016 and May 2017, Salman had four, and they had shared a further two.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 40 people have been arrested in a crackdown on courier fraud across England and Wales.\n\nPolice say more than 3,000 people, most of them elderly, have been duped into withdrawing large sums of cash and handing it to someone posing as a courier or police officer.\n\nIn October, a couple from Dorset lost almost £1m, including their pensions and all their savings.\n\n\"This is a despicable crime,\" said Cdr Karen Baxter of City of London Police.\n\nThe Dorset couple were left with just £187 after the fraudsters went back time and again.\n\nThey are typical victims of courier fraud, according to Cdr Baxter.\n\n\"Fraudsters specifically target older people by exploiting their trust in the police and their bank, to bleed them dry,\" she said.\n\nThe fraudsters call victims on the phone, pretending to be a police officer or bank official, and persuade them to hand over money to a \"courier\" on the pretext of assisting an investigation into corruption.\n\n\"Courier fraudsters are nearly always part of broader criminal gangs: they are persuasive and can be aggressive.\n\n\"This can be particularly intimidating when they turn up on a victim's doorstep,\" said Cdr Baxter.\n\nPolice used dogs to help recover some of the valuables\n\nOverall, police say there have been 3,188 victims in two years with a steep rise in the past six months.\n\nThe losses reported to police total more than £12m.\n\nIn addition to the Dorset couple, a 74-year-old victim lost £400,000 and an 80-year-old £180,000 - both in November.\n\nThe raids, led by City of London Police and nine other forces including Kent Police, West Mercia Police, Hertfordshire Police and Dorset Police, began in November and were stepped up in January.\n\nAdditionally, one offender has been returned to prison, where he was already serving time for courier fraud, after absconding last April.\n\nPolice wait in the street before a raid\n\nIn a bid to raise awareness, fraud prevention experts advise people to end cold calls and seek advice from trusted friends or family members or to call their banks directly using the number on their bank cards.\n\nThey say police and banks will never ask for full passwords and pin numbers or ask for money to be handed or transferred to them.\n\nCdr Baxter promised fraudsters their activities would not be tolerated, adding: \"We will disrupt your activity, prevent you targeting victims, bring you before the courts and ultimately send you to prison.\"", "PMQs ends but shadow women and equalities minister Dawn Butler raises a point of order relating to Nadia Whittome's question (see post timed at 12:26).\n\nShe says the claims that everybody on a deportation flight to Jamaica - due to leave next week - are criminals \"seems not to be true\".\n\nSpecifically she refers to one of her constituents who is due to be on the flight. She argues that he was convicted \"under the now unlawful\" joint enterprise rule and later released.\n\nShe adds that the wife of this constituent fears the stress of the situation will kill him.\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle says the MP knows it is not a point of order but adds \"I am sure the government frontbench has heard what was said.\"", "Politicians and representatives of civic society attended the launch event\n\nThe chief constable said the attendance of deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill at the launch of the PSNI recruitment campaign got it off to \"the best possible start\".\n\nSimon Byrne launched the campaign on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes amid continued concerns over the PSNI's ability to increase numbers of Catholic officers.\n\nMs O'Neill is deputy leader of Sinn Féin - its support is seen as important in encouraging more Catholic recruits.\n\nShe was one of a number of politicians at the event - including First Minister Arlene Foster - as well as representatives of churches and sporting bodies, such as the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).\n\nMr Byrne said: \"We don't underestimate the significant step forward Sinn Féin has taken in endorsing this campaign merely by being here and beginning a conversation about how we can work differently to improve policing right across the country.\n\nSinn Féin has historically been critical of the role of the police in Northern Ireland, both the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), which replaced it in 2001.\n\nIn 2007 the party gave its support to the PSNI, but its representatives have not attended passing out parades for new recruits.\n\nIn the lead-up to the new campaign, the first since October 2018, there has been debate about whether a return to 50-50 recruitment is required.\n\nA 50-50 recruitment policy ran for the first 10 years of the PSNI until 2011.\n\nThis meant that 50% of all recruits had to be from a Catholic background, and 50% from a Protestant or other background.\n\nThe policy saw numbers of Catholic police officers rise from 8% to 32%, but things have stalled years after it ended.\n\nAnne Connolly, chair of the Policing Board, told the BBC News NI Evening Extra programme said Sinn Féin's attendance at the launch was \"a wonderful thing\".\n\n\"It provides hope for future work,\" she said.\n\nFormer chief constable Sir George Hamilton warned last year that numbers were \"going to start to dip if nothing changes\".\n\nSinn Féin, the SDLP and senior Catholic clergymen favour its reintroduction, which would be a political decision, but unionists oppose it.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said her attendance at the recruitment campaign launch \"speaks volumes\".\n\n\"We need a PSNI that is reflective in terms of the community in which it serves,\" she said.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster welcomed the recruitment drive, describing it as \"significant\".\n\n\"It is important because there's been a lot of conversations about the fact we need to have a police service that reflects Northern Ireland's society,\" she said.\n\nApplications are open for about three weeks, with the first part of the process handled by professional services firm Deloitte.\n\nLater stages of selection, conducted by the PSNI, involve criminal background checks and physical tests.\n\nThe PSNI is also aiming to attract more women and people of ethnic backgrounds.\n\nMichelle O'Neill attending the launch of the new recruitment drive felt like a big step.\n\nOne long-serving PSNI commander even wondered if it was the policing equivalent of the Queen visiting Dublin.\n\nSinn Féin endorsing Northern Ireland policing in 2007 was of course more notable.\n\nSo, arguably, was the late Martin McGuinness's very strong condemnation of dissident murders of PSNI officers.\n\nMrs O'Neill stopped short of urging young Catholics to join in her comments to the media.\n\nCynics also point out there is an election in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut for a party that has not attended passing out parades for new recruits, this was a significant moment in the party's relationship with the PSNI.\n\nIt is not the only challenge facing the PSNI, as it strives to better reflect the composition of Northern Ireland society.\n\nIt has 6,900 officers and publishes data on their backgrounds.\n\nSixty-seven percent are \"perceived\" as being Protestant, 32% Catholic and 1% are from an ethnic minority.\n\nSeven in every 10 officers are male.\n\nThe PSNI is also conscious of needing to improve interest from working class Protestants and members of the LGBT community.", "The media keeps mistaking black women MPs for each other because it does not respect them as much as their white counterparts, a Labour MP has said.\n\nThe Evening Standard used a picture of Bell Ribeiro-Addy in a story about fellow Labour MP Marsha de Cordova.\n\nThe story was about BBC Parliament captioning Ms de Cordova as Labour deputy leadership hopeful Dawn Butler.\n\nMs Ribeiro-Addy told BBC News: \"We are not given the same respect as our white counterparts and that's not right.\"\n\nThe MP, who has represented Streatham, in south London, since last year's general election, said she accepted that \"everybody makes mistakes,\" but added: \"It happens all the time with us.\n\n\"It is hard enough for us to get elected here but when we do get here we are not treated as individuals.\"\n\nShe said she used to get mistaken for Dawn Butler when she worked as the chief of staff to shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, \"because I must be the other one\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Parliament This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC Parliament channel's mistake came during a Commons debate on the Agriculture Bill on Monday.\n\nTweeting a photo of the incorrect caption, Ms Butler said: \"I love my sister @MarshadeCordova but we are two different people.\n\n\"Marsha is amazing and deserves to be called by her own name. Diversity in the workplace matters and it also helps to avoid making simple mistakes like this.\"\n\nMs de Cordova, who is Labour's shadow minister for disabled people, said the BBC's mistake was \"not OK at all\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Lammy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPart of the problem was the lack of diversity in most newsrooms, Ms Ribeiro-Addy said, and the tendency of journalists to treat Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) MPs as part of a homogenous group.\n\n\"Why do so many MPs get to be individuals and we just get to be part of a group that gets confused with each other?\"\n\nThe BBC \"sincerely apologised\" to Ms Butler and Ms de Cordova for the mistake.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Sometimes we incorrectly identify MPs at the moment when they stand to speak. This error was immediately corrected on screen.\"\n\nThe Standard blamed picture agency Getty Images, which also supplies images to the BBC, for incorrectly captioning an image of Ms Ribeiro-Addy as Ms de Cordova.\n\nGetty Images \"sincerely apologised\" for incorrectly captioning the image of Ms Ribeiro-Addy and issued an \"unreserved apology\" to the two MPs \"for any offence this may have caused\".\n\nA Getty spokeswoman said: \"As soon as we were made aware of the error by the Evening Standard, we corrected the caption information on our website and in a notice sent to customers.\n\n\"Getty Images holds itself to a high standard of editorial integrity and has robust measures in place to ensure our content ingestion process reflects these standards.\n\n\"Although these errors are relatively rare, we, like all news agencies, regret when these measures fail to capture inaccuracies.\"\n\nTottenham MP David Lammy, one of the longest-serving black MPs, tweeted: \"This cannot go on. Black people are not all the same. We need more diversity in our newsrooms.\"", "President Trump said that, for the first time in 51 years, \"the cost of prescription drugs actually went down\".\n\nIn the year to May 2019, the average monthly cost of prescription drugs fell by 0.2% according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics' Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures the increase in the cost of household items in the US .\n\nThis is the first price decrease over a 12-month period since 1973, some 47 years ago.\n\nBut this may not be the most reliable way to measure drug prices according to Inma Hernandez, a pharmacy lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh.\n\n\"The CPI is based on a basket of drugs which is representative of popular drugs. So it tends to include widely-used drugs, which are usually cheaper,\" she says.\n\n\"However, it is less likely to include newer or less-prescribed drugs, which are more expensive and have higher price increases.\"\n\nThe lack of transparency around drug pricing makes it very difficult to know exactly what's happening to the cost of prescription medication.", "David Cameron turned down an offer from Prime Minister Boris Johnson to head the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November, it has emerged.\n\nThe idea was discussed with the former PM, but Mr Cameron thought the job should go to a government minister.\n\nIt comes after Claire O'Neill, a former Conservative minister for energy and clean growth, was sacked from the role.\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Lord Hague was also involved in discussions but will not be taking on the presidency either.\n\nNews of Mrs O'Neill's replacement is expected to come in an imminent reshuffle of ministers.\n\nMr Cameron told the BBC it was \"an honour\" to be offered the job, but said a government minister should take the role because there would be \"one line of command.\"\n\nHe added he has \"a lot\" of prior commitments he wants to carry on with, including his work as President of Alzheimer's Research UK.\n\nThe United Nations-led COP26 talks are the most important since the Paris Agreement to curb global warming was secured in 2015.\n\nCountries are expected to deliver more ambitious domestic plans for cutting greenhouse gases by 2030, as current proposals are not enough to prevent dangerous temperature rises.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson refused to answer questions at the launch of COP26 about who would replace Mrs O'Neill, who stood down as a Conservative MP at the election.\n\nDowning Street told her she could not chair the meeting because she was no longer a minister.\n\nSources close to Mrs O'Neill say they think she was fired for criticising government failings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe has accused the government of a \"huge lack of leadership and engagement\" on climate change and claimed the prime minister had admitted he \"doesn't really get\" the issue.\n\nBut senior cabinet minister Michael Gove told the BBC Mr Johnson was dedicated to environmental issues, and 30 years ago had described his political outlook as that of a \"green Tory\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracy Brabin: 'A woman is always judged more harshly than a man'\n\nA Labour MP who faced criticism on social media for her off-the-shoulder dress said people needed to \"listen to what we say not what we wear\".\n\nTracy Brabin, the shadow culture secretary, said she had been \"startled by the vitriolic nature\" of some comments.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast it was her responsibility to \"call it out\".\n\n\"Women around the world... are being demeaned everyday because of what they wear,\" she said.\n\nThe Batley and Spen MP had been raising a point of order in the House of Commons on Monday about journalists being asked to leave a Downing Street press briefing on the next stage of Brexit talks, when her shoulder appeared.\n\nShe said her slightly off-the-shoulder dress had slipped a little as she leant forward to speak.\n\nMs Brabin said she had been to a music event earlier in the day and was not expecting to be called to the dispatch box.\n\n\"But, the context of this is frankly pretty absurd,\" she said.\n\n\"I am here talking about a shoulder when it is an important time for the media,\" she told viewers to BBC Breakfast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Brabin, who played Tricia Armstrong in Coronation Street for three years in the 1990s, said she tried not to take the comments too seriously, especially as they were likely from \"keyboard warriors sat in their mum's back bedroom eating Pot Noodles and having a pop at people they don't know anything about\".\n\nHowever, she said: \"This is everyday sexism where women are continually judged for what they wear, how they look and not what they say.\"\n\n\"Why is that? It's a way to silence us,\" she told BBC Radio Leeds.\n\nShe said there were examples of things that happened in the Commons that were worthy of discussion, including Jacob Rees Mogg \"asleep on the front benches with his legs up\".\n\n\"That is disrespectful,\" she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said she was also thankful for the many positive comments she had received.\n\nStacey Dooley, the TV presenter and journalist, was among those supporting Ms Brabin on Twitter.\n\nDr Hannah Barham-Brown, from the Women's Equality Party, said the focus should be on Ms Brabin calling out the prime minister for \"trying to block out the media\".\n\n\"That's what we need to be concentrating on, [and] frankly, I don't really care what she was wearing.\"\n\n\"We've seen female MPs leaving because they have suffered harassment and death threats - they have suffered incredible abuse, and that's the context these comments are being made in,\" she added.\n\nThose responsible should \"find something better to do with their time\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"She was our queen and a friend to so many others in the docks in their hour of need\"\n\nYou would be forgiven for thinking that the once world-famous Tiger Bay had been consigned to the history books long ago.\n\nFor those currently living in the Welsh capital, the old Cardiff docklands community, credited by many as the birthplace of diversity and racial tolerance, is now largely the stuff of legends.\n\nBut Wednesday's extraordinary scenes on the streets of \"the docks\" - now rebuilt and rebranded Cardiff Bay - is a reminder that the spirit of old Tiger Bay burns bright.\n\nA docks funeral - which literally stopped traffic around the capital - saw hundreds of mourners pour onto the streets amid a cacophony of steel and jazz bands to join the mile-long procession.\n\nIt marked the loss of a matriarch who many credit with embodying Tiger Bay. And tradition dictates that nothing about Tiger Bay funerals goes \"gentle into that good night\".\n\nSo for those who heard about the procession or witnessed the spectacle of her hearse carriage drawn by four white horses making its way across Cardiff to her resting place in Western Cemetery in Ely, may well be wondering \"who was all that about?\"\n\nHer name was Miriam Saleh.\n\nMiriam Saleh wanted people to wear bright clothing to her funeral to celebrate her life\n\nFamily and friends say Miriam - who died suddenly in her sleep at the age of 76 - had decreed many times exactly how her funeral should play out.\n\n\"She was our queen,\" said her son Norman Kaid, a retired train driver, \"and a friend to so many others in the docks in their hour of need.\n\n\"Throughout her life she would feed anyone, take people in when they had nowhere else to go. She would take in and bring up many children over the years.\n\n\"When someone died, she was the first at the door. She would drop everything and drive to wherever - not only the docks but places Birmingham, Liverpool, London where she had many friends. 'So and so's died and the family are going to need my help', she'd say. And off she'd go.\n\n\"If someone had been taken ill and had to go to hospital leaving children at home, she'd be there. 'They're coming home with me,' she'd say.\n\n\"She more or less lifted their burden off other people and put it on herself. Her strength came through when it was needed most, at a time of other people's weakness.\n\n\"Growing up we had a massive extended family because everyone called her 'Auntie Mim' or 'Nana Mim'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miriam Saleh was interviewed by the BBC in 1962\n\nThe Tiger Bay funeral processions are as old as Cardiff itself - a city built around its once iconic docks; at one time the busiest and most prosperous in the world, the engine room of the industrial revolution, exporting coal from the Valleys across the world.\n\nLike so many immigrant seamen, Miriam Saleh's father Bouback boarded a ship in his native Yemen around the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nDocking in Tiger Bay, he settled in the bay's strong Yemeni community which melded with a kaleidoscope of some 50-plus nationalities, languages, customs and creeds.\n\nHe married Edith, a Cardiff girl. Miscegenation - as it was disapprovingly known back then - was commonplace in Tiger Bay.\n\nBeyond the square mile confines of the bay - a bustling port with a reputation, like many others, for high crime and iniquity - the outside world for seamen's families was often disapproving, hostile and racist.\n\nMiriam Saleh's coffin was driven through the streets of her home\n\nThere was often great hardship with seamen away for months on end and little money to be had. But if there were hungry children to be fed there was an open-door policy among the docks' terraces - a meal would always be found around someone's kitchen table.\n\nFriends say Miriam Saleh had grown up watching her mother care for her own large family while still helping all manner of 'waifs and strays'; a tradition she was determined to continue.\n\n\"Miriam was a warm hearted kind person, who was always willing to help - anyone,\" said Gaynor Legall, a former Cardiff councillor for Butetown and a child care social worker in the area.\n\n\"That sometimes got her into difficulties, but if she liked you and thought you needed help, she was there.\"\n\nFour white horses were used to draw the funeral hearse to take Miriam Saleh to her resting place\n\n\"Miriam was the life and soul. I can describe Miriam as a character once met she certainly will never ever be forgotten,\" her life-long friend solicitor Layla Attfield said.\n\n\"She had been a great friend of Betty Campbell, Wales' first black head teacher and another matriarch of the docks who died in 2017.\"\n\nPaying tribute to his mother, Norman added: \"She could make you laugh and cry. I say laugh, because she brightened up every place where ever she went, and I say cry, because she is now gone.\"\n\nMiriam Saleh, mother to five sons, is survived by her elder sister Aleimar, aged 89, 19 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry: \"We would be more credible\"\n\nEmily Thornberry says she is being \"squeezed\" in the Labour leadership race by two \"monolithic\" campaigns, but says she brings \"depth of experience\".\n\nShe said some saw the race as being between Rebecca Long-Bailey and Sir Keir Starmer, but added that the members should have the widest choice.\n\nLabour will be \"more professional\" under her leadership, she added.\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary is the only hopeful not to have the required support to make the final ballot yet.\n\nLabour's Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer, Wigan MP Lisa Nandy and shadow business secretary Mrs Long-Bailey have reached the threshold to be included on the members' ballot.\n\nThey needed the support of 5% of local parties or at least three affiliates - two must be unions - by 14 February. So far, Ms Thornberry has the backing of a handful of local parties and no affiliates.\n\nWhen asked by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg why she was behind in terms of nominations from local parties, Ms Thornberry said the contest had \"ended up with two slightly monolithic campaigns\" from Mrs Long-Bailey and Sir Keir.\n\n\"One is perceived as being on the left, with the support of Momentum and all the data that obviously Momentum has,\" she said, referring to Mrs Long-Bailey.\n\n\"And the other one therefore by comparison is seen as the right or the centre ground.\"\n\nShe said it was \"not for the leaders take us to the left or to the right\" but the new leader should \"take us forward, we need to have the best candidate\".\n\n\"And so, to a certain extent it is a good old fashioned squeeze between these two big, you know, campaigns, with all the data and everything else, and it's quite difficult in the middle of that,\" she said.\n\n\"But what I want to do is to break this and to get onto the ticket.\"\n\nShe added: \"We should have everybody on the ticket, so that the members can make the decision.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nMs Thornberry said that under her leadership Labour will be \"more professional\", adding: \"We will be more believable, we will be more credible and people would say: 'Oh, thank goodness the Labour Party's back'.\n\n\"You know: 'We can vote for the Labour Party now, because the Labour Party hasn't fundamentally changed, but at least we can believe that they will do the things that they say they're going to do',\" she said.\n\nShe said a \"leap of credibility\" was \"really important\", adding that the party \"kind of lost our way before Jeremy was elected as leader\".\n\n\"I think that what I bring to this is a depth of experience, particularly on foreign affairs and on security matters,\" Ms Thornberry said.\n\n\"I think that I raise everyone else's game.\"\n\nShe has done seven front bench jobs, she added.\n\n\"I've been in Parliament for 15 years, I was born in the Labour Party, I will die in the Labour Party,\" she said.\n\nMr Corbyn announced he would be standing down after Labour suffered its worst defeat, in terms of seats, since 1935 in December's election.\n\nOn the election, Ms Thornberry said there were some \"terrible tactical errors\".\n\nShe said the party should have \"stood [our] ground\" in order to get a further referendum on Brexit ahead of any general election.\n\n\"Our problem was that they [the Conservatives] had 'get Brexit done', and they wanted to have basically a referendum wrapped up as a general election so they weren't held to be accountable for anything that they've done,\" she said.\n\n\"We weren't able to talk about other policies, we had about three and a half paragraphs in terms of what our Brexit policy was, and then we tried to change the subject and we weren't able to.\"\n\nOn her life outside the Labour Party, Ms Thornberry said: \"I quite often take a weekend off and go away with my other half, and we go to particularly sort of English towns where we've never been before.\n\n\"And we stay in the local hotel we go to the municipal museum, we look at kind of quirky things, we go walking, we go visit a local country house.\n\n\"We just spend time with one another and remind one another, how we fell in love in the first place.\"\n\nShe said she \"probably\" had some Tory friends, adding: \"Particularly members of my husband's family I think are definitely Tories.\"\n\n\"But, but I've never kissed a Tory in that way,\" she joked. \"That will be true to say.\"\n\nLaura Kuenssberg has already interviewed Sir Keir and Mrs Long-Bailey and is aiming to interview Ms Nandy in the coming weeks.\n\nThe new leader will be announced on 4 April.", "Iderval Da Silva was beaten to death in Battersea in May last year\n\nThree teenagers have been jailed for killing an Uber Eats delivery driver when he tried to stop them stealing his moped.\n\nBrazilian national Iderval Da Silva, 46, was beaten to death in a \"cowardly attack\" in Battersea, west London, on 25 May.\n\nJadan Richards, 19, was sentenced to life for murder and must serve at least 12 years, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nTay Clovey, 16, was also jailed for 11-and-a-half years for murder.\n\nTay Clovey and Jadan Richards were found guilty of murdering Iderval Da Silva\n\nA 17-year-old boy convicted of manslaughter was given a four-year term.\n\nThe group spotted Mr Da Silva's unattended moped outside a Battersea cafe and one of them tried to snatch it, the court heard.\n\nWhen Mr Da Silva tried to stop them he was set upon in a \"momentary explosion of short-lived violence\".\n\nHis son Caique Keven Silva said in a statement: \"I find it very difficult to explain how not having my dad here is affecting me.\n\n\"Part of me still thinks that this hasn't really happened, that it is only a nightmare from which I will wake up at any time.\"\n\nHe added: \"My dad was there for people, never thinking of himself. No-one deserves to lose their father in the way I lost mine.\"\n\nIderval Da Silva was attacked when he tried to stop a group of teenagers stealing his moped\n\nSentencing, judge Mark Dennis QC told the defendants: \"There is no reason to think that any of you were immature for your age at that time, nor that you would not have known that such an unnecessary and cowardly assault was both wrong and wholly unjustified.\"\n\nFollowing the trial Jasire Frazer, 18, from Wandsworth, and a 17-year-old were cleared of murder and the alternative charge of manslaughter.\n\nAnother 17-year-old boy was cleared on the judge's direction midway through the trial.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Streatham attacker Sudesh Amman was shot dead after stabbing two people on Sunday\n\nBritain's most senior police officer has said the Streatham attacker was able to stab people despite being under surveillance because such operations are not \"man-to-man marking\".\n\nMet Police commissioner Cressida Dick told a committee that Sudesh Amman was under \"covert\" police surveillance.\n\nAmman, 20, was shot dead by police after stabbing a teacher, 51, and a man in his 40s in south London on Sunday.\n\nDame Cressida said it was \"clearly not possible\" to stop every attack.\n\nAmman had been released from prison on 23 January after serving half of his sentence for terror offences.\n\nHe was under active police surveillance at the time of the attack, which police believe to be an Islamist-related terrorist incident - he had a hoax device strapped to his body.\n\nOn Wednesday Dame Cressida gave evidence to the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee about general tactics used by counter-terror police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe said when officers put people under surveillance \"they are not of course providing man-to-man marking\".\n\n\"They are there covertly and that is a deliberate thing,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"I wish I could assure the public that everybody who poses a risk on the streets could be subject to some sort of thing that would stop them being able to stab anybody ever, but it is clearly not possible.\"\n\nDame Cressida said that the speed with which officers in Streatham responded to the attack was an \"extraordinary achievement\".\n\nShe said armed officers who attended the incident were currently off the streets for \"welfare\" reasons.\n\nAn investigation involving 75 officers was ongoing, Dame Cressida said, but there was \"no evidence\" that the \"horrible and really shocking\" attack was \"directed or enabled by anyone else\".\n\nIn response to the attack ministers want to introduce emergency legislation to make terror offenders serve more time in prison - but a former government adviser has warned those plans could lead to a legal battle.\n\nDame Cressida said \"strong licence conditions\" for people being released from prison must remain in place in the event of any changes to sentencing law.", "Helen McCourt was murdered by Ian Simms in Billinge, Merseyside, in 1988\n\nA murderer who has refused to reveal the whereabouts of his victim's remains has been released from prison.\n\nThe mother of Helen McCourt, who disappeared in Merseyside in 1988, said she felt \"numb\" when she was told her daughter's killer had been freed.\n\nIan Simms, now 63, was convicted of killing the 22-year-old, whose body has never been found despite searches.\n\nSimms has been released after Ms McCourt's mother Marie lost a legal bid on Tuesday to keep him behind bars.\n\nMrs McCourt has previously urged the government to deny parole to killers who do not disclose the location of their victims' bodies.\n\nIn an interview to be broadcast on BBC Breakfast, she says: \"I didn't think a heart could break twice... but mine did.\"\n\nMrs McCourt tells the programme: \"All I want - all I've ever wanted - is to have my child back.\n\n\"Whatever tiny bits or pieces there are, it's my daughter, and I want them back. And I can't have them now.''\n\nIan Simms, pictured in 1988, was found guilty of the 22-year-old's abduction and murder\n\nMrs McCourt had launched a legal challenge to keep Simms in prison ahead of a judicial review of the Parole Board's decision to free him.\n\nBut Lord Justice Dingemans and Mr Justice Fordham refused to postpone his release.\n\nMarie McCourt has urged the government to introduce Helen's Law in memory of her daughter\n\nMrs McCourt has been campaigning for a change in the law following her daughter's death.\n\nThe Prisoners (Disclosure of Information about Victims) Bill - dubbed Helen's Law - has failed to be ratified before Parliament on numerous occasions - twice being delayed because of general elections.\n\nSimms, who has always maintained his innocence, was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 16 years.\n\nHe was eligible to be considered for release in February 2004.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"The High Court's ruling meant we had to release Ian Simms from custody though he will be recalled if the court later decides to quash the Parole Board's decision.\n\n\"He will be on licence for life, subject to strict conditions and probation supervision when released, and he faces a return to prison if he fails to comply.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christina Koch celebrated with a thumbs up as she was lifted out of the Soyuz capsule\n\nNasa astronaut Christina Koch has completed the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman.\n\nThe Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Koch parachuted down to the grasslands of Kazakhstan at around 09:12 GMT.\n\nShe spent 328 days on the International Space Station (ISS), surpassing the previous record held by fellow American Peggy Whitson.\n\nHer stay is just 12 days short of the all-time US record set by Scott Kelly, who was on the ISS from 2015-2016.\n\n\"I'm so overwhelmed and happy right now,\" she told reporters as she sat outside the capsule, shortly after it touched down in the snow.\n\nMs Koch surpassed the 289-day record set by fellow American Ms Whitson on 28 December last year. But her return to Earth sets the marker for future space travellers to beat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhitson still holds the record for most time spent in space by a woman, accrued over the course of three spaceflights from 2002-2017.\n\nDuring her mission, Koch completed 5,248 orbits of the Earth and travelled 223 million km (139 million miles) - the equivalent of 291 round trips to the Moon from Earth.\n\nShe returned on the Soyuz with two other crew members - the Italian European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov. They touched down near Dzhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan.\n\nLocal residents came to watch as ground teams recovered the three crew members\n\n\"For me, it's all about the honour I feel to follow in the footsteps of my heroes,\" Christina Koch told journalists on Tuesday during a live link-up from the ISS. She added that she wanted to inspire the next generation of space explorers.\n\n\"For me, it was important to see people that I saw a reflection of myself in, growing up, when I was envisioning what I could do with my life and what my dreams might be. To maybe be that source of inspiration for someone else is just such an honour,\" she said.\n\nMs Koch's mission will help Nasa better understand the medical effects of long periods in space\n\nThe previous record was set by American Peggy Whitson in 2016-17\n\nMs Koch was involved in another spaceflight milestone during her stay of nearly 11 months on the ISS. On 18 October last year, she undertook the first all-female spacewalk alongside her compatriot Jessica Meir.\n\nThe pair spent seven hours outside the ISS replacing a failed power control unit.\n\nRecalling the historic event with Meir, Ms Koch told NBC News: \"When we first got the 'go' to come out of the airlock, and we ended up coming out, we were holding on to a handrail and we just caught each other's eyes.\n\n\"We knew how special that moment was and I'll never forget that.\"\n\n4. Mikhail Kornienko (Russia) and Scott Kelly (US), 340.4 days, 2015-16 on the ISS\n\n5. Christina Koch (US), 328 days, 2019-20 on the ISS\n\nMeir (left) and Koch, prior to their historic spacewalk in October 2019\n\nKoch and Meir followed October's landmark event with two further spacewalks together, on 15 and 20 January this year.\n\nThe first woman spacewalker was the USSR's Svetlana Savitskaya, who worked outside the Salyut 7 space station for more than three hours with a male cosmonaut, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, on 25 July 1984.\n\nKoch has previously said that her spaceflight would help the US space agency better understand the effects of long-term spaceflight, as Nasa aims to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024.\n\nMs Koch, along with other active members of the astronaut corps, is a potential candidate for that first return mission.\n\nSvetlana Savitskaya became the first woman spacewalker in 1984\n\nDuring her time on the ISS, she experimented on proteins as part of a project that could have implications for cancer treatment.\n\nBut there was also downtime, including Karaoke nights with the other crew members.\n\nKoch said one of the things she would miss about her time on the orbiting outpost was the freedom afforded by microgravity. In her interview, she demonstrated by rotating her body 180 degrees, explaining: \"It's really fun to be in a place where you can bounce around between the ceiling and the floor whenever you want.\"\n\nHowever, she added: \"I'm definitely looking forward to being on the same planet as everybody else very soon.\"\n\nKoch has not only exceeded Whitson's spaceflight mark but also those of the previous holders of the 5th and 6th longest flights: Yury Romanenko and Sergei Krikalev - both Russians.\n\nKoch said she would miss some of the benefits of microgravity\n\nThe holder of the longest single spaceflight by any person remains the Russian Valeri Polyakov, who spent more than 437 days aboard the Soviet - and later Russian - space station Mir from 8 January 1994 to 22 March 1995.\n\nKoch launched to the ISS on 14 March last year. She was to have remained on the outpost for the standard duration of six months, but her stay was extended in April 2019 because of flight scheduling issues.\n\nBorn in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and raised in North Carolina, Ms Koch has degrees in physics and electrical engineering.\n\nShe was to have performed the first all-female spacewalk in March, shortly after arriving at the space station. But a problem with the sizing of Nasa colleague Anne McClain's spacesuit forced the walk to be reassigned to another crew member, Nick Hague.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rosa (not her real name) was the first person Sudesh Amman attacked – this is her story\n\nA woman has told how the Streatham attacker tried to stab her but failed because he \"didn't realise the knife still had plastic packaging on\".\n\nRosa, not her real name, was in a shop in Streatham High Road on Sunday when Sudesh Amman, 20, launched his attack.\n\nAfter running from the shop, Amman went on to stab two others on the south London street in scenes she described as \"like a movie\".\n\nHe was shot dead one minute later, by police who had been watching him.\n\nRosa said the experience was \"horrific\", adding: \"Someone could have killed me when I was just going out to the shop.\"\n\nSpeaking in Spanish in an interview translated by BBC News, Rosa, who is originally from the Dominican Republic, said she had been in a corner shop for about five minutes when \"the man came in... who hurt the other people\".\n\nShe told the BBC's Lucy Manning: \"He came in and took a knife and he looked like he was leaving the shop. The owner thought he was going to stop by the cashier to pay.\n\n\"But... he pushed me, he tried to open and remove the plastic packaging from the knife but he didn't manage.\n\n\"He pushed and he stabbed me but the knife was still covered with plastic.\"\n\nAmman, who had previously been convicted of terror offences, was seen entering a shop in Streatham High Road shortly before 14:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nOnce outside the shop he attacked two people before he was fatally shot by police - who had had him under surveillance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRosa, 36, told how Amman ran from the shop after attacking her.\n\n\"There was a woman just there removing the lock from her bike. He stabbed her in the back on the right-hand side,\" she said.\n\nShe went on to describe how Amman \"went up the road shouting\" before stabbing a man further up the road.\n\n\"I spent 15 to 20 minutes in hell,\" she said, adding that the attack was \"very quick, like in a movie\".\n\nAmman wore an imitation suicide belt during the incident. He had been released from prison about a week ago after serving half of a sentence for terror offences, and was under police surveillance.\n\nRosa said she has not been able to sleep since Sunday. \"It's hard even to think about it,\" she said.\n\n\"It's really scary that you can die from one day to the next.\n\n\"I have to go to work and walk around the streets... this is something that stays with you. It's a really bad trauma.\n\n\"You don't have any enemies and suddenly someone tries to kill you just like that, just because it satisfies them. It's horrific.\"\n\nWhen the attack was over Rosa said she returned to her flat nearby, and \"gave my mum a hug, my daughter and my granddaughter. It is God's miracle that I am alive\".\n\nSunday's attack was the second by men convicted of terror offences in recent months.\n\nIn November, two people were killed near London Bridge by Usman Khan, who was out on licence from prison.\n\nOn Monday, the government said it would introduce emergency legislation to end the automatic early release from prison of terror offenders.\n\nThree people were taken to hospital following the attack in Streatham.\n\nOne of the victims has been named as 51-year-old nursery school teacher Monika Luftner.\n\nNursery school teacher Monika Luftner is recovering after being stabbed by Sudesh Amman\n\nMrs Luftner, a teacher at St Bede's Catholic Infant and Nursery School in Balham, is recovering at home with her partner.\n\nIn a statement, the school said she was making \"a good recovery\" and asked that her privacy be respected.\n\nPolice said the condition of the second stabbing victim - a man in his 40s - was initially considered life-threatening, but he is now in a serious but stable condition.\n\nA woman in her 20s received minor injuries - believed to have been caused by glass following the police shooting - and has been discharged from hospital.\n\nThere are 224 people convicted of terrorism offences in prison in Great Britain, most of whom must be released at the end of their custodial sentence.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the government planned to change the law so terror offenders would be considered for release only once they had served two-thirds of their sentence and with the approval of the Parole Board - rather than half-way through, automatically.\n\nThe law change would apply to both current and future offenders, he said.\n\nThe government has also said it will consider making new legislation to ensure extremists are more closely monitored on release and review whether the current maximum sentences for terrorist offences are sufficient.\n\nThe Streatham attack comes after convicted terrorist Khan fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge on 29 November last year.\n\nKhan had been released from jail on licence in 2018, half-way through a 16-year sentence for terrorism offences.\n\nThis prompted a raft of measures to be proposed by the Home Office in January.", "Ikea has announced that it will shut down its Coventry city centre store this summer, in its first big closure of a UK outlet.\n\nThe Swedish flat-pack furniture giant said the store had made \"consistent losses\" since it opened in 2007, with fewer people visiting it than expected.\n\nIt said it would be consulting the 352 workers affected and would try to find them jobs at other stores.\n\nThe Usdaw union said it was \"devastating news\" for staff.\n\nIkea, which has 22 stores in the UK, said that it remained committed to growth in the UK.\n\nIt said the Coventry site, which cost it £35m, had been built in the city centre as one of its earliest examples of testing a new format to meet customers' changing needs.\n\n\"However, given its location and the size of the land available at the time, the store was built over seven levels, which resulted in a significant impact on the operating costs of the store and the shopping experience for customers,\" the firm added.\n\n\"In addition, the changing behaviour of customers in the area who prefer to shop in retail parks and online has resulted in visitor numbers being substantially lower than expected and continuing to decrease over time.\"\n\nAfter the closure, customers will have to journey to Birmingham, Nottingham or Milton Keynes to find their nearest Ikea branch.\n\nLocal people have been reacting to the move on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDave Gill, national officer for the Usdaw union, said: \"Our priorities are to seek redeployment opportunities, minimise compulsory redundancies and secure the best deal we can for our members.\"\n\nIkea stores are generally in out-of-town locations and the firm has made various attempts to bring its outlets to city centres.\n\nIn 2018, it closed three smaller inner-city collection-point stores in Norway, which had been a test for a new format that it hoped to roll out worldwide.\n\nOther retailers have been harder hit by the rise of online shopping, resulting in the disappearance of a number of well-known UK High Street brands.\n\nAlready this year, department store chain Beales has fallen into administration, while John Lewis has warned that its staff bonus may be in doubt after it reported lower Christmas sales at its stores.\n\nIkea is trying to respond to changing customer tastes, says Patrick O'Brien, GlobalData's retail research director.\n\n\"When the Coventry Ikea was opened, it was still very much about imposing the 'Ikea way' on customers; you walk this way round the maze, you pick it up yourself, you put it together yourself.\n\n\"Things have moved on in UK retail now, it's all about how best to serve the customer, and Ikea has had to adapt and change their model.\n\n\"This is about Ikea adapting how it uses physical spaces rather than a beginning of a retreat.\"", "Trump's support among Republican voters, according to a Gallup poll. If it wasn't clear before the trial that he had the support of the rank and file of his party, it certainly is now.\n\nAn unbeatable majority: Republicans in the Senate have a majority of 53 to 47, meaning they control the chamber and were able to direct the terms of the trial.\n\nThat small majority mattered. At certain points, four Republican senators did indeed waver but in the end, all Republicans but Mr Romney voted with their party to acquit Trump.\n\nThis is the number that ensured Mr Trump was always going to be cleared. To convict, two-thirds of senators - 67 - needed to vote against him.\n\nThis would have required 20 Republican senators to vote for their president's conviction. In the end, only one did.\n\nThe amount of money the Trump campaign said it raised in the last quarter of 2019 - a huge figure it said was down largely to Trump supporters reacting to the impeachment proceedings.\n\nRead more about the numbers that explain Trump's acquittal here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David Attenborough: \"Now is the moment\"\n\nA ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars in the UK will be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 at the latest, under government plans.\n\nThe change comes after experts said 2040 would be too late if the UK wants to achieve its target of emitting virtually zero carbon by 2050.\n\nBoris Johnson unveiled the policy as part of a launch event for a United Nations climate summit in November.\n\nHe said 2020 would be a \"defining year of climate action\" for the planet.\n\nThe summit, known as COP26, is being hosted in Glasgow. It is an annual UN-led gathering set up to assess progress on tackling climate change.\n\nSir David Attenborough said at the launch event at London's Science Museum that he was looking forward to COP26 and found it \"encouraging\" that the UK government was launching a \"year of climate action\".\n\n\"The longer we leave it... the worse it is going to get,\" he said.\n\n\"So now is the moment. It is up to us to organise the nations of the world to do something about it.\"\n\nCampaign group Extinction Rebellion held a protest outside London's Science Museum to coincide with the event\n\nIn a statement made ahead of the launch, Mr Johnson said the ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars would come even earlier than 2035, if possible.\n\nHybrid vehicles are also now being included in the proposals, which were originally announced in July 2017.\n\nPeople will only be able to buy electric or hydrogen cars and vans, once the ban comes into effect.\n\nThe change in plans, which will be subject to a consultation, comes after experts warned the previous target date of 2040 would still leave old conventional cars on the roads following the clean-up date of 2050.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson: \"This phenomenon of global warming is taking its toll\"\n\nThe Scottish government does not have the power to ban new petrol and diesel cars but has already pledged to \"phase out the need\" for them by 2032 with measures such as an expansion of the charging network for electric cars.\n\nMr Johnson said the 2050 pledge was necessary because the UK's \"historic emissions\" meant \"we have a responsibility to our planet to lead in this way\".\n\nThe announcement comes as COP26's former president Claire O’Neill, who was sacked on Friday, wrote a bitter letter accusing Mr Johnson of failing to support her work.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesperson said Downing Street had \"no comment\" to make on the letter, but thanked Mrs O'Neill for her work towards the conference.\n\nHe said her replacement would be a \"ministerial post\" with details set out \"in due course.\"\n\nMr Johnson did not answer the BBC's David Shukman's questions about the row.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson said: “Hosting COP26 is an important opportunity for the UK and nations across the globe to step up in the fight against climate change.\n\n“As we set out our plans to hit our ambitious 2050 net zero target across this year, so we shall urge others to join us in pledging net zero emissions.\n\n“There can be no greater responsibility than protecting our planet, and no mission that a global Britain is prouder to serve.\"\n\nAt the Science Museum the prime minister added that a \"catastrophic period of global addiction\" to hydrocarbons had led to the planet being \"swaddled in a tea cosy\" of carbon dioxide.\n\nBut Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said on Twitter: \"Carbon emissions are not 'swaddling the planet like a tea cosy'. They are behind wildfires in Australia, soaring temperature records and the broken lives of those least responsible. The PM needs to understand that - and act.\"\n\nFriends of the Earth's Mike Childs said the government was \"right\" to bring forward the ban, but that 2030 would be better than 2035.\n\n“A new 2035 target will still leave the UK in the slow-lane of the electric car revolution and meantime allow more greenhouse gases to spew into the atmosphere,\" he said.\n\nHe said the government could show \"real leadership\" ahead of COP26 by reversing plans to develop \"climate-wrecking roads and runways\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAA president Edmund King said: \"Drivers support measures to clean up air quality and reduce CO2 emissions but these stretched targets are incredibly challenging.\"\n\nThe chief executive of the society of motor manufacturers and traders (SMMT) accused the government of \"moving the goalposts\".\n\n\"With current demand for this still expensive technology still just a fraction of sales, it's clear that accelerating an already very challenging ambition will take more than industry investment,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nHe said the government's plans must safeguard industry and jobs, as well as ensuring current sales of low emission vehicles were not undermined.\n\nMeanwhile Mrs O’Neill accused Mr Johnson of promising money and people to support her work, but failing to deliver either.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove said Mrs O'Neill was a \"close friend\" but that he disagreed with her comments.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live Mr Johnson described his own political outlook as \"that of a green Tory\".\n\nMrs O'Neill said her \"absolute desire for action has not been comfortable for some\", adding that this was \"not about me\" or Mr Johnson - but about working towards \"rapid decarbonisation\".\n\nShe said at COP26 the UK must \"absolutely double down on taking our great leadership and ambitions in this space, and really energising the world as to why this is a huge opportunity\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about a ban on the sale of petrol, diesel or hybrid cars and the COP26 conference in Glasgow?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dan Houser is leaving Rockstar Games the company he founded with his brother\n\nCo-founder of Rockstar Games, Dan Houser, is leaving the firm he started with his brother Sam in 1998.\n\nMr Houser was a main creative force behind two of the firm's biggest series, Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead.\n\nHis departure comes after an \"extended break\", Rockstar's parent company Take-Two Interactive said.\n\nRockstar's series have often courted controversy, but are among the best-selling and most critically-acclaimed games of the past two decades.\n\nMr Houser will officially depart in March, according to a notice Take-Two sent to US financial regulators. His brother Sam Houser will remain as the company's president.\n\nDan Houser was one of the lead writers for the Grand Theft Auto series, as well as Rockstar's other hits, Bully and Red Dead Redemption. He also worked as a voice actor on some of the company's projects.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jason Schreier This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn its filing, Take-Two wrote it was \"extremely grateful\" for Mr Houser's contributions and that the remaining team was focused on upcoming projects.\n\nGrand Theft Auto V, released in 2013, was one of the most commercially successful games of the decade, selling well over 100 million copies.\n\nThe Grand Theft Auto series, as the name suggests, is mostly about stealing cars. It puts players in the shoes of a criminal, wanting to build an empire - allowing them to engage in robbery, murder, or soliciting prostitution.\n\nThe violent and sexual nature of the games has made the company a frequent target of criticism by politicians and special interest groups.\n\nBut the company has also recently had to battle controversy among its fans.\n\nIn 2018, while the company was creating the award-winning and hugely successful Red Dead Redemption 2, Dan Houser told Vulture that the team was working 100-hour weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe comment caused a stir at a time when many game journalists and fans were beginning to discuss so-called \"crunch\", where staff work to meet tight deadlines for a game's release.\n\nEven during the creation of the first Red Dead Redemption in 2010, spouses and partners of the game's developers wrote an open letter accusing Rockstar of working them \"to the brink\".\n\nRockstar is known for taking longer than the norm to develop its games.\n\nThe company did not announce Mr Houser's replacement or respond to requests for further comment.\n\nTake-Two's stock fell 5% following the announcement of Mr Houser's departure", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nActor Kirk Douglas, whose Hollywood career spanned seven decades, has died aged 103.\n\nThe stage and screen actor was well-known for a range of roles, including the 1960 classic Spartacus, in which he played the titular character.\n\nBorn in New York in 1916, he rose to prominence during Hollywood's \"golden age\", earning his first Oscar nomination for the 1949 film Champion.\n\nHe was also the father of Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas.\n\nHis son Michael said in a statement: \"It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today.\"\n\n\"To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies... but to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad,\" it read in part.\n\n\"Let me end with the words I told him on his last birthday and which will always remain true. Dad - I love you so much and I am so proud to be your son.\"\n\nMichael's wife and Kirk's daughter-in-law, Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones, posted a photo of the two together, writing: \"I shall love you for the rest of my life. I miss you already.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by catherinezetajones This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen I met Kirk Douglas in 2008 he was a sprightly 91. He talked about his advancing years and the impact a stroke, in 1996, had on his skills as an actor.\n\n\"I couldn't talk at all,\" he told me. \"So what does an actor do who can't talk? He waits for silent pictures to come back! That's a corny joke,\" he chuckled.\n\nDouglas was particularly proud of his role in ending the Hollywood blacklist, when he defied the ban on working with filmmakers with alleged communist ties or sympathies.\n\nHe said he drew on \"the impulsive qualities of younger Kirk\" in making his decision to give the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo a screen credit under his own name for his work on Spartacus.\n\nWe discussed his passion for working with young people. He had started writing a blog to encourage young Americans to vote in that year's presidential election.\n\nDouglas and his wife donated millions of dollars to charitable causes and helped build hundreds of school playgrounds. He said their philosophy was: \"Before you die, try to do something for other people.\"\n\nDouglas was prolific as a film actor, with more than 90 credits to his name - ranging from the 1940s to the 2000s.\n\nHe is perhaps best-known for Spartacus, a Stanley Kubrick film which won four Oscars and was so popular that its iconic \"I am Spartacus\" scene entered the pop cultural lexicon.\n\nDouglas was himself nominated for an Oscar three times - for Champion (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and Lust for Life (1956). He eventually won the honorary award in 1996 in recognition of his 50 years in the industry.\n\nKirk Douglas, seen here in 1955, was an icon of Hollywood's golden age\n\nHe faced difficulties in his personal life. He narrowly survived a helicopter crash in 1991 that left two people dead. Five years later, he suffered a major stroke that affected his speech.\n\nAnd in 2004, his son Eric died at the age of 46 of an accidental drug overdose.\n\nIn his later years, he turned his attention to charity. He donated millions of dollars to charitable causes and helped fund an Alzheimer's unit at a retirement home in Los Angeles.\n\nWorld-famous director Steven Spielberg, who knew Douglas personally, told the Hollywood Reporter that he made a \"breathtaking body of work\".\n\n\"Kirk retained his movie star charisma right to the end of his wonderful life and I'm honoured to have been a small part of his last 45 years,\" Spielberg said.\n\nAfter the news of his death broke, fans gathered at his star set in the ground on the Hollywood walk of fame.\n\n\"He was one of the last Hollywood legends of the golden era. That's it. Not a superstar, a legend,\" one man, Gregg Donovan, told news agency AFP.\n\n\"It's devastating. I mean, I know he lived to 103, God bless him, but you just don't think he's going to leave us and it's such a sad day in Hollywood, I'll tell you.\"", "Dorothy Woolmer was described as \"a wonderful woman who was full of life\"\n\nA 23-year-old man has admitted murdering and sexually assaulting an 89-year-old widow in her own bed.\n\nDorothy Woolmer, known as Dot, was found dead with severe injuries at her home in Waltheof Gardens in Tottenham, north London, on 5 August.\n\nReece Dempster, from Haringey, had smoked crack before breaking into her house, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nDempster had previously admitted manslaughter, but initially denied murder and sexual assault.\n\nHe will be sentenced on Thursday.\n\nMrs Woolmer's family said her death had \"brought extreme amounts of heartache and stress\".\n\nIn a statement they said: \"She was taken from us in such a cruel way.\n\n\"Dot was a wonderful, beautiful woman. She was independent and was so full of life. Family was everything to her and she was everything to us.\"\n\nReece Dempster faces life in prison and will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on 6 February\n\nThe prosecution decided not to proceed on a count of rape following Dempster's plea change part way through his trial. He admitted two counts of sexual assault by penetration.\n\nThe court heard that Mrs Woolmer, who had been widowed in 2017, after 64 years of marriage, died as the result of \"multiple blunt trauma injuries\".\n\nJurors were told that Dempster is 6ft 3in (190cm) tall, while Ms Woolmer was 4ft 11in (150cm) tall and weighed less than eight stone (51kg).\n\nDempster, who was caught on CCTV fleeing the scene, had spent about seven hours in Mrs Woolmer's home after breaking in through a back door on the night of 3 August, the prosecution said.\n\nPolice discovered Dorothy Woolmer's body at her home in Tottenham\n\nDempster later told his former partner that on the night of the attack he had been at his father's house \"smoking crack and drinking three or four bottles of gin\", the trial was told.\n\n\"I went off and I went to rob a house; I think I hurt someone,\" he is said to have told her.\n\nThe prosecution said Dempster had been \"casing\" the house for several days and knew it was occupied by a vulnerable older person.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hashem Abedi is standing trial at the Old Bailey over his role in the attack which killed 22 people\n\nThe brother of the Manchester Arena attacker was thwarted in an attempt to source an acid over fears it could be used to make explosives, a court heard.\n\nSalman Abedi detonated a \"homemade improvised explosive device\" outside an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nHis brother Hashem Abedi is standing trial for his alleged role in the attack which killed 22 people.\n\nThe 22-year-old denies their murders and the attempted murder of others.\n\nHashem has also pleaded not guilty to conspiring with his brother to cause an explosion.\n\nIn March 2017, one friend of Hashem was asked to buy sulphuric acid on his behalf for a generator battery in Libya, prosecutor Duncan Penny QC said.\n\nThe defendant had allegedly turned to the friend - who cannot be named for legal reasons - for help because he was \"skint\".\n\nJurors heard an order for £76 worth of acid on Amazon was declined due to lack of funds.\n\nThe prosecutor said the friend then spoke to his father, explaining what he had been asked to do and seeking assistance, but his father refused and explained that \"acid could be used to manufacture explosives\".\n\nThe friend subsequently ignored attempts at contact by Hashem over the following days, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nJurors were told that days later a \"friend and colleague\" called Mohammed Soliman ordered 10 litres of sulphuric acid on Amazon after a series of contacts and messages with Hashem.\n\nMr Penny said £140 in cash was later paid into Mr Soliman's account.\n\nOpening the prosecution on Tuesday, Mr Penny told the court Hashem was \"just as guilty\" of the murder of men, women and children who died in the attack.\n\nHe said the Abedi brothers spent \"months\" planning the attack which also injured 264 people and left 670 others with \"psychological trauma\".\n\nThe trial was adjourned until Thursday morning after Mr Justice Jeremy Baker told jurors the defendant said he was feeling unwell.\n\nThe judge said that after an hour of the hearing Mr Abedi told his legal team he was \"feeling worse not better now and is in some pain\" and would need medical attention.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Carr: \"I'm going to be in quite a big film\"\n\nSilent Witness star Liz Carr says she has left the programme on a high after her \"best series ever\" - and is set to appear in her first Hollywood film.\n\nThe actress, who has played forensic examiner Clarissa Mullery since 2012, bowed out this week at the end of the 23rd season of the hit BBC crime drama.\n\nShe revealed on the BBC Ouch podcast that she will be seen in her first major movie - the sci-fi drama Infinite - later this year, alongside Mark Wahlberg.\n\nCarr who uses a wheelchair, says she is proud of how Silent Witness improved the representation of disabled people on screen, although it had not always been easy.\n\nLiz has been in the Silent Witness cast since 2012\n\nShe says the BBC seemed \"terrified\" about what to do with a disabled actor in primetime drama when she first started, but she made sure her voice was heard.\n\n\"I think over the eight years I've kind of policed the show quite a lot and worked to make sure it was better and refused to say certain lines that I thought were problematic.\n\n\"I was asked recently if I was proud of what we achieved in terms of representation in Silent Witness - Oh, my goodness, of course I am.\"\n\nPrior to Silent Witness, Carr was probably best known as a comedian, disabled rights activist and presenter of the BBC Ouch podcast.\n\nLiz says the time was right to move on from the role that made her famous\n\nBut her continuing role as Clarissa has made her one of the most high-profile disabled actors in Britain.\n\nCarr says she first indicated she wanted to leave Silent Witness back in October 2018.\n\n\"It must seem like a ridiculous decision\", she says. \"But I was just doing the same thing [in terms of storyline] and, as an actor, that just wasn't that interesting.\"\n\nShe says the \"irony\" was that having made the decision to leave, a new producer was brought in who promised her \"the most challenging series that you've ever had\" and \"he's delivered,\" she said.\n\nLiz with Paddy Glynn who plays her mother in Silent Witness\n\nIn the latest series, Carr was at the centre of a storyline in which her character, Clarissa, had to make heart-breaking decisions about the care of her mother who had dementia and terminal cancer.\n\nCarr praised writer Lena Rae, whose two-parter called Hope was her Silent Witness debut.\n\n\"There's a lot of stuff there that we've not seen before. I think about that relationship of an aging parent with a disabled child. But equally, seeing a disabled woman as the carer,\" Carr says.\n\n\"It was everything about disability and it was nothing about disability. And it connected us in a way that said: 'We all experience this'. We're all going to lose parents or somebody that we love.\"\n\nCarr says she was especially touched by the audience reaction to her portrayal of the storyline with many saying they could \"relate\" to Clarissa's predicament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liz Carr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe actress' own father died last year, shortly before she filmed her final episodes, and her performance in Hope drew heavily on that experience.\n\n\"I'm not sure that I was acting,\" she says. \"I think I was almost re-enacting and reliving being at my dad's bedside when he died. He died in hospital. He had Parkinson's and vascular dementia.\"\n\nLike her onscreen character, who has just resigned as a forensic examiner, so Carr felt the need for a change in her own life - \"I just want to go out there and take a leap of faith\".\n\nThat leap has landed her in Hollywood blockbuster, Infinite, alongside A-listers Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor.\n\nLiz filmed her scenes for Infinite in London\n\nThe summer release has been directed by Antoine Fuqua whose other films include Training Day and the Equalizer movies.\n\n\"It's a great role. I'm ecstatic,\" Carr says after admitting she was surprised to get the part.\n\n\"I thought, I bet they're just going to audition wheelchair-users and then they're going to give the role to Tom Cruise.\"\n\nHowever, heady dreams that she would have to relocate to Hollywood were somewhat thwarted when she discovered filming would take place in west London.\n\nBut she is certain playing a major character in a successful BBC drama convinced the casting team she had the requisite experience for the, currently secret, role.\n\n\"I've gone and had the most incredible opportunity to develop and get better and learn and learn and learn. And there are very few disabled actors internationally who have that experience.\"\n\nShe says she hopes her success will encourage TV and film makers to give other disabled actors \"a break\".\n\n\"Unless you can show how good you are, people aren't going to see what amazing talent is out there.\"\n\nIn December, the BBC announced a string of new shows with the aim of producing a more \"authentic and distinctive\" representation of disabled people on screen.\n\nCarr herself will perform one of a series of \"challenging\" monologues, curated by fellow, former BBC Ouch presenter Mat Fraser as part of that.\n\nShe's also set to return to our screens in an upcoming episode of Who Do You Think You Are? the BBC One show which delves into family history.\n\nCarr says this really took her out of her comfort zone.\n\n\"I don't really like surprises,\" she says. \"So it's a difficult show to do. But actually there are things that happened that stunned me. And I loved it.\"\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast on BBC Sounds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers work to free people stuck in the crashed plane\n\nA passenger plane landing at an airport in Istanbul has skidded off the runway and broken into three parts, killing three people and injuring 180 others, officials say.\n\nThe Pegasus Airlines jet was carrying 177 passengers and six crew members from Izmir province in the west when it crashed at Sabiha Gokcen airport.\n\nThe Boeing 737 was trying to land in heavy tailwinds and rain.\n\nThe airport was closed and flights diverted after the accident.\n\nThe majority of people on board were Turkish, but local media quoted the airline's records as saying there were 22 foreign passengers from 12 other countries. A small number of children are believed to have been on board.\n\nIstanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya said: \"Unfortunately, the Pegasus Airlines plane couldn't hold on the runway due to poor weather conditions and skidded for around 50-60m [164-196ft].\"\n\nHe said the plane then fell between 30 and 40 metres off the end of the runway.\n\nThe airport has since reopened, while prosecutors have opened an investigation into the crash.\n\nThe Pegasus Airlines jet was carrying 177 passengers and six crew members\n\nA blaze on the aircraft was put out by firefighters\n\nVideo footage showed passengers climbing through one of the large cracks to escape via one of the wings, and dozens of rescuers working around the jet.\n\nOther footage on social media showed a blaze inside the aircraft, which was later put out by firefighters.\n\nTransport Minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan said authorities had not yet been able to speak to the pilots, a Turkish national and a South Korean, who were believed to have been injured in the accident.\n\nThe low-cost Pegasus Airlines has a fleet of 83 aircraft - 47 Boeings and 36 Airbus planes - and has been flying for 20 years.\n\nA Pegasus Boeing 737 coming in from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates skidded off the runway at the same airport on 7 January. There were no casualties but the airport had to be temporarily closed.\n\nAnd a Pegasus Boeing 737 also skidded off the runway at Trabzon airport in January 2018, plunging down the side of a cliff overlooking the sea. There were no casualties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The dramatic skidding of a Pegasus Boeing 737 at Trabzon in January 2018", "Templefields House in Harlow was described as a \"human warehouse\" by one tenant\n\nA cleaner at a troubled former office block used to house the homeless has revealed she and other staff discovered a \"weeks-old corpse\" in a room.\n\nTania resigned from her job after being asked to clean the room where the man's body was discovered in June 2019.\n\nAn investigation by BBC East and Panorama found evidence security staff had \"lost control\" at Templefields House in Harlow, Essex.\n\nProperty owner Caridon said \"management followed appropriate procedures\".\n\nThe BBC found hundreds of families were being rehoused by London boroughs in office blocks and industrial estates in Harlow, often living next to drug addicts and ex-prisoners.\n\nRobert Halfon, MP for Harlow, described the practice as \"social cleansing\".\n\nEssex Police confirmed the death, which is not being treated as suspicious. The identity of the dead man was not disclosed.\n\nResidents have complained of being isolated and surrounded by warehousing and business centres\n\nTania, who did not want her surname used, became an employee of the landlord Caridon, with her partner Matt who became head of security at Templefields, after they had lived at the block as tenants.\n\n\"It was the smell hit you before you even opened the door. And there were flies everywhere. It was just awful,\" she said.\n\n\"He'd been there for five or six weeks. It was decomposed.\"\n\nThe couple said a number of people had taken their own lives during the time they lived and worked there.\n\nCurrent staff also told an undercover BBC reporter about other tenants who had died.\n\nThe reporter was told \"we've cleaned a dead man's room\" and \"we found him hanging\", \"had to wait for the body bag. Had to stand in the hallway to make sure no-one come in or while he was cleared\".\n\nManagement at the building were concerned with getting the room cleaned and letting it out to a new tenant, Tania said.\n\n\"I was just in shock, complete shock, but it was more of a concern to get another room that was needed to be cleaned that day,\" she told the BBC.\n\nTerminus House in Harlow, another former office block housing vulnerable people\n\nA spokesman for Caridon told the BBC the company was \"aware of the tragic events\".\n\n\"Following discovery by a member of staff, our management followed appropriate procedures and contacted the relevant authorities.\n\n\"As a supplier of accommodation to tenants referred by the local authorities, we are not mandated to provide support for vulnerable tenants with health issues.\"\n\nHe added: \"We do however perform welfare checks on individual tenants when instructed to do so by the relevant authorities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Arlene Foster told BBC NI's The View there are more important things requiring attention than a border poll\n\nFirst Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster has suggested there will not be a border poll or a united Ireland in her lifetime.\n\nSinn Féin has said it wants a referendum on Irish reunification within five years.\n\nSome recent opinion polls have shown an increase in support for getting rid of the border.\n\nHowever, Mrs Foster told BBC NI's The View there were more important things requiring attention.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party leader, who turns 50 this year, was asked if she thought she would see a united Ireland in her lifetime.\n\nPressed if she thought she would see a border poll in the same timeframe, she again replied: \"No, I don't\".\n\nAsked why, she added: \"Because there has to be evidence there.\n\n\"As you know the test for a border poll is that people would vote for it in a majority. And there's no evidence of that.\n\n\"Yes, people can have different opinion polls, but there's no tangible evidence if you look right across Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe DUP failed to respond to an invitation to take part in a discussion in Cookstown this week organised by Shared Ireland, a group which believes unity is the way forward, but which wants everyone, including unionists, involved in the discussion.\n\nFormer Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt was due to take part but had to withdraw at the last moment.\n\nHe believes unionists can no longer stay out of such discussions.\n\nHe told the programme: \"During my lifetime I think there are many examples of unionism's failure to outreach doing damage to the cause.\n\nMike Nesbitt believes unionists can no longer stay out of discussions about Irish unity\n\n\"I think of 1985 and the reaction to the Anglo-Irish agreement when they basically alienated every friend we had at Westminster.\n\n\"I think of Gerry Adams' first visa to go to the States in '94 when Ian Paisley and Jim Molyneaux stayed home when they should have gone to challenge them.\n\n\"And that's what I would have done in Cookstown on Tuesday night, I would have challenged.\"\n\nHowever, Colin Harvey, professor of human rights at Queens University, who did take part in the Cookstown event, said unionists faced a challenge.\n\n\"There's been a lot of focus on those proposing Irish reunification,\" he said.\n\n\"But if these referendums do take place, if there's a referendum in the north, what is the proposition that unionism is going to come up with?\n\n\"I think there'll be change. No matter what happens, the current arrangements won't remain static, if there's a vote to remain in the UK or if there's a vote for Irish reunification.\n\n\"But I think what this does is it throws down a real challenge. Unionism has been massively complacent. Unionism is effectively sitting on its hands.\n\n\"We need to know if there's a referendum here on the constitutional future of this island, what is the unionist proposition.\"\n\nOne Sinn Féin member at the Cookstown event was highly critical of what he called the triumphalism displayed by some of his party colleagues after the Republic's general election.\n\nConal Hamill, a Sinn Féin member from The Moy, told The View: \"Tonight's all about a shared Ireland.\n\n\"And I didn't think as a Sinn Féin member, while I understood some of the euphoria associated with getting elected as TDs in various parts of the Republic of Ireland, that it's not helpful in the context of shared Ireland to see that level of triumphalism.\n\n\"We can't on one hand complain about the triumphalism of the Orange Order marching in places where they're not welcome and at the same time support that level of triumphalism from a newly elected TD.\n\n\"So if I was a northern unionist, if I lived in Larne or Carrickfergus or parts of east Belfast, and I was seriously considering what am I getting into bed with here in terms of a shared Ireland I would have major reservations about that.\"\n\nThe View is broadcast on BBC One NI at 10.35pm on Thursday and then available on the BBC iPlayer.", "A British guest at a hotel in Tenerife which has been placed in quarantine has told Newsnight that she was “horrified” by the conditions.\n\nSelina Lund said hundreds of people were queuing together for food and fellow guests were not following hygiene rules to prevent the spread of the virus.\n\nGlobal cases of the virus have passed 80,000, the vast majority in China.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Helicopter footage shows the scale of flooding in Ironbridge\n\nAn emergency evacuation took place as rising waters on the River Severn \"overwhelmed\" a town's flood defences.\n\nBuckled barriers at Ironbridge, Shropshire, meant water seeped underneath, resulting in police evacuating part of the town.\n\nWest Mercia Police, which oversaw the evacuation, said \"virtually everyone\" in the Wharfage area had agreed to leave.\n\nResidents were earlier evacuated from their homes in Bewdley, Worcestershire.\n\nThere, water came over the top of some of the town's flood defences.\n\nThe barriers in both areas have been trying to keep a swollen River Severn from residents' doors.\n\nA risk-to-life flood warning remains for the Severn in Ironbridge following days of heavy rain, although the same severe warning for neighbouring Shrewsbury has been downgraded as river levels fall in the town.\n\nElsewhere, flooding has also seen:\n\nDeputy chief constable Julian Moss, from the West Merica force, said on Wednesday evening that \"virtually all\" residents who had previously chosen to stay in their properties in Ironbridge had now left.\n\nAbout 35 homes are believed to have been evacuated in the Wharfage.\n\nThe force said it would ensure displaced residents were \"put up\" and officers would remain in the area throughout the night and over the coming days.\n\nEarlier, Chris Bainger from the Environment Agency (EA) said barriers had become \"ineffective\", with water \"getting underneath\".\n\nStructural engineers were onsite, police said, but in the meantime the force had taken \"the practical worst case scenario\" in ordering an emergency evacuation.\n\nA drone has been used to survey a 500m section of the temporary flood defence after residents reported hearing a loud bang when a barrier was shunted by the fast-flowing Severn.\n\nMark Sitton-Kent, director of operations for the EA, said: \"That movement of it backwards caused it to clatter against the kerbstones behind, with a loud bang that I think everybody heard.\n\nHe added: \"Over the next 24/48 hours as the river level here drops, we will move in and do some work to shore up the area and make sure [the barrier] stays put.\"\n\nThe Museum of The Gorge can be seen amid flood water\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, leader of Telford and Wrekin Council, said people should leave their homes and \"stay away\" from Ironbridge.\n\n\"This is a developing situation but it has significantly developed and increased in terms of its dangerousness with regards to the barriers collapsing.\"\n\nIronbridge Gorge was one of the first UK locations to be given World Heritage status in 1986, which recognised its importance as a pioneering part of the Industrial Revolution.\n\nThe force of the river caused defences in Ironbridge to buckle\n\nThe main flood defences in Bewdley had been holding firm but just before midnight on Tuesday, 38 properties in the Beales Corner area of town were either flooded or at risk as water came over the top of barriers.\n\nMany people have been rescued, but about 12 people remain in their homes.\n\nSally Yardley, 64, left her ground floor flat which overlooks the river.\n\n\"The water was rising really quickly... I don't think we ever predicted it would be this bad,\" she said.\n\nAnother Bewdley resident, Adrian Guest, said it had been an \"anxious\" day.\n\n\"There have been bizarre sightings of sofas and fridges floating by,\" the 53-year-old said. \"People gathered in groups worried about the situation upriver at Ironbridge where the stress loads on their barriers could see them collapse at any moment.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shrewsbury home floods for the second time in eight days\n\nDave Throup, EA manager for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, said: \"The river levels are exceptionally high here at Bewdley and they haven't stopped yet.\n\n\"The river is still rising at a much slower rate and we're expecting a peak here probably this afternoon and then that's working its way down the catchment to Worcester.\"\n\nIn Worcester, some homes have been flooded for 10 days in the wake of Storm Dennis.\n\nHereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service has been going house-to-house in Bewdley with a dinghy to help people from their homes.\n\nAmong them was Justin Leitch who has lived at his property since August.\n\n\"It's unprecedented what's happened over the last week, 10 days, what can you do? People are trying their best,\" he said.\n\nJustin Leitch said the water at his home, in Bewdley, is over knee height\n\nSarah, a mum-of-four who also lives in Beales Corner, said her family would be staying put despite a foot of water in her cellar.\n\n\"If I thought there was any real danger we would go.\"\n\nResidents in Bewdley started leaving their homes around midnight\n\nBBC Hereford and Worcester's James Pearson said overtopping at Bewdley started as a trickle then turning into a torrent.\n\nHe said the flood water was about the same level as the river and it had not flooded while the temporary barriers were there.\n\nThe levels were 14cm off the all-time high from 2000 and they were expected to keep rising steadily throughout the day, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flood water pours over the top of Bewdley's barriers\n\nRiver Severn levels are expected to remain high over the next few days due to \"unsettled\" weather, the EA said, adding it was \"closely monitoring the situation\".\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Boris Johnson was criticised for not visiting the flood-hit areas.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the government \"refuses to acknowledge the scale of the problem\" accusing Mr Johnson of being a \"part time prime minister\" who is only \"keen to pose for cameras during an election\".\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"very proud of the response the Government has mounted\" to the floods.", "Emily Maitlis has been named network presenter of the year at the Royal Television Society Awards, for her interview with the Duke of York.\n\nThe Newsnight host quizzed Prince Andrew at Buckingham Palace in November over his relationship with the now deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe broadcast also won interview and scoop of the year, while Newsnight won daily news programme of the year.\n\nThe prince withdrew from public duties in the wake of the broadcast.\n\nThe judges at Wednesday's awards ceremony in London described Maitlis's interview as historic.\n\n\"In a year of political chaos, her nose for nonsense led to bruising encounters with politicians and her interview with a member of the Royal family will live on in history,\" they said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking after her win, the presenter thanked the prince for allowing himself through the type of \"scrutiny\" that \"many politicians haven't and wouldn't\".\n\n\"It wasn't actually about the royal,\" she said.\n\n\"It was an interview for women watching around the world, who were waiting to see if we asked the right questions at the right moment to things that we needed answering.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Royal Television Society This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2015, Prince Andrew was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein - who took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nIn November, following the interview, he announced he had asked the Queen for permission to withdraw from official royal duties for the \"foreseeable future\", because the Epstein scandal had become a \"major disruption\" to the Royal Family.\n\nHe said he deeply sympathised with sex offender Epstein's victims and everyone who \"wants some form of closure\".\n\nThe duke faced a backlash following the BBC interview about his friendship with the US financier.\n\nEmily Maitlis beat BBC colleague Victoria Derbyshire and ITV News' Tom Bradby to the top presenter award\n\nMaitlis fended off competition at the RTS awards from ITN's Tom Bradby for his interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in Harry & Meghan: An African Journey.\n\nShe also beat her BBC colleague Victoria Derbyshire, who was nominated a month after it was announced her self-titled daily show was to be cut.\n\nWriting on Twitter at the time, Derbyshire said she was \"unbelievably proud\" of what the show had achieved.\n\nNews channel of the year was won by Sky News, while Channel 4 News' \"outstanding\" For Sama (which won the best documentary Bafta and was also Oscar-nominated) took the award for best international current affairs programme.\n\nThe domestic version of the same award went to the BBC's Spotlight on The Troubles: A Secret History.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Lahore Safari, Pakistan's largest zoo, has nearly 40 lions in captivity\n\nThe remains of a teenage boy have been found in the lion enclosure of a Lahore zoo, a day after he went missing.\n\nOfficials said they are investigating how Muhammad Bilal, 17, made it over the fence and what caused his death.\n\nBut locals have blamed Mr Bilal's demise on staff incompetence, and earlier this week the zoo's offices were ransacked.\n\nThe state-back Lahore Safari, established in 1982, is Pakistan's largest and oldest animal park.\n\nChaudhry Shafqat, a director at the zoo, told the BBC that people from a nearby village visited the site on Tuesday night asking for help to look for the boy.\n\nMuhammad Bilal's relatives said he left home to search for cattle fodder\n\n\"We told them it was too late and could be dangerous to launch a search in the dark,\" said Mr Shafqat.\n\nDuring a search on Wednesday morning, zoo employees found a blood-soaked skull, some bones and pieces of torn cloth which the relatives recognised as the missing boy's clothing.\n\nOfficials said relatives told them the boy had left home on Tuesday afternoon to cut grass, which was intended to be used for cattle fodder.\n\nMr Bilal's remains have been sent for tests to confirm the cause of death.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has appointed Vice-President Mike Pence to co-ordinate the US government's response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBoth men told a White House news conference that the risk to the American people remained very low.\n\nThe announcement came as new cases of the infection caused by the coronavirus which originated in China spread at a rapid pace around the world.\n\nThe 60th case in the US is also the first to occur on US soil.\n\nThe unidentified person in California had \"no relevant travel history or exposure to another known patient\" with the virus, said the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).\n\nAddressing the press, Mr Trump expressed confidence that the US would be able to handle coronavirus.\n\n\"We're very, very ready for this,\" Mr Trump said, adding that Mr Pence has \"got a certain talent for this\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he did not expect a vaccine to be ready for a year to a year-and-a-half at the earliest.\n\nThe news conference came as Mr Trump was criticised for earlier suggesting in a tweet that the media had fanned unnecessary alarm over coronavirus \"to make the Caronavirus [sic] look as bad as possible\".\n\nBut at his news conference Mr Trump warned that the US should prepare in case the virus spreads. \"Every aspect of our society should be prepared,\" he said.\n\nHe contradicted public health officials who earlier warned that spread of the virus to the US was a matter of \"when\" and \"not if\".\n\n\"I don't think it is inevitable,\" Mr Trump told reporters.\n\nHe credited decisions to limit certain flights into the US with containing the number of infections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways to self-isolate successfully to prevent the spread of coronavirus\n\nAlex Azar, the US health secretary, said the White House had developed a plan to focus on five priorities, including better disease surveillance, local government response coordination, developing therapeutics, and increasing manufacturing of personal health protection equipment, like masks.\n\nMore US cases are to be expected, Mr Azar said.\n\nCritics quickly condemned Mr Pence's new assignment, with several noting that he was previously criticised for his handling of the worst HIV crisis in Indiana history when he was the governor of the state in 2015.\n\nHe initially opposed a clean-needle exchange which health advisers had advocated for. Medical journals later concluded that the epidemic could have been slowed if the programme had been enacted earlier.\n\nOn Twitter, critics used the hashtag \"Pencedemic\" to voice opposition to his new assignment.\n\nHave you been affected by the spread of coronavirus? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Quicker than takeaway: BBC News investigates quick delivery of drugs in Leeds\n\nMore illegal drugs than ever before are coming into the UK - and buying them is almost as easy as ordering a pizza, the author of a major new report has said.\n\nDame Carol Black also found that an \"unprecedented\" number of children and teenagers are being drawn into the drug trade through county lines gangs.\n\nHer drugs review put the costs of the illicit trade in crime and to society at about £19bn a year in England.\n\nThe government said it was taking \"tough action\" to combat illegal drugs.\n\nDame Carol, who the Home Office asked last year to review drug supply and demand in the UK, presented her findings on Thursday.\n\nThe \"widespread\" use of children to supply drugs was the \"most alarming\" recent development, she told the UK Drugs Summit in Glasgow.\n\nHer report also found that the illicit drugs market in the UK is worth £9.4bn a year, with about three million people in England and Wales taking them last year.\n\nDame Carol told the conference: \"We have an abundant supply coming into our countries from around the world, more than ever before.\n\n\"It's purer, it's more available, you can buy whichever drug you want almost anywhere.\n\n\"It wouldn't be too far to go to say it's almost for some drugs as easy as getting your pizza.\"\n\nThe comparison came after an investigation by BBC News found it took just 27 minutes to receive an order of cocaine from a drug dealer in Leeds.\n\nThe key conclusion of Dame Carol Black's report on illegal drugs - that a \"perfect storm\" has developed that can be abated only through government intervention - is based on compelling evidence from an impressive array of statistics and information.\n\nThe headline figure - the £19bn cost to society of illicit drugs in England - is designed to act as a wake-up call.\n\nIt is about half of the National Crime Agency estimate of the total cost of serious and organised crime to the UK economy and around three times as much as the cost of treating and dealing with the effects of obesity in England.\n\nThere is no simple solution to reducing the economic costs of drug-taking, not to mention the human toll, but Dame Carol indicates there must be investment in treatment.\n\nA report from Public Health England in 2014 found that every pound spent on drug treatment saved £2.50 in costs to society.\n\nHowever, her review raises more questions than answers about the overall effectiveness of law enforcement activity on illicit drugs, saying crackdowns have little impact on supply and may increase violence by creating a gap in the market for dealers to battle over.\n\nDame Carol highlighted the effect of government funding cuts on drug recovery support services - which she said were \"disappearing\" in certain areas.\n\nShe said: \"At the same time we have seen a reduction in very good treatment and recovery, and that again all adds up to leave us, as you will see in this report, with the perfect storm.\n\n\"I believe this perfect storm will not go away unless government takes action.\"\n\nHer report, which was released to coincide with a drugs summit held by the UK government in Glasgow, said drug-related deaths are at an all-time high, while the market is becoming increasingly violent.\n\nIt found 300,000 people in England used the most harmful drugs - opiates and crack cocaine - last year.\n\nThe review said the \"county lines\" model is now a widely-used method for supplying the most serious drugs.\n\nCounty lines is a tactic which sees gangs and distribution networks from cities move into smaller towns and use violence to overtake local drug dealers.\n\nThe model relies on children or other vulnerable people to sell drugs.\n\nCrime minister Kit Malthouse, who is chairing the Glasgow summit, said: \"The findings, which we will discuss today, are troubling and paint a stark picture of how illegal drugs are devastating lives and communities, and fuelling serious violence.\n\n\"We are already taking tough action to combat county lines and violent crime and to disrupt and prosecute the organised gangs that bring so much misery. But clearly we all need to do more.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We're not convinced' on drug consumption rooms\n\nPlans for drug consumption rooms to get addicts off the streets have been called a \"distraction\" by the UK government minister for crime.\n\nKit Malthouse said the drug deaths crisis gripping Scotland demanded \"a more assertive approach\".\n\nGlasgow's plan for a special facility to allow users to take their own drugs under medical supervision are backed by the Scottish government.\n\nBut drug legislation is reserved to the Westminster government.\n\nIt has refused to allow Glasgow City Council to pilot the scheme, which the council says would encourage the hundreds of users who inject heroin or cocaine on the city's streets to enter a safe and clean environment.\n\nIt is hoped the special room would encourage addicts into treatment, cut down on heroin needles on city streets and counter the spread of diseases such as HIV.\n\nHowever, ahead of a UK-wide summit on drug deaths being held at Glasgow's SEC, Mr Malthouse told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"We have to recognise this is a complicated problem and there is no silver bullet solution.\n\n\"To me, drug consumption rooms are a bit of a distraction.\"\n\nHe said research from around the world showed \"mixed\" results for consumption rooms.\n\n\"They are quite small scale and the scale of the problem demands a much more assertive approach,\" he said.\n\nMr Malthouse called for more drug treatment alongside education and support.\n\nHe also said that more needed to be done to disrupt drug supplies, especially online and social media, using \"intelligent enforcement\".\n\nAlmost 4,300 people died from drug misuse across the UK in 2018, a record figure, and the numbers for last year are expected to be just as high.\n\nDeaths in England and Wales increased significantly but the rate remains much lower than in Scotland.\n\nScotland accounted for more than a quarter of UK drug deaths, which was far higher than its share of the population.\n\nThe latest figures showed an average of more than three people a day dying of drug overdoses in Scotland.\n\nScotland's Public Health Minister Joe FitzPatrick told the summit in Glasgow that an extra £20m in government funding would be made available for drug rehabilitation and mental health support for addicts.\n\nHe said he remained convinced that \"a public health approach to this emergency is the right way forward\" rather than trying to punish users for breaking the law.\n\nThe minister added: \"The UK government has made it clear at their summit that they are not willing to consider the bold, innovative approaches to this problem that I feel are needed.\n\n\"However, that doesn't mean we will stop fighting for what we believe is right and this extra investment will help us in our efforts to save lives.\"\n\nIt is more than three years since Glasgow City Council first proposed drug consumption rooms.\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council, Susan Aitken, said her city had the most drug deaths in the UK, 280 in 2018.\n\n\"This is a critical situation for our entire city - we are in the throes of a crisis and an emergency response is required,\" she said.\n\nMs Aitken called on the UK government to support new approaches, such as safe consumption rooms, in an attempt to get addicts off the streets.\n\nDr Saket Priyadarshi, from Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services, said a drug consumption facility would be a good way to reach people with whom they have no contact to begin recovery.\n\nHe said it was urgently needed and could not see an argument against it.\n\nGlasgow wants to open a safe consumption room to get users of the streets\n\nBoth the UK and Scottish governments agree that tackling addiction and rising drug death levels should be a priority.\n\nHowever, both remain at odds over how best to help some of the country's most vulnerable addicts.\n\nAt the heart of the Scottish government agenda is a public health approach, exemplified by the drastic reduction in drug deaths in Portugal.\n\nIt involves decriminalising possession of small amounts of drugs, wrap-around services and potentially the introduction of so-called \"fix rooms\" - facilities where addicts can inject drugs safely under supervision.\n\nBut to do this, says the Scottish government, it requires devolution of drug policy and changes to the Misuse of Drugs Act. The UK government's Home Office are reluctant.\n\nAs well as Tory unwillingness to appear \"soft\" on drugs, Home Office policing minister Kit Malthouse has already said divergence in drug policy north of the border would be encouraging for English gangs seeking more opportunity to flood Scottish towns with illegal drugs.\n\nRecovery charities have expressed fears that these two summits could end up being another political point-scoring exercise. If that's the case, the ones losing out are the ones dying.", "Rail passengers like to stay in touch digitally while they are travelling\n\nResearchers have developed a satellite antenna that could end frustration for millions of rail passengers.\n\nIt has been designed to provide high speed broadband on the move without the breaks in connection that plague many rail journeys, particularly in rural areas.\n\nResearchers at Heriot-Watt University say it could also be adapted to provide fast broadband aboard airliners much more cheaply than existing systems.\n\nGone are the days when a rail journey meant the morning paper, a cuppa and peace from the demands of work for a while.\n\nNow we're expected to stay in touch digitally.\n\nAnd our smartphones and tablets don't just give us the ability to reply to emails and work on spreadsheets.\n\nOthers value the opportunity to interact on social media or watch amusing videos of kittens.\n\nBut if you're on a train that can be hit and miss to say the least.\n\nEven if your carriage has wi-fi, whether you can use it to contact the rest of the world typically depends on the quality of the mobile phone network outside.\n\nMobile networks tend to cover the built up areas where there are more customers. Even there, the masts weren't located to favour railway lines.\n\nIn rural areas the problem of \"notspots\" - areas of poor or no signal - is more acute.\n\nGiven that at the last count there were almost 1.8bn rail passenger journeys in the UK every year, that's a lot of watching those irritating little spinning wheels that tell you your device is trying in vain to connect.\n\nThe alternative is to connect the train wi-fi to a satellite. But this also has its problems.\n\nUnless a satellite is geostationary, orbiting above a fixed point on the Earth's surface, it is moving across the sky.\n\nTo establish a link, an antenna has to maintain contact with one or more moving satellites from a train which is itself on the move.\n\nAnother problem: you can't feasibly stick a satellite dish on top of a train. Certainly not in the restricted clearances of the UK rail network.\n\nBut the Heriot-Watt research, soon to become a spinout company called Infinect, has come up with a solution: a flat antenna a little over half a metre across. Just right for the top of a train carriage.\n\nSamuel Rotenberg has been working on the new development\n\nResearch engineer Samuel Rotenberg says it will communicate with satellites throughout a journey.\n\n\"It's fairly lightweight, at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions and will provide global coverage,\" he said.\n\nGeorge Goussetis, professor of antenna engineering at Heriot-Watt, is principal investigator on the project.\n\nHe says it has taken a decade of research to get from the basic idea of satellite-equipped trains to market.\n\n\"There's been a lot of investment in being able to deliver broadband connectivity via satellite,\" he says.\n\n\"There have been multi-billion investments in the space sector, a lot of new standards - and it looks like the flat panel antenna is the missing piece in that puzzle.\"\n\nMr Rotenberg is confident they've created that piece, and he says it offers much more than being able to update your social media profile from seat 16B.\n\nProfessor George Goussetis says it has taken 10 years to get the product to market\n\nLinking the train to the \"internet of things\" will improve the security of the train and all aboard.\n\n\"When they are in a remote area, the train operator doesn't have any control over the train,\" he says.\n\n\"They don't know where they are, what speed, if there is an accident or an emergency.\n\n\"They are completely blind - and they need information.\"\n\nA data stream from sensors via satellite will deliver it.\n\nThe prototype antenna is expected to enter field trials with a big rail operator before the end of 2020.\n\nFunding for the research has come from the European Space Agency, the Department for Transport and the High Growth Spin-Out Programme run by Scottish Enterprise.\n\nMr Rotenberg, now co-founder and lead engineer of Infinect, has also won a place on the ICURe Innovation to Commercialisation Programme funded by the innovation agency Innovate UK.\n\nThe prospect of seamless, fast broadband on the move seems closer than ever. Is there a catch?\n\nThis is advanced technology, not magic. So when the antenna can't see a satellite the signal stops.\n\nBut the new antenna means it will pick up again just as soon as your train comes out the other end.\n\nSo those cute kittens will have to stay on pause for just a couple of minutes.", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nCaptain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang missed a glaring chance with the last kick of the match as Arsenal crashed to a shocking Europa League defeat at the hands of Olympiakos.\n\nAubameyang, so often the Gunners' saviour, looked like he had once again rescued his side from an abject showing when his superb scissor-kick - which cancelled out Pape Abou Cisse's opener - put them in the driving seat with seven minutes left of extra time.\n\nBut the visitors punished awful set-piece defending for a second time on the night as Youssef El Arabi poked home in front of their raucous travelling fans.\n\nAnd there was still time for the unmarked Aubameyang to somehow screw wide from five yards out and condemn Mikel Arteta's side to their first defeat of 2020.\n\nFor large periods of a flat game a full-strength Arsenal XI were frustrated, frustrating and feeble in front of goal - with their first shot on target not arriving until the 77th minute.\n\nOlympiakos were hardly buccaneering in their approach, especially considering they had lost the first leg in Athens, but carried out their gameplan perfectly to steal a famous win and progress to the last 16.\n\nArteta had talked in the build-up of having three routes into Europe for next season but this competition was surely his best bet of an unlikely seat at the Champions League top table.\n\nTo go out in such limp fashion will leave the manager livid - and for most of the night he was the most animated member of the Arsenal contingent.\n\nFamiliar failings were their undoing as the Greek side twice scored from set-pieces. First, Aubameyang allowed 6ft 6ins centre-back Cisse a totally free header from a corner, and then David Luiz appeared to leave a cross from a half-cleared 120th-minute corner and gift El Arabi a lunging tap-in.\n\nOlympiakos came to defend deep and in numbers, to frustrate Arsenal and then to hopefully score from a corner. It was a strategy they pulled off impeccably.\n\nBut they must have expected an Arsenal forward line of Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette, Mesut Ozil and Nicolas Pepe - recruited at a cost of around £215m - to cause more problems.\n\nThe four managed just one shot on target between them before Aubameyang's brilliant late goal that briefly had Arsenal progressing. Ozil's cross was nodded on by substitute Gabriel Martinelli and the Gabon striker rearranged himself masterfully to crack an acrobatic effort into the back of the net.\n\nThe home fans, who greeted the full-time whistle with apathy rather than anger, roared into belated life but it was the supporters at the other end who will now have their eyes on Friday's draw.\n\n'We had a lot of intentions in this competition'\n\nArsenal looked to have done the hard part last week when they ground out a 1-0 win in Greece. After all, the club had progressed from all 17 of their European ties when winning the first leg away from home.\n\nBut from early on they looked short of ideas and moved the ball so slowly across midfield.\n\nFor all the money spent up front the most likely route to goal all night looked like coming through teenage left-back Bukayo Saka, a constant outlet, but when he did provide a beautiful cross at the end of Arsenal's best move of the game, Lacazette was offside as he converted from close range.\n\nSaka and Pepe - a deeply frustrating figure to watch - both put in nine crosses but they were easy to defend.\n\nArteta could point to decisions that did not go his side's way - a yellow card shown to Ousseynou Ba for a foul on the edge of the area could have been red, and an offside flag that could have been raised in the build-up to Olympiakos' winner.\n\nBut the truth is Arsenal just did not create enough to win. Arsenal had won three in a row coming into the game and this was their first defeat in 11, but there is still much to be done.\n\n\"It hurts a lot. We had a lot of intentions in this competition,\" Arteta said.\n\n\"We were in control but conceded a set-piece to put us in a difficult position. We created a lot of chances and got ourselves in a good position. If you concede four goals from set-pieces in two games it makes it very difficult.\"\n\nTo add injury to insult, Arsenal also lost defender Shkodran Mustafi to a hamstring problem.\n\nWho is left in the Europa League?\n\nOlympiakos coach Pedro Martins: \"It's a historic night for Olympiakos. We deserved this qualification not only for these two games against Arsenal, but also for our spirited performances in Europe throughout the season regardless of the results.\n\n\"We were determined, we believed we could qualify and we made it. Tactical intelligence, effectiveness, inner strength, courage - it all weighed in this success.\n\n\"We never lost our shape and played intelligently. The aim is just to carry on in this competition.\"\n\nAubameyang's prowess not enough - the stats\n• None Arsenal suffered their first defeat since December 2019 in the Premier League (1-2 v Chelsea), ending their 10-game unbeaten run in all competitions\n• None Olympiakos have won each of their last two away games against Arsenal, having lost their first three against the Gunners on the road\n• None Arsenal have lost consecutive home games in European competition for the first time since February/September 2015 in the Champions League, also losing the second of those games against Olympiakos\n• None Since his debut for Arsenal in February 2018, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has netted 61 goals in all competitions, a haul only Mohamed Salah (64) can better among Premier League players\n• None Pape Abou Cisse's opener for Olympiakos was just his second goal in European competition, also netting against AC Milan in the group stage of last season's Europa League\n• None Attempt missed. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, Olympiakos 2. Youssef El-Arabi (Olympiakos) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Giorgos Masouras with a cross following a corner.\n• None Offside, Olympiakos. Avraam Papadopoulos tries a through ball, but Pape Abou Cissé is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bukayo Saka.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, Olympiakos 1. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross.\n• None Offside, Olympiakos. Mohamed Camara tries a through ball, but Giorgos Masouras is caught offside.\n• None Giorgos Masouras (Olympiakos) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Youssef El-Arabi.\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Gaspar (Olympiakos) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Giorgos Masouras. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Scottish government is to set up a free bus travel scheme for under-19s as part of an SNP-Green budget deal.\n\nThe agreement between the two parties will also see extra funding going to local government and the police.\n\nFinance Secretary Kate Forbes said free bus travel would be a \"step change\" in supporting young people and helping tackle climate change.\n\nMSPs will vote on the budget for the first time on Thursday, with the tax and spending plans now certain to pass.\n\nMs Forbes stepped in to deliver the budget the day after Derek Mackay resigned as finance secretary, and was subsequently appointed to replace him.\n\nThe budget does not contain any changes to income tax rates, with extra money being spent on health, education and investment aimed at tackling the \"climate emergency\".\n\nThe commitment to set up a free public transport scheme for young people comes on the same day as figures showed fewer people were using buses.\n\nMinisters aim to have \"national concessionary travel\" system up and running by January 2021, with people aged 18 and under joining the over-60s in being eligible for free bus trips.\n\nThe deal with the Greens will also see an extra £95m going to local authorities, as well as £18m to police services and £45m to low carbon projects, including energy efficiency projects and active travel.\n\nThe changes will be paid for using underspends, longer term income from non-domestic rates and the fossil fuel levy.\n\nThe government has also agreed to review plans to upgrade the Sheriffhall roundabout on the Edinburgh bypass, although ministers have rejected calls from the Greens to scrap works on the A9 and A96.\n\nMSPs will vote on the initial proposals on Thursday, with the terms of the deal with the Greens to be added in the following week when the budget is examined by a committee of MSPs.\n\nThe tax rates are expected to be signed off on Wednesday 4 March, with the final vote on the budget bill the following day.\n\nMs Forbes stepped in to deliver the budget after the resignation of Derek Mackay\n\nMs Forbes said she was \"pleased to have reached an agreement\", particularly given the \"uncertainty\" of the UK government not yet having set its budget.\n\nShe said the budget included \"record investment\" in health services and \"significant investments to tackle the climate crisis\".\n\nShe said: \"I want to thank all parties for the constructive way in which they have approached this year's discussions.\n\n\"While it is not possible to meet every party's demands in full, I believe in reaching formal agreement with the Green Party I am also delivering on key asks from every party and I encourage all MSPs to consider giving their support to Scotland's budget.\"\n\nGreen co-leader Patrick Harvie said free bus travel would be a \"transformational step towards tackling the climate emergency\".\n\nHe added: \"Clearly, a Green budget would do even more to tackle the climate emergency, but securing this important free bus travel deal for the next generation builds on the powers we won for local councils to take control of local bus services.\"\n\nThe other opposition parties had also been involved in talks with Ms Forbes, but hit out at the deal.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the plan announced on Wednesday \"still falls well short of what our economy and public services need\", with finance spokesman Donald Cameron saying Tory MSPs would not back the budget unless extra cash was added for drug rehabilitation services.\n\nScottish Labour, which had called for a wider free bus travel system, said it was \"deeply disappointing to see the Scottish Green Party yet again sell our local councils, our environment and indeed themselves short yet again\".\n\nThe Scottish Lib Dems meanwhile said they would vote against the budget as long as the SNP continued to push for an independence referendum in 2020, with leader Willie Rennie saying this was \"stopping an awful lot else being agreed\".", "Many businesses such as gyms are turning to live-streaming to help their customers in quarantine\n\nWith millions of people across China under lockdown, businesses across the country are trying to come up with ways to keep their customers occupied and connected.\n\nIn Hubei province, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, at least 56 million people remain under strict instruction to remain inside their residential communities and villages. At one point, around 500 million people were said to be affected by movement restrictions to contain the virus.\n\nMany people have turned to the internet as one way to cure their boredom.\n\nAccording to The Paper, searches for the word \"boring\" on social media site Weibo grew by 626% on 26 January and topics such as \"how to spend time at home when bored\" also started to trend on the website.\n\nEntrepreneurs began to realise there were ways of keeping in touch with their customers. Here are a few of the methods being used in China right now.\n\nGyms across China have been forced to close amid fears that they could help spread the virus. A number of gyms have started classes online so their customers can keep fit from home.\n\nLauren Hogan, General Manager for F45 in Shanghai, told the BBC that her gyms are offering workout sessions on WeChat, a popular messaging app in China.\n\n\"Every day my trainers have created a circuit-based workout depending on our programming. They've created a sheet of exercises and they are recording videos, but having fun with it too.\"\n\nMs Hogan said there are groups in WeChat for customers where they can write in and tell other people they have completed the day's exercise.\n\n\"We also did a plank challenge and they had to tag someone in the group to take part,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A student in Wuhan describes what it is like to live under lockdown\n\nShe said the videos have helped people talk and know that there is a resource for them, and customers have been appreciative.\n\n\"We've had personal thank you messages and also messages in the group chats. People are happy and grateful that we're taking the time to do it and show that we care. When you're stuck in your house, it turns into very long days and having someone else to talk to helps.\"\n\nOther chains are following suit including Gravity Plus in Beijing. Aside from running online classes, it has also rented out gym equipment as an extra way of bringing in income, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nWith nightclubs closed and music events cancelled for the foreseeable future, a number of DJs and clubs in China are turning to \"cloud clubbing\".\n\nCloud clubbing is where people can watch live DJ sets and send in messages to give them the feeling that they're in a club. The cloud clubbing events usually take place on apps such as Douyin, China's TikTok.\n\nTAXX Shanghai is one club that has taken advantage on the demand for \"cloud clubbing sessions\".\n\nDJs have been live streaming to people in their homes\n\nRuan Liangliang, manager of TAXX Shanghai told Sixth Tone: \"Recently many of our friends and customers have said they are bored with their indoor lives. So we planned a live broadcast to share pleasant music and ease their anxiety.\"\n\nHe told the website he was surprised at the positive feedback from those who took part. However despite earning about $104,000 (£80,000) in tips, he says it is not enough to cover the rent.\n\nStrawberry Music Festival, an indie music festival that has been hosted in several Chinese cities, put on its own indoor music festival named \"Hi, I am also at home\".\n\nThe festival was held for five days and featured shows from many musical acts. The shows were pre-recorded, however viewers were able to discuss the music together in the comments section as if they were watching a show together.\n\nBookshops have also had to think of new ways of reaching customers, a double blow to an industry that is already competing against online shops.\n\nChengdu Fang Suo Bookstore is located in the trendy Taikoo Li shopping centre in the city. One bookseller who gave their name as Jin Jin told local media that it usually brings in customers with its scenery and displays however it has turned to Wechat to help bring in any revenue.\n\nShop workers made their own lists in WeChat groups including \"selected books of the year\" and the \"recommended reading list of Fang Suo house\". Customers could then order the books via their online store.\n\nElsewhere in China, 1200 Bookstore in Guangzhou, a 24-hour shop, has been selling gift cards, tote bags and \"blind gift packages\" as a way to bring in income.\n\nIn a post written on social media, the store's owner warned its customers that it might not be long before 1200 Bookstore would have to shut permanently. He was inundated with supportive messages from followers.", "Scientists are hoping to find a way to identify child sex abusers just from images of their hands.\n\nOften, the backs of hands are the only visible features of abusers in footage and images shared online.\n\nA new study aims to discover whether our hands are truly unique by looking at physical differences between them.\n\nResearchers plan to do this by training computers to spot anatomical features in anonymous images sent by the public.\n\nThis will allow algorithms to be designed that will help police to link suspects to crimes just from images of their hands, scientists hope.\n\nScientists from the universities of Lancaster and Dundee are now calling for more than 5,000 \"citizen scientists\" to take part in their study, so there is enough data to prove beyond reasonable doubt whether our hands are unique.\n\nForensic anthropologist Prof Dame Sue Black said: \"Our hands display many anatomical differences due to our development, influence of genetics, ageing, environment or even accidents.\n\n\"We know that features such as vein patterns, skin creases, freckles, moles, and scars are different between our right and left hands, and even different between identical twins.\n\n\"We are looking to deliver a step-change in the science so we can analyse, and understand, all the factors that make a hand unique.\"\n\nA web-based app for anyone aged 18 and over to contribute their images to the project is available to use on smartphones at h-unique.lancaster.ac.uk\n\nThe images are not shared with any external agencies and will be destroyed at the end of the five-year research project, funded through a 2.5m euros (£2.1m) grant from the European Research Council.\n\nDr Bryan Williams, lecturer in biometrics and human identification at Lancaster University, said: \"The tools we will develop will reliably and robustly inform decisions in criminal courts.\n\n\"They could also be used to assist law enforcement agencies to rapidly and autonomously analyse hours of footage and thousands of offensive images.\"\n• None Children abused in the home 'unseen and unheard'", "The new coronavirus is continuing to spread to new countries, with the World Health Organization saying there are now more new cases outside China than inside its borders.\n\nSeveral European countries have announced their first coronavirus cases, all apparently linked to the growing outbreak in Italy.\n\nMeasures employed to slow the spread of the virus range from large-scale quarantine in China to cancelled football matches in Italy.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City produced a stunning late fightback as goals from Gabriel Jesus and Kevin de Bruyne secured a memorable 2-1 win at Real Madrid to take control of their Champions League last-16 tie.\n\nAfter a cagey first half, the hosts capitalised on a defensive mix-up between Rodri and Nicolas Otamendi to take the lead as the impressive Vinicius Junior raced towards goal before neatly squaring for Isco to slot home.\n\nSergio Ramos shot over as Real Madrid looked to double their advantage but City equalised 12 minutes before time when Jesus nodded in from close range.\n\nIt was the least City deserved for what had been an impressive away performance by Pep Guardiola's side and things got even better seven minutes from time when substitute Raheem Sterling was brought down inside the box and De Bruyne stepped home to confidently convert from the spot.\n\nIt got even worse for Real Madrid when they were reduced to 10 men with five minutes remaining. Ramos brought down Jesus as he ran through on goal and the defender was shown a red card.\n\nIt was the first time City had beaten Real Madrid in the Champions League and means they are in the driving seat before the second leg at the Etihad on Tuesday, 17 March.\n\nThe win will have been all the more welcome for City fans after their side were earlier this month banned from European club competitions for the next two years.\n\nThe club's appeal against the decision has been registered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and the issue will continue to overshadow their immediate future, but this display in Madrid will give them hope of progressing far in the current campaign.\n• None We're not used to doing these things - Guardiola on City's win\n\nThis was a hugely impressive result for Manchester City and one for which Guardiola deserved a large amount of credit after he sprung a surprise with his team selection.\n\nThe former Barcelona boss left Sterling, Sergio Aguero, David Silva and Fernandinho all on the bench and instead utilised Bernardo Silva and De Bruyne as alternating false nines in what appeared to be a very cautious City formation.\n\nBut it was a tactic that successfully nullified a Real Madrid side that has historically been so strong in the knockout stages of the Champions League and had not lost their 12 previous knockout games under Zinedine Zidane.\n\nThe hosts were limited to one decent chance in the first half - when Ederson saved superbly from Karim Benzema's header - while City's threat on the counter increased as the half went on.\n\nCity looked like the most likely to score as the game wore on but all their good work threatened to be undone when Real pounced on a rare defensive error from City.\n\nBut, to the visitors' credit, they fought back strongly despite that setback and the introduction of Sterling proved pivotal as the forward provided a different outlet for City as they turned the game around.\n\nIn the end they could have perhaps won by more - with Ramos preventing Jesus from getting his second - but two away goals puts Guardiola's side in a strong position to reach the quarter-finals and keep them on track to end their wait for Champions League success.\n\nReal Madrid are the Champions League's most successful club with 13 titles and they have been particularly strong under Zidane.\n\nThe former France international guided Los Blancos to three consecutive titles in his first spell in charge of the club between 2016 and 2018, while he had won all 12 previous knockout ties he had overseen as a manager.\n\nTheir form heading into this match had been patchy with just one win in their previous four games in all competitions, while they were beaten 1-0 by Levante at the weekend.\n\nBut despite taking the lead against City, they were never truly in control of the game at any period as they first struggled to break down their opponents before falling apart when the visitors took the game to them.\n\nThis was the first time Guardiola and Zidane - rivals in their playing days for Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively - had gone to head-to-head as managers and it was the former who came out on top.\n\nThe one sour point on the night for City was the loss of defender Aymeric Laporte to injury in the first half.\n\nThe defender was making only his fourth appearance since recovering from a serious knee injury that had kept him out for much of the season but pulled up with just over half an hour gone and was replaced by Fernandinho.\n\nLaporte was able to make his own way off the pitch, giving City reason to be optimistic that his absence will not be a long one.\n\n\"After five months injured in this scenario it's so demanding,\" Guardiola said.\n\n\"Fernandinho came in and did incredibly well. I'm so proud.\"\n\n'This is just the first part' - what they said\n\nReal Madrid midfielder Casemiro: \"The tie isn't finished with this result. We played 75 spectacular minutes against a great team.\n\n\"Then in just 15 minutes we didn't do any of what he should have done. That's why they fought back and cancelled out our lead. We've got a lot of work ahead of us now.\n\n\"If there's any team capable of overcoming this deficit in the second leg it's Real Madrid.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola to BT Sport: \"We tried to come here to win the game and we did. This is just the first part. If one team can overcome this situation, it's this club.\n\n\"When we were better, we conceded a goal. When they were better, we scored a goal. That's football. I remember the quarter-final [against Liverpool] a few seasons ago at Anfield when we played incredibly well and they scored all their shots on target.\"\n\nPep joins a club of two - the stats\n• None Manchester City have beaten Real Madrid for the first time in their history.\n• None Real Madrid have lost a Champions League home match despite scoring the opening goal for just the second time, also losing in this manner against AC Milan in October 2009.\n• None Kevin de Bruyne scored his 50th goal in all competitions for Manchester City. This was the first time he has both scored and assisted in a Champions League match.\n• None City boss Guardiola is only the second manager to win two Champions League away games against Real Madrid, after Ottmar Hitzfeld. He is the first to do so with two different clubs.\n• None Real Madrid's Isco scored his first goal in the knockout stages of the Champions League since netting against Atletico Madrid in the semi-final second leg in May 2017.\n• None Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos received his fourth Champions League red card - only Edgar Davids and Zlatan Ibrahimovic have as many (both four).\n• None Guardiola has now won more Champions League knockout-stage matches than any other manager in the history of the competition (28).\n• None Karim Benzema became the sixth player to make 100 appearances for Real Madrid in the Champions League, after Iker Casillas (150), Raul (130), Sergio Ramos (124), Roberto Carlos (107) and Cristiano Ronaldo (101).\n\nManchester City will now switch their attention to the Carabao Cup final as they take on Aston Villa at Wembley on Sunday, 1 March (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Ferland Mendy (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 1, Manchester City 2. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ferland Mendy with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 1, Manchester City 1. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Some parts of the UK such as west Wales are significantly worse off than others\n\nThe government must \"think big\" and spend more if it is serious about levelling up the UK's regions, an independent inquiry has said.\n\nAn extra £200bn of regional funds should be channelled to disadvantaged parts of the country over the next two decades, the UK2070 Commission said.\n\nThe report concludes policies need to cover longer timescales and feature stronger pan-regional collaboration.\n\nIt said regional inequalities have \"blighted\" Britain.\n\n\"Many people in Britain feel left behind by growth elsewhere and that has contributed to an acrimonious debate about Europe. We now face a decade of potential disruption - leaving the European Union, confronting the impact of climate change and adjusting to the fourth industrial revolution,\" said commission chairman Lord Kerslake, a former head of the civil service.\n\nThe report blames \"an over-centralised system\", as well as policies that were fragmented, under-resourced and too short-lived.\n\n\"We cannot afford to keep on repeating those mistakes. Government must therefore think big, plan big and act at scale. Bluntly, if it can't go big, it should go home,\" Lord Kerslake said.\n\nFollowing the election in December last year, Boris Johnson pledged to \"level up\" left-behind regions, after several northern constituencies elected Conservative MPs for the first time.\n\nA lot has been promised by the government about \"levelling up\" and the regions have heard the political rhetoric coming from the top loud and clear. But what exactly does it mean?\n\nThis report is one of a number seeking to take the political rhetoric from the 2019 general election and turn it into a plan, and, frankly, demands for funding.\n\nThe UK2070 report, backed by many independent elected mayors, focuses on a variety of different elements driving regional inequality in the UK. It ponders the question as to why the UK is one of the most regionally unequal advanced nations in the world.\n\nThe basic answer is that the unbalanced British economy is a choice, the reflection of decisions, and with the right long-term thinking, it could be rebalanced.\n\nAs the name of the 2070 project suggests, its aims are long-term. And the central demand beyond better transport and more devolved powers is that post-Brexit regional funds need to be trebled to £15bn a year - providing £200bn more to transform Britain's economic geography and spread growth and opportunity to every corner.\n\nThe UK2070 Commission was set up in July 2018 to look at the longer-term causes and future policy implications for the regions. It is a collaboration between several UK universities and is supported by the Sykes Charitable Trust and the RSA.\n\nIts final report recommends tripling the amount of funding that would have been directed to regions from EU grants. It proposes £15bn a year be channelled through the new Shared Prosperity Fund, which is due to replace EU funding at the end of this year.\n\nThe report \"Make No Little Plans: Acting At Scale For a Fairer and Stronger Future\" calls for the government to make a public pledge to tackle inequality. As well as the increase in expenditure on regional development it calls for:\n\n\"We also need to recognise that the price of failing to reverse this decline will far outweigh the cost of investing now in creating greater opportunities. Properly investing in levelling-up will come at a cost but so will doing nothing about it,\" Lord Kerslake said.\n\nPublic spending is currently required to deal with the consequences of an unbalanced economy; investing in levelling-up could raise low incomes and reduce welfare spending, the report said.\n\nAverage household wealth fell by 12% in the North East and East Midlands between 2006 and 2018, but grew by nearly 80% in London and by over 30% in south-east England, the report said, citing Office for National Statistic figures.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Need something to read on your commute home?\n\nCheck out this piece about the hundreds of Ethiopians returning to the country, following reforms brought in by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.\n\nMr Abiy's reforms include changing the law to enable more Ethiopians living abroad to come back and help rebuild the economy.\n\nFor years, Ethiopia's economy has been tightly controlled by the state and closed to many international investors.\n\nAbout two million Ethiopians live in the diaspora, the government estimates.\n\nAbiy Bister owns an Ethiopian restaurant in Washington DC. He hasn't seen his homeland in almost two decades, but he's now considering returning to Ethiopia to start a business there.", "Sakine Cihan was crossing Kingsland High Street in Dalston when she was struck\n\nA cyclist accused of killing a pedestrian while riding a modified e-bike was travelling more than 10mph over the speed limit, a jury heard.\n\nThomas Hanlon, 32, was \"going way too quickly\" when he hit Sakine Cihan in Kingsland High Street in Dalston, east London, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMrs Cihan, 56, suffered a \"catastrophic\" head injury and died the next day, jurors heard.\n\nUnder the law, e-bikes which are fitted with an electric motor can only be driven without a licence or insurance if their power is limited and if the motor automatically switches off at speeds above 15.5 mph.\n\nThe court heard Mr Hanlon's bike was capable of going double that speed and as such should have been categorised as a motorbike.\n\nProsecutor Nathan Rasiah read out a statement by cyclist Raymond Murphy, a witness to the 28 August crash, who said he was \"struck\" that Mr Hanlon's bike was \"going way too quickly for a normal electric bicycle\".\n\n\"He described riding along approaching the station and becoming aware of a bike travelling very quickly past him, but heading in the same direction as him.\n\nA few moments later, Mr Murphy \"suddenly saw arms and legs everywhere, flying in the air\", the court heard.\n\nMr Rasiah quoted a second witness, Joshua Stubbs, as saying: \"It looked like their heads made contact then the cyclist fell to the ground.\n\n\"After a few seconds the cyclist got up and looked dazed and confused, the lady lay motionless on the road.\"\n\nThe court was told Mr Hanlon left the scene despite a passer-by trying to stop him\n\nJurors were shown CCTV footage of Mrs Cihan stepping off the pavement and running in front of Mr Hanlon, of Queen's Drive, Leyton, east London.\n\nThe court was told Mr Hanlon left the scene despite a passer-by trying to stop him.\n\nThe jury heard that, when interviewed by the police, Mr Hanlon admitted leaving the scene but said he had no time to swerve as Mrs Cihan had crossed the road unexpectedly.\n\nQuoting from the police interview, Mr Rasiah said: \"She rushed out in front of me to cross and she didn't even look at me.\"\n\nMr Rasiah told jurors the lights at the crossing were green for traffic but he said Mr Hanlon's speed amounted to driving without due care and attention.\n\nBoth the prosecution and defence agree that Mr Hanlon did not have a licence or insurance for a motorbike.\n\nBut he denies further charges of causing death while uninsured and causing death while unlicensed.\n\nThe court heard he is contesting these because they require a fault in the driving which contributed to Ms Cihan's death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government will decide in June whether to abandon talks with the EU and prepare for no trade deal on World Trade Organization terms.\n\nThe decision will be made if insufficient ground has been covered in talks with the EU.\n\nThe acid test will be if what it calls \"good progress\" has not been made on areas such as financial services and data, which the government sees as the easiest areas to negotiate.\n\nThe approach was revealed in the publication of its negotiating mandate for the talks, which begin next week.\n\nIt echoes the EU approach to sequencing negotiations in the first phase of Brexit talks, seeking to settle issues of significant importance to the UK early, over which the EU has unilateral power.\n\nThe EU has so far refused, for example, to negotiate its power to determine whether UK financial services have \"equivalent\" standards for its trade with the EU, or whether UK's data regulations are adequate in terms of the flow of electronic information.\n\nThe government has also played down the prospect of doing an immediate numerical economic assessment of the introduction of new trading arrangements with the EU, although a public consultation will begin in the spring, after the formal start of negotiations.\n\nThe UK mandate emphasises the government's wish for a trading relationship with the EU based on its existing precedents with Canada, Japan and South Korea.\n\nIt allows no jurisdiction for EU law or the European Court of Justice in the UK.\n\n\"The government will work hard to agree arrangements on these lines,\" the document says.\n\n\"However if it is not possible to negotiate a satisfactory outcome, then the trading relationship with the EU will rest on the 2019 Withdrawal Agreement and will look similar to Australia's.\"\n\nThe mandate seeks a suite of different agreements on fisheries, aviation, energy and migration, unlike the EU mandate, which seeks one whole agreement covering everything.\n\nThe document also says that it hopes the broad outline of an agreement should be clear by June, and capable of being \"rapidly finalised\" by September.\n\nIn the meantime, the government will push on for preparations for the reintroduction of customs and regulatory formalities on trade with the EU in January 2021, and expects businesses to follow suit.", "The pink house can be seen on the left in 1998, in the middle in 2009 and on the right in December 2019, when it teetered on the cliff edge\n\nA farmer is \"devastated\" after being forced to abandon her cliff-top cottage because it was falling into the sea.\n\nAnne Jones's family had owned the property in Easton Bavents near Southwold in Suffolk since 1925.\n\nA storm destroyed a large chunk of the cliff in December, leaving the building 30ft (9m) from the edge.\n\nIt has since been demolished over a number of weeks, after being deemed unsafe by engineers, and the cliff has eroded by another 10ft (3m).\n\n\"The whole family is incredibly sad, my father won't even go down the lane because he can't bear to look at it. There is so much history there and we have rented it out to so many local people over the years,\" said Mrs Jones.\n\n\"It's quite depressing, it makes me angry. It feels so unfair that we have lost hundreds of acres of land and we just have to accept it, whereas more prosperous, populated areas get protected.\"\n\nAnne Jones was told her cliff-top house would be demolished as it was no longer safe\n\nThe demolition took several weeks, as the family wanted to preserve and sell some of the bricks to make back a tiny portion of their losses\n\nBy the time the house was demolished it was just 20ft (6m) from the edge of the cliff\n\nEaston Bavents was once a thriving village and England's most easterly point. Its church disappeared into the sea in the 17th Century and much of the land surrounding it has been eroded.\n\nMrs Jones's great-grandfather Herbert Boggis used his life savings to buy the 400-acre estate in 1925, but it is now less than half that size.\n\nOver the past two decades, the house has crept closer to the cliff edge due to erosion.\n\nJuliet Blaxland rented part of the property, which is made up of three terraced cottages, from the family for 12 years. She was asked to move out just before Christmas.\n\nThe author, who wrote a book about her time living there, said she was very sad to watch the house being dismantled and it was \"a great loss\" to the farm.\n\nThe house in Easton Bavents is now rubble\n\nPeter Boggis, who is Mrs Jones's mother's cousin, started building his own sea defences nearly 20 years ago to protect the area but was ordered to stop after losing a court battle.\n\nA government-funded scheme, which was approved in 2012 to help them relocate, did not work out and the landowners have been left to fend for themselves, Mrs Jones said.\n\nA spokesman for East Suffolk Council, which is part of the Coastal Partnership East group that manages the coast in the area, said it had \"worked hard... with property owners in Easton Bavents over the last 10 years to try and find ways to alleviate the challenges of losing your property to the sea\".\n\nHe added they supported those who lose their property to erosion with a planning right to build elsewhere in the district.\n\nAuthor Juliet Blaxland rented part of the property from the family for 12 years, but was asked to leave before Christmas\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Over A$470,000 has been donated by the family of Quaden Bayles (L), who has been bullied at school for his dwarfism\n\nThe family of an Australian boy who gained global fame in a viral video after he was bullied have turned down a crowdfunded trip to Disneyland and vow to give the money to charity instead.\n\nYarraka Bayles posted a clip of her son, Quaden, crying after he was targeted at school for his dwarfism.\n\nMore than $308,000 (£240,000) has since been given to an online campaign.\n\nHis family told local media that they were touched by the gesture, but wanted to focus on \"the real issue\".\n\n\"This little fellow has been bullied. How many suicides, black or white, in our society have happened due to bullying?,\" his aunt, Mundanara Bayles, told NITV.\n\n\"We want the money to go to community organisations that really need it,\" she added. \"As much as we want to go to Disneyland, I think our community would far off benefit from that.\"\n\nThe video of Quaden crying has been viewed millions of times online\n\nThe family said they wanted to give the money to two charities: Dwarfism Awareness Australia, and the Balunu Healing Foundation.\n\nThey said they were also in discussions with Brad Williams, a US comedian who started the campaign on GoFundMe, and who has the same dwarfism condition of Achondroplasia.\n\nQuaden led out the Indigenous All-Stars during a rugby match last week\n\nMr Williams stated on the campaign website that \"any excess money\" from the Disneyland trip would be donated to anti-bullying and anti-abuse charities.\n\nUnder GoFundMe's terms, all donated funds must be used \"solely for the purpose you have stated on and in connection with your campaign\".\n\nAside from the campaign, since the video of Quaden surfaced online he has led a rugby league team out to their match in Queensland.\n\nCelebrities like actor Hugh Jackman and basketball player Enes Kanter have also shared their support online, while parents in other countries have posted video messages from their own children.\n\nIn the confronting six-minute video that originally went viral, Quaden's mother describes the relentless bullying experienced by her son every day. The family, who are Aboriginal Australian, live in Queensland.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues around this story, in Australia you can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. In the UK these organisations may be able to help.", "Anything said by witnesses to the Grenfell Tower inquiry will not be used to prosecute them over the fire, the attorney general has said.\n\nThe second phase of the inquiry has been on hold for several weeks, as many witnesses threatened to stay silent without a guarantee.\n\nThe request came from lawyers for those involved in refurbishing the block.\n\nIt only applies to oral evidence from individuals and not documents and oral evidence from corporations.\n\nThe chairman of the inquiry backed the request earlier this month but had needed approval from the attorney general.\n\nSuella Braverman's office said she had concluded the guarantee was needed to \"enable the inquiry to continue to hear vital evidence about the circumstances and causes of the fire\".\n\nWithout it, she concluded that some witnesses would be likely to decline to give evidence, her office added, by claiming the legal right of privilege against self-incrimination.\n\nSurvivors' group Grenfell United said it was a \"sad day\".\n\nThe second phase of the inquiry, which began in January, is looking at how the building came to be covered in flammable cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Braverman said: \"The undertaking I am providing to the inquiry means it can continue to take evidence from witnesses who otherwise would likely refuse to answer questions.\n\n\"These questions are important to finding out the truth about the circumstances of the fire. The undertaking will not jeopardise the police investigation or prospects of a future criminal prosecution.\"\n\nInquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said he sought the pledge to allow individual witnesses to provide the public hearings with a truthful account without fear for the future, allowing him to make recommendations based on the fullest body of evidence possible.\n\nThe proposed undertaking will cover oral evidence from individual witnesses only.\n\nSir Martin said the Metropolitan Police Service did not suggest that granting the undertaking would \"hamper\" their concurrent investigations.\n\nScotland Yard is carrying out its own investigation into possible crimes ranging from gross negligence manslaughter and corporate manslaughter to health and safety offences over the 2017 fire which killed 72 people.\n\nThe application for protections related to witnesses from firms including external wall subcontractor Harley Facades, main contractor Rydon, architects Studio E, and window and cladding fitters Osborne Berry.\n\nGrenfell United said the need to establish what happened \"must not come at the expense of justice and prosecutions\".\n\n\"The inquiry is about getting to the truth so that lessons are learnt and the government can make changes,\" the group said in a statement.\n\n\"We take part to make sure there will never be another Grenfell and people are safe in their homes.\n\n\"For our continued participation, the government must make sure the inquiry process does not undermine prosecutions.\n\n\"We expect criminal prosecutions at the end of this and will not settle for anything less.\n\n\"If prosecutions are affected by this decision we will hold the government accountable.\n\n\"Grenfell was a tragedy but it was not an accident.\"\n\nFire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack said he thought firefighters who gave evidence in the inquiry would be \"appalled\" that the undertaking had been provided.\n\nMr Wrack said in a statement: \"The truth must now come out - and those responsible must be finally held to account.\"\n\nThe second stage of the inquiry previously heard that the main designers and contractors involved in the refurbishment appeared to predict that the cladding system would fail in a fire, up to two years before the disaster.\n\nThe inquiry's first phase found the cladding was the principal reason for the rapid and \"profoundly shocking\" spread of the fire at the 25-storey building.", "Police were called to a cottage in Winsford, Somerset, at 14:30 GMT on Saturday\n\nA neighbour of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's father involved in a double shooting has died.\n\nJohn Zurick, 67, was found with shotgun injuries - thought to have been self-inflicted - after police were called to a cottage in Winsford, Somerset, on Saturday.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said he died in hospital in Devon on Thursday.\n\nThe force has said the death of his wife Deborah, 56, found shot at the scene, was being treated as murder.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil Rice said the force was not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths, and it would provide a file of evidence to the Somerset coroner.\n\nMr and Mrs Zurick were neighbours of Stanley Johnson - father of the prime minister.\n\nOn Tuesday Stanley Johnson said his family was \"shocked, stunned and saddened\" by the death of Mrs Zurick.\n\nEarlier this month police seized licensed weapons from the home of Mr and Mrs Zurick as part of a separate investigation.\n\nThey said there were \"satisfied\" no firearms licensed to any of the occupants remained at the premises.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police has referred itself to the police watchdog due to previous contact with those involved.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online gaming firm Mr Green, which is owned by William Hill, has been hit with a £3m penalty for failing to protect gambling addicts.\n\nThe Gambling Commission also said the company did not have effective procedures to check customers were using legitimate sources of money.\n\nThe commission said its investigation had uncovered \"systemic failings\".\n\nIt failed to freeze the account of a customer who won £50,000 and gambled it away before depositing thousands more.\n\nThe company also accepted a 10-year-old document showing a £176,000 claims payout as satisfactory evidence of source of funds for a customer who deposited more than £1m.\n\nMr Green is the ninth company to face penalties as part of a probe by the Gambling Commission into safeguarding failures by online casinos and poor measures to prevent money laundering.\n\nThe Gambling Commission has issued more than £20m in penalties since 2018.\n\nThe money will go to the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms, which provides treatment and support for addicts.\n\n\"Our investigation uncovered systemic failings in respect of both Mr Green's social responsibility and anti-money laundering controls which affected a significant number of customers across its online casinos,\" said Richard Watson, the Gambling Commission's executive director.\n\n\"Consumers in Britain have the right to know that there are checks and balances in place which will help keep them safe and ensure gambling is crime-free - and we will continue to crack down on operators who fail in this area.\"", "A 3D image of the proposed launch pad complex for Space Hub Sutherland\n\nThe developers of a proposed spaceport say measures would be taken to handle spectators who turn up to see launches.\n\nIf approved, small satellites could be launched from the Space Hub Sutherland site near Tongue up to 12 times a year.\n\nLong stretches of the roads in the area on the north Sutherland coast are single-track.\n\nThe developers, which include Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), have said car parking and signage would be provided to spectators.\n\nMeasures to prevent people from parking on the verges of the nearby A838 road, other \"security arrangements\" and public access to information on launches would also be put in place.\n\nThe details are included in an environmental assessment for the project.\n\nThere has been opposition from some residents in the area and Extinction Rebellion Scotland with concerns raised about the facility's impact on the environment.\n\nLocal group Protect the Mhoine said there were concerns for the loss of peatland, which acts as a \"carbon sink\" soaking up large amounts of carbon dioxide (C02) from the atmosphere.\n\nIt also has safety concerns about launches and the impact of any rocket failures.\n\nIn the environmental assessment, the developers have said strict rules on safety and protecting the environment would be followed at the site.\n\nAn earlier artist's impression of a launch at the spaceport\n\nWorking with private companies, HIE has proposed building Europe's first vertical launch site.\n\nA planning application for the project was submitted to Highland Council earlier this month.\n\nThe rockets would carry small, commercial satellites that would typically be used for Earth observation.", "Staff at the chicken chain Nando's claim they sometimes have to clean its restaurants without pay.\n\nCurrent and former Nando's employees at multiple restaurants told the BBC they had to scrub cookers and disinfect toilets after being clocked out.\n\nOne claimed the same mops were used in toilets and kitchens while another said they handled chicken without gloves.\n\nNando's said it was its policy to pay employees properly and it upholds the highest cleaning standards.\n\nMost of its branches do not employ dedicated cleaners - which Nando's described as standard across the food service industry.\n\nThe company, which has more than 400 restaurants in the UK, added: \"Cleaning is an integral part of restaurant work and is crucial to maintaining high standards of health and hygiene, which we take very seriously.\"\n\nThousands of people have signed an online petition calling on Nando's to review its cleaning and pay policies.\n\n\"The managers would clock us out early and not adjust for late stays. If we complained, we were simply told we should have worked faster,\" people commenting on the petition claimed.\n\nMost Nando's branches do not employ a dedicated cleaner\n\nThe BBC spoke to five current and former Nando's staff - dubbed \"Nandocas\" by the company - they all requested anonymity.\n\nFor most, Nando's was their first job. Collectively they have worked in seven different restaurants across England and Scotland within the past 12 months.\n\nThey were broadly complimentary about Nando's as a workplace. \"You do make friends… it's social,\" one said. \"It's saved me £45 a week in free food,\" another added.\n\nBut almost all highlighted problems with how closing shifts are managed and some alleged incidents of poor cleaning practices.\n\nThey all described closing shifts as ending when a manager - known as a \"Patrao\" - signed off the restaurant as ready for the next day.\n\nThe system automatically clocks staff out unless managers override it, but that did not always happen, the workers claimed.\n\n\"I would get my payslip on a Friday and find I'd have less money than expected because they didn't put in the hours on my closing shifts,\" a 22-year-old, who we're calling Suzanne, said.\n\n\"There was a time where we'd run over and finished around 02:30 in the morning and the managers had already put it through the system and they wouldn't add on the extra hours.\"\n\nMore than 10 reviews about Nando's posted on Glassdoor mention unpaid overtime\n\n\"You would be usually clocked out early and I thought that was a normal thing. I just thought they pay us for extra hours,\" said 19-year-old Jenny - not her real name - who worked at a Nando's in Cheshire.\n\n\"I did ask colleagues 'are we actually getting paid?' and they said... 'we don't actually get paid, you have to bug them for it'.\n\n\"You have to ask [managers] 'can I have the extra pay for the close' and they wouldn't always actually do it.\"\n\nOne current member of staff who works in the kitchen of a Nando's in the south-west of England said that he was almost always paid properly for overtime.\n\nBut there were occasional mistakes.\n\n\"We had this one staff member who, when [his hours] got put through completely wrong, didn't get paid so the manager gave him the money out of his own pocket,\" the 20-year-old said.\n\nSeveral of those the BBC spoke to said Nando's uses an industry-standard colour-coded system to separate cleaning equipment. For example, a green mop is used in kitchens, while a red mop is used to clean toilets.\n\nSuzanne, who worked at a Nando's in Manchester city centre, claimed she rarely saw the red mop head used in the 12 months she worked there.\n\n\"The kitchen staff will close first... they wouldn't really take the time out to use the correct coloured mop,\" she said.\n\n\"You can use any bucket or any mop, which was a huge problem because whatever is in the kitchen would be contaminated in the toilets.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Jenny claimed she was required to cook chicken and clean toilets without protection for a week due to a supply issue.\n\n\"That means that raw chicken was being racked [cooked] without hair nets or gloves and also toilets had to be cleaned when we didn't have the option of wearing gloves at all,\" she said.\n\nNando's - which has around 20,000 staff in Britain - has also responded to complaints which mention unpaid overtime and arduous cleaning duties made on the employment review website Glassdoor.\n\nEmployment lawyer Katie Mahoney said managers' control of the clocking out system could be a breach of trust which may \"entitle the employee to resign and claim constructive dismissal\".\n\n\"Depending on the terms of the contract, they may also be able to argue that the failure to pay them for the hours they have actually worked has resulted in an unlawful deduction from their wages,\" she added.\n\nStaff said cleaning tasks ranged from mopping floors to bleaching toilet bowls and urinals\n\nThe petition calling on Nando's to review its cleaning and pay policies was created on the campaigns website Organise, which told the BBC it is supported by 551 people who said they work there. It has so far gained more than 3,700 signatures.\n\nThe BBC understands the company has \"reinforced\" its clocking-out policy to managers as a result of the petition.\n\nOrganise founder Nat Whalley said: \"Hundreds of Nando's staff are now speaking up together to stamp out missing pay.\"\n\nA Nando's spokesperson told the BBC: \"We wholeheartedly refute the accusation that we would ask or expect our employees to do unpaid work.\n\n\"Without exception, our policy across all our restaurants is to pay all of our employees for all the work they do, and we take this incredibly seriously.\n\n\"If human error ever does occur, it is rectified without delay.\"\n\n\"As is standard across the industry, cleaning is an essential role for employees, and this is made clear to all job applicants,\" they added.\n\n\"Cleaning is an integral part of restaurant work and is crucial to maintaining high standards of health and hygiene, which we take very seriously. Any employee who is asked to clean is given full training.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"99% of our restaurants across the country have a rating of four or five under the Food Hygiene Scheme\".\n\nWhat are your experiences of working in and cleaning restaurants? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Boris Johnson is facing criticism from a former Tory minister, Caroline Nokes\n\nBoris Johnson's controversial comments on Muslim women were \"really ill judged\", says a former Tory minister.\n\nThe PM came under fire in 2018 after he wrote an article comparing women in burkas to letterboxes and bank robbers.\n\nCaroline Nokes - who chairs the Commons Women and Equalities Committee - said the PM should \"think very carefully\" about his words and their impact.\n\nShe also compared Parliament to a \"boys' prep school\", and said working there is \"turning me into a feminist\".\n\nIn an interview with The House Magazine, the former immigration minister under Theresa May, said the article on Muslim women was the incident that \"stands out\".\n\nShe added: \"I have always held the view that it's not for any man to tell any woman what she should wear - advice that I would sometimes shout at my own father when he comments on what I'm wearing.\n\n\"But I think the prime minister's choice of words when grabbing headlines and being a newspaper columnist were unfortunate.\"\n\nMr Johnson repeatedly refused to apologise for the article, claiming his comments were taken out of context.\n\nBut during the 2019 election campaign, he said he was \"sorry for any offence I have caused\".\n\nDuring the interview, Ms Nokes also criticised the Parliament for being like a public school \"where the inmates haven't quite got to 13\".\n\nShe said entering Westminster was a \"real shock to the system\", adding: \"If Parliament wants to take credit for one thing that it has done for me over the course of the last 10 years, it is turning me into a feminist.\n\n\"Maybe I had just been lucky before coming here, but suddenly you sort of become confronted with some really outdated attitudes, and some really challenging behaviours.\"\n\nBut Ms Nokes also said the UK as a whole had become less tolerant.\n\n\"I think it's incumbent upon government, it's incumbent upon the education system, it's incumbent upon all of us to be more tolerant, and to be more understanding,\" she added.\n\n\"We're really good as a country at having some national outpourings of grief and upset over high profile things, but actually that massive increase in hate crimes towards people from LGBTQ perspectives, from disabled people, from different ethnicities is just horrific.\"", "Financial markets suffered a sixth day of losses on Thursday, as traders dumped shares on fears that the spread of coronavirus will hobble the global economy.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones plunged nearly 1,200 points to lose 4.4%. It was the sharpest points-drop in history.\n\nThe S&P 500 ended 4.4% lower, while the Nasdaq dropped 4.6%.\n\nEarlier, London's FTSE 100 finished 3.5% lower, while Japan's Nikkei 225 led Asian losses, falling more than 2%.\n\nThe string of declines has pushed indexes in Europe and the US down more than 10% from their recent highs - sending them into so-called \"correction\" territory.\n\nThe tumult comes as the coronavirus, which started in China, spreads rapidly around the world, restricting travel, upending global supply chains and prompting shoppers in some countries to stay home.\n\n\"Markets move sharply when fear and uncertainty are prevalent, and there is plenty of both right now,\" said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst for Bankrate.com.\n\nIndexes in the US and London were poised for their the biggest weekly losses since the 2008 financial crisis, as the Dow retreated to levels last seen in August.\n\nInvestors rushed into less risky investments, such as government debt, sending bond yields to record lows.\n\nGlobally, the share price declines of the last six days have wiped out more than $3.6tn (£2.8tn) in value.\n\nThe declines follow warnings from dozens of companies - from mining firm Rio Tinto to software giant Microsoft - that they will not hit sales targets. On Thursday, Facebook said it would cancel a conference for developers, scheduled for May.\n\nEconomists, many of whom had originally expected the virus to be a temporary blow, are also sounding warnings.\n\nAt an event on Wednesday, former US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen suggested it could tip the US into recession, while Goldman Sachs told clients it did not expect companies to see any profit growth this year.\n\n\"Our reduced profit forecasts reflect the severe decline in Chinese economic activity... lower end-demand for US exporters, disruption to the supply chain for many US firms, a slowdown in US economic activity, and elevated business uncertainty,\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe coronavirus has infected nearly 79,000 people in China and killed more than 2,700. More than 3,200 cases and 51 deaths have been reported in another 44 countries.\n\nInvestors around the world are now looking to see if central banks respond with efforts to prop up the economy.\n\nChinas's central bank has already taken stimulative measures.\n\nGermany's Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said that while the impact of the virus so far had been limited, the country was considering how to respond should it worsen.", "Malcolm Rodger described how he felt \"trapped, frozen and scared\" because of sex offender Bill Kelly\n\nA former youth footballer has claimed he was sexually abused by a notorious paedophile after being trafficked from Scotland to England.\n\nMalcolm Rodger said he was assaulted by ex-coach Barry Bennell after being introduced to him by convicted sex offender Bill Kelly.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime with John Beattie he was abused during a tournament in Spain.\n\nThe Scottish Football Association is currently investigating historic abuse.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The Scottish FA awaits the final report into sexual abuse in Scottish football and it would be inappropriate to make any comment prior to that.\"\n\nMalcolm Rodger played for a successful youth team in West Lothian when he was 13\n\nMr Rodger, who has waived his anonymity, named a third man who abused him as former Celtic Boys' Club coach Jim McCafferty, who was jailed last year.\n\nThe former soldier has also described his ordeal in an interview with Channel Four News.\n\nThe leader of the Independent Review of Sexual Abuse in Scottish Football, Martin Henry, told the programme he only obtained evidence of trafficking in the last month.\n\nMr Rodger was 13 when he signed for Uphall Saints Boys' Club in West Lothian.\n\nThe team were prolific trophy winners and acted as a feeder club for professional sides.\n\nHis coach was a man called Bill Kelly, who would later be jailed for a catalogue of sex offences against 12 victims over a 22-year period.\n\nMr Rodger said: \"He (Kelly) initially said to my parents that I showed an abundance of talent but extra training would elicit further doors being opened for me and a potential professional career.\n\n\"Obviously at that young, tender, unknowledgeable age I did not know what was happening to me.\n\n\"I was then put in an environment where I was trapped, frozen, scared, did not know where to turn.\n\n\"It effectively changed my character over the two years over which he and others went on to abuse me.\"\n\nIn 1984 the team travelled to Blackpool and Mr Rodger said it was in the seaside town where Bill Kelly introduced him to Barry Bennell.\n\nIn 2018 Bennell was described by a judge as the \"devil incarnate\" as he was jailed for 31 years for 50 counts of child sexual abuse between 1979 and 1991.\n\nLast year Manchester City set up a child sexual abuse victim payment scheme to compensate victims of the former coach,\n\nMr Rodger said his experiences, which have been detailed in two statements of fact to his solicitor, have left some of those who read them \"visibly upset\".\n\nHe estimates Kelly abused him up to 30 times over two seasons in Scotland, England and abroad.\n\nMr Rodger said: \"He took me to Spain for an international football tournament and abused me constantly for 10 days.\n\n\"At that time he introduced me to Barry Bennell for a second time and basically stood and watched guard as Barry Bennell abused me.\"\n\nJim McCafferty worked at Celtic more than 20 years ago\n\nMr Rodger said Kelly also introduced him to Jim McCafferty, who was coaching for another West Lothian team, Almondvale, in Fauldhouse.\n\nAnd he said was abused by McCafferty at county level training sessions.\n\nChannel Four News tracked down Bill Kelly, who was jailed for 12 months in 1997.\n\nBut he claimed Mr Rodger's allegations of trafficking were categorically \"not true\".\n\nAsked what he had to say to his victims, Mr Kelly said: \"I'm sorry if I upset you, if that's the case. Oh yes, it ruins lives.\"\n\nMr Rodger met SFA chief executive Iain Maxwell and child wellbeing and protection manager Alyson Evans after he spoke to The Times last month.\n\nHe now wants the game's governing body to either publically admit or deny liability for a problem he said affected hundreds of young footballers.\n\nMr Rodger added: \"You can't undo what has happened. I am not asking them to change what happened to me. I am asking them to face up to their responsibilities.\"\n\nTo this day the psychological impact is such that he suffers \"daily\" flashbacks.\n\nMr Rodger said: \"I can remember the bedroom door getting shut.\n\n\"I can remember the changing room door getting closed.\n\n\"I can remember what was said to me and what was promised to me.\n\n\"I can remember the clatter of football studs and then being faced in a changing room with a grown man and that will never leave me.\"\n\nThe second part of Channel Four News' Scottish football investigation will focus on Celtic.\n\nOn Wednesday the Scottish champions issued a statement about historic abuse, an issue which has dogged the team since the convictions of men with links to Celtic Boys Club.\n\nIn November 2018 Celtic Boys Club founder Jim Torbett, 71, was jailed for six years after being convicted of sexually abusing three boys over an eight-year period.\n\nJim McCafferty, who was a coach and kit man for the Celtic youth team and also worked for Celtic Boys Club, was jailed for six years and nine months.\n\nIn court, he admitted 12 charges related to child sex abuse against 10 teenage boys between 1972 and 1996.\n\nThe Celtic statement said it was \"appalled by any form of historic abuse\" and has \"great sympathy\" for the victims and their families.\n\nIt continued: \"The club is very sorry that these events took place. The abuse of young people is an abhorrent crime.\"", "Britons are missing out on daily doses of nature, the National Trust has warned - as it called for people to \"actively experience\" the outdoors.\n\nMore than 70% of children say they rarely or never watch clouds, butterflies and bees, a survey said.\n\nIt also found that most adults had rarely or never listened to birdsong or smelled wild flowers in the past year.\n\nA study found people who regularly connect with nature were more likely to help tackle the crisis facing wildlife.\n\nPublished by the National Trust with the University of Derby, the study also suggested that being connected with nature - noticing natural phenomenon every day - is linked to higher well being.\n\nIt comes as the trust has launched a new campaign to boost people's connection with nature, which includes a new week-by-week guide to help people improve their relationship with the natural world and take action to help halt wildlife declines.\n\nIt will feature tips to connect better with nature, including watching the sunrise, listening to birdsong and watching butterflies and bees, the trust said.\n\nThere will also be recommended activities in the guide, such as planting something to grow in the garden, sketching a flower or animal or building a hedgehog home.\n\nThe campaign will also include billboards advertising the first day of spring, events celebrating the dawn, and a \"blossom watch\" scheme.\n\nThe research found widespread concern for declines in nature among both adults and children, aged between eight and 15, who were surveyed by YouGov as part of the study.\n\nMore than half of adults (52%) said they had witnessed decline in the natural world in their lifetime.\n\nProfessor Miles Richardson, from the University of Derby, said: \"In our analysis, we discovered that the kind of connection that makes the difference involves more than simply spending time outdoors - instead it's about actively tuning in to nature, regularly spending simple, bite-size moments relating to nature around you.\"\n\nAndy Beer, from the National Trust, said: \"With the current nature crisis, people may feel powerless in the face of the daunting task of helping halt its decline.\n\n\"But evidence shows that small, everyday interventions in people's lives can lead to real meaningful change that could add up to make a huge difference.\n\n\"Daily doses of nature are vital to making this connection. The fantastic thing about it is that it's not hard for people to do.\n\n\"Whether it's on the way to school or work, on a day out with family or friends or simply spending time at home - there are many ways we can all take time to actively experience nature.\"", "Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova is \"saying goodbye\" to tennis at the age of 32.\n\nIn an article written for Vogue and Vanity Fair , Sharapova said her body \"had become a distraction\" after a struggle with shoulder injuries.\n\nThe Russian won her first Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2004 aged 17 and completed the career slam - all four major titles - by winning the French Open in 2012.\n\nIn 2016, she served a 15-month ban after testing positive for meldonium.\n\nAfter returning from her ban in 2017, Sharapova struggled to recapture her best form and suffered from a number of injuries.\n\nShe has dropped to 373 in the world, her lowest ranking since August 2002, and has lost in the first round of her past three Grand Slam tournaments.\n\nIn announcing her retirement, she said: \"I'm new to this, so please forgive me. Tennis - I'm saying goodbye.\n\n\"Looking back now, I realize that tennis has been my mountain. My path has been filled with valleys and detours, but the views from its peak were incredible.\n\n\"After 28 years and five Grand Slam titles, though, I'm ready to scale another mountain - to compete on a different type of terrain.\n\n\"That relentless chase for victories, though? That won't ever diminish. No matter what lies ahead, I will apply the same focus, the same work ethic, and all of the lessons I've learned along the way.\n\n\"In the meantime, there are a few simple things I'm really looking forward to: A sense of stillness with my family. Lingering over a morning cup of coffee. Unexpected weekend getaways. Workouts of my choice (hello, dance class!)\"\n\nSharapova said her 6-1 6-1 first-round defeat by Serena Williams at last year's US Open was the \"final signal\".\n\n\"Behind closed doors, 30 minutes before taking the court, I had a procedure to numb my shoulder to get through the match,\" she said,\n\n\"Shoulder injuries are nothing new for me - over time my tendons have frayed like a string. I've had multiple surgeries - once in 2008, another procedure last year - and spent countless months in physical therapy.\n\n\"Just stepping on to the court that day felt like a final victory, when of course it should have been merely the first step toward victory.\"\n\nSharapova did not play again in 2019 after that defeat at Flushing Meadows and has played just twice this year, including a straight sets loss to Croat Donna Vekic in the Australian Open first round, her last competitive appearance..\n\nSharapova shot to stardom in 2004 aged just 17 when victory over Serena Williams saw her become the third-youngest woman to win the Wimbledon singles title.\n\nShe would go on to become one of the most high-profile names in women's sport, winning 36 singles titles and earning more than $38m (£29m) in prize money.\n\nIn 2005 she became the first Russian woman to become world number one, and won her second Grand Slam singles title at the US Open the following year.\n\nBut 2007 saw the first of Sharapova's struggles with injury, as she missed most of the clay court season with a shoulder problem.\n\nShe would return to form and fitness to win the Australian Open at the start of 2008, but a second shoulder injury kept her off tour for the second half of the season, meaning she missed the US Open and Beijing Olympics.\n\nIn 2012, Sharapova captured the French Open at Roland Garros to become the 10th woman to complete the career Grand Slam, before winning Olympic silver in London.\n\nYet another shoulder injury saw her miss the second half of the 2013 season, although she returned the following year to win her second French Open, and fifth and final Grand Slam.\n\nIn March 2016, Sharapova told a news conference she had tested positive for meldonium at the Australian Open.\n\nSharapova said she had been taking the drug since 2006 for health problems and was unaware it had been added to the banned list, insisting she had \"not tried to use a performance-enhancing substance\".\n\nShe was banned for two years, later reduced to 15 months following an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nShe returned to tennis in April 2017, winning what would be her final career singles title at the Tianjin Open in October that year.\n\nSharapova reached the quarter-finals at the 2018 French Open and the last 16 of the Australian Open at the start of 2019, but injuries and loss of form began to take its toll.\n\n'It was a pleasure to share the court with you' - reaction\n\nFollowing Sharapova's announcement, hercoach Riccardo Piatti tweeted: \"It's been an honour to have worked with such an amazing athlete and person. I'll miss her on court and outside. I'm sorry we couldn't work together for longer. But I know our paths will cross again and I can't wait for it. In the meantime, good luck with everything.\"\n\nTwo-time Grand Slam champion Petra Kvitova said it had been \"a pleasure\" to share a court with Sharapova.\n\nThe Czech added: \"We always had great battles when we played and I have so much respect for your hard work and the way you always fight for everything. You have achieved a lot in your life and I know this is just the start.\"\n\nMeanwhile, tennis legend Billie Jean King added: \"From the day Maria Sharapova won her first Wimbledon title at age 17, she has been a great champion. A five-time major champion and a former world number one, her business success is just as impressive as her tennis achievements. Maria, the best is yet to come for you!\"\n\nReacting after his victory over Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Dubai Open on Wednesday, world number one men's player Novak Djokovic asked the crowd to offer a round of applause for Sharapova.\n\n\"She is a great fighter, as dedicated as someone can really be in our sport,\" the Serbian 17-time Grand Slam champion said. \"The will power and willingness to overcome the obstacle she had, with her injuries and surgeries and trying to fight to come back to the court and play at her desired level - it's truly inspirational to see what a mind of a champion she has. At the end of a fantastic career she can be proud of herself.\"", "Greta Thunberg tweeted over the weekend that she would be taking part in the city's youth protest\n\nPolice are warning parents a Bristol protest Greta Thunberg is due to join has \"grown so large\" it is unlikely usual safety measures will be adequate.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police say they expect thousands of people at the Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate on College Green on Friday to hear the 17-year-old climate activist speak.\n\nThe force said there was \"potential for trips, slips, falls and crushing\".\n\nParents and carers were advised to make their own safety arrangements.\n\nThe Swedish climate change campaigner tweeted over the weekend that she would be taking part in the city's youth protest.\n\nBut in a letter addressed to parents of school-age children, Supt Andy Bennett said the force was \"unable to accurately predict how large this event will be\".\n\n\"Social media has gone viral with interest which leads me to believe it will be thousands of people,\" he wrote.\n\n\"We have confirmation of people travelling from across the UK by car, bus, coach and train.\n\n\"I am told in Hamburg approximately 60,000 came to see Greta speak. Whilst I am not suggesting it will be this big, you can see the scale of the potential attendance.\"\n\nThe first school strike in Bristol took place in February last year\n\nHe said the event had been advertised promising areas suitable for both primary school children and disabled people but as a \"large-scale organic\" event, he said that would \"probably be unachievable\".\n\n\"In terms of big crowds, they are dynamic in nature and there is the potential for trips, slips, falls and crushing,\" he warned parents.\n\n\"The event has grown so large that the usual controls, stewarding and safety measures that are routinely put in place are unlikely to be scaled up adequately.\"\n\nHe added Park Street and the city centre would also be closed to \"try and mitigate the risks associated with a crowd too large for the College Green open space\".\n\nAccording to one of the protest's organisers, Greta had originally planned to visit London, but as the area planned for the protest in the capital was too small organisers had recommended Bristol instead.\n\nArtist Jody Thomas painted a mural of Ms Thunberg in Bristol last year\n\nTwo years ago, the teenage activist started missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building, in what turned out to be the beginning of a huge environmental movement.\n\nShe has become a leading voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Controversial plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport have been thrown into doubt after a court ruling.\n\nThe government's decision to allow the expansion was unlawful because it did not take climate commitments into account, the Court of Appeal said.\n\nHeathrow said it would challenge the decision, but the government said it would not appeal.\n\nThe judges said that in future, a third runway could go ahead, as long as it fits with the UK's climate policy.\n\nThe case was brought by environmental groups, councils and the Mayor of London.\n\nThere were \"whoops and jumps of jubilation from environmentalists outside the court room\" after the judgement, BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin reported.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that the government would not appeal against the ruling.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an interview, he said that it was \"for Heathrow and the courts to decide\" whether the expansion should go ahead.\n\n\"This government is absolutely committed [from] the Prime Minister down to airport expansion, but, we want to make sure that expansion is environmentally friendly,\" he said.\n\nHeathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye said the airport would challenge the court's decision at the Supreme Court, saying: \"We think the appeals court got it wrong\".\n\n\"We have a very strong legal case, and we will be making that very firmly,\" he said.\n\nHe said in the meantime Heathrow would work with government on a review of its policy \"to make sure we can demonstrate expansion is compatible with the Paris accord on climate change\".\n\n\"I'm confident that this issue is fixable, and we can work with the government to get on and deliver the expanded Heathrow that Britain needs,\" Mr Holland-Kaye added. \"Without Heathrow expansion, there will be no global Britain.\"\n\nFriends of the Earth, one of the environmental groups that brought the case, said the ruling was \"an absolutely groundbreaking result for climate justice\".\n\nWill Rundle, head of legal at the campaign group, said: \"This judgment has exciting wider implications for keeping climate change at the heart of all planning decisions.\n\n\"It's time for developers and public authorities to be held to account when it comes to the climate impact of their damaging developments.\"\n\nGreenpeace said the government needed to \"permanently ground Heathrow's expansion plans\".\n\nGreenpeace UK's executive director, John Sauven, said: \"The third runway is already on its knees over costs, noise, air pollution, habitat loss and lack of access, and now Heathrow has yet another impossibly high hurdle to clear.\n\n\"Boris Johnson should now put Heathrow out of its misery and cancel the third runway once and for all. No ifs, no buts, no lies, no U-turns.\"\n\nMPs voted overwhelmingly to support Heathrow expansion in 2018, with Boris Johnson out of the country at the time.\n\nBefore he became prime minister, Mr Johnson pledged in 2015 to lie down \"in front of those bulldozers and stop the building, stop the construction of that third runway\" at Heathrow.\n\nReacting to the Court of Appeal's decision the government hardly sounded enthusiastic about Heathrow expansion.\n\nTransport secretary Grant Shapps was repeatedly asked whether ministers still backed a third runway, he talked instead about \"overall airport expansion.\" Plus, the government's not going to appeal the decision, leaving it to others.\n\nSome think this is a sign that the project is about to be cancelled, but there's an alternative explanation for the reticence. For years Boris Johnson campaigned against the development, so joining a court action to push it through risks accusations of hypocrisy.\n\nPrivately, senior ministers say they're not looking at alternatives and if Heathrow wins its appeal at the Supreme Court then it will go ahead. For now the government can watch from a distance. If the case is lost, however, there will be some difficult decisions to make, because so many Conservative MPs and businesses think that airport expansion is essential.\n\nThe Court of Appeal found that the government had not followed UK policy when backing the controversial expansion plans.\n\nIt said that the government had a duty to take into account the Paris climate agreement, which seeks to limit global warming.\n\nIt was \"legally fatal\" to the government's Heathrow expansion policy that it did not take those climate commitments into account, the judges said.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said business communities in the UK would be \"bitterly disappointed that plans for a world-leading hub airport are now at risk\".\n\n\"Without expansion, firms risk losing crucial regional connectivity and access to key markets across the world,\" said BCC director general Adam Marshall.\n\nIndustry lobby group the CBI said that while \"all major projects must be consistent\" with net zero carbon emissions by 2050, \"it's clear that the government and aviation industry need to work closely to agree a robust decarbonisation plan\".\n\nHowever, it said it was \"vital\" that the Heathrow project be kept \"on track\".\n\n\"Opportunities for future trade will not wait,\" said Josh Hardie, CBI deputy-director general.\n\nBut airline group IAG, which owns British Airways, said: \"We have always said the environmental impact and cost of Heathrow expansion needs independent review. The airport cannot be trusted. Its original £14bn cost for expansion is now £32bn.\"\n• None What are the Heathrow third runway plans?", "In Romania, the first case of coronavirus was confirmed on Wednesday, a man from Gorj county in the south of the country, on the border with Bulgaria.\n\nHe had been in contact with an Italian citizen who visited his family in the city of Craiova between 18 and 22 February, who was confirmed ill with the virus after he returned to Italy.\n\nThe Romanian authorities are trying to trace and put into quarantine everyone he met in Romania.\n\n91 people are currently in quarantine, and 7,174 are in isolation at home. One million Romanians work in Italy, and there are direct flights from 14 Romanian cities.\n\nHarder to monitor are the large numbers of migrant labourers, who travel between the two countries by minibus or private car.\n\nIn Hungary, there’s growing concern and some panic-buying of face masks and hand disinfectants, but no confirmed cases. 18 people are in quarantine after visiting northern Italy, including schoolchildren and a lorry driver.\n\nAround 3,500 people have been screened so far at Budapest airport. Last week was half-term in many schools, and northern Italy is a popular region for Hungarian families to go skiing.\n\nThe authorities have earmarked two major Budapest hospitals for future cases.\n\nIn Bulgaria, the government sent a special plane to bring back 20 agriculture students from Italy. They are now under medical observation.\n\nBulgaria Air have cancelled flights to Milan until the end of March.\n\nThermal cameras which measure travellers’ temperatures are being installed at land border crossings as well as airports. Anyone with a temperature over 37 degrees is screened for the virus.", "The NHS has launched a new scheme to test people for coronavirus, which can cause the respiratory disease Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC's health editor, Hugh Pym, was shown a demonstration of how a \"drive-through\" testing facility purpose-built at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust will work.\n\nThis sort of safe and convenient testing scheme is being rolled out across the country at NHS sites.\n\nMore than 7,000 people in the UK have been tested for the virus, with 15 people testing positive so far.", "The shooting took place at Molson Coors headquarters\n\nFive people have been killed in a shooting at the Molson Coors Brewing Company campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin state, local officials say.\n\nThey say the gunman died from \"self-inflicted wounds\". The man - a 51-year-old Milwaukee resident - worked for the company. His motives were unclear.\n\nThe shooting occurred in the early afternoon while hundreds of employees were still at work.\n\nMilwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said it was a \"tragic day for the city\".\n\nSpeaking at a news briefing shortly after Wednesday's shooting, he described it as a \"horrific act\".\n\nMeanwhile, Milwaukee police chief Alfonso Morales said that the five victims were all employees of the brewing company.\n\nHe praised the way the city's police, FBI officers and firefighters responded to the attack.\n\nAs the incident unfolded, nearby schools and businesses were locked down, local media report.\n\nSpeaking at the White House in Washington, President Donald Trump offered his \"deepest condolences to the victims and families in Milwaukee\".\n\nHe described the gunman as a \"wicked murderer\".\n\nWisconsin congressman Mike Gallagher condemned the attack on Twitter, saying: \"There's no place for these kinds of hateful and disgusting acts in our society.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe company's CEO said they were devastated. \"The most important thing is that we support and care for each other,\" Gavin Hattersley said in a statement.", "Singer-songwriter James Newman will represent the United Kingdom at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nHe'll perform My Last Breath at the event's final in Rotterdam in The Netherlands on 16 May.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat, James hopes his \"simple, memorable and anthemic\" song will help win votes.\n\nJames is a successful pop songwriter and has written for acts including Ed Sheeran and Jess Glynne, and is the older brother of John Newman.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe UK's looking to improve on 2019's contest, when Michael Rice's X-Factor style ballad Bigger Than Us finished in last place.\n\nIt marked the fourth time the UK had come bottom of the table but James says he doesn't feel nervous at that prospect.\n\nHe feels his song will \"connect\" with the audience and says he has a \"massive opportunity to get my song out to the world in such a big way\".\n\nJames has co-written song for pop acts such as Ed Sheeran, Little Mix and Louis Tomlinson\n\nJames is signed to record label BMG, who the BBC have worked with to select and produce this year's entry.\n\nAfter he was approached, James says he had a \"little think\" before saying yes but decided Eurovision was a \"celebration of music\".\n\nWhile the United Kingdom is still one of the most successful countries in the 63-year history of the contest (five wins in total), it's seen little success since its last win in 1997.\n\nWhilst many still associate the event with camp, cheese and tackiness, the modern day contest is a slick production where many countries send their best acts.\n\nEurovision is the world's largest live music event, with organisers claiming the 2019 edition was seen by 182 million viewers across 40 markets.\n\nDuncan Laurence won the 2019 contest for the Netherlands with his stirring ballad, Arcade.\n\n\"Since I was a little kid, I've always wanted to be an artist and performer myself,\" says James. \"It just feels like the right time to start putting songs out.\"\n\nHe says he's lucky to have a brother like John (Newman) who's used to performing in front of thousands of people but, with a cheeky smile, he reckons it's time to show everyone who the \"actual good singer\" is.\n\nMy Last Breath was written in Scotland when he was staying near a loch with his mates (and fellow songwriters) Ed Drewett, Iain James and Adam Argyle.\n\n\"We were jumping in the loch every morning. This was January. It was freezing.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by jamesnewman This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe song was inspired by a documentary about a diver in the North Sea who has to be saved after getting cut off from the rest of his crew, and the video features Dutch cold water swimmer Wim Hof.\n\n\"It got us thinking about what you would for other people.\"\n\nJames Newman also has Eurovision history himself after writing Ireland's 2017 entry - but it didn't qualify for the final.\n\nThere was a weird moment when Greg James played the UK's Eurovision song on BBC Radio 1.\n\nThere it was, sandwiched between tracks by Harry Styles and Dua Lipa and... it didn't sound like his show had been hacked.\n\nThat's down to the pedigree of James Newman and his co-writers, who have written hits for some of the UK's biggest pop exports of the last decade.\n\nMy Last Breath ticks all the Eurovision boxes: It's a mid-tempo banger with a Coldplay-style \"woah-oh\" hook and a lyric about undying love.\n\nGranted, the central metaphor is weirdly macabre (it concerns two scuba divers running out of air) but somehow that makes it more memorable.\n\nIt doesn't feel like a winner but nor does it feel like an embarrassment. And that, at least, is progress.\n\nJames won a Brit Award for co-writing Waiting All Night, performed by Rudimental and Ella Eyre\n\nOver the past decade, the BBC has tried two strategies for Eurovision, with neither providing amazing results.\n\nFrom 2011 to 2015, the act was internally selected by the BBC, with Blue's I Can getting the best result. It placed 11th out of 25 in 2011.\n\nFrom 2016 to 2019, the act was selected with a public vote. Of those, Lucie Jones' 2017 ballad I'll Never Give Up On You placed 15th.\n\nThe last time the UK actually got into the Eurovision final top ten was in 2009, when Jade Ewen performed the Andrew Lloyd Webber-penned track It's My Time and came fifth.\n\nThis year, the United Kingdom's strategy has changed once again, with the BBC essentially giving record label BMG free rein to choose the act and curate the performance.\n\nNo matter what happens when the votes start rolling in, James says it's an \"amazing thing to be singing something you love in front of all those people.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None Time to take Eurovision seriously?", "The government has pledged an extra £236m to tackle rough sleeping, alongside an urgent review into the issue by a former homelessness tsar.\n\nThe new funding will go towards accommodation for up to 6,000 rough sleepers, and helping those at immediate risk of being on the streets.\n\nIt comes after BBC research revealed rough sleeping was five times higher than the official figures suggested.\n\nLabour said the government was \"in denial about the scale\" of the problem.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said he was \"absolutely determined to end rough sleeping once and for all\".\n\nThe announcement comes ahead of new homelessness figures, set to be published on Thursday.\n\nOn Wednesday, the BBC revealed more than 28,000 people in the UK were recorded sleeping rough in 12 months, with five times as many rough sleepers in England than the government's published statistics.\n\nThe government said it had already committed £437m to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in 2020/21, but No 10 said the £236m was additional money to help it meet its manifesto pledge to end homelessness within the parliamentary term.\n\nThe funding will be used to buy new accommodation, refurbish existing units, and to lease private rented sector properties for those already rough sleeping or those at risk.\n\n\"It is simply unacceptable that we still have so many people sleeping on the streets,\" said Mr Johnson\n\n\"We must tackle the scourge of rough sleeping urgently, and I will not stop until the thousands of people in this situation are helped off the streets and their lives have been rebuilt.\"\n\nDame Louise Casey will lead the review into the issue to provide advice to both the PM and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick on what other action should be taken.\n\nHer work will look into the link between 24-hour street activity and rough sleeping, as well as look into the effects on people struggling with drug and alcohol misuse, and with physical and mental health issues.\n\nDame Louise said: \"Homelessness, and within that rough sleeping, is something that's causes misery, so I hope that I will be able to help the government and the country expedite action on this issue.\"\n\nA new minister dedicated to rough sleeping has also been confirmed as Adam Holloway, who will serve as Mr Jenrick's parliamentary private secretary in his department.\n\nLabour's shadow housing secretary, John Healey, said the BBC's research showed the government was not doing enough.\n\n\"The Conservatives are in denial about the scale of street homelessness, with new figures showing that the government's own statistics are seriously misleading the public about the number of people sleeping rough.\n\n\"After 10 years of failure, the Conservatives should adopt Labour's plan to end rough sleeping for good.\"\n\nThe chief executive of homelessness charity Shelter, Polly Neate, said said it was right for the PM to take on the problem, but said there was \"no great secret about what is causing this emergency\".\n\n\"As we see in our services day in and day out, most people are tipped into homelessness simply because there are not enough affordable, safe, and secure homes in this country,\" she said.\n\n\"The bottom line is people can't afford to live anywhere - a problem made infinitely worse by a dire lack of social homes and cuts to housing benefit.\"\n\nMs Neate added: \"Emergency measures to get people off the streets quickly and housing first pilots can only go so far, if you don't have the stable homes to back them up.\"", "Sales of Dettol and Lysol products have surged as the spread of the coronavirus outbreak continues.\n\nThe disinfectant is seen as providing protection against the spread of the disease, although its effectiveness has not yet been scientifically proven.\n\nIn China, demand for Dettol-branded hand gels is outstripping supply, owner Reckitt Benckiser has said.\n\nThe shortages come as global markets slump for a sixth day, with the FTSE 100 down more than 3%.\n\nLuxury carmaker Aston Martin and drinks giant Anheuser-Busch InBev are the latest to warn of the virus's impact on their businesses.\n\n\"We are seeing some increased demand for Dettol and Lysol products and are working to support the relevant healthcare authorities and agencies, including through donations, information and education. We do see increased activity online for our consumers in China,\" Dettol owner Reckitt Benckiser said in its results on Thursday.\n\n\"If you look at China today, what you are seeing is that consumer traffic to store is down, but you do see activity moving to online,\" Reckitt Benckiser chief executive Laxman Narasimhan said.\n\nHe added the firm had \"seen some disruptions to retail and distribution channels and getting products in to market\", meaning the effect on company performance had been balanced.\n\nHand washing with soap is one of the key health messages promoted by governments in the face of the outbreak, and Dettol and Lysol are two of the world's leading disinfectants.\n\nOnline pharmacy Medino said it had also seen a sharp rise in demand for hand sanitiser in the UK since the beginning of early February, and said some suppliers were starting to struggle.\n\n\"A number of these customers are not our regular buyers, rather we're seeing new customers purchasing large quantities of hand sanitiser suggesting people are stockpiling in response to recent events,\" said superintendent pharmacist Giulia Guerrini.\n\nMeanwhile, AB InBev forecast a 10% decline in first-quarter profit after the coronavirus outbreak hurt beer sales during the Chinese New Year.\n\nAston Martin - which counts China as its fastest-growing market - also said on Thursday that the outbreak was affecting its sales and supply chain.\n\n\"Markets are moving on from thinking it's all going to blow over and it's all going to be fine to realising there clearly are some issues here,\" said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.\n\n\"We are seeing short-term disruption in a range of industries as the [coronavirus] spread becomes wider and longer, and markets will have to start thinking about a serious slowdown in global economic activity.\"", "The Court of Appeal is set to make a ruling over Heathrow's expansion in a case described by green groups as massively significant.\n\nJudges will decide whether Heathrow's expansion plans took into account climate change commitments.\n\nIf the court rules against the environmentalists, it is likely Heathrow's third runway will be built.\n\nIf it rules against the government, ministers could re-start the appraisal process.\n\nThis would involve making the highly contentious case that expansion is compatible with combating climate change.\n\nOr the prime minister could also accept a negative verdict and allow the court to take the blame for scuppering the expansion proposal that he has long opposed.\n\nThe case has been brought by local residents, councils, the mayor of London, and environmental groups including Greenpeace.\n\nThe government’s climate change committee advised that expanding Heathrow is not compatible with a climate neutral economy.\n\nBut the former transport secretary Chris Grayling gave the go-ahead to a third runway there in April 2018.\n\nBoris Johnson missed the Commons vote on the scheme. He was in Afghanistan in his role as foreign secretary.\n\nGreen groups argue that before the decision was made, Mr Grayling should have taken into account the Paris deal on climate change, which pledged to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees if possible.\n\nAt the time, he said: “The step that [the] government is taking today is truly momentous. I am proud that after years of discussion and delay, this government is taking decisive action to secure the UK’s place in the global aviation market – securing jobs and business opportunities for the next decade and beyond.”\n\nGovernment advisers warned him that expanding aviation would increase emissions when they should be going down.\n\nAnd since then parliament has agreed to a climate neutral economy by 2050 – substantially more challenging than the 80% emissions reduction target in force when Mr Grayling made his decision.\n\nThe green groups don't believe an expanded Heathrow will be able to meet the net zero target, even with the advent of new technologies.\n\nThey also think the government’s calculations over Heathrow understate the overall damage aviation does to the climate.\n\nIf they win the case, the implications for other government policies in the UK and elsewhere are potentially huge.\n\nTim Crosland from the pressure group Plan B, one of the organisations which brought the court action, told BBC News: “This would be massively significant – it would mean that in the UK at least carbon-intensive investment shouldn’t happen any more.\n\n“Other nations will be looking at this verdict and taking note [of] what it means to commit to net zero carbon emissions.\"\n\nJohn Holland-Kaye, chief executive of Heathrow Airport, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday that the airport would play an essential part in post-Brexit Britain.\n\n\"Let's be clear, no Heathrow expansion, no global Britain,\" he said. \"That's how simple it is.\"\n\nHe said only a \"hub\" airport can get goods and people to \"all the big trading markets of the world\".\n\n\"If we're not flying through Heathrow, we'll be flying through Paris Charles De Gaulle,\" he said. \"We'll be handing control of our trading economy to the French - once our friends and partners, now our rivals.\"\n\n\"Now, no prime minister is going to give control of the economy to the French,\" he said. \"We cannot let the French control our trading future.\"", "George Eustice watched a screen showing images of flood defences during a visit to Ironbridge\n\nBoris Johnson has been kept \"regularly informed\" on the flooding situation, the environment secretary said during a visit to flood-hit Shropshire.\n\nGeorge Eustice, who was in Ironbridge and Shrewsbury earlier, said the prime minister \"made it clear he wanted me to lead on this\".\n\nIt follows criticism of Mr Johnson for not visiting flood-affected areas.\n\nMr Eustice also said £4bn would be spent on flood defences over five years. The money was pledged last year.\n\nStorm Jorge, due to hit at the weekend, could bring more disruption to the region, with heavy rain also forecast on Friday.\n\nAs well as the flooding in Shropshire, up to 70 properties in Snaith, East Yorkshire, have been flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring his visit to Ironbridge, Mr Eustice said: \"The prime minister when he appointed me two weeks ago made it clear he wanted me to lead on this.\n\n\"We discussed Storm Dennis that was coming that weekend... discussed our response.\n\n\"I've kept him regularly informed with what's happening; the important thing is have we made the right decisions in a timely way? And I think the answer is yes.\"\n\nMr Eustice praised the teams working \"on the ground\", who have done a \"fantastic job at responding to this\" and said the government would look to make improvements to defences, some of which buckled in Ironbridge on Wednesday.\n\n\"We'll be spending over £4bn in the next five years on flood defences,\" he said.\n\nThe money was pledged by the Conservatives in their manifesto ahead of the 2019 general election.\n\n\"Some of that is going to be on nature-based solutions upstream to try to hold water uphill so vulnerable communities like this on the Severn are less likely to be affected, but there will also be some hard defences put in place as well,\" Mr Eustice said.\n\nHe refused to be drawn on exactly which projects would be backed, saying there would be assessments based on flood risk and the total of number of homes potentially protected.\n\nMr Eustice spoke to residents affected by flooding in Ironbridge and the Longden Coleham area of Shrewsbury.\n\nBut one business owner said the environment secretary had initially walked past without speaking, so he had followed and asked for a conversation.\n\nSteven Clarke, who runs greengrocers The Allotment, in Coleham, said it was an \"insult\".\n\n\"We were promised we would be able to speak with him and that was the purpose of his visit,\" Mr Clarke said.\n\n\"We were quite keen to speak to him and get some answers... he walked straight past and went towards the bridge to go and do some press interviews.\"\n\nMr Clarke confirmed Mr Eustice had later talked to him and another business owner.\n\nGeorge Eustice is accompanied by a member of the Environment Agency on his visit\n\nThe environment secretary's visit was shrouded in secrecy after his junior Rebecca Pow phoned in sick.\n\nHe stepped in at the last minute to visit Ironbridge and Shrewsbury. We were told he'd be visiting Wharfage but suddenly it was switched to Dale End on the other side of town.\n\nHe arrived to be greeted by workers from the Environment Agency, emergency services and Telford and Wrekin Council.\n\nThey explained how busy they had been over the past two weeks trying to protect Ironbridge and its residents and businesses. He listened intently and asked questions.\n\nI had been told there would be no media interviews but before he went to meet the assembled staff, I asked him why it has taken two weeks to visit flood-hit Shropshire.\n\n\"I'm here today,\" he said, adding, \"in the initial aftermath we want the Environment Agency to head things up\".\n\nHe then went to inspect the fast-flowing River Severn with the iconic Iron Bridge in the background before getting up close to the flood defence barriers.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, police and the Environment Agency warned of \"another 10 days of difficult conditions\" over fears Shropshire and Worcestershire, where evacuations have been taking place, will be further affected following heavy rain in Wales.\n\nThe Met Office warned parts of Wales and northern England could see between 60 and 80mm of rain on Friday - with much of the rainfall in Wales falling into the Severn catchment and heading towards flood-hit communities in the West Midlands.\n\nThere has been some respite, though, with river levels recently dropping by about 40cm in Ironbridge and by 80cm in Shrewsbury.\n\nRachel Moss, who has a hairdressing salon in Coleham, said people \"need some action\".\n\n\"We've been hit twice in a week - there's still rumours it could get worse this weekend,\" she said.\n\n\"If it does, it will absolutely devastate this community.\"\n\nDefences along The Wharfage in Ironbridge buckled\n\nChris Bainger, from the Environment Agency, said: \"We have a bit of respite, we've just got showers moving through over the next couple of days.\n\n\"But coming into Friday we have another band of rain coming through that's going to be up in the Welsh mountains and that's going to be coming to us... perhaps Saturday.\n\n\"We've already planned another 10 days of being on 24/7 manning of our incident rooms and having operational staff at all of our barriers.\"\n\nAre you being evacuated from Ironbridge or the surrounding areas? If you are able to share your experiences email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "China could deploy 100,000 ducks to neighbouring Pakistan to help tackle swarms of crop-eating locusts, according to reports.\n\nPakistan declared an emergency earlier this month saying locust numbers were the worst in more than two decades.\n\nAn agricultural expert behind the scheme says a single duck can eat more than 200 locusts a day and can be more effective than pesticides.\n\nHowever, another researcher questioned whether the ducks would be effective.\n\nMillions of the insects have also been devastating crops in parts of East Africa.\n\nThe Chinese government announced this week it was sending a team of experts to Pakistan to develop \"targeted programmes\" against the locusts.\n\nLu Lizhi, a senior researcher with the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told Bloomberg that the ducks are \"biological weapons\". He said that while chickens could eat about 70 locusts in one day a duck could devour more than three times that number.\n\n\"Ducks like to stay in a group so they are easier to manage than chickens,\" he told Chinese media.\n\nSwarms of locusts are threatening to devastate crops in Pakistan\n\nA trial involving the ducks will take place in China's western Xinjiang province in the coming months, Mr Lu said.\n\nAfter that they will be sent to Pakistan's worst-affected areas of Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab provinces.\n\nThe scheme quickly took hold on Chinese social media.\n\n\"Go, ducks! I hope you come back alive,\" wrote one user of China's Twitter-like Weibo platform.\n\n\"Heroic ducks in harm's way!\" said another, in a parody of the description commonly used for medical staff tackling the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nHowever, a professor from the China Agriculture University, who is part of the delegation to Pakistan, questioned whether the ducks would be suited to the mainly arid conditions where the locusts are a problem.\n\n\"Ducks rely on water, but in Pakistan's desert areas, the temperature is very high,\" Zhang Long told reporters in Pakistan.\n\nHe said that although ducks have been used against locusts since ancient times, their deployment \"hasn't yet entered the government assistance programme\" and was an \"exploratory\" method.\n\nIn 2000, China shipped 30,000 ducks from Zhejiang province to Xinjiang to tackle an infestation of locusts.\n\nAccording to the UN, the current heavy infestations can be traced back to the cyclone season of 2018-19 that brought heavy rains to the Arabian Peninsula and allowed at least three generations of \"unprecedented breeding\" that went undetected. Swarms have since spread out into South Asia and East Africa.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn January, the UN called for international help to fight swarms of desert locusts sweeping through East Africa.\n\nEthiopia, Kenya and Somalia are all struggling with \"unprecedented\" and \"devastating\" swarms of the food-devouring insects, the UN said.", "San Fiorano is one of the Italian towns on lockdown\n\nMajor outbreaks of the new coronavirus have suddenly been detected in both Italy and Iran in the past few days.\n\nMeanwhile, cases in South Korea have surged making it one of the worst-affected countries.\n\nThe new coronavirus is no longer a problem just in China, with a small number of exported cases.\n\nIt has many people asking if the virus is about to become a pandemic and whether containing it is still possible?\n\nA pandemic is a disease that is spreading in multiple countries around the world at the same time.\n\nThis virus \"absolutely\" has pandemic potential, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.\n\nBut he added: \"We are not witnessing uncontained global spread of the virus, using the word pandemic does not fit the facts.\"\n\n\"I think many people would consider the current situation a pandemic, we have ongoing transmission in multiple regions of the world,\" Prof Jimmy Whitworth, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nSome scientists were even arguing two weeks ago that we had already entered the earliest stages of a pandemic.\n\nAll this tells us there is some wiggle-room around the word.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe developments in South Korea, Italy and Iran are the reason why people are drifting closer to calling the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.\n\nSouth Korea is piling on hundreds of new cases, showing how contagious the virus is.\n\nItaly and Iran now have substantial outbreaks. There are almost certainly far more cases in these countries than have been reported - and the connection with China has not yet been established.\n\n\"The virus is spreading around the world and the link with China is becoming less strong,\" says Prof Whitworth.\n\nAnd Prof Devi Sridhar, from the University of Edinburgh, said her perspective \"has definitely changed\" over the past couple of days.\n\n\"This has largely been a Chinese emergency, now we are seeing it progress it South Korea, Japan, Iran and now Italy,\" she says. \"It's a highly infectious virus and spreading very quickly.\"\n\nShe does not think we are in a pandemic yet and is waiting to see long chains of transmission in countries outside of China.\n\n\"We don't have the evidence to say we're in one, but I'm pretty sure we'll have the evidence in next couple of days.\n\n\"If it's in Italy and Iran, then it can be anywhere.\"\n\nResearchers have described the cases in Iran as the most worrying for efforts to contain the global spread of the virus and prevent it becoming a pandemic.\n\nThe number of deaths reported in the country, 12, is far more revealing than the number of reported cases, 61.\n\nDeaths are significant as the virus kills only a small proportion of people who are infected and it takes weeks to go from infection to death.\n\nDr MacDermott said: \"It suggests fairly large numbers of people with minimal symptoms, or who are asymptomatic, that aren't being tested or even being identified.\n\n\"Who knows how long it has been going on?\"\n\nThe country has already been linked to cases in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Canada and Oman.\n\nShe added: \"Iraq and Afghanistan - that's two of the countries you don't want the virus in, healthcare is barely existent after decades of war and it's not safe for healthcare workers to travel there.\n\n\"I think we are teetering on the balance of a pandemic, in the next week or two we're likely to see it pop up in lots places and if it's on several different continents then we'd be approaching a pandemic.\"\n\nOfficials now say the WHO will not formally \"declare\" a pandemic for the new coronavirus, though the term may still be used \"colloquially\".\n\nIn 2009, the organisation was criticised when it declared swine flu a pandemic.\n\nIt based the decision on criteria it no longer uses.\n\nThe virus did spread round the world - but it proved to be relatively mild, leading some to argue the organisation had been too hasty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The school said the decision to close was made independently of health officials\n\nA school in Derbyshire has closed after a confirmed case of coronavirus \"amongst its parent population\".\n\nBurbage Primary School, in Buxton, will be closed until Monday after a precautionary deep clean was carried out.\n\nA medical centre less than a mile from the school has also closed due to a \"confirmed case of coronavirus\".\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) confirmed it was one of two new cases announced by the government earlier.\n\nDr Fu-Meng Khaw, from PHE East Midlands, said the person had become infected while in Tenerife.\n\n\"There is currently no information to suggest that there is any increased health risk to any pupils or staff at the school and no public health reason to remain closed at the current time,\" he added.\n\nZoe Milly Jones told the BBC she saw several ambulances go to a property in the town, at about 22:45 GMT on Wednesday, before paramedics in hazard-style white suits helped a person into one of them.\n\nShe said the ambulances then left the scene with their blue lights on.\n\nZoe Milly Jones posted a video on Twitter of a convoy of ambulances in Buxton\n\nBBC Radio Derby reporter Matt Barlow, who has a son at the school, said parents were alerted to the closure on Wednesday night and another update was sent out earlier.\n\nIt said the parent had been on holiday without the child and the pupil had attended school - which has 350 pupils - on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nWhen the parent told the school they had travelled to an affected area, a decision was taken to keep the child off school on Wednesday.\n\nThe school was then informed on Wednesday evening the parent's condition had worsened and it was decided a full closure was necessary.\n\nBuxton Medical Practice has also closed and its answerphone message currently says: \"We have a confirmed case of the coronavirus.\n\n\"We are liaising with Public Health England and the CCG to ensure all appropriate actions are taken. Please do not come to the practice.\"\n\nNHS Derby and Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group said the practice would reopen on Friday and \"patients will be advised if their appointment needs to be rearranged\".\n\nThe alert was written by the school's head teacher Anthony Tierney\n\nAnother parent, who did not want to be named, told BBC Radio Derby: \"I think the school has made a very sensible decision.\n\n\"It was surprising as [coronavirus] seems like something very far away.\"\n\nIn a joint statement with Public Health England, Dean Wallace from Derbyshire County Council said the risk to the general public \"remains low\".\n\nA second school in Derbyshire - Chesterfield's Brookfield Community School - said a student was being tested for the virus as a precaution but it would remain open as normal.\n\nThe decision to close was an independent one made by school management, rather than one forced upon them by health officials.\n\nBut as a parent with a child at the school myself, it does appear to be a sensible measure - and it's reassuring they've taken it upon themselves to mount this belt-and-braces action.\n\nI've talked to several other parents with children at the school and they've told me they feel nervous about what's happened.\n\nThere are still so many unknowns. Who is this person? How are they doing now? It's probably natural to feel concerned.\n\nGP Peter Holden, who represents British Medical Association (BMA) doctors in the East Midlands, said he was not surprised by a confirmed case.\n\n\"This disease looks like it's going to go around,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we must keep it in proportion - for most people it will be just like flu.\n\n\"But for society the biggest problem will be the sheer number of people just not fit enough to go to work.\"\n\nMore than 7,000 people have been tested for coronavirus in the UK since the outbreak began to spread beyond China in January, with 15 cases confirmed positive.\n\nThe two latest positive tests were confirmed by England's chief medical officer earlier.\n\nThe two people have been transferred to specialist NHS infection centres in Liverpool and London, the Department of Health said.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the virus was passed on while they were in Italy and Tenerife.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "A review setting out options for a radical overhaul of university admissions in England has been launched by the higher education watchdog.\n\nThe Office for Students has outlined an entry system which would scrap the use of predicted A-level grades.\n\nInstead, applications would be delayed until students had their exam results.\n\nSir Michael Barber, chairman of the watchdog, said there was \"widespread recognition\" that parts of the admissions system were \"not working\".\n\nIn a separate report, the Higher Education Policy Institute says a fairer system would be to remove tuition fees for the first year for students whose parents had not gone to university.\n\nThe Office for Students' three-month review of how universities allocate places follows concerns about the fairness of the current system which uses predicted exam grades, references and personal statements.\n\nThe watchdog points out that in 75% of cases, pupils did not make the grades predicted by schools.\n\nThere have already been warnings from education ministers to reduce \"unconditional offers\", when universities recruit students with offers of places regardless of exam grades.\n\nThere has been concern about a lack of transparency over how \"contextual\" offers operate, where a disadvantaged candidate might be offered a place with lower grades.\n\nAnd the watchdog also highlighted the discrepancy between the required grades advertised by universities and often much lower grades which were really needed to get places.\n\nThere have been warnings that \"personal statements\" - where students write about their own interests in a course - can be skewed towards those who get the most help from parents or teachers.\n\nSir Michael said the admissions process \"may be especially unfair on students from disadvantaged backgrounds\".\n\nThe watchdog has set out three options for reform:\n\nDelaying applications or offers until exam results are known would mean changing the current timetable - either taking A-levels or publishing results earlier or starting the university term later.\n\nBut it would also remove the need for information used as a proxy for exam results - such as predicted grades, personal statements and references.\n\nUnconditional offers would also no longer be needed and students would not have to make multiple applications dependent on results they might or might not achieve.\n\nJo Grady, leader of the UCU lecturers' union, said there was \"growing support for a shift to a fairer admissions system, where students apply to university after they have received their results\".\n\n\"This review is the opportunity for us to finally move to a system where university offers are based on actual achievement rather than unreliable estimates of potential.\"\n\nClaire Sosienski Smith, of the National Union of Students, said: \"It has been clear that for some time the admissions system has not been working in the interest of students, so it is good to see that the OfS is taking action.\"\n\nUniversities UK is already running its own review of admissions, including examining the idea of applications coming after A-level results.\n\nChief executive Alistair Jarvis said the review \"will make recommendations informed by what applicants, schools and universities think works well and where the main challenges lie in achieving greater fairness, transparency and aspiration-raising\".\n\nClare Marchant, head of Ucas, which runs the admissions service, said they were already \"exploring how the timetable of offer-making could be improved\" and how to get more reliable grade predictions.\n\nA different approach to creating more open access to university is proposed by the Higher Education Policy Institute.\n\nTo remove financial barriers for disadvantage, the think tank suggests anyone in the first generation of a family to go to university should not have to pay tuition fees in the first year, with the government picking up the cost.\n\nThe watchdog will publish its findings after the admissions review ends in May, but universities are independent bodies, and changes to admissions cannot be imposed on them.\n\nBut the review has the backing of Universities Minister Michelle Donelan who said it was vital that admissions processes were \"transparent and work in students' best interests\".\n\nShe said the review would be \"instrumental in helping assess how the system can be improved\".", "\"Robyn\" was in care two hours' drive away from her family\n\nSix out of the 10 largest providers of children's homes and foster carers are running huge debts, suggests a report for councils in England.\n\nThe Local Government Association fears such financial instability could put vulnerable children's care at risk.\n\nAnd some councils report struggling to find suitable places for vulnerable children near their families.\n\nThe Independent Children's Homes Association blamed funding cuts for the squeeze on children's homes.\n\nIn the 1990s most children's homes were in the public sector but now about 80% are in private or voluntary sector hands which was thought to be better value for money.\n\nBut now, escalating costs and difficulties of finding nearby places mean some councils are reopening their own children's homes.\n\nRobyn was eventually moved into foster care in her home city of Liverpool - but it took more than a year\n\nRobyn (whose name we have changed to protect her identity) was 12 when she was taken into care for her own safety.\n\nBut the nearest children's home that could offer her a place was nearly two hours' drive away.\n\nOne night, a social worker came and took her away from her family to a residential home.\n\n\"I didn't even know what the town was called or the street, \" she says.\n\nHer story is all too common in a children's care system councils say is struggling with rising demand and increasing costs.\n\nShe adds: \"I was really close to all my teachers and me school.\n\n\"I felt really isolated - having no-one to speak to, no friends.\n\n\"I sat in my room for days, watching telly and having no schoolwork to do - it's hard.\"\n\nShe was eventually moved into foster care in her home city of Liverpool - but it took more than a year.\n\nLiverpool City Council says the difficulty of finding places locally is one sign of the major problems facing the care system.\n\nCouncillor Barry Kushner, who is the council's cabinet member for children's services, claims some larger providers will fill a place based on how much a council will pay rather than whether it is local to the child.\n\nLiverpool councillor Barry Kushner said the city was reopening some of its own children's homes\n\n\"The costs of residential care have in the last three years gone up by about 30%,\" he says, with Robyn's placement alone about £3,500 a week.\n\nHe accepts that some costs are increasing because of the complex needs of children, but also worries about the level of debt some of the larger companies have.\n\n\"Where I take issue is where those additional costs are levied on the council because of the internal financing of those organisations, because of who owns them or who is investing in them.\n\n\"And councils really shouldn't be picking up the bill for that.\"\n\nLiverpool, like a number of other authorities, is now reopening some of its own children's homes, closed nearly a decade ago, to be run by the charity, Barnardo's.\n\nThe LGA report shows most of the biggest care providers have more debts and liabilities than assets.\n\nMany of the big companies are private equity funded which often means loans have been used to buy the business with the aim of making a profit when it is sold on.\n\nCouncils have seen significant increases in the cost of placing a child in a residential or foster placement, partly because of the increasingly complex needs of many children.\n\nBut the report also says the six largest independent companies made £215m in profit last year with some making more than 20% profit on their income.\n\nThe LGA wants more transparency over costs and for the financial health of the big firms to be monitored to avoid a similar scenario to the collapse of adult care home provider Southern Cross in 2011.\n\nJudith Blake, chair of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, says much of the growth of the biggest providers \"has been fuelled by enormous loans, which will at some point need paying back, yet this research shows many of them do not have the assets to do that\".\n\nShe added: \"Stability for children in care is paramount... and an oversight scheme is needed to help catch providers before they fail and ensure company changes don't risk the quality of provision.\n\n\"Providers should also not be making excessive profits from providing placements for children.\n\nShe wants a promised government review of children's care to consider how to better support in-house provision and smaller providers.\n\nPeter Sandiford is chief executive of the Independent Children's Homes Association\n\nThe Independent Children's Homes Association represents both large and small private care companies as well as voluntary sector homes.\n\nIt says the report doesn't look at the value for money or quality of care provided by many independent care companies.\n\nIts chief executive, Peter Sandiford, says he would be concerned if the level of debt held by some firms keeps growing, but that the likelihood of one of those companies failing is \"at the moment, probably not very high\".\n\nHe also believes that, rather than care companies making large profits, many of the smaller providers are struggling on the fees that local authorities pay.\n\nWith increasing numbers of children needing support he wants independent care providers and councils to work together more closely to plan what is needed.\n\n\"What we're looking at is growing the sector, and having more homes to look after very vulnerable children.\n\n\"I don't think we can afford to say one thing isn't right, because we need the whole spectrum (of homes).\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said an extra £1 billion of new funding was being put in to adult and children's social care, adding: \"The safety and suitability of a child's placement in care is our absolute priority, which is why we are reviewing the system so children receive the best possible care.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four properties searched were in Navestock near Brentwood\n\nAbout 450 police officers have taken part in raids as part of an investigation into thefts of cars worth a total of up to £4m.\n\nMore than 20 properties were raided in Essex and in London at about 05:45 GMT.\n\nEssex Police said 15 arrests have been made so far, 25 stolen vehicles have been found and £150,000 has been seized as well as £90,000 in jewellery.\n\nThe operation was carried out by Essex Police and the Met Police, along with British Transport Police.\n\nAbout 400 police officers from three forces were involved in the raids\n\nIt follows an investigation into a gang suspected of stealing about 90 cars - worth a total of up to £4m - since November 2018.\n\nRaids were carried out in the Chelmsford, Braintree, Southend, Basildon and Uttlesford districts and London, mainly in the east of the capital.\n\nActing Supt Lewis Basford said they had been \"targeting a specific group that had been offending, taking high-end value vehicles\" and had also seized hi-tech equipment used to steal vehicles without a key.\n\n\"We believe this gang are responsible for the theft of vehicles from across the whole of Essex, London and car parks linked to the British Transport Police, particularly high-end Range Rovers and sports cars,\" he said.\n\n\"The offences that we believe the group are responsible for [involved] using technology using keyless entry... and equipment used to automatically start a vehicle without the key being present in the offender's hand.\"\n\nIndividuals responsible for the coding of new keys, thus enabling vehicles to be cloned and sold to unsuspecting victims, were also targeted, Supt Basford said.\n\nHe added that the raids were \"just the start of the operation to tackle the theft of motor vehicles\".\n\nA cannabis factory with 200 plants was uncovered and 10 stolen van flatbeds were also recovered.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two Northern Irish brothers are to direct a follow-up to the cult film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.\n\nAndy and Ryan Tohill have been selected as directors for what has been described as a \"reboot\" of the horror classic.\n\nOn his Twitter account, Andy Tohill confirmed the news, posting: \"It's gonna be some journey!\"\n\nThe brothers directed their first feature film in Northern Ireland, The Dig, in 2017.\n\nThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre was made in 1974 and has become one of the most influential horror films of all time.\n\nIt tells the story of a group of friends who wander into the home of a family of cannibals.\n\nIts most famous character was the chainsaw wielding killer, Leatherface.\n\nTobe Hooper, the original film's director at a 40th anniversary screening of the film in 2014\n\nIt was originally banned in the UK by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) who refused to issue it with an X certificate in 1975.\n\nIt was released on video in 1981, but did not receive a formal 18 certificate for cinema release in the UK until 1999, 25 years after it was made.\n\nHowever, it is now recognised by critics as one of the greatest horror films ever.\n\nIt also led to a number of sequels but, according to the movie magazine Variety, the Tohills version will be a \"reboot\" of the film although exact plot details have not been revealed.\n\nAndy and Ryan Tohill have worked in the TV and film industry in Northern Ireland for a number of years.\n\nAndy is a film studies graduate from Queen's University, while Ryan has a visual arts degree from Ulster University.\n\nThe Dig was awarded the title of Best Film at the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh and was also shown at the Toronto International Film Festival.\n\nDescribed by some critics as an \"Ulster western\", it told the story of a convicted murderer forced to help search for his victim's body.\n\nIt was shot in the countryside around Ballymena.\n\nAndy Tohill, Ryan Tohill, Moe Dunford, Stuart Drennan and Brian J. Falconer took 'The Dig' to the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival\n\nThe Guardian called it a \"tense thriller\", while the Irish Times called it \"a classic western movie set on an Irish bog.\"\n\nThe Dig was developed through Northern Ireland Screen's New Talent Focus scheme which aims to deliver a debut feature by a Northern Irish writing, directing and producing team each year.\n\nNI Screen provides development funding and production funding of up to £226,000 towards films in the scheme.\n\nOther films funded through the New Talent scheme include A Bump Along the Way, which premiered in 2019, A Bad Day for the Cut and The Survivalist.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor: 'UK trade will be better outside EU'\n\nUK trade will thrive despite the introduction of UK border checks after the Brexit transition period, the chancellor has said.\n\nSajid Javid admitted frictionless trade with the EU would be \"over\" but said that Britain would have a \"better future\".\n\nEarlier, an industry body warned border checks on imports could cause fresh food supply problems.\n\nBut Mr Javid said supply chains \"would be protected\".\n\n\"Of course, we are not going to have completely frictionless trade because we have left the [EU] customs union and single market,\" he told BBC economics editor Faisal Islam.\n\n\"That is a deliberate decision, because we have a better future as an independent sovereign nation trading with European friends, but also trading more so with the rest of the world.\"\n\nHe said the government would defend automotive and other industries that rely on frictionless trade, promising \"complete equivalence\".\n\n\"We are working closely with the car sector,\" he said. \"We've been clear there will be some changes but that can be done in a way that the sector... continues to thrive.\"\n\nBritain left the EU on 31 January but remains subject to its rules until the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020.\n\nThe government has vowed to strike a trade deal by then, but some warn it will not have time to reach a comprehensive agreement.\n\nCommenting on Britain's goals, Mr Javid said he had urged the EU to consider Britain's financial sector as \"equivalent\", in order to protect its access to the bloc.\n\nThis was despite the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, having said earlier on Tuesday that this was not up for discussion.\n\nThe chancellor said he was confident the bloc would change its mind: \"Look back at withdrawal agreement, there were things that EU would reject... only to change their mind later on.\"\n\nHe added there had been \"private discussions\" with the EU that made him \"very confident about the future\".\n\nEarlier, the British Retail Consortium warned that post-Brexit transition border checks could cause fresh food supply problems unless there was a \"massive upgrade\" in border facilities.\n\nIt said thousands of trucks, including those carrying fresh food, could be held up at Channel ports.\n\nThe warning came after the government said the checks would mean extra paperwork for both EU and UK firms.\n\nMichael Gove, the minister in charge of Brexit preparations, told an event on Monday that the end of frictionless trade was \"inevitable\".\n\n\"The UK will be outside the single market and outside the customs union, so we will have to be ready for the customs procedures and regulatory checks that will inevitably follow.\"", "The Queen's grandson Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn have announced they are to divorce.\n\nA statement issued on their behalf said the decision was \"the best course of action for their two children and ongoing friendship\".\n\nIt confirmed they had separated and will share custody of their children Savannah, nine, and Isla, seven.\n\nBoth of their families were \"sad\" but \"fully supportive\" of the decision to \"co-parent\", the statement added.\n\nThe couple told the Queen and other Royal Family members about their decision last year.\n\nMr Phillips, 42, is the son of Princess Anne and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips.\n\nHe is the eldest grandchild of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\n\"The decision to divorce and share custody came about after many months of discussions and although sad, is an amicable one,\" the statement read.\n\nIt added: \"Peter and Autumn have requested privacy and compassion for their children while the family continues to adapt to these changes.\"\n\nMr Phillips met Canadian management consultant Autumn Kelly, 41, at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal in 2003, while he was working for the Williams Formula 1 team.\n\nThe couple married in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in 2008\n\nThey married in 2008 in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle - where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding would take place ten years later - and brought up their children in Gloucestershire.\n\nBefore the wedding, Mrs Phillips gave up her Catholic faith - a move which, because of rules on royal successions that were later changed, allowed Mr Phillips to retain his right to the throne.\n\nWhile Mr Phillips is a member of the Royal Family, he is not a working royal and does not have a title.\n\nLast month the Daily Mail revealed that he featured in a Chinese television advert endorsing milk from Jersey cows.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, the Queen was photographed at King's Lynn station in Norfolk, where she was returning to London following her winter break at Sandringham.", "HS2 is set to be the \"biggest infrastructure decision since World War Two\", according to one government official.\n\nWhether to go ahead with building the high-speed rail line has become a dilemma for Boris Johnson because the estimated price tag shot up back in the summer.\n\nThe government's official review of the scheme, which has been seen by the BBC, puts the potential cost at as much as £106bn.\n\nHere are some of the reasons why the project is so expensive and why its budget has risen so much.\n\nThe blueprint for HS2 has been designed so the railway can accommodate more trains per hour - 18 - than any other high-speed line in the world.\n\nThe infrastructure - numbers of platforms at stations - and the systems, which means the signalling, have therefore been designed with this in mind.\n\nThe trains will travel at up to 360 km/h (224mph), faster than any other train service in Europe and only slower than those in China.\n\nThe alignment of the track on the first stretch between London and Birmingham means even faster trains could reach 400 km/h on HS2 in the future.\n\nThe track will also sit on concrete \"slab track\" which is durable but more expensive to buy than your more conventional ballast.\n\nWhen you start planning a major infrastructure project such as HS2, experts are supposed to make informed estimates about the amount of time and money needed to complete each phase.\n\nHS2 Ltd has been widely criticised for not factoring-in enough risk and uncertainty into its calculations.\n\nFormer HS2 directors have even accused the company of keeping costs artificially low to make the project more attractive. HS2 Ltd rejects that claim.\n\nOne of the big unknowns, which was underestimated on the first phase, was \"ground conditions\".\n\nNow that surveys underneath the surface along the route from London to Birmingham have been done, the higher costings for that first stretch are regarded as more robust.\n\nBut surveys have not been carried out on the latter and longer phase, Birmingham to Manchester and Birmingham to Leeds.\n\nAnd that's why the price tag for the second phase of HS2 is not certain.\n\nHS2 will wind its way through a crowded landscape. The initial stretch from London Euston to Old Oak Common in west London will be through a giant tunnel underneath central London.\n\nTo build the line, HS2 Ltd has to compulsorily purchase land and property rights along the route, and a block of flats in London doesn't come cheap.\n\nHS2 Ltd's land and property calculations, which it was using as recently as 2015-16, were woefully underestimated.\n\nIn one of the studies commissioned by HS2 Ltd, and seen by the BBC, a large number of properties were not even given a value.\n\nSince then HS2 Ltd has carried out more thorough work to improve its estimates.\n\nItems such as gravestones have had to be moved ahead of work starting on HS2\n\nTry to imagine all of the wiring and piping underneath our crowded cities.\n\nMuch of the work HS2 Ltd has already carried out between London and Birmingham has been diverting those connections away from construction sites.\n\nBut in some places, roads and even rivers need to be moved too.\n\nOn the M42 near Solihull they have been building the foundations for a new bridge over the motorway. A bridge nearby will be demolished and the new bridge moved in.\n\nYou could find multiple examples like that along the 330 mile route.\n\nI've travelled extensively on Spain's high-speed AVE network, which flies through large stretches of desolate, arid countryside. Britain is much more densely populated, so building HS2 is a different ballgame.\n\nYou might be surprised to hear that the view out of the window from an HS2 train from London to Birmingham, most of the time, won't be very exciting.\n\nThat's because a large part of the route will be built in what's known as \"cuttings\".\n\nCuttings mean the track is effectively below ground with banks each side. The cutting reduces the impact of the line on the surrounding countryside.\n\nThere are also 25 miles of tunnels on the first phase of the project. The longest (10 miles) and deepest tunnel (90 metres at the deepest point) will go underneath the Chilterns.\n\nAnd there are 12 miles of viaducts. A two mile viaduct in the Colne Valley in Buckinghamshire will be the longest in the country.\n\nWhen prior estimates of costings on HS2 have been calculated, efficiency savings have been factored in. However, often those efficiencies have not been realised, so costs have gone up.\n\nIn a major infrastructure project such as this, the company in overall charge - HS2 Ltd - contracts out the work to a vast array of other companies.\n\nCompanies contracted by HS2 Ltd in the early part of the project carried the risk associated with the work. That pushed prices up significantly.\n\nAccording to the National Audit Office it added at least £1bn to the overall budget. However, there have been reports that figure was much higher.\n\nNow contractors do not carry the risk. That should help keep prices down.", "Police have been carrying out searches after the attack in Streatham\n\nEmergency legislation designed to end the release of people convicted of terrorism offences halfway through their sentence has been presented to Parliament.\n\nThe measures - which would apply to England, Scotland and Wales - were drawn up after the attack in Streatham, south London, earlier this month.\n\nThe attacker, Sudesh Amman, had been freed from prison 10 days earlier.\n\nThe government wants the measures to become law by the end of the month.\n\nMPs will consider all stages of the Terrorist Offenders Bill on Wednesday, before the Commons goes into recess on Thursday. The bill will then move to the Lords in time, ministers hope, for it to become law by 27 February.\n\nThe aim is to prevent the 28 February release of Mohammed Zahir Khan, who is the next convicted terrorist due to be freed after serving half his sentence for encouraging terrorism.\n\nUnder the government's proposals, people given a fixed or determinate sentence for a terror-related offence would be freed only with the agreement of the Parole Board - and after serving at least two-thirds of their term.\n\nHowever, ministers have been warned they face a legal battle over the plans.\n\nWhile the idea of involving the Parole Board in decisions has generally been welcomed, concerns have been raised about sentencing changes being applied retrospectively.\n\nAfter convicted terrorist Usman Khan's attack at Fishmongers' Hall last November, Mr Johnson told the BBC's Andrew Marr: \"You cannot retrospectively change the basis on which someone is... sentenced.\"\n\nThe bill would affect about 50 prisoners who were convicted under existing rules, which allow for release halfway through a sentence.\n\nLawyers for some of the inmates are believed to be preparing a legal challenge, although ministers claim they are not extending sentences, merely changing the way they are administered.\n\nThe government believes the changes will not fall foul of the UK's obligations under the European Convention of Human Rights, which outlaws signatory nations imposing longer sentences than those \"applicable at the time the criminal offence was committed\".\n\nThe bill states that the government considers that \"release arrangements are part of the administration of a sentence, which can change without breaching an offender's human rights\".\n\nLabour and the SNP have signalled they support the principle of the legislation but need to scrutinise the details.\n\nLeader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he expects the Lords, in which the government does not have a majority, to deal with the bill with \"reasonable\" speed given the urgency of the situation.\n\nIt comes after Amman stabbed two people on a busy high street before he was shot dead by police.\n\nHe had recently been released halfway through his sentence for terror offences and was under police surveillance.\n\nAnd in November last year, Khan, who had been released halfway through his 16-year sentence, fatally stabbed two people at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It is crucial that we have changes to the laws\"- Allison Morris\n\nAn Irish News journalist has revealed that she was harassed by her former partner for four years.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, Allison Morris called for stalking legislation to be extended to Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes days after Fernando Murphy, of Balholm Drive, in Belfast, was jailed for 10 offences, including harassment and breaching a restraining order.\n\n\"I was full of anxiety, my hair was falling out with stress,\" the security correspondent said about her ordeal.\n\nMurphy, 42, was handed a 14-month sentence at Belfast Magistrates' Court last Thursday. He will spend half his sentence in prison and the other half on licence.\n\nDuring four years of abuse, Ms Morris was subjected to \"humiliating\" behaviour, including Murphy coming to the Irish News and \"shouting and screaming\".\n\nIt was when the harassment began to impact her family that the journalist decided to act.\n\n\"I sort of broke after that,\" she said.\n\n\"I could take the abuse when it was me but when it was my daughter it was different.\n\n\"He knew that saying horrible, sexual, things about me wasn't getting a reaction so he moved on to my family, and the targets became my children and my father, who is very ill, and my work.\"\n\nMs Morris said going to the police was \"a big step\".\n\n\"As someone who is a crime and security correspondent, I deal with the police on a professional basis quite regularly, often quite critically and I hold them to account in a lot of cases, and I just really didn't feel comfortable,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't want people to think that I was weak, I didn't want, in a very Belfast way, for people to know my business.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only region of UK or Ireland without stalking legislation and Ms Morris says she hopes that sharing her experience will change things.\n\n\"It made me angry because I was struggling to navigate it and through my work, I know the legal system.\n\n\"I thought 'what must this be like for someone who doesn't have this knowledge or support or wouldn't know where to go to complain or appeal or to push things along?' It's such an emotionally destroying process that is desperately in need of change.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only region of UK or Ireland without stalking legislation\n\nWriting on Twitter on Monday afternoon, PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said it was \"brave and courageous\" for Ms Morris to \"make her terrible experience public\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe PSNI currently deals with stalking under the Protection from Harassment Order (NI) 1997.\n\nThe Department of Justice held a public consultation last year on the creation of a specific stalking offence.\n\nIts report on the findings said that the majority of respondents strongly supported the introduction of stalking legislation.\n\nThe department said it was \"determined to do everything it can to protect victims and to stop perpetrators at the earliest opportunity\".\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said she was \"acutely aware of the distress that stalking behaviour can cause\".\n\nShe added that bringing forward legislation that offers the best protection for victims was a priority.", "The UK government is considering taking a stake in troubled airline Flybe.\n\nThe government is in talks with Flybe and the European Commission to ensure any rescue deal does not break state aid rules.\n\nOfficials say support given to Flybe so far, such as a pledge to cut tax on some domestic routes, are industry-wide measures.\n\nHowever, the government is considering extending a loan of up to £100m to the loss-making airline.\n\nGovernment officials insist that any such loan will be on commercial terms but sources at competitors ask how the government can really mean that if the airline finds commercial lenders unavailable.\n\nThere are different ways of answering those potential objections.\n\nFirst, charge an interest rate on a loan that fully reflects the risk that the government is taking with taxpayer money.\n\nThis is the government's preferred option.\n\nBusinesses with a loss-making track record should not be able to borrow at super-low interest rates when the risk of default is perceived as high.\n\nHowever, a loan at high rates of interest could damage the airline's ability to nurse itself back to health because of the hefty repayments required on a high interest loan. You would merely be kicking the can down the road.\n\nAnother solution being floated - and described as \"possible\" by officials - is for the government to extend the loan but reserve the right to purchase shares at a pre arranged (low) price once the airline has returned to health.\n\nThese rights, often described as \"warrants\", was the manner in which legendary investor Warren Buffett pumped money into investment bank Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis and there are few more commercially savvy financial first aid givers than he.\n\nA government loan to Flybe may be similar to a deal Warren Buffett struck with Goldman Sachs\n\nThis approach makes it more likely the airline will be able to pay its debts, which in turn makes it more likely the airline will be worth more in the future, at which point UK taxpayers could reap rewards for the risk taken.\n\nHey presto - a commercial arrangement thath helps the company now and sees the taxpayer share in any future success.\n\nTo be clear, this is still uncomfortable territory for the government.\n\nHowever, it has become increasingly clear that it is prepared to push the envelope of what is possible in order to deliver on election commitments to improve regional connectivity to \"level-up\" Britain. A commitment that might look hollow if Flybe were to collapse.\n\nThe EU has told the BBC it is in discussions with the government to ascertain whether financial assistance to Flybe provided to date or in the future could break EU competition rules.\n\nA spokesperson for the European Commission told the BBC that it is the responsibility of member states to decide whether support needs to be notified as state aid - which the UK insists it does not - unless other parties complain that such support is illegal and the EU can then investigate.\n\nBritish Airways' owner IAG and Ryanair have already done just that in letters to the European Commission over their concerns that the Flybe rescue announced in mid-January amounted to anti-competitive and therefore illegal support.\n\nIAG lodged a Freedom of Information request with the government seeking more detail about the extent of the support package.\n\nThe deadline for the government to respond to that is this Thursday.\n\nBritish Airways-owner IAG has complained to the EC about UK government support for Flybe\n\nIAG boss Willie Walsh has pointed out that Flybe has wealthy owners including BA's arch-rival Virgin Airlines.\n\nVirgin, along with the Stobart haulage group and New York-based hedge fund Cyrus Capital, have agreed to put in £30m to £40m of their own money but that is thought to be insufficient to secure the long-term future of the airline and without a loan to get through the lean winter months, it remains in danger.\n\nOther things that have irritated rivals are Flybe's decision to switch its London-Newquay service from Heathrow to Gatwick - potentially freeing up a Heathrow slot for part owner Virgin Airlines and Flybe's expansion at Southend airport which just so happens to be owned by the Stobart group.\n\nIt is not clear how much of the financial support from Flybe's owners has already been exhausted.\n\nThe company said on Sunday that \"the airline is being supported by its shareholders and leading suppliers, is managing its cash position carefully and currently has strong liquidity\"\n\nThere are many industry sources who insist that Flybe's problems are more deep-seated. Its business model is broken and the government is risking both wasting taxpayers' money AND creating a dangerous precedent for assisting failing businesses.\n\nAs with many things being contemplated - the approval of HS2 despite ballooning costs, a potential mansion tax, prioritising fishing over finance, a raid on pension tax relief - we are dealing with a very different kind of Conservative government.", "Ron and Anne Ryall have been ordered to leave their home next month\n\nThe HS2 high-speed rail route received government approval on Tuesday, but while it has its supporters, not everyone will benefit from it.\n\nRon and Anne Ryall have been ordered to leave their home next month as the route is due to run right through it.\n\nRon told the BBC: \"I'm finding it difficult that someone can just walk into your life and destroy it. My family has lived in this lane for 100 years. I was born here.\"\n\nAnne told BBC Breakfast: \"It's awful, absolutely awful. We feel like a fruit being squeezed out of its skin, closing in and closing in and it's just a horrible feeling.\"\n\nThe Ryalls say the money they have been offered to leave is not enough and they will refuse to move from their house in Colne Valley in Buckinghamshire.\n\nHowever, the chief executive of a Birmingham company feels HS2 will be a huge benefit to businesses in the Midlands.\n\nSimon Topman, of Acme Whistles, said: \"Getting to London or going up north from Birmingham - we're right in the middle of the country - ought to be easy, and it isn't.\n\n\"The capacity just isn't there, if you go early in the morning you stand, and if you even go off peak, you stand.\n\n\"Those affected won't like it, but the overall benefit to the economy will be great, and I think the environmental impact will be far smaller than anybody imagines.\"\n\nCate Walter, a director of Rhino Safety based near Crewe, told the BBC: \"For Crewe this is absolutely crucial. We're a town been surrounded by a lot of regeneration areas in recent years, but have not been the focus of the regeneration ourselves.\n\n\"People have this idea of Cheshire as this leafy affluent sort of area but there are pockets within that, including Crewe, of really quite stagnant economies.\n\n\"The investment in our very local economy that HS2 should bring will be absolutely crucial for growing businesses in our area.\"", "The man had been walking his dog in Black Woods near Woolton Road\n\nA second person has been killed in high winds following Storm Ciara's passage across the UK.\n\nA dog-walker in his 60s died after a tree branch fell during stormy weather in Liverpool on Tuesday morning, police said.\n\nOn Sunday, a 58-year-old man died after a tree fell on his car in Hampshire.\n\nIt comes as a new storm is expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds to parts of the UK this weekend, the Met Office said.\n\nStorm Dennis could cause flooding and wind gusts of more than 60mph.\n\nIt is not predicted to be as severe as Storm Ciara, but is likely to cause disruption.\n\nA yellow wind warning has been issued for much of England and Wales on Saturday, and further warnings could follow.\n\nSteve Ramsdale, chief meteorologist at the Met Office, said: \"Our confidence in the forecast means we have been able to issue severe weather warnings well in advance, giving people time to prepare for potential impacts of the storm.\"\n\nThe weather warning on Saturday will come into force at midday and run until 23:59 GMT.\n\nWind gusts will widely exceed 50mph but could reach over 60mph in exposed areas.\n\nHeavy rainfall on ground already saturated by last weekend's Storm Ciara could lead to further flooding.\n\nThe Met Office said disruption to transport services and power supplies should be expected, and that Storm Dennis could cause large coastal waves.\n\nMuch of the UK is still grappling with the aftermath of Storm Ciara, which caused disruption to trains, flights and motorists.\n\nWind gusts of 97mph were recorded on the Isle of Wight.\n\nMore than 20,000 properties across east and south-east England and north Wales spent Sunday night without power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Ciara: Three \"lucky\" people in wave near miss in Prestatyn, Wales\n\nMeanwhile, more than 400 people in Cumbria were warned not to drink, wash or cook with tap water after a main was damaged by the storm.\n\nTravel disruption continues in Wales, with some main roads blocked and train services suspended.\n\nCars were trapped in some areas after heavy snow on Monday.\n\nAn yellow weather warning for snow is in place for Northern Ireland, much of Scotland and parts of northern England until 12:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing that connects Edinburgh and Fife has been closed for the first time since it opened in 2017, after ice and snow fell from cables on to the carriageway.\n\nThe bridge will remain closed on Wednesday, the Scottish government said.", "The prime minister has said that the government has approved the High Speed 2 rail line.\n\nHe said he would appoint a specific transport minister to oversee the project to make sure it is kept within budget and delivered on time.", "While lots of Business Live readers seem unhappy with today's HS2 news, here are some positive views. Alan Lewis says: \"This is a great - and much needed - development for public transport in our country. It will add considerably capacity to the completely full rail lines between Birmingham and London. It will take fast inter-city trains off our old Victorian rail lines and allow room for extra commuter, regional and freight trains. This should be welcomed by all travellers, businesses and environmentalists as it will provide additional low carbon transport, which is much better than building more roads.\" Meanwhile John Griffiths says: \"I live in rural Buckinghamshire, about four miles from the proposed route. It won’t benefit me directly at all but to oppose it is short-sighted.\" Why? \"We will all benefit from the building of this railway, which will bring much-needed investment and jobs to the economy at a time when Brexit risks taking it all out,\" he says. \"To delay or cancel is only to put off a bigger cost in the future. It was always going to have to be built one day, but to do it now is the right thing to do.\"", "\"You 100% have to be on top form all the time because if something happens, you're in charge.\"\n\nVictoria Bell is at the start of an overnight \"sleep-in\" shift, caring for two people with learning disabilities in a house in Doncaster.\n\nA long-running battle over care-workers' pay will reach the Supreme Court on Wednesday.\n\nVictoria, 23, is very clear the work she does should be better valued and better paid.\n\nShe gets the minimum wage for the nights she sleeps in - but many workers on similar shifts are paid a much lower flat rate.\n\n\"People say, 'Oh, you actually sleep at work?'\n\n\"You do sleep sometimes but you're always at work. It's not like you can get up and leave to go anywhere else.\"\n\nShe shows the staff bedroom - small, with plain walls, a single bed and filing cabinets.\n\n\"We've got a phone there in case there is an emergency and the service users bedrooms are just next door.\"\n\nThere are alarms in their rooms and once one goes off \"you're awake for them\", she says.\n\nUnions argue all care staff should receive the minimum wage for night shifts even if they are asleep.\n\nOne of the two cases being considered by the Supreme Court is against Mencap, the learning disability charity.\n\nThousands of workers will be affected and organisations providing care fear if they lose, they could be liable for millions of pounds in back pay, which they say they cannot afford.\n\nPhilip Bartey who runs Autism Plus, Victoria's employer, says its bill alone could be £2.5m\n\n\"The funds are not there,\" he says.\n\nMr Bartey says the squeeze is due to councils and the NHS not paying care companies the minimum wage for providing sleep-in care at the homes of older or disabled people who might need help.\n\nVictoria Bell, 23, with Emma, one of the people she helps care for\n\nUnison brought the legal action on behalf of a Mencap care worker paid less than £30 for working a shift from 22:00 to 07:00.\n\nShe was expected to keep a \"listening ear\" out in case the people she was there to support needed help, otherwise she could sleep.\n\nOver 16 months, she was called on six times at night, receiving no extra money for the first hour she was disturbed, although after that she was paid at the full day-time rate.\n\nThe High Court ruled even when she was asleep she was entitled to the minimum wage for the shift.\n\nThat was overturned in the Court of Appeal and now the Supreme Court will be expected to settle the matter once and for all.\n\nMencap says it now ensures staff are paid the minimum wage for sleep-in shifts.\n\n\"We would dearly like to pay our hard-working colleagues more,\" the charity says.\n\nBut it is defending the case, it says, as, if the Court of Appeal ruling is overturned, tax officials will expect it and other care providers to pay care workers past and present six years of back pay, which \"would run into hundreds of millions\".\n\nMencap says such a bill could make the care they provide unviable and wants the government to step in,\" the charity says.\n\n\"Social care is chronically underfunded and many providers are warning that this could tip them into insolvency.\n\n\"If back pay is owed, we believe the government should pay it.\"\n\nTUC head of employment rights Kate Bell says: \"Governments for a long time have been talking about sorting the social-care crisis.\n\n\"This is the point where they really have to step in and help out.\n\n\"We just can't have the situation where we're saying either low paid workers don't get paid or people don't get the vital care they need. That's not tenable.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said the government would pay \"close attention\" to the outcome of the case.\n\nShe added: \"Workers in the sector should be fairly rewarded for what they do and we encourage employers to pay more than the minimum wage where possible; we hope more care-sector employers will consider doing so.\"", "The government has pledged £5bn over the next five years to improve bus and cycling services in England.\n\nBoris Johnson said the extra money will provide more frequent services and simpler, more affordable fares.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs that investments in local infrastructure would \"improve quality of life and productivity\".\n\nBut Labour said the PM's plan \"doesn't make up for deep cuts since 2010\" that have led to thousands of route closures.\n\nThe announcement comes as the government gave the go-ahead to the HS2 project.\n\nMr Johnson set out details of the high speed rail link and the new money for cycling and buses in a statement to the Commons.\n\nIn addition to improving frequency and fares, he said the £5bn of funding will go towards new priority routes for buses and 4,000 \"zero-carbon\" buses in England and Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Cornwall teenager with a two hour bus commute\n\nIn September, ministers announced £220m in extra funding to boost the bus network in England. They hope the cash will enable operators to restore recently withdrawn services, to give passengers in rural areas more choice and to increase the use of contactless payments.\n\nFurther details will be announced in a new National Bus Strategy to be published later this year.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs that the government's investment plan \"must be local\" to connect left-behind places to the rest of the country.\n\n\"We can unite and level up across the country with fantastic local improvements. better rail, less congested roads, beautiful British-built buses, cleaner, greener, quicker, safer, more frequent,\" he said.\n\n\"Above all, we can improve the quality of life for people and improve their productivity, make places more attractive to live in and invest in.\"\n\nResponding to the prime minister, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described Mr Johnson's plan as \"piecemeal\" and said the planned investment \"doesn't make up for deep cuts since 2010\" in bus services.\n\n\"Funding for buses has fallen by £645m a year since 2010, 3,300 routes cut or withdrawn and fares have soared,\" he said.\n\n\"It's councils that keep bus routes open. We need long-term funding for the local authorities that have suffered such severe cuts and now face a further £8bn black hole over this Parliament.\"\n\nBritish Chambers of Commerce director general, Adam Marshall, welcomed the funding and said: \"Business communities will want to work with central government, local government and bus operators to ensure that this new funding makes a real difference on the ground.\"\n\nOn cycling, Mr Johnson promised to create \"hundreds of miles\" of new cycle paths and plans to make cycling safer in towns by expanding projects dubbed \"mini Holland\" schemes.\n\nThe aim of creating \"low-traffic neighbourhoods\" outside of London is part of government plans to double rates of cycling by the 2025.\n\nThere are plans for more evening and weekend services\n\nCampaign group the Walking and Cycling Alliance said \"the emphasis on quality infrastructure is to be applauded\" and that it hoped to work with other groups to \"ensure that this investment is the start of a real transformation in how we get around\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"It has never been more important to make it easier to walk and cycle - to tackle climate change, poor air quality, crippling congestion, and the mental and physical health of the nation.\n\n\"The evidence is clear and people want to do it, what has been lacking is the investment and ambition to make it safe and easy for everyone.\"", "An elderly couple from Leicestershire have been inundated with messages after their plea for the return of a stolen purse.\n\nGeoffrey and Pauline Walker posted a video to their 124,000 Instagram followers after Mrs Walker's purse was taken at a cafe in Coalville, Leicestershire.\n\nMr and Mrs Walker have gained a cult following on their @geoffreywalk account, by posting throwback photos from their relationship of six decades, as well as pictures and videos documenting their daily lives.\n\nMr Walker said they wanted the purse back because of its sentimental value, and because his wife kept phone numbers and medication notes inside.\n\nThey have received thousands of messages of support and offers of replacement purses.\n\n\"There's so many caring people out there,\" said Mr Walker.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link will be built.\n\nThe first phase of the route will travel between London and Birmingham, with a second phase going to Manchester and Leeds.\n\n\"It has been a controversial and difficult decision,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe prime minister added he was going to appoint a full-time minister to oversee the project and criticised the HS2 company's management of the scheme.\n\n\"I cannot say that HS2 limited has distinguished itself in the handling of local communities. The cost forecasts have exploded, but poor management to date has not detracted from the fundamental value of the project.\"\n\nThe prime minister said that a series of measures would be taken to \"restore discipline to the programme\".\n\nSupporters of HS2 say it will improve transport times, increase capacity, create jobs and rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nOnce it is built, journeys will be shorter. London to Birmingham travel times will be cut from one hour, 21 minutes to 52 minutes, according to the Department for Transport.\n\nAnd while it is being built, it is expected to create thousands of jobs and provide a stimulus to economic growth.\n\nThe first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham was due to open at the end of 2026.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first trains may not run on the route until some time between 2028 and 2031.\n\nThe second phase to Manchester and Leeds was due to open in 2032-33, but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson told MPs that he hoped if work started immediately that trains \"could be running by the end of the decade\".\n\nThe spiralling cost of the project has sparked a backlash. The cost set out in the 2015 Budget was set at just under £56bn, but one independent estimate puts the cost as high as £106bn.\n\nMr Johnson added: \"We will, in line with the review, investigate the current costs to identify where savings can be made in phase one without a total redesign.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Johnson did not deserve praise for giving the project the go-ahead.\n\n\"The Labour Party supports HS2 as a means to boost regional economies and slash climate emissions. It is essential for boosting rail capacity and freeing up other lines,\" he said.\n\n\"But we don't see why the government should get a slap on the back for announcing it is going ahead.\n\n\"After all, it's only because of the abject failure of successive Conservative governments to keep on top of the costs, that the project's future was in any doubt.\"\n\nRon and Anne Ryall have been ordered to leave their home next month\n\nNot everybody is benefitting from HS2 being given the go-ahead.\n\nRon and Anne Ryall have been ordered to leave their home next month as the route is due to run right through it.\n\nRon told BBC Breakfast: \"It's completely wrecked our lives. I'm finding it difficult that someone can just walk into your life and destroy it. My family has lived in this lane for 100 years. I was born here.\"\n\nThe village hall in Burton Green is also due to be torn down for HS2\n\nMeanwhile, residents of a Warwickshire village admitted they were resigned to the final decision to build the rail line - even though it will split their lives in half.\n\nBurton Green village, home to 640 people, will effectively be bisected by the line.\n\nRona Taylor, who runs the village's residents' association, said: \"It's a very frustrating day because we have opposed this for 10 years.\"\n\nHowever, Cate Walter, a director of Rhino Safety based near Crewe, told the BBC: \"For Crewe this is absolutely crucial. We're a town been surrounded by a lot of regeneration areas in recent years, but have not been the focus of the regeneration ourselves.\n\n\"The investment in our very local economy that HS2 should bring will be absolutely crucial for growing businesses in our area.\"\n\nLib Dem MP Munira Wilson said: \"Key to cutting carbon emissions and tackling climate change is cutting domestic flights and moving people on to our railways and so that's why the HS2 announcement is to be welcomed and building a third runway at Heathrow is an act of environmental vandalism.\"\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas said HS2 would \"destroy or damage hundreds of important wildlife sites, areas of ancient woodland and local nature reserves\".\n\nJude Brimble, national secretary of the GMB trade union, which represents HS2 workers, said: \"The reality is that HS2 is happening and the government should get on with it.\n\n\"Thousands of skilled jobs depend on the project in construction and the supply chain.\"\n\nMatthew Fell, of UK employers' group the CBI, said the decision to back HS2 was \"exactly the sort of bold, decisive action required to inject confidence in the economy\".\n\nHe added: \"It sends the right signal around the world that the UK is open for business. HS2 shows the government's commitment to levelling up the nations and regions of the UK.\"\n\nStephen Phipson, chief executive of manufacturers' organisation Make UK, said: \"Industry will applaud this bold, sensible and pragmatic decision which will help change the country for the better.\n\n\"Government now has a once in a generation opportunity to develop a fully integrated transport plan for the whole country which it should grab with both hands.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards tie the knot in Northern Ireland's first same-sex marriage ceremony\n\nA couple have tied the knot in the first same-sex marriage to take place in Northern Ireland.\n\nRobyn Peoples, from Belfast, and Sharni Edwards, from Brighton celebrated their nuptials on Tuesday at a ceremony in a hotel in Carrickfergus, County Antrim.\n\nThey met five years ago at a gay bar in Belfast.\n\nAhead of the ceremony, Ms Peoples, a care worker, said the pair were sending a message to the world that \"we are equal\".\n\n\"Our love is personal but the law which said we couldn't marry was political,\" she said.\n\n\"We are delighted that with our wedding, we can now say that those days are over.\n\n\"While this campaign ends with Sharni and I saying 'I do', it started with people saying 'No' to inequality.\n\nThe couple got married in a hotel in Carrickfergus, County Antrim\n\nMs Edwards, a waitress from Brighton, said the couple felt humbled their wedding was a \"landmark moment for equal rights in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"We didn't set out to make history - we just fell in love,\" she added.\n\n\"We are so grateful to the thousands of people who marched for our freedoms, to the Love Equality campaign who led the way and the politicians who voted to change the law.\n\n\"Without you, our wedding wouldn't have been possible.\n\n\"We will be forever thankful.\"\n\nThe couple's married name is Edwards-Peoples\n\nSame-sex marriage has been legal in England, Wales and Scotland since 2014.\n\nHowever, this is the first week that same-sex couples in Northern Ireland can legally get married.\n\nIn July 2019, MPs backed amendments which required the government to change abortion laws and extend same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland if devolution was not restored by 21 October 2019.\n\nFrom 13 January, same-sex couples were able to register to marry.\n\nElsewhere on Tuesday, Westminster campaigners were at a celebratory reception to thank MPs who had acted on the issue.\n\nSara Canning, the partner of murdered Northern Ireland journalist Lyra McKee, attended the event organised by Amnesty International and the Love Equality campaign.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot on 18 April while observing rioting in Londonderry.\n\nMs Canning described the marriage of Ms Peoples and Ms Edwards as a \"wonderful moment\".\n\n\"This really means so much and has brought me some much-needed light in what has been a dark year,\" she added.", "Michelle O'Neill has been the vice-president of Sinn Féin since 2018\n\nSinn Féin's deputy leader has said police have told her dissident republicans are planning an attack on herself and party colleague Gerry Kelly.\n\nMichelle O'Neill is NI's deputy first minister, and Mr Kelly is the party's policing spokesperson.\n\nShe said Sinn Féin had received the warning from the PSNI on Tuesday.\n\nMs O'Neill said her party would not be deterred, following its success in the Irish general election.\n\nOn Monday, Sinn Féin celebrated its best-ever electoral result, winning 37 seats out of 160 and taking the highest share of first preference votes.\n\n\"The backdrop (of the threats) is that 500,000 people have voted for Sinn Féin and voted for change in recent elections,\" she said.\n\n\"These people have nothing to offer society, nothing but intent to attack myself, and Gerry and our families.\n\n\"Dissident republicans have no strategy, no plan and no progress towards Irish unity. It also comes at a time with a backdrop where we have never been closer to Irish unity.\n\n\"I will not be deterred and Sinn Féin will not be deterred.\"\n\nDUP leader and First Minister Arlene Foster condemned those responsible, saying: \"There is no place for threats or violence.\n\n\"We live in a democracy. The ballot box is how we effect change, not through the bomb or bullet.\n\n\"Whether in 1970, 1980, 1990 or 2020, violence from every hue must be condemned.\"\n\nMs O'Neill said she could not comment further on the nature of the intelligence the PSNI had received, but said she and Mr Kelly had to take measures to protect their families.\n\nShe and Mr Kelly attended a PSNI recruitment event in Belfast last week, which was described by the Chief Constable Simon Byrne as a positive step forward, regarding a drive to encourage more Catholics to join the force.\n\nLast year, there were attempted bomb attacks by dissident republicans on police in Belfast, Craigavon and Fermanagh.\n\nThe two dissident republican groups involved are the New IRA and the Continuity IRA.\n\nBoth groups are said to want to demonstrate they continue to exist and that they remain capable of violence, partly as a means to attract recruits - not just young individuals, but those from an older generation.\n\nThey see themselves as continuing physical force republicanism against British rule.", "People were spotted \"risking their lives\" to take selfies on cliffs near Swansea.\n\nStorm Ciara battered Wales over the weekend with strong winds and flooding.\n\nMumbles Coastguard cliff rescue team tweeted: \"Whilst on patrol this afternoon we saw a few people risking their lives for a photo.\n\n\"This may seem like fun, but it just isn’t a good idea!\n\n\"It’s why we have highly trained Volunteer Coastguard Teams and Lifeboat Crew on call 24/7 ready to risk their lives to come and get you.\"", "Bong Joon-ho won best director and best original screenplay as well as best picture\n\nThe US live TV audience for the Oscars fell to an all-time low on Sunday.\n\nRoughly 23.6 million viewers tuned into the awards ceremony, according to the US broadcaster ABC, citing Nielsen.\n\nThe ratings fell sharply from last year when 29.5 million people watched, amid an industry-wide decline in linear TV viewing.\n\nSouth Korea's Parasite made history, becoming the first non-English language film to win best picture since the awards began 92 years ago.\n\nRenee Zellweger won best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy. Joaquin Phoenix was named best actor for Joker.\n\nDespite the ratings slump, the Oscars, which had no host for the second year running, remains the most-watched awards show.\n\nIn 2019 the ceremony managed to buck a four-year trend in declining viewers and increased its audience by 11% to 26.5 million.\n\nMusicians Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performed a much-celebrated duet, while Queen opened the show.\n\nIt was the first year the ceremony went without a host, which some had pointed to as a reason for its increased popularity.\n\nTimothee Chalamet (right) and Natalie Portman (left) gave Taika Waititi his award\n\nBut the new record low indicates the Oscars was not able to repeat that success in 2020.\n\nSinger and actress Janelle Monae opened the three-and-half hour show, followed by performances by musicians Elton John and Billie Eilish.\n\nThe awards were presented by celebrity duos, including Timothee Chalamet and Natalie Portman, and Steve Martin and Chris Rock.\n\nSouth Korean viewers celebrated when Parasite director Bong Joon-ho spoke partly in South Korean during his acceptance speech.\n\nOther awards ceremonies, including the Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and Grammys, also lost viewers this year.\n\nThe number of people who watched the 2019 Emmy Awards live fell by 32%.\n\nParasite won four awards in total, while Sir Sam Mendes's 1917 took three.\n\nThe World War One epic had been the favourite to win best picture, but its awards all came in the technical categories.\n\nBrad Pitt won the first Oscar of his career for best supporting actor in his role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.\n\nBest actress winner Renee Zellwegger paid tribute to Judy Garland, who was nominated for two Oscars but never won.\n\nJoker actor Joaquin Phoenix used his acceptance speech to cover topics from animal rights, to the environment and racism.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Should the Oscars rip up the ceremony rulebook?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been convicted of planning a terror attack at London tourist hotspots, just over a year after he was cleared of attacking police with a sword outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nMohiussunnath Chowdhury, 28, from Luton, spoke about targeting attractions including Madame Tussauds, the gay Pride parade and a tourist bus.\n\nThe former Uber driver unwittingly revealed his plot to undercover police.\n\nHe also bragged to them that he had deceived the jury at his first trial.\n\nChowdhury was cleared of a terror charge in December 2018 after slashing police with a sword outside the Queen's London residence while shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nAt the time Chowdhury told jurors he only wanted to be killed by police and did not intend to harm anyone.\n\nChowdhury's sister, Sneha Chowdhury, was convicted of one count of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism\n\nUndercover officers, posing as like-minded extremists, had Chowdhury under surveillance during a five-month operation, his trial at Woolwich Crown Court heard.\n\nThe chicken shop worker prepared for his atrocity by lifting weights, practising stabbing and rehearsing beheading techniques, as well as booking shooting range training and trying to acquire a real gun, the court heard.\n\nHe remained emotionless as jurors found him guilty of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, collecting information likely to be useful to someone preparing an act of terrorism, and disseminating terrorist publications.\n\nThe second charge related to a document titled \"guidance for doing just terror operations\" on his phone, which included instructions on how to kill people with knives.\n\nChowdhury was nothing if not prepared for martyrdom.\n\nHe'd collected knives for an attack, looked into firearms training and even made a list of what he was going to do when he got to heaven.\n\nTop of the list wasn't meeting his maker, though. It was a tour of the palace he assumed he would be given.\n\nSecond on the unmarried chicken shop worker's list was to meet and consummate his relationship with 72 wives.\n\nOnly later - seventh on the list - would he find time to meet God; and his 10th task of life in the hereafter was \"choose quests to embark on\".\n\nMohiussunnath - or Musa - Chowdhury was obsessive about quests in which he played the part of a heroic martyr doing God's work on earth.\n\nChowdhury's sister, Sneha Chowdhury, 25, cried as she was convicted of one count of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism and cleared of another count of the same charge.\n\nThe prosecution described his sister as \"loyal, much put-on and long-suffering\" but also as someone who was \"aware of all he was saying to her and what it meant\".\n\nChowdhury's defence barrister had argued the university drop-out was a \"pathetic little man\" and an \"attention-seeker\" who \"talks and talks, but doesn't do\".\n\nChowdhury also dismissed his praise of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby as \"jihadi banter\" and said his weapons training came from a fascination with martial arts and weightlifting.\n\nMohiussunnath Chowdhury had planned attacks on targets including Madame Tussauds, the gay Pride parade and an open-top sightseeing bus\n\nBut prosecutors said he desired to \"unleash death and suffering\" on non-Muslims.\n\nScotland Yard counter terror commander Richard Smith said Chowdhury was an \"extremely dangerous person\" whose intention was \"to kill and harm as many people as possible\".\n\nIn one recording from June last year, Chowdhury told an undercover officer he was free to attack one million unbelievers if he was fighting for \"the pleasure of Allah\".", "New powers will be given to the watchdog Ofcom to force social media firms to act over harmful content.\n\nUntil now, firms like Facebook, Tiktok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have largely been self-regulating.\n\nThe companies have defended their own rules about taking down unacceptable content, but critics say independent rules are needed to keep people safe.\n\nIt is unclear what penalties Ofcom will be able to enforce to target violence, cyber-bullying and child abuse.\n\nThere have been widespread calls for social media firms to take more responsibility for their content, especially after the death of Molly Russell who took her own life after viewing graphic content on Instagram.\n\nThe government has now announced it is \"minded\" to grant new powers to Ofcom - which currently only regulates the media and the telecoms industry, not internet safety.\n\nOfcom will have the power to make tech firms responsible for protecting people from harmful content such as violence, terrorism, cyber-bullying and child abuse - and platforms will need to ensure that content is removed quickly.\n\nThey will also be expected to \"minimise the risks\" of it appearing at all.\n\nThe regulator has just announced the appointment of a new chief executive, Dame Melanie Dawes, who will take up the role in March.\n\nMolly Russell's family found she had been accessing distressing material about depression and suicide on Instagram\n\n\"There are many platforms who ideally would not have wanted regulation, but I think that's changing,\" said Digital Secretary Baroness Nicky Morgan.\n\n\"I think they understand now that actually regulation is coming.\"\n\nJulian Knight, chair elect of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee which scrutinises social media companies, called for \"a muscular approach\" to regulation.\n\n\"That means more than a hefty fine - it means having the clout to disrupt the activities of businesses that fail to comply, and ultimately, the threat of a prison sentence for breaking the law,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said it had \"long called\" for new regulation, and said it was \"looking forward to carrying on the discussion\" with the government and wider industry.\n\nCommunication watchdog Ofcom already regulates television and radio broadcasters, including the BBC, and deals with complaints about them.\n\nThis is the government's first response to the Online Harms consultation it carried out in the UK in 2019, which received 2,500 replies.\n\nThe new rules will apply to firms hosting user-generated content, including comments, forums and video-sharing - that is likely to include Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok.\n\nThe intention is that government sets the direction of the policy but gives Ofcom the freedom to draw up and adapt the details. By doing this, the watchdog should have the ability to tackle new online threats as they emerge without the need for further legislation.\n\nA full response will be published in the spring.\n\n\"Too many times social media companies have said: 'We don't like the idea of children being abused on our sites, we'll do something, leave it to us,'\" said chief executive Peter Wanless.\n\n\"Thirteen self-regulatory attempts to keep children safe online have failed.\n\nSeyi Akiwowo set up the campaign group Glitch after experiencing online harassment.\n\nSeyi Akiwowo set up the online abuse awareness group Glitch after experiencing sexist and racist harassment online after a video of her giving a talk in her role as a councillor was posted on a neo-Nazi forum.\n\n\"When I first suffered abuse the response of the tech companies was below [what I'd hoped],\" she said.\n\n\"I am excited by the Online Harms Bill - it places the duty of care on these multi-billion pound tech companies.\"\n\nIn many countries, social media platforms are permitted to regulate themselves, as long as they adhere to local laws on illegal material.\n\nGermany introduced the NetzDG Law in 2018, which states that social media platforms with more than two million registered German users have to review and remove illegal content within 24 hours of being posted or face fines of up to €50m (£42m).\n\nAustralia passed the Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material Act in April 2019, introducing criminal penalties for social media companies, possible jail sentences for tech executives for up to three years and financial penalties worth up to 10% of a company's global turnover.\n\nChina blocks many western tech giants including Twitter, Google and Facebook, and the state monitors Chinese social apps for politically sensitive content.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn eight-year-old girl has been home-tutored for 20 months because of a lack of disabled toilets in schools.\n\nImogen Ashwell-Lewis has cerebral palsy and has not been able to find a school with suitable facilities since leaving Rogiet Primary in June 2018.\n\nMonmouthshire council said it was following Welsh Government guidance.\n\nA disability charity said many parents of disabled children felt their youngsters were \"a bit of an afterthought\".\n\nImogen's mum Catherine Ashwell-Rice, from Caldicot in Monmouthshire, said her daughter left Rogiet Primary after she raised a series of concerns.\n\nThese resulted in her bringing a disability discriminatory appeal at a special educational needs tribunal for Wales.\n\nThe council said it had worked \"with all agencies and Mrs Ashwell-Rice to resolve the situation in 2018\".\n\nBut Mrs Ashwell-Rice said she had learnt Rogiet is the only Monmouthshire school with a child accessible disabled toilet - and she has had a 20-month battle to get Imogen into another school.\n\n\"Some of the schools were unsuitable because of the physical make up of them,\" Mrs Ashwell-Rice said.\n\n\"And then we kept going further and further afield until we found schools that were suitable.\"\n\nImogen has been without a school since leaving Rogiet Primary in 2018\n\nDespite promises adaptations would be made to a number of schools, the situation remained unresolved.\n\nMonmouthshire council is paying for home tuition for Imogen for three hours, four days a week.\n\nMrs Ashwell-Rice said the last few months been \"an emotional rollercoaster\" for herself and Imogen.\n\n\"Every time we think we've got a school and that things are going to move forward, we discover that the adaptations can't be made, or that we're promised they'll be done and they haven't.\n\n\"It's obviously been really disruptive for Imogen's education.\"\n\nImogen Ashwell-Lewis has suffered a \"rollercoaster of emotions\", her mother says\n\nDisability Wales chief executive Rhian Davies said it was a familiar tale.\n\n\"And despite 25 years of equality legislation, we're still not getting it right in Wales,\" she said.\n\n\"We're still a long way off a fully inclusive education system.\"\n\nA Monmouthshire County Council spokesman said toilets were provided according to Welsh Government design guidance.\n\n\"Pupils' needs are assessed on an individual basis and further adaptations to toilets in disabled facilities are made if necessary,\" he said.\n\nThe spokesman said an independent mediator was used to try and resolve the situation which led to Mrs Ashwell-Rice withdrawing her complaint to the Disability Discrimination Tribunal.\n\nHe said the authority was working closely with Mrs Ashwell-Rice \"and other agencies to ensure that Imogen's needs are fully met in a school setting\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruby showed us a few of her different hairstyles\n\nA pupil who was repeatedly sent home from school because of her afro hair wants to make sure it doesn't happen to any other UK schoolchild.\n\nRuby Williams received £8,500 in an out-of-court settlement after her family took legal action against The Urswick School in east London.\n\nShe was told her hair breached policy, which stated that \"afro style hair must be of reasonable size and length\".\n\nThe school did not accept any liability.\n\nRuby told Radio 1 Newsbeat she wants UK schools to have \"better guidelines on their uniform policy so that people can't be discriminated against when they're walking into school\".\n\n\"I'd also like to hope that this story gives confidence to those who might be staying quiet about a similar situation,\" Ruby added.\n\nRuby's official school photo for years 10 and 11, taken at the end of year nine\n\nKate Williams, Ruby's mum, first spotted the policy on the school's website more than three years ago - after Ruby was first sent home because of her hair.\n\nRuby, now 18, claims the school's head teacher Richard Brown told her that her hair was \"too big\".\n\nShe says the school, based in Hackney, claimed that her hair was distracting to pupils and blocked views of the whiteboard.\n\nThe Urswick School's governing body says the school \"recognises and celebrates diversity at every opportunity\".\n\n\"The governing body is hugely distressed if any child or family feels we have discriminated against them,\" it told Newsbeat in a statement, adding: \"We do not accept that the school has discriminated, even unintentionally, against any individual or group.\"\n\nThe settlement offer was made by the London Diocesan Board for Schools directly to Ruby's family, without any admission of liability from the school.\n\nSince the initial complaints from Ruby's family, the school has removed the hair policy from its website.\n\nRuby's hair the first time she was sent home from school, when she was 14\n\nWe first heard about Ruby's story in 2018.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was using its powers under the Equality Act to fund a race discrimination claim against the school on Ruby's behalf.\n\nShe had spent years 10 and 11 - while preparing for and sitting her GCSEs - being repeatedly sent home from school because of her hair.\n\nIt shocked Ruby at first.\n\n\"Am I really being sent home because my hair is growing out of my head the way it is?\" she told us.\n\nRuby's school used her year seven picture, when her hair was straight, in her year 11 yearbook\n\nRuby developed signs of depression and felt anxious about going to school because of it all.\n\nShe worried she would be singled out by teachers in front of her classmates because of her appearance.\n\n\"I felt like any time I would walk into the school with my hair out, all eyes were on me,\" she said.\n\nThe school was sent letters from Ruby's GP and a clinical psychologist warning that she was suffering because of the policy.\n\nBut it's claimed staff didn't offer her any support.\n\nThe school says it's \"impossible\" to comment further on a former student.\n\nRuby with extensions, graduating with her natural hair pulled back in the second picture, and gelled into a ponytail in the third\n\nRuby tried lots of different hairstyles to comply with the school's rules.\n\nShe tried braids, which can take hours to complete and cost anywhere from between £20 to £100 if done at a hairdressers.\n\nShe also tried putting her hair in different types of ponytails and slicking it back with gel.\n\nBut her family found that whatever they did cost a lot of money, took lots of time, or risked damaging Ruby's hair.\n\nRuby's hair after learning how to do single extensions on YouTube\n\nAfter one incident, when Ruby says a teacher tried to put her own hair bands into Ruby's hair, she'd had enough.\n\n\"I ended up getting frustrated because my hair would keep bouncing out of the bun and in the end I just said 'If it's too big can you just please send me home? Because this is not OK'.\n\n\"Why should I have to cut or change my hair and people can have their hair all the way down to their hips, as long as they want - but because my hair grows out I need to cut it?\"\n\nRuby says it would take half an hour in the morning to get her hair into a style the school found acceptable\n\nRuby hasn't always liked her hair.\n\nShe started straightening it in 2013 when she was in year seven - which took around three hours twice a week.\n\nIt caused her hair to become damaged but Ruby felt like she needed it to look straight.\n\n\"I thought that there was something wrong with it, because why does nobody else have this hair?\" she told us.\n\n\"Everyone I see that has hair like mine has it in a weave or under a wig and nobody actually shows it... so my hair can't be normal and it can't be as nice as other people's hair.\"\n\nRuby aged three, when she was happy with her afro\n\nAfter seeing more people embrace their natural hair, Ruby stopped straightening it towards the end of year eight.\n\nBut in September 2016 she was sent home and told her hair breached the school's uniform policy - leading to the legal action.\n\nAfter years of delays with her case, Ruby and her family decided to settle out of court.\n\nThey now want to make sure that children with afro hair at school in the UK don't experience anything similar - and are calling for schools to mark World Afro Day, which takes place on 15 September, to raise awareness.\n\nRuby, mum Kate and dad Lenny have had support from the Equality and Human Rights Commission\n\nRuby, who's now studying for her A-levels at another college, says she does now feel confident about her hair.\n\n\"I'm definitely proud of my hair. I'm proud of the progress that it's made and the journey that I've been on.\n\n\"I'm proud that my hair is 'too big'.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The walkers were found to have had no winter kit\n\nRescuers said four people helped from Ben Nevis were lucky to be alive.\n\nThey said the tourists who were caught in blizzard conditions had \"no ice axes, no crampons and as far as we are aware, no maps\". Three of them were wearing trainers.\n\nLochaber Mountain Rescue Team found them near the summit of the mountain.\n\nAll four were taken by helicopter from part-way down the mountain to be checked over at Belford Hospital in Fort William.\n\nInverness Coastguard helicopter, Rescue 151, could not be used near the summit because of the severity of the conditions.\n\nMiller Harris, of Lochaber MRT, said the four people who were visiting Scotland from abroad were lucky to have been at a place on the mountain where they could get mobile phone reception.\n\nThey were able to raise the alarm by calling the police and then use an app to give rescuers a location \"within metres\" of where they were.\n\nMr Harris told BBC Scotland: \"If there hadn't been a phone signal, we would have had no idea what was going on.\n\n\"One of them managed to get back to the summit where they met our team and was able to confirm the location where his friends were.\n\n\"They were very, very cold and one was probably hypothermic and was having difficulty walking.\"\n\nMr Harris said the people were on a day trip, rather than being experienced hillwalkers, and had no winter equipment such as ice axes or crampons and did not appear to have a map.\n\nLochaber MRT described the weather as \"horrendous\" with the wind chill of -20C or below.\n\nThe rescue on Britain's highest mountain came in the wake of Storm Ciara and amid Met Office yellow \"be aware\" warnings of high winds and snow.\n\nThe group used the app What3words to give a location \"within metres\" of where rescuers found them.\n\nThe app divides the world into three-metre squares and gives each one a unique three-word address.\n\nTortoises, swarm and announce were the words given for the group of four on Ben Nevis, according to the What3words website.\n\nIn Scotland, it has previously been used in the rescue of an injured walker in Lewis in the Western Isles.\n\nMountaineering groups suggest the app be used in addition to but not instead of map and compass and other winter skills.\n\nMr Harris backed that advice, adding: \"We are not saying that people should not go out on the mountains. People with the right skills and equipment are able to do that safely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Splash has been in private ownership since 2006\n\nOne of British artist David Hockney's most famous works, The Splash, has been sold for £23.1m at Sotheby's in London.\n\nThe buyer is not known. It had been estimated to sell for £20m-£30m - and ended up going for £23,117,000.\n\nThe painting, in Hockney's minimalist style, depicts the moment after a diver hits the water in an LA swimming pool.\n\nIt is considered one of the stand-out pop art images of the 20th Century and is one of a trio of works alongside A Little Splash and A Bigger Splash.\n\nA Bigger Splash is housed in London's Tate Britain while A Little Splash remains in a private collection and has never appeared on the public market.\n\n\"Not only is this a landmark work within David Hockney's oeuvre, it's an icon of Pop that defined an era and also gave a visual identity to LA,\" Emma Baker, head of Sotheby's contemporary art evening sale, said in a statement.\n\nWhen it was previously sold to a private owner in 2006 it went for £2.9m - a then record price for a Hockney work - and it has remained with that buyer until now.\n\nPrior to that, the £1.9m sale of A Neat Lawn, also in 2006, had set a precedent for a Hockney.\n\nDavid Hockney was inspired to create his Splash series by his early years in Los Angeles\n\nSince then, the growing interest among the most wealthy in the value-holding investment benefits of high-end contemporary art have seen auction prices climb.\n\nThis was illustrated at a 2018 auction at Christie's in New York where Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold for just over $90m (£70m) - an auction record at the time for a work by a living artist.\n\nIt's since been beaten by the $91.1m (£70.3m) sale in 2019 of a sculpture by US pop artist Jeff Koons.\n\nIn May 2018, Hockney's Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica sold for $28.5m (£22m) - which was more than double the previous auction record for the artist.\n\nThe Splash captures the brief moment just seconds after a swimmer has broken the calm surface of a pool.\n\nThe painting's protagonist is present, yet absent, hidden by the displaced water. The work is a classic example of Hockney's lifelong fascination with the texture, appearance and depth of water.\n\nThe Splash series was inspired by the time Hockney spent in Los Angeles following his graduation from art school.\n\nHe first visited the Californian city in 1964. On returning to London later that year, he began to work on his first pool painting, Picture of a Hollywood Swimming Pool, which fetched $7.2m (£5.6m) at an auction at Sotheby's New York in November 2019.\n\nIn 1966, he went back to Los Angeles and moved into an apartment in the city. It was there that Hockney, in his new sun-soaked environment, created the Splash paintings between 1966 and 1967.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Post-Brexit transition border checks could cause fresh food supply problems, an industry body has warned.\n\nShoppers will notice the supply issues next January unless there is a \"massive upgrade\" in border facilities, the British Retail Consortium said.\n\nThe warning came after cabinet minister Michael Gove said that border checks are \"inevitable\" after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nOfficials said firms have enough time to prepare for the changes.\n\nBorder checks could quickly cause hold-ups at Channel ports of thousands of trucks, including those carrying fresh food, the BRC said.\n\nThe government will have to \"move fast\" to put in place the necessary border infrastructure and staff to cope with those checks by the end of the year, it said.\n\nIf it doesn't, \"consumers in the UK will see significant disruption, particularly in the availability of fresh fruit and vegetables\" the BRC's director of food and sustainability Andrew Opie warned.\n\n\"If you think this is going to hit us in January, that's our peak import season for things like fresh fruit and vegetables. Customers are really going to see the problems on supermarket shelves unless we get that infrastructure,\" he said.\n\n\"So, you've got enormous bureaucracy, enormous change, but crucially you've got a problem with the infrastructure at the key ports around the Channel, which currently really act as an extension of the motorway for our supply chain, where you will be holding thousands of vehicles every day.\"\n\n\"I don't know if you've been to Dover recently, but there isn't an enormous amount of room to hold that infrastructure,\" he added.\n\nThe warning came after Mr Gove told a Border Delivery Group event on Monday: \"The UK will be outside the single market and outside the customs union, so we will have to be ready for the customs procedures and regulatory checks that will inevitably follow.\"\n\nThe Brexit transition period is due to end at 11pm on 31 December this year.\n\nFrom then, there will be import checks at the UK border, and traders in the EU and UK will have extra paperwork, the government said.\n\nFrom next January, all traders will have to fill out customs declarations and be liable to customs checks on goods for cross-channel trade.\n\nIf no trade deal is reached with the EU, taxes such as tariffs will also need to be charged and collected.\n\nMichael Gove said businesses must be ready for 'customs procedures and regulatory checks'\n\nFacilities such as the Channel Tunnel have been designed for minimal border checks.\n\nNew customs infrastructure, facilities and systems as well as staff, agents and vets will have to be in place by the end of this year.\n\nBut Mr Gove told the conference there would be light touch administration of trade across the Irish Sea.\n\nHowever, last week it emerged that Stena Line, the biggest operator of ferries in the Irish Sea, is preparing for trade checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was quietly confirmed in a speech. Some might argue it has been inevitable since the election.\n\nBut the change in the way the UK trade border functions with our biggest trade partner is one of the single biggest changes to the way the UK economy functions.\n\nPut simply, many industries rely on the frictionless free flow of goods between the UK and the continent.\n\nThe unequivocal message from Michael Gove is that businesses should prepare for the the end of that as 2020 draws to a close.\n\nWhereas the impact of all this in the Irish Sea has garnered considerable attention, the new trading arrangements between Dover and Calais and along the Channel Tunnel will have a bigger effect on the economy.\n\nBy getting businesses to take the prospect seriously, the government's hope is that more will be prepared and so delays and disruption can be limited.\n\nBut we are dealing with parts of the border that are designed to run without checks.\n\nThere will need to be more customs officers, thousands more customs agents, mass recruitment of vets, and new customs posts.\n\nAlmost every independent economic analysis - and the government's own until now - has shown that extra trade friction with what is currently our biggest market will be an overall hit to the economy.\n\nPreparation can help alleviate some of that hit, but not all.\n\nBusinesses also said they face extra costs from checks. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said that for many businesses, border delays would incur higher costs than tariffs.\n\nAdam Marshall, the BCC director general, said: \"Additional friction will equal higher costs for a lot of our business, and while the discussion over the past few months has focussed a lot on tariffs, it's actually these border costs... that really is the biggest source of cost for most.\"\n\nEU trade will not be waved through with zero checks, which would have been the case under a no-deal Brexit.\n\nTraders will not be able to use special arrangements to lodge new paperwork after a grace period at a later date.\n\nIndustries from car manufacturers to food distributors, which rely on the frictionless free flow of goods with the continent, say they face extra costs, delays and red tape from what are known as non-tariff barriers.\n\nProducts of animal origin will need export certificates from a registered vet.", "Drivers and passengers were taken to safety by members of Moffat Mountain Rescue Team\n\nA mountain rescue team battled through the snow to assist drivers stranded in severe conditions in southern Scotland.\n\nVehicles became stuck on the A702 at the Dalveen Pass near Durisdeer in Dumfries and Galloway on Tuesday night.\n\nMoffat Mountain Rescue Team said a total of 12 people were helped to safety overnight in what they described as \"poor weather\".\n\nA string of Met Office weather warnings remain in place across Scotland for the days ahead.\n\nThe rescue operation came after an amber alert was issued for much of Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice was in place across most of Scotland until 12:00 on Wednesday.\n\nThe rescue operation at Dalveen Pass came after days of wintry conditions in Scotland\n\nAs well as the incident in Dumfries and Galloway, Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team was also called out in the Borders.\n\nIt came at about 15:00 on Tuesday to help the occupants of a vehicle which had slipped off the road in a \"remote location\" in the region.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland had to clear the line at Corrour on Wednesday morning\n\nGritters were out working on the roads near Beattock on Tuesday as conditions got worse\n\nThe operation took about four hours to complete in blizzard conditions which team members described as \"some of the harshest\" they had ever worked in.\n\nDisruption continued on Wednesday after the amber alert the day before.\n\nIn Dumfries and Galloway, three schools have been been closed in Sanquhar, Kelloholm and Hottsbridge.\n\nConditions deteriorated near Penicuik on Tuesday as the amber weather warning came into force\n\nPolice also reported a number of crashes across the region with many routes affected by ice.\n\nDrivers have been asked to \"slow down and drive accordingly\".\n\nIn the Highlands, Kinlochbervie High School, six primary schools and three nurseries have been closed due to the weather. The closures affect more than 180 children.\n\nDeep snow drifts had to be cleared from the West Highland Line on Wednesday morning.\n\nA Network Rail Scotland crew spent about 20 minutes clearing the line at Corrour, the highest mainline railway station in the UK and famous for its appearance in the 1996 film Trainspotting.\n\nLeadhills also saw significant snowfalls on Tuesday\n\nThe public was asked to take care if going out\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 12-year-old boy has been charged in connection with racist chants against Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos.\n\nPolice launched an investigation following allegations of abuse during the Scottish Premiership clash with Celtic on Sunday 29 December.\n\nThe boy cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nSupt Mark Sutherland said that any form of abuse was \"completely unacceptable\" and that the force would continue to investigate any further claims.", "The lives of millions of Yemenis depend on food aid\n\nA crisis within the world's greatest humanitarian emergency could be reaching breaking point over the control of lifesaving aid millions of Yemenis need to survive.\n\nMajor donors and some of the world's biggest aid agencies will meet in Brussels on Thursday in an effort to forge a collective response to what is being widely described as unprecedented and unacceptable obstruction by Houthi authorities who hold sway over large swathes of northern Yemen.\n\nThe lives of millions of Yemenis depend on it. A recent Yemen briefing to the UN Security Council underlined that access constraints were affecting 6.7 million Yemenis who needed assistance - a figure which it noted has \"never been so high.\"\n\n\"Humanitarian agencies must operate in an environment where they can uphold humanitarian principles,\" says Lise Grande, the UN's Resident Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen.\n\n\"If we reach a point where the operating environment doesn't allow us to do that, we do everything we can to change it.\"\n\nEven at this eleventh hour, discussions are continuing with senior Houthi officials to find a way forward.\n\nMonths of meetings, a succession of envoys despatched to the capital Sanaa, and a series of statements to the UN Security Council have failed to resolve a catalogue of complaints ranging from delays in permits to harassment and detention of staff. One aid official expressed concern over an \"extremely hostile environment\".\n\nConcern spiked when a levy on every aid agency was proposed, amounting to 2% of operational budgets, by the body established by the Houthis in November to exert greater control over aid, known as the Supreme Council for the Management and Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (SCMCHA).\n\n\"This is huge,\" explains one aid official who, like most agencies operating in Yemen, did not wish to speak on the record given the acute sensitivity of these issues. \"It could be seen as financing the war.\"\n\n\"We don't want any disagreements with aid agencies,\" insists Mane al-Assal who heads SCMCHA's Department of International Co-operation.\n\n\"We informed them that if we work together towards a common goal to help people in need then we will not disagree, but not if they bring in political considerations,\" he tells me when we meet in Sanaa, where Houthi rebels, officially known as Ansar Allah, have been in charge since 2014. His words underscore an atmosphere often clouded by suspicion and criticism of major western aid agencies and their spending priorities.\n\nAs for the tax, he explains \"there should be nothing wrong with providing funds which enable us to co-ordinate aid when we're suffering from a blockade\" - a reference to restrictions imposed on air and sea ports by the Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthis, who are aligned to Iran. He then hastens to add the tax is still only a proposal.\n\nWe're surrounded by towering stacks of boxes in a vast warehouse at Sanaa International Airport, a spot chosen by Mr Assal to make his point as forcefully as possible.\n\n\"When this aid comes, like these expired medicines or spoilt food, we stop this aid so we don't make Yemenis sick, or add to the tragedy,\" he says, pointing to medicine belonging to an international medical charity.\n\nWhen I point out that the pallet next to us has an expiry date of June 2020, he explains that by the time the required paperwork is complete, and distribution underway, they will no longer be fit for purpose.\n\nFood is often stuck in warehouses while paper work drags on\n\nConversations with several international NGOs working in northern Yemen all relayed the same story: goods stuck in warehouses while paper work drags on; agreements delayed; permits denied.\n\nSome governments have been reluctant to take drastic steps, worried it could adversely affect embryonic efforts to bring an end to Yemen's devastating war which now encompass secret talks between senior Saudi and Houthi officials.\n\nBut major donors are reported to be increasingly uneasy over perceived compromises to humanitarian principles including misuse of tax payers' money.\n\nThere is double jeopardy in a country where aid is a lifeline for 80% of the population. \"I'm losing sleep over this,\" one official confesses. \"Can we walk away from millions of people who, without aid, could easily slip into famine?\"\n\nThe stakes are so high, the emphasis at this week's meeting will be on agreeing a unified response with possible options including a scaling back or suspension of aid programmes. \"The UK is urging the UN to lead on a plan - alongside other donors - for how we can all adjust how we give aid to ensure it gets to those in need,\" a spokesperson for the UK's Department of International Development (DFID) tells me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Abdullah Thawaba said Yemen's only cancer hospital cannot give children the treatment they need\n\n\"We may have to go in a different direction for a little while until we can get those conditions back in place. That's our responsibility,\" comments Lise Grande, who plays a leading role in constant discussions with senior Houthi officials to protect a programme which reaches more than 14 million people. \"We are committed to find ways to co-operate.\"\n\nAid agencies also express concern about new and growing impediments in southern Yemen, which is controlled by the coalition-backed government. But the constraints are still on a far less significant scale.\n\nOn a visit to the north-western province of Hajjah, one of the areas worst affected by war, disease and displacement, we're invited by another senior Houthi official to see one of their key exhibits in this stand-off.\n\n\"When you see worms and insects in these bags, is this edible for humans? \"angrily demands Alaan Fadayil, the senior SCMCHA official in Hajjah, as he rips open a sack of wheat flour.\n\nSCMCHA official Alaan Fadayil says food was taken from a WFP facility to give to people in need\n\nIn this warehouse, we're shown swarms of insects scurrying from bags imprinted with the blue logo of the UN's World Food Programme. The WFP admits that a very small percentage of food - in its biggest operation anywhere in the world - can go bad and they have ways to dispose of it. But it also underlines that it's been seeking permits for many months to distribute this flour.\n\nFrom there, we're taken to a much bigger storage facility a short distance away.\n\nIts soaring steel gate is tightly locked with two bulky industrial padlocks. But Mr Fadayil, defiantly positioned at this entrance in his sharp blue suit, insists the keys are on their way.\n\nWe notice the upper half of this storage facility is painted in the UN's distinctive turquoise blue and realise this is where the UN recently said its red line was crossed after some of its grain supplies were looted.\n\n\"The quantity taken out of this warehouse was done with the authority of the attorney-general to distribute some of it to people who are suffering,\" Mr Fadayil explains, brandishing a sheaf of documents with official stamps.\n\nLast year, the WFP suspended food aid for three months in one neighbourhood of Sanaa - an urban community where it was hoped the impact could be contained. That move was provoked by disagreements over a new biometric system intended to ensure aid reached those in greatest need amid charges that food was being diverted, including to Houthi fighters.\n\nThe pause led to some progress on moving forward with the new system.\n\n\"We suffered a lot, a lot,\" one resident tells us when we visit the neighbourhood. Leaning on a metal crutch, he sighs \"we really hope they don't stop aid again,\" as a crowd grows around us, all wondering and worrying over what could happen next.", "\"Every little (space) helps\": The lorry found itself stuck behind cars - twice\n\nA Tesco delivery lorry got stuck twice in a narrow residential street after taking the wrong route during a delivery run in Swansea.\n\nIt was trapped for five hours after turning from Terrace Road into Rose Hill at about 04:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA legally parked car was eventually moved to end the blockage but the lorry became stuck again on a turn and had to wait while another car was moved.\n\nTesco said it \"apologised for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nA spokesman added: \"One of our vehicles got into difficulty after taking the wrong route when delivering in Swansea this morning.\n\n\"We are investigating how this happened.\"", "Ms McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate on 18 April last year\n\nA 52-year-old man is still being questioned over the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nHe was one of four men arrested in Londonderry under the Terrorism Act on Tuesday in connection with her murder.\n\nTwo of the men, aged 20 and 27, were released pending reports to the Public Prosecution Service, and a 29-year-old man was released without charge.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate in April 2019.\n\nThe New IRA admitted carrying out Ms McKee's murder.\n\nPolice have again appealed for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nLyra McKee was named Sky News young journalist of the year in 2006\n\nThe 29-year-old writer and campaigner from Belfast had only recently moved to Derry when she was killed.\n\nShe was standing near a police 4x4 vehicle on the night of 18 April 2019 when a masked gunman fired towards officers and onlookers.\n\nRegarded by many as a rising star in Northern Ireland media circles, she had written for many publications, including Buzzfeed, Private Eye, the Atlantic and Mosaic Science.\n\nShe was named Sky News young journalist of the year in 2006 and Forbes Magazine named her as one of their 30 under 30 in media in Europe in 2016.\n\nThe Belfast woman had signed a two-book deal with the publisher Faber and Faber, with her forthcoming book The Lost Boys due out this year.\n\nAccording to those who knew her best, the gay rights advocate was someone who \"believed passionately in social and religious tolerance\".\n\nAt her funeral at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast Fr Martin Magill received a standing ovation when he asked why it took her death to unite politicians.\n\nDays later the British and Irish governments announced a new talks process aimed at restoring devolution.\n\nPSNI Det Supt Jason Murphy said he believed \"some people within the community know what happened and who was involved.\"\n\n\"I understand people may be frightened to talk to us,\" he added.\n\n\"I have previously given my personal assurance relating to anonymity for the purpose of this investigation and I renew this assurance today, as we approach the anniversary of Lyra's murder.\"\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition when violence started on 18 April 2019\n\nDet Supt Murphy said he wanted the community in Creggan to \"think about how that horrific attack impacted them personally and how it impacted the entire community\".\n\n\"We saw widescale revulsion after Lyra was murdered and I remain determined to work with the community and local policing to convert that revulsion into tangible evidence to bring those who murdered Lyra to justice,\" he said.\n\nHe urged anyone with any mobile phone footage from the night Ms McKee to contact police via the PSNI's Major Incident Public Portal.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A \"queer individual\" and a \"big hairy Trump guy\" meet in New Hampshire\n\nOne week after the US election race began in chaotic fashion, the contest has moved on to New Hampshire.\n\nVoters in the north-eastern state are choosing their preferred nominees for the 2020 presidential election race in a primary contest.\n\nFor the Democrats, Bernie Sanders, a liberal firebrand, appears best placed to perform well in the state.\n\nResults from the first Democratic contest last week, in Iowa, were held up by technical glitches.\n\nThe aim of the primaries and caucuses is to win as many delegates as possible across all states and territories, in order to be confirmed as the candidate of a party.\n\nBecause Donald Trump is all but assured to win the Republican nomination, the focus is on who the Democratic Party will pick.\n\nHere's what to expect in New Hampshire:\n\nMr Biden looks for a way through in Somersworth, New Hampshire\n\nJoe Biden might have expected to arrive in New Hampshire in more buoyant form.\n\nHe was among the frontrunners in the opening Iowa caucuses last Monday but in the end, he lagged well behind. The former vice-president claimed fewer delegates than rivals Mr Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren.\n\nRealistically, it's a competition for third place between Mr Biden and Ms Warren in New Hampshire. A poor performance there could put them both on the back foot only two states into primary season, and it's unusual (though not unprecedented) for someone to win the candidacy from such a position.\n\nBut it's not all bad news for Mr Biden - he is more popular in states that are more diverse than Iowa and New Hampshire, and the next two contests are in states with large Latino and African-American populations, Nevada and South Carolina.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, the former vice-president abruptly cancelled his primary night events in New Hampshire and announced he was flying to South Carolina.\n\nNew Hampshire's contest is not like Iowa's - these are primaries, not caucuses like in Iowa. The difference? Caucuses are a convoluted process, where people gather for a few hours for a party meeting and vote publicly in stages. They require quite a bit of commitment.\n\nPrimary voters, on the other hand, can just turn up at a polling booth and vote in secret. Then leave. As a result, participation will be much higher.\n\nAnd because primary voters make their choice using pencil and paper, there should be none of the technical headaches we saw in Iowa.\n\nIs Bernie Sanders electable? We asked two voters in New Hampshire - the daughter is a big Bernie fan, the father a lapsed supporter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDixville Notch, where journalists will vastly outnumber residents on Tuesday\n\nAs you're reading this, some voters have already cast their ballot.\n\nQuirks of the New Hampshire electoral system mean that places with a certain number of residents can vote when they like - including the middle of the night.\n\nSo the residents of three hamlets - including Dixville Notch, near the Canadian border - started casting their ballots after midnight, as is traditional.\n\n\"We take this seriously,\" Tom Tillotson, a Dixville Notch resident overseeing the vote, told Agence France-Presse, adding: \"We were humbled and honoured to be... basically the starting gun for the primary election process.\"\n\nUntil recently, Dixville Notch had only four residents, which would not have been enough for it to vote early. Then one resident decided to move back, and everything was OK again.\n\nThe tiny hamlet voted on Tuesday for billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as their preferred candidate.\n\nMr Bloomberg, who earlier said he would skip contests in early states, received three of the five votes cast as a \"write in\" candidate - someone whose name was not initially on the ballot, but was added by voters.\n\nMr Sanders and Mr Buttigieg received one vote each.\n\nMichael Bennet attends a house party with a wary dog in Manchester, New Hampshire\n\nFor some of the candidates already trailing at the bottom of the pack, it could all come down to what happens in New Hampshire.\n\nThere are still 11 Democratic candidates running, and while plenty could still happen during primary season, a poor performance could spell the beginning of the end (or even the end of the end) for the likes of Deval Patrick, Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang, three weeks before 14 states vote on Super Tuesday.\n\nOne outsider who is staking a lot on New Hampshire is Michael Bennet - the Colorado senator has held 50 town hall meetings in the state in the past two months.\n\n\"We're hoping to propel Michael from New Hampshire into Super Tuesday,\" his spokeswoman Shannon Beckham told the Denver Post last week, citing growing crowds. But Mr Bennet, a moderate, has struggled to get his campaign off the ground in a crowded field.\n\n\"We have a newcomer in the White House, and look where it got us. I think having some experience is a good thing.\"\n\nMinnesota senator Amy Klobuchar was one of many candidates to take aim at Mr Buttigieg at a debate in New Hampshire on Friday night, four days after he performed more strongly than expected in Iowa.\n\nHis status sits somewhere between the man to beat and the new kid on the block. His rivals are now testing out lines of attack against him - one of the main ones being that his experience (as the mayor of a smallish city in Indiana) isn't enough to prepare him for the presidency.\n\nBut, as the BBC's Anthony Zurcher reports, Mayor Pete may well appeal to New Hampshire's many independent voters. A good showing there could put him in the driving seat for the Democratic nomination.", "The study results have implications for the fight against climate change.\n\nUp to one fifth of the Amazon rainforest is emitting more CO2 than it absorbs, new research suggests.\n\nResults from a decade-long study of greenhouse gases over the Amazon basin appear to show around 20% of the total area has become a net source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.\n\nOne of the main causes is deforestation.\n\nWhile trees are growing they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; dead trees release it again.\n\nMillions of trees have been lost to logging and fires in recent years.\n\nThe results of the study, which have not yet been published, have implications for the effort to combat climate change.\n\nThey suggest that the Amazon rainforest - a vital carbon store, or \"sink\", that slows the pace of global warming - may be turning into a carbon source faster than previously thought.\n\nEvery two weeks for the past 10 years, a team of scientists led by Prof Luciana Gatti, a researcher at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), has been measuring greenhouse gases by flying aircraft fitted with sensors over different parts of the Amazon basin.\n\nWhat the group found was startling: while most of the rainforest still retains its ability to absorb large quantities of carbon dioxide - especially in wetter years - one portion of the forest, which is especially heavily deforested, appears to have lost that capacity.\n\nGatti's research suggests this south-eastern part of the forest, about 20% of the total area, has become a carbon source.\n\n\"Each year is worse,\" she told Newsnight.\n\n\"We observed that this area in the south-east is an important source of carbon. And it doesn't matter whether it is a wet year or a dry year. 2017-18 was a wet year, but it didn't make any difference.\"\n\nA forest can become a source of carbon rather than a store, or sink, when trees die and emit carbon into the atmosphere.\n\nAreas of deforestation also contribute to the Amazon's inability to absorb carbon.\n\nCarlos Nobre, who co-authored Prof Gatti's study, called the observation \"very worrying\" because \"it could be showing the beginnings of a major tipping point\".\n\nHe believes the new findings suggest that in the next 30 years, more than half of the Amazon could transform from rainforest into savanna.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor decades, scientists have warned of an \"Amazon tipping-point\": the point at which the forest loses its ability to renew itself and begins to emit more carbon than it absorbs.\n\n\"[The Amazon] used to be, in the 1980s and 90s, a very strong carbon sink, perhaps extracting two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from the atmosphere,\" says Prof Nobre, who is also a researcher at the University of Sao Paulo's Institute for Advanced Studies and Brazil's leading expert on the Amazon.\n\n\"Today, that strength is reduced perhaps to 1-1.2bn tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.\"\n\nTo put that in context, a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide is almost three times what the UK said it officially emitted in 2018.\n\nBut that figure does not take into account the amount of carbon dioxide released through deforestation and forest fires.\n\nAnd after almost a decade going down, deforestation in the Amazon has increased significantly in recent years. 2019 was a particularly bad year.\n\nBetween July and September last year, destruction was above 1,000 sq km (386 sq mi) per month.\n\n\"In our calculations, if we exceed that 20-25% of deforestation, and global warming continues unabated with high emission scenarios, then the tipping point would be reached,\" says Prof Nobre, one of the first proponents of the tipping point theory. \"Today we are at about 17%,\" he adds.\n\nOpinions on when this tipping point could occur differs among scientists.\n\n\"Some people think that it won't be until three-degrees warming - so towards the end of the century, whereas other people think that we could get [it with] deforestation up above 20% or so and that might happen in the next decade or two. So it's really, really uncertain,\" explained Simon Lewis, professor of global change science at UCL.\n\nHowever Prof Lewis called the results of Nobre's research \"shocking\". \"It says to me that perhaps this is more near-term than perhaps I was initially thinking.\"\n\nProf Nobre's theory was based on climate models. The new study is based on real-life observations, which produce more accurate results.\n\nProf Gatti told Newsnight she wanted to see a moratorium on deforestation in the Amazon to establish whether the trend could be reversed. But that looks unlikely.\n\nBrazil's president has made his priority for the rainforest very clear: development over conservation.\n\nSaving the Amazon is, for now, a question of political choice. But the science suggests that choice may not be on offer for very much longer.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The Northamptonshire Badger Group rescued and released the badger\n\nStaff working in a shop had a shock when they found a badger had fallen through the ceiling and landed behind a counter.\n\nThe badger came through a ceiling panel in the Superdrug store in Northampton's Grosvenor Centre and then ran under the perfume counter.\n\nThe Northamptonshire Badger Group was called to rescue the female animal and subsequently set it free.\n\nSally Jones, from the group, said it was \"the oddest rescue we've ever had\".\n\nShe said she did not know how the young female badger got into the shop on Sunday, which was closed to the public at the time.\n\n\"There were four of our members there to catch the badger and we are really perplexed as to how it got into the Grosvenor Centre.\"\n\nMs Jones said it was suggested it could have entered via ducts in the back of the shop and staff saw it \"fall through the ceiling\".\n\nStaff said the badger hit the floor and it \"trundled off a bit dazed\".\n\nMs Jones said by the time the group arrived to rescue the badger \"there were perfume bottles strewn over the floor\".\n\nShe explained they were able to capture the animal and took it away to \"assess her\".\n\n\"She was very calm, no sign of any injuries or anything and we took [the badger] to a safe place that we know she can be released.\"\n\nThe badger was set free later the same day.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nanny McPhee star and climate change activist Raphael Coleman has died at the age of 25.\n\nHis mum Liz Jensen confirmed his death in a statement on Twitter on Friday 7 February.\n\nRaphael's mum said \"he died doing what he loved\" and added she wants to \"celebrate all he achieved in his short life and cherish his legacy\".\n\nHis stepdad, Carsten Jensen, said on Facebook the actor had collapsed and didn't have any health problems.\n\nRaphael (far right) was 10 when he played Eric Brown in Nanny McPhee\n\nTributes have also been paid by his fellow stars from the film, including Eliza Bennett.\n\nShe wrote: \"I was so heartbroken to hear about Raphael (now James Iggy).\n\n\"After we worked on Nanny McPhee, he dedicated his life to protecting wildlife and fighting climate change.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRaphael Coleman was best known for his role as Eric Brown in the 2005 film, starring alongside Emma Thompson and Colin Firth.\n\nIn his post on Facebook, his stepdad said he died \"in the middle of a trip and could not be restored\".\n\nHe also talked about what his stepson, who originally wanted to be a scientist, was like as a child.\n\n\"Not to blow up something, as his figure in Nanny McPhee, but to save the planet.\"\n\nCarsten Jensen also talked about Raphael's life as an activist for the climate change group Extinction Rebellion.\n\n\"Under the name Iggy Fox, he controlled the group's social media, spoke at demonstrations.\"\n\nOn Raphael's website he described himself as \"a twenty-something Zoology graduate travelling the world on a shoestring budget, working with wildlife and exploring wildernesses\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by wilderlost.fox This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis mum Liz thanked her Twitter followers for their messages of support.\n\nShe said: \"Extinction Rebellion is celebrating his remarkable life as a wildlife biologist and activist on Thursday in London.\"\n\nThe social justice group Occupy London also paid tribute to him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Occupy London This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRaphael won an award in 2010 for his acting.\n\nHe was given the best young actor award by the British Independent Film Festival for a performance in the short film Edward's Turmoil.\n\nHe also won an award at the Brussels Short Film Festival in 2010.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Quincy is all-in for Bernie Sanders and that's put the 23-year-old at odds with her father, Ron. He's backed Elizabeth Warren in New Hampshire's Democratic primary.\n\nThis kind of generational battle between ideology and pragmatism is nothing new - but it could be a key factor as Democrats decide who has the best chance of beating Donald Trump in November's presidential election.", "There were 1,462 freeze cycles carried out in 2017 in the UK\n\nThe period of time for which eggs, sperm and embryos can be frozen could be extended, as the government calls for views on the current 10-year limit.\n\nIt said women's choices on when to have children were being restricted, despite advances in freezing technology.\n\nOnly the eggs of people whose fertility may be affected by disease can be kept for longer - up to 55 years.\n\nThe regulator said the time was right to consider a \"more appropriate\" storage limit.\n\nSo the government has now launched a consultation on the current law.\n\nIt will also consider the safety and quality of eggs, embryos and sperm stored for more than 10 years and any additional demand for storage facilities that could result.\n\n\"Although this could affect any one of us, I am particularly concerned by the impact of the current law on women's reproductive choices,\" said Caroline Dinenage, a minister in the Department of Health.\n\n\"A time limit can often mean women are faced with the heart-breaking decision to destroy their frozen eggs or feel pressured to have a child before they are ready.\"\n\nA fertility charity has previously said women were being pushed to delay egg freezing later and later, because of the 10-year storage limit.\n\nThe number of women choosing to freeze their eggs has more than tripled in recent years, from 410 freezing cycles in 2012 to 1,462 in 2017.\n\nMost - four out of five - are doing it for social reasons, to increase their chances of having a baby later in life, data suggests.\n\nA much smaller number are freezing eggs before having unrelated medical treatment, such as to combat cancer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe best time for a woman to freeze her eggs is before the age of 35, when the quality and number of eggs starts to decline - but the most common age for doing it is now 38.\n\nSally Cheshire, who chairs the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, said the regulator had heard the voices of patient and doctors.\n\n\"While any change to the 10-year storage limit would be a matter for Parliament, as it requires a change in law, we believe the time is right to consider what a more appropriate storage limit could be that recognises both changes in science and in the way women are considering their fertility,\" she said.\n\nThe consultation on gamete storage limits is online here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hastings lifeboat nearly capsized as it answered an emergency call at the height of Storm Ciara.\n\nA 58-year-old man has died after a tree fell on his car in Hampshire during Storm Ciara on Sunday.\n\nPolice said the man, from Micheldever, was driving on the A33 when the accident happened just before 16:00 GMT. He died at the scene.\n\nIt comes as the UK continues to feel the after-effects of the storm which brought flooding and severe gales.\n\nTrains, flights and motorists face further disruption, while many flood warnings remain in place.\n\nYellow weather warnings for snow, ice and wind are also in force for large swathes of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of England until 12:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nForecasters said some areas could see blizzards and up to 20cm (8in) of snow.\n\nHampshire Police released a statement on Monday saying a 58-year-old man died after a tree fell on the Mercedes he was driving from Winchester to Micheldever.\n\n\"His next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers,\" the statement added.\n\nMore than 500 properties are believed to have been flooded during Storm Ciara, with that number expected to increase as more information is collected, Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers said.\n\nShe added that between 40 and 80cm of rain had fallen within 24 hours across much of northern England.\n\nMs Villiers said the government would provide \"significant financial support\" for the areas affected by flooding.\n\nEarlier, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick activated the government's emergency Bellwin scheme for areas of West Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancashire, which allows for funding to be activated.\n\nElsewhere, wintry conditions have swept across Scotland, with many roads being affected by snow.\n\nFour people had to be rescued near the summit of Ben Nevis, in the Scottish Highlands, after getting caught in blizzards.\n\nForecasters said that the snow and high winds would bring blizzards to many parts of Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nIn north Wales, cars were trapped after roads became impassable because of heavy snow.\n\nConditions on the A4212 between Bala and Trawnsfynydd in Gwynedd caused people to abandon their journeys\n\nNorth Wales Police said snow ploughs and gritters are being deployed and that people leaving their cars were putting their lives at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, homes were evacuated in Brentwood, Essex, in the early hours of Monday after a car fell into a sinkhole on a residential road.\n\nFirefighters were called to this residential street in Essex in the early hours of Monday morning\n\nThe town of Appleby-in-Westmorland, in Cumbria, was one of those severely hit by flooding\n\nThe clean-up operation is also taking place in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire\n\nSome areas experienced a month-and-a-half's worth of rainfall and gusts of 97mph on Sunday, resulting in flooding and power cuts for more than half a million households.\n\nEngineers have managed to restore electricity to the vast majority of homes but more than 20,000 properties across east and south-east England and north Wales spent Sunday night without power.\n\nUK Power Networks said by Monday evening electricity had been restored to 99% of the 353,000 homes and businesses that experienced outages because of the storm.\n\nTrees continue to cause problems for the trains - this blocked the line between Dorking and Horsham on Monday morning\n\nThe River Ouse in York was one of the rivers which burst its banks\n\nA sinkhole opened up in Belfield, Greater Manchester, following the storm\n\nFlooding and debris also caused problems for rail passengers, with disruption expected to continue on Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the West Coast Main Line had no trains running north of Preston because of earlier flooding at Carlisle.\n\nAll lines have since reopened at Carlisle but Avanti West Coast warned some trains may still be cancelled or delayed.\n\nImpact so far of Storm Ciara\n• None 24 hours’ rainfall in parts of UK, equivalent to that of1.5 months\n\nAirlines operating to and from UK airports were also affected, with more than 100 flights cancelled.\n\nFerry services between Dover and Calais have also been hit by delays and cancellations.\n\nThere were difficult driving conditions on the A82 and many other roads across Scotland\n\nParts of the Cambrian rail line in Wales are under water\n\nA stand at Wisbech Town Football Club in Cambridgeshire buckled in the strong winds\n\nForecasters are expecting the unsettled weather to last further into the week.\n\n\"While Storm Ciara is clearing away, that doesn't mean we're entering a quieter period of weather,\" said Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill.\n\n\"We have got colder air coming through the UK and will be feeling a real drop in temperatures, with an increased risk of snow in northern parts of the UK and likely in Scotland.\n\n\"There could be up to 20cm (8in) on Tuesday and with strong winds, blizzards aren't out of the question.\"\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Ciara? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg, the two current frontrunners, have an age difference of four decades - Sanders is more than double his rival's age.\n\nIn his speech in the past hour, Buttigieg mentioned admiring Sanders while he was in high school.\n\nButtigieg was born in 1982. At that time, Sanders was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont - a post he'd hold from 1981 to 1989.\n\nWhen Buttigieg was graduating high school at age 18 in 2000, Sanders was a member of the US House of Representatives.\n\nThat same year, Buttigieg won an award for writing an essay about Bernie Sanders where he called him an \"outstanding and inspiring example\" of integrity.\n\n\"In a climate where even liberalism is considered radical, and Socialism is immediately and perhaps willfully confused with Communism, a politician dares to call himself a socialist? He does indeed.\"\n\nButtigieg became South Bend, Indiana, mayor in 2012 - at which point Sanders was in his second term as senator.", "Time-lapse footage shows a snowstorm sweeping in from the Black Sea and hitting the town of Hopa in Turkey on Sunday.\n\nThe video was shot by a resident, Sefa Yasar, who said: \"It was a bit scary but at the same time it was a natural wonder.\"", "The predator's name - Thanatotheristes degrootorum - translates to \"Reaper of Death\" in Greek\n\nA new species of tyrannosaur that stalked North America around 80 million years ago has been discovered by scientists in Canada.\n\nThe dinosaur lived in the late Cretaceous Period, making it the oldest known tyrannosaur from North America.\n\nAnother species of tyrannosaur, a Daspletosaurus, was found in Canada in 1970, a study says.\n\nResearchers say the new discovery has given them insights into the evolution of tyrannosaurs.\n\nStanding roughly 8ft (2.4m) tall, the predator would have cut an intimidating figure.\n\nLike its tyrannosaur relatives, the carnivorous dinosaur had a long, deep snout, bumps on its skull and large steak-knife-like teeth measuring more than 7cm (2.7in) long.\n\nThe predator's name - Thanatotheristes degrootorum - translates to \"Reaper of Death\" from the Greek.\n\n\"We chose a name that embodies what this tyrannosaur was as the only known large apex predator of its time in Canada, the reaper of death,\" said Darla Zelenitsky, a palaeobiology professor who co-authored the study.\n\n\"The nickname has come to be Thanatos.\"\n\nFragments of Thanatos's fossilised skull were found by John De Groot, a farmer and palaeontology enthusiast.\n\nHe stumbled across the fossils in 2010 while hiking near Hays, a hamlet in southern Alberta.\n\n\"The jawbone was an absolutely stunning find,\" said Mr De Groot. \"We knew it was special because you could clearly see the fossilised teeth.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology\n\nTyrannosaurs, or \"tyrant lizards\", were the dominant predators on land for millions of years before the extinction of dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.\n\nBy the late Cretaceous Period, around 80 million years ago, North American tyrannosaurs had become enormous beasts. But the fossil records before this period are patchy.\n\nIt is hoped that this new study will help palaeontologists fill gaps in their knowledge.\n\nTyrannosaurs, like the one pictured here, were the dominant predators on land for millions of years\n\n\"There are very few species of tyrannosaurids, relatively speaking,\" said Prof Zelenitsky of Canada's University of Calgary.\n\n\"Because of the nature of the food chain these large apex predators were rare compared to herbivorous or plant-eating dinosaurs.\"\n\nThe study about Thanatos was published last month in the Cretaceous Research journal.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link will go ahead.\n\nIt follows a five-month review which he ordered last August, and an election at which the Tories failed to commit fully to the project in their manifesto.\n\nThe first phase of the route will travel between London and Birmingham, with a second phase going to Manchester and Leeds.\n\nThe rail link was signed off by MPs in 2017, but has since faced opposition from a variety of quarters.\n\nThis has ranged between outright opposition on cost or delivery grounds, to local concerns from those MPs whose constituencies are on or near the route.\n\nWhen completed, the rail link will run through about 70 constituencies, most of them currently held by Conservative MPs.\n\nGiven the government's 80-strong majority, the future of the project is all but assured, but support and criticism within Parliament is bound to continue.\n\nAfter the announcement was made, long-term HS2 critic Dame Cheryl Gillan said she remained convinced HS2 will not deliver \"value for money\".\n\nShe said that she was also concerned construction would cause \"substantial environmental destruction\" to her Chesham and Amersham constituency, in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Its construction will prove highly disruptive and by a construction industry who by its own admission lacks the capacity to deliver on alongside other infrastructure projects in the pipeline,\" she added.\n\nHowever fellow Conservative Kieran Mullan, whose constituency will benefit directly from HS2 services calling at Crewe, was more supportive in the Commons.\n\n\"The prime minister has well and truly swept the leaves off the line of transport infrastructure investment in this country,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"I know businesses in Crewe and Nantwich will benefit locally, not jobs and businesses in London, but locally in Crewe and Nantwich\".\n\nHowever, another MP in the area, Sir Graham Brady, questioned why the planned station for Manchester airport was due to be be built in his Altrincham and Sale West constituency rather than at the airport itself.\n\nHe also called for an urgent review into a section of the line to Manchester which will cut through a number of villages, which he said would cost more than £1bn and prove \"entirely unnecessary\".\n\nNottingham South MP Lilian Greenwood, who used to chair Parliament's transport committee, said the go-ahead for HS2 was \"welcome news\".\n\nThe Nottingham South MP asked for a guarantee that a later part of the route, from the West Midlands to Leeds via the East Midlands, will be rubber-stamped by Parliament within the next five years.\n\nQuestioning the PM in the Commons, she expressed concern that this part of the route could be \"delayed further or downgraded to cut costs\".\n\nLong-term HS2 critic Andrew Bridgen was the sole Conservative MP during Tuesday's Commons debate to continue to voice outright opposition to the project.\n\nThe high-speed link, he added, would \"adversely affect\" his constituents in North West Leicestershire.\n\n\"HS2 is unloved and unwanted, and has been grossly mismanaged,\" he said.\n\n\"Does the prime minister appreciate my and my constituents' concerns that this could well be an albatross around this government's and the country's neck.\"\n\nHowever, another previous Conservative critic, Victoria Prentis, signalled that she would now be getting behind the project.\n\n\"The last three years have given us a few lessons in what gracious defeat looks like,\" said the MP for Banbury, Oxfordshire.\n\n\"Although I remain worried by the environmental, financial and governance issues of the project, I really do wish it all the best.\"\n\nLabour's Mike Kane, who told MPs that HS2 will run underneath his own house, in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, also welcomed the news.\n\nQuicker journey times to the north of England, he said, would open up \"a plethora of opportunities for the poor people of the south-east and the great city of Manchester\", said the Wythenshawe and Sale East MP.\n\nHe did, however, suggest to the prime minister that the project would have benefitted from a change in its starting position.\n\n\"If he wants to level up and have a northern powerhouse, why does he not start building the line from Manchester down?\" he asked.", "This video can not be played To play this video 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WATCH: Rory Cellan-Jones and Zoe Thomas puzzle out the Z Flip phone\n\nSamsung is making all three models in its new flagship smartphone range 5G-compatible. The top-end Galaxy S20 also introduces a 100x zoom camera.\n\nThe firm also confirmed a new foldable, the Galaxy Z Flip. It uses \"folding glass\" in its display and small fibres in its hinge to protect itself from damage.\n\nSeveral rivals plan their own handset launches over the coming weeks.\n\nBut the spread of the coronavirus poses a threat to production.\n\n\"The virus is going to affect the supply chain,\" said Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"Although Samsung has diversified its manufacturing into places way beyond China, there will still be components in these phones sourced from China.\"\n\nMany factories in the country have delayed re-opening after its New Year break because of fears the virus could spread in the workplace. China is also the world's biggest smartphone market, and the outbreak has hit local demand.\n\nThe S20 handsets come in three sizes with different camera capabilities\n\nSamsung has suffered less impact than many of its rivals to date because it makes most of its handsets in Vietnam, and sells relatively few phones to Chinese consumers.\n\nBut TrendForce - a research firm - still predicts the virus will cause the South Korean firm to produce 3% fewer devices than it might have in the current quarter.\n\n\"I'm expecting that to mean some delays in delivering the new handsets,\" added Francisco Jeronimo an analyst at IDC.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it was making its \"best effort to minimise impact on our operations\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are three S20 variants:\n\nThe S20 Ultra's camera module is thicker than that of the others to incorporate a periscope. This uses a prism to reflect light into the device's interior, allowing the wide-angle option to feature a longer lens and bigger sensor.\n\nAlthough it is possible to take 108MP shots, owners are expected to let the phone automatically merge groups of nine pixels into one most of the time. This aids low-light photography.\n\nThe 100x \"super-resolution zoom\" facility uses the lower-resolution 48MP camera. Machine-learning techniques stitch together pixels from up to 20 different frames to achieve a better result than would be possible via a simple digital zoom.\n\nThe S20 Ultra uses a prism to get light to its largest sensor\n\nIt allows Samsung to boast double the zoom range of Huawei's competing P30 handset, although one expert questioned how usable it was in practice.\n\n\"The 100x zoom ends up with a quite blurred image, so I don't think people will turn to it that often\", commented Mr Jeronimo.\n\n\"But it should have a wow factor when shown off in stores. And at 20x to 30x you can get a good photo.\"\n\nThe phones also introduce Single Take mode. Samsung said this uses artificial intelligence to simultaneously take a mix of stills and videos via the various cameras, giving the owner a selection to choose from after the fact.\n\nSingle Take mode takes photos and video clips over a 10 second period using a variety of the cameras\n\n\"We want to make sure consumers can really enjoy the moment in front of them... and don't have to worry about adjusting settings,\" explained product manager Mark Holloway.\n\nThe phones are also among the first to be capable of recording in 8K resolution - four times as many pixels as 4K and 16 as many as 1080p high definition.\n\nMost people do not yet own 8K screens, but Samsung suggests this offers a degree of future-proofing as well as the ability to extract high-quality stills from the footage.\n\n\"Both the new tech and the more user-friendly user interface should help with how Samsung's camera functionality is perceived,\" commented Carolina Milanesi from Creative Strategies.\n\n\"Its results in the past were not quite on a par with competitors, perhaps signalling it wasn't leveraging software to do the heavy-lifting as much as the likes of Apple and Google. This time round there is definitely more 'AI' involved.\"\n\nThe S20 phones are Samsung's first to feature screens that refresh their image 120 times a second, which it says should make games appear smoother\n\nSamsung is pitching gaming as one benefit of having 5G connectivity, suggesting that lower latencies will mean that players can see and react to events in online titles split-seconds faster than if they were on 4G.\n\nSamsung highlights that 5G offers faster upload and download speeds as well as less lag time when using remote services\n\nThe phones' Google Duo app also displays video chats in higher quality when on 5G.\n\nNetworks are still in the early stages of deploying the technology, but one consultant said it was still wise to offer it as standard.\n\n\"Consumers are holding on to their phones for three or four years, and don't want something that will become obsolete in that lifetime,\" said Ben Wood.\n\n\"And this launch represents a unique opportunity: Huawei is on the back foot as it doesn't have access to Google's suite of apps, and Apple currently doesn't have a 5G-capable iPhone.\"\n\nThe Z Flip is the second smartphone Samsung has made with a flexible screen\n\nThe Z Flip, however, is limited to 4G.\n\nSeveral of its features - including a clamshell design with a small display on the outside and a 6.7in foldable screen on the inside - had already been revealed by Samsung in a TV advert on Sunday.\n\nIt represents the firm's second attempt at a foldable after the troubled launch of the Galaxy Fold tablet-phone hybrid.\n\nThis time round, the concept is a tall-screened phone that can be used one-handed when opened, and made wallet-sized when closed.\n\nThe hinge mechanism has also evolved. It now incorporates tiny brushes to sweep away dirt and dust particles. In addition, it can hold the device partially open, which Samsung is pitching as being helpful for taking selfies or recording vlogs.\n\nThe firm says it can be opened and closed more than 200,000 times.\n\nThe Z Flip can be placed part-open on a flat surface\n\nThe other big change is to the display, which now features a substance Samsung calls \"folding glass\".\n\n\"You clearly notice that the screen is much more resistant than the Fold's, which should reduce the risk of scratching,\" said Mr Francisco.\n\n\"It's still probably not as resistant as a normal smartphone, but you can feel its quality.\"\n\nThe Z Flip will cost $1,380 in the US and £1,300 in the UK and becomes available on 14 February.\n\nThe original Galaxy Fold had to be re-engineered after several reviewers complained their examples had become damaged\n\nIt will compete with Motorola's Razr, which has a similar design. But both are expected to sell in far smaller quantities than the S20 range.\n\n\"There's a lot of excitement around this new category, but [for most] they are prohibitively expensive,\" said Paolo Pescatore from PP Foresight.\n\n25 January: Lunar New Year, one of the biggest festivals of the year, takes place. Millions of people travel home, and many companies close or slow down production.\n\n27 January: Chinese authorities officially extend the holiday period until 10 February to try and contain the spread of the virus. The move affects suppliers of smartphone components for Samsung, Apple, and others.\n\n30 January-3 February: Apple announces all its stores and offices in china will remain shut until at least 9 February, as does Microsoft and Google, while Samsung closes its flagship store in Shanghai.\n\n10 February: Foxconn receives permission to reopen two major plants in Zhenghzou and Shenzhen. But Reuters news agency reports that only 10% of workers turned up, citing an unnamed source. Other factories remain closed - and some local authorities tell factories not to reopen until 1 March.", "A postmaster says the Post Office spent £320,000 suing him over £25,000 he was falsely accused of stealing.\n\nLee Castleton, from Bridlington, East Yorkshire, was made bankrupt after he lost a two-year legal battle with the Post Office.\n\nA recent ruling found problems with the Post Office's accountancy software could instead be to blame for the losses.\n\nThe Post Office has apologised and accepts its \"past shortcomings\".\n\nFor two decades, the Post Office pursued hundreds of its workers over accounting discrepancies with its Horizon IT system, accusing people of theft, fraud or false accounting. Many were fired, made bankrupt or even sent to prison.\n\nMr Castleton described how he and his family were abused, including an incident where his daughter was spat at, because \"local people presumed I was a thief\".\n\nThe former stockbroker, who bought a seafront Post Office branch in 2003, said he began to notice thousands of pounds in losses from his accounts within months of taking over the business.\n\nDespite calling the Post Office's helpline nearly every day for three months, he said: \"We just couldn't understand where the losses were coming from.\"\n\nFollowing an audit, Mr Castleton's branch was found to have a £25,000 shortfall. He was subsequently suspended.\n\nThe Post Office spent the next two years pursuing him for the missing money through the civil courts.\n\n\"The Post Office decided to make an example of me,\" said Mr Castleton.\n\nHe was forced to defend himself in London's High Court because he had no money to hire a lawyer. When he lost the case, he was made bankrupt.\n\nMr Castleton is now one of more than 550 former postmasters who will get a share of a £58m settlement from the Post Office.\n\nThe agreement was reached in December last year, when the High Court ruled that technical problems with the Post Office's Horizon IT system could instead be to blame for losses - something Mr Castleton and the other claimants had always believed was the case.\n\nInternally, some Post Office staff had also grown concerned about what was happening.\n\nSpeaking out for the very first time, one former manager told the BBC's File on 4 the Post Office had \"zero interest\" when he questioned why increasing numbers of postmasters were being blamed for losses totalling millions of pounds.\n\nPostmasters accused of fraud or theft are campaigning to have their convictions overturned\n\nThe former staff member, who wishes to remain anonymous, said he voiced his concerns after reading internal documents. \"I didn't like what I was finding but was told it would be better for my career to 'move on and let it go',\" he said.\n\nHe said he and a number of colleagues \"began to feel increasingly uncomfortable but there was no space for honesty, no desire for open dialogue\".\n\n\"The people running our stores were being arrested going to prison, losing their life savings, having massive mental health issues. It felt as though doing the right thing no longer mattered, it was all about saving the image of the Post Office\".\n\nHe said: \"A fellow member of staff asked one manager why they thought there was such a high volume of fraud. The manager laughed and said 'because half the post offices are run by ex-police who took early retirement or former pub landlords so they're probably used to fiddling the books'.\n\n\"I think it was meant as a joke but it betrays a subtle contempt for the people on the front line.\"\n\nRon Warmington, from the forensic accountants 'Second Sight', was brought in by the Post Office in 2012 to look at around 150 cases.\n\nIn his first ever broadcast interview, he told File on 4 that as his findings became more critical of the Post Office, it became increasingly difficult for him to access the information he needed.\n\n\"It's the way that corporations behave when things go wrong,\" he said. \"And it was in that area that we found it so strange, the way the Post Office was reacting, presumably to protect the brand.\"\n\nIn 2015, the Post Office ended the investigation without notice but not before Mr Warmington had spoken to dozens of postmasters.\n\n\"I've spent decades dealing with some of the worst criminals in the world,\" he said. \"What struck me here was that I wasn't dealing with people like that.\n\n\"These were ordinary people that had simply found something that they couldn't deal with. They sought help but didn't get it and were put in a situation that frankly was life-changing for them.\"\n\nThe Post Office declined an interview but said it has \"accepted its past shortcomings\" and \"sincerely apologised\" to those affected.\n\nFile on 4's 'Second Class Citizens: The Post Office IT Scandal' is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 11 February at 20:00 GMT and available afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency crews were called to the scene in the early hours\n\nA car has fallen into a sinkhole in Essex and six homes have had to be evacuated due to \"unstable ground\".\n\nThe Toyota Prius became trapped in Hatch Road, Pilgrims Hatch, Brentwood, after the collapse early on Monday.\n\nThe fire service said there had been reports a sewer had partially collapsed but the exact cause of the sinkhole is not yet known.\n\nFire crews worked for more than two hours at the scene before handing over to Anglian Water.\n\nGordon Humphrey, who lives next to the sinkhole, said his wife heard a \"bang\" and then they saw the car.\n\n\"You could hear the water bubbling, see the tail lights and there was a smell of gas,\" the 60-year-old said.\n\nAnglian Water said it was working with utilities companies and the police\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed whether the vehicle was moving at the time, or if anyone was inside.\n\nAn Anglian Water spokesman said crews were investigating, adding: \"We are working with other utilities [water and gas] plus the local police to assess if any of our pipes have been damaged.\n\nResident Mr Humphrey said he saw someone, who he did not think was the driver, in the front of the car with water up to the seats \"trying to find something\".\n\n\"He said his mate was in shock,\" Mr Humphrey added.\n\nStephanie Lloyd, who also lives nearby, said she was woken at about 02:00 GMT by flashing lights from the emergency vehicles.\n\nShe said at first \"all we could see was the back of that car so it look like it had been cut in half\" before being told by a firefighter it was a sinkhole.\n\nA number of homes have also been evacuated following the collapse\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Iran attacked a US base in Iraq in retaliation for the killing of Iran General Qasem Suleimani\n\nThe number of US troops suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBI) after an Iranian attack on a US base in Iraq in January has risen to 109, according to US officials.\n\nThe figure is a significant increase from the 64 injured service members previously reported by the Pentagon.\n\nPresident Donald Trump initially said no Americans were injured in the raid.\n\nThe attack on 8 January came amid tensions over the US killing of an Iranian general.\n\nNearly 70% of the injured service members have returned to their duties, the Pentagon added in its statement.\n\nMr Trump originally cited the supposed lack of injuries in his decision not to strike back against Iran.\n\nThe rising number of reported cases results from the mild form of injury which means symptoms take time to manifest, the Pentagon said in a news conference in January.\n\n\"They landed in a way that didn't hit anybody,\" Mr Trump told Fox Business Network on Monday.\n\n\"And so when they came in and told me that nobody was killed, I was impressed by that and, you know, I stopped something that would have been very devastating for them,\" he said, without specifying what had been \"stopped\".\n\nBut Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa, called for more answers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the US base attacked by Iranian missiles\n\n\"It's vital we have a plan to treat these injured service members.\n\n\"I've called on the Pentagon to ensure the safety and care of our deployed forces who may be exposed to blast injuries in Iraq,\" she tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joni Ernst This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast month President Trump downplayed the significance of traumatic brain injuries when asked about the impact of the attack.\n\n\"I heard that they had headaches, and a couple of other things, but I would say, and I can report, it's not very serious,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked about possible TBIs he said: \"I don't consider them very serious injuries relative to other injuries I have seen.\"\n\nTBIs are common in warzones, according to the US military.\n\nThe most common cause of a TBI for deployed soldiers is an explosive blast, writes the US Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center.\n\nThey are classified as mild, moderate, severe or penetrating. A mild TBI is also known as a concussion, and can be caused by a blast's \"atmospheric over-pressure followed by under-pressure or vacuum\".\n\nThe air vacuum is capable of penetrating solid objects, making it possible for soldiers to avoid blunt force trauma but still receive an invisible brain injury.\n\nMore than 400,000 troops have been diagnosed with TBI's since 2000, according to the US government.", "Manchester's plans for HS2, revealed in 2018, include a major upgrade of Piccadilly station\n\nThe HS2 rail project, which will cut travel times from Manchester to London, could be \"a waste of money\", commuters in the northern city have said.\n\nThe government is set to approve the project's two stages, though the second one linking Manchester and Birmingham will be reviewed.\n\nManchester passengers said they worried about its environmental costs and the lack of a solution to existing issues.\n\nHowever, the city's council leader said it was \"very, very good news\".\n\nSir Richard Leese added that the UK had \"vastly under-invested in infrastructure for probably half a century and I think we need to adjust our cash registers to recognise we need this investment\".\n\nPaul Fletcher said money should be spent improving the existing network\n\nAt the city's Piccadilly railway station, insurance broker Paul Fletcher said the government \"would be far better spending [the money set aside for it] on improving the lines we've already got\".\n\n\"What a waste of money,\" he said.\n\nThe 49-year-old, who lives in Hyde, Greater Manchester, said he was also concerned about the potential impact on the proposed Northern Powerhouse Rail project, which would improve links from between the West and East coasts.\n\n\"Who knows what will happen when they review the line to Manchester and Leeds?\" he said.\n\n\"It seems the North is again getting a raw deal.\"\n\nRon Baldwin said the government \"should be putting money into normal trains\"\n\nThe 75-year-old had just travelled for nearly two hours from his home in Brough, Cumbria and said that \"yet again, the North seems to be taking a back seat\".\n\n\"I am very sceptical that this will ever happen - the costs just seem to be endless.\n\n\"They should be putting money into normal trains- I doubt we'll ever see the benefit where I live.\"\n\nAnne Butterworth was worried about the environmental impact\n\nAdministrator Anne Butterworth, 56, was also concerned about local services.\n\n\"I regularly travel on smaller commuter trains; that's where the money needs going, not HS2,\" she said.\n\n\"However, what I really worry about is the environmental impact. Wildlife will suffer because of this.\n\n\"They will be knocking down ancient forest to build this and damaging wetlands. I thought we were supposed to be preserving them for the future generation, not harming them.\"\n\n\"They would be better off spending the money on existing infrastructure,\" Jade Fuller said\n\nSouthampton-based project manager Jade Fuller, who regularly travels between London and Manchester for work, said she was also concerned about the environmental and financial costs for what could be minimal gain.\n\n\"It seems an awful lot of money to spend just to save 20 minutes to get to London,\" the 35-year-old said.\n\n\"They would be better off spending the money on existing infrastructure - that's what's really needed.\"\n\n\"In theory, I think it's a worthwhile project [as] investing in our trains is a good idea, but I do also think they should put more money into our existing trains,\" he said.\n\n\"The commuter trains need improving too.\"\n\nSir Richard said the project must be \"properly integrated\" with Northern Powerhouse Rail\n\nSir Richard told BBC Radio Manchester it was \"about time\" HS2 got the go-ahead.\n\n\"Virtually anywhere else in Europe would have had it built by now,\" he said.\n\n\"It's capacity we will need for the rest of this century and beyond, and the fact it's going to go ahead is very, very good news for Manchester and indeed the whole of the North.\n\n\"All of our commuter lines are full and there's no room for freight on the existing network, so taking the long-distance trains off the existing network and putting them on their own network means we will have more and more reliable services between Manchester, Birmingham and London and across to Liverpool, Bradford and Leeds.\"\n\nHowever, he added that the project needed to be \"properly integrated\" with Northern Powerhouse Rail.\n\n\"As a country, we've vastly under-invested in infrastructure for probably half a century and I think we need to adjust our cash registers to recognise we need this investment.\"\n\nIn a statement, Connecting Britain said the North \"needs new rail lines that go north-south and west-east\".\n\nThe coalition of northern business and political leaders, which includes Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, said London \"isn't being forced to choose, it's getting Crossrail and HS2\".\n\n\"We need HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail delivered in full [and] we will not accept a gold-plated high-speed line between London and Birmingham, then once again the North getting the scraps.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duchess of Cambridge has revealed she used hypnobirthing techniques of mindfulness and meditation to cope with severe morning sickness.\n\nCatherine suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, which causes severe vomiting, during her pregnancies.\n\nIn her first podcast interview, she said the illness meant she was \"not the happiest of pregnant people\".\n\nHowever, she said after trying everything to overcome it she realised the importance of \"mind over the body\".\n\nThe duchess joked: \"I'm not going to say that William was standing there sort of, chanting sweet nothings at me.\n\n\"He definitely wasn't. I didn't even ask him about it, but it was just something I wanted to do for myself.\n\n\"I saw the power of it really, the meditation and the deep breathing and things like that, that they teach you in hypnobirthing, when I was really sick, and actually I realised that this was something I could take control of, I suppose, during labour. It was hugely powerful.\"\n\nSpeaking on the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast, Catherine told author and host Giovanna Fletcher that the Five Big Questions On The Under Fives survey she has launched aims to ask people \"what is it that matters for them in raising their children today.\"\n\n\"I had an amazing granny who devoted a lot of time to us, playing with us, doing arts and crafts and going to the greenhouse to do gardening, and cooking with us,\" she said.\n\n\"And I try and incorporate a lot of the experiences that she gave us at the time into the experiences that I give my children now.\"\n\nThese are some of the most open and candid words we've heard from the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nShe speaks personally about her childhood and reflects on the value of her stable upbringing.\n\nThere are many insights into her own experience of pregnancy and motherhood that many will recognise.\n\nShe shares the misery of extreme morning sickness, the power of hypnobirthing, the uncertainty of those early days with a new baby and the guilt of working and relying on others to help you.\n\nShe also describes how she felt in the moments before facing the world's media outside the hospital just a day after giving birth and holding a newborn Prince George in her arms.\n\nShe said it was terrifying.\n\nIt's clear the duchess felt comfortable speaking to the podcast host, Giovanna Fletcher. That ease comes from the fact this area is now a real priority for Catherine.\n\nHer royal work has a sharp focus on family and specifically early intervention - helping vulnerable parents with children under the age of five who need extra support.\n\nThe Five Big Questions survey she launched last month asking for people's views on early childhood has so far drawn more than 200,000 responses.\n\nThe duchess said her own priorities included providing her children with the \"happy home\" and \"safe environment\" she had enjoyed as a child.\n\nShe said she was \"passionate\" about children spending a lot of time outside, adding that it was \"so great for physical and mental wellbeing\" and laying the foundations for healthy development.\n\n\"It's such a great environment to spend time in, building those quality relationships without the distractions of 'I've got to cook' and 'I've got to do this'. And actually, it's so simple,\" she said.\n\nThe image of Princess Charlotte smelling a bluebell was taken by the duchess at their home in Norfolk last spring\n\nA picture of Catherine's daughter, Princess Charlotte, smelling a bluebell has been released following the duchess's interview.\n\nThe image of the four-year-old was taken by the duchess at their home in Norfolk in spring last year.\n\nThe month-long online poll, conducted by Ipsos Mori on behalf of Catherine's Royal Foundation, aims to \"spark a national conversation\" on early childhood, Kensington Palace has said.\n\nLaunched in January, it is thought to be the biggest survey of its kind and the results are intended to guide the duchess's future work.\n\n\"It's going to take a long time, I'm talking about a generational change, but hopefully this is the first small step: to start a conversation around the importance of early childhood development,\" Catherine said.\n\nThe duchess appeared on the podcast after visiting children at a nursery in south London\n\n\"It's not just about happy, healthy children. This is for lifelong consequences and outcomes.\"\n\nMs Fletcher - who is married to Tom Fletcher from McFly - said Kate seemed \"passionate\" about the subject and it was \"beyond wonderful to sit and talk further about the survey, her work - for which she has so much knowledge, and her own experiences of being a mother\".\n\n\"It doesn't matter who you are, what you have, or where you come from - we're all trying to do our best with our children while continuously doubting our decisions and wondering if we're getting it completely wrong. Talking helps unite us all,\" she said.\n\n1. What do you believe is most important for children growing up in the UK today to live a happy adult life? Rank from most important to least important:\n\n2. Which of these statements is closest to your opinion?\n\n3. How much do you agree or disagree with this statement? The mental health and wellbeing of parents and carers has a great impact on the development of their child(ren)\n\n4. Which of the following is closest to your opinion of what influences how children develop from the start of pregnancy to age five?\n\n5. Which period of a child and young person's life do you think is the most important for health and happiness in adulthood?", "A man fell from a tanker off the coast of Margate\n\nA body has been found by rescue crews searching for a man who fell from a fuel tanker off the coast of Kent.\n\nA coastguard helicopter, a Royal Navy warship and RNLI lifeboats had joined the operation around Margate Harbour.\n\nAuthorities were alerted at 05:40 GMT to reports the man had gone overboard from a liquid petroleum gas tanker that was anchored off the harbour overnight.\n\nA body was found in the water at about 13:00 after a seven-hour search in \"very rough seas\", the coastguard said.\n\nStorm Dennis, which is hitting much of the UK with strong winds and heavy rain, had not yet hit Margate at the time the man was reported missing.\n\nHMS Westminster had joined the search in response to the coastguard's call for assistance to all vessels in the aea.\n\nLifeboats were looking up to 8 miles (13km) out to sea, while coastguard crews searched the shoreline.\n\nIt is thought a crew member was reported missing from the tanker B Gas Margrethe, according to The Isle of Thanet News.\n\nThe ship's owners have been contacted for comment.\n\nStorm Dennis has seen yellow weather warnings put in place for wind and rain across the country. Harsher conditions are expected across Kent and Sussex on Sunday, with an amber rain warning in place, according to the Met Office.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool Crown Court heard Thomas Nulty raped the child in the early 1970s\n\nA man who raped a six-year-old girl when he was a teenager has been jailed almost 50 years after the offence.\n\nThomas Nulty, 64, raped the child in the early 1970s in Prescot, Merseyside, Liverpool Crown Court heard.\n\nThe victim revealed her ordeal to police in April 2018.\n\nNulty denied rape but was convicted following a trial, and admitted five offences involving the sexual abuse of two other children. He has been jailed for seven years and six months.\n\nJudge Gary Woodhall said he had taken into account that Nulty had been 16 years old at the time and \"did not have family nurturing to understand boundaries and behaviour\".\n\nNulty, now of Huddersfield Road, Oldham, had been brought up in two care homes where he was abused as a young boy, the court heard.\n\nThe court heard he raped the girl in her own bed while babysitting her. He threatened her not to tell anyone or her mother would die.\n\nJudge Woodhall, who ordered him to sign on the sex offenders register for life, said Nulty \"had shown little empathy or remorse\", adding: \"You admitted having been sexually aroused by the power it gave you.\"\n\nHe said the rape victim spoke of how his behaviour had \"ruined her life\" and she had needed help for mental health issues.\n\nIn an impact statement she told how when she was young she had tried to kill herself and had always felt \"isolated and alone\".\n\nShe described herself as always being in a state of anxiety.\n\nNulty was jailed for five years in 1995 for indecently assaulting a 12-year-old girl and a young woman.\n\nThe judge pointed out that while in jail he had undergone a sex offender's treatment programme and had not re-offended.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "French police have arrested a Russian activist artist behind the release of a sex video that brought down a political ally of President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nThe video scuppered Benjamin Griveaux's candidacy for mayor of Paris. Its release was widely condemned.\n\nA little-known website alleged that Mr Griveaux had exchanged intimate mobile phone messages with a young woman and sent her the video.\n\nMr Pavlensky, who sought asylum from Russia in 2017, said he had posted the video, showing a man involved in a sexual act, online.\n\nThe distribution of the clip, which spread quickly across social media on Thursday, brought condemnation from across the political spectrum.\n\nThe current Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said people's private lives should be respected.\n\nFar-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon condemned the video's release as \"odious\", while far-right leader Marine Le Pen suggested Mr Griveaux should not have quit.\n\nJudicial sources quoted by French media said the arrest of Mr Pavlensky was not connected with the video. He was being investigated over an alleged brawl in Paris on 31 December involving \"wilful violence with a weapon\".\n\nMr Griveaux described the attack on him as abuse\n\nMr Pavlensky says he posted the video to expose what he sees as the politician's hypocrisy.\n\nMr Griveaux, who is married with children and was once a government spokesman, condemned the distribution of the video as he withdrew his candidacy on Friday.\n\n\"My family does not deserve this. No-one should ever be subjected to such abuse,\" he said.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Griveaux reportedly filed an \"invasion of privacy\" complaint with the police, and an investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office, Agence France-Presse reported.\n\nHe first gained notoriety by nailing his scrotum to Moscow's Red Square in 2013. He fled Russia and sought asylum in France when he was accused by the authorities of a sexual assault that he denied.\n\nHe served seven months in jail for setting the front door of the FSB intelligence agency on fire in Moscow and later caused minor damage to a Banque de France branch by setting that alight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pyotr Pavlensky set fire to the door of the FSB, Russia's security service\n\nBefore his arrest, he told French news channel LCI that Mr Griveaux was only the first politician that he would target, saying he would carry on fighting the \"propaganda and puritanism of politicians\".\n\nFrench media have traditionally avoided prying into the private lives of people in public life and a number of figures referred distastefully to the \"Americanisation\" of politics.", "The coastline in Kent was battered by Storm Ciara last week, so residents are preparing for Storm Dennis' arrival.\n\nMany parts of the UK are yet to recover from the impact of Storm Ciara, and now Storm Dennis has caused further damage to property and homes.\n\nA red weather warning for rain is in place on Sunday for south Wales, as heavy rain and strong winds continue to affect the UK with more than 300 flood warnings issued.\n\nOn Tuesday the Met Office confirmed that Dennis was likely to hit Britain and said: \"It will bring very strong winds and potential for disruption to many parts of England and Wales on Saturday.\"\n\nSome experts have warned Dennis could inflict more damage than Ciara with a month of rain expected in some areas.\n\nThe Army have been brought into try and help in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.\n\nRoad, rail and air transport has already been disrupted, with many flights being cancelled.\n\nThese are the storm names for 2019/2020 season\n\nWhy are storms given names? Storms: Why are they given names?\n\nThese kids got involved in a clean up after Storm Ciara\n\nPeople living near railway lines have been asked to secure any loose gardens items, after several trampolines were blown on to the tracks last weekend.\n\nStorm Ciara created winds so strong that trees were blown over\n\nThe weather for the coming week is expected to remain quite unsettled.\n\nBut some sunny, dry spells are expected in places, especially in the east of the UK.\n• None How has Storm Ciara affected you?\n• None Why do storms have names?", "ITV have pulled Saturday's edition of Love Island following the death of the show's former host Caroline Flack.\n\nAn episode of unseen bits from the week in the villa was due to have been aired at 21:00 GMT.\n\nFlack's death shocked fans on Saturday. It came two months after she was replaced as host of the show after being charged with assault.\n\nAn ITV statement said: \"Everybody at Love Island and ITV is shocked and saddened by this desperately sad news.\"\n\nIt continued: \"Caroline was a much loved member of the Love Island team and our sincere thoughts and condolences are with her family and friends.\"\n\nITV2's programme announcer said: \"In light of today's sad news we're replacing tonight's episode of Love Island: Unseen Bits with a double bill of You've Been Framed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLove Island's first winter series, which is being filmed in South Africa, is due to end on Sunday, 23 February.\n\nMeanwhile, Channel 4 said its series The Surjury, which was to have been hosted by Flack, will not air.\n\nA Channel 4 spokeswoman said: \"We are shocked and saddened to hear the tragic news about Caroline Flack. Our deepest sympathies go out to Caroline's family and friends.\n\n\"Under the circumstances, we have decided not to broadcast The Surjury.\"\n\nWhen the show was announced in October, the channel said it would feature a 12-strong jury of the public who would decide if people got the cosmetic surgery they dreamed of.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer are the final three contenders in the UK Labour leadership election\n\nThe final contenders for the Labour leadership have answered questions at a hustings in Glasgow, with all three backing more powers being devolved.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy set out their views on topics including Scottish independence and the constitution.\n\nAll three MPs agreed that the party had to win in Scotland to win back power.\n\nHowever, Ms Long-Bailey was the only one to explicitly state she would agree to a fresh ballot on independence.\n\nShe insisted her party must not \"fall into the trap\" again of working with the Tories to try to keep Scotland in the UK.\n\nThe shadow business secretary and her fellow leadership hopefuls, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and former shadow climate change secretary Lisa Nandy, became the final three contenders in the running to succeed Jeremy Corbyn after Emily Thornberry was eliminated for failing to secure enough nominations before the deadline on Friday night.\n\nAt the SEC in Glasgow, the remaining contenders all stressed the importance of Labour winning back support in Scotland as a route back to power across the UK.\n\nMs Nandy said: \"There is no route to government that doesn't run through Scotland, but the challenge of this is absolutely enormous.\"\n\nShe added: \"We have to start winning in every region and nation of the UK, because we have to show we are a national party of government.\"\n\nSimilarly Sir Keir said: \"We can't win without Scotland so we have to rebuild in Scotland.\"\n\nMs Long-Bailey - an ally of the departing Jeremy Corbyn - also echoed that, telling activists at the event: \"We won't win a general election without Scotland.\"\n\nAsked directly if the Scottish Parliament should have the power to stage a legally-binding vote on independence, Ms Long-Bailey reiterated that while she is opposed to independence she does not think Westminster should block indyref2 against Holyrood's wishes.\n\nOn Saturday she said: \"I'm proud to be from the United Kingdom but as a democrat I have to say that if the Scottish Parliament makes the request for a referendum I don't believe that as a democratic party we could refuse that.\"\n\nHer comments came after MSPs at Holyrood voted by 64 to 54 last month in favour of a second independence referendum taking place.\n\nIf there is a second vote on Scottish independence she said Labour could make a \"positive campaign\" for the union.\n\nBut she was clear: \"We can't fall into the trap we did last time where we joined forces with the Conservative Party on Better Together.\"\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer speaking at the Labour leadership hustings on the stage at SEC in Glasgow\n\nHowever, Sir Keir - who is the bookmakers' favourite to replace Mr Corbyn - said that by backing a second independence vote Labour could be falling into a \"trap\" set by the SNP.\n\nHe said the issue of Holyrood having the power to stage a fresh ballot on the issue was \"an interesting question\" but he added: \"We shouldn't get sucked straight into that.\n\n\"The SNP are constantly using the constitutional issue to mask the real issues, and if we get into that we are falling into their trap.\n\n\"Let's have a wide discussion about where we go next, but let's be bold about it.\"\n\nHe argued that Labour should support \"radical federalism as the way forward\" for the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Nandy said she believed in a \"much more radical power settlement than federalism with power pushed out to local authorities\".\n\nShe told Labour Party members: \"I believe in the United Kingdom and I think we have to be absolutely clear about that and we have to stand up for Scotland remaining in the United Kingdom.\n\n\"We can hand power to people and give people agency and control over their own lives again by handing more powers to our councils.\"\n\nCurrent leader Jeremy Corbyn confirmed he would step down at his election count in December as his party faced its worst performance in terms of seats since 1935.", "Medics in Wuhan have been shaving their heads in a bid to prevent cross-infection of the coronavirus.\n\nTens of thousands of people in China have been diagnosed with Covid-19 and it has spread to several other countries.", "One person is still receiving treatment in Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital\n\nAll but one of the nine people being treated for the coronavirus in the UK have been discharged from hospital.\n\nThey were discharged after twice testing negative for the virus, NHS England said on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, all 94 people who were being quarantined at Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral have left the site.\n\nThe patients were among the first British coronavirus evacuees flown back to the UK from Wuhan, China, which is the centre of the outbreak.\n\nMore than 100 people are still in quarantine in a Milton Keynes hotel after arriving from China last weekend.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I want to stress that any individuals who are discharged from hospital are now well and do not pose any public health risk to the public.\"\n\nAmong those to have been discharged are five members of the ski group who were treated at the Royal Free and Guy's and St Thomas', both in London.\n\nFour adults and a child were diagnosed with the virus after coming into contact with Steve Walsh, from Hove, while at a French ski resort on his way home from Singapore.\n\nIn a joint statement on Saturday, the group said: \"All of our group, including the six in other countries, have recovered quickly from the virus having required minimal medical treatment during our time in isolation.\"\n\nThe group thanked those involved in their care, adding that they were \"feeling well and looking forward to being home\".\n\nMr Walsh, who is thought to have infected 11 people while at the resort, said on Tuesday that he had fully recovered.\n\nProf Keith Willett, NHS strategic incident director, said more people may need to spend some time at home in the coming weeks to reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nThe final person being treated for the virus is still at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital in central London.\n\nProf Willett thanked those who have just left Arrowe Park hospital for the \"calm, patient and responsible\" response to the situation.\n\nHundreds of people who were at a conference in London earlier this month, including two Labour MPs, were contacted by health officials after an attendee was later diagnosed with the virus.\n\nThe person, who has not been identified, was at the UK Bus Summit at the QEII Conference Centre.\n\nOfficials have been tracing the contacts of the ninth person in the UK to test positive for the virus.\n\nThe first death from the disease in Europe was confirmed on Saturday, after a Chinese tourist died in France.\n\nThe victim, one of more than 1,500 fatalities from the virus, was an 80-year-old man from China's Hubei province.\n\nHe arrived in France on 16 January and was placed in quarantine in hospital in Paris on 25 January.\n\nOnly three deaths had previously been reported outside mainland China - in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Japan.\n\nA further 2,641 people have been newly confirmed as infected, bringing the China's total to 66,492.\n\nOutside mainland China, there have been more than 500 cases in 24 countries.", "A woman looks out of her window as ducks swim past in floodwater after the River Severn burst its banks in Bewdley, west of Birmingham", "Sporting events were cancelled throughout the UK, including in Manchester, which was also hit by floods. Manchester City's Premier League match against West Ham was among the cancellations", "Tracing the links between the different species is a complex scientific quest\n\nA mysterious \"ghost population\" of now-extinct ancient human-like creatures may have interbred with early humans living in West Africa, scientists say.\n\nResearchers suggest DNA from this group makes up between 2% and 19% of modern West Africans' genetic ancestry.\n\nThey believe the interbreeding occurred about 43,000 years ago.\n\nScientists found links to the Mende people of Sierra Leone, Yoruba as well as Esan people in Nigeria, plus other groups in western areas of The Gambia.\n\nThe new study was published in Science Advances this week.\n\nIt suggests that ancestors of modern West Africans interbred with a yet-undiscovered species of archaic human, similar to how ancient Europeans mated with Neanderthals, and Oceanic populations with Denisovans.\n\nThe research sheds more light on how archaic hominins added to the genetic variation of present-day Africans, which has been poorly understood even though it is the most genetically diverse continent.\n\nHundreds of thousands of years ago there were several different groups of humans including modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans.\n\nThe newly-discovered \"ghost population\" of ancient human species seems likely to have diverged from these groups.\n\nSriram Sankararaman - the computational biologist who led the research at the University of California in Los Angeles - told BBC Newsday he believed more such groups would be found in the future.\n\nHis team looked at the genetic make-up of West Africans and found that some of their DNA came from an ancient unexplained source.\n\n\"As we get more data from diverse populations - and better quality data - our ability to sift through that data and excavate these ghost populations is going to get better,\" Mr Sankararaman said.", "Facebook is under increasing pressure to curb the spread of disinformation online\n\nFacebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has called for more regulation of harmful online content, saying it was not for companies like his to decide what counts as legitimate free speech.\n\nHe was speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.\n\nSocial media giants like Facebook are under increasing pressure to stop the spread of false information.\n\nFacebook in particular has been criticised for its policy on political advertising.\n\nThe company launched new policies for political advertising in the US in 2018 and globally the following year. These rules require political ads to display who had paid for them, and a copy of the ad is kept in a publicly-searchable database for seven years.\n\nBut this week Facebook said it would not include sponsored political posts by social media stars in its database. Posts by politicians are not always fact-checked as part of the company's free speech policy either.\n\nAt the conference he said he supported regulation.\n\n\"We don't want private companies making so many decisions about how to balance social equities without any more democratic process,\" he said.\n\nThe Facebook founder urged governments to come up with a new regulatory system for social media, suggesting it should be a mix of existing rules for telecoms and media companies.\n\n\"In the absence of that kind of regulation we will continue doing our best,\" he said.\n\n\"But I actually think on a lot of these questions that are trying to balance different social equities it is not just about coming up with the right answer, it is about coming up with an answer that society thinks is legitimate.\"\n\nMr Zuckerberg also admitted Facebook had been slow to recognise the development of co-ordinated online \"information campaigns\" by state actors like Russia.\n\nHe added that malevolent actors are also becoming better at covering their tracks by masking the IP addresses of users.\n\nTo tackle this, Mr Zuckerberg said Facebook had a team of 35,000 people reviewing content and security on the platform. With assistance from AI, he said more than a million fake accounts are deleted every day.\n\n\"Our budget [for content review] is bigger today than the whole revenue of the company when we went public in 2012, when we had a billion users,\" he said.\n\nDuring his time in Europe, Zuckerberg is expected to meet politicians in Munich and Brussels to discuss data practices, regulation and tax reform.\n\nDespite public backlash over issues like political advertising, Facebook says the number of users on its family of apps - Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram - continues to grow.\n\nEarlier this month, Whatsapp announced that it is used by two billion people worldwide, more than a quarter of the world's population.", "Houthi fighters say they downed the warplane (file picture)\n\nA warplane belonging to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has crashed in the northern province of al-Jawf.\n\nA coalition spokesman confirmed that a Saudi Tornado fighter jet had \"fallen\" while carrying out a support mission near Yemeni army units, according to Saudi Arabia's state news agency SPA.\n\nYemen's Houthi rebels said they shot down the plane on Friday night.\n\nThe United Nations said 31 civilians were killed in Saudi air strikes in al-Jawf on Saturday.\n\nA statement from the office of the UN's resident coordinator for Yemen said \"preliminary field reports\" indicated that at least 12 others were injured in the strikes.\n\nThe Saudi-led coalition has been battling Yemen's rebel Houthi movement since 2015. It intervened after the Houthis ousted the internationally-recognised government from power in the capital Sanaa.\n\nThe Houthi rebels said they used ground-to-air missiles to down the warplane on Friday night.\n\nSaudi Arabia has not provided details of any casualties from the crash, or what caused it.\n\nIt said it carried out a search and rescue operation on Saturday and that some civilians may have been unintentionally killed.\n\nHouthi officials said children were among the casualties of retaliatory air strikes by Saudi Arabia, which they said targeted civilians in the area where rebel forces had downed the plane.\n\nThey said some of those injured were in a critical condition.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Lise Grande, the UN's resident humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, shared \"deep condolences with the families of those killed\".\n\n\"So many people are being killed in Yemen - it's a tragedy and it's unjustified. Under international humanitarian law parties which resort to force are obligated to protect civilians. Five years into this conflict and belligerents are still failing to uphold this responsibility. It's shocking,\" she said.\n\nYemen has been at war since 2015, when President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and his cabinet were forced to flee the capital Sanaa by the Houthis.\n\nSaudi Arabia backs Mr Hadi, and has led a coalition of regional countries in air strikes against the rebels.\n\nThe coalition carries out air strikes almost every day, while the Houthis often fire missiles into Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe civil war has triggered the world's worst humanitarian disaster, with an estimated 80% of the population - more than 24 million people - requiring humanitarian assistance or protection.\n\nTens of thousands of people have died as a result of the conflict.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The conflict in Yemen has been raging for years - but what is it all about?", "The artwork in Barton Hill was defaced on Saturday\n\nA mural by Banksy has been defaced just 48 hours after it appeared.\n\nThe piece, featuring a young girl firing red flowers from a catapult, appeared on the side of a house in Bristol on Thursday.\n\nBanksy confirmed he was behind the piece by posting a picture of the work on his Instagram page at midnight on Valentine's Day.\n\nBut an offensive phrase has now been daubed over the street artist's design in bright pink lettering.\n\nA Perspex panel placed over the artwork on Thursday to protect it has also been torn down, with the vandals directly defacing Banksy's design.\n\nThe British Somali Community Association, based in Barton Hill, tweeted that the vandalism was \"shocking\" and it was \"sad seeing the devastation\".\n\nThe design by the famous street artist has been attracting plenty of visitors\n\nKelly Woodruff, whose father owns the property in Marsh Lane, said flowers placed on a road sign as part of the artwork had also been stolen.\n\nShe said her family were \"devastated\" and were taking steps to protect the mural from further harm.\n\nTemporary measures such as protective boxes and security fencing will be erected this weekend, before longer-term solutions are put in place.\n\nMs Woodruff said: \"It is so sad. They have taken the joy away from everyone.\n\n\"We are very keen to stress that these temporary measures, which could cause some short-term frustration, are there to protect and preserve the art for the future.\n\n\"We want this to be available to everyone for years to come and for as many people as possible to come along to take a look and enjoy it.\"\n\nRed flowers had been placed on the street sign below", "Robbie Williams and his wife, Ayda Field Williams, have announced the birth of their fourth child, the second to be born via a surrogate.\n\nField Williams surprised fans by revealing the birth of Beau Benedict Enthoven Williams on Instagram.\n\nHe was born via the \"same incredible surrogate\" as their youngest daughter, Coco, she said.\n\nField Williams added that the couple were \"blessed\" and they were now \"officially complete as a family\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlongside her message, she shared a photograph of the baby's feet next to those of his siblings.\n\nField Williams wrote: \"On this Valentine's Day, we would like to celebrate love in the most awesome way.\n\n\"As with Coco, he is biologically ours, but born via our same incredible surrogate.\n\n\"We are so blessed to have our healthy son safely in our arms and are officially complete as a family.\"\n\nTheir daughter Colette (Coco) Josephine Williams was born using a surrogate in 2018.\n\nThey also have daughter, Theodora, born in 2012, and son Charlton, born in 2014.", "The Court of Appeal has overturned a decision which found an Islamic marriage ceremony fell within English law\n\nA court has reversed a judgment from two years ago which found that a couple who had an Islamic wedding ceremony could legally divorce.\n\nThe High Court ruled in 2018 that the couple's Islamic \"nikah\" ceremony fell within English marriage law.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal has now said it was an \"invalid\" non-legal ceremony.\n\nJudges said the fact they intended to have a further civil ceremony meant they must have known their Islamic marriage had no legal effect in the UK.\n\nThe Attorney General appealed against the original court decision.\n\nThe case involved the divorce of Nasreen Akhter and Mohammed Shabaz Khan, who have four children.\n\nThe couple had an Islamic wedding ceremony in a west London restaurant in 1998 in the presence of an imam and about 150 guests, but no civil ceremony subsequently took place, despite Mrs Akhter repeatedly raising the issue.\n\nThey separated in 2016 and Mr Khan tried to block his wife's divorce petition two years ago on the basis they had not been legally married in the first place.\n\nMrs Akhter argued their Islamic faith marriage was valid, as was her application for divorce, and that she was entitled to the same legal protection and settlement offered in the UK to legally married couples.\n\nHer application for divorce was analysed during a trial in the Family Division of the High Court and Mr Justice Williams delivered a written judgment in the summer of 2018.\n\nHe ruled that since the couple held themselves out to the world at large as husband and wife, Mrs Akhter was correct and their union should be recognised because their vows had similar expectations to that of a British marriage contract.\n\nHe added the marriage fell within the scope of the 1973 Matrimonial Causes Act, despite Mr Khan arguing the marriage was \"under Sharia law only\".\n\nJustice Williams said Mrs Akhter was therefore entitled to a decree of nullity.\n\nThe Court of Appeal overturned that decision on Friday and said the marriage was \"invalid\" under English marriage law.\n\nIt explained the wedding was \"a non-qualifying ceremony\" because it was not performed in a building registered for weddings, no certificates had been issued and no registrar was present.\n\n\"The parties were not marrying under the provisions of English law\", the appeal judges said.\n\nNeither Mrs Akhter nor Mr Khan played any part in the appeal proceedings.\n\nPragna Patel, director at Southall Black Sisters, a not-for-profit organisation, said: \"Today's judgment will force Muslim and other women to turn to Sharia 'courts' that already cause significant harm to women and children for remedies because they are now locked out of the civil justice system.\"\n\nA government review into Sharia law in 2017 said Muslim couples should be required to take part in civil marriages in addition to Muslim ceremonies to bring Islamic marriage legally into line with Christian and Jewish marriage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "William Barr, right, has been seen as an ally of Donald Trump\n\nUS President Donald Trump has tweeted he has \"the legal right\" to intervene in criminal cases after his attorney general complained White House tweets were making his job \"impossible\".\n\nIn his post, Mr Trump also denied he had ever meddled in any cases.\n\nAmerica's top law officer William Barr on Thursday asked Mr Trump to stop his tweets, saying he would not be bullied.\n\nMr Barr spoke out after Mr Trump renewed his attack on the criminal trial of his ex-adviser, Roger Stone.\n\nProsecutors had recommended Stone serve a stiff sentence, but Mr Trump tweeted that was unfair.\n\nOn Friday morning, Mr Trump ignored the attorney general's plea to stop tweeting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is legally ambiguous whether the US president has the authority to order the attorney general to open or shut a case.\n\nThe Department of Justice has been meant to operate without political interference since the Watergate scandal of the 1970s.\n\nMr Trump has previously called for investigations into perceived enemies, such as former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.\n\nOn Friday, Mr McCabe's lawyers announced the justice department had closed its criminal inquiry into whether their client had lied to investigators about leaks to the media.\n\nThe New York Times meanwhile reported Mr Barr had appointed outside prosecutors to review the case against another Trump ally, Michael Flynn.\n\nFlynn, who was Mr Trump's first national security adviser, previously pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in a federal inquiry, but later withdrew co-operation and is in the midst of trying to recant his plea.\n\nMr Barr said on Thursday that Mr Trump \"undercuts\" him by tweeting, making it \"impossible for me to do my job\".\n\n\"I think it's time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases,\" Mr Barr told ABC News.\n\n\"I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe rare show of dissent from a cabinet member widely seen as a Trump loyalist has provoked a degree of scepticism in the US media.\n\nCritics suggested the statement could have been co-ordinated with the White House to shore up the Department of Justice's credibility as an independent agency.\n\nThe attorney general has been an outspoken defender of the president to the extent that Democrats and former justice department officials have accused him of politicising the rule of law.\n\nAfter the interview on Thursday evening, the White House said Mr Trump \"wasn't bothered by the comments at all and he has the right, just like any American citizen, to publicly offer his opinions\".\n\nRepublican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who rarely speaks up against Mr Trump, said the president should listen to Mr Barr's advice.\n\nThere was widespread anger this week when the Department of Justice said it planned to reduce the length of the prison sentence it would seek for Stone, a long-time friend of the president.\n\nStone was convicted in November of obstructing an investigation by the House Intelligence Committee into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.\n\nFederal prosecutors had initially recommended Stone face seven to nine years in jail for trying to thwart the investigation.\n\nAccording to a Netflix documentary about his political career, Roger Stone convinced Donald Trump to run for president\n\nThe president swiftly voiced his opposition, tweeting: \"This is a horrible and very unfair situation.\"\n\nThe justice department then overruled the recommendation by its own prosecution team, prompting questions over whether Mr Barr had intervened on behalf of Mr Trump's ally. The four prosecutors subsequently quit.\n\nPresident Trump praised Mr Barr for \"taking charge\" of the Roger Stone case.\n\nHe also dropped his nomination of former US Attorney Jessie Liu, who oversaw the Stone case, for another government post in the Treasury Department.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Trump said the federal jury that heard the case against Stone had \"significant bias\".\n\nThe forewoman of the jurors reportedly identified herself in a Facebook post. Her social media posts revealed hostility to Mr Trump, it was also reported.\n\nStone is scheduled to be sentenced next week.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City have been banned from European club competition for the next two seasons after being found to have committed \"serious breaches\" of Uefa's club licensing and financial fair play regulations.\n\nThe reigning Premier League champions have also been fined 30m euros (£25m).\n\nThe decision is subject to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nManchester City say they are \"disappointed but not surprised\" by the \"prejudicial\" decision and will appeal.\n\nThe independent Adjudicatory Chamber of the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) said City had broken the rules by \"overstating its sponsorship revenue in its accounts and in the break-even information submitted to Uefa between 2012 and 2016\", adding that the club \"failed to cooperate in the investigation\".\n\nIt has been reported that City could also face a Premier League points deduction because the league's FFP rules are similar - although not exactly the same - as Uefa's.\n\nHowever, the punishment has no implications for City's women's team.\n• None Manchester City will take ban 'in their stride' - Brown\n\nManchester City said in a statement: \"The club has always anticipated the ultimate need to seek out an independent body and process to impartially consider the comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence in support of its position.\n\n\"In December 2018, the Uefa chief investigator publicly previewed the outcome and sanction he intended to be delivered to Manchester City, before any investigation had even begun.\n\n\"The subsequent flawed and consistently leaked Uefa process he oversaw has meant that there was little doubt in the result that he would deliver. The club has formally complained to the Uefa disciplinary body, a complaint which was validated by a CAS ruling.\n\n\"Simply put, this is a case initiated by Uefa, prosecuted by Uefa and judged by Uefa. With this prejudicial process now over, the club will pursue an impartial judgment as quickly as possible and will therefore, in the first instance, commence proceedings with the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the earliest opportunity.\"\n\nCity have been drawn to face Real Madrid in the last 16 of this season's Champions League, with the first leg to be played on 26 February at the Bernabeu.\n\n\"Enforcing the rules of financial fair play and punishing financial doping is essential for the future of football,\" he said.\n\n\"For years we have been calling for severe action against Manchester City and Paris St-Germain, we finally have a good example of action and hope to see more. Better late than never.\"\n\nAnalysis - what could this mean for Guardiola?\n\nThis is massive news. Given the speed of their statement in response, it is fair to assume Manchester City were braced for this decision, but maybe not the severity of it.\n\nCity have said publicly and privately they intend to fight the decision. They are adamant an independent judiciary - they do not think this was - will clear them.\n\nHowever, as it stands, the club are out of the Champions League for two seasons, which raises massive immediate questions.\n\nPep Guardiola has always maintained he would remain at City at least until his contract expires in 2021 but has also said he trusts the club's hierarchy when they tell him they have done nothing wrong.\n\nWhether they win the Champions League this season or not, will Guardiola decide to move on? And if he does, what about the future of the club's star players, many of whom joined because he was the manager.\n\nAnd does this mean an extra place in the Champions League will be available should the Blues miss out?\n\nIt is an absolutely fascinating situation and, clearly, we are far from a definitive final outcome.\n\nWhat are City alleged to have done?\n\nUefa launched an investigation after German newspaper Der Spiegel published leaked documents in November 2018 alleging City had inflated the value of a sponsorship deal, misleading European football's governing body.\n\nReports alleged City - who have always denied wrongdoing - deliberately misled Uefa so they could meet FFP rules requiring clubs to break even.\n\nCity were fined £49m in 2014 for a previous breach of regulations.\n\nWhat are the FFP rules?\n\nFinancial Fair Play was introduced by Uefa to prevent clubs in its competitions from spending beyond their means and stamp out what its then president Michel Platini called \"financial doping\" within football.\n\nUnder the rules, financial losses are limited and clubs are also obliged to meet all their transfer and employee payment commitments at all times.\n\nClubs need to balance football-related expenditure - transfers and wages - with television and ticket income, plus revenues raised by their commercial departments. Money spent on stadiums, training facilities, youth development or community projects is exempt.\n\nThe CFCB, set up by Uefa, has the ultimate sanction of banning clubs from Uefa competitions, with other potential punishments including warnings, fines, withholding prize money, transfer bans, points deductions, a ban on registration of new players and a restriction on the number of players who can be registered for Uefa competitions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Keith-Lucas has an update on the latest weather warnings\n\nThe Army has been deployed to help with flood relief as the UK faces a second weekend of weather disruption.\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place for much of the country and forecasters say a month's worth of rain could fall in some places.\n\nThe MoD said 75 soldiers from 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, have been sent to Ilkley and Calderdale in West Yorkshire.\n\nThey are helping build flood barriers and repair defences.\n\nA further 70 Reservists from 4th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, will also be providing support where required.\n\nCalderdale Council leader Tim Swift said their presence would be a \"reassuring sight\" for residents of \"already exhausted communities\".\n\nMeanwhile, heavy rain has been falling across southern Scotland leading to three severe flood warnings for the Hawick area in the Scottish Borders.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency says river levels in the town are likely to reach similar levels to those experienced in January 2016 and will peak between 21:00-23:00 on Saturday.\n\nA local leisure centre has been opened for anyone who has to move out of their homes.\n\nSeparate flood warnings and advice have also been issued for residents in the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, South Lanarkshire and South Ayrshire.\n\nAcross the UK road, rail and air travellers also face disruption, with British Airways and EasyJet flights among those affected.\n\nIt comes after Storm Ciara flooded hundreds of homes last weekend.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned flooding is likely to be worse this weekend as already saturated ground is met with a \"perfect storm\" of heavy rain, strong winds and melting snow.\n\nAmber warnings for rain and yellow warnings for wind are in place for most of the country from Saturday afternoon into Sunday evening.\n\nThis means flooding could cause a danger to life, power cuts are expected and there is a good chance transport links will be impacted.\n\nFlood defences were prepared in Mytholmroyd, in the Upper Calder Valley\n\nA body has been found by rescue crews searching for a man reported to have gone overboard from a fuel tanker off Margate Harbour in Kent before the storm struck.\n\nA coastguard helicopter, a Royal Navy warship and RNLI lifeboats joined the operation in heavy seas around Margate Harbour after the alarm was raised in the early hours on Saturday.\n\nWaves crashed against the sea wall in Porthcawl, south Wales\n\nThe worst-hit areas could see between 120-140mm of rainfall and gusts of up to 80mph over the weekend, the Met Office said.\n\nThe predictions are not as severe as last weekend when Ciara brought as much as 184mm of rain and gusts reaching 97mph, resulting in hundreds of homes flooding and more than 500,000 being left without power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut experts have warned Storm Dennis could cause more flooding damage, because of the heavy rain falling on parts of the UK still recovering from Ciara.\n\nJohn Curtin, the Environment Agency's executive director of flood and coastal risk management, said Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire were the areas he was most \"concerned\" about.\n\n\"This [storm] could be a step up from what we have seen before,\" Mr Curtin said.\n\n\"We had a big storm last weekend, [we now have] saturated catchments, snowmelt and rainfall, so it is a perfect storm.\"\n• None YellowSevere weather possible, plan ahead, travel may be disrupted\n• None RedDangerous weather expected - take action to keep safe\n\nThe Environment Agency said preparations were under way to operate flood defences, flood storage reservoirs and temporary barriers to protect communities.\n\nThese include the Foss Barrier in York, the Thames Barrier in London and another in Bewdley, Worcestershire, on the River Severn.\n\nUK power operators say they have employed extra engineers and call centre staff to respond to any possible impact of the storm, after widespread power cuts last weekend.\n\nNewly appointed Environment Secretary George Eustice said he had spoken to local flood response groups across the country on Friday.\n\nHighlighting the Environment Agency's preparations, he added: \"We are fully focused on ensuring that communities are protected and have access to the support and advice they need to stay safe this weekend.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This Hebden Bridge book shop has a sign which doubles up as a flood barrier\n\nThe Met Office has issued amber warnings for rain in pockets of northern and south-west England and Wales from 12:00 GMT on Saturday until 15:00 on Sunday, and in parts of Scotland from 12:00 GMT to 20:00 on Saturday.\n\nAn amber warning is also in place for most of southern England from 00:15 GMT until 18:00 on Sunday.\n\nYellow warnings for strong winds and heavy rain also cover all of England, Wales and southern Scotland between 09:00 GMT and midday on Sunday.\n\nFurther yellow warnings for wind are in place for northern parts of the UK from midday on Sunday until midday on Monday - potentially bringing travel disruption to commuters.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Dennis? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's unstoppable charge towards their first top-flight title in 30 years is \"outstanding\", said Jurgen Klopp after his side edged a narrow victory over bottom-of-the-table Norwich.\n\nSadio Mane came off the bench to score the winner with 12 minutes remaining, expertly taking down skipper Jordan Henderson's raking pass and smashing in at the near post.\n\nIt means Klopp's men need just five more wins from their remaining 12 games to guarantee their first Premier League title, having dropped just two points all campaign, and lie a mammoth 25 points clear of champions Manchester City.\n\n\"The gap is so insane, I don't really understand it,\" Klopp told Sky Sports. \"I am not smart enough. I have not had that before. It is outstanding, so difficult.\n\n\"I go back into the changing room and we chat about the things and then I am like 'Oh, but congratulations. We won the game, another three points.'\"\n\nChances were at a premium in a blustery first half, but Liverpool ramped up the pressure in the second period - Canaries goalkeeper Tim Krul making a stunning double save to deny Mohamed Salah's low shot and Naby Keita's close-range follow-up.\n\nHaving been pegged back for a long period, Norwich could have scored on the counter-attack as Alex Tettey's strike from an angle caught Alisson by surprise at his near post but the effort rattled the foot of the upright.\n\nBut Senegal international Mane - who missed the last two games through a hamstring injury - proved to be the difference having entered the action on the hour mark.\n• None When can Liverpool win the Premier League title?\n\nReds just keep on winning\n\nIt looked for a while that it may be a frustrating day for Liverpool at Carrow Road, misplacing a number of passes in the final third and being restricted to long-range efforts.\n\nKeita's drive was tipped over the crossbar by Krul, while efforts from Virgil van Dijk and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain were comfortable for the Dutch goalkeeper to deal with.\n\nWhen the marauding Trent Alexander-Arnold dragged a shot wide from the edge of the box after just 13 seconds, a routine win looked to be on the cards, but the Reds had to battle hard once more.\n\nKlopp added: \"I could tell in all the players' faces that they weren't nervous, they were enjoying it, and if one team was going to score it was going to be us.\n\n\"We protected against the counter-attack well too. It's really all about these wonderful football players.\"\n\nTo say Liverpool have dominated the division is an understatement - they have annihilated all in front of them and the numbers make staggering reading:\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in 43 league games, closing in on Arsenal's all-time record of 49.\n• None They have collected a remarkable 103 points from the past 105 available.\n• None The Reds have picked up 35 wins from their past 36 games - a 1-1 draw at Manchester United in October the only blemish.\n• None They have won 17 games in a row - one shy of Manchester City's record - and kept 10 clean sheets in their past 11 games.\n\nThe result also means 76 points after 26 games is the best record at this juncture in the history of Europe's top five leagues - something even the continent's great sides including La Liga's Barcelona, Juventus of Serie A, Bundesliga's Bayern Munich and Ligue 1's Paris St-Germain were unable to achieve.\n\nThe defending European champions go into Tuesday's last-16 first-leg tie at Atletico Madrid in flawless form and Klopp's side will take some stopping from reaching their third consecutive final, as they aim for a Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup treble.\n\nSo near yet so far for Norwich\n\nDaniel Farke's side remain anchored to the foot of the table, seven points from safety and are staring at an immediate return to the Championship.\n\nThey display some attractive football at times, playing out from the back which almost proved costly on a couple of occasions, but failing to hold out means they have conceded a joint league-high 48 goals.\n\nHad they taken their chances, they would have claimed a spectacular victory against all the odds, with Lukas Rupp left ruing what might have been.\n\nThe German midfielder broke the offside trap in the first half and when faced one-on-one with Alisson, inexplicably decided to square the ball towards Teemu Pukki instead of shooting and the Brazilian goalkeeper managed to claw the pass away.\n\nThe lively Todd Cantwell struck the side-netting, while Tettey's low, drilled strike hit the upright.\n\nFarke told BBC Sport: \"Performance-wise we were pretty good in many topics, sadly one topic was missing, to be clinical in our finishing. We had our chance in the first half.\"\n\nOn Mane's goal, Farke added: \"I just watched it back shortly. When the referee doesn't give a foul it won't be overturned. It was also due to the quality of Mane - his control and then his second touch. It was smart movement from Mane and if the referee doesn't give a foul you can't see it [being] overturned. We have already learned that VAR is not on our side.\n\n\"Performance-wise we can take a lot of confidence but sadly no points.\"\n\nTon up for Mane - the stats\n• None Liverpool have opened the scoring in each of their past 14 Premier League meetings with Norwich City - no side has ever scored the opening goal in more consecutive games versus another in the competition's history (Chelsea also 14 v Portsmouth).\n• None Norwich have only won one of their past 13 Premier League games (D5 L7) and have failed to score in back-to-back league matches for the first time since November 2019.\n• None Liverpool have kept a clean sheet in 10 of their past 11 Premier League matches, this after having only kept one shutout in the previous 11 such games before this.\n• None Sadio Mane scored the 100th goal of his English club career in all competitions, scoring 25 for Southampton and 75 for Liverpool.\n• None Mane's goal was his 57th in the Premier League for Liverpool, but the first coming as a substitute.\n• None Jordan Henderson has assisted five Premier League goals this season; only in 2014-15 (nine) and 2013-14 (seven) has he provided more in a single league season in his professional career.\n• None Both of Liverpool's past two Premier League games have been goalless at half-time; only two of their first 24 such matches of the season had been 0-0 at the break before this.\n• None Norwich failed to attempt a single shot in the first half of a league game for the first time under Daniel Farke, and the first time in any league match overall since April 2014 v Manchester United.\n\nNorwich travel to Wolves next Sunday in the Premier League (kick-off 14:00 GMT), while Liverpool are in European action on Tuesday, followed by a Premier League game at Anfield against West Ham next Monday (20:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Teemu Pukki (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Emiliano Buendía with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from very close range is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross.\n• None Naby Keita (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Norwich City 0, Liverpool 1. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jordan Henderson.Goal confirmed following VAR Review.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamal Lewis (Norwich City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Todd Cantwell.\n• None Attempt missed. Grant Hanley (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ondrej Duda with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJackson Carlaw has been confirmed as the new leader of the Scottish Conservatives after winning a vote of party members.\n\nMr Carlaw had been the party's interim leader since Ruth Davidson quit the role in August.\n\nHe has now won the job full time after defeating fellow MSP Michelle Ballantyne by 4,917 votes to 1,581.\n\nMr Carlaw had been the clear favourite in the contest, and was backed by most of the party's MPs and MSPs.\n\nHe said he was now \"ready to hit the ground running and win\" in next year's Scottish Parliament election by attracting voters from \"middle Scotland\".\n\nThe new leader has already promised a full review of the party's policies and a \"new, reinvigorated\" frontbench team at Holyrood.\n\nWithin hours of his election Mr Carlaw announced that Glasgow MSP Annie Wells would become a joint deputy leader of the party alongside North East MSP Liam Kerr.\n\nRachael Hamilton, the Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire MSP, will become a party chairwoman with existing chairman Rab Forman.\n\nMore changes will be announced next week.\n\nMr Carlaw said: \"This is not about asking the people of Scotland to re-elect us as a strong opposition, this is about offering the people of Scotland a clear alternative to the SNP and then fighting all the way to polling day next year to provide them with an alternative government.\n\n\"I have a bigger share of the vote than Boris Johnson achieved in his leadership election, I have a bigger share of the vote than Ruth Davidson achieved, a bigger share of the vote than David Cameron achieved in any of the previous Conservative Party leadership elections.\n\n\"So I have a clear mandate from the party in Scotland now to make the changes required to lead us into the election next year.\"\n\nOpinion polls suggest that the SNP, led by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, remains on course to win a fourth successive term in government in next year's election - with the Conservatives currently a distant second.\n\nThe new party leader was congratulated by his defeated opponent when the result was announced\n\nThe leadership contest - which was delayed by December's general election - had been bad-tempered at times, with the two candidates trading insults ahead of the result being announced.\n\nMs Ballantyne, who claimed to have strong grassroots support, accused Mr Carlaw of running a general election campaign that \"lacked vision and ambition\", with the party losing seven of its 13 MPs.\n\nMr Carlaw hit back by claiming his opponent was the only member of the Tory frontbench team at Holyrood never to have submitted a \"single policy proposal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives are currently the second biggest party at Holyrood, with Ms Davidson widely credited with turning around its electoral fortunes in her eight years as leader.\n\nBut she quit shortly after returning from maternity leave, saying that \"much had changed\" both politically and personally in recent months.\n\nAs well as the birth of her son, Ms Davidson had been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Boris Johnson - particularly over his approach to Brexit.\n\nThe new leader is a close political ally of his predecessor, Ruth Davidson\n\nJackson Carlaw worked as a car salesman in the west of Scotland for 25 years before being elected as an MSP, but has been involved in politics since joining the Conservatives as teenager in the late 1970s.\n\nHe first stood as a candidate in the 1982 Queen's Park by-election, and after several other unsuccessful attempts was eventually elected as a list MSP for the West of Scotland region in the 2007 and again in 2011 - when he also became Ms Davidson's deputy leader.\n\nMr Carlaw, who is married with two children, was elected as the MSP for Eastwood in 2016, and served as acting leader when Ms Davidson went on maternity leave ahead of the birth of her son in May of last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen Ms Davidson resigned as party leader in August, Mr Carlaw was immediately appointed as interim leader - with some of his supporters hoping he would be given the role on a permanent basis without a leadership contest being required.\n\nThe 60-year-old says he wants the party to appeal to \"middle Scotland\" ahead of next year's Scottish Parliament election, when he says his goal is to \"take down\" Ms Sturgeon and the SNP.\n\nAmong his key policy proposals are increasing the number of teachers in Scotland by 2,000, bringing income taxes into line with the rest of the UK, and scrapping the Scottish government's plan to introduce a so-called parking tax.\n\nMr Carlaw has faced Nicola Sturgeon during the weekly First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament while acting as interim leader\n\nHe told his official campaign launch last month that he stands for \"a decent, generous-spirited, aspirational conservatism that promotes the values and ambitions of middle Scotland\".\n\nMr Carlaw secured public support from the majority of Conservative MSPs and MPs during the leadership contest, as well as all of the party's local council leaders.\n\nHe points to the experience he has built up in his lengthy stint as acting leader - which saw him go head-to-head with Ms Sturgeon during first minister's questions every week.\n\nBut critics say that Mr Carlaw's tenure included last month's general election, when the Scottish Conservatives lost seven of the 13 seats they had won under Ms Davidson in 2017 despite the Tories winning a majority across the UK as a whole.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Miller: \"This is a watershed moment for liberty\"\n\nThe police response to an ex-officer's allegedly transphobic tweets was unlawful, the High Court has ruled.\n\nHarry Miller was visited by Humberside Police at work in January last year after a complaint about his tweets.\n\nHe was told he had not committed a crime, but it would be recorded as a non-crime \"hate incident\".\n\nThe court found the force's actions were a \"disproportionate interference\" with his right to freedom of expression.\n\nOfficers visited Mr Miller's workplace and then spoke with him on the phone, and he was left with the impression \"that he might be prosecuted if he continued to tweet\", according to a judge.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Mr Miller, from Lincolnshire, said: \"This is a watershed moment for liberty - the police were wrong to visit my workplace, wrong to 'check my thinking'.\"\n\nHis solicitor Paul Conrathe added: \"It is a strong warning to local police forces not to interfere with people's free speech rights on matters of significant controversy.\"\n\nMr Justice Julian Knowles said the effect of police turning up at Mr Miller's place of work \"because of his political opinions must not be underestimated\".\n\nHe added: \"To do so would be to undervalue a cardinal democratic freedom.\n\n\"In this country we have never had a Cheka, a Gestapo or a Stasi. We have never lived in an Orwellian society.\"\n\nResponding to the ruling, Helen Belcher, who co-founded Trans Media Watch, said: \"I think trans people will be worried it could become open season on us because the court didn't really define what the threshold for acceptable speech was.\n\n\"I think it will reinforce an opinion that courts don't understand trans lives and aren't there to protect trans people.\"\n\nMr Miller, 54, also launched a wider challenge against the lawfulness of College of Policing guidelines on hate crimes, which was rejected.\n\nMr Justice Knowles ruled they \"serve legitimate purposes and [are] not disproportionate\".\n\nThe guidelines define a hate incident as \"any non-crime incident which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice against a person who is transgender or perceived to be transgender\".\n\nTrans activist Helen Belcher said the ruling would \"worry\" trans people\n\nMr Miller posted a number of tweets between November 2018 and January 2019 about transgender issues as part of the debate about reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004.\n\nIn one tweet Mr Miller wrote: \"I was assigned mammal at birth, but my orientation is fish. Don't mis-species me.\"\n\nThis tweet was among several others which were reported to Humberside Police as being allegedly transphobic.\n\nMr Miller's barrister, Ian Wise QC, argued the force's response had sought to \"dissuade him from expressing himself on such issues in the future\" and had a \"substantial chilling effect\" on his right to free speech.\n\nMr Justice Knowles said Mr Miller \"strongly denies being prejudiced against transgender people\" and had regarded himself as a participant in a public debate.\n\nHe said only one person, known in court as Mrs B, had complained about the tweets and they had been recorded as a hate incident \"without any critical scrutiny...or any assessment of whether what she was saying was accurate\".\n\nThe judge said: \"The claimants' tweets were lawful and there was not the slightest risk that he would commit a criminal offence by continuing to tweet.\n\n\"I find the combination of the police visiting the claimant's place of work, and their subsequent statements in relation to the possibility of prosecution, were a disproportionate interference with the claimant's right to freedom of expression because of their potential chilling effect.\"\n\nThe police guidance on non-crime hate incidents was developed after the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence in a racist attack in 1993.\n\nIts aim is to deal with hate incidents before they escalate into serious hate crimes.\n\nEach year more than 25,000 such non-crime hate incidents are logged by UK police. The bulk relate to race and disability.\n\nToday's ruling will make the job of policing such incidents increasingly challenging for the police. Where does a comment or statement leave the boundaries of free speech and become a hate incident short of a crime?\n\nThat can be as much a linguistic and ethical judgment as a policing decision.\n\nHumberside Police said it accepted the court's decision, adding: \"The mere recording of the incident by Humberside Police as a hate incident has been ruled as not unlawful and in accordance with the College of Policing (CoP) guidance.\n\n\"Our actions in handling the incident were carried out in good faith but we note the comments of the judge and we will take learning from this incident moving forward.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Bernie O'Reilly, of the College of Policing, said: \"Policing's position is clear - we want everyone to feel able to express opinions as passionately as they wish without breaking the law.\"\n\nHe added: \"Hate incidents can be a precursor to these types of crimes and without recording them the police will begin to lose sight of what is happening in their communities - and potentially lose their confidence.\"\n\nHe said the advice to forces was currently being revised.\n\nTrans Media Watch said: \"Whilst we appreciate that the police must take care not to overreact to incidents, we feel that it is vital to a democratic society that everyone enjoys the same level of police protection.\n\n\"We are sure that it was not the judge's intention to suggest that trans people deserve less protection at present than they did in 2016, before the present media interest in the gender recognition process began.\n\n\"We hope that his words today will not have the result of putting other minority groups which may become the subject of intense media attention in a position where hatred displayed towards them is less likely to be treated seriously.\"\n\nMr Miller has appealed against the ruling about the College of Policing guidance and permission has been granted for the case to go straight to the Supreme Court.\n\nTransgender hate crimes, which are different and more serious than non-crime hate incidents, are rising in England and Wales, according to police records.\n\nIn the 12 months to 31 March 2019, the police recorded 2,333 transgender hate crime incidents. That was 37% higher than the previous year. In percentage terms, transgender hate crimes saw the biggest increase compared with other hate crime categories (race, religion, sexual orientation and disability).\n\nThe Home Office says that some of this rise could be down to improvements in the way the police identify and record transgender hate crimes. However, the Home Office adds that genuine increases cannot be ruled out.\n\nIn total, the police recorded 103,379 hate crimes in 2018-19. The majority were race hate crimes, accounting for around three quarters of the total.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caroline Flack with Love Island's Bafta Award for best reality show in 2018\n\nViewers and the TV world are in shock after the death of Caroline Flack, who rose from children's TV to become one of Britain's most successful presenters.\n\nLove Island, Strictly Come Dancing, The X Factor, I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! - Flack starred on some of Britain's biggest shows of the past decade.\n\nHowever, at the time of her death her career was under a cloud after she was replaced for the winter series of ITV's Love Island after being charged with assaulting her boyfriend.\n\nWith Sam and Mark on TMi in 2007\n\nMany fans first got to know her bubbly, likeable personality when she joined Sam and Mark to front the zany Saturday morning children's show TMi in 2007.\n\nFrom there, she joined Ian Wright when Sky One revived game show Gladiators, and became one of the hosts of I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here Now! in 2009.\n\nShe went on to host another ITV spin-off, The Xtra Factor, two years later, before being chosen to front a series of the main talent show itself with Olly Murs in 2015.\n\nShe won Strictly Come Dancing with Pasha Kovalev in 2014\n\nShe confirmed her popular appeal when she won Strictly with dance partner Pasha Kovalev, fending off competition from Frankie Bridge and Simon Webbe.\n\nBut she talked about the difficulties she faced after lifting the glitterball trophy, saying: \"I couldn't get up and just couldn't pick myself up at all that next year.\"\n\nWhen Love Island was relaunched in 2015, she was the natural choice to host, and she helped make it one of the biggest shows on British TV.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first few series performed well, but the show really became a TV phenomenon from 2018, particularly among younger viewers.\n\nWhen the show won the Bafta for best reality show that year, she picked up the award.\n\nFlack made her West End stage debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago in 2018, starred in a touring version of Crazy For You, and appeared on the celebrity version of The Great British Bake Off.\n\nWith the success came close scrutiny of her personal life and relationships, which made her a regular in the tabloids. Notably, she dated One Direction star Harry Styles when he was 17, and stories about a brief romance with Prince Harry made headlines in 2009.\n\nIn her 2015 autobiography Storm In A C Cup, she said she and the prince had \"spent the evening chatting and laughing\", but \"once the story got out, that was it. We had to stop seeing each other.\"\n\nWhen she was arrested and subsequently charged with assaulting her boyfriend in December, it was completely at odds with her public persona.\n\nPolice found former tennis professional Lewis Burton covered in blood when he called them to her Islington home.\n\nShe pleaded not guilty and was in tears in court just before Christmas. She stepped down as host of the winter series of Love Island.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Burton did not support the prosecution, but she was due to stand trial early next month.\n\nTwo days before her death, she posted photos of herself with her dogs, with no message except a simple love heart. Before that, her last message was on Christmas Eve - the day after her court hearing.\n\n\"This kind of scrutiny and speculation is a lot to take on for one person to take on their own...\" she wrote.\n\n\"I'm a human being at the end of the day and I'm not going to be silenced when I have a story to tell and a life to keep going with.\n\n\"I'm taking some time out to get feeling better and learn some lessons from situations I've got myself into to.\n\n\"I have nothing but love to give and best wishes for everyone.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The A82 was passable with care after a landslip near Aonach Eagach\n\nRoad, rail and ferry links have been hit and football matches cancelled as Storm Dennis sweeps across Scotland.\n\nThe M9 was closed at Bannockburn on Saturday afternoon due to flooding and police warned many other routes were treacherous.\n\nScotRail advised all customers in the west of the country not to travel because of widespread disruption.\n\nThree severe flood warnings have been issued for the Hawick area in the Scottish Borders.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency said river levels were likely to reach similar heights to those in January 2016 and were due to peak between 21:00 GMT and 23:00 on Saturday.\n\nSepa's flood duty manager Mark McLaughlin said: \"These warnings mean that extensive flooding is expected to properties and businesses with many roads impassable.\n\n\"Some evacuations have been advised...We advise people to stay away from flood water and to not take unnecessary risks.\"\n\nA local leisure centre has been opened for anyone who has to move out of their home.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn amber warning for rain covered parts of Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders until 20:00.\n\nA wider yellow warning is also in place across the majority of the country for most of the day, and will be followed by high wind warnings on Sunday.\n\nA gust of 77mph was recorded on South Uist on Saturday morning, and high winds are set to continue on Sunday through until midday on Monday.\n\nA number of flights out of Glasgow and Edinburgh were cancelled on Saturday.\n\nCalMac has suspended some ferry sailings and the operator warned that others were liable to cancellation at short notice.\n\nIn sport the Rangers v Livingston game in Glasgow and the Motherwell match against St Mirren at Fir Park were called off.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNetwork Rail said the line between Perth and Pitlochry was closed because of flooding.\n\nThe Highland mainline was also forced to close because of high water levels at Inver.\n\nA landslip caused rock and snow to spill across the A82 in Glen Coe but the road was still passable.\n\nThe M9 was shut mid-afternoon between Jn 9 and Jn 10, and police warned of difficult conditions on the A9 between Auchterarder and Greenloaning.\n\nAn amber warning for rain was in force for southern Scotland on Saturday\n\nThe latest weather warnings follow a string of alerts to affect the country in recent days.\n\nStorm Ciara caused significant disruption last weekend resulting in a landslip which has shut the rail line between Kilmarnock and Dumfries for at least a month.\n\nA building also partially collapsed into the River Teviot in Hawick and flood defences in Jedburgh were badly damaged.\n\nSouthern Scotland also experienced heavy snowfalls during the week with drivers stranded near Durisdeer.\n\nThe first of the latest warnings came with severe gales forecasted in the extreme north west of Scotland between 06:00 and 12:00 on Saturday.\n\nIt is followed by a rain and wind warning for most of the west and south from 07:00 to 20:00.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe worst conditions - prompting an amber warning - are expected in southern Scotland until 20:00 as heavy downpours combine with melting snow.\n\nScottish Borders Council said there was particular concern over the impact on Hawick, Jedburgh, Newcastleton and the Ettrick Valley.\n\nIt said it was making \"all necessary preparations\" for the forecast conditions.\n\nAfter a brief period of respite, a further alert for high winds has been issued from 12:00 on Sunday to 12:00 on Monday covering most of the country.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Dennis? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sinn Féin's leader has said the party will not be deterred by dissident republican threats made to MLAs Michelle O'Neill and Gerry Kelly.\n\nMary Lou McDonald, speaking in Belfast on Saturday, said dissidents were \"at war with their community\".\n\n\"It's time they packed up and disbanded,\" she said.\n\nMrs McDonald also called the Fianna Fáil leader's refusal to enter talks with her in the Republic of Ireland an \"arrogant and untenable position\".\n\nSinn Féin topped the first preference poll in the Irish general election last weekend, but its total of 37 seats is one fewer than that of Fianna Fáil.\n\nWith 80 seats required to form a government in the Dáil, no single party won enough in last weeks elections to govern on their own.\n\nSpeaking to party activists, Mrs McDonald said Sinn Féin was the only \"all-Ireland party resolutely committed to Irish Unity\".\n\n\"I want to stress again that unionists have nothing to fear from Irish Unity,\" she added.\n\n\"Of course some of them may see that differently. But the answer to that is to talk.\n\n\"We got the power sharing government back because we talked. We will get an agreed shared Ireland in place because we talk.\"\n\nMary Lou McDonald was speaking in Belfast for the first time since the Irish general election\n\nFianna Fáil said on Thursday that it would not enter talks with Sinn Féin.\n\n\"Micheál Martin's plan is to deny people what they voted for\".\n\nMrs McDonald said the Irish electorate had given Sinn Féin \"a chance to show that we can improve their lives\".\n\n\"A chance to shape a government that will finally do right by ordinary people. They want a government for change,\" she said.\n\n\"That's why Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were - and are - so determined to keep us out of government.\"\n\nIrish broadcaster RTÉ has reported that Mrs McDonald and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin had a 15-minute phone conversation on Friday, in which she told him that \"people voted for change and not a grand coalition between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael\".\n\nBefore the election, Mr Martin ruled out forming a coalition with Sinn Féin, citing its historic links to the IRA as a deterrent.\n\nIn the wake of last Saturday's vote, he did not reject the two parties working together, but said \"significant incompatibilities\" existed.\n\nThere could be a lengthy wait to see the make-up of the next Irish government.\n\nThat is not entirely unusual - it took 70 days for previous Taoiseach Enda Kenny to form a government in 2016.\n\nIn that government, it was agreed that Fianna Fáil would support Fine Gael on key votes in a confidence-and-supply agreement.", "Hundreds of people gathered in Mexico City on Friday to protest against the murder of a young woman.\n\nIngrid Escamilla, 25, was stabbed to death allegedly by a man she lived with, who then mutilated her body in an attempt to hide the evidence.\n\nForensic workers leaked images of her corpse, and a local newspaper has been criticised for published one of these pictures on its front page.\n\nFemicide, the gender-based killing of women, is on the rise in Mexico.\n\nMore than 700 cases are currently being investigated, but activists say the number of women killed because of their gender is much higher.\n\nThe protesters, most of them women, moved through the Mexican capital holding placards calling for \"responsible journalism,\" and chanting slogans like \"not one more murder\".\n\nProtesters clashed with police during the demonstration\n\nThe group initially gathered outside of the city's National Palace, where President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lives with his family.\n\n\"It seems to me the president has evaded the issue constantly,\" one protester, Alejandro Castillo, told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"It is not a personal issue against him. We believe he has the possibility of raising several things on the agenda and has not done so.\"\n\nSeveral vehicles belonging to La Prensa were vandalised by demonstrators\n\nDemonstrators later marched through heavy rain to the offices of La Prensa, the newspaper that published grisly images of Ms Escamilla body with the headline 'It was cupid's fault\".\n\nAt least one vehicle belonging to the newspaper was set on fire, and several protesters clashed with security forces who tried to stop them from entering the newspaper's offices.\n\nLa Prensa, in response to public criticism, has stood by its decision but said it was open to discussions about adjusting its editorial standards beyond legal requirements.\n\nEarlier this month, many Mexicans flooded social media with photos of wildlife and natural landscapes, using the hashtag #IngridEscamilla to drown out the photos of her body circulating online.\n\nMore than 3,825 women were killed in Mexico last year - a record high\n\nHer murder has shocked the country, but is only the latest in a string of slayings that have brought the issue of femicide into public debate.\n\nLast year a record high of 3,825 women were killed in Mexico, according to official figures - up 7% from 2018.\n\nActivists are critical of the fact that the vast majority of cases are never solved and only a tiny percentage of perpetrators are brought to justice.\n\nPresident López Obrador - when asked about the classification of femicides - has previously accused media outlets of \"manipulating\" the issue.\n\nBut as protesters gathered outside the National Palace on Friday, he told reporters he was \"not burying [his] head in the sand.\n\n\"The government I represent will always take care of ensuring the safety of women,\" the president added.", "Shrubbery Farm House failed to sell when it was put on the market with an asking price of £545,000\n\nA 23-year-old woman has won her £545,000 \"dream house\" with a £2 raffle ticket.\n\nJemma Nicklin, who earns about £17,500 a year, had recently opened a help-to-buy ISA to save for her first home.\n\nHer parents, sister and her boyfriend had all entered the draw for the 17th Century Shropshire farmhouse too, she said, adding that the win \"hasn't quite sunk in.\"\n\nThe owners sold 340,000 raffle tickets when the cottage failed to sell.\n\nMiss Nicklin, an administrator for transport firm Ring and Ride, said she missed a call telling her she had won while she was on shift.\n\n\"My bosses told me to call back straight away.\n\n\"When I found out we all started crying.\"\n\nMiss Nicklin lives with her parents in Bilston, West Midlands. She bought two raffle tickets after her parents bought 10.\n\n\"My dad still doesn't know because he can't have his phone on at work,\" she said.\n\nMiss Nicklin's boyfriend Kieran Parker bought five tickets and was convinced he would win the four-bedroom house, she added.\n\nClarkes Solicitors in Telford said it would take up to five weeks for the house to be transferred to Miss Nicklin.\n\nRaffle tickets for the 17th Century cottage were £2 each\n\nOwner Mike Chatha offered to pay the £1,000 legal fees and the stamp duty for the winner.\n\nHe also offered a £5,000 second prize for the person who generated the most ticket sales via social media.\n\nMr Chatha and his wife Linda, who have separated, organised the raffle after the Longnor cottage - called Shrubbery Farm House - failed to sell for £545,000.\n\nHe said he planned to donate some of the money to children's hospice Hope House and other charities.\n\nThe 17th Century four-bedroom house was described as the sort of home \"everyone falls in love with\", on the competition's website\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK and China have held \"preliminary discussions\" over giving Beijing's state-owned railway firm a role in building the HS2 high-speed rail line.\n\nHowever, government officials said no \"concrete commitments\" had been made.\n\nChina's state railway company said it could build the line in just five years and at a much lower cost, according to a letter seen by Building magazine.\n\nBut Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat warned letting CRCC build HS2 would be \"extremely questionable\".\n\nIt comes after Boris Johnson this week approved the controversial HS2 scheme.\n\nThis was despite an official review warning costs could reach over £100bn, against a budget of £62bn.\n\nUnder current plans, the final stretch of the line is not due to be completed until 2040 - although Mr Johnson has said he wants that brought forward to 2035.\n\nHowever, Building magazine reported that the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) had written to HS2 Ltd's chief executive last month, saying it could build the line by the middle of the decade, for a much reduced price tag.\n\nAny move to give Beijing a further role in the UK's infrastructure would almost certainly prove controversial, after Mr Johnson reportedly incurred the wrath of US President Donald Trump - as well as upsetting many Tory MPs - with his decision to allow tech giant Huawei to supply equipment for the 5G mobile network.\n\nHowever, British officials are said to be sceptical that it could operate in the same way in a democracy with property rights, protected landscapes and powerful lobbying groups.\n\nAn offer by an experienced railway builder to solve all of HS2's issues might sound tempting, but whether it is likely to be taken up is another question.\n\nPreparation work is under way and the vast majority of contracts have already been allocated for the project's first phase linking London and Birmingham.\n\nThe letter from the China Railway Construction Corporation lacks detail on its plans.\n\nSo it is unclear how seriously the approach is being taken - or whether discussions progressed beyond CRCC's interest being acknowledged and them being informed of process.\n\nIts letter claims it could bring advantages worth overcoming obstacles for. But the politics of allowing Chinese investment in further key UK infrastructure would not be straightforward.\n\nMr Tugendhat, who is chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, said the UK was in \"dire need\" of a strategy around its relationship with China.\n\nMr Tugendhat told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday: \"Have we decided to take back control from Brussels only to hand it over to Beijing?\"\n\nHe added that projects in China are often completed quickly \"because they don't worry about such minor matters as planning consent or workers' rights\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HS2: Views from along the track\n\nMr Tugendhat is also sceptical of Mr Johnson's decision to let Huawei into the UK's 5G network, describing the Chinese tech giant's presence in the network as akin to letting a \"fox in the hen house\".\n\nThe CRCC letter, also been seen by the Financial Times, states: \"We are certain that we can offer a cost that is significantly lower than the projections we have seen.\n\n\"The advantages are, in our opinion, too great to dismiss on the basis that there are obstacles to overcome.\n\n\"You will find that the Chinese way is to seek solutions, not linger on obstacles and difficulties.\"\n\nCRCC has transformed China's transport system, building most of the country's 15,500-mile high-speed network.\n\nSupporters of HS2 say it will improve transport times, increase capacity, create jobs and rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nOnce it is built, journeys will be shorter. London to Birmingham travel times will be cut from one hour, 21 minutes to 52 minutes, according to the Department for Transport.\n\nAnd while it is being built, it is expected to create thousands of jobs and provide a stimulus to economic growth.\n\nA Department for Transport official said: \"The DfT is always keen to learn from the experience of others and to consider approaches that offer value for money to the taxpayer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Car seen on wrong side of road near Harry Dunn base\n\nA new video has emerged on social media of a car being driven on the wrong side of the road outside the RAF base near where 19-year-old Harry Dunn died.\n\nMr Dunn was killed after a crash by RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire which led to suspect Anne Sacoolas leaving the UK under diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe footage appears to have been recorded on Thursday. Another car was recorded being driven on the wrong side of the road near the base last month.\n\nPolice said they would investigate.\n\nDunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said the emergence of the latest video near RAF Croughton was \"shocking but not a surprise\".\n\nThe crash that killed Mr Dunn happened on 27 August outside the RAF base where Mrs Sacoolas's husband Jonathan worked as a US intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, is to be charged with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nIn January, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rejected the UK's request for her extradition.\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nNorthamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley met the US air base's commander on Thursday to discuss safety.\n\nHe said his meeting with Colonel Bridget McNamara was \"encouraging\".\n\nA joint statement released by the police and the colonel said Ms McNamara \"provided a detailed brief of all the proactive measures that the base continues to do to help those living on the base adjust to UK driving standards\".\n\n\"It was clear from the meeting that the base already had a significant number of measures in place in ensuring driver safety,\" Mr Adderley said.\n\n\"The base and the force have continued to work together.\"\n\n\"Additional provisions\" are to be introduced and both parties \"are doing all that they can to prevent any future harm on the roads in and around the site\", he said.\n\nColonel McNamara said Northamptonshire Police had been a \"steadfast partner of our base\" and she looked forward to its continued relationships.\n\nMr Seiger said the family was \"shocked\" at the news of the meeting, and said Mr Dunn's family \"should have been there\".\n\nHe said Northamptonshire Police and the US Air Force \"fail to acknowledge that there is a problem\".\n\n\"As evidenced by further video today, a further tragedy is inevitable,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emily Thornberry has been eliminated from the Labour leadership race after failing to secure enough nominations.\n\nAt the midnight Friday deadline, the shadow foreign secretary had 31 nominations from local constituency parties - two short of the 33 needed.\n\nShe did not get any nominations from Labour Party affiliates - the other route on to the ballot paper.\n\nIt leaves Sir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy in the running to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAll three had already qualified with the support of unions and affiliate groups.\n\nMs Thornberry tweeted that it was a \"shame to miss out on the rest of the race, but good luck to the three superb remaining candidates\".\n\nShe said she and her campaign team \"gave it everything\".\n\n\"I'll have a week of rest now, then it's back to the day job of holding this wretched Tory government to account on its foreign policy, and doing so with the same passion, tenacity and forensic skill I've shown for four years in that role,\" she added.\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary had struggled for support throughout the contest.\n\nMs Thornberry took part in hustings on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme last week\n\nShe only scraped through the first round of nominations by Labour MPs and MEPs with 23 votes - one more than the 22 required - after Clive Lewis dropped out.\n\nLabour MP for York Central, Rachel Maskell, one of the MPs to nominate Ms Thornberry, told the today programme it had been a \"strange contest\" which had \"polarized support\" .\n\nShe described Ms Thornberry as being an \"incredibly talented strong woman,\" and a \"tireless campaigner\" who had \"a lot to offer our party as she moves forward.\"\n\nShe said she would like to see Ms Thornberry stay in her foreign secretary role to set out a human rights agenda \"in the way we interact with the world\" but said Sir Keir would now get her support.\n\nMs Maskell said: \"I believe that he has set out a very clear position of leadership and leadership is a very special quality that few hold.\"\n\nMs Thornberry admitted to suffering from a \"squeeze\" by the \"monolithic\" campaigns of Sir Keir and Ms Long-Bailey.\n\nUnder party rules, candidates had to secure support from three unions or affiliates representing 5% of the membership, or 33 constituency Labour parties.\n\nLabour members will begin voting on the remaining candidates from Monday 24 February. Voting closes on 2 April, with the result announced two days later.\n\nCurrent leader Mr Corbyn confirmed he would step down at his election count in December as his party faced its worst performance in terms of seats since 1935.\n\nThere is also a contest running for the next deputy leader of the party, following Tom Watson's resignation in December.\n\nAll five candidates who put themselves forward made the ballot: shadow education secretary Angela Rayner, shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler, Scotland's only remaining Labour MP Ian Murray and Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan.", "Clean-up in Pontypridd: 'Everything is covered in mud'\n\n5 Live's Rory Carson has been speaking to people in Pontypridd, where he says the clean up operation is well under way. Geraint Day is chair of Clwb Y Bont - a club that promotes Welsh language and culture in the centre of the town. \"Sunday night was the time it was really bad,\" he said, \"looking in the function room now it's covered with mud. The ceiling has stayed up but the rest of the club is a complete mess, the bar, everything is covered in mud... there's not a hope of saving anything electrical. \"Anything with soft furnishing is going to be covered with flood mud and contaminated with sewage as well.\" Mr Day said he has \"no idea\" how much it will cost to repair. \"Because it's an area of high risk flooding, despite the flood walls, we can't get insurance for flood protection so we'll have to do it ourselves.\" He said they're appealing for donations, and relying on volunteers: \"We'll pull together and reopen I'm sure.\"", "Caroline Flack hosted the popular ITV dating show, Love Island, for four years, but stood down after she was charged with assaulting her boyfriend in December. She pleaded not guilty, and her boyfriend, whom she was accused of assaulting, did not support the prosecution's charges against her.\n\nCaroline Flack was due to stand trial on March 4.\n\nAs well as presenting Love Island, she had co-hosted The X Factor and won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.", "Tony Camoccio was arrested at Hurghada International Airport last week\n\nA British man detained in Egypt after reportedly patting a security guard on the back has been released.\n\nTony Camoccio, 51, feared he would be falsely accused of sexual assault after the incident at Hurghada International Airport on 8 February.\n\nMore than 5,000 people had signed a petition supporting Mr Camoccio.\n\nCampaign group Detained in Dubai said he had been released from custody after paying about £1,000 in bail and other costs.\n\nIts chief executive Radha Stirling said the case had been dismissed for lack of evidence.\n\nIn a statement Mr Camoccio, from Sutton, south London, said: \"I'm very excited to be heading home and can't wait to see all of my family after the past week's events.\n\n\"I'm very thankful to everyone for their support.\"\n\nTony Camoccio (centre), pictured after his release with wife Joan, lawyer Elezab Ali Elezab, and son Reno\n\nMr Camoccio, who has visited Egypt several times, was at the end of his holiday with his wife and a large group of friends when the incident is said to have happened at an airport checkpoint.\n\nDetained in Dubai said he was released after paying about £1,000 in bail and related fees.\n\nMs Stirling tweeted to say Mr Camoccio \"will be on the first flight home\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was in contact with Mr Camoccio's family and the Egyptian authorities.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flood defences have been bolstered in the West Yorkshire village of Mytholmroyd, where more than 200 homes were flooded last weekend\n\nThe UK is braced for more disruption, with another storm forecast for the second weekend running.\n\nStorm Dennis \"is likely to bring very heavy rain, flooding and disruption\" in some areas, the Met Office has said.\n\nAmber warnings for rain and yellow warnings for wind are in place for most of the country from Saturday afternoon and into Sunday evening.\n\nIt comes after Storm Ciara left hundreds of homes flooded and more than 500,000 without power.\n\nThe worst hit areas could see between 120-140mm of rainfall and gusts of up to 80mph over the weekend, the Met Office said.\n\nThe predictions are not as severe as last weekend when Ciara brought as much as 184mm of rain and gusts reaching 97mph.\n\nBut the Met Office said the already saturated ground could increase the risk of flooding.\n\nChief meteorologist Steve Willington said: \"With Storm Dennis bringing further heavy and persistent rain over the weekend, there is a risk of significant impacts from flooding, including damage to property and a danger to life from fast-flowing floodwater.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather's Tomasz Schafernaker looks at the areas most likely to see severe impacts from Storm Dennis.\n\nAt 15:00 on Friday there were more than a dozen flood warnings in place across Britain.\n\nUK power operators say they have employed extra engineers and call centre staff to respond to any possible impact of the storm, after widespread power cuts last weekend.\n\nMeanwhile, Network Rail is advising passengers to expect delays and cancellations to services due to flooding and allow more time for their journeys.\n\nHouseholds living near rail lines have been asked to secure any loose gardens items, after several trampolines were blown on to the tracks last weekend.\n\nThe Met Office has amber warnings for rain in pockets of northern and south-west England, and Wales from 12:00 GMT on Saturday until 15:00 on Sunday.\n\nAn amber warning is also in place for most of southern England from 00:15 until 18:00 on Sunday.\n\nFlooding, power cuts and travel disruption are predicted in these areas.\n\nYellow warnings for strong winds and heavy rain also cover all of England, Wales and southern Scotland between 09:00 GMT and midday on Saturday.\n\nFurther yellow warnings for wind are in place for northern parts of the UK from midday on Sunday until midday on Monday - potentially bringing travel disruption to commuters.\n\nAt least 800 homes in the north of England and many other areas are at risk of being flooded over the weekend as Storm Dennis unleashes heavy rainfall.\n\nThat is the assessment of the Environment Agency which is warning that persistent intense rain will fall on ground already saturated.\n\nSnow now lying on higher ground will be melted and will add to the threat.\n\nThe agency's head of flood defence, John Curtin, told a media briefing that 800 homes were flooded last weekend during Storm Ciara and that \"my feeling is that this will be at least as bad, probably more so\".\n\nOver the course of the winter so far, 7% of 400 river gauges have set new records for water height.\n\nMr Curtin said temporary flood defences were being deployed in many places but added it was too early to tell exactly where the most intense rain would fall.\n\nHe said he was most concerned about Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria but parts of Wales, south-west England, the Midlands and south-east England could also be at risk.\n\nBBC Weather forecaster Phil Avery warned that the \"real issue about Storm Dennis is going to be the amount of rainfall\".\n\nHe warned that some areas could see two days of persistent rainfall, in which a month of rain could fall over 48 hours.\n\nNetwork Rail passenger director Jake Kelly said: \"Storm Ciara dumped a month-and-a-half of rain on us last weekend, leaving ground waterlogged and rivers swollen.\n\n\"With Storm Dennis set to bring more high winds and further rainfall this Saturday and Sunday, we're preparing for more of the same.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This Hebden Bridge book shop has a sign which doubles up as a flood barrier\n\nTemporary flood barriers have been installed in Billington, Lancashire, ahead of Storm Dennis\n\nThe Environment Agency said preparations were under way to operate flood defences, flood storage reservoirs and temporary barriers to protect communities.\n\nThis includes the Foss Barrier in York, the Thames Barrier in London and another in Bewdley, Worcestershire, on the River Severn.\n\nFlood duty manager Caroline Douglass said: \"Remember to never drive or walk through floodwater, just 30cm of flowing water is enough to move your car - it's not worth the risk.\"\n\nThe Energy Networks Association - which represents operators - said the UK's networks were \"very resilient and built to withstand strong winds and heavy rain\" but added that flying debris \"can pose a risk to infrastructure\" during a storm.", "One japester described the hole, in Bath Street, as \"an adventure not to be missed\"\n\nInternet jokers have turned a circular hole in a wall outside a bank into a tourist attraction.\n\nSince December 2018, wags have been posting glowing reviews on TripAdvisor for the hole at NatWest in Ilkeston.\n\n\"NatWest hole\" is now ranked fourth out of 16 attractions in the Derbyshire town based on user reviews.\n\nOne reviewer on TripAdvisor offered the spoof advice: \"Can get very busy and you can queue for hours, but it's worth the wait.\"\n\nThe attention has seen the modest hole rise up the rankings\n\nAnother wag wrote: \"The city of Agra has the Taj Mahal, Paris has the Eiffel Tower and Sydney has its Opera House.\n\n\"But they all pale in comparison to the impact on the soul of first laying eyes on Ilkeston's Hole in the Wall.\"\n\nPaul Miller, chairman of the Ilkeston and District History Society, said he was \"gobsmacked\" at the hole's high ranking.\n\nBennerly Viaduct has a lower ranking on TripAdvisor than the NatWest hole\n\n\"It doesn't really say a lot about the area if it's number four,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it looks like a 1970s idea of something to look different. It doesn't really beat the pyramids though does it?\"\n\nA NatWest spokeswoman clarified the hole was introduced during a mid-1990s refurbishment as a safety feature so people using the cash machine could see if anyone was lurking behind the wall.\n\nIt is not the first time tongue-in-cheek reviews have propelled an unlikely attraction up the TripAdvisor rankings. In 2018, a plastic tunnel outside a Bude supermarket became the highest ranked place to visit in the Cornish resort - although TripAdvisor bosses later suspended reviews for the see-through walkway.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The majority of confirmed cases have been in China\n\nCovid-19, the new form of coronavirus which has killed over 2,000 people around the world, has become a notifiable disease in Scotland.\n\nHealth regulations have been updated, requiring doctors to inform health boards about any cases of the disease.\n\nThey must share patient information \"if they have reasonable grounds to suspect a person they are attending has coronavirus\".\n\nNo cases have been found in Scotland so far.\n\nThe Chief Medical Officer has written to NHS Boards, medical practitioners and directors of diagnostic laboratories to make them aware of the changes.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said: \"Although all Scottish tests have so far been negative, we are prepared for the high likelihood that we will also see a positive case in Scotland.\n\n\"These changes keep our public health legislation up to date, ensuring the health service in Scotland can quickly respond, if a suspected case of coronavirus is confirmed.\n\n\"Our NHS is well-equipped to cope with any suspected cases. We are actively working with health boards to ensure this, and have well-rehearsed procedures in place for infections of this kind.\"\n\nIn Scotland, 368 people have been tested for the disease. All tests have been negative.\n\nAccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there were 76,769 confirmed cases of Covid-19 as of Friday.\n\nThe vast majority have been in China.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nFrance remain on course for a first Grand Slam in 10 years after winning in Cardiff for the first time since 2010.\n\nFly-half Romain Ntamack's 17-point haul included a try, while full-back Anthony Bouthier and second-row Paul Willemse also crossed.\n\nDefending champions Wales responded with 18 points from Dan Biggar including a late try.\n\nProp Dillon Lewis also crossed for his first international try.\n\nFrance overcame yellow cards for Gregory Alldritt and Mohamed Haouas while Wales were left to wonder if they should have received a penalty try in the second half for a deliberate knock-on.\n\nThe captivating contest was Wales' second defeat in three matches under new coach Wayne Pivac and hopes of defending their Six Nations title appear to have disappeared.\n\nIt was Wales' first home Six Nations defeat for three years and France's second win in 10 games against their opponents.\n\nThe victory gave Shaun Edwards, who spent 12 years as Wales defence coach under Warren Gatland, a successful return to the Principality Stadium.\n\nPre-match controversy centred around Wales prop Wyn Jones accusing France of illegal tactics at the scrum and visiting coach Fabien Galthie suggesting that showed a lack of respect for the nation.\n\nAs a result, the first scrum was always going to provoke interest but the second minute set-piece went off without incident - although it laid the platform for France to concede a ruck offence and Biggar slotted over the penalty.\n\nFrance responded within seven minutes when a normally reliable Leigh Halfpenny dropped a high Ntamack kick, with Bouthier sprinting away to score. Ntamack converted.\n\nWales lost George North to a head injury assessment after 11 minutes following a heavy challenge by Fickou, with Johnny McNicholl permanently replacing him.\n\nNtamack continued to drive France forward and slotted over a penalty after Lewis was guilty of a ruck transgression.\n\nUnder Edwards' influence, France ferociously counter-rucked to put Wales under constant pressure in possession - and they also pushed the offside line, with one infringement resulting in a Biggar penalty.\n\nFrance appeared to have responded with a brilliant second try for Fickou following a clever Ntamack chip kick but the Bouthier pass to Virimi Vakatawa was deemed forward following television replays.\n\nThat decision only briefly delayed matters as Willemse powered over from a driving line-out as he bumped off an attempted McNicholl tackle. Ntamack converted.\n\nWales responded with a third Biggar penalty and the visitors' constant offending resulted in a warning from English referee Matt Carley. Number eight Alldritt paid the price with a yellow card just before half-time.\n\nWales captain Alun Wyn Jones opted to attempt to score a try rather than kick a fourth penalty - but the gamble backfired as France held out to lead 17-9 at the interval.\n\nThe visitors ran down the rest of Alldritt's absence after half-time as Wales managed no points with their numerical advantage.\n\nPivac's side scored almost immediately when equal numbers were restored though, as prop Lewis dived over for his first international try. Biggar converted to reduce the deficit to one point.\n\nAll the momentum appeared to be with Wales until the classy Ntamack intercepted a Tompkins pass to sprint away and score a converted try that mirrored his father Emile's score against the same opposition 20 years ago.\n\nAn Ntamack penalty extended the deficit to 11 points before Willemse escaped giving away a penalty try after he knocked the ball forward. After watching television replays, Carley stuck with assistant referee Karl Dickson's decision that it was just a knock-on as Ken Owens' attempted try-scoring pass to Josh Adams was knocked down.\n\nAdams was forced off the field with an ankle problem which forced a major backline reshuffle as fly-half Jarrod Evans came on in the centre and Tompkins switched to the wing.\n\nProp Mohamed Haouas was yellow-carded for persistent scrummaging offences before France cleared the danger.\n\nBiggar dived over for a converted try following clever work from new cap Will Rowlands and Aaron Wainwright to reduce the deficit to four points with five minutes remaining to set up an enthralling finale.\n\nA tremendous Tompkins break was snuffed out by a brilliant turnover by France replacement hooker Camille Chat to end Wales' hopes.\n\nTempers flared between the sides at the final whistle after France held on for a rare win in Cardiff.", "The International Center of Photography in New York is showcasing photos of hip-hop's greatest stars.\n\nCurator Vikki Tobak describes the exhibition as watching your favourite musical icons grow up in front of your eyes.\n\nIncluded in the project is the photographer behind the famous image of The Notorious B.I.G. wearing a crown.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An earlier flight, 2018, in which \"Mad\" Mike Hughes sought to prove his theory that the Earth was flat\n\nA US daredevil pilot has been killed during an attempted launch of a homemade rocket in the Californian desert.\n\n\"Mad\" Mike Hughes, 64, crash-landed his steam-powered rocket shortly after take-off near Barstow on Saturday.\n\nA video on social media shows a rocket being fired into the sky before plummeting to the ground nearby.\n\nHughes was well-known for his belief that the Earth was flat. He hoped to prove his theory by going to space.\n\nSaturday's launch was reportedly filmed as part of Homemade Astronauts, a new TV series about amateur rocket makers to be aired on the US Science Channel. The project had to be carried out on a tight budget.\n\nWith the help of his partner Waldo Stakes, Hughes was trying to reach an altitude of 5,000ft (1,525m) while riding his steam-powered rocket, according to Space.com.\n\nIn the video of the launch, a parachute can be seen trailing behind the rocket, apparently deployed too early, seconds after take-off.\n\nIn a tweet, the Science Channel said Hughes had died pursuing his dream.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Science Channel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSan Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said its officers were called to a rocket launch event at around 14:00 local time (22:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nThe sheriff's office said \"a man was pronounced deceased after the rocket crashed in the open desert\". Hughes' publicist confirmed to US media outlets that it was the pilot who had been killed.\n\nDarren Shuster, a former representative for Hughes, told TMZ the daredevil was \"one-of-a-kind\".\n\n\"When God made Mike he broke the mould. The man was the real deal and lived to push the edge. He wouldn't have gone out any other way! RIP\" he said.\n\nMad Mike and his assistants built the homemade rocket in his backyard, spending around $18,000 (£14,000).\n\nThe rocket uses steam ejected through a nozzle for propulsion.\n\nThe daredevil, who lived in Apple Valley, made headlines internationally when he announced his intention to prove his theory that the Earth was flat.\n\nIn March last year, Hughes managed an altitude of 1,870ft (570m) before deploying his parachutes and landing with a bump.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Hughes said: \"Am I glad I did it? Yeah, I guess. I'll feel it in the morning. I won't be able to get out of bed. At least I can go home and have dinner and see my cats tonight.\"\n\nHe set a Guinness World Record in 2002 for the longest limousine jump - over 31 metres (103 ft) in a Lincoln Town Car stretched limo.", "Herefordshire Highways shared a picture of the tractor transport service on Twitter\n\nStaff at a care home have been carried into work on a tractor and trailer, as flooding after Storm Dennis remains.\n\nHampton Bishop in Herefordshire was the last place in England to have a severe flood warning, meaning a danger to life, following the storm.\n\nThe county council has been providing the extra service to transport staff to the village's care home, Hampton House.\n\nEmma Thompson, care home manager, has also stayed on the site since last Sunday to support residents.\n\n\"They are like grandparents to me and I just want to be here to reassure them 24/7,\" she said.\n\n\"But we're very lucky, we have three birthdays this weekend so we're all eating cake.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe severe warnings in Hampton Bishop were lifted at 12:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMs Thompson has praised Herefordshire Council, Herefordshire Fire and Rescue Service, her \"incredible\" staff and relatives who have helped the care home keep going through the flooding.\n\nHerefordshire Fire and Rescue Service workers checked flood levels in Hampton Bishop on Friday\n\nThough Ms Thompson said the village was \"not out of the woods\", she added the situation was starting to improve.\n\n\"One of my staff members lives on Church Lane, and she has now been able to get in wearing wellies, which is fantastic, because she had been turning up at the back door in a kayak,\" she said.\n\nDave Throup, from the Environment Agency, said more rain was expected over the weekend.\n\n\"I think it will push levels back up on the main rivers, but at the moment we have got no suggestion it will take them to where they were earlier in the week,\" he said.\n\nSevere flood warnings for the River Lugg and River Wye in Hampton Bishop have been lifted\n\nElsewhere, Shropshire Council said sections of the Coleham flood barriers in Shrewsbury were being deployed as a precautionary measure due to the expected rainfall.\n\nFrankwell Main Car Park is closed until further notice, it said, and there is no overnight parking at St Julian's Friar's car park as levels are set to rise overnight.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland ended Ireland's Grand Slam hopes in brutal fashion as they rediscovered some of their World Cup form to reignite their own hopes of landing the Six Nations title.\n\nFirst-half tries from George Ford and Elliot Daly after Irish defensive errors plus two conversions and a penalty from Owen Farrell gave England a commanding 17-0 lead.\n\nIreland struck back with a try from Robbie Henshaw but with Johnny Sexton uncharacteristically wayward off the tee, they never seriously threatened a comeback.\n\nLuke Cowan-Dickie drove over for England's third midway through the second half, with replacement Andrew Porter's late try no sort of consolation for Ireland.\n\nWith Wales at home in a fortnight before a trip to Italy, Eddie Jones' men will believe they can finish the championship in style, although they may need Ireland to do them a favour and beat France in Paris next month.\n\nFor the men in green and their head coach Andy Farrell it was a chastening afternoon, all the optimism created by the wins over Scotland and Wales leaching away in a display that was ponderous until the game was gone.\n• None We could have declared at half-time - Jones\n• None I need to look at myself - Ireland coach Farrell\n• None England blitz Ireland - the match as it happened\n\nEngland began at a real lick, Manu Tuilagi punching holes through the middle and going close down the left before Andrew Conway hauled him down.\n\nAnd the reward came when Ben Youngs stuck a grubber kick through, Sexton dithered and juggled in his own in-goal area and Ford seized on the loose ball to touch down.\n\nSexton then mis-kicked horribly with a straightforward penalty from 30 metres out and England set up camp again in the Ireland half.\n\nJonathan Joseph danced through in midfield after a mis-hit clearing kick from Conor Murray as Maro Itoje and CJ Stander scrapped in the 22, and England's forwards hammered away at the Ireland line.\n\nWith a penalty coming, the men in white shaped to go wide, only for Ford to pop through another kick - and this time it was Jacob Stockdale who dallied, Daly diving onto the ball as Irish hands went to heads.\n\nThe scoreboard reflected the gulf between the two sides, England dynamic with ball in hand and ferocious in defence, Ireland laboured and error-ridden.\n\nAnd Sexton's miserable half was compounded when he was penalised for slowing the ball up, Farrell stroking over his kick to give England their biggest half-time lead over Ireland in 18 years.\n\nIreland simply had to improve - and belatedly they did. An England knock-on from the restart gave away possession and the visitors finally chiselled out some territory too.\n\nEngland managed to stop an Ireland driving maul from a line-out close in but the pressure kept coming.\n\nIreland won a penalty in front of the posts, opted for the scrum and eventually found space in the right-hand corner for Henshaw to burrow through two defenders and over the line.\n\nBut Sexton shanked the conversion just as he had the first-half penalty and the pressure ebbed away as Jones threw on Cowan-Dickie, Ellis Genge and Charlie Ewels.\n\nEngland's scrum, strong throughout, began to dominate and the penalties started to mount.\n\nFarrell kicked to the corner, the forwards set up the maul from the line-out and Cowan-Dickie peeled off with Sam Underhill and Jonny May driving him on to roll over for England's third try.\n\nMay was nearly clear on his own after seizing a loose ball from a messy Ireland ruck and appeared to be taken out by Henshaw after kicking the ball ahead, only for referee Jaco Peyper to wave play on.\n\nAnd as the game stumbled towards the line, Porter rumbled over from a metre out for a try that made little difference to Ireland's afternoon.\n\nWhat the coaches said\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones: \"We had a good preparation, we were always looking at this game and the next as the ones we had to be at our best.\n\n\"We were disappointed with the second half, but when you are playing against a side like Ireland you expect them to get some possession. We had to defend pretty well.\n\nIreland head coach Andy Farrell: \"I think the scoreline flattered us a little bit. We didn't start to play how we wanted to until the game was over. England were excellent, every side will look at themselves physically and they certainly won that battle. We didn't fire a shot in that first half.\n\n\"England were fighting to stay in the championship and that's what we need to be in the next two games - I need to look at myself regarding the performance of the first half.\"\n\nWhat did the pundits think?\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson: \"It's a fantastic win for England, they were dominant throughout the whole game. The tactics in the first half were spot on, but it was a bit strange they didn't continue that after half-time and put the game away.\n\n\"They were happy to let Ireland have the ball and defend. They were really comfortable.\"\n\nFormer England hooker Brian Moore: \"Ireland's half-backs Johnny Sexton and Conor Murray have been world class for a long time but I don't think I've ever seen them play as badly, and certainly kick as badly. That created a platform for England who were sharp and really could have scored more tries.\n\n\"England's line speed was good throughout, they won the majority of the collisions and got on top in the set-piece.\"\n\nFormer Ireland number eight Jamie Heaslip: \"If you keep showing the same picture against a side like England, they'll punish you. Make basic mistakes in the back-field, you will get punished. If you want to win a championship, you can't make those mistakes.\"\n\nReplacements: Slade for Tuilagi (74), Heinz for Youngs (58), Genge for Marler (58), Cowan-Dickie for George (52), Stuart for Sinckler (69), Launchbury for Kruis (60), Ewels for Lawes (58), Earl for Curry (66).\n\nReplacements: Earls for Larmour (64), R. Byrne for Conway (66), Cooney for Murray (55), Kilcoyne for Healy (26), Kelleher for Herring (60), Porter for Furlong (58), Dillane for Toner (60), Doris for van der Flier (60).\n\nStill to come in the Six Nations...", "Saudi officials have called for the arrest of a female rapper who released a music video for her song Mecca Girl that praises women from the holy city as \"powerful and beautiful\".\n\nIn 2018 the crown prince of the conservative country began a programme of reforms.\n\nBut activists say repression has increased and there is a crackdown on freedom of expression.\n\nThe video was released on YouTube last week by a young rapper who identifies herself as Asayel Slay.\n\nShe raps about women in the city of Mecca, which is Islam's holiest site where millions of Muslims go on Hajj or pilgrimage annually.\n\n\"Our respect to other girls but the Mecca girl is sugar candy,\" she sings in the video while men and women dance in a café.\n\nIt was widely shared on social media, and people used hashtag #Mecca_Girl_Represents_Me to praise it.\n\nOn Thursday governor of Mecca Khaled al-Faisal ordered the arrest of the people behind the video, tweeting that it \"insults the customs of Mecca\" and using hashtag \"They're not the girls of Mecca\".\n\nAsayel Slay's account has been suspended and the video is no longer available on YouTube.\n\nOne popular tweet read, \"It's the only rap song that doesn't contain a single obscenity, insult, pornographic scene, nudity, hashish or smoking and the rapper is even wearing the hijab.\n\n\"The girl faces arrest because the song doesn't suit new Saudi Arabia or old.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi Arabia reforms: Are they good news for women?\n\nOther social media users suggested double-standards apply to men and women.\n\nThey drew attention to the case of Moroccan singer Saad Lmjarred who was permitted to perform in Riyadh after facing three charges of rape that he denies.\n\nSocial media users accused authorities of projecting an image of modernisation abroad while cracking down at home.\n\n\"This is so typical of the Saudi government to do - bring western influencers to artwash the regime but attack real Saudi women who try to artistically express their cultural identities,\" tweeted Amani Al-Ahmadi, who identifies herself as a Saudi-American feminist.\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is promoting a more modern image of the country abroad as part of his Vision 2030 programme of reform.\n\nArtists including Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and BTS have been invited to perform in the kingdom.\n\nNicki Minaj pulled out after a backlash, citing her support for the rights of women and the LGBT community.\n\nAt a music festival in December, 120 Saudi men and women were arrested for wearing \"inappropriate clothes.\"", "Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer met the mascots before the game\n\nAn 87-year-old mascot was among 11 who were the oldest by decades to ever walk out on the pitch for Manchester United.\n\nThe local fans, aged between 61 and 87, greeted the players before the game with Watford at Old Trafford as part of a campaign to highlight loneliness.\n\nIt follows gestures honouring elderly supporters by Manchester City, Burnley and Swedish club AIK.\n\nUnited's director of partnerships Sean Jefferson said they wanted to encourage fans to speak to older people.\n\n\"Any small gesture and interaction can play a part in helping to help tackle loneliness amongst our older generation,\" he said.\n\nThe mascots greeted captain Harry Maguire and the team as they stepped on to the pitch\n\nMore than two million people over the age of 75 live alone in the UK, according to Age UK.\n\nThe choice of elderly mascots, who have received support from the charity, is part of Cadbury's \"Donate Your Words\" campaign, which is encouraging people to \"make a difference to the lives of older people\", a firm spokeswoman said.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham added: \"Loneliness is much closer to home than many people realise, and any actions like these to raise its profile is a big step in the right direction.\"", "The coaches with the evacuees arrived at the hospital in a convoy of vehicles\n\nBritish nationals evacuated from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan have arrived at a hospital where they will spend the next two weeks in quarantine.\n\nCoaches carrying 30 British and two Irish citizens arrived at Arrowe Park hospital in Wirral on Saturday evening.\n\nThe group had travelled from an airbase in Wiltshire after leaving Tokyo on a flight late on Friday night.\n\nThey have so far tested negative for the virus.\n\nAs the coaches arrived at the hospital just before 18:00, one passenger was pictured making a heart sign with her hands while another gave an OK signal through the coach windows.\n\nArrowe Park Hospital was previously used to quarantine 83 British nationals who were flown back to the UK from Wuhan.\n\nThe chief executive of Wirral Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Janelle Holmes, said Arrowe Park was using that experience as a \"blueprint\" for treating the new group.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the group's arrival, she said: \"The group of people is slightly different.\n\n\"Obviously, they have come from a cruise ship rather than from their own homes over in China, but we are working exactly the same as we did before, with the healthcare professionals and Public Health England to make sure they are safe, well managed and comfortable while they are with us.\"\n\nThe plane landed at Boscombe Down, a MoD base in Wiltshire\n\nThe evacuation flight took off from Tokyo's Haneda Airport late on Friday evening (GMT) and landed at Boscombe Down, a Ministry of Defence base in Wiltshire, about 11:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nIn a statement issued after the plane landed, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the Foreign Office had \"worked hard\" to get the passengers \"back to the UK securely\".\n\n\"Our number one priority has consistently been the health and safety of UK nationals,\" he added.\n\nThe flight had previously been delayed after the British embassy said it was \"logistically complicated\".\n\nThe plane set off from Haneda Airport, Tokyo, late on Friday evening (GMT)\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged the NHS is working on plans to test people for coronavirus in their own homes, if the outbreak begins to spread in the UK.\n\nA pilot scheme has already been launched in London, where tests are being carried out by NHS nurses and paramedics.\n\nThe health service is planning to expand the scheme to other areas outside of the capital in the coming weeks.\n\nProfessor Keith Willett, the NHS strategic incident director for coronavirus, said the aim was to avoid the risk of people spreading the infection by going to their GP or A&E.\n\nElsewhere, Italy has reported its second death from the virus - a woman living in the northern region of Lombardy - a day after a 78-year-old man died.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome 78 Britons were on the Diamond Princess when it was quarantined 16 days ago.\n\nSome of the British passengers on the Diamond Princess had already been evacuated over the last week on flights to Hong Kong, organised by the Chinese authorities there, a government source has told the BBC.\n\nOthers are being treated for the virus in health facilities in Japan.\n\nDavid and Sally Abel, a couple from Northamptonshire who were diagnosed with coronavirus on the cruise ship, have since been told they have pneumonia, their son said.\n\nAppearing alongside wife Roberta, Steve Abel said in a YouTube video late on Friday evening that his father's condition was \"very serious\", while his mother has a more mild form of pneumonia.\n\nHe also said his \"really distressed\" parents - who had been on the cruise for their 50th wedding anniversary - called him to say they were being moved to a different hospital.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMr Abel said: \"They've gone from being told that they're going to have all these wonderful treatments, and 'we're going to wait over the next two or three days just to see how they respond to the treatments', and now all of a sudden they're being told 'we have to move you to a different hospital'.\"\n\nHe said his father is so \"weak\" he has been using a wheelchair, and has been told he could be put on a ventilator.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Abel told BBC Breakfast his father told him \"we can't take any more of this, it's like a prison\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said the welfare of all British nationals is of the highest priority to the UK government.\n\nThey added they are working with the Japanese authorities to ensure those British nationals who are remaining in Japan for health reasons get the best possible care.\n\nAt least four UK nationals have contracted the virus on board the cruise ship, but those flying home have tested negative.\n\nMore than 620 people on board the cruise ship tested positive for the virus - the largest cluster of cases outside China.\n\nIt is understood that some British nationals are members of the ship's crew who could be staying on board the ship.\n\nTwo Japanese passengers - both in their 80s and with underlying health conditions - were confirmed to have died after contracting the virus on the Diamond Princess.\n\nThe cruise liner was carrying 3,700 people when it was quarantined in Yokohama on 5 February, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was found to have the virus.\n\nSouth Korea says the number of new coronavirus cases in the country has more than doubled in one day.\n\nOfficials said on Saturday that 229 new cases had been confirmed since Friday, raising the total to 433.\n\nIn the UK, a total of 5,885 people have been tested for the virus, as of 14:00 GMT on Friday. Nine people have tested positive.\n\nWere you on the flight? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "More than 100 Britons rescued from China have left isolation, as dozens of people from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship begin a two-week quarantine.\n\nUK citizens previously evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan - the centre of the virus outbreak - have ended their isolation in Milton Keynes.\n\nIt comes a day after those rescued from the Diamond Princess ship in Japan were taken to Wirral's Arrowe Park Hospital.\n\nOn Saturday, the government confirmed that no new UK cases had been detected.\n\nPeople with backpacks and suitcases were pictured getting into waiting taxis outside Kents Hill Park conference centre in the east side of Milton Keynes, where 118 UK nationals and their family members were isolated.\n\nPaul Wilkinshaw, 39, who left the centre with his wife Lihong, 33, said it \"feels weird\" to not require protective equipment.\n\n\"It feels fantastic to leave, although it feels weird not having to wear a mask and gloves in public,\" Mr Wilkinshaw said.\n\nBill To said \"everything was excellent\" during his two-week quarantine in Milton Keynes\n\n\"It was really good, everything was excellent. I'm happy I can go home now,\" another evacuee, Bill To, said.\n\n\"I'm going to get some Chinese food. Everything is good.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock commended the group \"for their patience and perseverance\".\n\nThe last of those in quarantine at Kents Hill Park training centre left just before 12:00 GMT.\n\nThe 118 people isolated here for two weeks were treated to pizza, katsu curry and steaks.\n\nThey were also offered microwave meals and goods such as smartphones, with SIM cards, and brand-new suitcases.\n\nWe spoke to Bill To, who said his first day from quarantine would be partly spent seeking out his first Chinese meal in two weeks.\n\nOthers said they were just glad to be leaving and had sumptuous praise for the NHS staff that tended to them during their stay.\n\nThe Department of Health provided care and also splashed out on entertainment such as basketball nets and football posts, fitness dumbbells, and Netflix accounts.\n\nHowever, there was a function to the frills.\n\nIt kept those in quarantine happy and relaxed, as each of them were tested for coronavirus three times over the two weeks of their stay.\n\nIt came as the Foreign Office amended its travel advice for South Korea as cases of the new coronavirus, and the disease it causes, increased.\n\nIt advised against all but essential travel to the cities of Daegu and Cheongdo in the country, which have been declared \"special care zones\" by South Korean authorities.\n\nThe latest group of Britons to be evacuated - passengers from the cruise liner Diamond Princess - arrived at Arrowe Park on Saturday.\n\nThe 30 Britons and two Irish citizens will spend the next 14 days isolated from the world in nurses' accommodation.\n\nThey have already spent two weeks in quarantine on board the ship, but since then 600 passengers and crew have tested positive for the new virus.\n\nThose evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship landed at Boscombe Down, a MoD base in Wiltshire\n\nFour Britons from the ship who recently tested positive for the new coronavirus were not on the latest evacuation flight.\n\nThey include David and Sally Abel, from Northamptonshire, who have since been diagnosed with pneumonia, according to their family.\n\nThey are being treated in a Japanese hospital.\n\nArrowe Park was previously used to isolate 83 British nationals who were flown back to the UK from Wuhan.\n\nThe chief executive of Wirral Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Janelle Holmes, said the hospital was using its previous experience as a \"blueprint\" for treating the new group.\n\nThe BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said it seems increasingly likely that the spread of the new coronavirus will become a pandemic - or global outbreak.\n\n\"The combined situation in South Korea, Iran and Italy point to the early stages of pandemic,\" he said. \"In each of these countries we are seeing spread of the virus with no connection to China.\"\n\nChinese health authorities reported a decrease in the rate of deaths and new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday. Some 76,392 cases including 2,348 deaths have been confirmed in China.\n\nThe head of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the greatest concern now was countries with weaker health systems, particularly in Africa.\n\nIn the UK, a total of 6,152 people have been tested for the virus, as of 14:00 GMT on Saturday. Nine people have tested positive.\n\nWere you on the flight? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "\"We basically ended up living in our car\"\n\nCorin Kealoha and Shaun Karagory both work full time - but cannot afford food without the help of a food bank.\n\n\"We can't even live off our wages,\" says Corin, 46, who works as a hotel receptionist. \"That's why we come here.\"\n\nThe couple are at St Vincent's Food Pantry, in Reno, Nevada, where they have picked up cardboard boxes containing cereals, bread, milk, peanut butter, and some meat.\n\nAnd their story offers a glimpse into the complicated reality behind the economic recovery lauded by President Donald Trump.\n\nIn his January State of the Union, President Trump hailed the \"great American comeback\", stating: \"Jobs are booming. Incomes are soaring. Poverty is plummeting… the years of economic decay are over.\"\n\nIt's a narrative he hopes will help him win November's presidential race - including in Nevada, a swing state that supported Hillary Clinton by a margin of just 2% in 2016.\n\nThe western state, home to Las Vegas, was one of the worst hit by the 2008 financial crisis. House prices dropped up to 60%, unemployment soared to 14%, and the state had the highest number of home foreclosures nationwide.\n\nMore than a decade on, Nevada's home values have recovered, the state came first for job growth in the US in 2018, and unemployment now hovers at a 20-year low of 3.8%.\n\nBut to get a sense of some of the limits of the recovery, you only have to take a walk in downtown Reno.\n\nDown North Virginia Street, there are glittery high-rise hotels and casinos, river walkways, and tourists taking selfies at the iconic Reno Arch, which proudly welcomes visitors to \"the biggest little city in the world\".\n\nYet if you take a different turn, and walk down East Fourth Street, the city looks very different. Instead of high-rises, there are smaller, weekly motels, and instead of tourists, you can see queues outside shelters and soup kitchens, and homeless people sitting, chatting, or doing push-ups near the railway tracks.\n\n\"Unemployment is low, but unfortunately unemployment is not a great indicator of how many people are hungry,\" says Jocelyn Lantrip, from the Food Bank of Northern Nevada, which supplies charities including St Vincent's Food Pantry.\n\nAnd often, those going hungry - or temporarily homeless - are people who already have jobs.\n\n\"We have anything from 350 to 450 new families per month,\" says Carlos Carrillo, programme director at the St Vincent's Food Pantry, in between packing boxes with food.\n\n\"We used to have a lot of clients who were unemployed or on social security, but nowadays most of our clients are working families.\"\n\nThe food bank has even started offering dog and cat food to 1,500 families a month - a practical step after they realised that clients would often go hungry in order to feed their pets.\n\nA majority of clients say they are forced to use the food bank because rents have soared.\n\n\"They take money out of their food budget to pay for rent, so that's where we come in, to provide a bit of the food that they're not buying anymore,\" Mr Carrillo says.\n\nCarlos says St Vincent's Food Pantry serves about 300 families in Reno each day\n\nElliott Parker, chair of economics at the University of Nevada, Reno, argues that \"recovery is in the eye of the beholder\".\n\nThe latest data from the Census Bureau suggests that median household income is still just below 2008 levels, he adds.\n\n\"We are finally at the end of a very long recovery - but wages have risen nowhere near as fast as housing and rental prices.\"\n\nNevada has the nation's worst shortage of affordable housing for low-income families, according to an advocacy group, with only 19 homes for every 100 low-income renter households.\n\nThere are various reasons for the housing crisis - including stalled construction from the 2008 financial crisis that has been slow to pick up.\n\nAnd Reno residents complain about the \"Tesla effect\" - as tech workers and retirees from the more expensive neighbouring state of California cross the border into Nevada, they push up rental prices for locals.\n\n\"Fifty percent of people in Nevada rent, and half of them are rent burdened - meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing,\" says state Senator Julia Ratti, whose district covers the Reno-Sparks area.\n\n\"This means they become very vulnerable to anything happening in their life - if you get a flat tyre, or your child needs medical care, you'll be late on your rent.\"\n\n\"Rent has jumped so dramatically you can't even stay on your two feet,\" says Corin\n\nIt's something Corin and Shaun, 39, experienced last year, after Shaun, who works as a security guard, developed fibromyalgia and had to take some time off work.\n\n\"We became homeless because I couldn't afford to pay the rent,\" says Corin. \"We basically ended up living in our car.\"\n\nThey have since moved into a studio apartment - although the rent, which is $900 a month, takes a significant bite out of their wages - they both earn $10 per hour.\n\n\"We're not stable yet - we're not even sure what's going to happen,\" Corin says with a laugh. \"We just live day by day for now.\"\n\nJohn Restrepo, an analyst at RCG Economics in Las Vegas, says it is both true that the economy overall has grown - and that many working families are still suffering.\n\nThose with equities in the stock market and small businesses have come out as winners from the economic recovery, he says, but wage earners have lost out.\n\n\"About 60% of our households are not invested in the stock market - they depend on wages - and a large percentage of those folks, particularly lower-income workers, haven't benefited from the recovery at all,\" says Mr Restrepo. \"The challenge is that wages have been pretty stagnant after you adjust for inflation.\"\n\nHe believes that many companies, \"as a result of the great recession, decided to do business differently\" - hiring more contractors and gig workers.\n\nNevada was also coming out of a particularly deep recession, which means \"we've been growing for 10 years now, but it's also one of the slowest recoveries in terms of the rate of recovery.\"\n\nThe other issue that comes up again and again when you speak to Nevadans is the cost of healthcare.\n\nJim Eaglesmith spent four years caring for his mother, who had been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and eventually lost his job in a physical therapy clinic after he had to reduce his hours to look after her.\n\n\"The expenses of rent, home, healthcare, hospice and prescription needs meant I depleted my savings… in the last three years I used up her savings and my 401K. I spent everything I had thinking she was going to have some money left over, but I ended up having to spend almost all of it,\" he says.\n\nJim lives at the Village on Sage Street, in a dormitory in a modular unit\n\nAfter that, he says he was effectively homeless for two months, couch surfing with different friends until he was able to move into Village on Sage Street - a dormitory developed by the Community Foundation of Western Nevada - which is designed to help working poor individuals and offers single rooms for as little as $400 a month.\n\n\"I can't afford a lot of things, but I'm not here to make money,\" says Jim, who now works part time as a performance artist. \"My value isn't based on my economic worth.\"\n\nUS healthcare costs are amongst the highest in the world - which means even middle-income families can feel vulnerable.\n\nAdrielle Hammon, 35, works in a pre-school, making $9 an hour. Last year, she and her husband qualified for Medicaid, a public healthcare scheme for poor Americans - which meant when her son had a medical emergency, the $40,000 hospital bill was covered.\n\nThis year, her family's income has grown - Adrielle believes they are now \"roughly middle class\" - but it means they no longer qualify for Medicaid, and neither of them receives health insurance through work.\n\n\"We can afford food, gas and bills now,\" she says. \"But you throw in things like hospital bills, and that's something worrisome... I don't go to the doctor for anything unless someone's literally dying.\"\n\n\"I don't see it ever being the case that we can afford to buy a house\" - Adrielle Hammon\n\nAnd the American dream of owning their own home seems like a remote possibility, which she admits bothers her because \"we always figured that by the time we were this age, we'd be able to afford to buy a house.\"\n\nFor many lower-income families, housing and healthcare costs can combine, to make them more vulnerable to unexpected emergencies.\n\nAngel Mcceig-Escalanti, 44, says most of her family's income is spent on rent, and dealing with problems with their car.\n\n\"We've not been able to save any money at all - we have really been struggling,\" she says.\n\nShe lives with her husband, her mother, and one of her three children in a two-bedroom apartment costing $1,270 a month - \"and one person doesn't have a bedroom - my mother sleeps on the couch.\"\n\n\"I only use the system when I need it\" - Angel Mcceig-Escalanti\n\nShe visits St Vincent's Food Pantry for fresh and canned fruit and vegetables, and visits several other food banks for help as well - particularly because, as a diabetic, she has to have a low-carbohydrate diet.\n\n\"We could buy food, just not the sort of food I should be eating. I'm supposed to be low carb, but that's the stuff that is the cheapest.\"\n\nShe also chooses the food carefully, hoping that this will help ensure her teenage son doesn't develop diabetes when he's older.\n\nIn politics, and in the media, it can be tempting to generalise - whether it is about the economic recovery, or the plight of lower-income families.\n\nBut the reality is often more nuanced - especially as the working class don't necessarily see themselves as poor.\n\nI met Kayshoun Grajeda, 33, at the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas - a training centre that has built-in kitchens, a restaurant, and bedrooms for hospitality staff in training.\n\nShe's beaming with pride as she explains it's her last day on the guestroom attendant course, and as she demonstrates how to make a bed in five minutes while keeping the sheets perfectly smooth.\n\n\"If you really want something, and put your best foot forward, you can accomplish it,\" she adds. \"There's help - you've just gotta want it. You can't put the blame on somebody else.\"\n\nKayshoun says her three children are extremely proud that she is about to graduate from the Culinary Academy\n\nThe single mother of three has just been offered a job with a hotel, and believes it will be a significant step up from her previous job as a hair dresser.\n\n\"I want things for my kids, so this is definitely a good start, you know? I'm starting at $15.35, but it's a start! It's above minimum wage,\" she says with a grin.\n\nIt's a sense of positivity that is partly shared by Deidre Hammon, who lives with her daughter Brianna in a mobile home in a trailer park on the outskirts of Reno.\n\nDeidre (who is also Adrielle's mother) works three jobs - as a contractor at a law firm, as an advocate at a centre for children with disabilities, and as a carer for Brianna, 36, who lives with cerebral palsy.\n\n\"We're all very optimistic about our lives, we don't want to see ourselves as poor people who can't afford anything,\" she says.\n\nBut she adds that the difficulties that working families face are very real. Her car just broke down, so she's been forced to spend $250 per week on a rental car, since she needs to drive for work and to transport Brianna around.\n\nWhile she would rather work in a full-time role with benefits, \"it's easier to have low-wage jobs I can quit easily, and then find another low-wage job\" - because she sometimes needs time off at short notice to care for her daughter.\n\nShe also can't afford a wheelchair van - which means she has to manually help Brianna in and out of the car.\n\n\"I have to swing the wheelchair into the back of the car, break it down, put it together, and transfer Brianna into the car, two to three times a day. I have amazing upper body strength right now, but who knows how long that's going to last? I'm almost 60!\"\n\nShe says she has to look after Brianna herself, because there aren't enough service providers in northern Nevada.\n\nShe meets other mothers caring for adult children with disabilities, and they all find the prospect of their children living without them \"terrifying\", she adds.\n\n\"We all feel like we can't die, ever - because who's going to take your place?\"\n\nChris says he plans to vote Republican: \"I prefer to go by my standards - I'm pro-life\"\n\nMeanwhile, Christopher Ripke lives with epilepsy, and works full time as a dishwasher at the University of Nevada, Reno - sometimes working seven days a week, as he often offers to work overtime. He also leads People First, a non-profit that helps people with disabilities.\n\nHe makes $9.30 an hour - sometimes making $13.50 per hour for overtime - and also receives some rental assistance and food stamp assistance, but says he still falls below the poverty level.\n\nDespite that, he feels pleased to have medical coverage in his job - and says he \"absolutely\" feels optimistic about his future. \"I'm setting money aside for future plans - I plan to move to Texas because the healthcare's better.\"\n\nNevada is third in the Democratic primary race - and the state bills itself as more ethnically diverse, and more working class, than either Iowa or New Hampshire.\n\nAt Wednesday's Democratic debate in Las Vegas, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar all made specific appeals to working families, or talked about the need to raise wages.\n\nAt Wednesday's Democratic debate, several candidates made overt appeals to the working class\n\nBut voting patterns can be personal - and unpredictable - and politicians take the working-class vote for granted at their peril.\n\nDeidre, Brianna and Adrielle all support Bernie Sanders because of his Medicare for All proposals - and do not want to see President Trump win. Brianna says bluntly: \"If Trump gets re-elected I'm probably dead. He plans to cut all the programmes that make my life possible.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Christopher and Angel both support President Trump - Christopher because he disagrees with the Democratic candidates' stance on abortion, and Angel because \"when he says something, he does it\".\n\nChristopher uses food stamps, and is not convinced by reports that Mr Trump's proposed budget would cut food stamps and the safety net. \"That's one thing I don't believe - if I see it, I see it, but I've heard nothing about that.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Angel believes Mr Trump's proposal to reduce the safety net is a good idea. \"I've been working since I was 13, and… I only used the system when I needed it. People don't do that anymore, now they use it because there's free stuff.\"\n\nAnd while Kayshoun's \"best foot forward\" attitude chimes in with how the Republicans say they help working families, she's actually unimpressed with both Mr Trump, and the Democratic candidates.\n\n\"We need a new president, and not the one we've got,\" she says, adding that she plans to vote independent this year \"because I'm not really feeling nobody\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Which candidate will you swipe right on?'\n\nThe race to decide which Democrat will take on Donald Trump in November's presidential election in the US has resumed in Nevada.\n\nModerate ex-mayor Pete Buttigieg and left-wing Bernie Sanders are the front-runners nationwide, but only two states have voted so far. The final candidate won't be known until July.\n\nVery early results from Nevada give Mr Sanders the lead.\n\nJoe Biden, who has struggled up until now, will hope for a better result.\n\nThe Nevada caucuses are a series of party meetings held across the state, that might last a few hours. At the end, those present will vote on which of the eight Democrats they would most like to be the nominee.\n\nCandidates who win at least 15% of the vote on Saturday will be awarded delegates - in Nevada, 36 delegates will be distributed according to how well candidates performed.\n\nAll the candidates are aiming to reach 1,990 delegates nationwide, which would be enough to make them the final nominee. That's a long way off - right now, Pete Buttigieg has 22, Bernie Sanders 21 and Elizabeth Warren has eight.\n\nAs we just mentioned, the Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has the third highest number of delegates right now, but that doesn't give you the full picture. The caucuses in Iowa and primary in New Hampshire earlier this month didn't go as well as her campaign had hoped.\n\nBut this was before her spirited performance in a Democratic debate on Wednesday night, in which she repeatedly skewered emerging rival Michael Bloomberg. Her campaign said this led to its best fundraising day yet.\n\nLast time around, rival Amy Klobuchar came third in New Hampshire after a strong debate performance a few days earlier. Might Ms Warren see a similar bump in Nevada?\n\nIt's also worth keeping an eye on Joe Biden. The former vice-president has performed poorly so far, but is pinning his hopes on the support of Nevada's Latino voters. If that isn't forthcoming, his campaign could soon meet its end.\n\nIn a state like Nevada, with its tourist-heavy cities of Las Vegas and Reno, one organisation holds a lot of sway: the Culinary Union, made up of restaurant, hotel and casino workers.\n\nAn endorsement from this group can help decide who wins Nevada's caucuses: it played a large part in Barack Obama's win there in 2008, for example. But this year, it chose not to endorse a candidate.\n\nUnion members don't support Bernie Sanders' plan for a centralised national healthcare programme, because they're reluctant to give up the insurance plan the union carefully negotiated for them. Last week, union officials said Sanders supporters were sending them abuse over their stance.\n\nBut the lack of an endorsement was more of a blow for Mr Biden, who doesn't support a national healthcare system and whose views seemingly aligned more closely with the union's.\n\nYou may remember that in the last caucuses in Iowa, the results were delayed for days by a glitch caused by an app rolled out by the Democratic Party. Could we see similar problems here?\n\nHopefully not. Officials in Nevada have decided not to use the app to record results and are instead relying on an online form provided by Google, downloaded on to a load of iPads.\n\nI'm a single issue voter. I am bipolar. Right now it's fine because I'm on my parents' health insurance but when I turn 26 I will no longer be.\n\nIt's really important to me to have a substantial healthcare system, and every other civilised nation has it, so I just don't understand why we do not.\n\nI'm planning to caucus for Bernie Sanders because he has a strong platform on healthcare and he has a large following among people of my demographic. Other issues that matter to me are college education and the prison system - I think that needs some reformation - as well as poverty and homelessness.\n\nMy least favourite would probably be Joe Biden - he gives the appearance of not being entirely sure where he is or what's going on. I think he's too moderate for me, personally - I don't think he'll get any major change going.\n\nI've been a big follower of Biden's throughout his entire campaign. I've been to all of his rallies.\n\nI'm a big fan of Obama, so seeing Biden with Obama and being able to follow him through all of his policies, that they both accomplished together, was something that really moved me forward to vote for him.\n\nHe really reaches out to the Hispanic community, the minority community, he's really big on immigration reform, as far as looking after everyone equally. With the LGBT community - I myself am part of the LGBT and Hispanic community - he really targets a lot of the issues that are most concerning for me.\n\nHealthcare is a really big issue here in Nevada, especially with Culinary Union workers, as is immigration reform, with Nevada being a really diverse state. I really do appreciate his stance on immigration.\n\nAre any Republicans standing against Donald Trump? Just the one: former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, but Mr Trump will almost certainly be the nominee. Just the one: former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, but Mr Trump will almost certainly be the nominee. They're votes that are held in private. The candidates who do best in the primaries are awarded delegates. They're votes that are held in private. The candidates who do best in the primaries are awarded delegates. A bit like primaries, except they're more like party meetings, at the end of which you vote for your preferred candidate. A bit like primaries, except they're more like party meetings, at the end of which you vote for your preferred candidate.", "French President Emmanuel Macron says negotiating a UK-EU trade deal will be \"tense\"\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has said he is \"not sure\" a UK-EU trade deal will be struck by 31 December, the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Macron said negotiations starting in March will be \"tense\", with fishing rights a key point of contention.\n\nIt comes as the UK government signalled it would publish its mandate for the trade deal later this week.\n\nIn the document, ministers are expected to reiterate their desire for a Canada-style deal with few tariffs on goods.\n\nWhile a trade deal is hammered out with the EU, the UK is following the majority of the bloc's rules.\n\nThe UK is in this transition period until 31 December following its departure from the EU on 31 January.\n\n\"I am not sure that an agreement will be reached between now and the end of the year,\" Mr Macron said at a meeting with fishermen in Paris on Saturday.\n\n\"Anyway, it is going to become more tense because [the British] are very hard.\"\n\nMr Macron also said fishing rights could be a sticking point in negotiations.\n\nThe UK has said it will consider a deal on fisheries but it must be based on the notion that \"British fishing grounds are first and foremost for British boats\".\n\nThe EU has different ideas about an agreement on fisheries.\n\nMr Macron's comments come as the UK government signalled it would publish detailed demands for a trade deal.\n\nThe mandate is due to be signed off on Tuesday and will be published online and in Parliament on Thursday, the BBC's Jonathan Blake said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, called for a \"Canada-Free Trade Agreement-type relationship\" with the EU in a speech in Brussels earlier this month - and the mandate will repeat these demands.\n\nBut EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said such a deal cannot happen.\n\nMichel Barnier says the UK cannot have the same EU trade deal as Canada has\n\nMr Barnier said the EU was ready to offer an \"ambitious partnership\" with the UK post-Brexit, but its \"particular proximity\" meant it would be different.\n\nUnder Canada's agreement with the EU, which took seven years to negotiate, import tariffs on most goods have been eliminated between the two countries, though there are still customs and VAT checks.\n\nThe EU has repeatedly warned that the UK cannot expect to enjoy continued \"high-quality\" market access if it insists on diverging from EU social and environmental standards.\n\nUK-EU trade negotiations, led by Mr Barnier and Mr Frost, are due to begin in Brussels on 2 March.", "The owner of the Sun lost £68m last year as newspaper sales fell and the company continued to deal with the fallout of the phone-hacking scandal.\n\nDaily sales of the Sun fell 8% to 1.38 million in the year to July, but it remains the UK's top paid-for paper.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sun on Sunday sold an average of 1.16 million copies a week, 111,000 fewer than the year before.\n\nThe paper's owner, News Group Newspapers also revealed a £26.7m legal bill related to phone hacking.\n\n\"Following the allegations of voicemail interception and inappropriate payments to public officials, there have been a number of civil cases against the company, most of which have been settled, or are in the process of being settled,\" the firm said.\n\nThe News of the World was closed in 2011 after it was revealed that it had obtained stories by listening in to the private voicemail messages of celebrities and even the murdered teenager Milly Dowler.\n\nNews Group Newspapers said the final bill \"may or may not be significantly higher\" than the £26.7m it had put aside to deal with the hangover from the scandal.\n\nIt was higher than the previous year when the newspaper owner put aside £14.7m to pay for \"claimants' legal fees and damages\".\n\nThe increase follows a spate of high-profile settlements between celebrities and the former owners of the now-defunct paper. Last year, singer Sir Elton John, actress Elizabeth Hurley and campaigner Heather Mills settled their phone-hacking cases against the News of the World for undisclosed sums.\n\nDespite falling sales of the print edition, News Group Newspapers said more people were visiting the Sun's website.\n\nIt said 32.8 million adults in the UK visited the site a month, 3.6 million more than the previous year.", "The evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship were taken to Arrowe Park Hospital on Saturday\n\nFour cruise ship passengers flown to Britain on Saturday have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 13.\n\nThey were among 30 repatriated Britons and two Irish citizens beginning a 14-day quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral.\n\nThe four UK nationals caught the virus on the Diamond Princess liner in Japan, England's chief medical officer said.\n\nThey have now been transferred to specialist NHS infection centres.\n\nTwo patients are in the Royal Hallamshire in Sheffield, one is in the Royal in Liverpool and a fourth was transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, NHS England said.\n\nProf Keith Willett, NHS strategic incident director for coronavirus said: \"These specialist centres are well prepared to deal with cases and earlier this year the Newcastle unit successfully treated and discharged two patients who had contracted the virus.\"\n\nProf Willett added there had been a \"calm response\" to confirmed cases of coronavirus so far, \"which will continue to be important as more of us might need to self-isolate for a time, to protect ourselves, our families and the community\".\n\nProf Keith Neal, emeritus professor of epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Nottingham, said the four new cases were not surprising and would present no risk to the public.\n\nThe Department of Health said a \"full infectious disease risk assessment\" was done before Saturday's repatriation flight from Japan, adding that no-one who boarded the flight had displayed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nAny more passengers who test positive will immediately be taken into specialist NHS care, the department said.\n\nIt added that \"appropriate arrangements\" are in place at Arrowe Park, including strict separation of passengers from staff and from each other.\n\nIt comes as 118 UK citizens and their family members rescued from Wuhan - the centre of the virus outbreak - ended their two-week isolation in Milton Keynes on Sunday.\n\nLast weekend, NHS England announced that all but one of the nine people being treated for the coronavirus in the UK had been discharged from hospital.\n\nIt's not surprising that some of those repatriated from the Diamond Princess have tested positive for the coronavirus.\n\nThey were on board a ship where the quarantine was a failure - more than one in five of the 3,700 passengers and crew have tested positive.\n\nIn the US, 18 repatriated passengers from the cruise ship subsequently tested positive for Covid-19, as did seven passengers flown back to Australia.\n\nIt would seem likely that more of those in quarantine in Arrowe Park hospital may test positive in the coming days.\n\nBut the NHS is well able to cope with such cases and can isolate and treat patients in specialist centres.\n\nFar more concerning is the situation in Italy, Iran and South Korea, where there is human-to-human spread of the virus in the community, which could eventually lead to the World Health Organization declaring a pandemic.\n\nMore than 620 people on board the Diamond Princess tested positive for the virus\n\nArrowe Park Hospital was previously used to isolate 83 British nationals who were flown back to the UK from Wuhan on the Foreign Office's first evacuation flight in January.\n\nJanelle Holmes, chief executive at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust reassured staff that the hospital was \"running as usual\".\n\n\"When guests arrived yesterday evening, we followed clear guidance in relation to infection prevention control. This was to minimise the chance of any infection spreading.\"\n\nThe evacuees had already spent two weeks in quarantine on board the cruise ship, but since then 600 passengers and crew have tested positive for the new virus, raising fears that the incubation period for the virus may be longer than originally thought.\n\nTwo of the Britons who were not on the evacuation flight, Sally and David Abel, are being treated in a Japanese hospital\n\nSeparately, four Britons from the ship who recently tested positive for the new coronavirus were not on Saturday's repatriation flight.\n\nThey included David and Sally Abel, from Northamptonshire, who have since been diagnosed with pneumonia, according to their family and are being treated in a Japanese hospital.\n\nRelatives said the couple are both \"having a really tough time\" and feel \"very much in the dark\" in terms of treatment, adding that they are awaiting further tests.\n\nThe new strain of coronavirus, which originated last year in Hubei province in China, causes a respiratory disease called Covid-19.\n\nChina has seen more than 76,000 infections and 2,442 deaths. The virus has since spread to at least 11 other countries.\n\nOver the weekend, Italian officials imposed strict quarantine restrictions in two northern \"hotspot\" regions close to Milan and Venice, as the number of coronavirus cases soared to 130 - the worst outbreak in Europe.\n\nItalian officials have cut short the Venice Carnival as they try to control what is now the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in Europe\n\nVenice Carnival has been cut short, schools and museums closed and sporting events suspended as authorities struggle to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nAbout 50,000 people cannot enter or leave several towns in Veneto and Lombardy for the next two weeks without special permission. Three people have died.\n\nElsewhere, authorities in South Korea and Iran are battling to control rising numbers of infections.\n\nSouth Korea has raised its coronavirus alert to the \"highest level\". The UK Foreign Office has advised against all but essential travel to the cities of Daegu and Cheongdo.\n\nTurkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan have closed their borders with Iran, where eight people are known to have died. Officials have ordered the closure of schools, universities and cultural centres in 14 provinces.\n\nHave you been affected by the latest developments around Covid-19? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Caroline Flack was found dead at her London flat last weekend\n\nLove Island paid tribute to Caroline Flack as its first winter series drew to a close on Sunday night.\n\nThe former host of the show was found dead in her London flat last weekend.\n\n\"The past week has been extremely difficult, coming to terms with the loss of our friend and colleague, Caroline,\" presenter Laura Whitmore told viewers of the ITV2 programme.\n\n\"Caroline loved Love Island. She loved love, and that's why tonight's final is dedicated to her.\"\n\nShe added: \"We're thinking of her family and everyone who knew her at this time.\"\n\nThe programme then showed a montage of some of Flack's memorable moments from the series in recent years.\n\nThe islanders were told about Flack's death off-camera on Saturday, an ITV spokesman confirmed.\n\nFinley Tapp and Paige Turley were crowned the winners of the series as the finale drew to a close.\n\nTwo episodes of this series were pulled from the schedules last weekend after Flack was found dead.\n\nThe show returned the following Monday with a tribute to Flack from the show's narrator Iain Stirling.\n\nThis has been the first series of the show to take place in winter and be filmed in South Africa.\n\nPrevious seasons have been filmed on the Spanish island of Mallorca over the summer.\n\nOverall, the winter series has been a ratings hit for ITV2, albeit not as successful as previous summer series.\n\nThis series has been attracting around four million viewers per episode, including via catch-up services, compared with the six million the last summer series generally attracted.\n\nLaura Whitmore is the show's current presenter. She joined the show after Flack was charged with assaulting her boyfriend.\n\nLaura Whitmore pictured at the Brit Awards last week\n\nTapp and Turley were crowned the winners of this series on Sunday night, winning the £50,000 prize, which they chose to share between them.\n\nIn a twist that occurs in every series, Turley was given the chance to \"steal\" the full prize money before she decided to split it evenly.\n\n\"It's been such an amazing experience,\" Turley said earlier in the episode. \"It's been filled with challenges, but it's been amazing.\"\n\nAsked what first attracted him to Turley, Tapp said: \"I loved how outgoing she was. I wasn't wrong in picking her because I thought she'd make me laugh and smile all day long. She's made me very happy.\"\n\nEarlier this series, they became the first pair to become an official couple in the villa.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by turley_paige This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurley attracted headlines when the series launched in January because she is the ex-girlfriend of singer Lewis Capaldi.\n\nThe Scottish star referred to her while accepting the Brit Award for best single earlier this month, for his song Someone You Loved.\n\n\"A lot of people think this song is about my ex-girlfriend, who you can now see every night on Love Island,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's actually about my grandmother, who sadly passed away a few years ago. I hope ITV don't contact her to be a on a reality dating show.\"\n\nDuring the finale, Whitmore confirmed the show would return to Mallorca for a new series this summer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tyson Fury produced the most destructive performance of his boxing life to end Deontay Wilder's five-year reign as WBC heavyweight world champion in seven thrilling rounds of their Las Vegas rematch.\n\nThe Briton, 31, pummelled his rival in a way few could have imagined following their 2018 draw, flooring him in the third and fifth rounds while constantly backing up the most-feared puncher in the division in a way no-one has done before.\n\nA jab and right hand - the combination with which Wilder has wiped men out repeatedly - sent the American down in the third, stunning the MGM Grand Arena.\n\nWilder, making his 11th defence, fell again before the round was out - this time a slip - and looked ragged under the pressure, before a left hand to the body sent the 34-year-old down in the fifth.\n\nFury delivered everything he had promised, transitioning from his hit-and-move style to overpower, outwork and bully his previously undefeated rival until the towel came in during the seventh round.\n\nThis was more than a world title win, it was a statement - and as Fury was held aloft by his corner after victory was sealed, the days of depression, weight gain and despair that cost him the belts he claimed in 2015 seemed a lifetime away.\n• None Relive Fury v Wilder II - from the ring walks to the winning moment\n• None 'There's a fella across the pond who might want a tickle' - Fury says Joshua bout will 'complete' career\n• None 'Living legend' Fury shines bright in Vegas - but did he lick Wilder's blood?\n• None Podcast: Costello & Bunce on Tyson Fury's night for the ages\n\nThousands of British fans who had descended on Vegas saw their hero take an age to arrive at the ring on a throne, sporting a golden crown. It was the only time Fury moved slowly all night.\n\nHe hit pads in the ring as Wilder made his ring walk - just as he did 15 months earlier in Los Angeles - and his start was rapid, a flurry of hooks prompting chants of \"there's only one Tyson Fury\" from the crowd.\n\nActors Michael J Fox and Jason Statham, as well as Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes, watched as Fury raised his hand at the end of the opening three-minute round and things began to feel markedly different to their first meeting.\n\nHe simply did not take a backward step, forcing Wilder to the ropes and ensuring the champion had no say in the pace of proceedings. And in the third round, those who had paid the kind of ticket prices that made this the highest gate ever for a heavyweight bout in Nevada, rose to their feet at the sight of Wilder floored for only the second time in his career.\n\nA right hand behind Wilder's ear - the same shot with which the American had floored Fury nine rounds into their first fight - did the damage. Wilder then fell again as Fury bulldozed him. At the bell, the pair glared at one another and Wilder knew he was in a place no fighter wants to be. The Britons sitting ringside did not want to be anywhere else.\n\nWas the weight Fury had gained making the difference? Was it the new training set-up? Whatever it was worked to perfection. He was putting on a boxing clinic and a body shot dropped the stunned Wilder once more in the fifth.\n\nFury was docked a point for punching on the break but he did not seem to care or blink at the punishment, instead continuing to feint and twitch to set shots up before unloading on a man who had started a slight favourite. He led 59-52 59-52 and 58-53 on the cards when the towel came in.\n\nFight week had seen repeated debate over where this meeting ranked in the pecking order of the greatest nights of heavyweight action, but little consensus. What we can say with certainty is that this was a masterclass.\n\nWilder flounders as Fury reaches the summit (again)\n\nWilder, under-appreciated through half a decade as a champion, knew this was the night he could fully silence doubters. Some 43 fights into an undefeated career his ability was still questioned by many, and scorned by some.\n\nWilder's fabled right hand never showed up. It was telegraphed time and again and the Alabama fighter - who was cut close to his left ear - quickly left the arena to go to hospital for stitches on the damage.\n\nComing in at the highest weight of his career may be offered up as an explanation for his shortcomings, but the gulf between the fighters was huge.\n\nIn the years since Wilder first won the title, Fury has claimed three world belts, lost them without fighting amid problems with drugs, alcohol and depression, and gained the kind of weight that meant many assumed his boxing career was over.\n\nNow he is back at the top, with a back-story that has helped shape cult-hero status in the UK and now a burgeoning profile in the US.\n\nHe may flippantly say this title means little to him. He may continue to threaten to walk away from boxing. We can be certain he will lead us all a merry dance until the day it is all over. But when it is, this win will be remembered.\n\nThere will be talk of a third Wilder fight and talk of a historic all-British meeting with Anthony Joshua.\n\nBut the next moves can wait for now as here, on a Vegas Strip where dreams are so often dashed, Fury completed his journey from personal despair to sporting glory.\n\nWhat a ride it has been. Hopefully he is now better placed than the first time around to live with one of sport's sweetest of introductions - heavyweight champion of the world.\n\n'Not bad for someone with pillow fists' - what they said\n\nTyson Fury speaking to BT Sport Box Office: \"I told everybody with a pair of ears that the Gypsy King would return to the throne. My last fight everybody wrote me off. I was underweight and over-trained. I'm a destroyer. Not bad for someone with pillow fists.\n\n\"I'm a man of my word. I told Wilder, his team, the world. We trained for a knockout; we wasn't tapping around in that gym.\n\n\"I talk like this because I can back it up. People write me off, they look at my fat belly and bald head and think I can't fight. He fought the best Tyson Fury, we're both in our primes.\n\n\"I expect him to ask for the third fight. I know he's a warrior and I'll be waiting.\"\n\nPromoter Frank Warren, speaking to the 5 Live Boxing podcast: \"I have been doing this a long time and that was the best performance I have seen from a British boxer in the ring.\n\n\"I always believed Tyson would stop him and it is the best moment for me, selfishly, but it is also for him and his family.\n\n\"It is the best comeback in sport, not boxing. He was in the depths of despair and to pull himself back from that is the most amazing thing. It is special.\"\n\nDeontay Wilder: \"The best man won on the night. My coach threw in the towel but I'm ready to go out on my shield.\n\n\"I had a lot of things going on coming into this fight but it is what it is.\n\n\"I just wish my corner would have let me go out on my shield, I'm a warrior. But [Fury] did what he did and there's no excuses.\"\n\nFormer world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis: \"Congratulations to Tyson Fury on a huge win and bossing his way to the WBC and Ring heavyweight straps. Once again you showed up big.\n\n\"The best fighters solve puzzles. Tonight Fury solved the puzzle that was Wilder by making him fight going backwards where he's not as explosive. Big-manned him.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nTyson Fury said his career would be \"completed\" if he faced fellow Briton Anthony Joshua after becoming a two-time world heavyweight champion with a stunning win over Deontay Wilder.\n\nFury, 31, stopped Wilder in seven rounds of their Las Vegas rematch to claim the WBC title four years on from giving up the IBF, WBO and WBA belts now held by Joshua.\n\nWilder can request a rematch but Fury pointed to a meeting with Joshua if that does not happen.\n\nHe said: \"I've got another old fella across the pond who might want a little tickle.\n\n\"Then that is it then. It's completed. Done.\"\n• None Relive Fury v Wilder II - from the ring walks to the winning moment\n• None 'Living legend' Fury shines bright in Vegas - but did he lick Wilder's blood?\n• None Podcast: Costello & Bunce on Tyson Fury's night for the ages\n\nFury said his win felt like \"the icing on the cake\" after well-publicised personal issues saw him give up the titles - won in 2015 by stunning another long-time champion, Wladimir Klitschko - during a 30-month break from the sport.\n\nAnnouncing himself at his post-fight media conference by screaming \"are you not entertained?\", Fury then promised reporters his recent switch to American trainer SugarHill Steward will produce even greater results than this one.\n\n\"I have only just started with this style,\" Fury said. \"We will be putting people to sleep right, left and centre.\n\n\"I need to enjoy this. Deontay will need time to recover. I am sure he will take a rematch as he is a dynamite puncher and with that you are always in the fight. Whoever is next will get the same treatment, that is for sure.\n\n\"This was written in the stars a million miles away - before I was born I was destined to do what I do.\"\n\nWilder, who was taken to hospital after the fight to have stitches in a cut, has 30 days to request a third bout but was well beaten in a contest nowhere near as competitive as their 2018 draw.\n\nIf he does not take up the option, Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn says he will do \"everything\" to make a match with Fury that could lead to one man holding all four heavyweight titles for the first time.\n\nHearn's Matchroom Boxing colleague Frank Smith and Joshua's manager Freddie Cunningham were in Las Vegas to see Fury win.\n\n\"I have said and I will make this clear, we have to make this fight happen,\" Hearn told Talksport.\n\n\"We will never get the chance for two Brits to fight for an undisputed heavyweight world championship.\n\n\"The first thing is that Wilder has the rematch clause. I don't think anyone wants to see a third fight - it was that conclusive - but we will see if he wants to exercise that.\n\n\"Our mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev is also promoted by Bob Arum, Tyson Fury's promoter, so there is a very easy manoeuvre there if Wilder doesn't want the rematch to go straight into this undisputed fight in the summer.\n\n\"I have already spoken to Joshua. He wants this fight. He has zero fear of fighting Tyson Fury and he wants to be undisputed.\"\n\n'I felt like a beast in there - this is my weight'\n\nFury knocked Wilder down in rounds three and five - only the second and third times the former champion has been on the canvas - in a dominant display.\n\nWilder's trainer Jay Deas said he did not want his colleague Mark Breland to throw in the towel in the seventh round, given their fighter carries the kind of one-punch power that can turn a fight instantly.\n\nBut Fury insisted it had been the right call as it was \"only a matter of time\" before his rival \"got seriously hurt\" - and Wilder conceded \"the best man won on the night\".\n\nThe new champion said the manner of his display vindicated his decision to part with former trainer Ben Davison and bulk his 6ft 9in frame up to 273lbs from the 254 he scaled in his win over Otto Wallin in September.\n\n\"When I left Ben people said it was a bad move but it worked for the best and I believed in the style SugarHill teaches,\" Fury added.\n\n\"Everything I did in the ring tonight we had worked on in the gym.\n\n\"I felt like a beast in there. This is my weight for sure.\"\n\nTyson Fury did what he said he would do and what so many doubted he would do.\n\nHe dominated on the front foot, showed why he decided to put on so much weight and why he decided to change trainers.\n\nIt was a masterful, controlled display, swiftly dispelling fears about his ability to operate at his best at 19st 7lbs.", "Age-related macular degeneration often hits people in their 50s or 60s\n\nSufferers of a degenerative eye disease have been offered hope after a new link between a protein and the condition was discovered by scientists.\n\nA team from four universities found significantly higher levels of a protein factor in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients.\n\nMore than 1.5 million people in the UK have AMD, which causes loss of vision.\n\nIt is hoped the discovery could lead to earlier diagnoses of the condition and lead to better treatment options.\n\nThe research team was made up of scientists from Cardiff University, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Manchester and Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. They found significantly higher levels of the protein known as FHR-4 in the blood of AMD patients.\n\nResearch then found the presence of the protein in the macular of eye tissue.\n\nThe protein regulates the complement system - part of the immune system - and plays a critical role in inflammation in the body.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are two different types of AMD - wet and dry. Some treatment options - including eye injections - exist for wet AMD, which causes vision to deteriorate quickly, but no treatments are available for dry, which happens over a slower period of time.\n\nThe condition affects the middle part of people's vision, making reading, watching television and recognising faces difficult.\n\nProf Paul Morgan, an expert in complement biology at Cardiff University, said they had accumulated \"a robust body of evidence\" that genetically-dictated FHR-4 levels in plasma were an \"important predictor of risk of developing AMD.\"\n\nProf Simon Clark, a University of Manchester specialist, said: \"Up until now, the role played by FHR proteins in disease has only ever been inferred.\n\n\"But now we show a direct link and, more excitingly, become a tangible step closer to identifying a group of potential therapeutic targets to treat this debilitating disease.\"\n• None Increased circulating levels of Factor H-Related Protein 4 are strongly associated with age-related macular degeneration - Nature Communications The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The victim was stabbed at London Central Mosque near Regent's Park in London\n\nA man has been charged with a stabbing which happened inside London's Central Mosque during afternoon prayers.\n\nDaniel Horton, 29, is accused of attacking Raafat Maglad at the Regent's Park place of worship on Thursday.\n\nMr Maglad, who is 70, sustained stab wounds to his neck that were inflicted with a kitchen knife.\n\nMr Horton, who is homeless, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier accused of causing grievous bodily harm and possession of a bladed article.\n\nProsecutor Tanyia Dogra told the court the victim and defendant were known to each other because Mr Horton had been attending the mosque for a number of years.\n\nThe accused, whom the court heard had been sleeping rough since last year, was remanded into custody.\n\nHe is expected to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 20 March.\n\nThe court was told Mr Maglad had suffered a 1.5cm wound to his neck.\n\nHe was taken to hospital for treatment before returning to the mosque for prayers the next day.\n\nMr Maglad who is a muezzin - someone who calls Muslims to prayer - said it was \"very important\" for him to attend Friday prayers.\n\n\"If I miss it, I just miss something very important,\" Mr Maglad said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A woman is rescued by canoe after her car becomes submerged in Old Kilpatrick\n\nFlooding across Scotland has left cars, roads and fields submerged.\n\nOne woman had to be rescued from her vehicle by canoe after her car became deluged by floodwater in Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nOther vehicles were left stranded on Saturday as they became swamped.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency originally had more than 40 flood warnings in place, with new warnings for snow starting on Monday.\n\nA Met Office yellow snow and ice warning has now expired.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This car was left stranded as it became stuck in floodwater at Milngavie. Video by Stuart Low.\n\nSome flood warnings remain in place across Scotland. This car was caught in floodwater in Cornton Road in the Bridge of Allan\n\nThis road in Linwood was completely flooded on Saturday morning\n\nThe Kelvin Walkway in Glasgow was completely submerged\n\nThis woman was rescued after her car became submerged in floodwater in Old Kilpatrick on Friday night\n\nThe car was still in floodwater on Saturday morning\n\nHeavy rain on Friday led to vehicles becoming stranded in Paisley and Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire and in Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe wet conditions also led to the postponement of Friday's Scottish Premiership match between St Mirren and Hearts at the Simple Digital Arena in Paisley.\n\nElsewhere, ScotRail had to close the line between Stirling and Perth for safety reasons after water levels breached a marker on the Mill O'Keir viaduct.\n\nFlooding on the railway line at Johnstone\n\nScotRail had to close the line between Stirling and Perth after water levels breached a marker on the Mill O'Keir viaduct\n\nOn the roads, flooding forced the closure of the northbound M876 at junction 2 Broomage in central Scotland.\n\nLast weekend road, rail and ferry links were hit and football matches cancelled as Storm Dennis swept across Scotland.\n\nWhile the overall picture has improved during the week, parts of north-west England experienced more than a month's worth of rain between Thursday and Friday.\n\nAn ambulance was stranded after Paisley was hit by floods on Friday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app, please go here to see this story in full.\n\nOne of the greatest performances by a British fighter.\n\nIt was either going to be a Tyson Fury points win or a Deontay Wilder knockout, right?\n\nFury powered up the Las Vegas lights with a brutal display of boxing; dominating and stopping Wilder in the seventh round to win the WBC heavyweight championship.\n\nDidn't wake up (or stay up) for the fight?\n\nWell, don't worry, let's take a look at how the night unfolded at the MGM Grand Arena...\n\nThe Gypsy King on his throne\n\nIt's an understatement to describe Fury as a 'showman'.\n\nHis now-infamous ring walks are a sight to behold; from coming in dressed as an 'all-American' before his win over Germany's Tom Schwarz in June to the traditional Arabian clothing in his stint with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in December.\n\nAnd he didn't disappoint this time - the 'Gypsy King' was carried in on a throne, wearing a robe and crown, to the tune of Crazy by Patsy Cline - maybe not the obvious choice to get you pumped up for a bout...\n\nWilder's entrance was also far from low-key...\n\nSparking a reaction from those on Twitter...\n\nArguably the biggest heavyweight fight in recent memory, there was a real buzz in Vegas for Wilder versus ...'Furry?!'...\n\nActor Michael J.Fox, YouTuber Logan Paul, wrestler Triple H and chef Gordon Ramsay; just some of the names from the world of entertainment who graced the arena with their presence...\n\nAnd you also had some heavyweight boxing royalty as former foes Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield reunited...\n\nThey joined more than 15,000 fans who packed into the arena. It was quite the earner for promoters...\n\nAfter a long wait, the fighters' introductions were over and it was time for a scrap.\n\nSince their 2018 fight ended in a controversial draw, Fury stopped the unknown Schwarz and laboured to a win over Sweden's Otto Wallin, whereas Wilder knocked out contenders Dominic Breazeale and Luis Ortiz.\n\nMany predicted this could be an early night's work for the champion, but Fury took the centre of the ring and continuously tagged the American in the early rounds.\n\nBefore the fight, Wilder said Fury had \"pillow fists\"... well, Wilder was soon resting his head on the canvas as Fury floored him in the third and the fifth. And fans were impressed...\n\nSoon enough, the inevitable happened. A barrage of unanswered punches and Wilder's corner threw in the towel.\n\nThe boxing world stood up and applauded...\n\nEven Matchroom Boxing's Eddie Hearn, who promotes WBA, IBF and WBO champion Anthony Joshua, was full of praise for Fury...\n\nFury faced some criticism for ditching trainer Ben Davison and linking up with American SugarHill Steward before this fight. Davison was credited for helping Fury on his journey back into boxing, after the heavyweight ballooned up to 27st and suffered well-documented issues with drugs, alcohol and his mental health.\n\nBut this was a classy tweet from Davison...\n\nFury the vampire on a bloody night for Wilder\n\nFury was expecting to be in a war and, although it was a very one-sided win, he did taste some blood.\n\nTelevision replays appeared to show the Brit licking it off Wilder's neck during the fight.\n\nIn the last year, Fury has ventured into professional wrestling and dueted on a single with Robbie Williams. Maybe next on his list is a cameo in the Twilight films...\n\nYou've just shared the ring with the most feared puncher in the heavyweight division. What do you do next? Have a little song-song, of course.\n\nAfter having his hand raised, Fury took the mic and led the thousands in the building, and millions watching around the world, to a rendition of Don McLean's American Pie.\n\nHe even got 88-year-old legendary promoter Bob Arum to join in, much to the amusement of fans...\n\nSo what next for Fury?\n\nWilder has 30 days to activate a rematch clause, and Fury says he expects the trilogy to happen, but there's not a huge demand for it...\n\nWith Fury and Joshua holding all of the main belts, it's an incredible time for heavyweight boxing in Great Britain.\n\nSo, will we see the two get it on? It would undoubtedly be one of the most high-profile sporting events to ever take place in the United Kingdom. And promoter Hearn is up for it...\n\nThat, though, is talk for another day.\n• None Podcast: Costello & Bunce on Tyson Fury's night for the ages\n• None Relive Fury v Wilder II - from the ring walks to the winning moment", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nTyson Fury outclassed Deontay Wilder, became a world champion again, broke into a rendition of American Pie and had 16,000 people in the MGM Arena in the palm of his hand.\n\nIt is feeling increasingly familiar. The world seems to dance to his tune these days.\n\nSince his return to boxing from a litany of personal issues, each venture, decision and fight he touches turns to gold.\n\nHe risked a great deal when first challenging Wilder in 2018, and ended up on the canvas. It looked a significant setback until he rose - just - and drew. An eye-watering financial deal with US broadcaster ESPN followed.\n\nHe was badly cut in victory over Otto Wallin in September and needed time out to heal. Then WWE rang and gave him the chance to earn big money, win new fans and avoid real punches in the process.\n\nHis autobiography came out to much fanfare, he did a UK speaking tour, sang a pop song with Robbie Williams and signed for a two-part television documentary on his life.\n\nSaying yes to recovery has served him well. Now he must say yes to facing Anthony Joshua and demonstrate, beyond doubt, that he is the best heavyweight of his era.\n\nOf course, he says he already is and clearly he would take that bout.\n\nFury has now dethroned Wladimir Klitschko and Wilder, who had reigned for a combined 14 years until they faced the 'Gypsy King'.\n\nWith such landmark victories, you sense he simply does not care who he shares a ring with.\n\nMoney should not be an issue either, given the same Saudi Arabian power brokers who took Joshua's rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr to the Middle East were ringside for Fury's destruction of Wilder. They would throw record figures at the British heavyweights in order to stage the division's first fight for all four major belts.\n\n\"It has become the biggest fight in the history of the sport,\" said Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn.\n\nA fight in Saudi Arabia might not please UK fans, but money talks. It might just be the only commodity that can paper over the politics that would play out between the teams and television networks behind the fighters.\n\nKey figures close to Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis thought the pair would fight in 1996. It took six more years, proving how much things can drag on in boxing, however appetising the prospect.\n\nFury must know this purple patch is his time to strike. He knows how things can change.\n\nThe troubles that became public in 2015, controversial statements, ugly headlines and struggles with depression and drinking, are only one chapter of Fury's story. As early as 2012 he had talked of being in a dark place and of having an eating disorder.\n\nAnd in the build-up to the Wilder fight, one of Fury's team said the Briton still has severe down days.\n\nHe has the capacity to charm Americans on glitzy talk shows one day and slip into confusion the next. Keeping him stimulated, his team have said, is critical in maintaining his mental wellbeing.\n\nIt is hard to imagine Fury's immediate future proving more exciting than the 20 months since his break from the sport ended.\n\nAnd yet, as the great and good of boxing fell at the feet of the new champion in Vegas, maybe we learned there are greater levels he can reach.\n\nDave Coldwell described it as \"one of the most amazing nights I've watched in my time in boxing\" while fellow British trainer Joe Gallagher said Fury was \"the number one heavyweight in the world\".\n\nThose tributes came less than two months after Fury joined forces with Detroit-based trainer SugarHill Steward.\n\nSteward's uncle Emanuel, who trained fighters of the calibre of Thomas Hearns, Lewis and Klitschko, predicted more than 10 years ago that Wilder would become a world champion, and that Fury would be dominant once Klitschko retired.\n\nFury effectively brought the curtain down on Klitschko and has now dominated Wilder. Steward called it.\n\nBut what could Fury achieve under his nephew? A lot, if he can build on his latest win.\n\nThe decision to take punching space away from Wilder by relentlessly smothering him was genius. A talented fighter backed by a calculated team can create something special.\n\nThat is not to take anything away from Fury's former trainer Ben Davison, who rebuilt the champion at a time of crisis. And Fury's father John deserves credit for publicly demanding his son find a new team and bulk up after his win over Wallin.\n\nFury listened and acted. The result was devastating.\n\nWhether it's jumping into WWE or singing with pop stars, he takes a chance, attacks the task with gusto and almost invariably comes up trumps.\n\nThere is a bravery to his positive choices. He is a maverick, and he deserves immense credit.\n\nA unique achievement is his for the taking if he secures the fight that boxing has longed to see.\n\nIf anyone can make it happen, it is probably him.\n\nThe world, after all, seems to be dancing to his tune.\n• None Relive Fury v Wilder II - from the ring walks to the winning moment\n• None 'There's a fella across the pond who might want a tickle' - Fury says Joshua bout will 'complete' career\n• None 'Living legend' Fury shines bright in Vegas - but did he lick Wilder's blood?\n• None Podcast: Costello & Bunce on Tyson Fury's night for the ages", "Strong winds carrying sand from the Sahara have affected airports in the Canary Islands.\n\nThe country's national weather service has warned that winds of up to 120km/h (75mph) could hit the Canaries until Monday.\n\nThe winds have also affected ferry services, and hampered efforts to fight a wildfire in Tasarte, Gran Canaria.", "Dr Jeremy Morris is the master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge\n\nThe head of a Cambridge college has stepped back from his duties after allegations he mishandled a series of sexual misconduct complaints.\n\nDr Jeremy Morris, the master of Trinity Hall, has agreed to move aside while an internal review into procedures is under way.\n\nIt comes after both students and staff were accused of misconduct in recent years.\n\nTrinity Hall said the decision was subject to further consultation.\n\nDr Morris has come under pressure since the BBC found an academic who had been accused of sexually harassing 10 students had retained some college privileges because of an internal error.\n\nDr Peter Hutchinson later resigned from Trinity Hall in November 2019 after more than 1,300 staff and students protested that he had been allowed to keep his post.\n\nIt emerged this week that he had published an erotic novel about students the year nearly a dozen complaints of harassment had been made against him.\n\nStaff left their jobs at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, with \"serious\" concerns over the handling of misconduct allegations\n\nThe BBC learned at least three staff had also left the college with \"serious\" concerns over how the situation had been handled.\n\nThis week, Dr Morris was accused of mishandling multiple complaints of sexual assault brought by female students against a male student, who denied the allegations, according to an investigation by the Tortoise news website.\n\nDr Morris is also alleged to have allowed a senior member of academic staff to remain in his job for five months without any restrictions on his role after he was accused of sexual assault by a student.\n\nThe senior academic staff member - who strongly denies the allegations, which were reported to police with no further action - has now agreed to temporarily withdraw from his duties, Trinity Hall said in a statement.\n\nCurrent and former students have expressed scepticism over Dr Morris' decision to step back, with one telling the BBC they have \"no faith\" in the college's current processes.\n\nOver 500 Cambridge students, staff and alumni have signed an open letter calling for Dr Morris to resign.\n\nThe mother of one of the alleged victims has called on Dr Morris to resign entirely for failing to make the \"safeguarding of the young people under [his] care the most important priority,\" in an open letter published by Varsity, Cambridge's student newspaper.\n\nRory Kent, 23, a Trinity Hall alumnus who recently chaired a student meeting at the college, said the community has been \"deeply distressed\" by recent events.", "Joanna Cherry is currently an MP representing Edinburgh South West\n\nJoanna Cherry has confirmed she will step down from Westminster if she is elected to Ruth Davidson's Holyrood seat.\n\nThe SNP's Edinburgh South West MP said on Saturday she would seek support from her party to challenge for the Edinburgh Central constituency.\n\nAngus Robertson has already announced plans to bid for the seat.\n\nMs Cherry confirmed on Sunday she would step down as an MP if she succeeded in being elected to Holyrood.\n\nShe said: \"Edinburgh Central is my home branch, I have been a member there since 2008.\n\n\"I have lived in the constituency since 2002 and since 2015 I have been the MP for Edinburgh South West which covers a significant part of the Central seat, including Gorgie, Dalry Haymarket, Fountainbridge and part of Tollcross/Bruntsfield.\n\n\"I am very grateful to all the people who have approached me and encouraged me to put my hat in the ring when nominations open.\"\n\nShe added in a social media post: \"This will be a contest about ideas and policies not personalities.\"\n\nMr Robertson, the SNP's former Westminster leader, revealed on Tuesday that he would be seeking the SNP's nomination to stand.\n\nThe Tories currently have a 610-vote majority in the constituency.\n\nAngus Robertson was an MP from 2001 until 2017\n\nThe seat was won from the SNP by the former Scottish Conservative leader at the last Scottish Parliament election in 2016 but Ms Davidson has indicated she will be stepping down at the next poll in May 2021.\n\nSince then, she accepted and then turned down a lucrative job with a lobbying firm and has been nominated for a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nMr Robertson lost his Westminster seat to the Conservatives' Douglas Ross at the 2017 general election.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Cherry recently gained recognition for leading the Scottish court case challenging the five-week prorogation of parliament.\n\nIt was ultimately successful in the Supreme Court, resulting in the quashing of the suspension, which had been imposed in September.\n\nAnnouncing his intention to contest the seat, Mr Robertson accused Ms Davidson of putting \"other career interests in London ahead of the people she still represents at Holyrood\" and argued that constituents \"deserve better\".\n\nHe said: \"Edinburgh Central deserves a full-time MSP who will put the interests of their constituents first.\"", "Staffordshire Police have released CCTV footage of a lorry driver making a dangerous manoeuvre on the M6 Toll.\n\nThe footage shows the driver performing a U-turn on a slip road on 21 January.\n\nPolice said the driver received a six-month jail sentence and was disqualified from driving for 15 months.", "Anisha Vidal-Garner, from Epping, died after being hit by a car\n\nA man has been charged with causing the death of a woman who was hit by a car during a police pursuit.\n\nAnisha Vidal-Garner, 20, from Epping, Essex, died at the scene of the crash in Brixton Hill, south London, on Wednesday night.\n\nThe Met Police previously said she had been hit by a car which sped off after officers signalled for it to stop.\n\nQuincy Anyiam, 26, from Surrey, is due to appear at Croydon Magistrates' Court on Monday, the force said.\n\nHe is charged with causing death by dangerous driving, failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic collision, and dangerous driving, Scotland Yard said.\n\nThe Met said it had referred the crash to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) which will investigate.\n\nPolice had signalled for the car to stop before it sped off in Brixton\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhys and Gemma Cousin's family said the couple were devoted to their children Peyton, three, and Heidi, one\n\nA couple who died in a crash in the Highlands along with their two young children have been described as being \"totally devoted\" to their girls.\n\nGemma Cousin, 26, her husband Rhys, 25, and their daughters Peyton, three, and Heidi, one, were killed in a collision with another car on Thursday.\n\nThe crash happened on the A82 at Torlundy, near Fort William, just after 17:30.\n\nA family statement said they \"had so much to look forward to\".\n\nThe statement, released through Police Scotland, said: \"Both families are heartbroken by the tragic loss of Gemma, Rhys, Peyton and Heidi.\n\n\"They were a young family with so much to look forward to. To have their lives cut short so suddenly and in such circumstances is utterly devastating.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"As a young couple, Gemma and Rhys worked really hard to provide a loving, secure and safe home and family life for their girls who they were totally devoted to. They were known by many with both families being extended and their loss will be felt far and wide.\n\n\"Due to the horrific circumstances we would like to thank the emergency services and everyone who was involved on the night. We would also like to thank everyone for the support we continue to receive.\n\n\"As a family, we now respectfully ask that we are given the time and privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the loss of Rhys, Gemma, Peyton and Heidi.\"\n\nThe A82 at the scene of the fatal crash was closed for 11 hours to allow for a police investigation\n\nThe family, who were from the Inverness area, were travelling northbound in a green Mini Cooper when the crash happened.\n\nThe other vehicle involved was a red Ford Fiesta. The 56-year-old woman who was driving had to be cut free and suffered serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information to come forward. They are keen to speak to anyone who saw either vehicle before the collision and anyone with dashcam footage.\n• None Baby and girl, 3, killed with parents in crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr she had the support of \"party and of country\" to hold her post\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she \"emphatically\" wants to remain as first minister for at least a few years.\n\nAppearing on The Andrew Marr Show, the SNP leader said she believed she had the support of \"party and of country\" to hold her post.\n\nIt comes after party figures told BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley Ms Sturgeon may be in trouble.\n\nShe also defended a proposal for a \"Scottish visa\" system after the UK government unveiled immigration plans.\n\nMSPs would decide the criteria for this new visa, and the Scottish government would receive and assess applications before sending them to the UK government for security checks.\n\nThe UK's post-Brexit system, which was announced earlier this week, means that low-skilled workers would not get visas.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon's position is that this would cause \"devastation\" for Scotland's economy as it would reduce the number of people entering the country with \"restrictive\" border controls.\n\nThere are concerns about Scotland's ageing population and shrinking workforce, with the National Records of Scotland projecting that deaths could outweigh births over the next 25 years.\n\nScottish ministers say this means greater inward migration is needed to boost Scotland's working-age population in particular, and that an end to freedom of movement could threaten this.\n\nIn a letter to Number 10 published on Sunday, Ms Sturgeon has called for a meeting with Boris Johnson to discuss immigration policy.\n\nShe told Andrew Marr she hopes to take a delegation of sectoral and business leaders to Downing Street to set out arguments for a different Scottish system.\n\nShe said: \"You have a UK government that has as an expressed objective - reducing the number of people who come into the UK from other countries.\n\n\"My point is that that objective - in and of itself - is deeply damaging to Scotland's economy and our future prosperity.\n\n\"It will make us poorer and that is why I really want to see this change and for Scotland's interests to be recognised.\"\n\nThe UK government, however, has urged employers to \"move away\" from relying on \"cheap labour\" from Europe and invest in retaining staff and developing automation technology.\n\nAnd the Migration Advisory Committee has said Scotland's needs are \"not sufficiently different\" from the rest of the UK to justify a \"very different\" system, with the north of England facing similar issues.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"not a shred of evidence\" to support the idea that Scottish jobs had been undercut and called for more powers over employment law to ensure fair working conditions.\n\nShe said: \"There is much evidence to the contrary including the views of the migration advisory committee - that immigration and EU immigration in particular does not drive down wages, either in the Scottish economy or in the UK economy.\n\n\"Migrants make a net contribution to our economy. If we have a problem of low wages or working conditions not being what they should be, that's about poor regulation in the UK economy.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"Our new points-based immigration system will work in the interests of the whole of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"We will continue to work with stakeholders and industry in Scotland to ensure the new proposals work for all sectors.\"\n\nEarlier this week Nick Eardley wrote that a number of SNP figures said Ms Sturgeon may have to \"fall on her sword\" amid increasing discussions over her future.\n\nWhen asked if she would remain in her position as leader of Scotland, Ms Sturgeon said there were two conditions to consider.\n\nShe said: \"Firstly you have to have the support, not just of party but of country, and I would say humbly that I've just led my party to another landslide election victory.\n\n\"Secondly I have to be sure that I want to do this job, think I'm the best person to to this job, have the drive and energy - and that is emphatically the case.\"\n\nMarr also pushed Ms Sturgeon on whether she would look to hold another referendum on Scottish independence this year, despite the prime minister's flat refusal.\n\nShe reiterated her call for independence supporters to \"be patient\" but said it was important to continue arguing for another vote as the UK government negotiates its \"future relationship with Europe\".\n\n\"I think it's important that Scotland decides whether or not it wants to go down that road and if it doesn't we start to plot a better route forward,\" she said.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that she does not rule out \"testing the limit of the power of the Scottish Parliament\" in court - but it was not an option she was \"actively looking at\".\n\nShe has previously ruled out the possibility of holding an unofficial referendum similar to the one in Catalonia in 2017.", "Claims circulating online allege the virus is an attempt to wage an \"economic war on China\"\n\nRussia has flatly denied allegations that it is spreading disinformation about the new coronavirus outbreak on social media.\n\nUS officials said Russian-linked accounts were making unfounded claims that America started the outbreak.\n\nThousands of profiles on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram were peddling the theory, the officials said.\n\nResponding to the allegations on Saturday, the Russian foreign ministry dismissed them as \"fake\".\n\nOver 2,000 people have died, mostly in China, and more than 76,000 people are confirmed to have the new coronavirus.\n\nThe virus, which originated last year in Hubei province in China, causes a respiratory disease called Covid-19.\n\nMaria Zakharova dismissed the allegations by US officials as \"false\"\n\nEarlier, a senior US State Department official, Philip Reeker, said \"malign\" Russian actors were attempting to sow disinformation about the origin of the coronavirus.\n\nOne conspiracy theory - circulating online in several languages - alleges the virus is an attempt to wage \"economic war on China\".\n\n\"By spreading disinformation about coronavirus, Russian malign actors are once again choosing to threaten public safety by distracting from the global health response,\" Phillip Reeker, acting assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, told AFP news agency.\n\nThe posts also accused Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates of involvement in the outbreak.\n\nMore than 2,000 people have died, mainly from China\n\nAccording to AFP news agency, the disinformation campaign was identified by US monitors in mid-January, shortly after the third death from the new coronavirus was announced.\n\n\"In this case, we were able to see their full disinformation ecosystem in effect, including state TV, proxy web sites and thousands of false social media personas all pushing the same themes,\" said Lea Gabrielle, the head of the State Department's Global Engagement Centre.\n\nThe accounts had been previously identified for sharing Russian-backed messages on events such as demonstrations in Chile and the war in Syria. It is alleged that the accounts are run by humans.\n\nThe US State Department said the claims were making some countries in Africa and Asia suspicious of the Western response.\n\nRussian TV has also been reporting that Western elites, especially the US, are to blame.\n\nOne of the country's main TV networks, Channel One, has launched a regular slot devoted to coronavirus conspiracy theories on its main evening news programme.\n\nConspiracy theories have also featured heavily on the Channel One's main political talk show. It suggested that various Western actors - pharmaceutical companies, the US or its agencies - are somehow involved in helping to create or spread the virus, or at least in spreading panic about it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus in the UK: 5 things you need to know about Covid-19", "BBC Sport meets the team behind Tyson Fury, including new trainer SugarHill Steward, Andy Lee and cutman Jacob 'Stitch' Duran before his WBC world heavyweight title fight with Deontay Wilder on Saturday in Las Vegas.\n\nWATCH MORE: Wilder and Fury face off in fiery final news conference", "Some have accused media outlets of using female medical workers as a \"propaganda tool\"\n\nA video featuring a pregnant nurse treating patients in a hospital in the virus epicentre of Wuhan has sparked a backlash across China.\n\nThe video by state media outlet CCTV was meant to portray nine-month pregnant Zhao Yu as a hero.\n\nBut instead social media users criticised the hospital for allowing a heavily pregnant nurse to work in a highly contagious environment.\n\nOne user said the woman was being used as a \"propaganda tool\".\n\nMore than 2,200 people have now died from the coronavirus in China, with the majority of deaths coming out Wuhan, capital of Hubei province.\n\nIn China alone, there have been more than 75,000 cases of infection. The virus has also spread around the globe with more than 1,000 cases and several deaths worldwide.\n\nState media outlet CCTV had last week released a video featuring Zhao Yu, who works in the emergency ward at a military hospital in Wuhan.\n\nThe heavily pregnant Zhao Yu is seen in this video screenshoot\n\nThe video shows her walking around the hospital in a hazmat suit while heavily pregnant. She's seen making the rounds and testing a patient who is later sent to the fever department. The patient is heard telling her not to work as it is \"dangerous\".\n\nZhao Yu acknowledges in the video that her family objects to her continuing to work, but adds that she hopes to do her part in fighting the virus.\n\nBut the video - which was meant to be a touching tribute to her self-sacrifice - touched a nerve, with many accusing the broadcaster of using her story as a form of \"propaganda\".\n\n\"Can we stop all this propaganda? Who made the decision that this video was okay? Pregnant women should not be [on the frontlines], that's it,\" another said.\n\n\"What is this, a show for political purposes? Don't send a woman who is nine months pregnant to do this,\" said one comment.\n\n\"I really think that this message... blindly advocating women to fight on the frontlines regardless of their health... it's really sick,\" one person said.\n\nAnd it's not the only video that has got netizens angry.\n\nAnother video posted this week by state-owned media outlets in Gansu showed several female nurses weeping as they had their heads shaved.\n\nThe video explained that the head-shaving exercise took place so it would be easier for women to wear protective head gear while treating patients.\n\nBut many doubted the logic of this, asking why women couldn't simply have short hair instead of shaving their heads off entirely. Others asked why there weren't videos of men having their heads shaved.\n\nThe hashtag #SeeingFemaleWorkers - calling for people to recognise the contribution of women on their front lines - also started to go viral on Weibo.\n\n\"Professionalism. Faith. Loyalty. Strength. These are all qualities worth being proud of. Women aren't capable and great just because they're shaving off their long hair,\" said one comment.\n\n\"Why does the media always use women's sacrifices as a tool for propaganda? Wouldn't it be equally as admirable for these women to go on the front line with their long hair? For women who are not pregnant to be fighting?\" said one commentary on WeChat.\n\n\"They must be beautiful, a mother, a partner, and then make sacrifices. Only then will they be considered great.\"", "Sanders was campaigning in California and Texas as Nevadans were voting\n\nAlong with a few far-flung US island territories, only four states are still using the caucus system, with its two-part voting rounds and 15% \"viability\" cut-offs, to determine their Democratic presidential nomination contests. Iowa, of course, went first. We know how that turned out. Now it's Nevada's time in the spotlight (or, perhaps, the barrel).\n\nDespite reported glitches, a few caucus-site ties settled by high-card draw and plenty of calls to the state party hotline for advice, the Nevada results trickled in throughout the afternoon on Saturday, well into the evening and stretching into the morning hours. Before the day was over, it became increasingly clear who the biggest winners and losers would be.\n\nFour years ago, the Nevada caucuses were the moment Hillary Clinton began to turn the tide against Sanders in his upstart bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. This time around, the results could be further evidence that the Sanders surge is very real and very durable.\n\nCaucus entrance polls show Sanders won a dominating 53% of the Hispanic vote - a demographic he struggled with against Clinton. That bodes well for the senator in the two biggest prizes coming up, Texas and California, with their sizeable Hispanic populations.\n\nSanders also, not as surprisingly, carried a majority of those ages 18 to 27 and voters who said they want someone who agrees with them on the issues.\n\nIf Sanders has a winning formula this time around, it could be that he has successfully diversified his coalition, while keeping his loyal support from the young and those who want a president who is with them on issues like major healthcare reform, aggressively combating climate change and addressing income inequality.\n\nIn the caucus's first alignment voting - the preference caucus-goers expressed before they had to abandon sub-15% candidates and pick their second choice - the Sanders margin of victory did not appear nearly as large. The win, however, is still impressive. And no matter the metric, Sanders cruised to victory.\n\nThe Vermont senator appears so confident in his standing that he was campaigning in California this week and spent the day of the Nevada caucuses in Texas. If there was any doubt whether Sanders was the front-runner before now (and, quite honestly, there shouldn't have been), there is no question now.\n\nEver since Joe Biden's struggles in Iowa presaged a downward spiral for his presidential hopes, his team has pointed to black voters as his \"firewall\" - an ethnic base of support that would pick him up after a rough stretch in the predominantly white first two states.\n\nWhile Biden appears destined for a distant second in Nevada, with former Mayor Pete Buttigieg nipping at his heels, he finished at the top of the pack with the 10% of the voters there who are black, suggesting that his firewall hopes weren't entirely unfounded.\n\nIf Biden pulls those kind of numbers in South Carolina, where the Democratic electorate is 60% black, he'll probably win the state - although the margin over Sanders might be narrow. He'll take a win any way he can get it at this point, however.\n\nMeanwhile, most of Biden's rivals for the moderate (or, perhaps, anti-Sanders) vote posted lacklustre results. While Bloomberg still lurks in the days ahead, after Wednesday's debate he doesn't seem quite so intimidating either.\n\nIt's probably not enough to win him the nomination without Sanders making a significant stumble, but for once the former vice-president has a bit of good news to work with.\n\nThe Massachusetts senator can't catch a break. Her respectable third-place finish in Iowa was overshadowed by the chaos resulting from the party's management of the state's caucus system. Then she had a bravura debate performance in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, highlighted by her clinical dissection of billionaire Mike Bloomberg, but it came after more than 70,000 Nevada Democrats - roughly two-thirds of the total turnout - had already cast their ballots in early voting.\n\nAccording to entrance polls, 83% of Nevada caucus participants had made up their mind \"before the past few days\". Wednesday night may have helped boost her fundraising and could give her some life in states that vote in the weeks ahead, but at least in Nevada the die had already been cast.\n\nSo much for Klobmentum, or Klobucharge or whatever you want to call it. After a surprisingly strong third-place finish in New Hampshire, the Minnesota senator scrambled to try to ramp up a cash-strapped campaign to compete in Nevada, South Carolina and the nationwide string of primaries to come.\n\nIt was a tall order, and the Nevada results are not encouraging.\n\nKlobuchar said in her caucus-night speech (given from Minnesota, which holds a primary on Super Tuesday) that she \"exceeded expectations\", but that seems like an overly optimistic assessment.\n\nThe same could be said for Buttigieg, who gave an upbeat post-Nevada speech but also didn't see his New Hampshire (and Iowa) successes turn into much of a boost. Unlike New Hampshire, he finished well behind Sanders this time around.\n\nAnd Klobuchar's Wednesday debate sparring partner can say he finished ahead of her. It's not clear where he goes from here, except to the South Carolina debate stage to needle Klobuchar some more.\n\nWe could probably fill out the loser column with every single candidate not named Bernie Sanders, but for space purposes we'll stop at the California hedge-fund billionaire.\n\nHe poured vast sums into Nevada while others were ignoring the state to focus on Iowa and New Hampshire. His efforts succeeded in getting poll numbers that landed him on quite a few debate stages, but it didn't translate into actual support once voters started caucusing.\n\nHe's tried a similar move in South Carolina, where surveys show him as high as third. The Nevada results, however, suggest he may be in for a similar collapse on primary day next Saturday.\n\nIn fact, South Carolina is going to be the last chance for all of the candidates hoping to pick up some much-needed momentum before the 3 March Super Tuesday states, when more than a quarter of all the Democratic convention delegates are at stake.\n\nIt will be a week of desperation for many, as the end of the line looms.", "Harry Dunn's family have accused the US of \"hypocrisy\" in seeking Julian Assange's extradition, despite rejecting the extradition of Anne Sacoolas\n\nThe family of Harry Dunn has urged the government to refuse the extradition of Julian Assange until the US returns the suspect in his death back to the UK.\n\nDunn family spokesman Radd Seiger accused the US of \"hypocrisy\" in seeking Assange's extradition, despite rejecting the return of Anne Sacoolas.\n\nShe is suspected of causing the teenager's death by dangerous driving.\n\nThe family said the foreign secretary told them he is \"reviewing all options\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's parents have called on Dominic Raab and the government to refuse any further extradition requests by the US - including that of the Wikileaks co-founder - after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rejected extraditing Sacoolas, last month.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMs Sacoolas, a US national and the wife of an intelligence officer, claimed diplomatic immunity after the fatal crash in August, and returned to the US.\n\nMr Seiger said the Foreign Affairs Committee had accepted their request for a public inquiry into the extradition, and the diplomatic immunity given to Ms Sacoolas, who reportedly worked for the CIA.\n\nIt comes after the Foreign Office said it had \"no plans\" to launch a public inquiry into the teenager's death, saying it was \"confident\" the case had been \"handled properly and lawfully throughout\".\n\nMr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe crash happened outside RAF Croughton where Mrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles and father, Tim Dunn, said Mr Raab told them in a January 27 meeting that the government is \"reviewing all options\" after the US refused to return Ms Sacoolas to the UK.\n\nReferring to Mr Assange's potential extradition to the US, Mr Seiger said Mr Dunn's family \"understand and respect\" the \"huge public interest\" attached to extradition, adding that \"no one must be allowed to evade justice\" by fleeing a country.\n\nIn refusing the UK's \"lawful\" extradition request, Mr Seiger accused the US of launching \"the single greatest attack\" on its \"so-called special relationship\" with the UK.\n\nMr Seiger added: \"The US is not behaving like an ally and has effectively thumbed its nose up at the UK and ignored the clearly laid out provisions in the treaty, effectively tearing it up.\"\n\nHe said the principle of \"reciprocity\" is at the heart of any extradition treaty, which the US is \"failing to abide by\" in its \"disgraceful refusal\" to extradite Ms Sacoolas.\n\n\"In doing so, they are demonstrating an extraordinary amount of hypocrisy, and the double standards on display are unprecedented,\" he added.\n\nMr Seiger continued: \"On behalf of Harry Dunn's family and the millions of concerned citizens in the UK, I now demand that the UK authorities block any further extraditions to the US, including the one of Julian Assange, until such time as Anne Sacoolas is extradited and back on UK soil facing the justice system here.\"\n\nPrince Andrew has stepped back from royal duties for the \"foreseeable future\"\n\nMr Pompeo previously raised the prospect of \"a deal to be done\" over Mr Dunn's case and the US investigation of Prince Andrew's Jeffery Epstein connections.\n\nBut Mr Raab said there would be no \"haggling\" over the two cases, saying the extradition treaty with the US is \"rules-based\".\n\nMr Seiger said Mr Dunn's family had been \"badly let down\" since his death and urged the government to \"show us what they are made of, if they are to instil any confidence that they really do have our backs.\"\n\nHis comments followed Saturday's protest in which hundreds of Assange's supporters marched through London ahead of the start of his extradition trial at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday.\n\nMr Assange is facing extradition to the US on 18 charges and faces up to 175 years in prison if found guilty.", "Diane Abbott has said she will quit the front bench of Labour when a new leader is elected.\n\nMs Abbott, the shadow home secretary, told Sky News that whoever becomes leader, \"they have to be able to construct their own shadow cabinet\".\n\nEarlier Jeremy Corbyn had said he would consider a senior post under the new leader.\n\nMs Abbott said she would be backing Rebecca Long-Bailey as her choice for Labour's replacement leader.\n\nThree candidates are in the running for leader: Ms Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nVoting begins on Monday, with the new leader announced on 4 April.\n\nMs Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, said she would be returning to the backbenches \"where there's an awful lot to do\".\n\nMs Abbott was the first black female to be elected to Parliament in 1987.\n\nShe made history in October 2019 by becoming the first black MP at the despatch box at Prime Minister's Questions, in place of Mr Corbyn.", "The moment of Brexit is a time to \"find closure and let the healing begin\", according to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. But what does \"healing\" involve?\n\nIf there is one thing that people on both sides of the referendum debate agree on it is that, at times, the argument became far too hostile. In the House of Commons, on social media and in the streets, passions became inflamed.\n\nAn official statement from the prime minister earlier this month said now was \"a moment to heal divisions\". It was also announced that Brexit would be marked with a Downing Street light display, the hoisting of flags, a countdown clock and the minting of a commemorative coin.\n\nWhile many of his supporters want to celebrate leaving the European Union, there's little sign that these events have healed political divisions.\n\nOn the other hand, it's not clear how the decision of the SNP to fly an EU flag outside the Scottish Parliament building was going to bring people together.\n\nTo heal, we need to understand the nature of the divide. Why do people feel so strongly about Brexit? What are the values that lie behind the slogans and insults?\n\nThere is a danger in trying to characterise the Leave/Remain split too rigidly. The practice of describing people, places, regions and nations as \"Leave\" or \"Remain\" risks polarising the argument with a binary description that fails to reflect the nuance behind the choice and the result.\n\nFor instance, London is often described as a \"Remain city\". But more Londoners voted to leave the EU than voted for Remain-supporting Sadiq Khan as mayor. Meanwhile, even in that most pro-Brexit town of Boston in Lincolnshire, a quarter of those who took part opted to remain.\n\nVoters had a whole list of reasons for choosing to support one side or the other, often weighing up different arguments. No place was 100% for leaving or remaining in the EU.\n\nBut new opinion polling, commissioned by the BBC and the Campaign for Social Science, helps us understand the core beliefs associated with the way people voted.\n\nThe survey, conducted by Ipsos MORI, asked people to say which propositions came closest to their view.\n\nThe phrase \"influences from other countries and other cultures make Britain a better place to live\" was supported by a majority of Remain voters (56%), but just a quarter (23%) of Leave voters.\n\nThe alternative proposition - \"influences from other countries and cultures threaten the British way of life\" - was supported by just 18% of Remain voters but 52% of Leave voters.\n\nA similar result was found with a slightly different proposition. The phrase \"Britain will be stronger if it is open to changes and influences from other countries and other cultures\" was supported by 58% of Remain voters but just 22% of Leave voters.\n\nThe alternative - \"Britain will be stronger in the future if it sticks to its traditions and way of life\" - was supported by 56% of Leave voters and just 14% of Remain voters.\n\nAlong with other polling data, Remain voters emerge as significantly more likely to celebrate Britain's diversity and say they feel European. Leave voters are more likely to say Britain's history, heritage, pageantry and Christian tradition are important to their national identity.\n\nLeave voters appeared more patriotic, proud of their nationality and more likely to suggest their country was better than others. Remain voters placed more importance on being part of the international community.\n\nWhat is suggested by the survey is two visions of Britain - one which seeks to protect tradition, heritage, culture and familiar way of life, another which is happy to embrace change and keen to be part of a global conversation.\n\nThey are not mutually exclusive ideas - there is always a balance to be found between continuity and change. We can all feel that we want to protect tradition and be open to new ideas. It is a matter of emphasis.\n\nBut the reason that this debate has inspired such passions is that it goes to the kind of country we want to live in, its priorities and values.\n\nIn that context, what does healing look like?\n\nCulturally, British politics and public discourse tend to be adversarial. The House of Commons is designed to pit one side against the other. Compromise is often portrayed as weakness. Consensus-building seen as alien to our political tradition.\n\nBut conflict-resolution experts say healing doesn't mean conceding the argument. It is about understanding and valuing the views of people with whom you don't agree.\n\nIt is not about trying to change people's minds or prove them wrong. It is about \"respectful disagreement\".\n\nPart of the problem is that it's increasingly easy to live our lives in echo chambers, surrounding ourselves with those who endorse our personal view of the world. On Facebook and Twitter, we naturally exclude those whose views we don't like.\n\nThe newspapers and websites we choose, the books we read, the pubs and cafes we frequent, the films we watch - all of them are to some extent selected because they bolster our views and values rather than challenging them.\n\nIndeed, when we do find ourselves hearing opinions at odds with our own core beliefs, it can feel quite upsetting. The views of people we disagree with have a much bigger psychological effect on us than the voices of those who think like us.\n\nHealing the divide, it seems, is going to require us to get out of our comfort zone, out of our bubble.\n\n\"More in Common\" is the name of more than one body trying to understand this situation. A foundation set up in memory of the murdered MP Jo Cox organises community events which encourage people with different views to come together and explore what unites rather than divides them.\n\nA separate research organisation operating in the UK, US, Germany and France, describes its mission as working to \"address the underlying drivers of fracturing and polarisation, and build more united, resilient and inclusive societies\".\n\nThis year they will be teaming up with organisations and institutions to see what role they can play in \"bridging divides\" in Britain. One charity they already work with is the Roots Programme which takes people from different walks of life and gets them to \"meet and eat, talk and debate\", physically removing them from their \"bubble\".\n\nThe first pair to take part were Ben Lane, 31, a Remain-supporting, north-London-dwelling former business strategy consultant, and Peter Curtis, 47, a community football coach from Sunderland who voted to leave.\n\nBoth men acknowledge their exchange visits could have been better.\n\n\"It was quite depressing going down to London and seeing the money flying about,\" said Peter, a former construction worker who now earns less than £10,000 a year in Sunderland.\n\nFor Ben, the experience made him embarrassed that he played no role in his community, despite his prestigious job as a charity chief executive.\n\nBut they now both feel optimistic about the healing of the nation after Brexit.\n\nBen said: \"One of the worst ingredients for healing is uncertainty, and now we've got more certainty.\n\n\"It definitely means we can try and galvanise around something.\"\n\nHelpfully, the phrase \"more in common\" has some truth to it in the UK. Compared with the US where the liberal/conservative divide runs along almost every area of policy, here there is still broad national consensus on many key issues - taxation, welfare, the NHS, abortion, gun control or homosexuality.\n\nThat is not to say that everyone agrees on everything, but it is more likely there will be some common ground where people can gather to explore the aspirations and values they share.\n\nHealing the Brexit divide, though, needs to be more than a group hug. It also means dealing with the consequences of a very fractious and unpleasant period in our politics, a time when many questioned the effectiveness of our system of governance and when confidence in our democracy was shaken.\n\nA season of stories about bringing people together in a fragmented world.\n\nTellingly, all the big political parties included proposals for democratic renewal in their manifestos. There was consensus, at least, on the need to take a close look at how power works.\n\nThe Brexit vote itself has been interpreted as a cry of pain from communities which felt that their voice was being ignored, that decisions affecting their lives were being taken without consultation or discussion in anonymous offices in Westminster or behind mirrored glass in Brussels.\n\nPoliticians of all stripes appear to accept the need to listen to and respond to those concerns, finding ways to help people feel they have a genuine connection to power.\n\nThe government intends to create a Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission that will be instructed to come up with proposals to \"restore trust in our institutions and in how our democracy operates\".\n\nNo details have been given on the terms of reference or make-up of this new body, although there have been suggestions that it may be asked to look at the balance of power between government, MPs and the judiciary after the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament last autumn was unlawful.\n\nAlready, some have argued that might be interpreted as Brexiteer vengeance rather than a sincere attempt to heal a wounded democracy.\n\nSuch speculation helps explain why constitutional or democratic reform is tricky for government or even for Parliament. Any adjustment to the architecture is likely to have implications for the power of ministers and MPs.\n\nThat is why civil society has stepped into this space, looking at ways to involve citizens directly in any redesign of the British constitution - trying to take party politics out of the process and give power to the people.\n\nCitizens' assemblies are increasingly used by governments around the world to find answers to the trickiest of problems - abortion in Ireland, nuclear power in South Korea, energy policy in Texas, waste recycling in South Australia.\n\nA randomly selected cross-section of the public is recruited to consider a policy question through rational, respectful and reasoned discussion. They engage with information and arguments around a topic before agreeing on a proposal for consideration by lawmakers.\n\nUK parliamentary committees have held citizens' assemblies on climate change and social care to help understand what really matters to informed voters. In Scotland, a randomly selected assembly is currently considering the nation's governance, with its recommendations to be considered by the Scottish Parliament.\n\nOver the next two years, the Citizens' Convention on UK Democracy will attempt to engage 10 million people in what it describes as a \"UK conversation\". Thousands will receive a formal invitation to participate in a convention, their names selected by civic lottery.\n\nAmong the issues that will be considered are the voting system, the future of the House of Lords, devolving power to local and regional bodies, how politics should be paid for and whether the UK should have a written constitution.\n\nA number of senior MPs from across the political spectrum have agreed to help ensure that the conclusions of the convention are considered by Parliament.\n\nThere are other initiatives working in the same area, all convinced that the divide exposed by the Brexit debate can be healed only by getting under the bonnet of the UK's democracy, examining its inner workings and looking at ways to improve the performance.\n\nThe Hansard Society's most recent annual Audit of Political Engagement suggested 72% of voters think Britain's system of governance needs significant improvement and almost half (47%) say they feel they have no influence at all over national decision-making.\n\nWith the arguments and campaigns over Brexit now over, this does seem to be a good moment to consider the lessons of what has been an uncomfortable and at times painful process. It has knocked the confidence and pride Britain once had in its democracy.\n\nIf healing is to happen, it will require the nation to ask some searching questions of itself and what kind of country we want to be.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit: How did we get here?\n\nAs Brexit dawned, I found myself reporting for the BBC from outside the glass and concrete behemoth otherwise known as the European Commission building, in Brussels.\n\nIt's the same place I've regularly stood over the past three-and-a-half years, attempting to explain the EU perspective on Brexit following our referendum and throughout the divorce negotiations.\n\nIt struck me that the impersonal, impenetrable-looking monolith embodies the image so many in the UK have of the EU as a whole.\n\nBut going through my mind on Friday night were all the \"ordinary\" Europeans I've met across the continent while covering the Brexit story: engineers, teachers, bakers and bus drivers who asked \"Why are you doing this?\" and insisted: \"Don't leave!\"\n\nWhilst never the most enthusiastic member, the UK was part of the European project for almost half a century.\n\nBehind closed doors and away from gaze of the UK's more eurosceptic media, we were known for playing a big part in launching some of the bloc's most ambitious projects: the single market, the single currency (though we then opted not to join the euro) and the EU's enlargement eastwards.\n\nOn a personal level, EU leaders tell me they'll miss having the British sense of humour and no-nonsense attitude at their table.\n\nIf they were to be brutally honest, they'd have admitted they'll mourn the loss of our not-insignificant contribution to the EU budget too.\n\nBut now we've left the \"European family\" (as Brussels insiders sometimes like to call the EU) and as trade talks begin, how long will it take for warm words to turn into gritted teeth?\n\nOn the eve of Brexit, the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, pledged the EU would always act \"with a sense of brotherhood\" towards the UK.\n\nBut familiarity can breed contempt. Whether family feuds or lovers' quarrels, aren't some of the deepest rifts between people who once shared the closest of bonds?\n\nMinisters in Boris Johnson's government wonder aloud why the EU demands they sign up to free trade agreement conditions the EU didn't impose on others like Canada or Japan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Canada and Japan aren't family for the EU. They don't share the same intimate history or geography. They don't pose the same threat of overnight, on-the-doorstep serious competition.\n\nSo when EU leaders tell the freshly-Brexited UK that they love them but they'll do them no favours across the negotiating table, they mean it.\n\nAnd it's not just about business and economics. Brussels feels defensive about Brexit because some see it as a significant EU failure that the UK couldn't be persuaded to stay.\n\nIn almost the same breath as telling me how emotional she felt about the UK's departure this week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told me that Brexit has also had a very positive effect on the EU.\n\nIt's helped unify the member states, she told me. She argued it was clear Brexit could not solve big problems like climate change, so it was evidently better to stick together.\n\nThe EU's lead Brexit negotiator and go-to man on EU-UK trade talks, Michel Barnier, told me that Brussels had lessons to learn from Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the EU had many regions similar to the North East of England that felt underfunded and overlooked and believed, he said, that the EU did not protect them from the effects of globalisation. The EU must listen more to European voters, he concluded.\n\nEurosceptism remains alive and well across the EU, though the temptation to leave the bloc evident in Italy, France, Sweden and elsewhere back in 2016 has all but disappeared.\n\nEurosceptic politicians like Italy's Matteo Salvini and France's Marine Le Pen are watching the UK closely. They say they hope Brexit will be a huge success and that talk of Frexit, Italexit, Swexit will return to Europe's front pages once again.", "Julian Smith said Troubles victims \"have fought hard for too long\" for financial support from the state\n\nVictims who led a long campaign for a pension for people injured during the Troubles have been praised for their \"fortitude\" by the secretary of state.\n\nJulian Smith paid tribute to the campaigners' determination, just hours after he signed new legislation which set up an annual payment scheme.\n\nIt will provide life-long financial support to severely injured victims.\n\nBut some campaigners are angry that the scheme is only open to people injured \"through no fault of their own\".\n\nIt means that anyone convicted of taking part in an attack which caused them to be injured - for example bombers who were caught up in their own explosion - would not qualify for the pension.\n\nBoth Sinn Féin and the campaign group Relatives for Justice accused the government of creating a \"hierarchy\" of victims and trying to impose its own version of the past.\n\nMore than 3,500 people were killed during the Troubles and the Northern Ireland Office has estimated that a further 40,000 were injured during more than 30 years of violence.\n\nThe pension campaign was beset by years of delays due to disagreements over whether former paramilitaries would be eligible for payments.\n\nVarious victims groups have differed in their approach to the campaign over the years\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Smith acknowledged that there were \"different views about how to proceed\" but added the \"discussions and delay of the past few years have gone on long enough\".\n\n\"This scheme is intended to provide much-needed acknowledgement, and a measure of additional financial support, to people injured through no fault of their own in a Troubles-related incident, some of whom are struggling to make ends meet,\" he said.\n\nThe payments will range from about £2,000 to £10,000 a year depending on the severity of disability.\n\nMr Smith also commended victims' groups who persevered with their campaign for compensation for more than a decade.\n\n\"It is right that we recognise the bravery and fortitude of those people who have fought hard for too long to see such a scheme,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This is a moment to recognise those living with life-limiting injuries, and to acknowledge the harm they have suffered.\n\n\"We should pause and thank those who have helped us get to a place where we can provide a scheme like this.\"\n\nSeveral victims of the Troubles were left with life-long disabilities, including paralysis\n\nOutlining the new regulations, the secretary of state said the government had \"listened carefully\" to those who took part in a recent public consultation and introduced \"new, more generous rules\".\n\n\"For the first time, we will also ensure that payments can transfer to partners and carers who look after those still living with their injuries,\" Mr Smith said.\n\nReferring to the scheme's restrictions, he added: \"An independent judge-led board will make decisions on whether payments should be made where there is compelling evidence that a payment would not be appropriate.\"\n\nEligible victims will have to apply for the payments, and the scheme will open for applications at the end of May 2020.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is the second time within two months that Mr Smith has pushed through legislation to give financial support to victims who had faced years of frustration over compensation delays.\n\nIn November, he helped to fast-track the Historical Institutional Abuse Bill through Parliament, which set up a redress payments scheme for people who were abused as children in residential homes.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, the Wave Trauma Centre welcomed the Troubles payment scheme, saying it would make a \"real difference\" to victims.\n\n\"The Injured Group at Wave have been campaigning for over 10 years for official recognition and acknowledgement of the great harm done to individuals who have been severely injured during the Troubles,\" said Wave's chief executive Sandra Peake.\n\n\"To see legislation being enacted at Westminster is testament to the tenacity and resilience of the group who have been fighting an often lonely campaign on behalf of those who have been marginalised for too long.\"\n\nBut Relatives for Justice accused the government of using the legislation \"to promote their own partial narrative of the past\".\n\nIt added that the regulations did not sufficiently address the needs of people bereaved as a result of the Troubles, and described it as an \"insulting and ill-thought out piece of legislation\".", "Rhys Gabe (middle row, third from right), one of Wales' finest internationals, worked as a teacher and played in a team from all corners of society\n\nWales has, for as long as anyone can remember, been a rugby nation.\n\nThe team was dominant in the early 20th Century, developed one of the all-time great sides in the 1970s and last year won a Grand Slam before reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup in Japan.\n\nWales has always held a unique position in northern hemisphere - if not world - rugby. It is a sport played by all.\n\nUnlike in England, Scotland and Ireland - where the union game remained true to its public school origins and amateur nature - Welsh rugby saw lawyers and doctors line up alongside dockers and miners for both club and country.\n\nEngland and Wales faced off at Blackheath, London, in 1892 - before the crucial split between union and league\n\nTony Collins, history professor at De Montfort University in Leicester, said there were a number of reasons behind rugby's development as \"a game for all classes\" in Wales.\n\n\"Wales represents what rugby could have become in terms of its social appeal,\" he said.\n\n\"Rugby was obviously started by young men in private schools....but as society changed in the late 19th Century more and more people from different backgrounds came into the game and gave it a sense of local identity.\n\n\"Traditionally, people living in working-class areas of Wales will still see themselves as rugby fans regardless of where they come from, whereas in parts of England, Scotland and - apart from Munster - it's not really the case in Ireland either.\"\n\nThe south of Wales had seen a boom in population in the 19th Century, with hundreds of thousands of people flocking to the cities and valleys for work in the nation's rapidly growing industries.\n\nNewly emerging sports, such as rugby and soccer, became a source of local pride for competing towns, and the first time this local identity was demonstrated was the inaugural South Wales Challenge Cup, in 1877-1878.\n\nEighteen clubs entered and 2,000 spectators watched Newport beat Swansea 1-0 at Bridgend in the first final.\n\nBut, at this time at least, Wales' love of rugby was not unique in Britain, with rugby popular in many industrial areas.\n\nProf Collins said: \"Across the north of England rugby was a more popular game than soccer and Wales continued that tradition - it was a game played by everyone and represented everyone. It was your game and it represented something.\"\n\nBut while rugby had mass appeal in the late 19th Century, the newly-formed Rugby Football Union (RFU) in England was desperately trying to hang onto its middle-class genesis.\n\nPlayers from working-class backgrounds - mainly in the south of Wales and north of England - had started to expect a wage for playing the game in order to compensate for time spent away from their first jobs.\n\nThe RFU still saw the game as amateur, and when it banned payments to players, clubs from Yorkshire and Lancashire split away - leading to the creation of rugby league in 1895.\n\nThousands packed out Rodney Parade for a match between Newport and South Africa in 1906\n\nBut while the move hampered the development of union in the north of England, Wales was able to survive and thrive.\n\nPlayers were sometimes given secret payments, often known as \"boot\" money, for their services, but the RFU - taking the lead on amateurism across world rugby - did not police these payments as strictly in Wales as they had in Yorkshire and Lancashire.\n\n\"Partly because Wales had its own rugby union, it didn't represent such a threat to the RFU,\" Prof Collins said.\n\n\"They decided to turn a blind eye to payments in Wales, which they would not do in the north of England.\n\n\"If they forced the issue over payments in Wales they could break away, so it was a kind of compromise where the Welsh Rugby Union would pretend it wasn't paying players and the RFU pretended to believe them.\"\n\nIt meant Wales was able to keep most of its best players in union while many in England began playing league.\n\nThe change saw an upturn in results for the Welsh national team, who went unbeaten in 10 matches against England in the early 20th Century - a streak which Prof Collins said helped keep rugby union as Wales' premier sport.\n\nWales beat England 22-0 in 1907 - the eighth game in a row England failed to beat their rivals\n\n\"I think a large part of that is that at the beginning of the 20th Century the Welsh football team struggled internationally and against the home nations, but the rugby team could compete,\" he said.\n\n\"It made the game even more important and popular.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Scanlon and Kenny McAdam said they were delighted to find the large sum of money\n\nRecycling centre workers spent two hours hunting through rubbish to find old gravy tins containing a pensioner's £20,000 life savings.\n\nThe cash was accidentally dumped at Dalmoak Recycling Centre in Dunbartonshire by the woman's family, who were clearing out her home.\n\nWhen they realised their mistake, the brother and sister returned to ask for help to trace the missing money.\n\nCouncil workers Tony Scanlon and Kenny McAdam took on the messy job.\n\nAs first reported in The Daily Record, the pair stepped up to the challenge after a man and woman arrived at the recycling centre near Renton in a panic.\n\n\"They explained they had dumped something they shouldn't have dumped,\" Tony explained.\n\n\"They said it was money and it was in Bisto containers.\"\n\nTony Scanlon and Kenny McAdam saved the day for a local family\n\nIt is believed the money belonged to a woman in her 80s. Her daughter had cleaned her kitchen while she was out, throwing away old dishes, pots and pans.\n\nShe knew nothing about what was in the tins until her mother returned and told her it was her life savings.\n\nKenny added: \"I remembered the lady because the bag was heavy and I had told her to leave her bags there in front of the skip.\n\n\"She asked where they could have gone and I told her they could either have been crushed in the compactor or have been put in this container.\"\n\nA stroke of luck meant that one of the yard's two compactors was out of service and so the rubbish bags had been piled up in a skip and crushed with a digger.\n\nTony remembered throwing the heavy bags into the container. So the pair decided there was only one thing for it.\n\n\"We moved the skip to the back of the yard to keep people away and started going through it,\" said Tony. \"We pulled the bags out, put them in the digger, moved them.\n\n\"Eventually after an hour-and-a half we found the heavy bags. We burst one of the bags open and found one of the Bisto tubs.\"\n\nThe almost-full rubbish container was close to being sent to be emptied at landfill\n\nTwenty minutes later Kenny found the other four tubs in another bag.\n\nHe said: \"It was amazing. Tony said the lady started crying. I shook the brother's hand. It was a great feeling.\n\n\"It really was a frantic couple of hours. We did our very best to retrieve the money. At the end of the day Tony and I saved the day for an old pensioner and it made us feel good.\"\n\nIt turned out that had the family returned any later, the tins could have been on their way to landfill.\n\nBut luckily it was a happy ending.\n\nKenny said: \"I'd like to think that anybody else would have done what Tony and I did. I'm happy and my wee pal's happy.\"\n\nIt turns out the pair are no strangers to saving the day.\n\nOver the years, they've managed to retrieve a wedding dress, wedding rings and a collection of car keys.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US District Court for the District of Maryland Christopher Hasson, 50, created an Excel spreadsheet with a list of targets - including liberal politicians and news broadcasters\n\nA former US Coast Guard officer has been jailed for 13 years for stockpiling weapons to carry out an alleged white supremacist attack.\n\nOfficials said Christopher Hasson, 50, was planning to target liberal politicians and news broadcasters.\n\nProsecutors said this was \"domestic terrorism\", but US law does not classify this as a distinct offence without an attack being carried out.\n\nWhen he was arrested last February, officers found a cache of 15 firearms - which, as a drug user, Hasson was banned from owning - and two illegal gun silencers. He was also in possession of the narcotic Tramadol without a prescription.\n\nBefore and during his sentencing hearing, prosecutors and defence attorneys sparred on whether or not Hasson would have gone on to commit mass murder.\n\nThe former lieutenant from Silver Spring was inspired by racist mass murderers, including Anders Breivik, and \"intended to exact retribution on minorities and those he considered traitors\", prosecutors told the court.\n\nHe created an Excel spreadsheet with a list of targets, which included 12 prominent Democrats in Congress and a number of CNN and MSNBC journalists.\n\nUS Federal Attorney Robert Hur added that if he hadn't been arrested when he was, \"we now would be counting bodies of the defendant's victims instead of years of the defendant's prison time\".\n\nHasson's lawyers, however, argued that prosecutors had overstated the threat he posed.\n\nHasson was an aircraft mechanic with the Marine Corps in the first Gulf War, and later went on to serve in the Virginia National Guard before joining the Coast Guard in 1996.\n\nIn the months leading up to his arrest last year, Hasson was stationed at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington.\n\nDuring this time he amassed the weapons in his apartment in Silver Spring. His arsenal included six handguns, seven rifles, two shotguns, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, knives, smoke grenades and tactical gear.\n\nAccording to the FBI, he also had 30 vials of a human growth hormone - a steroid that prosecutors said he took thinking it would \"increase his ability to conduct attacks\".\n\nGuns and ammunition were found at Hasson's home in Silver Spring, Maryland\n\nHasson studied bomb-making and sniper manuals, as well as racist and anti-Semitic writings - including the manifesto of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011 in two terror attacks. He murdered eight people with a car bomb in central Oslo and then shot dead 69 others, many of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp.\n\nHasson's web searches, on mass shootings and biological warfare, triggered an investigation by the Coast Guard after they were flagged up by software on his work computer.\n\nIn a lengthy memo to himself, US media report that he wrote: \"Please send me your violence that I may unleash it unto their heads. Guide my hate to make a lasting impression on this world.\"\n\nHasson's lawyers told the court he had developed an addiction to opioids and this had poisoned his mind against people of other ethnicities. This caused him to fantasise about carrying out violent attacks, they said.", "Peanut allergy is the most common food allergy in the US\n\nThe US has approved its first treatment for peanut allergies in children.\n\nThe drug AR101, or Palforzia, uses oral immunotherapy, with children given tiny but increasing amounts of peanut protein over a six-month period under medical supervision.\n\nAfter that, users must continue to take a daily dose to be able to tolerate accidental exposure.\n\nThe treatment is not a cure and makers warn that the risk of a potentially fatal anaphylactic reaction remains.\n\nAnd patients must continue to avoid peanuts in their diet.\n\nPeanuts are the most common food allergen in the US, with an increase in the number of those affected by food allergies across the West in recent decades.\n\nWhile trials to desensitise patients with peanut allergies have previously taken place in the US and elsewhere, the drug is the first to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The drug has not yet been authorised for use in the UK.\n\nPalforzia, which has been approved for use in patients aged between four and 17, comes in the form of a powder which is sprinkled on food.\n\nLast year, scientists at King's College London said that oral immunotherapy offered \"protection but not a cure\" for peanut allergies, with treatment only effective while patients continued taking small amounts of the allergen.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is hurtling towards its conclusion as senators prepare to cast their final vote on Wednesday, with acquittal almost certain.\n\nDemocratic hopes were dealt a blow last Friday when senators voted against introducing new witnesses to the trial.\n\nAs prosecutors in the trial, Democrats had laid out meticulous evidence over three days that they said proved Mr Trump had abused his power and obstructed Congress.\n\nThey alleged that he pressured Ukraine to dig up political dirt on Joe Biden, a domestic rival, and that he sought to hide the evidence from Congress, another impeachable offence.\n\nThe White House lawyers, on the other hand, argued Mr Trump had done \"nothing wrong\" and that the president has not committed offences that would warrant his removal.\n\nPresident Trump and senior Republicans claim Mr Biden and his son Hunter were involved in a corrupt business scheme in Ukraine.\n\nHere's a look back at what happened over the course of two weeks.\n\nProceedings began on 21 January with a tussle between Democrats and Republicans over the rules of the trial.\n\nRepublican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed a tight two-day limit for opening arguments by both sides, before extending it to three after protests from Democrats.\n\nMr McConnell delayed debate over motions from Democrats to allow new witnesses to be called and fresh evidence submitted.\n\nDemocratic congressman Adam Schiff, the head of seven impeachment managers who serve as prosecutors, opened oral arguments to a packed Senate chamber on 22 January.\n\nMr Schiff said the president's actions were exactly what the Founding Fathers feared when they came up with impeachment - \"a remedy as powerful as the evil it was meant to combat\", Mr Schiff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe impeachment managers walked the senators through testimony gathered during depositions and committee hearings last year that they say points to a scheme by Mr Trump and his advisers to lean on Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.\n\nThe managers interspersed their oral arguments with audio and video tape, using the president's own words - including a now-infamous call with the president of Ukraine - in their effort to portray him as guilty.\n\nThey directly addressed the claims against the Bidens - a purposeful attempt to get on the front foot ahead of the president's defence.\n\nThe managers then tackled the obstruction of Congress charge.\n\nThe managers argued that Mr Trump's refusal to allow certain members of his administration to answer questions from the House of Representatives was akin to hiding information from a grand jury investigation.\n\nDuring opening arguments, Mr Trump's team took barely two hours to argue that the president had done nothing wrong.\n\nHis team insisted that Mr Trump had acted in the national interests in his phone call with the Ukrainian president, with Deputy White House Counsel Mike Purpura pinpointing a line from the transcript in which Mr Trump asked Volodymyr Zelensky to \"do us a favour\", rather than \"me\".\n\nMr Purpura also insisted there was no quid pro quo, saying Mr Zelensky \"says he felt no pressure\".\n\nThe defence accused the Democrats of trying to remove Mr Trump from the ballot this year, and said the American electorate should be allowed to decide for themselves.\n\nResuming arguments on 27 January, attorney Kenneth Starr warned senators that impeachment could become \"normalised\" and used as a weapon against future administrations.\n\nMr Starr came to prominence in 1998, when he led an investigation into Democratic President Bill Clinton that laid the foundation for his impeachment.\n\n\"Like war, impeachment is hell,\" Mr Starr said on Monday. \"It's filled with acrimony and divides the country like nothing else. Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment understand that in a deep and personal way.\"\n\nFollowing Mr Starr, Trump defence lawyer Jane Raskin addressed Rudy Giuliani - Mr Trump's personal attorney and a central character in the impeachment case.\n\n\"Mr Giuliani was not on a political errand,\" she said, referring to his investigations in Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sondland was involved in a \"domestic political errand\" for Trump\n\n\"Rudy Giuliani is the House managers' colourful distraction,\" Ms Raskin said - a way for the Democratic impeachment managers, who act as prosecutors, to divert attention from weaknesses in their case.\n\nOn 29 January, senators began a period of questioning after opening arguments concluded.\n\nOver two days and 16 hours on the floor, they submitted over 100 queries written on cards to Chief Justice John Roberts, who read them to the House managers and defence.\n\nThe justice was firm about keeping time, limiting answers to five minutes.\n\nQuestions alternated between Republicans and Democrats as lawmakers had their first chance to push back against claims made by both sides. A few queries were bipartisan.\n\nSenators were not, however, allowed to address each other in their questioning.\n\nThe queries came amid a contentious debate over whether or not witnesses should be allowed in the trial - a matter that comes to a vote on Friday.\n\nOne submission was blocked by the Chief Justice: Republican Rand Paul's question that included the name of a person believed to be the whistleblower that sparked the entire impeachment inquiry was rejected.\n\nOther questions, including when the president ordered the aid hold on Ukraine and whether Mr Trump ever mentioned the Bidens prior to Joe Biden entering the 2020 race, were not fully answered.\n\nOn Friday, the trial moves into four hours of debate over whether new witnesses and documents should be permitted.", "Jessica Mann said she \"entered into what I thought was going to be a real relationship with him\"\n\nA one-time aspiring actress says Harvey Weinstein subjected her to \"degrading\" abuse, in some of the most graphic testimony shared in his trial so far.\n\nJessica Mann detailed a catalogue of abuse by the Hollywood producer, saying he once trapped her in a hotel bedroom and raped her.\n\nThree of the five charges against Mr Weinstein relate to Ms Mann.\n\nHe denies non-consensual sex and his lawyers say emails prove his and Ms Mann's relationship was consensual.\n\nWARNING: This story contains details some readers may find upsetting\n\nMs Mann's evidence came at the end of the fourth week of the Manhattan trial of the Oscar-winning Hollywood mogul, who produced films including Shakespeare in Love and The English Patient.\n\nThe 34-year-old said she met him in late 2012 or early 2013 at a party, and she told him of her ambition to be an actress. Later, she said, he invited her and a friend to a Los Angeles hotel suite. He then allegedly pulled Ms Mann into a bedroom and performed oral sex on her.\n\nMs Mann then began a relationship with Mr Weinstein. \"I entered into what I thought was going to be a real relationship with him and it was extremely degrading from that point on,\" she said.\n\nShe said he once urinated on her, and in 2013 raped her in a Manhattan hotel room. \"If he heard the word 'no,' it was like a trigger for him,\" she said.\n\nWhen asked why she stayed in the relationship, Ms Mann said in tears that there was \"no short answer\".\n\n\"One of the aspects initially was that I had had a sexual encounter\" with him, she said. \"That wasn't something I could undo. That really confused me and hurt me.\" She stayed with him partly out of fear, she said.\n\nOne of Mr Weinstein's lawyers, Damon Cheronis, said Ms Mann sent \"flattering\" emails to Mr Weinstein during their relationship, one of which said \"Miss you, big guy.\" These prove the relationship was not abusive, the defence alleges.\n\nIn Friday's testimony, Ms Mann also alleged that Mr Weinstein had \"extreme scarring\" on his body and used erectile dysfunction medication. She also believed he was intersex, and it appeared he had a vagina and no testicles.\n\nSince October 2017, more than 80 women have publicly accused Mr Weinstein of sexual misconduct but this criminal case involves only a few of them.\n\nSome consider the trial a watershed moment, where some of Mr Weinstein's alleged victims have had their voices heard in court for the first time.\n\nMr Weinstein is on trial for five offences, including rape and predatory sexual assault. He denies the charges and all allegations of wrongdoing, but if convicted could face life in prison.\n\nHere is what has happened in the trial so far.\n\nMr Weinstein turned up to his first court appearance heavily aided and using a walking frame. Crowds of protesters, including some accusers, gathered outside the courthouse to try and face him down.\n\n\"You thought you could terrorise me and others into silence. You were wrong,\" actress Rose McGowan, who accuses him of rape, said reading from an open letter.\n\nThe same day, on 6 January, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office announced new charges against Mr Weinstein. After the New York trial, he is expected to appear in court in California.\n\nFinding an impartial jury for the New York case was a difficult task, with hundreds summoned as potential jurors. Mr Weinstein's legal team even filed a last-minute motion to move the trial outside Manhattan over the \"carnival-like atmosphere\" surrounding proceedings. They cited the media hype about model Gigi Hadid being among the potential jurors.\n\nThe first week of proceedings ended with a flash-mob of protesters performing an anti-rape chant outside, which could be heard inside the courtroom.\n\nDuring the process, prosecutors accused Mr Weinstein's defence team of \"systematically eliminating\" young white women as jurors. The selection process concluded with five women and seven men on the panel.\n\n\"This trial is not a referendum on the #MeToo movement. It is not a referendum on sexual harassment,\" Judge James Burke told the jury, saying they must only decide if Mr Weinstein \"committed certain acts which constitute a particular crime\".\n\n\"The man seated right there was not just a titan in Hollywood, he was a rapist,\" prosecutor Meghan Hast said in her opening statement on 22 January.\n\nShe accused him of using his celebrity status to manipulate women and explicitly detailed allegations against him. Only two of the accusers' cases, Mimi (Miriam) Haleyi and Jessica Mann, have led to individual criminals charges in New York but the testimony of others is being used as supporting evidence.\n\nMs Hast described how Mr Weinstein allegedly \"lunged at\" Ms Haleyi in 2006 to perform a forced sex act on her. Ms Mann alleges he raped her in a New York hotel in 2013.\n\nOne of Mr Weinstein's lawyers, Damon Cheronis, insists the state's case would \"unravel\" during the trial and urged the jury: \"While the narrative they painted for you is one that may reinforce your preconceived notions, it's not the truth.\"\n\nThe defence aim to present the sexual interactions as consensual. At the opening, Mr Cheronis alleged one accuser had even described Mr Weinstein as \"her casual boyfriend\".\n\nUS actress Annabella Sciorra testified on 23 January that the film producer raped her in the winter of 1993/4. Her allegations, outside New York's statue of limitations, are being used to support the most serious charge of predatory sexual assault.\n\nShe said Mr Weinstein forced his way into her apartment after a dinner with others. \"I was trying to get him off me,\" she told the jury. \"I was punching him, kicking him.\"\n\nThe former Sopranos actress described her body shaking after the alleged assault and said she did not go public with it for years because she was \"afraid for her life\". Ms Sciorra's friend, fellow actress Rosie Perez, testified that she shared some details of the incident with her at the time, but on cross-examination lawyers challenged Ms Sciorra's ability to remember the exact date of the alleged attack.\n\nLawyer Donna Rotunno tried to poke holes in the Sopranos actress' account\n\nA forensic psychiatrist, Dr Barbara Ziv, also testified as an expert witness to explain misconceptions around rape and the behaviour of victims.\n\nProduction assistant Mimi Haleyi told the court that Mr Weinstein assaulted her twice in Manhattan in 2006, after he helped her get a job on a television show he produced.\n\nShe detailed an incident at his apartment where she alleges he performed oral sex on her, without consent, when she was on her period.\n\n\"Every time I tried to get off the bed he would push me back and hold me down,\" Ms Haleyi said during emotional testimony. \"At this point I realised what was happening. I'm being raped.\"\n\nShe told the court he convinced her to meet again weeks later. On that occasion she allegedly \"laid there\" as he had sex with her in an incident that left her feeling \"numb\" and like \"an idiot\". Mr Weinstein has only been charged over first alleged encounter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hired by Weinstein to extract information on celebrities\n\nDuring cross-examination Mr Weinstein's defence focused on her continued contact with him after the alleged incidents and presented email exchanges between the two including one she signed off with \"lots of love\".\n\nThroughout the week further \"prior bad acts\" witnesses continued to testify. Former actress Dawn Dunning alleged Mr Weinstein put her hands up her skirt and touched her genitals at a hotel in Soho in 2004 and later tried to offer her film roles in exchange for sex.\n\nTarale Wulff alleged Mr Weinstein masturbated in front of her in 2005 when she worked as a waitress. She said she was later invited to read scripts by Weinstein Company staff and was taken to his apartment, where he allegedly raped her.", "Messaging service WhatsApp will no longer work on millions of smartphones from 1 February.\n\nAndroid and iPhone devices which only support outdated operating systems will no longer be able to run the Facebook-owned app.\n\nWhatsApp said the move was necessary in order to protect the security of its users.\n\nSmartphones using Android 2.3.7 and older, and iPhone iOS 8 or older, are those affected by the update.\n\nThe operating systems that WhatsApp is dropping support for are legacy operating systems, which are no longer updated or installed on new devices.\n\nMost users will simply be able to update their operating systems in order to continue using the messaging service.\n\nHowever, certain devices, such as the iPhone 4, which only supports iOS 7, will no longer be compatible with the app.\n\n\"WhatsApp clearly had no option but to ensure its service remains secure, however it faces the difficult side-effect that the app is no longer compatible with older smartphones,\" said CCS Insight analyst Ben Wood.\n\n\"This is likely to disproportionally impact the long-tail of its users, particularly in growth markets where there is a high proportion of older devices.\"\n\nWhatsApp, which was one of the most-downloaded apps of the decade, first warned users that these changes would happen back in 2017.\n\n\"This was a tough decision for us to make, but the right one in order to give people better ways to keep in touch with friends, family, and loved ones using WhatsApp,\" said a spokesperson for the company.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of moves after the messaging app withdrew support for numerous devices in 2016, and then from all Windows phones on 31 December, 2019.", "\"She is here, isn't she Will?\", asked a worried looking man at the London Palladium at about 20:00 on Wednesday night. \"Yes\", I said. I didn't actually know for sure, but he looked so anxious I thought a bit of reassurance wouldn't go amiss.\n\nAnyway, the merch counter had just fallen over and there was a rising sense of calamity which didn't need adding to.\n\nMadonna goes deep with her fans. The connection is genuine and mutual. Nobody blames her for cancelling shows due to extreme pain in her knees and hips, people just hope it's not on their night (she has subsequently ruled out shows on 4 and 11 February).\n\n\"I feel so guilty,\" another fan told me. \"My mates had tickets for Monday night, which was cancelled and I've just sent a WhatsApp of my seat tonight.\"\n\n\"Where are you sitting?\" I asked\n\n\"Row U in the stalls,\" he said\n\n\"£250\" he said \"Not bad eh? I think it's going to be great.\"\n\nAnd it was - 5-star great.\n\nNot because the show was perfect, though. Madonna's movement was visibly stiff, lighting errors left dancers in the dark, and some of her banter fell flat. All of which only added to the \"live-ness\" of the event, which was more an evening of intimate cabaret than a stadium blockbuster show.\n\nIt was perfectly imperfect, like one of those sketchy landscapes by Cezanne where you can see his underdrawings and misplaced lines, making it so much more beautiful and real than Canaletto's soulless precision.\n\nTruth is the point of art, not perfection.\n\nMadonna's creation evokes the imperfections in Cezanne's sketchy landscapes (The Brook, c. 1895-1900)\n\nGetting to it sometimes means removing the artifice, or strapping it on. Madonna's schtick has always been the latter.\n\nShe's a post-modernist right down to her kinky boots, adopting superficial personas and cultural influences. She is the Cindy Sherman of pop, the chameleon Queen with a debt to the shape-shifting aesthetics of David Bowie.\n\nThis time around, though, Madonna has let the mask slip.\n\nThere's still a character for her to hide behind (Madame X, a dominatrix type cliche sporting an eye-patch and padded pants), with its usual mix of the sacred and the profane (she is both a prostitute and a nun). But she constantly undermines her own illusion just as Cezanne did with his fidgety, cross-hatched lines.\n\nOne minute she is the all-singing, all-dancing Madame X, inhabiting a vividly theatrical world embellished with huge projections. The next she has stepped beyond her own fourth wall to have a chummy chat with the locals. It's improv, kind of. The audience interaction is a pre-conceived element of the show, but her spiel is site-specific, and her responses spontaneous.\n\nThe artist was present in every sense.\n\nSometimes she went on for a too long, leading to the occasional \"get on with it\". And sometimes it was awkward: \"Does anyone have a spare seat I could sit in?\" she asked (scripted).\n\nA chap near the front put his hand up. Madonna gingerly stepped down from the stage for a tete-a-tete. She's fine, he's star-struck. Beer is swigged (scripted). To no avail. His tongue has tied itself into a knot so tight no amount of liquor is going to loosen it. A stilted conversation ensues (unscripted).\n\nNobody minds. Madonna's doing stand-up. We're in the room. She is with us, of us, not some distant star on a faraway stage performing a risk-free romp through back catalogue favourites with a few numbers from the latest album thrown in to help sales.\n\nThe Madame X Tour is an adventurous piece of contemporary theatre, and a match for any of the Tony and Olivier-winning shows currently playing the West End and Broadway.\n\nIt starts with a Hitchcockian scene. Madonna is stage right, in profile: seated, visible only as a silhouette behind a translucent curtain. She is typing. Slowly. A gunshot rings out every time she strikes a key, provoking a robotic movement made by a single besuited dancer standing in front of the curtain, stage left.\n\nText is projected on high as the dancer contorts his body under a hail of literary bullets, most fired decades ago by James Baldwin, one of America's finest post-war writers. His words \"Artists are here to disturb the peace\" appear as an epigraph.\n\nHe is right. Up to a point. Which is about 23:00 for Westminster City Council, according to our celebrated hostess. She told us an iron curtain would be dropped if she went on beyond its stipulated curfew.\n\nThe diaphanous fabric lifts, Madonna struts, the stage is set, and the show proper begins with God Control. The audience goes nuts (\"I should have done this years ago,\" says the singer as an aside), as the steps and structures revolve and animate.\n\nDark Ballet comes next in a show built around her recent Madame X Album. The smattering of old favourites stitched into its fabric have been incorporated so elegantly as to make them feel an essential part of the whole rather than crowd-pleasing add-ons.\n\nAnd so it is with Human Nature, which follows and resolves in a seated scene that doubles up as a rest for the star and a witty nod for the die-hards towards the famous 1995 video directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.\n\nThen comes some \"Hello London\" repartee before an a cappella version of Express Yourself.\n\nIt's good, and it gets better.\n\nA string introduction to Papa Don't Preach segues into a sophisticated rendition of Vogue performed in a striking, angular, black and white design.\n\nNot all the creative decisions are made so astutely. There's an ill-advised, wince-inducing vignette, which sees Madonna launching into a \"let's wind back the years\" routine involving an upside-down-splits topped-off with toe wiggle. I felt a tweak in my own groin - and not in a good way.\n\nFortunately for Madame X, and us, such moments are few and far between. This show is designed (and constantly redesigned) around the 61-year-old's physical condition. Dancers help her on and off pianos, chairs and steps. You can sense her frustration at her body's restricted ability, but she can still hit the beats better than most.\n\nPlus, her team of dancers are fantastic. They excel under Megan Lawson's choreographic vision, which appears to riff on a revered contemporary dance cannon including such notables as Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring, Hofesh Shechter's Sun, and Michael Jackson's moon walk.\n\nThe influence of Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring can be seen in the choreography of Madonna's show\n\nHofesh Shechter said his work Sun questioned \"the very essence of art or dance, what it is and how it's supposed to look and feel\"\n\nThe heart and soul of the show is provided by Madonna's newly found love: the evocative sound of the Fado musicians she discovered in her current home city of Lisbon.\n\nThat, and the wonderful female Batuque singers from Cape Verde, an African archipelago once colonised by the Portuguese who took an unfavourable view of their traditional music.\n\nThe star's show is infused with her love of Fado music, which originated in Portugal around the 1820s, and is known for being deeply melancholic\n\nThe show ends with a full-bodied version of Like a Prayer, which leads into an encore of Madame X's protest song, I Rise.\n\nWhich we all did as a visibly delighted Madonna led her merry band of players out of the auditorium and off into the night (or the physio's bench).\n\nPictures in this review are from other venues in the Madame X tour.", "Photographer Shane Gross captured a haunting photo of a turtle caught in a fishing line while diving near the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas.\n\nHe hopes the image will bring more awareness of the effects of ghost fishing and plastic pollution.", "Oscar Saxelby-Lee, who is from Worcester, is in Singapore receiving CAR-T therapy\n\nThe mother of a boy having treatment for leukaemia says she is disgusted by fake profiles set up on Facebook and Instagram using her son's photos.\n\nFive-year-old Oscar Saxelby-Lee is in Singapore receiving CAR-T therapy after his family were able to fundraise more than £500,000 to pay for it.\n\nHowever, since then, a number of fake profiles have appeared on social media using Oscar's image asking for money.\n\nFacebook apologised to the family and said it had removed several accounts.\n\nOscar's mother Olivia Saxelby, from Worcester, told BBC Hereford and Worcester from Singapore it was \"beyond belief\" these fake posts could exist.\n\nShe said: \"It's just disgusting, I'm mortified.\n\n\"They've changed Oscar's name, created some sort of story... it's just beyond belief, these people are so insensitive.\"\n\nThe family have spotted several fake profiles and posts on social media using Oscar's photos\n\nPreviously, the family said Oscar was cancer-cell free after receiving the therapy, which was not available to him on the NHS.\n\nLast week, they became aware of the fake profiles which not only impersonate Oscar but his mum too.\n\n\"I just want them to stop, it's beyond wrong and it's hurtful,\" Ms Saxelby said.\n\nThe family have reported the posts and profiles to Facebook but say they have not been quick enough to respond.\n\nMs Saxelby said the posts were \"beyond wrong\" and \"hurtful\"\n\nMs Saxelby said she is \"absolutely shattered\" by the experience of having to continually report the fake pages.\n\n\"It's just been horrid,\" she said.\n\nA Facebook spokesperson said: \"Posts that impersonate or defraud people are not allowed on Facebook and we are sorry that Oscar Saxelby-Lee's family has had to see these upsetting posts. We have removed several of these accounts and we are investigating to identify any that remain.\"\n\n\"It's just beyond belief, these people are so insensitive,\" Oscar's mother said", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nLeBron James led tributes to LA Lakers legend Kobe Bryant in the team's first game since he died in a helicopter crash alongside his daughter Gianna and seven other people.\n\nThe Lakers lost 127-119 to the Portland Trail Blazers at the Staples Center on a night when the team remembered Bryant's 20-year career in LA, which delivered five NBA championships.\n\nLakers players wore shirts with Bryant's numbers - eight and 24 - displayed on them in the warm-up and a 'KB' logo was printed on the court.\n\nThe tribute began with each member of the Lakers' line-up being introduced as \"number eight, Kobe Bryant\", before R&B artist Usher sang Amazing Grace in front of yellow rose arrangements in the shapes of Bryant's jersey numbers.\n\nKobe's number 24 and Gianna's number two jerseys were also placed on the two courtside seats where the pair watched their last Lakers game.\n\n\"This is a celebration of the 20 years of sweat, the tears, the broken down body, the getting up,\" Lakers forward James said.\n\n\"Sitting down to everything, the countless hours, the determination to be as great as he could be.\n\n\"Tonight we celebrate the kid who came here at 18 years of age, retired at 38 and became the best dad we've seen over the last three years.\"\n• None Bryant helicopter firm was not allowed to fly in fog\n\nBryant, who retired in 2016, was travelling to his 13-year-old daughter's basketball practice when the incident happened in Calabasas, California on 26 January.\n\nBlazers forward Carmelo Anthony, Bryant's close friend, did not play in Friday's game as he was \"not ready\", according to his team-mate Damian Lillard.\n\nNBA players will wear uniforms in tribute to Bryant in February's All-Star weekend, with Team James wearing number two, Gianna's basketball jersey number, and Team Giannis (Antetokounmpo) donning Kobe's number 24.\n\nThe jerseys will also feature nine stars, representing those who died in the crash.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nAndy Farrell's reign as Ireland coach got off to a winning but unimpressive start as his side earned a fortunate 19-12 Six Nations win over Scotland.\n\nNew captain Johnny Sexton scored all of Ireland's points, including a first-half try, as the hosts profited from Scotland's inability to take chances.\n\nScotland's new skipper Stuart Hogg's knock-on over the line in the second half summed up his side's try-less day.\n• None All you need to know about the 2020 Six Nations\n\nIt was a game that leaves both camps much to ponder before challenging matches next weekend.\n\nThe home side got the win but will know a similar performance against Wales next week will surely result in defeat.\n\nIreland were looking to rediscover their identify following a troubled World Cup, but this was not so much a new dawn as an indication their most glaring issues were not left in Japan.\n\nScotland will take little solace from the fact they dominated large parts of the game, because once again their lack of cutting edge saw a positive result slip away.\n\nScotland's pre-tournament build-up was thrown off course last Monday when news emerged of star fly-half Finn Russell's exit from the camp following a breach of team protocol.\n\nHis absence was one of the reasons the visitors began in Dublin as firm underdogs - but they clearly relished the opportunity to send a clear message to those who had written them off.\n\nUp front, where Ireland would have expected to dominate, Scotland stood toe-to-toe with their opponents at every physical encounter.\n\nThe pack's endeavours should have yielded more points than the six they took into half-time.\n\nHead coach Farrell will be thankful for Ireland's outstanding work at the breakdown, where they won five penalties inside their own 22 in the opening half to keep the Scots at bay.\n\nThe first turnover came after just 90 seconds as debutant Caelan Doris announced himself on the international stage.\n\nHowever the 21-year-old's day was cruelly cut short following an accidental clash of heads with Adam Hastings.\n\nHe was replaced by Peter O'Mahony and he played like a man with a chip on his shoulder following his omission from the starting side.\n\nThe Munster player produced one of his most influential displays in green for years, winning another crucial turnover with Josh van der Flier on 24 minutes.\n\nIreland's four-point lead at the break owed largely to a few huge defensive moments and one wonderfully executed move involving Cian Healy and Conor Murray which saw Sexton charge through a gaping hole inside 10 minutes.\n\nFarrell's first team selection was eagerly anticipated, with fans waiting to see how far the former defence coach would divert from the core of starters that featured regularly under his predecessor Joe Schmidt.\n\nThe biggest call to be made was at scrum-half, where Farrell resisted the excellent provincial form of John Cooney and stuck with two-time British and Irish Lion Conor Murray.\n\nMurray's performance will only shine a brighter spotlight on that position, with the Munster man enduring a torrid afternoon before being replaced by Cooney after 60 minutes.\n\nFor years Murray, and indeed Ireland, have relied on the relentless consistency and accuracy of the scrum-half's box kicking.\n\nOn Saturday however, his kicking provided Ireland with more problems than solutions as he either kicked too long to allow Scotland to run the ball back to a broken field, or too high and short leaving Ireland scrambling to recover the situation.\n\nAfter 30 minutes he found himself isolated and coughed up a penalty that would have seen Ireland relinquish the lead had Hastings not pushed his kick wide.\n\nJust before the break Murray saw his pass picked off by Sam Johnson, prompting a desperate chase down the field.\n\nAfter extending their lead through a Sexton penalty early in the second half, Ireland soon found themselves back in defensive mode as Scotland again bulldozed their way inside the 22.\n\nAfter 50 minutes they finally found a route across the tryline, making use of an overlap on the left to send Hogg in - only for the skipper to drop the ball as he went to touch down.\n\nIt was the ultimate let-off for the hosts, who could not keep possession for sufficient length of time to release the pressure valve as the game hung in the balance with 10 minutes remaining.\n\nTrailing by seven, Scotland made one last foray forward which took them to within a metre of the line.\n\nHaving tried to find space out wide, they directed themselves back inside but Stander, who was at the heart of Ireland's defensive effort, got himself over the ball and held on to win the penalty that secured an unconvincing victory for his side.\n\nEven then, with three minutes left, Ireland made heavy weather of seeing out the game as replacement hooker Ronan Kelleher was penalised for a wayward line-out on his own 22.\n\nIreland and Scotland left the Aviva Stadium knowing much more than just fine-tuning will be required over the next week if they are to avoid defeat to Wales and England respectively in their next fixtures.\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "A dreary night didn't discourage those celebrating in Parliament Square. We wake this morning out of the European Union. But we follow their rules until the end of the year, without a say.\n\nWe are separate after more than 40 years, but remember much of the status quo will hold for now - the UK and the EU, the awkward couple, finally divorced - but still sharing a house and the bills.\n\nBut what the prime minister hails as a new era, a bright new dawn, starts months of hard bargaining with our neighbours across the Channel.\n\nThe UK's requests: a free trade agreement, cooperation on security, and new arrangements for fishing are just some of the vital arguments that lie ahead.\n\nWithin days, Boris Johnson - and the EU too - will set out their opening positions. And at home, the government must hurry to adapt many of our systems that are plumbed into the EU. The prime minister is adamant that process must not run beyond the end of the year.\n\nIt's a deadline that focuses minds, but raises eyebrows. Getting meaningful agreements in place at that pace is not impossible, but hard to do.\n\nThat means while the biggest question is settled, particularly for business, uncertainty still hangs around.\n\nBut the prime minister believes the opportunity of Brexit is seeing beyond the framework of the EU. He hopes for more ability for the government to pursue its priorities at home. More freedom to act abroad - a smaller, but perhaps nimbler, partner.\n\nAnd there will be fewer excuses for a British government if it fails to keep its huge promises.\n\nDeparture has been so controversial there will be plenty of rival politicians looking for early proof of failure.\n\nIn truth, the merits or mistakes of this decision will take years to show. The economy is expected to grow more slowly, but a country's value is not just measured in pounds and pence.\n\nBrexit in a complete sense has always been hard to define. Today we will start to find out what it will really mean.", "The UK has officially left the European Union.\n\nIt's been three and a half years since the country voted to leave in a referendum and as the clock struck 2300 GMT there were celebrations for some and commiserations for others.\n\nNigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit Party, declared \"the war is over\" in a speech at London's Parliament Square.\n\nRead more: How did we get here? The past four years in two minutes", "\"She is here, isn't she Will?\", asked a worried looking man at the London Palladium at about 20:00 on Wednesday night. \"Yes\", I said. I didn't actually know for sure, but he looked so anxious I thought a bit of reassurance wouldn't go amiss.\n\nAnyway, the merch counter had just fallen over and there was a rising sense of calamity which didn't need adding to.\n\nMadonna goes deep with her fans. The connection is genuine and mutual. Nobody blames her for cancelling shows due to extreme pain in her knees and hips, people just hope it's not on their night (she has subsequently ruled out shows on 4 and 11 February).\n\n\"I feel so guilty,\" another fan told me. \"My mates had tickets for Monday night, which was cancelled and I've just sent a WhatsApp of my seat tonight.\"\n\n\"Where are you sitting?\" I asked\n\n\"Row U in the stalls,\" he said\n\n\"£250\" he said \"Not bad eh? I think it's going to be great.\"\n\nAnd it was - 5-star great.\n\nNot because the show was perfect, though. Madonna's movement was visibly stiff, lighting errors left dancers in the dark, and some of her banter fell flat. All of which only added to the \"live-ness\" of the event, which was more an evening of intimate cabaret than a stadium blockbuster show.\n\nIt was perfectly imperfect, like one of those sketchy landscapes by Cezanne where you can see his underdrawings and misplaced lines, making it so much more beautiful and real than Canaletto's soulless precision.\n\nTruth is the point of art, not perfection.\n\nMadonna's creation evokes the imperfections in Cezanne's sketchy landscapes (The Brook, c. 1895-1900)\n\nGetting to it sometimes means removing the artifice, or strapping it on. Madonna's schtick has always been the latter.\n\nShe's a post-modernist right down to her kinky boots, adopting superficial personas and cultural influences. She is the Cindy Sherman of pop, the chameleon Queen with a debt to the shape-shifting aesthetics of David Bowie.\n\nThis time around, though, Madonna has let the mask slip.\n\nThere's still a character for her to hide behind (Madame X, a dominatrix type cliche sporting an eye-patch and padded pants), with its usual mix of the sacred and the profane (she is both a prostitute and a nun). But she constantly undermines her own illusion just as Cezanne did with his fidgety, cross-hatched lines.\n\nOne minute she is the all-singing, all-dancing Madame X, inhabiting a vividly theatrical world embellished with huge projections. The next she has stepped beyond her own fourth wall to have a chummy chat with the locals. It's improv, kind of. The audience interaction is a pre-conceived element of the show, but her spiel is site-specific, and her responses spontaneous.\n\nThe artist was present in every sense.\n\nSometimes she went on for a too long, leading to the occasional \"get on with it\". And sometimes it was awkward: \"Does anyone have a spare seat I could sit in?\" she asked (scripted).\n\nA chap near the front put his hand up. Madonna gingerly stepped down from the stage for a tete-a-tete. She's fine, he's star-struck. Beer is swigged (scripted). To no avail. His tongue has tied itself into a knot so tight no amount of liquor is going to loosen it. A stilted conversation ensues (unscripted).\n\nNobody minds. Madonna's doing stand-up. We're in the room. She is with us, of us, not some distant star on a faraway stage performing a risk-free romp through back catalogue favourites with a few numbers from the latest album thrown in to help sales.\n\nThe Madame X Tour is an adventurous piece of contemporary theatre, and a match for any of the Tony and Olivier-winning shows currently playing the West End and Broadway.\n\nIt starts with a Hitchcockian scene. Madonna is stage right, in profile: seated, visible only as a silhouette behind a translucent curtain. She is typing. Slowly. A gunshot rings out every time she strikes a key, provoking a robotic movement made by a single besuited dancer standing in front of the curtain, stage left.\n\nText is projected on high as the dancer contorts his body under a hail of literary bullets, most fired decades ago by James Baldwin, one of America's finest post-war writers. His words \"Artists are here to disturb the peace\" appear as an epigraph.\n\nHe is right. Up to a point. Which is about 23:00 for Westminster City Council, according to our celebrated hostess. She told us an iron curtain would be dropped if she went on beyond its stipulated curfew.\n\nThe diaphanous fabric lifts, Madonna struts, the stage is set, and the show proper begins with God Control. The audience goes nuts (\"I should have done this years ago,\" says the singer as an aside), as the steps and structures revolve and animate.\n\nDark Ballet comes next in a show built around her recent Madame X Album. The smattering of old favourites stitched into its fabric have been incorporated so elegantly as to make them feel an essential part of the whole rather than crowd-pleasing add-ons.\n\nAnd so it is with Human Nature, which follows and resolves in a seated scene that doubles up as a rest for the star and a witty nod for the die-hards towards the famous 1995 video directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.\n\nThen comes some \"Hello London\" repartee before an a cappella version of Express Yourself.\n\nIt's good, and it gets better.\n\nA string introduction to Papa Don't Preach segues into a sophisticated rendition of Vogue performed in a striking, angular, black and white design.\n\nNot all the creative decisions are made so astutely. There's an ill-advised, wince-inducing vignette, which sees Madonna launching into a \"let's wind back the years\" routine involving an upside-down-splits topped-off with toe wiggle. I felt a tweak in my own groin - and not in a good way.\n\nFortunately for Madame X, and us, such moments are few and far between. This show is designed (and constantly redesigned) around the 61-year-old's physical condition. Dancers help her on and off pianos, chairs and steps. You can sense her frustration at her body's restricted ability, but she can still hit the beats better than most.\n\nPlus, her team of dancers are fantastic. They excel under Megan Lawson's choreographic vision, which appears to riff on a revered contemporary dance cannon including such notables as Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring, Hofesh Shechter's Sun, and Michael Jackson's moon walk.\n\nThe influence of Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring can be seen in the choreography of Madonna's show\n\nHofesh Shechter said his work Sun questioned \"the very essence of art or dance, what it is and how it's supposed to look and feel\"\n\nThe heart and soul of the show is provided by Madonna's newly found love: the evocative sound of the Fado musicians she discovered in her current home city of Lisbon.\n\nThat, and the wonderful female Batuque singers from Cape Verde, an African archipelago once colonised by the Portuguese who took an unfavourable view of their traditional music.\n\nThe star's show is infused with her love of Fado music, which originated in Portugal around the 1820s, and is known for being deeply melancholic\n\nThe show ends with a full-bodied version of Like a Prayer, which leads into an encore of Madame X's protest song, I Rise.\n\nWhich we all did as a visibly delighted Madonna led her merry band of players out of the auditorium and off into the night (or the physio's bench).\n\nPictures in this review are from other venues in the Madame X tour.", "Imelda Staunton (left) will take over from Olivia Colman as the Queen\n\nThe Crown will end after its fifth series, in which Imelda Staunton will play the Queen, Netflix has announced.\n\nStaunton will take over from Olivia Colman, who is portraying the monarch in the third and fourth seasons.\n\nIt was initially thought that the royal drama would run for six series, spanning six decades.\n\nThe show's creator Peter Morgan said the show will end in the 21st Century, meaning it will cover the aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nBut it's not likely to extend to more recent events, such as the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nNetflix revealed last week that a total of 73 million households worldwide have watched the show since it began in 2016.\n\nBut it failed to make the streaming giant's UK's top 10 list of its most popular releases of 2019.\n\nMorgan said: \"I'm absolutely thrilled to confirm Imelda Staunton as Her Majesty The Queen for the fifth and final season, taking The Crown into the 21st Century.\n\n\"Imelda is an astonishing talent and will be a fantastic successor to Claire Foy and Olivia Colman.\"\n\nIn early January, Colman won the best actress award at the Golden Globes for her leading part in series three, which explored storylines including the romance between Prince Charles and Camilla.\n\nStaunton, who starred in Vera Drake and the Harry Potter film series and previously portrayed the Queen in the 2003 TV series Cambridge Spies, said she was already a big fan.\n\n\"As an actor it was a joy to see how both Claire Foy and Olivia Colman brought something special and unique to Peter Morgan's scripts,\" she said.\n\nThe fourth series is currently in production and will see the introduction of Diana, Princess of Wales, played by Emma Corrin, and Margaret Thatcher, played by Gillian Anderson.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Iraq has named a new prime minister after four months of protests.\n\nMohammed Tawfiq Allawi, a former communications minister, was appointed by President Barham Salih.\n\nHis predecessor Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned in November, amid mass anti-government demonstrations. Hundreds of protesters have been killed.\n\nMr Allawi now has a month to form a new government, which he will lead until early elections. He immediately expressed support for the protests.\n\nEarlier this week, local media reported that President Saleh had given parliament an ultimatum to decide on a new prime minister before he took the decision himself, after previous candidates were rejected by protesters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as protesters block roads in the city of Najaf\n\nIn a video released on his social media accounts on Saturday, Mr Allawi announced that he had been nominated and called on Iraqis to continue protesting until their demands were met.\n\n\"If not for your sacrifices and your bravery, there would have been no change in the country,\" he said. \"I believe in you, and for this reason I will ask you to continue protesting.\"\n\nHe promised to hold those responsible for the killing of protesters accountable and to combat corruption.\n\nMr Allawi, who is Shia, studied and worked in Lebanon and the UK before entering Iraqi politics following the 2003 invasion. He served as minister of communications twice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jeremy Bowen asks why people have been taking to the streets in Lebanon, Iran and Iraq", "Shetland's famous Up Helly Aa fire festival has again seen the burning of a replica Viking galley light up the Lerwick sky.\n\nUp Helly Aa - the biggest fire festival in Europe - is held on the last Tuesday in January.\n\nWarriors parade through the streets by torchlight as visitors from across the world gather to watch the spectacle.\n\nThe day culminates with the dramatic burning of a replica Viking long ship.\n\nPeople of all ages take part\n\nUp Helly Aa offers much for photographers to savour in daylight hours as well as at night\n\nIt was not only humans who got into the Up Helly Aa spirit this year\n\nAs darkness descends, the torches are lit\n\nThe day culminates with the dramatic burning of a replica Viking long ship - and the party then continues into the night\n• None Up Helly Aa lights up the Shetland sky - BBC News", "Trump's support among Republican voters, according to a Gallup poll. If it wasn't clear before the trial that he had the support of the rank and file of his party, it certainly is now.\n\nAn unbeatable majority: Republicans in the Senate have a majority of 53 to 47, meaning they control the chamber and were able to direct the terms of the trial.\n\nThat small majority mattered. At certain points, four Republican senators did indeed waver but in the end, all Republicans but Mr Romney voted with their party to acquit Trump.\n\nThis is the number that ensured Mr Trump was always going to be cleared. To convict, two-thirds of senators - 67 - needed to vote against him.\n\nThis would have required 20 Republican senators to vote for their president's conviction. In the end, only one did.\n\nThe amount of money the Trump campaign said it raised in the last quarter of 2019 - a huge figure it said was down largely to Trump supporters reacting to the impeachment proceedings.\n\nRead more about the numbers that explain Trump's acquittal here.", "The bulk of British Steel's 4,000 staff work at the Scunthorpe plant\n\nThe sale of British Steel to Chinese firm Jingye could be scuppered by French intervention.\n\nJingye agreed in November to buy the collapsed business for £50m and save about 4,000 jobs.\n\nHowever, the approval of the French government is required because British Steel has a plant in France that is considered a strategic national asset.\n\nNow French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has threatened to veto the deal, as first reported by Sky News.\n\nMr Le Maire told Chancellor Sajid Javid of his intentions last week during a meeting in Brussels, government sources confirmed to the BBC.\n\nThe Anglo-French row centres on British Steel's plant in Hayange, which supplies the French railway network, including state-owned train operator SNCF.\n\nFrance has the power to block the sale of the Hayange plant, which has already been advertised for sale separately from the UK operation, apparently with the blessing of the French authorities.\n\nWhen British Steel collapsed more than seven months ago, control of the holding company passed to the UK Insolvency Service, which is responsible for selling the assets.\n\nAlthough the service is the beneficial owner of Hayange, day-to-day operational control of the factory remains in France.\n\nThere is another potential bidder for British Steel waiting in the wings.\n\nEarlier this week, Turkish construction conglomerate Cengiz Holdings confirmed its \"intention and ability to make an offer for the whole of British Steel, should the current talks with Jingye Group fall away\".\n\nCengiz chief executive Omer Mafa said the company was \"ready and waiting to engage with the UK government and British Steel's receivers to progress towards a full offer\".\n\nMr Mafa added that Cengiz enjoyed a \"strong trading relationship with French industries such as energy, mining and aviation\".\n\nGovernment sources confirm that the French finance minister has indicated to Chancellor Sajid Javid that he is opposed to Chinese ownership of what the French consider strategically important assets.\n\nAs a major supplier of steel to state-owned rail company SNCF, the French government considers the British Steel owned plant at Hayange in north-east France to fall into that category.\n\nThe French position is different to that of the UK government, despite the fact that British Steel is a major supplier to state-owned Network Rail.\n\nSources within the steel industry also confirm knowledge of the French objections.\n\nThere is also widespread unease within the UK steel industry of the scale of Chinese ambitions within the UK.\n\nJingye's ambitions to significantly increase production at Scunthorpe, along with the acquisition a week ago of UK steel trading company Stemcor, have caused alarm among other steel producers at the increasing penetration of Chinese interests in an important primary industry.\n\nFrench objections were widely anticipated and a process to carve out the French plant from the rest of British Steel if necessary has been under way for several months.\n\nThe government remains hopeful that the deal with Jingye can still be completed and talks to seal that deal are ongoing.\n\nCarving out the profit-making French business is thought to make the overall deal less attractive to Jingye and for that reason, a deal with Turkish group Cengiz has been lined up as a potential fallback option if the deal with Jingye collapses.", "The most serious complaints about DWP agencies like the Child Maintenance Service can sometimes take years to be resolved\n\nPeople with the most serious complaints about the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have to wait 18 months before their cases are investigated.\n\nBBC Radio 4's Money Box has also learnt that nearly two-thirds of investigations miss their target of being cleared within 20 weeks.\n\nOne man in dispute with one of its agencies called the delay \"obscene\".\n\nThe DWP said it understands \"the impact that waiting for an investigation can have on people and their families.\"\n\nThe most common complaints to the DWP include things like a failure to follow proper procedures, excessive delays and poor customer service.\n\nAlan, who did not want his real name used, said he faces nearly a four-year wait in total before his case is resolved.\n\nHe first complained to the government-run Child Maintenance Service (CMS) in November 2017. He says it took thousands of pounds of a redundancy payment directly from his bank account.\n\nThe dispute has made his existing mental health problems worse and left him \"flatlining\", he says.\n\nHe added that he is unable to motivate himself to work and is \"getting poorer by the day\".\n\nAfter 18 months, Alan's case still was not resolved. He was then given permission to take his complaint to the Independent Case Examiner (ICE).\n\nICE acts as a free, independent referee for people with complaints about the DWP - and its contracted services, which include things like the CMS, pension payments and disability benefits.\n\nAlan was told his complaint had been accepted, but that it would be more than a year before someone was assigned to investigate it.\n\nEven after that, Money Box has seen figures which suggest two-thirds of cases take longer than the 20-week target, while half of them take six months or even longer.\n\nThat means that hundreds of people face a wait of more than two years for their complaints to be resolved once they have been accepted by ICE.\n\nHe said: \"I am just one of thousands of people in this situation.\n\n\"I think the delay in the complaints procedure is atrocious. It's symptomatic of a department that doesn't take its obligations to people it is dealing with seriously.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's a damning indictment of the modus operandi of the Department for Work and Pensions.\"\n\nICE only looks at the \"most serious complaints\" about services offered by the DWP.\n\nThat includes organisations such as Jobcentre Plus, the Pension Service, the Disability and Carers Service and Pension Wise, as well as the CMS.\n\nICE will only consider people's complaints if they have finished the complaints procedure with the original agency or organisation.\n\nIt then decides whether or not it will \"accept\" someone's complaint.\n\nIf it does, BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme has learnt through a freedom of information request there is a delay of about 18 months before it is opened.\n\nOnce it is opened, most cases require a full investigation with a 20-week target.\n\nMoney Box has seen figures which suggest that nearly two-thirds of cases miss this deadline.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said in a statement: \"We want to make sure people can get the support they are entitled to if they have been treated unfairly, and understand the impact that waiting for an investigation can have on people and their families.\n\n\"We are hiring and training new staff as quickly as we can, and cleared more complaints last year than in 2017-18.\n\n\"The vast majority of complainants are satisfied with the service they receive.\"\n\nYou can hear more from BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mrs O'Neill had already put in a lot of work to prepare the way for Glasgow\n\nIn a surprise move, the woman appointed to run the crucial UN climate summit in Glasgow in November has been sacked.\n\nClaire Perry O'Neill, a former climate minister, had been assigned the post of \"president\" of the event, known as COP 26.\n\nThe British government has confirmed that the job will now be handled by the business department, Beis.\n\nIn a tweet, Mrs O'Neill said she was \"very sad\" to lose the role, and went on to criticise the government.\n\nIt couldn't \"cope\" with an independent unit managing preparations for the conference, she said.\n\nAnd in a sharp dig at No 10's green credentials, she also added: \"A shame we haven't had one climate cabinet meeting since we formed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn response, a Cabinet Office statement said the prime minister thanked Mrs O'Neill for her work so far.\n\n\"Preparations will continue at pace for the summit, and a replacement will be confirmed shortly,\" it said.\n\n\"Going forward, this will be a ministerial role.\"\n\nThis will come as a shock to many of the business and environmental groups working with her in the run-up to the summit.\n\nIt will also surprise diplomats and negotiators from other countries with whom Mrs O'Neill had formed bonds.\n\nAt the last UN summit, held in Madrid last December, she played a highly visible role as part of her preparation for the UK to take over the presidency.\n\nIn an interview recorded at that time, she said she believed the world had \"one shot\" at the Glasgow summit to take meaningful action on climate change - or people would question the whole process.\n\nA lively and personable figure, she seemed determined to bring new impetus to the negotiations and, in private, had ambitious plans for the event.\n\nAlthough the summit is not until November, there's a huge diplomatic and logistical task to get ready for it.\n\nGovernments worldwide are meant to come forward with tougher targets for cutting the gases heating the planet.\n\nSome might wonder whether the UK government has allowed itself enough time.\n\nSources close to Mrs O'Neill say the UK's preparations for Glasgow are in disarray, with cabinet ministers vying for control over this prestigious event.\n\nThey say there is no firmly agreed venue or budget.\n\nAnd they warn that Boris Johnson provoked a backlash in Scotland by shutting First Minister Nicola Sturgeon out of the summit.\n\nMrs O'Neill has become increasingly frustrated by the prime minister's lack of engagement with the conference.\n\nShe has been heaping pressure on the organising team to publish an agenda, and she's trodden hard on many toes. Her relations with some civil servants are described as terrible.\n\nShe admits she's a bad diplomat - but someone who gets things done.\n\nWith many major nations refusing to offer deeper cuts in emissions, she has been focusing on potentially deliverable outcomes such as international agreements from industrial sectors to pollute less.\n\nWhoever takes over her role has a mountain to climb.\n\nRichard Black, director of the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit, commented on Twitter: \"While Claire Perry has a background in climate change, she doesn't in foreign affairs. Arguably that's more important - no doubt one of the real stars of the #ParisAgreement was Laurent Fabius, steeped in diplomacy but not, prior to 2015, in climate change.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Richard Black This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Mohamed Adow, director of another climate and energy think-tank, Power Shift Africa, said: \"It was always going to be a challenge to have a president who had no formal role in Government.\n\n\"For a successful outcome you want the person presiding over the negotiations to be someone with genuine political power, who can fully represent the UK government and 'knock heads together' to ensure real progress is made. With Claire O'Neill not even being an MP that was always going to be a challenge.\"\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus includes the Armadillo and the SSE Hydro", "The 19-year-old man fell ill at the drum and bass night at The Assembly in Leamington Spa\n\nA man who was at a student club night has died and a woman is seriously ill after taking what police said was MDMA.\n\nThe 19-year-old man fell ill at the drum and bass night at The Assembly in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, at about 05:00 GMT, and later died in hospital.\n\nThe 22-year-old woman remains seriously ill in hospital and police say others were also admitted after taking \"Red Bull\" pills.\n\nWarwickshire Police urged people to check on friends who were at the night.\n\nOfficers said they did not know if the group had bought the drugs at the club.\n\nPolice believe those affected may have taken a pill named \"Red Bull\"\n\nDet Supt Pete Hill said they believed all those who were ill had taken the red pills containing MDMA, the active drug in ecstasy.\n\nHe added they were concerned others had also taken it and urged anyone who had to seek medical advice.\n\n\"If others were at the same event last night and are aware their friends took this drug, please check in on them,\" Mr Hill said.\n\nIn a statement The Assembly, which is in Spencer Street, said: \"We take the wellbeing of our customers extremely seriously, we continue to work closely with Warwickshire Police and reiterate our zero policy on drugs in our venue.\"\n\nAccording to its Facebook page, the venue had hosted a sold-out event called DNB All Stars: Leamington on Friday night.\n\nA spokesman for the University of Warwick said the teenager was not one of its students.\n\nThe university, which has many students living in Leamington Spa, and other local colleges have been asked by police to circulate information about the pills, the spokesman said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Gill, who has died aged 64, had only recently come off tour.\n\nAndy Gill, the founding member and guitarist of British post-punk band Gang Of Four, has died aged 64.\n\nThe musician's scratchy, staccato riffs provided the band with their signature sound, and influenced the likes of Nirvana, Fugazi and Franz Ferdinand.\n\nHis bandmates announced his death in a statement, saying: \"Our great friend and supreme leader has died today\".\n\nGill had developed a \"respiratory illness,\" after finishing an Asian tour with Gang Of Four last year, they said.\n\n\"This pain is the price of extraordinary joy, almost three decades with the best man in the world,\" wrote his wife, Catherine Mayer, on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Andy's final tour in November was the only way he was ever really going to bow out; with a Stratocaster around his neck, screaming with feedback and deafening the front row,\" wrote current Gang Of Four members Thomas McNeice, John Sterry and Tobias Humble.\n\n\"One of the best to ever do it, his influence on guitar music and the creative process was inspiring for us, as well as everyone who worked alongside him and listened to his music.\n\n\"His albums and production work speak for themselves. Go give 'em a spin for him.\"\n\nGill (right) with Gang Of Four's original lead singer Jon King\n\nFormed in Leeds in 1976, Gang Of Four's career spanned five decades, from their first single Damaged Goods to last year's studio album Happy Now.\n\nIn 1979, they made their Top 60 chart debut with At Home He's A Tourist - despite the song being banned by the BBC for a lyrical reference to condoms.\n\nTheir debut album Entertainment!, released in September of the same year, has frequently been cited as an influence or inspiration by aspiring musicians, and was named one of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 greatest albums of all time.\n\nCombining Marxist politics with punk, dub, funk and disco, the \"stiff, jerky aggression of songs such as Damaged Goods and I Found That Essence Rare invented a new style,\" the magazine wrote.\n\nGill's unique guitar riffs were choppy and funky with bursts of freeform noise, taking inspiration from a range of players, including Jimi Hendrix, Wilko Johnson and Parliament-Funkadelic's Eddie Hazel.\n\n\"Seeing Wilko and Dr Feelgood was a real lightbulb moment,\" he told The Skinny in 2015. \"He never stopped looking at the audience and didn't spend much time looking at his guitar - I duly noted that.\n\n\"I always think of the guitar as being part of a larger instrument, which is the band,\" Gill added. \"What I always find uninspiring is when guitarists treat the rest of the band as a background over which they show off.\"\n\nGang Of Four never had a hit single (1982's I Love A Man In Uniform came close, before it was banned from the airwaves during the Falklands War) but their first three albums are considered indispensable.\n\nThey split in 1984, but reformed several times over the years, with a variety of line-ups. Gill was the only constant throughout their career.\n\nThe Manchester-born musician was also a respected producer, working with bands including The Stranglers, Killing Joke, and Red Hot Chili Peppers.\n\nHis influence on guitar bands stretched far and wide. REM's Michael Stipe said he \"stole a lot\" from Gang Of Four, while Flea, bassist for the Chili Peppers, said Gang Of Four were \"the first rock band I could truly relate to\".\n\nU2's Bono called them \"a smart bomb of text\"; and Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello said Gill was \"one of my principle influences\".\n\n\"His jagged plague disco raptor attack industrial funk deconstructed guitar anti-hero sonics and fierce poetic radical intellect were formative for me,\" he wrote on Instagram.\n\nGill is survived by his wife Catherine Mayer, his brother Martin and \"many family and elective family members who will miss him terribly\" said the band in a press statement.\n\nHe had just finished a new studio album with Gang Of Four, they added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Martin McGuinness and Arlene Foster led the Stormont executive for just over a year\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster has said she lost friends after attending the funeral of the late Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.\n\nSinn Féin's Mr McGuinness died in 2017 after suffering from a heart condition.\n\nMrs Foster, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader, was his partner in Northern Ireland's power-sharing government until a bitter row collapsed the executive in January that year.\n\nShe received a round of applause when she entered the church for his funeral.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DUP leader Arlene Foster applauded as she enters the church for Martin McGuinness' funeral\n\nThe first minister appeared on The Late Late Show on Irish national broadcaster RTÉ on Friday night to mark the UK's exit from the EU and she told the programme she wanted to reassure people that Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would continue to be neighbours.\n\nAlthough Mr McGuinness spent much of his political career serving in the Stormont executive as deputy first minister, in his earlier years he had been a senior commander within the Provisional IRA.\n\nMrs Foster was asked if she found it difficult to attend his funeral, given his involvement in the Northern Ireland conflict, which came to be known as the Troubles.\n\nShe said: \"I wasn't just going as Arlene Foster - I was going as the former first minister.\n\n\"It was absolutely the right thing to do - there were a lot of innocent victims who felt very strongly and I lost friends over going but I still believe it was the right thing to do.\"\n\nArlene Foster appeared on Ryan Tubridy's The Late Late Show on Friday\n\nShe added that it was difficult because they were people she had known for a long time but she understood they took a different view than her.\n\n\"I took the view I had worked with him in government, served with him - as a leader you have things to do you would not do as an ordinary citizen and I had to do it,\" she said.\n\nMrs Foster described it as \"encouraging\" that she received a round of applause when she entered the church for the funeral service.\n\n\"I was apprehensive going to the funeral because I didn't know what sort of a reception I was going to get,\" she said.\n\n\"The executive was down, we'd just had a very difficult election - it was very polarised - but I have to say I was welcomed very warmly.\"", "Raiders targeted Tamara Ecclestone's house next to Hyde Park in December\n\nA mother and son have been charged over a burglary at the home of Tamara Ecclestone.\n\nJewellery believed to be valued at £50m was stolen from the heiress's home next to London's Hyde Park in December.\n\nMaria Mester, 47, of no fixed abode, and 29-year-old Emil-Bogdan Savastru, of Bethnal Green, have been charged with conspiracy to commit burglary.\n\nThe cleaner and her bar worker son both appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nThey will next appear in custody at Isleworth Crown Court on 28 February.\n\nRings, earrings and an £80,000 Cartier bangle were all stolen in the burglary, according to The Sun.\n\nThe court heard the majority of the items taken have not been recovered.\n\nTwo men, aged 21 and 31, who were also arrested have been released under investigation, police said.\n\nTamara Ecclestone, pictured with father Bernie, was left \"shaken\" by the burglary\n\nThe burglary on 13 December occurred just after Ms Ecclestone, the daughter of ex-Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, left the country with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter Sophia.\n\nThe raiders are believed to have entered through a garden before breaking into safes hidden in the bedroom of the 55-room house in Palace Green, Kensington.\n\nA Cartier bangle worth £80,000 was reportedly stolen in the burglary\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nNike's controversial Vaporfly range will not be banned but there will be tighter regulations around high-tech running shoes, World Athletics says.\n\nAny new shoe technology developed after 30 April will have to be available on the open market for four months before an athlete can use it in competition.\n\nWorld Athletics has also introduced an immediate indefinite ban on any shoes that have a sole thicker than 40mm.\n\nThe body will also investigate any shoes that \"may not be compliant\".\n\nAn immediate indefinite ban has also been introduced on any shoe that contains more than one \"rigid embedded plate or blade\".\n\nFor shoes with spikes, an additional plate or blade is allowed for the purpose of attaching the spikes, but the sole must be no thicker than 30mm.\n\nThe 'Alphafly' prototype shoes worn by Eliud Kipchoge when he became the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours in October 2019 will be banned.\n• None 'It feels like running on trampolines'\n\nA group of experts were asked to consider whether Nike's Vaporfly shoes give their wearers an unfair advantage.\n\nAthletes wearing the new footwear including Nike's latest Vaporfly have taken 31 of 36 top-three finishes in major marathons last year.\n\nKipchoge's Kenyan compatriot Brigid Kosgei wore a Vaporfly prototype when she broke Paula Radcliffe's long-standing women's marathon world record in October 2019.\n\nWorld Athletics president Lord Coe said: \"It is not our job to regulate the entire sports shoe market but it is our duty to preserve the integrity of elite competition by ensuring the shoes worn by elite athletes in competition do not offer any unfair assistance or advantage.\n\n\"As we enter the Olympic year, we don't believe we can rule out shoes that have been generally available for a considerable period of time, but we can draw a line by prohibiting the use of shoes that go further than what is currently on the market while we investigate further.\n\n\"I believe these new rules strike the right balance by offering certainty to athletes and manufacturers as they prepare for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, while addressing the concerns that have been raised about shoe technology.\n\n\"If further evidence becomes available that indicates we need to tighten up these rules, we reserve the right to do that to protect our sport.\"\n\nWorld Athletics will now establish an \"expert working group\" to \"guide future research\" into shoe technology as well as assessing any new shoes that enter the market.\n\nWhy are the shoes controversial?\n\nThe shoes have been criticised for \"distorting the record books\", with some arguing they prevent fair competition with athletes not sponsored by Nike.\n\nVaporflys claim to improve an athlete's performance by 4%, and the five fastest marathons of all time have been run in the past 16 months by athletes wearing varying forms of the technology.\n\nFormer British Olympic marathon runner Mara Yamauchi previously told BBC Sport that \"we no longer truly have fair competition\".\n\n\"It's up to World Athletics to provide a level playing field for all... to be brutally honest, it's hard to see how anybody not wearing Vaporflys at Tokyo is going to win medals,\" she said.\n\n\"Athletics has had several years of doping stories coming out in the press and the single most important thing is to restore trust and bring in more fans and sponsors.\n\n\"But if we see every medal winner wearing the Vaporflys and other athletes not getting a look in, I'm not sure that people watching can really say I believe that performance 100%.\"\n\nNike said in a previous statement they \"respect the spirit of the rules and we do not create any running shoes that return more energy than the runner expends\".\n\nAmid mounting confusion that running was becoming distorted, World Athletics has tried to provide some clarity before the Tokyo Olympics and halt what some see as an 'arms race' in shoe technology.\n\nAlthough more research will now be conducted and the rules could still develop, it seems significant the governing body admits \"concerns that the integrity of the sport might be threatened\".\n\nThe news will come as a relief for Nike and the athletes it sponsors.\n\nThe prototype 'AlphaFly' that Eliud Kipchoge used to go sub-two hours last year exceeds the new restrictions and is now banned for elite runners.\n\nBut as expected, the Vaporfly range that has revolutionised distance running is cleared, including the 'Vaporfly Next%' that Brigid Kosgei wore when smashing the women's world record last year.\n\nThat will lead to fears that the new restrictions have been conceived with that shoe's specific dimensions in mind, are too little too late, and mean athletes sponsored by other manufacturers are at a disadvantage.\n\nThe changes also put pressure on rival companies to quickly develop any new prototype shoes.\n\nThey have three months to do so. After that they will need to have been widely available to buy for four months before being allowed in elite competition, ruling out their use at the Olympics.", "The Speedibake factory is near Wakefield's Westgate Retail Park\n\nAbout 140 firefighters are tackling a major fire at an industrial bakery in Wakefield, which is covering the area in thick black smoke.\n\nThe blaze at the Speedibake factory, close to Westgate Retail Park, started at about 13:30 GMT.\n\nPolice said there were no reports of injuries but the fire service said the \"building construction may contain asbestos\".\n\nPeople living nearby have been told to shut all doors and windows.\n\nThe wind is also causing smoke to blow towards the city centre, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nSeveral roads have been shut and drivers have been told to find alternative routes.\n\nWakefield Council tweeted anyone \"affected by the fire in Wakefield and unable to get home please make your way to Thornes Park Stadium\", adding it would \"remain open\".\n\nPolice urged those living nearby to close their windows and doors due to the amount of smoke\n\nA spokesperson told BBC News: \"There are 15 to 20 people currently there at the rest centre who are affected.\"\n\nThey said the council was helping people with transport to reach the stadium and it would help them return once the area was declared safe.\n\nWakefield residents who were earlier evacuated from the area can now return home, the council added, but they \"are advised to keep all windows and doors closed as a precaution\".\n\nPeople also reported being evacuated from nearby buildings.\n\nConnor Strachan, 19, from Alverthorpe, and Eleanor Goldthorpe, 17, had planned to watch Jumanji at the Cineworld cinema opposite the bakery, but when they arrived they were told they had to wait in the building.\n\nMr Strachan said there were nearly 100 people at the cinema, including some from Mecca Bingo directly opposite the bakery.\n\nHe said: \"We were eventually let out, a lot of the other buildings were evacuated too.\"\n\nCineworld Wakefield tweeted at 18:00 GMT to say it was currently closed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Smoke from the fire in Wakefield is blowing towards the city centre\n\nNicky Harley was going to the B&Q shop on the retail park when the fire broke out.\n\n\"As I approached the store I saw police officers in masks telling people to move back,\" she said.\n\nShe said she then walked over to a nearby supermarket and saw people with their hands over their mouths saying they felt light headed.\n\n\"I also felt faint and light headed,\" she said.\n\n\"My friend is a nurse and she told me there might be a risk of airborne asbestos.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service initially warned of the potential for asbestos in the smoke plume, but later confirmed the substance was not present in the section of building hit by the blaze.\n\nEyewitness Nicky Harley said people reported feeling faint due to the smoke\n\nPower cuts were also reported but electricity has since been restored.\n\nNorthern Powergrid tweeted to thank customers for their patience during the outage.\n\nSome people on social media also reported hearing explosions coming from the factory.\n\nGreat palls of smoke have been covering much of the city skyline, with people stopping to look in astonishment.\n\nThe wind has blown the acrid smoke across large parts of the city as firefighters work to contain the blaze and police wearing protective masks have put road blocks around the scene, stopping people from getting too close to the factory.\n\nPeople have been starting to make their way home and the area around the blaze is eerily quiet, disturbed only by the sound of trains passing by on a nearby line.\n\nIn a statement, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said: \"As a precautionary measure we are advising people living in the vicinity to remain indoors and keep windows and a doors closed.\"\n\nThe service said it expected to remain at the scene for the next 24 to 48 hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAbout 140 firefighters tackled the blaze which started at the Speedibake factory at about 13:30 GMT\n\nWorkers were safely evacuated from the building\n\nFire chiefs said the blaze had spread to about 75% of the ground floor of the building, with 140 firefighters from around the county on site.\n\nOne person tweeted to say crews were using water from a nearby duck pond to tackle the blaze.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tony Tabner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by KHardy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captured the moment the stadium collapsed in St Petersburg\n\nA demolition worker has been killed when a sports complex roof collapsed prematurely in the Russian city of St Petersburg, officials say.\n\nDramatic drone footage shows the man with a blow torch cutting through metal supports at the SKK Peterburgskiy when the massive structure disintegrates.\n\nHe is seen trying to scramble to the safety of a cage suspended from a crane, but does not appear to make it.\n\nThe body of a 29-year-old man was found later in the rubble.\n\nThe man was one of four employees cutting metal cables to dismantle the roof of the sports and concert complex.\n\nThis was the scene outside\n\nAleksey Anikin, head of the emergencies ministry in St Petersburg, said the other three workers were alive and being questioned by investigators.\n\nThe SKK Peterburgskiy, which was opened in 1980, has hosted concerts and various sports events.\n\nIt is being reconstructed to host the Ice Hockey World Championship in 2023.", "The prime minister holds a cabinet meeting at the National Glass Centre, a museum and arts centre in Sunderland, the city that was the first to back Brexit when results were announced after the 2016 referendum", "LeBron James leads the tributes as the LA Lakers remember Kobe Bryant in the team's first game since he died in a helicopter crash alongside his daughter Gianna and seven other people.\n\nAvailable to UK users only", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "The UK is out - so what next?\n\nFirst of all it’s a long, long period of hard bargaining between the UK and the EU. The UK government is determined to try to get a free-trade deal done by the end of this year but that will not be straight forward – not least because there are so many things that have to be sorted out. But also because the EU will drive a hard bargain. Yes, both sides say they still want to be friends and partners and respectful neighbours and people want to do lots of business with each other. But the UK government has already acknowledged that will mean some friction. And also, until it’s all done and dusted there’s still uncertainty for businesses and people around the country who want to know exactly what is next. But although there is legions of details to be worked out, many more political controversies along the way, be in no doubt – the fundamental question which has been hanging over the country for more than three years has been settled. And that’s already completely changed the political dynamic – and therefore the dynamic in the country too.", "Ms Clark sold over 100 million books in the US alone\n\nKnown by her fans as the \"Queen of Suspense\", Ms Clark sold more than 100 million books in the US alone.\n\nIn a career spanning decades, she wrote best sellers such as A Stranger is Watching and The Cradle will Fall, both of which were adapted into films.\n\nHer publishing company Simon & Schuster said she died peacefully \"surrounded by family and friends.\"\n\nMs Clark was born in 1927 in New York City.\n\nShe briefly worked as a Pan Am flight attendant, leaving the job after a year to marry Warren Clark and start a family. The couple had five children together.\n\nHowever, Mr Clark died suddenly when she was 35.\n\nIn order to support her family, Ms Clark began writing short stories and radio scripts. But her agent persuaded her to turn her attention on novels.\n\nHer books have been translated into 35 languages. Her first book, titled Where are the Children?, was reprinted 75 times.\n\nMany of her storylines were drawn from news stories. She attended murder trials and discussed medical terminology with doctors, according to the Washington Post.\n\nIn 2000, her publishing company awarded her a $64m (£48m) contract for her next five books, making her at the time, the highest-paid female author in the world.\n\n\"Nobody ever bonded more completely with her readers than Mary did,\" her editor Michael Korda said in a statement.\n\n\"She understood them as if they were members of her own family. She was always absolutely sure of what they wanted to read - and perhaps more important, what they didn't want to read - and yet she managed to surprise them with every book.\"\n• None Books 2020: What you could be reading", "Britain has left the EU, more than three years and three prime ministers after it voted out.\n\nIt's been a political rollercoaster full of twists and turns, and a journey which can be tracked by what people said at the time.\n\nSome have aged better than others, but here are a few of the key quotes from before the referendum until Brexit day.\n\nWhen your neighbour's house is on fire, your first impulse should be to help them to put out the flames - not least to stop the flames reaching your own house\n\nThen-PM David Cameron was speaking about Britain's response to Europe's debt crisis. MPs in Parliament had just voted against holding an EU referendum, after 100,000 people signed a petition calling for one.\n\nBut back then, the word Brexit had not even been invented. In the summer of 2012, as London readied itself for hosting the Olympics, the \"B\" word emerged, albeit with a different spelling to what we know today:\n\nMeanwhile, the PM faced more pressure to hold a EU referendum. Nearly 100 Tory MPs signed a letter to him calling for one.\n\nThere is a consistent majority in this country who believe that the European Union meddles too much in our everyday lives\n\nThe following year, Mr Cameron agreed, promising a referendum on Britain staying in the EU.\n\nIt is time for the British people to have their say. It is time for us to settle this question about Britain and Europe\n\nHe planned to renegotiate the UK's relationship with the EU before giving people a \"simple choice\" of in or out. In Europe, politicians reacted:\n\nYou can't do Europe a la carte... Imagine Europe is a football club and you join, once you're in it you can't say 'Let's play rugby'\n\nMeanwhile UKIP was becoming a force in British politics. Leader Nigel Farage said he wanted a referendum to happen quickly.\n\nA full, free and fair referendum with some proper sensible rules - particularly on spending - on both sides of the debate\n\nBy December 2013 the party claimed that a record year of growth had taken its membership above 30,000 for the first time.\n\nBack in Brussels, the time had come for an EU summit, with Mr Cameron pledging to deliver a strong message to EU leaders.\n\nBrussels has got too big, too bossy, too interfering\n\nDuring the next year, his plans to renegotiate the UK's relationship with the EU were discussed.\n\nI don't understand how it is possible to say: 'We, the UK, have all the positive aspects of Europe but don't want to share any of the risk'\n\nMr Cameron, fresh from a general election victory, went on to strike a deal on a new UK-EU relationship. He promised \"We'll be out of the parts of Europe that don't work for us\" and \"never be part of a European super-state\".\n\nHe then announced a date for the referendum - 23 June 2016.\n\nThe choice is in your hands\n\nMost other parties - except the DUP and UKIP - backed Remain, including Labour.\n\nAmong those warning against Brexit was the then-US president. The UK, he said, would not be seen as a priority for trade deals.\n\nThe UK is going to be in the back of the queue\n\nAnd a group of nearly 300 actors, musicians, writers and artists signed a letter urging people to vote Remain.\n\nOur global creative success would be severely weakened by walking away\n\nMeanwhile, it was during the campaign that the then-Mayor of London Boris Johnson famously, and wrongly, echoed Vote Leave's claim that the UK pays the EU £350m a week - higher than the actual amount at the time.\n\nIf we vote Leave on June 23 we can take back control of £350m a week and spend on our priorities here in this country including on the NHS\n\nA computer glitch meant thousands of people were unable to register to vote in time. The government blamed the snag on record demand and extended the deadline, allowing another 430,000 more people to register.\n\nWith just over a week to go, polling expert Prof John Curtice said Remain was no longer the frontrunner.\n\nWe no longer have a favourite in this referendum\n\nNevertheless, there was surprise for many when, on referendum night, the results started to show a lead for Leave.\n\nDare to dream that the dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom\n\nLater, the full result was in: Britain had voted to leave the EU and Europe was in shock.\n\nAcross the continent and beyond, front pages reacted to the \"24 hours in which the world has changed\".\n\nThe following day, Mr Cameron - who fronted the Remain campaign - quit, saying he had fought the campaign \"head, heart and soul\".\n\nIt sparked a race for the next Conservative Party leader. Boris Johnson was immediately installed as the bookies' favourite to win and was backed by his fellow Leave campaigner, Michael Gove.\n\nBut, in a shock twist, Mr Gove announced that instead of backing his friend and colleague, he himself would run for the top job. Mr Johnson pulled out of the contest.\n\nI came... to the conclusion that while Boris has great attributes he was not capable of leading the party and the country in the way that I would have hoped\n\nTheresa May became the frontrunner, and set out her ambitions to win.\n\nI know I'm not a showy politician... I don't gossip about people over lunch, I don't often wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me\n\nShe took over the following month and with a new UK prime minister came a new slogan:\n\nBrexit means Brexit - and we're going to make a success of it\n\nA year later, she called a snap election which saw the Conservative Party lose their majority, while Labour made gains.\n\nMeanwhile, negotiations had begun - with leading EU figures making their opinions clear. Donald Tusk quoted John Lennon to suggest the door remained open to the UK staying.\n\nYou may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one\n\nWe have to be grateful for so many things Britain has brought to Europe - during the war, before the war, after the war. But now they have to pay\n\nAfter months of talks, Theresa May announced that her top team had backed her Brexit deal. Jean-Claude Juncker later insisted: \"I'm never changing my mind.\n\nThe best and only deal possible\n\nAbba star Bjorn Ulvaeus shared his thoughts on Theresa May dancing on to the stage to the sound of Dancing Queen at the Conservative Party conference.\n\nA lady with not a lot of rhythm in her\n\nMeanwhile, as Theresa May struggled to get her deal through Parliament, Mr Tusk was criticised for taking aim at Brexiteers.\n\nI've been wondering what the special place in hell looks like... for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it safely\n\nBrexit was postponed to 31 October, after MPs rejected the Brexit deal and voted against leaving without a deal. Mr Tusk said the extension was \"enough\" to get a solution.\n\nPlease do not waste this time\n\nAmid a backlash from her own MPs against her Brexit plan - and after the deal was rejected three times - Mrs May quit as prime minister after three years.\n\nI have done everything I can to convince MPs to back that deal... I tried three times\n\nTwo months later, and the UK had a new PM, after Mr Johnson won the Conservative leadership vote against Jeremy Hunt. He referred to Brexit in his maiden speech, saying \"the buck stops here\".\n\nI will take personal responsibility for the change I want to see\n\nEarly on, Mr Johnson faced criticism after suspending Parliament just days after MPs returned to work.\n\nA smash and grab on our democracy\n\nBut pressing on with his \"get Brexit done\" message, Mr Johnson was adamant Brexit would not be postponed again.\n\nI'd rather be dead in a ditch [than delay Brexit]\n\nThen, at the end of September, Mr Johnson suffered a blow when his decision to suspend Parliament was ruled to be unlawful by the UK's top court.\n\nIt is impossible for us to conclude... that there was any reason - let alone a good reason - to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament for five weeks\n\nMPs returned to work straight away - and the mood in the Commons was angry. Mr Johnson became embroiled in a row about the language used, and was criticised for one comment in particular:\n\nThe best way to honour the memory of Jo Cox, and indeed to bring this country together, would be, I think, to get Brexit done\n\nMeanwhile, for the PM's adviser, Dominic Cummings - who also ran the Vote Leave campaign - being in government was less pressure than the Brexit campaign.\n\nThis is a walk in the park compared to the referendum\n\nFinally, Mr Johnson sent a request to the EU asking for a delay to Brexit - but without his signature - and accompanied by a second letter, which he did sign, saying he believed a delay would be a mistake.\n\nAnd despite his \"do or die\" pledge, he agreed to an extension until 31 January.\n\nI am happy that decision has been taken\n\nAfter several attempts to get a general election, Mr Johnson finally succeeded - the UK's first December election for 96 years.\n\nHe won with a big majority, meaning the path to \"get Brexit done\" suddenly became a lot smoother.\n\nWe pulled it off, we broke the deadlock, we ended the gridlock, we smashed the roadblock\n\nLast week, the PM signed the Brexit withdrawal agreement, saying he hoped it would \"bring to an end far too many years of argument and division\".", "Mihrican Mustafa, also known as MJ, was a mother of three\n\nA man has been charged with murdering two people whose bodies were discovered in a freezer.\n\nHenriett Szucs, 34, and Mihrican Mustafa, 38, were found frozen on top of each other at a flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, in April.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, was charged with two counts of murder and will appear before magistrates in Wimbledon on 14 February.\n\nHe also faces two counts of preventing a lawful burial of a dead body.\n\nHenriett Szucs was a Hungarian national who had lived in London for \"several years\", police said\n\nThe Met said Ms Szucs had been in the UK for several years but was of no fixed address.\n\nMs Mustafa, a mother of three who was also known as MJ, was reported missing on 10 April 2018.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pre-recorded bongs from Big Ben played out as the UK left the European Union\n\nEuropean leaders have expressed sadness at the UK leaving the EU, with France's Emmanuel Macron emphasising Britain's \"unrivalled ties\" with the French.\n\nMr Macron said he was \"deeply sad\" while the EU's Guy Verhofstadt pledged to try and \"ensure the EU is a project you'll want to be a part of again\".\n\nCelebrations and anti-Brexit protests were held on Friday night to mark the UK's departure.\n\nEx-Brexit Secretary David Davis said everyone would be a winner in the end.\n\nThe UK officially left the European Union on Friday at 23:00 GMT after 47 years of membership, and more than three years after it voted to do so in a referendum.\n\nBrexit parties were held in some pubs and social clubs as well as in London's Parliament Square, as the country counted down to its official departure.\n\nIn Scotland, which voted to stay in the EU, candlelit vigils and anti-Brexit rallies were held.\n\nPro-EU campaigners take part in a \"Missing EU Already\" rally outside the Scottish Parliament\n\nIn a message released on social media an hour before the UK left, Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to bring the country together and \"take us forward\".\n\n\"For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, a moment they thought would never come,\" he said. \"And there are many of course who feel a sense of anxiety and loss.\"\n\nIn an open letter to the British public, French President Mr Macron said he was thinking of the millions of Britons \"who still feel deeply attached to the European Union\".\n\n\"You are leaving the European Union but you are not leaving Europe,\" he said. \"Nor are you becoming detached from France or the friendship of its people.\n\n\"The Channel has never managed to separate our destinies; Brexit will not do so, either.\"\n\nMr Macron also said the EU must learn lessons from the \"shock\" of Brexit, adding: \"I am convinced therefore that Europe needs new momentum.\"\n\nAnd he defended the way France acted in the Brexit negotiations, saying neither the French nor anyone else in the EU was \"driven by a desire for revenge or punishment\".\n\nMr Macron called on Mr Johnson to \"deepen our defence, security and intelligence cooperation\"\n\nA pro-EU group earlier projected a message onto the White Cliffs of Dover\n\nMeanwhile, the EU Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator Mr Verhofstadt responded to a message which had been projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover by a pro-EU group.\n\n\"We will look after your star and work to ensure the EU is a project you'll want to be a part of again soon,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Davis - who quit as Brexit secretary in protest at former prime minister Theresa May's Brexit plan - said it would be a \"fair race\" to reach a trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020 but \"it can be done\".\n\nThe UK is aiming to sign a permanent free trade agreement with the EU, along the lines of the one the EU has with Canada, by the end of the transition period in December.\n\nMr Davis said reaching a deal was \"not a charitable exercise, this is an exercise of both sides recognising their own best interests\".\n\nEuropean leaders have warned that the UK faces a tough battle to get a deal by that deadline.\n\nMairead McGuinness, the vice president of the European Parliament, said progress to agree a trade deal \"might be left to the very last minute\".\n\n\"Normally in trade negotiations we're trying to come together,\" she told BBC Breakfast. \"For the first time we're going try and negotiate a trade agreement where somebody wants to pull away from us. I can't get my head around that and I think it's going to be quite complicated.\"\n\nWe are separate after more than 40 years, but remember much of the status quo will hold for now - the UK and the EU, the awkward couple, finally divorced - but still sharing a house and the bills.\n\nBut what the prime minister hails as a new era, a bright new dawn, starts months of hard bargaining with our neighbours across the Channel.\n\nLabour leadership hopeful Emily Thornberry said the exit talks were unlikely to go smoothly and said she expected the country would be \"back in no-deal territory by the summer\".\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary, speaking at an event in Bristol featuring the four Labour leadership candidates, said her party would need a Remain-backing leader who had been \"on the right side of the argument all along\".\n\nHowever, the other three candidates - Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy - said the party needed to move on from debates over Brexit.\n\nShadow business secretary Ms Long-Bailey said that Labour needed to make sure Boris Johnson negotiated the \"best possible trade deal\" that could help \"rebuild our communities\".\n\nWhilst never the most enthusiastic member, the UK was part of the European project for almost half a century.\n\nOn a personal level, EU leaders tell me they'll miss having the British sense of humour and no-nonsense attitude at their table.\n\nIf they were to be brutally honest they'd have admitted they'll mourn the loss of our not-insignificant contribution to the EU budget too.\n\nBut now we've left the \"European family\" (as Brussels insiders sometimes like to call the EU) and as trade talks begin, how long will it take for warm words to turn into gritted teeth?\n\nUK citizens will notice few immediate changes now that the country is no longer in the European Union.\n\nMost EU laws will continue to be in force - including the free movement of people - until 31 December, when the transition period comes to an end.\n\nThousands gathered in Parliament Square to celebrate Brexit on Friday night, singing patriotic songs and cheering speeches from leading Brexiteers, including Nigel Farage.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader said: \"This is the greatest moment in the modern history of our great nation.\"\n\nPro-EU demonstrators earlier staged a march in Whitehall to bid a \"fond farewell\" to the union.\n\nPolice in Whitehall arrested four men and also charged one man with criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly, while in Glasgow one man was arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, other symbolic moments on a day of mixed emotions included:\n\nThe government's EU delegation has changed its name from \"representation\" to \"mission\"", "The UK and the European Union are in talks about how they could live and work together after Brexit.\n\nPoliticians use many different terms when discussing Brexit - here is what some of the key ones mean.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nA period lasting from 31 January to 31 December 2020, when the UK is no longer a member of the EU, but still follows all its rules.\n\nIt was agreed by the UK and the EU to allow both sides time to reach a deal on their future relationship.\n\nTrade between two countries, where neither side charges taxes or duties on goods crossing borders.\n\nA deal between countries to reduce, but not necessarily eliminate, trade barriers such as:\n\nHow the agreement between the EU and the UK would be enforced if there is a dispute.\n\nOne controversial issue has been about what role, if any, the European Court of Justice should play.\n\nA tax or duty to be paid on goods crossing borders.\n\nRules on who can fish where, and how much of each species can be caught.\n\nA set of rules to ensure that one country, or group of countries, doesn't have an unfair advantage over another.\n\nThis can involve areas such as workers' rights and environmental standards.\n\nEU laws which prevent a government in one country from supporting companies there - over competitors in another country.\n\nThis support could be financial - for instance, allowing companies to borrow more cheaply, or charging them less in tax.\n\nThe 2019 agreement which set out how the UK would leave the EU.\n\nThe Northern Ireland protocol is part of this agreement. It set out special arrangements for Northern Ireland, to avoid the need for checks along the Irish border.\n\nThis will be the situation if the UK and the EU don't reach a trade agreement by the end of 2020.\n\nIt means that both sides would have to charge tariffs - or taxes - on goods crossing borders.\n\nIf countries don't have free-trade agreements, they usually trade with each other under what's called WTO (World Trade Organization) rules, where each country sets tariffs - or taxes - on goods entering, and applies them equally to all its trading partners.\n\nThe government currently refers to this as an \"Australian-style deal\".", "Flyaway trampolines have been causing problems on the rail network in England after Storm Ciara blew them onto tracks.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"In particularly windy weather, our lineside neighbours are asked to help keep the railway free of any unexpected debris by tying down or clearing away garden furniture such as trampolines.\"\n\nRead more about the problem here.", "Evacuees from coronavirus-hit city Wuhan have arrived for two weeks quarantine in Milton Keynes\n\nA fourth person has tested positive for coronavirus in the UK, England's chief medical officer has said.\n\nThe new case is a known contact of a previous British patient, and caught the virus in France.\n\nIt comes after around 200 British and foreign nationals evacuated from Wuhan on the UK's final rescue flight arrived at RAF Brize Norton on Sunday.\n\nThere have been more than 37,000 cases of the virus globally, mostly in China, where it originated.\n\nThe death toll for coronavirus has now overtaken that of the Sars epidemic in 2003, according to health officials in China, reaching 813. In 2003, 774 people were killed by Sars.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, Professor Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, said the latest UK patient has been transferred to a specialist NHS centre at the Royal Free hospital in north London.\n\n\"We are now using robust infection control measures to prevent any possible further spread of the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"The NHS is extremely well prepared to manage these cases and treat them, and we are working quickly to identify any further contacts the patient has had.\n\n\"This patient followed NHS advice by self-isolating rather than going to A&E.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a British man has been diagnosed with coronavirus in Majorca after contact with a carrier in France.\n\nThe repatriation flight arrived at RAF Brize Norton at around 07:30 GMT on Sunday, carrying more than 200 British and foreign nationals.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the flight was the second and last flight chartered by the government out of Wuhan, the city where the new coronavirus emerged.\n\nThe passengers comprised 105 Britons and their family members as well as 95 Europeans. A total of 13 staff and medics were also on board the flight.\n\nEvacuees were taken on eight coaches to a Milton Keynes conference centre and hotel for 14 days of quarantine. NHS staff in blue scrubs, gloves and masks met passengers as they disembarked from the coaches at around 10:30 GMT.\n\nPassengers on the repatriation flight included UK and foreign nationals\n\nThe UK's ambassador to Beijing, Dame Barbara Woodward, told the BBC that two British people who wanted to join the flight were not allowed to board after failing temperature checks in China.\n\nElsewhere, the government in the Balearic Islands confirmed on Sunday a British man has tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe was admitted to hospital in Palma on Friday, along with his wife and two daughters. The rest of his family have tested negative for the virus.\n\nThe local health ministry said an investigation into cases that may have had contact with the man has begun.\n\nMore than 100 UK nationals and family members have already been evacuated to Britain on flights chartered by the UK and other countries.\n\nThey are being held in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral.\n\nThe latest returnees will be housed at Kents Hill Park conference centre and hotel, where they will remain in isolation for two weeks - the incubation period of the virus - to ensure they are not infected.\n\nAt the hotel, they will have access to Netflix, magazines, books, baby equipment including highchairs, children's toys and games, mobile phones, and tablets for reading, games, and browsing the internet, the NHS said.\n\nClothing and toiletries have been laid out for their arrival. Passengers on the previous flight said they were only allowed to travel with a 15kg (33lb) cabin bag.\n\nClothing supplies are among the provisions laid out for quarantined passengers\n\nThe flight follows the decision by the Foreign Office on 4 February to advise all Britons to leave China if they can.\n\nBritish Airways and Virgin Atlantic have suspended all flights to and from mainland China, while other carriers continue to operate flights between the UK and China.\n\nChina's National Health Commission said total cases in the country from the virus had reached 37,198 on Sunday morning.\n\nOutside of China, 288 cases have been confirmed in 24 countries, according to the World Health Organization. All the fatal cases have been in China and Hong Kong apart from one in the Philippines.\n\nIn the UK, the Department of Health and Social Care said that 686 people in the UK have been tested for coronavirus as of Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe virus causes severe short-term infection of the airways, and symptoms usually start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. Most people are likely to fully recover - just as they would from the flu.\n\nTwo of the UK coronavirus cases - both Chinese nationals - are being treated at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.\n\nAfter the third case was confirmed, it emerged that the British man had been exposed to the virus in Singapore and stopped at a ski resort in France before returning home.\n\nThere, five more Britons - four adults and a nine-year-old boy - staying at the same chalet in the Alps tested positive for the virus.\n\nA student at Portslade Aldridge Community Academy in Brighton is self-isolating for 14 days following advice from Public Health England.\n\nWere you evacuated? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Dame Judi Dench was nominated for worst supporting actress for her role in Cats\n\nIt may just a day until the Oscars, but nominees for a rather different award have been announced: the Razzies.\n\nThe Golden Raspberry Awards celebrate the worst films in Hollywood, and Cats is among this year's nominations.\n\nThe musical is up for eight awards, with nominations for its four stars, including Dame Judi Dench and James Corden.\n\nThe latest film in the Rambo franchise and comedy A Madea Family Funeral also received eight nominations each.\n\nAll three films are up for worst film.\n\nThe Razzies describe themselves as \"Tinseltown's least coveted $4.97 statuette\" and are voted for by more than 1,000 Golden Raspberry Foundation members based in the US and abroad.\n\nThe star-studded Cats, which is based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical, was lambasted by the Razzies as a \"widely derided feline flop\".\n\nRambo: Last Blood fared no better, with Sylvester Stallone's fifth film in the series up for worst sequel.\n\nMeanwhile, actor and comedian Tyler Perry received worst actor nominations for three of the four characters he played in A Madea Family Funeral.\n\nEven Oscar nominees have not been spared.\n\nJoker, which is up for 11 Academy Awards on Sunday night, was one of five films nominated for a new category in the Razzies - the worst reckless disregard for human life and public property.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sporting events were cancelled throughout the UK, including in Manchester, which was also hit by floods. Manchester City's Premier League match against West Ham was among the cancellations", "England won back the Calcutta Cup and kept their Six Nations title hopes alive with a turgid victory over Scotland in awful weather conditions.\n\nEllis Genge barrelled home for the only try with 10 minutes remaining as driving rain and strong gusts made for a disrupted, error-ridden contest at Murrayfield.\n\nThe result meant Scotland fell short of a third-straight Calcutta Cup, but England climb level on points with second-placed Wales, four adrift of unbeaten leaders Ireland.\n\nCaptain Owen Farrell struck a penalty in either half, missing three more attempts from the tee as the weather contributed to a low-scoring affair.\n\nAdam Hastings replied twice for Scotland, his 78th-minute kick ensuring Gregor Townsend's men pick up a second losing bonus point in as many weekends.\n• None 'A game that could crack mirrors - but England won't care'\n\nThis was a much-needed victory for England after a bruising loss in Paris. Eddie Jones' men just about deserved it, but the contest was wretched, a million miles from the epic 38-38 draw of last season.\n\nA losing bonus point will come as small comfort to Townsend. The Scots found it ferociously difficult to live with Sam Underhill and Tom Curry at the breakdown and impossible to catch their own ball in the line-out. The key moment was a dreadful mistake by Stuart Hogg, for the second week running.\n\nStorm Ciara was due to blow into town in time for the kick-off and, sure enough, an hour or so before it all began, she fetched up with her rain and her gales bringing any notion of an attacking spectacle to its knees.\n\nIt was brutal out there. Scotland lost five line-outs, and precious momentum, in the opening 40 minutes - some down to crass errors, most of them due to the foul conditions. England, who couldn't have been playing more conservatively had they all taken the field with Tory party rosettes on their jerseys, lost two.\n\nPlaying against the wind, they kicked ball after ball, forcing errors from Scotland and taking the lead when the home side were done on the floor. Farrell missed his first penalty earlier, banged over his second and missed his third.\n\nThis was rugby from another dimension. Had a woolly mammoth, extinct for an age, wandered across the pitch you wouldn't have missed a beat. Had a try been scored it would have been a moment of genuine shock and awe.\n\nScotland wasted great field position last week in Dublin and they let a few opportunities slip here as well. England were dominant at the breakdown, but error-strewn in so many departments. Everything was understandably, but maddeningly, stop-start.\n\nThe hosts had a bit more about them in the second half, beginning with a thunder that was sparked by big Rory Sutherland, the renaissance prop who came steaming back into Test rugby in Dublin. Sutherland's big bust of the English defence was the catalyst for Scotland drawing level.\n\nEngland survived a battering, their defence holding out against Scotland surges. That home pressure didn't bring them a try - on a day when a try was always going to be good enough to get the win - but they left with three points from Hastings after Underhill was penalised for not releasing.\n\nThey came again when George Ford and Jonny May fluffed their lines in defence and more heat was piled on through hard carries from Sutherland and Zander Fagerson and their hard-running chums. England held out, perhaps a little luckily. Kyle Sinckler lifted the siege with a rip from Jonny Gray but did it while he was on the floor.\n\nThe blunder count rose high, towering over the top of the stadium. Scotland lost a seventh, and later an eighth line-out, and Farrell missed a third shot at goal. Onwards we went, ever deeper into mistake-land.\n\nThe absolute howitzer mess-up came from Hogg, a week after his spectacular spill over the Irish tryline. This was the game. The Scotland captain retreated to deal with a ball under his posts, but made a desperate hash of it. Initially, it looked like he'd spilled it to Farrell, who immediately touched down.\n\nThe TMO advised that Hogg had carried it over his line but had, indeed, grounded the ball. So, scrum England. And try England. They went through a couple of phases, got it to Genge and then launched Maro Itoje, Curry and Ben Earl in behind him to power over. Farrell converted for a 10-3 lead. Scotland were distraught.\n\nFarrell then put over another penalty to stretch the gap to 10, Hastings rescuing a losing bonus soon after. Seventy-eight minutes had been played at that stage. Frankly, it felt like 78 hours.", "Joker star Joaquin Phoenix used his best actor acceptance speech to cast light on what he described as humanity's plundering of the natural world for resources.\n\nHe also touched upon his own behaviour - admitting that while he had been \"hard to work with\" in the past he was grateful for being given a second chance.\n\nQuote Message: I’ve been selfish, I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with, and I’m grateful that so many of you in this room have given me a second chance. from Joaquin Phoenix Best Actor for The Joker I’ve been selfish, I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with, and I’m grateful that so many of you in this room have given me a second chance.\n\n\"I think that’s when we’re at our best, when we support each other, not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes,\" he added.\n\n\"But when we help each other to grow, when we educate each other, when we guide each other toward redemption. That is the best of humanity.\"", "Morgan Dunn was found seriously hurt in a house in Marigold Square but died at the scene\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry after a man died following reports of a fight at a house in South Ayrshire.\n\nMorgan Dunn, who was 34, was found seriously injured at a property in Marigold Square in Ayr at about 16:00 on Saturday.\n\nDespite efforts by the emergency services to save him, he died at the scene.\n\nPolice said the death followed an \"altercation\" at the property and have appealed for witnesses to come forward.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place to establish how Mr Dunn, from Hawkhill Drive in Stevenston, died.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stevie Wallace said: \"From our inquiries so far, we understand that there was an altercation between Mr Dunn and another person in the house in Marigold Square which resulted in him being fatally injured.\n\n\"We believe the suspect ran from the back of the house into rear gardens and then onto Kincaidston Drive, which is main thoroughfare and would have been quite busy at this time of the day.\"\n\nHe asked for anyone with information, or dashcam footage to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Northern Ireland will not hit ambitious climate change targets unless it acts now to boost sales of electric vehicles, an industry body has warned.\n\nIn 2019, only 427 Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) were sold here, up just 165 on 2015.\n\nThis is despite the fact that they will be the only type of new cars on sale in 15 years.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said the government must quickly spell out its plans.\n\n\"Ambitious targets must be matched by ambitious initiatives,\" said its chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\n\"This includes a long-term government commitment to purchase incentives and substantial investment in infrastructure.\"\n\nHowever, the BBC can also reveal that despite a commitment made in January 2014 to bring the total number of public charge points across Northern Ireland to 500, six years on there are only 337 such points.\n\nA Department for Infrastructure spokesman said \"funding constraints across the public sector\" were to blame for the missed target, but added that 54 charge points had been installed at hospitals, health trusts, government department offices and local council offices.\n\n\"Depending on their location some of these charge points are available to staff and the public, however, they were not designed to form part of the public network,\" added the spokesman.\n\n\"Should public funding become available for the installation of additional charge point infrastructure, departmental officials will liaise closely with commercial providers and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles to ensure the charging infrastructure continues to remain fit for purpose.\"\n\nAt the time of the 2014 announcement, then Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said: \"There has never been a better time for drivers to consider switching to these cars of the future.\"\n\nBut one Northern Ireland dealership insisted Stormont is falling far short when it comes to the issue.\n\nCaroline Willis, finance director of Shelbourne Motors, said: \"We need the government to push harder to have sufficient charging points to cope with demand.\n\n\"Local government needs to add as many charging points and incentivise people to move from diesel to electric, perhaps with a swappage grant.\"\n\nAsked if the government's 2035 target for BEV-only sales was still realistic, she added: \"It is achievable but needs action now.\n\n\"It comes down to cost and infrastructure but mainly the latter, we need the government to push harder to have sufficient charging points to cope with demand.\"\n\nMrs Willis pointed to the huge rise in sales of self-charging Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) as proof of changing customer attitudes, adding: \"More charging points could encourage the move to fully electric.\n\nLast month, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that funding for on-street charge points would be doubled to £10m \"to make electric cars the new normal\".\n\nThe Department of Transport stated that the money could pay for up to 3,600 additional charging points for motorists, who do not have an off-street parking space.\n\nHowever, the Department for Infrastructure could not confirm how much of the funding would be spent in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is hoped that this will impact positively in relation to the Residential Charge Point Scheme,\" the department said.\n\nOne of those who made the leap from petrol to battery power is Colm Heaney, a father of two who lives in Belfast's Four Winds.\n\n\"I bought a used Nissan Leaf in April 2017 and received a grant for installation of a charger at my house,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the existing infrastructure isn't great. There have been no public chargers added, at least around where I live, since I've owned the Leaf.\n\n\"I had hoped that private companies would pick up the slack, but with a few notable exceptions (CastleCourt and Lidl come to mind), Northern Ireland does really lag behind other places.\"\n\nSMMT chief Mike Hawes said that while the industry is committed to change, \"blanket bans do not help short-term consumer confidence\".\n\n\"Manufacturers are fully invested in a zero emissions future, with some 60 plug-in models now on the market and 34 more coming in 2020,\" he said.\n\n\"However, with current demand for this still expensive technology still just a fraction of sales, it's clear that accelerating an already very challenging ambition will take more than industry investment.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow: \"So obvious that only an extraordinarily clever and sophisticated person could fail to grasp it.\"\n\nFormer Commons Speaker John Bercow has said there is a \"conspiracy\" to keep him out of the House of Lords.\n\nHe named no names, but said it was \"blindingly obvious\" that there was a \"concerted campaign\" to prevent him from being given a peerage.\n\nPrevious Speakers have been ennobled when they retire, entitling them to sit in the House of Lords.\n\nThe ex-Conservative MP has been accused of bullying by former Commons colleagues, but denies the claims.\n\nCabinet minister Robert Jenrick said the claims must be looked into, but there was \"no obligation\" on the Prime Minister to give Mr Bercow a peerage.\n\nThe controversial speaker stood down in October after a decade in the job, during which he faced accusations of bias over Brexit as well as questions over his own behaviour towards colleagues.\n\nDowning Street has refused to put forward Mr Bercow's name for consideration by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. Instead, the Labour opposition has nominated him.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Broadcasting House programme, Mr Bercow said while \"every Speaker for the last couple of hundred years\" had received a peerage, he accepted there was no automatic entitlement to one.\n\nAsked whether he believed his chances of a peerage had disappeared, he replied: \"I didn't say that. You asked me whether there was a concerted campaign, whether there was a conspiracy, whether there was an organised effort and I said it is blindingly obvious that that is so.\"\n\nMr Bercow is facing at least one formal complaint regarding his behaviour during his decade in the Speaker's Chair.\n\nHe has dismissed claims there was a pattern of bullying towards his subordinates, arguing that the \"vast majority\" of his relationships with colleagues both inside and outside Parliament were constructive.\n\nHe told Broadcasting House that while he had had two disagreements with David Leakey, the former army officer who served as Black Rod in the House of Lords, \"neither remotely amounted to bullying\" and there was no \"regular rancour\" between the two.\n\n\"Almost eight or nine years later he is still moaning about the fact that we argued,\" he said. \"He was, from my point of view, a very marginal figure. He was a bit-part player in my day to day existence.\"\n\nAnd while he accepted his relationship with his former private secretary Angus Sinclair had broken down, he believed the two had parted on good terms and it was \"absolutely not true\" that he had thrown his phone at him.\n\n\"On issue after issue after issue, I wanted to do things differently and felt I had a mandate for modernisation and overdue change and he was very resistant to that,\" he said. \"It was a relationship that, despite our best endeavours, did not work.\n\n\"He was not bullied, there was no bullying. There was an honourable difference of opinion and that is the end of it.\"\n\nMr Bercow, who has written a new book, said he himself been a victim of snobbery and anti-Semitism during his time in Parliament.\n\nLabour MP Dawn Butler, who is campaigning to be the party's deputy leader, suggested the reason the government has not nominated Mr Bercow was \"due to Brexit\" and the ex-Speaker's hostility to the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"If John Bercow has been accused of bullying then there needs to be due process. Has he been found guilty or [is it] just an accusation?\" she said.\n\n\"We really do need to ask the Conservatives why is it that you haven't, like everyone else, ensured that the Speaker of the House is given a peerage. Otherwise I think that's a form of bullying too.\"\n\nBut Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said Mr Bercow had regularly defied the rules when he was Speaker and the convention of ex-Speaker going to the Lords was just that - a convention and not a rule.\n\n\"The prime minister chooses individuals who could sit in the House of Lords as Conservative peers,\" he told Sky News. \"There's no obligation on the prime minister to make John Bercow a member of the House of Lords.\"\n\n\"I think what's important here is that there should be a high bar on anybody who ends up in the House of Lords as indeed in the House of Commons. The allegations against John Bercow need now to be investigated.\"", "Storm Ciara has hit the UK, bringing severe gales and flooding in its wake.", "Concerns have been raised over \"deposit-free\" renting being mis-sold to tenants who do not understand the costs involved.\n\nThe option allows renters to pay a smaller, generally non-refundable fee in place of a traditional deposit.\n\nCompanies and letting agents offering it say it reduces upfront costs.\n\nBut campaign groups and the ombudsman have warned some are pushing deposit-free options without making it clear they could cost renters more over time.\n\nA traditional deposit is typically up to five weeks' rent - but this is refunded at the end of the tenancy, minus any deductions for damage or unpaid rent.\n\nWith deposit-free options, renters pay less initially - usually a one-off payment equivalent to one week's rent or a monthly fee. But this is generally non-refundable and cannot be used to pay for damages.\n\nWhen Simon first heard about the possibility of renting without paying a deposit he couldn't believe his luck.\n\nThe 23-year-old was keen to move out of his family home to live with his partner - but they didn't have enough for the deposit of more than £1,000 to rent in Sussex.\n\nEager to move quickly, the couple decided to rent through an agency which offered a deposit-free option.\n\nIt wasn't until they had already put money down and were going through the paperwork that they realised the monthly fee to rent without a deposit was money they would never get back.\n\nSimon has been living there for more than a year - and has paid more than £500 in fees so far.\n\nHe feels the agency did not highlight the fee was non-refundable.\n\n\"I think for something like that all of this should be explained to you before they even let you go for it - you shouldn't need to hunt down the answers,\" he adds.\n\nSimon says if the terms of the arrangement had been explained fully to him he would not have chosen to rent without a deposit and would have taken out a loan or carried on living with his family to save up to cover the upfront cost.\n\n\"Then at least we would get our deposit money back - rather than it going down the drain,\" he says.\n\nIn response, the agency said it was sorry Simon felt the terms of its deposit-free option were not explained clearly enough but insisted there was clear communication from branch staff by email and he had signed a document confirming he understood the terms.\n\nIt said the terms were \"made clear at every stage of the rental process\".\n\nSimon says he now regrets renting without a deposit\n\nThe property ombudsman, Katrine Sporle, whose office resolves disputes between consumers and property agents, says other renters have had similar experiences.\n\nShe says one tenant was forced to pay an administration fee to switch to a traditional deposit - even though they said they had not understood the terms of the deposit-free option.\n\nOthers were told they had to use a deposit-free scheme to rent with an agency.\n\nGovernment guidance for England says a landlord or agent cannot insist a tenant uses an alternative to a traditional deposit, but it can be offered as an option.\n\nMs Sporle says deposit-free options are not necessarily a bad thing but agents should ensure tenants understand the terms.\n\nDavid Cox, chief executive of ARLA Propertymark, which represents letting agents, says it welcomes anything which helps renters struggling to pay a new deposit before they get their previous one back.\n\nHowever, he says, it is important tenants understand fees for deposit-free schemes are generally non-refundable.\n\nMs Laming says tenants may be tempted by the schemes with the average deposit at more than £1,000\n\nCampaign group Generation Rent says some tenants feel under pressure to accept a deposit-free option in a competitive renting market.\n\nLetting agents can earn commission from selling the products and schemes owned by agents themselves can also be lucrative.\n\nThe group's Georgie Laming says some agents see this as an income opportunity since the majority of letting fees were banned in June last year.\n\nAnd there are now at least eight products on the market, with differing terms, which she says can prove confusing.\n\nSome charge tenants as much as £100 to dispute a damage claim from their landlord - a fee which does not exist for traditional deposits, which are held in a government-backed scheme.\n\nMs Laming says she can understand why tenants might be tempted by deposit-free renting when the average up-front deposit in England and Wales is £1,108.\n\nHowever, she recommends looking at other options - as some councils and employers may provide interest-free loans to cover deposits.\n\nThe government also plans to introduce a \"lifetime deposit\" to let renters transfer some of the deposit paid for a previous tenancy to the next.\n\nThis would make it easier for renters to move without having to pay a new deposit before they get their previous one back - although it would not help first-time renters.", "Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel are expected to set out their immigration reforms, including a drop in salary threshold for some migrants, at a cabinet meeting on Friday.\n\nCurrently, skilled migrants from outside the EU need to have a job offer with a minimum salary of £30,000.\n\nThe BBC understands ministers plan to lower this threshold to £25,600.\n\nWorkers from the EU will face the same rules once the transition period for leaving the EU ends on 31 December.\n\nWorkers earning less might be allowed to make up \"points\" elsewhere in order to be granted a visa if they work in a sector with a skills shortage. Points will also be awarded for speaking good English or for having an outstanding educational background.\n\nThe Home Office said it would set out the details of what would be a \"firmer and fairer new system\" in due course.\n\n\"We will deliver on the people's priorities by introducing a points-based immigration system from 2021 to attract the brightest and best talent from around the world, while cutting low-skilled immigration and bringing overall numbers down,\" it said.\n\nLast month the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) made a series of recommendations for how the system should look from 2021, including lowering the salary threshold for skilled migrants to £25,600 in order to help recruit teachers and skilled NHS staff.\n\nThe committee also criticised the UK's current complex immigration system, where non-EU workers can attempt to qualify for a range of visas.\n\nThe prime minister made it a key pledge during the election campaign to introduce a points-based immigration scheme, based on Australia's, for when existing EU freedom of movement rules end.\n\nUnder those rules, workers from the EU and European Economic Area countries can come to the UK to live or work without a visa.\n\nThe MAC has said there is no such thing as a \"perfect\" immigration system, with benefits and trade-offs in various parts of the economy.\n\nIt said whatever policies the government decides, it must work quickly to get something in place for after the transition period ends.", "Severe warnings have been issued across parts of northern Europe as Storm Ciara sweeps across the continent.\n\nHigh winds and heavy rain continue to batter areas of Ireland, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and Scandinavia.\n\nThe storm led to travel disruptions and the cancellation of several public events over the weekend.\n\nForecasters predict it will continue to move south-eastwards, bringing gusts of over 90mph (145km/h) in some areas.\n\nIn Ireland, around 14,000 homes and businesses were left without power as the country begins counting ballots for its general election.\n\nOrganisers also cancelled an opening ceremony to mark the beginning of Galway's year as the European Capital of Culture, citing public safety.\n\nOver in Denmark, a woman and a child had to be rescued from the North Sea after they were swept into the water while walking along a pier.\n\nHigh winds have also brought severe disruption around the continent\n\nFrance issued amber warnings - its second-highest level - for 42 regions of the country, including Normandy, the Ardennes and Lorraine.\n\nPeople in the country have been warned to stay away from coastal and wooded areas, several cities have closed off parks and seaside promenades.\n\nForecasters in Norway, meanwhile, have issued red warnings - their highest risk level - for some southern and western areas due to concerns about high seas.\n\nSevere weather has disrupted trains and flights in several major European cities\n\nThese same concerns have also led to the suspension of ferry services in the English Channel.\n\nGale force winds grounded hundreds of flights in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Frankfurt, Brussels and Amsterdam Schipol were among the airports affected.\n\nGerman railway firm Deutsche Bahn also warned of severe disruptions in the north of the country.\n\nStorm Ciara is known as Elsa in Norway, and Sabine in Germany and Switzerland\n\nStorm Ciara - known as Elsa in Norway, and Sabine in Germany and Switzerland - is the most severe storm to hit the continent so far this year.\n\nIn recent years, several national forecasters have adopted the practice of naming large storms to help the public monitor severe weather.\n\nBut while Irish, Dutch, French and British have agreed to adopt the same names, Germany and Switzerland have their own separate agreement, as does Norway.\n\nFor the UK, this year's storm names have already been chosen, with Dennis next in line.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Ciara? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Universities need to be much clearer about whether they will contact parents if students have a mental health crisis, says a social mobility charity.\n\nMy Big Career, which helps poorer youngsters apply to university, says families being informed is a \"lottery\".\n\nFollowing concerns over student suicides, some universities ask students if they want families to be contacted if there are serious worries.\n\nBut there is no requirement for universities to notify parents.\n\nCharity founder Deborah Streatfield says students and their families can be left unsure what will happen if there are mental health problems.\n\n\"Many are quite scared when a young person moves away from home for the first time,\" she said.\n\n\"If anything were to happen over the academic years, whether mental or physical illness, the university is under no obligation to inform anyone.\n\n\"It is a lottery for parents to know which universities have introduced this vital support.\"\n\nIn the wake of student suicides at the University of Bristol, the university introduced an \"opt-in\" system in which students can give consent for a parent, guardian or friend to be contacted if there are \"serious concerns\" about their well-being.\n\nThis year 93% of students at Bristol chose to opt-in to let family or friends be contacted - and there were 36 cases last year in which contacts were made, such as incidents of self-harm, concern about not being seen in halls of residence or deteriorations in mental health.\n\nAn inquest last year into the death of a University of Liverpool student, Ceara Thacker, heard that her family had not been informed about a previous suicide attempt three months before her death.\n\nStudents are adults and so have a right to confidentiality - which means universities have to ask if they will waive this privacy.\n\nBut for students currently making choices about university applications, there is no simple way to see which universities might have an arrangement for families to be contacted.\n\nThe higher education regulator, the Office for Students, says it does not keep a list of which universities offer such an option.\n\nAdmissions service Ucas does not have a list for students or parents of which universities offer such an opt-in for contacting families.\n\nA spokesman says students are encouraged to declare any mental health conditions when they apply.\n\nIn last year's entry, there were almost 16,000 students who declared a mental health problem - a 19% increase on the previous year - and more than double the number in 2015.\n\nThe admissions service says when a student discloses a mental health condition, they will usually be contacted by a \"trained individual\" from the university to \"discuss what support the student needs\".\n\nUniversities UK is currently working on guidance to give to universities over contacting family - and says it has been consulting mental health and legal experts and students and parents.\n\nThe charity, My Big Career, is calling for all universities to offer an opt-in for parents.\n\nBut Universities UK says this has to be balanced against concerns that involving students' families could make matters worse.\n\nThe Department for Education says it has asked the university sector to consider how to better share information with students' families.\n\n\"Universities should work to improve how they involve family members in mental health support, while ensuring that students' best interests are central to any decisions about their care,\" said a department spokesman.", "Lulu Wang [holding award] called for women to be given more jobs in the film industry\n\nThe Farewell may have missed out at this year's Oscars, but Lulu Wang's movie has won two awards including best film at the Independent Spirit Awards.\n\nUncut Gems won three, including best male for Adam Sandler, while The Lighthouse won two, with Willem Dafoe taking best supporting male.\n\nAmerican Factory, the first film from Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground, won best documentary.\n\nWang flew the flag for women in film.\n\nIt follows criticism that the nominations for the Oscars and Baftas were not diverse enough.\n\n\"There's been a lot of conversation this year about how to encourage more women in film,\" she said at the award ceremony.\n\n\"You don't have to encourage women - there are lots of women making films and in film school. Shadow programmes are great but women need the the job - just give them the frickin' job.\"\n\nThe Farewell, written and directed by Wang, stars Awkwafina and best supporting female winner Zhao Shuzhen. The semi-autobiographical movie tells the story of a Chinese-American woman who returns to China when her grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\nAdam Sandler got plenty of laughs as he compared the awards with the Oscars\n\nUncut Gems, which also won best director for Benny and Josh Safdie, tells the story of Howard Ratner, a New York gambling addict and jeweller who attempts to escape debt by acquiring and selling a rare black opal.\n\nSandler's speech poked fun at his lack of an Oscar nomination, the day before the Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.\n\nHe said: \"A few weeks back when I was 'snubbed' by the academy, it reminded me when I briefly attended high school and was overlooked for the coveted yearbook superlative category best looking.\n\n\"That accolade was given to a jean-jacket wearing, feather-haired douchebag by the name of Skipper Jenkins. But my classmates did honour me with the allegedly less prestigious designation of best personality.\n\n\"And tonight, as I look around this room, I realise the Independent Spirit Awards are the best personality awards of Hollywood.\"\n\nFor films to qualify for the awards, there is a budget cap of $22.5m.\n\nRenee Zellweger, who looks certain to win an Oscar on Sunday, continued her winning streak with the prize for best female for Judy, for her portrayal of Judy Garland.\n\nShe said independent films \"challenge our perspectives and enlighten us\".\n\nMarriage Story, about the disintegration of a relationship starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, won best screenplay for Noah Baumbach plus the Robert Altman award.\n\nAmerican Factory, directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, explores what happens when a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant in Ohio, hiring 2,000 American workers.\n\nReichert, who is having treatment for cancer, spoke about income inequality, and said their film questioned this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Hollywood Reporter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Hollywood Reporter\n\nParasite, Bong Joon-Ho's South Korean social comedy thriller which won last year's Palme D'Or at Cannes and is up for six Oscars, won best international film.\n\nIt depicts the symbiotic relationship between a very wealthy and an impoverished family, whose lives become intertwined.\n\nTeen comedy Booksmart, directed by Olivia Wilde, won best first feature and tells the story of two graduating high school girls (Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever) who finally decide to party and break some rules before they leave.\n\nBest first screenplay - Fredrica Bailey and Stefon Bristol, See You Yesterday", "Christian Hirte congratulated Thomas Kemmerich on his win in Thuringia\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has dismissed a minister for praising the election of a liberal candidate who was supported by the far right.\n\nThe candidate, Thomas Kemmerich, won an election in the state of Thuringia with the backing of the far-right AfD party.\n\nChristian Hirte, who belongs to Mrs Merkel's CDU party, tweeted his congratulations afterwards.\n\nMr Kemmerich's victory with AfD support was seen as a political earthquake. Mrs Merkel said it was \"unforgiveable\".\n\nWednesday's election broke a taboo in German politics that mainstream parties do not work with the far right, and led to outrage among Ms Merkel's centre-left coalition partners in the national government, the Social Democrats (SPD).\n\nAs the vote sent shockwaves through Germany, Mr Hirte tweeted to FDP politician Mr Kemmerich: \"Your election as a candidate of the middle shows once again that the Thuringian [left-wing] red-green alliance has been voted out for good.\"\n\nThe tweet was widely condemned, and Sven Kindler, Green Party member of the German parliament - the Bundestag - replied: \"Forming pacts with Nazis and also giving your congratulations, what a shame.\"\n\nMr Hirte was a minister for former East German states and secretary of state for the economy and energy. In a brief statement, Mrs Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said: \"The chancellor has today proposed to the federal president the dismissal of Secretary of State Christian Hirte.\"\n\nThe vote sparked protests, including this one outside the chancellery in Berlin on Saturday\n\nIn a follow-up tweet sent on Saturday, Mr Hirte confirmed that he had been fired.\n\n\"Chancellor Merkel has told me... that I can no longer be the Federal Government Commissioner for the new states,\" he wrote. \"Therefore, following her suggestion, I have asked for my discharge.\"\n\nThis was the first time in post-war Germany that a leader has been helped into office by the far right. Mainstream parties officially oppose any deals with the AfD, which has grown to become the main opposition party in the Bundestag.\n\nFaced with a major backlash to his election win, Mr Kemmerich announced on Thursday that he would resign - just 25 hours after he was elected - and called for a snap election.\n\nThe following day he said his lawyers had advised him to stay on temporarily, but reversed this on Saturday, announced he was standing down \"with immediate effect\".\n\nHe has said he would turn down a pay package of €93,000 (£79,000; $102,000), which he was legally entitled to under Thuringia law even though he only served one day in office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSenior MPs in Thuringia's parliament plan to meet on 18 February to decide on a constitutional way to re-run the election for state premier.\n\nNo replacement has been chosen yet for Mr Kemmerich. There are calls for the public to vote in fresh regional elections in Thuringia, but Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) are resisting that option.\n\nThe CDU and the SPD were holding crisis talks on Saturday.", "Derek Mackay resigned on Wednesday hours before he was due to present the Scottish budget\n\nPolice have spoken to a 16-year-old schoolboy sent hundreds of social media messages by Scotland's former finance secretary Derek Mackay.\n\nPolice Scotland said that while it had not \"received any complaint of criminality\", it was \"assessing available information\".\n\nMr Mackay resigned as finance secretary hours before he was due to present the Scottish budget.\n\nPolice have appealed to others with information to come forward.\n\nIt followed claims, first published in The Scottish Sun, that Mr Mackay sent 270 messages to the boy over a six-month period on Instagram and Facebook.\n\nThe youngster has since told the paper: \"I was happy to speak to the police and will tell them everything that happened.\n\n\"I didn't think what he was doing was a crime, but I knew it was wrong and should be highlighted.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We have not received any complaint of criminality, however we are currently assessing available information.\n\n\"We would encourage anyone with information to please come forward.\n\n\"Police Scotland will always listen to anyone who wishes to seek advice or formally report a matter to us.\"\n\nSince the scandal broke Mr McKay has deleted or restricted access to his social media accounts.\n\nMr Mackay's social media accounts have been restricted or deleted\n\nMr Mackay - who has also been suspended from the SNP pending investigation - is reported to have called the youngster \"cute\" as well as offering to take him to a rugby game and out to dinner.\n\nOpposition politicians have condemned what they described as \"predatory\" behaviour from Mr Mackay - who had been tipped as a future successor to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - saying the messages amounted to \"grooming\".\n\nMr Mackay, a father-of-two who came out as gay in 2013, has not been seen in public since the story broke on Wednesday night.\n\nIt was later reported that the Renfrewshire North and West MSP had also sent dozens of unwanted messages to an SNP activist over a period of four years.\n\nShaun Cameron, 25, told the Daily Record on Friday that the MSP contacted him on Facebook after meeting him at an SNP event when he was 21. He said some of the messages were \"quite suggestive\" - alleging the then finance secretary had asked him in September 2017: \"Got any naughty pics?\"\n\nMs Sturgeon confirmed to MSPs at Holyrood on Thursday that she had accepted Mr Mackay's resignation from government - saying his behaviour had fallen \"seriously below the standard required of a minister\".\n\nIn his resignation statement, Mr Mackay accepted he had \"behaved foolishly\" and he apologised unreservedly to the teenage boy and his family.\n\nHe said at the time: \"I take full responsibility for my actions. I have behaved foolishly and I am truly sorry.\"\n\nHe remains an MSP but is facing mounting calls to resign.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is Solar Orbiter and what's it going to do?\n\nEurope's audacious Solar Orbiter probe has lifted off on its quest to study the Sun from close quarters.\n\nThe €1.5bn (£1.3bn) mission is packed with cameras and sensors that should reveal remarkable new insights on the workings of our star.\n\nScientists want to better understand what drives its dynamic behaviour.\n\nThe spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas rocket, which lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 04:03 GMT (23:03 local time Sunday).\n\nThe Sun will occasionally eject billions of tonnes of matter and entangled magnetic fields that can disrupt activity at Earth.\n\nThe worst of these storms will trip the electronics on satellites, interfere with radio communications and even knock over power grids.\n\nResearchers hope the knowledge gained from Solar Orbiter (SolO) will improve the models used to forecast the worst of the outbursts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Sun's surface as viewed by the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope on Hawaii\n\nThe probe is a flagship venture of the European Space Agency (Esa), but with the participation of its US counterpart, Nasa.\n\nAnd it's the Americans who've taken on the responsibility for launching SolO.\n\nSolO will be put on a path that takes it periodically to within 43 million km (27 million miles) of the Sun's surface. That's closer in than the planet Mercury where the temperatures are searing.\n\nTo survive, the probe will have to work from behind a large titanium shield.\n\nPictures will be snapped through peepholes that must be closed after a data-gathering session to prevent internal components from melting.\n\n\"We've had to develop lots of new technologies in order to make sure that the spacecraft can survive temperatures of up to 600C,\" said Dr Michelle Sprake, a systems engineer with European aerospace manufacturer Airbus.\n\n\"One of the coatings that makes sure the spacecraft doesn't get too hot is actually made out of baked animal bones,\" she told BBC News.\n\nSolO has six imagers and four in-situ instruments. The latter will sample the excited gas (plasma) and magnetic fields as they race away from our star and flow over the spacecraft.\n\n\"Solar Orbiter is all about the connection between what happens on the Sun and what happens in space,\" explained Prof Tim Horbury from Imperial College London.\n\n\"We need to go close to the Sun to look at a source region, then measure the particles and fields that come out from it. It's this combination, plus the unique orbit, that makes Solar Orbiter so powerful in studying how the Sun works and affects the Solar System.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Lucie Green: \"You get explosions and eruptions in the atmosphere of our star\"\n\nThat unique orbit will lift SolO out of the plane of the planets to look down on the Sun's poles.\n\n\"We don't yet have a detailed understanding of why the Sun has an 11-year cycle over which activity rises and falls,\" said Prof Lucie Green from University College London.\n\n\"There are missing observations that prevent us from knowing which of our theories are correct, and those missing observations are the ones we've never made of the poles.\"\n\nWhat the researchers will see, they cannot say for sure. But the expectation is that SolO will detect signals of when the Sun's activity is about to change.\n\n\"We believe we will see indications of the next cycle early on in the polar regions,\" speculated Esa project scientist Dr Daniel Müller. \"These are small concentrations of magnetic field.\"\n\nSolO took eight years to build and test\n\nThis decade is expected to be a golden one for advances in solar physics.\n\nSolO's launch follows hot on the heels of the Americans' Parker probe, which shares many of the same scientific goals and even some of the same kinds of instruments.\n\nAnd here on Earth, an astounding new 4m telescope has just opened on Hawaii. Called the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), this facility can resolve details on the Sun's surface that are a mere 30km across.\n\nIts showed boiling cells of plasma in spectacular detail.\n\n\"SolO sits in this family of missions studying the inner Solar System. I regard it as a kind of orchestra. Every instrument plays a different tune but together they play the symphony of the Sun,\" said Prof Günther Hasinger, Esa's director of science.\n\nThe heatshield has peepholes to allow the telescopes to see the Sun\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland secured a 1-1 series draw with South Africa as they beat the hosts by two wickets in the third one-day international in Johannesburg.\n\nRecalled spinners Adil Rashid (3-51) and Moeen Ali (1-42) helped restrict the Proteas to 256-7 despite Quinton de Kock and David Miller both hitting 69.\n\nJason Roy (21) and Jonny Bairstow (43) got England off to a fast start before the tourists stuttered.\n\nJoe Root (49) and Joe Denly (66) played maturely to stabilise the chase.\n\nBut South Africa fought back with four quick wickets in a tense finale before Moeen and Chris Jordan guided England to 257-8 with 40 balls to spare.\n\nWhile the chase should never have been so tight, it was an improved performance from the world champions after they were beaten by seven wickets in the first ODI, with the second match abandoned because of rain.\n\nEngland will next face South Africa in three Twenty20 internationals, with the first match in East London on Wednesday.\n• None Reaction to England's win in third ODI\n\nAfter giving needed experience to all-rounder Sam Curran and leg-spinner Matt Parkison in the first two matches, England recalled Moeen and Rashid, with both spinners demonstrating their ongoing value to this side.\n\nMoeen, making his first international appearance since taking a break after the first Ashes Test in August, showed superb control and bowled Rassie van der Dussen shortly after the South African was controversially able to overturn being given out lbw off Rashid.\n\nRashid offered constant threat, with several batsmen unable to pick his googly, in snaring Temba Bavuma and Andile Phehlukwayo lbw and duping De Kock into a loose shot to bowl the Proteas captain.\n\nThe accuracy of Moeen and Rashid through the middle overs ensured South Africa never got close to an overwhelming total, even when the impressive Miller (69 not out) attacked poor death bowling from Jordan, who conceded 40 off his last three overs.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether England will move on from Moeen and Rashid by the next World Cup in 2023, but there were also promising performances from two young seam bowlers England hope will feature.\n\nSaqib Mahmood, 22, had a fine ODI debut in taking 1-17 off five overs, bowling Reeza Hendricks with a beautiful delivery that just grazed the top of the bail.\n\nAnd 24-year-old Tom Curran, an unused member of the 2019 World Cup-winning squad, troubled the Proteas' top order and gave up just 38 runs from his nine overs.\n\nBairstow showed brutal power and purpose to punish loose bowling by seamer Ngidi, smashing flat sixes over square leg, crashing anything over-pitched through the covers and punching adeptly down the ground.\n\nHe looked on course for a big score only to miscue one off a thick inside edge to mid-wicket before fellow opener Roy, who hit two sixes over long on, was also caught off a misjudged shot.\n\nEngland could have wobbled when captain Eoin Morgan tamely chipped straight back to Beuran Hendricks (3-59) for nine, but Root played the fuss-free innings he excels at to stabilise the chase while keeping on top of the rate.\n\nHe was livid at his dismissal after tapping left-arm wrist-spinner Tabraiz Shamsi to leg slip, where Bavuma took a sublime low catch, but Denly continued the calm accumulation.\n\nAs England closed in on the target, Denly hit Shamsi for back-to-back sixes over mid-wicket to bring up his second consecutive ODI half-century only to loft a drive to Phehlukwayo off Ngidi (3-63).\n\nSouth Africa surged back into the contest by taking three more wickets for just 20 runs, as Banton was caught behind for 32, Curran skied one to cover and Rashid nicked behind, but Moeen kept calm to ensure England avoided a first ODI series defeat since 2017 in India.\n\nMorgan revealed before the game that some players would only be playing here to get match practice before the T20 series - Rashid was one of them.\n\nHe's bowled very little this winter - he's had a shoulder problem - but you wouldn't have known it given how he bowled on Sunday.\n\nHe was a threat throughout his spell. He came on at 80-1 after 18 overs and turned the game decisively England's way. South Africa's right-handers seemed unable to read him and, on another day, he could easily have taken another five-wicket haul.\n\nHe gives England potency in the middle overs - they looked a completely different side from Cape Town when he was rested.\n\nRashid's dropped catch off Chris Morris at the Wanderers four years ago cost them the series. Here, his bowling ensured they didn't lose another one.\n\n'We need to develop ruthlessness' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"We bowled really well - Adil and Moeen came in and showed their value. Adil in particular, his control and variation were outstanding.\n\n\"It was disappointing to limp over the line. Ideally we would have chased it four or five down. We would have liked to win commandingly.\n\n\"Tom Banton showed lot of promise, Joe Denly's two knocks were really good, Saqib came in and bowled beautifully, and likewise Parky [Matt Parkinson] in the first game. We showed a lot of promise but we need to develop our ruthlessness.\"\n\nEngland's Adil Rashid, who took 3-51: \"I felt good. It has been a while since I played and I was eager to get out there. The ball came out nicely - it was nice to play on a spicy wicket with turn and bounce.\"\n\nSouth Africa captain Quinton de Kock: \"We gave ourselves a sniff at the end and it was cool to make it tough for the England guys.\n\n\"Being captain takes a lot of getting used to, but the guys help me a lot on and off the field. The energy of our players stood out for me.\"", "The Labour party has formally reported members of Sir Keir Starmer's leadership campaign team to the Information Commissioner, accusing them of hacking into the party's membership database, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe allegations were made against two members of Sir Keir's team - one of them is his compliance official.\n\nThey were passed to the Information Commissioner's Office on Thursday.\n\nSir Keir and his team said the claims were \"utter nonsense\".\n\nThe allegations are serious, and the confrontation has engulfed the campaign in bitter recrimination.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is the UK's independent body set up to uphold information rights and enforce data protection legislation. The watchdog has the power to fine any organisation found to have misused data in any way.\n\nThe ICO has confirmed it had received a report of a membership database breach, and would make inquiries.\n\nBut I understand from multiple sources the Starmer team members were accused of what's called \"data-scraping\" - seeking to obtain certain information from a wider set of data.\n\nLate last night, Sir Keir wrote to the party flatly denying any wrongdoing by his team members.\n\nHe insisted they were investigating a means of penetrating the database - called Dialogue - with no intention to use it.\n\nSupporters of Sir Keir, who currently has the support of twice as many local Labour parties than any other candidate, have suggested they were now victims of a politically motivated effort to damage him and his campaign.\n\nJenny Chapman, the former Labour MP who is chairing Sir Keir's campaign, said no-one on the team had the \"capacity\" to hack into any of the party's databases and \"they wouldn't do it anyway\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It's a very serious accusation and that is why I am here to defend it,\" she told BBC Radio 5live's Pienaar's Politics. \"This isn't even a situation where you say 'some over-enthusiastic young volunteers may have done it'. It didn't happen.\"\n\nMs Chapman suggested the allegations had only surfaced after her team had alerted Labour officials last week to what they believed was potentially a \"very serious\" data protection breach by the rival campaign of Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\nIt emerged last week that Ms Long-Bailey's campaign circulated links to volunteers capable of allowing them access to Labour Party phone banks. The campaign said it acted innocently but Ms Chapman said she believed \"something wrong\" had taken place.\n\n\"We wrote to the Labour Party... and we thought that was the end of it as far as we were concerned. And the next thing you know, a couple of people on our campaign get letters saying 'actually we think you have done something wrong'.\n\nShe added: \"Labour members want a fair contest. Whoever decided to send these threatening letters to people on the Starmer campaign and then leak it to the BBC are not really doing the Labour Party or their preferred candidate any favours.\"\n\nLabour said it had written to Sir Keir and his three leadership rivals to \"remind them of their obligations under the law and to seek assurances that membership data will not be misused\".\n\n\"The Labour Party takes its legal responsibilities for data protection - and the security and integrity of its data and systems - extremely seriously.\"\n\nIt emerged last week the rival campaign of Rebecca Long-Bailey had circulated links to volunteers capable of allowing access to the membership database - her team say done innocently.\n\nUnder the party's leadership rules, any candidate who makes it to the final stage of the contest later this month will be entitled to receive details of party membership and registered supporter lists, containing names, telephone numbers and postal addresses.\n\nSir Keir, Ms Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy have already qualified after getting sufficient support from trade unions and other bodies affiliated to the party. Emily Thornberry has yet to do so.\n\nIt is understood all the eligible candidates are being required to provide guarantees that the information will be stored securely and processed lawfully before it is given to them.", "Sony and Amazon are the latest major companies to pull out of one of the world's largest tech shows because of risks posed by coronavirus.\n\nSony said it would no longer take part in Mobile World Congress in Barcelona after \"monitoring the evolving situation\" after the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe organiser has said the event, which attracts 100,000 people, will go ahead.\n\nBut it admitted other companies are considering whether to attend.\n\nSouth Korea's LG Electronics, Ericsson, the Swedish telecoms equipment-maker, and US chip company NVIDIA have all withdrawn from the conference, which runs between 24 and 27 February.\n\nThe GSMA, which organises the show in the Spanish city, said that while it could \"confirm some large exhibitors have decided not to come to the show this year with others still contemplating next steps, we remain more than 2,800 exhibitors strong\".\n\nHowever, it revealed that it had put in place additional measures to \"reassure attendees and exhibitors that their health and safety are our paramount concern\".\n\nMobile World Congress in Barcelona attracts around 100,000 attendees each year\n\nThese include a ban on all travellers from China's Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, while people who have been in China must provide proof they have been outside the country for 14 days.\n\nThe GSMA estimates that between 5,000 and 6,000 people visit Mobile World Congress.\n\nThe GSMA also says it will suggest participants should not shake hands with each other at the show, and microphones used by speakers will be disinfected and changed.\n\nCoronavirus has now killed more than 800 people - the vast majority in mainland China - and infected 34,800 others.\n\nThe Singapore Airshow, which is due to open on Tuesday, has also seen major firms pull out of the event, including US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.\n\nBombardier and Gulfstream Aerospace have also said they will not attend.", "There are just over 1,000 mountain gorillas in existence\n\nFour rare mountain gorillas, including a pregnant female, have died in Uganda after being hit by lightning, a conservation group says.\n\nThe three adult females and a male infant were found in Uganda's Mgahinga National Park with \"gross lesions\" on their bodies indicating electrocution.\n\nThe Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC) called this a \"big loss for the species\".\n\nThere are just over 1,000 mountain gorillas in existence.\n\nThe species is restricted to protected areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.\n\nThe four that died were part of a 17-member group, which has been called the Hirwa family by the authorities.\n\nMembers of the Hirwa group were photographed in 2012\n\nThe Hirwa group had crossed the border from Rwanda into Uganda last year and had been living in Uganda's Mgahinga National Park.\n\nMgahinga is in the Virunga Massif range of mountains which straddle the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo.\n\n\"This was extremely sad,\" Andrew Seguya, executive secretary of the GVTC, told the BBC.\n\n\"The potential of the three females for their contribution to the population was immense,\" Dr Seguya said.\n\nHe added that the 13 surviving members of the Hirwa family have been found and are feeding well.\n\nSamples from the post-mortem are currently being tested and confirmation of the cause of death is expected within the next three weeks, GVTC said.\n\nIn 2018, the mountain gorilla was removed from the list of critically endangered species, after intensive conservation efforts, including anti-poaching patrols, paid off.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jakraphanth Thomma, a Thai soldier, went on a shooting rampage in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima\n\nOn Saturday 8 February, Thai soldier Jakraphanth Thomma killed his commanding officer, stole weapons from a military base, and went on to launch a devastating attack on civilians in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima.\n\nSo far 26 people have been confirmed dead with 57 injured, but those numbers could rise.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the security forces shot Jakraphanth dead, after he had been holed up all night in a shopping centre.\n\nHere's how it all unfolded (all times local, GMT +7 hours)\n\nThe attack begins. Jakraphanth, 32, kills his commanding officer, Col Anantharot Krasae, 48, and Col Anantharot's 63-year-old mother-in-law, Anong Mitchan.\n\nJakraphanth steals weapons - an HK33 assault rifle, BBC Thai reports - and ammunition, before fleeing the camp in a Humvee-type vehicle.\n\nFootage appears to show Jakraphanth arriving at the Terminal 21 shopping centre in Korat.\n\nHe goes on to indiscriminately shoot at people inside the mall, killing and injuring dozens of people.\n\nHe posts updates on Facebook during the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gunshots can be heard and people can be seen running through the shopping centre\n\nOfficials confirm that Jakraphanth is on the fourth floor of the shopping centre. Reports say he is holding hostages inside.\n\nHe posts a video of himself holding a rifle on Facebook, and says: \"Tired, I can barely move my fingers.\"\n\nPeople trapped inside the shopping centre hide in bathroom cubicles and under tables, they later tell BBC Thai.\n\nFacebook takes down the post and profile soon afterwards.\n\nFacebook says in a statement: \"Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and the community affected by this tragedy in Thailand.\n\n\"There is no place on Facebook for people who commit this kind of atrocity, nor do we allow people to praise or support this attack.\"\n\nColonel Krishna Phatthanacharoen, deputy spokesman for the Royal Thai Police, confirms that more than 10 people have died.\n\nA number of police officers surround the shopping centre, while others enter the building to try and help people inside to escape.\n\nA radius of 2km around the shopping centre is cordoned off.\n\nPolice officers meet Jakraphanth's mother, and bring her to the shopping centre so she can attempt to persuade him to surrender.\n\nThe official death toll rises to 16.\n\nAnother round of gunfire is heard from within the shopping centre, before calming down again.\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Defence says that the military will assist the police in protecting the shopping centre, and helping people trapped inside to escape.\n\nOfficers confirm that they have managed to clear the ground floor of the shopping centre, as well as floors one, two and three. Images show people fleeing.\n\nArmy officials ask news outlets to stop live coverage of the attack, to avoid giving the suspect information about their operations.\n\nAs ambulances arrived at the shopping centre, there were reports of further gunfire\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnverakul confirms that the death toll has risen to 20. He says 16 people died at the scene, while another four died in hospital.\n\nHe adds that two police officers have been shot in the back and the leg, and are currently undergoing surgery.\n\nThere are reports of sporadic rounds of gunfire within the building. Special Operations officers enter the building.\n\nAt the same time, about five ambulances arrive at the shopping centre to take injured people to hospital.\n\nA member of the security forces dies in the operation.\n\nThe security forces announce that they have shot dead the gunman.\n\nPublic Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul posts on his Facebook page, thanking the police and the military officers who carried out the operation.\n\n\"It is unprecedented in Thailand, and I want this to be the last time this crisis happens,\" said Prayuth Chan-ocha outside a hospital in Nakhon Ratchasima.\n\nHe announced a revised death toll of 26, plus the gunman, with 57 people wounded.\n\nHe said that a property deal appeared to have given Jakraphanth a sense of grievance which led to his rampage.", "Thailand is the only country in South East Asia to have escaped colonial rule. Buddhist religion, the monarchy and the military have helped to shape its society and politics.\n\nThe military has ruled for most of the period since 1947, with a few interludes in which the country had a democratically elected government.\n\nSince 2001, Thai politics have been dominated by the deep split between supporters and detractors of Thaksin Shinawatra, who served as prime minister until he was ousted by the military in 2006.\n\nIn 2023, Thailand's opposition parties secured by far the largest number of votes in national elections, as voters delivered a significant rebuke to the military-backed government that had ruled since the 2014 coup.\n\nThailand is a constitutional monarchy. Maha Vajiralongkorn, the 10th Thai monarch of the Chakri dynasty, was proclaimed king in December 2016.\n\nHe succeeded his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest reigning monarch at the time, who died in October that year.\n\nSrettha Thavisin of the populist Pheu Thai party won the backing of parliament to become Thailand's next prime minister in August 2023, paving the way for a new coalition government and putting an end to the political impasse that followed the country's May elections.\n\nThe vote came hours after the Pheu Thai party's billionaire figurehead Thaksin Shinawatra made an historic homecoming after years as a fugitive in self-imposed exile.\n\nThe progressive Move Forward Party, which won the most votes, was blocked from taking power by conservative senators - all of whom were appointed by the army following its 2014 coup. Thavisin's appointment as prime minister cements his party's coalition with its former military rivals.\n\nUnder Thailand's constitution drafted under military rule after the coup, both houses of parliament must vote to select a new prime minister.\n\nThailand's military has a seized power 12 times since the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932.\n\nThe government and military control nearly all the national terrestrial television networks, and operate many of Thailand's radio networks.\n\nThe media are free to criticise government policies, and cover instances of corruption and human rights abuses.\n\nHowever, a strict lese majeste law prohibits media in Thailand from reporting anything that could be deemed critical of the royal family, and journalists tend to exercise self-censorship regarding the military, the judiciary and other sensitive issues.\n\n20,000BC - Evidence of continuous human habitation in present-day Thailand from this date onwards.\n\nc. 1250-1000BC - Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand, currently the earliest known centre of copper and bronze production in South East Asia\n\n68-550AD - Funan Kingdom, centred on the Mekong Delta, becomes the area's first known regional power.\n\n802-1431 - Khmer Empire, centred on Angkor Wat in Cambodia, encompasses much of modern Thailand.\n\n1238-1438 - Sukhothai Kingdom. Pho Khun Bang Klang Hao, a local Tai ruler, becomes the first ruler of the kingdom, based around Sukhothai in north-central Thailand, having rallied resistance to Khmer rule. In 1438 it falls under the influence of the neighbouring Ayutthaya.\n\n1351-1767 - Ayutthaya Kingdom, centred on the southern city of Ayutthaya, becomes on great powers of Asia, and is considered the precursor of modern Thailand.\n\nAyutthaya reached its peak under the reign of King Narai the Great\n\n1656-1688 - Under Narai the Great, Ayutthaya makes commercial and diplomatic links with countries in the Middle East and West. It develops close diplomatic relations with Louis XIV in France. The kingdom sees intense rivalry between the competing Dutch, French and English trading companies.\n\n1767 - Ayutthaya is captured by Burmese forces and destroyed.\n\n1767-1782 - Thonburi Kingdom. Seat of power is moved south to Thonburi, now a district in present-day Bangkok. Founded by Taksin the Great, who reunites the country following the collapse of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.\n\n1782 - Rattanakosin Kingdom founded. Army commander Phra Phutthayotfa Chulalok Maharaj overthrows Taksin and as Rama I becomes the first monarch of the reigning Chakri dynasty of Siam, now Thailand. Rattanakosin, now Bangkok, becomes the new capital of the reunited kingdom.\n\n1896 - Rival colonial powers Britain and France agree to make Thailand's central Chao Phraya valley a buffer state between their territories in India and Burma (now Myanmar) and France's occupation of Indochina.\n\n1932 - Absolute monarchy gives way to constitutional monarchy with parliamentary government.\n\n1939 - Decree changes the name of the country from \"Siam\" to \"Thailand\".\n\n1940-41 - Following the fall of France in World War Two, Thailand fights a brief conflict with colonial Vichy France resulting in Thailand gaining some Lao and Cambodian territories.\n\n1941 - Japan attacks US fleet at Pearl Harbor and invades Dutch East Indies. Japanese armies cross Thailand to invade Malaya and Burma. Thailand allies with Japan.\n\n1947 - First post-1945 military coup. The military retains power continuously until 1973.\n\n1954 - Thailand joins the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (Seato) to become an active US ally.\n\n1961 - Following the United States' increasing involvement in the Vietnam War, the US secretly agrees to protect Thailand. From the mid-60s onwards, The US uses Thai air bases to bomb North Vietnam.\n\n1965-83 - Communist insurgency: Fought mainly between the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) and Thai government forces, the fighting winds down after 1980 following the announcement of an amnesty. More than 7,000 soldiers, government officials, insurgent and civilians are killed in the fighting.\n\n1975 - End of the Vietnam war: South Vietnam collapses following the US withdrawal of military support, North Vietnamese forces sweep south and occupy Saigon.\n\n2001 - Populist Thaksin Shinawatra becomes prime minister for first time.\n\n2011 - Pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai party wins a landslide victory in elections and his younger sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, becomes prime minister.\n\n2014 - Military junta led by General Prayuth Chan-ocha seize power. The junta binds future governments to a 20-year national strategy 'road map' it laid down, effectively locking the country into military-guided democracy.\n\n2016 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej dies after 70 years on the throne, and is succeeded by his son, Maha Vajiralongkorn.\n\n2023 - Thailand's charismaic former PM Thaksin Shinawatra is jailed on returning to the country after 15 years in self-imposed exile, though many believe he has done a deal meaning he will only serve a short period in prison.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Detectives say it is still unclear why Babacar Diagne was attacked\n\nA 15-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder over the death of a teenage boy.\n\nBabacar Diagne, 15, was found on grassland in Wood End, Coventry, on Wednesday. He had been stabbed multiple times, a post-mortem examination found.\n\nThe girl was arrested just before 10:30 GMT and taken into custody to be questioned, West Midlands Police said.\n\nPolice have been granted court orders giving them more time to question two boys aged 15 on suspicion of murder.\n\nBabacar was found off Petitor Crescent, at about 19:00 GMT and declared dead by emergency crews.\n\nA vigil was held at a community centre on Thursday night\n\n\"The reason behind the attack still remains unclear, but homicide detectives are working on a number of possible motives,\" the force said.\n\nAppealing for witnesses, Det Ch Insp Scott Griffiths, who is leading the investigation, said: \"We've made fantastic progress on the case but my team will continue to work around the clock until we are satisfied we have caught everyone involved in this awful attack.\n\n\"The people responsible do not deserve protection. They have killed a child and we all collectively need to make a stand to show this is not acceptable.\"\n\nSeven other people who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender have been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Experts are hailing a British Airways flight as the fastest subsonic New York to London journey.\n\nThe Boeing 747-436 reached speeds of 825 mph (1,327 km/h) as it rode a jet stream accelerated by Storm Ciara.\n\nThe four hours and 56 minutes flight arrived at Heathrow Airport 80 minutes ahead of schedule on Sunday morning.\n\nAccording to Flightradar24, an online flight tracking service, it beat a previous five hours 13 minutes record held by Norwegian.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify the record as no complete database of flight times was available.\n\nAviation consultant and former BA pilot Alastair Rosenschein said the aeroplane reached a \"phenomenal speed\".\n\n\"The pilot will have sat their aircraft in the core of the jet stream and at this time of year it's quite strong.\n\n\"Turbulence in those jet streams can be quite severe, but you can also find it can be a very smooth journey.\"\n\nThe jet stream reached speeds of 260 mph (418 km/h) on Sunday morning, according to BBC Weather.\n\nDespite travelling faster than the speed of sound the plane would not have broken the sonic barrier as it was helped along by fast-moving air.\n\nRelative to the air, the plane was travelling slower than 801mph.\n\nModern passenger planes usually travel at about 85% the speed of sound, according to Mr Rosenschein.\n\nBritish Airways said: \"We always prioritise safety over speed records.\n\n\"Our highly-trained pilots made the most of the conditions to get customers back to London well ahead of time.\"\n\nThe fastest transatlantic civilian crossing belongs to BA Concorde, which flew from New York to London in two hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds in 1996 - hitting a top speed of 1,350 mph.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liu Xiaoming: \"I think what they are doing is a kind of a witch-hunt.\"\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, says Tory politicians opposed to Huawei playing a role in the UK's 5G network are conducting \"a witch-hunt\".\n\nSome senior Conservatives have written to Tory MPs to raise concerns about the government's decision to give Huawei a role in the network.\n\nThe group, including four ex-cabinet ministers, want \"high-risk\" vendors ruled out now, or phased out over time.\n\nBut Mr Liu told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show \"they were totally wrong\".\n\n\"I think what they are doing is a kind of a witch-hunt,\" he said. \"Huawei is a private-owned company, nothing to do with the Chinese government... the only problem they have is they are a Chinese company.\"\n\nSeveral senior Conservatives have warned Huawei involvement in the UK's next generation mobile internet network poses a security risk and could lead to the first significant Commons rebellion against Boris Johnson's government.\n\nBut Mr Liu said the firm operated totally independently of the Chinese state and was a leader in the field of 5G.\n\n\"The reason why the [UK] prime minister decided to keep Huawei is he has a very ambitious plan for the UK, he wants to have 5G coverage in the UK by 2025, and Huawei can help.\"\n\nBut he criticised the 35% cap that the government had put on Huawei's involvement, saying it was not in keeping with the principle of a \"free economy\".\n\nAnd, when asked about President Trump being unhappy with the UK, he said \"I will leave the prime minister to deal with President Trump\".\n\nMr Liu said: \"The UK can only be great when it has own independent foreign policy. I hope the prime minister will stay with the decision because I think it's in interest of the UK and maintaining Britain's image as most open and free market economy in the world.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the Huawei decision followed a \"rigorous\" review by security experts and that the firm's involvement would be restricted.\n\nBut the senior Conservatives have said there are alternatives to the Chinese firm.\n\nThe letter from Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Owen Paterson, David Davis, Damian Green, Tobias Ellwood and Bob Seely, which has been seen by the BBC, says some MPs were \"working to find a better solution\".\n\n\"We are seeking to identify a means by which we ensure that only trusted vendors are allowed as primary contractors into our critical national infrastructure,\" it says.\n\n\"Trusted vendors would be companies from countries that have fair market competition, rule of law, respect human rights, data privacy and non-coercive government agencies.\"\n\nThe signatories say they want the government to \"rule out hi-tech from untrusted, high-risk vendors\" in the UK's infrastructure, or to ensure future legislation includes \"sunset clauses\" to limit the length of time such companies can be used.\n\nThe letter comes after US vice-president Mike Pence said the US was \"profoundly disappointed\" with the UK's decision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How will the Huawei 5G deal affect me?\n\nThe UK government has said restrictions would be in place on Huawei's role in the 5G network.\n\nThese include: banning Huawei from supplying kit to \"sensitive parts\" of the network, only allowing it to account for 35% of the kit in a network's periphery, and excluding the firm's equipment from areas near military bases and nuclear sites.\n\nBut Sir Iain and the others behind the letter have also cited examples of other countries which they said had already rejected using Huawei in their 5G networks at all, including Australia, the US and Japan.", "Stuart Lubbock was found dead in Michael Barrymore's swimming pool in March 2001\n\nDetectives investigating the death of a man whose body was found in entertainer Michael Barrymore's pool say they have new information about the case after a renewed appeal last week.\n\nStuart Lubbock, 31, was died after a party at Barrymore's home in Roydon, Essex, on 31 March 2001, having suffered serious sexual injuries.\n\nThey are now following up several calls, as the Mirror reported.\n\nAs they relaunched the appeal, Det Ch Insp Stephen Jennings said: \"I believe that [Stuart] was raped and murdered that night.\n\n\"One or more of those party-goers are responsible for that serious sexual assault on Stuart Lubbock.\"\n\nThe new senior investigating officer said three people previously arrested, including Barrymore, had not been \"completely eliminated\".\n\nIn a Channel 4 documentary about the case, he admitted crime scene mistakes had happened at the time, with police quick to believe the death was an accident.\n\nBarrymore read a statement on Twitter ahead of the programme saying he had been \"bashed and bullied by the media\" over the death in his pool.\n\n\"I've always done everything anyone has asked of me,\" he said. \"I've co-operated with everyone.\n\n\"Essex Police's own QC has said that 'we know Mr Barrymore has had nothing to do with this and that there is no evidence linking him with the injuries to Mr Lubbock or the pool'.\"\n\n\"I've had nothing to do with this whatsoever and yet I keep getting bashed and bullied by the media.\"\n\nEssex Police admitted mistakes were made in securing the crime scene at Barrymore's Roydon home\n\nSince the reward was offered and the programme aired, an Essex Police spokesman said: \"Following our renewed appeal for information about the rape and murder of Stuart Lubbock we have received a number of calls with information.\n\n\"We will follow up all lines of inquiry.\"\n\nIn 2007 Barrymore was arrested in connection with the death but was later released without charge and his arrest found to be unlawful.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Barrymore- The Body In The Pool - Channel 4 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands outside of China have been put under quarantine, as they remain under observation for signs of coronavirus.\n\nThey have either been evacuated from China to their home countries or have been in contact with infected people, and now have to stay in isolation for at least 14 days.\n\nWhile some of those quarantined within China, particularly in Hubei province, have reported poor living conditions, many of those in lockdown in the rest of the world have been put up in comfortable converted military camps and government facilities.\n\nSome are also on cruise ships - or being housed in seaside holiday resorts.", "The three main political parties have tied in first preference votes, according to an exit poll for the Republic of Ireland's general election.\n\nThe earliest indications from the poll suggest there is little difference between Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil.\n\nPolling closed in the general election at 22:00 GMT.\n\nCounting to elect the 33rd Dáil (Irish parliament) will begin on Sunday in all 39 constituencies.\n\nThere will be coverage of the election results on the BBC News NI website from 12:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThe poll was commissioned jointly by RTÉ, The Irish Times, TG4 and UCD and included sampling of 5,000 respondents at 250 polling stations.\n\nRTÉ says voting appears to have been \"solid\".\n\nHowever, there is no expectation of a spike in voting compared to 2016 despite it being the first ever Saturday general election vote.\n\nFactors that may have affected turnout include the poor weather and international rugby.\n\nThe exit poll indicates that Fine Gael secured 22.4% of first preference votes, closely followed by Sinn Féin (22.3%) and Fianna Fáil (22.2%).\n\nIt also suggests the Green Party secured 7.9% of first preference votes, followed by Labour (4.6%), Social Democrats (3.4%), Solidarity People Before Profit (2.8%).\n\nIndications are that Independents took 11.2% of first preference votes.\n\nThe poll suggests a move toward Sinn Féin among younger voters, with the party receiving the largest number of first preference votes among 18-24 years olds (31.8%).\n\nThe majority of voters over the age of 65 appear to have given their first preference to Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil\n\nThere is a margin of error of 1.3% in either direction in the exit poll.\n\nA total of 160 representatives will be returned to the Dáil and newly elected TDs will gather on 20 February .\n\nThe ceann comhairle, or speaker, is automatically re-elected.\n\nIn most situations, the speaker does not vote, so a government will need 80 TDs to hold a majority.\n\nIt is unlikely that any party will reach that number, so another coalition government is probable.\n\nThe election uses proportional representation with a single transferrable vote.\n\nVoters wrote \"1\" opposite their first choice candidate, \"2\" opposite their second choice, \"3\" opposite their third choice and so on.\n\nFianna Fáil leader Michéal Martin and family at the St Anthony's boys' school polling station in Ballinlough, County Cork\n\nPeople living on 12 islands off the coasts of counties Galway, Mayo and Donegal voted on Friday.\n\nLegislation to allow islanders to vote on the same day as other voters had not been passed by the time the general election was called.\n\nTraditionally, islanders have voted ahead of the rest of the country to ensure that bad weather does not hamper the return of ballot boxes to the mainland in time for the count, which will start on Sunday.\n\nAbout 2,100 island residents were eligible to vote.\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald casts her vote at St Joseph's School in Dublin", "A cartoon cat, sick of the annoying mouse living in his home, devises a plot to take him out with a trap loaded with cheese. The mouse, wise to his plan, safely removes the snack and saunters away with a full belly.\n\nYou can probably guess what happens next. The story ends as it almost always does: with the cat yelling out in pain as yet another plan backfires.\n\nThe plot may be familiar, but the story behind it may not be. From Academy Award wins to secret production behind the Cold War's Iron Curtain - this is how Tom and Jerry, who turn 80 this week, became one of the world's best known double-acts.\n\nThe duo was dreamt up from a place of desperation. MGM's animation department, where creators Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera worked, had struggled to emulate the success of other studios who had hit characters like Porky Pig and Mickey Mouse.\n\nOut of boredom, the animators, both aged under 30, began thinking up their own ideas. Barbera said he loved the simple concept of a cat and mouse cartoon, with conflict and chase, even though it had been done countless times before.\n\nPuss gets the Boot was the first they released, in 1940. The debut was a hit and won the studio an Oscar nomination for best animated short. Despite their work, the animators were not credited.\n\nManagers initially told them not to put all their eggs in one basket. A change of heart came only when a letter arrived from an influential industry figure in Texas asking when she would see another one of those \"wonderful cat and mouse cartoons\".\n\nJasper and Jinx, as they were first known, became Tom and Jerry.\n\nSometimes friends, sometimes foes - their slapstick violence appealed to adults in cinema audiences too\n\nAccording to Barbera there was no real discussion about the characters not speaking, but having grown up with silent films starring Charlie Chaplin, the creators knew they could be funny without dialogue. Music composed by Scott Bradley underscored the action and Tom's trademark human-like scream was voiced by Hanna himself.\n\nFor the best part of the next two decades, Hanna and Barbera oversaw the production of more than 100 of these shorts. Each took weeks to make and cost up to $50,000 to produce, so only a handful could be made every year.\n\nThese Tom and Jerrys are almost universally considered the best, with rich hand-drawn animation and detailed backdrops helping win them seven Academy Awards and cameos in Hollywood feature films.\n\n\"I'll bet when you watched them as a child, or even if you look at them right now, you would be hard-pressed to know when they were made,\" says Jerry Beck, a cartoon historian who has worked in roles across the industry.\n\n\"There's something about animation. It's evergreen, it doesn't fade,\" he says. \"A drawing is a drawing, it's like when you go see paintings. Yes, we know they're from the 1800s or 1700s - it doesn't matter and it still speaks to you today.\"\n\n\"That's the thing with these cartoons. What we've learned in time is that they really are great art. They're not disposable throwaway entertainment.\"\n\nJerry danced with Gene Kelly in a musical sequence in 1945's Anchors Aweigh\n\nThe pair also appeared alongside swimmer and actress Esther Williams in 1953's Dangerous When Wet\n\nWhen producer Fred Quimby retired in the mid-1950s, Hanna and Barbera took over MGM's cartoon department just as budget cuts closed in. Studio bosses, threatened by the growing popularity of television, realised they could make almost as much money by re-issuing the old shorts as they could by making new ones.\n\nWhen their department was closed down in 1957, Hanna and Barbera set up their own production company.\n\nBut only a few years later, MGM decided to revive Tom and Jerry without its original creators. In 1961 they outsourced to a studio in Prague to save on costs. Chicago-born animator Gene Deitch was tasked with heading the remake, but struggled with a tight budget and staff with no knowledge of the original.\n\nHis studio also secretly made episodes of other cartoons, including Popeye. Czech names were Americanised on the credits to stop viewers associating the shows with Communism.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by WB Kids This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"Because of the Iron Curtain, the animators in the studio here in Prague had never ever even seen a Tom and Jerry cartoon,\" Deitch later told Radio.cz.\n\nHe knew, being the first to follow up the classics, that he would be \"in the line of fire\" from fans, and his 13 cartoons are regularly labelled the worst. In interviews Deitch was honest about their bad reputation and revealed he even received a death threat over them.\n\nAfter him the task fell to Chuck Jones, best known for his work on Looney Tunes at Warner Brothers. Under him, Tom's eyebrows grew thicker and his face more twisted, and was more like the Dr Seuss character the Grinch that Jones also animated.\n\nChuck Jones was behind 34 shorts made in Hollywood from 1963 to 1967\n\nMark Kausler, 72, is one of many people who have warm memories of Tom and Jerry growing up. He dragged his father to see reels of the shorts, over and over, at his local cinema in St Louis. He began making his own cartoons, partly inspired by the characters, and went onto an extensive animation career of his own.\n\n\"So much of it is based on the way they look and the timing and the way the music works and everything,\" he says. \"It was such a wonderful formula, the way everything interconnected.\"\n\n\"And when they tried to disassemble and reassemble it with another crew and with another type of designer and other comedy - it just rings inauthentic to me, if you know what I mean.\"\n\nKausler worked on dozens of productions, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Felix the Cat\n\nHe came a little too late into the industry to work on Tom and Jerry itself, but remembers the excitement of the \"monumental\" moment Hanna and Barbera showed up to his animation school.\n\nAt MGM, television had been seen as a \"bad word\", but after going it alone Hanna and Barbera pivoted into the platform. With longer episodes and smaller budgets, they adapted their animation style and used tricks to save time and money.\n\nTheir cartoons dominated children's television for decades. They first found success in the early 1960s with characters like Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear and soon, more hits like The Flintstones, Top Cat and Scooby Doo followed.\n\nIn the 1970s the pair returned to Tom and Jerry. By then, many of the early episodes were considered \"too violent\" under fresh guidelines issued to networks. New episodes, with the duo as friends, never lived up to the success of the originals.\n\nHanna (left) and Barbera (right) tried to hire back as many of their MGM staff as they could\n\nThe Jetsons were among a string of television hits created by their pair in the 1960s\n\nLike other cartoons of the time, the show's legacy has also been complicated by long-standing criticism of its depictions of race. In particular, the character of \"Mammy Two Shoes\" - a black housemaid with an exaggerated southern accent usually seen from the waist down - has been labelled an offensive racial caricature. Parts of the series also contain jokes using blackface and derogatory depictions of Asians and native Americans.\n\nWhen the originals were broadcast on US television in the 1960s, some scenes were edited out with \"Mammy\" replaced with new characters added by Jones's team. Today the worst-offending episodes are usually cut from re-release collections and streaming platforms. Attention was drawn to this in 2014 when Amazon Prime Instant Video added a \"racial prejudice\" warning to the series.\n\nTom and Jerry, with its slapstick violence and dark comedy, remains extremely popular around the world today. It can be found on children's television everywhere from Japan to Pakistan and a new mobile phone game has more than 100m users in China.\n\nThe show has also, surprisingly, found itself in news headlines. In 2016, a top Egyptian official tried to blame the cartoon for rising violence in the Middle East and Iran's Supreme Leader has compared their US relations to Tom and Jerry at least twice.\n\nTom and Jerry is still very popular in India, where it is broadcast in several languages\n\nA painting of Tom and Jerry seen in Iraq's Domiz refugee camp in 2014\n\nAs a regular on the BBC schedule for decades, it became particularly well liked in the UK and a 2015 poll named Tom and Jerry as the most popular cartoon in Britain among adults.\n\nIn the 80 years since their creation, the cat and mouse have appeared in everything from a \"kids\" version to a 1992 musical movie where they sang and spoke.\n\nBill Hanna died in 2001 and Joe Barbera passed away in 2006. A year before his death, Barbera was credited for the last time on a Tom and Jerry short - which was also his first without his former partner.\n\n\"We understood each other perfectly, and each of us had deep respect for the other's work,\" he said of their working relationship.\n\nTom and Jerry: The Movie had a disappointing box office run in 1992\n\nA new version of the show, animated by flash instead of being hand-drawn, has been broadcast since 2014.\n\nWarner Brothers, who now own the rights to Tom and Jerry, will release a new live-action film just before Christmas this year. Not much is known about the project, except that actors including Chloë Grace Moretz and Ken Jeong have signed on.\n\nFor Jerry Beck, Tom and Jerry's enduring appeal comes in part from the character's universal relatability.\n\n\"I think most people can identify with little Jerry because there's always an oppressor in our lives,\" he says.\n\n\"We always have someone, our boss, our landlord, politics - whatever it is. And we're just trying to live our lives and somebody wants to disturb it.\"", "A soldier has gone on a shooting spree in the Thai city of Nakhon Ratchasima.\n\nReports say at least 20 people have been killed and many others injured.\n\nThe gunman is still on the loose.", "Champion skater Sarah Abitbol said she was first raped by her former coach when she was 15\n\nThe long-time head of France's ice sports federation has resigned amid a sexual abuse scandal in figure skating.\n\nDidier Gailhaguet said he was leaving with his head held high and without bitterness at the \"injustice\" of being forced out by the sports minister.\n\nSeveral former skating champions have come forward to accuse three trainers of sexually abusing them as teenagers.\n\nMr Gailhaguet is not personally implicated. The alleged abuse happened from the end of the 1970s to the 1990s.\n\nSpeaking after a meeting of the French Ice Sports Federation (FFSG) council in Paris, Mr Gailhaguet, 66, said: \"I have taken the wise decision to resign from my post... I have taken this decision with composure, with dignity, but without any bitterness before this injustice.\"\n\nHe led the federation almost continuously since 1998 - there was a hiatus between 2004 and 2007 after the International Skating Union suspended him over the judging scandal at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.\n\nIn an autobiography released last week, champion figure skater Sarah Abitbol alleged her former coach Gilles Beyer abused her when she was a teenager. Ms Abitbol, who is now 44, said she was aged 15 when it first happened.\n\nMr Beyer has admitted to \"intimate\" and \"inappropriate\" relations with her, and said he was \"sincerely sorry\".\n\nFrench prosecutors said on Tuesday they would investigate the allegations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree other skaters have accused Mr Beyer and two other coaches - who are all from the FFSG - of abusing and raping them when they were minors. Jean-Roland Racle denies the accusations and Michel Lotz has not commented.\n\nMs Abitbol and her skating partner, Stéphane Bernadis, are 10-time French national champions, and have won seven European medals. At the 2000 World Championships, the two became the first French pair to win a world medal in nearly 70 years.\n\nBut in her book, Such a Long Silence, Ms Abitbol alleged that she was raped by Mr Beyer between 1990 and 1992. \"He started to do horrible things leading to sexual abuse,\" she told L'Obs magazine. \"It was the first time a man touched me.\"\n\nSarah Abitbol and Stéphane Bernadis performing at the 2002 European Figure Skating Championships\n\nThe former skater rejected Mr Beyer's apology and said that she wanted accountability for \"all those who covered up [the crimes] both in the club and the federation\".\n\nMr Beyer, after coaching Ms Abitbol, went on to direct France's national skating teams. In the early 2000s, he was the subject of two investigations into misconduct.\n\nThe second investigation, conducted by France's sports ministry, found repeated \"serious acts\" against young skaters. His contract as a technical adviser was terminated in 2001.", "Security forces have shot dead a gunman who killed at least 20 people in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, say Thai police.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool's defence of their Champions League title hangs in the balance after Saul Niguez's early strike gave Atletico Madrid an aggregate lead going into the second leg of their last-16 tie at Anfield.\n\nThe Reds were given a dose of their own medicine as Atletico harried and hassled throughout, limiting them to just two clear chances and no shots on target.\n\nThose opportunities fell to Mohamed Salah, who headed wide, and Jordan Henderson, whose hooked shot just missed Jan Oblak's far post.\n\nKlopp replaced Sadio Mane and Salah with Divock Origi and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain but neither made an impact.\n\nTwo-time finalists Atletico, who have been on a poor run of form, held on to a fourth-minute lead given to them by Saul. The Spanish midfielder turned sharply to fire home after a corner came off the boot of Fabinho.\n\nThe return leg is on Wednesday, 11 March.\n• None Why 'exquisite' Atletico were so hard for Liverpool to break down - Warnock analysis\n• None What to look out for as Champions League returns\n\nMinutes before kick-off Klopp referred to Atletico having a similar \"intense DNA\" to his own side - and unfortunately for him they were at their intense best.\n\nWhat faced the Reds was almost a mirror image - a team that relentlessly pressed and got numbers forward on the counter.\n\nThe Reds had large spells of possession in the opposition half, but Diego Simeone's Atletico side are past masters at dealing with teams of that type. They forced Liverpool into several errors when they had possession, and limited them to only two clear chances on goal.\n\nIn fact, Liverpool had to wait until the 53rd minute for their first opening - Salah's stooping header drifting comfortably wide.\n\nThe German coach, obviously not happy with his attacking threat in the first half, had twisted at half-time when he brought on Origi for the under-par Mane.\n\nHowever, the Belgium striker - the hero of last year's final - was easily marshalled, bar one moment of quality when he hooked in a cross for captain Henderson, who fired wide.\n\nKlopp's skipper came off injured in the 80th minute to cap a forgettable night.\n\nLiverpool have it in them to turn this tie around at Anfield, but unlike Barcelona in last year's semi-final, Simeone's Atletico will be a tougher nut to crack. Klopp men's will have to be at their very best in three weeks.\n\nLos Rojiblancos - the Red and Whites - needed this performance.\n\nThis competition remains, realistically, their only hope of silverware this season following a recent rotten period which saw their two other chances - La Liga and Copa del Rey - effectively extinguished.\n\nAgainst the Reds, they produced the sort of display spectators have become accustomed to from a Simeone side - tenacious and disciplined.\n\nThe Argentine boss is still in the process of restructuring his defence after revered stalwarts Juanfran, Diego Godin and Filipe Luis ended their time at the club last season. But the display of the back four on Tuesday will have made his task simpler.\n\nFull-backs Sime Vrsaljko and Renan Lodi stayed focused as they quelled the threat of their Liverpool counterparts, while the more experienced Stefan Savic and Felipe were immovable barriers as they dealt with Roberto Firmino, Salah and Mane.\n\nMidfielder Thomas Partey added vital support to the home backline in what was an exceptional defensive display.\n\nAt the other end, had Diego Costa been on the pitch to meet a cross rather than Alvaro Morata, then perhaps the Spanish side would have taken the lead inside the first three minutes.\n\nHowever, they made the most of their early sorties when Saul turned in thanks to Fabinho's misfortune.\n\nSimeone, dressed again in all black, was his fidgety and animated self on the touchline - barking orders and occasionally rousing the home crowd inside the Wanda Metropolitano.\n\nAtletico will need his influence, and more of the same from the team at Anfield, if they are to record one of their best results in recent years.\n\n'Emotions were on the side of Atletico' - reaction\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"I had no problem with the result. I saw so many happy faces from Atletico tonight, I get that because it's a big win, but it's not over yet. That's the only thing I feel.\n\n\"The crowd wanted to help their team tonight. That makes it a very emotional game.\n\n\"Emotions are important. Tonight they were obviously completely on the side of Atletico but I am really looking forward to the second leg.\"\n\nAtletico boss Diego Simeone: \"The best side in the world came here and we beat them.\n\n\"But it's only one game down, one to go. Liverpool had their chances. They were dangerous, they've got good players all over the pitch.\"\n• None Since the start of last season, Liverpool have lost six of their 10 away games in the Champions League (W4); no side has lost more away from home in the competition in this time (level with Red Star Belgrade).\n• None Klopp has failed to win all seven of his away games against Spanish clubs in the Champions League (D3 L4), including three with Liverpool (D1 L2).\n• None Atletico have won 12 of their last 13 home matches in all major European competitions (D1), also keeping 11 clean sheets in this run.\n• None Two of Liverpool's three defeats in all competitions this season have come in the Champions League, also losing 2-0 at Napoli in September 2019 (the third defeat being their 5-0 loss to Aston Villa in the EFL Cup in December 2019).\n• None Saul's opener for Atletico (03:46) was the earliest Liverpool have conceded in the Champions League since Gabriel Jesus scored past them in the second minute for Manchester City in April 2018; nine of Saul's 10 Champions League goals have come in the first half.\n• None Saul became only the second player to score 10 Champions League goals for Atletico, after Antoine Griezmann (21).\n• None Since the start of the 2013-14 season, Atletico's Jan Oblak has kept 26 clean sheets in 49 Champions League games; no other goalkeeper has more in the competition in this time (level with Marc-Andre ter Stegen, 26 in 57 games).\n• None Attempt missed. Thomas Partey (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Thomas Partey following a fast break.\n• None Offside, Atlético de Madrid. Thomas Partey tries a through ball, but Renan Lodi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Caroline Lucas said she didn't believe she had done anything wrong\n\nGreen MP Caroline Lucas is under investigation for a possible breach of parliamentary rules for offering a tour of the Commons in exchange for £150, as part of a fundraising drive.\n\nThe Code of Conduct for MPs states members must not offer tours of the House in raffles or auctions.\n\nA complaint went to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards about the offer last year, the BBC understands.\n\nCaroline Lucas said she did not believe she had done anything wrong.\n\nThe offer of a 30-minute \"personal guided tour\" of the Commons in exchange for a donation was part of a crowdfunding drive by Brighton and Hove Green Party during last year's general election campaign, to re-elect the Brighton Pavilion MP.\n\nIt is understood the person who made the £150 donation visited the Commons with Caroline Lucas earlier this year.\n\nMembers of the public can pay for a guided tour around the Houses of Parliament or UK residents can arrange one free of charge through their local MP.\n\nIt is understood the Standards Commissioner began an investigation after receiving one complaint about the Green Party offer, but a subsequent complaint about the same issue was also received.\n\nIn a statement Caroline Lucas said: \"I'm aware that a case against me has been brought to the commissioner, and an investigation is currently under way.\n\n\"I do not believe I have done anything wrong. I have been advised that the commissioner's investigations are confidential so it would not be appropriate for me to say anything more at this time.\"\n\nThe Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards said it did not comment on ongoing matters and would neither confirm or deny that Caroline Lucas was being investigated.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Academics at Oxford University want to scrap a £75 fee required to apply for postgraduate courses - arguing it is an \"elitist\" financial barrier.\n\nThe fee is not refundable - and an internal email suggests Oxford receives £2m from applications per year, mostly from those who have been rejected.\n\nThere are complaints the fee is \"discriminatory\" and putting off \"excellent candidates\".\n\nBut Oxford says a \"growing number\" of universities charge an application fee.\n\nMichael Cassidy, of the university's department of earth sciences, said charging a fee for even applying reinforced an image of being \"elitist and arrogant\".\n\nThe campaign to stop Oxford's levying of application fees - separate from tuition fees - has been revealed by a higher education publication, Research Professional News.\n\nNext month, the university's \"congregation\", its sovereign body, will hear a resolution calling for a phasing out of application fees for graduate courses, such as masters or doctorate studies.\n\nStaff at the university will say the fee \"undermines Oxford's efforts to encourage diversity\" and that there is \"good evidence\" that talented students are being deterred from trying to get a place.\n\nThere are some fee waivers for disadvantaged applicants - but those campaigning against the fees say that they \"act as a barrier\" to trying to widen access to Oxford.\n\n\"This is something that came up most years where we'd have applicants directly emailing us saying the fee was a barrier,\" professor of astrophysics Chris Lintott told Research Professional News.\n\nHe said students would say: \"Well, I'm not applying there because they charge £75.\"\n\nBut an internal university email appears to warn that the fee is worth £2m per year and abolishing it would mean cutting services or finding the money from other departmental budgets.\n\nOxford says more universities are charging a fee at the point of applying for postgraduate courses.\n\nCambridge, University College London, Warwick and King's College London are among those who charge for applying.\n\nFor undergraduate applications, entry is by the Ucas system, with the £25 fee usually paid through a school or college.\n\nA spokeswoman for Oxford University said the fee for graduate applications helped to cover the cost of processing admissions from 30,000 applicants per year.\n\nBut she said abolishing the fee was \"not in line with current university policy, which is to offer increasing levels of waivers to the current fee\".\n\n\"Abolishing the fee entirely is likely to have significant implications for our graduate admissions and access activities. However, we look forward to the issue being discussed among the wider university community.\"", "An estimated one in seven people living in the UK today was born outside the country.\n\nThe majority of these are from outside Europe, often from countries with historical links to the UK.\n\nMore than three million people - roughly a third of the immigrant population - come from Commonwealth countries such as India, Jamaica, Australia and Nigeria.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nA further three-and-a-half million come from the European Union - a number which has grown more quickly since 2001 than the number from the rest of the world, as free movement has expanded to more countries.\n\nThe figure for those born abroad will include some British citizens. A large number of people who come into the UK go on to become British citizens, often through extended residency or family links.\n\nIt will also include people born to British parents abroad such as Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was born in the United States, and actress Emma Watson who was born in France.\n\nNorthern Ireland does not produce estimates broken down by local authority, but it is estimated there that fewer than one in 10 of the population was born abroad.\n\nThe growth of immigration from the EU has led to some towns with traditionally small pockets of migrants, in the Midlands and Wales for example, to experience a rapid change in the make-up of their population.\n\nBut while there have been increases across the country, a small number of areas - often rural or coastal - have seen a decrease in the immigrant community.\n\nA report by the independent government adviser on migration has said that EU migrants tend to be net contributors to public services. It also reported that they have a small impact on lowering wages and no conclusive impact on house prices.\n\nOnce the UK leaves the EU, free movement will stop - but the government has pledged to introduce a new \"Australian-style points-based system\" which it says will be designed to attract and retain the most highly skilled workers that the UK needs.\n\nMigrants represent just over 15% of the UK's workforce.\n\nThey are spread out across different sectors and skill levels, but some industries - such as construction, manufacturing and hospitality - have become more reliant on migrants, according to the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory.\n\nThe NHS in England is a key public service that has long relied on foreign doctors, nurses, health professionals and support staff, such as porters and cleaners.\n\nHealthcare experts have long warned of the impact on filling vacancies in both hospitals and care homes if access to foreign labour markets is restricted.\n\nThe government says it is drawing up plans to make it easier and cheaper for migrants to come and work in the NHS.\n\nAnyone can request asylum in the UK - but first they have to reach the island.\n\nIn 2018, the latest year for statistics, 26,441 did so, although only a third of asylum seekers are generally granted refugee status at first (they can appeal against the decision in court).\n\nUntil a decision is made, they are supported by the government with housing and a small allowance.\n\nConcerns over unequal distribution of asylum seekers have been raised in the past, with one Home Affairs Select Committee report saying there has been \"a clustering of asylum seekers in some of the most deprived parts of the country\".\n\nAlongside their international obligations to asylum seekers, local authorities have also played a key part in housing the 20,000 Syrian refugees the UK promised to take.\n\nOn this there has been greater \"equitable distribution\" with two-thirds of English local authorities and every council in Scotland taking at least one refugee.\n\nSome of the data in this article is drawn from BBC Briefing, a mini-series of downloadable in-depth guides to the big issues in the news, with input from academics, researchers and journalists. It is the BBC's response to audiences demanding better explanation of the facts behind the headlines.\n\nUpdate 22 January 2020: An earlier version of this article included analysis from our Home editor Mark Easton, on the history of immigration in the UK as a political issue. This was subsequently removed because this topic, encompassing half a century of immigration policy, was too broad to cover in a brief text box.", "Severe flood warnings remain in place in the wake of Storm Dennis, with more rain expected to fall later this week. Among the worst affected areas are South Wales, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.", "Doctors working on a clinical trial for treatment of heart disease held back key data, Newsnight has been told.\n\nThe Excel trial tested whether stents were as effective as open heart surgery at treating patients with a heart problem called left main disease.\n\nThe data suggested more people fitted with stents were dying after three years.\n\nIt was eventually published - but only after treatment guidelines that partly relied on the trial had been written.\n\nThese guidelines recommend both stents and heart surgery for certain patients with left main disease.\n\nThe authors of the trial said it was carried out rigorously and to accepted academic standards.\n\nIn the trial, sponsored by US stent manufacturer Abbott, half the patients were given stents, the other half had open heart surgery.\n\nNot all the patients were recruited at the same time. Some were recruited in 2011, others over the years that followed.\n\nSo, when the first results were published in 2016, the doctors doing the trial knew there was data about what had happened to some of the patients five years after their stent or heart surgery procedure.\n\nBut they chose to look only at what happened up to three years after the patients' procedures and publish that data.\n\nA spokesman for Abbott said: \"The study's execution, data collection, analysis and interpretation were entirely performed by independent research organisations. The publication of three-year Excel data reflects the original follow-up period and endpoints the study was powered to assess.\"\n\nProf Nick Freemantle, a biostatistician at University College London, said: \"If somebody had died three years and one day into the trial, that death wouldn't have been counted in the results.\n\n\"I'm absolutely appalled that they've done this,\" he said.\n\n\"I've taken a straw poll of my professional colleagues and it draws disbelief that people would do this,\" he said\n\nThe researchers said the outcomes of the study were analysed and reported according to the protocol.\n\nNewsnight has seen information shared between people involved with the safety of the trial that suggested things were starting to look worse for people with stents after three years. More people were dying than those who had had surgery.\n\nEmails from the the trial's safety committee warned that all the data about deaths should be viewed by the researchers and published.\n\n\"It might be very concerning if in the future, suspicions were raised that already available information on mortality was withheld from the cardiology and thoracic surgery community,\" Dr Lars Wallentin, the head of the safety committee, wrote to the researchers in 2017.\n\nHe was worried that major European clinical guidelines were being drawn up by heart doctors about how people with left main disease should be treated and the trial results would be used as part of their work.\n\nBut the doctors on the trial chose not to publish the data when the safety committee asked, despite the warning. They published further data after the guidelines were completed.\n\nEven without this additional data, there was disagreement among those writing the guidelines about whether stents or surgery was the better treatment for patients.\n\nAn external reviewer was brought in by the European Society of Cardiology to look at a number of trials and resolve the debate.\n\nNewsnight has seen the review. It said that the evidence suggested stents were worse than surgery for those with left main disease.\n\n\"I think most patients would find these differences to be clinically meaningful, I do not believe that both these procedures should receive the same class of recommendation,\" it said.\n\nBut the review was not shared with everyone who believed they should have seen it. One of those people was Prof Freemantle, who was involved in the European guidelines.\n\nHe claims that this calls into question the neutrality of the whole process.\n\nStents are a less invasive option than open heart surgery\n\nNewsnight has previously reported that the same trial failed to publish certain heart attack data that cast stents in a bad light.\n\nThe researchers said our leak data was fake and their methodology was the right one.\n\nFollowing Newsnight's previous report, a number of major surgical organisations have called for a review of the trial.\n\nThe researchers carrying out the trial have agreed to an \"independent\" review of the raw data.\n\nVarious names have been put forward by the researchers and the European Society of Cardiology about who is doing the analysis. All have ties to the researchers, guidelines process or medical device industry.\n\nWhen approached by the BBC they have all said they are not doing it.\n\nProf John Ioannadis, from Stanford University, an expert on medical research design, said the analysis must be completely independent.\n\n\"I think that if you have the same network, the same closed club passing the data from one member to another, that's not really very helpful,\" he said.\n\nHe believes the trial and guidelines process raise concerns which are indicative of a wider systemic problem with the way medical research is done.\n\nAll the main doctors working on the trial, and the lead doctor writing the guidelines for left main disease, have declared financial contributions to either themselves or their institutions from companies that manufacture stents.\n\n\"You have the same people who run the show at all levels. They design the trials. They set the agenda, they choose what to present.\n\n\"They are involved in disseminating the information and running the large conferences that are attended by tens of thousands of people, specialists in the field. And then they also populate the guideline panels that reach the recommendations,\" he said.\n\nThe organisations involved and researchers have declared the conflicts of interest, and say that they are effective in managing them. The conflict-of-interest declarations are intended to mitigate against conscious or unconscious bias - or the appearance of it.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Dave's album Psychodrama won the album of the year prize\n\nLondon rapper Dave won album of the year at the Brits, moments after calling the prime minister a \"racist\".\n\nThe star took home the night's main award for his provocative, personal album Psychodrama, which also won last year's Mercury Prize.\n\nBut it was his fiery performance of the single Black that stole the show.\n\nIn a newly-written verse, he called out the government response to the Grenfell Tower fire and said: \"The truth is our prime minister is a real racist.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told BBC Breakfast: \"I don't know how much [Dave] knows about the prime minister and whether he actually has met the prime minister or knows the prime minister.\n\n\"I work with the prime minister, I know Boris Johnson very well, no way is he a racist, so I think that is a completely wrong comment and it's the wrong assertion to make against our prime minister.\"\n\nDowning Street said it wouldn't comment on Dave's remarks.\n\nThe rapper also attacked tabloid coverage of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and paid tribute to London Bridge terror attack victim Jack Merritt.\n\nTwo years after Stormzy demanded \"where's the money for Grenfell?\" on the Brits stage, Dave updated the lyric, saying: \"Grenfell victims still need accommodation.\"\n\nHe added: \"And we still need support for the Windrush generation/Reparations for the time our people spent on plantations.\"\n\nThe lyrics were added as a final verse to Black, which talks about perceptions and experiences of black people in the UK.\n\nThe 21-year-old rapper is now only the second act to win best album at the Brits and the Mercury Prize for the same record.\n\nThe first was the Arctic Monkeys for their debut, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nThis year's ceremony attracted an average of 3.8 million viewers to ITV - the lowest ever for the Brit Awards.\n\nHowever, several of the performances have been watched widely online, with Billie Eilish's first live performance of the James Bond theme clocking 1.8 million views on YouTube alone by Wednesday lunchtime.\n\nEilish performed No Time To Die backed by a 22-piece orchestra, Smiths legend Johnny Marr and composer Hans Zimmer.\n\nLewis Capaldi was the main winner, taking home two prizes - best new artist and best single, for his breakout hit Someone You Loved.\n\n\"Contrary to popular belief, people think this song is about my ex girlfriend, who you can now see every night on Love Island,\" said the star. \"But it's actually about my grandmother who sadly passed away a few years ago.\n\n\"I hope to God ITV don't contact her to be on a reality dating show.\"\n\nBillie Eilish won best international female and premiered her new Bond theme song\n\nMabel won best female artist and was congratulated by her mother, Neneh Cherry, who took home two Brits exactly 30 years ago.\n\nEilish choked back tears as she accepted the award for best international female, having been overwhelmed by the audience's response to her performance minutes earlier.\n\n\"I felt very hated recently,\" said the 18-year-old, who had earlier told the BBC she had stopped reading comments on social media.\n\n\"And when so was on the stage and I saw all you guys smiling at me… It genuinely made me want to cry. And I want to cry right now, so thank you.\"\n\nStormzy won best male artist and then performed a mega medley\n\nBest male artist went to Stormzy, who performed a stunning medley of songs from his second album, Heavy Is The Head, accompanied by more than 100 performers, including a gospel choir, a saxophonist and Nigerian artist Burna Boy.\n\nThe night opened with a brief tribute to Love Island host Caroline Flack, formerly a backstage presenter at the Brits, following her death on Saturday.\n\n\"She was a kind and vibrant person with an infectious sense of fun,\" ceremony host Jack Whitehall said.\n\n\"I'm sure I speak for everyone here when I say our thoughts are with her friends and family.\"\n\nEarlier, Harry Styles, who briefly dated Flack while he was in One Direction, appeared to pay tribute by wearing a black ribbon on his jacket on the red carpet.\n\nThe star performed the delicate ballad Falling during the show, but made no further reference to Flack's death.\n\nOther performances on the night came from Lizzo, whose irrepressible energy lit up the O2 as she roamed through the crowd performing the hits Cuz I Love You, Truth Hurts, Good As Hell and Juice.\n\nMabel opened the show with an athletic version of Don't Call Me Up, set in a call centre and featuring two dance breaks. And Sir Rod Stewart brought proceedings to an end two hours later, reuniting with The Faces to play Stay With Me.\n\nMabel answered the call to open the show and then won best British female\n\nThere were several references to the lack of female nominees at the ceremony, with Paloma Faith and Foals saying they hoped for better representation at next year's awards.\n\nWhitehall also acknowledged the imbalance as he introduced the award for best female, saying: \"Environmental issues have been a big theme of awards show this year. And in the spirit of sustainability the Brits has been recycling all the same excuses for why so few women were nominated.\"\n\nDave wasn't the only artist to make a political statement, with US artist Tyler, The Creator referencing the fact he had been banned from entering the UK in 2015 because of some of his lyrics.\n\n\"A special thank you to someone who made it impossible for me to come to this country five years ago,\" said the rapper as he picked up best international male.\n\n\"I know she's at home [peed] off - thank you Theresa May.\"\n\nDave is only the second artist to win album of the year at the Brits and the Mercury Prize with the same record\n\nDave capped the night off by winning best album - a prize many had expected to go to Lewis Capaldi, whose debut album was the UK's best-selling record last year.\n\nBut voters responded instead to the rapper's candid, soul-baring reflections on his upbringing in London and what it means to be a young black Briton.\n\nHe dedicated his trophy to anyone hoping to follow in his footsteps, saying: \"All my young kings and queens that are chasing their dreams, I am no different from you. You can do anything you put your mind to.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Comedian Jimmy Tarbuck has revealed he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.\n\nThe veteran Liverpudlian comic told ITV's Good Morning Britain he would \"try and beat it\".\n\nTarbuck said he received the diagnosis the day after his 80th birthday earlier this month.\n\n\"Right now I feel great. I'm on the telly and I'm having a good time,\" he said, adding that the cancer had not spread.\n\nHe was inspired to get checked by Sir Rod Stewart, who announced in September that he had received treatment for prostate cancer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Good Morning Britain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"All men out there watching, and all wives, get your husbands to go for the tests. I think after 50, just have a test, let them have a look at you,\" Tarbuck said.\n\n\"You will be relieved and be with your families for extra years.\"\n\nHe said men can be too \"shy\" to get tested, but urged them not to put it off. \"Boys, go. It is embarrassing. Especially when the fella said to me 'We're going to give you the thumbs up'. I said 'I hope not'. He roared laughing.\"\n\nSpeaking about his treatment, he added: \"I'm having injections and taking tablets and then I take a yearly cycle.\"\n\nTarbuck, who rose to fame in the 1960s and was known for hosting variety shows including Sunday Night At The London Palladium and Live From Her Majesty's, is now planning to go on tour.\n\nOther celebrities to have been treated for prostate cancer include Stephen Fry and Bill Turnbull.\n\nThe NHS's national clinical director for cancer, Professor Peter Johnson, said: \"It is so helpful that celebrities like Rod Stewart and Jimmy Tarbuck have been brave enough to speak out about their diagnosis - there is no doubt that they are helping us in the NHS to fight against prostate cancer.\n\n\"It is vital that men come forward for checks when they sense something isn't right, and the NHS Long Term Plan is prioritising action to detect and treat more cancers earlier when the chance of survival is best.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We explain what warning signs to look out for\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "An ex-rugby league player, his wife and their three children have died after a car fire in the Australian city of Brisbane.\n\nRowan Baxter and the children, all under 10, were found dead at the scene by emergency responders, police said.\n\nHis wife, Hannah Baxter, aged 31, died later in hospital from extensive burns. She had reportedly jumped from the car yelling: \"He's poured petrol on me\".\n\nPolice are investigating how the fire started.\n\n\"How the fire actually occurred has not been ascertained at the moment so for us to call it a murder-suicide or a tragic accident, it's inappropriate at this stage,\" Detective Inspector Mark Thompson said.\n\n\"I've seen some horrific scenes - this is up there with some of the best of them.\"\n\nPolice were first called to the scene in Camp Hill area in the east of Brisbane at 08:30 local time on Wednesday (21:30 GMT on Tuesday).\n\nThey found the couple's three children Laianah, Aaliyah and Trey - aged between six and three - dead inside the car.\n\nEmergency crews tried to revive Rowan Baxter, 42, but he was declared dead.\n\nAustralian media report that he was found close to the car with a self-inflicted stab wound.\n\nHe had been in the front passenger seat and Hannah Baxter had been driving the car, police said.\n\nThe pair had reportedly separated late last year, and were trying to work out custody arrangements.\n\nA crime scene is in place in Brisbane's Camp Hill area\n\nResidents told Australian media they had seen Mrs Baxter jump out of the car while she was on fire.\n\nShe was taken to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in a critical condition, police said. But she was confirmed to have died later on Wednesday.\n\nParamedics said they had also treated a passerby, who had \"tried his best to get to the car\". He had suffered some \"facial burning\" and also been taken to hospital, a Queensland Ambulance spokesman said.\n\nRowan Baxter formerly played for the New Zealand Warriors rugby league team in Auckland and had also been running a gym called Integr8 with his wife in Capalaba to the east of Brisbane.\n\nThe gym's website describes her as \"an enthusiastic, passionate mother of three\" and a trampolining champion who represented Queensland for four consecutive years and also achieved international medals.\n\nQueensland's Police Minister Mark Ryan told parliament about the \"horrific incident\", saying: \"My thoughts are with all of those affected by this terrible tragedy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scott Morrison This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said his \"heart goes out to the families and community going through this tragic time and the emergency responders confronting what would be a shattering scene\".\n\nFederal MP Terri Butler said she was \"horrified and devastated\" by the incident.\n\nIf you are in Australia and affected by this story you can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. In the UK, these organisations may be able to help while information and support is also available from BBC Action Line", "Michael Allarton and his husband Dan-Jay's home in Bewdley has been badly flooded\n\nHundreds of homes have flooded across the West Midlands amid rising river levels caused by Storm Dennis. But what is the human impact of losing everything overnight?\n\nThe first thing Michael Allarton and his husband Dan-Jay knew about the flooding was when they woke up at 05:30 GMT to water beneath their feet.\n\nThe River Severn had broken its banks and floodwater had seeped through their ground-floor flat in Bewdley, Worcestershire.\n\n\"There was water all over the floor up to our ankles,\" Michael Allarton said.\n\n\"We had raw sewage coming up in a fountain from the toilet.\n\n\"We've lost everything - sofas, rugs, clothes - and the whole place is going to have to be gutted, it's devastating.\n\n\"We named our flat our 'old girl' as it's called Victoria House, it dates from the 1730s and was beautiful.\n\n\"I can't believe she's gone. You go to bed one day and the next day you have nothing.\"\n\nMichael Allarton said the whole flat \"was going to have to be gutted\"\n\nThe pair managed to get out of their property and find a place to stay in an unaffected area.\n\n\"The wheelie bins were floating along the street,\" Mr Allarton said.\n\n\"Then reality hit the next morning.\"\n\nThe couple visited their home earlier to assess the damage.\n\n\"We're going to have to start again completely from scratch,\" he added.\n\n\"Then reality hit the next morning,\" Mr Allarton said\n\nMany across the region having to come to terms with a similar situation, with about 270 homes flooded in the West Midlands and some areas still at risk.\n\nThe River Wye in Hereford reached its highest ever recorded level - 6.3m (20.7ft) - prompting emergency evacuations.\n\nBBC Hereford and Worcester reporter Nicola Goodwin is stranded in her home which is close to the river.\n\nShe said: \"It's above our wellies downstairs. The garden and the river have become one.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Goodwin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSporting venues have also been ruined in the rising water too.\n\nSpencer Goodall, of Hereford Rugby Club, said the damage was \"soul destroying\" when he visited the site earlier.\n\nHe said: \"It's crushing really. You see [the flooding] and it's so disappointing after all the hard work volunteers put in for us.\n\nGreyfriars Avenue in Hereford was under several feet of water in the early hours, though flooding has since receded.\n\nLyndon Gore had decided not to leave his home.\n\nHe said: \"We couldn't move out, we've got too many animals in the house so we had to stay put.\n\n\"I've got chickens in the bathroom, cats on the bed, dogs all other places, so we couldn't leave them.\"\n\nLyndon Gore had decided not to leave his property due to the many pets he and his family have\n\nAlly Hunter Blair, a farmer in Ross-on-Wye, has seen water overcome 60 acres of his land and said the impact was \"catastrophic\".\n\n\"The mess we are going to have to clean up is phenomenal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're going to feel the impact of this flood for the next couple of years.\"\n\nDebbie McNally, who runs the Hope and Anchor pub and coffee shop in Ross-on-Wye, said she battled to try and save her premises.\n\nShe told the Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"The cellar is totally under water.\n\n\"We fought from 05:00 to about 11:00 to protect it, but it's gone.\n\n\"The bar needs to be replaced and the coffee shop is under 4ft of water.\"\n\nBen Willcock, who runs Mr Ben's Barbers in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, was more upbeat.\n\nHe said: \"You can see the 'chin-up Charlie' spirit coming through.\n\n\"I was most concerned about the people sticking their heads through the door asking when we'd next be open for a hair cut.\"\n\nChris Wreghitt was in Cornwall when he received a call urging him to come home\n\nChris Wreghitt, from Powick in Worcestershire, was in Cornwall on Sunday when he received a call from neighbours advising him to return.\n\nWhen he got back, the floodwater was up to his ankles. By Monday, it was up to his chest.\n\nHis property had been flooded previously in 2007.\n\n\"I really thought we'd be safe,\" he said.\n\n\"We'd had a couple of near misses in the last few years but we were confident 2007 was a one-off and that water wouldn't go past the flood barriers when they were installed.\"\n\nAs the clean up begins for some, for others more flooding could be imminent.\n\nThe latest severe weather warning has been issued for Telford in Shropshire, with Telford and Wrekin Council deciding to evacuate 30 buildings near to the banks of the River Severn in Ironbridge at about 08:00.\n\nChief executive David Sidaway said residents should be braced for water levels to peak in the evening, according to the Environment Agency, and more heavy rain expected later this week.", "Scammers who infiltrated BT customer accounts as part of a \"sophisticated\" £358,000 fraud have been jailed.\n\nThe gang targeted in excess of 2,000 people, predominantly in the Portsmouth area, between May 2014 and July 2016.\n\nThey used the details to set up Paypal accounts to order expensive items which were then delivered to addresses in the city controlled by the group.\n\nSeven people were jailed for between 16 and 44 months for their part in the fraud.\n\nPortsmouth Crown Court heard the gang spent the money on Rolex watches, high-value jewellery, TVs and designer clothes.\n\nPolice carried out raids after being given information by BT, and group leader Festus Emosivwe, 36, put a USB data stick in his mouth and chewed on it when police arrested him, making it impossible to recover any data.\n\nThe gang spent the money on luxury goods including watches and jewellery\n\nProsecutor Michael Forster said the source of all the data leaks was not known, but there was evidence of phishing emails and officers found textbooks on computer security at Emosivwe's home.\n\nHe described it as \"a sophisticated conspiracy\" that \"persisted for two years\".\n\nThe barrister said the gang diverted customers' email addresses and phones to accounts controlled by the group, meaning victims were \"left in the dark\" until their money had been fraudulently spent.\n\nHe said although Paypal had lost the most money from the fraud, BT customers had endured \"distress and inconvenience\".\n\nSentencing the group, Judge Timothy Mousley QC said: \"The impact on your victims cannot be underestimated. Many had seriously heightened levels of anxiety, stress and fear after finding out their accounts had been hacked.\n\n\"Some expressed horror and fury at being scammed by you.\n\n\"Many were retired people who feared they'd be unable to get by financially. Each of you is responsible for inflicting that misery upon them.\"\n\nGeoffrey Noble said he experienced a \"sense of panic\" when he realised he had been defrauded\n\nOne of the victims, 69-year-old Geoffrey Noble, told the BBC he discovered his details had been used to buy £3,000 worth of goods shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.\n\nIn a statement read out on his behalf in court, he said he was \"furious\" at the fraudsters as \"nobody has the right to take the money I worked so hard for\".\n\n\"I experienced a sense of panic and fear because I did not know where it was going to end,\" he added.\n\nThe gang, who pleaded guilty to all charges, were sentenced as follows:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Craig Roberts, Edward Maher and James Dunsby collapsed in the heat during an SAS selection test\n\nThe Ministry of Defence breached health and safety laws 40 times in the past 20 years - not in war zones but in training, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nBereaved families say lives are being put at risk by repeated mistakes.\n\nThere are now renewed calls for the military to lose its immunity from prosecution.\n\nThe MoD said safety was a \"top priority\" and training policies are \"regularly reviewed\".\n\nOn one of the hottest days of 2013, three soldiers died during an exercise on the Brecon Beacons.\n\nThe parents of one of those men, Craig Roberts, have now broken their six-year silence to speak to BBC Wales Investigates.\n\nThey want the MoD to face criminal charges when people die during training.\n\n\"He loved it, he loved the training, he loved the men he was with… he found a way of life that he enjoyed,\" said L/Cpl Roberts's mother, Margaret.\n\n\"We were worried about what he could be asked to do if he was deployed - the thought of training didn't occur to us at all.\"\n\nKelvin and Margaret Roberts - whose son Craig died in the Brecon Beacons in 2013 - want the MoD to lose its Crown immunity\n\nOn the day he died, L/Cpl Roberts, from Penrhyn Bay near Llandudno, was on a 16-mile (25.7km) march against the clock during an SAS selection test.\n\nLike the other would-be special forces men on the Brecon Beacons, he was marching with 25kg (3st 13lb) on his back in high temperatures with no breeze.\n\nTwo men had been withdrawn from the exercise, severely affected by the heat - a sign others were at risk.\n\nAs the march continued L/Cpl Roberts, 24, collapsed and died. Two other reservists - Cpl James Dunsby and L/Cpl Eddie Maher - also died because of the heat that day.\n\nA senior coroner ruled in 2015 that training and planning that day was poor - that the men who died had been neglected by the Army.\n\n\"Craig didn't have an accident, he didn't fall off a cliff - he was failed by the MoD that day and that shouldn't have happened,\" said Margaret Roberts.\n\n\"We know special forces are now a lot safer, but it's all regiments that need to be looked after, not just special forces.\n\n\"It shouldn't have happened again, but it did. We should have been the last ones.\"\n\nThe Army said it would do \"everything possible\" to \"prevent a recurrence\" of the deaths in 2013.\n\nA medical examination had not flagged any issues with Cpl Joshua Hoole\n\nIt was another hot day in July 2016 when he was on an annual fitness test near Brecon.\n\nCpl Hoole was described as one of the fittest soldiers in his unit, and had faced the heat of Afghanistan.\n\nBut the high temperature became a fatal factor again. Of the 41 men taking part that day in Wales, 18 dropped out, collapsed or were withdrawn.\n\nLike Craig Roberts, Joshua nearly finished his challenge.\n\nLike Craig, he collapsed and, despite medical attention, could not be saved.\n\n\"They promised us lessons would be learned,\" Margaret Roberts said.\n\n\"But when you read [Josh's] record of inquest, it's in a way like reading Craig's record of inquest, and you say 'haven't they learned?'\"\n\nThe coroner at Cpl Hoole's inquest voiced \"grave concerns\" about the Army's ability to \"learn from previous mistakes\".\n\nOver the past two decades, 148 service personnel have died - not on the battlefield, but on training exercises.\n\nA freedom of information request by BBC Wales Investigates has discovered that the MoD breached health and safety laws 40 times during that period.\n\nBut it has Crown immunity - meaning it cannot face criminal prosecutions.\n\nBBC Wales Investigates has also obtained an internal MoD review which was commissioned in 2002 after a spate of diving deaths.\n\nThe report recommended \"substantial changes\" to equipment and training to meet \"21st Century standards\".\n\nJust two years later, in 2004, Sgt Bill McLellan died during an exercise in Germany, wearing the same kit the Army had been warned to replace.\n\nIn 2016, the MoD was again warned about safety issues with new diving equipment.\n\nL/Cpl George Partridge was described as an \"exemplary soldier\" by his commanding officer\n\nTwo years later, in 2018, L/Cpl George Partridge died at the National Diving and Activity Centre near Chepstow.\n\nAn MoD inquiry found lessons had not been learned and there was still no formal training for diving officers.\n\nHilary Meredith represented Sgt McLellan's widow and has acted for many others left bereaved by military training accidents.\n\nWhile acknowledging that preparations for the military have to be rigorous, she says a failure to change is causing accidents to happen \"again and again\".\n\n\"[The MoD] can be criticised but there are no sanctions or teeth to make them sit up and change and we have to look after those people who serve us,\" Ms Meredith said.\n\n\"I think, quite shockingly, the only way to make change is to really be extreme - remove immunity so the MoD takes responsibility and is sanctioned or fined if there is a reckless disregard to life.\"\n\nAnd there is another cost aside from the lives cut short.\n\nBBC Wales Investigates has found through a freedom of information request that preventable injuries have cost the MoD more than £56m between 2012 and 2019.\n\nAdd on legal fees and it's estimated climatic injuries (because of excess heat or cold) are costing the military at least £18m a year.\n\nIn a statement, an MoD spokesperson said it regularly monitored and audited training, and \"all deaths in training are investigated\" to \"ensure that incidents are minimised\".\n\nIt cited that heat illness policy had been updated six times since 2015, and a full safety review was undertaken into diving activities in 2018, which is ongoing.\n\nThe statement said the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) had the power to investigate the MoD over breaches of health and safety law and can issue Crown Censures, which it took seriously.\n\n\"In virtually every case in which the HSE has identified shortcomings, the MoD has taken action to prevent a recurrence… well before any decision on a Crown Censure,\" the statement said.\n\nCraig Roberts' parents have now joined the likes of Hilary Meredith in calling for the law to be changed so the MoD can face prosecution by the HSE if things go badly wrong.\n\nL/Cpl Roberts's father Kelvin says health and safety law should apply to the MoD in the same way as other high risk industries to prevent further fatalities.\n\n\"To have this safety net of immunity from prosecution, I'd imagine nearly every single company in civvy street would love that… and I think it's a lame excuse in today's day and age,\" he says.\n\n\"It should be removed… and until that happens, I'm sorry to say I think this is going to happen over and over again.\"\n\nBBC Wales Investigates Our Son Died - When Will They Learn? is on Wednesday, 19 February at 20:00 GMT on BBC One Wales and then on the BBC iPlayer.", "Campaigners have called for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to save banknotes and coins, saying without urgent new laws the cash system could collapse within a decade.\n\nThey want Mr Sunak to take action in his first Budget on 11 March.\n\n\"We must ensure the shift to digital doesn't leave millions behind or put our economy at risk,\" said Natalie Ceeney, of the Access to Cash Review.\n\nThe Treasury said it wanted \"to ensure everyone who needs cash can access it.\"\n\nCash is important to millions of people, who still use it for paying for vital goods and services, such as utility and council bills.\n\nAccording to the Financial Inclusion Commission, nearly two million people in Britain don't have a bank account, meaning they need notes and coins to pay their way.\n\nThere were 11 billion cash payments in the UK in 2018, but they are forecast to fall to 3.8 billion in 2028, accounting for fewer than one in 10 (9%) of all payments.\n\n\"The UK is fast becoming a cashless society - without knowing what this really means for consumers or for the UK economy,\" said Ms Ceeney.\n\nOver the past year, 13% of free-to-use UK cash points have closed, as lower levels of cash use have made them economically unviable. A quarter (25%) of the machines now charge people to withdraw their cash.\n\nThe Post Office's cash access service has come under threat. Barclays recently reversed plans to stop customers taking cash out from Post Offices after a backlash.\n\n\"The cash network has already been dramatically eroded, and unless urgent action is taken in the Budget, it's clear that it will crumble completely,\" warned Jenny Ross, Which? Money Editor.\n\n\"The new Chancellor must seize this opportunity and guarantee long-term access to cash in the Budget, while developing a clear strategy to ensure that the transition to digital payments doesn't leave anyone behind.\"\n\nVarious initiatives have been set up by the industry to help maintain people's access to cash, including cashback initiatives at local shops and a \"request an ATM\" service.\n\nBut the Access to Cash Review believes the only way to manage the cash system is for the government to legislate and give regulators the tools that they need to protect cash access.\n\nBanks should be forced to provide suitable cash access to their customers, they say.\n\nA spokesman for the Treasury said: \"Technology has transformed banking for millions of people, but we know that many still rely on cash.\n\n\"That's why we've invested £2bn to ensure everyday banking services are available at 11,500 Post Office branches across the UK.\n\n\"We're also working closely with industry and regulators to ensure everyone who needs cash can access it.\"\n\nA UK Finance spokesman said the banking and finance industry recognises the importance of ensuring cash remains free and widely available for those that continue to need it.\n\nIt said the industry has introduced a number of measures to achieve help, including \"arrangements by Link to protect free-to-use ATMs in more remote and rural areas and to ensure that every High Street in the UK has free access to cash.\"\n\nThe trade body warned that there is no \"one size fits all\" approach and understanding the needs of local communities is critical.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) called for financial incentives so smaller businesses could offer partial refunds on goods and services.\n\nMartin McTague, FSB national policy and advocacy chairman, said: \"We need to look at how we make offering cashback commercially viable for small businesses. The right financial incentives are a must.\"", "Environmental compliance at Scotland's industrial sites has dipped slightly for the first time in three years.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said 90.5% of regulated sites were deemed \"satisfactory\" in 2018, a fall of 0.5%.\n\nThe food and drink sector has performed well, but there are continued concerns over the petrochemical operations at Grangemouth and Mossmorran.\n\nIneos Forties Pipeline, which operates the Kinneil Terminal at Grangemouth, was rated \"very poor\".'\n\nThe facility has been non-compliant since 2014 because of flaring from its towers and excessive discharges of effluent.\n\nSepa issued a final warning notice to the operator in 2018, but it says investment in new ground flares and an effluent treatment plant are expected to produce improvements.\n\nIneos said it had been making significant investments in the site and was fully committed to delivering a record of responsible environmental performance.\n\nThe Compliance Assessment Scheme assesses whether sites are meeting the conditions of their environmental permits.\n\nThe licenses determine the control measures which are necessary in industrial processes to minimise the risk of pollution or environmental damage.\n\nAll of Scotland's nuclear sites are rated \"excellent\", but ExxonMobil at Mossmorran in Fife is \"poor\".\n\nA record number of complaints have been received by Sepa from residents living close to the plant.\n\nSepa has rated the Mossmorran site in Fife as \"poor\" for its environmental compliance\n\nRepeated flaring incidents have caused significant light and noise pollution which many say is affecting their quality of life.\n\nExxonMobil has appealed the \"poor\" rating it has received and has asked Sepa for the \"evidential data on which it has made its assessment\".\n\nAn adjacent facility operated by Shell has improved to \"excellent\" from \"good\".\n\nChief executive of Sepa, Terry A'Hearn, said: \"Whilst recognising successes, we're also clear on our strategy to tackle consistent non-compliance.\n\n\"We've already refocused resource on tackling poor performance at complex industrial sites and will this year start to see the first in a series of significant investments by operators that aim to improve environmental outcomes for communities.\n\n\"That combined with a newly established dedicated enforcement unit will focus of the most serious non-compliance.\"\n\nEnvironmental compliance in the fish farming sector has improved after a period of intense scrutiny from MSPs.\n\nThe number of sites rated excellent, good or broadly compliant jumped from 82% to 85.6%.\n\nFour of Scotland's airports - Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness and Wick - have been classed as poor or very poor because they breached discharge limits.\n\nAt Edinburgh Airport, an enforcement notice was issued to ensure steps were taken to limit the release of de-icer used on aircraft.\n\nThe airport said it has made investments to reduce the amount of de-icer entering waterways.\n\nThe whisky, distilling and brewing sector is the best performing with compliance increasing from 93.2% to 95.5%.\n\nOne of the most high performing firms, being held up as an exemplar, is Tennent Caledonian which has been rated 'excellent' for three years running.\n\nMartin Doogan, from C&C Group, which owns the Tennent's brand, said the company was \"really, really proud\" of its record on environmental performance.", "Capt Rosie Wild was given the coveted maroon beret for passing the course\n\nA British Army officer has become the first woman to pass a gruelling Parachute Regiment entry test.\n\nCapt Rosie Wild, 28, was described as a \"trailblazer\" after passing the P Company course - which many men fail.\n\nSeveral women have attempted P Company, also known as the All Arms Pre-Parachute Selection (AAPPS), since they were first able to apply in the 1990s.\n\nPhysical challenges across the five days include a timed 20-mile endurance march and an aerial assault course.\n\nCapt Wild was awarded the coveted maroon beret of the Parachute Regiment, or the Paras, on Tuesday - though she will not join the regiment.\n\nShe will serve in 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery which is attached to 16 Air Assault Brigade, the Army's rapid reaction force.\n\nBrig John Clark, commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, said he hoped Capt Wild's achievement \"will encourage other women to have a go\".\n\n\"A more representative force will only make us stronger,\" he added.\n\nCapt Wild was presented with the sword of honour as a top new recruit at Sandhurst in 2017\n\nThe eight tests in the P Company course involve:\n\nCapt Wild, who is also a competitive triathlete, joined the Army three years ago.\n\nIn 2017 she was presented with the sword of honour at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, given to the best cadet of the intake.", "Boeing's crisis-hit 737 Max jetliner faces a new potential safety issue as debris has been found in the fuel tanks of several new planes which were in storage, awaiting delivery to airlines.\n\nThe head of Boeing's 737 programme has told employees that the discovery was \"absolutely unacceptable\".\n\nA Boeing spokesman said the company did not see the issue further delaying the jet's return to service.\n\nIt comes as the 737 Max remains grounded after two fatal crashes.\n\nThe US plane maker said it discovered so-called \"Foreign Object Debris\" left inside the wing fuel tanks of several undelivered 737 Maxs.\n\nA company spokesman told the BBC: \"While conducting maintenance we discovered Foreign Object Debris (FOD) in undelivered 737 Max airplanes currently in storage. That finding led to a robust internal investigation and immediate corrective actions in our production system.\"\n\nForeign Object Debris is a technical term that covers any substance, debris or article that isn't part of a plane which would potentially cause damage.\n\nThe revelation is the latest in a string of problems affecting what was once Boeing's best-selling plane.\n\nThe aircraft has been grounded by regulators around the world since March 2019.\n\nIt was banned from flying after two separate crashes killed 346 people.\n\nThe US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), told the BBC that it was monitoring the plane maker's response to the new issue: \"The FAA is aware that Boeing is conducting a voluntary inspection of undelivered aircraft for Foreign Object Debris (FOD) as part of the company's ongoing efforts to ensure manufacturing quality.\n\n\"The agency increased its surveillance based on initial inspection reports and will take further action based on the findings,\" it added.\n\nBoeing said it didn't expect the issue to cause any fresh delays to the 737 Max's return to service, which the company said could happen by the middle of this year.", "No country offers a child both the chance of a healthy upbringing and an environment fit for their future, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nExperts say climate change and harmful advertising encouraging fast-food consumption and under-age drinking are putting children at risk.\n\nThe UK was ranked among the top 10 countries in the world for the overall health and wellbeing of children.\n\nHowever, it fell behind in safeguarding the environment for their future.\n\nThe report by the WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and the Lancet Commission, ranked 180 countries on the likelihood of a child being able to \"flourish\", focusing on health and wellbeing factors such as education, nutrition and child mortality.\n\nCountries were then also ranked on their carbon emission levels.\n\nSome 40 child-health experts warned progress over the past two decades was \"set to reverse\" if radical changes were not made by governments around the globe.\n\n\"Every child worldwide now faces existential threats from climate change and commercial pressures,\" said former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, who co-chairs the commission.\n\n\"Countries need to overhaul their approach to child and adolescent health to protect the world they will inherit in the future.\"\n\nThe experts warned a 4C rise in global temperatures by 2100, in line with current projections, would result in \"devastating health consequences\" for future generations - a rise in ocean levels, heatwaves, severe malnutrition and a spike in infectious diseases such as malaria.\n\n\"More than two billion people live in countries where development is hampered by humanitarian crises, conflicts, and natural disasters, problems increasingly linked with climate change,\" said minister Awa Coll-Seck, from Senegal, who co-chairs the commission.\n\nWhile the world's poorest countries were found to be among those with the lowest greenhouse-gas emissions, they were deemed most likely to be exposed to the negative impacts of climate change.\n\n\"Promoting better conditions today for children to survive and thrive nationally does not have to come at the cost of eroding children's futures globally,\" added Mr Coll-Seck.\n\nIn 2015, the world's countries agreed on 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), including no hunger, zero poverty and climate action, but five years on, little progress has been made toward achieving them.\n\nUK law dictates that, by 2050, carbon emissions will be virtually halted and any remaining emissions will have to be compensated for by activities such as tree planting.\n\nAnd the government sparked industry concern earlier this month by bringing the date of a planned ban on sales of new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars forward from 2040 to 2035 in a bid to hit zero-carbon emission targets.\n\nHowever, the new report placed the UK in 133rd place on providing a climate fit for future generations, with it currently on track to emit 115% more CO2 than its 2030 target.\n\nThe US and Australia were also among the worst emitters.\n\n\"Harmful\" advertising is putting children's health at risk, experts say\n\nThe report also highlighted the threat posed to children from harmful marketing.\n\nIt found they were exposed to as many as 30,000 television advertisements a year, including those for alcohol, junk food and sugary soft drinks.\n\nOne of the commission's authors, Anthony Costello, University College London professor of global health and sustainability, warned the meteoric rise in the use of social media among children and adolescents meant \"predatory marketing\" was more of a danger than ever.\n\n\"We have few facts and figures about the huge expansion of social-media advertising and algorithms aimed at our children,\" he said.\n\nIn 2019, a report estimated nearly 2.3 billion children and adults on the planet were overweight and more than 150 million children had stunted growth.\n\nThe only countries on track to beat CO2 emission targets by 2030, while also performing fairly on child health and wellbeing, were Albania, Armenia, Grenada, Jordan, Moldova, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Uruguay and Vietnam.\n\nThe report calls for a new global movement driven by and for children, with its recommendations including:\n\nProf Costello warned the UK's high ranking for the overall health and wellbeing of children did not mean it could \"rest on its laurels,\" citing a predicted rise in child poverty as a warning sign.\n\n\"For almost one in every two children to be poor in 21st Century Britain is not just a disgrace but a social calamity and an economic disaster, all rolled into one,\" he said.\n\nLancet editor-in-chief Dr Richard Horton said: \"This calls for the birth of a new era for child and adolescent health. It is the supreme test of our generation.\"", "This is the moment a 77-year-old man fought off a would-be mugger who demanded cash and his bank card.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the targeted man \"showed great bravery\" but had been \"left shaken\".\n\nThe incident outside Sainsbury's on Colchester Avenue, Cardiff, on 5 February was captured on CCTV.\n\nAnyone who recognises the suspect, a white man wearing a high-vis vest and carrying a black rucksack, has been asked to contact police.", "Plans to launch a space centre in Shetland have received a £2m investment boost, it has been revealed.\n\nShetland Space Centre (SSC) said private equity firm Leonne International's financial injection gave it a 20% stake in the business.\n\nUnst is Scotland's most northerly island and is seen as a good project location because of its clear airspace.\n\nSSC aims to have a fully operational satellite launch facility and ground operations centre by late 2021.\n\nSSC chief executive Frank Strang said having Leonne International as a partner would help realise \"the benefits of space exploration for the UK, and for Shetland's economy\", bringing both jobs and visitors.\n\n\"The funding validates what we and, crucially, the wider space industry has been saying for several years now - that Shetland is absolutely the right location for kick-starting the UK's entry into this rapidly growing market,\" he said.\n\nMichael Haston, Leonne International chief executive, said: \"We are always excited to partner with firms which exhibit ambition, innovation and excitement, and Shetland Space Centre exceeds this criteria with the plans they have in place for their satellite launch programme.\"\n\nIn July, the test launch of a balloon in Shetland for a system that can deliver small satellites into orbit was hailed a success.\n\nSSC joined forces with B2Space, a Bristol-based firm which developed the stratospheric balloon launch system known as rockoon.\n\nThe launch - described as the UK's first commercial spaceflight-related activity - saw the balloon soar 37km (23 miles) to the edge of the earth's atmosphere.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Homes on the banks of the River Severn have been evacuated as officials fear the Ironbridge barrier could be breached by flooding\n\nHomes along the River Severn in Shropshire have been evacuated, amid fears that flood barriers could be breached in the coming hours.\n\nHouses and a pub near Ironbridge have been submerged by rising waters and the pressure has cracked road surfaces.\n\nAround the UK, more than 150 flood warnings remain in place, including six severe - or \"danger to life\" - warnings.\n\nThe River Wye at Monmouth, in Wales, has reached its highest recorded level.\n\nAmong the worst affected areas are south Wales, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire, where major incidents have been declared.\n\nWest Mercia Police said an estimated 384 properties have been \"significantly impacted\" by flooding in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.\n\nWater levels are expected to rise in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and there are concerns it could flow around one of the local flood barriers at Beales Corner.\n\nCurrently, there are six severe flood warnings in England, covering the rivers Lugg, Severn, and Wye.\n\nMore rain is expected in parts of the UK later this week, with three yellow Met Office weather warnings issued for north and south Wales and north-west England for Wednesday evening.\n\nThe latest severe flood warning - for the River Severn in Telford, Shropshire - prompted the evacuation of homes in Ironbridge on Tuesday morning.\n\nRiver levels are peaking late on Tuesday, according to the latest update from Telford and Wrekin Council.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLocal resident Carol Calcutt told BBC Radio Shropshire the Boat Inn pub by the river front in nearby Jackfield was now submerged in water.\n\n\"Practically just the roof showing there now,\" she said.\n\nA care home and surrounding properties in Whitchurch, Herefordshire, were also evacuated after they were overcome by floods, local fire services said.\n\nA woman was lifted to safety by rescue workers as floodwater surrounded the village of Whitchurch in Herefordshire.\n\nVehicles were stranded in Hampton Bishop near Hereford after the River Lugg burst its banks\n\nA clean-up operation is under way in areas such as Ross-on-Wye amid the ongoing flood warnings\n\nMeanwhile, Welsh Water has warned drinking water is running out in Monmouth and surrounding areas after \"unprecedented flooding\" at its treatment works in Mayhill.\n\nThere was some relief in Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire, on Monday as defences appeared not to have been breached overnight, but severe flood warnings for the area now predict river levels will peak by Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChris Wreghitt, who lives in the village of Powick, in Worcestershire, says he has has been flooded before but not this badly and not since flood defences were built.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"We were told when they built that flood defence that if it had been there before 2007, we wouldn't have been flooded.\n\n\"Although there have been a couple of near misses over the past few years, we were still confident that we wouldn't get flooded again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResidents of the Wharfage on the River Severn have been evacuated to a restaurant on the High Street in Ironbridge, Telford and Wrekin Council said.\n\nThe council added that the river's flood peak was moving towards the Ironbridge Gorge and was expected to arrive there later on Tuesday, while the Environment Agency warned flooding in the Wharfage is \"potentially imminent\".\n\nRescue teams were deployed in Monmouth, south Wales, amid the floods\n\nIt comes as the River Wye at Monmouth, south Wales, peaked at 7.15m high on Tuesday, breaking the previous record high of 6.48m in 2002.\n\nThere are two severe warnings in place on the River Wye at Monmouth, according to Natural Resources Wales.\n\nResidents in Monmouth were seen using canoes to travel on Tuesday\n\nAround 800 homes in Wales have been directly affected by flooding, First Minister Mark Drakeford told the BBC.\n\nThe Welsh government has put aside between £5m and £10m to help those residents affected.\n\nMeanwhile, the key developments in England are:\n\nPeople in flood-hit households can apply for financial hardship payments of up to £500 for short-term relief, the government announced on Tuesday.\n\nLocal Government Secretary Robert Jenrick said the funding would \"help people in the worst-hit areas to recover and get back on their feet\".\n\nThe government support fund also includes up to £5,000 for affected residents and business owners to help make their properties more resilient to future floods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 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You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The UK government's plans for immigration would be \"devastating\" for Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed.\n\nThe Home Office has set out plans for a post-Brexit system which would not give visas to low-skilled workers.\n\nUK ministers want to \"move away\" from \"cheap labour\" from Europe and instead target the \"brightest and best\".\n\nBut Scotland's first minister said it would be \"impossible to overstate how devastating\" this would be, making it \"much harder\" to attract workers.\n\nShe wants powers over migration to be devolved to Holyrood so a separate system can be established north of the border.\n\nThe UK government is keen to set up a \"points-based\" immigration system after the free movement of people between the UK and the EU ends on 31 December, when the Brexit transition period expires.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told BBC Breakfast that the government wants to \"encourage people with the right talent\" and \"reduce the levels of people coming to the UK with low skills\".\n\nUK ministers have set out to reduce the overall level of migration to the UK, encouraging employers to invest in retaining staff and developing automation technology instead of \"cheap labour\" from abroad.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon argues that with population growth stalling in Scotland, more immigration is needed to boost the working-age population.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said: \"Our demographics mean we need to keep attracting people here - this makes it so much harder.\n\n\"Getting power over migration in the Scottish Parliament is now a necessity for our future prosperity.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is arguing for a \"fundamentally different approach to migration policy\" north of the border, calling for an \"evidence based approach which reflects the needs of our economy\".\n\nScotland Office minister Douglas Ross insisted that \"the new system will work for Scotland and the whole of the UK\".\n\nHe said: \"It will support our renowned universities and world beating high tech sector. It avoids putting up barriers to business by splitting our UK-wide system and it ensures our whole economy can continue to grow.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants extra powers to be devolved to Holyrood for a separate immigration system\n\nThe National Records of Scotland has projected that Scotland's working-age population could shrink in the coming years.\n\nBirths look set to outweigh deaths over the next 25 years, while life expectancy is on the rise. The group's projections say there could be 240,000 more pensioners by 2043 - and 7,000 fewer people of working age.\n\nIn a recent paper on migration, Ms Sturgeon said there was a \"serious issue\" with long-term demographic changes, saying that \"all of our future population growth is projected to come form migration, and any reduction in migration will impact on the size of our working-age population\".\n\nHowever, the Migration Advisory Committee has argued that these demographic challenges are not unique to Scotland.\n\nIn a report in September 2018, the group said that \"lower migration might lead to population decline\", but said \"some northern English regions have similar prospects\" - concluding that \"we were not of the view that Scotland's economic situation is sufficiently different from that of the rest of the UK to justify a very different migration policy\".\n\nStudies have also suggested that Scots have broadly similar attitudes to immigration as an economic asset as people in England and Wales.\n\nThe National Records of Scotland predict the working-age population will shrink in the coming years\n\nThe UK government has long argued in favour of a \"points-based\" immigration system for all migrants.\n\nPoints would be allocated for things like having a job offer in a sector with staffing shortages, speaking English, and having higher education qualifications.\n\nIn total, candidates would need 70 points to qualify.\n\nOverseas workers who speak English have the offer of a skilled job with an \"approved sponsor\" would accrue 50 points - needing 20 more from the other criteria.\n\nThe UK government says it is \"important employers move away from a reliance on the UK's immigration system as an alternative to investment in staff retention, productivity and wider investment in technology and automation\".\n\nOn \"skilled\" workers, the proposals would see this definition include those educated to Scottish Higher or A-level equivalent standard - not just graduate level, as is currently the case.\n\nWaiting tables and certain types of agricultural worker would be removed from the new skilled category, but new additions would include carpentry, plastering and childminding.\n\nAt present, migration policy is entirely controlled from Westminster - but Scottish ministers want extra powers to be given to Holyrood to set up a distinct system.\n\nThey propose adding a Scottish-specific visa to the immigration system, which migrants could choose to apply for instead of one of the existing routes.\n\nMSPs would decide the criteria for this new visa, and the Scottish government would receive and assess applications before sending them to the UK government for security checks.\n\nThose applying for such a visa would need to remain resident in Scotland and pay tax locally, but would have a route to permanent settlement - unlike existing schemes for unskilled or temporary workers.\n\nMs Sturgeon says this would \"allow Scotland to attract and retain people with the skills and attributes we need for our communities and economy to flourish\".\n\nHowever, the proposals were swiftly rejected by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who said they were \"absolutely fanciful and deranged\".\n\nHe said he had \"every sympathy with the businesses and industries of Scotland that need to allow workers to come freely\", pointing to plans to expand the entry scheme for seasonal agricultural workers.", "The US rapper Pop Smoke has been killed, after an apparent armed robbery.\n\nLos Angeles Police told Radio 1 Newsbeat a man was shot at his home and later pronounced dead, although didn't confirm his identity.\n\nBut his label Republic Records says it's \"devastated by the unexpected and tragic loss of Pop Smoke\".\n\nPolice responded to reports of a robbery - a man was then taken to hospital and later pronounced dead.\n\nOfficers confirmed that an unknown number of suspects entered a property in West Hollywood.\n\nThey got a call about a robbery at 04:55 PST and were at the scene six minutes later.\n\nPop Smoke at the Rolling Loud Festival, Los Angeles, in December 2019\n\nPolice say no suspects have been identified and no arrests have been made.\n\nThey also denied reports that a man was held at the scene but say one suspect is thought to have had a handgun.\n\nPop Smoke, who this week got his first US top 10 album, was signed to Republic Records which has said in a statement \"our prayers and thoughts go out to his family, friends and fans, as we mourn this loss together.\"\n\nWhen reports first appeared in the US tributes began flooding in for Pop Smoke, real name Bashar Barakah Jackson - including from friends.\n\nPop Smoke had a breakout hit with Welcome to the Party in 2019 - which led to him being singled out as an artist to watch this year by BBC Radio 1Xtra, on the station's Hot For 2020 list.\n\nThe station said he \"possessed the air and cadence of a rapper who has been in the game for a decade or two longer than his actual age\".\n\nThe track ended up being remixed by both Nicki Minaj and Skepta.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast year he spoke about wanting to make music that inspires children who are growing up in poverty.\n\nHe told The Face: \"I make music for that kid in the hood that's gotta share a bedroom with like four kids - the young kids growing up in poverty.\n\n\"I make music for kids like that who know they just gotta keep going, that there's a better way. That's who I really make it for.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Dr Couper was the first female president of the British Astronomical Association\n\nBroadcaster and astronomer Heather Couper has died at the age of 70.\n\nDr Couper appeared on the BBC's Blue Peter and The Sky At Night programmes, as well as presenting and producing acclaimed science documentaries.\n\nShe also hosted radio series including the BBC World Service's long-running Seeing Stars and BBC Radio 4's Cosmic Quest and Starwatch.\n\nProfessor Brian Cox said \"she was one of the pioneers in bringing astronomy to everyone, including me\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brian Cox This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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I want to make known and publicise science.\"\n\nSo she left her management trainee job at Top Shop to become a research assistant at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.\n\nHer big break came when she was asked to appear as a guest on Sir Patrick Moore's The Sky At Night.\n\nSir Patrick later recalled: \"Of course, she wrote to me when she was a little girl and said, 'Is there any future for me in astronomy?' And I said, 'Of course there is.' And I tried to give her a hand.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Carol Vorderman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also presented the 1981 ITV children's series Heavens Above and, in 1984, became the first female president of the British Astronomical Association.\n\nFour years later, she co-founded a film and TV production company, then, in 1993, took up the chair of astronomy at Gresham College.\n\nShe and Dr Henbest co-wrote dozens of books as well as monthly astronomy columns for the Independent, the last of which was published on 6 February.\n\nThe pair even applied to be the first British astronauts, Dr Couper told the Guardian in 1993, but were quickly rejected.\n\n\"They wanted someone technologically on the ball, someone who would know what buttons to press in an emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"If something blew up, I would think, 'Oh Christ! What wire goes where?'\"\n\nMore tributes came from viewers, fellow broadcasters and the scientific community.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Helen Gittos lost her baby Harriet in August 2014 when she was eight days old, and she believes her daughter's death was preventable.\n\nA BBC News investigation has uncovered more preventable baby deaths at an East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust which has already been criticised for its maternity services.\n\nHelen spoke to the BBC's Michael Buchanan, and said she was told her baby's death was due to her decision to refuse to have appropriate medical treatment - which she and her husband deny.\n\nEast Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust said: \"We accept… that we could have done more to respond to [Helen Gittos's] wishes and help her labour in a calm, low-risk environment as much as possible.\"", "Katrina O'Hara was killed at the barber shop where she worked at in Blandford\n\nA coroner has called for domestic abuse victims to have access to mobile phones after police seized a woman's device days before her murder.\n\nStuart Thomas was jailed for murdering his ex-lover Katrina O'Hara in Blandford, Dorset, in 2016.\n\nAn inquest heard Dorset Police had been warned he was dangerous but took Ms O'Hara's phone as evidence.\n\nCoroner Brendan Allen said he was aware of two forces adopting a policy of not leaving victims without phones.\n\nThe inquest in Bournemouth heard Thomas had been arrested for threatening to kill himself and Ms O'Hara by driving their car into a tree on 30 December 2015, but he was released on police bail after six hours in custody.\n\nPolice did not contact Ms O'Hara to let her know Thomas had been set free.\n\nFollowing an investigation into the case, in 2018 the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) made a national recommendation that all domestic abuse victims should have a means of communication.\n\nStuart Thomas was jailed for life with a minimum term of 26 years\n\nCoroner Brendan Allen heard Dorset Police now has a bank of mobile phones it gives to domestic abuse victims, and this is a practice also adopted by Greater Manchester Police.\n\nThe coroner said: \"The key is ensuring the victim has a replacement [phone].\"\n\nHe said he would be sending a Preventing Future Deaths Report to the policing minister so forces across England and Wales are aware of the case.\n\nThe coroner will also be making recommendations concerning how the police database is used for flagging concerns, 999 call handling procedures and, when assessing risk, to view a suicidal perpetrator as a significant risk to the abuse victim.\n\nIn a statement, Ms O'Hara's family said there had been \"very serious failings\" in the police response.\n\n\"Our Mum's case is not unique, and our only hope is that her death will serve as a wake-up call to the government and police forces across the country to not brush domestic violence issues under the carpet.,\" they said.\n\nMs O'Hara was killed at a barber shop in Blandford\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will formally step down as senior royals from 31 March, a spokesperson for the couple has said.\n\nThey will no longer carry out duties on behalf of the Queen but arrangements will be reviewed after 12 months.\n\nEarlier this year Harry and Meghan announced they would be stepping back from royal duties and working to become financially independent.\n\nThey will return to the UK for engagements at the end of this month.\n\nThe couple intend to split their time between the UK and North America and the spokesperson said they would be in the UK \"regularly\".\n\nThey will attend six events in the UK in February and March, including the Commonwealth Day Service on 9 March.\n\nHarry is also expected to attend the London Marathon in April in his capacity as patron, while the couple will also attend the Invictus Games in the Netherlands in May.\n\nThe couple will formally retain their HRH titles but will not use them. The use of the word \"Royal\" is under discussion, the spokesperson said, and an announcement on this will be made alongside the launch of the couple's new non-profit organisation.\n\nHarry and Meghan's foundation applied to trademark the Sussex Royal brand - used on their website and social media - in June last year.\n\nAs the couple will no longer be undertaking engagements in support of the Queen, they will not be retaining an office at Buckingham Palace. Instead, from 1 April they will be represented via their UK foundation, the spokesperson said.\n\nHarry will retain the ranks of Major, Lieutenant Commander, and Squadron Leader but his honorary military positions will be suspended. The roles will not be filled by anyone else during the 12-month review period.\n\nFurther details about the couple's new charitable organisation will be released later this year but the spokesperson said the causes they supported, including the Commonwealth, community, youth empowerment and mental health, would remain the same.\n\nHarry's priorities also include the welfare of servicemen and women, conservation and HIV, while Meghan has focused on women's empowerment, gender equality and education.\n\nThe couple and their son Archie spent time in Canada over Christmas\n\nThe duke and duchess announced earlier this year that they planned to step back as senior royals. Details of how this would work were then unveiled, following days of talks with the Queen and other senior royals.\n\nThe couple had previously spoken about how they had struggled under the media spotlight.\n\nThe couple have been in Canada with their son Archie for much of this year, after briefly returning to the UK in January following an extended six-week Christmas break on Vancouver Island.", "The claim: Staff shortages can be dealt with by training the 8.5 million people who are economically inactive.\n\nReality Check verdict: Many of those people are students, carers, sick or retired - and fewer than two million of them say they would actually like to have a job.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel was asked on the BBC's Breakfast programme about the ways in which businesses might be able to deal with staff shortages under the government's new immigration system.\n\n\"We have over 8.45 million people in the UK aged between 16 and 64 who are economically inactive,\" she said.\n\n\"We want businesses to invest in them, invest in skilling them up.\"\n\nThe latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show 8.48 million 16- to 64-year-olds are economically inactive, so the home secretary is right on this.\n\nThe ONS breaks down some of the reasons they fall into this category.\n\nThe biggest category is students, who account for 27% of the inactive. They may be able to take on part-time jobs, but could not be relied upon to deal with the staff shortages that some business groups have warned about.\n\nAnother 26% of the inactive population count as sick - almost all of whom are long-term sick.\n\nNext up, 22% of the inactive are those who are looking after their homes or caring for family members.\n\nThe fourth most common reason for economic inactivity is people who have retired before the age of 65 - that's 13% of the total.\n\nThere is a very small category - less than half a percent - who describe themselves as \"discouraged workers\".\n\nThe last 11% are classified as \"other\", which includes people who say they have not yet started looking for work, those awaiting the results of job applications and some who say they do not need to work.\n\nThe ONS says that of the 8.48 million economically inactive people:\n\nSo those 1.87 million could be targeted by businesses seeking to invest in their skills - although there may be various reasons why they are not currently looking for work.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hilda Clulow celebrated her 111th birthday with a 1940's themed party in March 2019\n\nThe UK's oldest woman has died at the age of 111.\n\nHilda Clulow was one of six siblings, and married Arthur Clulow when she was 29 years old.\n\nMrs Clulow, who had one son and seven grand and great-grandchildren, worked as a dressmaker at Balsall Heath Factory from the age of 16 to 60.\n\nShe died at Bowood Court & Mews Care Home in Redditch on Christmas Eve. Staff said: \"We all loved her and were very proud of her.\"\n\nMrs Clulow died surrounded by family and friends on Christmas Eve\n\nJackie Hayden, a care assistant at Bowood Court & Mews, said: \"Hilda changed everyone's life within the home. I don't feel that she truly knew how much she was loved, although we made sure we told her every day.\n\n\"I feel privileged to have known Hilda and had the opportunity to have cared for her. She will never be forgotten.\"\n\nDawn Leaver, the care home's manager, said: \"I will never forget the honour of creating some wonderful birthday celebrations for her and I'll remember her with a glass of sherry; her favourite tipple.\"\n\nWhen she turned 110, her son, Barry said he was \"very proud\" of his mother.\n\nEngland's oldest man is 111-year-old Bob Weighton, who was born in Hull on 29 March 1908.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A patient at King's College Hospital in London played the violin while surgeons operated on her brain to remove a tumour.\n\nDagmar Turner, 53, played the violin so surgeons could ensure parts of the brain which control hand movements and coordination were not damaged during the millimetre-precise procedure.\n\nMs Turner, from the Isle of Wight, was diagnosed with a brain tumour after suffering a seizure in 2013.\n\nShe was concerned over losing the ability to play the violin.\n\nHer tumour was located in the right frontal lobe of her brain, close to an area that controls the fine movement of her left hand.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City's \"serious breaches\" of Uefa's club licensing and financial fair play regulations are \"simply not true\", says chief executive Ferran Soriano.\n\nOn Friday, Premier League champions City were handed a two-year Champions League ban and fined 30m euros (£25m).\n\nThe decision is subject to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\n\"The fans can be sure of two things. The first one is that the allegations are false,\" said Soriano.\n\n\"And the second is that we will do everything that can be done to prove so.\"\n• None 'The stakes are high' - why Man City v Uefa is a watershed moment\n\nThe independent Adjudicatory Chamber of the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) said it had found City had broken the rules by \"overstating its sponsorship revenue in its accounts and in the break-even information submitted to Uefa between 2012 and 2016\", adding that the club \"failed to cooperate in the investigation\".\n\nAt the time, City said they were \"disappointed but not surprised\" by the \"prejudicial\" decision and would appeal.\n\nIn response to the allegations of overstating its sponsorship revenues, Soriano - speaking in a video released by the club - said: \"The owner has not put money in this club that has not been properly declared.\n\n\"We are a sustainable football club, we are profitable, we don't have debt, our accounts have been scrutinised many times, by auditors, by regulators, by investors and this is perfectly clear.\"\n\nHe added that the club felt they were \"considered guilty\" on \"every step of the way\".\n\n\"We did cooperate with this process. We delivered a long list of documents and support that we believe is irrefutable evidence that the claims are not true,\" said the Spaniard.\n\n\"It was hard because we did this in the context of information being leaked to the media in the context of feeling that every step of the way, every engagement we had, we felt that we were considered guilty before anything was even discussed.\n\n\"At the end, this is an internal process that has been initiated and then prosecuted and then judged by this FFP [financial fair play] chamber at Uefa.\"\n\nUefa have declined to respond to Soriano's statement.\n\nUefa launched an investigation after German newspaper Der Spiegel published leaked documents in November 2018 alleging City had inflated the value of a sponsorship deal, misleading European football's governing body.\n\nReports alleged City - who have always denied wrongdoing - deliberately misled Uefa so they could meet financial fair play rules requiring clubs to break even.\n\nCity, whose chairman is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, were fined £49m in 2014 for a previous breach of regulations.\n\n\"We provided the evidence but in the end this FFP Investigatory Chamber relied more on out-of-context stolen emails than all the other evidence we provided of what actually happened and I think it is normal that we feel like we feel,\" said Soriano.\n\n\"Ultimately based on our experience and our perception, this seems to be less about justice and more about politics.\"\n\nSoriano added the club was hoping for an \"early resolution\" through a \"thorough process and a fair process\".\n\nHe added: \"My best hope is that this will be finished before the beginning of the summer and until then for us, it is business as usual.\"\n\nCity manager Pep Guardiola has told friends he intends to stay at the club despite the European ban, with his contract set to expire in 2021.\n\nHis contract does have a break clause at the end of this season and it was anticipated he would activate it should City fail to win their appeal, which they will be submitting to the Court for Arbitration in Sport in the next few days.\n\nHowever, it is understood the 49-year-old has said he will not be doing that and remains committed to the club.\n\n\"Obviously, he has been kept informed about this process but this is not something for him to respond to,\" said Soriano.\n\n\"He is focused on the football, he is focusing on the game, the game at hand, the game today, tomorrow and the next weeks. As well as the players.\n\n\"They are calm, they are focused and this matter is more a business matter, a legal matter than a football matter.\"", "The European Union has added the Cayman Islands, a UK overseas territory, to its tax havens blacklist.\n\nIt joins Oman, Fiji and Vanuatu, which have also been accused of failing to crack down on tax abuse.\n\nOxfam, which lobbies for tax reform, said the EU's move was \"encouraging\" but many more places should be blacklisted.\n\nAs well as the Cayman Islands, additions this year include Panama, Palau and the Seychelles.\n\nThe EU said the Cayman Islands, which has no income tax, capital gains tax or corporation tax, does not have \"appropriate measures\" in place to prevent tax abuse, allowing firms to register there despite having minimal presence in the territory.\n\nThe jurisdiction was previously on a ''grey list'' that gave it time to introduce new laws to tackle tax deficiencies. But it did not implement the \"economic substance\" reforms by the deadline as promised, the EU said.\n\nCayman Islands' Premier, Alden McLaughlin, said the government has approved many reforms sought by the EU and has already contacted the EU about the process of being removed from the blacklist.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hon. Alden McLaughlin, MBE, JP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA lobby group for the Cayman financial services industry said it is hopeful a reversal will happen in the \"not too distant future\".\n\nThe Cayman Islands is the first UK territory to be added to the EU blacklist.\n\nBlacklisted countries face difficulties accessing EU funding programmes, while European companies doing business in those jurisdictions have to take additional compliance measures.\n\nThe list, which the EU started in 2017 to put pressure on countries to crack down on tax havens and unfair competition, included 15 countries in 2018 but has shrunk.\n\nOfficials said that Turkey, which is currently on the \"grey\" list, would not be moved to the blacklist despite concerns about its information sharing with some EU member states.\n\nOxfam, which has campaigned on tax, said other British territories, such as the British Virgin Islands, deserve to be added to the list, as do some places within the EU.\n\n\"While it is encouraging that the Cayman Islands has finally been added to the blacklist, the list itself still proves wholly inadequate,\" the organisation said.\n\n\"The EU needs to strengthen its blacklisting criteria, put its own house in order and push for an ambitious and effective minimum tax rate at global level.\"", "John and his wife, Joan, are publicising what happened to warn other people to be vigilant\n\nA 102-year-old man fought off an intruder who tried to force his way into his home.\n\nJohn suffered cuts and extensive bruising trying to stop the man, who tried to get into the property in Lincoln on Tuesday by claiming he needed to check the lights.\n\n\"I thought that sounds a bit dodgy,\" said the centenarian.\n\nHe and his wife Joan, 97, said they were very shaken up by the incident. Police have appealed for information.\n\nIt is the second attack at their home in six months and the couple said they wanted to publicise what happened to warn others about the risks of answering the door to strangers.\n\nJohn said he knew something was wrong when the man told him why he was there.\n\n\"By that time he had pushed the door wide open and stepped in, and I said 'you're not going to come in here mate'.\"\n\n\"He gave me a few clouts - I was hoping to give him a few back, and he ran away. He must have been frightened.\"\n\nJohn suffered extensive bruising after fighting off the intruder\n\nThe couple's daughter, Jill, said: \"The man damaged my dad's arm really badly. There was blood all over.\n\n\"My dad was really shook up and it's upset my mum. This is the second time it has happened in six months.\n\n\"Give him his due, for his age, he did have a go back.\"\n\nIn a previous incident, the couple let a man into the house who had claimed to be a gas engineer. A handbag and purse were stolen.\n\n\"We are used to going to the door and opening it, but you can't now,\" Joan said.\n\nLincolnshire Police said they were investigating the latest attack, and another nearby on the same day where cash was stolen from a woman in her 90s.\n\nCh Insp Phil Baker said: \"These two incidents are clearly concerning because they involve elderly and vulnerable victims.\n\n\"In both incidents the offender has used force to push past the occupants and, in one case, stolen cash.\"\n\nHe said anyone with information should contact the force.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Providers of social care in the UK have told Newsnight they have seen a \"frightening\" decline in the numbers of EU nationals applying for jobs in the sector.\n\nJane Stewart from Peach Nursing said she currently employed just one British carer out of 44.\n\nShe said a drop in EU nationals applying for jobs meant that for the first time in 14 years she was forced to tell people: \"I can't help you.\"\n\nBut the Department for Health and Social Care said the numbers of EU nationals working in the sector had risen since the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nThe department also said they “recognise the invaluable contribution of care workers” and they “remain focused on reaching a deal with the EU which benefits the health and care workforce”.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The Daily Telegraph newspaper placed with business and computing magazines in a WH Smith store\n\nRetailer WH Smith removed the Daily Telegraph newspaper from its shelves in UK railway station outlets in a dispute over pricing.\n\nThe move comes after the Telegraph raised prices on its daily and Sunday editions by 25% earlier this month.\n\nHowever, the publisher has not yet increased the amount it pays retailers to carry the newspaper.\n\nTwitter users have been uploading photos of Telegraph newspaper stacks being moved within shops.\n\nTelegraph papers were moved out of the newspaper section and on to magazine racks in High Street shops and airport travel outlets, but were still on sale.\n\nHowever, the newspaper was removed entirely from about 120 shops in railway stations, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday 19 February.\n\nWH Smith and the Telegraph told the BBC in a joint statement on Friday 21 February: \"Both parties are pleased that discussions have now been resolved. The Telegraph will return to its usual position on newsstands in all branches of WH Smith from this weekend.\n\n\"The Telegraph and WH Smith look forward to working together with activity which supports the Telegraph's subscription strategy.\"\n\nFrom 1 February, the daily edition of the Telegraph now retails at £2.50, while the Sunday Telegraph is priced at £2.80.\n\nRetailers have been told that they will continue to receive 43p per copy sold until August. From August onwards, the Telegraph will pay retailers the higher price of 51.2p per copy sold.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CARPET This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn internal memo seen by the FT on 14 February instructed more than 500 WH Smith stores to move the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph from the \"news\" section and place the papers with magazines \"with immediate effect\".\n\nA number of people have posted pictures on Twitter wondering why the Telegraph was placed in front of popular business magazines such as the Economist, Bloomberg and Prospect.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ducks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA sign in one store said: \"The Telegraph - These newspapers can be found alongside Business Magazines\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Emma Crawley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNewspapers continue to see slides in advertising revenue for print, as brands increasingly focus more on digital and broadcast advertising.\n\nSales of the print editions have plummeted in recent years, with the Daily Telegraph averaging a daily circulation of 310,586. The Sunday Telegraph sells, on average, 244,351 copies a week.\n\nIn October, the billionaire Barclay twins put the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph up for sale after the publisher reported a 94% plunge in full-year profits compared with the previous financial year.\n\nAt the same time, the Telegraph announced that it would end its promotion offering WH Smith customers a free copy of the newspaper when they bought a bottle of water, as it refocused on selling more subscriptions to its website.\n\nA source has told the BBC the brothers are not under any time pressure to sell the paper, which could happen over the next 12-18 months.", "Caroline Flack's family have released an unpublished Instagram post that they say she wrote shortly before she died.\n\nIt came ahead of the inquest into the death of the former Love Island host, which opened on Wednesday.\n\nThe inquest heard that the 40-year-old presenter was apparently found hanged in her London flat on Saturday.\n\nThe unpublished post said her \"whole world and future was swept from under my feet\" when she had been arrested for assaulting her boyfriend in December.\n\nHer mother said Flack had been advised not to publish the message, which has now been shared through the Eastern Daily Press.\n\nThe TV presenter was found dead in her home weeks before she was due to stand trial on charges of assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton.\n\nFlack pleaded not guilty to the alleged assault at a court hearing in December and was released on bail.\n\nShe was ordered to stop any contact with Mr Burton ahead of the trial, which was due to begin in March.\n\nFlack's mother Chris told the Norfolk newspaper that her daughter showed her the wording of the post in January, but was told not to post it by advisers.\n\nShe added that the family wanted people to read it. \"Carrie sent me this message at the end of January but was told not to post it by advisers but she so wanted to have her little voice heard,\" she said, according to the paper.\n\n\"So many untruths were out there but this is how she felt and my family and I would like people to read her own words.\n\n\"Carrie was surrounded by love and friends but this was just too much for her.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\n\"For a lot of people, being arrested for common assault is an extreme way to have some sort of spiritual awakening but for me it's become the normal.\n\n\"I've been pressing the snooze button on many stresses in my life - for my whole life. I've accepted shame and toxic opinions on my life for over 10 years and yet told myself it's all part of my job. No complaining.\n\n\"The problem with brushing things under the carpet is they are still there and one day someone is going to lift that carpet up and all you are going to feel is shame and embarrassment.\n\n\"On December the 12th 2019 I was arrested for common assault on my boyfriend. Within 24 hours my whole world and future was swept from under my feet and all the walls that I had taken so long to build around me collapsed. I am suddenly on a different kind of stage and everyone is watching it happen.\n\n\"I have always taken responsibility for what happened that night. Even on the night. But the truth is... It was an accident.\n\n\"I've been having some sort of emotional breakdown for a very long time.\n\n\"But I am NOT a domestic abuser. We had an argument and an accident happened. An accident. The blood that someone SOLD to a newspaper was MY blood and that was something very sad and very personal.\n\n\"The reason I am talking today is because my family can't take anymore. I've lost my job. My home. My ability to speak. And the truth has been taken out of my hands and used as entertainment.\n\n\"I can't spend every day hidden away being told not to say or speak to anyone.\n\n\"I'm so sorry to my family for what I have brought upon them and for what my friends have had to go through.\n\n\"I'm not thinking about 'how I'm going to get my career back.' I'm thinking about how I'm going to get mine and my family's life back.\"\n\nAfter her death, Flack's management company said she had been \"under huge pressure\" since her arrest and criticised the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for refusing to drop the charge, even though Mr Burton said he did not want the case to go ahead.\n\nThe CPS said it would not comment on the specifics of the case, but it outlined how it reached decisions over whether or not to charge someone.\n\nGuidelines say domestic abuse prosecutions do not automatically stop if the complainant withdraws their support.\n\nThe guidance also says police officers must draw evidence of the suspect's mental health issues to the attention of the prosecutor.", "About 3,700 people have been quarantined on board the Diamond Princess for two weeks\n\nBritons stranded on a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have been told by the UK Foreign Office to stay onboard.\n\nThere are 74 British nationals on the Diamond Princess ship, which was quarantined on 3 February after an outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nPassengers from other nations who had tested negative began to disembark on Wednesday.\n\nThe Foreign Office warned Britons may struggle to board a planned evacuation flight if they leave the ship.\n\nIt is understood those who get off may encounter administrative or logistical problems that prevent them from boarding the repatriation flight back to the UK.\n\nThe government said an accommodation block at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral - where two previous groups were quarantined - would be used to isolate those returning from the Diamond Princess for 14 days.\n\n\"There is no risk to the public, and the hospital will continue to run as normal,\" the Department of Health said.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the Foreign Office said it is planning an evacuation flight from Tokyo to the UK \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"We hope the flight will be later this week, subject to permissions from the Japanese authorities,\" it said.\n\n\"However there is a chance that people who disembark will not be able to join the evacuation flight.\n\n\"We have the utmost concern for the affected Britons and strongly encourage them to register for the evacuation flight.\"\n\nTwo Britons on the ship, Sally and David Abel, say they have tested positive for the virus\n\nMeanwhile, British couple David and Sally Abel, from Northampton, remain on the cruise ship after testing positive for the virus - known as Covid-19.\n\nTheir son, Steve Abel, confirmed the diagnosis on Wednesday, following doubts over the results the previous day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Steve said his father told him his diagnosis had been confirmed again by an English-speaking doctor and the couple are waiting to leave the ship for treatment.\n\nDavid Abel, from Northamptonshire, previously suggested on Facebook that there had been a \"massive communication error\" before saying that he had \"indeed tested positive for the virus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSteve said that his family were being \"messed about\", and added that his father was diagnosed a couple of years ago with early-onset dementia.\n\n\"He's very confused with a lot of things and he's not going to be of his normal state of mind,\" he said. \"I just want people to realise that he's going to be saying things that he probably doesn't mean.\"\n\nHe said his parents have been told to stay in their room as other passengers disembark the ship.\n\n\"I don't want them separated,\" he said. \"That's our worst fear. With my dad's early-onset dementia, he could wake up one morning, I'm not saying it's that bad at the moment, but he could wake up a bit confused so my mum needs to be there with him.\"\n\nPassengers who had no symptoms and tested negative for the virus had their temperatures checked before leaving\n\nThere have been more than 500 confirmed cases of the virus Covid-19 on the ship\n\nThe cruise ship operator and Japanese officials allowed some passengers to disembark the ship at 07:00 local time (22:00 GMT, Tuesday), once they were given the all-clear.\n\nThe ship was quarantined at Yokohama port earlier this month, with some 3,700 passengers and crew on board.\n\nBBC News correspondent Laura Bicker said the first passengers who stepped off the cruise ship quickly made their way onto waiting coaches, while some even decided to take a taxi.\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 79 new cases of the virus onboard the ship, bringing the total to 621 confirmed cases, Japanese officials said.\n\nIt is the largest cluster of cases outside China.\n\nThe US has already evacuated more than 300 of its citizens from the ship. South Korea, Canada, Australia, Israel and Hong Kong are also planning evacuations.\n\nThe ship has been in Yokohama, a city south of Tokyo\n\nEarlier, Japan's health minister said all passengers still on board had been tested for the virus and those who had tested negative would start leaving the ship on Wednesday.\n\nAnother British passenger on board the ship, Elaine Spencer, said she had been \"very disappointed\" with the UK government's initial response and said a rescue flight should have been organised sooner.\n\nShe told Radio 4's Today programme that British passengers who wanted to get on the rescue flight had to sign an agreement that they would go into quarantine for 14 days on their return to the UK.\n\n\"I need to go home, I want to see my family but obviously it's going to be another 14 days (after the flight). I wish that they'd decided to do this last week.\"\n\nIt comes as Alan Steele, a British honeymooner diagnosed with coronavirus on the cruise ship, announced on Facebook that he had left hospital.\n\nMr Steele said he is in a hotel in Yokohama and has been told he will need to spend two weeks in quarantine when he returns to the UK.\n\nCovid-19 has now claimed 2,004 lives in China, according to the latest Chinese data released on Wednesday.\n\nThere have been 74,185 confirmed infections recorded in mainland China and about 700 cases in other countries.\n\nIrish foreign minister Simon Coveney confirmed two out of six Irish passengers on the Princess Diamond tested positive for the virus and are being treated in hospital in Japan.\n\nMr Coveney said the passengers have dual citizenship with another EU member state and did not normally live in Ireland - but that the Irish embassy in Tokyo was in contact with them.\n\nThe president of Princess Cruises, Jan Swartz, said the company has sent more doctors and nurses on to the ship.\n\nThe Foreign Office is advising affected British nationals to call the British embassy in Tokyo on +81 3 5211 1100.\n\nIn the UK, a total of 5,216 people had been tested for cornoavirus, as of Wednesday at 14:00 GMT. Only nine people have tested positive and the rest have been confirmed negative.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happening on the Diamond Princess cruise ship? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Scotland has criticised the UK, Australia and New Zealand for suspending their funding of the body that runs the international organisation, the BBC has learned.\n\nIn a confidential letter to diplomats in London, Lady Scotland describes the three countries as using a \"big stick\" to \"punish\" the Commonwealth Secretariat over concerns about its financial procedures.\n\nShe urged the countries to reverse their decision to withhold almost £7m a year, which she says has left her organisation facing a financial crisis. She claimed small member states in particular would suffer from the loss of funding.\n\nIn the letter, which was leaked to the BBC, the former Labour minister also appealed to Commonwealth diplomats to end what she called the \"biased leaks\" of \"classified information\" from within the organisation that, she claimed, had generated \"malicious media stories\".\n\nLady Scotland announced earlier that she had formally asked to be reappointed for a second four-year term of office.\n\nCommonwealth heads of government will decide if she should get a second term at their summit in Rwanda in June. Some member states are known to be seeking alternative candidates.\n\nLady Scotland's letter followed a meeting of Commonwealth high commissioners in London - who together form the organisation's board of governors - to discuss an internal audit report by accountants KPMG into the secretariat's financial procedures.\n\nThe report found that normal competitive tendering rules at the secretariat had been waived 50 times over three years.\n\nLady Scotland was herself accused of circumventing the rules when she awarded a lucrative contract to a company run by a friend, something her lawyers insisted was fully justified.\n\nIt is not yet known if another candidate will challenge Lady Scotland for the secretary-general role she has held since 2016\n\nThe UK, Australia and New Zealand have told Lady Scotland their voluntary funding for the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (CFTC) will be suspended until external auditors have confirmed the secretariat has tightened up its financial procedures.\n\nIn her letter - dated 13 February - Lady Scotland claimed her secretariat had implemented most of the recommendations made by KPMG.\n\nIn her account of the meeting on 6 February, Lady Scotland added: \"Three of the 54 member states have indicated that they will hold or reduce CFTC contributions. A large number of board members regretted this decision and appealed to the three countries to reconsider their decision.\n\n\"It was said that money should not be used as a 'big stick' to punish the Commonwealth as developing countries, especially small states, will suffer the consequences of these cuts.\"\n\nLady Scotland also appealed to the diplomats to \"think carefully\" about leaks to the media after the BBC obtained a copy of the auditors' report into the secretariat.\n\n\"A number of high commissioners in London and senior officials and ministers in capitals have shown dismay at such malicious media stories,\" she said.\n\n\"They portray a very negative picture of the Commonwealth. We owe a duty of discretion to our member states and the public in general.\n\n\"Such biased leaks distort the reality, present half-truths out of context and put the good work of the staff and member states in jeopardy.\n\n\"This is not, and cannot be believed to be, in the collective interest of Commonwealth countries collectively.\"\n\nShe added: \"No organisation can function properly if classified information on sensitive matters are persistently leaked to the press.\n\n\"It jeopardises the organisation's reputation. I know that the Commonwealth is precious to us all. This letter is an appeal to think about the issue of media leaks carefully.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Commonwealth Secretariat said the organisation did not comment on leaked documents.", "Two Britons on the ship, Sally and David Abel, have told their son they have tested positive for the virus\n\nDoubts have been raised over whether a British couple on a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for coronavirus as earlier believed.\n\nThe son of Sally and David Abel, from Northamptonshire, told the BBC his parents said they had both tested positive and were going to hospital.\n\nHowever, hours later David Abel suggested on Facebook there had been a \"massive communication error\".\n\nThe couple are among 74 British nationals on the Diamond Princess ship.\n\nThe ship, which was quarantined on 3 February, is in the port of Yokohama.\n\nOn Tuesday, Japanese officials said there were 88 new cases of infection on board the ship, bringing the total to 542 confirmed cases. It is the largest cluster of cases outside China.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"working to organise a flight back to the UK\" for British nationals and an evacuation is expected to take place within the next two to three days.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign Office said it had \"the utmost concern\" for the British people on the ship and was \"ensuring those who have been diagnosed with coronavirus receive the best possible care in Japan\".\n\nMr and Mrs Abel's son Steve told BBC Breakfast that his father had emailed him on Tuesday morning to tell him they had both tested positive.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday evening, a Facebook post from Mr Abel's account explained the confusion over the positive test, saying the Japanese quarantine officials did not speak any English.\n\nHe added: \"The consulate in Tokyo are being very good with me. I am being listened to and Sally & I feel really well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Abel, the son of a British couple on board the Diamond Princess, says they are \"in the dark\"\n\nEarlier, Steve said he could hear his father vomiting in the bathroom while on the phone to his mother earlier but he believed it was due to \"shock\" rather than a symptom of the disease.\n\nThe conditions on the ship had made it difficult for his father to manage his type-2 diabetes, he said, adding that he would prefer his parents to be quarantined in the UK \"where the food is more suitable for my dad\".\n\n\"I'm not actually that worried about the virus - looking at the recovery stats. It is more about the stress, the diet,\" Steve said.\n\nSteve said the UK government's treatment of his parents had been \"appalling\", adding: \"They haven't got back to us on anything and we have been calling them every day for four or five days.\"\n\n\"They are very high-spirited people,\" he said. \"But in the last two days I've seen the cracks in the armour and they are getting down.\"\n\nAbout 3,700 people are quarantined on board the Diamond Princess\n\nAnother British passenger on board the ship, Elaine Spencer, said she had been \"very disappointed\" with the UK government's initial response and they should have organised a rescue flight sooner.\n\nShe told Radio 4's Today programme that British passengers who wanted to get on the rescue flight had to sign an agreement that they would go into quarantine for 14 days on their return to the UK.\n\nShe said they had received a note from the Foreign Office which told them that if they didn't get on the flight, it was unlikely they would be allowed out of Japan.\n\n\"I need to go home, I want to see my family but obviously it's going to be another 14 days (after the flight). I wish that they'd decided to do this last week.\"\n\nThe US chartered two planes to bring back its citizens from the cruise ship\n\nThe president of Princess Cruises, Jan Swartz, said the company has sent more doctors and nurses on to the ship.\n\nThere is still uncertainty over whether passengers will be allowed to leave the ship at the end of the 14-day quarantine period on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to official figures on Monday, four Britons with confirmed coronavirus are currently in hospital in Japan.\n\nIrish foreign minister Simon Coveney confirmed two out of six Irish passengers on the Princess Diamond tested positive for the virus and are being treated in hospital in Japan.\n\nMr Coveney said the passengers have dual citizenship with another EU member state and did not normally live in Ireland - but that the Irish embassy in Tokyo was in contact with them.\n\nOn Tuesday South Korea joined the list of the countries and territories also planning to get their residents off the ship - a list which already includes Canada, Australia, the UK, Israel and Hong Kong.\n\nThe US has already repatriated more than 300 of its citizens from the ship.\n\nIn a statement in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Foreign Office said its staff had been making \"necessary arrangements\" with British nationals onboard the ship to organise a flight back to the UK.\n\n\"We urge all those who have not yet responded to get in touch immediately,\" it added.\n\nAffected British nationals should call the British embassy in Tokyo on +81 3 5211 1100.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The MS Westerdam docked in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, after being turned away from five ports\n\nMeanwhile, a search continues for passengers who disembarked the MS Westerdam cruise ship in Cambodia, after a woman who had been onboard the ship tested positive for the virus.\n\nEarly fears of the ship being affected by the virus meant it was turned away from five ports in Asia. Passengers were allowed off the ship on Friday after no cases were found among the 2,257 people onboard, cruise line firm Holland America said.\n\nThe 83-year-old American woman tested positive after disembarking from the ship and then travelling to Malaysia.\n\nAn undisclosed number of Britons who were on the Westerdam are being tested for coronavirus in Cambodia, the Foreign Office said.\n\nAs of Tuesday at 14:00 GMT, in the UK a total of 4,916 people had been tested for coronavirus. Only nine people have tested positive and the rest have been confirmed negative.\n\nIn a phone call, President Xi of China thanked Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the UK's donation of \"vital medical equipment\" to help China cope with the virus outbreak, a Downing Street spokeswoman said.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happening on the Diamond Princess cruise ship? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Struggling retailer Laura Ashley has secured a loan to fund its day-to-day operations following speculation about its survival.\n\nThe fashion and home store had been in talks with US bank Wells Fargo about terms for drawing on a £20m loan facility.\n\nShares in Laura Ashley surged 45% on the news, rebounding from falls earlier in the week.\n\nOn Monday, the firm said trading was \"challenging\".\n\nSales fell by nearly 11% in the second half of 2019.\n\nIt said that its majority shareholder, the Malaysian group MUI, had been in talks with Wells Fargo about funds to allow it to continue trading.\n\nThe company's share price took a hit after the firm said it had seen a decline in the sales of larger, more expensive items and that customer deposit levels have shrunk. That in turn triggered a restriction on how much it could draw from the loan facility it has with Wells Fargo.\n\nIn an update to the London Stock Exchange, Laura Ashley said that it should be able to use the funds to \"meet its immediate funding requirements\". The group said, however, that the money was \"not a cash injection\".\n\nIn December 2018, Laura Ashley earmarked 40 stores for closure, amid tough trading conditions on the UK High Street. Total group sales fell 10.8% to £109.6m in the second half of 2019.\n\nFounded in 1953, Laura Ashley was a prominent name on the High Street and one of the world's leading clothing brands in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nBut it has struggled to stay relevant, with the share price tumbling 90% over the past five years.\n\nIndependent retail analyst Teresa Wickham said that the brand was the first to tap into key trends some decades ago, but that it \"had lost its way\".\n\nShe added: \"There's no clear strategy when it comes to Laura Ashley - it's quite difficult to know whether it's a furniture, homeware or clothing store.\n\n\"The brand needs to do some work to identify who their key customers are now. People are searching for vintage, genuine products - so there's certainly a market for the to tap into.\"", "Protesters destroyed the lawn in front of the college on Monday\n\nThree people have been arrested after climate activists dug up a lawn outside a Cambridge University college.\n\nExtinction Rebellion members destroyed part of the lawn at Trinity College on Monday in a protest over its role in a major development in the countryside.\n\nFour other people were held following further acts of criminal damage in the city on Tuesday, police said.\n\nThe five women and two men are in custody and investigations are continuing.\n\nTwo of those arrested are also suspected of obstructing a police officer.\n\nActivists involved in digging up the lawn said the action was taken against \"the destruction of nature\".\n\nTrinity owns Innocence Farm in Trimley St Martin, Suffolk, where plans were submitted for a lorry park. The scheme was rejected.\n\nPolice said Trinity College was assisting with the investigation.\n\nOn Sunday, Extinction Rebellion members set up a week-long road blockade in Cambridge and last week a meeting had to be abandoned when a protester abseiled into the city council chamber.\n\nOn the third day of action, about 40 protesters gathered outside a research centre run by global oilfield services firm Schlumberger, to the west of the city.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A judge who dismissed a woman's claim she had been raped, as she had done \"nothing physically\" to stop the alleged perpetrator, is among a number of family court judges to hold \"outdated views\", a joint letter says.\n\nIn it, over 130 lawyers and women's rights groups call for Judge Tolson's continuing cases to be reviewed.\n\nAnd they say family court judges should be trained on the \"meaning of consent\".\n\nThe Judiciary said a commitment to further training had since been made.\n\nThe case centred around a man who had asked to be allowed to spend time with his son, who was in the care of his former partner.\n\nShe objected because she said the man had been controlling and had raped her.\n\nIn his ruling, Judge Tolson told the family court because the woman \"was not in any sense pinned down\", she \"could easily, physically, have made life harder\" for the man - and it \"did not constitute rape\".\n\nThe woman later argued the judge's approach had led to her losing the legal battle with the man.\n\nThe letter - signed by organisations including Rape Crisis England and Wales, Women's Aid and the Centre for Women's Justice - says attitudes such as those expressed by the judge \"leave children and women at risk of serious harm\".\n\nAddressed to Justice Secretary Robert Buckland and the family courts president, Sir Andrew McFarlane, it says: \"Increasingly, the courts are no longer seen as a safe place for women who have been abused.\"\n\nIt adds that since the case came to light in the media, it has \"resulted in women contacting some of the signatories to this letter with their experiences of [Judge Tolson] and other judges who have expressed similar attitudes.\n\n\"Their concerns have included attitudes about sexual violence as seen in [this case], professional assessment of abusive parents being disregarded without reason and failure to provide special measures during hearings.\"\n\nThe letter is supported by the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales, Dame Vera Baird, the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, and the London Victims' Commissioner, Claire Waxman.\n\nJudge Tolson was also the judge in the case of \"Trish\" - not her real name - deciding the level of contact she and her ex-partner were allowed with their children.\n\n\"I was with my ex-partner for several decades,\" she tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"He was physically abusive and financially and emotionally coercive and controlling. I finally left when he started to abuse my children as well.\"\n\nTrish's ex-partner applied to the courts for contact and was granted access.\n\nHer elder child is now old enough to be able to make their own decision about not going for contact.\n\nBut she says her younger child is \"terrified of going for contact with him and says he's been physically abusive\".\n\n\"All I want is for this to be properly investigated. I've been in court at least 20 times,\" she says.\n\n\"He can afford lawyers but... I have to represent myself.\n\n\"He's continuing to control me and abuse - and that's enabled by the courts.\n\n\"The children's voices are not heard and to not even have the courts protecting vulnerable families is really scary.\n\n\"I am deeply concerned for the future of my children and their safety.\"\n\nThe woman whose rape claim was dismissed by Judge Tolson has now had her appeal upheld by a High Court judge, over its handling.\n\nMs Justice Russell, ordered a fresh case to be held before a different judge and said specialist training was needed on how family-court judges dealt with sexual assault allegations.\n\nThe letter welcomes her recommendations but adds: \"There are wider systemic issues, including some lack of understanding of domestic abuse and serious sexual assault and a failure to apply the practice directions to afford victims a fair trial.\n\n\"This is despite training and clear rules.\"\n\nIt calls for the appointment of \"appropriately trained domestic-abuse champions in each family court\", greater accountability for judges and specific training on the meaning of consent and free will for all family-court judges.\n\nThe UK Judiciary said in a statement that \"prior to the delivery of the appeal judgment [in the Judge Tolson case], the president of the Family Division had asked the Judicial College to provide additional bespoke training in dealing with cases of sexually related assault for judges trying domestic abuse cases in the Family Court.\n\n\"The enhanced training will be delivered - initially electronically - from May 2020 and from then on will be included in every continuation training course for the Family judiciary.'\n\nIt said the proposals would see family-court judges given \"similar training to that which is already given to criminal judges who hear serious sexual criminal trials\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice declined to comment.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "A video has emerged which shows the Mexican drug lord Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman in prison.\n\nHe was arrested in 2016 and was found guilty at his drug trafficking trial in 2019, at a federal court in New York.\n\nHe stood trial for drug trafficking charges after successfully evading US and Mexican authorities for years and escaping from prison in Mexico on two occasions - once using an underground tunnel.\n\nGuzman is now serving his sentence in a maximum security prison in the US state of Colorado.\n\nRead more: El Chapo: Five things to know", "The new studios will be built in the new development at Thames Valley Science Park\n\nPlans to develop the \"largest purpose-built film studio\" in the UK have been put forward in Reading.\n\nUS company Blackhall Studios and the University of Reading want to build the new £150m studios at Thames Valley Science Park.\n\nBlackhall said the move would \"bring major Hollywood film productions to the UK\" and create up to 3,000 jobs.\n\nThe company has produced movies such as Venom, Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Jumanji: The Next Level.\n\nThe company said £500m a year would be invested in the complex, which would produce roughly five to seven movies a year and create 1,500 jobs on-site.\n\nThe plans are subject to planning permission being granted by Wokingham Borough Council\n\nRyan Millsap, chairman of Blackhall, which has a studio complex in Atlanta, Georgia, said he was \"excited to be establishing a base in the UK\".\n\nHe said the plans were made after the company's US-based clients Disney, Universal and Sony were \"all asking us to expand into the UK to meet their desire to create productions here\".\n\n\"We hope that the site at Thames Valley Science Park will be the start of a series of investments in the UK which will see investment in jobs, training and the creative arts across a range of disciplines,\" he added.\n\nThe company said the plans would be submitted to Wokingham Borough Council this year, with a view to opening the new facility in 2022.\n\nThe University of Reading, which owns Thames Valley Science Park, said the studio would \"not only benefit the economy, but also its students, the local community and the environment\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kirk Douglas (right) and his son actor Michael Douglas. Photo: November 2018\n\nHis only Oscar was an honorary award but Kirk Douglas became a Hollywood icon, with a film career spanning seven decades.\n\nHe prided himself on playing the tough guys, the sort of characters he once described as \"sons of bitches\".\n\nHe threw himself into his many roles with relish, acting with an intensity that often spilled over into his private life.\n\nAnd he had a fine contempt for the Hollywood studio establishment, something that may well have made his career less successful than it was.\n\nKirk Douglas was born Issur Danielovich Demsky to penniless Jewish immigrants in the city of Amsterdam, New York state, in 1916. His father had fled Russia to escape conscription into the Tsar's army.\n\nOne of seven children, he sold snacks to local mill workers to earn enough money to buy food and in his autobiography claims to have had more than 40 jobs.\n\nIt was when he began acting in school plays that he decided a theatrical career was for him. \"The one thing in my life that I always knew, that was always constant, was that I wanted to be an actor.\"\n\nAlready an inter-collegiate wrestling champion, he paid his way through drama college by fighting professionally, ushering and working as a car park attendant and bellhop.\n\nAce in the Hole saw him play an immoral journalist\n\nHe attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where among his classmates were Betty Joan Perske, later to be known as Lauren Bacall, and the Bermudian actress Diana Dill.\n\nHe began using the name Kirk Douglas while acting during the college break and made his first Broadway appearance under his new name in a small part in a musical.\n\nIn 1941 he enlisted in the US Navy but was invalided out two years later because of injury and, in November 1943, he married his former classmate Diana Dill.\n\nThe marriage lasted eight years and produced two children, Michael, who would follow in his father's footsteps as an actor, and Joel, who became a film producer.\n\nDouglas had initially planned to become a stage actor but Lauren Bacall recommended him to producer Hal B Wallis who was casting The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.\n\nDouglas successfully tested for the lead role, playing opposite Barbara Stanwyck, already an established star.\n\nHe first made his name as a washed-up boxer, Midge Kelly, in Champion in 1949, which earned him the first of three Oscar nominations.\n\nAlthough he never won the coveted award, Douglas was honoured in the 1996 Academy Awards for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the movie industry.\n\nHe won much acclaim for his portrayal of Vincent van Gogh\n\nOne critic claimed the Kelly role epitomised his persona on and off screen as \"a ruthless, selfish, fiercely driven upstart\".\n\nHis ambition was rooted in his humble Russian origins. He was determined to defy privilege and anti-Semitism.\n\nSeveral of his most famous roles were as villains, such as the ruthless journalist in Ace In The Hole in 1951, who refuses to let sentiment or morality get in the way of a good story.\n\nHe won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life in 1956, but his own lust for power earned him many enemies.\n\nOne of his more notable roles of this period was as Colonel Dax, the commander of a French regiment on the Western Front in the Stanley Kubrick film, Paths of Glory\n\nBased on a real-life incident, Douglas is called upon to defend three soldiers charged with mutiny, who are eventually shot. Douglas resisted attempts by Kubrick to change the ending and reprieve the men.\n\nIn 1957 Douglas set up his own production company Byrna, named after his mother, in a bid to escape the grip of the big studios, which hired and fired at whim.\n\nHe also defied the anti-communist witch-hunts of the McCarthy era by openly hiring a blacklisted writer, Dalton Trumbo, to script Spartacus.\n\nSpartacus represented his own battle against the establishment\n\nThe movie, about a slave who rebelled against the Roman Empire, was seen by many as a metaphor for his own defiance of Tinseltown's power brokers.\n\nDespite being riddled with historical inaccuracies, the film went on to win four Oscars.\n\nDouglas faded from the big screen in the 1970s but in his later years made a fairly successful comeback in films such as Tough Guys with Burt Lancaster and Greedy with Michael J Fox.\n\nHis energy did not flag as he grew older. He became a director, producer and novelist.\n\nDouglas served four US presidents in the role of special ambassador, and in 1981 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.\n\nHe also created a charitable foundation and donated more than $1m to the Motion Picture and Television Fund.\n\nHis autobiography, The Ragman's Son, made the New York Times best-seller list.\n\nDouglas also wrote two novels, Dance with the Devil and The Secret.\n\nAs well as Michael and Joel, the children from his first marriage, he had two more sons, who also followed him into the world of movies.\n\nEric became an actor and Peter became a producer but only his eldest child, Michael, came close to equalling his father's fame.\n\nEric died in 2004 after an overdose of alcohol and prescription drugs, in what authorities in New York ruled was an accidental death.\n\nDouglas, who was given a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute in 1991, suffered a stroke in March 1996 which paralysed one side of his face.\n\nBut despite the stroke affecting his ability to speak, he was able to give the acceptance speech at the 1996 Academy Awards when he received a special award for \"50 years as a moral and creative force in the motion picture community\".\n\nIn the same year he played Chester J Lampwick in an episode of the hit animated series The Simpsons.\n\nHe continued to work, and appeared in films including Diamonds, in which he appeared with his old friend, Lauren Bacall, and It Runs in the Family in 2003, which co-starred his son Michael, grandson Cameron and ex-wife Diana.\n\nKirk Douglas was one of the last great Hollywood stars who began their climb to fame at the end of World War Two and certainly one of the most defiant.\n\n\"I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor,\" he once said. \" I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescue workers have been helping the injured and investigating the site\n\nTwo people have been killed after a high-speed train derailed early on Thursday near the northern Italian city of Lodi, emergency services say.\n\nBoth of the dead are drivers. A cleaner on the train and one other person suffered significant but not life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe train was travelling from Milan to the southern city of Salerno.\n\nAll services on the Milan-Bologna high-speed route have been suspended and diverted via conventional lines.\n\nThe BBC's Mark Lowen in Rome says that while there have been occasional crashes on Italy's regional trains, this is the first such incident on its high-speed Frecciarossa - or Red Arrow - network, the country's transport pride.\n\nThe trains, which run at 300 km/h (186 mph), are generally efficient, punctual and safe.\n\nSeveral people were injured as carriages derailed\n\nThe engine left the tracks some 40km (25 miles) from Milan at around 05:30 local time (04:30 GMT), the railway company said.\n\nIt apparently hit a freight wagon on a parallel track before running into a building and was separated from the rest of the train. Both it and the first carriage turned on their sides.\n\n\"I thought I was dead,\" a survivor told local newspaper Liberta. \"I closed my eyes and prayed.\n\n\"The train was going very fast... suddenly, I felt a violent blow. A really loud roar.\"\n\nThe survivor added that he and a friend were stuck on the train for 15 minutes before escaping through a hole.\n\nThe causes of the accident are being investigated.\n\nAnsa news agency said maintenance work was being carried out on the track where the accident happened.\n\nThere were 28 passengers on the train, Ansa said, a number of whom received minor injuries.\n\nLodi Prefect Marcello Cardona said the accident \"could have been carnage\" but there were only 33 people on the train at the time, and no more fatalities were expected.\n\nDozens of trains were cancelled and others re-routed, train operator Trenitalia said.", "The first minister confirmed Mr Mackay has been suspended from the SNP Image caption: The first minister confirmed Mr Mackay has been suspended from the SNP\n\nThat's all from BBC Scotland's Holyrood Live on Thursday 6 February, on what has been an extraordinary day in Scottish politics.\n\nScotland's finance secretary quit hours before delivering the Scottish budget amid reports that he messaged a 16-year-old boy on social media.\n\nThe Scottish Sun said that Derek Mackay contacted the schoolboy over a six-month period, and told him that he was \"cute\".\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed Mr Mackay has been suspended by the SNP while further investigations are carried out.\n\nShe says she did not know about the \"unacceptable\" behaviour until Wednesday evening.\n\nPublic Finance Minister Kate Forbes took on the task of setting out the government's tax and spend plans for the next year.\n\nMs Forbes confirmed there will be no change to income tax rates. She also committed to extra funding to health, education and investment aimed at tackling the \"climate emergency\".\n\nThe Scottish Parliament now enters recess, though Ms Forbes is expected to appear before the finance committee next Wednesday 12 February to discuss the budget in detail.", "After an impeachment trial that lasted just over two weeks, US President Donald Trump has been cleared and he can now concentrate on running for re-election.\n\nIt was always the likely outcome, but the path of how we got to this conclusion was what made this trial interesting.\n\nHere are four numbers that explain the story - and what happens now.\n\nTrump's popularity in his own party\n• None 94%More Republicans than ever back their president\n\nMr Trump's acquittal in the Senate is a reflection of his popularity among Republicans. If it wasn't clear before the trial that he had the support of the rank and file of his party, then it certainly is clear now.\n\nHe has never been more popular with Republicans (or more unpopular with Democrats). According to a poll by Gallup this week, 94% of Republicans approve of Mr Trump's performance in office. This figure has kept on rising despite his impeachment trial.\n\nGallup also reported that 89% of Republicans approved of Mr Trump during his third year in office - this made him the second most popular president of all time among his own party members.\n\nIt wasn't always like this. Rewind four years and senior Republicans were lining up to condemn Mr Trump, the man who would unexpectedly end up becoming their party's nominee for president.\n\nIn 2016, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowksi vowed not to vote for him. \"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed,\" South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham said in 2016, \"and we will deserve it.\"\n\nMr Trump became the nominee, then the president, and both Ms Murkowski and Mr Graham were there on the Senate floor during his trial to stand by their man. As proven during the 2018 mid-term elections, when several Republican members of Congress who did not fully support Mr Trump lost their races, Republican voters may not forgive anyone who is not loyal to the president.\n\nThe president's popularity doesn't mean his supporters believe he is blameless in the impeachment saga. In a poll conducted by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research last week, only 54% of Republicans believed he had done nothing wrong.\n\nRepublicans in the Senate have a majority of 53 to 47, meaning they control the chamber and were able to direct the terms of the trial.\n\nThat small majority mattered. During the trial, senators had to vote on whether to admit witnesses, and the majority opted not to. Had only four Republicans gone the other way, witnesses may have been allowed - not least former national security adviser John Bolton, whose evidence may well have undermined Mr Trump's case.\n\nFour Republican senators did indeed waver, Utah senator Mitt Romney among them. At one point it looked like they might all vote alongside Democrats and independent senators and agree to allow witnesses. But in the end, all Republicans but Mr Romney and Ms Collins voted with their party, no witnesses were called and the trial wrapped after only 15 days.\n\nThis is the number that ensured Mr Trump was always going to get off. A conviction would have happened only had two-thirds of senators - 67 - supported it.\n\nThis would have required 20 Republican senators to vote for their president's conviction. In the end, only one - Mitt Romney - did.\n\nThis is the amount of money the Trump campaign said it raised in the last quarter of 2019, a huge figure it said was down largely to Trump supporters reacting to the impeachment proceedings.\n\n\"The President's war chest and grassroots army make his re-election campaign an unstoppable juggernaut,\" his campaign manager Brad Parscale said.\n\nWith the trial behind him, Mr Trump is now free to concentrate on his campaign for re-election (although in truth, he never let it interrupt his campaign in the first place).\n\nWill the impeachment have galvanised his supporters even more? Or will it have tainted the president's image, despite his acquittal?\n\nWe'll find out on 3 November.", "Cerys Price (centre) was found to have been in a \"drugged up state\" when she crashed into Robert Dean\n\nA \"drugged-up\" nurse who killed a man in a crash after taking a high dose of prescription painkillers has been jailed for five years and four months.\n\nCerys Price, 28, crossed the central reservation of the A467 near Newport in July 2016 and crashed into the car of Robert Dean, 65. He died at the scene.\n\nPrice, of Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent, had taken tramadol before the crash.\n\nShe denied causing death by dangerous driving, but was found guilty at a trial at Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nShe was also found guilty of causing serious injury by dangerous driving to the passenger in her car, ex-boyfriend Jack Tinklin, 30.\n\nTimothy Evans, prosecuting, said: \"Price had consumed an amount of tramadol significantly higher than any therapeutic range. She was in no way fit to drive a car. She was in a drugged-up state.\n\n\"A completely innocent man, simply minding his own business driving along the opposite side of the road, lost his life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe level of the drug found in Price's blood after the crash was 1,803 micrograms per litre of blood - in excess of any therapeutic level.\n\nMr Dean was travelling to his granddaughter's fourth birthday party when he was killed.\n\nKatherine Harris, Mr Dean's daughter, said: \"We received the devastating news that dad had been killed while in the front garden with my children.\n\n\"We all punished and blamed ourselves for dad being there at that moment.\n\n\"Seconds either way was all that was needed. I found myself questioning why my daughter was born on that day.\"\n\nHis wife, Anne Dean, said the couple were days away from celebrating their 46th wedding anniversary.\n\nShe said in a statement: \"I totally relied on him and he was my rock. I feel totally lost and empty. He was a wonderful husband, son, father and grandfather.\n\n\"I don't think I've been the same since. I struggle to breathe. My lasting memory is seeing him in the mortuary of the Royal Gwent Hospital. I will never forget that he was on his own there.\"\n\nAnother of his three daughters, Helen Howell, said the family had been \"dragged through hell\".\n\nIn a statement outside the court, his family said: \"Our heartache is a life sentence and Cerys' family will also be broken by this.\"\n\nRobert Dean was travelling to his granddaughter's fourth birthday party when he was killed\n\nPrice had not been prescribed the medication, but bought it while in Mexico - she told the court she had taken a single tablet the night before the crash.\n\nJudge Michael Fitton told her: \"This was a seizure induced by tramadol. You have destroyed your good name, you have destroyed your current career.\n\n\"I suspect you cannot bring yourself to admit to your family the level of tramadol you were really consuming.\n\n\"You can, and you will, recover from this. Mr Dean has been denied that opportunity.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Dean's family said he was a \"wonderful son, husband, father and grandfather\"\n\nShe was driving on the A467 between Rogerstone and Bassaleg when she crossed the central reservation in her Isuzu D-max pick-up truck and crashed head-on into Mr Dean's Vauxhall Astra.\n\nPrice and Mr Tinklin intended to go camping, but argued and the defendant turned the car around to go home.\n\nAfter the crash, police searched the car and found a tub of tramadol, which had 26 of 100 tablets left.\n\nDuring Price's trial, an expert toxicologist described the concentration of the drugs in her system as \"toxic or lethal\", with such levels \"associated with seizures\".\n\nPrice told the court she had been diagnosed with epilepsy since the crash and believed she suffered an epileptic fit before the collision.\n\nMr Tinklin described how Price \"slumped\" over the steering wheel and drifted over the central reservation - he said he was not aware Price was taking tramadol.\n\nMr Tinklin was seriously injured in the crash, while Price spent about a month in hospital as a result of her injuries.\n\nKelly Huggins of the CPS said: \"Being a qualified nurse, Cerys Price should have known the dangers of driving after taking these tablets, but she drove nevertheless.\n\n\"Her actions resulted in tragic consequences for an innocent motorist, her passenger and herself.\"\n\nJohn Dye, defending, said: \"She is an extremely hard-working young woman. She made an extremely poor choice on the day. She has shown genuine remorse.\"\n\nSgt Bob Witherall, of Gwent Police, said: \"It was Cerys Price's decision to get behind the wheel and drive, even after taking a strong and unprescribed medical painkiller.\n\n\"Her flagrant disregard for other road users, both inside and outside of the vehicle she was in control of, has resulted in tragedy.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mitch McConnell blocked witnesses at the trial and Nancy Pelosi said it wasn't a real acquittal\n\nAnother rancorous presidential impeachment trial has ended in acquittal. What are the key things we learnt, asks Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University.\n\nThe predictable conclusion to the Trump impeachment leaves the trial as the perfect embodiment of our times - reason found little space in a Senate chamber filled with rage.\n\nTrials often reflect societies and times - captured by jurors selected from the surrounding community. It is not surprising therefore that a jury composed of political representatives should perfectly mirror our politics.\n\nWhat we saw was hardly flattering for either side. One of the most striking aspects is that it really did not matter what people actually said whether it was witnesses or the accused or even the Framers (the people who drafted the US Constitution).\n\nIt was the first entirely dubbed trial where advocates simply supplied the words that fit with their case rather than reality.\n\nI personally watched this phenomenon firsthand as my own views were presented in highly tailored fashion by both sides. It included on videotape played by the House managers showing my rejection of the theory, advanced by one of the White House lawyers, Professor Alan Dershowitz, that crimes are needed for impeachments.\n\nThe edited tape cut off just before I said that, while you can impeach for just abuse of power, it is exceedingly difficult. It did not matter.\n\nConstitutional expert Jonathan Turley testifies in the House impeachment probe in December\n\nIt also did not matter what President Donald Trump himself may have said.\n\nThe Republican majority in the Senate was not interested in hearing from National Security Adviser John Bolton, who reportedly was prepared to say that the president lied in denying that he connected the Ukrainian aid to an investigation of Bidens.\n\nIndeed, while news reports recounted what Bolton said in his book, the White House said that it was merely hearsay since he did not say it directly. It then opposed any effort for him to say it directly as a witness.\n\nIn the end, however, it did not matter what any witness might say on that or other subjects. Their testimony was presumed and many senators declared that, even if they said something against the president, it would not matter.\n\nThat is the real takeaway. It really did not matter what anyone had to say.\n\nTrump weathered the storm of impeachment and is job approval numbers are at an all-time high\n\nIt did not even matter what the Framers said, even when they were being cited for what they said.\n\nAs a Madisonian scholar, I was particularly aggrieved to see Founding Father James Madison used like a marionette to either vilify or vindicate the president.\n\nThe most maddening were the references by Dershowitz, who argued that Madison clearly indicated that a non-criminal act could not be an impeachable offence.\n\nIt did not matter that Madison said the opposite. He not only referred to such non-criminal allegations as \"the incapacity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate\", but the \"loss of capacity or corruption\" that \"might be fatal to the Republic\".\n\nMoreover, in a letter in June 1833, he wrote to Senator Henry Clay over the withholding of a land act as a type of pocket veto. Madison assured him \"an abuse on the part of the President, with a view sufficiently manifest, in a case of sufficient magnitude, to deprive Congress of the opportunity of overruling objections to their bills, might doubtless be a ground for impeachment\".\n\nThat is precisely the type of non-criminal conflict that Dershowitz claimed could not be impeachable. But it did not matter. Those were Madison's view of Madison, not ours.\n\nJames Madison mentioned abuse of power as grounds for impeachment\n\nI wrote once that Senate trials are always about the senators, not the accused. By extension, they are also about us. This country remains divided right down the middle on Donald Trump.\n\nThe trial was like watching a movie where the audience heard only the lines that they came to hear. Indeed, studies indicate that this may be hardwired with people subconsciously tailoring facts to fit their preferences.\n\nResearchers at Ohio State University have found that people tend to misremember numbers to match their own beliefs. They think that they are basing their views on hard data when they are actually subconsciously tailoring that data to fit their biases. In other words, people selectively hear only one side even when being given opposing evidence.\n\nPeople today receive their news in news silos, cable programming that reassuringly offers only one side of the news. This \"echo-journalism\" is based on offering a single narrative without the distraction of contradiction.\n\nRecently, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell declared that his show will not allow Trump supporters on as guests because all Trump supporters are \"liars\". Likewise, Trump recently denounced Fox for even interviewing Democratic senators. When that is the state of our news, why should trials be any different?\n\nIn our hardened political silos, even Framers are bit players in a crushingly formulaic play. Witnesses are as immaterial as facts when the public demands the same predictability from politicians that they do from cable hosts.\n\nWe are all to blame. Politicians achieve their offices by saying what voters want to hear and today voters have little tolerance for hearing anything that contradicts their preset views of Trump.\n\nAs a result, the trial was pre-packed by popular demand. Speaker Nancy Pelosi even declared that Trump would \"not be acquitted\" even if he was acquitted. When the actual vote doesn't matter, why should the actual testimony?\n\nJust as voters get the government that they deserve, they also get the impeachment trials that they demand. Watching on their favourite biased cable networks, voters raged at the bias of the opposing side in the impeachment as refusing to see the truth.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Senate has voted in favour of acquitting President Trump on the impeachment charges\n\nViewers thrilled as their side denounced their opponents and hissed when those opponents returned the criticism. The question and answer period even took on a crossfire format as senators followed up one side's answer with a request for the other side to respond. It was precisely the \"fight, fight\" tempo that has made cable news a goldmine.\n\nAs the trial ends, perhaps justice has been done. The largely partisan vote showed that the trial could have had the sound turned off for the purposes of most viewers.\n\nWe are left with our rage undiluted by reason. It really did not matter what anyone had to say because we were only hearing half of the trial anyway.\n\nIt provided the perfect verdict on our times.\n\nJonathan Turley is legal analyst for the BBC and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He testified at both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings before the House Judiciary Committee", "Philip Hammond and Ken Clarke were thrown out of the parliamentary for opposing a no-deal Brexit\n\nBoris Johnson has nominated two men he kicked out of the Tories in the Commons for opposing him on Brexit for seats in the Lords, the BBC has learned.\n\nFormer Chancellors Ken Clarke and Philip Hammond had the Conservative whip withdrawn last year for attempting to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThey have now stood down as MPs but have continued to be critical of the prime minister's policies.\n\nThe nomination and vetting process for new peers is not yet complete.\n\nBut Mr Clarke and Mr Hammond are on Downing Street's list, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg understands.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of Parliament's best-known Brexiteers, said nobody would object to Mr Clarke's peerage, but added that Mr Hammond's would \"raise an eyebrow\" among Eurosceptics.\n\nDowning Street is also expected to nominate former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, who has also clashed with the prime minister over Brexit in the past, for a seat in the Lords.\n\nThe PM has also put forward two former Labour MPs - Iain Austin and John Woodcock - to sit as non-aligned peers.\n\nThe pair spoke out repeatedly against Jeremy Corbyn during his leadership and eventually quit the Labour party, campaigning in the general election to keep him out of Number 10.\n\nNeither Number 10 nor the House of Lords Appointments Commission, which vets nominations, would comment on the contents of the Dissolution Honours List.\n\nConvention suggests that former Chancellors often end up in ermine. But convention has hardly been in fashion when it comes to Boris Johnson's government.\n\nPhilip Hammond and Ken Clarke were among those expelled from the Tory benches in the autumn, two of 21 MPs removed at a stroke, branded as part of the resistance to Brexit.\n\nBut while these nominations are likely to raise Brexiteer eyebrows, they perhaps signal an interest in making peace after years of internal Tory warfare.\n\nDon't be surprised, too, if there are lots of Eurosceptic and Tory donors' names on the list when it is finally approved and emerges.\n\nThe inclusion of Hammond and Clarke is notable, but we don't know the shape of the full picture yet.\n\nMr Hammond, who was chancellor between 2016 and 2019, was blamed by Tory Brexiteers for trying to block the UK's departure from the European Union, despite voting for Theresa May's withdrawal agreement three times.\n\nHe resigned as chancellor when Mr Johnson won the race to succeed Mrs May as Tory leader, after repeatedly warning the UK would be worse off after a hard Brexit.\n\nHe was then prevented from standing as a Conservative Party candidate at the general election after having the whip withdrawn.\n\nVeteran Europhile Mr Clarke, who stood down as an MP in December after 49 years as an MP, was chancellor between 1993 and 1997.\n\nHe was the only Conservative MP to oppose triggering the Article 50 process for leaving the EU after the 2016 Leave vote.\n\nHe has continued to be highly critical of Mr Johnson's Brexit policies since the election, telling the Guardian in December: \"I could never get out of Boris - and nobody so far could get out of Boris - what he has in mind for the eventual deal. To say they're generalities is an understatement.\"\n\nMr Clarke, who unsuccessfully ran to be Tory leader in 1997, 2001 and 2005, has previously said he would accept a peerage if it was offered.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said: \"No one will object to the award of a peerage to Ken Clarke, a great British politician whose record of service is unparalleled.\n\n\"However, Brexiteers will raise an eyebrow at the award of a peerage for Mr Hammond, who is seen to have played such a prominent role in government of frustrating Boris in his drive to deliver Brexit, but recognise this is rightly part of a drive to bring the country back together.\n\n\"However, I hope Philip reciprocates this characteristically generous gesture from Boris by now supporting him in the House of Lords.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marie McCourt: \"I can't given Helen this last goodbye\"\n\nA mother who campaigned for more than 30 years to find out where the remains of her daughter are hidden has told her killer to \"give her child back\".\n\nHelen McCourt disappeared in Merseyside in 1988 and her body has not been found, after searches were carried out.\n\nKiller Ian Simms has been released from prison despite never revealing where he hid the remains of the 22-year-old.\n\nMarie McCourt said him being freed days before the anniversary of her daughter going missing was \"insensitive\",\n\n''All I want, all I've ever wanted, is to have my child back,\" Helen's mother added.\n\n\"Whatever tiny bits of pieces there are. It's my daughter's. And I want them back.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast she continued: \"The part that gets me, I can't give Helen the last goodbye.\n\n\"I didn't think a heart could break twice, but mine did.\"\n\nMarie McCourt (left) has always lived in hope of finding her daughter Helen (right)\n\nMrs McCourt added: \"It's always painful when it's coming up to another anniversary.\n\n\"It's this Sunday and I just feel that it's insensitive to release this person just days before.\"\n\nShe said \"some empathy\" should be shown to \"a grieving mother\".\n\nSimms, who never admitted his guilt, killed Ms McCourt as she walked home from work in Liverpool.\n\nMrs McCourt has campaigned for a change in the law to deny parole to killers who do not disclose the location of their victims' bodies.\n\nThe Prisoners (Disclosure of Information about Victims) Bill, dubbed Helen's Law, failed to be ratified before Parliament when the general election was called.\n\nIan Simms, pictured in 1988, was found guilty of the 22-year-old's abduction and murder\n\nThe legislation has been reintroduced since the reopening of Parliament but no date has yet been set for its debate by MPs.\n\nTalking about Helen's Law, Mrs McCourt said: ''I kept telling myself I'm strong enough to do it. That, OK it may not benefit my case but it will hopefully benefit all the people who are going through the same thing as me and all the families who will also follow on.\"\n\nMrs McCourt had also launched a legal challenge to keep Simms in prison ahead of a judicial review of the Parole Board's decision to free him.\n\nBut Lord Justice Dingemans and Mr Justice Fordham refused to postpone his release.\n\nSimms, who has always maintained his innocence, was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 16 years.\n\nHe was eligible to be considered for release in February 2004.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England's schoolboys have had worse exam results than girls for 30 years, secondary school league table data just published confirms.\n\nGirls are now 14% more likely to pass English and maths GCSE than boys, with 64% of girls doing so and 56% of boys.\n\nYet there is little national focus on the difference in results or measures addressing why boys lag behind.\n\nAnd campaigners and academics accuse consecutive governments of ignoring the issue.\n\nCheck how your local schools have done by clicking here.\n\nSorry, your browser does not support this tool. \n\n Please visit the Department for Education. 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Department for Education website\n\nIf you can't see the postcode lookup, click or tap here.\n\nOn current trends, the gap between rich and poor is set to be eclipsed by the gap between males and females, in terms of university entrance, within a decade, campaigners say.\n\nData going back 30 years shows the gap between the percentage of girls' and boys' GCSE passes more than doubled between 1989 and 1999, from four to nine percentage points - a change often attributed to the introduction of GCSEs.\n\nBut there was little change over the next two decades. It remained stable for a few years, then dipped slightly to seven percentage points in 2009, then widened again over the next decade to nine percentage points.\n\nThe former head of university and college admissions services, Mary Curnock Cook said she was \"baffled by this yawning inequality\", which revealed a \"massive policy blind spot\".\n\n\"On current trends, a girl born today will be 75% more likely to go to university than her male peers,\" she said.\n\n\"By then, the gap between women and men will be larger than the gap between rich and poor.\"\n\nThe data also shows the gender gap is apparent in the EBacc, which measures those pupils who achieve a grade 4 or above across the core academic subjects of English, maths, science, history or geography and a language.\n\nIt shows girls are one and a half times more likely to pass all components of the Ebacc, with 28% of girls passing compared with 18% of boys.\n\nThere is now a clear need to tackle the underachievement of boys, according to the Men and Boys Coalition - a group of organisations, academics and individuals campaigning on male equality issues.\n\nChief executive Dan Bell said: \"For decades, this problem has existed but successive governments and the wider education establishment has buried its head in the sand and, in effect, ignored it.\n\n\"There has never been an explanation for this attitude despite clear evidence that generations of boys and young men are being left behind.\n\n\"That attitude can no longer be tolerated if we are to live in a modern inclusive society that truly tackles inequality.\n\n\"The time has now come that we must see positive action from the government and the wider education establishment to not just recognise this critical inequality faced by boys and young men but to systematically create strategies to tackle it.\"\n\nSchool Standards Minister Nick Gibb focussed on the achievement gap between disadvantaged pupils and their better off peers, saying it remains stable, but highlighting that it has dropped by about 9% since 2011.\n\nHe added: \"The EBacc is instrumental in driving up educational standards.\n\n\"Overall more pupils are studying these core academic subjects than at any time since the EBacc measure was introduced and the entry rate is particularly high in our free schools.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's online health editor on what we know about the virus\n\nThe third person in the UK to be diagnosed with coronavirus caught it in Singapore, it is understood.\n\nHe is thought to have tested positive for the virus in Brighton before being taken to hospital in London.\n\nThe government is now telling travellers arriving in the UK from a total of nine Asian countries and territories to check for symptoms.\n\nThey are advised to stay at home and call the NHS if they are ill and have flown home in the past 14 days.\n\nThe initial advice had only covered mainland China, but now also includes:\n\nAnyone returning in the past fortnight from those place who has symptoms like a cough, fever, or shortness of breath should stay indoors and call the NHS 111 service.\n\nThe Department of Health said they should do so \"even if symptoms are mild\", adding: \"These countries have been identified because of the volume of air travel from affected areas, understanding of other travel routes and number of reported cases. This list will be kept under review.\"\n\nThe new UK patient is understood to be a middle-aged man who was isolated at home, tested positive and was taken to St Thomas's Hospital in central London, where he is being treated at a specialist infectious diseases unit. It had previously been reported he was at Guy's Hospital in the city.\n\nIt is the first UK case in which the virus was contracted outside mainland China.\n\nThe NHS is \"well prepared\" to manage cases, said Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer. He added: \"We are now working quickly to identify any contacts the patient has had.\"\n\nThere have been more than 28,000 cases worldwide.\n\nOf these, 565 people have died but only two of the deaths have been outside mainland China - one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.\n\nMeanwhile, the Chinese ambassador to the UK warned against \"panic\" and \"over-reaction\" in response to the virus.\n\nTwo other patients - both Chinese nationals - are still being treated at the Royal Victoria Infirmary infectious diseases centre in Newcastle.\n\nThe patients - a university of York student and one of their relatives - tested positive for the virus after falling ill at a hotel in York.\n\nThe University of Sussex, which has a campus on the outskirts of Brighton, said in a statement the new case was not a student or member of staff from the university.\n\nThis is not a surprise, not a reason to panic and not a reason to press the alarm bell.\n\nFor as long as the epidemic rages in China, there is a risk of people travelling to other countries, including the UK, before they become sick.\n\nBut there are crucial differences between the UK and China.\n\nFirst is the scale of the problem. The UK has three confirmed cases, China has 28,000.\n\nThis case in the UK is an event that was planned for - the patient is already being isolated and anybody who came into close contact is being traced.\n\nIt is also notable this patient caught the infection abroad, it is not due to the York patients spreading the virus.\n\nChina, however, is still playing catch-up and fighting to get on top of the outbreak.\n\nThe big question is not whether the UK can handle these three cases, it's whether China can contain the outbreak.\n\nEarlier, the Chinese ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, called on the UK government to support China in its handling of the outbreak and said Chinese measures to control the spread of the virus had been effective.\n\nChina is introducing more restrictive measures. In some areas group dining is banned, there are limits on how often people can go outside, and lifts have been turned off in some buildings.\n\nIt comes as the Chinese doctor who tried to issue the first warnings about the outbreak has died of the infection, according to Chinese media.\n\nNearly 100 Britons have been flown out of Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak, on flights arranged by the UK government.\n\nAll are now in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral for 14 days - the incubation period of the virus - to ensure they are not carrying the infection.\n\nThe UK government is chartering a final flight to bring British nationals back from Wuhan, which is due to leave on Sunday.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also advised Britons in other parts of China to leave the country if they can to minimise the risk of exposure to the virus, which has now spread to more than two dozen nations.\n\nThe World Health Organization said the world was still \"shadow boxing\" with the new virus because many things about it remain unknown, including its precise origin, transmissibility and its severity.\n\nThe WHO had declared the outbreak to be a global health emergency last week but said it did not yet constitute a \"pandemic\".\n\nThe coronavirus causes severe acute respiratory infection and symptoms usually start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. Most people infected are likely to fully recover - just as they would from a flu.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that she had accepted Derek Mackay’s resignation.\n\nScotland's finance secretary quit hours before delivering his budget amid reports that he messaged a 16-year-old boy on social media.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that he had also been suspended from the SNP pending further investigation.\n\nShe told the chamber: “It was unacceptable and falls seriously below the standard required of a minister.", "Labour MP Tracy Brabin is auctioning an off-the-shoulder dress for charity after it caused controversy in the Commons this week.\n\nShe was forced to defend her attire on Monday after her dress slipped down her shoulder as she leaned on the despatch box due to a broken ankle.\n\nFrom a starting price of £10, bidding had reached over £1,600 on Friday morning, proceeds going to Girlguiding.\n\nThe listing says the ASOS dress had been \"flying off the shelves\".\n\nThe Batley and Spen MP had been raising a point of order in the House of Commons about journalists being asked to leave a Downing Street press briefing on the next stage of Brexit talks, when her shoulder was exposed.\n\nMs Brabin, the shadow culture secretary, said she had been to a music event earlier in the day and was not expecting to be called to the despatch box.\n\nMs Brabin was raising a point of order in the House of Commons on Monday\n\nShe later told BBC Breakfast she had been \"startled by the vitriolic nature\" of some comments she had received online.\n\nShe said it was her responsibility to \"call it out\", adding: \"Women around the world... are being demeaned every day because of what they wear.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracy Brabin: 'A woman is always judged more harshly than a man'\n\nHer online listing reads: \"Black dress worn by Tracy Brabin MP in 'shouldergate' as widely covered across the media.\n\n\"This is an ASOS dress which has been flying off the shelves as a result of the coverage.\"\n\nThe money raised will go to Girlguiding, a charity for girls and young women in the UK, \"in the hope that they grow up to be leaders\", the listing said.", "The boy was thrown five floors in the attack\n\nA boy who was thrown from a balcony on the 10th floor of the Tate Modern has recovered enough to be able to open his left hand again, his parents said.\n\nThe French tourist, then aged six, suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain when he was attacked at the London gallery, last August.\n\nHis family say he is making progress and \"manages to open his left hand when we ask him to do it\".\n\nJonty Bravery, 18, has admitted throwing the boy to be on the TV news.\n\nThe boy's family said he was making progress with his recovery\n\nHis victim sustained a fractured spine, along with leg and arm fractures, when he fell five floors from the viewing platform.\n\nHis latest health developments were posted in a statement on the family's fundraising page.\n\n\"Hello everybody, One month has passed, and we are more and more tired. But our son is still in progress. He can now eat mash.\"\n\n\"We hope that he will be able to drink soon, with a straw to start with,\" they added.\n\n\"He cannot use his left arm but he manages to open his left hand when we ask him to do it (two or three times in a row),\" they said.\n\nLast month, the family said their son had begun uttering syllables and on Friday said: \"We understand better and better what he tells us.\n\n\"However, he still cannot stand or walk, and has great difficulty staying focused and thinking.\"\n\nHis their latest statement, his parents added: \"Thank you for your help. We keep fighting with our little knight.\"\n\nTheir GoFundMe page has raised more than €186,000 (£156,500) towards the cost of their son's treatment.\n\nBravery, from Ealing, who pleaded guilty to attempted murder, told police he carried out the attack because he wanted to be on TV news to highlight his autism treatment.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey in February.\n\nJonty Bravery was 17 years old when he was charged\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The titles include the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Moby-Dick and Frankenstein\n\nThe largest bookseller in the US has pulled a new series of \"culturally diverse\" classic book covers after facing widespread criticism.\n\nBarnes and Noble launched the new Diverse Editions on Tuesday, featuring new covers illustrating the main characters as people of colour.\n\nBut the initiative to mark Black History Month received a swift backlash with authors calling it superficial.\n\nThe bookseller said it had acknowledged the criticism and suspended the series.\n\nThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Moby-Dick and Frankenstein were among the titles included.\n\nOn the back of the redesigned covers, the company said: \"For the first time ever, all parents will be able to pick up a book and see themselves in a story.\"\n\nBut the move faced a barrage of criticism.\n\nMany said that the company should do more to promote black authors rather than simply changing the skin colour of characters on the front cover.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brit Bennett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarnes and Noble, which has the largest number of book stores in the US, backed down on Wednesday.\n\n\"We acknowledge the voices who have expressed concerns about the Diverse Editions project at our Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue store and have decided to suspend the initiative,\" it tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The average household's water and sewerage bill will drop by about £17 a year in England and Wales.\n\nWater UK, the industry trade body, said the average annual bill would fall by 4% to £396.60 from 1 April.\n\nIts chief executive, Christine McGourty, said the water industry was \"committed to giving customers good value for money\".\n\nThe regulator Ofwat said the drop was down to the fact it had \"demanded greater efficiency\" from firms.\n\nChanges to bills will vary from customer to customer and depend on their supplier.\n\nThe commitment comes at the start of the next five-year \"business cycle\" for water companies.\n\nOfwat has been \"too soft\" on water companies in the past, Tony Smith, chief executive of the Consumer Council for Water (CCW), told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"Only about 60% of customers think their bills are fair and that's partly because bills have risen for many years and the regulatory system has been too generous to water companies until now.\n\n\"I think the regulator has somewhat belatedly got to grips with the industry now and we are fully supportive of that.\"\n\nWater UK said that there would also be more help for vulnerable customers between 2020 and 2025.\n\nIt said firms plan to double the number of people getting help with their bills every year, up from 760,000 customers now to at least 1.4 million by 2025.\n\nMeasures to assist them could include introducing social tariffs, discounts for those on lower incomes or receiving benefits, or assisting charities that provide help.\n\nOfwat told suppliers in December that they would have to cut the average customer bill by £50 over the next five years.\n\nThere has been recent criticism of water companies over high profile pollution incidents as well as leaks, water quality and high bills.\n\nAn Ofwat spokesperson said: \"We continue to push companies to deliver improved services for customers, the environment and resilience for generations to come while making sure that bills are fair.\"\n\nThey added: \"Today's announcement has been secured because we have demanded greater efficiency, passing through lower financing costs and promoting more innovation.\"\n\nAt the same time, it is forcing firms to restrict investor payouts and to invest billions of pounds to improve their performance and reduce leaks in their systems.\n\nOfwat oversees the privatised water market in England and Wales. It monitors the market to see if it needs to intervene to protect customers and to set limits on the price they are asked to pay.\n\nScotland has its own separate regulator, the Water Industry Commission for Scotland.\n\nThe CCW told consumers to \"take full advantage\" of the reduction in bills.\n\nIt added: \"There are still millions of households who could tap into savings by switching to a meter or cut their bills if they're on a low income by signing up to their company's social tariff.\"", "Mathematicians and physicists might not be the first people you would think to consult about the perfect coffee.\n\nBut a team of researchers including Dr Jamie Foster, a mathematician at the University of Portsmouth, is challenging conventional espresso wisdom.\n\nThey have found that fewer coffee beans, ground more coarsely, are the key to a more consistent drink that is just as strong.", "John Bercow stood down as Speaker last year\n\nThe House of Commons has accused John Bercow of naming ex-staff in his autobiography without their permission, saying this was \"unacceptable\".\n\nIn his book, Unspeakable, the former Commons Speaker hits back at accusations of bullying made against him by individual staff members.\n\nA Commons spokesperson said employees had a \"right to expect\" privacy.\n\nBut Mr Bercow said he was responding to critics who had tried to \"blacken\" his name by making \"unfounded claims\".\n\nHe quit as Speaker in October after more than 10 years in the role.\n\nSome of Mr Bercow's ex-colleagues have gone public with complaints against him in the past.\n\nThe Commons has not named the employees it is concerned about.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nick Eardley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"House of Commons staff work incredibly hard to enable the effective functioning of our democracy and have a right to expect that their privacy be respected. It is unacceptable to publicly name current or former staff without their prior knowledge or authority, especially for the purpose of financial gain or commercial success.\n\n\"A crucial element of the work of House of Commons staff is to provide confidential, impartial advice to MPs. Breaking this confidentiality undermines this important principle and also places staff in a position from which they are unable to respond.\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Bercow's agent said: \"Given there is a small but highly vocal group of people consistently seeking to blacken his name, it would be odd if Mr Bercow did not comment on their unfounded allegations and the reasons behind them.\n\n\"He was advised by Speaker's Counsel not to do so in detail while he was in office. He is therefore doing so now. If the book had not addressed these issues, he would rightly have been accused of serious omission.\n\n\"Critics are entitled to air their views. What they are not entitled to do is to make unfounded allegations and expect Mr Bercow to say nothing in return.\"\n\nFollowing Mr Bercow's comments, a Commons spokesperson said: \"In his book, Mr Bercow has chosen to name a number of staff who have never spoken publicly about their experiences or sought to gain publicity as a result.\n\n\"We condemn this behaviour and stand by our previous statement on the matter.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Bercow confirmed that he had been proposed for a peerage by outgoing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut he has suggested Downing Street is seeking to block his appointment to Parliament's upper chamber.", "The length of time suspects could be bailed for is set to be trebled under government plans.\n\nUnder the proposals, officers will be told to impose bail conditions on suspects if there could be risks to victims, witnesses and the public.\n\nTime limits to keep suspects under such a restriction could be raised from 28 days to 90.\n\nThe plans would reverse changes which restricted the use of police, or pre-charge, bail in England and Wales.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has set out the proposals, which would also strengthen \"release under investigation\" measures to ensure suspects who are not bailed by police have their cases reviewed.\n\nThe rules on pre-charge bail were changed under Theresa May's premiership less than three years ago after concerns from some suspects - including those arrested in Operation Yewtree into historical sexual abuse - that they were being placed under bail conditions for too long.\n\nThe change prompted concerns at the number of suspects being released under investigation (RUI) without any conditions.\n\nThe Home Office said it had opened a public consultation on the latest proposals on Wednesday, in \"recognition that more needs to be done to ensure cases are dealt with effectively\".\n\nRUI was introduced by the Conservatives in April 2017 in a bid to limit the time someone spends on bail to 28 days - to try to cut the number of people facing restrictions for long periods of time without being charged.\n\nIt allows suspects to leave custody after an arrest without any restrictions for an unlimited period of time while inquiries continue, rather than having to comply with bail conditions including living at a certain address, not contacting particular people, or having to regularly visit a police station.\n\nSome 322,250 cases involved suspects being released under investigation between April 2017 and October, according to figures obtained by BBC Newsnight.\n\nNearly 100,000 of those cases involved suspected violent criminals and sex offenders, including people suspected of offences such as rape and murder, the figures suggested.\n\nIn April, the Centre for Women's Justice made a super complaint to the police watchdog, accusing forces of failing to use protective measures in cases of violence against women.\n\nIn November, the Home Secretary announced a review of the regulations. Ms Patel said on Wednesday that the public consultation \"forms a central part of this review, which will help (to) ensure the needs of victims are put first and the police can investigate crimes effectively and swiftly\".\n\nThe government said it would also give \"serious consideration\" to the findings of a police watchdog report on the use of bail by forces, which is expected to be published in the summer.\n\nThe 28-day limit came into force after a number of high-profile cases where suspects were kept waiting for long periods of time before being told whether they would be charged.\n\nIn 2015, broadcaster Paul Gambaccini - who was once held on police bail for a year - backed the 28-day limit.\n\nIn 2013, Mr Gambaccini was arrested on suspicion of historical sexual abuse but the case against him was dropped.", "Michael Douglas and father Kirk Douglas after the Oscars in 2009\n\nKirk Douglas has been remembered as an \"unforgettable\" actor and a film \"icon\" following his death at the age of 103.\n\nHis daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones led the tributes, writing: \"To my darling Kirk, I shall love you for the rest of my life. I miss you already.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by catherinezetajones This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTributes also came from director Steven Spielberg, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill and Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston.\n\nDouglas, who played the title role in the 1960 classic Spartacus, enjoyed a career that spanned seven decades.\n\nSpielberg said Douglas left behind a \"breathtaking body of work\".\n\nHe told The Hollywood Reporter: \"Kirk retained his movie star charisma right to the end of his wonderful life and I'm honoured to have been a small part of his last 45 years.\"\n\nJamie Lee Curtis, whose father Tony was also in Spartacus, declared: \"He LOVED you as the world loved you. Your Passion. Talent. Politics. Family. Art. Strength.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Lee Curtis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHamill described Douglas as \"one of the biggest stars of all time\", as well as \"a brilliant actor with an unforgettable, blazing charisma\".\n\nHe also referenced Douglas's role in ending the 1950s Hollywood blacklist by defying the ban on working with film-makers with alleged communist sympathies.\n\nRob Reiner, who directed films including This Is Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally, described him as an \"icon in the pantheon of Hollywood\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKirk Douglas rose to prominence during Hollywood's \"golden age\", earning the first of three Oscar nominations for the 1949 film Champion.\n\nAs Spartacus, the leader of a Roman slave revolt in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 historical epic, Douglas helped to provide one of Hollywood's first catchphrases.\n\nAfter a Roman general declared that a group of slaves would only avoid crucifixion if they identified Spartacus, all of the slaves stood up and declared \"I'm Spartacus\".\n\nThe now immortal phrase has continued to be used in modern culture and as a meme, to show solidarity with someone, or to stop a person's identity being revealed.\n\nBreaking Bad star Bryan Cranston used the phrase to sign off after his glowing tribute to \"a towering presence in film history\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Bryan Cranston This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDouglas's second Oscar nod came for his part in 1952's The Bad And The Beautiful, in which he starred alongside Lana Turner.\n\nHe was able to move with the times and avoid the pitfalls of typecasting. In 1956 he attracted rave reviews and then a third Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the anguished Vincent van Gogh in Vicente Minnelli's Lust For Life.\n\nGeorge Hamilton, who starred alongside Douglas in 1962's Two Weeks in Another Town, said the star was \"a consummate professional, wonderful guy and he knew every part of making films\".\n\nHe added: \"He understood it all and he taught me humility when it comes to being an actor. It's a very difficult thing to do right and he did it right all the time.\"\n\nMitzi Gaynor starred alongside Douglas in the 1963 film For Love Or Money, and thanked him for sharing his \"amazing talent\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Mitzi Gaynor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHugh Jackman posted a photo of himself visiting Douglas for tea a few year ago. \"He was funny, self deprecating, giving & brutally honest. In a word... LEGEND,\" the Greatest Showman star wrote.\n\nOther figures from the film industry added their tributes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Sharon Stone This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 8 by The Academy\n\nDouglas faced difficulties in his personal life. He narrowly survived a helicopter crash in 1991 that left two people dead. Five years later, he suffered a major stroke that affected his speech.\n\nAnd in 2004, his son Eric died at the age of 46 of an accidental drug overdose.\n\nIn his later years, he turned his attention to charity. He donated millions of dollars to charitable causes and helped fund an Alzheimer's unit at a retirement home in Los Angeles.\n\nFlowers and candles were left at Douglas's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jamil started her career on Channel 4 before crossing the Atlantic and starring in The Good Place\n\nJameela Jamil has announced she is \"queer\" after receiving criticism for being cast in a new LGBT-interest show.\n\nUS broadcaster HBO announced on Tuesday that the actress and model would be a judge on its new unscripted voguing contest Legendary.\n\nThe news prompted an online backlash from people who said The Good Place star was not representative of the black LGBT community.\n\nThat prompted her to issue a statement addressing her sexuality.\n\nOpening with \"Twitter is brutal\", she explained that she identified \"as queer\" and had previously struggled to discuss the topic because \"it's not easy within the south Asian community to be accepted\".\n\nShe mentioned that nobody in her family was \"openly out\" and that \"it's also scary as an actor to openly admit your sexuality, especially when you're already a brown female in your thirties\".\n\nThe term queer is both embraced and frowned upon. Having been seen as derogatory, it is being reclaimed by some non-heterosexual people who say they don't identify with more traditional categories of gender identity and sexual orientation.\n\nJamil went on: \"This is absolutely not how I wanted to come out,\" adding that she was logging off Twitter for the time being \"because I don't want to read mean comments dismissing this\".\n\nShe told critics: \"You can keep your thoughts.\"\n\nLast March, when one Twitter user asked if she wanted to come out as queer, she replied that she was \"on the spectrum but I do lean more towards boys\".\n\nVoguing is a genre of dance that originated in New York in the late 1980s. It was founded by black and Latino LGBT people, many of whom were disowned by their families for their sexuality and gender.\n\nIt came to mainstream attention through Madonna's 1990 hit Vogue and the accompanying video, as well as the documentary Paris Is Burning. It has long been seen as a movement of LGBT resistance.\n\nSeveral people were critical of Jamil's involvement in a show about the phenomenon, saying the cast should have connections to the ballroom scene.\n\nIn response, Jamil said: \"I'm a long time fan of ballroom and just wanted to help this show get made to celebrate this beautiful community.\"\n\nThe actress and activist is currently in a relationship with musician James Blake\n\nShe went on to clarify why she believed she was an appropriate fit for the programme.\n\n\"I know that my being queer doesn't qualify me as ballroom. But I have privilege and power and a large following to bring to this show... and its beautiful contestants and hosts.\"\n\nWith Jamil trending on Twitter, reactions to her statement appeared to be more negative than positive, with many criticising her for coming out as queer while being in a relationship with musician James Blake.\n\nOne person accused the star of coming out \"to avoid being criticised for not being representative of the LGBTQ community\". Another said that, while Jamil had the presenting experience to appear on the programme, producers \"could've found someone from the culture\" instead.\n\nCelebrity performers Trace Lysette and Michelle Visage, who are not involved in the show, joined in the debate.\n\nVisage retweeted a comment saying there were \"literally so many others who actually KNOW about ball who should [be] on\".\n\nAnd Lysette, who has lived experience of ballroom culture, said it's a disappointment \"when [people] with no connection to our culture gets the gig\", but stressed that her comment was \"not shade towards Jameela\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Child-protection organisations say Facebook's decision to strongly encrypt messages will give offenders a place to hide.\n\nThe company is moving ahead with plans to implement the measure on Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct.\n\nBut more than 100 organisations, led by the NSPCC, have signed an open letter warning the plans will undermine efforts to catch abusers.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she \"fully supported\" the move.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, she said: \"Tech companies like Facebook have a vital responsibility to balance privacy with the safety of vulnerable children.\"\n\n\"Following my letter to Mark Zuckerberg, I met with Sheryl Sandberg and emphasised that Facebook's encryption plans cannot be allowed to hamper their ability to protect young people from paedophiles online. We have also submitted detailed evidence to the US Senate about these concerns.\n\n\"I fully support the continued efforts of the NSPCC and children's charities around the world to engage Facebook on this issue.\"\n\nEnd-to-end encryption, already used on Facebook-owned WhatsApp, means no-one, including the company that owns the platform, can see the content of sent messages.\n\nThose signing the letter say Facebook has failed to address concerns about child safety.\n\nThe missive urges the company to stop the rollout of its plans until \"sufficient safeguards\" are in place.\n\n\"At a time when we could be looking to build upon years of sophisticated initiatives, Facebook instead seems inclined to blindfold itself,\" the letter says.\n\n\"We urge you to recognise and accept that an increased risk of child abuse being facilitated on or by Facebook is not a reasonable trade-off to make.\n\n\"Children should not be put in harm's way either as a result of commercial decisions or design choices.\"\n\nAmong the other signatories were Barnardo's, 5Rights, the International Centre For Missing and Exploited Children, and Child USA.\n\nA spokesman for Facebook said protecting the wellbeing of children on its platform was \"critically important\" to it.\n\n\"We have led the industry in safeguarding children from exploitation and we are bringing this same commitment and leadership to our work on encryption,\" he said.\n\n\"We are working closely with child-safety experts, including NCMEC [the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children], law enforcement, governments and other technology companies, to help keep children safe online.\"\n\nIn 2018, Facebook made 16.8 million reports of child sexual exploitation and abuse content to the NCMEC.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said this had led to more than 2,500 arrests and 3,000 children made safe.\n\nBut, the NCMEC estimates, if Facebook implements end-to-end encryption, it could mean 70% of these vital reports are lost.\n\nIn October, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said the increased risk of child abuse \"weighed heavily\" on him when considering the company's end-to-end encryption plan.\n\nA BBC News investigation last year found encrypted apps were taking over from the dark web as a place to host criminals.\n\nBut WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart has previously posted on Hacker News: \"End-to-end encryption protects that right for over a billion people every day.\"\n\nAnd Jo O'Reilly, digital privacy advocate at ProPrivacy, said many users would probably welcome Facebook's plans.\n\n\"It will make it significantly less likely that hackers will be able to intercept messages, going a long way to protect users from phishing and cyber-stalking,\" she said.\n\n\"It is the kind of of decisive action users will be looking for to reassure them that their private conversations really are private in the wake of privacy scandals.\"\n\nBut Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for child protection, said end-to-end encryption would make catching criminals tougher.\n\n\"If Facebook proceed with their current plans, they will knowingly put the safety of children at risk - ignoring the warnings of police, charities and experts across the world,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a moral responsibility on them to ensure this does not happen.\"\n\nAnd NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless said: \"Facebook may be happy to shut their eyes to abuse but they can't close their ears to this unanimous concern shown by international experts.\n\n\"In its current form, encryption would breach Facebook's duty of care for children so the UK government must ensure a new regulator has the power to hold them financially and criminally accountable.", "Military veterans will be guaranteed interviews for some government jobs as part of a pilot scheme to boost their employment prospects.\n\nThe initiative, launched by the Office for Veterans' Affairs (OVA) in the Cabinet Office, will start in the spring within certain departments.\n\nVeterans will be shortlisted provided they meet basic selection criteria.\n\nCabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden said veterans have \"incredible skills\" needed in government.\n\nMr Dowden and veterans' minister Johnny Mercer jointly oversee the OVA, which was created last July to improve support for ex-members of the Armed Forces.\n\nFour government departments will be taking part in the project:\n\nThere will not be a time limit for those leaving the military on when they can take up the guaranteed interview offer.\n\nThe offer applies retrospectively to all veterans.\n\nPrevious studies have shown ex-servicemen and women face many barriers to civilian employment.\n\nAlmost a fifth of UK employers are unlikely to consider hiring ex-military personnel, according to research unveiled last October.\n\nA YouGov survey for the Forces in Mind Trust found 18% of more than 1,000 UK firms surveyed said they were unlikely to consider employing veterans, mostly due to \"negative perceptions\" of their former careers.\n\nAir Vice-Marshal Ray Lock,, the organisation's chief executive, said the introduction of the scheme was a \"valuable step\" towards providing veterans with \"equality of access to employment\".\n\nHe said: \"Negative stereotypes can prevent ex-service personnel accessing the same employment opportunities as their civilian counterparts.\n\n\"Such misperceptions damage not only the individual, but also UK business.\"\n\nHe praised the public sector for \"setting a good example\" the private sector could follow.\n\nLewis Moore, who spent five years with the Navy, previously told BBC Newsbeat how employers struggled to see how his military skills could be useful to them.\n\nVeterans minister Johnny Mercer said the pilot scheme would \"shine a light\" on the skills of ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen\n\nMr Mercer, a former Army officer and now the minister for defence, people and veterans, said ex-servicemen and women are \"agile, strategic and excellent team players\" and \"a guaranteed interview will shine a light on these skills and help boost job prospects\".\n\nMr Dowden added: \"From teamwork to problem-solving, our veterans have incredible skills and experience that employers on civvy street, and indeed Whitehall, are crying out for.\"\n\nThe scheme follows last month's announcement of a new Veterans' Railcard that will offer discounted train travel for ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen.\n\nThe railcard - to be released on Armistice Day in November - will save a third off most train fares.\n\nIt will cost £21 for a limited period, before rising to £30.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the OVA's announcement delivers on the government's manifesto pledge to support and invest in veterans.", "His first Oscar nomination came in 1950 for boxing drama Champion. The same year, he was seen in Young Man with a Horn, for which he took lessons on playing the trumpet.", "Mr N was under the care of Gwynedd Council, Betsi Cadwaladr health board and Cartrefi Cymru\n\nThere were failings in the care of a vulnerable man who choked to death on a piece of toast, a report has found.\n\nThe Public Services Ombudsman for Wales investigated the care of a man, referred to as Mr N, who died in March 2017.\n\nMr N was being looked after by Gwynedd Council, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, and Cartrefi Cymru, a registered care provider.\n\nAll parties have accepted the findings and apologised to his family.\n\nMr N had drug-induced psychosis and a severe brain injury and required round-the-clock care.\n\nAt the time of his death, he was living in his own rented home with a jointly funded package of 24-hour care, provided by Cartrefi Cymru.\n\nOmbudsman Nick Bennett investigated claims made by Mr N's mother, known as Mrs M, about the care given to her son.\n\nHe concluded that while he found \"maladministration and service failure\" on the part of the council, health board and Cartrefi Cymru, he could not say any of the failings caused or contributed to Mr N's death.\n\n\"However, Mrs M will be left with the uncertainty of not knowing whether, but for these failings, things might have been different and the incident might not have happened,\" he added.\n\nNick Bennett said he hopes lessons are learned from the case\n\nMr Bennett found Cartrefi Cymru failed to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the risk of Mr N choking, even though he was taken to hospital after choking in 2016, and problems with his chewing and swallowing were recorded as far back as 2015.\n\nOn 3 March 2017, Mr N choked on a piece of toast while eating alone in his bedroom and died, despite first aid being administered by his carer.\n\nAn inquest found the medical cause of death was choking and recorded the death as an accident.\n\nMr Bennett said he was \"dismayed\" by the inability of all three bodies to provide key documentation, amounting to maladministration.\n\nThe report said there was no documentation relating to the awarding of the care contract to Cartrefi Cymru or any specific terms relating to Mr N's care needs and the responsibilities of parties involved in his care.\n\nIt was also found there was no documentation to demonstrate the council, as lead commissioner, had monitored the delivery of care to Mr N.\n\nMr Bennett said: \"I am extremely concerned at the multiple failings in communication between the three bodies involved in providing care to Mr N.\n\n\"It's impossible to say with any certainty whether any of the bodies involved had seen a risk assessment relating to the risk of him choking, but given his obvious vulnerabilities, it was clear to me that the care provider should have carried out its own risk assessment at the earliest opportunity.\n\n\"I sincerely hope lessons are learned from this tragic case.\"\n\nThe council and health board agreed to several recommendations, including apologising to Mr N's family for the failings identified. Cartrefi Cymru agreed to provide refresher training for staff.\n\nCartrefi Cymru said: \"The report highlights that the documentation relating to Mr N's care was in need of review and improvement and although, importantly, the ombudsman did not conclude that this was a factor in Mr N's death, it is rightly described as a failing on the part of all the agencies involved.\"\n\nGill Harris, the health board's deputy chief executive and director of nursing, said: \"We wholeheartedly apologise for the failings identified by the ombudsman and we have already begun the process of working with Gwynedd Council and Cartrefi Cymru to act on his recommendations.\"\n\nGwynedd Council added: \"Although the ombudsman did not find that this contributed to the tragedy, it remains a matter where there were failings.\"", "BBC News Ireland correspondent Chris Page looks at the runners and riders in the Republic of Ireland election 2020.\n\nPeople will vote on Saturday 8 February - the first time the country has held a general election at a weekend.\n\nFor more information on the election, click here.", "Baroness Scotland is head of the Commonwealth Secretariat - the organisation's main intergovernmental agency\n\nThe Commonwealth is facing uncertainty over its leadership after its heads of government rejected calls for the secretary-general, Baroness Scotland, to be given an automatic second term, the BBC has learned.\n\nA leaked letter from Boris Johnson suggests an alternative candidate could stand against her.\n\nCommonwealth diplomats meet on Thursday to discuss the organisation's future.\n\nDiplomats fear the intergovernmental organisation - comprising more than 50 countries, many of them former British colonies, encompassing almost a third of the world's population - now risks a bitter internal battle over its future leadership.\n\nLady Scotland's four-year term of office as secretary-general comes to an end next month.\n\nA number of supportive member states suggested before Christmas she should get an automatic second term.\n\nBritain - which currently chairs the international body - asked all 53 heads of government for their views.\n\nOn 6 January, the prime minister reported back to Commonwealth leaders with the results of the survey.\n\nIn his letter - which has been obtained by the BBC - Mr Johnson reveals that twice as many Commonwealth countries rejected the plan to offer Lady Scotland another four years in office.\n\nThe Commonwealth leaders instead agreed the future leadership of the organisation should be decided when they meet in Rwanda in June for their biennial meeting.\n\nTo that end, the Commonwealth has agreed to give Lady Scotland a short three-month extension to her contract which was due to expire on 31 March.\n\nCrucially, in his letter, Mr Johnson also suggests for the first time another candidate may come forward to challenge Lady Scotland.\n\nThe BBC has been told that Commonwealth diplomats are taking soundings to see if any member states might propose an alternative contender.\n\nThe Commonwealth Secretariat said that it \"does not comment on leaked documents as a matter of principle\".\n\nBaroness Scotland tweeted a photograph of herself with Lord Patel in 2016\n\nThe questions about Lady Scotland's future leadership of the Commonwealth come after she was criticised by internal auditors last November for awarding a lucrative consultancy contract to a company run by a friend.\n\nThe BBC revealed last week that the Commonwealth's Audit Committee accused her of \"circumventing\" usual competitive tendering rules by awarding a £250,000 commission to a firm owned by fellow Labour peer, Lord Patel of Bradford.\n\nLady Scotland's lawyers insisted the decision to award the contract was fully justified. But New Zealand has since confirmed it put its £1.5m annual contribution to the Commonwealth Secretariat on hold as a result of the \"significant weaknesses\" in managing procurement identified in the KPMG auditors' report.\n\nCommonwealth high commissioners in London are due to meet on Thursday to discuss the challenges currently facing the Commonwealth Secretariat, including the KPMG report.\n\nDiplomatic sources suggested some developing countries could shift their support to an alternative candidate if they fear they could lose Commonwealth revenue streams under the current leadership of the Secretariat.\n\nMr Johnson is co-ordinating the debate about the Commonwealth's leadership because the UK is currently the organisation's so-called \"chair-in-office\" having hosted the last leaders' meeting in London in 2018.\n\nIn his letter to the Commonwealth's 53 heads of government, dated 6 January, Mr Johnson says: \"A number of colleagues advocated offering the Right Honourable Patricia Scotland QC a second four-year term now.\n\n\"However, around double that number said that we should offer her a short extension of her current contract so that we can discuss, debate and decide the 2020-2024 appointment in the usual way at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).\n\n\"So there is no consensus to offer the current Secretary-General a second four-year term now.\"\n\nMr Johnson says that delaying the decision until June would not predetermine what choice the heads of government might make.\n\nBut he reveals Lady Scotland has yet to announce publicly or privately whether she intends to stand for a second term, and he also suggests for the first time that an alternative candidate could stand.\n\n\"When we meet at CHOGM, each of us will be able to support a second term for Baroness Scotland (if she is requesting one), or to support appointment of any other candidate who may come forward.\"\n\nDiplomatic sources claim Lady Scotland has been campaigning unofficially for re-election for some time. Earlier this week she paid a four-day visit to Eswatini, one of the Commonwealth's smallest members, formerly known as Swaziland.\n\nLast month she spent five days in India, one of the Commonwealth's largest member states.", "For the better part of 2019, the impeachment saga surrounding US President Donald Trump has dominated Washington politics. We take a look back at the major milestones.\n\nRead more: Trump acquitted by Senate in impeachment trial", "This is a calamity, without caveat, for Derek Mackay, for the SNP, for the first minister and for the collective Scottish government.\n\nOne must also express sympathy for the youth who apparently received unwarranted and unwanted attention, together with his family.\n\nTo recap, the Sun newspaper has reported that Mr Mackay allegedly sent some 270 messages to a 16-year-old boy. Among those contacts, he is said to have called him \"cute\".\n\nMr Mackay has now quit as finance secretary - on the very day he was due to deliver his Scottish budget. Rival parties say he should also quit as an MSP.\n\nOn the face of it, this is a personal tragedy for the minister, brought about by behaviour which he concedes was foolish. Others might use blunter terms.\n\nHowever, this is also senior level politics - and, what is more, at a time of vulnerability and disquiet within the SNP and the Scottish government.\n\nMr Mackay was tipped as a successor to Nicola Sturgeon\n\nNot only was Derek Mackay a key member of the Scottish cabinet, with responsibility for finance and the economy, he had been tipped as a possible successor to Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nTo be amply clear, there is no such vacancy at present.\n\nIt goes further, in terms of speculation. The budget statement will now be delivered by Kate Forbes, the minister for public finance.\n\nWith neat, if tortuous, symmetry, Ms Forbes had also been tipped as a possible deputy to Mr Mackay, should he become FM. Should there be a vacancy. Which (see above) there isn't.\n\nThe budget will now be delivered by another rising star of the SNP - Kate Forbes\n\nAll of this comes amid an amalgam of challenges for the Scottish government and the SNP.\n\nChallenges over public policy, most notably in education and the NHS. Internal disquiet over how to proceed with indyref2. And a pending High Court trial.\n\nFinal thoughts on Derek Mackay. In his earlier incarnations as a minister, Mr Mackay seemed somewhat unsure, on occasion.\n\nPrivately, he sometimes seemed to doubt his own intellectual or, more precisely, oratorical capacity.\n\nHe had to summon courage, to build a profile which combined drollery with significant attention to detail. He was rated at Holyrood.\n\nNone of that now matters. All changed, changed utterly. But there is simply nothing beautiful about this story. Quite a lot, however, that is terrible.\n\nIn her brief statement at Holyrood, Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that Derek Mackay has been suspended from the SNP and from the party's parliamentary group. This pending an investigation.\n\nTo be quite clear, she cannot expel him from Holyrood, she cannot remove him as an MSP. For very good reason, elected members are responsible to their voters, not to the opinion of party leaders.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon made no attempt whatsoever to exculpate her former colleague, nor to play down in any way his behaviour. She simply stressed that due process must be followed.\n\nOpposition leaders say, rather bluntly, that Mr Mackay must now stand down as a member of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nIn Holyrood, after the FM's opening statement, Jackson Carlaw of the Tories pursued her rather effectively with deliberately precise questions.\n\nWas the behaviour tantamount to grooming, as defined? Had Ms Sturgeon contacted the boy or his family?\n\nMs Sturgeon declined to speculate as to the first, while again refusing to offer Mr Mackay any support of any kind. On the second point, she said she did not know the identity of the individual, but would be willing to speak to the family, if approached.\n\nOpposition leaders including Jackson Carlaw have called for Mr Mackay to stand down as an MSP\n\nLabour's Richard Leonard also got to the point, in two ways. Firstly, he excoriated Mr Mackay's actions, labelling them \"predatory\" - a choice of language which deliberately sidestepped the issue of possible criminal culpability.\n\nBut, then, he turned from this issue to the wider responsibilities of the first minister, challenging her on mental health treatment in NHS Tayside.\n\nThis may sound like a handbrake turn but, on the day, it was potent. In essence, he contrived to raise the topic of the moment, while reminding the FM of her broader remit.\n\nWith a little less nuance, Alison Johnstone of the Greens also raised the Mackay controversy plus the NHS; in her case, A&E waiting times.\n\nMs Sturgeon looked grimly determined at all times; her mind occupied with the resignation of her finance secretary, but her time taken up, quite rightly, by addressing concerns over ministerial actions. She looked sombre, but still engaged in the task.\n\nAnd the SNP group? I've spoken to several MSPs. Reactions range from astonishment to shock to embarrassment to anxiety to sheer fury.", "Velasquez claimed to have killed 300 people for drug lord Escobar\n\nA notorious murderer who worked for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has died of stomach cancer, Colombian officials say.\n\nJhon Jairo Velásquez, who boasted of killing 300 people for Escobar, was 57.\n\nKnown as \"Popeye\", he was released from prison in 2014 after more than 20 years and launched a YouTube channel, attracting more than a million followers.\n\nBut he was jailed again in 2018 on charges of extortion.\n\nVelásquez died at the National Cancer Institute in the capital Bogotá, where he had been receiving treatment for stomach cancer since December.\n\nHe was a close associate of Escobar, who ran a drug trafficking empire from the Colombian city of Medellín that sent thousands of tonnes of cocaine to the US.\n\nVelásquez gave himself up to the authorities in 1992 and spent 23 years in prison, reportedly gaining a reputation for the stories he told about his life of crime.\n\nAfter his release he started a YouTube channel called Repentant.\n\nHe was re-arrested for extortion and was taken into custody at a party hosted by Colombia's top drugs trafficking investigator.\n\nEscobar's drug empire made him one of the world's richest men during the 1980s and 1990s. He was killed by Colombian police in 1993 as he attempted to avoid extradition to the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pablo Escobar's fortress in Medellín was demolished last year", "Derek Mackay is due to deliver the Scottish government's spending plans at Holyrood\n\nThe future of Scotland's finance secretary is in question after a newspaper alleged he had been sending messages to a 16-year-old boy.\n\nDerek Mackay is due to present the Scottish government's budget at Holyrood on Thursday afternoon.\n\nThe Scottish Sun alleges that he contacted the boy on social media over a six-month period, inviting him to dinner and to attend a rugby event.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Scottish government and Mr Mackay for comment.\n\nThe newspaper details allegations that the 42-year-old politician contacted the boy \"out of the blue\" and sent about 270 messages on Instagram and through Facebook.\n\nIt has published a list of conversations involving Mr Mackay and the boy.\n\nIn one of the exchanges it is claimed that Mr Mackay told the teenager he was \"cute\". In another the boy confirmed he was 16 and tells Mr Mackay \"not to try anything\".\n\nThe paper also quotes the boy's mother calling for Mr Mackay to be removed from his post.\n\nMr Mackay, who has been widely tipped as a future first minister, came out as gay when he left his wife in 2013.\n\nThe allegations come on the same day he is due to present the Scottish government's spending plans for the next years at Holyrood - a major set piece event.\n\nHe had signalled his intention to spend more on projects to tackle climate change in his budget, but will need the support of other parties to pass his plans.\n\nMr Mackay would have been putting the finishing touches to his preparations when he was contacted by the Scottish Sun on Wednesday evening, before the newspaper released the story at 23:20.", "The gambling watchdog has said it's up to organisers to crack down on the use of scantily-clad models to promote products at a big industry trade event.\n\nUnder its former boss, Sarah Harrison, the Gambling Commission had threatened to boycott ICE London because women \"were expected to wear nothing more than swimsuits\".\n\nIt also convinced ICE to introduce a code of conduct to tackle sexism.\n\nBut at this year's event it appeared that little had changed.\n\nAnd the Gambling Commission, which has a new boss, Neil McArthur, told the BBC: \"It is a matter for the organisers to enforce that code.\"\n\nAt the event at London's ExCel centre, the BBC found models dressed as Playboy bunnies promoting casino games sold by the Slovenian firm Interblock.\n\nThe women also posed for pictures with male attendees.\n\nMeanwhile, other so-called \"promo-girls\" - models hired by firms to attract delegates to their stand - circulated the conference hall handing out leaflets and giveaways.\n\nFlavio Grasselli, a conference delegate from Italy, had his picture taken with three women dressed in mermaid outfits. He told the BBC he thought employing scantily-clad women to promote companies and products was not unethical.\n\n\"Gambling is linked with the forbidden,\" he said, adding that the \"sensuality of a woman\" and \"the sensuality of the roulette wheel\" in casinos were naturally linked.\n\nHe said the ICE event was more like a music festival than a conference, describing himself as being \"like a child in a park\".\n\nMr Grasselli was not the only one to speak out in support of conference's practices.\n\nZenede, a model working at the event, said ICE was \"fun for people, it's great\".\n\nShe added that the gaming firm that had employed her, Kajot, had chosen her tight cat suit because \"the people like it\".\n\nZenede on the right loves her outfit\n\nClarion Gaming, the company which runs the conference, brought in its code of conduct in 2019. It followed negative press about the use of pole dancers at the 2018 event.\n\nThe code states that \"partial or total nudity or overtly sexual or suggestive clothing or marketing methods will not be allowed\".\n\nThe firm told the BBC that companies at this year's event had largely met the code, but there had been one breach. It would not comment on the nature of the breach.\n\n\"Show management have spoken with the exhibitor concerned and immediate action was taken to ensure compliance,\" a spokesman said.\n\nLabour MP Carolyn Harris told the BBC that ICE London's practices were unacceptable.\n\n\"Having seen pictures from the ICE conference of scantily clad women being used by overseas gambling companies to once again promote their organisations to men in suits, I can't help but feel disappointed,\" she said.\n\n\"Time and again, this industry appears to be totally lacking in morals and decency.\n\n\"This kind of marketing is outdated and unnecessary and I would hope that Clarion who organised the event, think twice before doing this again.\"\n\nHer views echo the words of the former head of the Gambling Commission, Ms Harrison, who left in 2018.\n\nAt the time, she said: \"A woman from the gambling industry is Britain's highest paid boss. Yet from walking around the exhibition you wouldn't know this.\"\n\nShe added: \"Instead you saw men representing their companies wearing expensive tailored suits whilst their female colleagues were expected to wear nothing more than swimsuits.\"\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the Gambling Commission said: \"We do not think this is acceptable, which is why we called the organisers out on this two years ago and they have since launched a code of conduct.\n\n\"The organisers should enforce the code. Our focus is making sure that gambling is safer for British consumers.\"", "The emergency legislation, pushing back the release date of terror offenders, was announced after the Streatham attack\n\nTerror offenders who were due to be released from prison in the next two months are being told they will not be let out under planned new laws.\n\nEarlier this week, the government said that new terror legislation to end automatic early release will apply to current as well as future offenders.\n\nLawyer Simon Creighton said one client who was due to be freed in March had been told his release date has changed.\n\nMr Creighton said a number of offenders were likely to challenge the new laws.\n\n\"I'd imagine it's inevitable that it will go the Supreme Court,\" he said.\n\nMr Creighton said those affected, who are currently serving sentences, were a \"wide range\" of offenders including animal rights activists, \"people fighting Islamic terrorism with the Kurds\", and Islamist extremists.\n\nThe government had already announced plans for tougher terror laws, including an end to automatic early release half-way through their sentence. Instead, it would be up to the Parole Board to decide if people convicted of terrorism offences should be released after serving two thirds of their sentence.\n\nBut there were no proposals for the new measures to apply retrospectively, until last Sunday's attack in Streatham when convicted terror offender Sudesh Amman - who had been out of prison less than two weeks - stabbed two people.\n\nIt followed the London Bridge attack in November last year, when another convicted terror offender Usman Khan was on licence when he killed two people.\n\nResponding to the latest attack in south London, the government announced that the new terror legislation - once passed by Parliament - would apply to offenders currently serving sentences.\n\nMinisters are trying to get the legislation passed before the next terror offender is due to be released.\n\nSudesh Amman was under covert surveillance when he stabbed two people in south London on Sunday\n\n\"We've been told by one of our clients that he's had a notification that his release date is going to be changed as a result of this legislation,\" said Mr Creighton.\n\nHe said it was \"very disconcerting\", saying \"the principle of not changing prison sentences, not changing any criminal sentences, is deeply embedded in English law\".\n\n\"It really is quite a troubling idea about the certainty of the criminal process that long after conviction you can be called back as a result of a change in legislation and told your sentence doesn't stand anymore - you can serve longer, you can do more time. It's really against all our legal traditions.\"\n\nHe added that he imagines there will be \"a number of people wanting to challenge this and that the cases are likely to be consolidated as one case before the High Court initially\".\n\nHe added: \"I'd imagine it's inevitable that it will go the Supreme Court. It's something that is so fundamental to our principles of how we run justice and society that it has to go to the Supreme Court.\"\n\nAnnouncing the emergency legislation earlier this week, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said it would apply to serving prisoners because the UK faces \"an unprecedented situation of severe gravity\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland: \"We face an unprecedented situation of severe gravity\"\n\nThe government's Counter-Terrorism Bill would also ensure people convicted of serious offences, such as preparing acts of terrorism or directing a terrorist organisation, spend a minimum of 14 years in prison.\n\nThere are currently at least 74 people who were jailed for terror offences and subsequently freed on licence.\n\nThere are also 224 people convicted of terrorism offences in prison in Great Britain, most of whom must be released at the end of their custodial sentence.", "Firefighters are trained to deal with incidents other than fire, ministers say\n\nWales' fire and rescue services could be given a wider role in keeping people safe under new plans from ministers.\n\nThe Welsh Government say the services have been so successful in reducing fires that they are now under-occupied.\n\nMany rural fire stations respond to a handful of fires a month, threatening their sustainability, ministers say.\n\nFirefighters could take on roles currently carried out by the NHS, such as responding to medical emergencies, the government has suggested.\n\nIt is believed the move would be the first of its kind in the UK.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has been asked to respond.\n\nIn a statement, Hannah Blythyn, the minister responsible for the fire service, said: \"I would like to thank our fire and rescue services in Wales for their continued success in reducing both the incidence and severity of fire.\n\n\"I have little doubt that this success is partly due to the great emphasis that the fire service places on preventing fire and improving awareness of fire risks.\n\n\"Firefighters are highly trained to deal with a wide range of incidents besides fires, and have the expertise and respect to raise awareness of and prevent non-fire threats too.\"\n\nHannah Blythyn says firefighters could \"make a real contribution to supporting the NHS\"\n\nMs Blythyn said there was \"clear potential\" for the service to \"make a real contribution to supporting the NHS in particular, whether in terms of responding to medical emergencies or helping to prevent accidents like falls at home; and clear evidence that this can secure better outcomes and significant savings\".\n\n\"There are many impressive examples of this happening, but they are often small-scale and piecemeal\", she said.\n\n\"I want to see a fire and rescue service which deals with a range of threats to people's health and safety, both in terms of prevention and emergency response, complementing not duplicating the work of other professionals.\"\n\nThe announcement comes as the Welsh NHS faces increasing pressure throughout the system, resulting in cancelled operations, long waits for certain types of surgery and patients struggling to get GP appointments.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there needed to be an agreement on firefighters' pay and conditions to reflect the proposed broader role, although it says negotiations on this have been \"very slow\".\n\nMinisters say they have a \"commitment to consider providing financial support to a pay deal that meets the needs of Wales and Welsh firefighters\" and \"there are already constructive discussions on this at a senior management level\".\n\nWales has three fire and rescue services - North Wales, Mid and West Wales, and South Wales.\n\nLast year, firefighters trained as special constables in Devon and Somerset, to boost police numbers in rural areas, a move opposed by the FBU.\n\nThe union said independence from the police was \"vital to ensure that communities know firefighters exist to save lives, not to enforce the law\".", "A68 barely moved after calving, but this year has suddenly raced northwards\n\nThe world's biggest iceberg is about to enter the open ocean.\n\nA68, a colossus that broke free from the Antarctic in 2017, has pushed so far north it is now at the limit of the continent's perennial sea-ice.\n\nWhen it calved, the berg had an area close to 6,000 sq km (2,300 sq mi) and has lost very little of its bulk over the past two and a half years.\n\nBut scientists say A68 will struggle to maintain its integrity when it reaches the Southern Ocean's rougher waters.\n\n\"With a thickness to length ratio akin to five sheets of A4, I am astonished that the ocean waves haven't already made ice cubes out of A68,\" said Prof Adrian Luckman from Swansea University, UK.\n\n\"If it survives for long as one piece when it moves beyond the edge of the sea-ice, I will be very surprised,\" he told BBC News.\n\nEurope's Sentinel-3 satellite shows A68 against the edge of the perennial sea-ice (orange line)\n\nA68 split from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017. For a year, it hardly moved, its keel apparently grounded on the seafloor.\n\nBut the prevailing winds and currents eventually began to push it northwards along the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, and during this summer season the drift has undergone a rapid acceleration.\n\nThe iceberg, currently at 63 degrees South latitude, is following a very predictable course.\n\nA68 is about 150km long but only 200m or so thick. It has the profile akin to a few sheets of A4 paper stacked on top of each other. Rough seas should break it apart\n\nWhen it pops above the tip of the peninsula, the massive block should be swept northwards towards the Atlantic - a path researchers refer to as \"Iceberg Alley\".\n\nMany of Antarctica's greatest bergs even make it as far - and beyond - the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia at roughly 54 degrees South.\n\nThe biggest ever recorded iceberg in the modern era was the 11,000-sq-km block called B15, which calved from the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000.\n\nOne of its last remnants, now measuring \"just\" 200 sq km, is halfway to the South Sandwich Islands, east of South Georgia.\n\nObjects this big have to be constantly monitored because they pose a risk to shipping. Satellite images, like the ones shown on this page, are the obvious way to do this.\n\nPine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is about to release a big iceberg (white shading)\n\nWhile they keep an eye on A68, scientists are also watching for two other, soon-to-birth bergs.\n\nOne is about to come off the front of Pine Island Glacier in the West Antarctic. This will be a little over 300 sq km when it calves. The block is already riven with many cracks.\n\n\"I expect that the new iceberg will break into many pieces soon after it calves,\" said Prof Luckman.\n\nThe other imminent large berg is forming in eastern Antarctica, on the edge of the Brunt Ice Shelf.\n\nThis should be about 1,500 sq km - roughly the area of Greater London.\n\nThe putative berg has garnered a lot of attention because Britain's Halley research station had to be moved to make sure it wasn't in harm's way.\n\nThe berg will calve when a big rift, dubbed Chasm 1, finally slices through a section of ice measuring less than 10km in length.\n\nPrecisely when, no-one can say. \"The rift is widening, but only at a steady rate, and the rift tip is hardly advancing,\" Prof Luckman told BBC News.\n\nThe Brunt berg will be about the size of Greater London when Chasm 1 breaks through\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Sudesh Amman was under covert surveillance when he stabbed two people in south London on Sunday\n\nThe threat from terrorism is \"not diminishing\", the head of UK counter-terror policing has warned, as he praised covert officers' response to the Streatham attack.\n\nOfficers \"calmly ran forward\" and prevented more people being injured, Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.\n\nSudesh Amman, 20, was shot dead by police after stabbing two people in south London on Sunday.\n\n\"But with 3,000 or so subjects of interest currently on our radar and many convicted terrorists soon due to be released from prison, we simply cannot watch all of them, all the time,\" the Metropolitan Police's assistant commissioner said.\n\nHe welcomed government plans to \"to keep the most dangerous terrorists locked up for longer\".\n\nAmman had been released from prison on 23 January after serving half of his sentence for terror offences.\n\nHe was under active surveillance at the time of the attack - which police believe to have be an Islamist-related terrorist incident - and had a hoax device strapped to his body.\n\nMr Basu praised the \"quick reactions\" of surveillance officers for preventing more injuries.\n\n\"They exemplified the courage and sense of duty that our officers have shown time and time again in their efforts to protect the public from the terrorist threat,\" he added.\n\nMr Basu said the attack was the third in as many months, following recent incidents at London Bridge and Whitemoor prison, and said the threat was \"not diminishing\", despite best efforts.\n\nThe UK's terror threat level is currently set at \"substantial\", meaning an attack is likely.\n\nIt was downgraded from \"severe\", the second highest rating, in November, shortly before the London Bridge attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick said it was \"clearly not possible\" to stop every attack and Amman was able to stab people despite being under surveillance because such operations are not \"man-to-man marking\".\n\nIn response to the attack, ministers want to introduce emergency legislation to make terror offenders serve more time in prison - but a former government adviser has warned those plans could lead to a legal battle.\n\nA target of 27 February has been set to get the legislation through Parliament to prevent the early release of any more offenders, according to a Whitehall official.\n\nThe official said no terrorist offenders are due to receive automatic release before that date.\n\nThe government plans to introduce the legislation in the Commons on Tuesday, with the aim of clearing the House by the time it rises for recess the following Thursday.", "More than a thousand scientists have built the most detailed picture of cancer ever in a landmark study.\n\nThey said cancer was like a 100,000-piece jigsaw, and that until today, 99% of the pieces were missing.\n\nTheir studies, published in the journal Nature, provide an almost complete picture of all cancers.\n\nThey could allow treatment to be tailored to each patient's unique tumour, or develop ways of finding cancer earlier.\n\nThe Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium analysed the whole genetic code of 2,658 cancers.\n\nA cancer is a corrupted version of our own healthy cells - mutations to our DNA change our cells until eventually they grow and divide uncontrollably.\n\nMost of our understanding of this process comes from the sets of genetic instructions for building the body's proteins.\n\n\"That's a mere 1% of the whole genome,\" said Dr Lincoln Stein from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.\n\nHe said doctors would be \"in the dark\" when treating around a third of patients, as it was impossible to tell why their cells had become cancerous.\n\nIt has taken teams in 37 countries more than a decade to figure out what the 99% were doing.\n\nThe work, which took 22 scientific journal papers to describe, shows that cancer is massively complex, with thousands of different combinations of mutations able to cause cancer.\n\nThe project found people's cancers contain, on average, between four and five fundamental mutations that drive a cancer's growth.\n\nThese are potential weak-spots that can be exploited with treatments that attack these \"driver mutations\".\n\n\"Ultimately, what we want to do is to use these technologies to identify treatments that are tailored to each individual patient,\" said Dr Peter Campbell, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute.\n\nHowever, 5% of cancers appear to have no driver mutations at all, showing there is still more work to do.\n\nScientists also developed a way of \"carbon dating\" mutations. They showed that more than a fifth of them occurred years or even decades before a cancer is found.\n\n\"We've developed the first timelines of genetic mutations across the spectrum of cancer types,\" said Dr Peter Van Loo from the Francis Crick Institute.\n\nHe added: \"Unlocking these patterns means it should now be possible to develop new diagnostic tests, that pick up signs of cancer much earlier.\"\n\nThe challenge will be knowing which of these mutations will go on to become cancer and which can be safely ignored.", "Public Finance Minister Kate Forbes stepped in to deliver the budget\n\nThere will be no changes to income tax rates in Scotland in the coming year, the government has announced.\n\nPublic Finance Minister Kate Forbes set out the budget in the place of Derek Mackay, who resigned as finance secretary on Thursday morning.\n\nShe announced that tax rates will not increase, although the threshold where the upper rates kick in will be frozen.\n\nAnd she committed extra funding to health, education and investment aimed at tackling the \"climate emergency\".\n\nThe SNP need votes from opposition parties to pass the budget, and Ms Forbes urged them not to be \"partisan\".\n\nThe build-up to the budget was disrupted when Mr Mackay was forced to quit the government over reports he had sent hundreds of social media messages to a 16-year-old boy.\n\nJunior minister Ms Forbes - a first-term MSP who is aged just 29 - stepped in at the last minute to deliver the speech, and is set to take the lead in talks with opposition parties.\n\nShe said the package included \"significant investment in our response to the global climate emergency, to strengthen our economy and improve our public services\".\n\nUnder the plans, Scotland's current tax rates will not increase, and the threshold at which people start paying the basic and intermediate rates will increase by the rate of inflation.\n\nThe thresholds for the higher and upper rates will be frozen, with Ms Forbes calling this the \"fairest and most progressive income tax system in the UK\".\n\nThe budget had a particular focus on environmental issues, with Ms Forbes saying it would \"step up the delivery of our ambition to tackle climate change\".\n\nThis includes £1.8bn of capital investment in projects to reduce emissions, and funding for active travel, electric vehicles, agriculture and peatland restoration.\n\nA budget bill will now be introduced at parliament, and is due to be voted on by MSPs in three weeks' time - which is how long Ms Forbes now has to secure a deal.\n\nNew forecasts from the Scottish Fiscal Commission were published alongside the budget, warning that \"Brexit remains a risk to continued economic growth\".\n\nMs Forbes stepped in after Derek Mackay tendered his resignation with immediate effect\n\nOpposition MSPs praised Ms Forbes for stepping in to deliver the budget, but were critical of some of the content.\n\nMurdo Fraser said the Conservatives could not support the budget because it \"falls well short of where we need it to be\".\n\nHe said freezing the upper rate tax thresholds could widen the gap between what higher earners pay in Scotland and the rest of the UK, and said \"not enough money is being handed to police\".\n\nFor Labour, Rhoda Grant said essential services were \"worse off\" under the SNP, and that the government was using \"smoke and mirrors\" to obscure this.\n\nShe said the budget was a \"disappointment\", calling for a \"step change\" in local government funding and extra money to make Scottish education \"world-leading\" again.\n\nScottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie said the budget was \"timid\" and was not an \"emergency response\" to climate change.\n\nAnd Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said councils \"have only been given half of what they need\", saying the government should focus on services rather than independence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump has taken a victory lap one day after his impeachment acquittal, in a tirade against his political enemies.\n\n\"I've done things wrong in my life, I will admit... but this is what the end result is,\" he said as he held up a newspaper headlined \"Trump acquitted\".\n\n\"We went through hell, unfairly. We did nothing wrong,\" he said at the White House. \"It was evil, it was corrupt.\"\n\nHe earlier criticised impeachment foes who invoked their religious faith.\n\n\"Now we have that gorgeous word. I never thought it would sound so good,\" Mr Trump said from the East Room, which was crammed with supporters and cabinet officials.\n\nMr Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives in December for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, but was acquitted on Wednesday after a two-week trial in the Republican-controlled Senate, which did not include any witnesses.\n\nMr Trump also used a swear word to describe the justice department inquiry into whether his 2016 election campaign had colluded with the Kremlin.\n\n\"It was all bullshit,\" he said. \"This should never happen to another president ever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccording to the president, it was neither speech nor news conference; it was \"nothing\", it was a \"celebration\".\n\nIt was certainly about 62 minutes long and veered wildly between self-congratulation, via self-justification, to self-pity with a smattering of bilious expletives and insults to describe his political opponents en route.\n\nIt was both a lap of honour and an emotional rollercoaster, all played out in front of his Republican flock, the nation and the world.\n\nFrankly, it was hard to keep up.\n\nOne moment the president was railing against liars, leakers and \"dirty cops\"; the next we were into an anecdote about a wrestling team from Penn State University.\n\nThe acquitted, no doubt, enjoy a moment of catharsis - the moment of euphoria when the pall of guilt is lifted and renewal can begin. But don't expect this president to put this one behind him - it's far too valuable an electoral stick with which to beat his rivals right up to polling day.\n\nPresident Trump's appeal in 2016 was as the outsider, the man to \"drain the swamp\" and give power back to the people.\n\nThe impeachment process will allow Trump 45 to once again assume the mantle of the heroic political outlaw.\n\nThe president's tone on Thursday suggested he is confident of Republican party loyalty ahead of November's White House election.\n\nMr Trump's post-acquittal celebration contrasted with President Bill Clinton's address in 1999, when the impeached Democratic president offered a sombre apology to the American people.\n\n\"I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people,\" Mr Clinton said.\n\nAs he concluded his remarks, Mr Trump also offered a rare apology - to his family, for having to \"go through a phony, rotten deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Trump spoke about his \"terrible ordeal\" of impeachment during the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual cross-party event in Washington DC to celebrate religious freedom.\n\nMr Trump continued: \"I don't like people that use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong.\n\n\"Nor do I like people that say 'I pray for you' when they know that's not so.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Senator Mitt Romney cited his deep Mormon faith as he became the only Republican to vote to remove Mr Trump from office.\n\nIn December, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who launched the impeachment inquiry, cited her own Catholic faith as she said she prays for Mr Trump.\n\nMr Trump cited the matter again later in the East Room, saying: \"I doubt she [Pelosi] prays at all.\"\n\nReacting to Mr Trump's prayer speech, Mrs Pelosi, who sat near Mr Trump as he spoke, told reporters: \"He's impeached forever, no matter what he says or whatever headlines he wants to carry around.\n\n\"You're impeached forever. You're never getting rid of that scar.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The impeachment saga from beginning to end", "The term \"painkiller\" should not be used, to help bust the myth they cure pain, a government adviser suggests.\n\nProf Jamie Coleman said the phrase raised unrealistic expectations - with \"pain-reliever\" a better option.\n\nResearch suggests just one in 10 patients seeking help for long-term pain, benefit from strong painkillers.\n\nProf Coleman also said he was in favour of ending the over-the-counter sale of low-dose codeine drugs in pharmacies, to combat prescription drug addiction.\n\nHe said even in low doses, the medication could become addictive, and users risked serious side-effects, such as vomiting and nausea.\n\nProf Coleman, who is part of a working group looking at the use of opioid medication for the government in England, said making such drugs prescription-only alongside a change in culture towards painkillers, was the key to tackling misuse.\n\nA report published last year by Public Health England (PHE) warned that people were getting hooked on prescription drugs, such as opioids, anti-depressants and sleeping tablets.\n\nOpioids, such as codeine and morphine, are given by doctors to control pain. They are widely used in hospitals for cancer patients, and patients who are dying.\n\nGPs also prescribe them to patients in the community who suffer from long-term pain.\n\nThe PHE research found that every year more than 5 million people are given them - with 1.2 million on them for at least 12 months.\n\nProf Coleman, an expert in pharmacology at Birmingham University, said there needed to be a culture approach and attitude around the use of painkillers, much as there has been with antibiotics because of the rise of drug-resistant superbugs.\n\nHe highlighted the \"painkillers don't exist\" public awareness scheme which is running in Sunderland, calling it an \"intelligent\" approach which could be replicated elsewhere. It stresses that drugs like opioids just mask the symptoms.\n\n\"We need to educate people. For some, they will have very little impact.\"\n\nHe said he sympathised with GPs who were often under pressure to see patients quickly and did not always have other options to turn to, such as mental health care and support schemes to address loneliness.\n\n\"These can be important factors in tackling long-term pain. We are seeing more support being made available through social prescribing schemes, but there is a definite lack of alternatives for doctors.\"\n\nDr Cathy Stannard, a consultant in pain medicine at NHS Gloucestershire, who has carried out the research suggesting only one in 10 patients seeking help for long-term pain will get benefit from painkillers, said she agreed there needed to be a re-think.\n\n\"We probably do over-prescribe. GPs don't have enough time to get to the bottom of what is wrong with patients.\n\n\"For some a painkiller will be life-changing, but for many it won't work. Pain can be related to grief, social isolation or mobility issues for example. Address those and you can make a difference to the pain.\"\n\nBut she added that the problems being seen in the UK were not on the scale of the US, where there has been a rise in drug-related deaths, partly linked to prescription painkillers.\n\nShe said the oversight and regulation of prescription drugs meant their use was much more closely controlled, so that while prescription rates had risen it was still not on the scale of that seen in the US.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England's first town to have all-electric buses will be created through a £50m fund, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced.\n\nLocal authorities can bid for money to help pay for a new fleet of electric buses.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said buses had \"a crucial role to play in bringing down emissions\".\n\nDarren Shirley, head of the Campaign for Better Transport, called it a \"good start\" after years of cuts to services.\n\nThe DfT said that the winning town would be used as a model by government as it aims to ensure all buses are fully electric by 2025.\n\nThe announcement comes as part of a wider package of measures for buses.\n\nAbout £70m will go towards high-frequency \"Superbus\" networks. One is already in place in Cornwall, where a mix of lower fares, more frequent services and lots of bus lanes has proven successful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Cornwall teenager with a two hour bus commute\n\nThe government is also putting £20m towards trials of on-demand buses, which can be ordered through an app.\n\nThose services are designed for rural or suburban areas where passenger demand doesn't justify having fixed routes permanently in place.\n\nAn Uber-style bus service already operates in Oxford and Liverpool.\n\nThe scheme, run by Arriva which is working with Merseytravel, allows passengers to determine the route of a minibus by entering their pick-up point and destination on a mobile phone app.\n\nHowever, Oxford Bus Company recently warned that its PickMeUp service \"may end\" unless it finds additional funding.\n\nDespite making 250,000 journeys since the service was launched in June 2018, Oxford Bus Company said \"it is still challenging to operate on a fully commercial basis\".\n\nThe transport secretary said: \"With 200 electric buses able to offset 3,700 diesel cars, it is clear they have a crucial role to play in bringing down emissions.\"\n\nMr Shapps added: \"This £170m package will help us to create communities which are cleaner, easier to get around and more environmentally friendly, speeding up journeys and making them more reliable.\"\n\nAbout £30m of funding will go to English local authorities outside of London in 2020, to help them improve or restore bus services that have been cut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOver the last decade, council funding for buses in England has fallen by more than 40%. That figure excludes the capital, which has bucked the trend.\n\nThe Campaign for Better Transport's chief executive, Darren Shirley, told the BBC that the proposals were a \"good start\".\n\nHe said: \"For years, we've seen services cut and reduced, with commuters unable to get to work or to see their families.\n\n\"To reinstate some bus services and introduce zero emissions buses for one town is a good start for this government.\"\n\nA 2019 study by the campaign group found that more than 3,000 local bus routes had been lost or reduced over the previous decade.\n\nIt also called for discounted fares for concessions such as students and elderly people.", "Mr Penny said Hashem Abedi created the account two months before the attack\n\nAn email address which translated from Arabic as \"to slaughter we have come\" was linked to the Manchester Arena attacker's brother and used to buy a bomb-making chemical, a jury has heard.\n\nSalman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb outside an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017, killing 22 people.\n\nHashem Abedi has denied 22 counts of murder and other charges.\n\nA Gmail account using the Arabic phrase \"bedab7jeana\" was created in March 2017, his Old Bailey trial heard.\n\nDuncan Penny QC, prosecuting, said it was created in Hulme Market, Manchester, where analysis of telephone and number-plate evidence has placed 22-year-old Hashem Abedi.\n\nThe following month, he said, the email address was provided to Amazon when a \"successful purchase\" of hydrogen peroxide took place.\n\nMr Penny said a \"literal translation\" from Arabic of the phrase was \"to slaughter we have come\" and when the Abedi family home in Fallowfield was searched after the attack, the address was found on a torn-up note in a bin outside.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nLater, the jury was told the brothers' plans to stockpile chemicals were \"thrown into disarray\" when they crashed a car they had been using to transport them to an address in Rusholme they were renting.\n\nMr Penny said their Toyota Aygo, which they had bought for £250, was written off in the crash in Fallowfield on 23 March 2017.\n\nHe said they had reacted \"unkindly to the interest of others in the collision and were abusive to the other driver\", and witnesses noticed a number of cardboard boxes in the back seat.\n\nHe added there had been attempts to remove the labels on the boxes when it was discovered the Aygo could not be repaired.\n\nJurors were also told the brothers visited a hardware superstore in Stockport at the end of March where their mother's card was used to buy a claw hammer, hacksaw, metal cutters and pliers.\n\nMr Penny added that the pair bought a Nissan Micra, which he previously described as a \"de-facto storage facility\", on 13 April.\n\nIt was bought quickly \"after a brief examination... and a test drive\", he said, and collected at 23:30 BST in an \"episode\" which \"smacks of real urgency\".\n\nThe car - which was found in Rusholme after the bombing - had Hashem Abedi's fingerprints inside, along with bags of screws and nails handled by the defendant and more than 10 litres of sulphuric acid in the boot, he said.\n\nHe said further examination found traces of the chemical compound used in the explosion \"on the driver's seat and in other areas of the car\", adding: \"Has all this happened under this defendant's nose without him realising anything about what was really going on, as he was later to claim?\"\n\nHashem Abedi denies 22 counts of murder along with charges of attempted murder and conspiring to cause an explosion.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chairman of the Grenfell Tower inquiry has backed a request from firms that refurbished the building that evidence they give should not be used against them in criminal prosecutions.\n\nSome firms had threatened to stay silent in the inquiry into how Grenfell was covered in flammable cladding.\n\nSir Martin Moore-Bick said he had asked Attorney General Geoffrey Cox for the assurance \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nThe fire at the west London tower block in June 2017 killed 72 people.\n\nRepresentatives from organisations including cladding company Harley Facades, building contractor Rydon and the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation had asked for a guarantee that anything they say in the hearings would not be used as part of any potential future prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry - which is in its second phase - was paused while Sir Martin considered the firms' application, which was vigorously opposed by lawyers representing a group of the bereaved, survivors and residents.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is conducting its own investigation into possible crimes ranging from gross negligence manslaughter and corporate manslaughter to health and safety offences.\n\nIn its ruling, the inquiry panel said it would immediately write to Mr Cox - who will make the final decision - in order to secure the terms under which evidence will be given when the inquiry resumes.\n\nIt added that the deal must ensure that no \"oral evidence given by a natural or legal person before the Inquiry in Modules 1, 2 and 3 will be used in evidence against that person in any criminal proceedings or for the purpose of deciding whether to bring such proceedings\".\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said this deal - if it is backed by the Attorney General - would not provide immunity from prosecution, as the police can still gather their own information.\n\nBut he added: \"They couldn't use what a witness said at the inquiry as evidence at a trial.\"\n\nCampaign group Grenfell United has criticised companies involved in the tower's refurbishment for \"passing the buck and minimising their own role in the disaster\".\n\nThe inquiry's second phase, which began last week, is looking at how the building came to be covered in a flammable type of cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016.\n\nEmails disclosed to the inquiry suggested that companies knew a planned cladding system would fail in the event of a fire.\n\nThe investigation has heard that - with the \"sole exception\" of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, which accepted that the tower's refurbishment should not have been signed off - all organisations involved in the work have denied responsibility.\n\nThe first phase of the inquiry heard how the fire on 14 June 2017 spread quickly up the 23-storey tower in west London, claiming the lives of 72 people.", "The mesh implants are used to ease incontinence and support organs\n\nDozens of women who thought they were having a \"complete mesh removal\" have discovered material has been left behind, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has been told.\n\nSome women have been left unable to walk, work or have sex after having the initial vaginal-mesh implants.\n\nSpecialist surgeons say in some cases total or partial mesh removal can be beneficial.\n\nBut some women said their symptoms had become worse. One was left suicidal.\n\nVaginal-mesh implants remain available on the NHS in England but only when certain conditions are met. In Scotland, the use of mesh was halted in 2018.\n\n\"Leila\", not her real name, said her surgeon had promised her a \"full mesh removal\" - but she has now been told more than 10cm (4in) could have been left behind.\n\nShe had mesh implanted several years ago to treat urinary incontinence and said she had woken after the surgery with \"chronic pain in my legs, my groin and my hips\".\n\nIt is believed she suffered nerve damage.\n\nA year later - after being told by one expert a mesh removal would be unlikely to resolve her pain - she found a surgeon who told her the implant could be completely removed.\n\n\"The first question I asked was, 'Can this mesh be removed fully?' and I was assured it was possible,\" she said.\n\nShe had two operations - each taking her half a year to recover from - and was told there had been a full removal.\n\n\"Me and my family rejoiced, thinking that chapter of several years of my life was going to be over,\" she said.\n\nBut \"within a few months\" the pain began to return and her health deteriorated.\n\nShe sought a scan and said she could not describe the \"horror\" of being told only 5-8cm had been removed.\n\n\"My whole world turned upside down,\" she said, breaking into tears.\n\nShe has since been told by a separate specialist her form of mesh was one of the most difficult to remove and could cause significant nerve damage if not removed properly.\n\nShe said she had never been told this by her surgeon.\n\nThe mesh is made of a polypropylene, a type of plastic\n\nThe number of women affected is unknown but the Victoria Derbyshire programme understands there are at least dozens of such cases.\n\nOver 20 years, more than 100,000 women across the UK have had transvaginal mesh implants to treat organ prolapse and incontinence - often after childbirth.\n\nMesh removal is extremely complicated. One surgeon has compared the removal of an implant from the pelvis to removing hair from chewing gum.\n\nThere can also be some confusion over terminology.\n\nBaroness Cumberledge, who is leading a governmental review into vaginal mesh, said in some instances, for example, a partial removal was referred to by surgical teams as a \"full vaginal removal\".\n\nAnd, she told BBC News, it was \"the surgeon's responsibility\" to ensure the patient was clear what the surgery entailed.\n\nNow, Labour MSP Neil Findlay has written to Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, calling on her to ask the General Medical Council to investigate.\n\nHe told BBC News he had seen evidence of several instances in which women had been told by surgeons they would receive a \"full\" or \"complete\" removal, but where material had been left behind.\n\nAnother woman, \"Fiona\", said she had been left suicidal after her complications had reappeared following her mesh-removal surgery, for which she had paid £12,000.\n\nThe issue, she said, had been exacerbated by a letter sent from her surgeon to her GP, saying a complete removal had taken place.\n\nThis had meant when she had asked to be referred to a specialist, she had hit a \"brick wall\" and could get a second opinion by self-referring only.\n\nWhen she did, she was told some of the implant remained.\n\n\"You feel betrayed all over again,\" she said.\n\nSurgeons say most of the fee to receive private care for mesh removal comes from hospital costs.\n\nThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said in a statement that it took \"each and every complication caused by mesh very seriously\".\n\nIt said: \"Management of symptoms will depend on the complication and total or partial removal of the mesh may be recommended in some circumstances.\n\n\"Whereas for other women, mesh removal may not be the solution to the problem.\n\n\"Women must be informed of all options available and the benefits and risks of each so they can make the best decision about their care.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None Vaginal mesh ban can end 'with changes'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry: \"We would be more credible\"\n\nEmily Thornberry says she is being \"squeezed\" in the Labour leadership race by two \"monolithic\" campaigns, but says she brings \"depth of experience\".\n\nShe said some saw the race as being between Rebecca Long-Bailey and Sir Keir Starmer, but added that the members should have the widest choice.\n\nLabour will be \"more professional\" under her leadership, she added.\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary is the only hopeful not to have the required support to make the final ballot yet.\n\nLabour's Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer, Wigan MP Lisa Nandy and shadow business secretary Mrs Long-Bailey have reached the threshold to be included on the members' ballot.\n\nThey needed the support of 5% of local parties or at least three affiliates - two must be unions - by 14 February. So far, Ms Thornberry has the backing of a handful of local parties and no affiliates.\n\nWhen asked by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg why she was behind in terms of nominations from local parties, Ms Thornberry said the contest had \"ended up with two slightly monolithic campaigns\" from Mrs Long-Bailey and Sir Keir.\n\n\"One is perceived as being on the left, with the support of Momentum and all the data that obviously Momentum has,\" she said, referring to Mrs Long-Bailey.\n\n\"And the other one therefore by comparison is seen as the right or the centre ground.\"\n\nShe said it was \"not for the leaders take us to the left or to the right\" but the new leader should \"take us forward, we need to have the best candidate\".\n\n\"And so, to a certain extent it is a good old fashioned squeeze between these two big, you know, campaigns, with all the data and everything else, and it's quite difficult in the middle of that,\" she said.\n\n\"But what I want to do is to break this and to get onto the ticket.\"\n\nShe added: \"We should have everybody on the ticket, so that the members can make the decision.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nMs Thornberry said that under her leadership Labour will be \"more professional\", adding: \"We will be more believable, we will be more credible and people would say: 'Oh, thank goodness the Labour Party's back'.\n\n\"You know: 'We can vote for the Labour Party now, because the Labour Party hasn't fundamentally changed, but at least we can believe that they will do the things that they say they're going to do',\" she said.\n\nShe said a \"leap of credibility\" was \"really important\", adding that the party \"kind of lost our way before Jeremy was elected as leader\".\n\n\"I think that what I bring to this is a depth of experience, particularly on foreign affairs and on security matters,\" Ms Thornberry said.\n\n\"I think that I raise everyone else's game.\"\n\nShe has done seven front bench jobs, she added.\n\n\"I've been in Parliament for 15 years, I was born in the Labour Party, I will die in the Labour Party,\" she said.\n\nMr Corbyn announced he would be standing down after Labour suffered its worst defeat, in terms of seats, since 1935 in December's election.\n\nOn the election, Ms Thornberry said there were some \"terrible tactical errors\".\n\nShe said the party should have \"stood [our] ground\" in order to get a further referendum on Brexit ahead of any general election.\n\n\"Our problem was that they [the Conservatives] had 'get Brexit done', and they wanted to have basically a referendum wrapped up as a general election so they weren't held to be accountable for anything that they've done,\" she said.\n\n\"We weren't able to talk about other policies, we had about three and a half paragraphs in terms of what our Brexit policy was, and then we tried to change the subject and we weren't able to.\"\n\nOn her life outside the Labour Party, Ms Thornberry said: \"I quite often take a weekend off and go away with my other half, and we go to particularly sort of English towns where we've never been before.\n\n\"And we stay in the local hotel we go to the municipal museum, we look at kind of quirky things, we go walking, we go visit a local country house.\n\n\"We just spend time with one another and remind one another, how we fell in love in the first place.\"\n\nShe said she \"probably\" had some Tory friends, adding: \"Particularly members of my husband's family I think are definitely Tories.\"\n\n\"But, but I've never kissed a Tory in that way,\" she joked. \"That will be true to say.\"\n\nLaura Kuenssberg has already interviewed Sir Keir and Mrs Long-Bailey and is aiming to interview Ms Nandy in the coming weeks.\n\nThe new leader will be announced on 4 April.", "Mohammed Zahir Khan is due to be freed at the end of this month\n\nMinisters are aiming to pass emergency legislation to block the automatic early release of convicted terror offenders before the next one is due to be freed in three weeks' time.\n\nSunderland shopkeeper Mohammed Zahir Khan, 42, is expected to be released on 28 February after serving half of his sentence for encouraging terrorism.\n\nAn official said legislation would be introduced to the Commons on Tuesday.\n\nIt follows attacks in recent months by men convicted of terror offences.\n\nKhan was arrested in 2017 and given a four-and-a-half year sentence in May 2018 after pleading guilty.\n\nHe had posted a statement on a Twitter account from the Islamic State group calling for attacks. He also admitted a charge of distributing material designed to incite religious hatred after calling for Shia Muslims to be burnt alive.\n\nThe government's emergency measures, which require backing from Parliament, would postpone his release until the Parole Board has given its approval.\n\nMinisters have admitted they are likely to face a legal challenge over the plans and an ex-independent reviewer of terror legislation, Lord Carlile, said blocking early release \"may be in breach of the law\".\n\nBut Justice Secretary Robert Buckland maintained the government was taking the right action, adding: \"This is about public protection - it's the first job of government to get that right.\"\n\nIn December, following the London Bridge attack, Prime Minister Boris Johnson had told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that \"you can't go back retrospectively\" when it comes to sentencing.\n\nOffenders are told they are being sentenced for a fixed period and will be automatically released at the half-way point, to serve the remainder of their sentence on licence in the community.\n\nSome offenders will have pleaded guilty on the basis that they will be given a sentence with automatic early release at the half-way point.\n\nTheir release is an automatic process and does not involve oversight of the Parole Board.\n\nThe measures are being introduced after three recent incidents involving men who had been convicted of terror offences.\n\nOn Wednesday, the head of UK counter-terror policing Neil Basu warned the threat from terrorism was not diminishing and that the number of subjects of interest and convicted terrorists due for release meant \"we cannot watch all of them, all [of] the time\".\n\nThe first requirement for any government wishing to pass emergency legislation is to show there is an emergency - a set of events which has come about suddenly, could not be foreseen and carries a wider threat.\n\nMinisters have certainly been rocked, and the public alarmed, by three similar terror attacks in two months - at Streatham, Fishmongers' Hall and Whitemoor Prison - and are aware of the the risk of further \"copycat\" incidents.\n\nBut the dangers posed by terrorist prisoners have been known for years while the authorities will have been aware of the release dates of particular inmates from the moment they were sentenced.\n\nTo obtain Parliament's approval for emergency action, and win any legal challenge on the need for applying the measures retrospectively, the government will have to make a convincing argument that there has been a fundamental change in national security that couldn't have been dealt with before.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe FA is set to launch new coaching guidelines that will restrict the amount of heading by under-18 players in training.\n\nThe new guidelines, first reported in the Times, have yet to be finalised but will not entirely ban heading.\n\nLast month, BBC Scotland revealed the Scottish FA was set to ban under-12s heading the ball in training.\n\nA study in October found the first links between playing professionally and dying from dementia.\n\nThe study, by Glasgow University and commissioned by the FA and the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), found former professional footballers were three and a half times more likely to die of degenerative brain disease than people of the same age range in the general population.\n\nThe FA's new guidelines, expected to be issued later this month, will only apply in training and not in matches.\n\nIn December, two months after the release of the study's findings, the FA's head of medicine Charlotte Cowie said: \"The FA's independently chaired research taskforce has instigated a review of possible changes to heading coaching and training at all levels to decrease overall exposure to heading without compromising technique.\n\n\"It is imperative that football now does everything it can to further understand what caused this increased risk and what can be done to ensure that future generations of footballers are protected.\"\n\nA ban on children heading the ball has been in place in the US since 2015.\n\nPeter McCabe, chief executive of Headway - the brain injury association - said: \"We are encouraged to hear the Football Association is set to restrict the amount of heading allowed by young players.\n\n\"In light of the recent study undertaken by the University of Glasgow, this is a positive, common sense approach to take. After all, it will not prohibit young people participating in the game or impact their enjoyment.\n\n\"Further research is urgently needed in order to remove any uncertainty about how often a player can head a ball and at what age - if any - it is safe to do so before damage is caused.\n\n\"What is clear, however, is that we cannot afford to wait for further evidence to be published before taking action on this.\"\n\nThe study began after claims that former West Brom striker Jeff Astle died because of repeated head trauma.\n\nFormer England international Astle developed dementia and died in 2002 at the age of 59. The inquest into his death found heading heavy leather footballs repeatedly had contributed to trauma to his brain.\n\nThe long-awaited study was commissioned by the FA and PFA after delays in initial research had angered Astle's family.\n\nIt began in January last year and was led by consultant neuropathologist Dr Willie Stewart, who said that \"risk ranged from a five-fold increase in Alzheimer's disease, through an approximately four-fold increase in motor neurone disease, to a two-fold Parkinson's disease in former professional footballers compared to population controls\".\n\nIt compared the deaths of 7,676 former players to 23,000 from the general population.\n\nThe sample was taken from men who played professional football in Scotland, and were born between 1900 and 1976.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sydney, who cares for her disabled mother, says the current system isn't working for her\n\nNearly half the 14 million people living in poverty in the UK are disabled or live with someone who is, research for a charity suggests.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation blames the high cost of coping with disability and the struggles disabled people face in finding jobs that pay enough.\n\nExecutive director Claire Ainsley said their plight was \"fundamentally wrong\".\n\nThe government says it is committed to tackling poverty, spending £55bn this year on benefits for disabled people.\n\nIn its annual state-of-the-nation report, to be published on Friday, the charity urges:\n\nThe correlation between disability and poverty is not new but the charity's analysis demonstrates how closely connected the two are across the UK.\n\nThe charity says \"shamefully high numbers\" of disabled people are being pulled into poverty and the social security system is failing to protect them.\n\n\"The fact that disability continues to be an indicator of poverty shows the economy is not working for everyone,\" Ms Ainsley said.\n\nThe researchers found that, compared with the rest of the population, people with disabilities:\n\nAnd of almost 4.5 million informal adult carers in the UK, almost a quarter were living in poverty, with working-age female carers particularly at risk.\n\nSingle mum-of-three Jennifer Hobbs cares for both her 12-year-old son, Nathan, who has a neurodevelopmental disorder, and her elder son, Stanley, 15, who has heart problems.\n\nIt is so time-consuming that she has had to give up her cleaning job and now relies on food banks.\n\n\"It really does infuriate me,\" Jennifer, from Bristol, told the BBC.\n\n\"There should be more help out there for families with disabled people - not just disabled children, disabled people, because people forget disabled children turn into disabled adults.\n\n\"I think to myself, what's going to happen to my son when my son gets older if he can't work because of his disabilities.\n\n\"He might get penalised and end up on the dole or on disability benefits for the rest of his life.\n\n\"I don't want him to have to resort to food banks, like I do.\"\n\nJen Hobbs from Bristol cares for her two disabled sons\n\nImran Hussain, Action for Children's policy and campaigns director, said austerity and problems with universal credit left too many families like Jennifer's \"fighting to keep their heads above water\" and called their predicament \"frankly appalling\".\n\nDisability benefits are supposed to help people cope with the extra costs related to their conditions but research by disability equality charity Scope has shown they fall short.\n\nHouseholds with disabled members are also much more likely to claim other income-related benefits, which have been frozen for the past four years while prices have risen, says Scope.\n\nJames Taylor, its head of policy and campaigns, said the findings were shocking, but not surprising.\n\n\"Life costs much more for disabled people - on average £583 a month.\n\n\"At the same time, huge numbers of disabled people are denied the opportunity to get into and stay in work.\"\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said it wanted one million more disabled people to be in work by 2027 compared with 2017 and recently consulted on how businesses could best support disabled people to thrive in work.\n\nIt also plans to introduce a national strategy for disabled people.", "Helen McCourt was murdered by Ian Simms in Billinge, Merseyside, in 1988\n\nA murderer who has refused to reveal the whereabouts of his victim's remains has been released from prison.\n\nThe mother of Helen McCourt, who disappeared in Merseyside in 1988, said she felt \"numb\" when she was told her daughter's killer had been freed.\n\nIan Simms, now 63, was convicted of killing the 22-year-old, whose body has never been found despite searches.\n\nSimms has been released after Ms McCourt's mother Marie lost a legal bid on Tuesday to keep him behind bars.\n\nMrs McCourt has previously urged the government to deny parole to killers who do not disclose the location of their victims' bodies.\n\nIn an interview to be broadcast on BBC Breakfast, she says: \"I didn't think a heart could break twice... but mine did.\"\n\nMrs McCourt tells the programme: \"All I want - all I've ever wanted - is to have my child back.\n\n\"Whatever tiny bits or pieces there are, it's my daughter, and I want them back. And I can't have them now.''\n\nIan Simms, pictured in 1988, was found guilty of the 22-year-old's abduction and murder\n\nMrs McCourt had launched a legal challenge to keep Simms in prison ahead of a judicial review of the Parole Board's decision to free him.\n\nBut Lord Justice Dingemans and Mr Justice Fordham refused to postpone his release.\n\nMarie McCourt has urged the government to introduce Helen's Law in memory of her daughter\n\nMrs McCourt has been campaigning for a change in the law following her daughter's death.\n\nThe Prisoners (Disclosure of Information about Victims) Bill - dubbed Helen's Law - has failed to be ratified before Parliament on numerous occasions - twice being delayed because of general elections.\n\nSimms, who has always maintained his innocence, was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 16 years.\n\nHe was eligible to be considered for release in February 2004.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"The High Court's ruling meant we had to release Ian Simms from custody though he will be recalled if the court later decides to quash the Parole Board's decision.\n\n\"He will be on licence for life, subject to strict conditions and probation supervision when released, and he faces a return to prison if he fails to comply.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christina Koch celebrated with a thumbs up as she was lifted out of the Soyuz capsule\n\nNasa astronaut Christina Koch has completed the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman.\n\nThe Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Koch parachuted down to the grasslands of Kazakhstan at around 09:12 GMT.\n\nShe spent 328 days on the International Space Station (ISS), surpassing the previous record held by fellow American Peggy Whitson.\n\nHer stay is just 12 days short of the all-time US record set by Scott Kelly, who was on the ISS from 2015-2016.\n\n\"I'm so overwhelmed and happy right now,\" she told reporters as she sat outside the capsule, shortly after it touched down in the snow.\n\nMs Koch surpassed the 289-day record set by fellow American Ms Whitson on 28 December last year. But her return to Earth sets the marker for future space travellers to beat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhitson still holds the record for most time spent in space by a woman, accrued over the course of three spaceflights from 2002-2017.\n\nDuring her mission, Koch completed 5,248 orbits of the Earth and travelled 223 million km (139 million miles) - the equivalent of 291 round trips to the Moon from Earth.\n\nShe returned on the Soyuz with two other crew members - the Italian European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov. They touched down near Dzhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan.\n\nLocal residents came to watch as ground teams recovered the three crew members\n\n\"For me, it's all about the honour I feel to follow in the footsteps of my heroes,\" Christina Koch told journalists on Tuesday during a live link-up from the ISS. She added that she wanted to inspire the next generation of space explorers.\n\n\"For me, it was important to see people that I saw a reflection of myself in, growing up, when I was envisioning what I could do with my life and what my dreams might be. To maybe be that source of inspiration for someone else is just such an honour,\" she said.\n\nMs Koch's mission will help Nasa better understand the medical effects of long periods in space\n\nThe previous record was set by American Peggy Whitson in 2016-17\n\nMs Koch was involved in another spaceflight milestone during her stay of nearly 11 months on the ISS. On 18 October last year, she undertook the first all-female spacewalk alongside her compatriot Jessica Meir.\n\nThe pair spent seven hours outside the ISS replacing a failed power control unit.\n\nRecalling the historic event with Meir, Ms Koch told NBC News: \"When we first got the 'go' to come out of the airlock, and we ended up coming out, we were holding on to a handrail and we just caught each other's eyes.\n\n\"We knew how special that moment was and I'll never forget that.\"\n\n4. Mikhail Kornienko (Russia) and Scott Kelly (US), 340.4 days, 2015-16 on the ISS\n\n5. Christina Koch (US), 328 days, 2019-20 on the ISS\n\nMeir (left) and Koch, prior to their historic spacewalk in October 2019\n\nKoch and Meir followed October's landmark event with two further spacewalks together, on 15 and 20 January this year.\n\nThe first woman spacewalker was the USSR's Svetlana Savitskaya, who worked outside the Salyut 7 space station for more than three hours with a male cosmonaut, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, on 25 July 1984.\n\nKoch has previously said that her spaceflight would help the US space agency better understand the effects of long-term spaceflight, as Nasa aims to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024.\n\nMs Koch, along with other active members of the astronaut corps, is a potential candidate for that first return mission.\n\nSvetlana Savitskaya became the first woman spacewalker in 1984\n\nDuring her time on the ISS, she experimented on proteins as part of a project that could have implications for cancer treatment.\n\nBut there was also downtime, including Karaoke nights with the other crew members.\n\nKoch said one of the things she would miss about her time on the orbiting outpost was the freedom afforded by microgravity. In her interview, she demonstrated by rotating her body 180 degrees, explaining: \"It's really fun to be in a place where you can bounce around between the ceiling and the floor whenever you want.\"\n\nHowever, she added: \"I'm definitely looking forward to being on the same planet as everybody else very soon.\"\n\nKoch has not only exceeded Whitson's spaceflight mark but also those of the previous holders of the 5th and 6th longest flights: Yury Romanenko and Sergei Krikalev - both Russians.\n\nKoch said she would miss some of the benefits of microgravity\n\nThe holder of the longest single spaceflight by any person remains the Russian Valeri Polyakov, who spent more than 437 days aboard the Soviet - and later Russian - space station Mir from 8 January 1994 to 22 March 1995.\n\nKoch launched to the ISS on 14 March last year. She was to have remained on the outpost for the standard duration of six months, but her stay was extended in April 2019 because of flight scheduling issues.\n\nBorn in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and raised in North Carolina, Ms Koch has degrees in physics and electrical engineering.\n\nShe was to have performed the first all-female spacewalk in March, shortly after arriving at the space station. But a problem with the sizing of Nasa colleague Anne McClain's spacesuit forced the walk to be reassigned to another crew member, Nick Hague.", "Trump's support among Republican voters, according to a Gallup poll. If it wasn't clear before the trial that he had the support of the rank and file of his party, it certainly is now.\n\nAn unbeatable majority: Republicans in the Senate have a majority of 53 to 47, meaning they control the chamber and were able to direct the terms of the trial.\n\nThat small majority mattered. At certain points, four Republican senators did indeed waver but in the end, all Republicans but Mr Romney voted with their party to acquit Trump.\n\nThis is the number that ensured Mr Trump was always going to be cleared. To convict, two-thirds of senators - 67 - needed to vote against him.\n\nThis would have required 20 Republican senators to vote for their president's conviction. In the end, only one did.\n\nThe amount of money the Trump campaign said it raised in the last quarter of 2019 - a huge figure it said was down largely to Trump supporters reacting to the impeachment proceedings.\n\nRead more about the numbers that explain Trump's acquittal here.", "The number of anti-Semitic hate incidents recorded in the UK has reached a record high, Jewish charity the Community Security Trust says.\n\nIt recorded 1,805 anti-Semitic incidents last year, an increase of 7% on 2018's findings.\n\nThe charity, which also offers support to those affected, said there was a spike in online abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the figures were \"appalling\" and promised to do more \"to tackle anti-Semitism.\"\n\nShe pledged to push for \"greater collaboration, both across government, policing, the courts and community groups, to remove this shameful stain on our society\".\n\nLast year was the fourth year in a row in which a record number of hate inspired episodes were recorded.\n\nLast month saw the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz death camp.\n\nProtest against antisemitism in the Labour Party\n\nOf the 1,805 incidents reported to the trust last year, 697 occurred online, an increase of 82% on 2018.\n\nThere was also a significant increase in the number of violent anti-Semitic assaults, which rose by 25%.\n\nAlmost two thirds of attacks occurred in Greater London (947) and Greater Manchester (223), which are home to the two largest Jewish communities in the UK.\n\nThe London Borough of Barnet, which has the largest Jewish population of any UK borough, reported the highest number of incidents, amounting to 18% of the national total.\n\nThe trust's chief executive, David Delew, said it was \"no surprise\" that recorded incidents had reached another high and argued that it was clear \"social media and mainstream politics are places where anti-Semitism and racism need to be driven out, if things are to improve in the future\".\n\nThe trust said that the highest number of reported incidents occurred in February and December and coincided with periods where alleged anti-Semitism within the Labour Party was the subject of sustained discussion and activity.\n\nFebruary 2019 saw the defection of several Labour MPs to the newly formed Independent Group, some of whom cited anger over the party's response to allegations of anti-Semitism as their reasons for leaving.\n\nSimilarly, December saw an intense focus on the issue of anti-Semitism during the general election campaign.\n\nIn total, the trust recorded 224 incidents which were related to the Labour Party. This represented an increase from the 148 incidents of this kind in 2018.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn received heavy criticism for his handling of anti-Semitism allegations within his party\n\nResponding to the report, Louise Haigh, vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, said that the data made for \"depressing reading\".\n\n\"It is shameful the Jewish community has been subjected to another year of racist abuse. We are beyond a stage of saying that more has to be done. We require immediate action.\"\n\nShe said she would work with colleagues and the trust to identify what more could be done.\n\nThe national policing lead for hate crime, Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton, said there were still \"far too many people who act illegally, fuelled by global events, divisions in our society or historical bigotries\".", "Derek Mackay has resigned as Scottish finance secretary with immediate effect, on the day he was set to deliver his budget speech. His sudden exit - prompted by allegations he messaged a 16-year-old-boy on social media - cuts short a meteoric rise through Scottish politics.\n\nRaised in Renfrewshire, Derek Mackay attended Renfrew High School and the University of Glasgow.\n\nHis family briefly became homeless during his early teens, an experience he said shaped his outlook - as did the campaign against a new incinerator in the area.\n\nThe young Mr Mackay studied social work, but always had his eye on a career in politics - he joined the SNP at 16, and served as national convener of the party's youth wing.\n\nHe was elected to his local Renfrewshire Council in 1999 at the age of 21 - the youngest male councillor in the country at the time. He went on to lead the council between 2007 and 2011.\n\nMr Mackay became MSP for the newly-created constituency of Renfrewshire North and West in 2011, beating Labour with a majority of 5.7%.\n\nBefore the year was out he was local government minister, with Alex Salmond drafting him into government in a December reshuffle.\n\nMr Mackay was transport minister before he became finance secretary\n\nWhen Nicola Sturgeon took office in 2015 he became transport minister, with responsibility for major projects such as the construction of the Queenferry Crossing.\n\nHe faced down a crisis when the Forth Road Bridge had to be closed in December that year due to structural damage, later saying the closure was a \"make or break, do or die\" moment for him as a minister.\n\nAfter the 2016 Holyrood election - which saw him increase his majority to a very comfortable 24% - he was promoted to finance secretary. He initially shared the economy brief with Keith Brown, but absorbed the full role in the next reshuffle.\n\nThe role saw him drawing up the Scottish budget each year - deciding the fate of £30bn of funding.\n\nMr Mackay admitted occasionally feeling \"imposter syndrome\" at the top of politics.\n\nDerek Mackay has tendered his resignation with immediate effect\n\nHe told Holyrood Magazine: \"I don't think it's a bad thing to admit that there are times when I don't think I'm good enough to do the job\". But he quickly added that \"having met my so-called Imperial Masters [at the Treasury], I am feeling perfectly apt and perfectly up to the job\".\n\nThe 42-year-old also became a major figure in the SNP, serving as business convener for seven years between 2011 and 2018 - a period when the party's membership exploded in size.\n\nThis role saw him oversee management of the party via its National Executive Committee, and he became a popular figure with the quickly-growing membership while chairing conferences.\n\nMr Mackay came out as gay in 2013 and separated from his wife, with whom he has two sons.\n\nBookmakers had Mr Mackay down as the favourite to succeed Ms Sturgeon as first minster some day\n\nHaving served at the top of Ms Sturgeon's government, many bookmakers had tipped Mr Mackay as the favourite to succeed her some day.\n\nBut his downfall has been even swifter than his rise through the ranks at Holyrood.\n\nAfter the Scottish Sun published transcripts of hundreds of text messages he had allegedly sent to a 16-year-old boy over a six-month period, he tendered his resignation to Ms Sturgeon \"with immediate effect\".\n\nHe said he had \"behaved foolishly\" and was \"sorry to have let colleagues and supporters down\".\n\nHis exit has come on the very day he was due to set out his latest tax and spending plans at Holyrood. He will now see the budget delivered by another rising star of the SNP, his junior minister Kate Forbes.", "The PM's father, Stanley Johnson, held a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador\n\nChinese officials were \"concerned\" Boris Johnson did not send a personal message of support after the coronavirus outbreak, emails suggest.\n\nThe PM's father, Stanley Johnson, met Chinese ambassador Liu Xiaoming and emailed his worries to UK officials - accidentally copying in the BBC.\n\nMr Liu told him the prime minister had not yet directly contacted the Chinese.\n\nA government spokesman said the UK had been in close contact with the Chinese authorities since the outbreak.\n\nSources also stressed Stanley Johnson was not acting on behalf or at the request of the British government.\n\nMr Johnson, a longstanding environmental campaigner, was invited to the Chinese embassy to discuss summits on the topic, due to take place this autumn in China and the UK.\n\nShortly after the meeting, the PM's father used his personal email address to share an account of the discussion with the environment minister Lord Goldsmith and other UK officials.\n\nHe wrote: \"Re the outbreak of coronavirus, Mr Liu obviously was concerned that there had not yet - so he asserted - been direct contact between the PM and Chinese head of state or government in terms of a personal message or telephone call.\"\n\nStanley Johnson also revealed he had raised the possibility of his son visiting China in October to attend an international conference on biodiversity, COP15, which will be held in Kunming.\n\nLord Goldsmith wrote a reply from his personal email address, saying: \"Thank you so much Stanley. That is extremely useful.\"\n\nNo one in the exchange appeared to have noticed the BBC was copied in until it was raised with them.\n\nAfter being informed of his mistake, Mr Johnson said: \"I was copying in someone who happened to have the same name as a lady at the BBC. These things happen.\"\n\nMr Liu shared pictures of him and Stanley Johnson on Twitter, saying they had met to exchange views on the COP15 meeting and the COP26 meeting on climate change, to be hosted in Glasgow.\n\nHe added: \"These two conferences are great opportunities to promote international cooperation on environmental protection & climate change.\"\n\nThe Chinese city of Wuhan is under quarantine following the coronavirus outbreak\n\nThe World Health Organization says the coronavirus, which has spread to more than 20 countries, including the UK, does not yet qualify as a \"pandemic\".\n\nBut the UK government is recommending that British citizens in China leave the country to minimise exposure to it.\n\nAt a press conference in London, Mr Liu warned against \"panic\" and \"over-reaction\".\n\nHe added: \"We would advise the British side to take the advice of the WHO... They [the UK government] recognise the effectiveness of the measures taken by China. They also tell us they will follow the WHO's advice.\"\n\nMr Liu also said the UK government's words were \"not entirely square\" with the facts and that it should take an \"objective, cool-headed view of what is happening\".\n\nThe \"channel of communication\" between the Chinese and UK governments remained \"very open\", he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liu Xiaoming This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The government has been in close contact with the Chinese authorities since the start of the outbreak.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary and national security adviser had spoken to their counterparts in the past week, the spokesman added.\n\n\"The UK has provided medical supplies to help China tackle the outbreak and together we have facilitated the repatriation of British nationals and their dependants from Wuhan,\" he said.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nActor Kirk Douglas, whose Hollywood career spanned seven decades, has died aged 103.\n\nThe stage and screen actor was well-known for a range of roles, including the 1960 classic Spartacus, in which he played the titular character.\n\nBorn in New York in 1916, he rose to prominence during Hollywood's \"golden age\", earning his first Oscar nomination for the 1949 film Champion.\n\nHe was also the father of Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas.\n\nHis son Michael said in a statement: \"It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today.\"\n\n\"To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies... but to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad,\" it read in part.\n\n\"Let me end with the words I told him on his last birthday and which will always remain true. Dad - I love you so much and I am so proud to be your son.\"\n\nMichael's wife and Kirk's daughter-in-law, Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones, posted a photo of the two together, writing: \"I shall love you for the rest of my life. I miss you already.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by catherinezetajones This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen I met Kirk Douglas in 2008 he was a sprightly 91. He talked about his advancing years and the impact a stroke, in 1996, had on his skills as an actor.\n\n\"I couldn't talk at all,\" he told me. \"So what does an actor do who can't talk? He waits for silent pictures to come back! That's a corny joke,\" he chuckled.\n\nDouglas was particularly proud of his role in ending the Hollywood blacklist, when he defied the ban on working with filmmakers with alleged communist ties or sympathies.\n\nHe said he drew on \"the impulsive qualities of younger Kirk\" in making his decision to give the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo a screen credit under his own name for his work on Spartacus.\n\nWe discussed his passion for working with young people. He had started writing a blog to encourage young Americans to vote in that year's presidential election.\n\nDouglas and his wife donated millions of dollars to charitable causes and helped build hundreds of school playgrounds. He said their philosophy was: \"Before you die, try to do something for other people.\"\n\nDouglas was prolific as a film actor, with more than 90 credits to his name - ranging from the 1940s to the 2000s.\n\nHe is perhaps best-known for Spartacus, a Stanley Kubrick film which won four Oscars and was so popular that its iconic \"I am Spartacus\" scene entered the pop cultural lexicon.\n\nDouglas was himself nominated for an Oscar three times - for Champion (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and Lust for Life (1956). He eventually won the honorary award in 1996 in recognition of his 50 years in the industry.\n\nKirk Douglas, seen here in 1955, was an icon of Hollywood's golden age\n\nHe faced difficulties in his personal life. He narrowly survived a helicopter crash in 1991 that left two people dead. Five years later, he suffered a major stroke that affected his speech.\n\nAnd in 2004, his son Eric died at the age of 46 of an accidental drug overdose.\n\nIn his later years, he turned his attention to charity. He donated millions of dollars to charitable causes and helped fund an Alzheimer's unit at a retirement home in Los Angeles.\n\nWorld-famous director Steven Spielberg, who knew Douglas personally, told the Hollywood Reporter that he made a \"breathtaking body of work\".\n\n\"Kirk retained his movie star charisma right to the end of his wonderful life and I'm honoured to have been a small part of his last 45 years,\" Spielberg said.\n\nAfter the news of his death broke, fans gathered at his star set in the ground on the Hollywood walk of fame.\n\n\"He was one of the last Hollywood legends of the golden era. That's it. Not a superstar, a legend,\" one man, Gregg Donovan, told news agency AFP.\n\n\"It's devastating. I mean, I know he lived to 103, God bless him, but you just don't think he's going to leave us and it's such a sad day in Hollywood, I'll tell you.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Audio recording of Jonty Bravery telling carers in autumn 2018 about his plan to commit murder\n\nThe teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern in London had spoken about plans to push someone off a high building about a year earlier.\n\nA care worker to Jonty Bravery said opportunities to stop him were missed.\n\nBBC News has obtained a recording of Bravery telling his care workers about a plan to kill someone and go to jail.\n\nHis care provider, Spencer & Arlington, said they had \"no knowledge or records of the disclosure\".\n\nAt the time of the attack Bravery, who has autism, was in the care of Hammersmith and Fulham Council. He lived in a flat in Northolt, west London, with round-the-clock care.\n\nIn the autumn of 2018, a worker called Olly - not his real name - recorded Bravery talking to him and another care worker about his plan to commit murder.\n\n\"In the next few months I've got it in my head I've got to kill somebody,\" Bravery said in the recording, obtained by a joint investigation with the Daily Mail.\n\nHe also tells his care workers he wants to go into central London and visit a tall landmark to push somebody off it.\n\n\"It could be the Shard, it could be anything just as long as it's a high thing and we can go up and visit it and then push somebody off it and I know for a fact they'll die from falling from a hundred feet,\" Bravery said in the recording.\n\nHe explains he is fed up with his situation and wants to be sent to prison.\n\nThe six-year-old victim fell five floors from a tenth floor viewing platform\n\nOlly said this was not the first time Bravery had spoken about this plan.\n\n\"There were a few incidences regarding trying to hurt people, life-wrecking incidences that he had planned in his head,\" he said.\n\nThe former care worker said he told a more senior colleague about what Bravery had said and played the recording to someone else involved in his care. They both deny this.\n\nIn a statement, Spencer & Arlington said there is \"absolutely no evidence\" that Jonty \"may have told his carers of his plan\".\n\nIt said there was no record of the disclosure in any care plan, care report or review from managers or his care workers, psychologists, or health workers.\n\nHowever, the company said it recognised the \"gravity of this claim\" and had reported the concerns to the Care Quality Commission and local authority so they could be examined independently by the serious case review.\n\nBravery, 18, admitted attempted murder at the Old Bailey and is due to be sentenced this month.\n\nAfter his arrest he told police he planned to hurt someone at the gallery to highlight his autism treatment on TV.\n\nThe victim, a French tourist, suffered life-changing injuries, including a \"deep\" bleed to the brain, from the attack last August.\n\nIn January, his family said he was still unable to stand but could now open his left hand.\n\nThe victim suffered life-changing injuries from the attack\n\nOlly said when Bravery went to Spencer & Arlington in the summer of 2018, all trips out were supervised by two care workers at all times and had to be risk assessed.\n\nBut he claims that in the spring of 2019 the regime changed and Jonty was allowed to go out alone.\n\nHe said he recalled conversations with other support staff who told him Bravery had asked to visit the Tate and was later given permission to go out unsupervised by management.\n\nAn eyewitness, who restrained Bravery for around 20 minutes after he threw the boy from the Tate balcony, also told the BBC he saw no evidence of a care worker or anyone else with him at the time.\n\nOlly said he believed the decision was \"strange\" and \"very wrong\", adding that it showed \"a lot of precaution wasn't really taken in terms of how serious the matter could potentially be\".\n\nBBC News has spoken to a second care worker who also said that Bravery's regime became more relaxed to the extent that he was allowed out on his own, in spite of serious incidents when he was outside the flat.\n\nSpencer & Arlington did not deny Bravery was allowed out unsupervised, either in general or during his visit to the Tate, but told BBC News it would be \"inappropriate to make detailed comment\" ahead of the serious case review and a pending sentencing hearing.\n\nA terrible sign of a broken system is how some experts will see the claims that Jonty Bravery's warning that he wanted to kill, went unheeded.\n\nIt will be the task of the serious case review, through interviews and by examining records, to find answers to the many questions this raises about the teenager's care.\n\nHis is a rare case, but some point to the wider pressures on the system that supports people with mental health issues, autism and learning disabilities in the community.\n\nSir Stephen Bubb, who led a review into care for this group, maintains the failure to shut expensive longer stay hospitals - despite abuse scandals - has starved community services of money, so leading to difficulties finding the right facilities and enough staff.\n\nThe NHS and the government have said change is happening, but this case may raise some difficult questions about how that is working.\n\nAt the time of the attack Bravery was already on bail, accused of attacking and racially abusing another care worker on a day out.\n\nSpencer & Arlington, which is rated \"good\" by the care regulator, said it believed it had \"acted entirely properly in managing and reporting in its provision of care\" for Bravery.\n\nOnce aware of the Tate incident it acted \"swiftly and properly in notifying all key regulatory bodies\", it added.\n\nA statement from the Care Quality Commission said it was in direct contact with Spencer and Arlington, adding: \"The local authority are the lead for the serious case review and we will be supporting this in any way required.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Carr: \"I'm going to be in quite a big film\"\n\nSilent Witness star Liz Carr says she has left the programme on a high after her \"best series ever\" - and is set to appear in her first Hollywood film.\n\nThe actress, who has played forensic examiner Clarissa Mullery since 2012, bowed out this week at the end of the 23rd season of the hit BBC crime drama.\n\nShe revealed on the BBC Ouch podcast that she will be seen in her first major movie - the sci-fi drama Infinite - later this year, alongside Mark Wahlberg.\n\nCarr who uses a wheelchair, says she is proud of how Silent Witness improved the representation of disabled people on screen, although it had not always been easy.\n\nLiz has been in the Silent Witness cast since 2012\n\nShe says the BBC seemed \"terrified\" about what to do with a disabled actor in primetime drama when she first started, but she made sure her voice was heard.\n\n\"I think over the eight years I've kind of policed the show quite a lot and worked to make sure it was better and refused to say certain lines that I thought were problematic.\n\n\"I was asked recently if I was proud of what we achieved in terms of representation in Silent Witness - Oh, my goodness, of course I am.\"\n\nPrior to Silent Witness, Carr was probably best known as a comedian, disabled rights activist and presenter of the BBC Ouch podcast.\n\nLiz says the time was right to move on from the role that made her famous\n\nBut her continuing role as Clarissa has made her one of the most high-profile disabled actors in Britain.\n\nCarr says she first indicated she wanted to leave Silent Witness back in October 2018.\n\n\"It must seem like a ridiculous decision\", she says. \"But I was just doing the same thing [in terms of storyline] and, as an actor, that just wasn't that interesting.\"\n\nShe says the \"irony\" was that having made the decision to leave, a new producer was brought in who promised her \"the most challenging series that you've ever had\" and \"he's delivered,\" she said.\n\nLiz with Paddy Glynn who plays her mother in Silent Witness\n\nIn the latest series, Carr was at the centre of a storyline in which her character, Clarissa, had to make heart-breaking decisions about the care of her mother who had dementia and terminal cancer.\n\nCarr praised writer Lena Rae, whose two-parter called Hope was her Silent Witness debut.\n\n\"There's a lot of stuff there that we've not seen before. I think about that relationship of an aging parent with a disabled child. But equally, seeing a disabled woman as the carer,\" Carr says.\n\n\"It was everything about disability and it was nothing about disability. And it connected us in a way that said: 'We all experience this'. We're all going to lose parents or somebody that we love.\"\n\nCarr says she was especially touched by the audience reaction to her portrayal of the storyline with many saying they could \"relate\" to Clarissa's predicament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liz Carr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe actress' own father died last year, shortly before she filmed her final episodes, and her performance in Hope drew heavily on that experience.\n\n\"I'm not sure that I was acting,\" she says. \"I think I was almost re-enacting and reliving being at my dad's bedside when he died. He died in hospital. He had Parkinson's and vascular dementia.\"\n\nLike her onscreen character, who has just resigned as a forensic examiner, so Carr felt the need for a change in her own life - \"I just want to go out there and take a leap of faith\".\n\nThat leap has landed her in Hollywood blockbuster, Infinite, alongside A-listers Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor.\n\nLiz filmed her scenes for Infinite in London\n\nThe summer release has been directed by Antoine Fuqua whose other films include Training Day and the Equalizer movies.\n\n\"It's a great role. I'm ecstatic,\" Carr says after admitting she was surprised to get the part.\n\n\"I thought, I bet they're just going to audition wheelchair-users and then they're going to give the role to Tom Cruise.\"\n\nHowever, heady dreams that she would have to relocate to Hollywood were somewhat thwarted when she discovered filming would take place in west London.\n\nBut she is certain playing a major character in a successful BBC drama convinced the casting team she had the requisite experience for the, currently secret, role.\n\n\"I've gone and had the most incredible opportunity to develop and get better and learn and learn and learn. And there are very few disabled actors internationally who have that experience.\"\n\nShe says she hopes her success will encourage TV and film makers to give other disabled actors \"a break\".\n\n\"Unless you can show how good you are, people aren't going to see what amazing talent is out there.\"\n\nIn December, the BBC announced a string of new shows with the aim of producing a more \"authentic and distinctive\" representation of disabled people on screen.\n\nCarr herself will perform one of a series of \"challenging\" monologues, curated by fellow, former BBC Ouch presenter Mat Fraser as part of that.\n\nShe's also set to return to our screens in an upcoming episode of Who Do You Think You Are? the BBC One show which delves into family history.\n\nCarr says this really took her out of her comfort zone.\n\n\"I don't really like surprises,\" she says. \"So it's a difficult show to do. But actually there are things that happened that stunned me. And I loved it.\"\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast on BBC Sounds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers work to free people stuck in the crashed plane\n\nA passenger plane landing at an airport in Istanbul has skidded off the runway and broken into three parts, killing three people and injuring 180 others, officials say.\n\nThe Pegasus Airlines jet was carrying 177 passengers and six crew members from Izmir province in the west when it crashed at Sabiha Gokcen airport.\n\nThe Boeing 737 was trying to land in heavy tailwinds and rain.\n\nThe airport was closed and flights diverted after the accident.\n\nThe majority of people on board were Turkish, but local media quoted the airline's records as saying there were 22 foreign passengers from 12 other countries. A small number of children are believed to have been on board.\n\nIstanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya said: \"Unfortunately, the Pegasus Airlines plane couldn't hold on the runway due to poor weather conditions and skidded for around 50-60m [164-196ft].\"\n\nHe said the plane then fell between 30 and 40 metres off the end of the runway.\n\nThe airport has since reopened, while prosecutors have opened an investigation into the crash.\n\nThe Pegasus Airlines jet was carrying 177 passengers and six crew members\n\nA blaze on the aircraft was put out by firefighters\n\nVideo footage showed passengers climbing through one of the large cracks to escape via one of the wings, and dozens of rescuers working around the jet.\n\nOther footage on social media showed a blaze inside the aircraft, which was later put out by firefighters.\n\nTransport Minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan said authorities had not yet been able to speak to the pilots, a Turkish national and a South Korean, who were believed to have been injured in the accident.\n\nThe low-cost Pegasus Airlines has a fleet of 83 aircraft - 47 Boeings and 36 Airbus planes - and has been flying for 20 years.\n\nA Pegasus Boeing 737 coming in from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates skidded off the runway at the same airport on 7 January. There were no casualties but the airport had to be temporarily closed.\n\nAnd a Pegasus Boeing 737 also skidded off the runway at Trabzon airport in January 2018, plunging down the side of a cliff overlooking the sea. There were no casualties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The dramatic skidding of a Pegasus Boeing 737 at Trabzon in January 2018", "Children appeared to be among migrants lead to an ambulance in Dover\n\nNinety migrants including children have been rescued from the English Channel, a record figure for a single day.\n\nEight small boats were earlier reported off the coast of Dover, one of which was carrying a group of 21 men.\n\nFifteen of the 90 \"claimed to be minors\", the Home Office said as it confirmed those rescued included nationals of Syria, Yemen and Mali.\n\nThe migrants will be \"dealt with according to immigration rules\", it added.\n\nThe rescued children, subject to age assessment, will be transferred into the care of social services.\n\nAn ambulance was on hand to assess the health of those who crossed the Channel\n\nSix boats were intercepted in the Channel by Border Force, with a group of five migrants found by police in Dover town centre and another five people found in Samphire Hoe.\n\nRNLI lifeboats from Dover and Littlestone and a fixed wing aircraft and HM Coastguard Search and Rescue helicopter from Lydd were scrambled this morning.\n\nHome Office vessels Searcher, Speedwell and Alert were sent to intercept the boats.\n\nTony Eastaugh, Home Office director for crime and enforcement, said the government was \"tackling illegal migrant crossings on all fronts with every agency\".\n\nPatrols of French beaches have been increased, with the use of drones, specialist vehicles and detection equipment, he said.\n\nLast year at least 1,892 arrived in Britain after crossing the Channel in boats.\n\nFrench authorities have said 371 migrants attempted the crossing last month, with 95 of them succeeding.\n\nTwo boats carrying 26 men were met by Border Force in the Channel\n• None Are migrants who cross the Channel sent back?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The device was uncovered attached to a lorry in Lurgan on Monday\n\nPolice believe the Continuity IRA (CIRA) was responsible for a bomb found attached to a lorry in County Armagh on Tuesday morning.\n\nIt is thought the device may have been intended for a Brexit day attack.\n\nPolice said they first received a report about an explosive device in a lorry at Belfast docks on 31 January - the date the UK left the EU.\n\nIn a call to a media outlet, it was claimed the lorry was due to travel by ferry to Scotland.\n\nA search was conducted but nothing was found.\n\nIt is understood the lorry did not leave the industrial estate between the times of the two calls\n\nOn Monday, a more detailed report helped locate the device at Silverwood Industrial Estate in Lurgan.\n\nPolice have not yet given an indication of the size of the bomb, but it is understood the lorry did not leave the industrial estate between the times of the two calls.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable George Clarke said the initial report claimed the lorry would travel \"on the midnight ferry\", and added that no such ferry crossing exists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Julian O'Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said they worked with a haulage company, who own the lorry, to search about 400 vehicles and locate the explosive device.\n\nIt was made safe by ammunition technical officer (ATO).\n\nDet Supt Sean Wright said the \"only conclusion that we can draw is that once again dissident republicans have shown a total disregard for the community, for businesses and for wider society\".\n\nPolice search the area around Silverwood Industrial Estate in Lurgan\n\nHe added that \"had this vehicle travelled and the device had exploded at any point along the M1, across the Westlink or into the Harbour estate the risks posed do not bear thinking about\".\n\nDet Supt Wright appealed for information, in particular from anyone who noticed any suspicious activity at Silverwood Industrial Estate between 16:00 and 22:00 on 31 January.\n\nSeamus Leheny, from the Freight Transport Association, called the attack \"reckless\".\n\n\"If it was viable, it could have put the driver of the lorry and their colleagues, road users and anyone in the vicinity of the lorry in serious danger. The consequences could have been catastrophic.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable George Clarke said the initial report claimed the lorry would travel on a ferry to Scotland", "More than 100 Britons rescued from China have left isolation, as dozens of people from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship begin a two-week quarantine.\n\nUK citizens previously evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan - the centre of the virus outbreak - have ended their isolation in Milton Keynes.\n\nIt comes a day after those rescued from the Diamond Princess ship in Japan were taken to Wirral's Arrowe Park Hospital.\n\nOn Saturday, the government confirmed that no new UK cases had been detected.\n\nPeople with backpacks and suitcases were pictured getting into waiting taxis outside Kents Hill Park conference centre in the east side of Milton Keynes, where 118 UK nationals and their family members were isolated.\n\nPaul Wilkinshaw, 39, who left the centre with his wife Lihong, 33, said it \"feels weird\" to not require protective equipment.\n\n\"It feels fantastic to leave, although it feels weird not having to wear a mask and gloves in public,\" Mr Wilkinshaw said.\n\nBill To said \"everything was excellent\" during his two-week quarantine in Milton Keynes\n\n\"It was really good, everything was excellent. I'm happy I can go home now,\" another evacuee, Bill To, said.\n\n\"I'm going to get some Chinese food. Everything is good.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock commended the group \"for their patience and perseverance\".\n\nThe last of those in quarantine at Kents Hill Park training centre left just before 12:00 GMT.\n\nThe 118 people isolated here for two weeks were treated to pizza, katsu curry and steaks.\n\nThey were also offered microwave meals and goods such as smartphones, with SIM cards, and brand-new suitcases.\n\nWe spoke to Bill To, who said his first day from quarantine would be partly spent seeking out his first Chinese meal in two weeks.\n\nOthers said they were just glad to be leaving and had sumptuous praise for the NHS staff that tended to them during their stay.\n\nThe Department of Health provided care and also splashed out on entertainment such as basketball nets and football posts, fitness dumbbells, and Netflix accounts.\n\nHowever, there was a function to the frills.\n\nIt kept those in quarantine happy and relaxed, as each of them were tested for coronavirus three times over the two weeks of their stay.\n\nIt came as the Foreign Office amended its travel advice for South Korea as cases of the new coronavirus, and the disease it causes, increased.\n\nIt advised against all but essential travel to the cities of Daegu and Cheongdo in the country, which have been declared \"special care zones\" by South Korean authorities.\n\nThe latest group of Britons to be evacuated - passengers from the cruise liner Diamond Princess - arrived at Arrowe Park on Saturday.\n\nThe 30 Britons and two Irish citizens will spend the next 14 days isolated from the world in nurses' accommodation.\n\nThey have already spent two weeks in quarantine on board the ship, but since then 600 passengers and crew have tested positive for the new virus.\n\nThose evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship landed at Boscombe Down, a MoD base in Wiltshire\n\nFour Britons from the ship who recently tested positive for the new coronavirus were not on the latest evacuation flight.\n\nThey include David and Sally Abel, from Northamptonshire, who have since been diagnosed with pneumonia, according to their family.\n\nThey are being treated in a Japanese hospital.\n\nArrowe Park was previously used to isolate 83 British nationals who were flown back to the UK from Wuhan.\n\nThe chief executive of Wirral Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Janelle Holmes, said the hospital was using its previous experience as a \"blueprint\" for treating the new group.\n\nThe BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said it seems increasingly likely that the spread of the new coronavirus will become a pandemic - or global outbreak.\n\n\"The combined situation in South Korea, Iran and Italy point to the early stages of pandemic,\" he said. \"In each of these countries we are seeing spread of the virus with no connection to China.\"\n\nChinese health authorities reported a decrease in the rate of deaths and new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday. Some 76,392 cases including 2,348 deaths have been confirmed in China.\n\nThe head of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the greatest concern now was countries with weaker health systems, particularly in Africa.\n\nIn the UK, a total of 6,152 people have been tested for the virus, as of 14:00 GMT on Saturday. Nine people have tested positive.\n\nWere you on the flight? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Caroline Flack was found dead at her London flat last weekend\n\nLove Island paid tribute to Caroline Flack as its first winter series drew to a close on Sunday night.\n\nThe former host of the show was found dead in her London flat last weekend.\n\n\"The past week has been extremely difficult, coming to terms with the loss of our friend and colleague, Caroline,\" presenter Laura Whitmore told viewers of the ITV2 programme.\n\n\"Caroline loved Love Island. She loved love, and that's why tonight's final is dedicated to her.\"\n\nShe added: \"We're thinking of her family and everyone who knew her at this time.\"\n\nThe programme then showed a montage of some of Flack's memorable moments from the series in recent years.\n\nThe islanders were told about Flack's death off-camera on Saturday, an ITV spokesman confirmed.\n\nFinley Tapp and Paige Turley were crowned the winners of the series as the finale drew to a close.\n\nTwo episodes of this series were pulled from the schedules last weekend after Flack was found dead.\n\nThe show returned the following Monday with a tribute to Flack from the show's narrator Iain Stirling.\n\nThis has been the first series of the show to take place in winter and be filmed in South Africa.\n\nPrevious seasons have been filmed on the Spanish island of Mallorca over the summer.\n\nOverall, the winter series has been a ratings hit for ITV2, albeit not as successful as previous summer series.\n\nThis series has been attracting around four million viewers per episode, including via catch-up services, compared with the six million the last summer series generally attracted.\n\nLaura Whitmore is the show's current presenter. She joined the show after Flack was charged with assaulting her boyfriend.\n\nLaura Whitmore pictured at the Brit Awards last week\n\nTapp and Turley were crowned the winners of this series on Sunday night, winning the £50,000 prize, which they chose to share between them.\n\nIn a twist that occurs in every series, Turley was given the chance to \"steal\" the full prize money before she decided to split it evenly.\n\n\"It's been such an amazing experience,\" Turley said earlier in the episode. \"It's been filled with challenges, but it's been amazing.\"\n\nAsked what first attracted him to Turley, Tapp said: \"I loved how outgoing she was. I wasn't wrong in picking her because I thought she'd make me laugh and smile all day long. She's made me very happy.\"\n\nEarlier this series, they became the first pair to become an official couple in the villa.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by turley_paige This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurley attracted headlines when the series launched in January because she is the ex-girlfriend of singer Lewis Capaldi.\n\nThe Scottish star referred to her while accepting the Brit Award for best single earlier this month, for his song Someone You Loved.\n\n\"A lot of people think this song is about my ex-girlfriend, who you can now see every night on Love Island,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's actually about my grandmother, who sadly passed away a few years ago. I hope ITV don't contact her to be a on a reality dating show.\"\n\nDuring the finale, Whitmore confirmed the show would return to Mallorca for a new series this summer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The training guidelines are effective immediately but do not recommend a heading ban during matches\n\nChildren aged 11 and under will no longer be taught to head footballs during training in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe new football association guidelines for coaches also puts limits on how much heading older children should do.\n\nIt follows Glasgow University research that showed former footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die from brain disease.\n\nThe guidance, which will not yet apply in Wales, will affect training only.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales said its guidance for coaches on children heading the ball was currently under review with the findings being made available later this year.\n\nIn a joint announcement from the FA, Scottish FA and Irish FA, coaches were advised that there should be \"no heading in training in the foundation phase\" - which covers primary school children, or under-11 teams and below.\n\nThere are also new rules for age ranges up until 18, with headers being kept a \"low priority\" and gradually becoming more frequent in training until the age of 16.\n\nThere will be no changes to heading in youth matches, where the FA said headers are rare.\n\nThe University of Glasgow study, published in October last year, found that former professional footballers were more likely to die of degenerative brain disease - and five times more likely to die from Parkinson's disease.\n\nThere was no evidence in the study that linked incidences of the disease with heading the ball, but the FA said the new guidance had been issued to \"mitigate against any potential risks\".\n\nFA chief executive Mark Bullingham said: \"This updated heading guidance is an evolution of our current guidelines and will help coaches and teachers to reduce and remove repetitive and unnecessary heading from youth football.\n\n\"Our research has shown that heading is rare in youth football matches, so this guidance is a responsible development to our grassroots coaching without impacting the enjoyment that children of all ages take from playing the game.\"\n\nThe inquest into the death of ex-West Brom striker Jeff Astle found heading heavy leather footballs repeatedly contributed to trauma to his brain\n\nDawn Astle, who has campaigned for changes in rules over headers, told the PA news agency she was \"pleased\" and that it was \"sensible\" following the research.\n\nMs Astle's father Jeff, who represented England at senior level and also played for West Bromwich Albion, died in 2002 from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The coroner ruled his death was caused by the repeated heading of footballs.\n\nMs Astle added that there should now be guidelines for training for footballers aged 18 and over.\n\nBut former Tottenham Hotspurs and Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder Jamie O'Hara said on Twitter: \"Heading a football is a skill that is essential to becoming a footballer, how do they propose they learn this if [they're] not allowed to head a ball?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I think my dementia has been caused by heading'\n\nSpeaking about Monday's announcement, Scottish FA chief executive Ian Maxwell said Scottish football had a \"duty of care\" to young people and those responsible for their wellbeing.\n\n\"The updated guidelines are designed to help coaches remove repetitive and unnecessary heading from youth football in the earliest years, with a phased introduction at an age group considered most appropriate by our medical experts,\" he said.\n\nIrish FA chief executive Patrick Nelson said: \"Our football committee has reviewed and approved the new guidelines. As an association we believe this is the right direction of travel and are confident it will be good for the game, and those who play it.\"\n\nDr Carol Routledge, director of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said \"limiting unnecessary heading in children's football is a practical step that minimises possible risks, ensuring that football remains as safe as possible in all forms\".\n\nShe called for more research \"in order to unpick any link between football and dementia risk but until we know more, making sure the nation's best-loved game is played as safely as possible is a sensible approach\".\n\nDr Willie Stewart, the consultant neuropathologist who led the University of Glasgow study, said he was \"encouraged\" to see the new guidelines.\n\nHe added: \"A lot more research is needed to understand the factors contributing to increased risk of neurodegenerative disease in footballers. Meanwhile it is sensible to act to reduce exposure to the only recognised risk factor so far.\"\n\nHowever, Dr Stewart added that he would like to see the new guidelines adopted by the wider game and not just in youth football.\n\nA similar stance, that also includes restrictions during matches, has been in place in the US since 2015.\n\nThe rule change there came after a number of coaches and parents took legal action against the US Soccer Federation.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nTyson Fury outclassed Deontay Wilder, became a world champion again, broke into a rendition of American Pie and had 16,000 people in the MGM Arena in the palm of his hand.\n\nIt is feeling increasingly familiar. The world seems to dance to his tune these days.\n\nSince his return to boxing from a litany of personal issues, each venture, decision and fight he touches turns to gold.\n\nHe risked a great deal when first challenging Wilder in 2018, and ended up on the canvas. It looked a significant setback until he rose - just - and drew. An eye-watering financial deal with US broadcaster ESPN followed.\n\nHe was badly cut in victory over Otto Wallin in September and needed time out to heal. Then WWE rang and gave him the chance to earn big money, win new fans and avoid real punches in the process.\n\nHis autobiography came out to much fanfare, he did a UK speaking tour, sang a pop song with Robbie Williams and signed for a two-part television documentary on his life.\n\nSaying yes to recovery has served him well. Now he must say yes to facing Anthony Joshua and demonstrate, beyond doubt, that he is the best heavyweight of his era.\n\nOf course, he says he already is and clearly he would take that bout.\n\nFury has now dethroned Wladimir Klitschko and Wilder, who had reigned for a combined 14 years until they faced the 'Gypsy King'.\n\nWith such landmark victories, you sense he simply does not care who he shares a ring with.\n\nMoney should not be an issue either, given the same Saudi Arabian power brokers who took Joshua's rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr to the Middle East were ringside for Fury's destruction of Wilder. They would throw record figures at the British heavyweights in order to stage the division's first fight for all four major belts.\n\n\"It has become the biggest fight in the history of the sport,\" said Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn.\n\nA fight in Saudi Arabia might not please UK fans, but money talks. It might just be the only commodity that can paper over the politics that would play out between the teams and television networks behind the fighters.\n\nKey figures close to Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis thought the pair would fight in 1996. It took six more years, proving how much things can drag on in boxing, however appetising the prospect.\n\nFury must know this purple patch is his time to strike. He knows how things can change.\n\nThe troubles that became public in 2015, controversial statements, ugly headlines and struggles with depression and drinking, are only one chapter of Fury's story. As early as 2012 he had talked of being in a dark place and of having an eating disorder.\n\nAnd in the build-up to the Wilder fight, one of Fury's team said the Briton still has severe down days.\n\nHe has the capacity to charm Americans on glitzy talk shows one day and slip into confusion the next. Keeping him stimulated, his team have said, is critical in maintaining his mental wellbeing.\n\nIt is hard to imagine Fury's immediate future proving more exciting than the 20 months since his break from the sport ended.\n\nAnd yet, as the great and good of boxing fell at the feet of the new champion in Vegas, maybe we learned there are greater levels he can reach.\n\nDave Coldwell described it as \"one of the most amazing nights I've watched in my time in boxing\" while fellow British trainer Joe Gallagher said Fury was \"the number one heavyweight in the world\".\n\nThose tributes came less than two months after Fury joined forces with Detroit-based trainer SugarHill Steward.\n\nSteward's uncle Emanuel, who trained fighters of the calibre of Thomas Hearns, Lewis and Klitschko, predicted more than 10 years ago that Wilder would become a world champion, and that Fury would be dominant once Klitschko retired.\n\nFury effectively brought the curtain down on Klitschko and has now dominated Wilder. Steward called it.\n\nBut what could Fury achieve under his nephew? A lot, if he can build on his latest win.\n\nThe decision to take punching space away from Wilder by relentlessly smothering him was genius. A talented fighter backed by a calculated team can create something special.\n\nThat is not to take anything away from Fury's former trainer Ben Davison, who rebuilt the champion at a time of crisis. And Fury's father John deserves credit for publicly demanding his son find a new team and bulk up after his win over Wallin.\n\nFury listened and acted. The result was devastating.\n\nWhether it's jumping into WWE or singing with pop stars, he takes a chance, attacks the task with gusto and almost invariably comes up trumps.\n\nThere is a bravery to his positive choices. He is a maverick, and he deserves immense credit.\n\nA unique achievement is his for the taking if he secures the fight that boxing has longed to see.\n\nIf anyone can make it happen, it is probably him.\n\nThe world, after all, seems to be dancing to his tune.\n• None Relive Fury v Wilder II - from the ring walks to the winning moment\n• None 'There's a fella across the pond who might want a tickle' - Fury says Joshua bout will 'complete' career\n• None 'Living legend' Fury shines bright in Vegas - but did he lick Wilder's blood?\n• None Podcast: Costello & Bunce on Tyson Fury's night for the ages", "Anisha Vidal-Garner, from Epping, died after being hit by a car\n\nA man has been charged with causing the death of a woman who was hit by a car during a police pursuit.\n\nAnisha Vidal-Garner, 20, from Epping, Essex, died at the scene of the crash in Brixton Hill, south London, on Wednesday night.\n\nThe Met Police previously said she had been hit by a car which sped off after officers signalled for it to stop.\n\nQuincy Anyiam, 26, from Surrey, is due to appear at Croydon Magistrates' Court on Monday, the force said.\n\nHe is charged with causing death by dangerous driving, failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic collision, and dangerous driving, Scotland Yard said.\n\nThe Met said it had referred the crash to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) which will investigate.\n\nPolice had signalled for the car to stop before it sped off in Brixton\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caroline Thomson was jailed for nine years\n\nA woman who attacked a baby boy, leaving him brain-damaged and blind in one eye, has been jailed for nine years.\n\nCaroline Thomson, of Falkirk, admitted assaulting the baby, who also suffered wrist and rib fractures.\n\nDespite pleading guilty, the High Court in Glasgow heard Thomson, 30, has blamed another child for some of the injuries.\n\nThe victim was only weeks old during the attack in 2018 but is now two.\n\nHe cannot speak or walk, but he can crawl. Doctors say an assessment of any long-term damage cannot be made until he is of primary school age.\n\nSentencing judge Lady Rae told Thomson it was \"an appalling crime\".\n\nShe added: \"Your conduct towards this child was deplorable.\n\n\"This baby suffered numerous injuries to his head and body as a result of what you did and has been left with life-long injuries and permanent impairment.\n\n\"You take no responsibility for what you did and deny your guilt, blaming a two-year-old for some of the injuries.\"\n\nThe offence was committed on various occasions between 2 May and 16 June 16 in 2018 in the Larbert and Falkirk area.\n\nThomson pled guilty to assaulting the baby boy to his permanent impairment, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life.\n\nThe 30-year-old had previously told police the injuries may have been caused when she dropped the baby and other injuries could have been caused by another child, aged two.\n\nProsecutor Kath Harper said that was \"inconsistent with the medical findings\".\n\nConsultant ophthalmologist Jennifer Ann Gillen examined the baby's eyes and confirmed he had a detached retina.\n\nShe said she had never seen that type of injury in a young baby and such an injury would require some form of blunt-force trauma.\n\nDefence counsel Wendy Hay told the court that Thomson was a \"very vulnerable individual who had a traumatic upbringing\".\n\n\"This is an extremely serious and distressing case,\" she added. \"Given the stance taken by Miss Thomson there is little I can say.\"", "Samira Ahmed has reached a settlement with the BBC after winning her employment tribunal over equal pay.\n\nThe corporation announced on Monday it would continue to work with the \"highly valued\" presenter, but did not reveal the settlement figure.\n\nLast month, it was judged the BBC had failed to prove the pay gap between Ahmed and fellow presenter Jeremy Vine was not because of sex discrimination.\n\nAhmed said at the time she was \"glad it's been resolved\".\n\n\"Samira Ahmed and the BBC are pleased to have reached a settlement following the recent tribunal,\" the BBC said in a statement.\n\n\"Samira is a highly valued BBC presenter and now these matters have been concluded we all want to focus on the future.\n\n\"We look forward to continuing to work together to make great programmes for audiences. Neither the BBC, Samira or the NUJ will be commenting further on this case.\"\n\nAhmed had claimed she was underpaid by £700,000 for hosting audience feedback show Newswatch, compared with Jeremy Vine's salary for Points of View.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the crossbow killer was caught\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering a retired lecturer by shooting him with a crossbow as he tried to fix his satellite dish.\n\nGerald Corrigan, 74, suffered two holes in his stomach and damage to other organs in the Anglesey attack in April.\n\nTerence Whall, 39, of Bryngwran, Anglesey, denied murder but was found guilty by a jury at Mold Crown Court.\n\nProsecutors said the dish was tampered with and Whall was hiding, armed with the weapon, waiting for Mr Corrigan.\n\nA broadhead arrow used in the attack on Mr Corrigan had razor sharp edges used for hunting, jurors had heard.\n\nIt was designed to make hunted animals \"rapidly bleed to death\".\n\nGerald Corrigan died last May, three weeks after being shot outside his home with a crossbow bolt\n\nMr Corrigan suffered serious internal injuries and died of sepsis three weeks later.\n\nHe had been watching TV on the evening of 18 April 2019 when shortly after midnight he lost the signal. He went outside to adjust his ground-level satellite dish which is when he was shot.\n\nWhall, a sports therapist, maintained throughout the trial that he was having sex with a man in a field on the night Mr Corrigan was shot.\n\nThomas Barry Williams denied this - saying the pair had only ever been friends.\n\nBut Whall's precise movements on the night of the killing were tracked by data from \"black box\" technology in a Land Rover, which belonged to his partner and which he had borrowed.\n\nThe prosecution said without this, he would have got away with his lies.\n\nGerald Corrigan's home - and the gap in the wall which gave the killer a clear sight to shoot him\n\nWhall and another man, Gavin Jones, 36, of High Street, Bangor, were also found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice and Jones was found guilty of arson of a motor vehicle.\n\nDarren Jones, 41, and Martin Roberts, 34, had already pleaded guilty to arson.\n\nAll four will be sentenced on Friday.\n\nFiona Corrigan, Gerald's daughter, said: \"The injuries caused by a crossbow are not designed just to kill... they are designed to mutilate.\n\n\"The particular weapon is designed to bring down big game... and that is what my dad became. Prey. We may never know why.\"\n\nShe said her father was a \"good man. Just an average bloke enjoying his retirement\", adding: \"Our lives won't be the same without him.\"\n\nHer brother Neale joined her in thanking all those who had helped the family after Mr Corrigan was shot, adding: \"My father was so intelligent and wise. He said to me to be patient, and forgive.\"\n\nMr Corrigan's partner Marie Bailey said he had \"meant the world to me\".\n\n\"Each day my heart is broken. I feel it breaking again and I can do nothing,\" she said.\n\n\"To that sad, twisted broken soul who murdered him, I say if you have an ounce of humanity, any sense of decency, then you would tell us now why you have done this.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney of North Wales Police said after the verdict that Mr Corrigan was \"the victim of a barbaric, medieval-style execution in one of the safest parts of the UK\" and was \"entirely innocent\".\n\n\"Terence Whall believed he had planned and committed the perfect murder,\" he added.\n\n\"There was no forensic evidence, no direct eyewitness evidence to the shooting and in fact no-one saw him going to and from the scene.\"\n\nWhile the exact motive was unknown, it was a \"planned, premeditated execution from a cold-blooded killer\", he said.\n\nKaren Dixon of the Crown Prosecution Service described the case as \"really unusual\" in that there was no suspect at the start and only one piece of evidence to follow.\n\nShe said: \"The telematics evidence from the Land Rover was key in showing that Terrence Whall was not only at the location at the time, but that he'd visited the night before, checking the area.\"", "The disgraced film producer was sentenced to 23 years in jail after his trial in New York\n\nHollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault by courts in New York and Los Angeles.\n\nHere is a summary of the key events that led him to court:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jessica Mann said she \"entered into what I thought was going to be a real relationship with him\"\n\nA one-time aspiring actress says Harvey Weinstein subjected her to \"degrading\" abuse, in some of the most graphic testimony shared in his trial so far.\n\nJessica Mann detailed a catalogue of abuse by the Hollywood producer, saying he once trapped her in a hotel bedroom and raped her.\n\nThree of the five charges against Mr Weinstein relate to Ms Mann.\n\nHe denies non-consensual sex and his lawyers say emails prove his and Ms Mann's relationship was consensual.\n\nWARNING: This story contains details some readers may find upsetting\n\nMs Mann's evidence came at the end of the fourth week of the Manhattan trial of the Oscar-winning Hollywood mogul, who produced films including Shakespeare in Love and The English Patient.\n\nThe 34-year-old said she met him in late 2012 or early 2013 at a party, and she told him of her ambition to be an actress. Later, she said, he invited her and a friend to a Los Angeles hotel suite. He then allegedly pulled Ms Mann into a bedroom and performed oral sex on her.\n\nMs Mann then began a relationship with Mr Weinstein. \"I entered into what I thought was going to be a real relationship with him and it was extremely degrading from that point on,\" she said.\n\nShe said he once urinated on her, and in 2013 raped her in a Manhattan hotel room. \"If he heard the word 'no,' it was like a trigger for him,\" she said.\n\nWhen asked why she stayed in the relationship, Ms Mann said in tears that there was \"no short answer\".\n\n\"One of the aspects initially was that I had had a sexual encounter\" with him, she said. \"That wasn't something I could undo. That really confused me and hurt me.\" She stayed with him partly out of fear, she said.\n\nOne of Mr Weinstein's lawyers, Damon Cheronis, said Ms Mann sent \"flattering\" emails to Mr Weinstein during their relationship, one of which said \"Miss you, big guy.\" These prove the relationship was not abusive, the defence alleges.\n\nIn Friday's testimony, Ms Mann also alleged that Mr Weinstein had \"extreme scarring\" on his body and used erectile dysfunction medication. She also believed he was intersex, and it appeared he had a vagina and no testicles.\n\nSince October 2017, more than 80 women have publicly accused Mr Weinstein of sexual misconduct but this criminal case involves only a few of them.\n\nSome consider the trial a watershed moment, where some of Mr Weinstein's alleged victims have had their voices heard in court for the first time.\n\nMr Weinstein is on trial for five offences, including rape and predatory sexual assault. He denies the charges and all allegations of wrongdoing, but if convicted could face life in prison.\n\nHere is what has happened in the trial so far.\n\nMr Weinstein turned up to his first court appearance heavily aided and using a walking frame. Crowds of protesters, including some accusers, gathered outside the courthouse to try and face him down.\n\n\"You thought you could terrorise me and others into silence. You were wrong,\" actress Rose McGowan, who accuses him of rape, said reading from an open letter.\n\nThe same day, on 6 January, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office announced new charges against Mr Weinstein. After the New York trial, he is expected to appear in court in California.\n\nFinding an impartial jury for the New York case was a difficult task, with hundreds summoned as potential jurors. Mr Weinstein's legal team even filed a last-minute motion to move the trial outside Manhattan over the \"carnival-like atmosphere\" surrounding proceedings. They cited the media hype about model Gigi Hadid being among the potential jurors.\n\nThe first week of proceedings ended with a flash-mob of protesters performing an anti-rape chant outside, which could be heard inside the courtroom.\n\nDuring the process, prosecutors accused Mr Weinstein's defence team of \"systematically eliminating\" young white women as jurors. The selection process concluded with five women and seven men on the panel.\n\n\"This trial is not a referendum on the #MeToo movement. It is not a referendum on sexual harassment,\" Judge James Burke told the jury, saying they must only decide if Mr Weinstein \"committed certain acts which constitute a particular crime\".\n\n\"The man seated right there was not just a titan in Hollywood, he was a rapist,\" prosecutor Meghan Hast said in her opening statement on 22 January.\n\nShe accused him of using his celebrity status to manipulate women and explicitly detailed allegations against him. Only two of the accusers' cases, Mimi (Miriam) Haleyi and Jessica Mann, have led to individual criminals charges in New York but the testimony of others is being used as supporting evidence.\n\nMs Hast described how Mr Weinstein allegedly \"lunged at\" Ms Haleyi in 2006 to perform a forced sex act on her. Ms Mann alleges he raped her in a New York hotel in 2013.\n\nOne of Mr Weinstein's lawyers, Damon Cheronis, insists the state's case would \"unravel\" during the trial and urged the jury: \"While the narrative they painted for you is one that may reinforce your preconceived notions, it's not the truth.\"\n\nThe defence aim to present the sexual interactions as consensual. At the opening, Mr Cheronis alleged one accuser had even described Mr Weinstein as \"her casual boyfriend\".\n\nUS actress Annabella Sciorra testified on 23 January that the film producer raped her in the winter of 1993/4. Her allegations, outside New York's statue of limitations, are being used to support the most serious charge of predatory sexual assault.\n\nShe said Mr Weinstein forced his way into her apartment after a dinner with others. \"I was trying to get him off me,\" she told the jury. \"I was punching him, kicking him.\"\n\nThe former Sopranos actress described her body shaking after the alleged assault and said she did not go public with it for years because she was \"afraid for her life\". Ms Sciorra's friend, fellow actress Rosie Perez, testified that she shared some details of the incident with her at the time, but on cross-examination lawyers challenged Ms Sciorra's ability to remember the exact date of the alleged attack.\n\nLawyer Donna Rotunno tried to poke holes in the Sopranos actress' account\n\nA forensic psychiatrist, Dr Barbara Ziv, also testified as an expert witness to explain misconceptions around rape and the behaviour of victims.\n\nProduction assistant Mimi Haleyi told the court that Mr Weinstein assaulted her twice in Manhattan in 2006, after he helped her get a job on a television show he produced.\n\nShe detailed an incident at his apartment where she alleges he performed oral sex on her, without consent, when she was on her period.\n\n\"Every time I tried to get off the bed he would push me back and hold me down,\" Ms Haleyi said during emotional testimony. \"At this point I realised what was happening. I'm being raped.\"\n\nShe told the court he convinced her to meet again weeks later. On that occasion she allegedly \"laid there\" as he had sex with her in an incident that left her feeling \"numb\" and like \"an idiot\". Mr Weinstein has only been charged over first alleged encounter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hired by Weinstein to extract information on celebrities\n\nDuring cross-examination Mr Weinstein's defence focused on her continued contact with him after the alleged incidents and presented email exchanges between the two including one she signed off with \"lots of love\".\n\nThroughout the week further \"prior bad acts\" witnesses continued to testify. Former actress Dawn Dunning alleged Mr Weinstein put her hands up her skirt and touched her genitals at a hotel in Soho in 2004 and later tried to offer her film roles in exchange for sex.\n\nTarale Wulff alleged Mr Weinstein masturbated in front of her in 2005 when she worked as a waitress. She said she was later invited to read scripts by Weinstein Company staff and was taken to his apartment, where he allegedly raped her.", "Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer met the mascots before the game\n\nAn 87-year-old mascot was among 11 who were the oldest by decades to ever walk out on the pitch for Manchester United.\n\nThe local fans, aged between 61 and 87, greeted the players before the game with Watford at Old Trafford as part of a campaign to highlight loneliness.\n\nIt follows gestures honouring elderly supporters by Manchester City, Burnley and Swedish club AIK.\n\nUnited's director of partnerships Sean Jefferson said they wanted to encourage fans to speak to older people.\n\n\"Any small gesture and interaction can play a part in helping to help tackle loneliness amongst our older generation,\" he said.\n\nThe mascots greeted captain Harry Maguire and the team as they stepped on to the pitch\n\nMore than two million people over the age of 75 live alone in the UK, according to Age UK.\n\nThe choice of elderly mascots, who have received support from the charity, is part of Cadbury's \"Donate Your Words\" campaign, which is encouraging people to \"make a difference to the lives of older people\", a firm spokeswoman said.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham added: \"Loneliness is much closer to home than many people realise, and any actions like these to raise its profile is a big step in the right direction.\"", "The evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship were taken to Arrowe Park Hospital on Saturday\n\nFour cruise ship passengers flown to Britain on Saturday have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 13.\n\nThey were among 30 repatriated Britons and two Irish citizens beginning a 14-day quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral.\n\nThe four UK nationals caught the virus on the Diamond Princess liner in Japan, England's chief medical officer said.\n\nThey have now been transferred to specialist NHS infection centres.\n\nTwo patients are in the Royal Hallamshire in Sheffield, one is in the Royal in Liverpool and a fourth was transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, NHS England said.\n\nProf Keith Willett, NHS strategic incident director for coronavirus said: \"These specialist centres are well prepared to deal with cases and earlier this year the Newcastle unit successfully treated and discharged two patients who had contracted the virus.\"\n\nProf Willett added there had been a \"calm response\" to confirmed cases of coronavirus so far, \"which will continue to be important as more of us might need to self-isolate for a time, to protect ourselves, our families and the community\".\n\nProf Keith Neal, emeritus professor of epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Nottingham, said the four new cases were not surprising and would present no risk to the public.\n\nThe Department of Health said a \"full infectious disease risk assessment\" was done before Saturday's repatriation flight from Japan, adding that no-one who boarded the flight had displayed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nAny more passengers who test positive will immediately be taken into specialist NHS care, the department said.\n\nIt added that \"appropriate arrangements\" are in place at Arrowe Park, including strict separation of passengers from staff and from each other.\n\nIt comes as 118 UK citizens and their family members rescued from Wuhan - the centre of the virus outbreak - ended their two-week isolation in Milton Keynes on Sunday.\n\nLast weekend, NHS England announced that all but one of the nine people being treated for the coronavirus in the UK had been discharged from hospital.\n\nIt's not surprising that some of those repatriated from the Diamond Princess have tested positive for the coronavirus.\n\nThey were on board a ship where the quarantine was a failure - more than one in five of the 3,700 passengers and crew have tested positive.\n\nIn the US, 18 repatriated passengers from the cruise ship subsequently tested positive for Covid-19, as did seven passengers flown back to Australia.\n\nIt would seem likely that more of those in quarantine in Arrowe Park hospital may test positive in the coming days.\n\nBut the NHS is well able to cope with such cases and can isolate and treat patients in specialist centres.\n\nFar more concerning is the situation in Italy, Iran and South Korea, where there is human-to-human spread of the virus in the community, which could eventually lead to the World Health Organization declaring a pandemic.\n\nMore than 620 people on board the Diamond Princess tested positive for the virus\n\nArrowe Park Hospital was previously used to isolate 83 British nationals who were flown back to the UK from Wuhan on the Foreign Office's first evacuation flight in January.\n\nJanelle Holmes, chief executive at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust reassured staff that the hospital was \"running as usual\".\n\n\"When guests arrived yesterday evening, we followed clear guidance in relation to infection prevention control. This was to minimise the chance of any infection spreading.\"\n\nThe evacuees had already spent two weeks in quarantine on board the cruise ship, but since then 600 passengers and crew have tested positive for the new virus, raising fears that the incubation period for the virus may be longer than originally thought.\n\nTwo of the Britons who were not on the evacuation flight, Sally and David Abel, are being treated in a Japanese hospital\n\nSeparately, four Britons from the ship who recently tested positive for the new coronavirus were not on Saturday's repatriation flight.\n\nThey included David and Sally Abel, from Northamptonshire, who have since been diagnosed with pneumonia, according to their family and are being treated in a Japanese hospital.\n\nRelatives said the couple are both \"having a really tough time\" and feel \"very much in the dark\" in terms of treatment, adding that they are awaiting further tests.\n\nThe new strain of coronavirus, which originated last year in Hubei province in China, causes a respiratory disease called Covid-19.\n\nChina has seen more than 76,000 infections and 2,442 deaths. The virus has since spread to at least 11 other countries.\n\nOver the weekend, Italian officials imposed strict quarantine restrictions in two northern \"hotspot\" regions close to Milan and Venice, as the number of coronavirus cases soared to 130 - the worst outbreak in Europe.\n\nItalian officials have cut short the Venice Carnival as they try to control what is now the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in Europe\n\nVenice Carnival has been cut short, schools and museums closed and sporting events suspended as authorities struggle to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nAbout 50,000 people cannot enter or leave several towns in Veneto and Lombardy for the next two weeks without special permission. Three people have died.\n\nElsewhere, authorities in South Korea and Iran are battling to control rising numbers of infections.\n\nSouth Korea has raised its coronavirus alert to the \"highest level\". The UK Foreign Office has advised against all but essential travel to the cities of Daegu and Cheongdo.\n\nTurkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan have closed their borders with Iran, where eight people are known to have died. Officials have ordered the closure of schools, universities and cultural centres in 14 provinces.\n\nHave you been affected by the latest developments around Covid-19? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A local authority has apologised after a drag queen appeared at an LGBT event in a primary school.\n\nRenfrewshire Council said it was investigating after concerns were raised about the sexual content of social media posts by FlowJob.\n\nBut local MP Mhairi Black, who also took part in the LGBT history month event at Glencoats Primary in Paisley, has defended it as \"a great day\".\n\nThe council said it was \"sorry for the concern this has caused\".\n\nIn a Twitter post, Ms Black said: \"I completely applaud @PS_Glencoats for putting on such a great day, and I'm so grateful to have been invited along.\"\n\nIn another post, she added: \"If my school had invited a gay MP and a drag queen to visit during LGBT History Month, or even acknowledged that LGBT History Month existed, it would have made an immeasurable difference to the difficult childhoods my LGBT classmates and I had.\"\n\nMhairi Black said events like the one at Glencoats Primary would have made an \"immeasurable difference\" when she was growing up\n\nA spokeswoman for the local authority said that learning about equalities and diversity has an important role in the school curriculum.\n\n\"All school visits are arranged and managed with the wellbeing of pupils first and foremost,\" she added.\n\n\"However it is clear in this case, the social media content associated with the speaker's stage persona is not appropriate for children and had we been aware of this, the visit would not have been arranged.\n\n\"We are sorry for the concern this has caused and are investigating.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by LGBT Youth Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a reply to online criticism, the Twitter account @flowjobqueen posted: \"As the drag queen who read the story to the children it was amazing to see what the kids have learned, we live in a time where kids will be going to school with 2 mums/dads or LGBTQ+ family, we are showing them that it's normal.\"\n\nThe website for the UK LGBT+ History Month says it is \"supporting a very exciting, informative and celebratory month, to educate out prejudice and make LGBT+ people visible in all their rich diversity\".\n\nThe event at Glencoats Primary has been defended by the organisation LGBT Youth Scotland.\n\nIt said: \"We're horrified to see the abusive messages and tweets targeting Glencoats Primary School for their bold and brilliant LGBT inclusive education practices.\n\n\"We are proud to work with their pioneering headteacher, and recognise the school as an example to others across the country.\"", "Age-related macular degeneration often hits people in their 50s or 60s\n\nSufferers of a degenerative eye disease have been offered hope after a new link between a protein and the condition was discovered by scientists.\n\nA team from four universities found significantly higher levels of a protein factor in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients.\n\nMore than 1.5 million people in the UK have AMD, which causes loss of vision.\n\nIt is hoped the discovery could lead to earlier diagnoses of the condition and lead to better treatment options.\n\nThe research team was made up of scientists from Cardiff University, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Manchester and Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. They found significantly higher levels of the protein known as FHR-4 in the blood of AMD patients.\n\nResearch then found the presence of the protein in the macular of eye tissue.\n\nThe protein regulates the complement system - part of the immune system - and plays a critical role in inflammation in the body.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are two different types of AMD - wet and dry. Some treatment options - including eye injections - exist for wet AMD, which causes vision to deteriorate quickly, but no treatments are available for dry, which happens over a slower period of time.\n\nThe condition affects the middle part of people's vision, making reading, watching television and recognising faces difficult.\n\nProf Paul Morgan, an expert in complement biology at Cardiff University, said they had accumulated \"a robust body of evidence\" that genetically-dictated FHR-4 levels in plasma were an \"important predictor of risk of developing AMD.\"\n\nProf Simon Clark, a University of Manchester specialist, said: \"Up until now, the role played by FHR proteins in disease has only ever been inferred.\n\n\"But now we show a direct link and, more excitingly, become a tangible step closer to identifying a group of potential therapeutic targets to treat this debilitating disease.\"\n• None Increased circulating levels of Factor H-Related Protein 4 are strongly associated with age-related macular degeneration - Nature Communications The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson's senior aide Dominic Cummings has said the civil service lacks people with \"deep expertise in specific fields\"\n\nThe Cabinet Office is recruiting a new civil servant to oversee HR policy for government ministers' special advisers.\n\nThe \"high profile and stretching\" £60,000-a-year role has been advertised after reports of tensions between the government and the civil service over recruitment and treatment of staff.\n\nDuties include revising HR policies for special advisers, known as Spads.\n\nIt comes after PM Boris Johnson's senior adviser Dominic Cummings talked of a need to \"upgrade\" Spads' skills.\n\nIn a blog post in January Mr Cummings called for \"weirdos and misfits\" to work in Whitehall and said the civil service lacked people with \"deep expertise in specific fields\".\n\nAccording to a report by Buzzfeed, the new Cabinet Office role - part of its Propriety and Ethics Team - has been created in response to concerns within the civil service about No 10's treatment of staff.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the appointment would not affect how special advisers - political appointments traditionally made by individual ministers - were managed.\n\n\"In December 2018 the then government announced it would be reviewing how special advisers' terms could be made clearer and more consistent,\" it said.\n\n\"This is a routine appointment to the existing team to support this ongoing work.\"\n\nThe new recruit will work within the Cabinet Office's Propriety and Ethics team, \"supporting\" the code of conduct governing Spads, managing \"complex and sensitive\" employment cases and \"liaising with legal advisers\" when needed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: I had no option but to resign\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jonathan Blake said the role of Spads has been under scrutiny since Mr Johnson became prime minister.\n\nFormer Chancellor Sajid Javid \"voiced his anger\" to Mr Johnson when one of his Spads, Sonia Khan, was escorted from Downing Street by police after being sacked in August last year. No reason was given for her dismissal, but the BBC's Iain Watson said it was suggested the issue was about whether she could be trusted to be transparent with No 10.\n\nMr Javid resigned as chancellor earlier this month after rejecting Mr Johnson's demand that he fire his entire team of aides as part of a government reshuffle.\n\nJust days later, there was a political row over Downing Street's hiring of Andrew Sabisky to work in an unspecified role, in light of comments he had made in the past about race and eugenics.\n\nMr Sabisky subsequently quit the role, saying he didn't want to become a distraction to the government's work, but his short-lived involvement led to calls for tougher vetting procedures for No 10 staff.", "The crisis inside the last rebel area in Syria is deepening, with millions of people who have long opposed the regime trapped at the border with Turkey.\n\nThe UN says it’s the greatest exodus of the war, and warns that there is now no safe shelter in Idlib.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I felt let down by both PSNI and PPS'\n\nA woman who claims she was raped has criticised her treatment by the police and prosecutors.\n\nLucy Monaghan reported the alleged attack in April 2015, but no one was ever charged.\n\nThe Police Ombudsman later found a number of failings in the investigation into the incident.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland admitted shortcomings, but said it treated all allegations of sexual crime seriously.\n\nMs Monaghan, 31, has now waived her right to anonymity to speak to BBC News NI about her experience.\n\nShe said that on the night in question, she met someone she knew and remembers going to a house and being sick, before falling unconscious for about eight hours.\n\n\"I just woke up in a strange bed like that, to which my response was: 'Why am I here? Where are my clothes?'\"\n\nBelieving she had been attacked, Ms Monaghan reported the incident to the police and attended the sexual assault referral centre for intimate forensic examinations.\n\nThe PSNI investigated and passed a file to the PPS, but a decision was taken not to prosecute.\n\nLucy is now being supported by her mother, Jane\n\nMs Monaghan says she was \"baffled\" that the man she claimed had assaulted her was not to be charged.\n\nShe said: \"I thought with the investigation work that the PSNI would have carried out that he would have been arrested and justice would have been served.\n\n\"However, that didn't happen and once I realised I was getting no prosecution I thought I'm going to have a look at all the information and see how this went so wrong.\"\n\nMs Monaghan asked the PPS to reconsider the decision and having made her own enquiries, she realised that information had been missed.\n\nShe told BBC News NI: \"I wasn't even angry, I was sad and hurt and crippled at the attack against me, the physical attack, but I was so dumbfounded and I just felt so disappointed in how I'd been dealt with by both the PSNI and the PPS, especially when they didn't have enough information.\"\n\nIn the end, Ms Monaghan made a complaint to the Police Ombudsman and BBC News NI has seen a copy of the report.\n\nThe ombudsman found that her interview with police, copies of social media messages between her and the alleged perpetrator and medical reports had not been sent to the PPS.\n\nThey also found that the officer in Ms Monaghan's case did not make arrangements to obtain statements from other witnesses.\n\nForensic submissions were also not made until after the PPS had made its original decision.\n\nLucy helped gather her own evidence to try to assist her case\n\nThe ombudsman added that when the alleged offender was interviewed by police, 20 pages of Ms Monaghan's statement, where she described what happened on the night, were missing.\n\nIn conclusion, the ombudsman said that \"the original file submitted to the PPS did not include all the information required for the PPS full consideration of the facts of the case\". An officer was disciplined.\n\nDet Ch Supt Paula Hilman said the service accepted that \"the initial investigation was not of a standard we would expect\".\n\nThe senior officer added: \"We understand the enormous physical and emotional impact rape can have on a person, but can provide reassurance that all allegations of sexual crime are taken seriously by PSNI and are thoroughly investigated by trained detectives within the Public Protection Branch who undergo specialist training in order to deal effectively with these sensitive and often complex investigations.\"\n\nDet Chief Supt Hilman urged anyone who has experienced any sort of sexual crime to report their experience to police.\n\nMarianne O'Kane, senior assistant director of the PPS, told the BBC that \"there were some procedural matters that could have been handled differently by the PPS in the early stages of this case in 2015\".\n\n\"While it would have been preferable to have this evidence available at the time of the initial decision and the review, the case has been formally reviewed on two further occasions and independent counsel has also considered the case.\n\n\"The decision not to prosecute has been confirmed following each review.\"\n\nIn particular, Ms Monaghan took issue with one letter she was sent by a senior prosecutor within the PPS which stated: \"If we were to prosecute, the court would note that before sexual intercourse took place, there was evidence that you were flirting with him and that immediately afterwards you were in very good form.\n\n\"This is likely to suggest to the court that you had consented to what took place in the bedroom.\"\n\nMs Monaghan feels that the way the letter was phrased amounts to victim blaming.\n\nMs Monaghan shows BBC News NI's Peter Coulter the letter she was sent by the PPS\n\nIn response, the PPS said: \"The written reference to the term 'flirting' in this case was not in any way intended to assert that flirting before, or after, a sexual act indicates likely or actual consent to that act. The word was used because it is the description given by two witnesses of their observations.\n\n\"I accept that the comment could have been expressed differently, but it was not intended to place any blame on the complainant.\"\n\nMs O'Kane from the PPS said: \"Lucy Monaghan has raised a number of serious matters, which have been considered carefully at a senior level in the PPS.\n\n\"We take our responsibilities to victims very seriously, and we want to ensure that, whatever the outcome of their case, they feel treated with respect and empathy.\"\n\nDespite her negative experience, Ms Monaghan said she would like to see other victims come forward.\n\n\"The bravery that you'll accomplish within yourself in coming forward will hopefully contribute to your recovery in the end\",\" she said.\n\nIf you've been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on the BBC Action Line.", "The UK's biggest retailer, Tesco, is stocking plasters in a variety of skin tones as it tries to give a better reflection of racial diversity.\n\nIt said the plasters, which come in light, medium and dark shades, would \"better represent the nation\".\n\nThe retailer said they were developed in response to an emotional tweet from a US man, who used a plaster matching his skin tone for the first time.\n\nTesco said it was the first UK supermarket to make such a move.\n\nPeople welcomed the news on Twitter, although some questioned why it had taken so long.\n\nCampaigner Sajda Mughal tweeted: \"This is like that feeling as a WOC [woman of colour] growing up not being able to find the right tone of foundation apart from pink!!!... And finally somebody introduces it!!!\"\n\nNicola Robinson, Tesco's health, beauty and wellness director, said: \"As one of the largest retailers in the UK, we understand that we have a responsibility to ensure our products reflect the diversity of our customers and colleagues.\n\n\"We believe the launch of our new skin tone plaster range is an important step and a move that we hope will be replicated by other retailers and supermarkets across the country.\"\n\nThe supermarket giant developed the plasters after a tweet from Dominique Apollon, of US racial equality advocacy group Race Forward, went viral.\n\nMr Apollon said he was overwhelmed after using a plaster matching his skin tone for the first time, and \"holding back tears\". It prompted more than 100,000 retweets and comments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dominique Apollon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCurrently, people have little choice when it comes to buying plasters of diverse shades on the High Street. Boots does not stock plasters in multiple shades, although it does offer transparent ones.\n\nSpecialist brands are available online but can be expensive.\n\nTesco, which is the UK's biggest seller of own-brand plasters, said its new plasters would be available at all of its 741 UK stores.\n\nSuperdrug told the BBC it will also be launching plasters for dark tone, medium tone and light tone skin in six weeks' time across all of its stores. Boots also said it plans to launch plasters in a range of tones.\n\nNicola Paul, a diversity expert at Green Park, an executive search firm, welcomed the news.\n\n\"Not only is it the right thing to do but there is demand,\" she said.\n\n\"Companies in the cosmetic industry realised the importance of producing products different skin tones years ago, though you'll also find plenty of blogs and posts explaining they haven't done enough.\n\n\"Some fashion retailers have considered their ranges, especially extending their 'nude' ranges beyond pale, be that shoes, tights or underwear.\n\n\"Supermarkets are very competitive when it comes to the sustainability agenda and it would be great to see more examples like this coming through.\"", "Global financial markets saw some of the sharpest falls in years on Monday after a rise in coronavirus cases renewed fears about economic slowdown.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones and S&P 500 posted their sharpest daily declines since 2018, with the Dow falling 3.5% or more than 1,000 points.\n\nThe S&P 500 ended the day 3.3% lower, while the Nasdaq sank 3.7%.\n\nThe UK's FTSE 100 share index closed 3.3% lower, the sharpest drop since January 2016.\n\nIn Italy, which has seen Europe's worst outbreak of the virus, Milan's stock market plunged nearly 6%.\n\nIn contrast, the price of gold, which is considered less risky, hit its highest level in seven years at one point.\n\nThe moves came as the outbreak continued to spread outside of China, with Iran, South Korea and Italy reporting a surge in cases.\n\nAbout 77,000 people in China, where the virus emerged last year, have been infected and nearly 2,600 have died.\n\nMore than 1,200 cases have been confirmed in about 30 other countries and there have been more than 20 deaths. Italy reported three more deaths on Monday, raising the total there to six.\n\n\"There has been so much complacency in recent weeks from investors, despite clear signs that China's economy is facing a large hit and that supply chains around the world were being disrupted,\" said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.\n\n\"Markets initially wobbled in January, but had quickly bounced back, implying that investors didn't see the coronavirus as a serious threat to corporate earnings. They may now be reappraising the situation.\"\n\nThe losses on the Dow and S&P 500 in the US wiped out their gains for the year. Firms such as Nike, Apple and Walt Disney, which do major business in China and rely on it to make goods, were some of the hardest hit, with shares down more than 4%.\n\nTravel companies also continued to suffer. In the UK, the biggest faller in the FTSE 100 was EasyJet, which sank 16.7%, while Tui and British Airways owner IAG were both down by more than 9% at the close.\n\nWall Street is spooked. The massive falls on US financial markets shows that pretty clearly.\n\nPart of the answer can be found in the ballooning number of confirmed cases in China and elsewhere. Investors worry this could mean a prolonged economic slowdown around the world.\n\nTech juggernaut Apple has already warned of a shortage of iPhones and other US companies are also starting to break a sweat. If the impact is as serious as some investors suspect, it could derail the longest economic expansion in America's history.\n\nThat means there are political implications too. US President Donald Trump has made a roaring economy a central part of his re-election bid. Any wobbles could make his case for another four years more challenging.\n\nThe market moves come as companies continue to warn about the effect of the coronavirus on their supply chains and overall financial health.\n\nAssociated British Foods, which owns clothing retailer Primark, warned on Monday that there could be shortages of some lines if delays in factory production in China were prolonged because of virus-related shutdowns.\n\nIn China itself, officials have said most small businesses have yet to reopen after the authorities extended the Lunar New Year holiday in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nOnly about three out of 10 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were back to work, while transport problems were preventing workers from travelling and disrupting shipments of raw materials, said industry ministry spokesman Tian Yulong.\n\nSMEs make up about 60% of the Chinese economy.\n\nAnalysts said the gold price - which has risen by more than 10% since the start of the year - could soon breach the $1,700 barrier. On Monday, prices surged more than 2% at one point, before retreating.\n\n\"Gold has finally established some serious momentum,\" said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at online trading platform Oanda.\n\nOil prices fell by about 4% on Monday, as investors worried about a fall in demand following the temporary factory closures due to the virus.\n\nThe price of Brent crude dropped by more than $2 to $55.55 a barrel.\n• None World must prepare for pandemic, says WHO", "Labour members have begun casting their votes in the party's contest to replace outgoing leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey qualified for the ballot after obtaining enough support from unions and affiliated groups.\n\nThe party is also choosing a new deputy leader, following Tom Watson's resignation in December.\n\nVoting will close on 2 April, with the results announced at a special conference two days later.\n\nAmong those taking part will be 114,000 new members who have joined since December's election, where Labour won its lowest number of seats since 1935.\n\nMembers of affiliated trades unions and groups can also vote, as well as around 14,700 \"registered supporters\" who have paid £25 to take part on a one-off basis.\n\nTo qualify for the ballot, candidates needed support from three unions or affiliates representing 5% of the membership, or 33 constituency Labour parties (CLPs).\n\nSir Keir, the party's Brexit spokesman, is seen as the front-runner in the contest and has secured the most nominations from unions and affiliates, as well as CLPs.\n\nHe said the party needs to stop \"taking lumps out of each other,\" adding that the \"trashing\" of former Labour governments \"has to stop\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We have to pull together and unite - and I feel that's where the membership is.\"\n\nHe also attacked the government's latest immigration plans, adding that he would get rid of minimum salary thresholds as they were not \"the right measure for people coming to this country\".\n\nSpeaking at a members' hustings in Durham on Sunday, all three leadership candidates pledged to offer their rivals shadow cabinet posts if they are successful, and said they would happily serve in the winner's top team.\n\nSir Keir did not commit to offering roles to his rivals at a previous event last week.\n\nWriting for the Independent on Sunday, Wigan MP Ms Nandy said the party had previously treated voters concerned about immigration as \"irrational or racist\".\n\nShe added that the party would need to focus on devolving power around the country, rather than offering policies \"devised by a small group of people behind desks in central London\".\n\nAlso making her pitch to members before voting opened, Mrs Long-Bailey said the party should turn the next election into a \"climate election\".\n\nIn an Independent article of her own, the shadow business secretary said green policies could improve infrastructure and boost \"well-paid, unionised jobs\".\n\nMeanwhile shadow home secretary Diane Abbott joined shadow chancellor John McDonnell in saying she will stand down from the shadow cabinet once a new leader is in place.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he would consider serving in the shadow cabinet if offered a job by his successor.\n\nHe said last week he would \"see what it is\" if offered a post, adding that he \"didn't know\" whether this would happen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMembers and supporters can vote via email if they have registered an email address with the party, or if not using a postal ballot delivered to their home.\n\nVoting works using a preferential system, with members ranking the candidates in order of preference.\n\nIf one fails to get more than half the first preference votes, the second preference votes of the lowest-ranked candidate are redistributed until the contest produces a winner.\n\nThe system is the same for the deputy leadership race, where shadow education secretary Angela Rayner is regarded as the frontrunner.\n\nShadow equalities minister Dawn Butler, Scotland's only remaining Labour MP Ian Murray, Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan and shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon have also secured their place on the deputy leadership members' ballot.", "A thing of the past? Pupils currently sit traditional hand-written exams\n\nPaper and pens could become a thing of the past for GCSE exams in Wales.\n\nRegulatory body Qualifications Wales is consulting on the exams' future, which could include a major shift towards 16-year-olds sitting tests online.\n\nNew chairman David Jones believes we could see \"significantly more\" electronic assessment in the new curriculum, to reflect the way teenagers live their lives.\n\nBut he said we need to ensure the technology works.\n\nHowever he believes GCSEs should be called the same, to avoid the \"confusion\" of a new name.\n\nOne of the biggest shake-ups of the school curriculum in decades is under way in Wales with a new curriculum for children from three to 16.\n\nIt will be taught from 2022, replacing traditional subjects with six \"areas of learning and experience\".\n\nAs part of the proposed changes, consultations are under way regarding the testing of 16-year-olds from 2026.\n\nPupils now spend much of their time using computers in class\n\nQualifications Wales, the independent organisation that oversees exams, said qualifications must be fit-for-purpose in a \"fast-moving world\".\n\n\"It doesn't seem right if children spend most of their life using technology and then once or twice a year they have to go back to do traditional examinations that are at least 50 years old,\" said Mr Jones.\n\nHowever, there are potential pitfalls in going digital. Last May, the WJEC exam board had to apologise after a \"technical issue\" affected pupils taking a GCSE computer science exam.\n\nIt is unclear how many schools were affected, but people in the Vale of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Pembrokeshire and Rhondda Cynon Taff raised issues.\n\n\"There are concerns and risks. We saw last year in Scotland there were problems around electronic assessment,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"So we need to make sure the technology works to be able to do qualifications online.\n\n\"But ultimately, at some point in the future, we have to have significantly more electronic assessment - or we risk being left behind by the rest of the world.\"\n\n\"Other countries are increasingly moving towards electronic assessment,\" said David Jones\n\nWhile the exams watchdog believes the content and assessment of qualifications must change \"significantly\", it has urged against ditching the GCSEs brand.\n\nThe Future Generations Commissioner wants GCSEs to be scrapped and a move to other forms of assessment.\n\n\"Right now we think we should stick with the name GCSEs,\" Mr Jones added.\n\n\"The structure, framework and assessment of the qualification will change significantly but changing the name could be confusing.\n\n\"GCSEs are well-known and well-respected. What's important is what's inside the qualification.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Blue Tree water park said its \"highly-trained lifeguards\" tried to resuscitate the boy at the scene\n\nA British boy has died after falling into a pool at a water park in Thailand, local police have confirmed.\n\nLifeguards tried to resuscitate the three-year-old after he stumbled into a waterslide landing area at the Blue Tree park in Phuket, the resort said.\n\nIn a statement, the park added that the boy's parents were \"devastated\" and park staff were \"deeply upset\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said its consular officials were ready to provide support to UK citizens when needed.\n\nIn a statement, the park said lifeguards gave the boy mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after the incident on Sunday, before he was taken by ambulance, to Thalang hospital - about four miles away.\n\n\"Sadly, he could not be revived,\" the park said.\n\nIt added: \"The landing pool area is strictly for those coming down the slides. There are highly-trained life guards positioned at the bottom of the slides to watch people coming down for the purpose of ensuring their safety.\n\n\"His parents are understandably devastated and we continue to offer our support in any way possible. We are all deeply upset by this extremely sad incident.\"", "One spoof review described it as \"fast becoming a national treasure\"\n\nTripAdvisor has suspended reviews for a hole in a wall outside a bank after online jokers turned it into an unlikely tourist attraction.\n\nSpoof glowing write-ups of the circular architecture, at NatWest in Ilkeston, led to it being ranked as the fourth best attraction in the Derbyshire town.\n\nMedia coverage over the weekend prompted dozens more joke comments.\n\nThe travel website said it had stopped publishing new reviews as they \"do not describe a first-hand experience\".\n\nTongue-in-cheek comments for the \"NatWest hole\" first started appearing in December 2018.\n\nBy awarding the wall top marks, users were able to propel it above well-known locations in and around Ilkeston, including Bennerley Viaduct.\n\nAmong 40 new comments added this weekend, one said: \"Made my sixth visit to this attraction last week, always worth the nine-hour drive, every time has felt like the first.\"\n\nAnother said: \"Quite how the workers of the 90s managed to construct such a work of this magnitude is beyond imagination.\n\n\"Just think, all they had back in those days were angle grinders, cement, wheelbarrows and a team of, at the most, 100 workers. Simply amazing!\"\n\nNatWest says the hole is there to stop people hiding behind the wall, next to a cash machine\n\nHowever, TripAdvisor has added a message to the page warning reviews have been temporarily suspended due to a \"recent event\".\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The recent media attention caused an influx of review submissions that did not meet our guidelines - our guidelines state that a review must describe a first-hand experience - so we took the decision to temporarily suspend hosting new reviews on its TripAdvisor listing page, and posted a notice on the site to inform travellers of this.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This footage of Salman Abedi outside the arena was shown to jurors\n\nFootage of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi watching music fans arrive for a Take That gig days before his attack has been shown to a jury.\n\nAbedi can be seen looking at box office queues, just yards from the spot where, four days later, on 22 May 2017, he killed himself and 22 others.\n\nHashem Abedi, 22, is on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of helping his brother plan the attack.\n\nHe denies 22 murders, attempted murder, and conspiring to cause explosions.\n\nThe attempted murder charge encompasses the scores of people who survived the attack, which happened at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe jury was shown CCTV footage in which Salman Abedi travels to the Arena venue, spending more than a minute in the City Rooms section where crowds can be seen milling around him.\n\nHe then leaves for the nearby Arndale shopping centre, where he buys four nine-volt batteries and a large blue Kangol suitcase, used to transport his bomb-making equipment to his Manchester city centre flat.\n\nEarlier he was seen leaving the flat in Granby Row at about 18:00 BST.\n\nThe hooded figure, wearing jogging bottoms and white trainers, was seen moving through rush-hour traffic.\n\nHashem Abedi denies being an extremist and insists he had no idea of his brother's suicide bomb plans\n\nAbedi, then aged 22, also swaps his Sim card between phones and takes an untraced international call during the visit, where he walks the perimeter of the Arena venue before going inside to the City Rooms.\n\nJurors heard he took the suitcase to Devell House, a block of flats in Rusholme, south Manchester, the next day.\n\nThe prosecution said that on 14 April, the Abedi brothers left a Nissan Micra outside the flat and that the vehicle had been used to store bomb-making chemicals and equipment until Salman Abedi returned from Libya to carry out the final stage of the plan.\n\nSalman Abedi loads the suitcase and is seen struggling to drag it up the steps at his city centre apartment, where the prosecution allege he assembled his device.\n\nJurors were also shown CCTV footage allegedly showing Salman Abedi taking a taxi to a B&Q store in Cheetham Hill where he spent nearly £200 on items including 4,000 screws, metal nuts, a swing bin, a spade, a saw, glue, tape, a set of drawers and an oak effect door.\n\nFootage from 18 May 2017 shows Salman Abedi in and around Victoria station, close to Manchester Arena\n\nStore worker Steven Dooley told police he woke on 23 May to see the \"devastating events\" of the previous evening on the news.\n\nMr Dooley said that, two days before the Arena bombing, he remembered seeing a young man \"acting suspiciously\".\n\n\"My attention was drawn to him mainly because he had his hoodie over his head and I thought he might be shoplifting,\" he added.\n\nThe jury was also taken through Salman Abedi's phone records from the afternoon of the bombing, which included multiple calls to an unknown Libyan number.\n\nThe identity of the recipient has never been established.\n\nHashem Abedi insists he is not an extremist and had no idea of his older brother's plans.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man was shot dead by police after he attacked people in Streatham, south London\n\nEmergency legislation to block the automatic release of people convicted of terror offences is set to become law after being approved by the Lords.\n\nThe Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill - which was passed by MPs earlier this month - was drawn up following an attack in south London.\n\nThe attacker, Sudesh Amman, had recently been freed from prison.\n\nThe government had wanted to pass the bill before 28 February when the next terror offender is due for release.\n\nSunderland shopkeeper Mohammed Zahir Khan, 42, had been set to be freed after serving half of his sentence for encouraging terrorism.\n\nThe government's emergency measures, which required backing from Parliament, would postpone his release until the Parole Board has given its approval.\n\nOffenders are told they are being sentenced for a fixed period and will be automatically released at the half-way point, to serve the remainder of their sentence on licence in the community.\n\nSome offenders will have pleaded guilty on the basis that they would be given a sentence with automatic early release at the half-way point.\n\nTheir release is an automatic process and does not involve oversight of the Parole Board.\n\nThe bill would affect about 50 prisoners who were convicted under existing rules, which allow for release halfway through a sentence.\n\nLawyers for some of the inmates are believed to be preparing a legal challenge, but ministers claim they are not extending sentences, merely changing the way they are administered.\n\nThe legislation would apply to England, Scotland and Wales but the government said it intended to make provisions for Northern Ireland in a future piece of legislation, arguing that there was no need for \"immediate measures\" in the region.\n\nThe House of Lords backed the bill unamended in one sitting on Monday evening.\n\nDuring the debate, the government's justice spokesperson Lord Keen of Elie acknowledged that \"applying these measures retrospectively is an unusual step\" - but argued this was due to the \"unprecedented gravity of the situation\".\n\nLabour's shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti said she accepted the need for emergency legislation, but added that it was \"an emergency of the government's own making\".\n\nShe argued the Ministry of Justice had been hit by \"the most savage cuts in Whitehall\".\n\n\"That has a direct bearing on the nature of capacity, regime and intervention in the prison and probation systems.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland ended Ireland's Grand Slam hopes in brutal fashion as they rediscovered some of their World Cup form to reignite their own hopes of landing the Six Nations title.\n\nFirst-half tries from George Ford and Elliot Daly after Irish defensive errors plus two conversions and a penalty from Owen Farrell gave England a commanding 17-0 lead.\n\nIreland struck back with a try from Robbie Henshaw but with Johnny Sexton uncharacteristically wayward off the tee, they never seriously threatened a comeback.\n\nLuke Cowan-Dickie drove over for England's third midway through the second half, with replacement Andrew Porter's late try no sort of consolation for Ireland.\n\nWith Wales at home in a fortnight before a trip to Italy, Eddie Jones' men will believe they can finish the championship in style, although they may need Ireland to do them a favour and beat France in Paris next month.\n\nFor the men in green and their head coach Andy Farrell it was a chastening afternoon, all the optimism created by the wins over Scotland and Wales leaching away in a display that was ponderous until the game was gone.\n• None We could have declared at half-time - Jones\n• None I need to look at myself - Ireland coach Farrell\n• None England blitz Ireland - the match as it happened\n\nEngland began at a real lick, Manu Tuilagi punching holes through the middle and going close down the left before Andrew Conway hauled him down.\n\nAnd the reward came when Ben Youngs stuck a grubber kick through, Sexton dithered and juggled in his own in-goal area and Ford seized on the loose ball to touch down.\n\nSexton then mis-kicked horribly with a straightforward penalty from 30 metres out and England set up camp again in the Ireland half.\n\nJonathan Joseph danced through in midfield after a mis-hit clearing kick from Conor Murray as Maro Itoje and CJ Stander scrapped in the 22, and England's forwards hammered away at the Ireland line.\n\nWith a penalty coming, the men in white shaped to go wide, only for Ford to pop through another kick - and this time it was Jacob Stockdale who dallied, Daly diving onto the ball as Irish hands went to heads.\n\nThe scoreboard reflected the gulf between the two sides, England dynamic with ball in hand and ferocious in defence, Ireland laboured and error-ridden.\n\nAnd Sexton's miserable half was compounded when he was penalised for slowing the ball up, Farrell stroking over his kick to give England their biggest half-time lead over Ireland in 18 years.\n\nIreland simply had to improve - and belatedly they did. An England knock-on from the restart gave away possession and the visitors finally chiselled out some territory too.\n\nEngland managed to stop an Ireland driving maul from a line-out close in but the pressure kept coming.\n\nIreland won a penalty in front of the posts, opted for the scrum and eventually found space in the right-hand corner for Henshaw to burrow through two defenders and over the line.\n\nBut Sexton shanked the conversion just as he had the first-half penalty and the pressure ebbed away as Jones threw on Cowan-Dickie, Ellis Genge and Charlie Ewels.\n\nEngland's scrum, strong throughout, began to dominate and the penalties started to mount.\n\nFarrell kicked to the corner, the forwards set up the maul from the line-out and Cowan-Dickie peeled off with Sam Underhill and Jonny May driving him on to roll over for England's third try.\n\nMay was nearly clear on his own after seizing a loose ball from a messy Ireland ruck and appeared to be taken out by Henshaw after kicking the ball ahead, only for referee Jaco Peyper to wave play on.\n\nAnd as the game stumbled towards the line, Porter rumbled over from a metre out for a try that made little difference to Ireland's afternoon.\n\nWhat the coaches said\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones: \"We had a good preparation, we were always looking at this game and the next as the ones we had to be at our best.\n\n\"We were disappointed with the second half, but when you are playing against a side like Ireland you expect them to get some possession. We had to defend pretty well.\n\nIreland head coach Andy Farrell: \"I think the scoreline flattered us a little bit. We didn't start to play how we wanted to until the game was over. England were excellent, every side will look at themselves physically and they certainly won that battle. We didn't fire a shot in that first half.\n\n\"England were fighting to stay in the championship and that's what we need to be in the next two games - I need to look at myself regarding the performance of the first half.\"\n\nWhat did the pundits think?\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson: \"It's a fantastic win for England, they were dominant throughout the whole game. The tactics in the first half were spot on, but it was a bit strange they didn't continue that after half-time and put the game away.\n\n\"They were happy to let Ireland have the ball and defend. They were really comfortable.\"\n\nFormer England hooker Brian Moore: \"Ireland's half-backs Johnny Sexton and Conor Murray have been world class for a long time but I don't think I've ever seen them play as badly, and certainly kick as badly. That created a platform for England who were sharp and really could have scored more tries.\n\n\"England's line speed was good throughout, they won the majority of the collisions and got on top in the set-piece.\"\n\nFormer Ireland number eight Jamie Heaslip: \"If you keep showing the same picture against a side like England, they'll punish you. Make basic mistakes in the back-field, you will get punished. If you want to win a championship, you can't make those mistakes.\"\n\nReplacements: Slade for Tuilagi (74), Heinz for Youngs (58), Genge for Marler (58), Cowan-Dickie for George (52), Stuart for Sinckler (69), Launchbury for Kruis (60), Ewels for Lawes (58), Earl for Curry (66).\n\nReplacements: Earls for Larmour (64), R. Byrne for Conway (66), Cooney for Murray (55), Kilcoyne for Healy (26), Kelleher for Herring (60), Porter for Furlong (58), Dillane for Toner (60), Doris for van der Flier (60).\n\nStill to come in the Six Nations...", "Roads in Aberdeenshire have been affected by snow\n\nSnow has started to fall on high level roads in Scotland, with warnings in place of more to come at lower levels.\n\nCommuters had been warned of possible disruption to travel as snow is expected across much of the country.\n\nMost of the central belt remained wet during the morning travel peak but wintry showers remain a possibility throughout the day.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning which will affect most council areas from 03:00 until 22:00.\n\nThe warnings for Scotland came as many parts of the UK continues to face the threat of flooding.\n\nSnow was affecting a number of routes in Dumfries and Galloway, the Borders and Midlothian early on Monday morning.\n\nFurther has been forecast during the evening rush hour, especially in the east and north of the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAbove 100m (328ft), 2-5cm (1-2in) is expected while up to 20cm (8in) may build up in areas above 300m (984ft).\n\nVehicles and passengers may become stranded on roads with delays possible, as well as potential disruption to rail and air travel.\n\nSome rural communities could become cut off and power cuts could occur with other services such as mobile coverage affected.\n\nA further warning has been issued covering the period from 20:00 on Monday until 10:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said wintry showers could be seen, with icy patches leading to possible hazardous travel conditions.\n\nAn ice warning has been issued for Monday evening and Tuesday morning\n\nIt comes after a weekend of high winds and rain with flooding leaving cars, roads and fields submerged in some parts.\n\nOne woman had to be rescued from her vehicle by canoe in Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency originally had more than 40 flood warnings in place at its peak.\n\nThis car became stuck after the road into Milngavie was flooded\n\nLast weekend road, rail and ferry links were hit and football matches cancelled as Storm Dennis swept across Scotland.\n\nWhile the overall picture has improved during the week, parts of north-west England experienced more than a month's worth of rain between Thursday and Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A woman is rescued by canoe after her car becomes submerged in Old Kilpatrick", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nA memorial service has been held at the Staples Centre for NBA star Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, 13, who were killed in a helicopter crash on January 26.\n\nHis widow Vanessa Bryant spoke candidly to the crowd of 20,000 people about her loss, as did basketball legend Michael Jordan.\n\nBeyonce and Alicia Keys performed and fans, with and without tickets, paid their respects outside of the stadium.\n\nEarlier, Ms Bryant announced she is suing the owner of the helicopter in which her husband, her daughter and seven other people were travelling when it crashed in fog.", "Finn Tapp signed for Oxford City in the summer from League One club MK Dons\n\nLove Island winner Finn Tapp is expected to see out his contract with his football club, it has emerged.\n\nOxford City said the defender went AWOL in January to travel to South Africa to take part in the reality dating show.\n\nHe won its sixth series with fellow contestant Paige Turley on Sunday.\n\nMick Livesey, Oxford City's commercial director, said the club would insert clauses into new players' contracts over future appearance on TV shows.\n\nMr Livesey said: \"He was [in breach of his contract] but I think you need to take a pragmatic sort of view: A 20-year-old lad, he's offered all this reality TV stuff.\n\n\"He has a contract, so he has to finish the contract he has with the football club.\n\n\"He's done very, very well for us.\"\n\nFinn Tapp and Paige Turley will share £50,000 for winning the ITV show\n\nMr Tapp signed for Oxford City last summer after he was released by MK Dons.\n\n\"As a football club, we wish Finn all the best and I can understand everything that's going on but we have a duty of care for Finn and we've got a duty of care for the football club,\" Mr Livesey said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oxford City FC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Livesey told BBC Radio Oxford: \"I can assure you that all new players we sign from now on, we will be putting clauses in their contracts. I think we're going to have to.\"\n\nHe said: \"We're an ambitious football club, we're going from strength to strength and we're looking to build. This hasn't been ideal. It is probably disruptive to the club and results.\"\n\nOxford City are currently 12th in National League South, the sixth tier of English football.\n\nMr Tapp has been approached by the BBC for comment.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by finley__tapp This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Priti Patel has been home secretary since Boris Johnson became prime minister\n\nMedia reports that Home Secretary Priti Patel is distrusted by intelligence chiefs and bullied her staff have been dismissed as \"false\" by the government.\n\nOfficials have denied that MI5 held back information from Ms Patel, following allegations that officials lacked confidence in her abilities.\n\nShe has also been accused of trying to force out Sir Philip Rutnam, the most senior civil servant in her department.\n\nThe pair were both said to be \"deeply concerned\" by the \"false allegations\".\n\nDowning Street has backed Ms Patel, with the prime minister's official spokesman telling reporters Boris Johnson had \"full confidence\" in the home secretary.\n\nAnd the UK's top civil servant hit out at \"unattributed briefings\" and leaks in the media, saying they \"besmirched the country's hard-won reputation for good governance\".\n\nIn an email to Whitehall staff, Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill said \"candour, confidentiality and courtesy\" between ministers, civil servants and special advisers were \"crucial to the trust and confidence on which good government depends\".\n\nA spokesman for Ms Patel and Sir Philip said they were focused on delivering their department's \"hugely important agenda\" such as an overhaul of the immigration system, putting more police officers on the streets and combating terrorism.\n\nThe statement comes after a source told the BBC there had been no animosity or \"blazing rows\" between Ms Patel and Sir Philip - who has been the Home Office's permanent secretary since April 2017 - but they were simply \"not the right fit\".\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor, Norman Smith, said the intervention from a security service source - saying the claims they withheld information from the home secretary were \"simply untrue\" - was \"highly unusual\".\n\nThe Home Office said \"no formal complaints\" had been made about Ms Patel, who has been home secretary since Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSecurity Minister James Brokenshire told BBC Breakfast there had been \"a lot of false stories\" circulating about Ms Patel, and security briefings had been continuing as normal. He added: \"I simply do not recognise the commentary and the false accusations and assertions that in so many ways have been swirling around.\"\n\nFormer Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers also said she was \"sick of spiteful briefings against women in high public office\", calling Ms Patel a \"highly effective home secretary\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she believed there was an element of misogyny to the allegations, adding: \"I'm absolutely certain that she's tough and demanding on her civil servants\" but she did not think \"anything inappropriate\" had gone on with her staff.\n\nOther senior Conservatives rallied around the home secretary as she made her first Commons appearance since the row began.\n\nFormer leader Iain Duncan Smith said Ms Patel was doing a \"brilliant\" job while Sir John Redwood hit out at reports that Home Office officials did not believe proposed immigration changes could be fully implemented by the end of the year - when the current system of free movement from the EU will end.\n\nMs Patel did not mention the row during her 40-minute statement on the government's post-Brexit immigration points system, saying she was focused on delivering on the priorities of the British people.\n\nThe Sunday Times claimed the home secretary has not been receiving the same security and intelligence briefings as her predecessors because MI5 officials do not trust her.\n\nA government spokesman said Ms Patel and MI5 had \"a strong and close working relationship, and baseless claims to the contrary are both wrong and against the public interest\".\n\nThey added that no information was being withheld from her and she \"receives the same daily intelligence briefings as her predecessors\".\n\nThe Times reported that a \"livid\" Ms Patel has asked for an inquiry to be carried out into how the \"hostile briefings\" about MI5 happened - although Cabinet Office sources said no such request has been made. The allegations come alongside reports of tensions between the civil service and the government over recruitment and treatment of staff.\n\nThe Cabinet Office is recruiting a new civil servant to oversee HR policy for government ministers' special advisers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I cleaned up but the flood came all over again'\n\nParts of a town centre are under water amid warnings that flooding in the area could reach its \"highest ever\" level.\n\nSevere flood warnings are in place in Shrewsbury and Ironbridge, meaning there is a danger to life.\n\nAnn DiTella, of Shrewsbury B&B Darwin's Townhouse, said 11 rooms had flooded, less than a week after water \"destroyed everything in its wake\".\n\nPeople in Wharfage, Ironbridge, have been asked to evacuate as the River Severn may go over barriers on Tuesday.\n\nTelford and Wrekin Council leader Shaun Davies said the barrier breach \"isn't likely to cause any tidal wave or any dramatic effect\" but could fill up the road and footpath \"very quickly\".\n\n\"So our message is clear - we are asking residents and businesses on the Wharfage to evacuate,\" he said.\n\nMr Davies said it was for people's own safety and for the emergency services who would \"be putting their lives at risk coming to your aid\".\n\nCouncil crews have been knocking doors to advise people and have set up a helpline and rest centre at Tontine Hotel.\n\nWest Mercia Police said about 40 residents in Ironbridge had been advised to evacuate on Monday night.\n\nWater is expected to go over the barriers at Ironbridge\n\nFirefighters have been coming to the aid of families\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) said rainfall in the Welsh mountains was due to cause problems further down the River Severn.\n\nThere are more than 100 flood warnings and some 200 alerts in England after a third week of downpours that started with Storm Ciara.\n\nDefences went up in Frankwell and Coleham Head in Shrewsbury on Sunday night.\n\nThe EA said the severe flood warning for Ironbridge followed persistent heavy rainfall.\n\nWater levels at the Buildwas river gauge are expected to peak at 6.7m (22ft) to 7m (23ft) on Tuesday evening.\n\nLunts Pharmacy is among the businesses that have been affected\n\nChester Street in Shrewsbury is under water\n\nDebbie Bradbury-Walker, who lives near the English Bridge, said water had filled their 8ft cellar and there were three to four inches on the ground floor.\n\n\"It's the first time it's flooded like this and entered the house in the five years we've lived here,\" she said.\n\n\"The drains are full but luckily we still have electricity at the moment.\n\n\"We have a way to escape from the house if we need. The rear is built up.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Telford & Wrekin Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStephanie Hall said her 10-minute drive to work in Battlefield, Shrewsbury, had taken nearly an hour.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of traffic and the roads in the town centre were closed,\" she said. \"It was solid both ways.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EA said further rainfall was forecast over the next 48 hours and flooding of properties in Shrewsbury was set to continue.\n\nA \"prolonged peak\" is expected at Welsh Bridge of 5.2m (17ft) to 5.5m (18ft) on Tuesday, which would be its highest recorded water level.\n\nCaroline Douglass, director of incident management at the EA, said: \"Flooding has a long-lasting and devastating impact on people's lives.\n\n\"River levels remain high and communities along the river Severn, in particular Shrewsbury, Bewdley and Ironbridge, should be ready for potential flooding.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The flooded garden where swans swim up to the window\n\nBusinesses were evacuated in the Coleham area of Shrewsbury amid rising floodwater.\n\nAimee Goolden took some people through the floodwater in her kayak, including workers at a care home.\n\nIn the last week of October 2000, the Severn rose to its highest level for over 50 years, flooding Shrewsbury, Ironbridge and Bridgnorth.\n\nCarol Calcutt, who lives close to the river, said: \"I'm very worried. Looking out of my window now the water really is coming up in kind of small waves. It is moving very quickly again.\"\n\nColeham in Shrewsbury has been badly hit\n\nPeople have been helped through floodwater in Coleham\n\nLast week homes and businesses were affected by floods in the wake of downpours brought by Storm Dennis.\n\nThe Rivers Wye and Severn reached their highest-ever levels.\n\nStephanie Hall said you could \"only just\" get around on foot when she took her dog Jubei out earlier\n\nHave you been affected by the flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A woman is rescued by canoe after her car becomes submerged in Old Kilpatrick\n\nFlooding across Scotland has left cars, roads and fields submerged.\n\nOne woman had to be rescued from her vehicle by canoe after her car became deluged by floodwater in Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nOther vehicles were left stranded on Saturday as they became swamped.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency originally had more than 40 flood warnings in place, with new warnings for snow starting on Monday.\n\nA Met Office yellow snow and ice warning has now expired.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This car was left stranded as it became stuck in floodwater at Milngavie. Video by Stuart Low.\n\nSome flood warnings remain in place across Scotland. This car was caught in floodwater in Cornton Road in the Bridge of Allan\n\nThis road in Linwood was completely flooded on Saturday morning\n\nThe Kelvin Walkway in Glasgow was completely submerged\n\nThis woman was rescued after her car became submerged in floodwater in Old Kilpatrick on Friday night\n\nThe car was still in floodwater on Saturday morning\n\nHeavy rain on Friday led to vehicles becoming stranded in Paisley and Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire and in Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe wet conditions also led to the postponement of Friday's Scottish Premiership match between St Mirren and Hearts at the Simple Digital Arena in Paisley.\n\nElsewhere, ScotRail had to close the line between Stirling and Perth for safety reasons after water levels breached a marker on the Mill O'Keir viaduct.\n\nFlooding on the railway line at Johnstone\n\nScotRail had to close the line between Stirling and Perth after water levels breached a marker on the Mill O'Keir viaduct\n\nOn the roads, flooding forced the closure of the northbound M876 at junction 2 Broomage in central Scotland.\n\nLast weekend road, rail and ferry links were hit and football matches cancelled as Storm Dennis swept across Scotland.\n\nWhile the overall picture has improved during the week, parts of north-west England experienced more than a month's worth of rain between Thursday and Friday.\n\nAn ambulance was stranded after Paisley was hit by floods on Friday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Strong winds carrying sand from the Sahara have affected airports in the Canary Islands.\n\nThe country's national weather service has warned that winds of up to 120km/h (75mph) could hit the Canaries until Monday.\n\nThe winds have also affected ferry services, and hampered efforts to fight a wildfire in Tasarte, Gran Canaria.", "A drone has captured footage of hundreds of South Koreans queuing for masks in Daegu, one of the epicentres of the coronavirus outbreak in the country.\n\nThe Emart supermarket in the Chilseong district of the city is offering discounted masks for Daegu residents.\n\nSouth Korea has the largest number of Covid-19 cases outside of China, with more than 760 people infected. A large number of them are in or near Daegu, which is South Korea's fourth largest city.\n\nSo far the country's biggest virus clusters have been linked to a hospital and a religious group near the city.", "Yorkshire Tea has urged social media users to \"try to be kind\" after the popular brand became embroiled in a row involving a leading Tory politician.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak posted a picture on Friday of him appearing to make a huge tea round for his Treasury staff.\n\nThe Twitter image led to calls by some on the left for a boycott of the brand.\n\nThe company said it had been \"pretty shocked\" by the outcry, reminding people that Jeremy Corbyn had also posed with its products in 2017.\n\nOver the last four decades, the firm has evolved from a regional blend found in Yorkshire shops to one of the UK's most successful exports, being sold as far afield as Australia and China.\n\nBut it said it had had a \"rough weekend\" after Mr Sunak posted an image on Friday of him holding a bumper pack of 1,040 tea bags. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, who represents the North Yorkshire seat of Richmond, said he was \"making tea for the team\" as he took a quick break from preparations for his Budget in just over two weeks time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rishi Sunak This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nYorkshire Tea, which is owned by Taylors of Harrogate, was quick to make clear on Friday that it had had nothing to do with the photo and had not been told in advance by the chancellor's team that he would associate himself with their brand.\n\nIn an impassioned thread on Monday, the firm said it had spent \"the last three days answering furious accusations and boycott calls\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Yorkshire Tea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA member of the firm's social media team put the avalanche of criticism it has received into perspective, saying it was \"easier to be on the receiving end of this as a brand than as an individual\". But they urged people to remember that the company had a human as well as a corporate face.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Yorkshire Tea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Sunak is not the first politician to suggest their endeavours would be helped by pausing for a cuppa. During a visit to York in 2017, Mr Corbyn said he would be happy to discuss climate change and other issues over a pot of Yorkshire Tea with Donald Trump if he ever made it to Downing Street.", "George Gibson's scenic department provided the backdrops for the Wizard of Oz\n\nScottish artist George Gibson created the movie scenery which helped define the look of legendary films including The Wizard of Oz during Hollywood's golden age. Now his family hope he will finally get the wider recognition he did not receive at the time.\n\nIn the 1930s and 40s, movie backdrops had to be created on indoor sound stages by crews of scene painters who conjured up everything from cityscapes to rolling hills.\n\nFilm studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) was one of the leading exponents of the art, all produced under the watchful eye of George Gibson.\n\nHe was the head of MGM's scenic design department for 30 years. The backdrops he created appeared in films such as the Wizard of Oz (1939), An American in Paris (1951) and Brigadoon (1954).\n\nHis backdrops were as large as 60ft x 150ft (18m by 45m) and so realistic that the audience often did not realise the setting was a soundstage.\n\nGibson was born in Edinburgh in 1904 and grew up in the shadow of the castle, before later moving to Fochabers in Moray when his father got a job as tailor.\n\nWizard of Oz was one of the first films on which Gibson worked\n\nHis interest in drama at school led to him discovering his talent for scene painting and he returned to Edinburgh College of Art to study fine art along with engineering.\n\nHe also studied at Glasgow School of Art with the master scenic designer William E. Glover.\n\nGibson's daughter Jean says her father had wanted to work in the big theatres in London, but was having trouble getting work so he decided to pack up and head to New York.\n\n\"The day he sailed to America in 1930 his parents received a letter offering him a job in London,\" his daughter says.\n\nIn an effort to find better weather and work in America, a friend convinced Gibson to move out west to California - where he picked up odd jobs such as illustrating storyboard art at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.\n\nBy 1938 he became head of the scenic design department, where he helped construct the MGM scene painting workshop, which was arguably the finest in the country.\n\nHe convinced the studio heads to construct a pioneering new building where all the backdrops could be painted centrally on movable frames rather than the fixed scaffolding of the soundstages.\n\nOne of the first films Gibson worked on was the Wizard of Oz, one of the first movies in full Technicolor.\n\nThese days the visual effects would be done digitally but in 1939 the whole world of Oz had to be created by using backings and hand-painted scenery.\n\nThe production required three months of painting and was done in total secrecy.\n\nFilm aficionado Mark Cousins first came across Gibson when he was director of the Edinburgh film festival in the 1990s.\n\nHe was struck that an Edinburgh man ended up painting some of the most iconic images in cinema.\n\nHe thinks the image of the city's capital inspired his imagination when drawing the famous Emerald City.\n\nGene Kelly and Leslie Caron starred in An American In Paris\n\nGibson's daughter Jean Gibson-Gorrindo was not born until 1950, when her father was 46, so she cannot be sure of his influences.\n\nHowever, she does remember him recreating the Sistine Chapel for the 1968 drama The Shoes of the Fisherman, about the election of a pope.\n\n\"The Vatican said 'you can't go in there with your hot lights and all your people, you'll ruin it',\" she says.\n\n\"So my dad got this emergency call from Italy. They said: 'George, we need the Sistine Chapel. You've got to paint it'.\n\n\"They painted it in pieces and shipped it over to Italy and they built it and filmed it and you couldn't tell that you were not in the Sistine chapel.\"\n\nGeorge Gibson was the head of MGM's scenic design department for 30 years\n\nJean added: \"My father and my mother attended the premiere of this film and there were some Catholic bishops and cardinals behind them and he heard them say 'I thought they weren't going to let them film in the chapel'.\"\n\nGeorge retired a year later but painted at home every day until he died in 2001, at the age of 96.\n\nLike many scenic artists he was never credited for his work.\n\n\"The studios did not want you to know that the actors were standing in front of a painting,\" his daughter says.\n\n\"They wanted to maintain the illusion that they were outside.\"\n\nAn American in Paris was filmed on a sound stage with a painted backdrop of the city\n\nTwo years ago, a Hollywood company that had acquired backdrops from the golden age decided to cull its collection.\n\nMore than 200 were saved from the dump by the Art Directors Guild, which unrolled, photographed and catalogued each one, and then set about finding homes for them.\n\nSix of the backdrops, including ones from Madame Curie, which starred Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, and Washington Story, from 1952, have been donated to the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow.\n\nJean is hoping that as a result, her father might finally start to get the recognition he deserves.", "These houses in Broomhill are the latest addition to Bristol council's housing stock\n\nEnglish councils are building homes again, on a scale not seen in decades, constructing an estimated 13,000 dwellings over a 12 month period. That's tiny compared with housing need, however many councils have plans to expand, so could this be a sign of the return of the council house?\n\nRight To Buy, one of Margaret Thatcher's most popular policies, gave hundreds of thousands of families the chance to own their council home and transformed their financial status, but it resulted in local authorities losing an estimated two million dwellings. Long-term tenants can still buy their homes at a discount, and councils only get to keep a third of the proceeds.\n\nIn 2017-18 there were nearly half a million vulnerable households on waiting lists for social housing.\n\nA short stroll from the river Avon in Bristol, overlooking a children's playground, there is a cluster of new brick-built homes. With double-height windows on the upper floors, they look like an upmarket private development. But they're the latest addition to Bristol council's housing stock.\n\n\"It's a dream house,\" one tenant said. The single mother, who only moved in two months ago had been living with her baby in a one-bedroom flat in a tower block. Now she has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a garden. Her baby has his own room, and loves playing in the garden too. She said: \"He's so much happier here.\"\n\nBut in her view, more houses are urgently needed.\n\nThere's an acute housing shortage in Bristol, with 13,000 families on the council's waiting list. Within three years the local authority aims to be the biggest developer in the city. The council has completed 200 homes and has plans for a further 900.\n\n\"We haven't built like this since the 70s,\" said Councillor Paul Smith, Cabinet Member for Housing.\n\nCouncillor Paul Smith says Bristol City council has not \"built like this since the 70s\"\n\nHowever, not all the homes will be socially rented council housing. Aston Rise, the biggest development so far, 80 of the 130 homes will be sold to private buyers in order to fund the project.\n\nSome of the council houses in the heart of the estate have views of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and could be attractive for a long-term tenant to buy.\n\nIn the past, Mr Smith has been highly critical of Right to Buy but he said the council had no choice but to keep building. \"We've seen already how our new housing has transformed people's lives, the lives of their children.\"\n\nProfessor Janice Morphet concluded councils in England had built or acquired more than 13,000 homes over a period of a year\n\nLast year, Professor Janice Morphet of the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London asked all councils in England about their housing plans. She concluded they had built or acquired more than 13,000 homes over a period of 12 months.\n\nThese are a mixture of different tenures - some traditional social rented housing, others for sale or at a higher rent. Most of these do not appear on official government statistics. \"That's partly because councils are just getting going,\" she said - and partly because of the different routes they use.\n\nAccording to her research, both Conservative and Labour councils are building. Nearly 80% of them have set up companies to do this. If they build houses through these companies, rather than using their own Housing Revenue Account, they are not eligible for Right to Buy.\n\nBecontree was once described as the biggest council estate in Europe, the size of a small town, with 100,000 people. Now 80% of the houses have been sold through Right to Buy and the local authority, Barking and Dagenham, has what local politicians see as a housing crisis.\n\nThe council has one of the most ambitious building programmes through its company Be First.\n\nCouncil leader Darren Rodwell said he hoped to see the equivalent of \"two new Becontrees\" over the next 20 years. But they will not be traditional council estates: there will be a mix of tenures, in different locations. Some new rented homes will come from deals with private landlords who \"build to rent\".\n\nBarking and Dagenham Council hopes to build the equivalent of \"two new Becontrees\" over the next 20 years\n\nMr Rodwell is confident these new dwellings will not be eligible for Right To Buy, despite the council's role. \"You use the protection of the private sector to deliver what I see as the goals of a 21st Century community,\" he said.\n\nHowever, government policy is to encourage home ownership. It supports Right to Buy, the Help to Buy policy which assists first time buyers to purchase new homes, and is now consulting on a new \"First Homes\" policy.\n\nThis would offer a further discount to home buyers, and be paid for through contributions that housing developers already make through the planning system: currently this often pays for social or affordable homes.\n\nSome MPs are critical of the councils' approach.\n\nThe Conservative Bob Blackman said more social housing was urgently needed, and it was good that councils were building again. But he said he thought it was \"fundamentally wrong\" they were using their own companies to prevent them being sold to tenants. He has asked the government to investigate.\n\nMr Blackman said it was good that more social housing was being built: he thought authorities should keep more of the proceeds from sales, and use that to build more, \"so that we have a virtuous circle\".\n\n\"We continue to provide new social housing in this country and as people improve their circumstances, they have the right to own that property and more people can move into the property that's been developed.\"\n\nThe Ministry for Housing said it was \"important that social housing tenants have the opportunity to become home-owners\" and, while housing companies can be an effective way to deliver new homes, \"we would expect them to offer an opportunity for tenants to become homeowners\".\n\nTo get plenty more facts on the housing system and how it affects you, download the full BBC Briefing on housing here. At the end, there's a glossary of useful terminology to help guide you through the debate.\n\nPart of a mini-series of downloadable guides to the big issues in the news, it has input from academics, researchers and journalists and is the BBC's response to demands for better explanation of the facts behind the headlines.", "Scenes such as this at Nantgarw were repeated across Rhondda Cynon Taff following Storm Dennis\n\nWelsh Labour MPs and assembly members have called on the new chancellor to deliver flood relief cash to some of the worst affected parts of Wales.\n\nIn a letter to Rishi Sunak, they ask for a one-off grant of £30m to pay for repair and restoration work across Rhondda Cynon Taff.\n\nThey also want council tax and business rates suspended for a year in affected properties.\n\nThey accepted some matters are devolved - but want action at a UK level.\n\n\"Our belief in the Union leads us to conclude that when any part of the United Kingdom is hit particularly hard, the whole of the UK should help out, regardless of the normal funding rules,\" they have written in the letter to the Treasury.\n\n\"We therefore urge you as a matter of urgency to provide specific one-off funding for RCT (Rhondda Cynon Taff).\"\n\nPontypridd's popular lido at Ynysangharad Park is unlikely to re-open this year after Storm Dennis floods\n\nThe letter has been signed by the MPs Chris Elmore (Ogmore), Chris Bryant (Rhondda), Beth Winter (Cynon Valley), and Alex Davies-Jones (Pontypridd).\n\nThe AMs Mick Antoniw (Pontypridd), Vikki Howells (Cynon Valley), and Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore), have added their names to the request.\n\nThe leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) council, Andrew Morgan, has also signed the letter.\n\nWriting to Mr Sunak, who replaced Sajid Javid at No 11 Downing Street earlier this month, they argued that damage to roads, bridges and council property will cost the local authority up to £30m.\n\nThey added: \"That will swamp the council's total annual general capital funding allocation of £13.4m. The damage to private properties across the county is likely to run to nearly £150m pounds.\"\n\n\"We are a resilient community, many hundreds of people have mucked in and helped out. We are generous too. Charitable donations have nearly reached £200,000.\n\n\"But, however generous we are individually, we do not have deep pockets.\"\n\nIn addition to calls for additional cash, the Labour politicians have also asked for some rules on benefit payments to be suspended.\n\n\"It would be manifestly unfair for families to receive £500 from RCT council or from a Crowd Fund Me page, only to have that money clawed back,\" they said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heavy rain caused \"multiple\" floods and landslides, according to South Wales Police\n\nFinally, they have called on the UK government to fund an urgent review across all south Wales coalfield communities, to address concerns over landslides following weeks of rain.\n\nCoaltips remain the responsibility of the Coal Authority, local councils and Natural Resources Wales.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales, the Rhondda MP Chris Bryant added: \"Wales has borne the brunt of the misery and RCT in particular has been hardest hit.\n\n\"Without extra help, RCT could be wiped out financially as we rebuild bridges, roads and flood defences.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said it had been \"working around the clock with partner agencies to keep people safe and informed\" since the storms and resulting floods.\n\n\"We have made available £10m to deal with the immediate impact of the storms,\" they added.\n\n\"This funding is being made available for the initial response, while work to assess the overall impact and cost of the damage continues. This will determine what further financial support is needed and, depending on the scale of those costs, we would look to the UK government to provide resources.\"\n\nThey said the First Minister Mark Drakeford would be meeting the Welsh Secretary Simon Hart next week to discuss the safety of coal tips and the communities in their shadows.\n\nA UK government official said it had been communicating with emergency services, councils and the Welsh Government over flooding.\n\nThey added: \"Whilst flood defences and the response to flooding in Wales are devolved, we will continue to engage with and support the Welsh Government on flood relief and coal tip safety.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Diane Abbott has said she will quit the front bench of Labour when a new leader is elected.\n\nMs Abbott, the shadow home secretary, told Sky News that whoever becomes leader, \"they have to be able to construct their own shadow cabinet\".\n\nEarlier Jeremy Corbyn had said he would consider a senior post under the new leader.\n\nMs Abbott said she would be backing Rebecca Long-Bailey as her choice for Labour's replacement leader.\n\nThree candidates are in the running for leader: Ms Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nVoting begins on Monday, with the new leader announced on 4 April.\n\nMs Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, said she would be returning to the backbenches \"where there's an awful lot to do\".\n\nMs Abbott was the first black female to be elected to Parliament in 1987.\n\nShe made history in October 2019 by becoming the first black MP at the despatch box at Prime Minister's Questions, in place of Mr Corbyn.", "Taxpayers funded a surge in redundancy payments last year after a spate of High Street shop and restaurant failures, a study shows.\n\nThe amount paid out by the government's Insolvency Service rose to its highest level in seven years, figures obtained by property advisor Altus Group show.\n\nIt follows a number of high-profile failures, including Mothercare and Thomas Cook.\n\nAs a result, the Insolvency Service picked up a £346m bill, Altus says.\n\nThat was 16% higher than in 2018.\n\nA freedom of information request by the real estate consultancy revealed that £223m of last year's bill covered redundancy payments.\n\nAnother £64m was for money that would have been earned if staff had worked a notice period.\n\nThe rest covered unpaid holiday, as well as outstanding payments for wages, overtime and commission that were still owed to employees after a business went bust.\n\nAlthough the taxpayer shoulders the initial cost of insolvency payments, attempts are made to recover as much as possible from the company's assets - but that can take a long time.\n\nThe Centre for Retail Research said that more than 16,000 stores closed last year. As a result, the sector shed more than 143,000 jobs.\n\nThat has put pressure on new Chancellor Rishi Sunak to reform the business rates system, which has been blamed for the increase in failures on the High Street.\n\nRobert Hayton from Altus said business rates had contributed to the number of insolvencies last year, although it was rarely the sole reason that a company failed.\n\nNevertheless, he said: \"A fair and reformed system is within our grasp.\"\n\n\"If we are serious about 'levelling up' the economy to help struggling towns, rates bills must fall in line with declining rents whilst speeding up meritorious business rates appeals has to be a government priority.\"", "Christopher Kapessa's body was found in a river on 1 July\n\nThe family of a 13-year-old boy has accused the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and South Wales Police of institutional racism for not prosecuting a suspect over his death.\n\nChristopher Kapessa's body was found in the River Cynon, near Fernhill, Rhondda Cynon Taff on 1 July.\n\nThe CPS said there was no \"public interest\" to bring a manslaughter case despite \"sufficient evidence\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said it had \"full confidence\" in its investigation.\n\nIn a letter to the family, seen by BBC Wales, the CPS said there was clear evidence the suspect pushed Christopher into the river but were not continuing with a prosecution.\n\nChristopher's mother Alina Joseph has questioned why a prosecution was not brought against a suspect\n\nChristopher, who could not swim, and a group of young people were out by the River Cynon on 1 July 2019 when he died.\n\nAn initial investigation by South Wales Police concluded there were no suspicious circumstances.\n\nBut serious concerns were raised by the family and their lawyer Hilary Brown, who complained that only four of the 14 young people who were at the scene of Christopher's death had been interviewed by police officers.\n\nPolice focused on a bridge over the River Cynon during investigations\n\nIn a letter to the family last Wednesday, the CPS said there was \"sufficient evidence to support a charge of unlawful act of manslaughter\".\n\nIt said the suspect is \"mature and intelligent for his age\" and had a \"good school record\".\n\n\"There was clear evidence that the suspect pushed Christopher in the back with both hands causing him to fall into the river,\" it added.\n\n\"That push was an unlawful act and it was clearly dangerous in that on an objective standard it created a danger of some harm.\"\n\nIt added that the evidence suggested the push was \"not in an effort to harm someone\" but \"ill considered\".\n\nIn a statement on Monday, a CPS spokesman said that \"decisions on cases such as this are difficult, but each must be judged on its own merit\".\n\n\"As in every case, both an evidential test and public interest test must be passed for a prosecution to take place,\" he added.\n\n\"In coming to our decision, careful consideration was given to the law regarding the prosecution of youths and the public interest test was not met.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Christopher's family. We have given them a full explanation of our decision-making in this tragic case.\"\n\nTributes were left to Christopher at the scene after his death\n\nChristopher's mother, Alina Joseph, said: \"From the start, South Wales Police baffled us by being unable to answer many of the most basic of our questions.\n\n\"If this had been 14 black youths and a white victim we have no doubt that the approach of the police and outcome would have been different.\n\n\"We know that family members of the 14 young people involved demanded the police come and interview their children, whose account was radically different from the four principle suspects.\n\n\"The decision made by the CPS leaves us feeling confused and perplexed as to how some can callously lie about my son's death, inflicting more pain and anxiety on us for the last eight months, and it is the suspect's human rights that prevail... whilst prosecution over my son's death is deemed as not being in the public interest.\"\n\nCampaigners have compared the handling of the investigation with the Stephen Lawrence case in 1993\n\nThe family's lawyer Hilary Brown, said: \"The decision of the CPS is disappointing in light of the fact that they confirmed that the evidential threshold was met for bringing a charge of manslaughter against a young man.\n\n\"Christopher died not as a result of a 'tragic accident' as South Wales Police initially concluded, but as a consequence and direct result of being 'pushed' into the river.\"\n\nLee Jasper, of BAME Lawyers, compared the case with the handling of the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation in 1993 and said the British justice system was a \"racial lottery\".\n\nSeveral campaign groups, including Racism Alliance Wales, Cardiff Stand Up To Racism, Women Connect First and Black Association of Women Stepping Out have all expressed their concern over the handling of Christopher's death.\n\nAn Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation into South Wales Police's handling of the case is still ongoing.\n\nThe force said it was aware of the family's concerns and \"noted\" the CPS's decision after a \"very complex\" investigation.\n\nA major crime team gathered 170 statements and 54 child interviews as part of a \"full file of evidence\".\n\nCh Supt Dorian Lloyd said: \"At this very difficult time, we recognise the pain and grief still endured by Christopher's family who lost their young boy in the most traumatic of circumstances.\n\n\"Our support for them continues as it has done throughout the investigation.\n\n\"The shock and the impact upon the local community must also be managed.\"", "\"It's educated people who are causing the most damage to the planet,\" says sixth-former Joe Brindle.\n\nJoe, 17, says schools need to put the environment at the heart of education.\n\nMinisters agree \"it is vital that pupils are taught about climate change\" but Joe says schools are failing to prepare them for a climate emergency.\n\nHe is a founder member of Teach the Future which next week takes its call for an environmental overhaul of education to Parliament.\n\n\"It's people with degrees from Oxford and Cambridge who are becoming fossil-fuel chief executives and they are the ones who are causing the most destruction to our world,\" says Joe.\n\n\"And therefore that kind of shows that education is not succeeding and that our education is broken because education should be creating better people not worse.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Joe, a pupil at Devizes School, and more than a dozen other under-18s who make up the core of Teach the Future, will take over Parliament's Terrace Pavilion to host a crowdfunded reception for MPs.\n\nThe group, run jointly by the UK Student Climate Network, best known for the school climate strikes, and the National Union of Students' climate charity offshoot, SOS-UK, is launching a draft English emergency education bill which embodies their key demands and which Joe believes \"is going to be really big\".\n\nTeach the Future is hoping the draft could at some stage form the basis of a private member's bill but for now, the aim is \"to get MPs on our side\".\n\nThe idea is based on the 1958 US National Defense Education Act which aimed to kickstart engineering, maths and science education and give America the edge in the space and arms races.\n\nIt paid off - by July 1969, the average age in Apollo mission control was just 28.\n\n\"I think it really shows that education can be used to solve a difficult problem, if the focus is down from the government,\" says Joe, who will sit A-levels in history, biology and chemistry this summer.\n\nMost mission control staff on Nasa's Apollo programme were in their 20s\n\nBut rather than focusing exclusively on science, technology, engineering and maths - the range of the climate emergency education act needs to be far wider, he believes.\n\n\"The space race was just one thing but the climate crisis affects every single part of everything and it requires solutions from every single part of society, whether it be arts, whether it be maths, whether it be sciences.\"\n\nHe wants everyone to understand the impact of their behaviour on the environment and \"try to do things in a way that has as little negative impact as you can\".\n\nAnd while engineers have an important role, fundamentally, education needs to become more sustainable, he says.\n\nPeople need to understand how the climate crisis happened, he argues: \"It's a symptom of a general unsustainable system.\"\n\nJoe speaking at the NUS Sustainability Summit in November 2019\n\nJoe believes most people his age \"want to understand more about climate change and what's behind it, the issues of justice... and the politics behind it\".\n\nBut he says that while schools are largely sympathetic, they are constrained by limited budgets and the demands of a high-stakes exam system - and often teachers themselves lack detailed knowledge about climate change.\n\n\"It's not good enough that sustainability is restricted to a few subjects and most of our teachers and lecturers don't know enough about it,\" say the campaigners.\n\nThey also point out that including climate change in the national curriculum will only affect local authority schools - not academies, free schools or the private sector.\n\nThe group has invited dozens of MPs to the reception and are \"particularly hoping government ministers and people close to the government will be there\".\n\nTeach the Future's wish-list also includes having climate science and sustainability included in teacher training and all education buildings to have a net-zero carbon footprint by 2030.\n\nThe group was founded in autumn 2019 but already has support from leading education unions and environmental organisations. It is hoping that several dozen MPs will attend the reception.\n\nIn a statement, the government said: \"It is vital that pupils are taught about climate change, which is why topics are included across the national curriculum for both primary and secondary schools. Teachers have the freedom to expand on these areas if they wish.\n\n\"This government is a world leader in tackling climate change and we are the first major economy to legislate for net-zero emissions by 2050. The Department for Education provides funding to support schools to become more sustainable institutions.\"\n\nA spokesperson said topics related to climate change and sustainability were included in the national curriculum for science and geography, a new environmental science A-level was introduced in 2017 and sustainability will be included in some new T-level technical qualifications, for example, construction students will learn about renewable energy and energy-efficiency technologies.\n\nThe Department for Education also supports energy efficiency through its capital funding programmes, including interest-free loans, the spokesperson added.", "The owner of the Sun lost £68m last year as newspaper sales fell and the company continued to deal with the fallout of the phone-hacking scandal.\n\nDaily sales of the Sun fell 8% to 1.38 million in the year to July, but it remains the UK's top paid-for paper.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sun on Sunday sold an average of 1.16 million copies a week, 111,000 fewer than the year before.\n\nThe paper's owner, News Group Newspapers also revealed a £26.7m legal bill related to phone hacking.\n\n\"Following the allegations of voicemail interception and inappropriate payments to public officials, there have been a number of civil cases against the company, most of which have been settled, or are in the process of being settled,\" the firm said.\n\nThe News of the World was closed in 2011 after it was revealed that it had obtained stories by listening in to the private voicemail messages of celebrities and even the murdered teenager Milly Dowler.\n\nNews Group Newspapers said the final bill \"may or may not be significantly higher\" than the £26.7m it had put aside to deal with the hangover from the scandal.\n\nIt was higher than the previous year when the newspaper owner put aside £14.7m to pay for \"claimants' legal fees and damages\".\n\nThe increase follows a spate of high-profile settlements between celebrities and the former owners of the now-defunct paper. Last year, singer Sir Elton John, actress Elizabeth Hurley and campaigner Heather Mills settled their phone-hacking cases against the News of the World for undisclosed sums.\n\nDespite falling sales of the print edition, News Group Newspapers said more people were visiting the Sun's website.\n\nIt said 32.8 million adults in the UK visited the site a month, 3.6 million more than the previous year.", "As jurors were sworn in for Harvey Weinstein's trial in New York, the judge told them in no uncertain terms that this case was not intended to be a referendum on the #MeToo movement as a whole. But the trial, which ended with him being convicted of rape and sexual assault, at times felt like one.\n\nWeinstein now faces a 23-year sentence which will probably see him spend the rest of his life behind bars. This is the story of the downfall of one of Hollywood's most powerful men.\n\nYou may find some of the details in this article upsetting\n\nIt was a watershed moment. More than two years after allegations started to emerge about the Hollywood producer, some of his victims finally had their chance to be heard in court.\n\nTwelve jurors were tasked with ruling on sex charges, which Weinstein denied, in a trial that saw complex questions about consent and power dynamics on the stand. Jurors heard harrowing testimony from six women who, at times in tears, recounted their alleged assaults by the producer. At one point a woman, who he was later convicted of raping, had to leave court after suffering a panic attack in the witness box.\n\nWeinstein's high-powered defence team tried to flip the narrative and paint his accusers as the manipulators in the situation: women who used Weinstein for his industry prowess and later regretted and mischaracterised their sexual encounters as non-consensual. During weeks of testimony, jurors heard everything from claims about Weinstein's genitals being deformed to nude photographs of the movie mogul himself.\n\nEvery day journalists lined up, often before sunrise, to claim a place on the press benches. Cameras were not allowed inside the Manhattan Supreme Court, but the entrance was always lined with paparazzi scrambling to get daily shots and sound-bites from Weinstein, who had barely been seen in public for two years.\n\nWeinstein was a giant of the movie industry in every sense. Productions in his name became synonymous with success in Hollywood, with hundreds of Oscar nominations and 81 wins across his career. On stage, as he accepted awards, his large frame would often hulk over the stars of his films.\n\nThe image of Weinstein at his trial was a very different one: once reportedly 300lb (136kg), he appeared frail and shuffled in to court most days with his back hunched over a metal walking frame.\n\nWeinstein (seen celebrating 1999 film Shakespeare in Love) used private investigators to probe accusers\n\nWeinstein had been investigated in New York in 2015 over a groping claim, but was not prosecuted\n\nThe term #MeToo preceded Weinstein, but was propelled across the globe as allegations mounted against him in October 2017. Millions of people from all ages, backgrounds and nationalities used the hashtag to detail their experiences of harassment and abuse. Other celebrities were implicated but it was the scale of claims against Weinstein, then arguably the most powerful man in Hollywood, that proved the most shocking.\n\nMore than 100 women came forward with allegations about him - everything from aggressive outbursts to serious sexual assault. Stars at the very top of the industry, like Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie, told of unwanted advances and upsetting interactions. Other women described, often in graphic detail, alleged rapes by the producer. Weinstein has consistently denied all allegations of non-consensual sex and his lawyers have vowed to appeal against his conviction.\n\nDespite dozens of allegations against him, these were the first to make it to trial.\n\nIn that time Weinstein had all but disappeared from public view. His marriage broke up and he is said to have sought treatment for sex addiction. His business partner brother described his behaviour as \"sick and depraved\" and their production company filed for bankruptcy.\n\nWeinstein and his former company reached a tentative $25m settlement with some accusers in December\n\nDuring a rare interview, reportedly given without his lawyer's knowledge in December, Weinstein complained of feeling like a \"forgotten man\" within Hollywood. Speaking just one day after three-hour surgery to ease compression on his spine, he told the New York Post that he deserved a pat on the back for everything he had done for women in film. He posed for photographs in a medical centre wearing jeans and a T-shirt, which he lifted to reveal a bandage on his back from which a tube drained blood into a container fixed to a metal walking aid.\n\nThe walking frame took on a starring role during the trial when an argument broke out when prosecutors labelled it a \"prop\". Weinstein's lawyers even wanted his surgeon to testify to prove he wasn't faking his injury to gain sympathy.\n\nOn the first day, a group of high-profile accusers gathered outside the court to try to face him down. \"You brought this upon yourself by hurting so many,\" actress Rose McGowan said, addressing her alleged rapist through the media. \"You have only yourself to blame.\"\n\nWeinstein's legal team made repeated appeals for the trial to be moved from Manhattan, citing the \"carnival-like atmosphere\" engulfing it. At one point, the defence complained after a flash-mob of protesters chanting lyrics including \"The rapist is you\" could be heard from inside the courtroom. At another, one of the world's best-known supermodels, Gigi Hadid, appeared as a potential juror.\n\nA Chilean anti-rape anthem, Un Violador en tu Camino (\"A Rapist In Your Path\"), was performed outside\n\nAbout 2,000 people were reportedly summoned during the jury selection process and prosecutors accused Weinstein's team of \"systematically eliminating\" young white women, resembling his victims, from serving on the jury. After almost two weeks, the group of 12 was finalised with seven men and five women.\n\nWeinstein denied five felony charges relating to allegations of sexual assault and rape. They related to incidents involving Mimi Haleyi, a former production assistant who he forced oral sex on at his Manhattan apartment in 2006, and Jessica Mann, a one-time aspiring actress who he raped in a New York hotel room in 2013.\n\nAnother alleged victim, Sopranos star Annabella Sciorra, alleged he had forced his way into her New York apartment and raped her some time in the winter of 1993/4. The amount of time passed since the alleged incident meant it fell outside of New York's statute of limitations and could not be charged separately, but the judge ruled her testimony could be used to support the most serious charges on the indictment: for predatory sexual assault.\n\nThree other women were also permitted by the judge to appear as \"prior bad acts\" witnesses to help establish a pattern of behaviour and common motive. All were aspiring actresses in their 20s, hoping to break into the industry, when they described being assaulted by him.\n\nActress Rosanna Arquette, among the accusers, vowed \"we aren't going anywhere\" as the trial opened\n\nThis tactic was notably used to help secure a conviction against US comedian Bill Cosby, who was jailed in 2018. Kristen Gibbons Feden was a prosecutor on both his trials and told the BBC that \"prior bad act\" witnesses' willingness to take the stand, and be open to cross-examination without the hope of direct justice for themselves, can play a \"critical\" role in undermining defence arguments and establishing the motive of repeat offenders.\n\n\"These women who testified, all of the women who testified in Cosby's trial, were willing to put their lives, their public sanctity and character on the line to try and assist the prosecution with putting away a serial rapist - I think that just speaks volumes about the movement,\" she said.\n\nPhysical evidence was never likely to play a part in the trial, given how much time had passed since the alleged incidents took place. The case would therefore rise and fall on the believability of the accusations against Weinstein: a case of he said, she said - or, in this trial, they said. \"Obviously, any time you have a criminal trial, the goal of a defence attorney is to question the credibility of the witnesses - but particularly when the only evidence is eyewitness testimony, which it is in this case,\" Julie Rendelman, a former prosecutor turned criminal defence lawyer, told the BBC.\n\nSciorra was the first accuser to take the stand against Weinstein. She alleged that he forced his way into her 17th-floor Gramercy Park apartment and raped her, shortly after offering to drive her home from a dinner they attended with others, including Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman. \"I felt very overpowered as he was very big,\" she told the court, who had heard he was almost three times her weight of about 110-115lb (50kg) at the time.\n\n\"Then he grabbed me. He led me into the bedroom and he shoved me on the bed. I was punching him, I was kicking him, I was trying to take him away from me. He took my hands and put my hands over my head,\" she said, motioning with her arms.\n\nSciorra said Weinstein, on another occasion, showed up to her Cannes hotel room with baby oil\n\nIn turn the defence called witnesses, including Sciorra's apartment's building manager, to try to contradict her claims. During the trial some defence witnesses appeared only once under subpoena, apparently reluctant to appear and contradict the account of accusers, who in some cases were former friends.\n\nThe defence quizzed Sciorra on her acting ability and success: playing a 1997 clip from a well-known US talk show where she admitted making-up colourful lies about her life in press interviews. They questioned why she didn't raise the alarm about what happened. \"He was someone I knew,\" she told the court. \"I felt at the time that rape was something that happened in a back alleyway in a dark place by someone you didn't know.\"\n\nThey also called Professor Elizabeth Loftus, a false-memory expert, who testified about her research on how recollection can become distorted and contaminated over time.\n\nWith the main accusers, the defence tried to upend the narratives of manipulation presented by the prosecution. They said Haleyi and Mann's ongoing, and often friendly, communication with Weinstein after their assaults was evidence the relationships were consensual. Haleyi tearfully told the court how he lunged and physically overpowered her in 2006, removing a tampon and forcing oral sex on her when she was on her period.\n\n\"I checked out and decided to endure it,\" she told the court. \"That was the safest thing I could do.\"\n\nProsecutors said accusers like Haleyi (pictured) \"sacrificed their dignity, their privacy, and their peace\" to be heard\n\nHis lawyers confronted her with messages she sent to the producer afterwards, including ones signed off \"lots of love\" and \"peace and love\". \"I asked for jobs from many people, including Harvey Weinstein,\" she said about contact over career opportunities. She also said she had felt \"trapped\" by her circumstances, so she decided to \"almost pretend [the assault] didn't happen\".\n\nJessica Mann told the court that she had entered in a \"degrading relationship\" with Weinstein, which included subsequent consensual acts, after her rape.\n\nPsychologist Dr Barbara Ziv was called by the prosecution to try and push back on some of the defence's scrutiny of his victims' behaviour. Dr Ziv, who also testified at Cosby's second trial, spoke about her 20 years of experience with assault survivors and sought to dispel so-called \"rape myths\".\n\n\"A vast majority of sexual assault victims don't report promptly,\" she told the court. \"The time can range from days to months to years to report an assault - to never.\" She also said it was \"extremely common\" for victims to remain in contact with their attacker, sometimes in fear of retribution, and pointed out an overwhelming majority of assaults are committed by someone the victim knows.\n\n\"The trial was set up to raise some complicated issues around consent and what it looks like,\" Deborah Tuerkheimer, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law, told Variety. \"Jessica Mann in particular has really been a complex witness.\"\n\nThe three-day testimony by Mann, whose identity had not been made public before the trial, provided some of its most powerful moments. Journalists inside the court said that at one point, after being pressed to read an email which alluded to abuse earlier in her life, Mann broke down and started sobbing uncontrollably. The New York Times reported that, after being excused from court, she could be heard screaming in another room.\n\nMann (pictured) said she wanted to get away but \"shut down\" during the 2013 rape\n\nWhen quizzed about their ongoing communication, the 34-year-old told lawyers: \"I know the history of my relationship with him... I know it was complicated and difficult but it does not change the fact that he raped me.\"\n\nThe point was seized upon by Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon when she closed the case on Valentine's Day. \"Jessica Mann could have been completely head over heels in love with Harvey Weinstein,\" she said. \"She could have had his name tattooed on her arm. She could have been writing him love notes every single day. She could have been married to him. If all of that was true, it still wouldn't make a difference, he still wouldn't be allowed to rape her.\"\n\nThis argument mirrored an earlier one by the defence who told the jury they could dislike Weinstein, but still not believe his guilt had been proven.\n\n\"You don't have to like Mr. Weinstein. This is not a popularity contest,\" lawyer Donna Rotunno said during almost five hours of closing testimony. \"In this country it's the unpopular people that need juries the most,\" Rotunno said. \"The unpopular person needs you the most.\"\n\nRotunno accused prosecutors of scripting a reality which \"strips adult women of common sense, autonomy and responsibility\". Illuzzi-Orbon maintained Weinstein was a \"predator\" who preyed on women he saw as \"complete disposables\".\n\nWeinstein did not testify at trial, despite a last-minute meeting giving the appearance he wanted to\n\nFrom her glamorous designer outfits, to her towering heels to the gold \"not guilty\" pendant she reportedly wore around her neck to court, Rotunno became the public face of the defence team.\n\nThe lawyer has built her reputation on defending men in high-profile sexual misconduct cases. During the trial Rotunno came under fire for comments made both inside and outside the courtroom. An interview she gave to the New York Times' The Daily podcast drew particular scorn. When asked if she had ever been sexually assaulted herself, Rotunno responded: \"I have not,\" before pausing and adding: \"because I would never put myself in that position\".\n\nShe also suggested men should get written consent before engaging in sex and asserted societal pressure to \"believe all women\" meant there was now \"zero\" risk for accusers to come forward and make claims. Prosecutors repeatedly complained that her interviews violated rules.\n\nProsecutors accused her of trying to influence the jury with one opinion piece\n\nThe defence's arguments were also criticised by survivors and activist groups, who accused them of victim-blaming and perpetuating misconceptions about rape.\n\nIn the end the jury, having earlier signalled they were divided on the predatory assault charges factoring in Sciorra, ruled not guilty on those two counts. They took five days to reach their decision, finding Weinstein guilty of the third-degree rape of Jessica Mann and of a criminal sex act in his assault of Mimi Haleyi.\n\nMore than two years after dozens of women came out against him, turning public opinion, Weinstein was finally found guilty in a court of law.\n\nThe verdict was celebrated as a major victory by alleged victims and women's rights advocates.\n\nLaura Palumbo, communications director for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, told the BBC that while the Weinstein trial was a \"significant moment\" nationally, it was important to remember that it did not reflect the reality of most rape cases in the US justice system.\n\nThe US-based Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) estimates that 995 out of every 1,000 perpetrators of sexual assault, or about 99.5%, will walk free because of low reporting and conviction rates.\n\nWeinstein faced between five and 29 years in prison for the crimes\n\nImmediately after his conviction, Weinstein was taken to hospital and later fitted with a heart stent.\n\nHis lawyers had implored leniency from the judge, arguing Weinstein had already been punished with his \"historic\" fall from grace. They insisted even the five-year minimum term could prove a \"de-facto life sentence\" for him given his age and declining health.\n\nThe judge ignored that plea. There were reportedly gasps around the court as the near-maximum prison term of 23 years was handed down.\n\nAll six women who testified at his trial sat together as his punishment was announced. The Silence Breakers, another group of Weinstein accusers, welcomed the sentence but said no amount of jail time could make up for the damage he had caused to lives and careers.\n\nWeinstein appeared for his sentencing in a wheelchair. Before the judge jailed him, Weinstein spoke in court for the first time to express remorse for the situation but insisted he had \"wonderful times\" and \"friendships\" with his victims. He also admitted feeling \"totally confused\" about what was happening to him.\n\n\"Thousands of men are losing due process. I'm worried about this country,\" he said, in comments seen as critical of #MeToo. Despite his apparent confusion, Weinstein's legal troubles are far from over. The 67-year-old still faces further assault charges in Los Angeles.\n\nVictims and campaigners hope his trial will set a wider precedent where other offenders, no matter how powerful, will also be held to account.\n\n\"This case - and the national reckoning about the pervasiveness of sexual violence it sparked - will have a lasting legacy,\" RAINN president Scott Berkowitz said in a statement. \"We hope that survivors will feel encouraged to come forward, knowing that it can truly make a difference in bringing perpetrators to justice.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nFresh questions over Mo Farah's relationship with his banned former coach Alberto Salazar have been raised in a new BBC Panorama investigation.\n\nDocuments show Farah repeatedly denied to US Anti-Doping (Usada) investigators he had received injections of the controversial supplement L-carnitine before the 2014 London Marathon.\n\nFarah later changed his account to Usada investigators, saying he had forgotten.\n\nThe documents also reveal how a UK Athletics official was dispatched to Switzerland to collect the legal supplement from a contact of Salazar's.\n\nEmails obtained by Panorama show how UKA officials had initially expressed concern about whether the injection was safe and within the \"spirit of the sport\".\n\nThe Panorama programme Mo Farah and the Salazar Scandal will be screened on Monday, 24 February. It also reveals new allegations about Salazar.\n\nSalazar ran the Nike Oregon Project - home to British four-time Olympic champion Farah from 2011 until 2017.\n\nIn 2015 a Panorama investigation, in collaboration with US website ProPublica, first revealed allegations of doping by Salazar, the coach widely credited with helping turn Farah into Britain's greatest athlete. The programme sparked a Usada investigation, resulting in Salazar being given a four-year ban from the sport by a panel of US arbitrators in October 2019.\n\nSalazar rejects the findings and is appealing against the ban.\n\nIn a statement he said: \"The panel made clear that I had acted in 'good faith' and without 'any bad intention to commit the violations'.\"\n\nTwo of Salazar's violations relate to using a banned method to administer an infusion of L-carnitine, a legal supplement.\n\nL-carnitine is a naturally occurring amino acid, which, if injected straight into the bloodstream, some research suggests could help speed metabolism and boost athletic performance.\n\nInfusions or injections were permitted within World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) rules provided the volume was below 50ml every six hours.\n\nIn 2014, Farah finished eighth in his first London Marathon. Three years later, when the Sunday Times reported that he had received an infusion of L-carnitine, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee inquiry Combatting Doping in Sport called Farah's team before it to explain.\n\nDr Robin Chakraverty, then UKA's chief medical officer, said \"an injection\" of L-carnitine had been a joint decision between him and UKA's head of distance running Barry Fudge, taken after research, considering the risks and possible side-effects.\n\nThe committee was assured the volume was 13.5ml, well within the allowable limit, though Dr Charaverty failed to record it. There is no evidence any rules were broken.\n\nPanorama's evidence sheds new light on the situation and raises questions about Salazar's influence.\n\nEmails between UKA officials in the days leading up to the marathon reveal their concerns about giving the injection.\n\nOn 6 April 2014, Fudge wrote: \"Whilst this process is completely within the Wada code there is a philosophical argument about whether this is within the 'spirit of the sport…'.\"\n\nHe added: \"Although Alberto and Mo have expectations about doing this, we are not at a point where we… can't pull out.\"\n\nHe wrote \"… should we really be trialling this process so close to the London Marathon? ... That's before we even think about the spirit of sport.\"\n\nDr Chakraverty seemed concerned about possible \"side-effects.\"\n\nHe wrote \"… it would have been better to have trialled it in someone first.\"\n\n\"I understand [Salazar] is keen but… we should be asking him to follow this advice.\"\n\nA decision was taken to go ahead. But there was a problem: the concentrated form of the L-carnitine supplement they wanted could not be sourced in the UK. That is where Salazar comes in.\n\nSalazar introduced Fudge to a contact of his in Switzerland who was able to order batch-tested L-carnitine in the form needed.\n\nAnd so Fudge jumped on a plane to Switzerland, met Salazar's contact and collected a package of injectable L-carnitine and brought it back to London.\n\nThere was not time to trial it on anyone to make sure it had no side-effects. Just two days before the race, on 11 April, in Farah's room within The Tower - the official London Marathon hotel - the L-carnitine was injected into the arm of Farah by Dr Chakraverty.\n\nAt the DCMS select committee, Dr Chakraverty referred to \"an injection\". In fact four injections were given to Farah, spaced over two hours through a butterfly needle, with Salazar, Fudge and Black looking on.\n\nPanorama understands other elite British athletes racing that day were not offered the same treatment.\n\nToni Minichiello, who coached Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Jessica Ennis Hill and sits on the UKA members' council, told Panorama: \"That's pretty damning. I'm shocked. Barry Fudge in that instance has to explain… what was your logic for doing that?\n\n\"And you're an employee of UK Athletics, so UK Athletics, why would you allow one of your staff to do that?\"\n\nDamian Collins MP, then chair of the DCMS select committee, said there has been no mention of this level of concern, or trips to Switzerland, when Dr Chakraverty and Fudge appeared before his committee.\n\n\"I don't think we did get the full picture because what, I think, comes out of those emails is that this wasn't a routine thing,\" Collins said.\n\nAsked if Salazar had been directing all of this, Travis Tygart of Usada told Panorama: \"[UKA] were absolutely in concert [with Salazar], there's no doubt about that.\n\n\"I think it's the lengths that people who want to win and are incentivised to win will go, if they have the money and the resources to do it.\"\n\nWhen athletes are drug-tested, they are required to list all medications and supplements they have taken within the past seven days. Farah was tested six days after the injection - 17 April 2014. Despite listing a number of other products and medicines, he failed to record L-carnitine on his doping control form.\n\nA year later, as part of their probe into Salazar, investigators with Usada flew to London to interview UKA officials - and Farah.\n\nFarah was questioned by Usada officials for nearly five hours - and Panorama has obtained a transcript of that interview.\n\nAsked specifically and multiple times whether he had an L-carnitine injection before the London Marathon, Farah repeatedly denied it.\n\nHe was asked: \"If someone said that you were taking L-carnitine injections, are they not telling the truth?\"\n\nFarah said: \"Definitely not telling the truth, 100%. I've never taken L-carnitine injections at all.\"\n\nHe is then asked: \"Are you sure that Alberto Salazar hasn't recommended that you take L-carnitine injections?\"\n\nFarah responds: \"No, I've never taken L-carnitine injections.\"\n\nHe is asked again: \"You're absolutely sure that you didn't have a doctor put a butterfly needle… into your arm… and inject L-carnitine a few days before the London marathon?\"\n\nFarah says: \"No. No chance.\"\n\nWe have learned that minutes after the interview, Farah then met Fudge, who had been interviewed by Usada the day before.\n\nFarah then rushed back in as the investigators were packing up. He changed his account.\n\nFarah tells Usada: \"So I just wanted to come clear, sorry guys, and I did take it at the time and I thought I didn't…\"\n\nHe is asked: \"So you received L-carnitine… before the London marathon?\"\n\nHe adds: \"There was a lot of talk before… and Alberto's always thinking about 'What's the best thing?' 'What's the best thing?'\"\n\nThe Usada investigator says \"… a few days before the race… with… Alberto present and your doctor and Barry Fudge and you're telling us all about that now but you didn't remember any of that when I… kept asking you about this?\"\n\nFarah responds: \"It all comes back for me, but at the time I didn't remember.\"\n\nMo Farah declined to be interviewed by Panorama.\n\nIn a letter, Farah's lawyers said: \"It is not against [Wada rules] rules to take [L-carnitine] as a supplement within the right quantities.\n\n\"The fact some people might hold views as to whether this is within the 'spirit' of the sport is irrelevant.\n\n\"Mr Farah… is one of the most tested athletes in the UK, if not the world, and has been required to fill in numerous doping forms. He is a human being and not robot.\n\n\"Interviews are not memory tests. Mr Farah understood the question one way and as soon as he left the room he asked Mr Fudge and immediately returned… to clarify and it is plain the investigators were comfortable with this explanation.\"\n\nThe documents also reveal that Fudge did not initially disclose his trip to Switzerland to obtain the L carnitine.\n\nWhen asked by Usada investigators how he obtained the L-carnitine, he said: \"It is a prescription-based product in the UK, so we provided it.\"\n\nHe was then asked if he got it from Pete Julian, a coach at the Oregon Project. He answered: \"No, it was a prescription-based product.\"\n\nHowever, he returned to the interview room the next day, having been asked by Usada to provide relevant emails. Fudge told them: \"I don't think I told you guys enough… I don't think I told you anything that wasn't correct, I just feel I probably should expand on it a bit more.\"\n\nFudge then told Usada that batch-tested L-carnitine hadn't been available in the UK, and that he had travelled to Switzerland to collect the product from Salazar's contact.\n\n'This should be looked at in some seriousness'\n\nCollins added: \"This very specific medicine was required, sourced at great difficulty, given against the initial advice of the doctor. But yet, no-one keeps any records of it and everyone decides to keep quiet about it.\n\n\"I think this is something that should be looked at in some seriousness.\"\n\nIn a statement Dr Chakraverty said: \"I have not contravened any [world anti-doping] rules, and have always acted in the best interests of those I treat.\n\n\"The evidence I provided to [MPs] was an honest account - including an acknowledgement that my usual standard of record keeping slipped due to heavy work commitments and travel.\n\n\"The GMC reviewed this and concluded that the case required no further action.\"\n\nIn a statement, UKA said: \"A small number of British athletes have used L-carnitine and, to our knowledge, all doses and methods of administration have been fully in accordance with Wada protocol.\n\n\"The dosage provided to Mo Farah was well within the 50ml limit permitted.\n\n\"Full and honest accounts of the process were given in all forums. Any suggestion to the contrary is false and misleading.\"\n\nSalazar said: \"No Oregon Project athlete used a medication against the spirit of the sport. Any medication taken was done so on the advice and under the supervision of registered medical professionals.\"\n\nIn 2015, UK Athletics carried out a review into Panorama's allegations. Despite former UKA chairman Ed Warner telling the BBC this week he strongly advised Farah to split from Salazar, the review found \"no reason to be concerned\" about Salazar continuing to coach Farah.\n\nA fresh UKA review is under way to establish whether any mistakes were made in its handling of the Salazar episode.\n\nCollins added: \"I think it leaves UK Athletics in a very difficult position. And this seems, to me, that UK Athletics effectively… gave Alberto Salazar… sort of total control over the preparation and training of some of our most celebrated athletes with not very much oversight from people at UK Athletics as to what they were doing and whether they were acting in the best interests of either the sport or that individual athlete and that's a failing on their part.\"", "US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania have visited the Taj Mahal on the first day of their trip to India.\n\nThe iconic \"monument to love\" was the second stop in a 36-hour official visit, Mr Trump's first to India.\n\nEarlier on Monday he landed in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who greeted him along with tens of thousands of Indians.\n\nThe leaders of the world's two largest democracies will meet on Tuesday. No big deals are expected to be signed.\n\nMr Trump received an exuberant welcome in the northern city of Agra, which included dancers dressed as peacocks and horses.\n\nWhile Mr Modi was not present, he was greeted by a close ally of his, Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, where Agra is located.\n\nThe Trumps then left for the Taj Mahal, a 17th-Century marble mausoleum built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his queen, Mumtaz Mahal.\n\nIt is perhaps India's most famous monument and is usually part of every visiting dignitary's itinerary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city, Mr Trump addressed a huge crowd at the Motera cricket stadium.\n\n\"Namaste,\" he began to thunderous applause, before going on to refer to several Indian icons, from history to cricket to Bollywood.\n\n\"India will always hold a very special place in our hearts,\" he added.\n\nHe also had words of praise for Mr Modi: \"Everybody loves him but I will tell you this, he is very tough. You are not just the pride of Gujarat, you are living proof that with hard work, Indians can accomplish anything they want.\"\n\nMr Trump arrived in Agra to a colourful welcome\n\nHowever, he struggled to pronounce several Indian words - from Ahmedabad, the city where he was speaking, to Swami Vivekananda, an Indian philosopher, greatly admired by Mr Modi. He also called the Vedas - ancient Hindu texts - \"Vestas\".\n\nHe ended his speech by saying: \"God bless India, God bless the United States of America - we love you, we love you very much.\" He spoke after Mr Modi, and crowds began leaving mid-way through the US president's speech.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aleem Maqbool This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInside the arena Mr Trump was welcomed warmly, but the biggest cheers were for Prime Minister Modi - no surprise, this is his home town.\n\nI've been to rallies for both leaders - and while there was an energy as the two political rock stars headlined the same event, it lacked much of the excitement of their solo appearances.\n\nThere were some awkward moments as President Trump tried his best with Indian names. In the world's largest cricket stadium, he managed to mangle the pronunciation of one of the world's greatest cricketers, Sachin Tendulkar.\n\nBut overall, it did what both men wanted - cement the close ties they and their nations share.\n\nMr Trump's visit comes at an opportune time for Mr Modi, who has been under the spotlight in recent months following controversial decisions by his government.\n\nIn December, India passed a contentious new citizenship law granting amnesty to non-Muslim immigrants from three nearby countries. This prompted massive protests across the country, with critics accusing the government of marginalising India's more than 200 million Muslims - a charge the government denies.\n\nBut protests are still continuing, including in Delhi, where a policeman was killed on Monday after violence broke out hours ahead of Mr Trump's visit.\n\nClashes had erupted between groups protesting against the citizenship law, and those in favour of it.\n\nIn August, Mr Modi's government revoked the partial autonomy of the disputed territory of Indian-administered Kashmir, sparking protests in the Muslim-majority valley. Mobile phone connections and the internet have only been partially restored, and political leaders there are still under house arrest along with hundreds of others.\n\nThe two decisions have sharply polarised India, and have been questioned by leaders abroad.\n\nMore than 100,000 people packed Motera stadium for the rally\n\nBut Mr Modi put on a grand public reception to welcome Mr Trump. In Gujarat he was greeted with a road show as crowds lined his route to the stadium. It featured performers from across the country, showcasing the arts from different states.\n\nBillboards along the route to the Motera stadium were emblazoned with pictures of the two men and carried slogans such as \"two dynamic personalities, one momentous occasion\".\n\nMr Trump entered to the music of Elton John, which he is known to love, playing on the speakers.\n\nThe event is being compared to the \"Howdy, Modi!\" event that Mr Trump and Mr Modi held in Houston last year, which was attended by 50,000 people.\n\nMr Trump also made a quick stop at the Sabarmati Ashram, where Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, who was born in Gujarat, lived for 13 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Yogita Limaye This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe and First Lady Melania Trump tried their hand at the charka or spinning wheel, which is used to spin cloth. Gandhi popularised the act as a form of protest against foreign-made cloth during India's struggle for self-rule.\n\nMr and Mrs Trump tried their hand at spinning cloth, while Mr Modi (left) looked on\n\nBut amid the fanfare, a much-talked about trade deal is unlikely to happen during the Trump trip.\n\nThe US is one of India's most important trade partners, with bilateral trade totalling $142.6bn (£110.3bn) in 2018. The US had a $25.2bn goods and services trade deficit with India, its ninth largest trading partner in goods.\n\nDespite growing political and strategic ties, there's been tension over trade issues. Mr Trump has said India's tariffs - taxes on imports - are \"unacceptable\", and has described India as the \"king\" of tariffs.", "Some 1.1 million people were killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz\n\nSeveral Jewish groups have criticised Amazon for fictitious depictions of the Holocaust in its new series Hunters.\n\nThe online retail giant has also been denounced for allowing the sale of anti-Semitic propaganda books.\n\nDavid Weil, the producer of Hunters, has defended the series and Amazon said it was \"listening to feedback\" about controversial book sales.\n\nHunters, a 10-part drama series, follows a team of Nazi hunters in 1970s America.\n\nThe show, starring Al Pacino, has been accused of bad taste and \"Jewsploitation\" for its depiction of fictional atrocities during the Holocaust. Around six million Jews were killed across Nazi-occupied Europe during the period from 1941-45.\n\nIn one scene, inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp are forced to kill each other while being used in a game of human chess.\n\nMr Weil, whose grandmother was a Holocaust survivor, said while Hunters was \"inspired by true events\", it was not a documentary series and never purported to be.\n\nHe said he decided to fictionalise events in the series because he did not want to misrepresent the suffering of real people.\n\n\"After all, it is true that Nazis perpetrated widespread and extreme acts of sadism and torture - and even incidents of cruel 'games' - against their victims. I simply did not want to depict those specific, real acts of trauma,\" Mr Weil said.\n\n\"If the larger philosophical question is, can we ever tell stories about the Holocaust that are not documentary? I believe we can and should.\"\n\nAuschwitz Memorial, a charity that maintains the former camp as a historical site, accused the programme makers of \"inventing a fake game of human chess\" in an act of \"dangerous foolishness\".\n\nKaren Pollack, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, told the BBC such portrayals risked fuelling Holocaust denial, and lent a tone of \"flippant entertainment\" to the programme.\n\n\"We have a real responsibility to protect the truth of the Holocaust,\" said Mrs Pollack, \"particularly as we're moving away from living history, the survivors are few and frailer.\"\n\n\"We can't do this alone,\" she added. \"We have to rely on other people in society who want to do good.\"\n\nAbout 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz.\n\nRead more about the Holocaust:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I was a skeleton\" - Henri Kichka lost his whole family in Auschwitz\n\nSurvivors and international leaders gathered at the former camp last month to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet forces.\n\nAmazon has recently come under fire for selling anti-Semitic books, including The Jewish Question in the Classroom by Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher.\n\nOn Friday, Auschwitz Memorial retweeted a letter, written by the Holocaust Educational Trust, asking Amazon to remove books by Streicher from sale.\n\n\"When you decide to make a profit on selling vicious antisemitic Nazi propaganda published without any critical comment or context, you need to remember that those words led not only to the #Holocaust but also many other hate crimes,\" it said.\n\n\"As a bookseller, we are mindful of book censorship throughout history, and we do not take this lightly,\" Amazon said in response. It added that it was investing \"significant time and resources\" in ensuring products on sale met its guidelines.\n\nIn December, after complaints by Auschwitz Memorial, Amazon withdrew several items from its website, including Christmas decorations depicting Auschwitz.", "The internet touts sold tickets to Ed Sheeran (pictured) gigs and other high profile events\n\nTwo internet ticket touts who re-sold tickets worth millions of pounds for events including Ed Sheeran and Adele concerts have been jailed.\n\nPeter Hunter and David Smith traded as Ticket Wiz and BZZ. Over five years BZZ sold tickets for £9.3m more than it paid for them, Leeds Crown Court heard.\n\nSheeran's manager Stuart Camp gave evidence after £75 seats for a charity gig were spotted on sale for £7,000.\n\nHunter was jailed for four years and Smith for two and a half years.\n\nIt was described by National Trading Standards as a \"landmark case\" which was \"the first successful prosecution against a company fraudulently reselling tickets on a large scale\".\n\nSentencing the pair, Judge Mushtaq Khokhar said: \"This was a case of sustained dishonesty for a number of years.\n\n\"A lot of people in this case paid a lot more than they could have paid.\"\n\nIn one year, Peter Hunter and David Smith, who are married, bought more than 750 tickets for Sheeran events alone.\n\nThey used multiple identities and computer robots to buy tickets, selling them for inflated prices on secondary ticketing websites, including Viagogo, GetMein, StubHub and Seatwave.\n\nHunter told the jury how he started his business when a friend without a credit card asked him to buy tickets to see Madonna and he realised he could re-sell extra purchases at a huge profit.\n\nThe case has provoked calls for a wider criminal investigation of the secondary ticketing market\n\nWhen their home was raided, investigators found 112 different payment cards in 37 names.\n\nThe couple used at least 97 different names, 88 postal addresses and more than 290 email addresses to evade platform restrictions.\n\nHunter, 51, and Smith, 66, of Crossfield Road, north London, claimed they were a trusted and reliable source of tickets.\n\nThe jury found them guilty of three counts of fraudulent trading and one of possessing articles for fraud.\n\nFanFair Alliance, supported by managers of artists including Ed Sheeran, welcomed the result\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four men, from Lancashire and Kent, have been jailed after 29 Vietnamese men, women and children were found in a van, after it was boxed in on the hard shoulder of the M5 motorway.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Kenyan and Libby Jackson describe the importance of the antenna\n\nThe UK's first industrial contribution to the International Space Station (ISS) was delivered on Tuesday.\n\nThe communications antenna is part of a consignment of supplies that arrived on a Cygnus freighter.\n\nMade by MDA UK, the Columbus Ka-band (COLKa) Terminal will enable astronauts to connect with scientists and family on Earth at home broadband speeds.\n\nThe equipment will be fixed to the exterior of Europe's ISS science module in a few weeks' time.\n\nThis should improve substantially on current arrangements for radio links.\n\n\"At the moment, the communications from Columbus go through the American data relay satellites, but those satellites are prioritised for US use. This gives Europe some independence,\" David Kenyon, the managing director of Oxfordshire-based MDA UK, told BBC News.\n\nThe Columbus lab is currently going through an upgrade programme\n\nAlthough Britain was an original signatory to the 1998 treaty that brought the International Space Station into being, the country never got involved in building the platform.\n\nIndeed, it pretty much walked away from the project right at the outset, preferring to spend its civil space budget in other areas of space exploration.\n\nIt wasn't until 2012 that the UK signalled a reversal in policy by lodging new funds that year at the European Space Agency's (Esa) Ministerial Council meeting in Naples.\n\nThis money not only paved the way for British astronaut Tim Peake to visit the ISS in 2015/16 but it set in motion the industrial opportunity that's ultimately resulted in the COLKa contribution.\n\nThe new fridge-sized terminal will route video, voice and data to the ground through satellites that are actually higher in the sky than the ISS.\n\nThe astronauts will video call scientists to discuss Columbus-run experiments\n\nOn occasions, these will continue to be the nodes in the American Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), but the capacity is now there to go through a European alternative as well.\n\nThe European Data Relay System (EDRS) only has one satellite operating at the moment but will soon have a second.\n\nThis will afford the possibility of tens of minutes of dedicated, high-bandwidth connectivity for the Columbus lab on every 90-minute orbit of the Earth made by the station.\n\nAstronauts are expected to use COLKa to video-call scientists who have experiments running on the ISS, and to make \"welfare\" connections with family and friends on Earth.\n\nLibby Jackson, the human exploration programme manager at the UK Space Agency, said scientists in particular would be delighted with the new connection.\n\n\"The amount of science data that's been able to come down has been quite limited,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Scientists have been having to wait months for all their images, all of the science data to arrive on hard disks - never mind 'dial up speeds'. It's sort of like waiting for the old floppy disks to arrive in the post. This is going to really allow those scientists to get the data in real time.\"\n\nMDA UK assembled the terminal at its facility on the Harwell space campus using components from Italy, Canada, Norway, Belgium, France, and Germany.\n\nBritain lodged further funds at the most recent Esa Ministerial Council in Seville, Spain, so that its home industry could be involved in the construction of the forthcoming lunar space station.\n\nKnown as the Gateway, this American-led platform will support astronauts on the Moon's surface. The UK is once again seeking a communications role for its companies.\n\nAn ISS robotic arm captured the Cygnus freighter at 09:05 GMT, prior to the manoeuvre that would pull the vehicle into a berthing position. COLKa will be stored aboard the platform for a few weeks before being bolted to the exterior of Columbus in a spacewalk.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Florist Zhao Yuanyuan wearing a protective face mask as she arranges flowers in her shop in Shanghai\n\nMounting debts have hit Chinese companies struggling to pay workers and suppliers amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nPresident Xi Xinping said on Sunday that China faces a \"big test\" to combat the virus.\n\nThe government has asked banks to offer more credit for an economy stunned as the virus spreads rapidly.\n\nBut a survey of small and medium Chinese firms found millions on the verge of collapse.\n\nThe Chinese Association of Small and Medium Enterprises said around 60% could cover regular payments for only one to two months before running out of cash.\n\nOnly 10% said they could hold out six months or longer.\n\nAt the same time, the industry group said that \"nearly 60% of the enterprises (surveyed) have resumed work.\"\n\nSmall- and medium-sized companies in China are a particular focus because they account for 60% of the economy and 80% of jobs, according to the People's Bank of China.\n\nMany of the firms and their workers have been on an extended break since late January when China extended the week-long Lunar New Year into mid-February and travel within and to and from the country was slashed to combat the spread of the virus.\n\nInternational Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at weekend meeting of the world's top 20 economies, known as the G20, capped warnings echoed by central banks around the world that China, the world's No. 2 economy, will see a sharp fall in first quarter economic growth.\n\nThe IMF's current baseline scenario sees China's economy returning to normal in the second quarter of the year. \"But we are also looking at more dire scenarios where the spread of the virus continues for longer and more globally, and the growth consequences are more protracted,'' Georgieva said.", "Sanders was campaigning in California and Texas as Nevadans were voting\n\nAlong with a few far-flung US island territories, only four states are still using the caucus system, with its two-part voting rounds and 15% \"viability\" cut-offs, to determine their Democratic presidential nomination contests. Iowa, of course, went first. We know how that turned out. Now it's Nevada's time in the spotlight (or, perhaps, the barrel).\n\nDespite reported glitches, a few caucus-site ties settled by high-card draw and plenty of calls to the state party hotline for advice, the Nevada results trickled in throughout the afternoon on Saturday, well into the evening and stretching into the morning hours. Before the day was over, it became increasingly clear who the biggest winners and losers would be.\n\nFour years ago, the Nevada caucuses were the moment Hillary Clinton began to turn the tide against Sanders in his upstart bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. This time around, the results could be further evidence that the Sanders surge is very real and very durable.\n\nCaucus entrance polls show Sanders won a dominating 53% of the Hispanic vote - a demographic he struggled with against Clinton. That bodes well for the senator in the two biggest prizes coming up, Texas and California, with their sizeable Hispanic populations.\n\nSanders also, not as surprisingly, carried a majority of those ages 18 to 27 and voters who said they want someone who agrees with them on the issues.\n\nIf Sanders has a winning formula this time around, it could be that he has successfully diversified his coalition, while keeping his loyal support from the young and those who want a president who is with them on issues like major healthcare reform, aggressively combating climate change and addressing income inequality.\n\nIn the caucus's first alignment voting - the preference caucus-goers expressed before they had to abandon sub-15% candidates and pick their second choice - the Sanders margin of victory did not appear nearly as large. The win, however, is still impressive. And no matter the metric, Sanders cruised to victory.\n\nThe Vermont senator appears so confident in his standing that he was campaigning in California this week and spent the day of the Nevada caucuses in Texas. If there was any doubt whether Sanders was the front-runner before now (and, quite honestly, there shouldn't have been), there is no question now.\n\nEver since Joe Biden's struggles in Iowa presaged a downward spiral for his presidential hopes, his team has pointed to black voters as his \"firewall\" - an ethnic base of support that would pick him up after a rough stretch in the predominantly white first two states.\n\nWhile Biden appears destined for a distant second in Nevada, with former Mayor Pete Buttigieg nipping at his heels, he finished at the top of the pack with the 10% of the voters there who are black, suggesting that his firewall hopes weren't entirely unfounded.\n\nIf Biden pulls those kind of numbers in South Carolina, where the Democratic electorate is 60% black, he'll probably win the state - although the margin over Sanders might be narrow. He'll take a win any way he can get it at this point, however.\n\nMeanwhile, most of Biden's rivals for the moderate (or, perhaps, anti-Sanders) vote posted lacklustre results. While Bloomberg still lurks in the days ahead, after Wednesday's debate he doesn't seem quite so intimidating either.\n\nIt's probably not enough to win him the nomination without Sanders making a significant stumble, but for once the former vice-president has a bit of good news to work with.\n\nThe Massachusetts senator can't catch a break. Her respectable third-place finish in Iowa was overshadowed by the chaos resulting from the party's management of the state's caucus system. Then she had a bravura debate performance in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, highlighted by her clinical dissection of billionaire Mike Bloomberg, but it came after more than 70,000 Nevada Democrats - roughly two-thirds of the total turnout - had already cast their ballots in early voting.\n\nAccording to entrance polls, 83% of Nevada caucus participants had made up their mind \"before the past few days\". Wednesday night may have helped boost her fundraising and could give her some life in states that vote in the weeks ahead, but at least in Nevada the die had already been cast.\n\nSo much for Klobmentum, or Klobucharge or whatever you want to call it. After a surprisingly strong third-place finish in New Hampshire, the Minnesota senator scrambled to try to ramp up a cash-strapped campaign to compete in Nevada, South Carolina and the nationwide string of primaries to come.\n\nIt was a tall order, and the Nevada results are not encouraging.\n\nKlobuchar said in her caucus-night speech (given from Minnesota, which holds a primary on Super Tuesday) that she \"exceeded expectations\", but that seems like an overly optimistic assessment.\n\nThe same could be said for Buttigieg, who gave an upbeat post-Nevada speech but also didn't see his New Hampshire (and Iowa) successes turn into much of a boost. Unlike New Hampshire, he finished well behind Sanders this time around.\n\nAnd Klobuchar's Wednesday debate sparring partner can say he finished ahead of her. It's not clear where he goes from here, except to the South Carolina debate stage to needle Klobuchar some more.\n\nWe could probably fill out the loser column with every single candidate not named Bernie Sanders, but for space purposes we'll stop at the California hedge-fund billionaire.\n\nHe poured vast sums into Nevada while others were ignoring the state to focus on Iowa and New Hampshire. His efforts succeeded in getting poll numbers that landed him on quite a few debate stages, but it didn't translate into actual support once voters started caucusing.\n\nHe's tried a similar move in South Carolina, where surveys show him as high as third. The Nevada results, however, suggest he may be in for a similar collapse on primary day next Saturday.\n\nIn fact, South Carolina is going to be the last chance for all of the candidates hoping to pick up some much-needed momentum before the 3 March Super Tuesday states, when more than a quarter of all the Democratic convention delegates are at stake.\n\nIt will be a week of desperation for many, as the end of the line looms.", "Mr Assange addressed the court during proceedings, saying he couldn't concentrate because of the noise coming from his supporters outside\n\nWikileaks co-founder Julian Assange revealed the names of sources who subsequently \"disappeared\" after he put them at risk, a court has heard.\n\nA lawyer for the US government made the claim on the first day of Mr Assange's extradition hearing in London.\n\nWoolwich Crown Court was told Mr Assange was guilty of \"straightforward\" criminality for hacking into and publishing US military databases.\n\nMr Assange's lawyer said the charges were politically motivated by the US.\n\nEdward Fitzgerald QC, representing the Australian, said the 48-year-old would be denied a fair trial in the US and would be a suicide risk.\n\nMr Assange has been held in Belmarsh prison since last September after a judge said there were \"substantial grounds\" for believing he would abscond ahead of the hearing.\n\nHe was jailed for 50 weeks in May 2019 for breaching his bail conditions after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for nearly seven years.\n\nHe sought asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied - and the investigation was subsequently dropped.\n\nDemonstrators gather outside the gates of Woolwich Crown Court for the start of the hearing\n\nOpening the extradition hearing, James Lewis QC, representing the US, said the majority of the 18 charges related to \"straightforward criminal\" activity.\n\nHe denied Mr Assange was facing the charges because he had published \"embarrassing\" information the US would rather was not disclosed.\n\nMr Lewis said Mr Assange has been involved in a \"conspiracy to steal from and hack into\" the department of defence computer system along with former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.\n\n\"These are ordinary criminal charges and any person, journalist or source who hacks or attempts to gain unauthorised access to a secure system or aids and abets others to do so is guilty of computer misuse,\" Mr Lewis said.\n\n\"Reporting or journalism is not an excuse for criminal activities or a licence to break ordinary criminal laws.\"\n\nHe also described claims that Mr Assange would face up to 175 years in jail if found guilty of the charges as \"hyperbole\".\n\nMr Lewis said the dissemination of specific classified documents unredacted put dissidents in Afghanistan and Iraq at \"risk of serious harm, torture or even death\".\n\nThe US identified hundreds of \"at risk and potentially at risk people\" around the world, he said, and made efforts to warn them.\n\n\"The US is aware of sources, whose redacted names and other identifying information was contained in classified documents published by Wikileaks, who subsequently disappeared, although the US can't prove at this point that their disappearance was the result of being outed by Wikileaks.\"\n\nJulian Assange's brother and father - Gabriel and John Shipton - arrive at court\n\nOutlining Mr Assange's defence, Mr Fitzgerald said the extradition should be barred because \"the prosecution is being pursued for political motives and not in good faith\".\n\nHe said the delay in making the extradition request showed the political nature of the case.\n\n\"President Trump came into power with a new approach for freedom of the press... amounting effectively to declaring war on investigative journalists,\" he said.\n\n\"It's against that background Julian Assange has been made an example of.\"\n\nHe added the extradition attempt was directed at Mr Assange \"because of the political opinions he holds\", and said he would be denied a fair trial in the United States.\n\nMr Fitzgerald also told the court that Mr Assange had not assisted whistleblower Chelsea Manning in accessing the documents, as had been claimed.\n\nHe added: \"It's completely misleading to suggest it was Julian Assange and Wikileaks to blame for the disclosure of unredacted names.\n\n\"Wikileaks only published the unredacted material after they had been published by others who have never faced prosecution.\"\n\nHe said that it would be\" unjust and oppressive\" to extradite Mr Assange - who has suffered from clinical depression \"that dates back many years\" - because he would be a high suicide risk.\n\nMr Assange's mental health problems had been aggravated by his treatment in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, he said, claiming the 48-year-old and his visitors had been placed under surveillance and recorded with video and audio equipment.\n\nMr Fitzgerald, referring to a statement from a whistleblower, said that spies also considered \"more extreme measures\" such as kidnapping or poisoning Mr Assange while he was inside the embassy.\n\nAsked by the judge whether Mr Assange was intending to give evidence, Mr Fitzgerald replied that it was \"very unlikely\".\n\nSome of his supporters gathered outside the gates of the court and their protests - which included a siren, chanting and singing - could be heard inside the courtroom.\n\nThat prompted Mr Assange to address the court before the lunch break, saying: \"I'm having difficulty concentrating. All this noise is not helpful either.\"\n\n\"I understand and am very grateful of the public support and understand they must be disgusted...\"\n\nBut District Judge Vanessa Baraitser then stopped him from speaking and asked his lawyer to address her instead.\n\nMr Fitzgerald said: \"What Mr Assange is saying is he can't hear and can't concentrate because of the noise outside.\n\nThe extradition hearing will be adjourned at the end of this week of legal argument and continue with three weeks of evidence scheduled to begin on 18 May.", "At the beginning of the month, two people were stabbed in an attack on Streatham High Street in London, in an Islamist-related terrorist incident.\n\nThe attacker, Sudesh Amman, had been freed from prison 10 days after serving time for terror offences.\n• Sudesh Amman: Who was the Streatham attacker?\n\nThe government responded by promising to bring forward legislation urgently to prevent the automatic release of people convicted of terrorism offences halfway through their sentences.\n\nUnder the government's proposals, people given a fixed or determinate sentence for a terror-related offence would be freed only with the agreement of the Parole Board - and after serving at least two-thirds of their term.\n\nThe bill was introduced to Parliament yesterday and the government wants the measures to become law by the end of the month.\n\nThe aim is to prevent the 28 February release of Mohammed Zahir Khan, who is the next convicted terrorist due to be freed after serving half his sentence for encouraging terrorism.\n\nThe bill would affect about 50 prisoners who were convicted under existing rules, which allow for release halfway through a sentence.", "Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith and Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom are among the early casualties as Boris Johnson begins a cabinet reshuffle.\n\nHousing Minister Esther McVey and Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers are also out of the government.\n\nSenior figures such as Chancellor Sajid Javid, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Home Secretary Priti Patel are expected to remain in place.\n\nMost of the cabinet were appointed when Mr Johnson became prime minister in July.\n\nIn a statement confirming his resignation as the government's most senior law officer, Mr Cox said: \"I have been truly privileged to have served as attorney general during the recent turbulent political times.\"\n\nKnown for his booming delivery and his legal advice that effectively scuppered Theresa May's Brexit deal in March last year, he said he had been asked to resign by the prime minister.\n\nMr Smith has been widely praised for his brief tenure at the Northern Ireland Office - he was in the role just 204 days.\n\nHis departure comes weeks after brokering the deal which restored the power-sharing administration in Stormont.\n\nMr Smith said on Twitter that it had been \"the biggest privilege\" to serve the people of Northern Ireland and he was \"extremely grateful\" to have been given the chance to serve \"this amazing part of our country\".\n\nIreland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called Mr Smith \"one of Britain's finest politicians of our time\".\n\n\"In eight months as secretary of state, Julian, you helped to restore power-sharing in Stormont, secured an agreement with us to avoid a hard border, plus marriage equality,\" he told the former minister in a tweet.\n\nThe prime minister left his cabinet largely untouched following the Conservative Party's decisive election victory in December, pending what sources suggested at the time would be a more significant overhaul after the UK left the EU on 31 January.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to make changes at junior ministerial level - namely parliamentary under-secretaries of state - that could see a 50/50 gender balance in a push to promote female talent.\n\nEducation minister Chris Skidmore and transport ministers Nus Ghani and George Freeman have been sacked.\n\nThere are expected to be promotions for a number of female MPs in government, including Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Suella Braverman and Gillian Keegan.\n\nCabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden and International Development Secretary Alok Sharma are also expected to get more prominent roles.\n\nBaroness Morgan is also expected to be among the departing ministers.\n\nWhen she was re-appointed as culture secretary in December, she said she only expected to stay in the role for a couple of months, having stood down as an MP at the election and been appointed a peer.\n\nAmong more junior ministers, those tipped for promotion include Victoria Atkins, Oliver Dowden, Kwasi Kwarteng and Lucy Frazer, while Stephen Barclay could make a quick return to cabinet after his role as Brexit Secretary was scrapped following the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to appoint a new minister to oversee the building of the HS2 rail line, final approval for which was given this week.\n\nHe also needs to find someone to run the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow later this year after its previous president Claire Perry O'Neill was sacked, and two former Tory leaders, David Cameron and Lord Hague, rejected the job.\n\nIn a statement on her Facebook page, Ms Villiers said: \"What the prime minister giveth, the prime minister taketh away: just over six months ago, I was delighted to be invited by the prime minister to return to government after three years on the back benches.\n\n\"This morning he told me that I need to make way for someone new.\"\n\nShe said she was \"sad\" no longer to be a part of the cabinet, but she said the prime minister would continue to have her \"full support\".", "Ron and Anne Ryall have been ordered to leave their home next month\n\nThe HS2 high-speed rail route received government approval on Tuesday, but while it has its supporters, not everyone will benefit from it.\n\nRon and Anne Ryall have been ordered to leave their home next month as the route is due to run right through it.\n\nRon told the BBC: \"I'm finding it difficult that someone can just walk into your life and destroy it. My family has lived in this lane for 100 years. I was born here.\"\n\nAnne told BBC Breakfast: \"It's awful, absolutely awful. We feel like a fruit being squeezed out of its skin, closing in and closing in and it's just a horrible feeling.\"\n\nThe Ryalls say the money they have been offered to leave is not enough and they will refuse to move from their house in Colne Valley in Buckinghamshire.\n\nHowever, the chief executive of a Birmingham company feels HS2 will be a huge benefit to businesses in the Midlands.\n\nSimon Topman, of Acme Whistles, said: \"Getting to London or going up north from Birmingham - we're right in the middle of the country - ought to be easy, and it isn't.\n\n\"The capacity just isn't there, if you go early in the morning you stand, and if you even go off peak, you stand.\n\n\"Those affected won't like it, but the overall benefit to the economy will be great, and I think the environmental impact will be far smaller than anybody imagines.\"\n\nCate Walter, a director of Rhino Safety based near Crewe, told the BBC: \"For Crewe this is absolutely crucial. We're a town been surrounded by a lot of regeneration areas in recent years, but have not been the focus of the regeneration ourselves.\n\n\"People have this idea of Cheshire as this leafy affluent sort of area but there are pockets within that, including Crewe, of really quite stagnant economies.\n\n\"The investment in our very local economy that HS2 should bring will be absolutely crucial for growing businesses in our area.\"", "The man had been walking his dog in Black Woods near Woolton Road\n\nA second person has been killed in high winds following Storm Ciara's passage across the UK.\n\nA dog-walker in his 60s died after a tree branch fell during stormy weather in Liverpool on Tuesday morning, police said.\n\nOn Sunday, a 58-year-old man died after a tree fell on his car in Hampshire.\n\nIt comes as a new storm is expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds to parts of the UK this weekend, the Met Office said.\n\nStorm Dennis could cause flooding and wind gusts of more than 60mph.\n\nIt is not predicted to be as severe as Storm Ciara, but is likely to cause disruption.\n\nA yellow wind warning has been issued for much of England and Wales on Saturday, and further warnings could follow.\n\nSteve Ramsdale, chief meteorologist at the Met Office, said: \"Our confidence in the forecast means we have been able to issue severe weather warnings well in advance, giving people time to prepare for potential impacts of the storm.\"\n\nThe weather warning on Saturday will come into force at midday and run until 23:59 GMT.\n\nWind gusts will widely exceed 50mph but could reach over 60mph in exposed areas.\n\nHeavy rainfall on ground already saturated by last weekend's Storm Ciara could lead to further flooding.\n\nThe Met Office said disruption to transport services and power supplies should be expected, and that Storm Dennis could cause large coastal waves.\n\nMuch of the UK is still grappling with the aftermath of Storm Ciara, which caused disruption to trains, flights and motorists.\n\nWind gusts of 97mph were recorded on the Isle of Wight.\n\nMore than 20,000 properties across east and south-east England and north Wales spent Sunday night without power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Ciara: Three \"lucky\" people in wave near miss in Prestatyn, Wales\n\nMeanwhile, more than 400 people in Cumbria were warned not to drink, wash or cook with tap water after a main was damaged by the storm.\n\nTravel disruption continues in Wales, with some main roads blocked and train services suspended.\n\nCars were trapped in some areas after heavy snow on Monday.\n\nAn yellow weather warning for snow is in place for Northern Ireland, much of Scotland and parts of northern England until 12:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing that connects Edinburgh and Fife has been closed for the first time since it opened in 2017, after ice and snow fell from cables on to the carriageway.\n\nThe bridge will remain closed on Wednesday, the Scottish government said.", "BP chief executive Bernard Looney has set out a vision to reduce the oil giant's carbon footprint\n\nNew BP boss Bernard Looney has said he wants the company to sharply cut net carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner.\n\nMr Looney said the 111-year-old company needed to \"reinvent\" itself, a strategy that will eventually include more investment in alternative energy.\n\nBP will have to fundamentally reorganise itself to help make those changes, said Mr Looney, who took over as chief executive last week.\n\nIt follows similar moves by rivals, including Royal Dutch Shell and Total.\n\nMr Looney said: \"The world's carbon budget is finite and running out fast; we need a rapid transition to net zero.\n\n\"Trillions of dollars will need to be invested in re-plumbing and rewiring the world's energy system.\"\n\n\"This will certainly be a challenge, but also a tremendous opportunity. It is clear to me, and to our stakeholders, that for BP to play our part and serve our purpose, we have to change. And we want to change - this is the right thing for the world and for BP.\"\n\nHe outlined his plans in a keynote speech on Wednesday.\n\n\"Providing the world with clean, reliable affordable energy will require nothing less than reimagining energy, and today that becomes BP's new purpose,\" he said. \"Reimagining energy for people and our planet.\"\n\n\"We'll still be an energy company, but a very different kind of energy company: leaner, faster moving, lower carbon, and more valuable.\"\n\nBP's announcement that it intends to become a zero carbon emissions company by 2050 was not short of fanfare. It's new boss, 49-year-old Irishman Bernard Looney, delivered what the company described as a landmark speech in front of hundreds of journalists and investors.\n\nBut while he was clear what he wanted and why, he was less clear on how and when. There was a commitment to reduce the company's investments in oil and gas exploration, and increase investment in zero and low-carbon energy over time.\n\nBut there were no commitments to specific targets in the intervening 30 years. Indeed he said that BP would still be in the oil and gas business three decades from now but in a sustainable way.\n\nUltimately, it will fall to his successors to make good on promises made today. But Mr Looney said in order to start a journey you need a destination. His critics would say you need a more detailed map on how to get there.\n\nOn Instagram, which Mr Looney recently signed up to, he said: \"Rest assured - a lot of time - and listening - has gone into this.\"\n\n\"All of the anxiety and frustration of the world at the pace of change is a big deal. I want you to know we are listening. Both as a company - and myself as an individual.\"In the longer term, BP's plans will involve less investment in oil and gas, and more investment in low carbon businesses.\n\nThe company said it wanted to be \"net zero\" by 2050 - that is, it wants the greenhouse gas emissions from its operations, and from the oil and gas it produces, to make no addition to the amount of greenhouse gases in the world's atmosphere by that date.\n\nIt also wants to halve the amount of carbon in its products by 2050.\n\nMr Looney did not set out in detail how it intended to reach its \"net zero\" target, something that drew criticism from environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace.\n\nCharlie Kronick, oil advisor from Greenpeace UK, said there were many unanswered questions. \"How will they reach net zero? Will it be through offsetting? When will they stop wasting billions on drilling for new oil and gas we can't burn?\n\n\"What is the scale and schedule for the renewables investment they barely mention? And what are they going to do this decade, when the battle to protect our climate will be won or lost?\"\n\nMr Looney addressed this criticism after his speech, saying: \"We want a rapid transition. A transition that is delayed, and then suddenly is a right-angle change that disrupts the world, would be destructive to our company.\"\n\n\"We're starting with a destination. The details will come,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked whether that meant it's oil and gas business would cease to grow, Mr Looney said: \"BP is going to be in the oil and gas business for a very long time. That's a fact. We pay an $8bn in dividends [to shareholders] every year. Not paying that is one way to make sure that we're not around to enable the transition that we want.\"\n\nHowever, he said the existing oil and gas business would shrink over time. Any remaining carbon produced by the use of BP products would have to be captured or offset, he said.\n\nClimate Action 100+, a group of large investors that is trying to put pressure on major greenhouse gas emitters to clean up their act, said the BP announcement was \"welcome\".\n\n\"We need to see a wholesale shift to a net zero economy by 2050,\" said Stephanie Pfeifer, a member of the action group's steering committee.\n\n\"This must include oil and gas companies if we are to have any chance of successfully tackling the climate crisis,\" said Ms Pfeifer, who is also chief executive of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change.\n\nShe said that Climate Action 100+ investors, which have already been putting pressure on BP, will continue to look for progress from the company in addressing climate change.\n\n\"This includes how it will invest more in non-oil and gas businesses, and ensuring its lobbying activity supports delivery of the Paris Agreement,\" she said.", "Jarek Grudowski and Piotr Bukolt were rescued in severe weather on Tuesday night.\n\nTwo Polish businessmen who became stuck in heavy snow in southern Scotland have thanked their rescuers.\n\nThe men encountered the severe conditions as they travelled from Edinburgh to Dumfries, via the A702 in Dumfries and Galloway on Tuesday night.\n\nThey were among 12 people who were rescued after vehicles including a tanker, bus and several cars were abandoned on the Dalveen Pass.\n\nRescue teams said they encountered 18 inches (45cm) of snow and strong winds.\n\nJarek Grudowski and Piotr Bukolt were about 30 miles from their destination when their car became stuck in snow near Durisdeer.\n\nThe rescue operation at Dalveen Pass came after days of wintry conditions in Scotland\n\n\"We were stuck, the car couldn't move. In front of us there were a few trucks and some other cars which were also abandoned already.\"\n\nFortunately, a rescue team soon appeared and took the men to their hotel.\n\nMr Grudowski said: \"I would like to thank the mountain rescue team because they helped us immediately and took us to the hotel so we were on time.\"\n\n\"Yes I was happy,\" he said. \"This is the best business trip with Jarek in my life.\"\n\nA large swathe of the south of Scotland was covered by a Met Office amber weather warning of snow while the rescue operation took place on Tuesday.\n\nCharlie McCreedie was one of the four members of the Moffat Mountain Rescue Team who were on standby.\n\nHe said they got the call to go to the Dalveen Pass on the A702, between the M74 and A76, after 21:00.\n\n\"The A76 was completely clear, but when you got to the higher ground it was snowing quite heavily,\" he said.\n\n\"The road was completely blocked then by vehicles and snow.\"\n\nDrivers and passengers were taken to safety by members of Moffat Mountain Rescue Team\n\nMr McCreedie and his team brought two off-road vehicles, but had to wait a further hour for a snow plough to clear the path to safety.\n\nHe said the 12 people they helped - including a bus passenger - were \"starting to look cold and weary\".\n\n\"They were pleased to get into the Land Rover,\" he added.\n\nWith weather warnings in place and forecasts predicting further wintry weather over the coming days, Mr McCreedie urged drivers to plan ahead and not make unnecessary journeys.\n\nHe said: \"It's just Scotland in the winter, you really need to be prepared.\n\n\"It is always worth having something in your car in case you do get stuck. Try and listen to the police and weather forecast.\n\n\"If you can avoid your journey, avoid your journey.\"", "A message written in the snow alongside the Tonghui river reads \"Goodbye Li Wenliang!\"\n\nOn a cold Beijing morning, on an uninspiring, urban stretch of the Tonghui river, a lone figure could be seen writing giant Chinese characters in the snow.\n\nThe message taking shape on the sloping concrete embankment was to a dead doctor.\n\n\"Goodbye Li Wenliang!\" it read, with the author using their own body to make the imprint of that final exclamation mark.\n\nFive weeks earlier, Dr Li had been punished by the police for trying to warn colleagues about the dangers of a strange new virus infecting patients in his hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan.\n\nNow he'd succumbed to the illness himself and pictures of that frozen tribute spread fast on the Chinese internet, capturing in physical form a deep moment of national shock and anger.\n\nThere's still a great deal we don't know about Covid-19, to give the disease caused by the virus its official name. Before it took its final fatal leap across the species barrier to infect its first human, it is likely to have been lurking inside the biochemistry of an - as yet unidentified - animal. That animal, probably infected after the virus made an earlier zoological jump from a bat, is thought to have been kept in a Wuhan market, where wildlife was traded illegally.\n\nBeyond that, the scientists trying to map its deadly trajectory from origin to epidemic can say little more with any certainty.\n\nBut while they continue their urgent, vital work to determine the speed at which it spreads and the risks it poses, one thing is beyond doubt. A month or so on from its discovery, Covid-19 has shaken Chinese society and politics to the core.\n\nThat tiny piece of genetic material, measured in ten-thousandths of a millimetre, has set in train a humanitarian and economic catastrophe counted in more than 1,000 Chinese lives and tens of billions of Chinese yuan. It has closed off whole cities, placing an estimated 70 million residents in effective quarantine, shutting down transport links and restricting their ability to leave their homes. And it has exposed the limits of a political system for which social control is the highest value, breaching the rigid layers of censorship with a tsunami of grief and rage.\n\nThe risk for the ruling elite is obvious.\n\nIt can be seen in their response, ordering into action the military, the media and every level of government from the very top to the lowliest village committee.\n\nThe consequences are now entirely dependent on questions no one knows the answers to; can they pull off the complex task of bringing a runaway epidemic under control, and if so, how long might it take?\n\nAcross the world, people seem unsure how to respond to the small number of cases being detected in their own countries. The public mood can swing between panic - driven by the pictures of medical workers in hazmat suits - to complacency, brought on by headlines that suggest the risk is no worse than flu. The evidence from China suggests that both responses are misguided. Seasonal flu may well have a low fatality rate, measured in fractions of 1%, but it's a problem because it affects so many people around the world.\n\nThe tiny proportion killed out of the many, many millions who catch it each year still numbers in the hundreds of thousands - individually tragic, collectively a major healthcare burden.\n\nVery early estimates suggested the new virus may be at least as deadly as flu - precisely why so much effort is now going into stopping it becoming another global pandemic. But one new estimate suggests it could prove even deadlier yet, killing as many as 1% of those who contract it. For any individual, that risk is still relatively small, although it's worth noting such estimates are averages - just like flu, the risks fall more heavily on the elderly and already infirm.\n\nDespite the death toll, an increasing number of patients are recovering\n\nBut China's experience of this epidemic demonstrates two things. Firstly, it offers a terrifying glimpse of the potential effect on a healthcare system when you scale up infections of this kind of virus across massive populations. Two new hospitals have had to be built in Wuhan in a matter of days, with beds for 2,600 patients, and giant stadiums and hotels are being used as quarantine centres, for almost 10,000 more.\n\nDespite these efforts, many have still struggled to find treatment, with reports of people dying at home, unregistered in the official figures. Secondly, it highlights the importance of taking the task of containing outbreaks of new viruses extremely seriously. The best approach, most experts agree, is one based on transparency and trust, with good public information and proportionate, timely government action.\n\nBut in an authoritarian system, with strict censorship and an emphasis on political stability above all else, transparency and trust are in short supply.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina's response may have sometimes looked like panic - with what's been called the \"biggest quarantine in history\" and harsh enforcement against those who disobey.\n\nBut those measures have become necessary only because its initial response looked like the very definition of complacency.\n\nThere's ample evidence that the warning signs were missed by the authorities, and worse, ignored. By late December, medical staff in Wuhan were beginning to notice unusual symptoms of viral pneumonia, with a cluster linked to the market trading in illegal wildlife. On 30 December, Dr Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist working in Wuhan's Central Hospital, posted his concerns in a private medical chat group, advising colleagues to take measures to protect themselves. He'd seen seven patients who appeared to be suffering with an illness similar to Sars - another coronavirus that began in an illegal Chinese wildlife market in 2002 and went on to kill 774 people worldwide.\n\nA few days later, he was summoned by the police.\n\nDr Li was made to sign a confession, denouncing the messages he'd posted as \"illegal behaviour\".\n\nThe case received national media attention, with a high-profile state-run TV report announcing that in total, eight people in Wuhan were being investigated for \"spreading rumours\". The authorities, though, were well aware of the outbreak of illness. The day after Dr Li posted his message, China notified the World Health Organization, and the day after that, the suspected source - the market - was closed down.\n\nBut despite the multiplying cases and the concerns among medics that human-to-human transmission was taking place, the authorities did little to protect the public. Doctors were already setting up quarantine rooms and anticipating extra admissions when Wuhan held its important annual political gathering, the city's People's Congress.\n\nIn their speeches, the Communist Party leaders made no mention of the virus. China's National Health Commission continued to report that the number of infections was limited and that there was no clear evidence that the disease could spread between humans.\n\nAnd on 18 January the Wuhan authorities allowed a massive community banquet to take place, involving more than 40,000 families. The aim was to set a record for the most dishes served at an event. Two days later, China finally confirmed that human-to-human transmission was indeed taking place.\n\nImages from Chinese state TV show the large banquet in Wuhan\n\nMost remarkable of all perhaps, the following day, Wuhan held a Lunar New Year dance performance, attended by senior officials from across the surrounding province of Hubei. A state media report of the event, since hurriedly deleted but captured here, says the performers, some with runny noses and feeling unwell, \"overcame the fear of pneumonia... winning praise from the leaders\".\n\nBy the time the national authorities had woken up to the impending disaster, and closed the city down on 23 January, it was too late - the epidemic was out of control. Before Wuhan's transport links were cut, an estimated five million people had left the city for the Lunar New Year break, travelling across China and the world.\n\nSome have begun calling the disaster \"China's Chernobyl\".\n\nThe parallels in failures to pass bad news up the chain of command and the incentives to put the short-term interests of political stability ahead of public safety, seem all too apparent. Li Wenliang, who'd gone back to work after being warned to keep quiet, soon discovered he'd also been infected.\n\nHe died earlier this month, leaving a five-year-old son and a pregnant wife.\n\nAnger was already simmering over the authorities' failure to issue timely warnings, with the crisis now being aired in full view. Wuhan's politicians were blaming senior officials for failing to authorise the release of the information; senior officials appeared to be preparing to hang Wuhan's politicians out to dry.\n\nBut the death of a man, silenced for simply trying to protect his colleagues, burst open the dam with a wave of online fury directed not just at individuals, but at the system itself. So great was the public outrage, China's censors appeared unsure what to censor and what to let through. The hashtag #Iwantfreedomofspeech was viewed almost two million times before it was blocked. Aware of the tide of emotion, the Party began paying its own tributes to Dr Li.\n\nDoctor Li Wenliang tried to warn authorities about the new virus and died after contracting it\n\nChina's rulers, untroubled by the inconveniences of the ballot box, have far deeper and older fears of what might sweep them from office. The wars, famines and diseases that shook the dynasties of old have given them their inheritance; an acute historical sense of the danger of the unforeseen crisis. They will also know well what Chernobyl did for the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party in the former USSR.\n\n\"It's impossible to know if Li Wenliang's death will serve as the catalyst for something bigger,\" Jude Blanchette, an expert on Chinese politics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, tells me. \"But the raw emotion that surged when news of his condition broke indicates deep levels of frustration and anger exist within the country.\"\n\nPrecisely because it feels the weight of history, however, the Communist Party has made holding onto power a living obsession, and it has an ever more formidable domestic security apparatus to help it to do so. Over the past few decades it has proven nothing if not resilient, enduring through political chaos, devastating earthquakes and man-made disasters.\n\nBut one sign that might hint at an awareness of just how great the current risks are comes in the role being played by China's President Xi Jinping. This week - for the first time since the crisis began - he ventured out to meet health workers involved in the fight, visiting a hospital and a virus control centre in Beijing.\n\nIn contrast, his premier, Li Keqiang, has been sent to the front lines in Wuhan and appointed head of a special working group to tackle the epidemic.\n\nWhile it is common for the premier to be the face of reassurance during national disasters, some observers see another reason why Mr Xi might be wise to be seen to delegate.\n\nChina's president has kept a low profile since the outbreak began\n\n\"Xi's absence from this crisis is yet another demonstration that he doesn't so much lead as he does command,\" Mr Blanchette says. \"He's clearly worried that this crisis will blow up in his face, and so he's pushed out underlings to be the public face of the CCP's response.\"\n\nAlready there are signs that the censorship is being ratcheted up once again, with Mr Xi ordering senior officials to \"strengthen the control over online media\".\n\nA few days ago, I spoke by phone to the lawyer and blogger, Chen Qiushi, who'd travelled to Wuhan in an attempt to provide independent reporting about the situation. Videos from Mr Chen, and a fellow activist, Fang Bin, have been widely watched, showing not the ranks of patriotic soldier-medics and the building of hospitals that fill state media coverage, but overcrowded waiting rooms and body bags.\n\nHe told me he was unsure how long he'd be able to carry on. \"The censorship is very strict and people's accounts are being closed down if they share my content,\" he said.\n\nMr Chen has since gone missing.\n\nFriends and family believe he's been forced into Wuhan's quarantine system, in an attempt to silence him.\n\nChina's leaders now find their fate linked to the daily charts of infection rates, published city by city, province by province. There are some signs that the extraordinary quarantine measures may be having an effect - outside of Hubei Province, the worst affected area, the number of new daily infections is falling.\n\nBut with the need to try to restart the economy - all but frozen now for over a week - the country has begun a slow return to work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStrict quarantine measures will remain in force in the worst affected areas, but workers from other parts of the country are trickling back to the cities, with the task of monitoring and managing their movements being handed to local neighbourhood committees.\n\nIt will be a difficult balancing act.\n\nToo tough an approach risks further choking off business activity, commerce and travel in a consumer environment already suffocating under the deep psychological fear of contagion. Too lax, and any one of the many potential reservoirs of infection, now scattered across the country, could explode into another, separate epidemic.\n\nThat would require further harsh action, knocking domestic confidence and prolonging the international border closures and flight restrictions put in place at such enormous economic cost.\n\nChina is insisting that it is a fight well on the way to being won with \"unconquerable will\" and that lessons have been learned and \"shortcomings in preparedness\" identified.\n\nQuestions about the systemic failings behind the disaster are dismissed as foreign \"prejudice\", as the propaganda machine cranks into overdrive, channelling the narrative and muting the criticisms.\n\nBut the devastating scale and scope of China's world-threatening catastrophe have already revealed something important. The thousands who have lost family members, the millions living under the quarantine measures and the workers and businesses bearing the financial costs have been asking those difficult questions too.\n\nOn the snowy banks of the Tonghui river, the giant tribute to Li Wenliang remains intact. When we visited, a few locals were taking photos and talking quietly to each other.\n\nSoon, with the warming weather, the characters will be gone.", "\"You 100% have to be on top form all the time because if something happens, you're in charge.\"\n\nVictoria Bell is at the start of an overnight \"sleep-in\" shift, caring for two people with learning disabilities in a house in Doncaster.\n\nA long-running battle over care-workers' pay will reach the Supreme Court on Wednesday.\n\nVictoria, 23, is very clear the work she does should be better valued and better paid.\n\nShe gets the minimum wage for the nights she sleeps in - but many workers on similar shifts are paid a much lower flat rate.\n\n\"People say, 'Oh, you actually sleep at work?'\n\n\"You do sleep sometimes but you're always at work. It's not like you can get up and leave to go anywhere else.\"\n\nShe shows the staff bedroom - small, with plain walls, a single bed and filing cabinets.\n\n\"We've got a phone there in case there is an emergency and the service users bedrooms are just next door.\"\n\nThere are alarms in their rooms and once one goes off \"you're awake for them\", she says.\n\nUnions argue all care staff should receive the minimum wage for night shifts even if they are asleep.\n\nOne of the two cases being considered by the Supreme Court is against Mencap, the learning disability charity.\n\nThousands of workers will be affected and organisations providing care fear if they lose, they could be liable for millions of pounds in back pay, which they say they cannot afford.\n\nPhilip Bartey who runs Autism Plus, Victoria's employer, says its bill alone could be £2.5m\n\n\"The funds are not there,\" he says.\n\nMr Bartey says the squeeze is due to councils and the NHS not paying care companies the minimum wage for providing sleep-in care at the homes of older or disabled people who might need help.\n\nVictoria Bell, 23, with Emma, one of the people she helps care for\n\nUnison brought the legal action on behalf of a Mencap care worker paid less than £30 for working a shift from 22:00 to 07:00.\n\nShe was expected to keep a \"listening ear\" out in case the people she was there to support needed help, otherwise she could sleep.\n\nOver 16 months, she was called on six times at night, receiving no extra money for the first hour she was disturbed, although after that she was paid at the full day-time rate.\n\nThe High Court ruled even when she was asleep she was entitled to the minimum wage for the shift.\n\nThat was overturned in the Court of Appeal and now the Supreme Court will be expected to settle the matter once and for all.\n\nMencap says it now ensures staff are paid the minimum wage for sleep-in shifts.\n\n\"We would dearly like to pay our hard-working colleagues more,\" the charity says.\n\nBut it is defending the case, it says, as, if the Court of Appeal ruling is overturned, tax officials will expect it and other care providers to pay care workers past and present six years of back pay, which \"would run into hundreds of millions\".\n\nMencap says such a bill could make the care they provide unviable and wants the government to step in,\" the charity says.\n\n\"Social care is chronically underfunded and many providers are warning that this could tip them into insolvency.\n\n\"If back pay is owed, we believe the government should pay it.\"\n\nTUC head of employment rights Kate Bell says: \"Governments for a long time have been talking about sorting the social-care crisis.\n\n\"This is the point where they really have to step in and help out.\n\n\"We just can't have the situation where we're saying either low paid workers don't get paid or people don't get the vital care they need. That's not tenable.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said the government would pay \"close attention\" to the outcome of the case.\n\nShe added: \"Workers in the sector should be fairly rewarded for what they do and we encourage employers to pay more than the minimum wage where possible; we hope more care-sector employers will consider doing so.\"", "The resignation of the last A&E consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital has speeded up the downgrade plans\n\nAbout 400 people have protested outside the Senedd against the closure of an A&E department.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board have said doctor shortages meant it was considering closing the department at the Royal Glamorgan in Llantrisant, either completely or overnight.\n\nSamantha Jones, whose baby's life was saved by staff at the A&E, said closing the department would put lives at risk.\n\nThe health board said action was needed to avoid \"risk to patient safety\".\n\nAn agreement to centralise emergency care in fewer hospitals was made in 2015, but a decision on the final details is yet to be made.\n\nProtesters have descended on Cardiff's Senedd building with homemade placards\n\nAssembly members from across the party divide who oppose the plans have warned people \"will die\" if the service closes.\n\nBut in the Senedd on Wednesday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said they needed to \"rub up against the reality\" of staff recruitment problems.\n\n\"They do have an unavoidable challenge about the future safety of that service,\" he said.\n\nHowever a majority of assembly members, including four from Labour, backed a Tory motion rejecting any downgrading.\n\nEarlier, Welsh Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns said the Welsh Government could not ignore the \"significant opposition\" to the downgrading.\n\nShe said it would be \"dangerous\" to change the service as people would have to travel further for emergency treatment.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has previously said clinicians should make the final call.\n\nStaffing levels at all Cwm Taf Morgannwg's A&E units - at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil's Prince Charles Hospital and the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend - are well below UK-wide standards.\n\nOn Christmas Day and Boxing Day, ambulances had to be diverted from the Royal Glamorgan Hospital to Prince Charles Hospital because of a lack of doctors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scarlett Jones's life was saved by staff at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital after she stopped breathing\n\nWhen Samantha Jones's daughter seemed unwell at home she took her to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, which is about 20 minutes drive from her house, to get her checked over.\n\nBut when she got there the triage nurse noticed Scarlett had stopped breathing.\n\n\"Within minutes we had 20 doctors around us, surrounding her, with oxygen on her face,\" Ms Jones said.\n\n\"To go back over it is scary, but they did an amazing job.\n\n\"They did so many tests on her to rule everything out - I couldn't praise them more, they saved my child's life.\"\n\n\"If I had to go any further, I don't think she would be here today.\"\n\nProtesters gathered outside the National Assembly building in Cardiff Bay\n\nA number of politicians opposed to the plans addressed the crowds earlier, who held a protest ahead of an assembly debate over the future of the services.\n\nLabour MP for Rhondda, Chris Bryant, said people \"will die\" if the department is closed.\n\nHe said: \"We all know the only way to keep everyone across the whole patch safe is to have a full A&E at all three hospitals.\"\n\nHe accused the hospital of not recruiting properly, adding: \"We in the Rhondda will never give up… we will fight and fight and fight for the service we know will save lives.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price told the crowd people were \"dying unnecessarily because of the idiocy of the proposal\".\n\n\"A people united will never be defeated, there is no power in this building or in the health board that will defeat us,\" he said.\n\nThe situation at the Royal Glamorgan worsened recently with the resignation of its only full-time A&E consultant, meaning plans to downgrade were speeded up.\n\nThe health board said this \"expected retirement\", along with a shortage of middle-grade doctors, meant three A&E services could not be \"sustained beyond the immediate short-term\".\n\nIt might seem odd to have Labour politicians joining in with the criticism of the decision to downgrade A&E at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital\n\n\"Doesn't Labour run the Welsh NHS after all?\" their opponents say.\n\nThey know few things are more important to their constituents than protecting the services they have grown up with.\n\nBut it does not change the bigger picture. If you do not have enough doctors to run a safe service and cannot recruit them - what do you do?\n\nPoliticians across the board will privately tell you the NHS can't stand still and things have to change.\n\nThey would much prefer the most controversial changes happen somewhere else and not in their patch.\n\nBut trying to avoid the consequences of unpopular decisions risks a situation where nothing changes at all.\n\nStaffing levels at all Cwm Taf's A&E units are well below UK-wide standards\n\nThe nearest A&E to Llantrisant in the health board area is 14 miles (23km) away in Bridgend - a drive of almost 30 minutes.\n\nThe other in Merthyr Tydfil is 21 miles (34km) away - a drive of almost 40 minutes.\n\nThe health board has agreed to \"leave no stone unturned\" in seeing if anything could be done to keep the current A&E set-up as it is.\n\nLabour AM for Pontypridd Mick Antoniw said there was no merit to the proposals and that closing the department was \"not viable\".\n\nPlaid AM for Rhondda Leanne Wood attacked the Welsh Government for its record on health in Wales, adding the \"strategic decisions\" made in Cardiff Bay had led to the proposals to close the unit.\n\nThe nearest A&E to Llantristant in the health board area is 14 miles (23 km) away\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A message written in the snow alongside the Tonghui river reads \"Goodbye Li Wenliang!\"\n\nOn a cold Beijing morning, on an uninspiring, urban stretch of the Tonghui river, a lone figure could be seen writing giant Chinese characters in the snow.\n\nThe message taking shape on the sloping concrete embankment was to a dead doctor.\n\n\"Goodbye Li Wenliang!\" it read, with the author using their own body to make the imprint of that final exclamation mark.\n\nFive weeks earlier, Dr Li had been punished by the police for trying to warn colleagues about the dangers of a strange new virus infecting patients in his hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan.\n\nNow he'd succumbed to the illness himself and pictures of that frozen tribute spread fast on the Chinese internet, capturing in physical form a deep moment of national shock and anger.\n\nThere's still a great deal we don't know about Covid-19, to give the disease caused by the virus its official name. Before it took its final fatal leap across the species barrier to infect its first human, it is likely to have been lurking inside the biochemistry of an - as yet unidentified - animal. That animal, probably infected after the virus made an earlier zoological jump from a bat, is thought to have been kept in a Wuhan market, where wildlife was traded illegally.\n\nBeyond that, the scientists trying to map its deadly trajectory from origin to epidemic can say little more with any certainty.\n\nBut while they continue their urgent, vital work to determine the speed at which it spreads and the risks it poses, one thing is beyond doubt. A month or so on from its discovery, Covid-19 has shaken Chinese society and politics to the core.\n\nThat tiny piece of genetic material, measured in ten-thousandths of a millimetre, has set in train a humanitarian and economic catastrophe counted in more than 1,000 Chinese lives and tens of billions of Chinese yuan. It has closed off whole cities, placing an estimated 70 million residents in effective quarantine, shutting down transport links and restricting their ability to leave their homes. And it has exposed the limits of a political system for which social control is the highest value, breaching the rigid layers of censorship with a tsunami of grief and rage.\n\nThe risk for the ruling elite is obvious.\n\nIt can be seen in their response, ordering into action the military, the media and every level of government from the very top to the lowliest village committee.\n\nThe consequences are now entirely dependent on questions no one knows the answers to; can they pull off the complex task of bringing a runaway epidemic under control, and if so, how long might it take?\n\nAcross the world, people seem unsure how to respond to the small number of cases being detected in their own countries. The public mood can swing between panic - driven by the pictures of medical workers in hazmat suits - to complacency, brought on by headlines that suggest the risk is no worse than flu. The evidence from China suggests that both responses are misguided. Seasonal flu may well have a low fatality rate, measured in fractions of 1%, but it's a problem because it affects so many people around the world.\n\nThe tiny proportion killed out of the many, many millions who catch it each year still numbers in the hundreds of thousands - individually tragic, collectively a major healthcare burden.\n\nVery early estimates suggested the new virus may be at least as deadly as flu - precisely why so much effort is now going into stopping it becoming another global pandemic. But one new estimate suggests it could prove even deadlier yet, killing as many as 1% of those who contract it. For any individual, that risk is still relatively small, although it's worth noting such estimates are averages - just like flu, the risks fall more heavily on the elderly and already infirm.\n\nDespite the death toll, an increasing number of patients are recovering\n\nBut China's experience of this epidemic demonstrates two things. Firstly, it offers a terrifying glimpse of the potential effect on a healthcare system when you scale up infections of this kind of virus across massive populations. Two new hospitals have had to be built in Wuhan in a matter of days, with beds for 2,600 patients, and giant stadiums and hotels are being used as quarantine centres, for almost 10,000 more.\n\nDespite these efforts, many have still struggled to find treatment, with reports of people dying at home, unregistered in the official figures. Secondly, it highlights the importance of taking the task of containing outbreaks of new viruses extremely seriously. The best approach, most experts agree, is one based on transparency and trust, with good public information and proportionate, timely government action.\n\nBut in an authoritarian system, with strict censorship and an emphasis on political stability above all else, transparency and trust are in short supply.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina's response may have sometimes looked like panic - with what's been called the \"biggest quarantine in history\" and harsh enforcement against those who disobey.\n\nBut those measures have become necessary only because its initial response looked like the very definition of complacency.\n\nThere's ample evidence that the warning signs were missed by the authorities, and worse, ignored. By late December, medical staff in Wuhan were beginning to notice unusual symptoms of viral pneumonia, with a cluster linked to the market trading in illegal wildlife. On 30 December, Dr Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist working in Wuhan's Central Hospital, posted his concerns in a private medical chat group, advising colleagues to take measures to protect themselves. He'd seen seven patients who appeared to be suffering with an illness similar to Sars - another coronavirus that began in an illegal Chinese wildlife market in 2002 and went on to kill 774 people worldwide.\n\nA few days later, he was summoned by the police.\n\nDr Li was made to sign a confession, denouncing the messages he'd posted as \"illegal behaviour\".\n\nThe case received national media attention, with a high-profile state-run TV report announcing that in total, eight people in Wuhan were being investigated for \"spreading rumours\". The authorities, though, were well aware of the outbreak of illness. The day after Dr Li posted his message, China notified the World Health Organization, and the day after that, the suspected source - the market - was closed down.\n\nBut despite the multiplying cases and the concerns among medics that human-to-human transmission was taking place, the authorities did little to protect the public. Doctors were already setting up quarantine rooms and anticipating extra admissions when Wuhan held its important annual political gathering, the city's People's Congress.\n\nIn their speeches, the Communist Party leaders made no mention of the virus. China's National Health Commission continued to report that the number of infections was limited and that there was no clear evidence that the disease could spread between humans.\n\nAnd on 18 January the Wuhan authorities allowed a massive community banquet to take place, involving more than 40,000 families. The aim was to set a record for the most dishes served at an event. Two days later, China finally confirmed that human-to-human transmission was indeed taking place.\n\nImages from Chinese state TV show the large banquet in Wuhan\n\nMost remarkable of all perhaps, the following day, Wuhan held a Lunar New Year dance performance, attended by senior officials from across the surrounding province of Hubei. A state media report of the event, since hurriedly deleted but captured here, says the performers, some with runny noses and feeling unwell, \"overcame the fear of pneumonia... winning praise from the leaders\".\n\nBy the time the national authorities had woken up to the impending disaster, and closed the city down on 23 January, it was too late - the epidemic was out of control. Before Wuhan's transport links were cut, an estimated five million people had left the city for the Lunar New Year break, travelling across China and the world.\n\nSome have begun calling the disaster \"China's Chernobyl\".\n\nThe parallels in failures to pass bad news up the chain of command and the incentives to put the short-term interests of political stability ahead of public safety, seem all too apparent. Li Wenliang, who'd gone back to work after being warned to keep quiet, soon discovered he'd also been infected.\n\nHe died earlier this month, leaving a five-year-old son and a pregnant wife.\n\nAnger was already simmering over the authorities' failure to issue timely warnings, with the crisis now being aired in full view. Wuhan's politicians were blaming senior officials for failing to authorise the release of the information; senior officials appeared to be preparing to hang Wuhan's politicians out to dry.\n\nBut the death of a man, silenced for simply trying to protect his colleagues, burst open the dam with a wave of online fury directed not just at individuals, but at the system itself. So great was the public outrage, China's censors appeared unsure what to censor and what to let through. The hashtag #Iwantfreedomofspeech was viewed almost two million times before it was blocked. Aware of the tide of emotion, the Party began paying its own tributes to Dr Li.\n\nDoctor Li Wenliang tried to warn authorities about the new virus and died after contracting it\n\nChina's rulers, untroubled by the inconveniences of the ballot box, have far deeper and older fears of what might sweep them from office. The wars, famines and diseases that shook the dynasties of old have given them their inheritance; an acute historical sense of the danger of the unforeseen crisis. They will also know well what Chernobyl did for the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party in the former USSR.\n\n\"It's impossible to know if Li Wenliang's death will serve as the catalyst for something bigger,\" Jude Blanchette, an expert on Chinese politics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, tells me. \"But the raw emotion that surged when news of his condition broke indicates deep levels of frustration and anger exist within the country.\"\n\nPrecisely because it feels the weight of history, however, the Communist Party has made holding onto power a living obsession, and it has an ever more formidable domestic security apparatus to help it to do so. Over the past few decades it has proven nothing if not resilient, enduring through political chaos, devastating earthquakes and man-made disasters.\n\nBut one sign that might hint at an awareness of just how great the current risks are comes in the role being played by China's President Xi Jinping. This week - for the first time since the crisis began - he ventured out to meet health workers involved in the fight, visiting a hospital and a virus control centre in Beijing.\n\nIn contrast, his premier, Li Keqiang, has been sent to the front lines in Wuhan and appointed head of a special working group to tackle the epidemic.\n\nWhile it is common for the premier to be the face of reassurance during national disasters, some observers see another reason why Mr Xi might be wise to be seen to delegate.\n\nChina's president has kept a low profile since the outbreak began\n\n\"Xi's absence from this crisis is yet another demonstration that he doesn't so much lead as he does command,\" Mr Blanchette says. \"He's clearly worried that this crisis will blow up in his face, and so he's pushed out underlings to be the public face of the CCP's response.\"\n\nAlready there are signs that the censorship is being ratcheted up once again, with Mr Xi ordering senior officials to \"strengthen the control over online media\".\n\nA few days ago, I spoke by phone to the lawyer and blogger, Chen Qiushi, who'd travelled to Wuhan in an attempt to provide independent reporting about the situation. Videos from Mr Chen, and a fellow activist, Fang Bin, have been widely watched, showing not the ranks of patriotic soldier-medics and the building of hospitals that fill state media coverage, but overcrowded waiting rooms and body bags.\n\nHe told me he was unsure how long he'd be able to carry on. \"The censorship is very strict and people's accounts are being closed down if they share my content,\" he said.\n\nMr Chen has since gone missing.\n\nFriends and family believe he's been forced into Wuhan's quarantine system, in an attempt to silence him.\n\nChina's leaders now find their fate linked to the daily charts of infection rates, published city by city, province by province. There are some signs that the extraordinary quarantine measures may be having an effect - outside of Hubei Province, the worst affected area, the number of new daily infections is falling.\n\nBut with the need to try to restart the economy - all but frozen now for over a week - the country has begun a slow return to work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStrict quarantine measures will remain in force in the worst affected areas, but workers from other parts of the country are trickling back to the cities, with the task of monitoring and managing their movements being handed to local neighbourhood committees.\n\nIt will be a difficult balancing act.\n\nToo tough an approach risks further choking off business activity, commerce and travel in a consumer environment already suffocating under the deep psychological fear of contagion. Too lax, and any one of the many potential reservoirs of infection, now scattered across the country, could explode into another, separate epidemic.\n\nThat would require further harsh action, knocking domestic confidence and prolonging the international border closures and flight restrictions put in place at such enormous economic cost.\n\nChina is insisting that it is a fight well on the way to being won with \"unconquerable will\" and that lessons have been learned and \"shortcomings in preparedness\" identified.\n\nQuestions about the systemic failings behind the disaster are dismissed as foreign \"prejudice\", as the propaganda machine cranks into overdrive, channelling the narrative and muting the criticisms.\n\nBut the devastating scale and scope of China's world-threatening catastrophe have already revealed something important. The thousands who have lost family members, the millions living under the quarantine measures and the workers and businesses bearing the financial costs have been asking those difficult questions too.\n\nOn the snowy banks of the Tonghui river, the giant tribute to Li Wenliang remains intact. When we visited, a few locals were taking photos and talking quietly to each other.\n\nSoon, with the warming weather, the characters will be gone.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nShauna Coxsey has become the first sport climber selected for Team GB at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer.\n\nThe 27-year-old is a two-time overall World Cup winner in her favoured bouldering discipline, and won two bronze medals in the bouldering and combined events at the 2019 Climbing World Championships.\n\nShe has also won five British titles.\n\nSport climbing is one of five sports to make its Olympic debut in Tokyo and will be contested from 4 to 7 August.\n\n\"I am really excited to be part of Team GB and to have the privilege of joining so many incredible athletes to represent our country and sport climbing on the world's biggest sporting stage,\" said Coxsey, from Runcorn.\n\nSport climbing at Tokyo 2020 incorporates three disciplines - speed, bouldering and lead.\n\nIn speed climbing two athletes race each other up a 15-metre wall, while in bouldering athletes tackle fixed routes on a 4.5-metre wall. Lead climbing challenges athletes to climb as high as possible on a 15-metre wall within a specified time.\n\nAll athletes compete across the three disciplines with the lowest combined scores deciding the final standings.\n\nCoxsey is the 20th athlete to be officially selected to represent Team GB in Tokyo this summer, after the sailing team and five canoeists were announced in October.\n\nThe Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games take place between 24 July and 9 August.", "Dekyrion Ellis, who is in ninth grade, said he was lifted off the floor by an officer at his high school after he had been involved in an altercation with a classmate.\n\nJake Perry, the officer at Camden High School in Arkansas, was placed under investigation for use of excessive force and put on leave. He has now been fired.\n\nPolice chief Boyd Woody said: \"I will not tolerate misconduct from my officers and this matter will be dealt with accordingly and I will be transparent in doing so\".\n\nThe use of chokeholds has been banned by many US police forces. Last summer, the New York Police Department fired the officer involved in a high-profile 2014 death involving a chokehold. Eric Garner's dying words - \"I can't breathe\" - became a rallying cry at protests against excessive use of force.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards tie the knot in Northern Ireland's first same-sex marriage ceremony\n\nA couple have tied the knot in the first same-sex marriage to take place in Northern Ireland.\n\nRobyn Peoples, from Belfast, and Sharni Edwards, from Brighton celebrated their nuptials on Tuesday at a ceremony in a hotel in Carrickfergus, County Antrim.\n\nThey met five years ago at a gay bar in Belfast.\n\nAhead of the ceremony, Ms Peoples, a care worker, said the pair were sending a message to the world that \"we are equal\".\n\n\"Our love is personal but the law which said we couldn't marry was political,\" she said.\n\n\"We are delighted that with our wedding, we can now say that those days are over.\n\n\"While this campaign ends with Sharni and I saying 'I do', it started with people saying 'No' to inequality.\n\nThe couple got married in a hotel in Carrickfergus, County Antrim\n\nMs Edwards, a waitress from Brighton, said the couple felt humbled their wedding was a \"landmark moment for equal rights in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"We didn't set out to make history - we just fell in love,\" she added.\n\n\"We are so grateful to the thousands of people who marched for our freedoms, to the Love Equality campaign who led the way and the politicians who voted to change the law.\n\n\"Without you, our wedding wouldn't have been possible.\n\n\"We will be forever thankful.\"\n\nThe couple's married name is Edwards-Peoples\n\nSame-sex marriage has been legal in England, Wales and Scotland since 2014.\n\nHowever, this is the first week that same-sex couples in Northern Ireland can legally get married.\n\nIn July 2019, MPs backed amendments which required the government to change abortion laws and extend same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland if devolution was not restored by 21 October 2019.\n\nFrom 13 January, same-sex couples were able to register to marry.\n\nElsewhere on Tuesday, Westminster campaigners were at a celebratory reception to thank MPs who had acted on the issue.\n\nSara Canning, the partner of murdered Northern Ireland journalist Lyra McKee, attended the event organised by Amnesty International and the Love Equality campaign.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot on 18 April while observing rioting in Londonderry.\n\nMs Canning described the marriage of Ms Peoples and Ms Edwards as a \"wonderful moment\".\n\n\"This really means so much and has brought me some much-needed light in what has been a dark year,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link will be built.\n\nThe first phase of the route will travel between London and Birmingham, with a second phase going to Manchester and Leeds.\n\n\"It has been a controversial and difficult decision,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe prime minister added he was going to appoint a full-time minister to oversee the project and criticised the HS2 company's management of the scheme.\n\n\"I cannot say that HS2 limited has distinguished itself in the handling of local communities. The cost forecasts have exploded, but poor management to date has not detracted from the fundamental value of the project.\"\n\nThe prime minister said that a series of measures would be taken to \"restore discipline to the programme\".\n\nSupporters of HS2 say it will improve transport times, increase capacity, create jobs and rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nOnce it is built, journeys will be shorter. London to Birmingham travel times will be cut from one hour, 21 minutes to 52 minutes, according to the Department for Transport.\n\nAnd while it is being built, it is expected to create thousands of jobs and provide a stimulus to economic growth.\n\nThe first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham was due to open at the end of 2026.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first trains may not run on the route until some time between 2028 and 2031.\n\nThe second phase to Manchester and Leeds was due to open in 2032-33, but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson told MPs that he hoped if work started immediately that trains \"could be running by the end of the decade\".\n\nThe spiralling cost of the project has sparked a backlash. The cost set out in the 2015 Budget was set at just under £56bn, but one independent estimate puts the cost as high as £106bn.\n\nMr Johnson added: \"We will, in line with the review, investigate the current costs to identify where savings can be made in phase one without a total redesign.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Johnson did not deserve praise for giving the project the go-ahead.\n\n\"The Labour Party supports HS2 as a means to boost regional economies and slash climate emissions. It is essential for boosting rail capacity and freeing up other lines,\" he said.\n\n\"But we don't see why the government should get a slap on the back for announcing it is going ahead.\n\n\"After all, it's only because of the abject failure of successive Conservative governments to keep on top of the costs, that the project's future was in any doubt.\"\n\nRon and Anne Ryall have been ordered to leave their home next month\n\nNot everybody is benefitting from HS2 being given the go-ahead.\n\nRon and Anne Ryall have been ordered to leave their home next month as the route is due to run right through it.\n\nRon told BBC Breakfast: \"It's completely wrecked our lives. I'm finding it difficult that someone can just walk into your life and destroy it. My family has lived in this lane for 100 years. I was born here.\"\n\nThe village hall in Burton Green is also due to be torn down for HS2\n\nMeanwhile, residents of a Warwickshire village admitted they were resigned to the final decision to build the rail line - even though it will split their lives in half.\n\nBurton Green village, home to 640 people, will effectively be bisected by the line.\n\nRona Taylor, who runs the village's residents' association, said: \"It's a very frustrating day because we have opposed this for 10 years.\"\n\nHowever, Cate Walter, a director of Rhino Safety based near Crewe, told the BBC: \"For Crewe this is absolutely crucial. We're a town been surrounded by a lot of regeneration areas in recent years, but have not been the focus of the regeneration ourselves.\n\n\"The investment in our very local economy that HS2 should bring will be absolutely crucial for growing businesses in our area.\"\n\nLib Dem MP Munira Wilson said: \"Key to cutting carbon emissions and tackling climate change is cutting domestic flights and moving people on to our railways and so that's why the HS2 announcement is to be welcomed and building a third runway at Heathrow is an act of environmental vandalism.\"\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas said HS2 would \"destroy or damage hundreds of important wildlife sites, areas of ancient woodland and local nature reserves\".\n\nJude Brimble, national secretary of the GMB trade union, which represents HS2 workers, said: \"The reality is that HS2 is happening and the government should get on with it.\n\n\"Thousands of skilled jobs depend on the project in construction and the supply chain.\"\n\nMatthew Fell, of UK employers' group the CBI, said the decision to back HS2 was \"exactly the sort of bold, decisive action required to inject confidence in the economy\".\n\nHe added: \"It sends the right signal around the world that the UK is open for business. HS2 shows the government's commitment to levelling up the nations and regions of the UK.\"\n\nStephen Phipson, chief executive of manufacturers' organisation Make UK, said: \"Industry will applaud this bold, sensible and pragmatic decision which will help change the country for the better.\n\n\"Government now has a once in a generation opportunity to develop a fully integrated transport plan for the whole country which it should grab with both hands.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Winners, losers and quitters - story of the night in New Hampshire.\n\nThe second contest for the Democratic nomination is in the books and like any good horse race, it seems the top three are the ones who will finish in the money.\n\nBernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar separated themselves from the field and are the only candidates who will win the all-important delegates.\n\nNew Hampshire also punctured the hopes of several candidates who at various times in the past year were considered frontrunners - Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.\n\nWhile this isn't the end of their hopes, the post-campaign, green pastures are beckoning.\n\nHere's a closer look at who's up and who's down - and who defied expectations.\n\nFour years ago, Bernie Sanders took the New Hampshire primary with 60% of the vote. He didn't come close to that mark this time, but given the depth of the field the achievement is equally impressive.\n\nWhat's more, the order of the finishers helps Sanders, as well. Biden - the only candidate he trails in national polling - is wounded, perhaps mortally so. Pete Buttigieg finished a strong second, but his success outside the first two states is still an open question.\n\nWarren, his closest rival for the liberal left vote, has yet to prove she can finish near Sanders. Amy Klobuchar's success ensures she'll stick around and the moderate support will remain splintered.\n\nIn 2016 Sanders hit an electoral brick wall after New Hampshire. With plenty of money, a battle-tested national campaign organisation and divided opposition, his path ahead - while far from certain - looks the brightest of any in the field.\n\nHe would be the most left-wing candidate the party has nominated since George McGovern, however, and there are plenty of establishment Democrats old enough to have heart palpitations remembering the 1972 drubbing he took at the hands of Richard Nixon.\n\nNo candidate in modern political history has finished outside the top two in New Hampshire and gone on to win their party's nomination, which makes Buttigieg's second-place showing a significant accomplishment.\n\nAfter winning the most delegates in Iowa, the former South Bend mayor surged in New Hampshire and finished close enough to Sanders to leave the final outcome of the primary in doubt for hours. In fact, he may end up with the same number of delegates in New Hampshire as Sanders.\n\nButtigieg has proven he's for real in Iowa and New Hampshire. Now he has to prove he can make quick headway in states where he hasn't spent nearly as much time campaigning. He'll need to win over minority voters and compete on the national playing field, while convincing voters Amy Klobuchar isn't the fresh-faced moderate worthy of their support.\n\nWhile many better-known candidates have faltered, he has more than earned the opportunity to try.\n\nIowa was supposed to be the launching point for the senator from the nearby state of Minnesota - if she was going to have one. It turns out, however, snow-covered New Hampshire was the state that warmed to her pitch of moderate pragmatism.\n\nUnlike the other top finishers, Klobuchar had her back to the wall in New Hampshire. If she had stayed mired in the single digits she occupied just a week ago, she probably would have been done for good. Instead, she lives to fight another day.\n\nShe clearly benefited from late-deciding voters breaking her way after a strong performance in Friday's candidate debate and Biden's New Hampshire support collapsed. She'll have to replenish her campaign coffers quickly, however, if she wants to take advantage of any momentum out of New Hampshire in the states to come.\n\nOtherwise she could end up this year's version of Republican John Kasich in 2016 - buoyed by a surprising New Hampshire result that, if anything, only helped to divide the moderate vote and allow the anti-establishment candidate to roll along.\n\nOk, so the tech entrepreneur finished with only around 3% of the vote and dropped out shortly after the New Hampshire polls closed. But a tech entrepreneur who virtually no one had heard of finished with 3% of the vote, raised tens of millions of dollars for his campaign and landed a spot in all but one of the party debates. That is a remarkable achievement.\n\nYang attracted a loyal following, particularly among young voters otherwise uninterested in politics, who travelled to campaign for him from around the country. While it didn't translate into votes, future candidates might want to consider how, and why, he inspired such devotion.\n\nThe outlook for the former vice-president in New Hampshire was so bleak, he didn't even stick around the state to watch the returns come in.\n\nWhile both Iowa and New Hampshire were never going to be his best states, the supposed front-runner - the one who has made a case that he's the most electable candidate - needed to do better than fourth and then fifth-place finishes.\n\nNow the campaign is retreating behind the castle walls in South Carolina to make his last stand.\n\nAlready there are indications that his backing among black voters, the bulwark of his support there, could be sinking. If that trend holds, it's all but over for the man who stood atop national polls for most of 2019.\n\nAt this point, Warren's campaign is in serious trouble. She has now finished well behind Sanders - her liberal rival - twice, and there's no indication that her fortunes will change anytime soon. Biden at least still clings to the hope of a South Carolina rebirth. Warren's resurrection ground is difficult to discern.\n\nNew Hampshire may end up being viewed as the deciding battleground state between the two favourites of grass-roots progressives. Both candidates hailed from neighbouring states, and both committed considerable resources to the effort. Sanders won; Warren finished a distant fourth, with single-digit support.\n\nIt ended up not even being close.\n\nWarren's best chance at this point is to hope for all-out war between the moderate Democrats and Sanders that leaves both sides diminished. Then she can position herself as compromise candidate that emerges from the smoking wreckage.\n\nIt's a long-shot play, however, and a remarkable reversal of fortune for someone who for a stretch last year seemed like she could become the candidate to beat.\n\nDeval Patrick, Michael Bennet and Tulsi Gabbard were counting on New Hampshire to breath life into their campaigns. Instead, it was the end of the road for Bennet and all but curtains for the other two.\n\nThe race is now finally down to single digits among declared candidates, although the final outcome is still far from clear. Michael Bloomberg and his billions still hovers over as a great unknown in the race, as attention now turns to Nevada, South Carolina and the states to come.", "The daughter of wrestling legend, Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson, is set to continue her family's legacy.\n\nSimone Johnson, 18, has started training with WWE - following in the footsteps not just of her dad but her grandad, and her great-grandad too.\n\nShe will be the first fourth-generation superstar in WWE history.\n\n\"It means the world to me,\" Simone said in a statement. \"To know that my family has such a personal connection to wrestling is really special to me and I feel grateful to have the opportunity, not only to wrestle, but to carry on that legacy.\"\n\nHer training has already started alongside other future wrestling stars at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 𝖘𝖎𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖊 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Simone Johnson's unbridled passion and incredible drive has earned her a coveted spot training with the elite athletes from around the world at the WWE Performance Centre,\" said Paul \"Triple H\" Levesque, executive vice president.\n\nFollowing the announcement, The Rock posted on his Instagram: \"Dreams ain't just for dreamers... So proud. Live your dream. Let's work.\"\n\nHe was part of the first ever black tag team to win a WWE championship.\n\nAlthough she might feel like she has a lot to live up to - her parents are keen to make sure she feels no pressure.\n\nIn his post, The Rock wrote that Simone's journey \"will always be [hers] to create, earn & own\".\n\nHer mum, Dany Garcia, echoed that view, saying: \"Your future will be uniquely yours to earn.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Dany Garcia This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The Queensferry Crossing has reopened to traffic\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing has reopened after being closed since Monday evening because of falling ice.\n\nThe bridge connecting Edinburgh and Fife was shut after ice falling from the cables damaged eight vehicles.\n\nAmey, the bridge operators, said its engineers were now \"confident\" that the risk of further snow and ice build-up had passed.\n\nIt was the first time the bridge had been closed since it was opened in August 2017.\n\nMark Arndt, from Amey, said: \"We thank drivers for their patience and understanding during this closure.\n\n\"Safety had to come first, however the data we have gathered has improved our understanding of the issue and will help us to improve predictions and refine operating procedures in future.\"\n\nHe said that engineers would continue monitor the bridge as wintry weather continued over the next few days.\n• None 2.7km span over Firth of Forth\n\nAt least three car windscreens were smashed by falling ice and snow on Monday evening.\n\nThe southbound carriageway of the bridge was closed just before 18:00 on Monday after the reports of falling ice and was shut in both directions later that evening.\n\nIt reopened fully at 10:45 on Wednesday.\n\nMr Arndt said a \"very specific\" combination of wind direction, temperature and relative humidity had caused snow and ice to build up on the cables on Monday, making it \"really challenging\" to predict.\n\nThree car windscreens were smashed by falling ice 11 months ago, but the bridge remained open.\n\nMr Arndt told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that engineers had collected data in 2019 and this week which would help them predict the risk of similar conditions in the future.\n\nSensors which will help detect ice build-up are due to be installed on the bridge in the next few months.\n\nGraeme Stevenson's car windscreen was smashed by ice falling from the bridge\n\nMr Arndt said Amey had been consulting with bridge operators around the world on ways ice could safely be removed from the structure once it was detected.\n\nThe Port Mann Bridge in Vancouver, Canada, suffers from a similar problem and uses chains sliding down the cables to remove ice.\n\nBut Mr Arndt said this might not work for the Queensferry Crossing.\n\n\"To release a chain down the cable here would damage the cables because of the way it's been designed.\n\n\"We've got over 70km [43 miles] of cable here and if it forms quickly you then have to get the chain back up - and if you're knocking ice off you would then have to close the bridge at the same time.\"\n\nOther options include heating the cables, applying de-icer or coating the cables in material - though Mr Arndt said engineers would need to guard against the \"unintended consequences\" of any solution.\n\nThe closure of the bridge led to a build-up of traffic on alternative routes\n\nDuring the bridge closure, drivers were forced to take a 35-mile (56km) diversion over the Kincardine Bridge, leading to lengthy tailbacks.\n\nThe Forth Road Bridge (FRB) remained open for public transport, but Transport Scotland said it was not possible to divert general traffic on to it as it was \"currently undergoing significant renovation work\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Opening the FRB up to general traffic is likely to have resulted in increased congestion for all vehicles and leave the crossing vulnerable to lengthy delays as a result of any accidents or breakdowns. This would have a significant negative impact on journey times for public transport over the Forth.\n\n\"Following the recent closure of the Queensferry Crossing we will investigate the feasibility of reopening the Forth Road Bridge to general traffic under emergency circumstances, once the remaining works are complete and the contraflow is removed.\"", "The UK's planned ban on sales of new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars could start as early as 2032, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.\n\nLast week, the government sparked industry concern after bringing the date forward from 2040 to 2035 in a bid to hit zero-carbon emission targets.\n\nBut Mr Shapps told BBC Radio 5 live it would happen by 2035, \"or even 2032,\" adding there would be consultation.\n\nThe SMMT car trade body had previously said the 2035 figure was \"concerning\".\n\nThe government is setting out its proposals in the run-up to a United Nations climate summit in November.\n\nThe summit, known as COP26, is being hosted in Glasgow. It is an annual UN-led gathering set up to assess progress on tackling climate change.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who announced the 2035 date, said at the time that the ban would come even earlier if possible.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"We are consulting on a range of possible dates to bring forward the end to the sale of petrol and diesel cars and vans.\n\n\"The consultation proposal for this is 2035 - or earlier if a faster transition appears feasible - as well as including hybrids for the first time.\"\n\nThe UK has set a target of emitting virtually zero carbon by 2050. Experts warned that the original target date of 2040 would still leave old conventional cars on the roads 10 years later.\n\nOnce the ban comes into effect, only electric or hydrogen cars and vans will be available.\n\nHybrid vehicles are now included in the proposals, which were originally announced in July 2017.\n\nDespite this, RAC spokesman Simon Williams said: \"While the government appears to be constantly moving the goalposts forward for ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid vehicles, drivers should not be worried about opting for a plug-in hybrid now.\n\n\"They are potentially the perfect stepping stone for those who want to go electric, but who have concerns about range, as they aren't as expensive as a battery electric vehicle. At the moment, they give drivers the best of both worlds.\"\n\nThe Scottish government does not have the power to ban new petrol and diesel cars but has already pledged to \"phase out the need\" for them by 2032 with measures such as an expansion of the charging network for electric cars.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said it was not commenting for the moment. Last week, after the ban was brought forward to 2035, SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said the move was \"extremely concerning\".\n\nHe said: \"Manufacturers are fully invested in a zero emissions future... However, with current demand for this still expensive technology still just a fraction of sales, it's clear that accelerating an already very challenging ambition will take more than industry investment.\"\n\nNews that the UK end date may shunt forward to 2032 comes as no surprise.\n\nNorway has set a 2025 deadline for a ban on new petrol and diesel cars. Some Chinese cities are discussing a date around 2030.\n\nAt some point market dynamics will over-ride government policy anyway.\n\nBloomberg forecasts that the purchase price of electric vehicles will reach rough parity with fossil fuel cars by the middle of the decade.\n\nThat looks like a potential tipping point, as the costs for maintaining and running electric vehicles will be so much lower (until the chancellor finds a way of taxing electricity, that is).\n\nBut some experts are sounding a note of caution over the electric dream.\n\nThey say the only sure way of hitting the UK's emissions targets is to actually reduce the need for driving in the first place. They say the best short-term policy is to stop so many drivers buying SUVs.", "New powers will be given to the watchdog Ofcom to force social media firms to act over harmful content.\n\nUntil now, firms like Facebook, Tiktok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have largely been self-regulating.\n\nThe companies have defended their own rules about taking down unacceptable content, but critics say independent rules are needed to keep people safe.\n\nIt is unclear what penalties Ofcom will be able to enforce to target violence, cyber-bullying and child abuse.\n\nThere have been widespread calls for social media firms to take more responsibility for their content, especially after the death of Molly Russell who took her own life after viewing graphic content on Instagram.\n\nThe government has now announced it is \"minded\" to grant new powers to Ofcom - which currently only regulates the media and the telecoms industry, not internet safety.\n\nOfcom will have the power to make tech firms responsible for protecting people from harmful content such as violence, terrorism, cyber-bullying and child abuse - and platforms will need to ensure that content is removed quickly.\n\nThey will also be expected to \"minimise the risks\" of it appearing at all.\n\nThe regulator has just announced the appointment of a new chief executive, Dame Melanie Dawes, who will take up the role in March.\n\nMolly Russell's family found she had been accessing distressing material about depression and suicide on Instagram\n\n\"There are many platforms who ideally would not have wanted regulation, but I think that's changing,\" said Digital Secretary Baroness Nicky Morgan.\n\n\"I think they understand now that actually regulation is coming.\"\n\nJulian Knight, chair elect of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee which scrutinises social media companies, called for \"a muscular approach\" to regulation.\n\n\"That means more than a hefty fine - it means having the clout to disrupt the activities of businesses that fail to comply, and ultimately, the threat of a prison sentence for breaking the law,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said it had \"long called\" for new regulation, and said it was \"looking forward to carrying on the discussion\" with the government and wider industry.\n\nCommunication watchdog Ofcom already regulates television and radio broadcasters, including the BBC, and deals with complaints about them.\n\nThis is the government's first response to the Online Harms consultation it carried out in the UK in 2019, which received 2,500 replies.\n\nThe new rules will apply to firms hosting user-generated content, including comments, forums and video-sharing - that is likely to include Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok.\n\nThe intention is that government sets the direction of the policy but gives Ofcom the freedom to draw up and adapt the details. By doing this, the watchdog should have the ability to tackle new online threats as they emerge without the need for further legislation.\n\nA full response will be published in the spring.\n\n\"Too many times social media companies have said: 'We don't like the idea of children being abused on our sites, we'll do something, leave it to us,'\" said chief executive Peter Wanless.\n\n\"Thirteen self-regulatory attempts to keep children safe online have failed.\n\nSeyi Akiwowo set up the campaign group Glitch after experiencing online harassment.\n\nSeyi Akiwowo set up the online abuse awareness group Glitch after experiencing sexist and racist harassment online after a video of her giving a talk in her role as a councillor was posted on a neo-Nazi forum.\n\n\"When I first suffered abuse the response of the tech companies was below [what I'd hoped],\" she said.\n\n\"I am excited by the Online Harms Bill - it places the duty of care on these multi-billion pound tech companies.\"\n\nIn many countries, social media platforms are permitted to regulate themselves, as long as they adhere to local laws on illegal material.\n\nGermany introduced the NetzDG Law in 2018, which states that social media platforms with more than two million registered German users have to review and remove illegal content within 24 hours of being posted or face fines of up to €50m (£42m).\n\nAustralia passed the Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material Act in April 2019, introducing criminal penalties for social media companies, possible jail sentences for tech executives for up to three years and financial penalties worth up to 10% of a company's global turnover.\n\nChina blocks many western tech giants including Twitter, Google and Facebook, and the state monitors Chinese social apps for politically sensitive content.", "Syrian refugees at Zaatari camp in Jordan are working with scientists from the University of Sheffield and the UN Refugee Agency to create a way to grow healthy, fresh food with nothing but water and old mattress foam.\n\nThese 'recycled gardens' use the mattresses in place of the soil, which solves two problems in one: It reuses the mountain of plastic mattresses that have piled up in the camp and it allows everyone to grow fresh food in a crowded, desert environment.\n\nVictoria Gill has been to the camp in Jordan to see how it's working.\n\nProduced by Vanessa Clarke. Filmed and edited by Stephen Fildes.", "The government is to outline new powers for the media regulator Ofcom to police social media.\n\nIt is supposed to make the companies protect users from content involving things like violence, terrorism, cyber-bullying and child abuse.\n\nCompanies will have to ensure that harmful content is removed quickly and take steps to prevent it appearing in the first place.\n\nThey had previously relied largely on self-governance. Sites such as YouTube and Facebook have their own rules about what is unacceptable and the way that users are expected to behave towards one another.\n\nYouTube releases a transparency report, which gives data on its removals of inappropriate content.\n\nThe video-sharing site owned by Google said that 8.8m videos were taken down between July and September 2019, with 93% of them automatically removed by machines, and two thirds of those clips not receiving a single view.\n\nIt also removed 3.3 million channels and 517 million comments.\n\nGlobally, YouTube employs 10,000 people in monitoring and removing content, as well as policy development.\n\nFacebook, which owns Instagram, told Reality Check it has more than 35,000 people around the world working on safety and security, and it also releases statistics on its content removals.\n\nBetween July and September 2019 it took action on 30.3 million pieces of content of which it found 98.4% before any users flagged it.\n\nIf illegal content, such as \"revenge pornography\" or extremist material, is posted on a social media site, it has previously been the person who posted it, rather than the social media companies, who was most at risk of prosecution. But that may now change.\n\nSo if the UK has previously mainly relied on social media platforms governing themselves, what do other countries do?\n\nGermany's NetzDG law came into effect at the beginning of 2018, applying to companies with more than two million registered users in the country.\n\nThey were forced to set up procedures to review complaints about content they were hosting, remove anything that was clearly illegal within 24 hours and publish updates every six months about how they were doing.\n\nIndividuals may be fined up to €5m ($5.6m; £4.4m) and companies up to €50m for failing to comply with these requirements.\n\nThe government issued its first fine under the new law to Facebook in July 2019. The company had to pay €2m (£1.7m) for under-reporting illegal activity on its platforms in Germany, although the company complained that the new law had lacked clarity.\n\nThe EU is considering a clampdown, specifically on terror videos.\n\nSocial media platforms face fines if they do not delete extremist content within an hour.\n\nThe EU also introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which set rules on how companies, including social media platforms, store and use people's data.\n\nIt has also taken action on copyright. Its copyright directive puts the responsibility on platforms to make sure that copyright infringing content is not hosted on their sites.\n\nPrevious legislation only required the platforms to take down such content if it was pointed out to them.\n\nMember states have until 2021 to implement the directive into their domestic law.\n\nAustralia passed the Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material Act in 2019, introducing criminal penalties for social media companies, possible jail sentences for tech executives for up to three years and financial penalties worth up to 10% of a company's global turnover.\n\nIt followed the live-streaming of the New Zealand shootings on Facebook.\n\nIn 2015, the Enhancing Online Safety Act created an eSafety Commissioner with the power to demand that social media companies take down harassing or abusive posts. In 2018, the powers were expanded to include revenge porn.\n\nThe eSafety Commissioner's office can issue companies with 48-hour \"takedown notices\", and fines of up to 525,000 Australian dollars (£285,000). But it can also fine individuals up to A$105,000 for posting the content.\n\nThe legislation was introduced after the death of Charlotte Dawson, a TV presenter and a judge on Australia's Next Top Model, who killed herself in 2014 following a campaign of cyber-bullying against her on Twitter. She had a long history of depression.\n\nCardboard cut-outs were used at demonstrations over Facebook in Washington and Brussels last year\n\nA law came into force in Russia in November giving regulators the power to switch off connections to the worldwide web \"in an emergency\" although it is not yet clear how effectively they would be able to do this.\n\nRussia's data laws from 2015 required social media companies to store any data about Russians on servers within the country.\n\nIts communications watchdog blocked LinkedIn and fined Facebook and Twitter for not being clear about how they planned to comply with this.\n\nSites such as Twitter, Google and WhatsApp are blocked in China. Their services are provided instead by Chinese providers such as Weibo, Baidu and WeChat.\n\nChinese authorities have also had some success in restricting access to the virtual private networks that some users have employed to bypass the blocks on sites.\n\nThe Cyberspace Administration of China announced at the end of January 2019 that in the previous six months it had closed 733 websites and \"cleaned up\" 9,382 mobile apps, although those are more likely to be illegal gambling apps or copies of existing apps being used for illegal purposes than social media.\n\nChina has hundreds of thousands of cyber-police, who monitor social media platforms and screen messages that are deemed to be politically sensitive.\n\nSome keywords are automatically censored outright, such as references to the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.\n\nNew words that are seen as being sensitive are added to a long list of censored words and are either temporarily banned, or are filtered out from social platforms.\n\nThis piece was originally published in April 2018 and has been updated to reflect the Ofcom proposals and more recent statistics.", "Wayne Erasmus said his son was moved to the unit without notice\n\nA father whose autistic son is at a mental health unit in England has said he has not been able to see or speak to him for three years.\n\nWayne Erasmus said his son Huw, 31, moved without notice from a unit in Carmarthen to Birmingham and then on to St Andrew's Healthcare in Northampton.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) has raised concerns and criticised repeated failings in St Andrew's leadership.\n\nSt Andrew's said it had new leaders in place committed to making improvements.\n\nMr Erasmus, of Hendy, Carmarthenshire, said both St Andrew's and his local health board, Hywel Dda, had told him Huw did not want to speak to him.\n\n\"That's what they say but I know Huw gets worried and when he's worried he says he doesn't want to talk to the family,\" Mr Erasmus said.\n\n\"But then when he does want to speak with his family he has to wait two weeks for his fortnightly review… but they put pressure on him then to stick with no contact with the family. In my opinion, they're hiding behind that.\"\n\nHuw, who was raised in Hendy, Carmarthenshire, has been held under the Mental Health Act for six years. He was originally supposed to be there for six months.\n\n\"When he was in Carmarthen I could hear his voice when they asked him if he wanted to speak to mam or dad. Now that he's in St Andrew's - total black out,\" Mr Erasmus said.\n\n\"I don't think the place is suitable for him and the more I hear, the bigger the horror story is getting.\"\n\nJane Haines' daughter Ayla, who has anorexia, lives at the site. Ms Haines, from Carmarthen, said she was not allowed to contact her daughter as often as she would like and was worried about the level of care.\n\n\"The staff really do a phenomenal job and they're fighting a losing battle. It's down to the management... the ward at the very least should be sufficiently staffed and a lot of the time it isn't.\n\n\"We're restricted to four phone calls a week but for the last 18 months it's been three 10-minute phone calls a week - it's hell. That's what kept her going was our contact, that was her reason for living, so it's like, you've taken that away from her as well.\n\n\"There's restrictions on what we can talk about. We're not allowed to speak about medication, we're not allowed to speak about the staff. I'm not allowed to give her hope and say 'we will get you back to Wales'.\"\n\nJane Haines says she is restricted on what she can discuss with her daughter\n\nCQC inspectors, who visited the charity's headquarters in October, found the use of physical restraint had increased despite a plan to reduce it.\n\nThey also found the process of telling a patient's family when something went wrong was \"not fully effective\". Inspectors also found staff were not always confident to raise concerns without fear of reprisals.\n\nSt Andrew's said it was \"working closely with NHS Wales\" to ensure patients received the best and most appropriate care.\n\n\"There are often multiple factors that need to be taken into account, which at times require that these vulnerable individuals need very specialist treatment and observation in a safe, secure setting,\" it said.\n\nHywel Dda health board said it took concerns about patients' care and treatment \"very seriously\" and reviewed any concerns or feedback with its partners.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The world's largest mobile phone showcase, Mobile World Congress (MWC), has been cancelled over coronavirus concerns, organisers have confirmed.\n\nThe GSM Association (GSMA) said it had become \"impossible\" for the event to go ahead as planned in Barcelona.\n\nBT, Facebook, LG, Nokia, Sony and Vodafone were among the high-profile exhibitors to have pulled out of the annual event, citing coronavirus fears.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mr Illa said people should \"trust in the Spanish health system\" and \"take decisions based on scientific evidence\".\n\nMWC was due to be held in Barcelona on 24-27 February. More than 100,000 people usually attend the annual event, about 6,000 of whom travel from China.\n\nPreparations for the event were already under way, with banners offering hygiene advice\n\nThousands of companies exhibit their latest innovations, giving a huge lift to the local economy.\n\nBut earlier this week, Amazon, Sony, LG Electronics, Ericsson, Facebook, and chipmakers Intel and Nvidia said they would not attend the conference.\n\nFrench telecoms group Orange also pulled out, despite the fact its chief executive, Stephane Richard, chairs the GSMA.\n\nDeutsche Telekom had said it would be \"irresponsible\" to send its staff to a large gathering with so many international guests.\n\nIn a statement, GSMA chief executive John Hoffman said: \"With due regard to the safe and healthy environment in Barcelona and the host country today, the GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020.\"\n\nHe said \"global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances\" had made it impossible to hold the event.\n\nIndustry analyst Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy, said the GSMA had been a \"victim of circumstances out of its control\".\n\n\"It's a huge disappointment the show will not go ahead this year,\" he said.\n\n\"The impact on small companies who have invested a disproportionate amount of their budgets and time on this event should not be under-estimated. MWC is an anchor event for many and now they face the challenge of having to figure out the best way to salvage something from this difficult situation.\"\n\nA report by technology news site Wired suggested the GSMA had urged Spanish authorities to declare a health emergency so that it could cancel the event.\n\nThe report suggested its insurance policies would not cover the GSMA's losses, if the organisation chose to cancel the event, rather than being required to do so by authorities declaring a health emergency.", "The Splash has been in private ownership since 2006\n\nOne of British artist David Hockney's most famous works, The Splash, has been sold for £23.1m at Sotheby's in London.\n\nThe buyer is not known. It had been estimated to sell for £20m-£30m - and ended up going for £23,117,000.\n\nThe painting, in Hockney's minimalist style, depicts the moment after a diver hits the water in an LA swimming pool.\n\nIt is considered one of the stand-out pop art images of the 20th Century and is one of a trio of works alongside A Little Splash and A Bigger Splash.\n\nA Bigger Splash is housed in London's Tate Britain while A Little Splash remains in a private collection and has never appeared on the public market.\n\n\"Not only is this a landmark work within David Hockney's oeuvre, it's an icon of Pop that defined an era and also gave a visual identity to LA,\" Emma Baker, head of Sotheby's contemporary art evening sale, said in a statement.\n\nWhen it was previously sold to a private owner in 2006 it went for £2.9m - a then record price for a Hockney work - and it has remained with that buyer until now.\n\nPrior to that, the £1.9m sale of A Neat Lawn, also in 2006, had set a precedent for a Hockney.\n\nDavid Hockney was inspired to create his Splash series by his early years in Los Angeles\n\nSince then, the growing interest among the most wealthy in the value-holding investment benefits of high-end contemporary art have seen auction prices climb.\n\nThis was illustrated at a 2018 auction at Christie's in New York where Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold for just over $90m (£70m) - an auction record at the time for a work by a living artist.\n\nIt's since been beaten by the $91.1m (£70.3m) sale in 2019 of a sculpture by US pop artist Jeff Koons.\n\nIn May 2018, Hockney's Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica sold for $28.5m (£22m) - which was more than double the previous auction record for the artist.\n\nThe Splash captures the brief moment just seconds after a swimmer has broken the calm surface of a pool.\n\nThe painting's protagonist is present, yet absent, hidden by the displaced water. The work is a classic example of Hockney's lifelong fascination with the texture, appearance and depth of water.\n\nThe Splash series was inspired by the time Hockney spent in Los Angeles following his graduation from art school.\n\nHe first visited the Californian city in 1964. On returning to London later that year, he began to work on his first pool painting, Picture of a Hollywood Swimming Pool, which fetched $7.2m (£5.6m) at an auction at Sotheby's New York in November 2019.\n\nIn 1966, he went back to Los Angeles and moved into an apartment in the city. It was there that Hockney, in his new sun-soaked environment, created the Splash paintings between 1966 and 1967.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn clashed with the PM over deportations\n\nJeremy Corbyn has launched a personal attack on Boris Johnson as the two clashed in Parliament over the deportation of foreign offenders.\n\nThe Labour leader accused the PM of misleading the country about the nature of offences committed, saying some deportees were victims of drug gangs.\n\nMr Corbyn said it showed the government had \"learnt absolutely nothing\" from the 2018 Windrush controversy.\n\nMr Johnson said the Labour leader had \"demeaned himself\" with the claims.\n\nThe PM defended the decision to forcibly remove 17 men to Jamaica earlier this week, telling MPs that while he couldn't comment on individual cases \"it is entirely right that foreign national offenders should be deported from the country in accordance with the law\".\n\nThe Home Office has said the criminals deported had combined jail sentences of at least 75 years, including two convicted of rape, one of whom was sentenced to 11 years in jail and the other to four years and six months.\n\nOn Tuesday, it released a list providing limited detail of the crimes of those on board the flight.\n\nThey included one persistent offender who had 24 convictions for 33 offences, another jailed for nine years for conspiracy to rob and possession of a firearm and another given a seven-year sentence for intent to supply class A drugs.\n\nDuring heated exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Corbyn referred to the Windrush controversy, in which a number of British citizens were wrongfully detained and, in some cases, deported.\n\nHe asked the PM whether it was right that one of those deported this week was a black man who had come to the UK when he was five, who committed a single drugs-related offence after being groomed by \"county lines\" gangs but had not subsequently re-offended.\n\n\"This cruel and callous government is trying to mislead the British people into thinking that it is solely deporting foreign nationals who are guilty of murder, rape and other serious offences,\" he said.\n\n\"This is clearly not the case.\"\n\nThe Labour leader asked: \"If there was a young white boy with blonde hair, who later dabbled in class A drugs, and conspired with a friend to beat up a journalist, would he deport that boy?\n\n\"Or is it one rule for young black boys from the Caribbean, and another for white boys from the US?\"\n\nDowning Street said the man Mr Corbyn was referring to had not been deported on Tuesday's flight.\n\nThe prime minister was born in the United States, and has faced questions about past drug use.\n\nHe was asked about claims that he had taken cocaine at university by Marie Claire Magazine in 2008. He said, \"that was when I was 19\".\n\nIn an appearance on Have I Got News For You in 2005, he admitted being given the drug, but suggested he hadn't actually taken it: \"I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed and so it did not go up my nose. In fact, I may have been doing icing sugar.\"\n\nWhile he was working as a journalist in the early 1990s, Mr Johnson had a conversation with a friend , Darius Guppy, who had been demanding the private address of a News of the World journalist.\n\nA recording of the call suggested Mr Johnson had agreed to supply the details, even though Guppy, who was later jailed for fraud, had indicated he had wanted to have the reporter, who had been investigating his affairs, beaten up.\n\nIn a BBC interview in 2013, Mr Johnson stressed that \"nothing eventuated\" from the conversation and that people often said \"fantastical things\" to close friends of theirs.\n\nResponding to Mr Corbyn, Mr Johnson said the Labour leader had \"no right to conflate\" the actions of those deported this week with the mistreatment of the descendants of Windrush families who came from the Commonwealth to work in post-war Britain.\n\n\"I think quite frankly the honourable gentleman demeans himself and besmirches the reputation of the Windrush generation who came to this country to work in our public services and teach our children, to make lives better for the people of this country.\"\n\nMr Corbyn also called for Dominic Raab to be removed as foreign secretary, accusing him of misleading the family of Harry Dunn over the true identity of Anne Sacoolas, the woman suspected of causing his death by dangerous driving outside a US air base last summer.\n\nHe said it had been \"widely reported\" that Ms Sacoolas, whose extradition the US has rejected on grounds of diplomatic immunity, worked for the CIA while in the UK, suggesting this information had been withheld from the family.\n\nMr Johnson rejected this, saying the US authorities had told the Foreign Office that Ms Sacoolas had \"no official role\".\n\nHe pledged to continue to press the US to allow her to face justice in the UK while acknowledging the extradition treaty between the two countries was \"imbalanced\".", "Drivers and passengers were taken to safety by members of Moffat Mountain Rescue Team\n\nA mountain rescue team battled through the snow to assist drivers stranded in severe conditions in southern Scotland.\n\nVehicles became stuck on the A702 at the Dalveen Pass near Durisdeer in Dumfries and Galloway on Tuesday night.\n\nMoffat Mountain Rescue Team said a total of 12 people were helped to safety overnight in what they described as \"poor weather\".\n\nA string of Met Office weather warnings remain in place across Scotland for the days ahead.\n\nThe rescue operation came after an amber alert was issued for much of Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice was in place across most of Scotland until 12:00 on Wednesday.\n\nThe rescue operation at Dalveen Pass came after days of wintry conditions in Scotland\n\nAs well as the incident in Dumfries and Galloway, Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team was also called out in the Borders.\n\nIt came at about 15:00 on Tuesday to help the occupants of a vehicle which had slipped off the road in a \"remote location\" in the region.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland had to clear the line at Corrour on Wednesday morning\n\nGritters were out working on the roads near Beattock on Tuesday as conditions got worse\n\nThe operation took about four hours to complete in blizzard conditions which team members described as \"some of the harshest\" they had ever worked in.\n\nDisruption continued on Wednesday after the amber alert the day before.\n\nIn Dumfries and Galloway, three schools have been been closed in Sanquhar, Kelloholm and Hottsbridge.\n\nConditions deteriorated near Penicuik on Tuesday as the amber weather warning came into force\n\nPolice also reported a number of crashes across the region with many routes affected by ice.\n\nDrivers have been asked to \"slow down and drive accordingly\".\n\nIn the Highlands, Kinlochbervie High School, six primary schools and three nurseries have been closed due to the weather. The closures affect more than 180 children.\n\nDeep snow drifts had to be cleared from the West Highland Line on Wednesday morning.\n\nA Network Rail Scotland crew spent about 20 minutes clearing the line at Corrour, the highest mainline railway station in the UK and famous for its appearance in the 1996 film Trainspotting.\n\nLeadhills also saw significant snowfalls on Tuesday\n\nThe public was asked to take care if going out\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The duchess got up close and personal to a number of creatures at the Ark Open Farm in Newtownards\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has met young children during a visit to an open farm in County Down, Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a one-stop solo visit on Wednesday, the duchess received a guided tour of the Ark Open Farm outside Newtownards, meeting the owners and staff.\n\nThe duchess visited NI as part of a nationwide tour to promote a survey she launched on early years development.\n\nDuring her visit she met representatives of local charities helping children and their families.\n\nThe duchess was greeted on arrival by the Lord Lieutenant of County Down, David Lindsay, the Sheriff of County Down, Austin Baird and the Mayor of Ards and North Down, Bill Keery.\n\nThe survey launched by Catherine and conducted by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Royal Foundation, asks questions on the early years development of children.\n\nIt is thought to be the biggest poll of its kind, asking \"five big questions on the under-fives\".\n\nThe duchess has made the issue of the \"future health and happiness\" central to her public activities and hopes the results of the survey spark a conversation on early childhood and guide the focus of her work.\n\nWell-wishers turned out to greet the duchess on her first solo-visit to Northern Ireland\n\nAfter leaving Northern Ireland the duchess headed to Scotland, visiting a cafe run by a homeless charity in Aberdeen.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced on Twitter they would be visiting the Republic of Ireland from 3 to 5 March.", "Mr Johnson took a holiday on the island of Mustique with partner Carrie Symonds after Christmas\n\nLabour has called on Boris Johnson to clarify who paid for his Caribbean holiday over the New Year.\n\nAccording to the MPs' register of interests, the accommodation - has a \"value\" of £15,000 - and was covered by David Ross, the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Ross said the register \"is correct\" and he \"facilitated accommodation\" for the PM.\n\nDowning Street said the trip had been properly registered.\n\nThe register also shows earnings Mr Johnson received last year before becoming PM, including more than £327,000 for seven speaking engagements, one of which was a three-hour speech where he was paid £122,899.74.\n\nThe prime minister took the holiday to St Vincent and the Grenadines with girlfriend Carrie Symonds between Boxing Day 2019 and 5 January 2020.\n\nLabour's shadow minister for the cabinet office, Jon Trickett, said Mr Johnson \"must come clean\" about the holiday accommodation, adding that if he does not, Parliament's standards watchdog \"should step in\".\n\n\"The public deserves to know who is paying for their prime minister's jaunts,\" Mr Trickett added.\n\nThe entry in Mr Johnson's register of interests says Mr Ross donated accommodation \"for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000\".\n\nBut a spokesman for Mr Ross told the Daily Mail: \"Boris wanted some help to find somewhere in Mustique, David called the company who run all the villas and somebody had dropped out.\n\n\"So Boris got the use of a villa that was worth £15,000, but David Ross did not pay any monies whatsoever for this.\"\n\nA later statement from the spokesman added: \"Mr Ross facilitated accommodation for Mr Johnson on Mustique valued at £15,000.\n\n\"Therefore this is a benefit in kind from Mr Ross to Mr Johnson, and Mr Johnson's declaration to the House of Commons is correct.\"\n\nMr Ross has not provided any further details as to what he means, in this context, by a 'benefit in kind.'\n\nBut sources in Westminster have suggested to me that this could refer to some sort of swap whereby David Ross agreed to give up his property - at a later date - in order to facilitate the prime minister's stay elsewhere on the island.\n\nAnd that there was no kind of cash donation.\n\nDavid Ross, the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, at a photography exhibition in 2011\n\nMr Ross was one of Mr Johnson's aides in City Hall and was appointed to the Olympics organising committee.\n\nBut he resigned from the roles, and his company, over a share scandal in 2008.\n\nIt emerged Mr Ross had used millions of pounds' worth of Carphone Warehouse shares as collateral against personal loans without informing the company's other directors - a potential breach of City rules at the time.\n\nMr Ross has been a long-standing donor to the Conservative Party, pledging £250,000 in the last election campaign.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"All transparency requirements have been followed, as set out in the Register of Members' Financial Interests\".\n\nMr Johnson faced criticism over his holiday for not returning sooner, after the US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani raised tensions in the Middle East.\n\nIt is the first trip abroad that Mr Johnson has declared since going to Saudi Arabia in September 2018.\n\nOnly one other MP has declared a free holiday in the last year.\n\nMr Johnson also declared payments he had received prior to becoming prime minister, including book royalties and hundreds of thousands of pounds for speaking engagements.\n\nIn the first six months of 2019, Mr Johnson earned more than £327,000 for the seven speaking engagements, which lasted a total of 17.5 hours.\n\nHe was also paid £22,916.66 a month for his column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which was published weekly.", "Google has changed how shopping results appear so shoppers can now see goods from price comparison sites as well as its own results\n\nGoogle's appeal against a huge fine imposed by the European Commission over its alleged abuse of power in promoting its own shopping comparison service will be heard over the next three days.\n\nThe hearing will take place at the General Court in Luxembourg.\n\nThe €2.4bn ($2.6bn; £2bn) fine was handed out in 2017 and the search giant has always vowed to fight it.\n\nIt argues that the case has no legal or economic merit.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Google said: \"We're appealing [against] the European Commission's 2017 Google Shopping decision because it is wrong on the law, the facts, and the economics. Shopping ads have always helped people find the products they are looking for quickly and easily, and helped merchants to reach potential customers.\n\n\"We look forward to making our case in court and demonstrating that we have improved quality and increased choice for consumers.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the tech giant will argue that it fulfilled its legal obligations to allow rivals access to its products.\n\nIt will also argue that the EC excluded key players such as Amazon from its investigation. It will claim the online role of comparison shopping services has diminished, largely because platforms such as Amazon have become the preferred place to look for products and compare prices.\n\nIn order to comply with the EC's ruling, Google changed the shopping box displayed at the top of search results. It now shows its own ad results but also gives space to other shopping comparison services, which can bid for advertising slots.\n\nThe European Commission will be supported in its case by shopping comparison sites Kelkoo, Twenga and Foundem, among others.\n\nFoundem, the lead complainant in the case, filed its complaint against Google back in 2009.\n\nIn a statement, Kelkoo told the BBC it stood \"ready to support the European Commission during the hearings\".\n\n\"We believe in the merits of the shopping decision and its potential to deliver a fairer market for European consumers and businesses. At the same time, we continue to call for a remedy which tackles the harm caused by Google's abuse and we will endeavour to work closely with the Commission in the coming months to make this happen.\"\n\nGoogle has amassed fines of €8.2bn from the EC in the last three years, all relating to alleged abuses of power.\n\nAlong with other tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Apple, it also now faces anti-trust investigations in the US.\n\nIf its appeal is upheld it will be a big blow for the EC's competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has taken a tough stance on the Silicon Valley tech firms and what she sees as their monopolistic grip on the digital landscape.\n\nIt is expected that the court will deliver its judgement in the second half of the year.", "Sam Rowley spent five nights flat on the platform trying to get his picture\n\nAnyone who's travelled on London Underground's network will know them - the little black mice that scurry along the platforms and under the rails.\n\nSam Rowley was so fascinated by these subterranean rodents, he spent a week down the tube trying to picture them.\n\nAnd one night, he captured an image of two of them literally battling over a morsel of food dropped by a passenger.\n\nThat persistence to get the snap has won Sam the Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice award.\n\nFans of the annual, internationally famous WPY competition were asked to rank some of the images that didn't quite win its top prizes last October, but were nonetheless fabulous shots.\n\nA couple of jaguars tackle an anaconda - by Michel Zoghzhog\n\nSome 28,000 voted for Sam's \"Station Squabble\" as their favourite in this \"best of the rest\" category.\n\nHe spent late nights at a central London tube stop, down on his belly trying to get the perfect low-angle view.\n\nHis two subjects had been foraging separately until they chanced across the same morsel of food. For a split second, they argued over who should have it before then going their separate ways.\n\n\"I usually take a burst of photos and I got lucky with this shot, but then I had spent five days lying on a platform so it was probably going to happen at some point,\" Sam said.\n\nThe Londoner is currently working in Bristol as a researcher for the BBC's natural history film-making unit.\n\nSam says photographing urban wildlife is his passion. He believes people have a connection with the animals in our cities and towns because these creatures live among us.\n\nHe also admires the tenacity of the animals that eke out an existence in what is a very tough environment.\n\n\"These tube mice, for example, are born and spend their whole lives without ever even seeing the Sun or feeling a blade of grass. On one level, it's a desperate situation - running along gloomy passages for a few months, maybe a year or two, and then dying. And because there are so many mice and so few resources, they have to fight over something as irrelevant as a crumb.\"\n\nThis orangutan was being exploited for performance - by Aaron Gekoski\n\nLondon's Natural History Museum runs the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.\n\nSir Michael Dixon, the institution's director, said of the picture: \"Sam's image provides a fascinating glimpse into how wildlife functions in a human-dominated environment. The mice's behaviour is sculpted by our daily routine, the transport we use and the food we discard. This image reminds us that while we may wander past it every day, humans are inherently intertwined with the nature that is on our doorstep - I hope it inspires people to think about and value this relationship more.\"\n\nThere were four runners-up, or \"Highly Commended\", images in the LUMIX poll.\n\nThese included an unfortunate orangutan being exploited for performance, taken by Aaron Gekoski; a dramatic picture of a mother and cub jaguar tackling an anaconda, captured by Michel Zoghzhogi; a touching portrait of a conservation ranger and the baby black rhino he's looking after, shot by Martin Buzora; and a group of white arctic reindeer pictured in the snow by Francis De Andres.\n\nThe 56th WPY competition is currently being judged by a panel of experts, and its grand prize winners will be revealed in October.\n\nThis group of white arctic reindeer was pictured by Francis De Andres.\n\nA touching portrait of a conservation ranger and a baby black rhino - by Martin Buzora\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter @BBCAmos", "The Oxford English Dictionary has changed its definition of the word Yid to include a \"supporter of or player for Tottenham Hotspur\".\n\nThe word has frequently been used against Jewish people as an offensive term but over the years has been appropriated by Spurs fans.\n\nSpurs have a strong Jewish following and have been targeted with anti-Semitic abuse by opposing fans.\n\nThe club has labelled the new definition as \"misleading\".\n\nA Spurs spokesman said the club has maintained that \"our fans (both Jewish and gentile) have never used the term with any intent to cause offence\", and said the OED failed to distinguish the contexts in which the term is and is not offensive.\n\nBut Jewish groups said the OED must make clear the word is a \"term of abuse\".\n\nThe OED, regarded as the leading dictionary of British English, has also added the word \"yiddo\" to its latest edition, saying its use is \"usually derogatory and offensive\" but can also mean a Tottenham supporter or player.\n\nIt says the word \"Yid\" is offensive when used by non-Jewish people to refer to Jews, and when used to refer to Spurs fans or players, it says the word is \"frequently derogatory and offensive\" - but is also used by fans to refer to themselves.\n\nThe words come from the Yiddish term for Jew but are thought to have been taken up as an insult during the 20th Century, particularly during the time of Oswald Moseley's fascist movement in Britain in the 1930s.\n\nChants of \"Yids\", \"Yid Army\" and \"yiddos\" are frequently heard in the home stands at White Hart Lane, with some Spurs fans saying they have reclaimed the word.\n\nBut Jewish groups have condemned the way it has been used, saying the word \"must not be tolerated\" by the club.\n\nThe OED said it takes a historical approach, meaning it records the usage and development of words rather than prescribing how they are used.\n\n\"We reflect, rather than dictate, how language is used which means we include words which may be considered sensitive and derogatory. These are always labelled as such,\" it said, in a statement.\n\nThe OED said the reference to Tottenham reflected the evidence that the club was associated with the Jewish community and that the term was used as a \"self-designation\" by some fans.\n\nIt said the entry for \"yiddo\" was marked as \"offensive and derogatory\" and it would ensure the context was made clear in both definitions.\n\nProminent Jewish football fans including David Baddiel and groups such as the Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Semitic abuse, have called on Spurs to stop using the words in chants.\n\nThe CST said the dictionary bore a \"special responsibility to ensure that anti-Semitic or otherwise offensive terms are clearly marked as such\".\n\nSimon Johnson, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, which represents many British Jewish community groups, said: \"This is a term of abuse with malicious anti-Semitic overtones.\n\n\"If the OED wishes to include such an expression it must make it abundantly clear that this is a despicable term of abuse.\"\n\nJewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard said the word was \"not controversial among many of the Jewish Spurs supporters, such as myself, who are proud to be Yiddos\".\n\nThe \"Y-word\" is not used on official merchandise, but has been adopted unofficially by fans\n\nBut rival fans also asked on social media if the definition meant it was acceptable for other teams to use the word or whether it was no longer considered racist.\n\nSpurs said in their statement that they \"have never accommodated the use of the Y-word on any club channels or in club stores\".\n\nIn December, the club released the results of a survey on the word, with more than 23,000 responses.\n\nNearly half of respondents wanted fans to abandon the chant or use it less, with 94% acknowledging it could be considered a racist term against a Jewish person.\n\nBut 33% of of respondents said they used the word \"regularly\" in a football context, while 12% also used it outside of football.", "Monday's rescue was carried out in bad weather\n\nFour men rescued from Ben Nevis in high winds and blizzard conditions have apologised to, and thanked, their rescuers.\n\nLochaber Mountain Rescue Team and Inverness Coastguard helicopter went to the aid of the tourists, who were not equipped for winter hillwalking.\n\nFollowing Monday's incident, they have sent the team a donation along with gifts of whisky, wine and chocolates.\n\nLochaber MRT has thanked the men for the \"generous offer\".\n\nIn a statement, the rescue team said the group had admitted to having made \"a significant error of judgement\" and were \"extremely sorry\".\n\nThe rescue on Monday afternoon came during bad weather in the wake of Storm Ciara.\n\nLochaber MRT was sent a donation towards its funding and gifts as thanks for Monday's rescue\n\nThe four men, who were visiting Scotland from abroad, were taken to Belford Hospital in Fort William for treatment.\n\nLochaber MRT, like other mountain rescue teams, rely on grants and public donations for funding.\n\nResponding to calls on social media for people to take out insurance before heading into Scotland's hills, or for people to be charged for being rescued, the team said such measures would be unworkable.\n\n\"Where do you stop? Insurance for fishing, rugby, football all of which have more incidents and injuries than mountaineering?\" said the team.\n\nThe team said efforts should be focused on increasing awareness of mountain safety and weather forecasts, adding that the rescued four men should be \"cut a little bit of slack\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A GP practice in Brighton is temporarily closed after a staff member tested positive for coronavirus\n\nFive of the eight confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK have been linked to Brighton. But while authorities have told people to carry on their daily routines, on the streets uncertainty is building.\n\nSteve Walsh, a businessman from Hove who recently returned from Singapore, is thought to have infected 11 people - five of whom live in the city.\n\nA Brighton GP and an A&E doctor at nearby Worthing, West Sussex, are among those already identified as carriers.\n\nBrighton Council said residents shouldn't panic, but Maddy Lewis, 19, a student at Brighton University, said she was \"really worried\" by the latest developments.\n\n\"I've been over-thinking it. I was planning on not coming out today,\" she said, adding that she had ordered some masks which were \"turning up tomorrow\".\n\nShe said she would be wearing them when she went home to Suffolk to see her family as she didn't want to pass the virus on to them if she had it.\n\nStudent Maddy Lewis (right) said she was worried about taking the virus home to Suffolk\n\n\"It's a two week incubation period. How do I know if I have got it or not?\" she said.\n\nHer friend Alex Fitzgerald-Starr, also 19, laughed at this suggestion. She said she was \"pretty chilled\" about it all but said she was worried it might have \"got into to the university\".\n\nThe University of Sussex has confirmed a student that had recently returned from overseas had been admitted to hospital for tests. The results are not yet known.\n\nAlex said that while the pair were at Brighton University, \"we all socialise together\".\n\n\"We live in large halls of residence. Get on the same buses. Come into town. It would spread so easily,\" she said.\n\nCassidy Seaborne, from Whitehawk, in Brighton, was out with her one-year-old daughter in a buggy.\n\n\"I want to put a mask on her,\" she said.\n\nMs Seaborne said she was \"scared\" by reports the virus had a worse effect on \"people with low immune systems or young children\", and she really just wanted to stay at home.\n\n\"If someone coughs, it makes me nervous,\" she said, adding that she had seen \"about five people in masks on one bus\" in one day.\n\nCassidy Seaborne was \"scared\" for her one-year-old daughter\n\nIn contrast, Frank Hayden, 45, from Eastbourne, who works at Timpson's in Brighton, shrugged off such concerns.\n\n\"I'm not bothered. I come into contact with the general public on a daily basis. It's just like the flu, isn't it? I'm not one for scare-mongering,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said he didn't \"watch the news or read much\".\n\n\"If I catch it, I'd just do what I'm told to do, self-isolate,\" he said.\n\nShop-worker Frank Hayden said he was \"not bothered\"\n\nMeanwhile, parents of pupils at Cottesmore St Mary's Catholic School in Brighton were told two people from the school have been advised by Public Health England to self-isolate for 14 days after coming into contact with a coronavirus case.\n\nParents were told: \"If you wish to keep your child off of school at this time, then we will authorise this absence.\"\n\nJournalist Sarah Lewis has a daughter at Cottesmore. She said she \"initially had a moment\" when she got the message, but was \"trying not to panic\".\n\nShe said: \"Judging by my Whatsapp groups, a lot of people are choosing to keep their children at home.\"\n\nBut she would be sending her daughter to school on Wednesday and was reassured that the school was being informative and taking action.\n\n\"They have done a lot of work with the children on prevention, even before today, with hand-washing and so on,\" she said.\n\n\"The head teacher is lovely - a mum herself, and very careful.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe boss of an NHS trust at the centre of concerns about preventable baby deaths has claimed the scale of the failings is not clearly defined.\n\nSusan Acott, chief executive of East Kent Hospitals Trust, said there had only been \"six or seven\" avoidable deaths at the trust since 2011.\n\nHowever, the BBC revealed on Monday that the trust previously accepted responsibility for at least 10.\n\nMs Acott said some of the baby deaths were \"not as clear-cut\".\n\nA series of failings came to light during the inquest of Harry Richford who died seven days after his birth at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate in November 2017.\n\nThe inquest was told Harry would have survived but for failings by the hospital\n\nA coroner ruled Harry's death was \"wholly avoidable\" and was contributed to by hospital neglect.\n\nMs Acott added she had not read a key report from 2015 drawing attention to maternity problems at the trust until December 2019.\n\nThe trust has apologised to the Richford family and Ms Acott says she has offered to meet them.\n\nMs Acott claims that from 2011 to 2020 there were \"about six or seven\" baby deaths that were viewed as preventable.\n\nShe says the other deaths were being investigated adding \"these things aren't always black and white\".\n\nMs Acott said: \"It is not always quite as clear cut as that. That is not to say we shouldn't learn and shouldn't investigate.\"\n\nDespite the most recent preventable death taking place in November, Ms Acott said she believes the trust has improved.\n\nShe said: \"I think it is about trying to persist. Are we going about trying to improve our clinical care, are we doing everything that's expected of us. I think we are.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's an organisation with a lot of issues and problems, of that there's no doubt. We have to use the memory of Harry Richford to say we will learn, we will do better and we won't let this happen again.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Woman jailed for trying to open Jet2 plane door mid-flight\n\nA woman who tried to open a passenger plane door mid-flight, prompting two fighter jets to be scrambled, has been jailed for two years.\n\nChloe Haines, 26, from High Wycombe, scratched a crew member as she lunged at the door shouting \"I'm going to kill you all,\" the court heard.\n\nTwo RAF fighter jets rushed to escort the plane back to Stansted Airport, causing a sonic boom across Essex.\n\nHaines, who admitted two charges, was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court.\n\nShe pleaded guilty to endangering the safety of a passenger plane and assault by beating.\n\nThe incident took place on a Jet2 flight with 206 people aboard, heading to Dalaman in Turkey on 22 June.\n\nHaines said that she \"blacked out and didn't really remember what happened\" after mixing alcohol with medication, prosecutor Michael Crimp told the court.\n\nCabin crew member Charley Coombe suffered scratches as she tried to prevent Haines from opening the plane door.\n\nA passenger later told police he \"really feared she would open the door\", the court heard.\n\nMr Crimp said she yelled \"I want to die\" and \"I'm going to kill you all\" to the crew and passengers attempting to restrain her.\n\nChloe Haines also scratched a crew member who tried to stop her opening the door mid-flight\n\nThe court heard it was impossible to open an exit door mid-flight but many passengers would not have known this.\n\nMr Crimp added that the RAF jets were sent \"in error\".\n\nHaines' barrister Oliver Saxby QC described her as \"a troubled young person with a number of serious issues\".\n\nShe had been given a community order for similar offences involving alcohol and a loss of control 17 days before the incident, the court heard.\n\nMr Saxby said she had been diagnosed with mental ill health and had not touched alcohol since 22 June.\n\n\"She wasn't just drunk, she was unwell,\" he said, adding that she felt \"appalled\".\n\n\"She's ashamed,\" he said. \"She's deeply embarrassed by what she did\".\n\nJudge Charles Gratwicke said: \"Those that are trapped in the confined space of the aircraft will inevitably be distressed, frightened and petrified by the actions of those who in a drunken state endanger their lives.\n\n\"For some it will be their worst nightmare come true.\"\n\nJet2 calculated that the incident cost them £86,000, the court was told.\n\nSteve Heapy, CEO of the airline, welcomed the sentence and said it was \"one of the most serious cases of disruptive passenger behaviour that we have experienced\".\n\nHe said Haines was now banned for life from the airline.\n\nMr Heapy said she had \"caused distress for customers as well as our crew\" and added \"we simply will not tolerate this on our flights\".\n\nHe also said they would continue to work on on the issue of \"drinking to excess in the airport before flying, as well as the illicit consumption of duty free alcohol on board the aircraft\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The study results have implications for the fight against climate change.\n\nUp to one fifth of the Amazon rainforest is emitting more CO2 than it absorbs, new research suggests.\n\nResults from a decade-long study of greenhouse gases over the Amazon basin appear to show around 20% of the total area has become a net source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.\n\nOne of the main causes is deforestation.\n\nWhile trees are growing they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; dead trees release it again.\n\nMillions of trees have been lost to logging and fires in recent years.\n\nThe results of the study, which have not yet been published, have implications for the effort to combat climate change.\n\nThey suggest that the Amazon rainforest - a vital carbon store, or \"sink\", that slows the pace of global warming - may be turning into a carbon source faster than previously thought.\n\nEvery two weeks for the past 10 years, a team of scientists led by Prof Luciana Gatti, a researcher at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), has been measuring greenhouse gases by flying aircraft fitted with sensors over different parts of the Amazon basin.\n\nWhat the group found was startling: while most of the rainforest still retains its ability to absorb large quantities of carbon dioxide - especially in wetter years - one portion of the forest, which is especially heavily deforested, appears to have lost that capacity.\n\nGatti's research suggests this south-eastern part of the forest, about 20% of the total area, has become a carbon source.\n\n\"Each year is worse,\" she told Newsnight.\n\n\"We observed that this area in the south-east is an important source of carbon. And it doesn't matter whether it is a wet year or a dry year. 2017-18 was a wet year, but it didn't make any difference.\"\n\nA forest can become a source of carbon rather than a store, or sink, when trees die and emit carbon into the atmosphere.\n\nAreas of deforestation also contribute to the Amazon's inability to absorb carbon.\n\nCarlos Nobre, who co-authored Prof Gatti's study, called the observation \"very worrying\" because \"it could be showing the beginnings of a major tipping point\".\n\nHe believes the new findings suggest that in the next 30 years, more than half of the Amazon could transform from rainforest into savanna.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor decades, scientists have warned of an \"Amazon tipping-point\": the point at which the forest loses its ability to renew itself and begins to emit more carbon than it absorbs.\n\n\"[The Amazon] used to be, in the 1980s and 90s, a very strong carbon sink, perhaps extracting two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from the atmosphere,\" says Prof Nobre, who is also a researcher at the University of Sao Paulo's Institute for Advanced Studies and Brazil's leading expert on the Amazon.\n\n\"Today, that strength is reduced perhaps to 1-1.2bn tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.\"\n\nTo put that in context, a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide is almost three times what the UK said it officially emitted in 2018.\n\nBut that figure does not take into account the amount of carbon dioxide released through deforestation and forest fires.\n\nAnd after almost a decade going down, deforestation in the Amazon has increased significantly in recent years. 2019 was a particularly bad year.\n\nBetween July and September last year, destruction was above 1,000 sq km (386 sq mi) per month.\n\n\"In our calculations, if we exceed that 20-25% of deforestation, and global warming continues unabated with high emission scenarios, then the tipping point would be reached,\" says Prof Nobre, one of the first proponents of the tipping point theory. \"Today we are at about 17%,\" he adds.\n\nOpinions on when this tipping point could occur differs among scientists.\n\n\"Some people think that it won't be until three-degrees warming - so towards the end of the century, whereas other people think that we could get [it with] deforestation up above 20% or so and that might happen in the next decade or two. So it's really, really uncertain,\" explained Simon Lewis, professor of global change science at UCL.\n\nHowever Prof Lewis called the results of Nobre's research \"shocking\". \"It says to me that perhaps this is more near-term than perhaps I was initially thinking.\"\n\nProf Nobre's theory was based on climate models. The new study is based on real-life observations, which produce more accurate results.\n\nProf Gatti told Newsnight she wanted to see a moratorium on deforestation in the Amazon to establish whether the trend could be reversed. But that looks unlikely.\n\nBrazil's president has made his priority for the rainforest very clear: development over conservation.\n\nSaving the Amazon is, for now, a question of political choice. But the science suggests that choice may not be on offer for very much longer.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "A diminished BBC would weaken the country as a whole, the corporation's chairman has warned.\n\nSir David Clementi said putting the broadcaster's services behind a paywall would lessen its ability to \"bring the country together\".\n\nNot everybody would be able to access the \"live important moments we enjoy as a nation\", like Royal weddings and Olympic successes, he said in a speech.\n\nHis comments come amid a debate about the future of the licence fee.\n\nIn December, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the licence fee needs \"looking at\", and Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan last week launched a public consultation on whether non-payment of the TV licence fee should remain a criminal offence.\n\nLast month, the BBC's highest-paid presenter Gary Lineker told The Guardian the licence fee should be made voluntary.\n\nSome have suggested a Netflix-style paid subscription service as an alternative.\n\nSir David said the BBC would \"engage fully\" with the government's licence fee consultation\n\nIn his speech in Salford, Sir David said: \"The BBC is a great national asset; a diminished BBC is a weakened United Kingdom.\n\n\"Sitting behind a paywall, it would no longer be the place that brings the country together for the Strictly final, or Gavin & Stacey on Christmas Day, or the Armistice Anniversary or Holocaust Memorial.\n\n\"Nor would it be the place that all could turn to celebrate live important moments we enjoy as a nation: Royal weddings or jubilees, or Olympic successes.\"\n\nSir David warned \"it would be very unlikely to continue the level of properly curated programmes for children, or indeed the brilliant Bitesize education services\".\n\nAnd the BBC \"would not have the same commitment to investing in home-grown ideas and talent\", he said.\n\nMedia analyst Claire Enders recently told BBC Radio 4 the BBC and the US-based streaming giants were \"incomparable\". BBC newsreader Huw Edwards agreed that the comparison was \"nonsense\".\n\nSir David's speech noted how that if there was a voluntary subscription, the government would have to take over the £250m investment that the licence fee contributes to the World Service.\n\n\"The BBC will engage fully with the government's [licence fee] consultation, but it must be based on the evidence,\" advance comments from his speech said.\n\n\"A decision of this scale, taking hundreds of millions out of the BBC and the creative economy, must not be taken in isolation.\"\n\nIt was revealed last month that 450 jobs will be cut from BBC News under plans to complete its £80m savings target by 2022.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "England threw away the opportunity to defeat South Africa in the first Twenty20 international, losing a dramatic contest by one run in East London.\n\nThe tourists needed three from the final delivery of the match, but Adil Rashid could only manage a single.\n\nEngland were cantering to their target of 178 as Jason Roy plundered 70 from 38 balls, only for his dismissal to spark South Africa's resurgence.\n\nEven then, Eoin Morgan's 52 meant England needed just seven from the final over, yet the brilliant Lungi Ngidi had Tom Curran caught at deep mid-wicket and bowled Moeen Ali.\n\nRashid was asked to be the hero from the only ball he faced, but an inside edge to mid-wicket meant he was run out coming back for a second run which would have forced a super over.\n\nIt was cruel on Rashid who, along with fellow spinner Moeen, earlier helped England recover from a dreadful start with the ball and in the field to limit South Africa to 177-8 on a superb batting pitch.\n\nThe second in the three-match series is in Durban on Friday.\n\nThis is the start of England's road to the T20 World Cup in Australia in October and November and, unlike the experimental line-up used during the drawn one-day series, captain Morgan has promised his team will be at its strongest throughout these matches.\n\nWhat Morgan saw was a side who began terribly, fought back admirably, gained complete control, then threw it all away.\n\nAfter choosing to field first, the tourists were facing the prospect of an enormous chase as their pace bowlers were flayed, catches went down, the ground fielding was untidy and the sole review wasted.\n\nSouth Africa reached 97-1 from nine overs, only for England to improve to take 7-80 in the final 11 overs and 4-8 in the last two, leaving the Proteas with a total that seemed no better than par.\n\nWhen Roy was in full flow, the chase was set to be complete with time to spare, but he became the first in a string of batsmen to be complicit in their own downfall, coinciding with the excellent death bowling of Ngidi.\n\nEngland first stalled, then panicked, allowing South Africa to steal a game they had almost no right to win.\n\nEven as they were carried to the 50-over World Cup by a power-packed batting line-up last July, England were still capable of an aberration, and fell to this defeat in six overs of madness.\n\nRoy had taken left-arm spinner JJ Smuts for 22 in a single over on the way to a 22-ball half-century, sharing stands of 72 with Jonny Bairstow and 42 with Morgan.\n\nHowever, he helped an innocuous Beuran Hendricks slower ball to short fine leg, with Joe Denly and Ben Stokes holing out in the next three overs.\n\nWith 23 needed from 12 balls, Morgan took control. Hendricks was hit for 14 from three deliveries, only for the captain to hit the last ball of the 19th over straight to long-on.\n\nEngland were still favourites, especially when Curran shovelled Ngidi for a couple to make the target five from five.\n\nHowever, he targeted the leg-side fence needlessly and was caught, and Moeen swung, nudged and ultimately missed to be bowled, leaving Rashid a task he was not up to.\n\nMoeen and Rashid prove their worth again\n\nThough they would later come up short with the bat, off-spinner Moeen and leg-spinner Rashid - who this week each reiterated their unavailability to England's Test side - once again proved how integral they are to Morgan's white-ball teams.\n\nUsing variations of line, length and pace, they returned a combined 2-45 from their eight overs. Even then, the numbers only tell part of the story. Moeen bowled three of his overs in the powerplay, while Rashid was the unfortunate bowler when Roy and Denly each dropped catches.\n\nWhile Moeen and Rashid were twirling away, pace bowlers Curran, Mark Wood and Chris Jordan were being flayed by Temba Bavuma's 43, and each of Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen, who both made 31.\n\nAs usual, it took the arrival of Stokes to inspire England, with the talismanic all-rounder paving the way for Jordan and Wood to make impressive returns.\n\nHowever, it would prove to be not enough. In a game decided by the tightest of margins, England were not only punished for their batting collapse, but also their slow start with the ball and in the field.\n\n'We have to improve'\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan told the TMS podcast: \"We have to improve how we played the end of the chase. At the halfway stage we talked about how South Africa batsmen coming in struggled to hit the ball. We'll talk about that over the next 24 hours and hopefully get an answer and a clear mindset going into Durban.\"\n\nSouth Africa's Lungi Ngidi, who took 3-30 in four overs: \"I didn't panic under pressure. One of their best batsmen was in and they seemed to be cruising the game. I was told my job was to take wickets and that's all I wanted to do.\"\n\nSouth Africa captain Quinton de Kock: \"It was very tight, but we knew that halfway through. We had to keep to our basics and we could end up winning. We knew this wicket gets slow and is tough to bat on in the last five overs. We'll enjoy it tonight but the planning for the second game in the series starts tomorrow and we want to be ruthless.\"", "Sonia Boyce will fill the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021\n\nArtist Sonia Boyce is to become the first black woman to represent Great Britain at the prestigious Venice Biennale next year.\n\nBoyce will fly the flag with a major new exhibition at the world's most important contemporary art festival.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the offer came as \"a real shock, but a real delight as well\".\n\nThe London-based artist rose to prominence in the 1980s as one of the leading lights in black British art.\n\nBoyce's Devotional Collection is an archive relating to black British women in music\n\nShe showed a film, Exquisite Cacophony, at Venice in 2015\n\nHer art has often dealt with themes of race and gender, initially working with pastels and then moving into photography, video, sound and installations.\n\n\"That early work in the 1980s was very much about me being the centre of a lot of those images that I was making, and I would often talk about growing up in the UK, being black and being female, and what it was like at that particular time,\" she told Today.\n\n\"And the work has since shifted, which I suppose is what we're going to be seeing when the show goes to Venice.\"\n\nBoyce was made an MBE in 2007 and was elected to the Royal Academy in 2016. She is also currently creating a large artwork for the new Elizabeth Line railway in Newham, east London.\n\nHer installation Paper Tiger Whisky Soap Theatre was seen in Nice, France, in 2016\n\nHer wallpapers feature prominently in her latest exhibition, In the Castle of My Skin\n\nFor her latest exhibition, at Eastside Projects in Birmingham, titled In the Castle of My Skin, she has built what she described as a \"crazy structure\" in the gallery to show her wallpapers and the work of seven artists with whom she has collaborated.\n\nEmma Dexter, director of visual art for the British Council, said the committee had chosen Boyce at \"a pivotal moment in in the history of the UK\".\n\nShe said: \"They really loved the fact that Sonia brings people together. Her practice is very collaborative. It's very open-ended, experimental, and values people working together and appreciating their difference but still coming together.\"\n\nAnish Kapoor, Henry Moore, Richard Hamilton, Steve McQueen and Tracey Emin are among the artists who have previously been chosen to exhibit in the British Pavilion at Venice.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A judge said Peter Turner had \"brought evil into this world\"\n\nA former monk at a Catholic boarding school who sexually abused three boys aged under 13 has been jailed for more than 20 years.\n\nPeter Turner, 80, of Redcar, admitted 14 charges including indecent assault, gross indecency and another serious sexual offence.\n\nThe offences took place at Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire, and a parish in Cumbria between 1984 and 1990.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said Turner was \"clearly a very depraved individual\".\n\nSentencing him at York Crown Court, Judge Sean Morris said: \"You have brought evil into this world when, by your calling, you should have brought hope, help and succour.\"\n\nThe court heard parents sent their children to Ampleforth to be cared for by \"men of God\" but Turner was \"a man of evil\"\n\nTurner, formerly known as Father Gregory Carroll, targeted the first boy at Ampleforth.\n\nThen after he confessed to the church authorities about sexual contact with a boy he was sent to a parish in Workington.\n\nHe went on to indecently assault a boy in the Cumbrian town and committed indecent assault and gross indecency against a third victim.\n\nThe court heard victim impact statements in which the men spoke about the impact Turner's abuse had had on their lives.\n\nHe was recalled and confined to the monastery at Ampleforth after the Nolan Report on the problem of clerical child abuse was published in 2001.\n\nTurner was previously jailed for four years in 2005 after admitting offences against 10 pupils at the school between 1979 and 1987. The sentence was later reduced by 12 months.\n\nOn Tuesday he pleaded guilty to 11 counts of indecent assault, two counts of a serious sexual assault and one count of gross indecency with a child.\n\nPauline McCullagh, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Turner committed a truly sickening breach of trust, sexually abusing young boys who innocently placed their trust in him as a monk and priest.\"\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said Turner was \"clearly a very depraved individual\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Koalas are one of the 19 mammal species needing urgent help\n\nAustralia has identified 113 animal species which will need \"urgent help\" after their numbers and habitats were devastated by recent bushfires.\n\nIn a welcome finding, there appeared to be no extinctions, said the government.\n\nBut almost all species on the list had lost at least 30% of their habitat due to the mammoth blazes in the south and east over Australia's summer.\n\nKoalas and wallabies, as well as bird, fish and frog species are among those needing the most help, said experts.\n\nResearchers had previously estimated that more than 1 billion animals may have perished in the fires, which scorched large swathes of temperate forest and grassland.\n\nA provisional list, released on Tuesday, narrowed a field of hundreds of fire-affected species to those needing the most urgent conservation action. It was drawn up by the government's Wildlife and Threatened Species Bushfire Recovery Expert Panel.\n\nThe panel found some highly threatened species faced \"imminent risk of extinction\" because almost all of their habitat had been destroyed. These included the Pugh's frog, Blue Mountains water skink and the Kangaroo Island dunnart.\n\nThe Kangaroo Island dunnart is endemic to the South Australian island devastated by a major blaze in January\n\nThe Northern corroboree frog in New South Wales was already considered in the category closest to extinction\n\nOthers, such as the koala and the smoky mouse, had \"substantial\" sections destroyed, meaning they would need \"emergency intervention\" to support their recovery.\n\nWhile many species on the list were already considered threatened before the fires, other additions had been viewed as safe.\n\n\"Many [species] were considered secure and not threatened before the fires, but have now lost much of their habitat and may be imperilled,\" said the panel in its report.\n\nPlant species and further invertebrates are expected to be named in the next update of the list, said Environment Minister Sussan Ley.\n\nShe said assessing the true scale of the devastation had been limited due to ongoing blazes in some areas and smouldering grounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia fires: The animals struggling in the crisis\n\n\"While have been some encouraging sightings of threatened animals in fire-affected places, it is still not safe to enter many areas to make more detailed on-ground assessments,\" Ms Ley said.\n\nLast month, Australia pledged A$50m (£26m; $33m) to wildlife and habitat recovery. Money will be spent on animal treatment, food drops and pest animal control programmes.", "Lyra McKee was regarded by many as a rising star in Northern Ireland media circles\n\nA 52-year-old man has been charged with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry.\n\nHe is also charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and professing to be a member of a proscribed organisation.\n\nMs McKee, who was 29, was observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate when she was shot on 18 April 2019.\n\nThe 52-year-old, from Derry, is due to appear at Londonderry Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nDet Supt Jason Murphy said a number of individuals were involved with the gunman on the night Ms McKee was killed.\n\n\"And while today is significant for the investigation the quest for the evidence to bring the gunman to justice remains active and ongoing,\" he added.\n\nMs McKee was a writer and campaigner from Belfast who had only recently moved to Derry when she was killed.\n\nShe was standing near a police 4x4 vehicle on the night of 18 April 2019 when a masked gunman fired towards officers and onlookers.\n\nRegarded by many as a rising star in Northern Ireland media circles, she had written for many publications, including Buzzfeed, Private Eye, the Atlantic and Mosaic Science.\n\nMs McKee's death caused widespread revulsion in Northern Ireland and further afield\n\nShe was named Sky News young journalist of the year in 2006 and Forbes Magazine named her as one of their 30 under 30 in media in Europe in 2016.\n\nThe Belfast woman had signed a two-book deal with the publisher Faber and Faber, with her forthcoming book The Lost Boys due out this year.\n\nAccording to those who knew her best, the gay rights advocate was someone who \"believed passionately in social and religious tolerance\".\n\nHer death caused widespread revulsion in Northern Ireland and further afield.\n\nHer funeral was attended by then prime minister Theresa May, Irish PM Leo Varadkar and Irish President Michael D Higgins at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.\n\nFr Martin Magill received a standing ovation when he asked why it took her death to unite politicians.\n\nDays later the British and Irish governments announced a new talks process aimed at restoring devolution.\n\nNorthern Ireland's political institutions were restored last month after three years of deadlock.", "Gas and electricity customers will receive automatic compensation of £30 from May if their switch to a new provider goes wrong, Ofgem has said.\n\nThe regulator said the new rules should give \"peace of mind\" to those shopping around. More than six million people switched energy firms last year.\n\nPayments will be made if the switch is not completed within 15 working days.\n\nA mistaken switch or a failure by the old supplier to provide a final bill within six weeks will also qualify.\n\nMary Starks, from Ofgem, said: \"We are introducing these new standards to give customers further peace of mind, and to challenge suppliers to get it right first time.\"\n\nThe move was described as a \"welcome intervention\" by David Pilling, from the Energy Ombudsman - the independent referee of unresolved disputes between customers and providers.\n\n\"Switching is now second only to billing as a source of complaints that we handle, so it's clear that for too many people the process of changing supplier doesn't go as smoothly as it should,\" he said.\n\nSince Ofgem introduced minimum standards last year, more than £700,000 has been paid out to customers from suppliers.\n\nOf these payments, 27% have been for mistaken switches, while 73% have been for late credit balance refunds. This system will now be extended by making compensation payments automatic.\n\n\"Households can still save hundreds of pounds by switching and shouldn't be put through the hassle and stress of having to claim compensation when energy suppliers make mistakes,\" said Dame Gillian Guy, boss of Citizens Advice.", "The victim of a scam who took out £17,000 of loans has said she was \"bled dry\" by a man she met on a dating app.\n\nThe woman in her 40s from north Wales \"dated\" the man via video chat for two years - he used computer graphics to create a fake face when they spoke.\n\nA report has found fraud across Wales and England accounts for one in three crimes - but only 2% reach court.\n\nA senior officer estimated 1,000 cases a week could be happening in the South Wales Police force area alone.\n\n\"This guy's absolutely bled me dry,\" the victim of the scam told Eye on Wales on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"I think he would have pushed me into a grave.\"\n\nPolice are now liaising with Interpol to find the man.\n\nThe scammer told his victim after they met that he was an international businessman based in Dallas, Texas, a city she had visited several times.\n\nShe said: \"He was claiming that he was looking to buy a premises and to basically move across to the UK so he could set up his business here and he was due to fly back to Dallas - that night, I think - or the following day.\n\n\"So he video called me as soon he got back to Dallas and basically he would be video calling on a daily basis. And he just built the trust up from that and to a point where everybody trusted him.\n\n\"Even my friends trusted him because he had video calls with them.\"\n\nBut he had taken a photograph from the internet and digitally manipulated it to move convincingly while he spoke.\n\nThe woman said she had discussed marriage with the scammer\n\nAfter a couple of months, he said he was in trouble on a business trip to Dubai, claiming a girl had run in front of his hire car and he had to pay her medical bills in order to have his papers returned.\n\n\"Now I looked into all of this because I thought 'hang on a minute, something doesn't seem right here' but then when I looked, everything made sense.\n\n\"So I sent him the money to pay for fees because what he also sent me was a picture of him sat with the girl in hospital.\n\n\"I didn't think anything of it. She was on a ventilator. It looked genuine. There was nothing on this picture that screamed 'this is a fake'.\"\n\nThe woman took out a £6,000 loan and sent him the money, saying she had \"fallen for this guy in a major way\".\n\nBut his apparent troubles kept piling up.\n\nClaiming he was on his way to the UK to visit her, the man said he was stopped for an unpaid tax bill of £21,000.\n\nThe woman paid it with more loans - and help from one of her friends.\n\nBut his next attempt included copies of clearly faked documents and the woman realised she had been scammed.\n\n\"I just wanted to cry. My friends had to sit with me for a few days just to support me.\"\n\nShe is now working two jobs, and starting a third, to pay off the debts he has caused.\n\nFraudsters are also sharing so-called \"suckers lists\" to target vulnerable people repeatedly, according to Det Insp Nick Bellamy, who heads the organised crime unit at South Wales Police.\n\nHe said: \"It's huge. I don't think it's a crime that we're going to investigate our way out of or certainly arrest our way out of it.\n\n\"Fraud is theft with a trick and what we want to try and do is to make sure people are able to spot those tricks.\"\n\nEye on Wales is on BBC Radio Wales on 12 February at 18:30 GMT, or listen on BBC Sounds\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hamida Begum's son, Mukul Seikh, prayed in front of his mother's grave\n\nActivists in Bangladesh have welcomed the first ever Islamic funeral for a sex worker, breaking a long-standing taboo in the Muslim majority nation.\n\nHamida Begum, who worked at one of the world's largest brothels in the village of Daulatdia, died of illness last week at the age of 65.\n\nA number of people gathered at her grave to witness the historic moment.\n\nSex work is legal in Bangladesh, but Islamic leaders have previously refused to perform funeral prayers for workers.\n\nInstead, sex workers who die are usually buried in unmarked graves, without formal prayers, or dumped in rivers.\n\nThis was the fate that originally awaited Begum until a coalition of sex workers persuaded local police to talk to spiritual leaders - who have historically considered sex work \"immoral\" - about giving her a formal burial.\n\n\"The imam was initially reluctant to lead the prayers,\" local police chief Ashiqur Rahman, who oversaw the negotiations, told AFP news agency. \"But we asked him whether Islam forbids anyone from taking part in the Janaza [funeral prayers] of a sex worker. He had no answer.\"\n\nAs a result, a religious funeral was held for her last Thursday.\n\nMr Rahman said the ceremony was attended by more than 200 people, while more than 400 went to the post-funeral meal and prayers.\n\nA coalition of sex workers, led by Jhumur Begum (left), also paid their respects to Hamida Begum\n\n\"It was an unprecedented scene,\" Mr Rahman added. \"People waited until late in the night to join the prayers. The eyes of sex workers welled up with tears.\"\n\nAmong those at Begum's graveside were her son, Mukul Seikh, and her 35-year-old daughter Laxmi, who is also a sex worker in the brothel in Daulatdia.\n\n\"I never dreamed that she would get such an honourable farewell. My mother was treated like a human being,\" Laxmi said.\n\n\"I hope from now on every woman who works here, including me, gets a Janaza just the way my mother did.\"\n\nHamida Begum, not pictured, was given an historic funeral last week\n\nJhumur Begum, the leader of the local coalition of sex workers that campaigned for Begum's funeral, recalled the indignity with which women were usually buried.\n\n\"If we wanted to bury the dead in the morning, villagers would chase us with bamboo sticks.\" she told AFP.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside one of the world's largest licensed brothels in Daulatdia\n\nThe brothel where Ms Begum worked - one of 12 legal brothels in Bangladesh - is located about 250 km (155 miles) west of the capital Dhaka.\n\nIt was first established about a century ago, under British colonial rule.", "The comments come after the Most Reverend Justin Welby's visit to Kenya last month\n\nThe Church of England is \"still deeply institutionally racist\", the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby said at a meeting of the Church's ruling body, the General Synod, that he was \"ashamed\" of its history of racism.\n\nMr Welby's words came as Synod members backed a motion to apologise for racism in the Church of England since the arrival of the Windrush generation.\n\nThe body also voted to \"stamp out conscious or unconscious\" racism.\n\nCommonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries have been labelled the Windrush generation.\n\nIn 2018 the home secretary apologised to Windrush immigrants who wrongly faced deportation - and on Tuesday Mr Welby said the Church had been a \"hostile environment\" to those people.\n\nThe Windrush generation began arriving in the UK in 1948\n\n\"I am sorry and ashamed,\" the archbishop said.\n\n\"I'm ashamed of our history and I'm ashamed of our failure. There is no doubt when we look at our own Church that we are still deeply institutionally racist.\n\n\"I said it to the College of Bishops a couple of years ago and it's [still] true,\" he said.\n\nThe archbishop added the Church's \"hostile environment\" must become a \"hospitable, welcoming one\" and called for \"radical and decisive\" progress to put an end to institutional racism.\n\nMr Welby said \"basic rules\" were needed to address issues - such as for ethnic minorities to be represented in panels within the church.\n\nThe archbishop made the off-the-cuff remarks following a speech made by Synod member Reverend Andrew Moughtin-Mumby.\n\nRev Moughtin-Mumby, from Southwark Diocese, had introduced a motion for the Synod to \"stamp out\" racism with \"great effort and urgency\", as well as apologising for past incidents.", "Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg, the two current frontrunners, have an age difference of four decades - Sanders is more than double his rival's age.\n\nIn his speech in the past hour, Buttigieg mentioned admiring Sanders while he was in high school.\n\nButtigieg was born in 1982. At that time, Sanders was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont - a post he'd hold from 1981 to 1989.\n\nWhen Buttigieg was graduating high school at age 18 in 2000, Sanders was a member of the US House of Representatives.\n\nThat same year, Buttigieg won an award for writing an essay about Bernie Sanders where he called him an \"outstanding and inspiring example\" of integrity.\n\n\"In a climate where even liberalism is considered radical, and Socialism is immediately and perhaps willfully confused with Communism, a politician dares to call himself a socialist? He does indeed.\"\n\nButtigieg became South Bend, Indiana, mayor in 2012 - at which point Sanders was in his second term as senator.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link will go ahead.\n\nIt follows a five-month review which he ordered last August, and an election at which the Tories failed to commit fully to the project in their manifesto.\n\nThe first phase of the route will travel between London and Birmingham, with a second phase going to Manchester and Leeds.\n\nThe rail link was signed off by MPs in 2017, but has since faced opposition from a variety of quarters.\n\nThis has ranged between outright opposition on cost or delivery grounds, to local concerns from those MPs whose constituencies are on or near the route.\n\nWhen completed, the rail link will run through about 70 constituencies, most of them currently held by Conservative MPs.\n\nGiven the government's 80-strong majority, the future of the project is all but assured, but support and criticism within Parliament is bound to continue.\n\nAfter the announcement was made, long-term HS2 critic Dame Cheryl Gillan said she remained convinced HS2 will not deliver \"value for money\".\n\nShe said that she was also concerned construction would cause \"substantial environmental destruction\" to her Chesham and Amersham constituency, in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Its construction will prove highly disruptive and by a construction industry who by its own admission lacks the capacity to deliver on alongside other infrastructure projects in the pipeline,\" she added.\n\nHowever fellow Conservative Kieran Mullan, whose constituency will benefit directly from HS2 services calling at Crewe, was more supportive in the Commons.\n\n\"The prime minister has well and truly swept the leaves off the line of transport infrastructure investment in this country,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"I know businesses in Crewe and Nantwich will benefit locally, not jobs and businesses in London, but locally in Crewe and Nantwich\".\n\nHowever, another MP in the area, Sir Graham Brady, questioned why the planned station for Manchester airport was due to be be built in his Altrincham and Sale West constituency rather than at the airport itself.\n\nHe also called for an urgent review into a section of the line to Manchester which will cut through a number of villages, which he said would cost more than £1bn and prove \"entirely unnecessary\".\n\nNottingham South MP Lilian Greenwood, who used to chair Parliament's transport committee, said the go-ahead for HS2 was \"welcome news\".\n\nThe Nottingham South MP asked for a guarantee that a later part of the route, from the West Midlands to Leeds via the East Midlands, will be rubber-stamped by Parliament within the next five years.\n\nQuestioning the PM in the Commons, she expressed concern that this part of the route could be \"delayed further or downgraded to cut costs\".\n\nLong-term HS2 critic Andrew Bridgen was the sole Conservative MP during Tuesday's Commons debate to continue to voice outright opposition to the project.\n\nThe high-speed link, he added, would \"adversely affect\" his constituents in North West Leicestershire.\n\n\"HS2 is unloved and unwanted, and has been grossly mismanaged,\" he said.\n\n\"Does the prime minister appreciate my and my constituents' concerns that this could well be an albatross around this government's and the country's neck.\"\n\nHowever, another previous Conservative critic, Victoria Prentis, signalled that she would now be getting behind the project.\n\n\"The last three years have given us a few lessons in what gracious defeat looks like,\" said the MP for Banbury, Oxfordshire.\n\n\"Although I remain worried by the environmental, financial and governance issues of the project, I really do wish it all the best.\"\n\nLabour's Mike Kane, who told MPs that HS2 will run underneath his own house, in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, also welcomed the news.\n\nQuicker journey times to the north of England, he said, would open up \"a plethora of opportunities for the poor people of the south-east and the great city of Manchester\", said the Wythenshawe and Sale East MP.\n\nHe did, however, suggest to the prime minister that the project would have benefitted from a change in its starting position.\n\n\"If he wants to level up and have a northern powerhouse, why does he not start building the line from Manchester down?\" he asked.", "Millions of tonnes of water will now be reintroduced to the system\n\nEngineers working to restore the water supply to thousands of homes and businesses in Cumbria after Storm Ciara have finished repairing a mains pipe.\n\nA major incident was declared after the damaged pipe near Kendal threatened supplies to about 8,000 properties.\n\nAppleby, Shap, Orton, Low Braithwaite, Threlkeld and Glenridding are among the areas to have been affected.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was slowly putting water back into supply across the network.\n\nBut the firm said it would take \"some time\" to put 90 million litres of water into the system as this needed to be done \"gradually\" to avoid the risk of the pipe bursting.\n\nFree bottled water will continue to be made available for anyone affected \"for the next few days until we are confident everything is back to normal\".\n\nUnited Utilities said free bottled water will continue to be available\n\nEarlier, United Utilities warned repair efforts were being hampered by severe weather conditions and said it could be Thursday or Friday before work on the main was completed.\n\nDr Martin Padley said that even after the pipe was fixed \"it will take time to refill what is a huge system\".\n\nSchools, GP practices and businesses have been forced to close due to problems with their water supply.\n\nExtra equipment and tankers from the Midlands and Scotland has been brought in.\n\nFree bottled water is available for those affected at:\n\nUnited Utilities has issued a telephone number for those who are elderly, vulnerable or sick who are unable to get their own bottled water - it is 0345 672 3723.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Rory Cellan-Jones and Zoe Thomas puzzle out the Z Flip phone\n\nSamsung is making all three models in its new flagship smartphone range 5G-compatible. The top-end Galaxy S20 also introduces a 100x zoom camera.\n\nThe firm also confirmed a new foldable, the Galaxy Z Flip. It uses \"folding glass\" in its display and small fibres in its hinge to protect itself from damage.\n\nSeveral rivals plan their own handset launches over the coming weeks.\n\nBut the spread of the coronavirus poses a threat to production.\n\n\"The virus is going to affect the supply chain,\" said Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"Although Samsung has diversified its manufacturing into places way beyond China, there will still be components in these phones sourced from China.\"\n\nMany factories in the country have delayed re-opening after its New Year break because of fears the virus could spread in the workplace. China is also the world's biggest smartphone market, and the outbreak has hit local demand.\n\nThe S20 handsets come in three sizes with different camera capabilities\n\nSamsung has suffered less impact than many of its rivals to date because it makes most of its handsets in Vietnam, and sells relatively few phones to Chinese consumers.\n\nBut TrendForce - a research firm - still predicts the virus will cause the South Korean firm to produce 3% fewer devices than it might have in the current quarter.\n\n\"I'm expecting that to mean some delays in delivering the new handsets,\" added Francisco Jeronimo an analyst at IDC.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it was making its \"best effort to minimise impact on our operations\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are three S20 variants:\n\nThe S20 Ultra's camera module is thicker than that of the others to incorporate a periscope. This uses a prism to reflect light into the device's interior, allowing the wide-angle option to feature a longer lens and bigger sensor.\n\nAlthough it is possible to take 108MP shots, owners are expected to let the phone automatically merge groups of nine pixels into one most of the time. This aids low-light photography.\n\nThe 100x \"super-resolution zoom\" facility uses the lower-resolution 48MP camera. Machine-learning techniques stitch together pixels from up to 20 different frames to achieve a better result than would be possible via a simple digital zoom.\n\nThe S20 Ultra uses a prism to get light to its largest sensor\n\nIt allows Samsung to boast double the zoom range of Huawei's competing P30 handset, although one expert questioned how usable it was in practice.\n\n\"The 100x zoom ends up with a quite blurred image, so I don't think people will turn to it that often\", commented Mr Jeronimo.\n\n\"But it should have a wow factor when shown off in stores. And at 20x to 30x you can get a good photo.\"\n\nThe phones also introduce Single Take mode. Samsung said this uses artificial intelligence to simultaneously take a mix of stills and videos via the various cameras, giving the owner a selection to choose from after the fact.\n\nSingle Take mode takes photos and video clips over a 10 second period using a variety of the cameras\n\n\"We want to make sure consumers can really enjoy the moment in front of them... and don't have to worry about adjusting settings,\" explained product manager Mark Holloway.\n\nThe phones are also among the first to be capable of recording in 8K resolution - four times as many pixels as 4K and 16 as many as 1080p high definition.\n\nMost people do not yet own 8K screens, but Samsung suggests this offers a degree of future-proofing as well as the ability to extract high-quality stills from the footage.\n\n\"Both the new tech and the more user-friendly user interface should help with how Samsung's camera functionality is perceived,\" commented Carolina Milanesi from Creative Strategies.\n\n\"Its results in the past were not quite on a par with competitors, perhaps signalling it wasn't leveraging software to do the heavy-lifting as much as the likes of Apple and Google. This time round there is definitely more 'AI' involved.\"\n\nThe S20 phones are Samsung's first to feature screens that refresh their image 120 times a second, which it says should make games appear smoother\n\nSamsung is pitching gaming as one benefit of having 5G connectivity, suggesting that lower latencies will mean that players can see and react to events in online titles split-seconds faster than if they were on 4G.\n\nSamsung highlights that 5G offers faster upload and download speeds as well as less lag time when using remote services\n\nThe phones' Google Duo app also displays video chats in higher quality when on 5G.\n\nNetworks are still in the early stages of deploying the technology, but one consultant said it was still wise to offer it as standard.\n\n\"Consumers are holding on to their phones for three or four years, and don't want something that will become obsolete in that lifetime,\" said Ben Wood.\n\n\"And this launch represents a unique opportunity: Huawei is on the back foot as it doesn't have access to Google's suite of apps, and Apple currently doesn't have a 5G-capable iPhone.\"\n\nThe Z Flip is the second smartphone Samsung has made with a flexible screen\n\nThe Z Flip, however, is limited to 4G.\n\nSeveral of its features - including a clamshell design with a small display on the outside and a 6.7in foldable screen on the inside - had already been revealed by Samsung in a TV advert on Sunday.\n\nIt represents the firm's second attempt at a foldable after the troubled launch of the Galaxy Fold tablet-phone hybrid.\n\nThis time round, the concept is a tall-screened phone that can be used one-handed when opened, and made wallet-sized when closed.\n\nThe hinge mechanism has also evolved. It now incorporates tiny brushes to sweep away dirt and dust particles. In addition, it can hold the device partially open, which Samsung is pitching as being helpful for taking selfies or recording vlogs.\n\nThe firm says it can be opened and closed more than 200,000 times.\n\nThe Z Flip can be placed part-open on a flat surface\n\nThe other big change is to the display, which now features a substance Samsung calls \"folding glass\".\n\n\"You clearly notice that the screen is much more resistant than the Fold's, which should reduce the risk of scratching,\" said Mr Francisco.\n\n\"It's still probably not as resistant as a normal smartphone, but you can feel its quality.\"\n\nThe Z Flip will cost $1,380 in the US and £1,300 in the UK and becomes available on 14 February.\n\nThe original Galaxy Fold had to be re-engineered after several reviewers complained their examples had become damaged\n\nIt will compete with Motorola's Razr, which has a similar design. But both are expected to sell in far smaller quantities than the S20 range.\n\n\"There's a lot of excitement around this new category, but [for most] they are prohibitively expensive,\" said Paolo Pescatore from PP Foresight.\n\n25 January: Lunar New Year, one of the biggest festivals of the year, takes place. Millions of people travel home, and many companies close or slow down production.\n\n27 January: Chinese authorities officially extend the holiday period until 10 February to try and contain the spread of the virus. The move affects suppliers of smartphone components for Samsung, Apple, and others.\n\n30 January-3 February: Apple announces all its stores and offices in china will remain shut until at least 9 February, as does Microsoft and Google, while Samsung closes its flagship store in Shanghai.\n\n10 February: Foxconn receives permission to reopen two major plants in Zhenghzou and Shenzhen. But Reuters news agency reports that only 10% of workers turned up, citing an unnamed source. Other factories remain closed - and some local authorities tell factories not to reopen until 1 March.", "The Duchess of Cambridge has helped out at a cafe run by a homelessness charity in Aberdeen.\n\nCatherine - known as the Countess of Strathearn when in Scotland - was at Social Bite.\n\nShe spoke to staff and customers at the cafe - which provides jobs to people who have been homeless - about the long-lasting impact of childhood experiences.\n\nIt follows her launch of a survey last month on early years development.\n\nDuchess of Cambride spoke to staff and customers over a hot drink\n\nThe five-question online survey aims to \"spark a national conversation\" to help create \"lasting change for generations to come\", Kensington Palace said.\n\nIn the online survey, called Five Big Questions, participants are asked for their opinion on what influences development and what period of childhood is most important for children's happiness.\n\nStaff member Matt Thomas, 49, who was homeless five years ago but now works in the cafe full-time, showed the duchess how to make a chicken wrap, joking: \"You can come back and help me tomorrow.\"\n\nThey chatted about how Social Bite helped him and others who find themselves homeless.\n\nMr Thomas said: \"She made you feel very much at ease very quickly. She's very interested in you as a person and finding out what your experience is.\n\n\"Making the wraps was actually really good fun, having something to do. I make them every day but I think hers was better looking than mine.\"\n\nHe added that given the royal family member's busy schedule it was \"just magic\" for her \"to take time out and speak to us\".\n\nStaff and customers at Social Bite in Aberdeen welcomed the royal visitor on Wednesday\n\nSocial Bite, which aims to end homelessness in Scotland, runs five social enterprise cafes and distributes free food to homeless people and those in food poverty.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Catherine met young children during a visit to an open farm in County Down, Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge, known as the Countess of Strathearn while in Scotland, posed for a photograph with members of staff during a visit to the Social Bite cafe in Aberdeen\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Manchester's plans for HS2, revealed in 2018, include a major upgrade of Piccadilly station\n\nThe HS2 rail project, which will cut travel times from Manchester to London, could be \"a waste of money\", commuters in the northern city have said.\n\nThe government is set to approve the project's two stages, though the second one linking Manchester and Birmingham will be reviewed.\n\nManchester passengers said they worried about its environmental costs and the lack of a solution to existing issues.\n\nHowever, the city's council leader said it was \"very, very good news\".\n\nSir Richard Leese added that the UK had \"vastly under-invested in infrastructure for probably half a century and I think we need to adjust our cash registers to recognise we need this investment\".\n\nPaul Fletcher said money should be spent improving the existing network\n\nAt the city's Piccadilly railway station, insurance broker Paul Fletcher said the government \"would be far better spending [the money set aside for it] on improving the lines we've already got\".\n\n\"What a waste of money,\" he said.\n\nThe 49-year-old, who lives in Hyde, Greater Manchester, said he was also concerned about the potential impact on the proposed Northern Powerhouse Rail project, which would improve links from between the West and East coasts.\n\n\"Who knows what will happen when they review the line to Manchester and Leeds?\" he said.\n\n\"It seems the North is again getting a raw deal.\"\n\nRon Baldwin said the government \"should be putting money into normal trains\"\n\nThe 75-year-old had just travelled for nearly two hours from his home in Brough, Cumbria and said that \"yet again, the North seems to be taking a back seat\".\n\n\"I am very sceptical that this will ever happen - the costs just seem to be endless.\n\n\"They should be putting money into normal trains- I doubt we'll ever see the benefit where I live.\"\n\nAnne Butterworth was worried about the environmental impact\n\nAdministrator Anne Butterworth, 56, was also concerned about local services.\n\n\"I regularly travel on smaller commuter trains; that's where the money needs going, not HS2,\" she said.\n\n\"However, what I really worry about is the environmental impact. Wildlife will suffer because of this.\n\n\"They will be knocking down ancient forest to build this and damaging wetlands. I thought we were supposed to be preserving them for the future generation, not harming them.\"\n\n\"They would be better off spending the money on existing infrastructure,\" Jade Fuller said\n\nSouthampton-based project manager Jade Fuller, who regularly travels between London and Manchester for work, said she was also concerned about the environmental and financial costs for what could be minimal gain.\n\n\"It seems an awful lot of money to spend just to save 20 minutes to get to London,\" the 35-year-old said.\n\n\"They would be better off spending the money on existing infrastructure - that's what's really needed.\"\n\n\"In theory, I think it's a worthwhile project [as] investing in our trains is a good idea, but I do also think they should put more money into our existing trains,\" he said.\n\n\"The commuter trains need improving too.\"\n\nSir Richard said the project must be \"properly integrated\" with Northern Powerhouse Rail\n\nSir Richard told BBC Radio Manchester it was \"about time\" HS2 got the go-ahead.\n\n\"Virtually anywhere else in Europe would have had it built by now,\" he said.\n\n\"It's capacity we will need for the rest of this century and beyond, and the fact it's going to go ahead is very, very good news for Manchester and indeed the whole of the North.\n\n\"All of our commuter lines are full and there's no room for freight on the existing network, so taking the long-distance trains off the existing network and putting them on their own network means we will have more and more reliable services between Manchester, Birmingham and London and across to Liverpool, Bradford and Leeds.\"\n\nHowever, he added that the project needed to be \"properly integrated\" with Northern Powerhouse Rail.\n\n\"As a country, we've vastly under-invested in infrastructure for probably half a century and I think we need to adjust our cash registers to recognise we need this investment.\"\n\nIn a statement, Connecting Britain said the North \"needs new rail lines that go north-south and west-east\".\n\nThe coalition of northern business and political leaders, which includes Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, said London \"isn't being forced to choose, it's getting Crossrail and HS2\".\n\n\"We need HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail delivered in full [and] we will not accept a gold-plated high-speed line between London and Birmingham, then once again the North getting the scraps.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Water tankers have been trying to keep supplies on\n\nThousands of homes and businesses in Cumbria are facing days without water after a mains pipe was damaged during Storm Ciara on Sunday.\n\nA major incident was declared after the damaged pipe near Kendal threatened supplies to about 8,000 properties.\n\nUnited Utilities said many people would continue to be without water, despite millions of litres being pumped into the damaged system.\n\nThe firm said \"horrendous\" weather conditions were hampering repairs.\n\nA large area of the county, including Appleby, Shap, Orton, Ravenstonedale, Ivegill, Low Braithwaite, Threlkeld and Glenridding is affected.\n\nUnited Utilities said it could be Thursday or Friday before the main was fixed, but stressed it would depend on weather conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Martin Padley said the company had brought in extra equipment and tankers from the Midlands and Scotland.\n\n\"We're throwing absolutely everything we can at this problem but the weather is so bad that it's affecting our ability to even weld pipes,\" he said.\n\nThe area normally uses about 11 million litres of water a day and engineers are pumping in seven million litres a day.\n\n\"So we have a shortfall of about four millions litres, so unfortunately people will see low pressure and ultimately no water at all,\" Dr Padley said.\n\n\"Even after we get the pipe fixed it will take time to refill what is a huge system.\"\n\nMillions of litres are being pumped into the damaged water system\n\nTwo GP practices - Shap Medical Practice and Glenridding Health Centre - cancelled appointments on Wednesday because of problems with their water supply.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was also in contact with 70 farmers in the affected area about getting supplies to livestock.\n\nAlan Fox, who runs the Troutbeck Inn, near Penrith, said he had been forced to close.\n\nHe said: \"We've already had to turn guests away and we have people staying in our holiday cottages with no water.\n\n\"We're having to close tonight because without water people can't use toilets and we can't cook in the restaurant.\"\n\nUnited Utilities said it had free water bottle stations across the area\n\nLouise Donnelly, head teacher at Morland Primary School, near Appleby, said: \"We won't be open today and probably not tomorrow either.\n\n\"Parents have been very supportive, but I understand this will cause them a headache.\"\n\nFree bottled water is available for those affected at:\n\nUnited Utilities has issued a telephone number for those who are elderly, vulnerable or sick who are unable to get their own bottled water - it is 0345 672 3723.\n\nFree water bottle stocks would be replenished throughout the day, United Utilities said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Food giant Unilever has vowed to stop marketing its products to children in order to tackle rising obesity rates.\n\nThe firm, which owns brands such as Twister ice cream and Popsicle ice lollies, said it would limit the use of cartoon characters in its advertising.\n\nIt also promised to stop using social media stars or celebrities \"who primarily appeal\" to children under 12.\n\nAds for Unilever ice creams have been pulled in the past over complaints they marketed unhealthy food to children.\n\nThe new rules will apply to all of the firm's products by the end of 2020, kicking off with its Wall's ice cream brands.\n\nWall's will also launch a range of \"responsibly made\" products for children that contain \"no more than 110 calories and a maximum of 12g of sugar per portion\".\n\n\"Our promise is a genuine commitment to make and market products to children responsibly,\" said Matt Close, executive vice president of the firm's global ice cream business.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2016, 18% of children and adolescents - more than 340 million people aged 5 to 19 - were overweight globally - up from 4% in 1975, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nIt says there is \"unequivocal evidence\" that the marketing of unhealthy foods is related to the problem and recommends that governments limit the reach of such advertising.\n\nThe UK, Chile, Mexico and Ireland have all implemented stricter rules for children's advertising over the last decade.\n\nHowever, the problem persists. In 2018 Cadbury, Chewits and Squashies sweets became the first companies to have online adverts banned under new rules targeting junk food ads for children in the UK.\n\nAnd in 2016, a Unilever ad for the ice cream Paddle Pop - known in the UK as Twister - was pulled in Australia over complaints it encouraged young children to eat unhealthy foods.\n\nUnilever, whose portfolio includes more than 400 brands, generally has a reputation for leading the business world on issues such as sustainability. It also has had a policy for \"responsible\" marketing to children since 2003.\n\nUnder the new rules, it said it planned \"strict controls\" on the placement of ads in movies and would not appeal to children under age 12 on traditional media or 13 on social media.\n\nIt has previously pledged to make adverts less sexist and threatened to pull ads from Facebook and YouTube if they do not do enough to police their content.", "The Duchess of Cambridge has revealed she used hypnobirthing techniques of mindfulness and meditation to cope with severe morning sickness.\n\nCatherine suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, which causes severe vomiting, during her pregnancies.\n\nIn her first podcast interview, she said the illness meant she was \"not the happiest of pregnant people\".\n\nHowever, she said after trying everything to overcome it she realised the importance of \"mind over the body\".\n\nThe duchess joked: \"I'm not going to say that William was standing there sort of, chanting sweet nothings at me.\n\n\"He definitely wasn't. I didn't even ask him about it, but it was just something I wanted to do for myself.\n\n\"I saw the power of it really, the meditation and the deep breathing and things like that, that they teach you in hypnobirthing, when I was really sick, and actually I realised that this was something I could take control of, I suppose, during labour. It was hugely powerful.\"\n\nSpeaking on the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast, Catherine told author and host Giovanna Fletcher that the Five Big Questions On The Under Fives survey she has launched aims to ask people \"what is it that matters for them in raising their children today.\"\n\n\"I had an amazing granny who devoted a lot of time to us, playing with us, doing arts and crafts and going to the greenhouse to do gardening, and cooking with us,\" she said.\n\n\"And I try and incorporate a lot of the experiences that she gave us at the time into the experiences that I give my children now.\"\n\nThese are some of the most open and candid words we've heard from the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nShe speaks personally about her childhood and reflects on the value of her stable upbringing.\n\nThere are many insights into her own experience of pregnancy and motherhood that many will recognise.\n\nShe shares the misery of extreme morning sickness, the power of hypnobirthing, the uncertainty of those early days with a new baby and the guilt of working and relying on others to help you.\n\nShe also describes how she felt in the moments before facing the world's media outside the hospital just a day after giving birth and holding a newborn Prince George in her arms.\n\nShe said it was terrifying.\n\nIt's clear the duchess felt comfortable speaking to the podcast host, Giovanna Fletcher. That ease comes from the fact this area is now a real priority for Catherine.\n\nHer royal work has a sharp focus on family and specifically early intervention - helping vulnerable parents with children under the age of five who need extra support.\n\nThe Five Big Questions survey she launched last month asking for people's views on early childhood has so far drawn more than 200,000 responses.\n\nThe duchess said her own priorities included providing her children with the \"happy home\" and \"safe environment\" she had enjoyed as a child.\n\nShe said she was \"passionate\" about children spending a lot of time outside, adding that it was \"so great for physical and mental wellbeing\" and laying the foundations for healthy development.\n\n\"It's such a great environment to spend time in, building those quality relationships without the distractions of 'I've got to cook' and 'I've got to do this'. And actually, it's so simple,\" she said.\n\nThe image of Princess Charlotte smelling a bluebell was taken by the duchess at their home in Norfolk last spring\n\nA picture of Catherine's daughter, Princess Charlotte, smelling a bluebell has been released following the duchess's interview.\n\nThe image of the four-year-old was taken by the duchess at their home in Norfolk in spring last year.\n\nThe month-long online poll, conducted by Ipsos Mori on behalf of Catherine's Royal Foundation, aims to \"spark a national conversation\" on early childhood, Kensington Palace has said.\n\nLaunched in January, it is thought to be the biggest survey of its kind and the results are intended to guide the duchess's future work.\n\n\"It's going to take a long time, I'm talking about a generational change, but hopefully this is the first small step: to start a conversation around the importance of early childhood development,\" Catherine said.\n\nThe duchess appeared on the podcast after visiting children at a nursery in south London\n\n\"It's not just about happy, healthy children. This is for lifelong consequences and outcomes.\"\n\nMs Fletcher - who is married to Tom Fletcher from McFly - said Kate seemed \"passionate\" about the subject and it was \"beyond wonderful to sit and talk further about the survey, her work - for which she has so much knowledge, and her own experiences of being a mother\".\n\n\"It doesn't matter who you are, what you have, or where you come from - we're all trying to do our best with our children while continuously doubting our decisions and wondering if we're getting it completely wrong. Talking helps unite us all,\" she said.\n\n1. What do you believe is most important for children growing up in the UK today to live a happy adult life? Rank from most important to least important:\n\n2. Which of these statements is closest to your opinion?\n\n3. How much do you agree or disagree with this statement? The mental health and wellbeing of parents and carers has a great impact on the development of their child(ren)\n\n4. Which of the following is closest to your opinion of what influences how children develop from the start of pregnancy to age five?\n\n5. Which period of a child and young person's life do you think is the most important for health and happiness in adulthood?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Dennis: 'I've never seen anything like it'\n\nStorm Dennis has brought a month's worth of rain in 48 hours to flood-hit parts of Wales, early estimates show.\n\nFlooding and landslides have affected swathes of south Wales in what police declared to be \"a major incident\".\n\nHundreds of homes and businesses have been badly damaged with the Welsh Government preparing to provide extra cash to councils to help the clear-up.\n\nMore than 20,000 properties across the region suffered power cuts during the storm.\n\nSouth Wales Police said rescue agencies had been dealing with \"multiple\" floods and landslides.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jenny Gilmer said: \"It's vitally important that people still follow safety advice. Whilst things may appear to be getting better, there is still a serious risk to people and property.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Prendergast, assistant chief fire officer for South Wales, said the service had taken \"nearly 1,400 calls in 12 hours\".\n\nCrews had faced \"massively dangerous\" conditions, he said, and praised them for doing an \"amazing job\".\n\n\"Our main hope is that we avoid any further loss of life,\" he said.\n\nHis fire service would be working with the Environment Agency, the Met Office and Natural Resources Wales.\n\n\"We are now concerned about the public in Usk and the Gwent flatlands and we are looking at carrying out evacuations there to get people out of harm's reach,\" he said.\n\nCars are stranded in a car park at Mountain Ash, in the south Wales valleys\n\nEarly data from Natural Resources Wales showed more than 160mm of rain had fallen in Maerdy, Rhondda, since midday on Friday.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the flooding was \"very serious\".\n\n\"Today will be a day devoted to getting on top of it, providing an emergency response,\" he said.\n\n\"By tomorrow we hope, the weather forecast says, we'll be into the phase where we're beginning to recover from it and seeing what needs to be done to help.\n\n\"There has been damage to infrastructure as well as individual homes being flooded.\"\n\nPeople have been evacuated from their homes in Monmouthshire and Neath with emergency centres set up in Merthyr Tydfil and Aberfan.\n\nVillagers in Tonna, near Neath, were evacuated by bus on Sunday morning.\n\nResidents of Skenfrith were advised to go to Abergavenny Leisure Centre, or \"move to the upstairs of their property,\" Gwent Police said in a statement.\n\nTraffic Wales said many roads were blocked by floods overnight.\n\nCaerleon's Roman amphitheatre was turned into a lake by the rains\n\nRescues were carried out in Crickhowell, Powys, where homes have been flooded.\n\nTwo men rescued a motorist who was stuck in flood water in Abergavenny.\n\nDan Haymond, 31, was with his five-year-old daughter when he saw the car in trouble and rang 999.\n\n\"This guy drove from the bridge and up the road, he got caught and tried to do a U-turn. The car got washed around,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heavy rain is causing 'multiple' floods and landslides, according to South Wales Police\n\nTwo men then rushed to help rescue the driver, Mr Haymond added.\n\n\"They just ran to him, they had to get him out of the boot because they couldn't open the doors.\"\n\nKatie Davies, who has been evacuated from her home in Whitchurch, Cardiff, said police knocked on her door at 08:00 GMT to say residents \"have to leave because the river has burst its banks\".\n\n\"Our two cul-de-sacs of 15 houses have all been evacuated,\" she said.\n\n\"The houses on the other side have been flooded straight through.\n\n\"It's tragic because it's never been this high. Never in my life and I'm 26 - so not in the last 26 years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cars swept away by flood water in Hay-on-Wye, Powys\n\nIn Pontypridd, bar worker Jack Jones said he had to leave work at Clwb y Bont at about 20:00 GMT on Saturday as the river was entering the bar.\n\n\"It came from nowhere,\" he said.\n\n\"To come down this morning and see it like this is quite shocking.\"\n\nHuw Phillips Griffiths, who lives next to the river on Berw Road in Pontypridd, said he was \"very apprehensive\" things could get worse.\n\nHis house stayed dry, but neighbours downhill were badly flooded overnight, he said.\n\n\"People's homes had up to about five feet of water overnight, Mr Griffiths said.\n\n\"Last night I saw a taxi floating down the road, with the driver trying to stop it.\n\n\"The wall on the river gave in, so I grabbed him as the car went down the river.\n\n\"He stayed with a neighbour last night and I think he left this morning. Where the cars have gone, I don't know.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDonna Littlechild, duty tactical manager at Natural Resources Wales (NRW), said the storm had caused \"significant impacts\".\n\nSpeaking shortly after 18:00 BST on Sunday, her colleague Jeremy Parr told BBC Wales Today river levels were now going down.\n\n\"It looks like an improving situation but keep an eye on the weather,\" he said.\n\nWestern Power said it had reconnected 19,843 properties which had been without power on Sunday, with 6,573 \"vulnerable\" customers at risk.\n\nAt 19:00 more than 2,000 homes and businesses in south Wales remained without power.\n\nNRW had issued two severe flood warnings - meaning a danger to life - covering the River Neath at Aberdulais and the River Taff at Pontypridd.\n\nDozens of other flood warnings remained in place around Wales at 22:00 GMT, falling from a peak of more than 80.\n\nSouth Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Gilmer said: \"The disruption has been significant and over the next few days there will be many people who are left dealing with the aftermath of what has been a devastating storm.\n\n\"I would like to thank them for the cooperation they have shown, and I would like to reassure them all, that our work will continue until we are satisfied that people are no longer at risk.\"\n\nMountain Ash has been hit with debris\n\nVillagers in Tonna near Neath were evacuated by bus on Sunday morning\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council leader Andrew Morgan said the scale of the incident was \"massive\".\n\nHe said there had been a \"huge response\" from all responders with the area \"very badly affected\".\n\nPowys County Council urged residents to \"remain indoors\" as it deals with the impact from the storm and told people not to travel unless \"vital\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"Storm Dennis has had a major impact in the county with roads impassable due to flooding and some towns and villages being cut off due to flood water.\"\n\nUp to 40mm of rain is widely expected to fall and up to 120mm on higher ground.\n\nA Met Office yellow \"be prepared\" warning for strong winds covers most of Wales until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n• None YellowSevere weather possible, plan ahead, travel may be disrupted\n• None RedDangerous weather expected - take action to keep safe\n\nFire crews have been pumping out flooded houses at Cwm, Blaenau Gwent and Argoed, Caerphilly county.\n\nCaerphilly council said it was \"getting a lot of calls\" about several affected areas including New Tredegar, Bedwas, Newbridge, Risca, and Llanbradach.\n\nTransport for Wales has made alterations to a large number of routes for the weekend and Monday, with some stops on journeys being missed out.\n\nThose affected include Birmingham to Aberystwyth, Cardiff to Holyhead, and Manchester to Carmarthen, with full details online.\n\nIn Cardiff, 44 horses have been evacuated from stables at Pontcanna Fields.\n\nAnd in Taff's Well, near Cardiff, the village hall was offering people a place to go for warm food and to rest.\n\nHorses were led to safety from stables near the River Taff in Cardiff\n\nA man's body was recovered from the River Tawe but police said his death was not being linked to the weather.\n\nPolice at Ystradgynlais in the Swansea Valley said the body had been recovered from the river after reports of someone falling into the water at 10:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ITV boss has said staff at the TV station are \"devastated\" by the \"tragic\" death of ex-Love Island presenter Caroline Flack.\n\nDirector of television Kevin Lygo said that when Flack stepped down after being charged with assaulting her boyfriend, the door was left open for her to return as host on the ITV2 show.\n\nTonight's episode will carry a tribute to her from Iain Stirling and the team.\n\nA lawyer for Flack's family said she had taken her own life.\n\nIn a statement, Lygo, ITV's director of television, said Flack had been part of the dating show \"from the very beginning\" and her \"passion, dedication and boundless energy contributed to the show's success\".\n\nCaroline \"was very vocal\" in her support of the show, and viewers \"could relate to her and she to them\", he said.\n\nLygo added that, after Flack stepped down, the channel \"made it clear that the door was left open for her to return\".\n\nHe said the show's team remained in \"regular contact with her\" and \"continued to offer support over the last few months\".\n\n\"We will all miss her very much,\" he added.\n\nLove Island is to return tonight after two episodes over the weekend were cancelled after the 40-year-old was found dead in her north London home on Saturday.\n\nITV confirmed companion show Love Island: Aftersun will not air on Monday while the Morning After podcast will not take place on Tuesday.\n\nIn a joint statement, ITV and Just Eat, Love Island's advertising partner, said they have worked with Samaritans to replace the branding for tonight's episode \"so that anyone affected by Caroline's death can access support\".\n\nLaura Whitmore replaced her as host of the dating show after Flack was charged with assaulting her boyfriend, Lewis Burton, last December, and had been due to stand trial. Flack denied the charge.\n\nHer management company said she had been \"under huge pressure\" since the assault charge.\n\nFollowing her death, a petition was launched calling for new laws to prevent sections of the media \"knowingly and relentlessly bullying people, famous or not\".\n\nThe petition, calling for the introduction of \"Caroline's Law\", has had more than 500,000 signatures so far.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nDozens of celebrities, friend and former Love Island contestants have paid tribute to Flack, who had also co-hosted The X Factor and won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014, describing her death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe also shared on Instagram a picture of Flack taken on Friday night, the last time she saw her.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Burton wrote an emotional tribute to Flack on Instagram, promising he would \"try [to] make you proud everyday\".\n\n\"I am so lost for words I am in so much pain I miss you so much I know you felt safe with me you always said I don't think about anything else when I am with you and I was not allowed to be there this time I kept asking and asking,\" the 27-year-old tennis player wrote.\n\nFlack's management company has criticised the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for refusing to drop the charge against her, even though Mr Burton said he did not want the case to go ahead.\n\nBail conditions had stopped Flack having any contact with Mr Burton ahead of her trial next month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe CPS said it would not comment on the specifics of the case but in response to questions about its role, it outlined on Sunday how it reached decisions over whether or not to charge someone.\n\nA statement said: \"We do not decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offence - that is for the jury, judge or magistrate - but we must make the key decision of whether a case should be put before a court.\"\n\nIt said every decision over whether to charge someone is based on the same two-stage test - does the evidence provide a realistic prospect of conviction, and is it in the public interest to prosecute?\n\nThat includes asking how serious the offence is, the harm caused to the victim and whether prosecution is a proportionate response.\n\nFormer chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said his impression was that the case had been determined to be a serious case, and one which the CPS felt it should proceed with \"regardless of what the victim thought\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLove Island's sixth season and first winter series, which is currently being filmed in South Africa, is due to end on Sunday, 23 February.\n\nOn Monday, former Love Island contestants spoke of their feelings on The Victoria Derbyshire Show.\n\nCally Jane Beech, who was one the show in 2015, said controls on what people say on social media needed to be be put in place.\n\n\"There needs to be better protection for people, setting up identification when you open a profile or account, there needs to be some sort of ID attached to it so that you are accountable for what you say to people.\"\n\nLaura Whitmore had also paid tribute to her \"vivacious\" and \"loving\" friend on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting on his Instagram story on Monday, former Apprentice candidate and Flack's ex-boyfriend Andrew Brady said: \"I love you Caroline Flack and I think I always will.\"\n\nResponding to reports that the ambulance service was called to Flack's address the day before she was found dead, a London Ambulance spokesperson said: \"We were called shortly after 22:30 on 14 February to a residential property in north London.\n\n\"Crews attended and, following a clinical assessment, the person was not taken to hospital. Due to patient confidentiality we cannot comment further.\"\n\nChannel 4 has said it will not broadcast its forthcoming show The Surjury, which was to have been hosted by Flack.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: \"I don't think we've said it will definitely go ahead on the same date that was mentioned before\"\n\nThe government's budget may be delayed, a cabinet minister has said.\n\nIt had been set for 11 March, but the timetable was thrown into doubt after the surprise resignation of former Chancellor Sajid Javid on Thursday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the date would be a matter for Mr Javid's replacement, Rishi Sunak.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme: \"The guy's only been in place for a few days, let's give him a few days to decide on the date.\"\n\nMr Shapps said the government had not confirmed the budget would \"definitely go ahead on the same date as mentioned before\", but added: \"Clearly, we'll need to have a budget.\"\n\nThe acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, accused the government of being \"chaotic\".\n\nHe added: \"Any delay in the budget will send out alarm bells that a major change of economic policy is now being planned without any democratic legitimacy from the Tory manifesto just weeks ago.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Shapps told Sky's Sophy Ridge programme that plans were \"well advanced\", but Mr Sunak \"may want time\" and would be looking at the plans this week.\n\nThe budget is the government's annual announcement on its plans for tax and spending for the coming financial year.\n\nMr Javid had been due to present his plans to Parliament in November, but cancelled it to make way for a general election.\n\nHe confirmed the new date in January, promising an \"infrastructure revolution\", with billions of pounds invested \"across the country\".\n\nBut the chancellor stood down from his role during the government's reshuffle - just four weeks before the budget was due - rejecting the prime minister's order to fire his team of aides.\n\nMr Javid said his advisers had worked \"incredibly hard\" and he could not agree to them being replaced.\n\n\"I felt I was left with no option but to resign,\" he said, adding that Mr Sunak and the rest of the government retained his \"full support\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: I had no option but to resign\n\nMr Javid's resignation followed rumours of tensions between him and the prime minister's senior adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nAfter he stepped down, No 10 announced there would now be a joint team of economic advisers for both the new chancellor and prime minister.\n\nA former adviser to Mr Javid said Downing Street had misjudged the reshuffle and the budget could be delayed as a result.\n\nSalma Shah told BBC Newscast she thought No 10 believed Mr Javid would take up an offer to remain in his post, despite being told to fire his aides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former advisor to Mr Javid says Downing Street misjudged the reshuffle.\n\nFurther delays could stop the Office for Budget Responsibility - which monitors the government's performance on money management - from complying with its legal requirement of publishing two forecasts in the financial year.", "The coastline in Kent was battered by Storm Ciara last week, so residents are preparing for Storm Dennis' arrival.\n\nMany parts of the UK are yet to recover from the impact of Storm Ciara, and now Storm Dennis has caused further damage to property and homes.\n\nA red weather warning for rain is in place on Sunday for south Wales, as heavy rain and strong winds continue to affect the UK with more than 300 flood warnings issued.\n\nOn Tuesday the Met Office confirmed that Dennis was likely to hit Britain and said: \"It will bring very strong winds and potential for disruption to many parts of England and Wales on Saturday.\"\n\nSome experts have warned Dennis could inflict more damage than Ciara with a month of rain expected in some areas.\n\nThe Army have been brought into try and help in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.\n\nRoad, rail and air transport has already been disrupted, with many flights being cancelled.\n\nThese are the storm names for 2019/2020 season\n\nWhy are storms given names? Storms: Why are they given names?\n\nThese kids got involved in a clean up after Storm Ciara\n\nPeople living near railway lines have been asked to secure any loose gardens items, after several trampolines were blown on to the tracks last weekend.\n\nStorm Ciara created winds so strong that trees were blown over\n\nThe weather for the coming week is expected to remain quite unsettled.\n\nBut some sunny, dry spells are expected in places, especially in the east of the UK.\n• None How has Storm Ciara affected you?\n• None Why do storms have names?", "French police have arrested a Russian activist artist behind the release of a sex video that brought down a political ally of President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nThe video scuppered Benjamin Griveaux's candidacy for mayor of Paris. Its release was widely condemned.\n\nA little-known website alleged that Mr Griveaux had exchanged intimate mobile phone messages with a young woman and sent her the video.\n\nMr Pavlensky, who sought asylum from Russia in 2017, said he had posted the video, showing a man involved in a sexual act, online.\n\nThe distribution of the clip, which spread quickly across social media on Thursday, brought condemnation from across the political spectrum.\n\nThe current Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said people's private lives should be respected.\n\nFar-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon condemned the video's release as \"odious\", while far-right leader Marine Le Pen suggested Mr Griveaux should not have quit.\n\nJudicial sources quoted by French media said the arrest of Mr Pavlensky was not connected with the video. He was being investigated over an alleged brawl in Paris on 31 December involving \"wilful violence with a weapon\".\n\nMr Griveaux described the attack on him as abuse\n\nMr Pavlensky says he posted the video to expose what he sees as the politician's hypocrisy.\n\nMr Griveaux, who is married with children and was once a government spokesman, condemned the distribution of the video as he withdrew his candidacy on Friday.\n\n\"My family does not deserve this. No-one should ever be subjected to such abuse,\" he said.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Griveaux reportedly filed an \"invasion of privacy\" complaint with the police, and an investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office, Agence France-Presse reported.\n\nHe first gained notoriety by nailing his scrotum to Moscow's Red Square in 2013. He fled Russia and sought asylum in France when he was accused by the authorities of a sexual assault that he denied.\n\nHe served seven months in jail for setting the front door of the FSB intelligence agency on fire in Moscow and later caused minor damage to a Banque de France branch by setting that alight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pyotr Pavlensky set fire to the door of the FSB, Russia's security service\n\nBefore his arrest, he told French news channel LCI that Mr Griveaux was only the first politician that he would target, saying he would carry on fighting the \"propaganda and puritanism of politicians\".\n\nFrench media have traditionally avoided prying into the private lives of people in public life and a number of figures referred distastefully to the \"Americanisation\" of politics.", "ITV have pulled Saturday's edition of Love Island following the death of the show's former host Caroline Flack.\n\nAn episode of unseen bits from the week in the villa was due to have been aired at 21:00 GMT.\n\nFlack's death shocked fans on Saturday. It came two months after she was replaced as host of the show after being charged with assault.\n\nAn ITV statement said: \"Everybody at Love Island and ITV is shocked and saddened by this desperately sad news.\"\n\nIt continued: \"Caroline was a much loved member of the Love Island team and our sincere thoughts and condolences are with her family and friends.\"\n\nITV2's programme announcer said: \"In light of today's sad news we're replacing tonight's episode of Love Island: Unseen Bits with a double bill of You've Been Framed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLove Island's first winter series, which is being filmed in South Africa, is due to end on Sunday, 23 February.\n\nMeanwhile, Channel 4 said its series The Surjury, which was to have been hosted by Flack, will not air.\n\nA Channel 4 spokeswoman said: \"We are shocked and saddened to hear the tragic news about Caroline Flack. Our deepest sympathies go out to Caroline's family and friends.\n\n\"Under the circumstances, we have decided not to broadcast The Surjury.\"\n\nWhen the show was announced in October, the channel said it would feature a 12-strong jury of the public who would decide if people got the cosmetic surgery they dreamed of.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer are the final three contenders in the UK Labour leadership election\n\nThe final contenders for the Labour leadership have answered questions at a hustings in Glasgow, with all three backing more powers being devolved.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy set out their views on topics including Scottish independence and the constitution.\n\nAll three MPs agreed that the party had to win in Scotland to win back power.\n\nHowever, Ms Long-Bailey was the only one to explicitly state she would agree to a fresh ballot on independence.\n\nShe insisted her party must not \"fall into the trap\" again of working with the Tories to try to keep Scotland in the UK.\n\nThe shadow business secretary and her fellow leadership hopefuls, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and former shadow climate change secretary Lisa Nandy, became the final three contenders in the running to succeed Jeremy Corbyn after Emily Thornberry was eliminated for failing to secure enough nominations before the deadline on Friday night.\n\nAt the SEC in Glasgow, the remaining contenders all stressed the importance of Labour winning back support in Scotland as a route back to power across the UK.\n\nMs Nandy said: \"There is no route to government that doesn't run through Scotland, but the challenge of this is absolutely enormous.\"\n\nShe added: \"We have to start winning in every region and nation of the UK, because we have to show we are a national party of government.\"\n\nSimilarly Sir Keir said: \"We can't win without Scotland so we have to rebuild in Scotland.\"\n\nMs Long-Bailey - an ally of the departing Jeremy Corbyn - also echoed that, telling activists at the event: \"We won't win a general election without Scotland.\"\n\nAsked directly if the Scottish Parliament should have the power to stage a legally-binding vote on independence, Ms Long-Bailey reiterated that while she is opposed to independence she does not think Westminster should block indyref2 against Holyrood's wishes.\n\nOn Saturday she said: \"I'm proud to be from the United Kingdom but as a democrat I have to say that if the Scottish Parliament makes the request for a referendum I don't believe that as a democratic party we could refuse that.\"\n\nHer comments came after MSPs at Holyrood voted by 64 to 54 last month in favour of a second independence referendum taking place.\n\nIf there is a second vote on Scottish independence she said Labour could make a \"positive campaign\" for the union.\n\nBut she was clear: \"We can't fall into the trap we did last time where we joined forces with the Conservative Party on Better Together.\"\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer speaking at the Labour leadership hustings on the stage at SEC in Glasgow\n\nHowever, Sir Keir - who is the bookmakers' favourite to replace Mr Corbyn - said that by backing a second independence vote Labour could be falling into a \"trap\" set by the SNP.\n\nHe said the issue of Holyrood having the power to stage a fresh ballot on the issue was \"an interesting question\" but he added: \"We shouldn't get sucked straight into that.\n\n\"The SNP are constantly using the constitutional issue to mask the real issues, and if we get into that we are falling into their trap.\n\n\"Let's have a wide discussion about where we go next, but let's be bold about it.\"\n\nHe argued that Labour should support \"radical federalism as the way forward\" for the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Nandy said she believed in a \"much more radical power settlement than federalism with power pushed out to local authorities\".\n\nShe told Labour Party members: \"I believe in the United Kingdom and I think we have to be absolutely clear about that and we have to stand up for Scotland remaining in the United Kingdom.\n\n\"We can hand power to people and give people agency and control over their own lives again by handing more powers to our councils.\"\n\nCurrent leader Jeremy Corbyn confirmed he would step down at his election count in December as his party faced its worst performance in terms of seats since 1935.", "One person is still receiving treatment in Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital\n\nAll but one of the nine people being treated for the coronavirus in the UK have been discharged from hospital.\n\nThey were discharged after twice testing negative for the virus, NHS England said on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, all 94 people who were being quarantined at Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral have left the site.\n\nThe patients were among the first British coronavirus evacuees flown back to the UK from Wuhan, China, which is the centre of the outbreak.\n\nMore than 100 people are still in quarantine in a Milton Keynes hotel after arriving from China last weekend.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I want to stress that any individuals who are discharged from hospital are now well and do not pose any public health risk to the public.\"\n\nAmong those to have been discharged are five members of the ski group who were treated at the Royal Free and Guy's and St Thomas', both in London.\n\nFour adults and a child were diagnosed with the virus after coming into contact with Steve Walsh, from Hove, while at a French ski resort on his way home from Singapore.\n\nIn a joint statement on Saturday, the group said: \"All of our group, including the six in other countries, have recovered quickly from the virus having required minimal medical treatment during our time in isolation.\"\n\nThe group thanked those involved in their care, adding that they were \"feeling well and looking forward to being home\".\n\nMr Walsh, who is thought to have infected 11 people while at the resort, said on Tuesday that he had fully recovered.\n\nProf Keith Willett, NHS strategic incident director, said more people may need to spend some time at home in the coming weeks to reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nThe final person being treated for the virus is still at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital in central London.\n\nProf Willett thanked those who have just left Arrowe Park hospital for the \"calm, patient and responsible\" response to the situation.\n\nHundreds of people who were at a conference in London earlier this month, including two Labour MPs, were contacted by health officials after an attendee was later diagnosed with the virus.\n\nThe person, who has not been identified, was at the UK Bus Summit at the QEII Conference Centre.\n\nOfficials have been tracing the contacts of the ninth person in the UK to test positive for the virus.\n\nThe first death from the disease in Europe was confirmed on Saturday, after a Chinese tourist died in France.\n\nThe victim, one of more than 1,500 fatalities from the virus, was an 80-year-old man from China's Hubei province.\n\nHe arrived in France on 16 January and was placed in quarantine in hospital in Paris on 25 January.\n\nOnly three deaths had previously been reported outside mainland China - in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Japan.\n\nA further 2,641 people have been newly confirmed as infected, bringing the China's total to 66,492.\n\nOutside mainland China, there have been more than 500 cases in 24 countries.", "A woman looks out of her window as ducks swim past in floodwater after the River Severn burst its banks in Bewdley, west of Birmingham", "Former England striker Ian Wright has tearfully paid tribute to a childhood teacher he remembers as \"the greatest man in the world\".\n\nThe ex-footballer had a hard time keeping the emotion out of his voice as he told Desert Island Discs about being reunited with Sydney Pigden in 2010 (footage of their reunion later went viral).\n\nWhen you were younger, was there a person or a life-changing experience that helped shape who you are today? We'd love to hear your stories. Please email us - haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk", "Facebook is under increasing pressure to curb the spread of disinformation online\n\nFacebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has called for more regulation of harmful online content, saying it was not for companies like his to decide what counts as legitimate free speech.\n\nHe was speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.\n\nSocial media giants like Facebook are under increasing pressure to stop the spread of false information.\n\nFacebook in particular has been criticised for its policy on political advertising.\n\nThe company launched new policies for political advertising in the US in 2018 and globally the following year. These rules require political ads to display who had paid for them, and a copy of the ad is kept in a publicly-searchable database for seven years.\n\nBut this week Facebook said it would not include sponsored political posts by social media stars in its database. Posts by politicians are not always fact-checked as part of the company's free speech policy either.\n\nAt the conference he said he supported regulation.\n\n\"We don't want private companies making so many decisions about how to balance social equities without any more democratic process,\" he said.\n\nThe Facebook founder urged governments to come up with a new regulatory system for social media, suggesting it should be a mix of existing rules for telecoms and media companies.\n\n\"In the absence of that kind of regulation we will continue doing our best,\" he said.\n\n\"But I actually think on a lot of these questions that are trying to balance different social equities it is not just about coming up with the right answer, it is about coming up with an answer that society thinks is legitimate.\"\n\nMr Zuckerberg also admitted Facebook had been slow to recognise the development of co-ordinated online \"information campaigns\" by state actors like Russia.\n\nHe added that malevolent actors are also becoming better at covering their tracks by masking the IP addresses of users.\n\nTo tackle this, Mr Zuckerberg said Facebook had a team of 35,000 people reviewing content and security on the platform. With assistance from AI, he said more than a million fake accounts are deleted every day.\n\n\"Our budget [for content review] is bigger today than the whole revenue of the company when we went public in 2012, when we had a billion users,\" he said.\n\nDuring his time in Europe, Zuckerberg is expected to meet politicians in Munich and Brussels to discuss data practices, regulation and tax reform.\n\nDespite public backlash over issues like political advertising, Facebook says the number of users on its family of apps - Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram - continues to grow.\n\nEarlier this month, Whatsapp announced that it is used by two billion people worldwide, more than a quarter of the world's population.", "Dancing On Ice professional skater Hamish Gaman has pulled out of Sunday's show, saying he's been \"struggling\" over the past few months.\n\nPosting on social media he said the past three-and-a-half months have been the worst of his life.\n\nIt's after his celebrity dance partner Caprice quit the show after parting ways with Hamish with no reason given to viewers.\n\nITV told Radio 1 Newsbeat they had nothing further to add.\n\nCaprice was later paired with skater Oscar Peter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Numerous defamatory articles have been stopped from running in the press over the past few weeks,\" Hamish said.\n\n\"These untrue stories are continually being fed to the press by a 'source'.\"\n\nIt's unknown what lead to Caprice and Hamish's split on the show and why Caprice eventually left, but a spokesperson for her said \"she's had to keep silent for contractual reasons\".\n\nThe speculation has lead to Hamish feeling that he \"couldn't face it\" but hopes it will \"all be over soon\".\n\n\"It's become relentless and I feel extremely vulnerable. I'm asking them to stop,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I desperately want to move on from all of this and focus on the skating. I've done absolutely nothing wrong, and was told by the team who reviewed all the rehearsal footage that I was an 'exemplary pro'.\"\n\nThis year's Dancing On Ice has been featured in the news since it launched after it became the first reality TV show in the UK to pair a same-sex couple together.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Houthi fighters say they downed the warplane (file picture)\n\nA warplane belonging to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has crashed in the northern province of al-Jawf.\n\nA coalition spokesman confirmed that a Saudi Tornado fighter jet had \"fallen\" while carrying out a support mission near Yemeni army units, according to Saudi Arabia's state news agency SPA.\n\nYemen's Houthi rebels said they shot down the plane on Friday night.\n\nThe United Nations said 31 civilians were killed in Saudi air strikes in al-Jawf on Saturday.\n\nA statement from the office of the UN's resident coordinator for Yemen said \"preliminary field reports\" indicated that at least 12 others were injured in the strikes.\n\nThe Saudi-led coalition has been battling Yemen's rebel Houthi movement since 2015. It intervened after the Houthis ousted the internationally-recognised government from power in the capital Sanaa.\n\nThe Houthi rebels said they used ground-to-air missiles to down the warplane on Friday night.\n\nSaudi Arabia has not provided details of any casualties from the crash, or what caused it.\n\nIt said it carried out a search and rescue operation on Saturday and that some civilians may have been unintentionally killed.\n\nHouthi officials said children were among the casualties of retaliatory air strikes by Saudi Arabia, which they said targeted civilians in the area where rebel forces had downed the plane.\n\nThey said some of those injured were in a critical condition.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Lise Grande, the UN's resident humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, shared \"deep condolences with the families of those killed\".\n\n\"So many people are being killed in Yemen - it's a tragedy and it's unjustified. Under international humanitarian law parties which resort to force are obligated to protect civilians. Five years into this conflict and belligerents are still failing to uphold this responsibility. It's shocking,\" she said.\n\nYemen has been at war since 2015, when President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and his cabinet were forced to flee the capital Sanaa by the Houthis.\n\nSaudi Arabia backs Mr Hadi, and has led a coalition of regional countries in air strikes against the rebels.\n\nThe coalition carries out air strikes almost every day, while the Houthis often fire missiles into Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe civil war has triggered the world's worst humanitarian disaster, with an estimated 80% of the population - more than 24 million people - requiring humanitarian assistance or protection.\n\nTens of thousands of people have died as a result of the conflict.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The conflict in Yemen has been raging for years - but what is it all about?", "Demonstrators take part in an anti-Tesla protest in Germany\n\nTesla has been ordered to temporarily halt preparations for a car factory in Germany after environmentalists won a court injunction on Sunday.\n\nThe electric carmaker had been clearing forest land near the capital, Berlin, ahead of building its first European car and battery plant.\n\nThe court emphasised the injunction was temporary and subject to further hearings, probably this week.\n\nProtesters say the factory is a threat to local wildlife and water supplies.\n\nTo much fanfare, Tesla's boss Elon Musk announced plans last November to build a European facility known as a \"gigafactory\" in Grünheide, in the eastern state of Brandenburg.\n\nBut the factory has become a flashpoint between environmentalists and Germany's pro-business Christian Democrat and Free Democrat parties, who fear the issue could damage the country's image as a place to do business.\n\nThe dispute highlights the risks for the US carmaker, which has not been officially granted permission to build the factory. Tesla was, however, granted permission by Germany's environment ministry to begin site preparations \"at its own risk\".\n\nThis has involved clearing about 91 hectares (225 acres) of forest and the felling of thousands of trees - something that outraged an alliance of environmentalists called the Green League.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the court representing the Berlin and Brandenburg region cautioned: \"It should not be assumed that the motion seeking legal protection brought by the Green League lacks any chance of succeeding.\"\n\nTesla bought almost 300 hectares (the size of more than 400 football pitches) in Grünheide from the state of Brandenburg to build the factory, which is scheduled to open in 2021. Tesla has ambitions to produce up to 500,000 cars a year at the factory, employing about 12,000 people.\n\nBut the company is in a race to get production up and running as Germany's big motor manufacturers are investing heavily in new electric car technology.\n\nAccording to local media reports, Tesla has promised to relocate colonies of forest ants, reptiles and bats, and is working with conservationists. Last month, authorities defused seven Second World War bombs discovered at the site.\n\nTesla currently has two Gigafactories in the US and one in Shanghai, China.", "David Abel said he had little confidence the UK government would rescue him and his wife\n\nA British couple quarantined on a cruise liner off the Japanese port of Yokohama have accused the UK government of ignoring their pleas for help.\n\nThe US is to airlift its citizens from the Diamond Princess, which has reported 285 cases of the coronavirus - the biggest cluster outside China.\n\nIn a video on Facebook, David Abel said he had little hope of a similar rescue.\n\nThe Foreign Office told the Observer it was \"working around the clock\" to ensure the welfare of Britons onboard.\n\nBut Mr Abel, who describes himself as a \"staunch Tory\", said he had \"no confidence\" in Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nSpeaking during a Facebook live video with his wife, Sally, he said: \"When he [Johnson] just says 'keep calm, don't panic' - I'd like to see you in this situation, mate. I really would.\"\n\nMr Abel, who has become an unlikely celebrity as a result of his videos, went on to appeal to billionaire Richard Branson for help.\n\nThousands of passengers have been kept in quarantine in their cabins\n\n\"So, Richard Branson, I want to ask you a question, pal,\" he said in a video posted on Valentine's Day.\n\n\"If you and your family were in this situation, what would you do? And please don't say 'chill out, stay calm', that's not what we want to hear.\n\n\"I'm asking, what would it cost to hire one of your smaller planes, put all the Brits on board, no flight attendants, packaged food?\n\n\"Take us to Brize Norton, take us straight into the medical facility and let us do our quarantine there by people who can speak our language.\"\n\nMr Abel added that his appeal was a reflection of \"just how desperate some of the passengers are becoming\".\n\nHe and his wife have previously said they have been given the option to leave and continue their quarantine ashore if they test negative for the virus, but have chosen to remain on board.\n\nOn Saturday, NHS England said all but one of the nine people being treated for the coronavirus in the UK have been discharged from hospital.\n\nElsewhere, the first coronavirus death outside of Asia was confirmed as having happened in France.\n\nThe victim was an 80-year-old man from China's Hubei province, according to French Health Minister Agnès Buzyn.\n\nOn Sunday, China announced a drop in new cases of coronavirus for a third consecutive day.\n\nIn total more than 68,000 people have been infected in China, with the death toll at 1,665.\n\nOutside of China there have been more than 500 cases in nearly 30 countries. Four people have died - in France, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Japan.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland pulled off a stunning chase of 223 to beat South Africa in the third Twenty20 in Centurion and take a pulsating series 2-1.\n\nCaptain Eoin Morgan hit a blistering 57 not out from 22 balls, leading England to their second-highest chase in T20s - and the fourth-highest of all-time - with five balls remaining.\n\nMorgan smashed seven sixes to take his side over the line after Jos Buttler (57) and Jonny Bairstow (64) also made half-centuries.\n\nHeinrich Klaasen propelled South Africa to their total with a 33-ball 66 after the hosts had made a rapid start, but England's big hitting always kept them in the chase.\n\nThey stuttered, losing two wickets for seven runs shortly after halfway but, with 53 runs needed from the final four overs, Morgan, helped by Ben Stokes' 22, took control in sensational style.\n\nStokes holed out on the first ball of the penultimate over but Morgan hit back-to-back sixes before Moeen Ali sealed the win with a boundary.\n\nThe victory sees England take a gripping series which had produced final-ball finishes in the previous two games.\n\nEngland were later fined 20% of their match fee for maintaining a slow over-rate during the game - having been found to be one over short of their target.\n• None Hales recall not likely soon - Morgan\n• None TMS podcast: England storm to series win to cap off memorable tour\n\nWhen England wobbled mid innings they were in danger of letting the platform set by Buttler and Bairstow go to waste.\n\nUnlike in the first game, when Morgan was one of those culpable in his side throwing away a winning position, he seized the game emphatically.\n\nThe left-hander hit Dale Steyn over long-on for six off the final ball of the 16th over to keep the required rate in check and then plundered 14 runs from his next three balls, launching Lungi Ngidi into the stands twice more.\n\nHe equalled his own record for England's fastest T20 50 with his seventh six, reaching the landmark from 21 balls.\n\nMorgan's stunning assault ensured England remarkably reached such a high total with balls to spare.\n\nMorgan's heroics would not have been possible but for the platform set by Bairstow and Buttler.\n\nHaving lost Jason Roy for seven in the second over, the pair shared a partnership of 91 to keep England in the game.\n\nButtler's role as opener has been questioned in this series but he found form after an uncertain start.\n\nButtler and Bairstow took England to 62-1 at the end of the six-over powerplay and then increased their intent immediately, taking 19 runs from spinner Tabraiz Shamsi's first over.\n\nButtler fell lobbing an attempted scoop to short third man off Pretorius for a 29-ball 57, but afterwards Bairstow took up the scoring, targeting Shamsi again with three consecutive boundaries.\n\nBairstow was bowled by Andile Phehlukwayo with 83 runs still needed and Dawid Malan edged behind off Shamsi in the following over, but Morgan was able to guide his team to a memorable victory.\n\nIn total there were 28 sixes hit in the match and 448 runs scored - the bowlers not helped by a supreme batting pitch or the fact the game was being played at altitude, which helped the ball sail over the short boundaries.\n\nFrom the outset England failed to gain control with South Africa openers Quinton de Kock and Temba Bavuma scoring 52 runs from the first 22 balls.\n\nThe usually dependable Chris Jordan was hit for three consecutive leg-side sixes in the fourth over which cost 19.\n\nMark Wood was even more expensive, pummelled for 47 runs in three overs, including 23 from his second with three wides.\n\nConditions did not help England but they harmed their own cause by bowling nine wides in the innings.\n\nWith no spin on offer, Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid were unable to peg South Africa back as they had done in the previous matches with Tom Curran the only bowler to offer any kind of control.\n\nEngland will celebrate the win and take solace from the fact South Africa's bowlers fared no better, but there is improvement needed with just six games before the Twenty20 World Cup begins in October.\n\nThe best T20 series ever? - stats & best of social media\n• None There were 1207 runs across the series. More than any other three-match series in the history of T20 internationals.\n• None Only six other T20 internationals have had more runs scored than the 448 in this one in Centurion. And there was still five balls to go...\n• None The 15 sixes equals England's best in a T20, joining the 15 they plundered against New Zealand at Auckland in 2013.\n• None Eoin Morgan, who hit seven sixes, became first England player to score 100 T20I sixes - he now has 105, the same as West Indies' Chris Gayle\n• Jacob Wadsworth on Twitter: \"Absolutely brilliant, embrace this period, we won't see anything like we've seen in the last four years again, so good.\"\n• Kevin Ticehurst on Twitter: \"Get in there England, our bowling wasn't great today. But it just shows you how far we have come in five years under Morgan. That result will give other countries a look over their shoulder. Is there anything we can't chase down?\"\n• Alex Williams on Twitter: \"Can't think of a better T20 series than this one. Pure entertainment from start to finish.\"\n\n'An amazing game of cricket' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan, speaking to the Test Match Special podcast: \"It's brilliant. When a series is so tight, to come out on top says a lot about the side.\n\n\"Probably where it's a little bit disappointing from everyone, upon reflection, is how we started the series (losing in East London).\n\n\"We started pretty slow, we still managed to stay in the first game, the chase actually turned out pretty well and we should have won but we capitulated at the end.\n\n\"That is a big learning curve for us going forward - how we start a series and how we might start a World Cup.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali: \"It was another amazing game. There have been three quality games, some amazing cricket, some top batting obviously and some great death bowling from some of the guys.\n\n\"It was a tough game today, because the wicket was amazing and the ball flies here but it was a great win.\"", "Major floods have affected a swathe of south Wales as Storm Dennis hit.\n\nHundreds were evacuated from the village of Nantgarw near Cardiff meanwhile Pontypridd town centre was left under water after the River Taff burst its banks.\n\nThe flooding was widespread spanning from Llanfoist near Abergavenny to Aberdulais in Neath Port Talbot.\n\nIn Nantgarw, the ground floor of Tracey Newman's home was submerged. The Met Office issued a red warning for rain.\n\nThe leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council Andrew Morgan said the county was dealing with a \"major emergency\" and said rest centres have been set up to help people affected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMother-of-three Tracey Newman describes the horror of being woken in the middle of the night by flood water.\n\n\"I woke up at 3.45am when I heard water pouring. I thought the washing machine had burst.\n\n\"I went downstairs and the water was knee-high. My son was asleep on the sofa. I was screaming and shouting for him to wake up. He waded through the water to get upstairs. It was terrible.\n\n\"I phoned the police and they told me to stay indoors, go upstairs and carry as much as you can.\n\n\"By now the water was up to my waist. We have lost everything downstairs.\n\n\"At this point we heard an almighty bang downstairs. I thought a wall had come down or the house was moving. It must have been furniture falling over.\n\n\"Firemen are in our street and everyone is shouting out their bedroom windows to them. They've asked if we are ok and told us to pack a bag. They've said we are a priority to get us out as we're in the worst area.\n\n\"It's been awful. It was really frightening.\"\n\nMeanwhile in Llanover, Monmouthshire, Amy Price's house was also badly affected by flooding.\n\n\"The river started rising about 1am and at 3am it started coming into the house,\" she said.\n\n\"We started sweeping the water away and then at 6am the river started coming over the bank.\"\n\nThe ground floor of her home is completely flooded with water reaching as high as the light switches.\n\nThe family are trapped in the upstairs of their home and are waiting for the water to recede.", "Overnight flooding has caused devastation to parts of Wales on Sunday, with many evacuated. South Wales Police said rescue agencies were dealing with \"multiple\" floods and landslides.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Keith-Lucas has an update on the latest weather warnings\n\nThe Army has been deployed to help with flood relief as the UK faces a second weekend of weather disruption.\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place for much of the country and forecasters say a month's worth of rain could fall in some places.\n\nThe MoD said 75 soldiers from 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, have been sent to Ilkley and Calderdale in West Yorkshire.\n\nThey are helping build flood barriers and repair defences.\n\nA further 70 Reservists from 4th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, will also be providing support where required.\n\nCalderdale Council leader Tim Swift said their presence would be a \"reassuring sight\" for residents of \"already exhausted communities\".\n\nMeanwhile, heavy rain has been falling across southern Scotland leading to three severe flood warnings for the Hawick area in the Scottish Borders.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency says river levels in the town are likely to reach similar levels to those experienced in January 2016 and will peak between 21:00-23:00 on Saturday.\n\nA local leisure centre has been opened for anyone who has to move out of their homes.\n\nSeparate flood warnings and advice have also been issued for residents in the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, South Lanarkshire and South Ayrshire.\n\nAcross the UK road, rail and air travellers also face disruption, with British Airways and EasyJet flights among those affected.\n\nIt comes after Storm Ciara flooded hundreds of homes last weekend.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned flooding is likely to be worse this weekend as already saturated ground is met with a \"perfect storm\" of heavy rain, strong winds and melting snow.\n\nAmber warnings for rain and yellow warnings for wind are in place for most of the country from Saturday afternoon into Sunday evening.\n\nThis means flooding could cause a danger to life, power cuts are expected and there is a good chance transport links will be impacted.\n\nFlood defences were prepared in Mytholmroyd, in the Upper Calder Valley\n\nA body has been found by rescue crews searching for a man reported to have gone overboard from a fuel tanker off Margate Harbour in Kent before the storm struck.\n\nA coastguard helicopter, a Royal Navy warship and RNLI lifeboats joined the operation in heavy seas around Margate Harbour after the alarm was raised in the early hours on Saturday.\n\nWaves crashed against the sea wall in Porthcawl, south Wales\n\nThe worst-hit areas could see between 120-140mm of rainfall and gusts of up to 80mph over the weekend, the Met Office said.\n\nThe predictions are not as severe as last weekend when Ciara brought as much as 184mm of rain and gusts reaching 97mph, resulting in hundreds of homes flooding and more than 500,000 being left without power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut experts have warned Storm Dennis could cause more flooding damage, because of the heavy rain falling on parts of the UK still recovering from Ciara.\n\nJohn Curtin, the Environment Agency's executive director of flood and coastal risk management, said Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire were the areas he was most \"concerned\" about.\n\n\"This [storm] could be a step up from what we have seen before,\" Mr Curtin said.\n\n\"We had a big storm last weekend, [we now have] saturated catchments, snowmelt and rainfall, so it is a perfect storm.\"\n• None YellowSevere weather possible, plan ahead, travel may be disrupted\n• None RedDangerous weather expected - take action to keep safe\n\nThe Environment Agency said preparations were under way to operate flood defences, flood storage reservoirs and temporary barriers to protect communities.\n\nThese include the Foss Barrier in York, the Thames Barrier in London and another in Bewdley, Worcestershire, on the River Severn.\n\nUK power operators say they have employed extra engineers and call centre staff to respond to any possible impact of the storm, after widespread power cuts last weekend.\n\nNewly appointed Environment Secretary George Eustice said he had spoken to local flood response groups across the country on Friday.\n\nHighlighting the Environment Agency's preparations, he added: \"We are fully focused on ensuring that communities are protected and have access to the support and advice they need to stay safe this weekend.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This Hebden Bridge book shop has a sign which doubles up as a flood barrier\n\nThe Met Office has issued amber warnings for rain in pockets of northern and south-west England and Wales from 12:00 GMT on Saturday until 15:00 on Sunday, and in parts of Scotland from 12:00 GMT to 20:00 on Saturday.\n\nAn amber warning is also in place for most of southern England from 00:15 GMT until 18:00 on Sunday.\n\nYellow warnings for strong winds and heavy rain also cover all of England, Wales and southern Scotland between 09:00 GMT and midday on Sunday.\n\nFurther yellow warnings for wind are in place for northern parts of the UK from midday on Sunday until midday on Monday - potentially bringing travel disruption to commuters.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Dennis? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Father Columba Stewart, a Benedictine monk from St Joseph's Abbey, Minnesota, has travelled to Timbuktu with a team of experts to try and persuade the Imams of the City's three great Mosques to allow them to digitise their highly endangered manuscript collections.\n\nFather Columba has watched on in horror as the Islamic State have systematically destroyed the Sufi shrines in Timbuktu and, in 2014, 4,000 of these manuscripts were burnt.\n\nIt is a race against time to digitise what has survived. You can find out more about Father Columba by listening to the World Service's World Service's Heart and Soul programme.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresenter Laura Whitmore has paid tribute to her \"vivacious\" and \"loving\" friend Caroline Flack, who was found dead in her London flat on Saturday.\n\nFighting back tears on her BBC Radio 5 Live show, she said the former Love Island host \"loved to love\".\n\nShe also appealed to listeners to \"be kind\" to others and said she wanted to use her platform to \"call people out\".\n\n\"To paparazzi and tabloids looking for a cheap sell, to trolls hiding behind a keyboard - enough,\" she said.\n\nA lawyer for Flack's family said on Saturday that she had taken her own life.\n\nThe 40-year-old had been \"under huge pressure\" since she was accused of assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton in December, her management company said.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nBurton, who did not support the ongoing case against Flack, wrote an emotional tribute to the presenter on Instagram on Sunday, promising the star he would \"be your voice baby\", and that he would \"try [to] make you proud everyday\".\n\n\"I am so lost for words I am in so much pain I miss you so much I know you felt safe with me you always said I don't think about anything else when I am with you and I was not allowed to be there this time I kept asking and asking,\" the 27-year-old tennis player wrote.\n\nHe concluded: \"I love you with all my heart.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mrlewisburton This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBail conditions had stopped Flack having any contact with Burton ahead of her trial next month.\n\nITV cancelled the scheduled broadcasts of Love Island on Saturday and Sunday but said that the show would return on Monday night with a tribute to its former presenter \"who will be forever in our hearts\".\n\nWhitmore, who took over presenting Love Island following Flack's arrest, said her friend \"loved to laugh\" and had the \"most infectious chuckle\".\n\n\"I'm not going to pretend she was perfect, but is anyone? She lived every mistake publicly, under the scrutiny of the media.\n\n\"Caroline loved to love. That's all she wanted. Which is why a show like Love Island was important to her, because the show is about finding love, friendship, having a laugh. The problem wasn't the show. The show... is loving and caring and safe and protected.\n\n\"The problem is, the outside world is not. Anyone who has ever compared one woman against another on Twitter, knocked someone because of their appearance, invaded someone else's privacy, who have made mean, unnecessary comments on an online forum - they need to look at themselves,\" she said.\n\nWhitmore said she had been debating whether she \"should, would or could come on air today\" but she wanted to talk about her friend \"to give her the respect she deserves\".\n\nShe said she had also been harassed for \"just doing her job\" and \"words affect people\".\n\n\"So to listeners - be kind. Only you are responsible for how you treat others and what you put out in the world,\" she said.\n\nShe then played Angels by Robbie Williams, saying her friend, who she met at V-festival about 10 years ago, loved music and loved to dance, and the song always reminded her of Flack because she \"danced so beautifully to it on Strictly\".\n\nCaroline Flack danced to Angels with her partner, Pasha Kovalev, on Strictly Come Dancing, which she won in 2014\n\n\"Caroline, I'm so sad for you, for your family. I'm angry that you saw this as your only option as I know how much love and support you had. I'm sorry you didn't know that,\" she said just before she played the song.\n\n\"I am not sure when, but I know I'll see you on the dance floor again and I hope you are at peace and know that you are loved.\"\n\nFlack had co-hosted The X Factor and won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014, as well as presenting ITV's Love Island.\n\nFollowing her death, an ITV spokeswoman said she was a \"much-loved member of the Love Island team\". The show did not air on Saturday night.\n\nThe presenter stood down from the dating show after she was charged with assault in December. She denied the charges.\n\nHer management company has criticised the Crown Prosecution Service for refusing to drop charges, even though Burton said he did not want the case to go ahead.\n\nThe CPS said it would not comment on the specifics of the case \"given the tragic circumstances\".\n\nFormer chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said his impression was that the case had been determined to be a serious case, and one which the CPS felt they should proceed with \"regardless of what the victim thought\".\n\nResponding to reports that the ambulance service was called to the star's address the day before she was found dead, a London Ambulance spokesperson said: \"We were called shortly after 22:30 on 14 February to a residential property in north London.\n\n\"Crews attended and, following a clinical assessment, the person was not taken to hospital. Due to patient confidentiality we cannot comment further.\"\n\nCaroline Flack arriving for X Factor auditions with judges and co-host Olly Murs in 2015\n\nA petition on the online site 38 Degrees, dubbed \"Caroline's Law\", which calls for new laws around media regulation in the wake of the presenter's death, has attracted more than 110,000 signatures.\n\nHoney Lancaster-James, a TV psychologist who worked with celebrity contestants on an early series of Love Island, said it was important not to \"point the finger of blame\".\n\n\"There are often a number of factors, and a number of things that have led to a deterioration in mental health,\" she said.\n\nOther celebrities and ex-Love Island stars have also paid tribute to Flack, describing her death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nHer co-presenter on The X Factor and The Xtra Factor, Olly Murs, said he \"always knew how fragile\" she was and his heart was \"forever broken\" because she was \"like a sister\" and they were \"friends for life\".\n\n\"This will hurt forever, love you cazza, Your Ols,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's unstoppable charge towards their first top-flight title in 30 years is \"outstanding\", said Jurgen Klopp after his side edged a narrow victory over bottom-of-the-table Norwich.\n\nSadio Mane came off the bench to score the winner with 12 minutes remaining, expertly taking down skipper Jordan Henderson's raking pass and smashing in at the near post.\n\nIt means Klopp's men need just five more wins from their remaining 12 games to guarantee their first Premier League title, having dropped just two points all campaign, and lie a mammoth 25 points clear of champions Manchester City.\n\n\"The gap is so insane, I don't really understand it,\" Klopp told Sky Sports. \"I am not smart enough. I have not had that before. It is outstanding, so difficult.\n\n\"I go back into the changing room and we chat about the things and then I am like 'Oh, but congratulations. We won the game, another three points.'\"\n\nChances were at a premium in a blustery first half, but Liverpool ramped up the pressure in the second period - Canaries goalkeeper Tim Krul making a stunning double save to deny Mohamed Salah's low shot and Naby Keita's close-range follow-up.\n\nHaving been pegged back for a long period, Norwich could have scored on the counter-attack as Alex Tettey's strike from an angle caught Alisson by surprise at his near post but the effort rattled the foot of the upright.\n\nBut Senegal international Mane - who missed the last two games through a hamstring injury - proved to be the difference having entered the action on the hour mark.\n• None When can Liverpool win the Premier League title?\n\nReds just keep on winning\n\nIt looked for a while that it may be a frustrating day for Liverpool at Carrow Road, misplacing a number of passes in the final third and being restricted to long-range efforts.\n\nKeita's drive was tipped over the crossbar by Krul, while efforts from Virgil van Dijk and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain were comfortable for the Dutch goalkeeper to deal with.\n\nWhen the marauding Trent Alexander-Arnold dragged a shot wide from the edge of the box after just 13 seconds, a routine win looked to be on the cards, but the Reds had to battle hard once more.\n\nKlopp added: \"I could tell in all the players' faces that they weren't nervous, they were enjoying it, and if one team was going to score it was going to be us.\n\n\"We protected against the counter-attack well too. It's really all about these wonderful football players.\"\n\nTo say Liverpool have dominated the division is an understatement - they have annihilated all in front of them and the numbers make staggering reading:\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in 43 league games, closing in on Arsenal's all-time record of 49.\n• None They have collected a remarkable 103 points from the past 105 available.\n• None The Reds have picked up 35 wins from their past 36 games - a 1-1 draw at Manchester United in October the only blemish.\n• None They have won 17 games in a row - one shy of Manchester City's record - and kept 10 clean sheets in their past 11 games.\n\nThe result also means 76 points after 26 games is the best record at this juncture in the history of Europe's top five leagues - something even the continent's great sides including La Liga's Barcelona, Juventus of Serie A, Bundesliga's Bayern Munich and Ligue 1's Paris St-Germain were unable to achieve.\n\nThe defending European champions go into Tuesday's last-16 first-leg tie at Atletico Madrid in flawless form and Klopp's side will take some stopping from reaching their third consecutive final, as they aim for a Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup treble.\n\nSo near yet so far for Norwich\n\nDaniel Farke's side remain anchored to the foot of the table, seven points from safety and are staring at an immediate return to the Championship.\n\nThey display some attractive football at times, playing out from the back which almost proved costly on a couple of occasions, but failing to hold out means they have conceded a joint league-high 48 goals.\n\nHad they taken their chances, they would have claimed a spectacular victory against all the odds, with Lukas Rupp left ruing what might have been.\n\nThe German midfielder broke the offside trap in the first half and when faced one-on-one with Alisson, inexplicably decided to square the ball towards Teemu Pukki instead of shooting and the Brazilian goalkeeper managed to claw the pass away.\n\nThe lively Todd Cantwell struck the side-netting, while Tettey's low, drilled strike hit the upright.\n\nFarke told BBC Sport: \"Performance-wise we were pretty good in many topics, sadly one topic was missing, to be clinical in our finishing. We had our chance in the first half.\"\n\nOn Mane's goal, Farke added: \"I just watched it back shortly. When the referee doesn't give a foul it won't be overturned. It was also due to the quality of Mane - his control and then his second touch. It was smart movement from Mane and if the referee doesn't give a foul you can't see it [being] overturned. We have already learned that VAR is not on our side.\n\n\"Performance-wise we can take a lot of confidence but sadly no points.\"\n\nTon up for Mane - the stats\n• None Liverpool have opened the scoring in each of their past 14 Premier League meetings with Norwich City - no side has ever scored the opening goal in more consecutive games versus another in the competition's history (Chelsea also 14 v Portsmouth).\n• None Norwich have only won one of their past 13 Premier League games (D5 L7) and have failed to score in back-to-back league matches for the first time since November 2019.\n• None Liverpool have kept a clean sheet in 10 of their past 11 Premier League matches, this after having only kept one shutout in the previous 11 such games before this.\n• None Sadio Mane scored the 100th goal of his English club career in all competitions, scoring 25 for Southampton and 75 for Liverpool.\n• None Mane's goal was his 57th in the Premier League for Liverpool, but the first coming as a substitute.\n• None Jordan Henderson has assisted five Premier League goals this season; only in 2014-15 (nine) and 2013-14 (seven) has he provided more in a single league season in his professional career.\n• None Both of Liverpool's past two Premier League games have been goalless at half-time; only two of their first 24 such matches of the season had been 0-0 at the break before this.\n• None Norwich failed to attempt a single shot in the first half of a league game for the first time under Daniel Farke, and the first time in any league match overall since April 2014 v Manchester United.\n\nNorwich travel to Wolves next Sunday in the Premier League (kick-off 14:00 GMT), while Liverpool are in European action on Tuesday, followed by a Premier League game at Anfield against West Ham next Monday (20:00).\n��� None Attempt saved. Teemu Pukki (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Emiliano Buendía with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from very close range is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross.\n• None Naby Keita (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Norwich City 0, Liverpool 1. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jordan Henderson.Goal confirmed following VAR Review.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamal Lewis (Norwich City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Todd Cantwell.\n• None Attempt missed. Grant Hanley (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ondrej Duda with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The A82 was blocked by a fallen tree near Invermoriston before the road was later reopened\n\nHigh winds have led to more disruption across Scotland, after Storm Dennis saw many areas hit by flooding.\n\nA fallen tree blocked the A82 north of Invermoriston for a time and the final night of Aberdeen's Spectra Festival was cancelled.\n\nA section of railway line was shut as water spilled from an aqueduct onto overhead power lines in Renfrewshire.\n\nHomes in Hawick and the village of Newcastleton in the Borders were flooded on Saturday night.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for high winds covering the whole of Scotland is in force until 11:00 on Monday\n\nA couple were rescued by firefighters when their car was swept from the road and became wedged against a gate near Newcastleton on Saturday evening..\n\nDaylight revealed how the car had been wedged against a gate and other fencing was swept away\n\nA specially-trained first responder from Longtown along with fire crews from Dumfries and Carlisle - across the nearby border with England - set up a line rescue system to reach them, then helped them to a waiting ambulance.\n\nIt was understood the couple were later discharged from hospital.\n\nThe couple were stranded as their car was pinned against a gate by flood waters\n\nMore than 35 displaced residents made use of rest centres in Teviotdale leisure centre in Hawick and Newcastleton health centre before returning to their homes or making alternative arrangements.\n\nScottish Borders Council said Hawick's Slitrig Water, the Jed Water at Chesters and the Liddel Water at Newcastleton all reached record high levels.\n\nThree sections of separate rivers in the Scottish Borders reached their highest recorded level on Saturday, with some river gauges showing water levels rising by more than 1.5m in less than three hours.\n\nGreg Cathcart said the scenes were \"hellish\"\n\nCommunity Councillor Greg Cathcart described the \"hellish\" scenes of Saturday night.\n\n\"It happened that quick. Within the next 15-20 minutes it had been swept through as far as the centre of the village. Places that had ever seen water before, it just totally overwhelmed them,\" he said.\n\nHe said it there was a \"real danger to life\" and that the village's resilience team and fire crews \"saved a lot of lives\".\n\n\"Honestly it was biblical the amount of water that came through here… tragic,\" he added.\n\nAnother resident, Samuel Cropper, told the BBC that as he arrived home from work he could see rising water approaching his house in Newcastleton.\n\nHe quickly moved things off the ground and packed a bag for his 10-week-old baby before spending the night at a friend's place.\n\nHe said \"luckily\" his house \"only\" had 2-3 inches of water on the ground.\n\nMr Cropper added: \"It's bad enough, it still got onto furniture and stuff but it wasn't two or three feet.\"\n\nSome residents in Newcastleton were forced from their homes\n\nSelkirk was one area affected by the deluge\n\nThe aftermath of storm Dennis continued to cause disruption on Sunday morning as cascading water from an aqueduct at Bishopton forced Network Rail to turn off power to overhead lines.\n\nScotRail said Gourock and Wemyss Bay services had been suspended and replaced by buses.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ferry users waiting to board on Friday watched with trepidation as the ship lurched from side to side\n\nCalMac suspended some ferry sailings and warned that others were liable to cancellation at short notice.\n\nOne crew were praised for berthing a lurching MV Caledonian Isles in Ardrossan Harbour in difficult conditions on Friday.\n\nThe Rangers Livingston match which was postponed on Saturday took place on Sunday afternoon.\n\nA number of football matches were cancelled on Saturday but in rugby this Musselburgh v Selkirk game went ahead despite the rain.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Dennis? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nikita Pearl Waligwa played Gloria, a friend of the protagonist Phiona, who explained the rules of chess\n\nAn actress who starred in the Queen of Katwe, a Disney film about a chess prodigy from a Ugandan slum, has died aged 15, Ugandan media report.\n\nNikita Pearl Waligwa had been diagnosed with a brain tumour.\n\nThe 2016 film was based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi, who took up chess aged nine despite not being in school and went on to compete in international tournaments.\n\nIt starred Lupita Nyong'o as her mother and David Oyelowo as her chess teacher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lupita Nyong'o talks about her role in the Queen of Katwe\n\nWaligwa played the role of Gloria, a friend of Phiona who explained the rules of chess to her.\n\nShe was first diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2016 and Queen of Katwe director Mira Nair reportedly mobilised people to help fund her treatment in India, with Ugandan doctors quoted as saying they did not have the necessary equipment.\n\nShe was given the all-clear in 2017 but last year was found to have another tumour.", "Caroline Flack with Love Island's Bafta Award for best reality show in 2018\n\nViewers and the TV world are in shock after the death of Caroline Flack, who rose from children's TV to become one of Britain's most successful presenters.\n\nLove Island, Strictly Come Dancing, The X Factor, I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! - Flack starred on some of Britain's biggest shows of the past decade.\n\nHowever, at the time of her death her career was under a cloud after she was replaced for the winter series of ITV's Love Island after being charged with assaulting her boyfriend.\n\nWith Sam and Mark on TMi in 2007\n\nMany fans first got to know her bubbly, likeable personality when she joined Sam and Mark to front the zany Saturday morning children's show TMi in 2007.\n\nFrom there, she joined Ian Wright when Sky One revived game show Gladiators, and became one of the hosts of I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here Now! in 2009.\n\nShe went on to host another ITV spin-off, The Xtra Factor, two years later, before being chosen to front a series of the main talent show itself with Olly Murs in 2015.\n\nShe won Strictly Come Dancing with Pasha Kovalev in 2014\n\nShe confirmed her popular appeal when she won Strictly with dance partner Pasha Kovalev, fending off competition from Frankie Bridge and Simon Webbe.\n\nBut she talked about the difficulties she faced after lifting the glitterball trophy, saying: \"I couldn't get up and just couldn't pick myself up at all that next year.\"\n\nWhen Love Island was relaunched in 2015, she was the natural choice to host, and she helped make it one of the biggest shows on British TV.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first few series performed well, but the show really became a TV phenomenon from 2018, particularly among younger viewers.\n\nWhen the show won the Bafta for best reality show that year, she picked up the award.\n\nFlack made her West End stage debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago in 2018, starred in a touring version of Crazy For You, and appeared on the celebrity version of The Great British Bake Off.\n\nWith the success came close scrutiny of her personal life and relationships, which made her a regular in the tabloids. Notably, she dated One Direction star Harry Styles when he was 17, and stories about a brief romance with Prince Harry made headlines in 2009.\n\nIn her 2015 autobiography Storm In A C Cup, she said she and the prince had \"spent the evening chatting and laughing\", but \"once the story got out, that was it. We had to stop seeing each other.\"\n\nWhen she was arrested and subsequently charged with assaulting her boyfriend in December, it was completely at odds with her public persona.\n\nPolice found former tennis professional Lewis Burton covered in blood when he called them to her Islington home.\n\nShe pleaded not guilty and was in tears in court just before Christmas. She stepped down as host of the winter series of Love Island.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Burton did not support the prosecution, but she was due to stand trial early next month.\n\nTwo days before her death, she posted photos of herself with her dogs, with no message except a simple love heart. Before that, her last message was on Christmas Eve - the day after her court hearing.\n\n\"This kind of scrutiny and speculation is a lot to take on for one person to take on their own...\" she wrote.\n\n\"I'm a human being at the end of the day and I'm not going to be silenced when I have a story to tell and a life to keep going with.\n\n\"I'm taking some time out to get feeling better and learn some lessons from situations I've got myself into to.\n\n\"I have nothing but love to give and best wishes for everyone.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The process takes 30 days and relatives can then scatter the remains on plants or under a tree\n\nA US firm has given scientific details of its \"human composting\" process for environmentally friendly funerals.\n\nA pilot study on deceased volunteers showed that soft tissue broke down safely and completely within 30 days.\n\nThe firm, Recompose, claims that its process saves more than a tonne of carbon, compared to cremation or traditional burial.\n\nIt says that it will offer the world's first human composting service in Washington state from next February.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to BBC News, Recompose's chief executive and founder, Katrina Spade, said that concerns about climate change had been a big factor in so many people expressing interest in the service.\n\n\"So far 15,000 people have signed up to our newsletter. And the legislation to allow this in the state received bi-partisan support enabling it to pass the first time it was tabled,\" she said.\n\n\"The project has moved forward so quickly because of the urgency of climate change and the awareness we have to put it right.\"\n\nRecompose boss Katrina Spade says her plan has proved so popular because of climate change\n\nMs Spade spoke to me as results of the scientific study into the composting process, which Recompose calls natural organic reduction, was being presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle.\n\n\"There is a loving practicability to it,\" she said, in one of the few interviews she has given since announcing details of the project a year ago.\n\nShe told me that she came up with the idea 13 years ago when she began to ponder her own mortality - at the ripe old age of 30!\n\n\"When I die, this planet, which has protected and supported me my whole life, shouldn't I give back what I have left?\n\n\"It is just logical and also beautiful.\"\n\nMs Spade draws a distinction between decomposing and recomposing. The former is what happens when a body is above ground. Recomposing involves integrating it with the soil.\n\nShe claims that natural organic reduction of a body prevents 1.4 tonnes of carbon being released into the atmosphere, compared with cremation. And she believes there is a similar saving compared to traditional burial when transportation and the construction of the casket is taken into account.\n\n\"For a lot of folks it resonates with the way they try to lead their lives. They want to pick a death care plan that resonates with the way they live.\"\n\nThe process involves laying the body in a closed vessel with woodchips, alfalfa and straw grass. The body is slowly rotated to allow microbes to break it down.\n\nThirty days later the remains are available to relatives to scatter on plants or a tree.\n\nAlthough the process is straightforward, it has taken four years of scientific research to perfect the technique. Ms Spade asked soil scientist Prof Lynne Carpenter Boggs to undertake the work.\n\nComposting livestock is a well-established practice in Washington state. Prof Carpenter Boggs's task was to adapt it for human subjects and ensure that the remains were environmentally safe.\n\nShe carried out pilot studies with six volunteers who had given their enthusiastic consent to the research prior to their deaths. She told me that the work took an emotional toll on her and her team.\n\n\"We all kept checking in on each other. My physiology felt different, I wasn't sleeping well for a few nights, I wasn't hungry - it was a distress response.\"\n\nProf Carpenter-Boggs found that the recomposing body reached temperatures of 55C (131F) for a period of time.\n\n\"We are certain that there has been a destruction of the vast majority of [disease-causing organisms] and pharmaceuticals because of the high temperatures that we reached.\"\n\nRecompose will begin business later this year. Anyone can participate but the process is legal only in Washington state. Legislation to allow natural organic reduction is currently being considered in Colorado. Ms Spade believes that it will be a matter of time before it is more widely available - in the US and elsewhere.\n\n\"We hope other states will pick up the idea once we get going in Washington. We have had lots of excitement from the UK and other parts of the world and we hope to open branches overseas when we can.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "She took part in Let's Dance for... Comic Relief with Joe Swash in 2011. The pair also presented I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here Now!", "Boris Johnson and his new chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will have a joint team of advisers following the reshuffle\n\nThe government should be scrutinised by MPs over changes to its teams in Downing Street, the SNP has said.\n\nEarlier this week, No 10 confirmed it would be merging its team of special advisers with those at the Treasury.\n\nThe move led to the resignation of former Chancellor Sajid Javid, who refused to fire his own aides.\n\nThe SNP's Ian Blackford said key figures - including the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings - should now appear before the Liaison Committee.\n\nThe panel, which is made up of the chairs of each of the select committees, is tasked with holding the government and its ministers to account over public policy.\n\nIn a letter to the clerk of the committee, Mr Blackford wrote: \"It is substantially in the public interest to summon those involved in designing these changes - we should know their purpose and intent.\n\n\"Dominic Cummings... has been widely reported as the main catalyst for these alterations and so it's right that he is the first to be summoned and required to answer questions on this matter.\"\n\nDominic Cummings is the prime minister's chief adviser in No 10\n\nMr Javid was expected to keep his job in No 11 ahead of the government reshuffle on Thursday, despite reported tensions between him and Mr Cummings.\n\nHowever, in a surprise move, the former chancellor quit his post, saying \"no self-respecting minister\" could accept the condition of getting rid of his staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: I had no option but to resign\n\nIn a letter to the PM, Mr Javid urged Mr Johnson to \"ensure the Treasury as an institution retains as much credibility as possible\".\n\nHe has now been replaced by the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe decision to amalgamate treasury advisers into a Downing Street unit has led to significant concern among some who believe it will limit the ability of the chancellor to resist demands from the prime minister.\n\nNow the SNP are calling on the Liaison Committee to look into the change, saying it amounts to a fundamental re-ordering of how the government operates and functions.\n\nCommittees do have the power to summon witnesses - although it would be highly unusual for the prime minister's key adviser to appear so publicly, and the committee has not met since the election. Frankly, it's unlikely Dominic Cummings will appear.\n\nBut the call for him to do so is illustrative of the fact many at Westminster are concerned about the influence of Mr Johnson's advisers, and the changes they are involved in overseeing.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Blackford said: \"It is crucial that key appointed officials, responsible to the prime minister, are compelled to give evidence on these changes - in full, in detail and in public.\n\n\"I hope parliament's Liaison Committee is favourable to facilitating this as a matter of public interest and transparency.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Downing Street for comment.", "Sandbags in Appleby-in-Westmorland, one of the northern towns flooded by Storm Ciara last week\n\nJust over 1% of government infrastructure spending in England will go towards flood defences, analysis by BBC News has found.\n\nCurrent figures show nearly £5bn is due to be spent on flood defences up until 2026, with a third of the money spent in London and the South East.\n\nThe government said it was investing \"record\" amounts in new flood defences that would protect 300,000 homes.\n\nAnd it said in terms of money spent per home at risk of flooding, the North received more than the South.\n\nLarge parts of the country were battered last weekend by Storm Ciara, which resulted in more than 500 homes being flooded in Cumbria, Yorkshire and Lancashire.\n\nStorm Dennis is bringing further disruption with dozens of flood warnings in place across England.\n\nThe Army was deployed to Ilkley and Calderdale in West Yorkshire to assist in flood relief efforts.\n\nIn York, the Environment Agency has predicted the River Ouse could reach record levels of 5.4m on Monday, a height not seen since 2000.\n\nAppleby sits in a crook of the River Eden meaning its town centre is susceptible to flooding\n\nThe Cumbrian town of Appleby-in-Westmorland was one of many rural towns affected by Storm Ciara's bad weather.\n\n\"Someone needs to stand up and be counted,\" said Dominic Boffin, as he swept flood water out of his home.\n\n\"We've had no help with the clean-up, and when it comes to the town being repeatedly flooded everyone seems to have their head in the sand.\"\n\nAppleby was also badly affected in 2015 when Storm Desmond flooded more than 5,000 homes across the UK.\n\nThe then Prime Minister David Cameron said the flood defences in Cumbria \"were not enough\".\n\nAppleby cafe owner James Brighurst said despite promises of new defences, none had materialised.\n\n\"We've seen a few subsidies for some individual buildings in the town but nothing has changed dramatically.\n\n\"There is a feeling we're being ignored and forgotten about\".\n\nCafe owner James Brighurst said residents in Appleby had seen little investment in new flood defences\n\nThe latest infrastructure spending figures published by the Treasury showed nearly £5bn was earmarked to be spent on flood defences in England over the next six years.\n\nThe money was due to be spent on more than 1,300 projects.\n\nBut flood defence spending makes up just 1.5% of the total £317bn set to be spent on all infrastructure across England, which includes upgrading roads and railway lines.\n\n\"Cumbria has had three 'one in 200-year' storm events in the last 10 years,\" said Tim Farron MP, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Northern England, whose constituency is in the county.\n\n\"We know the climate is changing, and we also know that the climate is changing with the most impact here in the North West of England.\n\n\"So it is odd the government has chosen to spend so much money on London and the South East, and so little on the North.\n\n\"It's also staggering that we're spending so little money on flood defences altogether,\" added the Westmorland and Lonsdale MP.\n\nTim Farron MP said the government needs to spend more money on building new flood defences\n\nYork Central MP Rachel Maskell said the government had already failed to deliver on previous commitments made to upgrade flood defences in the historic cathedral city.\n\n\"Promises broken and programmes undelivered,\" said the Labour MP in the House of Commons.\n\n\"We have also seen a lack of delivery when it comes to issues like insurance and upper catchment management and even putting in extra flood resilience measures within the city.\"\n\nIn London and the South East, some of the £1.5bn earmarked for flood defences will be spent on the Thames Barrier\n\nSpeaking before the government reshuffle on Thursday, the then Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers told MPs measures introduced by the government had protected 25,000 homes from being flooded by Storm Ciara.\n\n\"We are investing more than ever before in a £2.6bn flood defence programme up to 2021,\" she said.\n\n\"In the Autumn I announced an extra £60m to boost flood schemes in the North.\n\n\"Our manifesto commits us to an another £4bn of new flood defences funding up to 2026.\"\n\nThe Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) said investment in flood defences took place where the risk was highest, wherever it was across the country, and each scheme was carefully considered.\n\n\"Funding is allocated consistently across the country, targeting national investment to reduce the risks of flooding and coastal erosion to as many people as possible and to get the best outcome for every pound we spend,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We work with local partners to take into account local needs and opportunities when deciding where to invest.\"\n\nDefra said its own figures showed that between 2015 and 2021, investment per home at risk of flooding was equivalent to £700 in the North, compared with £335 in the South.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Dennis? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A former teacher who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease aged just 31 has hailed life-changing brain surgery that has allowed him to \"live life again\".\n\nRyan Cameron initially noticed a \"resting tremor\" in his arm and over time the neurological condition left him struggling to speak and control his movements.\n\nMedication failed to help, so he underwent deep brain stimulation, where electrodes were inserted into his brain to restimulate damaged nerve cells.\n\nMr Cameron, now 36, said the operation at the end of last year was not a cure, but it had allowed him to \"run and play and do whatever I want\".\n\n\"I've been given a lifeline, I've been given a second opportunity to live, almost,\" said Mr Cameron, from Luton.", "Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe\n\nHeathrow Airport has apologised for disruption after the west London hub was hit by \"technical issues\".\n\nOne passenger said the situation was \"utter chaos\" after a problem with the airport's IT system saw staff called in to help passengers get to gates on the second day of the half-term weekend.\n\nAt about 22:25 GMT on Sunday, Heathrow said the issues had been resolved and \"systems are returning to normal\".\n\nBritish Airways, the biggest airline at Heathrow, has cancelled 20 flights.\n\nIn a tweet, Heathrow Airport said: \"Today's technical issue has now been resolved and Heathrow's systems are returning to normal.\n\n\"We apologise for the inconvenience caused.\n\n\"Our teams will continue to monitor our systems and be on hand to provide assistance to passengers as we work to resume our regular operations.\"\n\nAir traffic control was not affected by the technical failures, but the IT issues, which came on a busy day for family travel, have further compounded delays triggered by bad weather across the weekend.\n\nSam Mills said he hadn't been able to eat or drink \"for fear of losing his place in the line\" for customer services\n\nSam Mills, who was travelling from London to Pittsburgh with British Airways, explained how when he arrived at the airport shortly after lunchtime on Sunday the flight boards were not updating.\n\n\"I was continually getting 'Delayed' messages on the board, with no gate information for my flight,\" he told the BBC. \"A BA representative informed me that it should update before my flight, and not to worry.\"\n\n\"But as soon as the gate did pop up [on the board] - it told me the flight had departed, without me on that plane.\n\n\"As of right now, I am stranded. There's a line of people about 300ft in both directions at the British Airways service desk. We haven't been told any information from anybody.\"\n\nCaitlin Gould said passengers had to rely on white boards to find out where they should be\n\nCaitlin Gould, who travelled to London from Cornwall on Sunday morning, has been waiting for a flight to Munich with Lufthansa since 16:00 GMT, after her British Airways flight was cancelled.\n\nShe said the staff were \"really helpful... if you can find them\".\n\n\"At the gate there is almost no information,\" she told the BBC, adding that everyone was dependant on white boards to find out where they should be.\n\n\"None of the online information matches up with any of the boards. People are walking around with signs trying to find people to take them to the plane.\"\n\nBritish Airways said the cancellations were the result of Heathrow's IT issues combined with the existing disruption caused by Storm Dennis.\n\nIt added that anyone on a cancelled flight would be entitled to a refund or could be re-booked. Overnight accommodation would be provided if necessary.\n\nIn response to a customer on Twitter, the airline wrote: \"We're aware Heathrow Airport is currently experiencing a technical issue that is impacting some of their IT systems across the airport, affecting a number of airlines.\n\n\"We are working with them to resolve the issue as a priority and apologise for the delay to our customers.\"\n\nBA has experienced two high-profile IT failures in recent years.\n\nIn August last year, more than 100 flights had to be cancelled and a further 200 were delayed after an IT glitch involving two separate systems, one dealing with online check-in and the other with flight departures.\n\nThe airline also suffered a major computer failure over the spring bank holiday weekend in May 2017, which saw 726 flights cancelled and tens of thousands of passengers left stranded.", "Costa Rica has seen a surge in drug traffickers using the country to move cocaine to the US and Europe\n\nPolice in Costa Rica have made the biggest seizure of illegal drugs in the country's history - finding more than five tonnes of cocaine in a shipping container.\n\nThe drugs were hidden in a consignment of flowers headed for the Netherlands, AFP news agency quoted Interior Minister Michael Soto Rojas as saying.\n\nCentral America is one of the main routes for cartels moving drugs from South America to the US and Europe.\n\nWhen the authorities searched a suspicious shipping container on Saturday, they discovered 202 suitcases containing a total of 5,048 packages of cocaine weighing around 1 kg (2.2 lbs) each, AFP reports.\n\nThe packages of cocaine were stashed in suitcases", "Clean-up in Pontypridd: 'Everything is covered in mud'\n\n5 Live's Rory Carson has been speaking to people in Pontypridd, where he says the clean up operation is well under way. Geraint Day is chair of Clwb Y Bont - a club that promotes Welsh language and culture in the centre of the town. \"Sunday night was the time it was really bad,\" he said, \"looking in the function room now it's covered with mud. The ceiling has stayed up but the rest of the club is a complete mess, the bar, everything is covered in mud... there's not a hope of saving anything electrical. \"Anything with soft furnishing is going to be covered with flood mud and contaminated with sewage as well.\" Mr Day said he has \"no idea\" how much it will cost to repair. \"Because it's an area of high risk flooding, despite the flood walls, we can't get insurance for flood protection so we'll have to do it ourselves.\" He said they're appealing for donations, and relying on volunteers: \"We'll pull together and reopen I'm sure.\"", "Tony Camoccio was arrested at Hurghada International Airport last week\n\nA British man detained in Egypt after reportedly patting a security guard on the back has been released.\n\nTony Camoccio, 51, feared he would be falsely accused of sexual assault after the incident at Hurghada International Airport on 8 February.\n\nMore than 5,000 people had signed a petition supporting Mr Camoccio.\n\nCampaign group Detained in Dubai said he had been released from custody after paying about £1,000 in bail and other costs.\n\nIts chief executive Radha Stirling said the case had been dismissed for lack of evidence.\n\nIn a statement Mr Camoccio, from Sutton, south London, said: \"I'm very excited to be heading home and can't wait to see all of my family after the past week's events.\n\n\"I'm very thankful to everyone for their support.\"\n\nTony Camoccio (centre), pictured after his release with wife Joan, lawyer Elezab Ali Elezab, and son Reno\n\nMr Camoccio, who has visited Egypt several times, was at the end of his holiday with his wife and a large group of friends when the incident is said to have happened at an airport checkpoint.\n\nDetained in Dubai said he was released after paying about £1,000 in bail and related fees.\n\nMs Stirling tweeted to say Mr Camoccio \"will be on the first flight home\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Radha Stirling - CEO @detainedindubai 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇬🇧 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was in contact with Mr Camoccio's family and the Egyptian authorities.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMajor incidents have been declared in south Wales and parts of England, as Storm Dennis batters the UK.\n\nSouth Wales Police has been dealing with \"multiple\" landslides and floods - some trapping residents.\n\nHomes have also been flooded, while police in Worcestershire are searching for a person who is feared to have been swept into the River Teme.\n\nMore than 700 flood warnings and alerts are in place across the UK, as of 23:45 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThere are currently eight severe flood warnings in England, which mean there is a danger to life.\n\nA record number of flood warnings and alerts were issued for England on Sunday, according to John Curtin, the Environment Agency's head of floods and coastal management - reaching a combined total of 624 by Sunday night.\n\nHe said \"the saturated ground conditions\" left by last weekend's Storm Ciara has \"driven\" the severe flooding seen across the UK over the past 24 hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Curtin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHeavy rainfall has caused multiple floods and landslides, according to South Wales Police.\n\nDramatic video footage emerged of a landslide tearing down a mountain in Tylorstown, Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales, on Sunday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heavy rain caused \"multiple\" floods and landslides, according to South Wales Police\n\nJessica Falk Perlman, who is on holiday with her family in Crickhowell, Powys, to celebrate her mother's 60th birthday, told BBC Radio 5 Live that firefighters woke them at 04:00 GMT to tell them they were being evacuated because the River Usk had burst its banks.\n\nBut water quickly came flooding into their holiday home, forcing them upstairs and stalling their evacuation.\n\n\"The door of our house burst open and water came flooding in right up to the top of the stairs which was quite nerve wracking at the time,\" she said.\n\n\"It's well over the front door of the house, it's flooded all the way up to the ceiling.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Falk Perlman in Crickhowell, south Wales: \"Our cars are completely underwater\"\n\nAmy Price, 20, said her family were trapped in the upstairs of their home in Llanover, Monmouthshire, because water on the ground floor had reached as high as the light switches.\n\n\"The river started rising about 1am and at 3am it started coming into the house,\" she said.\n\n\"We started sweeping the water away and then at 6am the river started coming over the bank.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police said emergency services were working with local organisations to ensure the safety of people in communities cut-off by flooding, and to minimise damage and disruption.\n\nEmergency centres have been set up for those who have been displaced.\n\nAssistant chief constable Jennifer Gilmer praised rescue workers' professionalism and advised people \"not to panic\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cars swept away by flood water in Hay-on-Wye\n\nA man's body was recovered from the River Tawe near Trebanos in the Swansea Valley but Dyfed-Powys Police later said his death was not linked to the extreme weather. It is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nWest Mercia Police said a man had been rescued from the River Teme close to Eastham Bridge, Worcestershire, and taken to hospital by ambulance but that a woman was still missing.\n\nThe search for the woman has been called off until Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, in Herefordshire, the council said it was working with the emergency services, the Environment Agency and health partners to assist residents.\n\nIt urged people to avoid unnecessary travel and check on their neighbours, and said \"rest centres\" are being set up for those who need to be evacuated.\n\nAn aerial view of the Welsh village of Crickhowell shows the extent of the flooding\n\nSarah Bridge, 55, compared Storm Dennis to a tornado and said water had flooded her home in Pontrilas in Herefordshire despite specialist flood doors, reaching her knees.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking,\" she said. \"The kitchen is completely flooded, I can hear things floating about downstairs.\"\n\nA major incident has also been declared after flooding at properties in Lowdham in Nottinghamshire.\n\nProperties were also flooded in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire - and residents were urged to take \"extreme care\" by the area's Environment Agency manager.\n\nA major incident has been declared by police following flooding in Shropshire.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSevere flood warnings, posing a danger to life, are in place at the Teme river in Ludlow, Shropshire.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told Sky News's Sophy Ridge that the UK government was \"stepping up its response\" to extreme weather conditions.\n\nHe said it had put £2.4bn into defences over a six-year spending period up until next year, and would allocate £4bn for the next six-year period.\n\nNew Environment Secretary George Eustice denied that the government had been caught off guard by the floods caused by Storm Dennis.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"We'll never be able to protect every single household just because of the nature of climate change and the fact that these weather events are becoming more extreme, but we've done everything that we can do with a significant sum of money, and there's more to come.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the Forth and Tay road bridges have been closed to all traffic.\n\nWinds battered most of Scotland on Sunday with a Met Office warning in place until 11am on Monday.\n\nIn York, the Environment Agency has predicted the River Ouse could come close to record levels seen in 2000.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned that levels in the River Ouse in York could come close to record levels\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAcross the UK road, rail and air travellers also face disruption.\n\nAbout 170 flights were cancelled on Sunday morning, affecting at least 25,000 passengers.\n\nStorm Dennis caused disruption for 19 train companies, according to National Rail, with routes suspended across south Wales and in parts of England and Scotland.\n\nHighways England said strong winds had closed part of the M48 Severn Bridge eastbound, while flooding closed part of the M54 and A-roads in Lincolnshire, Herefordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Gloucestershire.\n\nAmber warnings for rain and yellow warnings for wind are in place for most of the country into Sunday evening.\n\nThis means flooding could cause a danger to life, power cuts are expected and there is a good chance transport links will continue to be impacted.\n\nA family is helped by emergency workers in Nantgarw, Wales\n\nWind gusts reached 91mph on Saturday, according to the Met Office.\n\nFlood defences were prepared in Mytholmroyd, in the Upper Calder Valley\n\nLast weekend Storm Ciara brought as much as 184mm of rain and gusts reaching 97mph. It also caused hundreds of homes to be flooded and left more than 500,000 people without power.\n\nFor more information, check the BBC Weather website and your BBC Local Radio station for regular updates.\n• None YellowSevere weather possible, plan ahead, travel may be disrupted\n• None RedDangerous weather expected - take action to keep safe\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Dennis? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Severe flood warnings remain in place in the wake of Storm Dennis, with more rain expected to fall later this week. Among the worst affected areas are South Wales, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.", "An illegal cigarette factory has been uncovered in Spain where six foreign workers were found gasping for air before being rescued, authorities said.\n\nTwelve British nationals suspected of running the factory were arrested.\n\nThe bunker under horse stables in the southern province of Malaga could produce up to 3,500 cigarettes an hour, according to Spain's Guardia Civil.\n\nIt is the first underground counterfeit cigarette factory found in the EU, Europol and Spanish police said.\n\nSix Ukrainian and Lithuanian workers were found struggling to breathe due to a generator designed to pump air into the bunker running out of power, police said.\n\nThe underground bunker is in the southern province of Malaga\n\nTwenty people had been arrested earlier in the day but had not informed police that the workers were still inside. The panicked workers banged and shouted from below as police searched the area.\n\nOfficers eventually found the workers and freed them.\n\nIn a statement (in Spanish), the Guardia Civil said police had confiscated 153,000 packs of cigarettes, more than 17 tons of rolling tobacco, 20 kg (44 lbs) of hashish and 144 kg of marijuana.\n\nThe factory could produce up to 3,500 counterfeit cigarettes an hour\n\nSix workers were left gasping for air", "A surge in complaints about mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) weighed on Lloyds' finances last year.\n\nThe UK banking giant posted a 26% drop in pre-tax profits to £4.4bn as it paid out billions of pounds to customers in PPI compensation.\n\nThe bill for PPI claims in 2019 would be about £2.5bn, but Lloyds said no further provisions were needed as it had already set aside enough money.\n\nIt brings the total paid out by Lloyds over the mis-selling saga to £21.9bn.\n\nLloyds said there had been a \"significant increase\" in queries about PPI claims ahead of a deadline to claim in August last year.\n\nThe deadline, set by the City regulator, prompted a rush of enquiries, which pushed the bank's bill up from £750m in 2018.\n\n\"The group's statutory performance was impacted by a substantial PPI charge related to the deadline for claims submission,\" the bank's boss António Horta-Osório, said in a statement.\n\nLloyds has the biggest bill of all the banks for mis-selling of the insurance policy - which was intended to cover loan payments if, for instance, customers fell ill. But the insurance was often sold to people who did not want it or did not need it.\n\nIn the run up to the deadline, Lloyds said it had received about 5 million new claims but only about 10% of those resulted in a compensation payment. \"Historic conduct issues remain disappointing but we continue to be focused on doing the right thing for our customers,\" Mr Horta-Osorio said.\n\nLast year, Lloyds faced criticism for its handling of a multi-million pound scam at a branch of HBOS, which it now owns. Mr Horta-Osorio promised to implement recommendations of a report that said a scheme to compensate customers had \"serious shortcomings\".\n\n\"We have apologised to those impacted and are determined to put things right,\" he said.\n\nDespite the surge in PPI claims, John Moore, an investment manager at Brewin Dolphin, said Lloyds appeared to be in a \"decent place\". \"Lloyds' performance is typically a reflection of the wider UK economic situation,\" he said. \"Political uncertainty influenced business and consumer confidence last year; yet, despite this challenge, the bank has posted resilient results.\"\n\nMr Horta-Osorio took the helm after bank was rescued during the 2008 financial crisis. The government sold its final stake in the bank in 2017.", "Gas heating is to be eliminated from all Historic Environment Scotland (HES) buildings, including Edinburgh Castle, by 2032.\n\nHES said it aimed to be \"net-zero\" by 2045 in line with the Scottish government's target.\n\nThe organisation plans to reduce the amount of visitor vehicles by 2028 by creating parking hubs where it has clusters of properties.\n\nLow carbon \"district heating\" systems could also be used on some sites.\n\nDistrict heating takes energy released as heat and transfers it elsewhere using highly insulated pipes. HES said it could be installed on properties in highly populated areas.\n\nThe public body is one of Scotland's biggest operators of tourists sites that attract millions of visitors each year.\n\nIt manages more than 300 properties, including Stirling Castle and Linlithgow Palace.\n\nJane Ryder, chair of HES, said: \"In the past year, international heritage experts have come to Scotland to work with us to develop pioneering methods to better understand the climate change threat to World Heritage sites.\n\n\"In addition to piloting some ground-breaking approaches, we've hosted the launch of a new international network which has united cultural heritage organisations from across the globe to take action against climate change.\n\n\"And now we're setting out our most ambitious climate change plans to date. The Climate Action Plan will transform how we operate as an organisation, increasing resilience and making our business more effective and efficient while placing environmental responsibility at the heart of everything we do.\"\n\nThe body said it also planned to invest in cycling infrastructure for staff and visitors\n\nThe plan sets out how HES aims to reduce its carbon footprint over the coming years.\n\nIt intends to reduce its vehicle fleet by 30% by 2025 and, where practicable, have fully electric cars.\n\nInvestment will also be made in cycling infrastructure for staff and visitors.\n\nThe use of taxis will be heavily curtailed with an aim to reduce use by 80% by 2022.\n\nCulture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: \"The historic environment has a critical role to play in our response to the global climate emergency.\n\n\"This Climate Action Plan recognises the scale of the challenge we face and the need for immediate and widespread action.\n\n\"I welcome the commitment Historic Environment Scotland is making to meeting our ambitious emissions targets and look forward to seeing the results of its work in the coming years.\"", "Lübcke's funeral took place in Kassel on 13 June\n\nWalter Lübcke knew how it felt to receive death threats. A senior politician from Angela Merkel's CDU party in Hesse, the 65-year-old was well known in the region for his liberal attitude towards people seeking asylum.\n\nHis stance earned him respect and admiration during the refugee crisis, but it also made him the target of a hate campaign.\n\nAnd, investigators believe, it may have cost him his life.\n\nLübcke was found just after midnight on 2 June, reportedly by his son, as he lay unconscious and badly injured on the terrace of his own home in the sleepy village of Istha, in central Germany.\n\nHe had been shot in the head at close range and died shortly afterwards in hospital.\n\nLübcke was found shot in the head on the terrace of his home (pictured)\n\nEven as mourners gathered for the funeral of a man who had passionately defended the right of refugees to a home in Germany, extremists openly celebrated his murder online.\n\nHe had headed the Kassel district government.\n\nHis violent death has shattered the peaceful rural village and horrified Germany, not least because detectives believe that this was a politically motivated assassination, planned and perpetrated by a right-wing extremist who, it's feared, may not have acted alone.\n\nThey have identified Stephan Ernst, 45, as their main suspect. He is known to have had links to neo-Nazi networks and investigators are exploring a possible connection to the notorious NSU (National Socialist Underground) - an extremist group which shot dead 10 people, most of whom had migrant backgrounds, between 2000 and 2007.\n\nPolice say that Ernst's DNA was found on the victim's clothing and matched a sample held on police file after he was convicted of the attempted bombing of a refugee home in the 1990s. He is said to have lived in Kassel for some years, where neighbours described him as quiet and friendly.\n\nAs investigators outlined their case against him, they explained that he had kept a low profile for some time and admitted that it was almost impossible to monitor every suspected extremist.\n\nAccording to government figures, there are 24,000 right-wing extremists in Germany. Nearly 13,000 are believed to have a tendency to violence.\n\nA march in Plauen by The Third Path - one of the new far-right groups in Germany\n\nIt's a painful reckoning for Germany, a country whose history means that, for the majority, the existence of the political far right - let alone extremist neo-Nazi networks - is a source of great shame.\n\nPresident Frank-Walter Steinmeier demanded a swift conclusion to the Lübcke case, as it emerged that the mayors of Cologne and Altena had received death threats in the past week.\n\nBoth Henriette Reker and Andreas Hollstein, well known for their liberal approach to asylum policy, have survived assassination attempts in recent years.\n\nCologne's Mayor Reker, seen here attending a 2016 refugee summit at Vatican City, has been attacked before\n\nGerman Interior Minister Horst Seehofer describes the case as an alarm bell.\n\nCommentators say that the recent focus on the threat of Islamist terror has led authorities to overlook right-wing networks, which have gained a new momentum in response to the refugee crisis of 2015.\n\nSocial media plays a role too, as was seen recently in the eastern city of Chemnitz.\n\nAfter the killing of a German-Cuban man in the city, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi, police were taken aback at how swiftly extremists mobilised a large group, who thronged the city centre and \"hunted down\" people of foreign appearance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rival protests between far-right and anti-Nazi activists in Germany\n\nHow the authorities deal with the threat will be closely watched.\n\nIt's a decade since the NSU carried out their campaign. The authorities were slow to respond then and it's thought that some of those who helped the group were never caught.\n\nThe president of Germany's Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, said this case would be \"a test of whether this country has really learned something from the murders of the NSU\". Already doubts are emerging as to whether Stephan Ernst was as dormant in recent years as authorities suggest.\n\nIn a country where the kind of rhetoric that was once taboo is now openly used - even in parliament - there is a debate over the impact of inflammatory language, with some blaming Germany's far-right AfD party (who were quick to condemn Lübcke's murder) for fostering a culture which encourages extremism.\n\nThe leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, said \"the loss of verbal boundaries, how the hatred and incitement is used by AfD and others, lower thresholds so far that they turn into pure violence\".\n\nPolice say, as yet, they cannot be sure whether there is a connection between Lübcke's murder and the death threat received by Henriette Reker.\n\nThe mayor of Cologne is defiant. Lübcke's death, she tweeted, should \"bring us together but not frighten us. For those who threaten our open and free society it must be clear that we do not retreat one centimetre\".", "Nine people died in attacks on two shisha bars in a city in western Germany on Wednesday.\n\nMuhammed was eating with friends when the attack took place in Hanau.\n\nThe German citizen of Turkish origin spoke to Turkey's English language broadcaster Anews about how he survived the shooting.", "The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the police watchdog following the death of TV star Caroline Flack.\n\nScotland Yard's directorate of professional standards (DPS) reviewed all previous contact with Ms Flack, 40, before it made Wednesday's referral.\n\nIt was standard practice for a referral to be made when a person who had recent contact with police died, the Met said.\n\nMs Flack was found dead at her London flat on Saturday as she awaited trial for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend.\n\nAn inquest into the former Love Island host's death was opened and adjourned on Wednesday.\n\nA statement from the Met said: \"No notice of investigation has been served on any officer and no conduct issues have been identified by the DPS. No officer is on restricted duties or suspended.\"\n\nAn Independent Office for Police Conduct spokesman said: \"We will make a decision on the level of our involvement after carefully assessing the information we have received.\n\n\"Receipt of a referral does not mean an investigation will necessarily follow.\"\n\nFlowers were left outside Caroline Flack's former house\n\nMs Flack left her role presenting the ITV2 dating show after being charged with assaulting her partner Lewis Burton in December and was due to stand trial next month.\n\nIn an unpublished Instagram post shared by her family, she said her \"whole world and future was swept from under my feet\" following her arrest.\n\nMs Flack pleaded not guilty to assault by beating at a court appearance in December, when it was heard her partner did not support the prosecution.\n\nShe was released on bail but was ordered to stop any contact with Mr Burton ahead of the trial.\n\nLove Island did not air on Saturday or Sunday but returned on Monday with a tribute to the former X Factor presenter and Strictly Come Dancing winner, who started hosting the programme in 2015.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTony Blair has questioned whether the contenders for the Labour leadership offer the \"fundamental\" change the party needs to get back into power.\n\nThe former Labour PM said the party was facing a \"make-or-break moment\" after losing four general elections in a row and required \"head-to-toe renewal\".\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer are competing to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nParty members start voting next week, with a winner announced on 4 April.\n\nSpeaking in London, Mr Blair - prime minister from 1997 to 2007 - said Labour's manifesto for December's general election had been unpopular and many voters had judged it to be \"incredible\".\n\nHe called the party's Brexit policy ahead of the election \"bizarre\", but added that it should not change position and immediately campaign for the UK to rejoin the EU.\n\n\"You've got to give [Brexit] a chance to be done,\" he added.\n\nAt the King's College London event marking the 120th anniversary of the founding of Labour, Mr Blair acknowledged that his advice was not \"particularly welcome to today's party\".\n\nHe said he would not be endorsing any of the leadership candidates, as he did not want to \"damage anyone by supporting them\".\n\nBut he said: \"When you really look objectively at our position, fundamental reconstruction is what you need.\n\n\"Now, I don't think you can tell whether any of the leadership people, or the people likely to win, are going to do that or not right now.\"\n\nIt's a given that Tony Blair - Labour's most successful election winner - is a virtual hate figure for many in the party.\n\nSo, sensibly, he chose \"not to damage\" any of the leadership candidates by backing them.\n\nIt's pretty clear, though, that he doesn't believe any have grasped the scale of the \"make-or-break\" crisis the party faces.\n\nPerhaps more significantly, however, he clearly doesn't believe a simple return to the centre ground - or Blairism - will be enough to save Labour .\n\n\"In five years' time it will not be enough for Labour to be moderate,\" he warns.\n\nMr Blair's case is that politics is in a period of unprecedented change, driven in large part by rapidly changing technology. The scale of upheaval and disruption with AI, genetic engineering, driverless cars and so on - is re-shaping society and politics.\n\nLabour, therefore, he says, cannot afford to remain recycling old debates and polices over traditional issues like nationalisation, NHS spending and tuition fees. The world and voters are moving on.\n\nNor is this a problem confined to Labour. Progressive parties across Europe, he argues, are in disarray and appear \"defunct\" - and are facing a similar challenge.\n\nIt may be that Mr Blair's analysis simply won't get a hearing because, well, he's Tony Blair.\n\nBut, even his critics can agree, he is at least asking some of the big questions.\n\nIn his London speech, Mr Blair argued that Labour would have performed better at the election with a \"more moderate\" leader, but required more far-reaching change in the long run.\n\nHe added that the party should \"redefine what radical means\" in the context of technological changes and needed to build a \"whole new progressive alliance\".\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Nandy has said the party must be \"honest\" about the failings of New Labour if it is to persuade voters to acknowledge the party's past achievements.\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, she said Mr Blair's time in office had been \"game-changing\".\n\nShe added: \"But to earn the right for a hearing with the public about the things we got right, we've also got to be honest about the things we got wrong.\"\n\nMs Nandy has previously argued that under Mr Blair, who led Labour from 1994 to 2007, the party \"tacitly accepted that four decades of economic conservatism was a bigger priority than people\".\n\nIn his speech, Mr Blair also warned the party against entering into a \"culture war with the right\" on issues such as trans rights - and said he would not sign up to a pledge to expel party members who have expressed \"transphobic\" views.\n\nWigan MP Ms Nandy and shadow business secretary Mrs Long-Bailey have said they would sign the 12-point plan by the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights.\n\nSir Keir, the party's Brexit spokesman, has not signed the pledge but has committed to a different series of promises from LGBT Labour, a party affiliate group.", "Scammers who infiltrated BT customer accounts as part of a \"sophisticated\" £358,000 fraud have been jailed.\n\nThe gang targeted in excess of 2,000 people, predominantly in the Portsmouth area, between May 2014 and July 2016.\n\nThey used the details to set up Paypal accounts to order expensive items which were then delivered to addresses in the city controlled by the group.\n\nSeven people were jailed for between 16 and 44 months for their part in the fraud.\n\nPortsmouth Crown Court heard the gang spent the money on Rolex watches, high-value jewellery, TVs and designer clothes.\n\nPolice carried out raids after being given information by BT, and group leader Festus Emosivwe, 36, put a USB data stick in his mouth and chewed on it when police arrested him, making it impossible to recover any data.\n\nThe gang spent the money on luxury goods including watches and jewellery\n\nProsecutor Michael Forster said the source of all the data leaks was not known, but there was evidence of phishing emails and officers found textbooks on computer security at Emosivwe's home.\n\nHe described it as \"a sophisticated conspiracy\" that \"persisted for two years\".\n\nThe barrister said the gang diverted customers' email addresses and phones to accounts controlled by the group, meaning victims were \"left in the dark\" until their money had been fraudulently spent.\n\nHe said although Paypal had lost the most money from the fraud, BT customers had endured \"distress and inconvenience\".\n\nSentencing the group, Judge Timothy Mousley QC said: \"The impact on your victims cannot be underestimated. Many had seriously heightened levels of anxiety, stress and fear after finding out their accounts had been hacked.\n\n\"Some expressed horror and fury at being scammed by you.\n\n\"Many were retired people who feared they'd be unable to get by financially. Each of you is responsible for inflicting that misery upon them.\"\n\nGeoffrey Noble said he experienced a \"sense of panic\" when he realised he had been defrauded\n\nOne of the victims, 69-year-old Geoffrey Noble, told the BBC he discovered his details had been used to buy £3,000 worth of goods shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.\n\nIn a statement read out on his behalf in court, he said he was \"furious\" at the fraudsters as \"nobody has the right to take the money I worked so hard for\".\n\n\"I experienced a sense of panic and fear because I did not know where it was going to end,\" he added.\n\nThe gang, who pleaded guilty to all charges, were sentenced as follows:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Allarton and his husband Dan-Jay's home in Bewdley has been badly flooded\n\nHundreds of homes have flooded across the West Midlands amid rising river levels caused by Storm Dennis. But what is the human impact of losing everything overnight?\n\nThe first thing Michael Allarton and his husband Dan-Jay knew about the flooding was when they woke up at 05:30 GMT to water beneath their feet.\n\nThe River Severn had broken its banks and floodwater had seeped through their ground-floor flat in Bewdley, Worcestershire.\n\n\"There was water all over the floor up to our ankles,\" Michael Allarton said.\n\n\"We had raw sewage coming up in a fountain from the toilet.\n\n\"We've lost everything - sofas, rugs, clothes - and the whole place is going to have to be gutted, it's devastating.\n\n\"We named our flat our 'old girl' as it's called Victoria House, it dates from the 1730s and was beautiful.\n\n\"I can't believe she's gone. You go to bed one day and the next day you have nothing.\"\n\nMichael Allarton said the whole flat \"was going to have to be gutted\"\n\nThe pair managed to get out of their property and find a place to stay in an unaffected area.\n\n\"The wheelie bins were floating along the street,\" Mr Allarton said.\n\n\"Then reality hit the next morning.\"\n\nThe couple visited their home earlier to assess the damage.\n\n\"We're going to have to start again completely from scratch,\" he added.\n\n\"Then reality hit the next morning,\" Mr Allarton said\n\nMany across the region having to come to terms with a similar situation, with about 270 homes flooded in the West Midlands and some areas still at risk.\n\nThe River Wye in Hereford reached its highest ever recorded level - 6.3m (20.7ft) - prompting emergency evacuations.\n\nBBC Hereford and Worcester reporter Nicola Goodwin is stranded in her home which is close to the river.\n\nShe said: \"It's above our wellies downstairs. The garden and the river have become one.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Goodwin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSporting venues have also been ruined in the rising water too.\n\nSpencer Goodall, of Hereford Rugby Club, said the damage was \"soul destroying\" when he visited the site earlier.\n\nHe said: \"It's crushing really. You see [the flooding] and it's so disappointing after all the hard work volunteers put in for us.\n\nGreyfriars Avenue in Hereford was under several feet of water in the early hours, though flooding has since receded.\n\nLyndon Gore had decided not to leave his home.\n\nHe said: \"We couldn't move out, we've got too many animals in the house so we had to stay put.\n\n\"I've got chickens in the bathroom, cats on the bed, dogs all other places, so we couldn't leave them.\"\n\nLyndon Gore had decided not to leave his property due to the many pets he and his family have\n\nAlly Hunter Blair, a farmer in Ross-on-Wye, has seen water overcome 60 acres of his land and said the impact was \"catastrophic\".\n\n\"The mess we are going to have to clean up is phenomenal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're going to feel the impact of this flood for the next couple of years.\"\n\nDebbie McNally, who runs the Hope and Anchor pub and coffee shop in Ross-on-Wye, said she battled to try and save her premises.\n\nShe told the Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"The cellar is totally under water.\n\n\"We fought from 05:00 to about 11:00 to protect it, but it's gone.\n\n\"The bar needs to be replaced and the coffee shop is under 4ft of water.\"\n\nBen Willcock, who runs Mr Ben's Barbers in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, was more upbeat.\n\nHe said: \"You can see the 'chin-up Charlie' spirit coming through.\n\n\"I was most concerned about the people sticking their heads through the door asking when we'd next be open for a hair cut.\"\n\nChris Wreghitt was in Cornwall when he received a call urging him to come home\n\nChris Wreghitt, from Powick in Worcestershire, was in Cornwall on Sunday when he received a call from neighbours advising him to return.\n\nWhen he got back, the floodwater was up to his ankles. By Monday, it was up to his chest.\n\nHis property had been flooded previously in 2007.\n\n\"I really thought we'd be safe,\" he said.\n\n\"We'd had a couple of near misses in the last few years but we were confident 2007 was a one-off and that water wouldn't go past the flood barriers when they were installed.\"\n\nAs the clean up begins for some, for others more flooding could be imminent.\n\nThe latest severe weather warning has been issued for Telford in Shropshire, with Telford and Wrekin Council deciding to evacuate 30 buildings near to the banks of the River Severn in Ironbridge at about 08:00.\n\nChief executive David Sidaway said residents should be braced for water levels to peak in the evening, according to the Environment Agency, and more heavy rain expected later this week.", "Two people have died and seven were injured after a crash involving seven vehicles and a pedestrian in Romford, east London.\n\nA man and a woman died at the scene on Squirrels Heath Road on Thursday afternoon, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nEmergency services were called at about 13:15 GMT and fire crews cut three people free from their cars.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said seven people were taken to hospital.\n\nAt the scene of the crash, one vehicle had rolled over and come to rest near a bus, while two hatchbacks, one blue and one black, were at an angle on the opposite site of the road.\n\nA silver Range Rover was also involved, but appeared undamaged.", "The teenager murdered Frank Sinclair near Westwood Community Centre in East Kilbride\n\nA schoolboy who \"internally decapitated\" a 61-year-old man after repeatedly stamping on his head has been given a life sentence for murder.\n\nThe 17-year-old killed Frank Sinclair in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, last year.\n\nThe youth, who cannot be named because of his age, attacked Mr Sinclair as he believed he had earlier pushed him outside a community hall.\n\nA jury found him guilty of murder at the High Court in Glasgow last month.\n\nLord Burns told the teenager he would have to serve at least 11 years in custody before he could be considered for release.\n\nSentencing the boy at the High Court in Edinburgh, he said the attack was \"wholly unprovoked\".\n\nLord Burns added: \"You proceeded to stamp on a vulnerable and immobile 61-year-old man who you had encountered lying on the ground.\n\n\"By this terrible act you killed him and deprived his family and friends of his love and companionship and they will have to live with that for the rest of their lives and you have to live with that for the rest of your life.\"\n\nThe court heard the teenager and three female friends came across Mr Sinclair lying on the ground behind Westwood Community Centre at about 20:00 on 19 January last year.\n\nInitially the boy tried to help the victim up but became angry when they both lost their balance and fell to the ground.\n\nThe court heard he believed Mr Sinclair had pushed him, causing him to scrape his face off the community centre wall.\n\nOne of the girls phoned for an ambulance and the boy walked away.\n\nThe court then heard he returned about 15 minutes later.\n\nThe girl said: \"He ran up to Mr Sinclair, raised his foot and put it down on his face.\n\n\"I could hear the sound of his foot hitting the head - the stamps were hard and forceful.\"\n\nMr Sinclair suffered 19 injuries to his face and neck including a fractured Adam's apple and a vertebrae at the top of his spine was severed causing internal decapitation.\n\nPathologist Sharon Calvert told the court this was caused by having his head repeatedly stamped on.\n\nThe jury heard such an injury was usually only seen in people who had fallen from a height or been involved in a road traffic accident.\n\nThe teenager gave evidence during proceedings and admitted to prosecution lawyer Liam Ewing QC that he had attacked Mr Sinclair.\n\nAsked what his intention was as his victim lay on the ground, the teenager replied: \"To hurt him.\n\n\"I just lost my temper. I just lost it. I thought he'd be knocked out.\n\n\"I didn't know what I did to him would kill him.\"\n\nHe also told the jury: \"I've still not got over it. I just feel destroyed.\"\n\nDefence advocate Bert Kerrigan QC told Lord Burns that his client came from a stable background and a loving family.\n\nBut the court heard the accused had anger management issues and had a \"propensity to resort to violence.\"\n\nThe boy was also sentenced to two years for an unprovoked attack on 18-year-old Jay Mungall.\n\nThe court heard he punched the teenager on the head and body at Westwood Stores in East Kilbride, about an hour before the murder.\n\nThis sentence will be served concurrently with the 11-year punishment part of the life sentence.", "You'll soon no longer find Adam Smith in your wallet or purse. The economist has been replaced as the face of the £20 note by artist JMW Turner.\n\nThe Bank of England said the new polymer £20 - which enters circulation on Thursday - is its most secure ever banknote.\n\nIt includes two see-through windows and a two colour foil to help beat forgers.\n\nThe Bank reckons half of all ATMs across the UK to be dispensing the new notes in just two weeks' time.\n\nThe new £20 is the third plastic banknote to be issued by the Bank of England after the fiver featuring Winston Churchill - launched in 2016 - and the tenner featuring Jane Austen, which was first issued in 2017.\n\nIt replaces the paper one featuring Adam Smith which has been in circulation since 2007.\n\nBut you'll still be able to use the old notes for many months to come. The Bank will give six months' notice ahead of its legal tender status being withdrawn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Gompertz takes a look at what the new £20 banknote looks like\n\nSecurity features on the new Turner note include:\n\nThe new £20 note is the first to feature the signature of Sarah John, the Bank's chief cashier. She said: \"Moving the £20 note to polymer marks a major step forward in our fight against counterfeiting. I am very grateful to everyone across the cash industry who has made this transition possible and I hope the public enjoy using their new Turner £20s.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses national chairman Mike Cherry said: \"The introduction of this new £20 note is a great step to cutting down on fraud which is a thorn in the side of small firms.\n\n\"As the most common note in circulation, small firms will be pleased to see the money they are working with is going to become safer and more secure. This will mean that small businesses can spend time and money on other issues away from fraud.\"\n\nThere are currently two billion £20 notes in circulation. If you laid them in a line, you could wrap them around the world nearly seven times. The £20 notes currently in circulation weigh 1,780 tons. That's the same as 141 buses.\n\nIn the first half of last year, 88% of detected banknote forgeries were £20 notes, the Bank's statistics show.\n\nThe Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has been working with the Bank to make money accessible for people with sight loss.\n\nThe new note has tactile markings on it with three separate clusters of dots along the short edge to differentiate it from the £10 note, which has two clusters of dots. It is larger than both the £10 and £5 notes.\n\nDavid Clarke, RNIB director of services, said: \"Handling cash can often be a challenge if you're blind or partially sighted, because it can be difficult to tell the difference between the different notes and coins. We hope the creation of these notes will help enable people with sight loss to use money more easily and with confidence.\n\n\"By incorporating tactile features on money, we are closer to creating a more inclusive society; it's the small changes that can make a big difference to independent living.\"\n\nPlastic notes are longer lasting. But there are questions about how long they will be needed, for widespread use anyway. With the rise of contactless cards and internet shopping, experts warned earlier this week that within the decade fewer than one in ten transactions will be in cash.\n\nCampaigners have called for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to save banknotes and coins for the millions of people who still use it for paying for vital goods and services, such as utility and council bills. Banks should be forced to provide suitable cash access to their customers, they say.\n\nBank of England Governor Mark Carney said: \"Our banknotes celebrate the UK's extraordinarily rich and diverse heritage and highlight the contributions of its greatest citizens. Turner's art was transformative.\n\n\"I am delighted that the work of arguably the single most influential British artist of all time will now appear on another two billion works of art - the new £20 notes that people can start using today.\"\n\nA new polymer £50 featuring Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing will be issued next year.", "Samsung has apologised after it accidentally sent an alert to thousands of devices overnight.\n\nAffected devices received a notification from Find My Mobile in the early hours of Thursday morning.\n\nSome customers complained on social media that it had woken them up, while others worried their device had been hacked.\n\nIn a statement, Samsung said the alert had been sent unintentionally to a \"limited number\" of devices.\n\nThousands of customers posted on social media and news site Reddit, many sharing screenshots of the notification and asking what it might mean.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt affected Galaxy devices running on Android O or newer - including Samsung's latest Galaxy S phones, its new Z-Flip device and some Samsung tablet computers.\n\nThe alert did not contain any meaningful text and did nothing when it was tapped.\n\nThe notification was received by customers worldwide\n\nSamsung said the message was the result of an internal test and that it had not done any harm to the phones that received it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Samsung UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Germany is Europe's largest economy and the most populous country in the European Union.\n\nAchieving national unity later than other European nations, Germany quickly caught up economically and militarily, before defeats in World War One and World War Two left it shattered, facing the difficult legacy of Nazism and divided between Europe's Cold War blocs.\n\nAfter 1949, West Germany rebounded to become the continent's economic giant and a prime mover of European cooperation. Franco-German cooperation was central to European economic integration in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nWith the end of the Cold War, the two parts of the country were once again united, although the economy of the former east continues to lag behind the rest of the country.\n\nSince reunification, Germany has taken a more active role in the European Union, signing the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and the Lisbon Treaty in 2007 and co-founding the Eurozone.\n\nThe 63-year-old former finance minister defied earlier expectations by winning the September 2021 election.\n\nHe formed a coalition with the Greens and business-friendly Free Democrats in December, becoming the first Social Democrat chancellor since 2005.\n\nHe took over from the Christian Democrat Angela Merkel, Germany's first female chancellor, who governed for 16 years in coalition with either the Free Democrats or the Social Democrats.\n\nMr Scholz was her vice-chancellor as well as finance minister in 2018-2021.\n\nDespite having a much more restrained and cautious response than that of other Western countries to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Scholz oversaw an increase in Germany's defence budget, weapons shipments to Ukraine and a discontinuance of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.\n\nScholz set out the principles of a new German defence policy in his \"Zeitenwende\" speech to parliament immediately after the invasion.\n\nScholz described the attack as a \"historic turning point\" and announced that in response his government would use a €100bn fund to significantly increase military spending, reversing Germany's previously cautious defence policy.\n\nFormer foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was elected federal president in February 2017, succeeding Joachim Gauck.\n\nHe was reelected in February 2022 for a second five-year term as Germany's president. Although largely ceremonial post, he has been seen as a symbol of consensus and continuity.\n\nHis lenient policies toward countries such as Russia and China have earned him criticism both in Germany and internationally.\n\nGermany has a lively newspaper scene, based on regional centres but read nationwide\n\nGermany's competitive television market is the largest in Europe, with more than 38 million TV households.\n\nRegional and national public broadcasters vie for audiences with powerful commercial operators.\n\nGermans are avid newspaper readers and the non-tabloid press is a trusted news source.\n\nInternet use is near-universal. Facebook is the most popular social network,\n\nGermany's parliament is housed in the historic Reichstag building in the capital Berlin\n\n800 - Emperor Charlemagne, Frankish ruler of France and Germany is crowned Roman emperor by Pope Leo III.\n\n843 - Break-up of the Frankish empire; Germany emerges as separate realm.\n\n962 - German King Otto I is crowned Roman emperor after gaining control of northern Italy; beginning of what becomes known as Holy Roman Empire centred on Germany.\n\n1250 - Death of Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen marks the virtual end of central authority and the acceleration of empire's collapse into independent princely territories.\n\n1438 - Election of Albert I marks beginning of Habsburg dynasty based in Austria.\n\n1517 - Martin Luther proclaims Ninety-Five Theses against traditional church practices; start of Protestant split from the Catholic Church.\n\n1618-1648 Thirty-Years' War: The failure of Habsburg emperors' attempt to restore Catholic dominance and imperial authority against the opposition of Protestant princes.\n\n1648: The Treaty of Osnabruck, along with the Treaty of Munster, ends the Thirty Years War\n\n1648 - Peace of Westphalia - the collective name for two peace treaties signed in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster - ends the war. The Peace of Westphalia has traditionally being seen as the origin of principles crucial to modern international relations.\n\n1806 - Napoleon's armies impose French rule over much of Germany; Francis II declares abolition of Holy Roman Empire and adopts title of emperor of Austria.\n\n1813 - Defeat of Napoleon at Battle of Leipzig.\n\n1848 - Year of Revolutions: Liberals fail in an attempt to unite Germany under democratic constitution; start of period of rapid industrialisation.\n\n1866 - Austro-Prussian War: Prussia defeats Austria in seven-week war. Part of wider rivalry between Austria and Prussia and results in Prussian dominance over other German states.\n\n1871 - Otto von Bismarck achieves unification of Germany under leadership of Prussia. The new German Empire's authoritarian constitution creates an elected national parliament but gives emperor extensive powers.\n\n1888 - William II becomes emperor: start of colonial expansion and build-up of German navy to compete with Britain's Royal Navy.\n\nShips of the Imperial German Navy: Germany's bid to challenge Britain's Royal Navy was one of the contributory factors to increasing diplomatic tensions prior to the outbreak of war in 1914\n\n1914-1918 - World War One. Germany is defeated and becomes a republic. Emperor William II abdicates and goes into exile.\n\n1919 - Treaty of Versailles: Germany loses colonies and land to neighbours, pays large-scale reparations.\n\nBeginning of the Weimar Republic, based on a new constitution. Its early years are marked by high unemployment and rampant inflation.\n\n1923 - Adolf Hitler, head of the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party, leads an abortive coup in a Munich beer hall.\n\nFrance, Belgium occupy the Ruhr over failed reparation payments. Hyperinflation leads to economic collapse.\n\n1933 - Hitler becomes chancellor. Weimar Republic gives way to a one-party state. Systematic persecution of Germany's Jews escalates. Hitler proclaims the Third Reich in 1934.\n\nKristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) sees orchestrated attacks on Jews and their property as well as synagogues.\n\n1939-1945 - Invasion of Poland triggers World War Two. Millions of people of all ages, mostly Jews but also large numbers of Gypsies, Slavs and other races, the disabled, homosexuals and religious dissenters, die as the Nazis implement an extermination policy in the death camps of eastern Europe.\n\n1945 - Germany defeated, Hitler commits suicide. Allies divide Germany into occupation zones. Berlin - in the Soviet zone - is itself divided into US, UK, Soviet and French zones.\n\n1947 - US and UK merge their two zones into one economy, the Bizone. It is a recognition of the breakdown of cooperation between the four occupying powers and the first indication the division of Europe into two Cold-War blocs.\n\n1948 - The Bizone is extended to include the French zone.\n\n1948-49 - Berlin Blockade: Amid worsening East-West relations and the introduction of the new Deutschmark currency in western zones, Soviet authorities block road and rail access from western Germany to West Berlin. The Western allies respond with the Berlin Airlift - a massive air operation to keep West Berlin supplied - until the Soviets abandon the blockade.\n\n1949 - The US, French and British zones in the west become the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD); the Soviet zone in the east becomes the communist German Democratic Republic (DDR).\n\nKonrad Adenauer, of the Christian Democrats is West Germany's first chancellor. East Germany is led by Walter Ulbricht.\n\n1955 - West Germany joins Nato. USSR responds by forming its own military alliance, the Warsaw Pact, comprising Soviet bloc countries including East Germany.\n\n1957 - West Germany is a founding member of the European Economic Community, along with France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The French protectorate of Saarland joins West Germany after voters reject the idea of establishing it as an independent state.\n\nAugust 1961: East German border guards at the Brandenburg Gate as the DDR builds the Berlin Wall\n\n1961 - The DDR builds the Berlin Wall to stop the flight of East Germans to the increasingly prosperous West.\n\n1969 - Social Democrat Willy Brandt becomes chancellor and seeks better ties with the Soviet Union and East Germany under Ostpolitik (eastern policy).\n\n1971 - Walter Ulbricht is succeeded in East by Erich Honecker.\n\n1974 - Brandt resigns after spy revelations surrounding one of his aides.\n\n1989 - Mass exodus of East Germans as Soviet bloc countries relax travel restrictions. Berlin Wall is torn down.\n\n1990 - Chancellor Helmut Kohl reunites Germany as a single state. East and West Berlin are united into a single city and eventually becomes the capital of a reunited Germany.\n\n2015-2016 - Government allows more than a million asylum seekers from the Middle East and beyond to stay, raising public concerns about crime and public services that far-right groups exploit.\n\n2021 - Devastating floods hit parts of western Europe. Over 100 die in Germany and 22 in Belgium.\n\nThe fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 marked a pivotal moment in Germany's modern history\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I'm very confident Welsh Labour will do extremely well\"\n\nThe leader of the Labour party has said he takes responsibility for the loss of six Welsh Labour seats at the general election in December.\n\nOn his first visit to Wales since the vote, Jeremy Corbyn also blamed Brexit and the media.\n\nMr Corbyn will make way for the winner of the Labour leadership election after the result is announced in April.\n\nHis party lost 60 seats in total across Britain, including five of Labour's six seats in north Wales.\n\nLosses in Wales were to the benefit of the Conservatives, who had their best Welsh Westminster result since the 1980s.\n\nSpeaking in Pontypridd, where he was visiting flood-hit communities, Mr Corbyn said: \"I was proud to lead the party in election, I was proud of the policies we put forward in the election.\n\n\"Obviously we didn't win the election, I'm very clear about that.\n\n\"I take the responsibility of the leader for doing that.\n\n\"But I also am proud of the way our party campaigned.\"\n\nHe said he was \"very confident Welsh Labour will do extremely well\" at the 2021 Senedd elections \"because of the very good record in government\".\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour lost the election for a \"myriad of reasons\", but blamed \"mainly Brexit\" and \"five years of unremitting media attacks on our movement and on our party\".\n\nHe said the media had refused \"to report what party policies actually are\".\n\n\"I think in future our party has to improve our methods of community organisation and community communication. And that I'll be supporting and doing my best to help,\" he added.", "The US rapper Pop Smoke has been killed, after an apparent armed robbery.\n\nLos Angeles Police told Radio 1 Newsbeat a man was shot at his home and later pronounced dead, although didn't confirm his identity.\n\nBut his label Republic Records says it's \"devastated by the unexpected and tragic loss of Pop Smoke\".\n\nPolice responded to reports of a robbery - a man was then taken to hospital and later pronounced dead.\n\nOfficers confirmed that an unknown number of suspects entered a property in West Hollywood.\n\nThey got a call about a robbery at 04:55 PST and were at the scene six minutes later.\n\nPop Smoke at the Rolling Loud Festival, Los Angeles, in December 2019\n\nPolice say no suspects have been identified and no arrests have been made.\n\nThey also denied reports that a man was held at the scene but say one suspect is thought to have had a handgun.\n\nPop Smoke, who this week got his first US top 10 album, was signed to Republic Records which has said in a statement \"our prayers and thoughts go out to his family, friends and fans, as we mourn this loss together.\"\n\nWhen reports first appeared in the US tributes began flooding in for Pop Smoke, real name Bashar Barakah Jackson - including from friends.\n\nPop Smoke had a breakout hit with Welcome to the Party in 2019 - which led to him being singled out as an artist to watch this year by BBC Radio 1Xtra, on the station's Hot For 2020 list.\n\nThe station said he \"possessed the air and cadence of a rapper who has been in the game for a decade or two longer than his actual age\".\n\nThe track ended up being remixed by both Nicki Minaj and Skepta.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast year he spoke about wanting to make music that inspires children who are growing up in poverty.\n\nHe told The Face: \"I make music for that kid in the hood that's gotta share a bedroom with like four kids - the young kids growing up in poverty.\n\n\"I make music for kids like that who know they just gotta keep going, that there's a better way. That's who I really make it for.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has faced jibes on social media over claims he has staff blow-dry his armpits before public appearances.\n\nThe claim is from a new book, Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy, that will be released later this month.\n\nA Bloomberg review included the anecdote about Mr Zuckerberg having a member of his communication team dry his \"anxiety sweat\" before a speech.\n\nA Facebook spokesperson said she doubted the story's accuracy.\n\n\"I doubt this is true, and if so, it would have been at our communications team's request, but surely anyone who has ever worn a grey T-shirt can relate,\" said Liz Bourgeois, a Facebook spokesperson.\n\nThe anecdote was first reported in a review of the book by Bloomberg News.\n\nThe description of one of Silicon Valley's top executives having a member of his staff help hide his perspiration drew jokes on social media including from other tech leaders.\n\nTwitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey posted that he had never asked his staff to dry his armpits but would be willing to do it for his communications team.\n\nThe book's author, Steven Levy, is the editor at large for technology magazine Wired and has covered Facebook for many years.\n\nHe supposedly had access to Mr Zuckerberg's personal diary from 2006. The book also contains interviews with current and former Facebook employees.\n\nBut it is the portrayal of Mr Zuckerberg and Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg that is gaining public attention ahead of the book's release.\n\nThe book reportedly describes Ms Sandberg as micromanaging her image and allegedly includes stories about Ms Sandberg pretending to be nervous in interviews with reporters to get less difficult questions.\n\nMs Bourgeois also questioned this account of events.\n\n\"There's nothing fake about her nerves before big interviews,\" Ms Bourgeois wrote in one tweet.\n\nIn a follow-up post, she added: \"I can think of two times in three years when she told an interviewer she was nervous and both times she was going on-camera about losing Dave.\"\n\nBooks about Silicon Valley companies have become increasingly popular as the firms have moved past their start-up stages and attracted more scandal.\n\nIn 2019 Mike Isaac wrote a book about the leadership battle for control of Uber.\n\nJohn Carreyrou's book Bad Blood detailed the rise and fall of blood testing firm Theranos.", "Dr Couper was the first female president of the British Astronomical Association\n\nBroadcaster and astronomer Heather Couper has died at the age of 70.\n\nDr Couper appeared on the BBC's Blue Peter and The Sky At Night programmes, as well as presenting and producing acclaimed science documentaries.\n\nShe also hosted radio series including the BBC World Service's long-running Seeing Stars and BBC Radio 4's Cosmic Quest and Starwatch.\n\nProfessor Brian Cox said \"she was one of the pioneers in bringing astronomy to everyone, including me\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Couper's best friend and business partner, Nigel Henbest, said she had died on Wednesday after a short illness.\n\nShe had been a \"charismatic... and passionate communicator of science\", he said.\n\n\"She got people really excited about the Universe and about space - that was her love, her passion in life.\"\n\nShe was a regular on TV and radio from the 1980s\n\nBorn in 1949, she fell in love with astronomy as a child and recalled a day, in 1968, when she had realised astronomy was not just \"for shambolic old men in tweed jackets any more\".\n\nShe went home and wrote in her diary: \"I want to help knowledge. I want to make known and publicise science.\"\n\nSo she left her management trainee job at Top Shop to become a research assistant at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.\n\nHer big break came when she was asked to appear as a guest on Sir Patrick Moore's The Sky At Night.\n\nSir Patrick later recalled: \"Of course, she wrote to me when she was a little girl and said, 'Is there any future for me in astronomy?' And I said, 'Of course there is.' And I tried to give her a hand.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Carol Vorderman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also presented the 1981 ITV children's series Heavens Above and, in 1984, became the first female president of the British Astronomical Association.\n\nFour years later, she co-founded a film and TV production company, then, in 1993, took up the chair of astronomy at Gresham College.\n\nShe and Dr Henbest co-wrote dozens of books as well as monthly astronomy columns for the Independent, the last of which was published on 6 February.\n\nThe pair even applied to be the first British astronauts, Dr Couper told the Guardian in 1993, but were quickly rejected.\n\n\"They wanted someone technologically on the ball, someone who would know what buttons to press in an emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"If something blew up, I would think, 'Oh Christ! What wire goes where?'\"\n\nMore tributes came from viewers, fellow broadcasters and the scientific community.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Several people are dead following two shootings at shisha bars in the western German city of Hanau.\n\nAt least five people were injured after gunmen opened fire at about 22:00 local time (21:00 GMT), police told the BBC.\n\nKevin Elsaesser filmed the aftermath on his phone.\n\nEight dead after two shootings in Hanau, Germany", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will formally step down as senior royals from 31 March, a spokesperson for the couple has said.\n\nThey will no longer carry out duties on behalf of the Queen but arrangements will be reviewed after 12 months.\n\nEarlier this year Harry and Meghan announced they would be stepping back from royal duties and working to become financially independent.\n\nThey will return to the UK for engagements at the end of this month.\n\nThe couple intend to split their time between the UK and North America and the spokesperson said they would be in the UK \"regularly\".\n\nThey will attend six events in the UK in February and March, including the Commonwealth Day Service on 9 March.\n\nHarry is also expected to attend the London Marathon in April in his capacity as patron, while the couple will also attend the Invictus Games in the Netherlands in May.\n\nThe couple will formally retain their HRH titles but will not use them. The use of the word \"Royal\" is under discussion, the spokesperson said, and an announcement on this will be made alongside the launch of the couple's new non-profit organisation.\n\nHarry and Meghan's foundation applied to trademark the Sussex Royal brand - used on their website and social media - in June last year.\n\nAs the couple will no longer be undertaking engagements in support of the Queen, they will not be retaining an office at Buckingham Palace. Instead, from 1 April they will be represented via their UK foundation, the spokesperson said.\n\nHarry will retain the ranks of Major, Lieutenant Commander, and Squadron Leader but his honorary military positions will be suspended. The roles will not be filled by anyone else during the 12-month review period.\n\nFurther details about the couple's new charitable organisation will be released later this year but the spokesperson said the causes they supported, including the Commonwealth, community, youth empowerment and mental health, would remain the same.\n\nHarry's priorities also include the welfare of servicemen and women, conservation and HIV, while Meghan has focused on women's empowerment, gender equality and education.\n\nThe couple and their son Archie spent time in Canada over Christmas\n\nThe duke and duchess announced earlier this year that they planned to step back as senior royals. Details of how this would work were then unveiled, following days of talks with the Queen and other senior royals.\n\nThe couple had previously spoken about how they had struggled under the media spotlight.\n\nThe couple have been in Canada with their son Archie for much of this year, after briefly returning to the UK in January following an extended six-week Christmas break on Vancouver Island.", "Rikki Neave was found strangled and naked in woodland in Peterborough in 1994\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a six-year-old boy who was found strangled in woodland 25 years ago.\n\nRikki Neave disappeared after leaving his Peterborough home on the morning of 28 November 1994. His naked body was found the following day.\n\nThe defendant, who was 13 at the time of Rikki's death, spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth.\n\nJames Watson is accused of murdering Rikki in Peterborough between 28 and 29 November 1994\n\nMr Watson, of no fixed address, was not asked to enter a plea during the one-minute hearing and was remanded into custody.\n\nHe will appear at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nRikki Neave was found in woodland near his home and his school uniform was dumped in a bin\n\nRikki's mother, Ruth Neave, was tried for his murder in 1996 and cleared of the killing but was jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to child neglect.\n\nOn the 20th anniversary of Rikki's death, the case was reviewed by a cold case team and the investigation was reopened in 2015.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A crime scene is in place at the London Central Mosque near Regent's Park in central London\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing inside a central London mosque.\n\nThe victim, in his 70s, was injured in an attack at London Central Mosque, near Regent's Park, which police are not treating as terror-related.\n\nHe was taken to hospital by paramedics where his condition has been assessed as non-life threatening.\n\nA 29-year-old man was apprehended by worshippers who broke from prayer to restrain him until police arrived.\n\nIn a statement, the mosque said the injured man was the muezzin, the person who makes the call to prayer, and he had been stabbed shortly after 15:00 GMT during afternoon prayer.\n\nThe mosque's director general, Dr Ahmad Al Dubayan said he had a brief phone conversation with the muezzin in hospital, who said he was \"okay and feeling well\".\n\nAyaz Ahmad, an adviser to the mosque, said the stabbing \"would have been life-threatening if it wasn't for the worshippers\".\n\nImages from inside the mosque showed a man wearing a red hooded top, jeans and with bare feet being pinned to the floor by police officers.\n\nOne video showed a knife on the floor under a plastic chair.\n\nA 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder\n\nMustafa Field, director of the Faiths Forum for London, told reporters the attack was \"one stab, one strike, around the neck\" of the victim.\n\nHe said: \"Then the congregation members, some of them broke their prayers, and intervened, restrained the individual.\"\n\nAbi Watik, who witnessed the attack, said the arrested man had been seen at the mosque previously and the muezzin was stabbed once in the shoulder.\n\n\"He was praying behind him [the muezzin] and then he stabbed him.\n\n\"He was waiting for him I think to start praying. He was right behind him.\"\n\nThe 59-year-old added that the suspect \"was silent the whole time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man was arrested inside building, then led outside\n\nDr Al Dubayan said: \"We are so sad about what has happened and we hope it's just one off incident, not related or motivated by any kind of hatred.\"\n\nMiqdaad Versi, from the Muslim Council of Britain, said: \"It is deeply concerning that this has happened... Given other recent attacks elsewhere, many Muslims are on edge,\" he said.\n\nPolice believe the attack was an isolated incident and have increased patrols around the area to \"provide reassurance to worshippers and the local community\".\n\nCh Supt Helen Harpe said: \"A 29-year-old man was arrested at the scene and he has been taken into custody.\n\n\"The man is believed to have been attending prayers inside the mosque.\n\n\"This incident has undoubtedly caused a great deal of concern and we are working as swiftly as possible to establish the circumstances.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted he was \"deeply saddened\" by the stabbing and his \"thoughts are with the victim and all those affected\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the Met Police would be \"providing extra resources in the area\" following the attack.\n\n\"Every Londoner is entitled to feel safe in their place of worship,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The leader of far-right group Britain First has been charged with an offence under the Terrorism Act after refusing to give police access to his phone.\n\nPaul Golding was stopped at Heathrow Airport in October on his way back from a trip to the Russian Parliament in Moscow by officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nHe refused to give the pin codes for a number of his electronic devices.\n\nHe is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court next Thursday.\n\nMr Golding, 38, is charged with refusing to comply with a duty under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act.\n\nIn a statement he said he was not a terrorist and described the charges as \"an abuse of legislation\".\n\nSchedule 7 allows police to interrogate, search and detain anyone for up to six hours at UK ports.\n\nIt is designed to determine whether an individual is involved in the \"commission, preparation or instigation\" of acts of terrorism.", "Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling, pictured at London's Hard Rock Hotel in November\n\nLaura Whitmore has criticised a photographer for taking pictures of her in an airport against her will.\n\nOn Thursday, the Love Island host landed in Cape Town, South Africa, where she was greeted by her boyfriend, comedian Iain Stirling.\n\n\"It was the first time I've been with Iain since Caroline [Flack] passed away,\" Whitmore explained on Twitter.\n\nBut a photographer began taking pictures of the pair, despite them telling him they were \"mourning\".\n\n\"We tried to ignore it but he continued to follow us as we got coffee and left the building,\" she said.\n\n\"So I asked him would he stop as he had what he wanted. I said we were mourning a friend and could he allow us space.\"\n\nWhitmore and Stirling were both friends with Flack, who took her own life on Saturday.\n\nWhitmore said the photographer told them: \"Can you give me a reaction. It's a public place and I can take pictures if I want.\"\n\nThe presenter also uploaded a video of the incident, which was filmed by Stirling.\n\nIt is not illegal in South Africa to photograph someone without their permission provided they are in a public space.\n\nCaroline Flack took her own life on Saturday at her home in London\n\n\"I have never courted the paparazzi but understand at work events it comes with the territory,\" she added. \"But this morning was too much. Iain filmed him and he didn't like it.\n\n\"I don't like attacking people but we need to call people out when they do things like this. Iain and I just wanted some privacy.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Whitmore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStirling is Love Island's narrator and is currently based in South Africa while the show is being filmed.\n\nHowever, presenter Whitmore remains based in the UK and flies out to Cape Town any time she is needed for filming. She is due to appear in the final of the current season of Love Island on Sunday.\n\nLast week, Whitmore used her BBC Radio 5 Live show to \"call out\" the paparazzi, following the death of Flack, her predecessor as host of the ITV2 show.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Larry Tesler, pictured at the PC Forum in 1989, worked to make computers more accessible\n\nLarry Tesler, an icon of early computing, has died at the age of 74.\n\nMr Tesler started working in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s, at a time when computers were inaccessible to the vast majority of people.\n\nIt was thanks to his innovations - which included the \"cut\", \"copy\" and \"paste\" commands - that the personal computer became simple to learn and use.\n\nXerox, where Mr Tesler spent part of his career, paid tribute to him.\n\n\"The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more, was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler,\" the company tweeted. \"Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas.\"\n\nMr Tesler was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1945, and studied at Stanford University in California.\n\nAfter graduating, he specialised in user interface design - that is, making computer systems more user-friendly.\n\nHe worked for a number of major tech firms during his long career. He started at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Parc), before Steve Jobs poached him for Apple, where he spent 17 years and rose to chief scientist.\n\nAfter leaving Apple he set up an education start-up, and worked for brief periods at Amazon and Yahoo.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn 2012, he told the BBC of Silicon Valley: \"There's almost a rite of passage - after you've made some money, you don't just retire, you spend your time funding other companies.\n\n\"There's a very strong element of excitement, of being able to share what you've learned with the next generation.\"\n\nPossibly Mr Tesler's most famous innovation, the cut and paste command, was reportedly based on the old method of editing in which people would physically cut portions of printed text and glue them elsewhere.\n\nThe command was incorporated in Apple's software on the Lisa computer in 1983, and the original Macintosh that was released the following year.\n\nMr Tesler, pictured in 1991, was an avowed opponent of computer \"modes\"\n\nOne of Mr Tesler's firmest beliefs was that computer systems should stop using \"modes\", which were common in software design at the time.\n\nModes allow users to switch between functions on software and apps but make computers both time-consuming and complicated.\n\nSo strong was this belief that Mr Tesler's website was called \"nomodes.com\", his Twitter handle was \"@nomodes\", and even his car's registration plate was \"No Modes\".\n\nSilicon Valley's Computer History Museum said Mr Tesler \"combined computer science training with a counterculture vision that computers should be for everyone\".\n• None Farewell from the BBC's 'man in Silicon Valley'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hilda Clulow celebrated her 111th birthday with a 1940's themed party in March 2019\n\nThe UK's oldest woman has died at the age of 111.\n\nHilda Clulow was one of six siblings, and married Arthur Clulow when she was 29 years old.\n\nMrs Clulow, who had one son and seven grand and great-grandchildren, worked as a dressmaker at Balsall Heath Factory from the age of 16 to 60.\n\nShe died at Bowood Court & Mews Care Home in Redditch on Christmas Eve. Staff said: \"We all loved her and were very proud of her.\"\n\nMrs Clulow died surrounded by family and friends on Christmas Eve\n\nJackie Hayden, a care assistant at Bowood Court & Mews, said: \"Hilda changed everyone's life within the home. I don't feel that she truly knew how much she was loved, although we made sure we told her every day.\n\n\"I feel privileged to have known Hilda and had the opportunity to have cared for her. She will never be forgotten.\"\n\nDawn Leaver, the care home's manager, said: \"I will never forget the honour of creating some wonderful birthday celebrations for her and I'll remember her with a glass of sherry; her favourite tipple.\"\n\nWhen she turned 110, her son, Barry said he was \"very proud\" of his mother.\n\nEngland's oldest man is 111-year-old Bob Weighton, who was born in Hull on 29 March 1908.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Julian Smith said the prime minister signed off on the Stormont deal\n\nThe former Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith says Prime Minister Boris Johnson read and approved the agreement for the restoration of Stormont.\n\nMr Smith was sacked during the cabinet reshuffle last week.\n\nThere was speculation he was removed because the PM felt the deal contained unacceptable elements relating to the legacy of Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nBut Mr Smith said a prime minister \"does not sign off a key government deal without reading it first\".\n\nResponding to Mr Smith's article in the Spectator magazine, allies of the sacked minister said it was \"absolute crap\" to suggest Mr Johnson and 10 Downing Street had not been kept informed of the full details of the New Decade, New Approach agreement.\n\nThe agreement restored power-sharing devolved government in Northern Ireland after a three-year suspension.\n\nIt contains a commitment to bring forward proposals on legacy within 100 days, cutting across what some Conservative MPs believe is the requirement to end so-called \"vexatious prosecutions\" of veterans - a pledge contained in the party's general election manifesto.\n\nJulian Smith was sacked after 204 days in the role\n\nWriting in the Spectator, Mr Smith said: \"On Wednesday night the Times reported my expected fate, suggesting the reason for the chop was that Downing Street had been unaware of key details of the deal to restore Stormont.\n\n\"I was grateful for the opportunity to confirm to the journalist that a PM does not sign off a key government deal without reading it first, alongside a phalanx of talented PJ Masks aides.\"\n\nDominic Cummings, Mr Johnson's chief adviser, told reporters ahead of the reshuffle that the animated superhero trio - PJ Masks - would \"do a greater job than all of them [cabinet ministers] put together\".\n\nMr Smith suggested there were signs from the government ahead of the reshuffle that his time in the cabinet would be coming to an end.\n\nHe told the Spectator: \"My suspicions were raised by Tuesday: my close protection apologised about the swap to a Skoda because the main car was in the garage; I received a fumbled brief about what would happen 'should things go badly' for me in the reshuffle; and finally, I could no longer reach the team on the normal phone due to 'battery problems'.\n\n\"News from my private office confirmed that indeed miracles would be required to turn this patient's prospects around.\n\n\"After a few side glances one private secretary told me that he had got wind via the civil service 'net' that I should be in for 08:00 GMT on Thursday.\"\n\nMr Smith was replaced by former Conservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis.\n\nAt the time of the deal Mr Johnson said it struck a \"balance\" between supporting veterans and giving victims of the Troubles the chance to seek justice.\n\nBut the PM also said he would keep his manifesto promise to end \"vexatious\" prosecutions of former servicemen.\n\nNo official reason was given for the replacement of Julian Smith but he became one of many casualties of a cabinet reshuffle last week after just 204 days in the role.\n\nThe decision came just weeks after he had worked with Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney on producing the New Decade, New Approach deal.\n\nHis predecessors James Brokenshire and Karen Bradley had been unsuccessful in their attempts to restore devolved government.\n\nOther notable highlights from his brief stint in office included helping legislation to provide compensation to historical abuse victims in Northern Ireland pass through Parliament.\n\nJulian Smith said serving as Northern Ireland secretary had \"been the biggest privilege\" and \"the warmth and support from people across NI has been incredible\".", "Gillian Millane spoke to the court via video-link, saying her daughter \"died terrified and alone\".\n\nGrace Millane was killed while travelling in New Zealand.\n\nA 28-year-old male, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been sentenced to a minimum of 17 years in prison.", "Chancellor Angela Merkel said there were multiple clues that a gunman in the German city of Hanau had acted out of racism and right-wing extremism.\n\nShe also added that authorities would do everything possible to clarify the background to the attack.\n\nAt least nine people were killed in the shooting which federal prosecutors are treating as an act of terrorism.", "A patient at King's College Hospital in London played the violin while surgeons operated on her brain to remove a tumour.\n\nDagmar Turner, 53, played the violin so surgeons could ensure parts of the brain which control hand movements and coordination were not damaged during the millimetre-precise procedure.\n\nMs Turner, from the Isle of Wight, was diagnosed with a brain tumour after suffering a seizure in 2013.\n\nShe was concerned over losing the ability to play the violin.\n\nHer tumour was located in the right frontal lobe of her brain, close to an area that controls the fine movement of her left hand.", "Grace Millane was last seen alive on the eve of her 22nd birthday\n\nGuilty. The intake of breath, a sob from the dead woman's mother. A single word was all it took to bring to an end one of the most highly publicised murder cases in New Zealand's history.\n\nThree weeks of evidence, hundreds of hours of painstaking police work and a year of grief for a family had built up to the moment 12 jurors agreed that a 27-year-old man had murdered Grace Millane.\n\nWhat had started out as a missing person inquiry in December 2018 when a daughter, sister and friend failed to respond to 22nd birthday messages swiftly turned into a murder investigation.\n\nWhen Ms Millane did not respond to birthday messages, her family issued an appeal on social media\n\nWithin days of her disappearance, police had identified a suspect, spoken to him and, unbeknownst to the killer, tracked his movements by trawling through CCTV evidence.\n\nBefore long police would find Ms Millane's body, which he had stuffed into a suitcase and buried in the mountainous Waitākere Ranges. There followed an outpouring of grief from a small nation unused to such crimes.\n\nThe backpacker's body was discovered in bushland outside Auckland\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern issued an apology to Ms Millane's parents David and Gillian, saying \"your daughter should have been safe here, she wasn't and I'm sorry for that\".\n\nMs Millane, from Wickford, Essex, and the man who would go on to murder her made contact through a dating app and hit it off immediately.\n\nShe was in Auckland as part of a round-the-world trip, while he had been living there working in various sales jobs.\n\nIt was clear from the footage they enjoyed each other's company; they were close, they kissed. Ms Millane even messaged a friend back home to tell her how much she was connecting with him.\n\nThe pair were seen getting on well at various locations in the city\n\nThey returned to his hotel.\n\nBut after she left the lift, she was never seen alive again.\n\nThey were seen in a lift, heading for the room where Ms Millane would be murdered\n\nThere he strangled her before taking pictures of her and watching pornography. He claimed she had died accidentally during consensual sex.\n\nDespite his murder conviction, her killer still cannot be named. A court suppression order remains in place and is likely to do so beyond his sentencing on 21 February, in part because of the level of interest in the case.\n\nReporting on the trial has proved challenging; because the defendant could not be named, CCTV footage had to be blurred, and there were legal disputes over some pieces of evidence. Several witnesses also had their identities protected.\n\nThe killer's identity is suppressed under New Zealand law\n\nBecause of the nature of the killer's defence, Ms Millane's parents have had to listen to claims about their daughter's sex life, with the details reported across New Zealand and around the world.\n\nGraphic information, in particular regarding the night of her murder, was analysed as Mr and Mrs Millane watched in court.\n\nAt times, Mrs Millane would look at the floor or hold her head in her hands as the injuries inflicted on her daughter were described.\n\nThe University of Lincoln graduate was on a round-the-world trip at the time of her death\n\nThe prosecution accused the man of \"eroticising\" Ms Millane's death by taking intimate photographs of her body and looking up pornography while she lay dead in his room.\n\nIn a way, he managed to do the same during her trial with his story about consensual sex gone wrong - a tale rejected by the jury - leading to a focus on BDSM and breath-play.\n\nExperts, Tinder dates and ex-lovers were all brought to court to talk about the killer and his victim.\n\nThe defendant was portrayed as a serial dater; he even messaged and met up with a woman as Ms Millane's body lay in a suitcase.\n\nIt was the sexualising of the murder that brought the killer down.\n\nThe timeline of his Google searches and the naked pictures of Ms Millane were irreconcilable with his case, the prosecution said. Either Ms Millane was dead when they were taken, or he had searched for the Waitākere Ranges, where he buried her body, while she was still living - thus showing he planned to kill her.\n\nThe defence could only offer that they had been \"random\" drunk searches, and the Waitākere Ranges was perhaps somewhere the pair had planned to go for a day out.\n\nDavid and Gillian Millane attended the trial in Auckland\n\nThe killer's right to use the \"rough sex\" defence, and some of the reporting of it, has angered Fiona Mackenzie, founder of the campaign group We Can't Consent To This.\n\nDescribing it as the \"ultimate victim blaming\", she said: \"He gets to tell her story, he gets to tell the story of what she was like and how she asked for it.\n\n\"Families not only lose their loved one but these men [those who use such a defence] steal the public perception of them and destroy their reputation. It's appalling.\"", "Grace's cousin, Hannah O'Callaghan, spoke to BBC Breakfast about the impact of her death\n\nA cousin of murdered British backpacker Grace Millane has said the sentencing of her killer this week will not bring closure to the family.\n\n\"We've lost Grace,\" said Hannah O'Callaghan. \"The sentence will not change the fact that Grace is gone.\"\n\nMs Millane, from Wickford in Essex, was strangled by a man she met on a dating app in New Zealand in December 2018.\n\nHer family have set up a project in her memory collecting handbags and toiletries for domestic abuse victims.\n\nSo far, more than 1,000 bags have been donated in the UK and there are appeals in New Zealand and North America.\n\nGrace Millane was last seen alive on the eve of her 22nd birthday\n\nGrace's cousin and mum donate the bags to refuges along with a tag reading: \"Love Grace x\"\n\nMs Millane's killer, a 28-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty last year and will be sentenced in Auckland on Friday morning - Thursday evening, UK time.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Breakfast, Ms O'Callaghan was asked whether the family felt as if this week was a big week, or marked a chapter ending.\n\nMs Callaghan said: \"No. Every week is going to be a big week.\n\nThe University of Lincoln graduate loved to travel\n\nShe said the project to help female victims of domestic abuse had been \"incredibly cathartic\" for the family.\n\n\"It's brought us together as a family in a time of grief. We're all talking together, we're remembering Grace, we're talking about day-to-day life.\"\n\nIt had \"absolutely\" helped Grace's mum, she added. \"It's allowed her to express her grief. Sometimes when things like this happen you do feel useless. You can't change it so let's make some positives out of our negative.\"\n\nMs Millane, who died on the night before her 22nd birthday, was described as a \"fun-loving, carefree individual\" by cousin Ms Callaghan.\n\nShe had wanted to travel around the world from the age of 11, and had been selling her own artwork online to fund her trip.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grace Millane’s father David paid tribute to his daughter and said her murder had \"ripped apart\" the family\n\nAnd when asked whether the death raises questions about the safety of dating apps, Ms Callaghan said: \"This could have happened anywhere, anytime.\n\n\"It's not because of a dating app. She went on a date and met the wrong person.\n\n\"People shouldn't change the way they live because of this. It was one individual who did this.\"", "Saima Afzal and Maryam Batan were seen as trailblazers when they were elected as councillors\n\nBlackburn's first two Asian women councillors have been deselected for speaking out against old-fashioned attitudes, it has been claimed.\n\nSaima Afzal and Maryam Batan are understood to have alleged the selection process on 7 February was unfair and broke Labour party rules.\n\nSources say they were replaced with Asian women who would be less independent minded and toe the line.\n\nIn an unusual move, Labour will re-run the selection process on Friday.\n\nMs Afzal and Ms Batan were seen as trailblazers when they were elected in May 2018.\n\nEarlier this month they stood for re-selection by the Blackburn Labour party but two other Asian women were chosen to replace them in the local elections in May.\n\nIt is understood Ms Afzal and Ms Batan complained when they were deselected, claiming party rules were broken to force them out.\n\nSupporters of the two councillors claim the two new candidates were not eligible to be selected as they have been members for less than a year and were handpicked to toe the line.\n\nCouncillor Zamir Khan, who ran the selection, described their reaction as \"sour grapes\".\n\nThe NW Labour party confirmed the selection process would be re-run on Friday.\n\nSupporters of the two councillors believe they have been victims of misogyny by a group of older Asian men within the Blackburn Labour party because the two women were independent-minded and willing to speak out against old-fashioned attitudes.\n\nThe regional Labour party would not comment on allegations of sexism and council leader Mohammed Khan declined to comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Barclays says it has scrapped a system that tracked the time employees spent at their desks and sent warnings to those spending too long on breaks.\n\nThe bank introduced the computer monitoring system last week, but faced a staff backlash, reported by City AM.\n\nBarclays said axing the tracking system was a response to \"colleague feedback\", but would not say if it was permanent.\n\nThe software, Sapience, claims to create \"unprecedented transparency\" within companies.\n\n\"It also determines when an employee goes offline for periods of time,\" the software firm's website says. A Barclays source said the tool was used to monitor the \"effectiveness\" of people's time at their desks.\n\nBut in addition to sparking unease within the bank, it attracted criticism from privacy campaigners and HR professionals.\n\nSilkie Carlo, director of privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch, said \"intrusive monitoring\" deprived staff of privacy in the workplace.\n\n\"Managers would never get away with breathing down employee's necks, personally monitoring their screens or logging toilet and water breaks,\" she said. \"The availability of technology to [monitor] staff surreptitiously does not make it any more acceptable.\"\n\nShe described the software as \"creepy\" and called on Barclays to \"urgently review\" its use.\n\nBarclays said the software was part of a pilot that was rolled out in part of its investment banking division.\n\nBut after the City AM newspaper revealed details of the scheme and published damning comments from an employee who spoke to the paper anonymously, Barclays said managers would no longer be able to track the activities of individual workers.\n\nIn a statement, the bank said: \"We always intended to listen to colleague feedback as part of this limited pilot which was intended to tackle issues such as individual over-working as well as raise general productivity.\"\n\nBut Edward Houghton, head of research at Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, questioned whether it was ever appropriate to use what he described as a \"Big Brother\" approach to workplace monitoring.\n\n\"Technologies like this may actually cause more harm than good,\" he said. \"They can... create mistrust or low levels of trust for employees - employees can feel like they're being watched and not trusted to do their own work effectively.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the bank has come under fire for using technology to monitor its staff.\n\nIn 2017, Barclays faced widespread criticism after it installed black boxes under the bankers' desks to track how long they were spending at work.\n\nCampaign group Privacy International said: \"Data protection rules are very clear, strict and do not allow employers to carry out such monitoring unless they are able to prove that this is strictly necessary and proportionate and it does not severely impact employees' rights.\n\n\"People are entitled to some fundamental rights even if they are in work,\" it said. \"International banks are no exception.\"\n• None How does it feel to be watched at work all the time?", "The project is aimed at improving safety on the A465 and regenerating the region's economy\n\nWales' biggest road building project is costing taxpayers about £100m more than planned, a new report has said.\n\nTransforming the A465 into a dual carriageway between Gilwern and Brynmawr was meant to be finished by September 2018 but is now pegged for completion in April 2021.\n\nAuditor general Adrian Crompton said those living locally were paying a \"higher than expected price\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said the scheme was complex, but would bring benefits.\n\nThe five mile-long project in the Clydach Gorge has been hit by legal disputes between the Welsh Government and road builder Costain.\n\nThe geology of the area has been at the centre of the challenges and what has been found on site has been more difficult to build on than anticipated.\n\nBoth sides have argued over who should pay for the increase in cost.\n\nThe Wales Audit Office (WAO) report into the delays said it was impossible to say how long the dispute would take to resolve and the uncertainty meant it was difficult for the Welsh Government to predict the final figure.\n\nIt is part of a larger project to widen the A465 and was first envisaged in 1994.\n\nIn 2014, costs to the public purse were estimated by the Welsh Government at £223m, but this has risen to £321m.\n\nHowever, the overall estimated project cost is much higher and is not included in the report due to commercial sensitivity. Costain believes the Welsh Government's estimated share is understated.\n\nThe WAO said the level of disruption to local communities had been greater than expected. Six weekend closures had initially been agreed for safety reasons, but by the end of November the section of A465 had been closed for 57 weekends.\n\nMr Crompton said: \"This is not the first time that the Welsh Government has faced difficulties with significant cost increases and delays on road projects and it is vital that lessons are learnt for future infrastructure schemes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heads of the Valleys dualling \"has been hell\"\n\nThe scheme involves replacing the old three-lane road, with builders fitting the new road into the gorge with split carriageways - with one part on a different level to the other - utilising a number of retaining walls.\n\nThese have formed part of one of several complicated legal disputes as the parties argue how to deal with increased construction costs.\n\nAccording to the report, elements of the design developed by Costain for the walls were considered by the firm to be \"impossible and/or illegal to construct in compliance with relevant standards/regulations or have been changed for other reasons\".\n\n\"The changed designs are costing significantly more to construct\", the report said.\n\nArbitration led to the Welsh Government and Costain splitting the increase, but the two parties remain in dispute about who is liable for a significant portion of the increase in cost.\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates says the road is more than 85% complete\n\nOther issues have included asbestos found at a former factory site, where the Welsh Government had to foot the bill.\n\nLegal fees have mounted - with the Welsh Government having spent £1.49m by last November.\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates said on Tuesday that builders have delayed the end date to April 2021.\n\n\"I am obviously very disappointed by this further delay and have asked the project team to continue to explore what can be done to bring forward these programmed dates,\" he added.\n\nMr Skates said a total of 65% of the project's cash has been spend with Welsh firms, with 270 new jobs created and 69 apprentices trained.\n\nHelen Mary Jones, Plaid Cymru economy spokeswoman, said: \"There are clearly serious issues with this project and for the sake of public interest, the Welsh Government must release all details so that real scrutiny can take place.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative business spokesman Russell George said: \"It is not first time that the Welsh Labour Government has managed roads projects that have suffered significant cost increases and delays, and its increasingly vital that lessons are learnt, and learnt now, for future infrastructure schemes.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the project was \"widely recognised as one of the most complex road engineering projects in the UK at the moment\".\n\nIt added: \"We recognise the frustration caused by the issues highlighted in the report, and will of course consider its findings.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Julie Walters spoke to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire about how a doctor broke the news to her\n\nDame Julie Walters has revealed she was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer.\n\nThe actress, who has starred in Mamma Mia, Billy Elliot and Educating Rita, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire she initially thought doctors \"must have made a mistake\".\n\nHaving had chemotherapy, the actress has now been given the all clear.\n\nShe said her next film, The Secret Garden, could possibly be her last - although she is not certain to retire.\n\nDame Julie said she had been diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer - which means the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes but not to distant body parts - 18 months ago, with two primary tumours in her large intestine.\n\nDame Julie's celebrated career has led to numerous accolades, including a special award from Bafta\n\nThe 69-year-old said she had first gone to see her doctor a year earlier with indigestion and \"slight discomfort\", and later returned with symptoms such as stomach pain, heartburn and vomiting.\n\nShe was then referred to a gastric surgeon, where she had a CT scan.\n\nThe actress had been on set filming The Secret Garden when she received a phone call asking her to come in. The specialist told her they had found an abnormality in her intestine, and feared it was cancer.\n\n\"I was still thinking, 'That's ridiculous, he must have made a mistake'. I couldn't believe it,\" Dame Julie said.\n\nShe remembers, still in shock, the moment she told her husband Grant Roffey the news.\n\n\"I'll never forget his face. Tears came into his eyes.\"\n\nVictoria Derbyshire's full interview with Dame Julie can be viewed in the UK here.\n\nDame Julie said she had always maintained hope of a recovery, having been told by her doctor: \"We can fix this.\"\n\nBut she said there were moments - especially waiting for surgery - when she thought: \"Well, I may not come round from the anaesthetic.\"\n\nDame Julie explained she had \"30cm taken out of my colon\" in hospital.\n\nOn coming round from her anaesthetic, she said - still feeling its effects - she had had the \"weird\" experience of \"feeling absolutely marvellous\".\n\n\"I said to the night nurse, 'Is Love Island on?' - because we were talking about it - and we watched it together.\n\n\"It was only a couple of days later I thought, I feel exhausted, and a bit low actually.\"\n\nAfter being initially reluctant, she opted for chemotherapy, which she said was \"fine\" and had not caused hair loss.\n\nSmiling, she said she was now she was \"really well\", adding: \"I've just had a scan, and I know that [I'm] clear.\"\n\nDame Julie said her diagnosis and resulting treatment had led her to miss the Mamma Mia 2 premiere\n\nHer recovery, however, had meant she had to be cut from certain scenes in the soon-to-be-released film The Secret Garden, in which she stars alongside Colin Firth.\n\nShe said she also missed the premiere of Mamma Mia 2, with her agent telling people she had a ruptured hernia so she could keep the diagnosis out of the spotlight.\n\nDame Julie told Derbyshire - who has previously documented her own recovery from cancer in a series of video diaries - the diagnosis had \"completely changed\" her perspective towards acting.\n\n\"The person before the operation is different to this person.\"\n\nShe said it was in some ways a \"huge relief\" to get off the \"merry-go-round\" of starring in films and on television - which she said although she found enjoyable, was also stressful and consuming.\n\n\"I was due to do two big series... and there were two films. And I just didn't have to do any of it. And that was wonderful.\"\n\nAsked if she thought The Secret Garden could be her last film, she said it was possible.\n\n\"It would have to be something I'm really engaged with [to take another role on].\n\n\"I'm not saying I'll never act again. But I certainly don't think I can go back to [a film that requires working] six days a week, five in the morning till seven o'clock at night.\"\n\nMost people with these symptoms do not have bowel cancer, but the NHS advice is to see your GP if you have one or more of the symptoms and they have persisted for more than four weeks.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.\n\nIn April 2016, Dame Julie's close friend, the comedian, singer and writer Victoria Wood died after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\nThe pair were long-time comedy partners and starred together in Acorn Antiques.\n\nDame Julie said her own experience of cancer had now made her reflect on \"how frightened [Wood] must have been\".\n\n\"Because at least I could have an operation. She couldn't.\n\n\"But the other thing I thought was, 'God, the last time I saw her was in the hospital sitting by the bed... And I had [cancer] at the same time'.\"\n\nAcorn Antiques, featuring Dame Julie Walters and Victoria Wood - who also wrote it - was adapted into a 2005 musical\n\nMore than 42,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer every year in the UK, the charity Bowel Cancer UK says.\n\nSome 95% of new cases are diagnosed in people over the age of 50.\n\nDame Julie urged the public that if they thought they had symptoms, \"you've got to go and get things checked\".\n\nReferring to the stigma of being examined by a doctor, she said: \"Your bowel is part of your digestive system, it's just what digests your food. Think of that.\n\n\"Doctors are used to bottoms. They've got one themselves.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "The ship has been docked in Yokohama, a city south of Tokyo, since 3 February\n\nBritons stranded on a quarantined cruise ship in Japan will be able to board an evacuation flight home on Friday, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nOnly those who are showing no signs of illness will be able to travel, and they will be quarantined on their return to the UK.\n\nThose who have tested positive will remain in Japan for treatment.\n\nDominic Raab said the flight would be from Tokyo, and urged any other Britons who wanted to leave to get in touch.\n\nThere were 78 British nationals on board the Diamond Princess cruise liner when it was quarantined on 5 February, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was found to have the virus.\n\nMore than 620 people onboard the cruise ship - which was carrying 3,700 passengers - have tested positive for the condition. It is the largest cluster of cases outside China.\n\nTwo passengers from the ship have now died. The Japanese citizens were in their 80s and had underlying health conditions, local media said.\n\nOne of the passengers from the ship catching a taxi after being allowed to leave\n\nOn Wednesday, when the two-week quarantine period on the liner expired, officials allowed passengers who had tested negative for the virus to disembark.\n\nBut the Foreign Office advised all UK nationals to stay onboard until it organised an evacuation flight for them, warning there could be administrative problems if they left the ship.\n\nEarlier, Mr Raab said a UK-chartered flight had been arranged, with details sent to those who had registered for the flight.\n\nIt is expected to land at Boscombe Down, a Ministry of Defence base in Wiltshire, early on Saturday morning.\n\nSome passengers who had disembarked left on buses\n\nThe cruise operator and Japanese officials allowed passengers to leave on Wednesday, UK time\n\nThose returning from the ship will spend 14 days at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, where two groups of people travelling from China have already been taken.\n\n\"There is no risk to the public, and the hospital will continue to run as normal,\" the Department of Health said.\n\nMeanwhile, one of the British passengers who has tested positive for the virus has posted a picture of himself in a hospital bed in Japan.\n\nDavid Abel revealed earlier this week that he and his wife Sally had both been told they had the virus.\n\nDavid Abel and his wife Sally, from Northamptonshire, are being treated in a hospital in Japan\n\nAnother British passenger, Alan Sandford, and his wife Vanessa were both \"very happy\" about the prospect of returning home to Nottinghamshire after being found not to have contracted the virus.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the last few weeks had been \"a major inconvenience\" but that other passengers had faced \"horrific\" circumstances such as getting ill, being seperated from their partners or being trapped inside cabins without windows.\n\nAlan Sandford says he and his wife have their fingers crossed they will be on the evacuation flight to the UK\n\nMeanwhile, British honeymooner Alan Steele, who was diagnosed with coronavirus on the cruise ship, announced on Facebook that he had left hospital and was in a hotel in Yokohama - ahead of his return to the UK.\n\nJapan has faced criticism over its handling of the outbreak, with one health expert calling the situation onboard \"completely chaotic\".\n\nThe Foreign Office is advising affected British nationals affected to call the British embassy in Tokyo on +81 3 5211 1100.\n\nElsewhere, any British passengers on board a cruise ship docked in Cambodia amid fears of an outbreak will not be treated as being at high risk of coronavirus, Public Health England (PHE) has said.\n\nThe MS Westerdam made shore in Sihanoukville on 13 February, after being rejected by five countries because one of its former passengers was found to be carrying the virus.\n\nThe ship was originally carrying 2,257 people - including a reported 100 Britons - with the majority having already disembarked - leaving 255 passengers and 747 crew members on board.\n\nThe majority of passengers have disembarked the MS Westerdam Cambodia, pictured here at Preah Sihanouk port last week\n\nPHE said any of the ship's passengers flying back to the UK will be asked to self-isolate when they return.\n\nIn China, Covid-19 - the illness brought on by the coronavirus - has now claimed 2,004 lives, according to the latest Chinese data released on Wednesday.\n\nThere have been 74,185 confirmed infections recorded in mainland China and about 700 cases in other countries.\n\nIn the UK, a total of 5,549 people had been tested for the virus, as of Thursday at 14:00 GMT. Only nine people have tested positive.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happening on the Diamond Princess cruise ship? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "MSPs say \"urgent action\" is needed to address the pressure on Scotland's overcrowded prisons.\n\nHolyrood's public audit committee said conditions in the largest jail, HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow, were so poor that a contingency plan was needed in case it became uninhabitable.\n\nThe report warned \"if Barlinnie fails, the whole prison system is at risk\".\n\nHowever, he said a \"catastrophic failure\" was not anticipated at the prison.\n\nThe Scottish Prison Service (SPS) said its challenges had been recognised with increased funding.\n\nBut the report from Holyrood's public audit committee said an increase in demand and \"10 years of capital under spend\" were to blame for the pressures on the prison service.\n\nPublic audit committee convener and Labour MSP Jenny Marra said there were \"significant and wide-ranging challenges\" for the SPS and Scottish government to overcome.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Barlinnie is the oldest jail in Scotland. It's a Victorian building. It's 50% over-capacity. The state of the building is deteriorating and what the committee found was that the SPS has no contingency plan.\n\n\"If that building were to fail then the SPS didn't have an answer for us on where those 1,500 prisoners would go.\"\n\nShe added that the SPS needed to be in \"better shape\" to deal with the challenges it faced across Scotland.\n\nIn December last year, a report from Holyrood's justice committee called for more money to be given to the SPS after Audit Scotland said that, in real terms, the prison service's revenue budget had dropped by 14.2% over five years.\n\nWendy Sinclair-Gieben, the chief inspector of prisons for Scotland, has previously described conditions at Barlinnie as \"shocking\".\n\nA replacement for Barlinnie is currently expected by 2025 but the public audit committee report warns possible delays to the project must be planned for.\n\nThey also describe suggestions to double-up prisoners in individual cells at other jails would be a \"a step backwards rather than forwards\".\n\nThe report points out that payments to prison staff doing extra work to cover absences has nearly doubled in the space of three years as a result of a surge in sickness absence and prisoner numbers at high levels.\n\nHMP Barlinnie in Glasgow is operating over capacity and has been described as the \"biggest risk of failure\" in the prison estate\n\nA SPS spokeswoman said: \"The safety and wellbeing of those living and working in our prisons is a priority for the SPS and it is to the credit of our staff that good order is maintained across our estate.\n\n\"It is well documented that the SPS is managing an increased prison population who have challenging and complex needs.\n\n\"The recent budget announcement by the Scottish government acknowledges the significant challenges the service faces, particularly in response to population numbers, and our settlement for 2020-21 has increased in recognition of these pressures.\"\n\nHumza Yousaf told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"For every single part of the prison estate we have a contingency plan, for example if there were to be some sort of catastrophic failure.\n\n\"We would move them [prisoners] partly across the estate but there may be other solutions that we would also have to look at as well, but nobody is anticipating a catastrophic failure at Barlinnie.\n\n\"What we're anticipating is investment going into the current estate, including Barlinnie, building the new Barlinnie and of course working with the prison estate to see what other further improvements can be made.\n\n\"But of course, ultimately, if we reduce the prison population we ease the pressure on Barlinnie, we ease the pressure right across the estate.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mya-Rose Craig is thought to be Britain's youngest receiver of the Doctorate of Science from the University of Bristol\n\nA teenage birdwatcher has urged students to \"tackle the environmental crisis\" as she received an honorary doctorate at the age of 17.\n\nMya-Rose Craig, also known as Birdgirl, set up Black2Nature to help engage more children from minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME) in conservation.\n\nShe received the doctor of science degree from the University of Bristol.\n\nThe environmentalist posts on Twitter as BirdGirlUK and is thought to be the UK's youngest recipient of the award.\n\nMya-Rose Craig is currently studying English literature, Spanish and media studies at A-level and will sit her exams in May\n\nAccepting the accolade she said everybody from every community should \"tackle the environmental crisis we find ourselves in\".\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is important to recognise that inequality of engagement creates inequality of opportunity and an unequal world is not a sustainable one,\" she said.\n\n\"I hope that everyone will have their light bulb moment, like I did, when they realise what they really care about and want to fight for.\"\n\nShe called for those graduating to use their skills to \"really go out and change the world for the better\".\n\nThe 17-year-old began running nature camps when she was 13\n\nMs Craig was nominated for the honorary degree by Dr Rich Pancost, head of earth sciences at the university.\n\n\"To bestow a comparable honour on someone who is only 17 years old is not a decision we take lightly,\" Dr Pancost said.\n\n\"It is reserved for those who are leading truly special projects, courageous projects, transformative projects.\n\n\"Mya-Rose is doing exactly that.\"\n\nTV presenter and nature enthusiast Bill Oddie said initially he had been \"somewhat confused\" when he started getting emails from \"BirdGirl\".\n\nHe said: \"A super hero? Well, actually yes Myra-Rose is exactly that.\n\n\"Intelligent, informed, passionate, and persistent, whatever the cause, such qualities are what gets things done,\" he added.\n\nShe is currently studying English literature, Spanish and media studies at A-level and will sit her exams in May, and plans to take a gap year before going to university to study politics and international relations.\n\nHer mother Helena Craig said it was \"astonishing\" her daughter was to become the youngest person in the country to receive an honorary doctorate.\n\nShe added: \"Mya speaking out about race and diversity in the environmental movement has attracted certain people and negativity.\n\n\"It's been difficult, so it's good that she is now getting that recognition.\"\n\nProf Pancost, ex-director of the Bristol Cabot Institute who also nominated Mya-Rose, said he felt \"proud\" to see her receive the doctorate as she had created a \"phenomenal amount of positive change\" for nature.\n\n\"She is a champion for diversity and equity in the environmental and conservation sector, challenging institutions but also creating and driving transformative projects like Black2Nature,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said he would consider serving in the shadow cabinet if offered a job by his successor as Labour leader.\n\nOne of the candidates, Rebecca Long-Bailey, has said she would offer Mr Corbyn a place in her team if she wins the contest to replace him.\n\nAsked whether he would accept a role, he said he was \"happy to serve the party in any capacity\".\n\nSir Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy are also in the running to be leader.\n\nVoting opens on 24 February and the winner will be announced on 4 April.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to flood-affected areas of Pontypridd in south Wales, Mr Corbyn said: \"My whole life has been about making my contribution in Parliament, holding the government to account and of course speaking out on policy areas.\"\n\nHe said he would \"see what it is\" if offered a role, adding that he \"didn't know\" whether this would happen.\n\nIt seems despite leading Labour to one of its worst election defeats, Jeremy Corbyn is in no rush to leave front-line politics.\n\nWhile other leading Labour figures like John McDonnell have confirmed they will be returning to the back benches, Mr Corbyn has signalled a readiness to continue in the shadow cabinet.\n\nIt's an outcome that - though unprecedented - could yet come about, given Rebecca Long-Bailey, one of the leadership contenders, has already said she would be prepared to offer him a job.\n\nThe idea, however, of Jeremy Corbyn remaining in the shadow cabinet would be hugely controversial and divisive.\n\nIt would also incense those who believe Mr Corbyn was one of the main reasons for the party's shattering defeat.\n\nMr Corbyn, on the left of the Labour Party, was a backbench MP for more than 30 years before he won the leadership contest in 2015.\n\nHe is going following four general election defeats in a row for the party, two of them under his stewardship.\n\nDeputy leadership contender and shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon has previously said standing down is \"not the end for Jeremy Corbyn\", as far as frontline politics is concerned.\n\nOn Thursday, leadership hopeful Ms Nandy said she would would be \"happy\" to serve in a shadow cabinet led by either of her rivals.\n\nBut Sir Keir, seen as the front-runner, has refused to commit to working in the shadow cabinet if he loses the contest.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner, shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler, Scotland's only remaining Labour MP Ian Murray and Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan are also in the running for deputy leader.", "The property (centre) is one inaccessible room above an alleyway\n\nA town centre property with river frontage and far-reaching views has been snapped for a cool £1 at auction.\n\nAlthough it might seem like a bargain, the drawback is there is no way to get into the 12sq m first-floor space.\n\nHowever, the room, wedged between two properties and suspended over an alleyway in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, appealed to one bidder whose hand shot up when the £1 price tag was announced.\n\nThe guide price of £100+ was dropped to £1 at the last minute.\n\nThe unusual property is in a terrace of old buildings, believed to have been built as granaries or shops in the 16th Century on Nene Quay.\n\nIt is bricked up from both sides and even the auctioneer had not been in to see it.\n\nFenland District Council, which has owned it since 1966, put it up for sale alongside other \"surplus properties\" with Norwich-based auctioneers William H Brown.\n\nYou would currently need a ladder even to look through the front window\n\nThere is no record of anyone ever having used the room and the contents and condition remain a mystery.\n\nWhen it first went on their books, auctions partner Victoria Reek described it as \"certainly one of the weirdest ones we've had at auction\" and admitted it was \"probably just full of cobwebs\".\n\nShe said the vendor instructed the auctioneer to remove the £100 guide price just before the auction opened.\n\n\"So we told bidders the first one to offer £1 could have it - one gentleman put up his hand and it was gone - all done and dusted,\" she said.\n\nIt is not yet known who bought the inaccessible room.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Several people are dead following two shootings in the western German city of Hanau.\n\nAn unknown attacker opened fire at two shisha bars in the city.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has tried to move the most senior civil servant in her department, it is understood.\n\nResponding to a report in the Times, a well-placed source told the BBC there had been a \"genuine disagreement\" between Ms Patel and Sir Philip Rutnam.\n\nBut they denied claims that she \"bullied and belittled\" officials.\n\nThe Home Office said \"no formal complaints\" had been made about Ms Patel, who has been home secretary since Boris Johnson became PM.\n\nA source told BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw that Downing Street had been asked to intervene to move Sir Philip, who has been the Home Office's permanent secretary since April 2017.\n\nThey added that there had been no animosity or \"blazing rows\" between Ms Patel and Sir Philip but they were simply \"not the right fit\".\n\nBusiness Minister Nadhim Zahawi told LBC radio that Ms Patel, MP for Witham in Essex, was \"utterly professional\" and \"works day and night\".\n\nAsked whether the home secretary was a bully, Mr Zahawi said: \"No, I don't think she is at all.\n\n\"I've worked with Priti in the past on several campaigns. I've known her literally for 25 years. She is a brilliant, collegiate team player.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"We have not received any formal complaints and we take the welfare of our staff extremely seriously.\"\n\nMinisters do not have the power to sack permanent secretaries or other civil servants.\n\nIf a minister wanted to remove a permanent secretary, they would have to go to the prime minister and the cabinet secretary to resolve the issue.\n\nWhen a new permanent secretary is appointed, the prime minister has a say after a choice has been made by an appointments panel.\n\nSir Philip began his current role at the Home Office after having served as permanent secretary at the Department for Transport for five years.\n\nThe former Treasury official has also served in the Business department and at media regulator Ofcom.\n\nMs Patel served as international development secretary under former PM Theresa May, before resigning in November 2017.\n\nMr Johnson, a long-time ally, brought her back into government after becoming prime minister last July.\n\nThe FDA union, which represents civil servants, said Home Office staff were \"working flat out\" to deliver the department's \"demanding policy agenda\".\n\n\"Civil servants working in the department are used to rising to these challenges,\" said the union's general secretary, Dave Penman.\n\n\"Putting undue pressure and demands on committed public servants that are already overstretched does not make for good government.\"", "The scene at one of the bars targeted by the gunman in Hanau\n\nThe shooting dead of nine people in shisha bars in Hanau is being treated by German investigators as an act of far-right terrorism.\n\nThe attack has shocked Germany and added to fears that police may still be missing vital clues about violent racists and their networks, despite previous far-right outrages.\n\nThe ability of violent racists to remain for long periods below the police radar was exposed in the National Socialist Underground (NSU) case. A neo-Nazi cell murdered 10 people, nine of them immigrants, between 2000 and 2007, while police failed to connect the attacks.\n\nThe NSU case was a wake-up call for the authorities, whose anti-terrorism efforts had been focused on the threat from violent Islamists.\n\nBut some now accuse the authorities of still underestimating the far-right terror threat.\n\nThe suspected Hanau gunman has been identified by local media as Tobias R\n\nThe Hanau suspect has been named as Tobias R. The 43-year-old has been described as a lone gunman, and was found dead later at home next to his dead mother. He was a licensed gun owner and had not been under investigation previously.\n\nThe attack has reignited a debate in Germany about the extent to which far-right rhetoric may be encouraging racist violence.\n\nThe far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) - now the main opposition party - has been accused repeatedly of using inflammatory rhetoric, including in parliament.\n\nSupport for the AfD swelled after nearly a million non-EU migrants reached Germany in 2015 - portrayed by nationalists as an Islamic threat to German culture.\n\nThe head of the Social Democrats (SPD), Saskia Esken, described the Hanau crime as far-right \"terror\" and said \"for far too long we've avoided naming this in clear language\".\n\nBut Björn Höcke, one of the AfD's most controversial politicians, has used language echoing racist conspiracy theories spread by neo-Nazis, including the \"great replacement\" - the claim that Jews and liberals want \"inferior\" races to replace the white race.\n\nHe has also spoken of \"remigration\" - the racist idea of forcing non-whites to leave, because they are considered non-European.\n\nHe was at the centre of a scandal in the eastern state of Thuringia this month, when a liberal politician was elected state premier thanks to AfD votes. It has been taboo in post-war Germany to do any political deals with the far right.\n\nThe SPD's Michael Roth, who is minister of state for Europe, said attacks like the one in Hanau were \"nourished ideologically by fascists like Höcke\".\n\nFar-right killings since the NSU case have raised questions about Germany's protections against neo-Nazis and other racists. Their propaganda is rife on the internet and they have proven how quickly they can use social media to mobilise their supporters.\n\nThe Halle synagogue attack last October triggered calls for better police protection of Jewish sites: no extra security had been mounted for the Jewish Yom Kippur festival, and only a thick, strengthened door prevented a bloodbath.\n\nGermany remains haunted by the reign of terror unleashed by Hitler's Nazi regime and their mass murder of Jews in the 1940s.\n\nFar-right violence hits a raw nerve in a country that outlaws Nazi symbols and propaganda, and which prides itself on its democratic institutions.\n\nThe German government estimates that about 13,000 violent far-right extremists are active in Germany. That is a huge surveillance challenge, in a country which has strong laws against violating personal privacy.\n\nProf Peter Neumann, a terrorism expert at King's College, London, tweeted that the Hanau suspect published a 24-page manifesto written in excellent German, without grammatical mistakes.\n\nIt reveals that \"he hates foreigners and non-whites,\" Prof Neumann says. \"Although he doesn't emphasise Islam, he calls for the extermination of various countries in North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia (which all happen to be majority Muslim).\"\n\nThe manifesto echoes that of Stephan Balliet, the suspect charged with murder over the Halle attack. It emerged that he had been inspired by the New Zealand mosque attacker Brenton Tarrant, who has been charged with 51 murders.\n• None Police probe whether racist German killer had help", "Billy the Bull Terrier accepted the award on behalf of Peggy\n\nA \"heroic\" dog who comforted captured Scottish soldiers during World War Two has been posthumously recognised.\n\nBull Terrier Peggy became the mascot of the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders after soldiers discovered her as an abandoned puppy in Malaya.\n\nThe soldiers were taken prisoner but kept Peggy, and fed her from rations.\n\nUpon release, she lived at the battalion's barracks in Aberdeen until dying in 1947. Peggy is now getting a posthumous PDSA commendation.\n\nThe veterinary charity said it was a \"remarkable story\", and warranted the special ceremony at the Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen.\n\nPeggy was described as a \"loyal companion\" to the soldiers as they fought Japanese forces.\n\nWhen they were sent to Thailand to carry out hard physical labour the dog was said to have played an integral role in boosting morale for the three-and-a-half years in captivity.\n\nThe soldiers refused to travel back to Scotland unless Peggy was allowed to join them on the journey home.\n\nShe was nominated for the PDSA award by Stewart Mitchell, a volunteer historian at the museum.\n\nHe said: \"Peggy was a loyal and courageous ally to her Gordon Highlander comrades.\n\n\"When she saw a Gordon Highlander being attacked, she would fearlessly try to intervene, often at the cost of a blow with a split bamboo cane or worse, a stab from a guard's bayonet.\n\n\"She bore the scars of these encounters for her entire life.\"\n\nHe added: \"Throughout the whole duration of their imprisonment, with the men in a seemingly hopeless situation, just struggling to survive another day with no end in sight, Peggy's presence boosted their morale. I hope this award will bring attention to the important role she has played during a dark period in the Regiment's history.\"\n\nPeggy's grave is at the museum\n\nPDSA vet Fiona Gregge said: \"Peggy's remarkable story has touched all of us here at PDSA.\n\n\"The PDSA Commendation recognises the outstanding devotion that animals display and celebrates the amazing ways they enrich our lives. It is clear that members of the Battalion drew a great amount of strength from Peggy's unwavering loyalty and friendship during what was a deeply traumatic time in their lives.\n\n\"The fact the Gordon Highlanders the refused to board their ship home unless Peggy could sail with them speaks volumes about the bond that was formed. Peggy was a truly exceptional animal and she is a worthy recipient of this award.\"\n\nBilly the Bull Terrier accepted the award on behalf of Peggy.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caroline Flack's family have released an unpublished Instagram post that they say she wrote shortly before she died.\n\nIt came ahead of the inquest into the death of the former Love Island host, which opened on Wednesday.\n\nThe inquest heard that the 40-year-old presenter was apparently found hanged in her London flat on Saturday.\n\nThe unpublished post said her \"whole world and future was swept from under my feet\" when she had been arrested for assaulting her boyfriend in December.\n\nHer mother said Flack had been advised not to publish the message, which has now been shared through the Eastern Daily Press.\n\nThe TV presenter was found dead in her home weeks before she was due to stand trial on charges of assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton.\n\nFlack pleaded not guilty to the alleged assault at a court hearing in December and was released on bail.\n\nShe was ordered to stop any contact with Mr Burton ahead of the trial, which was due to begin in March.\n\nFlack's mother Chris told the Norfolk newspaper that her daughter showed her the wording of the post in January, but was told not to post it by advisers.\n\nShe added that the family wanted people to read it. \"Carrie sent me this message at the end of January but was told not to post it by advisers but she so wanted to have her little voice heard,\" she said, according to the paper.\n\n\"So many untruths were out there but this is how she felt and my family and I would like people to read her own words.\n\n\"Carrie was surrounded by love and friends but this was just too much for her.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\n\"For a lot of people, being arrested for common assault is an extreme way to have some sort of spiritual awakening but for me it's become the normal.\n\n\"I've been pressing the snooze button on many stresses in my life - for my whole life. I've accepted shame and toxic opinions on my life for over 10 years and yet told myself it's all part of my job. No complaining.\n\n\"The problem with brushing things under the carpet is they are still there and one day someone is going to lift that carpet up and all you are going to feel is shame and embarrassment.\n\n\"On December the 12th 2019 I was arrested for common assault on my boyfriend. Within 24 hours my whole world and future was swept from under my feet and all the walls that I had taken so long to build around me collapsed. I am suddenly on a different kind of stage and everyone is watching it happen.\n\n\"I have always taken responsibility for what happened that night. Even on the night. But the truth is... It was an accident.\n\n\"I've been having some sort of emotional breakdown for a very long time.\n\n\"But I am NOT a domestic abuser. We had an argument and an accident happened. An accident. The blood that someone SOLD to a newspaper was MY blood and that was something very sad and very personal.\n\n\"The reason I am talking today is because my family can't take anymore. I've lost my job. My home. My ability to speak. And the truth has been taken out of my hands and used as entertainment.\n\n\"I can't spend every day hidden away being told not to say or speak to anyone.\n\n\"I'm so sorry to my family for what I have brought upon them and for what my friends have had to go through.\n\n\"I'm not thinking about 'how I'm going to get my career back.' I'm thinking about how I'm going to get mine and my family's life back.\"\n\nAfter her death, Flack's management company said she had been \"under huge pressure\" since her arrest and criticised the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for refusing to drop the charge, even though Mr Burton said he did not want the case to go ahead.\n\nThe CPS said it would not comment on the specifics of the case, but it outlined how it reached decisions over whether or not to charge someone.\n\nGuidelines say domestic abuse prosecutions do not automatically stop if the complainant withdraws their support.\n\nThe guidance also says police officers must draw evidence of the suspect's mental health issues to the attention of the prosecutor.", "Police forensic teams remained at the scene in the Pensnett Road area of Brierley Hill on Thursday morning\n\nA double murder investigation has been launched after two men were stabbed during a robbery at a cannabis factory.\n\nWitnesses reported windows of a house being broken and men running away carrying plants in Pensnett Road in Brierley Hill, Dudley, at 03:30 GMT.\n\nWest Midlands Police said a fight spilled out on to the street, during which the men were stabbed, and a car was crashed into parked vehicles.\n\nOne man was pronounced dead at the scene while the other died in hospital.\n\nAnother man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to rob and inquiries are ongoing to identify other men involved.\n\nInsp Nick Barnes said: \"We believe this property was deliberately targeted by a group of men who knew it was being used to cultivate cannabis.\n\n\"In the ensuing disorder two men have suffered fatal knife wounds.\"\n\nThe men who died have not been named.\n\nTwo men suffered fatal knife wounds at the scene\n\nParamedics from West Midlands Ambulance Service gave advanced life support and specialist trauma care to the men, one of whom was taken to Russell's Hall Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.\n\nPolice have been covering the front of a house at the centre of their inquiries with a blue tarpaulin while they carry out forensic examinations.\n\nThere are tyre tracks on an open patch of grass leading to a car, which has crashed through a fence and has now been covered up.\n\nA police tent has been put up near to the car.\n\nIn another location nearby I have seen a blue BMW, with its rear window smashed, which is being guarded by officers.\n\nInvestigators had put up a forensic tent in Wilson Road\n\nA collision investigation unit was at the scene on Thursday, with an officer seen marking out a set of tyre tracks running across grassland from a pedestrian crossing in Pensnett Road to nearby Wilson Road.\n\nMeanwhile, investigators had put up a forensic tent in Wilson Road, close to a damaged section of wooden fencing and a car which had its passenger-side door open.\n\nInquiries are ongoing to identify other men involved, West Midlands Police said\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information or dashcam footage of the scene at the time to get in touch.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information or dashcam footage of the scene at the time to get in touch\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "To see so many blues back in the waters around South Georgia is tremendously encouraging\n\nScientists say they have seen a remarkable collection of blue whales in the coastal waters around the UK sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.\n\nTheir 23-day survey counted 55 animals - a total that is unprecedented in the decades since commercial whaling ended.\n\nSouth Georgia was the epicentre for hunting in the early 20th Century.\n\nThe territory's boats with their steam-powered harpoons were pivotal in reducing Antarctic blues to just a few hundred individuals.\n\nTo witness 55 of them now return to what was once a pre-eminent feeding ground for the population has been described as \"truly, truly amazing\" by cetacean specialist Dr Trevor Branch from the University of Washington, Seattle.\n\n\"To think that in a period of 40 or 50 years, I only had records for two sightings of blue whales around South Georgia. Since 2007, there have been maybe a couple more isolated sightings. So to go from basically nothing to 55 in one year is astonishing,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's such good news to see that they might be further rebounding and coming back to places where they were formerly extremely abundant.\"\n\nDr Branch was commenting on the survey which was led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) with the support of the University of Auckland.\n\nSouth Georgia's wildlife feeds on the train of krill moving up from the Antarctic\n\nThe institutions put together an expert team that toured the island's near-shore waters in the Research Vessel Braveheart.\n\nThe scientists identified whales of various species both visually and acoustically through their song repertoires.\n\nIn a number of cases, they even managed to retrieve skin and breath samples to understand more about the health of the various animals they encountered.\n\nWhale science: Not just counting but getting health data as well\n\nBlue whales are the most massive creatures ever to roam the Earth, and the Antarctic sub-species contained the very biggest of the big at over 30m.\n\nThis population was also the most numerous of the 10 or so discrete populations across the globe, carrying perhaps 239,000 individuals prior to the onset of industrial exploitation.\n\nBut the marine mammals' physical size made them a profitable catch, and around South Georgia more than 33,000 Antarctic blues were documented to have been caught and butchered, most of them between 1904 and 1925.\n\nBy the time a ban was introduced in 1966, a sighting anywhere in Southern Ocean waters would have been extremely rare indeed.\n\nThe last official estimate of abundance was made in 1997 and suggested Antarctic blues could have recovered to about 2,280 individuals. When the next assessment is released, probably at the end of 2021, it should show a further increase - as reflected in the encouraging activity at South Georgia in recent weeks.\n\n\"This is definitely a pattern,\" said Dr Branch. \"All of the Southern Hemisphere whale species - the populations for which we have data - are increasing. So, for right whales - several populations are going up very consistently every year. Humpback whales - several populations are going up consistently every year. And blue whales - we think they're going up. Which is super-good news\n\n\"The exception is Antarctic minke whales; we do think they've gone down quite a bit.\"\n\nThe RV Braveheart circled the whole island to sight and catalogue whales\n\nWhat is clear however is that the moratorium on commercial whaling is working. And whatever other pressures these whale species may face today, they are gradually edging back from the brink.\n\nSouth Georgia is a place they should congregate.\n\nThe territory sits in a highly bio-productive zone that is supported by a copious train of krill drifting up from the Antarctic on strong currents.\n\nThese crustaceans are the favoured diet not just of the big whales but also of the island's many penguins and seals.\n\nSome might question whether the growth in numbers of blue, humpback and other whales around South Georgia is simply a bump that's been driven either by a short-term bounty of krill at the island or maybe by a paucity of the prey elsewhere.\n\nBut survey project leader Dr Jennifer Jackson from BAS doubts this.\n\n\"The preliminary data does not suggest it has been a particularly unusual krill year. Not this year, nor last year. It seems quite normal,\" she said.\n\n\"So, I think this is positive. We know that 100 years ago, South Georgia was a good place for blue whales and now, after decades of protection, it seems the territory's waters are a good place for them once again,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe RV Braveheart voyage this year was funded by the Darwin Plus programme, the South Georgia Heritage Trust and the Friends of South Georgia Island. It was dedicated to the memory of the late Prof Peter Best, an English marine biologist who pioneered whale study in South African waters.\n\nDr Branch tracks all science on blue whales whenever it is published on the Twitter account @BlueWhaleNews.\n\nSouthern right whale: Most populations' numbers seem to be moving in the right direction\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The National Trust has said this year's Easter egg hunts will be the last with Cadbury as it seeks to focus on \"nature and the outdoors\".\n\nAnnual egg hunts have taken place for 13 years, but the trust said it wanted to make chocolate \"less of a focus\".\n\nHealth campaigners said they \"applaud\" the trust for ending the \"unhealthy association\" with sugary food.\n\nCadbury said they had come to a mutual decision to end the \"wonderful\" partnership.\n\nThe move will affect hundreds of trails through the grounds of National Trust properties across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from 2021.\n\nThe trust said: \"Now is the time for change as we look to increase our emphasis on nature and the outdoors.\n\n\"To reflect that in our Easter activities, from next year we will be making chocolate less of a focus.\"\n\nCadbury said \"the time is right for both sides to move on\". But the company said it would continue to \"look for ways to bring Easter trails to more families across the UK\".\n\nBarbara Crowther at the Children's Food Campaign said she was \"really pleased\" that the National Trust was moving its Easter activities away from chocolate.\n\n\"We can imagine so many healthy, fun and active ways for children to explore National Trust properties at Easter that don't involve lots of sugary treats,\" she said.\n\n\"Children are growing up in a marketing environment that constantly nudges them towards snacks and treats, so we applaud the National Trust in recognising it is the right time to end the unhealthy association with chocolate.\"\n\nThe Easter egg hunts have proved controversial in the past, with former Prime Minister Theresa May and the Archbishop of York intervening in 2017 to criticise the apparent absence of the word \"Easter\" from the event marketing.\n\nBoth Cadbury and the National Trust said Easter was explicitly mentioned dozens of times.\n\nAnd in 2018, the chocolate manufacturer's partnership with the National Trust for Scotland was deemed to have broken advertising rules over marketing junk food to children.", "Movement for much of China's population of 1.4 billion people is, to some extent, restricted in an attempt to slow the spread of the potentially deadly coronavirus.\n\nThe lockdown is most strict in Hubei province, where the outbreak started, but elsewhere there are compulsory quarantine periods and people are just not stepping out much.\n\nSome businesses remain closed and life is anything but normal.\n\nChina correspondent Stephen McDonell donned his face mask and took to Beijing’s all-but-empty streets to see how people are coping.", "The train was carrying 153 passengers when it derailed north of Melbourne\n\nTwo people were killed when a train carrying 153 passengers between Sydney and Melbourne derailed, officials say.\n\nThe crash occurred near Wallan, a town north of Melbourne on Thursday night.\n\nPolice said the male driver 54, and his female co-pilot, 49, died in the crash while 11 others had minor injuries.\n\nAn investigation is underway into the cause of the crash, which police say is unknown. Concerns have been raised about the condition of the track at the time of the accident.\n\nFive carriages as well as the locomotive had come off the tracks, officials said. Pictures showed twisted carriages, with one on its side.\n\nAt least five carriages were derailed in the accident on Thursday\n\nIt was \"very lucky\" that more people were not killed or injured, police told reporters on Friday.\n\n\"It is a tragedy that unfortunately the pilot and the driver were killed in the incident, but I am amazed that there weren't more passengers at least injured or worse than what they were,\" said Insp. Peter Koger.\n\nThe train left the tracks at about 19:50 local time on Thursday (08:50 GMT), about 45km (28 miles) north of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria.\n\nPassengers told Australian media they were thrown around the carriage for a minute as the train derailed.\n\n\"It just veered off, and all the carriages smashed into one another,\" Rob Jennings told The Age newspaper.\n\n\"People were tossing around … there was some screaming - everyone was just grasping on, some in the brace position, preparing for the possibility of something worse.\"\n\nEarlier in the journey, the driver had also announced to passengers that he would try to make up time for earlier delays, passengers reported.\n\nThe train is the main long-distance service between Sydney and Melbourne, and runs along tracks operated by the federal government.\n\n\"No authority in Australia would allow a train to travel on an unsafe track. That just wouldn't happen,\" he said.\n\nVictoria's rail union has said its drivers had previously refused to drive along the track.\n\nA \"full and thorough investigation\" would be carried out by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the rail safety regulator, said Mr McCormack.\n\n\"Our hearts and thoughts go out to the families of those who have lost their lives,\" he said.\n\nTrain services along the affected line will be suspended until the investigation is concluded.", "PC Lewis, left with PC Lindsey, right and Lucie Behakova, baby Amilie and daughters Natalie and Sofia\n\nA mother has praised two police officers who helped deliver her baby daughter during their lunch break.\n\nCleveland PCs Martin Lindsey and Dennis Lewis were flagged down in Middlesbrough on Saturday and told a women was \"in pain and needed help\".\n\nThey found Lucie Behakova at a nearby house in labour with her third child.\n\nPC Lewis relayed phone instructions from ambulance staff to PC Lindsey who successfully delivered baby Amilie, who weighed in at 6lbs 4oz (2.8kg).\n\nMs Behakova, who has two other daughters aged five and eight, said she was \"very lucky\" the officers were passing at the right time.\n\nPC Lewis said: \"We were led into a house where everyone was in a bit of a panic. We didn't know what to expect and then we saw a woman giving birth.\n\n\"I've been a serving police officer for 24 years and have never been faced with anything like this.\n\n\"Thankfully the man on the end of the phone at ambulance control was extremely helpful and he knew exactly what we needed to do to help mum and baby.\n\n\"The whole thing was surreal really, but we're just pleased mum and baby are doing well.\n\n\"We went back to the station afterwards for a well-earned cup of tea.\"\n\nMs Behakova, said: \"The policemen were the first people to see Amilie.\n\n\"We were lucky that they were passing at that time.\n\n\"I think the officers were in shock about what happened, but they were happy to have been able to help.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A video has emerged which shows the Mexican drug lord Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman in prison.\n\nHe was arrested in 2016 and was found guilty at his drug trafficking trial in 2019, at a federal court in New York.\n\nHe stood trial for drug trafficking charges after successfully evading US and Mexican authorities for years and escaping from prison in Mexico on two occasions - once using an underground tunnel.\n\nGuzman is now serving his sentence in a maximum security prison in the US state of Colorado.\n\nRead more: El Chapo: Five things to know", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk: \"Sometimes I feel very Scottish - especially after Brexit\"\n\nFormer European Council president Donald Tusk says Brussels feels \"empathy\" towards an independent Scotland joining the European Union.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said an independent Scotland would seek full EU membership.\n\nWhen asked if this would be looked upon favourably, Mr Tusk said there would be enthusiasm but he warned the country would not be automatically accepted.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab warned the comments could encourage \"separatist tendencies\" in the EU.\n\nThey were \"rather un-European and rather irresponsible,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not sure European leaders, let alone here in the UK, would actually welcome that comment,\" he said.\n\nMr Tusk, who served as European Council president for five years until November last year, told the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show that he feels \"very Scottish, especially after Brexit\".\n\nWhen asked about the prospect of an independent Scotland joining the EU, the Polish politician said he had to \"respect the internal debate in the United Kingdom\" and it was not his role to intervene.\n\nBut when pressed on the level of support in the EU towards an independent Scotland joining the union, he said: \"Emotionally I have no doubt that everyone will be enthusiastic here in Brussels, and more generally in Europe.\n\n\"If you ask me about our emotions, you will witness I think always empathy.\"\n\nHowever he warned that any future entry bid on the part of an independent Scotland would not be automatically accepted - \"formalities\" and treaty agreements would still need to be adhered to.\n\nIt came as other European leaders expressed sadness at the UK leaving the EU.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said he was \"deeply sad\" while the EU's Guy Verhofstadt pledged to try and \"ensure the EU is a project you'll want to be a part of again\".\n\nMr Tusk's comments come after his predecessor, Herman Van Rompuy, last year said he believes Brexit has changed EU attitudes to Scottish independence.\n\nDonald Tusk and former prime minister Theresa May were locked in Brexit negotiations for years\n\nBritain officially left the European Union on Friday at 23:00 GMT after 47 years of membership, and more than three years after it voted to do so in a referendum.\n\nScotland voted in favour of the UK staying in the EU by 62% to 38% in 2016.\n\nThe overall UK result backed Leave by 51.9% to 48.1%.\n\nIn a speech on Brexit day, Nicola Sturgeon said there was \"real and profound sadness\" felt by many Scots, also tinged with anger.\n\nAn independent Scotland would require the backing of all 27 EU members to join the trading bloc and there are a number of countries which have already applied and started accession negotiations.\n\nThe European Policy Centre think-tank, of which Mr Van Rompuy is president, last year published an analysis on independent Scottish membership of the EU.\n\nIt concluded that the EU should \"engage positively\" with Scotland in the event of independence, if there had been a properly constituted referendum.\n\nBut it said Scotland could not expect \"special treatment\" and that the Scottish government would have to accept all the obligations of membership, including agreeing in principle to join the euro.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pre-recorded bongs from Big Ben played out as the UK left the European Union\n\nEuropean leaders have expressed sadness at the UK leaving the EU, with France's Emmanuel Macron emphasising Britain's \"unrivalled ties\" with the French.\n\nMr Macron said he was \"deeply sad\" while the EU's Guy Verhofstadt pledged to try and \"ensure the EU is a project you'll want to be a part of again\".\n\nCelebrations and anti-Brexit protests were held on Friday night to mark the UK's departure.\n\nEx-Brexit Secretary David Davis said everyone would be a winner in the end.\n\nThe UK officially left the European Union on Friday at 23:00 GMT after 47 years of membership, and more than three years after it voted to do so in a referendum.\n\nBrexit parties were held in some pubs and social clubs as well as in London's Parliament Square, as the country counted down to its official departure.\n\nIn Scotland, which voted to stay in the EU, candlelit vigils and anti-Brexit rallies were held.\n\nPro-EU campaigners take part in a \"Missing EU Already\" rally outside the Scottish Parliament\n\nIn a message released on social media an hour before the UK left, Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to bring the country together and \"take us forward\".\n\n\"For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, a moment they thought would never come,\" he said. \"And there are many of course who feel a sense of anxiety and loss.\"\n\nIn an open letter to the British public, French President Mr Macron said he was thinking of the millions of Britons \"who still feel deeply attached to the European Union\".\n\n\"You are leaving the European Union but you are not leaving Europe,\" he said. \"Nor are you becoming detached from France or the friendship of its people.\n\n\"The Channel has never managed to separate our destinies; Brexit will not do so, either.\"\n\nMr Macron also said the EU must learn lessons from the \"shock\" of Brexit, adding: \"I am convinced therefore that Europe needs new momentum.\"\n\nAnd he defended the way France acted in the Brexit negotiations, saying neither the French nor anyone else in the EU was \"driven by a desire for revenge or punishment\".\n\nMr Macron called on Mr Johnson to \"deepen our defence, security and intelligence cooperation\"\n\nA pro-EU group earlier projected a message onto the White Cliffs of Dover\n\nMeanwhile, the EU Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator Mr Verhofstadt responded to a message which had been projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover by a pro-EU group.\n\n\"We will look after your star and work to ensure the EU is a project you'll want to be a part of again soon,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Davis - who quit as Brexit secretary in protest at former prime minister Theresa May's Brexit plan - said it would be a \"fair race\" to reach a trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020 but \"it can be done\".\n\nThe UK is aiming to sign a permanent free trade agreement with the EU, along the lines of the one the EU has with Canada, by the end of the transition period in December.\n\nMr Davis said reaching a deal was \"not a charitable exercise, this is an exercise of both sides recognising their own best interests\".\n\nEuropean leaders have warned that the UK faces a tough battle to get a deal by that deadline.\n\nMairead McGuinness, the vice president of the European Parliament, said progress to agree a trade deal \"might be left to the very last minute\".\n\n\"Normally in trade negotiations we're trying to come together,\" she told BBC Breakfast. \"For the first time we're going try and negotiate a trade agreement where somebody wants to pull away from us. I can't get my head around that and I think it's going to be quite complicated.\"\n\nWe are separate after more than 40 years, but remember much of the status quo will hold for now - the UK and the EU, the awkward couple, finally divorced - but still sharing a house and the bills.\n\nBut what the prime minister hails as a new era, a bright new dawn, starts months of hard bargaining with our neighbours across the Channel.\n\nLabour leadership hopeful Emily Thornberry said the exit talks were unlikely to go smoothly and said she expected the country would be \"back in no-deal territory by the summer\".\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary, speaking at an event in Bristol featuring the four Labour leadership candidates, said her party would need a Remain-backing leader who had been \"on the right side of the argument all along\".\n\nHowever, the other three candidates - Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy - said the party needed to move on from debates over Brexit.\n\nShadow business secretary Ms Long-Bailey said that Labour needed to make sure Boris Johnson negotiated the \"best possible trade deal\" that could help \"rebuild our communities\".\n\nWhilst never the most enthusiastic member, the UK was part of the European project for almost half a century.\n\nOn a personal level, EU leaders tell me they'll miss having the British sense of humour and no-nonsense attitude at their table.\n\nIf they were to be brutally honest they'd have admitted they'll mourn the loss of our not-insignificant contribution to the EU budget too.\n\nBut now we've left the \"European family\" (as Brussels insiders sometimes like to call the EU) and as trade talks begin, how long will it take for warm words to turn into gritted teeth?\n\nUK citizens will notice few immediate changes now that the country is no longer in the European Union.\n\nMost EU laws will continue to be in force - including the free movement of people - until 31 December, when the transition period comes to an end.\n\nThousands gathered in Parliament Square to celebrate Brexit on Friday night, singing patriotic songs and cheering speeches from leading Brexiteers, including Nigel Farage.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader said: \"This is the greatest moment in the modern history of our great nation.\"\n\nPro-EU demonstrators earlier staged a march in Whitehall to bid a \"fond farewell\" to the union.\n\nPolice in Whitehall arrested four men and also charged one man with criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly, while in Glasgow one man was arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, other symbolic moments on a day of mixed emotions included:\n\nThe government's EU delegation has changed its name from \"representation\" to \"mission\"", "A man has been shot by armed officers in a \"terrorist-related\" incident in Streatham High Road, south London, according to the Met Police.\n\nIt is believed that two other people were injured in the incident at Streatham High Road, police said.\n\nThis footage was filmed by a witness in the moments after armed police shot the man.", "The UN says the situation in the Horn of Africa is the worst in 25 years\n\nSomalia has declared a national emergency as large swarms of locusts spread across east Africa.\n\nThe country's Ministry of Agriculture said the insects, which consume large amounts of vegetation, posed \"a major threat to Somalia's fragile food security situation\".\n\nThere are fears that the situation may not be brought under control before the harvest begins in April.\n\nThe UN says the swarms are the largest in Somalia and Ethiopia in 25 years.\n\nMeanwhile, neighbouring Kenya has not seen a locust threat as severe in 70 years, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).\n\nHowever, Somalia is the first country in the region to declare an emergency over the infestation.\n\nSomalia's unstable security situation means that planes cannot be used to spray insecticide from the air.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn January, the FAO called for international help in fighting the swarms in the Horn of Africa, warning that locust numbers across the region could grow 500 times by June.\n\nThe swarms spread into east Africa from Yemen across the Red Sea, after heavy rainfall in late 2019 created ideal conditions for the insects to flourish.\n\nLocusts can travel up to 150km (93 miles) in a day. Each adult insect can eat its own weight in food daily.\n\nIn December, a locust swarm forced a passenger plane off course in Ethiopia. Insects smashed into the engines, windshield and nose, but the aircraft was able to land safely in the capital, Addis Ababa.", "Peanut allergy is the most common food allergy in the US\n\nThe US has approved its first treatment for peanut allergies in children.\n\nThe drug AR101, or Palforzia, uses oral immunotherapy, with children given tiny but increasing amounts of peanut protein over a six-month period under medical supervision.\n\nAfter that, users must continue to take a daily dose to be able to tolerate accidental exposure.\n\nThe treatment is not a cure and makers warn that the risk of a potentially fatal anaphylactic reaction remains.\n\nAnd patients must continue to avoid peanuts in their diet.\n\nPeanuts are the most common food allergen in the US, with an increase in the number of those affected by food allergies across the West in recent decades.\n\nWhile trials to desensitise patients with peanut allergies have previously taken place in the US and elsewhere, the drug is the first to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The drug has not yet been authorised for use in the UK.\n\nPalforzia, which has been approved for use in patients aged between four and 17, comes in the form of a powder which is sprinkled on food.\n\nLast year, scientists at King's College London said that oral immunotherapy offered \"protection but not a cure\" for peanut allergies, with treatment only effective while patients continued taking small amounts of the allergen.", "Albert Evans' granddaughter said it had taken a lot of persuasion to get him to accept the medal\n\nA D-Day veteran has been awarded France's highest honour, the Legion d'Honneur.\n\nAlbert Evans, 98, from Leicestershire, landed at Pegasus Bridge in a Horsa glider in 1944 as part of the 6th Airborne Division.\n\nRemembering the war, he said: \"All your mates who were standing by your side one minute were gone the next.\"\n\nHis granddaughter, Lisa Meakin, said it had taken a lot of persuasion to get him to accept the medal.\n\nShe said: \"He has always said 'I am not a hero. The heroes didn't come back'.\"\n\nThe World War Two veteran was saluted by the Royal British Legion and the Parachute Association at a ceremony to honour his bravery.\n\nMs Meakin said her grandfather was accepting the medal on behalf of those who lost their lives in the war\n\nMr Evans received the Legion D'Honneur at his care home in Loughborough from the French vice consul.\n\nHe said his thoughts would always be with those whose did not return from World War Two.\n\n\"One minute we were blown up and the next minute you've lost your mates.\n\n\"They're gone and I'm here. It just doesn't add up to me.\n\n\"A lot of them were laid at your side. It was horrific,\" he said.\n\nMs Meakin said: \"As a family, we are immensely proud of him. It has taken a lot of persuasion to get him to accept this medal.\n\n\"It's been over several years, lots of different people asking him.\n\n\"The persuasion was 'well if that's how you really feel, accept it on their behalf'.\"\n\nMs Meakin said their family were \"extremely proud\" of their grandfather\n\nShe added it was \"very hard to hear\" about her grandfather's time in the war.\n\n\"It makes you feel quite emotional that that's what he and many others went through, and that's what they did to liberate France and ultimately the rest of Europe,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parkrun tips from fastest woman to do parkrun\n\nA runner has broken her own female parkrun world record after lowering her best time by one second in Cardiff.\n\nGreat Britain athlete Charlotte Arter clocked 15 minutes 49 seconds on the 5km course alongside the River Taff.\n\nThe 28-year-old Cardiff Athletics Club runner finished eighth overall on Saturday.\n\nParkrun is a collection of 5km Saturday runs in 1,500 locations across the world, attracting 235,000 participants.\n\nArter is currently on a career break from her job as Cardiff University performance sport officer to concentrate on athletics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Welsh Athletics | Athletau Cymru This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe 2018 British 10,000m champion and Welsh half marathon record holder originally broke the female parkrun record in Cardiff, one of the UK's largest parkruns, in January 2019\n\nArter, who comes from Cumbria but lives in and represents Wales, is training to compete in this year's European Athletics Championships in Paris and the Olympic Games in Tokyo.", "Qaw'mane Wilson was an aspiring rapper who used the name Young QC\n\nAn aspiring rapper has been sentenced to 99 years in prison after paying to have his mother killed.\n\n30-year-old Qaw'mane Wilson - who performed under the name Young QC, ordered a hitman to kill Yolanda Holmes back in 2012.\n\nHe was convicted on Friday in Chicago alongside the hitman Eugene Spencer, who received a 100 year sentence.\n\nThe court heard how Wilson cleared his mum's bank accounts out after her death.\n\n\"The word is 'matricide,' meaning murder of one's own mother,\" Cook County Judge Stanley Sacks said in court.\n\n\"Whatever he wanted, his mother gave to him. A car. A job. One could say he was spoiled. She gave Qaw'mane life, and it was his choice to take it away from her.\"\n\nIn a video on his YouTube channel, Qaw'mane Wilson and his friends are seen withdrawing cash and giving it crowds of people\n\nAfter her death, Wilson used his mum's money to customize the Mustang she had bought him and evidence was shown to the jury of him withdrawing large amounts of money and later throwing cash into crowds of people at one of his shows.\n\nWilson, who was 23 at the time of her killing, ordered Spencer to enter her apartment in Chicago, where he shot her in her sleep.\n\nWhen asked if he had anything to say before the verdict was given, Wilson said: \"I just want to say, nobody loved my mother more than me. She was all I had. That's it.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Streatham attacker Sudesh Amman was aged 18 when he was jailed for terror offences in 2018\n\nSudesh Amman, the 20-year-old responsible for the attack in Streatham, south London, on Sunday, pleaded guilty in November 2018 to six charges of possessing documents containing terrorist information and seven of disseminating terrorist publications.\n\nThree of the terrorist manuals Amman admitted owning were about knife fighting.\n\nIn fact, much of Amman's fascination with conducting an attack was said to be focused on using a knife.\n\nHe was jailed at the Old Bailey the following month for three years and four months.\n\nI was there and recall Amman smiling as he was sentenced.\n\nHe was automatically released from HMP Belmarsh on 23 January 2020 after serving half of his sentence in custody.\n\nIt is understood that he had since been living at a bail hostel in south London.\n\nHe was under a curfew and had to wear a GPS tag, coupled with exclusion zones such as ports and airports. He had to surrender his passport and had limited access to electronic devices and restrictions on his internet use\n\nAmman was first arrested in north London in May 2018 by armed officers on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, although he was not ultimately charged with doing so. Scotland Yard said that, following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, \"we did not charge with this offence.\"\n\nThe prosecution of Amman related instead to his ownership and distribution of terrorist propaganda and instructional manuals.\n\nForensic specialists recovered in more than 349,000 media files from Amman's devices\n\nAt the time, he was living in Harrow and studying science and maths at the nearby North West London College. Prior to that, Amman had studied at Park High School between 2011 and 2016.\n\nHe came to the attention of counter-terrorism police in April 2018 when a Dutch blogger made officers aware of postings on the Telegram messaging app.\n\nThe posts included a photo showing an image of a knife along with two firearms on a Shahada flag along with Arabic words meaning: \"Armed and ready April 3\".\n\nOne of the Telegram posts that led to Amman being identified by police in 2018\n\nThe blogger also said the same person had linked to a YouTube video of a pro-gay rights speaker who frequented Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park.\n\nThe post called on others to \"all unite together to attack one another. He will be there this Sunday at Hyde Park\".\n\nPolice enquiries showed the user of the relevant Telegram account was Amman and a decision was taken to arrest him.\n\nThe Dutch blogger, named Azazel van den Berg, told the BBC he was \"shocked\" to have heard that Amman was responsible for the attack.\n\nHe said: \"I had heard of the attack on Dutch television. When I sat down at my computer I saw that message with his photo late last night.\"\n\nHe added: \"I did everything that was possible, I also did not know that man was already free. I think that jihadists like him should be punished harder with prison sentences and not conditionally free with a single bond.\n\n\"If he had just served his whole sentence, what happened now would never have happened. But English law must be applied to that, which is a task for the politicians in your country.\"\n\nAmman had elsewhere written of how he was thinking of conducting a terror attack in north London and that he had conducted reconnaissance.\n\nDetectives discovered that the student was using a WhatsApp group to expose young members of his family to violent terrorist material.\n\nHe used it to share an al-Qaeda magazine and exclaimed \"the Islamic State is here to stay\".\n\nA BB gun was recovered when the Met Police searched his home in Harrow\n\nThe WhatsApp group - entitled La Familia - included images of Amman's younger siblings in poses reminiscent of IS supporters.\n\nIn messages with one family member Amman claimed that, as Yazidi women were slaves, the Koran made it permissible to rape them.\n\nHe sent beheadings videos to his girlfriend - whom he said should kill her \"kuffar\" parents - and told her: \"If you can't make a bomb because family, friends or spies are watching or suspecting you, take a knife, molotov, sound bombs or a car at night and attack the tourists (crusaders), police and soldiers of taghut, or Western embassies in every country you are in this planet.\"\n\nIn messages to her, Amman said he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and wished to carry out acid attacks.\n\nElsewhere, he asked if he could have a knife delivered to her address and told her he considered Isis to be the best thing to happen to Islam.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe wrote that he preferred the idea of a knife attack over the use of bombs and discussed whether he would stand his ground if police came to arrest him.\n\nIn a notebook - in which he had written about explosives and detonators - he had listed his \"goals in life\". These included: \"Die as a shuhada\" (martyr) and go to '\"jannah\" (paradise).\n\nBefore he was jailed Amman had previous convictions for possession of an offensive weapon - a broken bottle - and cannabis.", "'There was a woman shouting not to go any further'\n\nAn eyewitness has told BBC News that she was walking in the Streatham area towards a pub when she was approached by another woman \"in distress\". Emma, from Streatham, said: \"She was shouting her head off saying 'don’t go any further, he has stabbed this woman with a knife, he stabbed her in the back.' \"We then saw a woman half sitting, half lying on the floor with people around her but no ambulances or anything. \"About 30 seconds before that a dark car sped past us and we looked ahead up the road realising that it was police in plain clothes, which the woman was pointing to and shouting ‘that’s the police they’ve shot the guy'.\" She added: \"The distressed woman who stopped us kept pointing at that injured lady and saying 'he came in the shop, grabbed a knife, pulled out a knife and walked out on the street and just stabbed that lady'.\"", "Oscar Saxelby-Lee, who is from Worcester, is in Singapore receiving CAR-T therapy\n\nThe mother of a boy having treatment for leukaemia says she is disgusted by fake profiles set up on Facebook and Instagram using her son's photos.\n\nFive-year-old Oscar Saxelby-Lee is in Singapore receiving CAR-T therapy after his family were able to fundraise more than £500,000 to pay for it.\n\nHowever, since then, a number of fake profiles have appeared on social media using Oscar's image asking for money.\n\nFacebook apologised to the family and said it had removed several accounts.\n\nOscar's mother Olivia Saxelby, from Worcester, told BBC Hereford and Worcester from Singapore it was \"beyond belief\" these fake posts could exist.\n\nShe said: \"It's just disgusting, I'm mortified.\n\n\"They've changed Oscar's name, created some sort of story... it's just beyond belief, these people are so insensitive.\"\n\nThe family have spotted several fake profiles and posts on social media using Oscar's photos\n\nPreviously, the family said Oscar was cancer-cell free after receiving the therapy, which was not available to him on the NHS.\n\nLast week, they became aware of the fake profiles which not only impersonate Oscar but his mum too.\n\n\"I just want them to stop, it's beyond wrong and it's hurtful,\" Ms Saxelby said.\n\nThe family have reported the posts and profiles to Facebook but say they have not been quick enough to respond.\n\nMs Saxelby said the posts were \"beyond wrong\" and \"hurtful\"\n\nMs Saxelby said she is \"absolutely shattered\" by the experience of having to continually report the fake pages.\n\n\"It's just been horrid,\" she said.\n\nA Facebook spokesperson said: \"Posts that impersonate or defraud people are not allowed on Facebook and we are sorry that Oscar Saxelby-Lee's family has had to see these upsetting posts. We have removed several of these accounts and we are investigating to identify any that remain.\"\n\n\"It's just beyond belief, these people are so insensitive,\" Oscar's mother said", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nAndy Farrell's reign as Ireland coach got off to a winning but unimpressive start as his side earned a fortunate 19-12 Six Nations win over Scotland.\n\nNew captain Johnny Sexton scored all of Ireland's points, including a first-half try, as the hosts profited from Scotland's inability to take chances.\n\nScotland's new skipper Stuart Hogg's knock-on over the line in the second half summed up his side's try-less day.\n• None All you need to know about the 2020 Six Nations\n\nIt was a game that leaves both camps much to ponder before challenging matches next weekend.\n\nThe home side got the win but will know a similar performance against Wales next week will surely result in defeat.\n\nIreland were looking to rediscover their identify following a troubled World Cup, but this was not so much a new dawn as an indication their most glaring issues were not left in Japan.\n\nScotland will take little solace from the fact they dominated large parts of the game, because once again their lack of cutting edge saw a positive result slip away.\n\nScotland's pre-tournament build-up was thrown off course last Monday when news emerged of star fly-half Finn Russell's exit from the camp following a breach of team protocol.\n\nHis absence was one of the reasons the visitors began in Dublin as firm underdogs - but they clearly relished the opportunity to send a clear message to those who had written them off.\n\nUp front, where Ireland would have expected to dominate, Scotland stood toe-to-toe with their opponents at every physical encounter.\n\nThe pack's endeavours should have yielded more points than the six they took into half-time.\n\nHead coach Farrell will be thankful for Ireland's outstanding work at the breakdown, where they won five penalties inside their own 22 in the opening half to keep the Scots at bay.\n\nThe first turnover came after just 90 seconds as debutant Caelan Doris announced himself on the international stage.\n\nHowever the 21-year-old's day was cruelly cut short following an accidental clash of heads with Adam Hastings.\n\nHe was replaced by Peter O'Mahony and he played like a man with a chip on his shoulder following his omission from the starting side.\n\nThe Munster player produced one of his most influential displays in green for years, winning another crucial turnover with Josh van der Flier on 24 minutes.\n\nIreland's four-point lead at the break owed largely to a few huge defensive moments and one wonderfully executed move involving Cian Healy and Conor Murray which saw Sexton charge through a gaping hole inside 10 minutes.\n\nFarrell's first team selection was eagerly anticipated, with fans waiting to see how far the former defence coach would divert from the core of starters that featured regularly under his predecessor Joe Schmidt.\n\nThe biggest call to be made was at scrum-half, where Farrell resisted the excellent provincial form of John Cooney and stuck with two-time British and Irish Lion Conor Murray.\n\nMurray's performance will only shine a brighter spotlight on that position, with the Munster man enduring a torrid afternoon before being replaced by Cooney after 60 minutes.\n\nFor years Murray, and indeed Ireland, have relied on the relentless consistency and accuracy of the scrum-half's box kicking.\n\nOn Saturday however, his kicking provided Ireland with more problems than solutions as he either kicked too long to allow Scotland to run the ball back to a broken field, or too high and short leaving Ireland scrambling to recover the situation.\n\nAfter 30 minutes he found himself isolated and coughed up a penalty that would have seen Ireland relinquish the lead had Hastings not pushed his kick wide.\n\nJust before the break Murray saw his pass picked off by Sam Johnson, prompting a desperate chase down the field.\n\nAfter extending their lead through a Sexton penalty early in the second half, Ireland soon found themselves back in defensive mode as Scotland again bulldozed their way inside the 22.\n\nAfter 50 minutes they finally found a route across the tryline, making use of an overlap on the left to send Hogg in - only for the skipper to drop the ball as he went to touch down.\n\nIt was the ultimate let-off for the hosts, who could not keep possession for sufficient length of time to release the pressure valve as the game hung in the balance with 10 minutes remaining.\n\nTrailing by seven, Scotland made one last foray forward which took them to within a metre of the line.\n\nHaving tried to find space out wide, they directed themselves back inside but Stander, who was at the heart of Ireland's defensive effort, got himself over the ball and held on to win the penalty that secured an unconvincing victory for his side.\n\nEven then, with three minutes left, Ireland made heavy weather of seeing out the game as replacement hooker Ronan Kelleher was penalised for a wayward line-out on his own 22.\n\nIreland and Scotland left the Aviva Stadium knowing much more than just fine-tuning will be required over the next week if they are to avoid defeat to Wales and England respectively in their next fixtures.\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "The UK has officially left the European Union.\n\nIt's been three and a half years since the country voted to leave in a referendum and as the clock struck 2300 GMT there were celebrations for some and commiserations for others.\n\nNigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit Party, declared \"the war is over\" in a speech at London's Parliament Square.\n\nRead more: How did we get here? The past four years in two minutes", "Iraq has named a new prime minister after four months of protests.\n\nMohammed Tawfiq Allawi, a former communications minister, was appointed by President Barham Salih.\n\nHis predecessor Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned in November, amid mass anti-government demonstrations. Hundreds of protesters have been killed.\n\nMr Allawi now has a month to form a new government, which he will lead until early elections. He immediately expressed support for the protests.\n\nEarlier this week, local media reported that President Saleh had given parliament an ultimatum to decide on a new prime minister before he took the decision himself, after previous candidates were rejected by protesters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as protesters block roads in the city of Najaf\n\nIn a video released on his social media accounts on Saturday, Mr Allawi announced that he had been nominated and called on Iraqis to continue protesting until their demands were met.\n\n\"If not for your sacrifices and your bravery, there would have been no change in the country,\" he said. \"I believe in you, and for this reason I will ask you to continue protesting.\"\n\nHe promised to hold those responsible for the killing of protesters accountable and to combat corruption.\n\nMr Allawi, who is Shia, studied and worked in Lebanon and the UK before entering Iraqi politics following the 2003 invasion. He served as minister of communications twice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jeremy Bowen asks why people have been taking to the streets in Lebanon, Iran and Iraq", "Koalas face a number of threats to their habitat - logging, as well as bushfires\n\nDozens of koalas have been found dead or injured at a timber plantation in the Australian state of Victoria, sparking an investigation by officials.\n\nBlue gum trees - an important koala habitat - were harvested from the plantation in December, leaving only a few isolated stands of trees.\n\nSome koalas had starved to death in the remaining trees. Others were apparently killed by bulldozers.\n\nAbout 80 surviving koalas have been removed and are being cared for.\n\nThe deaths come after tens of thousands of koalas were killed in the bushfires that have ravaged Australia. The marsupial is listed as \"vulnerable\" by Australia's Environment Ministry.\n\nAfter the plantation was logged in December, reports of hundreds of starving koalas came in, environmental group Friends of the Earth Australia said.\n\n\"People apparently witnessed the bulldozing of many dead koalas into slash piles,\" it said.\n\nThe Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning said it was prepared to prosecute over the incident.\n\nLocal resident Helen Oakley, who first raised the alarm on Wednesday, posted a video to Facebook, saying she had seen dead koalas at the site.\n\n\"There are koalas lying there dead,\" she said. \"Mothers killed and their little babies. Australia should be ashamed of this. We need help.\"\n\nAnimal protection group Animals Australia said it has sent teams to the site in order to \"save as many of these precious animals as possible\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Animals Australia This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt added: \"We are still gathering the details as to what has occurred in this case but it would appear that there are various breaches of legislation, including the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, which we will be supporting authorities to pursue.\"\n\nAndrew Pritchard from the Department of the Environment said 25 koalas had been euthanised. He told ABC News the surviving koalas would be \"rehabilitated at a later stage\".\n\nThe company behind the logging is currently unclear. According to the logging industry, the blue gum trees were harvested in November and the contractor followed all of the protocols in place to protect the animals.\n\nHowever, Animals Australia said it was investigating several apparent breaches of legislation.\n\n\"By law, the companies that own these plantations must provide koala 'spotters' to identify koalas in trees before logging commences, so that animals can be safely removed and relocated. There is also a legal responsibility to ensure the welfare of koalas after logging has ceased,\" it said.\n\nThe Australian Forest Products Association said the remaining trees were cleared after the contractors had left. It has vowed to investigate the incident.\n\nChief Executive Ross Hampton told The Age: \"It is unclear as yet who bulldozed the trees with the koalas apparently still in them, but it is absolutely certain that this was not a plantation or a forestry company.\n\n\"We support all those calling for the full force of the law to be applied to the perpetrator.\n\nThe incident comes after a number of koalas were killed in recent bushfires in the country.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic defended his Australian Open crown and won a 17th Grand Slam after digging deep into his physical and mental reserves to beat Dominic Thiem in a gripping five-set final.\n\nThe Serbian second seed won 6-4 4-6 2-6 6-3 6-4 for a record-extending eighth title at Melbourne Park.\n\nDjokovic, 32, twice called the doctor while trailing before fighting back.\n\nAustrian fifth seed Thiem, 26, still awaits his first major title after losing a third Grand Slam final.\n• None 'We had to wait in line for bread, milk, water' - difficult childhood inspires Djokovic\n\nDjokovic, who fluctuated from steely brilliance to being emotionally erratic and back again, took the first of two championship points when Thiem pulled a forehand wide.\n\nWith Thiem getting plenty of support throughout in the Rod Laver Arena, Djokovic celebrated by putting a finger to his lip to shush some of the crowd, then breaking out in a grin before pointing to his box\n\nDjokovic, who said he had been \"on the brink of losing\" when dehydration affected his energy levels, solemnly watched as he was lauded as the 'King of Melbourne' before being presented with his trophy.\n\nHe then gave an emotional winning speech where he talked about the \"devastating\" Australian bushfires, world conflicts and the death of American basketball great, and his \"mentor\", Kobe Bryant.\n\n\"I would like to say this is a reminder that we should stick together more than ever,\" Djokovic told the 15,000 crowd.\n\n\"Stay close to the people who love you. There are more important things in life.\"\n\nHis latest triumph moves him within three of Swiss Roger Federer's all-time leading tally of 20 men's singles titles, and only two behind Spain's Rafael Nadal, who is on 19.\n\nThe Serb's fightback ensured the wait continues for somebody to break the stranglehold of the old guard, with Djokovic, Nadal and Federer having won the past 13 Grand Slam titles.\n\nNo other player has won a men's major title since Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka won the US Open title in September 2016.\n\nDjokovic will also return to the top of the world rankings, replacing Nadal, when they are published on Monday.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nFitting final to a dramatic tournament - but Djokovic provides a familiar ending\n\nAfter an opening Grand Slam of the 2020 season which had pretty much everything, it was fitting that the tournament finished with another thrilling match.\n\nStarting negatively amid a backdrop of devastating bushfires across Australia and players complaining about poor air quality, the mood was lifted across the fortnight by shock wins, incredible fightbacks and another star emerging in the women's game.\n\nWhen 21-year-old American Sofia Kenin beat Spain's Garbine Muguruza on Saturday she became the eighth woman to win their first Grand Slam in the past 12 majors.\n\nThiem, having been a fixture in the top 10 for a number of years and winning 16 ATP titles, is far from being a new kid on the block.\n\nBut such has been the dominance of the 'Big Three', the Austrian remains a relative novice in the biggest finals as the younger players struggle to end their supremacy at the Slams.\n\nDjokovic is the first man to win a Grand Slam title in three different decades since the Open era began in 1968.\n\nNow the task of the younger generation is to stop Nadal and Federer doing the same.\n\nThiem has long been considered one of the younger players most likely to end the dominance of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal, although many expected that to come on his favoured clay surface at the French Open, where he has lost the past two finals to Nadal.\n\nHis game - based on crushing groundstrokes and athleticism - always had the potential to be successful on hard courts, and winning his biggest title on the surface at Indian Wells last March appeared to give him added belief.\n\nWith the men's semi-finals split across Thursday and Friday, Thiem had 24 hours less to recover than Djokovic and had spent almost six hours more on court over the fortnight.\n\nThat did not look to be a major factor, however, when Thiem moved one set away from finally getting his hands on a Grand Slam trophy at the third attempt.\n\nPerhaps, ultimately, there was an element of fatigue - mental as well as physical - as Djokovic dug deep and Thiem hit 16 unforced errors in the fifth set.\n\nNevertheless, it appears only a matter of time before Thiem becomes only the second Austrian - after 1995 French Open champion Thomas Muster - to win a major singles title.\n\n\"You were very close to winning it and you definitely have a lot more time in your career. I am sure you will get a Grand Slam trophy, more than one,\" Djokovic told him.\n\nDjokovic had eased through the draw with the concession of just one set, with a dominant service game that opponents had rarely broken.\n\nHe had raced to a 3-0 lead after a high-quality start but was then unable to sustain that level, mainly down to physical issues that flared up in the second set and continued through the third.\n\nDjokovic disappeared off court at the end of the each set, also requiring a chat with the doctor on two separate occasions.\n\n\"I was hydrated well and everything. Apparently the doctor said I wasn't hydrated enough,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"After I lost the second set, I start to feel really bad on the court. My energy dropped significantly.\"\n\nWith the Serb constantly looking at the floor between points, walking wearily and mopping his brow, it was not a surprise that Thiem won six of seven games on the way to a two-sets-to-one lead.\n\nDjokovic was also angered at a crucial juncture of the second set when he was docked a first serve for twice taking longer than the 25 seconds allowed to serve.\n\nThe Serb looked furious with the decision as Thiem punished the second serve to break for 5-4, sarcastically congratulating umpire Damien Dumusois and tapping his foot when he passed the chair at the changeover.\n\n\"Great job, you made yourself famous,\" he told the Frenchman.\n\nFor the first three games, and for the whole of the final set, Djokovic played as well as even he could have hoped for.\n\nBut there were some very stressful times in between, illustrated in part by the sarcastic exchange with umpire Dumusois for issuing him two time violations in the space of a single game.\n\nIn the third set, Djokovic looked listless and lacking direction - later explaining he felt dizziness caused by dehydration.\n\nThe end result was the same though. An eighth final in Melbourne, and an eighth title. He is almost as difficult to beat on the Rod Laver Arena as Rafael Nadal is on Court Philippe Chatrier in Paris.\n\nAll of which means Thiem will have to wait a little longer for a first Grand Slam title. It is not likely to get any easier as the year goes on, but he has evolved over the past 12 months into a player capable of winning Grand Slams away from Roland Garros.\n\nHe now looks likely to be an imminent Grand Slam champion, although the 22 hours and 23 minutes he spent on court in Melbourne (that's nearly three and a quarter hours per match) probably took its toll here in the end.", "The 19-year-old man fell ill at the drum and bass night at The Assembly in Leamington Spa\n\nA man who was at a student club night has died and a woman is seriously ill after taking what police said was MDMA.\n\nThe 19-year-old man fell ill at the drum and bass night at The Assembly in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, at about 05:00 GMT, and later died in hospital.\n\nThe 22-year-old woman remains seriously ill in hospital and police say others were also admitted after taking \"Red Bull\" pills.\n\nWarwickshire Police urged people to check on friends who were at the night.\n\nOfficers said they did not know if the group had bought the drugs at the club.\n\nPolice believe those affected may have taken a pill named \"Red Bull\"\n\nDet Supt Pete Hill said they believed all those who were ill had taken the red pills containing MDMA, the active drug in ecstasy.\n\nHe added they were concerned others had also taken it and urged anyone who had to seek medical advice.\n\n\"If others were at the same event last night and are aware their friends took this drug, please check in on them,\" Mr Hill said.\n\nIn a statement The Assembly, which is in Spencer Street, said: \"We take the wellbeing of our customers extremely seriously, we continue to work closely with Warwickshire Police and reiterate our zero policy on drugs in our venue.\"\n\nAccording to its Facebook page, the venue had hosted a sold-out event called DNB All Stars: Leamington on Friday night.\n\nA spokesman for the University of Warwick said the teenager was not one of its students.\n\nThe university, which has many students living in Leamington Spa, and other local colleges have been asked by police to circulate information about the pills, the spokesman said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Candidates went head-to-head at a hustings in Cardiff on Sunday\n\nPeople in north Wales do not feel devolution is working for them, a Labour leadership candidate has said.\n\nLisa Nandy joined Sir Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry and Rebecca Long Bailey at a hustings in Cardiff on Sunday.\n\nAll four supported boosting devolution, with front-runner Sir Keir arguing for a federal UK.\n\nBut Ms Nandy said her party may have to fight for devolution in parts of the country \"turning away from Labour\".\n\nThe leadership contest follows a general election where Labour lost six seats in Wales - all with the exception of one were in the north.\n\nMeanwhile Ms Nandy and Ms Long Bailey said they would not stand in the way if a future Welsh Parliament wanted an independence referendum.\n\nWigan MP Ms Nandy said people in north Wales \"feel very shut out from the centre of power - power in Westminster but also power in Cardiff\".\n\n\"I think if we are honest, we are going to have to go out and fight for devolution in many parts of the country that have been turning away from Labour for some time,\" she said.\n\n\"In my own constituency in Wigan, people feel that the city mayoral deal where Labour is in power hasn't delivered for them, in the same way it has delivered for Manchester.\n\n\"And when I was in Rhyl people were telling me exactly the same thing about devolution for the Welsh nation.\"\n\nMs Nandy told BBC Wales she wanted to see power devolved into towns that have not felt the benefits of major cities.\n\n\"I think the Welsh Labour government understands this really well, and in the conversations I've had with Mark Drakeford and many AMs, this is exactly what we're trying to do,\" she added.\n\nLisa Nandy said Labour would have to \"fight\" for devolution\n\nWelsh Labour leader Mr Drakeford said he believed Ms Nandy was making a \"general point about the way in which people, who live away from where decisions are taken, often feel that those decisions aren't influenced by what matters to them\".\n\n\"We know that throughout the whole of devolution that we've had to work hard to make sure that every part of Wales feels that the National Assembly speaks for them, that their interests matter to us,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\nSir Keir, who had won the vast majority of nominations from Welsh Labour MPs, said more powers should be devolved.\n\n\"I would not seek to impose anything on Wales - it's about agreement and working together,\" he told the hustings.\n\nHe said \"radical federalism\" was the way forward, \"where more powers are closer to people\". Sir Keir said Welsh Labour needed to be a \"bigger part of decision making\" in the party.\n\n\"We don't hold it close enough,\" Sir Keir, who represents Holborn and St Pancras, said.\n\n\"There are examples of what's going on here that we should showcase as the Labour Party and the difference you can make in power.\"\n\nRebecca Long Bailey said she would want to talk to members in Wales about what powers should be devolved\n\nMs Long Bailey, the candidate backed by the pro-Jeremy Corbyn group Momentum, said she would want a discussion with Welsh members about devolution.\n\n\"It's not a question of what powers would you like to have from Westminster,\" she said.\n\n\"It's an assumption that Wales gets all the powers it needs from Westminster and then it decides which ones it wants to share,\" the Salford and Eccles politician added.\n\n\"We've got to defend the current settlement that we have, and we've got to make the case against this government which has imposed up to £4bn of cuts on the Welsh assembly since 2010.\"\n\nThere was criticism of how the UK party had dealt with Wales, from Emily Thornberry.\n\nShe said she had not been briefed, when she was due to do a TV interview in Wales, on what the impact of Labour's promise of free broadband would have been for the country.\n\nThe Islington South and Finsbury MP, who appealed to members to help her get on the final ballot, added: \"I remember coming down on the train with Welsh Labour when we were going to the manifesto meeting and quite frankly they hadn't been involved early enough at all.\n\n\"We do need to have a bit more respect for each other and frankly I think London has not had enough respect for Welsh Labour\".\n\nKeir Starmer made the case for \"radical federalism\" at the Cardiff hustings\n\nWith six Westminster seats lost here in December and a Senedd election on the horizon next year, Wales is a priority for the next Labour leader.\n\nThis was the only Welsh hustings of the three-month leadership contest and the candidates tried to outdo each other today with praise for Welsh Labour and calls for more devolution.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, the frontrunner, has by far the most nominations from Welsh Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) and was the only candidate with a welcoming committee awaiting him outside City Hall.\n\nBut Rebecca Long Bailey, seen as the candidate closest to Jeremy Corbyn, got applause when she talked about \"open selections\" for Labour candidates, a theme associated with the Left of the party.\n\nIt was a point that was rebutted by Lisa Nandy, and amid a warm and apparently friendly atmosphere amongst candidates and members, it was a reminder of the underlying tension that has existed in the party throughout the Corbyn years.\n\nA deputy leadership hustings followed the main event at the venue in Cardiff City Hall.\n\nAngela Rayner said the National Assembly elections would be \"difficult for us\", referring to a recent poll that suggested Labour could lose seats.\n\nThe Stockport MP and deputy leadership candidate said: \"I don't think it is irreversible.\"\n\n\"We need to make sure that our parliamentarians and our leaders in London, in Westminster know what's happening in Wales,\" she added.", "Andy Gill, who has died aged 64, had only recently come off tour.\n\nAndy Gill, the founding member and guitarist of British post-punk band Gang Of Four, has died aged 64.\n\nThe musician's scratchy, staccato riffs provided the band with their signature sound, and influenced the likes of Nirvana, Fugazi and Franz Ferdinand.\n\nHis bandmates announced his death in a statement, saying: \"Our great friend and supreme leader has died today\".\n\nGill had developed a \"respiratory illness,\" after finishing an Asian tour with Gang Of Four last year, they said.\n\n\"This pain is the price of extraordinary joy, almost three decades with the best man in the world,\" wrote his wife, Catherine Mayer, on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Andy's final tour in November was the only way he was ever really going to bow out; with a Stratocaster around his neck, screaming with feedback and deafening the front row,\" wrote current Gang Of Four members Thomas McNeice, John Sterry and Tobias Humble.\n\n\"One of the best to ever do it, his influence on guitar music and the creative process was inspiring for us, as well as everyone who worked alongside him and listened to his music.\n\n\"His albums and production work speak for themselves. Go give 'em a spin for him.\"\n\nGill (right) with Gang Of Four's original lead singer Jon King\n\nFormed in Leeds in 1976, Gang Of Four's career spanned five decades, from their first single Damaged Goods to last year's studio album Happy Now.\n\nIn 1979, they made their Top 60 chart debut with At Home He's A Tourist - despite the song being banned by the BBC for a lyrical reference to condoms.\n\nTheir debut album Entertainment!, released in September of the same year, has frequently been cited as an influence or inspiration by aspiring musicians, and was named one of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 greatest albums of all time.\n\nCombining Marxist politics with punk, dub, funk and disco, the \"stiff, jerky aggression of songs such as Damaged Goods and I Found That Essence Rare invented a new style,\" the magazine wrote.\n\nGill's unique guitar riffs were choppy and funky with bursts of freeform noise, taking inspiration from a range of players, including Jimi Hendrix, Wilko Johnson and Parliament-Funkadelic's Eddie Hazel.\n\n\"Seeing Wilko and Dr Feelgood was a real lightbulb moment,\" he told The Skinny in 2015. \"He never stopped looking at the audience and didn't spend much time looking at his guitar - I duly noted that.\n\n\"I always think of the guitar as being part of a larger instrument, which is the band,\" Gill added. \"What I always find uninspiring is when guitarists treat the rest of the band as a background over which they show off.\"\n\nGang Of Four never had a hit single (1982's I Love A Man In Uniform came close, before it was banned from the airwaves during the Falklands War) but their first three albums are considered indispensable.\n\nThey split in 1984, but reformed several times over the years, with a variety of line-ups. Gill was the only constant throughout their career.\n\nThe Manchester-born musician was also a respected producer, working with bands including The Stranglers, Killing Joke, and Red Hot Chili Peppers.\n\nHis influence on guitar bands stretched far and wide. REM's Michael Stipe said he \"stole a lot\" from Gang Of Four, while Flea, bassist for the Chili Peppers, said Gang Of Four were \"the first rock band I could truly relate to\".\n\nU2's Bono called them \"a smart bomb of text\"; and Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello said Gill was \"one of my principle influences\".\n\n\"His jagged plague disco raptor attack industrial funk deconstructed guitar anti-hero sonics and fierce poetic radical intellect were formative for me,\" he wrote on Instagram.\n\nGill is survived by his wife Catherine Mayer, his brother Martin and \"many family and elective family members who will miss him terribly\" said the band in a press statement.\n\nHe had just finished a new studio album with Gang Of Four, they added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Model Caprice was partnered up with Hamish Gaman\n\nCaprice Bourret has quit Dancing on Ice to \"recover and look after herself and her family\".\n\nA representative for the model and businesswoman confirmed to Radio 1 Newsbeat that she would not be taking part in Sunday night's show.\n\nShe said \"it's been a hard few months [for Caprice] and she's had to keep silent for contractual reasons\".\n\nThe exit comes after she split from her dance partner Hamish Gaman on the ITV show two weeks ago.\n\nCaprice's spokesperson added that her \"mental wellbeing has been affected over the last two months and recent stories leaked to the press are not only salacious but extremely hurtful\".\n\nOn Saturday she posted pictures online of some of the injuries she had sustained in practice alongside her new dance partner Oscar Peter.\n\nBut hours later it was confirmed by ITV that she would no longer be taking part in the show.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCaprice, 48, made her debut on the second week of the series, securing second place on the leaderboard after performing a routine to Lewis Capaldi's Someone You Loved in front of judges John Barrowman, Ashley Banjo, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.\n\nA week later it was revealed she was parting ways with partner Hamish, but a reason for the split has not been given.\n\nCaprice, who has also appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and Come Dine With Me, has also deleted her Twitter account and hasn't posted about her exit from the show on her Instagram page.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWorld Cup finalists England fell to a chastening defeat by a resurgent France as their Six Nations hopes wilted in the Parisian rain.\n\nCoach Eddie Jones had talked of unleashing a brutal physicality upon a callow France side with an average of just 10 caps apiece.\n\nBut it was France who tenderised England in a one-sided first half, converted tries from Vincent Rattez and captain Charles Ollivon plus a Romain Ntamack penalty opening up a deserved 17-point lead.\n\nOllivon dived over for his second try to stretch that advantage to 24, before two brilliant solo scores from Jonny May suddenly brought hope in the final quarter.\n\nBut England could add only a late Owen Farrell penalty, their hopes of only a second Grand Slam in 17 years disintegrating in the face of a France defence superbly drilled by Shaun Edwards.\n\nJones said his team wanted to become the greatest team in history, but they were second-best to Fabien Galthie's new wave of Gallic talents.\n• None 'We felt sorry for ourselves' - Jones blames England defeat on slow start\n\nIn a febrile atmosphere England made early inroads when Sam Underhill capitalised on an overthrown line-out to thunder deep into the French 22 before his back-row partner Tom Curry spilt the ball in the tackle.\n\nBut it was France who struck first to light up the stadium, Teddy Thomas with a quicksilver break down the right before left wing Rattez - only in as a late replacement for Damian Penaud - cut a cute line on Ntamack's inside shoulder to crash through Ben Youngs' tackle and over.\n\nNtamack popped over the conversion, and when England's forwards were penalised at a ruck a few metres from their own line, the young fly-half landed his second kick to extend the lead to 10 points.\n\nWorse was to come for the men in white. Talismanic centre Manu Tuilagi limped off, to be replaced by Jonathan Joseph, then France struck a second hammer blow.\n\nAs Ollivon challenged for a kick ahead, England stopped, expecting referee Nigel Owens to blow for a knock-on. But the whistle never came, and Ollivon galloped 30 metres to dive into the left-hand corner.\n\nNtamack's nerveless conversion made it 17-0, tricolors being waved frantically all round celebrating stands as the brass band behind the England posts blasted out the Can-Can.\n\nUnder that intense aural and physical assault England's errors began to mount, debutant George Furbank dropping one pass, captain Owen Farrell knocking on another.\n\nNot since 1988 had England been kept scoreless at half-time in a Five or Six Nations match, but the scoreline reflected a fractured and ugly display.\n\nMay day comes too late for battered England\n\nA year ago France led Wales by 16 points in their opening game of the tournament only to capitulate in a dramatic second half.\n\nAnd when England opted to take a scrum on successive penalties in front of the France posts the pressure was finally on Galthie's side, only for Joseph to have the ball stripped as he took a short pass five metres out, and then Itoje knock on in a subsequent ruck.\n\nIt was the seventh time England had been within five metres of the France tryline without coming way with a point, and Jones rang the changes.\n\nLuke Cowan-Dickie came on for Jamie George and Ellis Genge for Joe Marler with half an hour to go, but it initially did nothing to stem the irresistible blue tide.\n\nMay was turned over by replacement prop Jefferson Poirot, and when scrum-half Antoine Dupont stepped through a static defence there was Ollivon once again to slide over the line.\n\nAt 24-0 England were facing humiliation, the noise around the Stade de France defeaning.\n\nMay's opportunistic try after kicking ahead with 23 minutes left provided a desperately needed ray of sunshine for England on a sodden, grey afternoon.\n\nAnd he conjured up something even better eight minutes later, racing on to Elliot Daly's fast, flat past to carve past three weary defenders and under the posts.\n\nFrom nowhere England had hope, France mangling a line-out in their own 22 after a clever George Ford kick to set up a series of drives.\n\nBut replacement scrum-half Willie Heinz lost the ball as he tried to burst through off a ruck, and, although George Kruis was held up over the line at the death, France held on to secure a famous win.\n\n'Everyone made errors today' - what the BBC pundits said\n\nFormer England captain Dylan Hartley: \"It was a collective - everyone made errors today. From one to 15, guys were making errors and that's why we had such a poor performance. The best thing to do is restart, that's all you can do. If we eradicate personal errors, we're in that game.\"\n\nFormer England centre Jeremy Guscott: \"Eddie Jones must be fuming. You can't have that many entries into the opposition 22 and come away with zero. The tries England scored were literally flashes of brilliance from Jonny May.\"\n\nFormer England captain Martin Johnson: \"England needed to turn pressure into scores. You need more subtlety against a big, strong team like France because they can defend all day.\"\n\nReplacements: Poirot for Baille (49), Bamba for Haouas (49), Palu for Willemse (57), Woki for Cros (57), Mauvaka for Marchand (67), Jalibert for Ntamack (77) Vincent for Vakatawa (80).\n\nReplacements: Joseph for Tuilagi (16), Cowan-Dickie for George (49), Genge for Marler (52), Ludlam for Lawes (54), Kruis for Ewels (57), Heinz for Young (62), Stuart for Sinckler (73), Devoto for Ford (76).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Raab: EU alignment not a red line, it's not even in negotiating room\n\nBritain will \"not be aligning with EU rules\" in any post-Brexit trade deal, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nDominic Raab argued agreeing to stick strongly with EU regulations would \"defeat the point of Brexit\".\n\nBut Irish PM Leo Varadkar said the UK needed to commit to a level playing field to get a free trade deal.\n\nTalks to negotiate a free trade deal between the UK and the EU are due to start next month, following the UK's formal withdrawal from the bloc.\n\nOn Monday Boris Johnson is expected to set out his position ahead of those talks, where he will tell the EU he is prepared to accept customs checks at Britain's borders if he cannot secure the sort of trade deal he wants.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier will also outline his approach to negotiations.\n\nOne option the PM could support would be a Canada-style free trade deal which allows tariff-free trade for the majority of goods, but would not cover the UK's service industry - which accounts for more than 80% of UK jobs.\n\nReports in recent days have suggested EU chiefs want the UK to continue to follow EU rules on standards and state subsidies - while accepting the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in any trade disputes.\n\nThe PM is expected to say that he will accept no alignment and no jurisdiction of the European courts when talks start in March.\n\nHe is also preparing to say he would rule out relaxing rules on workers' rights, food hygiene standards and environmental protections.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Varadkar said it was possible for the UK to have a \"Canada-style agreement\".\n\nHowever, he added: \"Canada isn't the UK; you're geographically part of the European continent, we share seas and airspace and our economies are very integrated.\n\n\"And one thing we feel very strongly in the EU is that if we are going to have tariff-free, quota-free trade with the UK, which is essentially what we have with Canada on almost everything, then that needs to come with a level playing field.\n\n\"We, for example would have very strong views on fair competition and state aid.\"\n\nA level playing field is a trade policy phrase for a set of common rules and standards that prevent businesses in one country undercutting their rivals over those operating in other countries in areas such as workers' rights and environmental protections.\n\nHe also cautioned against \"setting rigid red lines\" for the post-Brexit trade negotiations arguing \"it makes coming to an agreement more difficult because the other side doesn't feel like it has got a fair deal unless those red lines are turned pink.\"\n\nMr Raab said the UK would enter trade talks \"with a spirit of goodwill\" but added \"the legislative alignment - it just ain't happening\".\n\nLabour's John McDonnell said Mr Johnson's desire to diverge from EU rules \"contradict\" what the PM had previously said on protecting environmental, consumer and employment rights.\n\n\"On the one hand he said there will be [protections] on the other hand he is sabre-rattling saying that won't happen in the negotiations,\" he said.\n\nBut Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage welcomed the prime minister's approach arguing it was in the UK's \"national interest\" to be \"a competitor on their [the EU's] doorstep.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leo Varadkar on UK seating advice: \"Surely everyone should be trying to work with everyone\"\n\nThe government also wants to make progress in striking free trade agreements with countries such as the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThe EU's own approach to the negotiations needs to be agreed by all 27 member states - which would be unlikely to happen before the end of February.\n\nWhile the UK officially left the EU at 23:00 GMT on Friday, it will remain wedded to EU rules during a transition period which ends in December this year.\n\nThe UK can request an extension to this transition period, but Mr Johnson has previously said he will not do so.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pre-recorded bongs from Big Ben played out as the UK left the European Union", "Raiders targeted Tamara Ecclestone's house next to Hyde Park in December\n\nA mother and son have been charged over a burglary at the home of Tamara Ecclestone.\n\nJewellery believed to be valued at £50m was stolen from the heiress's home next to London's Hyde Park in December.\n\nMaria Mester, 47, of no fixed abode, and 29-year-old Emil-Bogdan Savastru, of Bethnal Green, have been charged with conspiracy to commit burglary.\n\nThe cleaner and her bar worker son both appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nThey will next appear in custody at Isleworth Crown Court on 28 February.\n\nRings, earrings and an £80,000 Cartier bangle were all stolen in the burglary, according to The Sun.\n\nThe court heard the majority of the items taken have not been recovered.\n\nTwo men, aged 21 and 31, who were also arrested have been released under investigation, police said.\n\nTamara Ecclestone, pictured with father Bernie, was left \"shaken\" by the burglary\n\nThe burglary on 13 December occurred just after Ms Ecclestone, the daughter of ex-Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, left the country with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter Sophia.\n\nThe raiders are believed to have entered through a garden before breaking into safes hidden in the bedroom of the 55-room house in Palace Green, Kensington.\n\nA Cartier bangle worth £80,000 was reportedly stolen in the burglary\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Speedibake factory is near Wakefield's Westgate Retail Park\n\nAbout 140 firefighters are tackling a major fire at an industrial bakery in Wakefield, which is covering the area in thick black smoke.\n\nThe blaze at the Speedibake factory, close to Westgate Retail Park, started at about 13:30 GMT.\n\nPolice said there were no reports of injuries but the fire service said the \"building construction may contain asbestos\".\n\nPeople living nearby have been told to shut all doors and windows.\n\nThe wind is also causing smoke to blow towards the city centre, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nSeveral roads have been shut and drivers have been told to find alternative routes.\n\nWakefield Council tweeted anyone \"affected by the fire in Wakefield and unable to get home please make your way to Thornes Park Stadium\", adding it would \"remain open\".\n\nPolice urged those living nearby to close their windows and doors due to the amount of smoke\n\nA spokesperson told BBC News: \"There are 15 to 20 people currently there at the rest centre who are affected.\"\n\nThey said the council was helping people with transport to reach the stadium and it would help them return once the area was declared safe.\n\nWakefield residents who were earlier evacuated from the area can now return home, the council added, but they \"are advised to keep all windows and doors closed as a precaution\".\n\nPeople also reported being evacuated from nearby buildings.\n\nConnor Strachan, 19, from Alverthorpe, and Eleanor Goldthorpe, 17, had planned to watch Jumanji at the Cineworld cinema opposite the bakery, but when they arrived they were told they had to wait in the building.\n\nMr Strachan said there were nearly 100 people at the cinema, including some from Mecca Bingo directly opposite the bakery.\n\nHe said: \"We were eventually let out, a lot of the other buildings were evacuated too.\"\n\nCineworld Wakefield tweeted at 18:00 GMT to say it was currently closed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Smoke from the fire in Wakefield is blowing towards the city centre\n\nNicky Harley was going to the B&Q shop on the retail park when the fire broke out.\n\n\"As I approached the store I saw police officers in masks telling people to move back,\" she said.\n\nShe said she then walked over to a nearby supermarket and saw people with their hands over their mouths saying they felt light headed.\n\n\"I also felt faint and light headed,\" she said.\n\n\"My friend is a nurse and she told me there might be a risk of airborne asbestos.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service initially warned of the potential for asbestos in the smoke plume, but later confirmed the substance was not present in the section of building hit by the blaze.\n\nEyewitness Nicky Harley said people reported feeling faint due to the smoke\n\nPower cuts were also reported but electricity has since been restored.\n\nNorthern Powergrid tweeted to thank customers for their patience during the outage.\n\nSome people on social media also reported hearing explosions coming from the factory.\n\nGreat palls of smoke have been covering much of the city skyline, with people stopping to look in astonishment.\n\nThe wind has blown the acrid smoke across large parts of the city as firefighters work to contain the blaze and police wearing protective masks have put road blocks around the scene, stopping people from getting too close to the factory.\n\nPeople have been starting to make their way home and the area around the blaze is eerily quiet, disturbed only by the sound of trains passing by on a nearby line.\n\nIn a statement, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said: \"As a precautionary measure we are advising people living in the vicinity to remain indoors and keep windows and a doors closed.\"\n\nThe service said it expected to remain at the scene for the next 24 to 48 hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAbout 140 firefighters tackled the blaze which started at the Speedibake factory at about 13:30 GMT\n\nWorkers were safely evacuated from the building\n\nFire chiefs said the blaze had spread to about 75% of the ground floor of the building, with 140 firefighters from around the county on site.\n\nOne person tweeted to say crews were using water from a nearby duck pond to tackle the blaze.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tony Tabner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister holds a cabinet meeting at the National Glass Centre, a museum and arts centre in Sunderland, the city that was the first to back Brexit when results were announced after the 2016 referendum", "LeBron James leads the tributes as the LA Lakers remember Kobe Bryant in the team's first game since he died in a helicopter crash alongside his daughter Gianna and seven other people.\n\nAvailable to UK users only", "The letter, dated last week, was written by DUP leader Arlene Foster\n\nThe DUP has highlighted sticking points to a deal on the Troubles legacy issues in a letter sent to Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith.\n\nThey include examining whether all state-related killings should be investigated by a new body.\n\nIn her letter, party leader Arlene Foster details four areas she wants addressed in talks ahead of legislation being tabled at Westminster.\n\nShe writes \"substantive discussions\" are needed on the way forward.\n\nAs part of the deal which saw Stormont return, the government pledged, within 100 days, to introduce legislation to implement a legacy deal struck five years ago.\n\nIt includes an Historical Investigations Unit (HIU) to look into Troubles killings.\n\nSinn Féin has requested an urgent meeting about Troubles legacy issues with Secretary of State Julian Smith\n\nMrs Foster's letter, dated last week, states its caseload should not necessarily examine \"all state-related deaths\".\n\nIt adds that concerns about the HIU \"has led to many victims and survivors of terrorism losing confidence or not being supportive\".\n\nIt suggests victims could help \"co-design\" it and points out \"over 90% of the deaths and injuries of the Troubles were caused by terrorist organisations\".\n\nMrs Foster writes the idea the HIU could also investigate non-criminal police misconduct \"is causing considerable angst\".\n\nShe also repeats the party wants a new definition of a victim to mean a person killed or injured through no fault of their own.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News on Sunday, Mrs Foster said \"we need to revisit the Stormont House Agreement, because what is being proposed is not acceptable\".\n\n\"Victims were not treated well in the Belfast Agreement - that was left as an open wound.\n\n\"We now have been left, nearly 22 years later, and we're still dealing with these issues.\"\n\nShe said it was important to \"recognise what actually happened here in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"We did have a terrorist campaign and there were so many innocent victims as a result of that.\"\n\nA public consultation on proposals to address the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland was launched in 2018\n\nSpeaking after Mrs Foster's interview, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said she had requested an urgent meeting with Julian Smith to address concerns about the British government's approach.\n\nThe deputy first minister said: \"The British and Irish governments and the political parties, including the DUP, signed up to the Stormont House Agreement to ensure that victims of the conflict could get full disclosure about the killings of their loved ones.\n\n\"That agreement must be implemented in full, including the mechanisms for dealing with the legacy of the conflict, and cannot be cherry-picked by the British government or the DUP.\"\n\nShe added: \"The British government needs to implement its commitments in full in a human rights compliant manner.\"", "Time-lapse footage taken from above shows the construction of Huoshenshan hospital in Wuhan city, which has been built to deal with coronavirus patients.\n\nAccording to Chinese authorities, construction began on 24 January, with the hospital due to open on 3 February.\n\nAround 300 people have died from the virus so far, with around 14,000 currently affected.\n\nRead more: How can China build a hospital so quickly?\n\nRead more: Latest reports and details on coronavirus", "The Church of St Mary and All Saints is in Fotheringhay the birthplace of Richard III\n\nA historic church that has \"worldwide interest\" because of its links to Richard III has completed £1.5m worth of restoration work.\n\nThe Church of St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire had repairs to the roofs and stonework.\n\nRichard III's great-uncle Edward, his parents and his brother Edmund are buried at the 15th Century church.\n\nThe church warden Bill James praised local fundraisers and said donors had been \"very generous\".\n\nThe money was raised from donations and grants including the Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund and the Richard III Society.\n\nMr James said they were initially going to \"patch and repair\" the main roof above the nave, but the funds raised also allowed replacement of the three other roof sections - above the north and south aisles and on the tower.\n\nHe said: \"It's not just having your house roof done - it's like four houses that need to be attended to.\"\n\nRichard III's remains were found under a car park in Leicester in 2012\n\nFotheringhay Castle, of which only the motte it was built on remains, was home to Richard III's family, the House of Plantagenet.\n\nHis great-uncle Edward, the second Duke of York; his parents, Richard, the third Duke of York and Cecily Neville; and his brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland, are buried at the church.\n\nMary Queen of Scots was also executed at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587.\n\nMr James said that while the repairs were on-going he had a call from the contractors to say that there were two visitors at the church.\n\nHe said: \"I arrived [at the church] and saw two rather bleary-eyed people who had just landed at Gatwick having journeyed from New Zealand to begin their Plantagenet pilgrimage before heading to York.\n\n\"So there is worldwide interest without doubt.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHard-up mothers have resorted to eating donated baby food, a charity has said.\n\nThe Nappy Project, in Stoke-on-Trent, supplies nappies, wipes and baby food to families living in poverty. It received more than 100 new referrals for families in need in January alone.\n\nFounder Hayley Jones said there was \"nothing\" in the city to support families and some were in a desperate position.\n\nStoke-on-Trent City Council has been asked for comment.\n\n\"These families are eating baby food because that's the only food they're going to have in the house,\" said Ms Jones.\n\nThe families have not been identified.\n\nThe project was set up 18 months ago and initially the volunteers worked with about 20 families.\n\nThey now help more than 400 across the city, working from a church hall in Hanley.\n\nMaria Mohammad said it was \"very hard\" to get by after her husband became too ill to work\n\nMaria Mohammad, 24, is mother to four-month-old Hassan and said she could not afford to buy him a coat.\n\nShe said: \"Everything was perfect before, but then my husband was diagnosed with TB so he wasn't able to work properly.\"\n\nShe said sometimes she felt depressed and financial troubles added to the situation.\n\nMrs Mohammad was collecting supplies alongside Chloe Elkes, who is 20, and mother to five-month-old George.\n\nChloe Elkes said her son, George, \"gets through so many\" nappies\n\nShe came to the Nappy Project after Christmas, when she was struggling to pay the rent, and had to sell her son's old clothes to help pay it.\n\n\"I was really, really nervous,\" she said of her first visit.\n\n\"There's just so many people in this situation where you can't afford it,\" she said.\n\n\"You've got to put your pride to the side and say, 'I need help', and you can get the help here.\"\n\nMrs Jones said there was \"nothing for these families when they hit rock bottom\".\n\n\"These women are just emotionally drained, they're broken women,\" she said.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man shot dead by police after he stabbed people in south London had been released from prison in January.\n\nSudesh Amman, 20, was released about a week ago after serving half of his sentence of three years and four months for terror offences.\n\nHe was under active police surveillance at the time of the attack on Streatham High Road, which police believe to be an Islamist-related terrorist incident.\n\nThree people were injured but none is in a life-threatening condition.\n\nScotland Yard said officers were searching addresses in south London and Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.\n\n\"No arrests have been made and inquiries continue at pace,\" the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nStreatham MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy said: \"He [Amman] was under surveillance quite soon after being released which begs the question, why was he released so soon?\"\n\nTreasury minister Rishi Sunak said \"the police are obviously doing absolutely everything they can to keep people safe\".\n\nHe said new measures to toughen terrorism laws - already announced by the PM after last November's attack near London Bridge - will give the police \"more powers and resources to do that as well\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the government would announce further plans for \"fundamental changes to the system for dealing with those convicted of terrorism offences\" on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt the time of Amman's release there were concerns about the danger he might pose to the public but there were no legal mechanisms to keep him in prison, BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said.\n\nGiven November's attack also involved a man convicted of terrorism offences released mid-way through his sentence, our correspondent said there was \"a desperate desire\" within government to be seen to be acting quickly.\n\nGunshots were heard on Streatham High Road just after 14:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nReports suggest Amman entered a shop and started stabbing people. It appears he then left the shop and stabbed a woman.\n\nWitnesses reported hearing three gunshots and seeing a man lying on the ground outside a Boots pharmacy, as armed police approached and shouted at those nearby to move back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Lucy D'Orsi said armed officers were in \"immediate attendance\" after the attack\n\nThe Met Police said armed officers - who were part of a \"proactive counter-terrorism operation\" following the suspect on foot - were in \"immediate attendance\".\n\nThe man had a hoax device strapped to his body, police said.\n\nThe BBC's Daniel Sandford said the events appeared to unfold after witnesses saw an unmarked police car pull in front of another car near Streatham Common, forcing it to stop.\n\nForensic officers were seen working at the site into the evening\n\nPeople who live locally spoke of their shock for the attack to have happened in Streatham\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it treated the three people for injuries at the scene and all were taken to hospital.\n\nA man in his 40s was initially considered to be in a life-threatening condition but this is no longer the case.\n\nA woman in her 50s whose injuries were not life-threatening has been discharged from hospital.\n\nAnother woman in her 20s continues to receive hospital treatment for minor injuries, believed to have been caused by glass following shots from the police.\n\nSudesh Amman pleaded guilty in November 2018 to six charges of possessing documents containing terrorist information and seven of disseminating terrorist publications.\n\nOne of the manuals Amman admitted owning was one about knife fighting.\n\nHe was jailed at the Old Bailey the following month for three years and four months.\n\nI was there and recall Amman smiling as he was sentenced.\n\nAmman was first arrested in north London in May 2018 by armed officers on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack.\n\nDave Chawner, who had been on the way to the cinema, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I heard what I thought at that time was a car backfiring.\n\n\"I turned back and turned round and saw a small group of people around a man who was on the floor who was incredibly distressed, he was holding his lower right quadrant and there was blood everywhere.\n\n\"I happened to have a blanket in my bag and I gave it to them to help stem the bleeding and I ran to the nearest crossroads to wave down the ambulance.\"\n\nMr Chawner said the ambulance \"took well over half an hour to arrive\", which was \"incredibly frustrating and distressing\".\n\nEarly on, police said they were treating the incident as \"terrorist-related\"\n\nMeanwhile, Gjon Kathegjolli said he was in a barber shop when he heard a woman, who was with a baby in a push chair and two young boys, scream and saw her being stabbed.\n\nA man then walked past carrying a knife the size of his forearm, he said.\n\nDaniel Gough said he was out for a run when he heard shots and everyone ran.\n\n\"There was panic, people were yelling,\" he said. \"A young girl running alongside me kept asking 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' - she was very distressed.\n\n\"I saw a policeman and he yelled, telling everyone to get back. His gun was pointing in the direction of a man on the floor.\"\n\nA police officer was seen pointing a gun at a man, who was seen on the floor outside Boots\n\nAdam Blake, who was walking along Streatham Common, described how he saw two or three cars crash into each other, including an unmarked police car, as the incident unfolded.\n\n\"Another police car carried on towards the hill pursuing someone,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe swift response of officers has almost certainly saved lives but there will be inevitable questions about the operation.\n\nCounter-terrorist police and MI5 have about 3,000 so-called \"subjects of interest\" at any one time but a much smaller number are under round-the-clock surveillance because it takes a huge team of specialist officers to watch a suspect covertly.\n\nThis means that preventing terrorism is all about taking difficult decisions. Which suspects should be watched? What level of risk do they pose and when is the best time to make an arrest, given the need to capture real evidence?\n\nThose decisions have become harder in recent years as would-be attackers are increasingly likely to act alone and to use low-tech weapons, sometimes on a whim.\n\nFormer military intelligence officer Philip Ingram told BBC Radio 5 Live it was \"right and proper\" that the government should assess the laws in place.\n\n\"We're treating these terrorists as criminals. You have to ask the question as to whether some of them may not ever be able to be rehabilitated and, therefore, is the law we have at the moment right and proper to keep the public safe?\"\n\nOfficers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command are leading the investigation into the incident.\n\nStreatham High Road remains closed and a cordon is in place, with enhanced police patrols in the area.\n\nThe prime minister said his thoughts were with those injured and their loved ones and he paid tribute to the \"speed and bravery\" of emergency services who responded.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"Terrorists seek to divide us and to destroy our way of life - here in London we will never let them succeed.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information, images and footage of the incident which can be shared via www.ukpoliceimageappeal.com or on 0800 789 321.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In China's Hubei province, over a dozen cities are in lockdown in the hope of preventing further cases of the new Coronavirus. And Western countries are putting people returning from Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak, into enforced isolation for up to two weeks.\n\nQuarantine has long been used to prevent the spread of diseases.\n\nThe term itself comes from the first known example of the isolation method.\n\nAs the Black Death raged through Europe in the 14th century, Venice enforced a rule where ships had to anchor for 40 days before crew and passengers were allowed to come ashore. The waiting period was named \"quarantino\", which derives from the Italian for 40.\n\nIt's unclear where exactly the 40 days concept came from, said Mark Harrison, Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. One possibility is that it was a biblical reference - the idea of spending 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness as Jesus is said to have done.\n\nOver time, the duration of quarantine has been shortened, but it remains key to limiting disease outbreaks across the globe.\n\nIn the UK, one of the most famous examples is the English village of Eyam's self-imposed quarantine during the bubonic plague. Between September and December 1665, 42 residents of the Derbyshire village died.\n\nIn June 1666, the newly appointed rector Willliam Mompesson decided the village should be quarantined.\n\nA 1656 engraving of Dr Schnabel of Rome, wearing protective clothing typical of the city's plague doctors at the time\n\nHe told his parishioners that the village must be enclosed with no-one allowed in, or out. He said the Earl of Devonshire had offered to send food and supplies if they agreed to be quarantined.\n\nThe rector told villagers he would do everything in his power to alleviate their suffering and remain with them.\n\nThat August, the village saw a peak of five or six deaths a day - but hardly anyone broke the cordon. Over time, the number of cases fell and by November the disease was gone. The lockdown had worked.\n\nThe village of Eyam, which enforced its own quarantine to protect other villages from the plague\n\nNowadays, most quarantines are imposed by governments or health bodies.\n\n\"When quarantine measures are introduced, they're not just based on medical calculations about whether or not they're going to be effective in stopping or slowing the advance of the infectious disease,\" said Mr Harrison.\n\n\"You take measures such as quarantine in order to meet expectations of other governments, but also to reassure your own population.\"\n\nIn San Francisco in 1900, Chinese immigrants were quarantined after a Chinese man was found dead in a hotel. It was later confirmed that he had died of the plague. Concerned, police officers strung rope and barbed wire around a section of Chinatown. Residents were not allowed to come in or out, and only police and health officials were allowed to cross the barrier.\n\nDuring World War One, about 30,000 sex workers were quarantined amid fears about the number of rising sexually transmitted diseases. They were allowed to leave once it was confirmed they no longer had STDs.\n\nMr Harrison says the Sars epidemic of 2002-3 started a new era in infectious disease control.\n\nDuring the outbreak, people who had been exposed to the virus were quarantined. The Chinese government threatened to execute or jail anyone who was found to breach quarantine rules and spread the contagion.\n\nThe disease reinforced lessons about the importance of working with other countries during a public health crisis.\n\nWhen the syndrome spread from China to the Canadian city of Toronto, 44 people were killed and several hundred more infected.\n\nAbout 7,000 people in Canada were placed in isolation to stop the spread of Sars.\n\nA man sits behind a glass wall at Hanoi airport after returning from China during the Sars epidemic\n\n\"During the outbreak in 2003 when it started spreading to other countries, quarantine of various kinds was used extensively. The use of those measures of containment was credited with stopping the pandemic becoming worse than it could have been,\" said Mr Harrison.\n\n\"One of the lessons that people drew was a victory for old-style public health methods.\"\n\nAs China continues with the traditional method of quarantine to respond to the new coronavirus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has praised the country for \"taking extraordinary measures in the face of what is an extraordinary challenge\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man shot dead by police after he attacked people in south London had been recently released from prison after serving time for terror offences.\n\nHe was under active police surveillance at the time of the attack, which police believe to be an Islamist-related terrorist incident.\n\nHe had a hoax device strapped to his body, police said.\n\nThree people were injured, with one person in a life-threatening condition.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the government would announce further plans for \"fundamental changes to the system for dealing with those convicted of terrorism offences\" on Monday.\n\nGunshots were heard on Streatham High Road just after 14:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nReports suggest a man entered a shop and started stabbing people. It appears he then left the shop and stabbed a woman.\n\nWitnesses reported hearing three gun shots and seeing a man lying on the ground outside a Boots pharmacy, as armed police approached and shouted at those nearby to move back.\n\nThe attacker had been released from prison at the end of January, after serving half of his three year sentence.\n\nThe BBC's Daniel Sandford said the events appeared to unfold after witnesses saw an unmarked police car pull in front of another car near Streatham Common, forcing it to stop.\n\nHe said this could be linked to the subsequent stabbings and police shooting and it was possible somebody was stopped, before being followed by undercover officers.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it treated the three people for injuries at the scene and all were taken to hospital.\n\nOf the other two, one had minor injuries, believed to have been caused by glass following shots from the police firearm, and the third person's condition was not life-threatening.\n\nIn a statement, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Lucy D'Orsi said armed officers were in \"immediate attendance\" and shot a male suspect, as part of a \"proactive Counter Terrorism operation\".\n\nThe situation has been contained and officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command are now leading an investigation into the incident, she said.\n\nStreatham High Road remains closed and a cordon is in place, with enhanced police patrols in the area.\n\nA police officer was seen pointing a gun at a man, who was seen on the floor outside Boots\n\nEyewitness Gjon Kathegjolli said he was in a barber shop when he heard a woman, who was with a baby in a push chair and two young boys, scream and saw her being stabbed.\n\nA man then walked past carrying a knife the size of his forearm, he said.\n\nAnother eyewitness told the PA news agency: \"I was crossing the road when I saw a man with a machete and silver canisters on his chest being chased by what I assume was an undercover police officer.\"\n\nThe main road through Streatham is cordoned off\n\nDaniel Gough said he was out for a run when he heard shots and everyone ran.\n\n\"There was panic, people were yelling,\" he said. \"A young girl running alongside me kept asking 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' - she was very distressed.\n\n\"I saw a policeman and he yelled, telling everyone to get back. His gun was pointing in the direction of a man on the floor.\n\n\"Suddenly, more police appeared. There were [officers] everywhere\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Steffan Powell describes the scene in Streatham after a man was shot by armed police\n\nAdam Blake, who was walking along Streatham Common, described how he saw two or three cars crash into each other, including an unmarked police car, as the incident unfolded.\n\n\"Another police car carried on towards the hill pursuing someone,\" he told the BBC.\n\nVideos shot by eyewitnesses show several plain-clothed police officers pulling on police caps while pointing their weapons at the dying suspect.\n\nAnother apparent surveillance officer on a motorbike pulls up and colleagues attempt to clear the street.\n\nIn today's incident, onlooker videos suggest the police only spot the man's hoax device after he has been shot and they approach him.\n\nThe swift response of these officers has almost certainly saved lives but there will be inevitable questions about the operation.\n\nIt has not been confirmed they were specifically following the man but they appear to have reacted fast when he started attacking people with a knife.\n\nCounter-terrorist police and MI5 have around 3,000 so called \"subjects of interest\" at any one time but a much smaller number are under round-the-clock surveillance because it takes a huge team of specialist officers to watch a suspect covertly.\n\nThis means that preventing terrorism is all about taking difficult decisions. Which suspects should be watched? What level of risk do they pose and when is the best time to make an arrest, given the need to capture real evidence?\n\nThose decisions have become harder in recent years as would be attackers are increasingly likely to act alone and to use low-tech weapons, sometimes on a whim.\n\nForensic officers were seen working at the site into the evening\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that his thoughts were with the injured and others affected. He thanked emergency services for their response.\n\nStreatham's Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy said: \"It is scary, I feel that fear, but Streatham is a very resilient community and we'll be fine.\"\n\nArmed police were at the sealed-off street on Sunday evening\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"Terrorists seek to divide us and to destroy our way of life - here in London we will never let them succeed.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his thoughts were with those affected and thanked emergency services \"for their dedication and quick response\".\n\nPolice are appealing for information, images and footage of the incident which can be shared via www.ukpoliceimageappeal.com or on 0800 789 321.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Sam Mendes won best director and best film for 1917\n\nWorld War One film 1917 was the big winner at the Bafta Film Awards on Sunday, with seven prizes in total.\n\nThe trophies for Sir Sam Mendes's movie included best film, best British film, best director and best cinematography.\n\nJoker won three awards including best actor for Joaquin Phoenix, while Renee Zellweger was named best actress for her portrayal of Judy Garland.\n\nPhoenix took aim at \"systemic racism\" and \"oppression\" within the film industry in his acceptance speech.\n\nHis words, and those of the Duke of Cambridge later, came in the wake of a diversity row prompted by the all-white line-up of acting nominees.\n\nSouth Korean film Parasite won two prizes - for original screenplay and film not in the English language.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nThere were no major upsets or surprise winners, with 1917 unarguably dominating the evening.\n\n\"I couldn't be more thrilled,\" director Sir Sam told BBC News backstage. \"There's the personal delight in seeing a story very close to me and my family be developed and enlarged but the massive thing has been audiences going in large numbers.\n\n\"None of us knew if an audience would turn up, it wasn't certain at all. It's coincided with awards season and the fact this is still number one in the UK after four weeks, [the awards have] really alerted people to the fact the movie is on, it rarely happens like that.\"\n\nSir Sam is the first British winner of best director at the Baftas since Danny Boyle won for Slumdog Millionaire in 2009.\n\nDern was the hot favourite to win her award for best supporting actress\n\nBrad Pitt won best supporting actor for his role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and made a Brexit joke in a message read out by his co-star Margot Robbie.\n\n\"Hey, Britain, hear you've become single - welcome to the club! Wishing you the best with the divorce settlement,\" the actress read.\n\nShe added: \"He says he is going to name this Harry because he is really excited about bringing it back to the States with him. His words not mine.\"\n\nLaura Dern was named best supporting actress for her performance as a divorce lawyer in Marriage Story.\n\n\"Thank you Bafta, thank you for including me in this room of extraordinary artists as we get to tell stories and do the job we love,\" she said.\n\nIt is the first time since 1977 that all four of the Bafta awards for acting have been won by Americans.\n\nAccepting the leading actress award for her performance in Judy, Zellweger said: \"This is very humbling. Miss Garland, London town, which you have always loved so much, still loves you back. This is for you.\"\n\nZellweger, Phoenix, Dern and Pitt have now won their acting categories at every major ceremony of awards season so far. In addition to their Baftas, they have won at the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics' Choice Awards.\n\nAll four are highly likely to triumph at next weekend's Oscars.\n\nRenee Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix won the two leading actor categories\n\nJoker picked up best original score for its composer Hildur Gudnadottir and the inaugural casting award, which went to Shayna Markowitz.\n\n\"I feel very honoured and privileged... but I have to say that I also feel conflicted because so many of my fellow actors that are deserving don't have that same privilege,\" Phoenix said as he accepted his best actor award for the film.\n\n\"I think that we send a very clear message to people of colour that you're not welcome here, I think that's the message that we're sending to people that have contributed so much to our medium and our industry and in ways that we benefit from.\"\n\nHis comments follow a row about the lack of diversity among this year's Bafta nominations.\n\nAll 18 acting nominees were white, and no female directors were nominated for the seventh year in a row.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge, who is the president of Bafta, also spoke at the ceremony about the need for change.\n\n\"In 2020, and not for the first time in the last few years, we find ourselves talking again about the need to do more to ensure diversity in the sector and in the awards process - that simply cannot be right in this day and age,\" he said.\n\n\"Bafta take this issue seriously, and following this year's nominations, have launched a full and thorough review of the entire awards process to build on their existing work and ensure that opportunities are available to everyone.\"\n\nNetflix's festive animation Klaus won best animation, beating big hitters like Toy Story 4 and Frozen 2.\n\nBombshell, which tells the story of the 2016 sexual harassment scandal at Fox News, picked up best hair and make-up.\n\nBest short animation went to Granddad Was A Romantic, while best costume went to a new adaptation of Little Women, directed by Greta Gerwig.\n\nThe award for best adapted screenplay went to Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit.\n\nMicheal Ward, star of Top Boy and Blue Story, was named the Bafta rising star.\n\n\"Blue Story, I wouldn't be here without the movie,\" he said. \"To people watching at home, looking at me, life doesn't have to be this way, see the opportunities, see a vision.\"\n\nFor Sama, a film about a young mother's experience of the Syrian civil war, won best documentary.\n\nSyrian film-maker Waad Al-Kateab took her four-year-old daughter Sama, for whom the film was made, with her on to the stage.\n\nShe told the audience in London's Royal Albert Hall: \"I wanted to dedicate it to the great Syrian people who are still suffering today and the nurses, doctors and volunteers, I dedicate it to them, let them hear your voice.\"\n\nAndy Serkis was honoured with the outstanding British contribution to film award, presented to him by Sir Ian McKellen.\n\n1917 might have walked off with the top prize - best film - but its success might not necessarily bode well for next week's Oscars.\n\nFor the past five years, the Bafta best film winner has not gone on to win best picture at the Academy Awards.\n\nBafta winners and nominees in most categories are voted for by 6,700 academy members, who are industry professionals and creatives around the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The cause of the fire in Holborn's Chancery Lane is not yet known\n\nEleven people were taken to safety as firefighters battled a blaze in London's historic legal district.\n\nAbout 150 firefighters were called to the Law Society's office in Holborn's Chancery Lane at 22:40 GMT on Saturday.\n\nA junior lawyers division dinner had been taking place. About 28 people left the building before emergency services arrived and no-one was injured.\n\nChief executive Paul Tennant said he was \"extremely upset\" it had happened to a \"wonderful building\".\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said much of the roof and part of the fifth, fourth and third floors were alight.\n\nThe fire was brought under control and fire crews will remain at the scene to minimise damage to the building.\n\nNo-one was injured in the blaze which started on Saturday night\n\n\"First of all I wanted to express my gratitude to the fire service and my relief that nobody has been hurt,\" said Mr Tennant.\n\n\"I also want to express my sympathy to the residents in the Chancery Lane area whom I understand may have had to evacuate their homes.\n\n\"It is too early to comment on the cause of the fire or the extent of the damage but clearly we are extremely upset that this has happened to this wonderful and historic building.\"\n\nCity of London Police also advised that a number of 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